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Newspaper Page TextTHE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD VOLUME XIX. No. 35. EX-CONGRESSMAN ESCAPES THE PEN Both Lucius N. Littauer and Brother William Each Fined SI,OOO and Given Six Months in Jail For Smuggling. Plead ed Guilty Yesterday. Paid Back $14,000 THE PRISON PENALTY IS SUSPENDED BY COURT Severe Arraignment of Wealthy Glove Who Served Ten Years in Congress. High Standing Ag gravated Rather Than Miti gated Offense. Now York— The Llttauers were pa roled In custody of their counsel The stay of sentence means that the court will watch their conduct for five years and the jail penalty will hang over them during that time. Both Pleaded Guilty. New York. —Lucius N. Littauer, a former congressman, and his brother William were fined SI,OOO each and sentenced to six months in jail today for smuggling. The court, however, suspended sen tence in the matter of the jail pen alty. Pleaded Guilty. The brothers were arraigned in fed eral district court having pleaded guilty yesterday to two indictments charging smuggling and conspiracy to defraud. They had admitted bringing into this country without paying duty valuable jewels purchased in Venice and intended for gifts for Wm. Lit tauer's wife. Federal Attorney Mar shall at the time of the pleas urged that the full penalty be imposed and pointed out that the Llttauers as glove manufacturers had benefited by the prospective tariff. Severely Grilled. In suspending the jail sentence Judge Thomas warned the offenders dhat this would not he his policy in the future. He explained, however, that he had not found it the custom (Continued on Page Five.) American Woman Freed By Efforts U. S. Embassy Mexico City— Officials of the Amerl ' can embassy were successful last night in their efforts to secure their release of Miss Victoria Hastings, an American newspaper woman and Mr. Wallace, a newspaper photographer who had been arrested here. Miss J tastings was ordered to appear today efore the authorities. r' Aided By O’Shaughnessy; Huerta Jails His Brother Mexico City —Jose Vera Estanol, a brother of Jorge Vera Estanol, minister of public instruction In the late Presi dent Madero’s cabinet, was arrested to day and sent to the penitentiary. Estanol had been observed writing a letter to his brother, who on January 22, was assisted to flee from the coun try by Nelson O’Shaughnessy, Ameri can charge. Women Appreciate the New Comptroller's Order Washington —John Skelton Williams, new comptroller of the currency earn ed the appreciation of 800 women in the treasury department today when he ordered two daily rest periods often minutes duration. The women affect ed are those employed at the nerve racking work of counting millions of dollars worth of bills and stamps. The Bowery is Wearing- New Shoes; Gift Big Tim New York.—On the Bowery today there is a continuous procession of new shoes and the wearers are bless ing the memory of "Big Tim" Sulli van. for years the political dictator of the Lower Side. Yesterday the an niversary of the birth of Mr. Sulli van’s mother, the beneficiaries of his estate continued the custom establish ed by him years ago of distributing shoes to all who called at the rooms of the Timothy D. Sullivan Associa tion. Year and Half in Sing Sing Sentence For Both New York —Joseph Fassidy, former democratic boss of Queens county and Wm. Willett, a former congressman, -were sentenced today to serve a year -•Jind six months In Sing Sing prison and to pay SI,OOO fine. , NOTIFY 111 OF WITIMI OF ARMSJMBARGO Will Be No Orders. However, For Leaving of U. S. Troops on Mexican Border Unless Recommended By Gen’l Bliss in Command Whether Shipment of War Munitions Must Be Preceded By Permits, Yet to Be Work ed Out By American Officials. Washington. —No orders for the withdrawal of I'nited States troops from the border will be issued unless recommendations are made by Gen eral Bliss in command there. Extended to Both. Washington. —Privilege of shipping arms and ammunition from the Unit ed States into Mexico was extended today to both the forces of the Huerta government and the Constltutional itsts —a situation unprecedented since the outbrenk of internal hostilities in the southern republic in November, 1910. American customs agents and army officers in charge of the border pa trol were notified of the proclamation by President Wilson raising the em bargo. Rebels Have Most. The Constitutionalists now hold most of the customs houses on the Mexican side of the international line. They now can ship arms without mo lestation through Brownsville, Texas, Presidio, Texas, El Paso, Douglas and Nogales The Federals still hold Neuvo I>aredo and Piedras Negras. Whether every shipment of .arms would have to be preceded by a per mit from the state department as has been the case in exceptions to the joint resolution of March 4, 1912 here tofore or whether the proclamation issued by the president would merely restore the status of regular consign ments through recognised ports of entry was a phase of the situation which It was reported would soon be worked out by government officials. Already Under Seizure. The disposition of a large quantity of ammunition seized on the border destined for the Constitutionalists also is to be decided by officials of the treasury department of Justice. SUBSCRIBERS MUSTN'T 111 Mistaken Idea That Some Are to Get Season Tickets. Meet ing at 4 P. M. Today. A meeting of the directors of the Augusta baseball association was scheduled for four o’clock this after noon at the office of President Kalb fleisch in the Dyer building. At this time it was proposed to confer with two prospective managers for the Augusta team. The unpaid officials of the associa tion are requesting all subscribers not to delay in .mailing their checks. “The mistaken impresston has gotten out. In some way, said Secretary and Treas urer Hackett today, "that subscribers to the fund which we had on paper when we entered Into arrangements to get back into the South Atlantic League, and on which we have gone ahead with our arrangements thus far, in some instances were to get season tickets for their subscriptions I want to make it plain that we took the sub scriptions as subscriptions and not as an advance promise of sale of tickets or anything else than Insurance, that Augusta will have good, clean baseball. There are no season tickets being sold at all. “It takes money to finish putting this thing through, and we accepted the straight subscriptions to tho necessary fund on good faith. We have so far conducted the preliminary ar rangements on tho same good faith. Some nine or ten of us are giving our time for the entire year absolutely for (Continued on market page.) TO REPORT AT COLUMBUS, GA. New York—Players of the Newark Club of the International J-eague Club have been ordered to report for spring training to Manager Smith at Colum bus, Ga., on February 25. FIVE PERISH IN HOTEL FIRE. Bemidgi, Minn. —Five men perished and seven were seriously injured in a fire which destroyed a hotel at Kelle ber near her today. The victims were residents of nearby towns. AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 4. 1914. PRESIDENT OF PERU IN JAII ASISONER Revolution Breaks Out at Lima Today. Palace Attacked and Thousands of People Terrorized in Streets By Vol leys of Shots Premier Killed. Dr. Durand, Rebel Leader, Takes Posses sion of Offices and Will Or ganize a New Government. Lima, Peru—President Mllllnghurst wan Inter taken by the rebels an a prisoner to Calluo, whernoe he will bo sent into exile. Revolt Comee Quietly. Lima, Peru. —The president of the republic of Peru, Guillermo Hilling hurst, was taken prisoner today by military revolutionists. The rebels suddenly attacked the presidential palace this morning under the leadership of Colonel Be navides. Premier Killed. General Enrique Varela, premier and minister of war, was killed In the sharp fight which ensued. Dr. Au gusto Durand, a former revolutionary leader, who was sought by the police yesterday took possession of the pa lace. It is generally believed that he will organize a new government. The attack on the palace began early today. Thousands of Inhabi tants dashed Into the streets alarm ed by the, firing Soldiers were or dered to fire volleys Into the air to prevent the formation of crowds in the streets. They kept the panic stricken people moving. Alarm In City. Near San Pedro Church a civilian bystander was killed by a bullet. Alarm prevails throughout the city. Banks and stores were closed and private houses were barricaded. Street cars, however, began running before noon. Peru’s sudden revolutionary trouble Is due prlnrtpally to Frestdrnt Billtng hurst's efforts to place finances of his country on a sound .basis. His scheme for doing this involved the strictest economies throughout the public ser vice and naturally proved unpopular. Pittsburg's Mayor Says Crime Wave Must Stop Pittsburg—With a record of mors than 100 burglaries, highway robberies and attacks on women the last thirty days, twelvo of them within the last 24 hours, without a conviction. Mayor Joseph G. Armstrong took charge of the situation hero today. He sum moned \V. N. Mathews, superintendent of police, for a conference and sent a letter to Charles 8. Hubbard, director of public safety In which he declared that In the future policemen convicted of intoxication while on duty must be dismissed. Cashier W. 0. Armstrong Under Arrest at Dublin Dublin, Ga. —W. O. Armstrong, cash ier of the bank of Rentz, a small town near here was brought to Dublin this morning under arrest charged with the embezzlement of $ 1 r.OOO. It Is claimed Armstrong loaned $15,000 to the Bank of Hazlehurst without au thority. The Hazlehurst bank closed last week. Armstrong declines to make a statement but his attorneys say that he has an ample defense. BORDER PATROL TO STOP SHIPMENTS OF BOOZE Cahrleston, W. Va. —A border pa' trol to prohibit illegal shipment of In toxicants into West Virginia after June 30th when tho Yost prohibition law goes Into effect is the plan of Fred O. Blue, ex-officio commissioner of prohibtion. Commissioner Blue believes the patrol will prevent “boot legging." FIRST WORk'pHYSICAL VALUATION OF R’WAYS Los Angeles, Cal, —First actual work of ascertaining the physical valua tion of railroads In what Is known as the western division In compliance with the recent act of congress was begun here today. Engineers started surveying the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt lAike Railroad line between Los Angeles and Los Angeles Harbor. HONOR VOLTURNO'B CAPTAIN. London —Captain Francis Inch, com mander of the steamship Volturno, which was burned In mid-Atlantic on October It, 1913, with a loss of 135 lives was presented today with ttfh freedom of the city of London. A cas ket encased the city's gift which was accompanied by a gold m**dal, a gold watch chain, a purse of gold and Lloyds silver modal. SEARCHES TWO YEARS FOR HUSBAND LOST IN SNOWSTORM MRS. ADELE CROME AND MISSING HUSBAND. San Francisco -In a last effort to discover whether she Is a wife or a widow, Mrs. Adele Crome of this city, has inserted an advertisement in local papery—offering $ 140 reward for Information locating William Crome. her husband, who has not been seen or heard from since he walked out of the house. December 14. 1911, during a blinding snowstorm. Mr. Crome disappeared after he had a verbal quarrel with Dr. Don 11. Hinckley, at whose house the couple were stopping. Mrs. Crome recently filed suit against Dr. Hinckley for $50,000 damages, I)r. Hinckley married Miss Jes sie Bryan two days after the papers were filed. $28,000 PAID FOR 24 FEET OF BROAD STREET PROPERTY Mr. David Slusky Sells Property Occupied JJy Sheron Candy Store on 900 Block Through Goodwin & Duvall to Mr. Hugh Gallagher—Mr. J. S. Reynolds Sells Property on the 1200 Block to Dr. G. W. Shackleford. Goodwin * Duvall have just closed a deal by which Mr. Hugh Gailagher purchased from Mr. David Slusky the property on the 900 block of Broad street, Southside, now occupied by the Sheron Candy Store, for $28,000. The property fronts 24.8 inches on Broad nnd extends bark to Kills. Con siderably more than SI,OOO per front foot was paid, which Is believed to bo a record price for property In that im PANAMA TOLLS WILL GO OVER Senator O’Gorman, After Con ference With President, Says Question Won’t Be Decided This Session. Washington—After a conference with President Wilson today, Senator O'Gorman one of the chief supporters of the proposal to exempt American coastwise vessels from tolls In the Panama Canal expressed the opinion that the question would not be reach ed at this session of congress. “I doubt” said the senator, "whether wo will do much more than pass tho trust bills, the agricultural extension bill and the appropriation bills. This Is going to be a short session.” Mr. O’Oorrnan added that he did not think the Panama tolls question was pressing. He suggested that perhaps suspen sion of the tolls provision of the law might be mude but thought six months would he sufficient to determine whether the canal could be operated without tolls from American coastwise ships "THANKFUL BLOSSOM” WAB SOLD New York —Bret. Harte’s manuscript of "Thankful Blossom” was sold at auction last night for $735 to George D. Smith in the American Art Galler ies. It was newspaper copy sent to the Sun in 1877, rescued from the printer and bound. mediate locality. Mr. Gallagher lias bought tile property us an investment. Another real estate deal which has Just been closed Involves the property at 1284, 1286 and 1288 Broad street, which Mr. Joseph K. IteynoldH sold to Dr. G. W. Shackelford for SIO,OOO. The property fronts 60 feet on Broad and lias a depth of 133 feet. Real estate deals involving Broad street and other Augusta properties are being iriude almost every day. ACCUSE FAIRER KILLING BABY Startling Development in Spartanburg Mystery. Young Girl Mother Breaks Down. Spartanburg, 8. C. —A special to The State says: Developments In tho case of the 2- months-old baby girl found drowned In White’s mill pond Saturday came to a startling climax when the parents were arrested Tuesday almost simul taneously, the mother In a hoarding houso on Magnolia street, us she was arranging to take a train for Charles ton; the father at Chesnee, ua he was preparing to leave for San Francisco. The mother ia Meta. I’indleton, 19 years old, daughter of a shoe sales man of Durham, N. O.; the father i-t Clyde Caldwell Clement, aged 23, of Kandy Grove, N. C., son of Robert C. Clement, a merchant, lie was until recently a student at the Wofford col lege fitting school. The girl was a student at a local telegraph school. The arrest of the girl was dramatic In the extreme. Mrs. W. M. Hodges, of No. 205 Richardson street, Green - Vllie, had come to Spartanburg thu morning and identified the baby a* that of a young woman who lived In her hoarding house ax "Mrs. Cald well" last month. The police had rea son to believe that the young woman (Continued on Market Page). DAILY AND SUNDAY. $6.00 PER YEAR. HEAP OPPROBRIUM ON PREST’S HEAD WOULD ABOLISH DIVORCE 111 11. S. Thftt is, With Right to Re marry. Amendment to Con stitution Proposed by Senator Ransdell. Washington—Divorce with the right to re-raarry would he prohibited for ever In the United States amt in all places under the nation’s Jurisdiction by an amendment to the federal con stitution proposed In tho senato to day by Senator ltuusdell, of I/oulsta na. Enactment of uniform marriage laws for all states and territories, with provision for separation without permlsßlou to re-marry, would be di rected by the amendment. With (he states of the Union grant ing more than twice as many divorces ns all tho rest of Christendom com bined. Senator Uansdell told his col league that tho time had come for the nation Itself to put down this menace to "the chief bulwark of society, the homo—the maker of good citizens and tho model on which every wise government is founded.” Remedy Is Drastic, "The remedy by constitutional pro hibition In drastic,” said the senator, "but the malady Is so fatal that noth ing short of It will prove efflcnclous. In the United States divorce Is speading wtth alarming rapidity. It Ims permeated every walk of life, and Is prevalent among every class of people. The total number of dlvorees granted In 1867 was 9,937, or 27 per 100,090 population. Forty years later. In 1906. there were 72,062 divorces, or 86 per 100,000; thus In actual num bers there were more than 7 tlnien as many divorces granted In 1906 as In 1867, or allowing for the Increased population, divorco has Increased 319 per cent. "If divorces multiply at the same rate In the future as In the past — and there Is every indication that (Continued on page five) * ~ S. C. House Passes 2 Cent Rate to Third Reading Columbia, 8. C. —By a vote of R 0 to Ifi the lower houso of the general as sembly today passed the two cent passenger rate ball on third reading, refusing to accept amendments pro viding for a rate of two and a half nnd three cents a mile on tho small feeder roads of the state. Thieves Adroitly Get Away With a Raphael Morristown, N. J.—When the house keeper at. the home of tho Mlbhcs Mar garet and Susan Hawes came down stairs today she discovered that thieves had cut from Its frame In the library a Madonna ascribed to Raphael, which tho sisters obtained abroad years ago. Nothing else In the house waH touch ed. The picture had been adroitly re moved, apparently by experts who knew Its value. PRIVATE BANKER BUBPENDB, New York—Cesaro Conti, a private banker, steamship and railroad ticket agent and Importer, made an a/«Hlgn ment today for the benefit of creditors. At his office it was said that tho ac tion resulted from Mr. Conti's prolong ed Illness. In Proportion to Cost, The Little “Want Ad” Is a Great Money Maker, The "Want Ad" pages ot The Augusta Herald have a big following of readers. Men and women look there every day for help, for flats to rent, houses to rent un i advantages in buying and selling those hundreds of things that seldom are found In the display advertising columns of a newspaper. For this reason, and many others, "Want Ads” are pleasant and profitable read ing to subscribers of The Augusta Herald. Lots of things that contrib ute to comfort and pleasure are offered for sale, and al most invariably there Is a price advantage. The same thing applies to you. If you have anything that Is useful to dispose of, write an ad and leave It with Your Druggist or Tell it to Phone 296. Press of City of Mexico, In Scareline Heads, Bitter Against Action in Raising Embargo on Arms. “Mask Has Been Dropped; Next Comes Intervention.” HUMANITARIANS HAS GIVEN AWAY. THEY SAY, TO COMMERCIALISM. IN U. S. Is First Step Toward Frontier* of Mexico, It Is Declared, and the Phantom Becomes More Distinct. Mexloo City.—‘’President Wilson has dropped the false mask of the puritan and declared himself the friend and protector of tho rebels," Is the seven column headline placed by El Pala over its account of lYesldent Wilson's action In raising tho embargo on arms and munitions of war. The newspaper declares that Presi dent Wilson's motive, while alleged to be baaed on high pretexts of neutral ity, originates really in commercial in terests. , Pressure Brought. It continues: "It waa known that European and Japanese factories werj turning out war materials for tho Mex ican government. Similar establish ments In tho United States were dis satisfied nnd brought pressure to bear on tho government at Washington to put an end to tho embargo and nut block their business.” Tho article in Ei Pals continues: "Tho humanltarianlsm of President Wilson has tieon put aside to tmikt way for mercantilism. The worthy Yankee believes that everything in life should be reduced to dollars and cents. He could not hour to see such a pro pitious opportunity pass without prof iting to glvo us what ho surely be lieves to lie a decisive blow. To ac cumulate in our territory the elemen’.f of destruction is a labor which will soon facilitate American meddling witli our affairs. The First Stop. “It Is «I\e first step or the Yankees toward our frontier. Afterwards will come Intervention. The phantom grows more distinct beyond the Rlj Grande.” El Pals calls on the Mexican people to have faith In the good Mexi cans and in the government of Huerta, declaring: 'The triumph which Alii crown his efforts will bo not only a triumph over the revolution but another and more Important one, because America, as far south as Tlerra del Miego, will ring with tho hymn of victory and right over Yankee rapacity. Tho only thing President Wllaon will accom plish will bn to place In bold relief the figure of Vlctorlano Huerta, who. thanks to Y’nnkea Intrigues, symbolizes today on this continent tho aoul of the honest Latin race.” "Accomplice of Bandits.” EI Imparclal, under tho headline "President Wilson derlares himself barefacedly and opprobrlously tho ac complice of bandits," says: "We can scarcely credit tho new* that tho Yankee government permit* tho passage of arms to villlans of Villa, who roll, burn, and assassinate. It Is unbelievable that a cultured peo ple under tbo influence of a head strong functionary should become tho accomplices of such a hordo of out laws. "It appears Impossible that Presi dent Wilson can ho a man devoid of conscience or shame, if tho American people approve the stupendous meas ure of the White Hou/io It will de serve the execration of all honorable nations.” In Mexico City no evidences of hos tility toward American residents was observed. Tho patrols on the streets were doubled but there wns no sign of apprehension on tho part of the Mexican authorities that disorders would occur. LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN TO MURDERER OF TEN Heilbronn, Germany. —A Ufa sen' tonce in an Insane asylum was pro nounced here today on a school teacher named Wagner, who on Sep tember 6th, after setting fire to ths village of Muelliausen, Wuerttemberg, murdered his wife and four children and afterward shot twenty-Blx vil lagers, killing ten of them. 1.000 ARE FROM PUZZLING MALADY Grove City, Pa.— Nearly 1,000 resi dents of Grove City are suffering from a puzzling malady. It resem bles winter cholera and Is contagious. Many persons were stricken In church Sunday and were removed to their homes. So many men are 111 that several Industrial plants are crippled severely. “PARSON” BROWNLOW’S WIDOW. Knoxville, Tenn.— Mrs. Wm. CL Brownlow, widow of "Parson” Brown low widely known as a churchman and editor, died here this morning in her 95th year. She was well-knowa throughout the South.