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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
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NOTHING SAVE EXILE OF HUERTA TO SATISFY REBELS
PEACE TILL THEN
General Villa Says Anti-Federals
Control North Mexico and Are
Growing Stronger Daily.
CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO. Dec. 28.
“Nothing less than the fall of Huerta
and his banishment from the country
will ever be considered as a prelim
inary toward peace in Mexico,” said
General Francisco Villa to-day. ‘‘Any
overtures for a • compromise would
be treated with contempt by the
revolutionists.”
General Villa was prompted to dis
cuss the subject because of the repe-
tion of a report from Mexico City
that General Huerta might resign in
favor of a member of his cabinet. As
the report also stated that General
Huerta was talking of taking the field
against the rebels, it was not consid
ered in any way as a possible peace
move.
The subject of peace, however,
came up in General Villa’s councils
and the rebel leader was moved to
outline the rebels’ views in case fu
ture events brought them to consid
eration.
Terms of Rebels.
In substance the terms demanded
by the rebels are:
“The elimination of General Huerta
and his supporters.
“The complete surrender to the
Constitutionalists’ cause of politicians
now opposing it.
“The restoration of the constitution.
“The selection of a provisional
President acceptable to the Consti
tutionalists and provisions for a
popular election.
“Guarantee of a change in the land
laws so that deeds to land would be
more generally distributed.
"Ratification of confication by the
rebels of the vast Terrazas, Creel and
other estates, valued at many millions
of dollars.
“Nullification of all acts of the
Huerta regime.”
Opinions of General Villa’s advisers
were that General Huerta would not
resign and that the rebels must ad
here to their original plan of fighting
their way to Mexico City.
“Our case has progressed to such a
point' that we would treat any sug
gestions of a compromise with con
tempt,” said General Villa.
Huerta Regarded as Traitor.
“We regard Huerta as a traitor who
has dragged his country .for his per
sonal ambitions. We have gone
through so much distress for the
sake of freedom that we would not
now stop short of it.
“Within a few months, we have
won almost all of the North from the
, usurper. Our forces have increased
from a few hundred until now they
number more than 20,000. This num
ber grew, for in every city we take,
hundreds are ready to join. By the
time w T e reach the City of Mexico,
W’e shall have enough men in arms
to completely overwhelm the Fed-
erals, and we intend to fight until
there is no more fighting to do.”
The idea that General Huerta
might take the field against the reb
els, General Villa said, caused no
terror to him, although General
Huerta is familiar with the north
country, having commanded forces
here during the Orozco revolt against
Madero.
The rebels are confident that as
soon as the expedition against the
Federals at Ojinaga is settled they
will be in a position to advance
southward without leaving Federals
in their rear.
Clansmen Barricaded
In a Kentucky Mine
PI NEVILLE, KY„ Dec. 28—The
Hendrickson clan of mountaineers,
who sought refuge in the mine be
tween here and Elys, Ky., last Thurs
day, were still in hiding there to-day.
Shortly before dawn three men were
seen to approach the Knox County
entrance to the mine. The guard
there gave the alarm, but before h^ip
arrived the men had disappeared.
Later this morning two men were
seen at the four-mile entrance, but
disappeared immediately into the re
cesses of the mine shaft.
The belief that the number of
clansmen in the mine is not as great
as was at first supposed was con
firmed to-day when George Hendrick
son, a cousin of “Happy Jack Hen
drickson. and who was supposed to
be in the mine, was arrested at the
home of a man named Messer, on
what is known as Sandy Creek
George Hendrickson participated In
the battle between the clan a™**®
Sheriff’s posse at the home of Happ.
Jack” Hendrickson. He was wounded
in the hiD. He was charged with
murder and shooting with intent to
kill It is believed others who took
part in that battle did not go to the
mine.
MOYER REPORTED BETTER.
CHICAGO. Dec. 28.-There is only
the most ohan« «»t the
wound in Charles 1 .. caid
tonight "probably within ten days
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Fritzi
Musical Comedy Star United to
Anderson, Her Leading Man.
Secret Ceremony.
Striking Copper Miners Bury the
Little Ones Who Perished in
Christmas Eve Panic.
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 28.—The
Western Federation of Miners buried
its dead to-day. Fifty-nine bodies, in
cluding those of 45 children, were
carried through the streets, down a
winding country highway and laid in
graves in a snow-enshrouded ceme
tery within sight of Lake Superior.
Thousands of saddened miners
formed the escort of the funeral par
ties and passed between other thou
sands who as spectators testified to
the grief that- has oppressed the com
munity since 72 men, women and chil
dren were killed in the Christmas
Eve panic in Italia Hall.
For hours the Sabbath calm was
broken by the tolling of bells and the
sound of voices intoning burial
chants. In half a dozen churches
services were held earlier in the day,
and the mourners went about the
streets, passing from their homes to
the churches, back to their homes,
after brief respites, ajid again to the
churches to prepare for the lust sad
trip to the gravesides.
Delegations of Strikers.
Delegations of strikers began com
ing into Calumet early in the day.
The special train of nine coaches
brought hundreds of federationists
from the iron mines of Wegaunee and
Ishpheming and every town and min
ing location in the copper country
sent members and friends of the
union to swell the ranks of marchers
in the afternoon.
By noon the union host was assem
bled. Months of experience in dem
onstrating their numbers by parading
had taught the men to form ranks
quickly and with little delay they
lined up four abreast.
The supply of hearses was inade
quate, and there were only fourteen
of these vehicles in the van. Then
came three undertakers’ wagons and
an automobile truck, the latter carry
ing three coffins. These vehicles con
tained the adult victims and the older
children. Beside one marched eight
women who acted as pallbearers tox a
member of the Women’s Auxiliary of
the Western Federation.
It was this woman’s organization
which was distributing gifts of candy,
shoes, caps and mittens to the chil-
FRITZI SCHEFF BRIDE; j
TAKES 3D HUSBAND
FRITZI SCHEFF.
Schefif, the piquant star of light opera
and vaudeville, who divorced two
notable husbands within four years,
was married secretly Wednesday in
New Rochelle to George Anderson,
her leading man and manager, it is
just learned.
Rumors that the two were en
gaged began to be heard shortly after
the actress obtained her decree from
John Fox, Jr., the novelist, last Feb
ruary. But Miss Scheff made a de
nial of the rumors last April.
The latest ceremony was very sim
ple. Miss Scheff and Mr. Anderson
motored to the clerk’s office at about
3 o’clock in the afternoon, obtained
a license and hastened to the house,
where the minister awaited them.
The ceremony took place at 4 o’clock.
The bride wore a simple traveling
costume. They left at once for St.
Louis, where Miss Scheff will appear
this evening.
The first husband of the little
devil” of opera, as Paderewski called
her, was the Baron Fritz von Bar-
deleben. He came with her to this
country several years ago and estab
lished himself in business. He had
been a captain of Hussars in the
German army. She obtained a di
vorce in 1908.
Soon afterward, following a roman
tic courtship in the Adirondack^, Miss
Scheff was married to John Fox, Jr.,
the famous story teller of the Cum
berland Mountains. There was a
clash of temperament, and she ob
tained a decree.
REBELS ARE ADVANCING.
BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS, Dec. 28.
General Pablo Gonza'~~ who, with a
large body of rebel troops, is believed
to be proceeding toward Nuevo Lare
do with the intention of attacking the
Federal garrison there, was at Guer
rero, 60 miles from Nuevo Laredp, to
day.
Jail Heavily Guarded
To Balk the Lynchers
CHESTERTOWN, MD„ Dec. 2S.—
When it became known late this aft
ernoon that James Paraway, one of
the negroes held on the charge of
complicity in the murder of James
Coleman, a farmer, had confessed that
he assisted Norman Mable, another
negro, in the crime, excitement, which
had subsided somewhat after the un
successful attacks by a mob upon the
jail last night, again flamed up.
The news spread rapidly^in spite of
efforts of the officials to keep the con
fession secret, and the number of si
lent watchers who had not left the
jail during the day soon was aug
mented. Thoroughly* frightened by
his terrible experience last night,
when the mr.b thronged about f is
cell, Paraway, who all along had
maintained his innocence, broke down
to-day under the questioning of de
tectives.
QUIT SINKING VESSEL.
PENSACOLA, FLA., Dec. 18.—The
captain and crew of the British bark
Sirdar, landed here to-day by a fish
ing schooner, reported that their ves
sel, in a sinking condition, Lad been
abandoned in the gulf yesterday, and
then burne>d as a peril to navigation.
The Sirdar was bound from Mobile
for Port of Spain, and carried a half
million feet of lumber. She was the
property of a firm in Newfoundland.
The bark shifted her deckload and
began to take water during a storm
on Christmas Eve. Efforts of ttje
crew to right her were futile, and
when the fishing schooner sighted her
yesterday she was nearly full r f
water,
dren of strikers when the panic broke
out.
Tears and Sobs.
Behind the hearses was a section of
the procession which brought tears
and sobs from onlookers. Thirty-
nine white coffins, their size testifying
to the short life of the little forms
within, were carried by relays of
strikers. Four men bore each coffin
and as their arms grew weary or
their feet slipepd on the roadway,
companions relieved them of their
burden."
AUDITOR SLEATER KILLS SELF.
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 28.—William W.
Sleater, auditor of the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois Railroad, committed
suicide by asphyxiation at his home
here to-day. The body was found by
his wife on her return from church.
Mr. Sleater was 50 years old. In a
note to his wife he ascribed his act to
illness.
GuredHisRUFTURE
•
I was badly ruptured while lifting a
trunk several years ago. Doctors said
my only hope of cure was an operation.
Trusses did me no good. Finally I got
hold of something that quickly and com
pletely cured me Years have passed
and the rupture has never returned,
although I am doing hard work as a
carpenter. There was no operation, no
lost time, no trouble. I have nothing
to sell, but will give full information
about bow you may fmd a complete cure
without operation, if you write to me,
Eugene M. Pullen, Carpenter, 821 Mar-
cell us avenue. Manasquan, N. J. Bet
ter cut out this notice and show it to
any others who are ruptured—you may
save a life or at least stop the misery
of rupture and the worry and danger of
an operation.
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