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OUR SPRIGHTLY GIRLS
Rebel Leader and His Men Now
Pressing Close to the Capi
tal of Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 18—General
Emlliano Zapata, leader of the rebel
bands that for several weeks have
been pressing close to the capital, to
day demanded the surrender of Mexi
co City. His message was brought
into the city by a courier under cover
of darkness and taken directly to the
home of General Blanquet, Minister
of War.
Without waiting for a reply the
courier hastened pack to Zapata’s
headquarters near Ajusco Mountain.
The demand will be ignored by the
Government.
Officials of the War Department ad
mitted to-day that the supply of am
munition in the possession of the
Government is very small. This may
hasten the downfall of General
Huerta, as the Zapatista rebels are
firmly intrenched at several points in
the Federal district, and by their
guerilla tactics will attempt to wear
down the capital’s garrison.
Vast quantities of ammunition have
been wasted by drunken soldiers sent
out to fight the Zapatistas, but the
rebels have carefully husbanded their
supply. They advance day by day
closer to the capital, and messengers
have brought word that traitors
among the garrison soldiers wire
selling ammuniation to the revolu
tionists.
In an attempt to win the support of
his bitterest enemies, General Huerta
will release on Christmas Day many of
the Deputies who were imprisoned when
he dissolved Congress. This is believed
to be due to representations made by
the American Government that justice
be done the prisoners.
Constitutionalists renewed their at
tack on Mazatlan to-day and 60 Fed-
erals were killed early in the fighting,
according to a report received by the
War Department. News of Mazat-
lan’s fall is expected at any moment.
‘ The American Embassy has trans
mitted no note to General Huerta,"
said Charge d’Affaires O’Shaughnessy
to-day in denying a report printed
in the United States this morning.
PLOT NEW REVOLT.
EG PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 18.—The
arrest here to-day of a dozen men
revealed the fact that a new Mexican
revolt is being fomented, with the
purpose of landing Emilio Vasquez
Gomez in the presidency. Dr. Gomez
was a candidate for President in the
recent Mexican election, opposing
General Huerta on the anti-election
ticket, but was compelled to flee the
country several weeks before the
eleetion took place.
The new uprising has the support
of General Felix Diaz. Ex-Governor
Oayou, of the state of Coahuila, ar
rived here last night from Havana,
where he was in conference with
General Diaz.
According to documentary evidence
which was seized, together with a
large quantity of arms and ammuni
tion, representations have been made
to General Pascual Orozco, General
Ynez Salazar and other Federal com
manders at Ojinaga to join the re
volt against Huerta. v -
Dr. Gomee is believed to be in EL
Paso living quietly in some obscure
house. Letters seized by the Federal
authorities indicated that the Gomez
insurgents planned to strike the first
blow about Christmas following the
entry of Gomez into Mexico at La
Palomas.
A committee consisting of General
Enrique Gomez, General Felipe Ca-
ceres and Major Sylvestro Quevedo
was appointed by the local junta of
Gomez rebels to go to Ojinaga and
lay an alluring proposition before the
Mexican Federal commanders. The
office of commander in chief of the
northern forces was offered Orozco
and bounties were offered the sol
diers.
The junta lias a number of circulars
printed giving the platform of the
Vasquista-Diaz Insurgents and an
nouncing that General Emiliano Za
pata has embraced the cause. Tha
platform calls for seizure of all lands
owned by the rich and equal dis
tribution of wealth among the poor.
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PRESIDENT RECOVERS.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.—President
Wilson has practically recovered from
his recent attack of the grippe and to
day was able to take up’his work again.
James Speyer, a New York banker
was the lirst caller of the day. Later
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty talked over pending railroad
rate cases with him.
,Three Blacks Are Charged With
Killing Wife of a Farmer at
Wrens, Ga.
And notv it’s
the "peg-top hat. ’
The style, di
rect from Paris,
of course, has just
struck America
Fashion experts
admit that the hat
will attract atten -
tion.
It can not fail
to do that, they
said, because the
hat has’ a real
“punch.” It is not
fluffy, like the cre
ations with ai
grettes and such
things on ’em
The make-up of it
is more like that
of a prizefighter’s
fist.
The “peg top"
has an outward
coating of velvet.
Its interior com
position is of good
steel wire, guar
anteed not to
break or bend
when it comes in
contact with a
human face.
There is a dis
tinct list to star
board in the new
style. The “list”
is what makes the
hat catchy and
“fetching.”
It gives the gen
eral design a rak
ish appearance,
like that of a
boat which has
just struck a coral
reef during a
heavy storm and
doesn’t know
where it is going
thereafter.
Persons inter- |
ested in styles !
said to-day that j
the new headwear
for women really
is an off-shoot of j
the Tam o’ Shan- |
ter.
From the Tam
o’ Shanter there
gr ;w the picture
hat, then the
"cavalier” and
finally the “peg.”
The end of a thrilling automobi'e
ride to escape mobs came Thursday
morning when three negroes, con
fessed murders of Mrs. Jefferson Irby,
of Wrens, Ga., were brought to At
lanta from Augusta by two deputy
sheriffs and lodged in the Fulton
County Tower for safe-keeping. The
blacks are William Hart, George Hart
and Robert Paschall.
All three of the negroes were on
thA verge of collapse when they were
locked in their cells in the Tower, and
during the ride from Augusta to At
lanta they pleaded constantly with
the deputy sheriffs to run the car
faster. Rumors of mobs forming in
towns en route reached the ears of
the sheriffs, and the trip was made by
a circuitous route to avoid them. Ac
cording to stories the Augusta deputy
sheriffs told the authorities at the
Tower, the negroes reiterated their
confession of the murder during the
ride.
The murder of Mrs. Irby was most
brutal. The woman was found by her
husband lying on the floor in their
home, with her head cut off and
mashed with rocks, and her little chil
dren cowering under the bed. Blood
hounds were put on the trail, and the
dogs led the officers to the cabins of
the Hart brothers and Paschall. The
blacks were arrested and taken to
Waynesboro, Burke County, to escape
a mob which quickly formed in
Wrens, and the militia was called out
to protect the negroes.
MGbs of greater proportions began
to form in Waynesboro, and in order
to avoid bloodshed Governor Slaton
ordered the negroes sent to Augusta,
Rumors of mobs in Augusta caused
Governor Slaton to decide to bring
the negroes to Atlanta and place them
in the Tower.
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President Wilson
Will Come South
GIRL WIFE’S PLEA.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 17.—In a petition
asking for the anmillraent of her mar
riage to Thomas L. Crawley, Mrs Clara
Crawley, a 16-year-old Savannah girl,
stated that the day of the marriage she
learned her husband had a wife living
and that he had never been divorced.
Mrs. Crawley asked that her maiden
name, Clara Cregan, be restored.
MRS. SAYRE STUDYING.
LONDON, Dec. 17.—Mrs. Francis
B. Sayre, daughter of President Wil
son, will devote herself seriously to
social betterment work upon her re
turn to the United States. She is
studying methods now in fore# in
London.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Presi
dent Wilson will take a Christmas va
cation of about three weeks, begin
ning probably next Tuesday. He will
leave. Washington for the South as
soon as he signs the currency bill.
“The President has not yet decided
where he will spend his vacation,”
said Secretary Tumulty to-day. "He
will stay away from Washington all
of three weeks, but his plans will
largely depend upon what Congress
does.”
President Wilson was feeling some
what improved to-day, and took an
automobile ride.
U. C. V. EDITOR STRICKEN.
NASHVILLE, Dec. 18.—A. S. Cun
ningham, editor of The Confederate
'Veteran, and widely known to both
Union and Confederate veterans, is
critically ill. He was found uncon
scious in his office from a hemor
rhage.
TREE WORTH $30,000.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18.— An alligator
pear tree, owned by H. A. Woodworth,
has been insured for $30,000 by Lk>yds
of London against fire or frost.
BAILEY SELLS FARM.
LOUISVILLE, KY., Dec. 17—For
mer United States Senator Joseph W.
Bailey, of Texas, hqs sold for $90,000
his Fairland stock ftym of 400 acres,
near Lexington, which he bought a few
years ago.
He will retire from the trotting horse
business.
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Control of Wires
To Cost a Billion
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Govern
ment experts estimated to-day that
the cost of taking over the operation
of telegraph and telephonic lines, as
recommended by Postmaster General
Burleson in his annual report, would
be more than $1,000,000,000.
The Postmaster General's recom
mendation projected into Congress an
issue over which there is already
marked difference of opinion and
which President Wilson himself may
have ‘o determine. A party caucus
may be held for thd purpose of get
ting the exact view of the President
and a majority of the party leaders.
Burleson's report follows conferences
ont he subject between .e Postmaster
General and President Wilson, and
reports that the President was about
to make Federal ownership of the
two utilities an administration pol
icy. Mr. Burleson points to the suc
cessful inauguration and extension
of the parcel post system as a‘guar
antee that the Postoffice Department
is capable of handling further coun
try-wide business of great magnitude
and importance.
The report asserts that there is a
surplus in his department for the
year ended June 30, 1913, estimated
at $3,841,906.78, and that this is the
first real surplus since 1883.
In regard to taking over the tele
graph and telephone systems, Mr.
Burleson says, in part;
SOUTHERNERS TO FIGHT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—South
ern members of the Republican Na
tional Committee to-day planned to
make a strenuous fight against hav
ing their representation reduced by
79 votes in national convention. The
committee late yesterday made the
reduction.
The action of the national com
mittee in reducing the Southern rep
resentation from 40 to 16 per cent
was admittedly illegal. The commit
tee agreed on this point before it
took the action, but the members of
the committee held that they w T ere
“confident that the next convention
would ratify their move” and pass
resolutions which would render an il
legal action legal.
It is on this ground that the South
ern members of the committee will
fight the reduction. Before the change
in representation can be presented
to the national convention as the
official action of the committee it
will have to be ratified by the States
holding a majority of the votes in
the electoral college.
^ Under the plan agreed upon the
States losing delegates are Alabama,
9; Arkansas, 3; Florida, 4; Georgia,
10; Kentucky, 1; Louisiana, 7; Mis
sissippi, 8; North Carolina, 3; South
Carolina, 7; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 15;
Virginia, 9; Illinois, 2; New York, 4;
Pennsylvania, 1; Hawaii, 4.
GUNMEN APPEAL.
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 17.—The ap
peal of the four gunmen now in Sing
Sing awaiting death for the murder
of Herman Rosenthal in New- l T ork
City on July 16, 1912, was heard in
the Court of Appeals to-day. The
convicted men are Jacob Seidensh-
ner, alias “Whitey Louis;” Frank
Cirofico, alias “Dago Frank;” Louis
Rosenberg, alias “Lefty Louie," and
Harry Horowitz, alias “Gyp the
Blood." It was the prosecution’s the
ory that Rosenthal’s death was a re
sult of a conspiracy between former
Police Lieutenant Charles Becker and
the gamblers who turned State’s evi-
! dence, and the gunmen.
GIVES INVITATION.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—Senator
Hoke Smith, of Georgia, to-day pre-
' sented to the President and Mrs. Wil
son, an invitation to attend the un
veiling of a Civil War monument at
Savannah, Ga., next April.
STAMPS SELL FOR $150.
OSSINING, N. Y., Dec. 18.—Three
5-cent stamps, 80 years old, found in a
garret by Elliott B. Bunt, were sold for
$150.
GOOD NEWS,
V ASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—A merry
Christmas to Uncle Sam’s thousands of
employees is assured by the issuance of
an order permitting them to draw full
December pay on December 23.
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