Newspaper Page Text
; ' ’ * *
OVER 100,000
THE SUNDAY AMERICAN'S
NET PAID CIRCULATION
7 he National Southern Sunday Newspaper
1 •
VOL. XII. NO. 132.
J
Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS-Use fc
:t3
ATLANTA, <i.\., I 'M DA V. . '.
•i»•!■ vrs ‘'' T No
- ' 1 \10RR
MEXICO DENOUNCES U. S. TROOPS AS INHUMAN
—:—
Consul Formally Protests Disarm
ing of Soldiers and Making
Them Prey of Rebels.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Jah. 2.—The
action of American troops at Presidio
in disarming 1 Federal deserters from
OJinaga and sending them back across
the Rio Grand© was denounced as “in
human” to-day by Pedro Serrano, the
Mexican Consul here, and he made
formal protest to the'United States
. Government.
His protest wa - sent to Washing
ton through the Mexican Charge
(VAffaires there, and also to General
Tasker H. Bliss, commander of the
cavalry division of the United States
rmy on the berth r.
The message was couched in se
vere terms in i s description of the
treatment accorded to the Mexican !
Federals.- It was sent only after the j
Consul had taken the matter up with ;
the local military authorities who
told him they had no jurisdiction, j
The representatives of the Mexican
Government intimated that he would j
not object to the deportation of de- ;
serters if they were permitted to re
turn tcTOjfnaga With their arms, but I
declared that sending--, -them back |
with oh t arms meant the almost cer- i
■tain death of many under the attacks j
of -the Constitutionalists.
rrn Rid City Streets of
1 Billboard Fences,
Is Plan of Mayor
Mayor Woodward Friday gained
another point in his fight to rid At
lanta’s busy streets of obstructions,
when, under orders from the County
Commissioners, work was begun
tearing down the fence around the
new courthouse.
For several days Ihe County Com
missioners were in the attitude of de
fiance of city ordinances and of the
Mayor and Council. Mayor Wood
ward threatened to hove the fence re
moved by city employees.
The reluctance of the County Com
missioners to take down the fence
was occasioned because of billboard
advertising contracts running to the
first of the year. The situation is ex-
peeted to result in a serious blow to
billboard advertising agencies, for
friends of the Mayor In Council are
plann^g to introduce an ordinance
prohibiting the use of fences in the
streets for advertising purposes.
INK MAKE
TOWED
0
:r’S daughter engaged
HEIR TO DUKE OF RUTLAND
Hit Scored in Spanish
And Hawaiian Songs
A real treat for music lovers was
the recital Riven by Mme. Genevra j
Johnston-Bishop at the Baptist Tab- j
ernacle Thursday night, under the
auspices of the Atlanta Musical As
sociation. With a voice perfect in
volujhc and interpretation she found
the hearts of her audience, and held
them through a repertoire of the
plaintive songs of the Hawaiians to
the entrancing mhlodies of sunny
Spain.
Mrs. Bishop was ably assisted by
Alexander von Sklbinski. Miss Ruby
Askew was perfert at the piano, de
spite the fact that late trains had in
terfered with rehearsals.
. Bleed '- Convict
At Eoi.-ier Still On.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Jan. 2.-Over a |
: single telegraph wire that wits out j
of commission nine-tenths of the
time there trickled into El Paso to
day enough details of the battle of
OJinsga to show that the bloody con-
tlict was still, raging., with the Fed
eral defenders’, position continually
becoming weaker because of havoc
wrought by .the ar; tilery of General
Ortega's Constitution hist forces.
Gei\eral Orosco and General Sala
zar are literally fighting fur • their
lives, as they hove hen Sentenced to
death by General Villa. They wifi not
orrender under, any- circumstances,
but will lice across- the Rto Grande
i do the U.nlted States to escape cap-
: lure.
At his headquarters in Juarez to-
< ..,y General Villa declared he had
definite assurance that the Ojinaga
defenders could hold out’only a short
tint".
“Neuvo Lardeo will also fall,” he
said, -atpl then the Constitutional
ists will be supreme on the border.
Monterey and Torreon will come next
Olid then Mexico City, with Huerta,
’he usurper, will fall.”
Villa i on A... efforts to hov
American mining companies open
their plants in Chihuahua. He has
conferred with several officials since
his return from Chihuahua and has
’
i' the cuirptlno wo :• suiue ' o.-ir op
e rations.
He has pledged hints Jf to maintain
•be railroad l.lpe that the plants
' i n hi assured of foot, and working?
Aero Boat Line for
Florida Commuters
TAMPA, FLA., Jan. 2.—Aero boat
transportation Is to be begun on a
commercial scale between. Tampa and
St. Petersburg in a few days. Three
hydroplanes will be put in operation
by a corporation under direction of
Tony Jannus.
Tlie towns are 22 miles apart and
separated . by two bayfe. The sched
ule call for about a mile a minute.
The company claims to have enough
bookings from commuters to keep the
boats busy.
Runaway Porker
Meets Just Fate
NORTH FIELD, N. J., Jan. 2—Ed
ward Id oil urns’ 400-pound pig ran
away and became wedged under a
concrete bridge. After two hours,
c nough of the bridge was removed to
lelease the pig. which ran away again.
The fugitive finally ran into an auto
mobile and fell with two broken legs.
Hollum then killed it.
ole
; ipp
Villa
oi ans
will
remain at Ju.iroe un.il
h is proposals is received
,.m ihe •• D.-*. - helm oilic. .- in i : v»
:*U tM. He wants to Use the export tax
bullion to.support his army and
, ;i.e Chihuahua State government.
350 Killed or ■
Kurt at Nuevo Laredo. •
LAREDO, TEXAS, J in. i. ', Wef:i 1
ILblo Gonzales commaft 'T-t‘ of' the
” Lutt-i sent
t un orderly curly * to-d-ty to tic- l^ed-
f ’ rals thcr-■ n, i ■■ ■ .th. .x-.-.nwett-
| her. The demand was rejected and
the rebel forces moved forward un-
•!er cover of their artilh-ry.
The Federals rallied sharply and
t ie second day of the hauls, which
had already resulted In- the death or
injury of more than 350 soldiers, was
on.
The defending Federals were
t ampered by flrps burning in tty?
town. Many had to be withdrawn
4, m firing line- to tight the flam- -
‘Buffalo Bill’ Aids
Bailey Will Case
Clifford Talbot Will Settle Here
and Start Court Fight for
Two Children.
“I have been in a living hell for
ten years,” said A L. Talbot, husband
of Mrs. Clifford Talbot, who was ar
rested at the Piedmont Hotel with
George E. Sawyer, of Boston, “but
now the shackles have been broken
and I can begiq to live for my two
children. I intend to forget my wife
and the misery she has caused me; I
will settle in Atlanta.■ g.nd try* to be a
good citizen and a good father to my
two little girls.”
Talbot and his attorney. John W.
Moore, stated Friday morning that
the action for divorce against Mrs.
Talbot and the proceedings to obtain
the custody of the two children, Edna
May, aged 6, and Lucille, aged 9, will
he begun Friday morning in the Su
perior Court of Fulton County.
It is Talbot’s intention to live ir.
Atlanta, at least until he’has secured
his divorce and obtained the cus
tody of his children.
“My wife,” he said, “can go the
route she has chosen; I will not try
to hinder her. I will try to teach
my children to forget her amT^t^
disgrace she has brought upon them.”
Talbot went to police headquarters
Friday morning and, asked Chief of
Police Beavers to send two officers
with a search warrant to No. 893
Seaboard avenue, where he has been
living with his wife and her parents*
to get his clothing and other effects.
He told the chief that when h^ went
there late Thursday, his wife's moth
er, Mrs. E. F. Holmes, and her sis
ter, Mrs. William Wolffe, slammed
the door in his face and threatened
to shoot him.
He asked the chief -for the police
men because he* said* he wished' to
avoid trouble.
Mrs. Talbot was placed-under bond
of $500 by Recorder , Ur >yfes, dnd
Sawyer’s bond was fixed at $R000.
Both gave bond '■and were .released.
Receiver Named for
Athens Cotton Firm
ATHENS, Jan. 2.—Jack F. Jackson
was to-day appointed receiver for the
bankrupt cotton firm of Griffith &.
Welch, whose liabilities are placed at
$78,000 and assets of $50,000.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
was filed by the firm, although J. W.
Welch, junior member, refused to join
In it. C. B. Griffith, senior member,
also filed an individual voluntary peti
tion. He gave his liabilities as $70,000
and assets at $45,000.
Intrastate Express
Rates To Be Revised
Invades Georgia in 1914, Hunter
Tells Scientists, but Farmers
Are Prepared,
W. D. Hunter, in charge ’f crip
and insect investigation work for th
Government in the Southern field
said Friday in an interview \\ th Tin
Georgian that this State is: much bel
ter prepared to rrn et the oncoming j
hosts of the boll weevil than any of j
./vDyf
More Than $500 Worth of Goods
Stolen at Atlanta Union
Depot Recovered.
JMLE NEGRO
in
: e Hill to Sit in Irby Slaying
Case, Transferred Because
of Mob Threats.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2.—Testimony of
Colonel \\\ F. Cody (Buffalo Bill)
concerning his relations with the late
.J. A. Bliley, circus king, which was
taken in Denver, was filed at White
Plains, to be used at the trial of the j
will contest over Bailey’s estate
worth $1,000,000.
Man- of 31, Married 6
Times; Weds Seventh
IirSctiXGTOX, W. VA„ Jan. 2.—
“I hope this will be my last,” said L.
P. Maynard, 31. aftei 4 his marriage to
.Mh»s’ Rebecca Wilson. “I have been
married seven times. Three of my
wives I divorced and the other three
died.”
The revision of intrastate express
rates so as to make them uniform and
in conformity with the rates of the In
trastate Comrhe.rce • Commission will be
undertaken at a meeting of the repre
sentatives of zone No. 2 of the commis
sion to be held January 12 at the Pied
mont Hotel.
W. A. Ryan will attend the meeting
as the special representative of the in
terstate board.
Denmark to Exhibit"
At Panama
*£*••£■
Special Cable to The Atlanta CSeorgYan.
COPENHAGEN, DENMAI^K, J^n.
2.—Denmark is to take a promip^nt
place at the Pa nama-JPacifie Exposi
tion at San Francisco in both the art
and agricultural departments.
’ ‘ Til K TI
Ojft tlie left is Miss Bara S. Wi
Soon be ahrmimeod, if - , j.n > •>■ •
and at the right Miss’ Olga V or.:.
the other cotton States have be^-ii.
XiCSt Georgia planters be too uu. i
elated at this gratifying situaCon, th-j
boll weevil expert tempered IDs com
ment with the remark that there
absolutely ao way of checking mate
rially the invasion of the pestiferous
insect, and that, after Mr. Boll Wee
vil once is here, he is here forever • > 1
a day. All that can be done, he said,
is to minimize the v < n il’s r \ a •
Mr. Hunter read a j ap r beTor the
entomologists’ section of the Dr
can Association for the Advan<- m :r
of Science Thursday afternoon at
Atlanta Medical CoHege. 'He de
scribed the work his department has
done to combat tin- w< evil.
‘‘Barrier” Would Stop It.
“Before the weevil had ’• V
vast army over ’P s i? - D ’ n
been stopped by 11 p i • of
ir ant
. and Marquis,
! t
oty
ol
r
Th
L ..... U
it i Crc
Pool
Room
the
. . I rijamin II. Hill, of the
•*m Bounty Superior Court, has
ii:“ ’ that'he will try the tiiree
: i ho murder of
Soth Irby, in Jefferson County,
v seen as the Solicitor is ready.
i hr ' orn in eases where a
] i. of venue is ordered, Solicitor
Dor ' likely will resign the
in in l' " !■• *' v e< u tic in to So-
< r Moore, c.f Jefferson County.
1* v» :i :i dis ii-iM'inted crowd that
‘•red at -the courthouse at Louis-
T ii e!nv to hour the trial of the
’ • * William Hart, George Hart
••'I Robert Paschal. There were open
:s that the negroes would he
. Lt d ’ • soon ns they were brought
11 the Towe r in Atlanta.
W hf a the Grand Jury returned true
)>iP < against them, Judge Rawlings,
the pf< nMng oilicer, said it was not
' ■ Din u:.-- dlserelfon to withhold an
for a change of venue when
mi - viokuwe was threatened.
great strip of other erops i
tdri,’
have acted as a barri ..
is too late.
“The idea is not In tb - !»•
ticable,* aUbough Ll ivc? ; ,
lution of the problem - i • is
fered. Then ar, so m . v e
'the weevri *t<’ through^ ; 1
\v<cu 111* i\i j ) *, • • f , . y
\yf‘xi \ urti'.biuy: *■ l . Lj-
l.LV
t I)b
Po
now \\
■ b %{
A
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair Friday; rain
Saturday, warmer.
Fishermen Capture
Seal Near New York
NEW YORK. Jan. 2.—John
Schenck and John Befford, fishermen,
captured a live seal in Gravesend
i Bay. It is the first time in years a
sea! has been caught in this riciirity.
•Ur
-
’W'
^ !
A.
ilroadsSend Pretty
vi Year Greetings
r - • » tia.ffir department of the
li VV- • T’oint Railroad Com-
a D ' Turn Railway of Ala-
>' n* out to all the friends
/ £ ■■ k ■ <>f D solirHatloft
-ffeting for the New
T' U| !•
whic^h- irresistibly . > :r
•east^ird, ■ are in a u';\u <
soijthw< m < i-n b^-r.;.
planters have a" period cif boding
frosts to thank
the weevil to r< a eh Genre o, K'HL
Will Invade State Coon.
“But it is only six • r s* e.ii miles
distant from the southwestern coun
ties, and by the end of it'M it • v i 11
have made its way ; : • »;o s to
ward. the interior of Georgia.
“The only way ot fight the '\oevi:
successfully, is by the planting of ear.
. • rne njory M)f jassoclatTon with
url r-. . .end. PrHndK, does not die
t r -• i *Id .Veat .’^i^ its pleasing as--
and the best of wishes for
• :i,r of 1914 are very gracefully ex-
(Cd. tin
~n r?.?? ? t Cdwmn 3)
j:.. ,.;t:
ers
Guests’Attend
's Sixth Party
like
that
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—“Chump,”
th« six- ' ir-old"Terrier of Miss Irene
'. td a rrn;.: n, hail hi8 sixth annual par
s', N • •.
u; r : im West Seventy-fifth street. Twen-
! ty other dogs were his guests.
D Lie;}: ty cake with six candles
• was a feature.
Systematic robbing of the
parcel post service at the I'nion
depot, carried on for three
months by four negro porters in
tin- railway service was broken
up Friday morning by the ar
rest* of the quartet and the re
covery of more than $500 worth
of goods stolen from the United
States mails.
The negroes are: Will Tucker, No.
1S9 Ehst Gain street; Tom Bohannon.
X" 215 Butler street: .Tames Gbftih-
ain. No. 7 Graven street, and Eugene
Jones-, No. 10$ Markham street.
For several weeks there has beer,
an unaccountable shortage' of pack
ages from the parcel post, both com
ing into and going out of Atlanta.
Losses Traced to Depot.
T G. Hart, superintendent of mails,
and J. W. Ada rn son, post office in
jector, were detailed on the case and
gradually narrowed the loss to the
link at the Union depot.
Then Detectives Starnes and Camp
bell, of the city force, were called in
;t nd New Year’s Eve Eugene Jones
wa» arrested, leaving the depot with
a suit case full of plunder. No men
tion was made of the capture until
the other three employees #*re
rounded up. Then a search revealed
$500 worth of stolen property.
The four negroes were not in th*
postal sendee. They were porters
employed by the railroads, their duties
consisting largely of transferring Ihv
incoming parcel- post from mail car?
to trucks, and the outgoing packages
from trucks to the various mail cars
Plan of Theft Simple.
Their plan of theft was simple.
Packages that looked “valuable” were
‘sneaked” from the loaded trucks arifi
concealed, one or two at a time, in the
capacious pockets or breasts of over
alls.
During the day the accumulation
would be hidden In a convenient
cranny in the depot building. At
night a suit case or a covered basket
would be the means of conveying the
day’s plunder away.
The four negroes are to have a
hearing Friday afternoon before
United States Commissioner Colquitt.
Strike Settlement
Eliminates Moyer
CALUMET, MICH., Jan. 2.—Peace
will be restored in the Calumet Cop
per mining eountry before to-morrow
night, according to the belief of John
H. Densmore, representative of the
Federal Department of Labor, who is •
here trying to bring the striking min
ers and operatives together.
The peace plan which Densmore
said will he adopted will eliminate
the Western Federation of Miners,
and the men will return to work un
der in agreement- that will recognise
a local union not affiliated in any
way with the organisation of which
Charles II. Moyer is president
, ' '-i
Mine Layer Ashore.
Five Britons Drown
STKTTIX, GERMAXY. Jan. 2 —
Five Kngtlshmen were drowned off
the island of Bornholm in the North
Sea to-dav when a Russian mine lay
er went ashore.
■■■■