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Deadlockßy Villa Holding Rebels’ Treasurer aPrisoner the weather Partly cloudy tonight aasi Wednesday, proba bly thundershowers. VOLUME XIX, No. 189. flllT MONEY SIGNED BY HIKE PRISONER OF VILLA Main Issue of Deadlock With Carranza is Release of Con' stitutionalists Treasurer. Is sue of 3,000,000 Pesos De clared Invalid. Assaults on Americans Are Oniy Personal Quarrels, Says “First Chief.” , E l Paso, Texas. —The release of fcerapio Aguirre, treasurer general of the constitutionalists, a victual pris oner oi the Villa faction in Cnihuahua City, was among the main issues of the conference at Torreon to adjust the Carranza-Villa dispute, according to Carranza officials here. Aguirre is the most prominent of the 24 Car ranza. officials arrested some weeks ago in Juarez by Villa military au thorities and sent to Cnihuahua. Still Retains Title. Aguirre still retains his title as treasurer of the constitutoinalists and without his signature the tnree million pesos worth of Carranza fiat currency alleged to have been seized ta6t week by Villa agents and smug gled into Chihuahua has been declar ed invalid. Carranza followers here say if Aguirre signed this issue while a virtual prisoner of Villa’s men it would not be recognized as his act would be considered an involuntary and unwilling one. For Alleged Theft. El Paso police today continued their search for Santiago S. Winfield, the constitutionalist treasury agent for whom a federal warrant has bean is sued in Washington. Alarmed by the report that other Villa followers might be sought by the American au thorities for connection with the al leged money theft, the v bits to El Paso from Juarez of men connected with the affair have decreased. No Personal Quarrel. Saltillo, Mex. (via Laredo)—Gen eral Candidado Aguilar, in a report received here today by General Car ranza, declared that a personal quar rel between an American and a con (Continued on Next Page.) YOUNG MAN KILLED WHILE BEING HAZED Lewis, Worker at * Lombard’s, was Being Initiat ed by the Other Workmen. RECEIVED A BLOW IN THE SOLAR PLEXUS C. H. Nicholas Sturck Him and When Young Man Died He Went to Police Barracks and Gave Himself Up. Lombard's automobile repair shop, at the Intersection of Kollock and Fenwick streets, was the scene of a horrible and shocking tragedy today hi 1 : 15. when Andrew Lewis, a vnung man ot-wt years, was instantly killed by a blow from the flat of a fellow-worker, C. H. Nicholas. Lewis was a new worker In the boiler works across Kollock street end hie death was the Indirect result of an attempt to "initiate" him, It is the custom in the machine sh-.ps at lombard's Iron Works to put all their new men through a sort of initiation, with a certain amount of hazinti The boiler works where Lew is worked however, did not haze their (Continued on n*xt page) COLDEST JULY 7TH ON RECORD IN NEW YORK. New York.—This was the cold est July 7th In the history of the grw York weather bureau. I'p to 1 o'clock the minimum tem perature was 54 degrees; the maximum 63. THE AUGUSTA HERALD LOOK®© FOE BUS K GOT OF MEXICO LATEST MILITANT OUTRAGE IS BOMB EXPLOSION IN FAMOUS WEDDING CHURCH FAMOUS ST. GEORGES CHURCH. St. Georges, one of the famous old English churches in Hanover Square, London, the scene cf many brilliant weddings, as here seen was damaged by a suffragette bomb. Three stained glass windows were destroyed and the pews in front of the lectern thrown down. In this picture the damaged pews used on im portant occasions by the King, are shown. In the small Insert shows two London Bobbies arresting a militant suffragette. Gifford Downcast Over Disagreement of Jury Albany, N. Y.—Malcolm Gifford, Jr., son of a wealthy Hudson manufacturer, who Is alleged to have slain Frank J. Clute. a chauffeur, near here fourteen months ago, Monday had withdrawn the privileges he has enjoyed while a pris oner In Jail here. Before the disagreement last Saturday of the Jury which heard his trial, Gif ford apparently was carefree and de clared he expected quick vindication, but since Saturday prison officials declare he has appeared downcast and it was be lieved best to guard him closely. POSTPONED BY STORM. Newport, R. I.—Stormy weather caused postponement today of the first Newport races of the America yachts, Resolute, Vanitie and De fiance. Tne race will be sailed to morrow. FOURTH VICTIM DEAD. Johnstown, Pa.—Mrs. James Top ley. fourth victim of the automobile accident on the Lincoln Highway, near Stoyeetown, last Sunday, died in the hospital here today. SEVERE HAIL 111 NORTHJIROLIIIA Last Night’s Storm Did Much Damage to Crops Along Line of Seaboard Railway. Charlotte, N. C.—Reports coming In today from the country districts show last night’s storm to have been severe in many places. The terri tory extending along the Seaboard Railway west of Charlotte was the hardest hit and In many places cot ton and other growing crops is prac tically ruined by the bail. The path of the storm seems to have been most Bevere at Cherryvllle, Iron Station and Stanley Creek, where the damage to crops will run Into thousands of dollars. At Charlotte, the roof of the of fice building of the International Har vester Company was ripped off and records and other valuable papers practically ruined. At Roaring Gap, Alleghany County, a summer resort on top of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Worth Anderson, aged 22, son of Captain Wm. Ander son, former superintendent of public schools for Mecklenburg County, was killed by lightning Young Anderson was a Harvard student and was at the resort doing some landscape work. SPECIAL GRAND JURY. Chicago.—A special grand Jury to Investigate the collapse of the La- Salle Street Trust and Savings Hank was ordered by the criminal court of Cook county today. THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 7, 1914. Severe Hailstorm Wrought Havoc in Sections Near Here At Gracewood, De Bruce, Hephzibah and on the Milledgeville Road. Considerable Damage Done. Hail Stones as Large As Hen’s Eggs. Beat Holes in Water Melons. Rain accompanied by hail did heavy damage in some sections in the vicinity of Augusta. On the Milledgeville road, from the 4 mile to the 8 mile post much damage was done to the crops by large hailstones which fell during the rain. The blades of corn were torn into shreds, cotton leaves were beaten from the stalk and are strewn in the middle of the rows, while the leaves were beaten off many acres of peas which had been sown ill the fields in the path of the storm. AUGUSTA VISITED BY RAINFALL OF 1.28 INCHES LAST NIGHT Broke Protracted Drouth and Gladdens Hearts of Every one, Particularly the Farmers TWO BARNS DESTROYED BY FIRE NEAR HERE Mr. Casper Oliver at Belvedere and Mr. J. M. Landrum at Horse Creek Lose Barns Which Were Struck by Light ning. A rain which has effectually broken the protracted drouth existing in this section of tbe country, came last night. The rain was accompanied by an electric storm and for several hours there were vivid flashes of lightning accompanied by loud peals of thun der. In Augusta the rain fall was 1.28, the hardest downfall at a single time that has occurred here In a num ber of months. While the rain was at Its heaviest A'ligustans could see distinctly two fires, one was the bam of Mr. Gasper Oliver In .South Carolina, near Bel vedere, whieh was struck by lightning (Continued on Next Page.) EIGHT MEN ADRIFT. Philadelphia.—The maritime ex change here today was notified by the Hereford Fish Company of Angel sea, N. .1., that eight men are adrift in a boat off the southern New Jer sey coast. A revenue cutter has been requested to search for them, N. C. NEGROES REPRIEVED. Raleigh, hi. C. Governor Craig today reprieved until August 7th, di-a'h sen tence of Grady Lane and Jim Cameron, Moore roynly degrees. sentenced last August fcS* murder. Cameron was ron vleted -of killing John A. Blue, commis sary at f construction ramp. Both men were to have bec-tt electrocuted Friday. Many water melons and cantaloupes were knocked off the vines, and so heavy was the hail about six miles from Augusta on the Milledgeville road that a farmer who had loaded up his wagon last night with watermelons to bring them to the city city this morning, ascertained on break of day today that the hail stones had knock ed holes in the melons. The hail also visited the place of (Continued on Next Page.) FOR 34 TERRS IN PRISON CEIL Pres’t Wilson Today Pardons Blackfoot Indian Serving Life Sentence for White Man’s Murder. Washington.-After 34 years be hind the bars under life sentence for murder, Spopee, a Blackfoot Indian, was unconditionally pardoned today by President Wilson. He will he re leased at once from the federal hos pital for the Insane here to return to his daughter at Browning, Mont., whom he has not seen since she was a baby. A piirty of Black feet, sight-seeing In Washington, months ago happened upon Spopee. grown gray with his long Imprisonment. They establish ed his tribal Identity by an Indian song and one of the Interpreters rec ognized In Spopee the hero of an old legend, who had disappeared a score of years ago Into some white man’s Jail Blackfoot mothers have been singing their children to sleep with ft song about him ever since. Officials of the Indian oTflce, ad vised of the discovery, began an in vestigation which resulted In his pr don, Spopee was charged with the mur der of a white man near the Canadian boundary north of the Montana line. It Is thought by the department of Justice that the murder probably was committed In Canada and thHt the t« rrltorial courts -of Montana which tried hlrn at Fort Benton had no Juris diction. Moreover, It Is now believed that. Spopee committed the murder In self-defense. NEW ORLEANS P. M. Washington. The president today nominated Joseph Voegtle, to he post master at New Orleans, La. HUERTA’S ADVISERS FLEEING Preparing For Eventualities in City of Mexico. Washing ton Anxiously Waiting the Outcome of Parleys at Tor reon. Uneasiness at Deadlock New Bedford, Mass. The a|ci of the Mate Department in obtaining the re lease of Juan Velasco, a wealthy Mex ican cotton manufacturer reported held for ransom by a hand of Zapatis tas, was asked today liy John 1C Fur nans of this city. United States 'repre sentative of the Velasco factor.es. hui nan g MiPNsjim* to Secretary Ifry tm said that Velasco was threatened with torture unless a ransom of one million pesos was paid. Anxiously Awaiting. Washington, D. C. -The outcome of parleys at Torreon where envoys of Car ranza and Villa discussed causes that led to the estrangement between the Constitutionalist chiefs, anxiously was awaited here today. While no news from Torreon declared the results of the meet lug would be "entirety satisfactory to the Constitutionalist causes,’’ yet reports bom other sources asserting that the conference was In deadlock caused some uneasiness. Plans for a meeting between represen tatives of Iluerta who took part in the Niagara mediation proceedings and dele gules of the CojudituUvmUiltH will await the results of the Torreon parleys. Reported Fleeing. Indications that preparations were un der way for eventualities In Mexico City were contained in reported statements of John H. Stillman, former American vice consul In Saltillo now on his way frmo Washington to Carranza's head quarters. Silltnmn was quoted as hav ing said that he would plead with Con stitutionalist leaders for the life of Hu erta If the dictator were captured In Mexico City. Some of Huerta’s former advisors were reported to have left the capital. Angeles Dismissal. Washington, D| C. Carranza’s artlon In dismissing (Jen. Felipe Angeles from the Constitutionalist army with the prospects of another break with Villa were prominent topics of discussion to day among Constitutionalist agents here. Charles A. Douglas, General Carranza’s counsel, declared openly that Angeles must he removed from the situation be fore peace could he brought about be tween Villa and Carranza. According to one personal message from Villa received here from Torreon today, differences between himself and Carranza are being satlsfactorlaly ad justed. No mention was made of Gen eral Angeles. Juan K. Ilrquldl, secretary of the Con. stltut|onallst agency who recently start -d for Melxeo on a confidential mission, returned today. His friends urged him not to Join Carranza because of his avowed support of Villa. U. S. TRANSPORT AWAITING WIRE Vigorous Protest by Soldiers Who Don’t Want to Wait a Month Before Getting Home. Honolulu, T. H -The army trans port Sherman en route from Munila to Han Francisco, with 100 persons aboard, has been kept from leaving this port as soon an expected by the appeal of 250 discharged soldiers who were anxious to reach their homes In the states and expected to hoard the Sherman. When the Sherman arrived It was found that she had room for only 30 more passengers under the federal regulations for safety at sea. Realiz ing that they would have to wait a month longer If the Sherman sailed without them the soldiers made a vlg orous appeal to army officials and a request has been cabled to the war department In Washington for per mission to allow the Sherman to carry 220 passengers In exeess of regula tion. The transport was waiting to day for a reply. Permission Cabled. Washington. Permission was sent by the war department today to Hon olulu for the amhaikation of the 260 discharged soldiers eager to take pas sage on the army transport Sherman for San Francisco. MIDDIES AT GIBRALTAR. Gibraltar The American squadron, consisting of the, battleships Missou ri, Illinois and Idaho with the navtil eadets from the academy at Annapolis on hoard, arrived here today from Italy on their way to Kngland. The warships were ordered to put in hero and await orders which were expect ed to arrive tonight. $6.00 PER YE AR—5 CENTS PER COPY. On His Way Back to Mexico to Intercede For Huerta’s Life if Captured. JnEseßß nßp-v IfffS&TT WjjjE JOHN R. SILLikiAN. WARSURG KICKS HUMES Calls Up White House by Phone and Requests Presi dent to Withdraw His Nom ination. Wa§hlngton, D. C.—Paul M. Warburg of Now York, today requeHtad Presi dent Wilson to withdraw his nomination to be a member of the federal reserve board. The President will do so today. Mr. Warburg, a member of the bank ing bouse of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.i was nominated for a four-year term. When the senate hanking committee began ex amining personally all the five candi dates nominated by the President, Mr. Warburg indicated he did not wish to be questioned by the committee as a condition to taking the appointment. To day he called the White House offices by telephone and personally requested the President to withdraw his nomina tion. There was no indication whom the President might choose to fill the place. The change in personnel will not further delay actual organization of the new currency system. The senate alrady has confirmed W. P. O. Harding, A. <\ Miller and Charles K. Hamlin as members of the board and they, with Secretary McAdoo and Comptroller Wil liams. who serve as members ex-offlclo, constitute a quorum which now may proceed with the work. Won't Talk. New York. Paul M. Warburg said todav he dbl not care to discuss at this time ids request that President Wilson withdraw his nomination to the federal reserve board. U. S. COMPTROLLER TURNED HIM DOWN John Skelton Williams Testifies That He Never Had Any Financial Interest in the N. C. Gold Mine. Was Urged to Buy Stock in Property That Would Make “Nat’l City Crowd Green With Envy.” Washington. John Skelton Wil liams, comptroller of the currency, to day told a speclul senate committee he had never had any linanclal Inter est In the gold mine at Goldhlll, N. C.. the promotion of which through use of senate stationery Is being investi gated by the committee The comp troller said Walter G. Newman, who promoted tne mine had offered him some stock, hut he had declined to buy. Mr. Williams presented a tele gram he had sent to Newtnan at Gold hlll, Informing him that Berkeley Williams, the comptroller’s brother, and Cleveland Perkins might look over the Goldhlll property with a view to Investing Mr. Williams denied, however, that he had arranged an ap pointment between Newtnan and Per kins in Washington, Divested Self of All. The comptroller explained that when he entered the treasury depart ment he divested himself of all In vestments in hanks and financial or ganizations. Mr. W..lh-.ns produced a letter written by Newman urging Williams to Join In some stock ventures In which the promoter sHld he had Alaskan Interests greater thnn those of the "Guggenhelms. Morgan or the Standard Oil crowd,” and promised to "make the National city crowd green with envy.” Frederick P. Dewey, assayer and acting director of the mint, told of making an Investigation of the Gold hlll property at the instance of Mr. HOME EDITION MUTINY AT VERA CRUZ FRONT Gen’l Funston Confirms Report of Uprising Among Huerta’s Troops. Threats Made of At tack on the American Lines So Mexican Commander Says Washington.—Brig. Gen. Funston, In a dispatch to the war department today confirmed reports of mutiny among Huerta’s forces before the Amerlrnn outposts at Vera Cruz. Gen. Funston reported the Mexican com mander had Informed him of the up rising and of the threat of the muti neers to attack the American lines. If an attack should he made in view of the Mexican commanders’ action In notifying General Funston It would not tie regarded as "an attack under orders.” General Funston also Informed the war department that marine Private Heinrich Tliobe, who recently myste riously disappeared, was within the Mexican lines and unharmed, but gave no details. Ends 5,000 Mile Race to His 111 Wife’s Bedside Philadelphia.—Capt. P. H. Übber roth, of the revenue cutter service, ended a 5,000 mile race from Unalas ka today when lie arrived at the bed side of his wife In this city. Mrs. Überroth was stricken several weeks ago and a Berlous operation became necessary. Iter husband. In command of the revenue cutter McCulloch, in Alaskan waters, was notified and left on his long Journey fourteen days ago. Mrs. Überroth's condition today was unchanged. She refused to un dergo the operation until her husband arrived. AGAINST AEROPLANE ATTACK. London. —As a dfense against at tacks by air craft, the British govern mtnt today decided to dot the coasts of the British Isles with a series of towers, each armed with two quick 1 trlng guns of special design. A com ■> • circle of towers Is to be erect ed around naval stations, such as Portsmouth, Itosyth and other spe cially vulnerable points. CHALFLIN REPORT TOMORROW. New York.—The preliminary repot of Frederick A. Jiilllnrd and Joseph B. Mar tlndale, receivers of the H. B. Claflin Gotnpany, bankrupt, will he submitted to the t'nlllted Staes district court Wed nesday. Williams and Director of the Mint Roberts. He said he found "there was no mine there, but there was a good pispect.” On Senate Stationery. William C. Bishop, conducting an investigating agency employed by the Curb Market Association In New York, said ue Investigated appear ance on the curb of a letter written on senate stationery and lauding the Goldhlll enterprise. He said he found only about three copies of the letter, but that these copies were shown to every man on the curb. He wrote to Senator Chilton about the letter which were on the t aper of his committee, and the senator replied denying all knowledge of them. Senators Bought. Senators Pomerene of Ohio, and Swanson of Virginia, testified they had bought stock In the mine at their own responsibility. Mr. Swanson said he purchased at 30 cents a share and put in $5,000. Senator Pomerene did riot specify the amount he owned. Assertions of Comptroller Williams that hp had received no communica tions about the mine from Newman, except a few telegrams were denied by the comptroller when he was re called to the stand. Newman said he had two letters from the comptroller at his Goldhlll office He offered to produce them, but Senator Thomp son, chairman of the Investigating committee, declined to receive them, and said he was anxious to conclude the Inquiry.