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VOL. 1. NO. 39.
U5INGB1BLE
AS BLUE
Pseudo Missionary Tricks Miss
From Dunkard School Into
Handclasp of Friendship and
Injects Venom Into Her Palm.
She Feels Stab and Runs, Fear
ing to Faint Near Man Who
Might Then Claim To Be
Brother—Makes His Escape,
The
Organ Grinder and
Monkey Ride in Auto
Wealthy Woman Sends $6,000 Limou
sine to Bring Itinerant Musician
to Christmas Celebration.
PATERSON, N. J„ Dec. 27.—Vin
cenzo Carmano, of No. 28 Elm street,
an organ grinder, who has tramped
the roads and streets of North Jersey
with his organ and monkey for years,
rode in a $6,000 limouffine this after
noon and evening, and had his organ
and his monkey in the machine with
him. The machie belongs to Mrs. E
T. White, of Ridgewood, who is one
of the committee in charge of the
Christmas celebration there.
East year Carmano, his organ and
his monkey were highly enjoyed fea
tures of the celebration. This year
there was unanimous demand that he
come again. When Mrs. White came
to engage him she found him averse.
He said that last year, when he of
fered himself and outfit for transpor-^
tation on the railroad, the train crew
would not allow him on board. Rather
than break his promise to put the
organ on his back and the monkey on
his shoulder and tramped the long
miles to Ridgewood. He did not
propose to repeat the experience, so
he had the automobile ride back and
forth.
Copyright, 1911, by
e Georgian Company.
ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1913.
Society Women Dodge Arrest
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Pursued by a Carolina Warden
iiij HILL Accused of Hunting Illegally
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—The poisoned
ring, the deadly weapon of the Bor-
gtas, has made Its appearance in Chi
cago.
Miss Opal Hummer, 20 years old,
and prttty, was jabbed in the second
finger of her right hand last night in
the Union Passenger Station as she
shook hands with a strange man who
posed as a missionary and carried a
Bible.
Scores of persons were on every
side in the station, a constantly
changing crowd, of which some were
always moving and creating a certain
amount of confusion.
This situation enabled Miss Hum
mer's assailant to escape, for as she
ran toward the ticket office, calling
for help, everyone looked at her
none, apparently, at the man who
sneaked away.
Going Home for Christmas.
Miss Hummer is a student at the
Bethany Bible Institute, No. 3435
West VanBuren street. It is a Dun
kard institution, and she, like all oth
ers there, w T ore the simple costume,
including the little poke bonnet.
She lives at Dunkirk, Ind., and was
on her way home for a Christmas
vacation wheQ attacked.
“I had been watching the crowd/’
said Miss Hummer last night, “and 1
found it a very interesting sight. I
suppose many of the people were
going home for Christmas, like my
self, and most of them appeared very
happy.
Sits Down Beside Her.
“Suddenly I realized a man was
watching me, and I knew that I had
l eeen him before. Then I remembered
a that he had walked past me two or
\\ three times as I sat there.
* “I was just wondering why he look
ed at me when he came over and sat
down beside me. I sat very* still and
looked straight ahead. He had a book
under his left arm. He transferred
it to under his right arm. Of course,
1 did not pay any attention to him. It
‘could not have been polite or nice of
me.
“Then he spoke to me, and said: ‘I
see by your garments that y'ou are a
missionary. I also am a missionary,
and, extending his hand, he displayed
* Bible, the book he had held under
his arm.
\ “When I saw that, it seemed very
different, you know, and I said: ‘Oh,
are you a missionary?’ And he said.
Yes,’ and that he was on his way
to Wisconsin to engage in missionary
vork in the lumber camps.
“I guess we must have talked all of
p-n minutes, and finally he said he
would have to be going, and he
reached cut his hand to say good-bye.
I held out my hand and he seemed to
clasp it very tightly, but good friends
do that, you know.
"He said, ‘Good-bye,’ and I said,
Good-bye,’ and when he let go of my
hand he started to baick away from
me. Then, like a flash, I felt a sting
ing sensation on my finger and my
hand and arm began to feel numb,
end he seemed to be fading away.
Had Read of Cases.
"I turned and ran. I thought I wag
feoing to faint and I didn’t w r ant to
taint near him, for I had read in the
u.pw'spapers of how some men in New
York pretended that a girl who faint
ed was their sister. And I didn’t want
him near me if I fainted.
“So I ran toward the ticket window.
I was so frightened and faint that I
guess I couldn’t really scream, and I
had so much trouble making anyone
understand me.
'But a gentleman saw w’hat was
wrong and called a policeman, and he
ouk me over to the matron, and so 1
guess pretty soon I’ll be all right. My
is still numb and feels queef
and tingling. It felt a good deal like
morphine makes you feel when it is
first given to you.’’
Dr. Miller, after a hurried examina
tion, said:
It looks to me like a scratch, or a
u from some pointed instrument. It
ist have been something concealed
I V his thumb or on one of his fingers,
Denver Millionaire
Turns Into Author
DENVER, Dec. 27.—Surprise lies in
wait for the readers of “The Soul of
Paris,” a collection of essays by Verner
Z Reed, oil magnate and banker, whose
name Is a power in financial and social
circles in this country and Europe.
All sound the same keynote. Reed,
so closely associated with the world of
systems, formulas and mathematical
computation, appears as a mystic aes
thete and sentimentalist.
In the first place, the* reader discov
ers that cities have souls, and that the
nicest “urban-soul” in the whole wide
world is Paris.
Ex-Senator’s Wife
Sews for the Poor
KALAMAZOO. MICH.. Dec. 27.—Mrs.
J. C. Burrows, wife of former Senator
Burrows, who recently organized in this
city a branch of the Needlework Guild
of America, is one of the most active
workers in the organization.
Through her efforts more than 1.000
new garments made by the members of
the guild were distributed to the hos
pitals and needy families in Kalamazoo
during the last year.
Mrs. Burrows is an expert and some
of the prettiest garments were those
made by her.
Misses Love’s Lips;
^Nose Injures His Eye
KANSAS CITY. MO.. Dec. 2'. —Inno
cent—hie and bashful is Charles Lend,
of Bethel. Kans.
With his sweetheart. Miss Lillian
Sectaln, he was in the shadow of a
large tree when he seized her in his
arms to place a kiss, the first he had
ever given in 27 years.
Handicapped by intense embarrass
ment, his lips missed those of his sweet
heart, but his eye struck the end of her
nose in the darkness, ripping open part
of the lid and badly scratching the eye
ball. He will not lose his sight.
‘Spoonville’ Off Map;
Now Called Edgemont
OROVILLE, Dec. 27.—The people of
Spoonville, in Lassen County, are at
last to be relieved of a name against
which they have been objecting for
years.
The joshing to which they have been
subjected on account of their address
has led to various attempts to induce
the (fcstoffice Department to change
the name of the postoffice.
A letter from the First Assistant
Postmaster General states that here
after Spoonville is to be known as
Edgemont.
Vanderlip to Found
California Colony
LOS ANGELES. CAL.. Dec. 27.—After
having made a complete survey of the
Palo Verde ranch, Frank A. Vanderlip,
president of the National City Bank
of New York, who purchased the 15,-
000-acre tract in October for $1,750,000
will confer with associates in regard to
Improvements.
Mr. Vanderlip has suggested the sub
dividing of the property into villa sites,
with the idea of having sortie of the
wealthy men in the United States es
tablish a winter colony there.
Cat’s Mewing Saves
Family From Death
POTTSVILLE, PA., Dec. 27.—A mew
ing cat saved Lewis SheUburne, wife
and family from asphyxiation at Schuyl
kill Haven to-day, when they were tak
ing a noon nap.
Deadly coal gas entered their apart
ments, and when Shellburne heard his
wife’s call for help (she having heard
the cat) he was so much under the in
fluence of the gas himself that it was
with great difficulty he raised a win
dow* . ...
Guest of Honor at Leesburg, Va.,
He Forgot All Business—for
a Time.
NOTHING SAID ABOUT PAY
But the Enterprising Secretary of
State Forwarded a Dun and
Has Received $300.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.—William
J. Bryan continues to be one of the
most enterprising Secretaries of State
this country ever had. At Leesburg,
Va., last summer he made a speech,
graciously received glowing tributes
as ^he chief guest of the town and
then sent in a bill for $300. He got
the money.
The story was told here to-day that
when the Loudoun Heavy Draught As
sociation got up its annual exhibition
last summer the members thought it
only fitting that Mr. Bryan be asked
to speak. The “heavy draught” re
fers to horses. So the members held
a special meeting and designated E.
B White, the. president, to call on
Mr. Bryan at the Sta$e Department
and ask him to appear. Mr. White
watched the papers carefully and
crept in between Chautauqua en
gagements.
Bryan Was Glad to Talk.
Certainly, Mr. Bryan assured him,
when was the fair? It was on Sep
tember 3 and 4. Mr. Bryan looked
over his date book. September V
an open date. All was arranged.
Mr. White went back to Leesburg,
and proudly announced that Mr. Bry
an would attend the exhibition and
speak. So the Loudoun printer struck
off a lot of glowing bills that read:
“Do not fail to hear America’s great
est statesman.’’ These posters were
placed on barns and fences in all the
country ’round.
When the day arrived so did Mr.
Bryan and hordes of farmers, their
wives and children. The admission
to the fair grounds was 50 cents, half
price for children. The ticket seller
perspired freely as the line worked
past his window.
He Talked and Ate Also.
Mr. Brvan arose to the platform
and talked for an hour and a half,
j Cheer after cheer went up from the
crowd. V hen lunch time came Mr.
Bryan was invited as chief guest. He
ate heartily, for the Virginia matrons
had done their best.
At 5 o’clock in the afternoon Mr.
Bryan and the reception committee
went back to the station and the
Secretary left. He had been there
just seven hours.
Back to Washington, Mr. Bryan
wrote up a neat bill and sent it to
the Draught Association. Nothing
had been said of payment when Mr.
White asked Mr. Bryan to speak.
But the bill was paid.
“We are satisfied,” Mr. White said
over the telephone from Leesburg
to-night, “and I hope Mr. Bryan is
satisfied. The association knew that
Mr. Bryan charged for lectures."
Mrs. Alfred G. Vanderbilt
McAdoo.
(above) and Mrs. Francis II.
Special Cable to The American.
ROME, Dec. 27.—Colonel E.
H.
Trevathan, of Texas, who for the last
three months has beeri on an auto
mobile tour of France and Italy, ac
companied by his wife and daughter,
was arrested In Rome, charged with
having exceeded the three months’
circulation of the motor permit which
was granted to him at the time he
crossed the French border.
Colonel Trevathan explained that
he had not been in Italy more than 25
days altogether, that, after entering
Italy In September, he went back to
Nice, and that on re-entering this
country the customs officials failed
to warn him that his permit was good
only for three consecutive months.
•Notwithstanding his explanations,
the highest fine, $100, was imposed.
The American Consulate here has
taken up the matter with the Finance
Department, in the hope of having
the fine reduced to $40.
Colonel Trevathan has declared he
also will lodge a protest with the
Royal Automobile Club of England.
Mrs. Alfred G, Vanderbilt and
Mrs. Francis H. McAdoo Take
Special Train for North.
Nebraska Farm Hand
Buys an Automobile
LYONS, NEBR., Dec. 27.—Nebraska
farm hands are prosperous in Nebraska
despite the drouth of last summer. R.
H. Zeller, employed for a number of
years on the farm of E. N. Manley, has
been careful of his savings and recent
ly purchased an expensive automobile,
paying for it without depleting his bank
account.
His action has started an automobile
boom, and.now half a dozen other farm
hands are negotiating for machines.
Expects Poll Laws
To Reveal Marriages
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 27.—Secret
marriages may be revealed by a new
requirement to be incorporated in the
affidavit of registration.
Women voters will be compelled to
say under oath whether they are mar
ried or single. Deputy County Clerk
Thomas McAleer has made this ruling
In order that the like names can be
distinguished.
Aerial Mail Route
Approved by House
WASRINGTON, Dec. 27.—Favorable
report upon a bill to appropriate $100,-
000 for experiments in carrying mall by
aeroplanes was decided upon to-day by
the House Postoffices and Post Roads
Committee.
Practical trial of Government owner
ship of railway mail cars is proposed in
another bill which the committee ap
proved. This measure would appropri
ate $100,000 for purchase and operation
of several cara.
SPARTANBURG, S. C., Dec. 27.—
A. A. Richardson, chief Game Warden
of South Carolina, is still nursing
his disappointment at failing to make
good his charges of law violation
against prominent men and women of
| New York and Baltimore society who
i made up a hunting party at the game
preserve of Isaac E. Emerson, near
! Arcadia, last week.
! Warden Richardson has sworn
eternal vigilance for the future. So
ciety people fiom the East are not
going to hunt in South Carolina un
watched, he has vowed. He is their
blood enemy.
The Warden succeeded in appre
hending only one of the Emerson
party. The others, learning thatjie
was on their trail, boarded a special
train and fled North, leaving Mr.
Richardson unable even to identfy
them.
It has become known that among
the party were Mr. Emerson, the
host; Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell Henry, of
London and New York; Mrs. Alfred
G. Vanderbilt, wife of the multi-mil
lionaire and sister of the former Mrs.
Jack Horner, of Atlanta and New
York society, and Mrs. Francis H. Mc
Adoo, Mrs. Emerson’s daughter by
her first husband, and George W. Ew
ing, of Baltimore.
The only arrest was that of Mr.
Ewing, who was haled before a mag
istrate, but was discharged. Mr. Ew
ing made the statement that he was
hunting deer, a sport permitted under
the law, and not turkey or quail,
game forbidden unlicensed non-resi
dents. The Warden had no evidence
otherwise. But he says he is going to
watch in the future.
The Warden has done a bit of
watching in the past, but it has been
desultory. However, it has been re
warded by the arrest and conviction
of several wealthy Northerners, most
of whom were fined $50 for shooting
without a license. Included in the
list are Henry C. Stebbins, of Plain-
field, N. J.; John R. Todd, of Sum
mit, N. J.; E. M. Carnegie, of New’
York, and G. C. Sage, of New York,
said to be a nephew of the late Rus
sell Sage.
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Governor Opposed to
Sex Study in School
CHICAGO, Dec. 27.—Governor Edward
F. Dunne’s anounced opposition to
“personal purity” courses in the schools,
in a letter to President James, of the
University of Illinois, gave promise of
a fight in the Board of Trustees’ meet
ing when the proposal to establish a
sex hygiene course Is considered.
‘I would not permit my innocent
daughters to be sent to a school where
sex hygiene is discussed in public,”
wrote Governor Dunne. T honestly
fear that if sex hygiene be taught in
schools it probably will create a prurient
curiosity which will induce immorality
and unchastity.”
and a trip to Milwaukee, Attilio J.
Clement!, a consular agent of Hungary,
discovers that a supposed $400,000 estate
left by Dela K. Koflk, who died here
feto weeks ago, amounts to several
broken-down pianos and a few hundred
dollars.
Korlk was a piano tuner and a well-
known figure about the city.
Lady Decies Speeds,
Chauffeur Is Fined
Town Dry; Tollgates
May Open All Night
Elam and Wife Said
To Be Reconciled
DETROIT, Dec. 27.—Belief that Dr.
W. T. Elam, the St. Joseph physician
who shot and killed William T. Cra
mer, of Chicago, in Kansas City on
November 19, is in Detroit and that a
reconciliation has taken place be
tween the doctor and hia wife was
strengthened to-day when Mrs. John
M. West, mother of Mrs. Elam, de
clared that an interviewer could see
neither the physician nor his wife.
“How long has Dr. Elam been here
with his wife?” she was asked.
* I shall not tell you,” said Mr*.
H’ABt u/iila asnari.t.u.
HARRISONBURG, VA., Dec. 27.—
Since Staunton went dry last week, a
movement is on foot here to keep the
tollgates between that city and Har
risonburg open all night, ho as to ac
commodate the extra rush of liquor
business from that quarter. At present
the gates close at midnight. Automo-
bilists argue it would be a hardship to
make them wait from midnight until
morning, if they should happen to get
thirsty after that hour.
Court Refuses Beer
For Meals of Jurors
SCRANTON. PA., Deo. 27.—Members
of the jury trying the Giordini murder
case will have to save their thirst un
til they are released from the jury room
after returning a verdict.
Judge A. T. Searle refused them per-
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NEW YORK, Dec. 27.—Lady De
cies came in contact with the traffic
speed reform on Friday afternoon on
Twenty-third street, when, with her
two children and Mrs. George J.
Gould and a couple of maids, she was
on her way to Lakewood.
The Gould chauffeur, Fred Palmer,
was driving the party to the Twenty-
third street ferry when Motorcycle
Policeman Cassidy noted the speed
of the machine and trailed It to the
ferry house, where he handed Palmef
a summons.
Palmer took the summons without
a word, nor did Mrs. Gould or Lady
Denies offer any protest.
Palmer appeared before Magistrate
Marsh in the Jefferaon Market Court
to-day, pleaded guilty and paid a $25
fine.
LINCOLN CLOCK FOR $2.60.
COLUMBUS, IND., Dec. 27 —At a sale
of the personal property of the late
Samuel M. Fitch, former County Audi
tor. his son bought a Seth Thomas
clock, owned by Abraham Lincoln for
Texau Arrested
In Rome; He Used
Old Auto Permit
Col. E. H. Trevathan Blames Authori
ties for Not Warning Him, and
Appeals to Uncle Sam.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
ARE EXPELLED
TAKEN; APPEAL TO HEARST
Refugees, Driven Out by Villa Under
Death Penalty, Voice Cry for Jus
tice and Relief at General Meeting
Held in Their Haven at El Paso.
DECLARE THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN
PARTISANS IN THE REVOLUTION
Comes From Hungary
To Find Estate Myth
MILWAUKEE, WIS.. Dec. 27.—After
a railroad journey to a seaport city in
Europe, c.n ocean voyage to America
“We Request You Do All Y r on Can in Our Behalf
Through Your Important Papers, and We
Thank You for Your Good Sendees,” Mes
sage Reads.
[THE APPEAL PRESENTED HERE WAS MADE IN THE SPANISH
LANGUAGE. THE ORIGINAL SPANISH IS PUBLISHED BELOW THE
ENGLISH TRANSLATION.]
EL PASO. TEXAS, December 18, 1913.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, New York:
In a secret manner Rebel Leader Villa expels under the
penalty of death over 400 Spanish merchants of the State of
Chihuahua, at present in this city.
Villa executed two Gonzalez brothers. Spanish colony was
ransacked entirely, extorting large sums of money.
There are still in the State of Chihuahua over 100 Spanish
subjects, all honest men devoted to the business trade, respected
and considered by the Chihuahua community.
They always complied with the duties of foreigners, re
specting the laws of Mexico. They never made any propaganda
against the Government, nor did they start their revolution. 1
They always were impartial. They never made politics known,
gave no help in any way toward the civil war.
The English Consul in charge, in the absence of the Spanish
Consul, was unable to resist attack of Villa.
Our Minister at Washington is working very hard to pro
tect the lives of those who are still in the State of Chihuahua, and
also to protect their interests through the American Consul.
Knowing your humanitarian sentiments, we appeal to yon,
requesting you to do all you can in our behalf among your
acquaintances and through your important papers, and we thank
you for your good services.
At a general meeting of the Spaniards who have been ex
pelled, a general committee was appointed to sign the present
telegram, in the name of the Spanish colony of Chihuahua.
(Signed) THE GENERAL COMMITTEE.
FEDERICO SISUIEGO, JOSE SANCHEZ MIER,
BENITO MARTINEZ, FRANCISCO SANOS,
FRANCISCO N. VILLA, ANGEL DIEGO GOMEZ,
EDUARDO ANGOITIA, EDUARDO ALBA FULL,
VINCENTE FAELA REQUERA.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Diciembre 18, 1913.
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, New York:
De manera innonniniosa fueron expulsados bajo pena de
muerte por Revolucionario Villa mas de cuatrocientos
Espanoles comerciantes del estado de Chihuahua que
encuentrame en esta ciudad fusilo.
Villa dos hermanos Gonzales fueron sagueados casl total-
mente de cuantiosisimos intereses colonia Espanola aunquedan
en estado mas de cien Espanoles e intereses son hombres
trabajadores y honrados dedicados al comercio respetados y con-
siderados por soccidad Chihuahua. Pues complieron per-
factamente sus deberes de extraryeros respetando leyes Mexico.
No picieron propagandas in en encontra gobierno in revolucion
pius estuvieron siempre dentro terreno neutraly jamas fueron
politicos in impartieron ayuda para guerra civil.
Consul Ingles encargado por ansencia Consul Espanol no
pudo impedir atropello Villa. Nuestro ministro Washington
trabaja activamento cerea departmento de estado en Washing
ton para que vidas de los que aim estan en estado de Chihuahua
sean respitadas y protejan presto intereses por Consul Americano.
Sabiendo los sentimentos humanitarios de usted apelamos
a ellos suplicandole haga cuanto pueda en nuestro favor cerea
de valiosisimas hersonalidades amigas de usted y con su
importantivima premia agradeciado profundamente sus buenos
servicios.
En junta general de expulsados Espanoles nombrose comite
general que suscubiran el presente telegrama en representacion
colonia por colonia Espanola Chihuahua.
EL COMITE GENERAL:
FEDERICO SISUIEGO,
BENITO MARTINEZ,
FRANCISCO N. VILLA,
EDUARDO ANGOITIA.
VINCENTE FAELA REQUERA,
JOSE SANCHEZ MIER,
FRANCISCO SANOS,
ANGEL DIEGO GOMEZ,
EDUARDO ALBA FULL.
Mexico City in Terror as
The Rebels Draw Nearer
Special Cable to The American.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 27.—Terror
lurks in the streets and homes of the
Mexican capital, terror where there
should be the gayety and happiness
that Is reminiscent of Christmas.
Just beyond the valley and the far
ther circle of mountains that encir
cle the city, the rebels under ruthless
fj hla li^ai i fp uia uuii nx—
Only two days before Christinas
the population of the capital awoke
to the realization that the rebels were
almost within striking distance. The
tidings were borne with a brutal
shock. A train bearing a detach
ment of Federal troops on a tour of
exploration ran over a rebel dyna
mite mine near Charces. The troops,
en ibe weio &luld. Wi.ure UkebXl'S I ., I