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As Dictator Remains, Villa Ready to Start on Capital
THE WEATHER
Cloudy* tonight and
probably local
thunderstorms.
VO! UME XIX, No. 197.
H NOW DIFFER ON FLIGHT;
15 HUERTA TO STAY OR JOIN FAMILY ?
Departure of Friends For
Vera Cruz May Only Pre
sacie Preparation for Fina
Desperate Stand With
Dictator Remaining at the
Capital
Washington No word ot the
movements or intentions of Gen
eral Huerta was contained in the
early o ficial dispatch today. The
only official communication from
Mexico City was a message from
the Brazilian legation there, the
contents of which had evidently
been censored, until nothing but
a mere list of routine formal an
nouncements remained.
May Resign Today.
Washington.—With Huerta's family
and several close friends in flight to
day from Mexico City, the immediate
resignation of the distator was ex
pected by the state department and
members of the diplomatic corpsp in
Washington Dispatches from Mex
ico City stated that Huerta and his
minister of war, General Blanquet.
might follow their families from the
capital to Vera Cruz sometime to
day.
Different View.
In some quarters, however, the view
was expressed that Huerta might hold
out longer, and that the departure of
his relatives only meant he was pre
paring to make a final desperate
stand against the advancing consti
tutionalists.
Diplomats here directed their ef
forts at averting fighting in the fed
eral capital and arranging some means
of trarwferrirfg' power to the const! -
life. The constitutionalists it was
was declared ould not recede from
their stand against any parleys with
their enemy that might imply recog
nition of Huerta or his successor. It
was hoped some way might be found
to bridge that objection.
To Press Campaign.
Carranza's forces continued prepa
rations today to presse their campaign
against Mexico City. Villa's army,
gathered in Chihuahua, was ready for
the movement southward while Obre
gon's forces, flushed with their recent
victory at Guadalajara, soon would in
in shape, it was said to resume their
campaign. That the constitutional
ists would be in Mexico City within a
few weeks, regardless of the action
of the Huerta government, was the
belief expressed by many officials to
day.
LAY TELEGRAM
BEFOREJRES’T
Killing of Director of Christian
Brothers School and Imprison
ment of 11 Others, Subject of
Petition.
Washington. —Killing of the directof
and the inspector of the school of the
Christian Brothers at Zacatecas, Mex.,
and the imprisonment of 11 other
members of the order, all French cit
izens, was reported to President Wil
son today in a telegram laid before
him by Brother Clementlus, a mem
ber of the order. ,
The president was asked to take
immediate steps to have the impris
oned men set free and to prevent
threatened similar occurrences at
Saltillo, Acalzlnco, Mexico City, Mlz
coac, Morelia, Puebla, Queretaro and
Toluca, where other schools are main
tained.
A similar petition has been sent to
the French government.
Women Use Horsewhips
onSec’yStateforScotland
London.—'Two suffragettes today
made a vXplent attack on the Right
Hon. Thomas McKennon Wood, secre
tary of state for Scotland, as he was
leaving his residence. The women were
armed with heavy horsewhips with
which they struck Mr. Wood several
times across the shoulders. They both
were ar. sted.
/Chicago Woman Determined to Become
\7 Cop; Weighs 25 Lbs. Less in Five Days
Chicago. —Determined to be a policewoman, one candidate for the
civil service test reduced her weight 25 pounds In five days, It was made
known today from the examination headquarters. The outside weight al
lowed Is Ikb pounds. This candidate reduced from 225 pounds to 200
pounds between July 9 and 14.
•<}|ve me five days more," she pleaded. The request was granted
and her. dally weight reports will be checked.
"1 don't eat or drink except a little water to keep rr,y throat from
parching." she explntnen "For dinner last night I had a piece of Ice tha
• of a waiuut, half a slice of lemon peel and a swallow of water."
THE AUGUSTA HERALD
American Wins London-Paris Race;
Plies 552 Miles, 71 Miles An Hour
WALTE R BROCK.
Walter Brock, the
American aviator,
passing winning
post on occasion of
his recent flight
from London to
Manchester, and
(on the right), the
aviator being greet
ed as winner of
that great aerial
derby.
Brock's flying time
from London to
Paris was 3 hours
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Severe Storms Sweep
Valley; $250,000 Loss
Charleston, W. Va.—The Kanawha
Valley was swept last night and early
today by storniH which caused losses
estimated at $250,000. The Masonic
Temple in Charleston was damaged to
the extent of $35,000 by lightning. A
number of buildings were blown down
and telephone and telegraph wires
crippled. Campbell Anderson, a
brakeman, was blown from t.ie top of
a Chesapeake and Ohio freight train
into branches of a tree as the train
crossed the trestle at Marmet, but he
escaped with bruises.
90 SENTENCED FOR RIOTING.
Tokio.—The criminal court here to
day sentenced 90 participants In tho
anti-mlnistorial riots on February 10
to terms of imprisonment ranging
from six months to a year.
The riots occurred during demon
strations against tho ministry's atti
tude in connection with the recent
naval scandals.
, MOTORCYCLIBTS GATHER.
Bt. Louis,—Motorcycle enthusiasts
from all parts of the United States
met here today In the annual conven
tion of the Federation of American
Motorcyclists. Motorcycle races will
begin tomorrow.
i i
Enginemen and Managers
Near Breaking Point
Chicago.— Relations between the
enginemen of the railroads west of
Chicago, and the general .managers’
committee approached the breaking
point today. The men's representa
tives prepared a final ultimatum, on
wages and working conditions, hut the
managers' committee already had de
clared that the demands could not he
agreed to. Several members of the
engineers' committee predicted today
that a general would be called unless
the managers modified their attitude.
Kermit Roosevelt and
Bride on the Imperator
New York. — Kermit Uoogevelt and
his bride, wlw was Miss (telle Willard,
arrived today on the steamship Jin
perator. They were recently maried
in Madrid, wnere the bride's father is
the American ambassador. Mrs. Nich
olas 1/ongworth was with them.
WHITNEY WINB TWICE
New Market, Eng. —Two of Harry
Payne Whitney's horses won at to
day's races here. His four-year-old
"Harmonlcon” won the principal
event, the July handicap of $2,500.
over a distance of six furlongs and
his Sandusky carried off the two
year-old selling plate of $750 over a
distance of five furlongs. Both were
bred In the United States.
SAYS INNOCENT UNTIL LAST.
Paris, Ark.— Maintaining his inno
cence, Arthur Tillman. 22 years old,
was hanged here today lor the murder
iff his sweetheart, Amanda Stephens,
19 years old. whose bod/ was found
In an abandoned well at Delaware,
Ark last March. Doth tile Step
hens and Tillman lamtlles were
present
THE ONE PAPER IN MOST HOMES—THE ONLY PAPER IN MANY HOMES.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 15, 1914,
and 33 minutes,
Carbery's, who was
second 3 hours and
52 minutes Brock's
total flying time in
making the trip
was 7 hours and 3
minutes.
The prizes for the
fourteen contest
ants who entered
the race aggregat-
FiiSfOl AWAITS TEAM
ARE NELMS
GIRLS ON
ISLAND?
Two Younq Women Answering
Description of Missing Ones
Said to Have Been Seen There
Two Young Women Answering
Description of Missing Ones
Said to Have Been Seen There
Gulfport, Miss. —Two women sus
pected of being Floise Nelms Dennis
and Beatrice Nelms outwitted police
men who had them under surveillanco
here last night ana could not be lo
cated today. The police think they
left in a launch.
San Antonio Developments.
San Antonio, Tex.—Three develop
ments in the mysterious disappearance
of Miss Beatrice Nelms and Miu Elois
Nelms Dennis, daughters of Mrs. Jno.
W. Nelms of Atlanta, Ga„ were an
nounced by the San Antonio police
early today.
The police said that a physician on
or about June 25 treated at a local
hotel the child of Mrs. Dennis; that
on June 25 a man giving his name as
W. Sims shipped from here to Victor
Innes in San Francisco, a typewriter
with Hindu characters; and that a
mysterious package has been receiv
ed here addressed to Miss Beatrice
Nelms In care of Mrs. Margaret
Minims.
No Mrs. Margaret Mimms has been
located. Innes was the lawyer who
secured Mrs. Dennis' Jilyarcc. ajul po
lice have started to trare Hie type
writer shipment. The package ship
ped to Miss Nelmß remains unclaim
ed and its contents are unknown.
Sought by Police.
•Atlanta, Ga.—lnterest in the Nelms
girl mystery centered today in a little
Island in the gulf, just off the Mis
sissippi coast, where two women ans
wering the description of the missing
girls had been seen, and a party on
a revenue cutter set off to find them
and leurn whether or not they were
actually Mrs. Eloise Dennis and Beat
rice Nelms.
Ed. L. Suter, a contractor, living ait
Biloxi Miss, wires to Atlanta papers
that he hatl sten two young women
closely resembling pictures of tho
missing girls, and had learned that
they had left for Petit Bols, a little
island and where fishermen are fre
quently visitors. Two men were said
to be on the island with them. Upon
Instructions from Atlanta a party se
cured a revenue cutter and started
for the Island.
Color is lent U> this theory by the
receipt of a mysterious postcard from
Biloxi a few days ago and addressed
to Miss Beatrice Nelms. The writer
evidently had met her recently.
However, this clue as all others
may fall. It was strongly Indicated
that Beatrice Nelms actually had
reached San Francisco by the testi
mony of a ticket seller in New Or
leans, who said he sold her a round
trip ticket to San Francisco on June
22nd.
Marshall Nelms, brother oT the two
girls believes Victor Innes is at the
bottom of the trouble In some way.
Extra Precautions
Order Eor Special’s
Arrival Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz. Mexican federal offi
cers at tne railway gap today denied
any knowledge of the special train re
ported to have left the capital during
the night conveyong the families and
relatives of General Huerta to Vera
Cruz It was reported that an escort
of over 1,000 picked Mexican federal
troops had accompanied the train.
It 1b thought possible that the train
may he held at Cordoba to await the
arrival of General Huerta and General
Blanquet. , . . _
General Funuton today ordered <■*-
tra precautions to be taken at the tel
minal stations and along tne lines In
anticipation of the possible arrival of
the family of Huerta
Horne passengers who reached hers
today said the capital was full of m
mors about Huerta's resignation.
BTILL GOING DOWN.
New York.—Fresh liquidation In
New York, New Haven and Hartford
sent that stock to a new low record
on the stock exchange today By
noon It had fallen on h-avv offerings
to 51 5-8, an over night loss of 2 7-8.
GEORGIAN CONSUL AT LARGE
Washington,—President Wilson yes
terday nominated Nathaniel B. Stew
art, of Butler, (in., now consul at
Milan, Italy, to be consul general at
large and John H Armstrong, Jr., jf
Wilmington, N. C„ now h consular aa
aiatact, to he consul at Bristol, Eng.
'Neptune s Daughterl4, Swims
Hudson With Apparent Ease
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SHAMROCK IV IS
READY TO SAIL
Will Be Convoyed Across At
lantic By the Erin. Odds
Against Challenger at Lloyds.
i Gosport, Eng. -Kverythlng Is ready
for the departure fin July IK fur the
United Stales of Shamrock IV, Sir
Thomas Upton's challenger for the
A.morica's yacht cup. Sir Thomas'
steam yacht Krin will convoy Sham
rock across the Atlantic
‘‘Shamrock IV has done all that has
been HHked of her,” Is the final word
of Charles K. Nicholson, the design
er.
Underwriters at Lloyds are not so
optimistic. Their estimate tody was
roughly 2 to 1 against the challen
ger.
The crew of Shamrock IV, number
ing more than 30 men, Is to he divided
during the voyage across, half of the
sailors luxuriating on board the Krln
as far as the Azores and then reliev
ing their shipmates for the remain
der of Tfie Journey.
NO "TRUST” CIGARETTES.
Munich, Germany. The Bavarian
war ministry today ordered all
branches of the Bavarian array In
cluding officers’ messes and mens'
canteens to purchase cigarettes only
from firms Independent of the tobacco
trust. The trust cigarettes already
had been banned from Bavarian rail
way Statons.
$6.00 PER YEAR—S CENTS PER COPY.
MISS DOROTHY Ey BAUER.
New York.—Alter Tier success
ful swim across the Hudson River
«t Hastinge-on-Hudson fourteen
year-old Dorothy E. Bauer, says
she would shortly try to swim
across the river again and return
without getting out of the water.
The girl, who is the youngest of
her cex ever to have successfully
braved the tides of the Hudson,
did so on her last try under ad
verse conditions and against the
advice of her frienda, but, never
theless, readied the opposite
shore, three miles from the point
from where she started. She •>
In the water one and one-hialf
hours. She says she ’has been
able to swim as long as she can
remember and that she must
have been taught to swim about
the same time she was taught to
walk.
FOR SUPREME BENCH.
Washington—K. W. Walker, of Bir
mingham. Ala., was brought forward
today as a candidate Tor appointment
lo the supreme court In succession to
tiie late Associate Justice Horace If.
Burton. Senator Bankhead
Mr. Walker's name to President Wil
son and urged his appointment.
Confirmation Vote
to Be Very Close
But Pres’t to Win
Washington. -After a night of con
stunt effort to line lip udiiilrilHtratlon
senators for President Wilson’s nom
ination of Thlrrias I). Jones of Chica
go, for the federal reserve hoard, the
whips reparted to the White House
today that a vote probably would not
be reached before Friday and Satur
day and that the result, while a vic
tory for the president, would be very
dose.
Six democratic senators were re
ported to the White House as unal
terably opposed to the confirmation.
Senators regarded as doubtful went to
the White House for eonferences with
the president. Officials said the pres
ident was taking no part In the pre
liminary fight for a vote In open ses
sion.
Send in Official Account of “Battle"
Between Rebels and Guerillas
El Paso, Tsxas. In an official report to military headquarters In
Juarez, regarding a "battle" between constitutionalists and guerillas
near Janos, Chihuahua, last week the following articles were named as
having been captured by the revolutionists:
“Twenty-four saddles, 22 bridles, 30 horses, 2(1 hats, 30 pairs of
shoes, 0 blankets, 3 mules, one document, various cooking utensils and
I'ifi worth of groceries."
It was recorded that tne enemy fled in the darkness without th*
loss of a man. There were uu losses on the constitutionalist side.
HOME
EDITION
IN 8 DAYS
VILLA BE
READY
Rebel General and Staff Arrive
at Juarez Today—Will Move
on City of Mexico at Once
Mexico City.—Gen. Huerta
was about the priacipal
streets of the capital this
morning and at 11 o'clock, as
usual, went to the barber shop
in front of ihe cable office to
be shaved.
El Paso, Tex.—General Villa
and his staff arrived today at
Juarez. The northern divisional
commander is expected to re
turn south and have his entire
army moving toward Mexico
City within 8 days. While at
Juarez Villa will arrange fur
supplies, especially rifle cart
ridges. ,
MRS. CARMAN IS
NOT TOOT
Grand Jury Resumes Investi
gation “Mystery Hand’’ Mur
der. To End Sessions Today.
Mineola L. I.—The grand Jury today
resumed Its investigation in the case
of Mrs. Florence Carman, held In Jail
as having fired the shot which killed
Mrs. Louise Bailey In Dr, Carman's
office at Freeport on the night of
June 3ft. It was expected the J«ry
would complete Its work today, and
that If an Indictment were found It
would he returned tomorrow.
District Attorney Bmltn announced
he hud issued a subpoena for Mrs.
Kllen Corby, a nice of Mrs. Carman.
It Is understood she Is one of the two
women who have been sought since
the murder as having been In the
doctor s waiting room and who fled
when they heard the shot fired.
Henry De lleau today testified to
seeing Mrs. Halley going to the Car
man home. Another witness was
Miss Helen Combs, who was In the
watting room when the murder was
committed
it was thought likely that Mrs.
Carman would not be called before
the Jury. Her counsel had agreed to
waive Immunity for her, but In the
opinion of the district attorney It is
Inexpedient to have her testify.
Says He Shot Her.
Mineola, N. Y—Dr. Carman made
public a letter addressed to his wife
from Rochester, N. Y. The writer
said he had shot Mrs. Bailey. He had
donned a woman's clothing, he said,
tig a disguise. The letter was writ
ten In what apparently was disguis
ed handwriting and looked as If It
might have been penned by a woman.
It was not taken seriously.
Making New $1,500,000
Cable to Lay to Colon
New York - To provide for the large
Increase In business which Is expected
to follow the opening of the Panama
Canal, a new cable will be laid from
New York to Colon by way of Guan
tunatno before the end of the year.
The cable which will cost $1,500,01)0 Is
constructed In England and will be
much larger than the present cable.
The cable ship Colonla Will begin lay
ing the cable In November off Cor.ey
Island, proceeding southward at the
rate of seven knots an hour.
2 WOMEN BURNED TO DFATH.
Dallas, Texas. —Two women were
burned to death and three other per
sons seriously injured when fire de
stroyed a hoarding house here early
today. The dead sre Mrs. Mary E.
McCauley and Mrs. Dora Roberts.