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t \ THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS. NEGROES, IN WILD RIDE, ARE SAVED FROM ANGRY MOBS PEG TOP HAT, LATEST . FIFPIITV QHFPIFK FROM PARIS,TOADORN UtrUII 3101113 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. \ 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. c&j 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. 0 I 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. Im.risanThin Model,!?. Wateh*3Z? 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