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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. No. 37.
BRAND NEW TRUST
RETAIL DRUGGISTS
Deleqation From Nat'l Ass'n
Appears Before Senate Com
mittee in Protest to Clause in
Pendinq Measure. Small
Dealers vs. Biq Corporations
in Cost Requlations
PATENT MEDICINE PRICE
CUTTING IS CLUB USED
Want New Inter-State Trade
Commission to Enforce Pub
lication Fixed Prices on All
Articles Covered By Patent,
Copyright or Trade Mark.
Washington.—Small manufacturers
and dealers who compete with great
corporations want provision for price
regulation in the new trust bills to
prevent their be ins squeezed when
they cannot meet quotations on larser
quantities.
Before the senate Interstate com
merce committee today a delegation
spoke asalnst the clause providing that
nothing in the bill •'should prevent dis
crimination In price between purchas
ers of commodities on account of dif
ferences in grade, quality or quantity
of the commodity sold, or that makes
only due allowance for difference In
the cost of transportation."
“Baby Trust.”
The advent of a brand new baby
"trust” was announced by a delegation
from the National Association of Re
tail Druggists.
C. H. Nixon told the house commerce
committee that cutting prices on pat
ent medicines was the club used by n
combination of drug stores and cigar
stores to drive small individual re
tailers out of business.
Monopoly Started.
“We believe a monopoly is being
started with the object of controlling
the retail drug trade of the entire
United States," said he.
The druggists proposed that the new
interstate trade commission be em
powered to enforce publication of fixed
prices, wholesale and retail, on all ar
ticles covered by patent, copyright or
trade mark. , ,
ASK PREMIER OF
JAPS TO RESIGS
Delegation Also Visits Admiral
Fujii and Demand That He
Commit Hari Kari.
Tokio, Japan —A resolution of want
of confidence in the Japanese gov
ernment Is to be moved in the Jap
anese diet on February 1 Oth by mem
bers of the opposition. This decision
was reached today at a mass meeting
organized by the opposition i arties
and attended by 13,000 people.
Delegations Call,
San Francisco— Premier Yamamoto,
of Japap, was invited today to resign
by a delegation from the province of
Fukuoka because of scandals arising
out of naval contracts, according to
cable advices received here by a Jap
anese newspaper.
The delegation next visited Rear Ad
miral K. Fujii and demanded that he
commit hara-kari because pf his al
leged connection with the so-called
graft cases. Members of the party ac
cused him of having received money
from the Japanese branch of the
Siemens Company of Germany, which
has supplied various kinds of apparat
us for new battleships.
At a big meeting yesterday in Tokio
the same advices say a resolution was
adopted Impeaching the cabinet. The
speakers included prominent parlia
mentary leaders.
25,000 Mourners at N.Y.
Yiddish Funeral; Riot
New York. —Twenty-five thousand
mourners from New York's Ghetto
turned out for the funeral today of
Zigmund Moguleeko, famous among
the Yiddish as an actor and comedian.
The crowd which followed a funeral
procession led by the Hebrew Actors’
club, was so unwieldy that police re
serves were called out to keep order,
$500,000 FOR HOG CHOLERA.
Washington.— I Threatened loss of
$200,000,000 worth of hogs this year
from cholera led the senate yesterday
to agree to a bill appropriating $500,-
000 to fight the disease.
SPARTA POSTMASTER
, Waahlngton. —The president today
nominated Julia Fleming as postmas
ter at Sparta, Ga.
LEST YOU FORGET
Received Tiara of Diamonds
and Pearls As Wedding Gift.
»• / r yfpWEa
sj \
MRS. WM. HARPER.
Newport, R. I.—A tiara of pearls and
diambnds was the wedding gift to Miss
Florence Tobin, of Denver, who was
married here on Monday to William
Harper, an old school mate. The wed
ding was solemnized at the home of
Mrs. James J. Brown, Miss Tobin’s
aunt who presented the bride with the
tiara, part of a famous Elizabethan
collection. Two years ago in Paris, it
was rumored that Miss Tobin, who is
well-known socially In Hurope as well
as this country, was engaged to Prince
Gennaro of Taracclolo of Dal)'.
MILLIAIRE
TERRAZAS II
WORK II FARM
Income of Enormously Rich
Mexican So Tied Up, Ready
Cash Gene in Ransoms,
Leaves El Paso Today to
Seek Means of Livelihood
Sees No Prospect of Peace,
$590,000 Paid Out to Villa
For His Son Luis, Jr. Doesn’t
Mind the Labor. May Do Him
Good,
El Paso —His Immense Income tied
up by three years of revolution, Al
berto Terrazas of the family whose
name In Mexico is a synonym for great
wealth, has been compelled to seek a
means of livelihood.
This Information, as astounding In
Mexico and along the border as a simi
lar news of a Rockefeller or a Van
derbilt would be In the United States,
became known here today with his de
parture for Pasadena, Cal. Terrazas
expects to buy or lease a small farm
where he cun make a modest living.
He Is one of those who sees no pros
pect of peace In hls native land, and
until tranquility Is restored the Income
of the vast Terrazas family fortune,
estimated at $35,000,000 to $40,000,000
In gold will be tied up. Kven In the
event of peace It may be lost, for the
rebels have declared It confiscated.
Doesn't Mind It.
"I do not mind going to work; It 'insy
be a good thing" he said to friends and
then smiled at hls own remarks for hls
prodigality with money has been a
story, chapters of which have been
written on two continents.
The Terrazas fortune was founded
by I>on bills Terrazas, now an octon
genarlan refugee In this city, In land
grants from Presidents Juarez and
Porflrlo Diaz. These holdings have
been augmented constantly until now,
as train schedules are In Mexico, It
would take a passenger train three days
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AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 6. 1914.
AMERICANS
TAKEN BY
BANDITS
Great Cumbre Tunnel is in
Ruins. Passenqcr Train
Charred Wreck. Villa Orders
All Implicated to Be Shot
Juarez, Mexico—Seven America*
railroad men are believed to be prison
ers; the great Cumbre Railroad tun
nel through the Continental Divide Is
In ruins and the Mexican Northwest
ern passenger train which left here
Wednesday morning Is u charred wreck
at the mouth of the tunnel, us the re
sult of depredation of Mexlmo Castil
lo's bandits.
This Information was received here
today at headquarters of the railroad.
The Cumbre Tunnel Is the largest on
the road, 3,700 feet long.
The Prisoners.
The named of the prisoners reported
here are:
M. J. Gllmartin, superintendent of
the road.
H. Schofield, *u|«Tlntendont of ter
minals at Juarex.
Ijf Williams, assistant manager of
the railroad commissary.
K. J, McCutcheon, engineer.
J. E. Webster, conductor.
H. F. Mardens, express agent.
A seventh American was believed to
have been on the train and Americans
were also employed on the freight
train which was used to fire the tun
nel.
Orders AM Shot.
General Francisco Villa, commander
of the rebel forces. Instructed Gene
ral Felipe Macias, operating In the
Casas Grandes district, to shoot every
man who was implicated.
The bandits are believed to be oper
ating in two forces of about thirty men
each, as Cumbre is a hard day's ride
from El Valle, near Casas Grandes,
where 22 of the robbers were captured
and shot last Tuesday. The other-de
tachment, believed to be under CM
tilio himself, did the wrecking. He
captured a train of stock igirs Wed,
nesdsy snd ran It Into the tunnel,
where it was set on .fire. That everf-
Ing he passenger from Jumi
was captured and sent headlong 4nt*
the tunnel, which was belching flames
and smoke. Castillo then destroyed
two neighboring bridges, one of them
constructed of steel, and ran two lo
comotives over the embankment Into
a deep canyon.
Charge the U.S. With
'Fomenting Anarchy '
Madrid.—Provisional President Hu
erta today telegraphed to the Hpari
ish-American Union here, replying to
its request that he bring about an
armistice in Mexico, by the ‘statement
that he Is Increasing the federal army.
The Spanish press commented freely
on the Mexican situation today. Seve
ral of the leading newspa.|K>rs of the
capital accused the United States gov
ernment of "fomenting anarchy."
Sulzer'll Tell Motives
Behind His Impeachment
New York.—The John Doe Inquiry
Into politcaJ graft, to have been re
sumed this afternoon with ex-Governor
Sulzrr ns the chief witness, was put
over until Monday.
Sulzer has placed In Whitman's
hands letters bearing upon the mo
tives behind hls Impeachment and the
manner in whloh It was brought about.
Sulzer has Insisted he was led to un
derstand from the leaders of hls tsjrty
that there would he no Impeachment
If he would stop hls investigations of
graft.
SENTENCED 3 TIMES; HANGED.
Columbus, Ga. —Hill Gran berry, a
negro, was hanged at Opelika, Ala., at
II:JO a. rn„ today for the murder of
Marla Aldridge and daughter, Arlana,
two year* ago. The caae ban been In
the supreme court twb-e and irfflrmed.
Oranherry had been sentenced to death
three times.
CAN'T SET ALARM CLOCK
FOR 2 A. M. AND THEN ROUT
WIFE OUT OF BED.
Chicago.—A man who habitual
ly sets hls alarm clock for 2 a. rn.
and at that hour makes hls wife
get out of bed and sleep on the
floor Is guilty of disorderly con
dect.
This ruling was given today by
Municipal Judge Sullivan who
fined the offender, Stanley Mollsh
SSO and costs.
SATURDAY'S AND WEDNESDAY’S are the two Big Bargain Days of the week in Augusta. The Herald of Tuesday and Friday alawys carries the
"‘VERY SPECIAL" offerings of Augusta’s leading and most progressive merchants. From a dollar and cents motive it will pay you to read the ad
vertisements in today’s Herald. It’s the advertising merchant always who CAN and DO*SS sell the cheapest. : : :
“Perfect American Girl 99 Now
Bride of Lazvyer-Playwriglit
S"V 7 •*- » _ . a I*
V MRS. J. MURRAY ANDERSON.
New York—Mlhs Genevieve Lyon of Chicago , who three years ago.
when seventeen years of age, was selected hy sculptor Korbel as the most
neatly perfect type of American girl in the Chicago schools, was married
hers on Monday to J. Murray AnderHon. • lawye r and playwright. After
leafing school Miss Anderson gained considerable success playing minor
rolfs in several Opera companies.
Northwest Comer Broad and 12th
Streets Bought By Maxwell Bros.
Purchased From Mrs. Bridget Gallaher, Through Mr. Crom
melin Fleming, and the Price Paid Was $20,000. Bought
As An Investment.
Mr, Crommelln Fleming has Just
negotiated a real estate deni whereby
the northwest forger of Hroad and
Twelfth -Streets haa been acquired
by .Maxwell Brothers, the well-known
dealer.! In furniture. The property
was owned by Mrs. Bridget Gallaher
and It has a frontage of 47 feet on
Broad Street apd extends hack lo
Jones. The price paid was $20,000.
Mr. Bertram Maxwell stated Friday
that he and hla brother had purchas
ed the property as an investment.
In the deal for 1284. 1280 and 1288
Broad Street, between Mr. J. S. Rey
nolds and Hr. O. W. Shackleford,
Against Teaching ot Sex
Hygiene in N. Y. Schools
Special Committee of Board of
Education Hold First
Meeting,
New York. Sex hygiene | roAoters
can expect little comfort from new
special committee on hygiene of the
hoard of education which held Its
first meeting today. The committee
li composed of Ur. Ira H- Wile, chair
man; Dr. Antonio Pisanl, Dr. .1. J.
McDonald, John Martin and Abra
ham Flexner. Dr. Pisanl say a he
does not see any necessity - for teach
ing sex hygiene to children. Dr Mc-
Donald has always opposed It and
John Martin will not listen to argu
ment* for It.
Dr. Wile said: “I believe sex hy
giene should be taught only to the
teachers In training schools and to
adults through lectures In school
buildings after school hours.”
GUNMAN'S BHOT FATAL.
New York —Kdward Martha, a po
liceman wounded last night by a gun
man for whom he was searching died
today. James O'Connor, a bystander,
who waa wounded by the gunman, was
In a i rltlcal condition.
mention of which was made In The
Herald several days ago, Dr. Hhaekel
ford paid the equivalent of SIB,OOO to
$20,000, since he gave Mr. Reynolds
$10,OOt) and two houses and lots on
Green Street. The deed only men
tioned the SIO,OOO, and there was no
way, of course, to tell by that Instru
ment that there were other consider
ations. The Herald, therefore, was
In error when It gave the consider
ation as only SIO,OOO.
Hroad Htreet property Is going
through the greatest period of activ
ity In Its history and real estate men
say that this Is only the beginning
ot-even greater things.
Acquitted of Murder in
Black-Hand Persecution
Defendant Had Been Followed
a Year ; Shot at Four Times.
New York. —Carmlnl Llcenzlata, on
trial for murder, told a story of black
hand persecution to a Jury today that
resulted In his acquittal. Llcenzlata
shot arid killed Luigi Giordano In
Hester Htreet on November 24 last.
He testified that for a year he had
been followed by Giordano’s gang:
that gangsters had shot, him four
times and that once they hail placed
a bomb In bis brother’s store. On
the day of the shooting he said Gior
dano accosted him on the street and
demanded “the money” mentioned In
a black hand letter.
Other witnesses testified that Glor
dona's friends removed a revolver
from hls pocket after he had fallen.
LIFE BENTENCEB FOR TWO.
Marysville, Cel.—Kl'hii rd (Hlackle)
Ford end H. D. Huhr, said to be In
dustrial Workers of the World, con
victed of the murder of District Attor
ney Manwell of Yuba county during
a riot of hop pickers, wore sentenced
to life imprisonment Thursday. A dep
uty sheriff and two workmen also were
killed In the riot.
DAILY AND SU NDAY. $6.00 PER YEAR.
BITING WINTER ON
THE WA Y SOUTH
FAIR AND COLD
WEATHER IS 10
FOLLOW RAIN
Official Reports Indicate Rain
Throuqh Toniqht; Tomorrow
Fair and Much Colder. Tem
perature This Morninq Above
Normal. River Staqe Unaf
fected By the Drizzling Rain
**A considerable change In the weath
er will be noticed by tomorrow night"
stated Acting Forecaster Warren this
morning Immediately upon receipt of
tils telegraphic reports. Mr. Idmtgh,
the forecaster, Is still confined to hts
home with an injured eye.
The forecast Is predicting more rain
for tonight, and adds that Saturday
will be fair and cold.
Be Much Colder.
In commenting on the forecast Mr.
Warren said that tomorrow will be
much colder, though hardly as low as
the froo7.lng point. The change In
temperature should he very notlcable
because of the warm weather of the
past few days. Even last night with
the disagreeable condltJoiiM the lowest
the mercury dropped was to 6« degrees,
and this stage was not reached until
fi o'clock this morning. Hlnoe that
time the temperature was noticed to
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O’Shaughnessy Says
He’s Entirely O. K.
Washington— < ifflctal reports today
from Charge O'Hhaughnessy In Mexico
City said he had experienced no danger
of any kind since the lifting of the
embargo on arms. He reported every
thing quiet in the CApital.
$5,000 Year Salary For
Commissioner Blackburn
Washington. —Tho house today
passed the senate resolution appoint
ing former Kenntor Joseph C. H. Hlack
burn, of Kentucky, a Confederate vete
ran, resident commissioner of the Lin
coln Memorial eommisslon at u salary
of $5,000 a year.
For Marking of Northern
Graves Confederate Dead
Washington. —A resolution to con
tinue in effect, for two years the law
authorizing the marking of graves of
Confederate soldiers In Northern soil
waa passed bp the senate today.
$25,000,000 For U.S.Aid
in Highways Up Tonight
Washington. —Under a apodal rule
the house will work tonight on the
Shackelford good roads hill to ap
propriate $25,000,000 for federal aid
to tho states for Improvement of the
highways used by rural mall carriers.
GEYSERS IN OIL FIELDS
ARE THROWING UP SALT
Bucharest, Rumania Phenomenal
geysers, throwing up bolting water and
steam heavily Impregnated with salt
have attracted geologists to the oil
rieldH at Flllpescl De Tlrgu In Pra
houa. The water Is tfirowri to a great
height. Around each boring made for
oil a heavy crust of salt has been de
posited for a radius of 500 yardH.
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WANTB T. R. IN 1016.
Charleston, W. Va. —Harry Curtain,
acting chairman of the Republican
state committee, today Issued a call
for an open meeting February $5, to
"make party declarations."
”1 supported Theodore Roosevelt for
president In I J#l2," said Curtain, ‘‘and I
hope matters will so shape thernselvis
ns to make hls nomination by the Re
publican party for the presidency In
191 S a certainty.”
TRAIN KILLB INVALID.
Roanoke, Va. —Wandering from her
home here early today. Miss Hlanche
Goldberg, who has been an Invalid for
many years, was killed by a Norfolk
and Western freight train when she
attempted to cross the tracks.
First Severe Conditions of Sea
son Appear Today—Montana
Temperatures Reach 42 De
qrees Below. Due in South
Atlantic States Sunday A. M.
NORTHERN COUNTIES OF
TEXAS ARE FREEZING
Trains Stalled in Blizzard.
Kansas Mail Carriers Carry
Torches to Thaw Out Frozen
Locks in Boxes.
Chicago—Four days of Intenso cold
were predicted to follow the snow
storm which broke hero today.
Temperatures Tumble.
Washington.—A severe cold wave
overspread the central Southern
states today and was pushing east
ward with Indications that It would
reach northwestern Florida and the
easternmost of the Southern states
Saturday'.
Thunderstorms were reported In
the South.
In Next 24 Hours.
With zero temperatures or lower
as far south ns the Kansas-Oklahonia
border, the weather bureau predicted
today that the could wave would
overspread the east gulf states, the
middle Mississippi Valley and ths
lower Ohio Valley In the next 21
hours and would reach the Atlantlo
coast states from Florida to Maine
by Sunday tnoming.
Six Below.
Lincoln, Neb. —Railroad traffic wag
delayed In Nebraska by the blizzard
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KILLS GIRL ID
SELFJ AUTO
Pursuing Party Finds Machine,
With Engine Still Going, in
Middle of Road.
Greenaburg, Pa. —Love for two slx
teen-year-old girls, neither of whom
knew of the other’s existence, prompt
ed John McFadden to kill Anna Luta
and himself as they sat In an automo
bile n«ar Ligonler. Pa., early today.
McFadden who had taken the girl for
a rido late last night, telephoned hls
employer here that he would never
see him again. Immediately men in
high power machines were sent hurry
ing over the mountains to find him.
Ttiey came upon tho automobile by
tho roadside Its englno still running
and McFadden and the girl dead.
In McFadden's pocket was a note
saying that Bertha Milligan at Lam
bert, Pa., dftuld tell tho caUHO of the
tragedy. To Coroner MeMurray the
girl said McFadden had written her i%
letter yesterday telling her ho was go
ing to kill “the other girl'' and himself.
4i
‘Blood Administrations’
vs. Prest’s High Ideals
Comment By London Press on
Mr. Wilson’s Troubles
Over Mexico, r
London. —While “respect for hls
high character and fine Ideals.”
moves The Globe to wish President
Wilson well out of hls troubles In
connection with Mexico, Peru anil
Haiti, whoso "bloodstained adminis
trations” challenges the president's
policy of non-recognltlon. It considers
hls position Impracticable. Tho news
'paper continues;
“The expedient of sanctioning and
supporting civil war In a neighbor
ing state Is a declaration of war In
a form which can hardly he reconcil
ed with the comity of nations. The
danger of the situation from the
point of view of the United States
Is that there Is no retreat with honor
from the uncompromising ir Imprac
ticable position President Wilson hs*
taken up.”
EX-WHITE HOUBE CHEF DEAD.
Kansas City, Mo.—l.eon J. Gaston,
who was head chef at the White House
under Presidents Garfield and Arthur,
died at hls home here last night. Gas
ton wss horn in Paris 57 years ag".
After leaving service at the Whits
House he came west.
"LOT 306.”
Washington—Representative Wilson
today Introduced a bill under which
the government would give a quit claim
to heirH of Antonio Hierro, on "lot 306"
In the vld city Of Pensacola.