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U. J. Insists Land Question An Issue; Huerta Men Differ THE WEATHER Fair tonight and Tues day. VOLUME XIX No. 145. F@ir C®nltaffl CidUdufog ina lili EEBELS PLAN TO RAISE FEDERAL GUNBOAT. The Mexican gunboat Vera Cruz, sunk and abandoned in the Panuco River, by its Federal crew after the capture of Tampico by the rebel army. The rebel engineers are now endeavoring to raise the vessel and utilize it for transporting troops Southward along the coast. mm EXECUTES ONE OF HIS GENERALS IN THF CJILOE MEXICO Report of Killing of GeiVl Fuqenio Rascon Comes From Tor reon. Consdiered That Carranza Representative at Nia gara Falls Conference is Not Indispensable at This Time. El Paso, Texas. — Unconfirmed re ports are current here that General Rascon had been executed at Mexico Gity by order of General Huerta. The rumor emanated from Torreon. Fire at Aviators. Washington. —After more than 24 hours of calm in the Mexican situa tion, disturbed only by a report that Mexican outposts had fired at Amer ican aviators at Vera Cruz, President Wilson and his advisers looked to Ni agara Falls today for the unfolding of new chapters in preliminaries of medi ation. Much attention was directed toward the constitutionalists' attitude over representation at he Niagara con ference It was known administration SUPHEIAE COURT. AUGUSTA FLOOD Railway Liable for Two Cars of Rice Burned at Hamburg in the 1908 Flood. Washington. A combination of flood and fire was held by the su preme court today to have made the New Orleans aipl Northwestern Rail road Co., and the Southern Railway Company liable for two cars of rice burned up. It apteared that ivi unprecendented flood occurred ou the Savannah River in 1908. This flood reached two cars of lime at Hamburg, S. C, causing the lime to ignite. The fire destroyed .wo cars of rice sitting nearby. The court held the rail ways were negligent in not moving the rice away Trom the lime cars The rice was shipped from New Or leans to Charleston. S. C., and was owned by the National Rice Milling Company. AVIATOR MISSING. London. —No solution of the mys tery surrounding the disappearance of Gustave Hamel, the British avia tor who started on Saturday morning to cdoss the English Channel front France, has been found, although a thorough search oT the sea has been made by a swarm of torpedo boat de stroyers and extensive inquiries were made along the coa'ts. COMMANDER REAMY DEAD. Washington —Commander L. L. Reamv. retired of the navy, died here early today of neurosis Me was re tired in 1900 and was 65 years oid. - -THE ONE PAPER IN MOCT HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. THE AUGUSTA HERALD officials would be gratified if Car ranza sent an agent but they do not consider that indispensable at this time. Exchanges between President Wil son and Secretary Bryan and the Am erican mission at Niagara Falls con tinued today but administration offi cials declined to intimate what the dispatches referred to. Guadalajara Quiet. Washington. —Through the Brazil ian legation in Mexico City the state department learned today that the sit uation at Guadalajara, recently re ported threatening for foreigners, was tranquil and that there was no dan ger. CAN'T REGOVEO TITANTIG LOSS U. S. Supreme Court Rules on the $13,000,000 Claims Filed in This Country. Washington, D. C, —Practically noth ing may he recovered hy those who lost relative or baggage In the sinking of the Titanic, the supreme court decided to day. The court held th t toe liability of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Co., for the $13,000,000 clalma against It as owner of the ill-fated Titanic Is limited In suits in the Unted States by the Ameroan T.mlted Liabilitv I,aw of 1851 to tho value of toe salvage reeeovered, the freight and passage money received on 'he Tltanle's voyage amounting In all to $91,000. The deelsinri in no way affects suits brought against the owner In other eoun tr es Justice Holmes announced tho decision. Justice McKenna dissented. THREE FIREMEN INJURED. Tampa. Fla. —Three firemen and one citizen were Injured this morn ing by a cornice dislodged by an ex plosion at the rear of the stage of L ITnione Italiano Clubhouse while a fire was being iought In that strur ture. The three firemen were knock ed from a ladder which they had mounted with a line oT hose and the other man, an Italian, was standing at the foot of the ladder. None was fatally injured The three firemen were sent to a hospital. The clubhouse was entirely de stroved. hut adjoining structures were saved. The loss amounts to $50,000. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, MONDAY AFTERNOON. MAY 25. 1914. URGE T. R. IN WILSON ATTACK Bull Moose Chief’s Visit to Washington Tomorrow Takes on Added Significance. May Also Meet Republican Lead ers in Anticipation of 1916. Oyster Bay, N. Y.—Colonel Roose velt s trip to Washington took on new significance when it became known today that the former president would hold an important conference with prominent progressives there Th‘3 conference will determine in a large measure plans to he followed in start mg the ball rolling for the fall cam I aign. Colonel Roosevelt has been urged by manv of his supporters since his return from South America to lose no time in taking issue with Presi dent Wilson without waiting for the formal opening of the campaign. He said a tew days ago that lie desired to keep out of politics as much as possible until after hie return from Spain, but recent events have caused him to consider the question of jumping into thp fray at once. Foreign Policy. He already has expressed opposi tion to the Wilson administration's advocacy of the canal tolls exemption act and to the proposal to pay $25.- 000,000 to Colombia, it is understood he will make his severest attacks up on the president’s foreign policy and upon the operation of the Underwood tariff law. It has been suggested that by re maining silent the colonel would per mit the republicans to get Into the field first with their criticism- of the Wilson policies. This suggestion has had considerable weight with the former president and It Is not improb able that before tie sails for Europe at th- end of this week he will fire the opening gun in what is expected to he the hardest fight of his career. His Candidacy. Another possible outcome of the Washington trip is a meeting lie tween Colonel Roosevelt and republl can leaders. Reports that such a meeting might take place reached Oyster Hay today. It was said that at this meeting the presidential cam paign of 1916 and the candidacy of Colonel Roosevelt on a Joint repub lican-progressive ticket would lie broached. The latter suggestion was scouted by Colonel Roosevelt. He did not deny specifically, however, that he might meet republican mern hers of congress while In Washing ton. "To Meet the Boys." Washington. The progressive con lierence wa arranged after a tele phone talk today between Represen tative Murdock, progressive house leader, who is in New York and Rep resentative Hinebaiigh here. Mr Murdock said Colonel Roosevelt wanted to gather around the table "with the hoys." Britain Finally Decides Not to Show at Frisco London. The British government, acting contrary to the hopes held out by Premier Asquith to a recent depu tation, finally decided today not to participate in the Panama-Pacific Ex position at San Francisco. Congregation Marches in Street to Services New York— Led by a surpliced you Ili holding aloft a golden cross. Rev. I)r. Theodore A. Sedgwick, his two assis tants, a vested choir and more than a hundred members of ttie congregation of the Calvary Episcopal church last night marched from the church to Union Square, where the rector ap pealed to a crowd of several thousand persons to return with him and at tend the Sunday night service. After a short service in the park the procession reformed and marched back to the church with about 300 recruits following. In the church the regular cervine was conducted. “El Mocho” Off to Start Venezuela Revolution Port of Spain, Trii idad.—General Jose Manuel Hernandez, the Venezue lan revolutionary leader who is known as “El Mocho," disappeared suddenly from here today and is un derstood to have gone to Venezuela It is assumed he took advantage or the temporary absence of the Vene zuelan war vessels which had been detailed to wnteh the coast since the discovery of the presence here of Gen Clprlano Castro f The avowed purpose of Hernandez is to start a revolution against the government controlled by Juan Vi cente Gomez. There was much excitement in the Venezuelan refugee eolony here when news of the departure of Hernandez become known. ONE WEEK FROM THIS P. M. FATE BOND ISSOE BE KNOWN Auffustans Should Lay All Business Aside and Go to the Polls Early Monday Morning. Vote the Bonds or Capi tal and People Headed This Way Will Turn Back. One week from thin ;afternoon Augua tan* w l! know the fate of the $760,000 bond laaue Hot a few more day* re main In which to get In read Inc hh for the election whhh will mean more to Auguata than nil of the municipal, mate, county and net mi ll election* til <t have been held In n great. many year*. The queatlon of bond* In one of hue! neHH nrid Auguata cannot afford not to make good next Monday What would he the reHiilt If It ahou d go out to the world that Auguata at uted a levee to protect heraeif from f ood* and wan un ..t»le to fin nh It Aa a matter (,f coo Tee, profile and capital headed thin way would prefer to keep the r money or In - \eat It aornewhere elae. Certainly no one wirita to afnrt any Irtdoatry or buy any real eatate In a auction which la liable to overflow. Then, too, the peo ple who have alreidy Invented money In Auguata enterprlaea and Auguata real eatate would feci Ik« aching out at • loan .md leaving the town. HOME RULE BILL HAS PASSED Seething With Excitement, House of Commons Passes Third Reading of Measure by Vote of 352 to 274. • London. —The IriMii home rule bill passed Its third rending In the house of commons today by a majority of severity-eight. The vote was: For, 362; against, 274. The house was seething with excite ment from the moment the speaker took the chair. Members of the vari ous parties indulged in loud outbursts of cheering when their reaper-title champions entered the eharriber, while nt the same time mocking banter was shouted from the ooposlte benches. Uproarious Welcome. Mr. Ganzonl, the unionist, who Sat urday defeated ('. F. G. Meatman, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster In the bye-election at Ipswich, met with such an uproarious welcome or, his Introduction that he appeared glad to escape from the limelight. Speaker's Plea. In response to the speaker’s plea, Premier Asquith announced that the amending hill would give effect to any agreement wtileli the government was still hopeful might tie reached. He said that If at the time of the Introduc tion of tin. Irish home rule iiiii to the house of lords no such agreement Pad been readied the amending hill Continued on Market Page ) Ah haa been atated many tlmeH before, Auguata wanta to paaM the honda. No whrt'P can one he found who la preach ing agalnat them, every one realize* that they ahotlld he panned, yet they miiMt !»#• urged to go to the poll* and mg later their vote for tin* honda. Many people think that the other fel low will go to the polla and vote and therefore their vote* are not needed. Now f every one ahould thing thin way there would be no one to vote. The appeal m made to Auguatana to do a* tin- court aul eana command*, "lay all bualheaa nalde" and go to the polla Monday morning the flrat thing. It Ia unfit- Important than the day'a work of utiy man In the city for him to go to the poll*. It la a vital nereaalty tar puna the honda The merehantH will clone their atom*; the m inufactumr* will allow their men to get off and vote arid the city employer will trike receaa from \'l until 1 next Monday, The bond* moat riot full. $6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY. AMERICAN DELEGATES TAKE ISSUE WITH THE 3 ENVOYS OF HUERTA Mexicans Consider Aqragrian Problem in Republic to be In ternal One and Foreign to Present Difficulties. U. S. Delegates Insist Permanent Peace is Involved in Question. Niagara Falls, Ont.—The Mexican mediators, it is understood, are chief ly concerned now over the part the land question should play in the set tlement of the Mexican problem. The view of the Mexican delegates has i'een that the agrarian question is a purely Internal one and foreign to the issues which provoked difficulties between the United States and Mex ico. The American delegates, it Is understood have Insisted that perma nent peace In Mexico—-the aim of all concerned—cannot be a reality unless economic questions are taken into consideration. 111 HONOR Of DEAD SENATOR Senate Adjourns After Ap pointment of Committe to Attend Funeral. Mr, Taft a Pallbearer. Washington. Arrangements were completed early today for conducting the body oT the late Senator W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, to his old home at Frankfort, Ky., for burial. With en escort from both houses of con gress and accompanied hy members of the Bradley family, the Isidy was to be borne on a. special train leav ings here Hilh afternoon Interment will take place at Frankfort at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from tho residence of Mrs. John South Inn late senator's daughter. Among the honorary, pallbearers will lie former I'resident Taft, former Vice-President Fairbanks and Governor McCreary of Kentucky. The senate, after a session of seven minutes today adjourned as a mark of respect for the late Kentucky sen ator. Senator James formally an nounced the death of his colleague and moved for the appointment of fourteen senators to accompany the body to Frankfort. Senator Hitch cock, president pro tern, named Sen ators James, Oalllnger, Warren, Smoot, Overman, Shively, Root, Kern, Marline, Poindexter, O Gorman, Fall, Smith of Arizona, and Hughes. In presenting his resolution Sena tor James briefly eulogized the dead senator. "He ha the distinguished honor,” said he, "of being the only member of his parly who was ever chosen governor ; nd senator hy his native state. He was one of the most gentle of men; he was a prince of good fellows; a distinguished law yer, a great prator He will be great ly missed here as he will he in Kentucky.” BECKER WORKS ON 019 APPEAL Convicted Former Police Lieu tenant Left by His Counsel to Do Much of the Routine Work New York. —ln the preparation of his appeal from the veqdlct of guilty on the charge of having instigated the murder of Herman Rosenthal, much of the routine work will he done hy Chou. K. Becker. Already Becker has pre pared notes on a mass of papers left with him hy his counsel. The rule forbidding prisoners in The Tombs having Hunday visitors left Becker uninterrupted yesterday. He spent several hours going over legal documents. Before next Friday when he appears before Justice Hainuel Hea bury for sentences, Becker expects to have the ground work of Ids appeal far enough advanced for his lawyers to take tip his fight, for a third trial without delay. He hopes to have his ease ready for argument not later than next October. t4 Shoot the King” Militants Shout London —Shout* of "shoot the king,” filled the hall In which a meeting of the Women's Social and Political Union, the militant suffrage organi zation, wns held this afternoon, liv ery mention of King George's name was greeted with angry derision and prolonged hissing. HAL) CREW OF 14. Glasgow, Scotland. The lightship Halifax No. 19, which was lost with her crew In the breakers of Liscotnh Island, carried a complement of four teen when she left here, according to official announcement today. HOME EDITION Felix Diaz. The exchange of ideas on this phase of the negotiations it was understood was the principal subject before to day’s conferences. The presence here of Jose Raque na and other intimate firends of Gen eral Felix Diaz attracted some at tention. Although they were not be lieved to be seeking audiences with the mediators, their conferences with the Huerta delegates spread the bo liftf that they wore seeking informa tion as to the persons who would be suggested for the new provisional government that is to succeed the Huerta regime. 1.0. TO VISIT WHITE HOUSE Will Be Received by Prcs’t Wilson Tomorrow. Second Call Since He Retired. Washington. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will be received by Presi dent Wilson at the White House to morrow afternoon. The president In vited tlie colonel to lunch with him, but Mr. Roosevelt found it impossi ble to reach Washington In time, ne sent word, however, he would be de lighted to call on the president dur ing the afternoon. Col. Roosevelt’s visit to the While House will lie his first since 1910 and his second since he retired from the presidency. On his former call he did not. see President Tuft, as tho latter wns out of the city. While there nro no indications that Col. Roosevelt's visit to Washington has any other aspect than purely a scientific one. there is much undis guised interest in It among all parties in congress. GET THE FOOD KING'S MILLIONS $20,000,000 Estate of C. W. Post Goes Chiefly to Wife and Daughter. Will Filed. Washington. —The will of Charles W. Post, of Battle Creek, Mich., who died at Santa Barbara, Calif., on May 9th, filed here today for probate, leaves the hulk of an estate estimat ed at $20,000,000, to the widow, Mrs. Leila Y. Post, and a daughter, Marjo rie Post Close. Mr. Post’s property at Rock Ridge, Conn., one half of fils Texas estate, several buildings in Battle Creek, 25 per cent of all the personal property aside from holdings In eereul compa nies and one-half the latter were left to his daughter. Mrs. Post Inherits all other real es tate at Battle Creek, at Santa Barbara and In Texas; the remainder of the holdings In the battle creek compa nies and 25 per cent of tho remaining persona! property. To two granddaughters, Adelaide Close and Eleanor Close, Mr. Post left ten per cent of his personal estate; another small portion goes to various persons, among them the executors and tile remainder is divided equally between the mother and daughter. ' *’■ 1 l Thought Salute Was Bombardment On Board U. 8. S. California, Mszat lan, Max., May 24 (via. wiralaaa to San Diego, May 25).—-A twenty-one gun salute, fired by tho American unit Japanese warships In the harbor and hy the federal fortifications, was mis interpreted today by the besieging con stitutionalists us an attack on the city instead of a tribute to the late Dow ager Errqiress of Japan. General Ob regon's batteries promptly opened a spirited fire on the city and a number of shells and a hall of machine gun bullets fell in the street. CRE W WAN TS ~ MORE PAY; MAY BE STRIKE Naw York.—Htewurds and firemen on the new steamship Vaterland are threatening to strike unless their wages are materially Increased. In the ship's crew are 430 steward* snd 800 firemen. The stewards re ceive from sl2 to $14.40 a month and demand an Increaae to $19.20 The firemen get $19.92 and want $28.40.