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||OME EOITIOM VOLUME XIX. No. 78. READY TO LISTEN; WAIT ON TORREON While No Official Word From the White House Reqardinq Huerta’s Desire to Re-open Neqotiations. United States Willing to Hear Proposals For Peace Settlement in Mexico IMPORTANCE ATTACHED TO IMPENDING BATTLE Prediction is Made of a Simul taneous Attack on Both Tor reon and Mazatlan By the Rebels. Juarez, Mexico.—Simultaneous at tack on Torreon and Mazatlan "as predicted in advice* received today, it was said that while Villa'* rebel army was moving against Torreon forefi under Oen. Alvara Obregon would as sault Mazatlan with 12,000 troops The fall of Mazatlan, it was said, would mean virtual control of the west coast while the capture of Torreon. the railroad center of Central would threaten the capital If- the rebels captured these two points, both armies would, it was said, move against Guadalajara, the strategic key to the south. Willing to Listen. Washington.—While no official word came to the White House todav of the reported purpose of Huerta to re-open parleys with the United States by sending his minister of foreign affairs, Jose Rojas, to Vera Cruz to confer with John I.ind, ad ministration officials indicated a wil - Ingness to listen to any new proposal for a peaceful settlement. They seem ed to attach most importance at this time to the outcome of the impending battle at Torreon. which is expected to mark a critical turn in the strength and prestige of the contending fac tions. . . Firmly Established. When the exchange ot notes among Senor Gamboa and Charge O’Shaugh nessy and John land was last fall the attitude of the Washing ton government was firmly established ns opposed not only to recognition ° Huerta but any successor of his choos ing* TJie United States government )u I.' en mindful that a peaceful set tlement in Mexico depended not alone on the choosing of a man to whom diplomatic recognition might be ex tended but that it was equally depend ent on the attlude of the constitution alists. Should the constitutionalists be reversed at Torreon it is considered possible here that a compromise can didate might he agreed upon, though speculation in official circles was not based on any definite information. Senate Votes $7,500 to Senator Bacon’s Widow Washington.—The senate voted to day to pay to the widow of Senator A. O Bacon of Georgia, $7,500—a year s senatorial salary. That is a senate custom at the death of members. May 20th Fixed the Richmond Will Have Sub-Committee of Six to Levy Assessments on Candidates to Defray Ex penses of the Primary RESOLUTION ASKING PEOPLE TO REGISTER Resolution Also Passed to Vigorously Prosecute People For Buying or Selling Votes. The Democratic Executive Commit tee of Richmond county. Col. Henry S. Jones, chairman, presiding, met at noon today at the court house and named May 20 as the date for the county primary. This action was taken as a result of a set of resolu tions offered by Hon. C. E. Dunbar, member of the committee from the First Ward, and unanimously passed. There was no friction regarding the date for the primary named In the resolution, the only discussion being a suggestion from Col. D. G. Fogarty, member from the Third Ward, that instead of May 20 it be earlier in the month. There was no amendment off fered, however, and the date remains fixed’ as set forth in the resolution of Mr. Dunbar, which is as follows; Mr. Dunbar’s Resolution. RESOLVED, First, That a demo cratic primary be, and the same is hereby ordered by this committee to be held on May 20th, 19X4, for the nomination of county officers only, being such officers as the State Dem ocratic Committee has not exclusive jurisdiction over for primary purpos es; said primary to be held under the management of the sub-committee of this committee, and under all the pro visions and regulations heretofore and in the primary of two years ago in this county obtaining as to booths, the secret ballot, etc.; and said sub committee being hereby instructed to close the entrance for said primary at noon, city of Augusta time, on April 20th, 1914. RESOLVED Second, That a like se cret primary be held in this county through such sub-committee and on THE AUGUSTA HERALD SUPREME COURT UN MAN'S BEARD Called on to Determine Its Value. Mr. O’Sullivan Has Sued For $60,000. Washington.—What is the value of a beard? That is a question which jus tices of the supreme court have been asked to determine. The case is that of E. A. O'Sullivan, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, who placed a value of SBO,OOO on a growth of his heard. O'Sullivan, who former ly was district attorney, state senatam and city attorney of New Orleans, claims he wns forcibly deprived of his hirsute adornment on election day In November, 1908. On that day, he as serts, Paul Felix, a Justice of the peace in Jefferson parish, and William W. Stiles, a deputy sheriff, conspired to prevent several men from voting. O'Sullivan claims he went to the polls to advise about the conduct of the election. He asserts that a number of men Imported to the election place by Felix siezed him and tied his arms. Then, he claims. Stiles cut off his beard. O'Sullivan brought suit In 1911 for SBO,OOO damages under the fede ral civil rights act. Felix and Stiles claim the salt was barred by the one-year Louisiana statute of limitations. The Louisiana courts so held, but O'Sullivan hps brought the case to the supreme court on the ground that the statute of lim itations has no application to a suit arising under a federal statute. SNOW FLURRIES IN THESOUTH! Biting Wind Accompanies Fall in Texas. Latest on Record in Centre of State. Memphis, Term.—Snow nnd rain, ac companied hy a biting wind from the northwest was .joport-d today from various sections of Oklahoma, outral and West Texas and Arkansas. The snowfall was one of the latest on Tec ord in Central Texas. With predic tions of colder weather for tonight, fear is felt for fruit trees and gar dens. rour Inches at Stevenson? Nashville, Tenn.—Snow fell today throughout Tennessee and Northern Alabama. In most sections only light (lurries were experienced, but Steven son, Ala., near the Tennessee line, re ported four Inches. Much lower tem peratures accompanied the storm. in Nashville and practically all oth er sections of the state except the mountainous region of Eastern Ten nessee, snow fell intermittently dur ing the greater part of the day, melt ing an it struck the ground. As the Date of County Primary Resolution in Endorsement of Wilson Administration A resolution, offered by Mr. Ga naltl, praising the country's pres ent administration, was passed at the meeting of the county execu tive committee today. It follows: Resolved, That the Executive Committee of the Democratic Party of Richmond County con gratulate the people of the United States upon the able and states manlike administration of our President, Woodrow Wilson. The principles foT which the Demo cratic party have for go long striv en In vain are now being crystal lized into law, and in the space of one year more legislation of real benefit to the musses of the peo ple has been enacted than in any equal period of our country's his tory. We confidently predict that by the time this administration Bhall have run Its course all the campaign pledges of the Demo cratic Party will have been faith fully carried out and our country will have returned to the the po litical faith of Us founders: “Equal rights to all and special privileges to none.” such date as such State Committee shall fix, for the nomination of such officers as may be under the exclusive Jurisdiction of fsaid State Committee for primary purposes. Sub-Committee. RESOLVED, Third. That a chair man of this committee be. and he is hereby authorized to designate a sub committee from this committee of six members, one from each ward of the city of Augusta, naming the chair man, and adding thereto as adjunct members, each to have the supervision of the primary in his own precinct, the members from the out of the city precincts of Richmond county; said sub-committee to be charged and em powered with all the management and Continued on Market ?ace) THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. MARCH 19. 1914. His Assassination By Wife of Political Rival Stirs France , |K*y< *►*<&«* a*j* s>o M. GASTON CALMETTE. The late editor or the Paris Figaro, who was shot and killed (at the desk shown in the picture) by Mine. Henriette Caillaux, wife of the French Minister of Finance, M. Joseph Caillaux. It was a political-love tragedy. The editor attacked the fcjnance Minister for his official sets, but broke the unwritten lawny puhlttflTfftg part of a love-letter written by Minister Caillaux to Mme. Caillaux, when she was the wife of another man. ‘SKATING ON THIN ICE/ SAYS PRES’T Executive Uses There Words in Interview With Senator Jones. Latter Thereupon Re turns and Tells Senate That His Remarks of Yesterday Were Made Under a “Mis understanding.” Washington. —President Wilson told Senator Jones, republican, of Wash ington, today that he was “skating on thin ice” in his speech yesterday when he broadly Intimated that the presi dent had not decided to read a mes sage to congress on the Panama tolls question until after Sir Lionel Car den, British minister to Mexico, visited the White House. The president told callers afterward that he could not get a suggestion on the Mexican position out of Sir Lionel "with a corkscrew” and that the con ference was purely for information on the general situation in Mexico. Had Written Message. The president had written his tolls message and decided to deliver it be fore he saw Sir Lionel. Officials said neither the tolls question nor any sug gestions for future policy In the Mexi can situation came up in the talk with Sir Lionel. Senator Jones then returned to the capltol and told the senate: Misunderstanding. ‘‘The president assures me that there was no basis of fact in the articles I referred to, to warrant the conclu sion with regard to this government's relations with Great Britain In the Mexican situation. I think I was mis understood In lhat I did not draw the conclusions myself but took them from published reports. I think it only Just to the president that I make this state ment.” Senator Jones stated that the mis understanding served to illustrate the necessity for more information about the tolls exemption situation. Action on Senator Jones resolution calling on the president for informa tion was again deferred. DISABLED BCHOONER FOUND. Norfolk, Va.—The disabled four masted schooner Elisha Atkins of Bath, Maine-/ bound from Tampa, Kla., for Baltimore, was towed into the Vir ginia Capes early today by the United States revenue cutter Onondaga, which picked her up at sea yesterday after a search of 48 hours. The Atkin's principal trouble Is a disabled rudder head. Inside of Cape Henry the At kins was taken In tow by the Balti more tug Dauntless. AMMONIA FUMES KILL Cleveland, Ohio. —One man was kill ed, another fatally hurt and two oth ers seriously Injured In the Cleveland Brewing Company’s plant today when a compressor head was torn from an engine in the ice room, permitting the escape of deadly ammonia fumes. The man who was killed was James U Bowman, chief engineer of the plant. Women Suffragists Are Facing Senate Defeat Washington.— Protests against Im mediate action on the proposed con stitutional amendment extending suf frage to women, under debate in the senate, continued to reach the capital today from suffrage leaders through out the country. Senators leading the fight for the amendment, however, were prepared for a final vote within a day or two, satisfied that while they face almost certain overwhelming de feat, nothing con be gained by further efforts to delay action. Senator Ashurst, in charge of tho proposed amendment, said he had can vassed the senate and found sentiment strongly In fuVor of disposing of tho question as quickly as possible. Slight Operation After Fall of Mrs. Wilson Washington.—Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was well on the road to complete re covery today from the effects of a fall over a rur at the White House. Offi cials of the executlce offices said her Injury was an external one of no seri ousness and that she would be out again In a day or two. White House officials said today that Mrs. Wilson hud undergone a eliglht operation to correct the ef fects of the bruise which resulted from her fall hut they said it was entirely a local one. They denied that social engagements cancelled by members of the family yesterday were on that account. UNLUCKY NO. 8. Kansas City, Mo. After seven mun icipal prisoners hud escaped by sliding down a thirty foot rope made of blan kets today, It. parted under the weight ut an eighth fugltleve, preventing the • scape of 30 other men. Most of them 'had been sentenced on vagrancy char ges. LAUNCH SUBMARINE. Seattle, Wn.—United States subma rine K-4 wag launched today. Mrs. J. P. Oldrlng, wife of the lieutenant who will take command of the vessel, christened It. AMERICAN CREW SAVED. Kinsale, Ireland The British steam er Nubian, for Liverpool, which pass ed here today, signalled that she had on board tin- crew of the American schooner Julia A. Truhee which was abandoned on March 7 while on her voyage from Perth Amboy to Martini que. NEGRO ELECTROCUTED Richmond, Va. —Marion lee, a Ken tucky negro, was electrocuted this morning for the murder last July of Delaware Brown, at Taono, near Wil liamsburg, Va., In a fight over a crap game. MANIPULATION COTTON UP IN THE SENATE Notice is Served That South Carolina Senator Will Ask For the Passaqe of His Cotton Gradinq Bill Tomor row (Friday) Manuipulation Hurts Both Farmer and Manufacturer, Says Hoke Smith. Senator West Makes His Maiden Remarks. Washington.—Notice was served In the senate today by Senator Smith-of South Carolina that he would ask to morrow for passage of his cotton grad ing bill. Senator Smith read quotations of Tuesday from the New York eotton exchange, when March middling was sold at 12.54 and July for 11.77. He said It cost from five to ten points to carry cotton from March to July and that it was only by manipulation of the grading of cotton to lie deliv ered that the excitant l ' could afford to sell July cotton for less Gihii Man'll. "Thla manipulation hurts both the farmer and manufacturer,” declared Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia. Want It at Once. “Yesterday the exchange showed some appreciation of public sentiment by adopting government atajidards t« become effective in 1915," said Sena tor Overman. "What wa want to do Is to puss the Smith bill and mako this grading effective at once." Senator McCumber remarked that the complaint of Southern senators re minded him of his bill for govern mental grain Inspection. "You stand by the people of the South in their fight agalnat cotton manipulation and we will stand by your Western people," replied Senator West of Georgia, speaking for the first time in the senate. INDIANA STANDS BT PRESIDENT Plank For State-Wide Primary Submitted to Democratic Convention. Praise For Bryan Indianapolis, Ind.—A plunk for a state-wide primary law was Included in the platform submitted for consid eration to tho democratic state con vention hero today. The vote on the plank In tho resolutions committee was seven to six. The primary proposal was submitted by Senator Shively. After Its adop tion Mayor Bell of Indianapolis, who wuis chairman of the committee, de dared it had been accepted only after Senators Kern find Shively and seve ral of the Indiana congressional dele gation had pleaded that if huoli a plank were not Included In the plat form It would reflect on President Wilson’s policies. Only one out of the thirteen members of the committee, said Bell, previously had been for the primary proposal. Bell asserted that without the convention system the party’s organization would disinte grate. Candidates for state offices, cxecy* the governorship ad a nominee for the United States senate, are to be choseu by the convention. Record Praised. After lauding the record of the dem ocratic party and the achievements of President Wilson, the temporary chair man of the convention, Gov. Ralston, said “a grateful people also should not fall to pay tribute to those who have stood by the president.” "Much of the popularity of the pres ent national administration,” he de clared, "Is due to the stand It has tak en for the things that have been advo cated for years under the leadership of that masterful man, Wm. Jennlng> Bryan.” Debate Over $500,000 to Support Mexic Refugees Washington. An appropriation of $500,000 to support Mexican refugees In the United states provoked debate in the senate today over the American policy of dealing with them. Senator Martin stated the appropriation was necessary for the United States to meet Its International obligations. It finally was limited to soldiers, offi cers and military refugees. SCHMIDT GRANTED STAY OF NEXT WEEK’S SENTENCE New York. Hans Schmidt, slayer of Anna Aurnuller and sentenced to electrocution during the week of March 23, was granted a stay of ex ecution today by the filing of a notice of appeal. That Is based on the claim that Anna Aurnuller came to her death In the performance of an Illegal opera tion. CHICAGO’S BOYB’ COURT. Chicago. —Chicago’s hoys’ court, su'd to be the first tribunal of Its kind In the world, was opened today as a branch of the municipal Judicial sys tem. The court will deal with cuses of boys between 17 and 21 years of age. Its object Is to keep the boys from contact with mature criminals and to give their eases sympathetic consideration. Public Career Ruined, Will Devote Himself to De fending Wife. >* 1. I ‘ | ii y ■ * ",IY- * V v . M. JOSEPH CAILLAUX. Paris.—M. Joseph Caillaux, whose resignation as Minister of Finance ha* been accepted, has severed all ills form er relations of public life, so that lie may devote all of his efforts anil time to aiding the defense of hi* wife, Mme. Henriette i'allluux. now in the prison of Rt. Lazare, for the murder of M. (hiHtnn Calmette, editor and political enemy of M Caillaux. Caillaux Is heartbroken over his wife's terrible deed. Raise Insurance Rate Against Appendicitis London.- A frrmip of I.loyHn under writers Home time n«ro a pre mium of $:.60 for policies of inmiranr* aKiilnftt appendlcitln rovorln* all olalm* for expense* up to SSOO. Thara have been mo many rlairriH that It ban been found impossible to continue oi\ terinH. A new nyndlcato Hah been formed, however, and tho pre mi uni has been rained to $5, His Ashes Go Forward By Parcel Post; Cost $1.05 New York. The ashes of Baron Carl Gromadzlnsky, who died at New Rochelle a month ago, were shipped today by parcel post to his old home in Germany. The package, weighing eight pounds, cost $1.07 to send and was addressed to Baron Sonderrnann at Ham ten Ros en, for burial In an ancestral vault. Pinned Under Wreckage 37 Hours; Begs For Water . ,Ht. Louis. fI 1m rn.lln for a drink of water today Ind to tho redone of Thom km Burke from rulriM of the St. Loulm Hound o>rnpany’H hulldlmt .'l7 hour* lif ter the structure collapsed under the weight of it fallen well of the burned Mlhhoutl Athletic Club hulldinK. Rescuers who hud been digging in the ruins nil night were working to extricate a body when they were Htart - Id by Burke’s cull for help. After HO men had worked for half an hour they found Burke pinned under it Mention of flooring lie u;is rushed to n hospital where he was treated for Injuries to his feet. Near Burke was found the body of an unidentified man, bringing the to tal dead recovered to six. Burke died ut a hospital several bourn after being taken from the ruin*. Ships Through Canal in the Next Three Months Washington Though merchant ships are expected to lie passing through the Panama Canal within the next three months, yet builders of the big ditch still have much work ahead of them. Nearly all of what Is known as the permanent dam and lock con struction has been finished but owing to the earth slides In the Culebra Gut many hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of earth must be removed there in to broaden the channel to Its full width. During the month of February total excavation was 1,435,050 cubic yards as compared with 1,614,072 yards In January. CAR HAD 90 PASSESNGERS. Woburn, Mass Seven persons were badly Injured when an electric car containing !>0 passengers Jumped the track on a sharp curve at the foot of a steep hill here today. The car plunged forty feet across the street Into an embankment. $6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY. SYMPATHY OF PARIS WITH THE WOMAN Crowds Continue Gathering m Gates of St. Lazare to Watch Visitors and Counsel Engaged Bv M'me. Caillaux For Her Defense Minister of Marine Resigns, Following M. Caillaux From French Cabinet. Caused By Statements of $20,000,000 Swindle on Public Paris.—Madame Caillaux'* assassi nation o( Gaston Calmette, editor of The Figaro, brought about another change In the French cabinet today when Ernest Monts, minister in ma rine, added Ills resignation to that of Joseph Caillaux, minister of finance. A meeting of the cabinet council accepted the resignation. For the present Albert F lasbrun, minister of rolonies. will uct also as minister of marine. 3reat Curiosity. Mine. Caillaux is still the object of deep i opt.lar sympathy Crowd* took advantage today of the inld-Lenten holiday to gather at the gates at St. Lazare prison, where *lte Is In cus tody The people munltested great curiosity in the visitor* In the jail who included the lawyers engaged In her defense. Police on Guard. In the central districts of Pari* a* well as In the more turbulent quar ters on the south Hide of the Seine the police had taken every precaution to prevent political demonstrations. The residence of M. Caillaux was strongly guarded as were also the of fices of the Figaro, the setiule and the chamber of deputies. The resignation of M Monla was caused by statement* made In tha chamber of deputies that while he was premier Tie had exerted powerful Influence on the public prosecutor, Victor Fabre, to postpone tne trial of Henri ltoohette who was alleged to have swindled the inblic out of sums aggregating $20,000,000 by fraudulent stock promotion*. Hochette disap peared while on ball. Geo. Westinghouse Left Estate of $35,000,000 Two-Thirds Go to Widow, One- Third to Son. Pittsburg, Pa.—The will of George We*tlnglioiise, who died last week, wa* filed here for probate today. No estimate of the value of the estate Is made but it is *aid to bn' about $35,000,000. Margaret E. W Westinghouse the widow. Is given two-third* of all the capital stock of the Westinghouse Air Spring Company, of which ha was owner and one-third of such stock to Ml* son. Certain personal office and household employes arn given ii year's salary, and a bequest of $50,000 is made to Alexander Car den UptegraTf, of Pittsburg. The residue of the estate Is di vided 40 per cent to the widow, 40 per cent to the son and twenty per cent to a brother, Henry II Westing house. FOR ALABAMA TRAIN ROBBERY. Montgomery, Ala. —Federal war rants were issued here today charging Harry Marx, Frank Moore, and John William* with robbery of the Alaba ma Great Southern express and mail train held up and looted near Hlbb ville, Ala , last December. The three accused men have been under arrest here since March Ist on suspicion. HOTEL HOLD UP. Detroit, Mich. An armed rohl rr held up W 11. Hums, night clerk in the office of the Hotel Metropol! early today nnd compelled ttie clerk to give oil $360. The robber then leaped Into a waiting limousine, pressed a revol ver against the head of the driver and ordered him to speed toward the sub urbs. The driver obeyed and the ban dit escaped. Character Reading Reading character from hand writing Is an old endeavor. Hut the reading of business char acter from a study of advertising Is far more Interesting and prot ltable, Just glance over in The Herald advertisements of ti.e merchants whose places you know. Does not the morchant write his store character Into his advertis ing? Is It not possible to form a pretty gooil Idea of the store trom the manner In which It makes Its announcements In the newspa pers? Merchants are coming to realize more unri more that when they write an advertisement they are painting j. business portrait of themselves- Indicating their busi ness character. They are more careful in their statements, more modest in their language, and pay more attention to typography and Illustration. Advertising will he prepared this year even more carefully than ever before and there will be more of it. And by the seme token it is go ing to he more Interesting and profitable to the readers. |pE EolTlo|||