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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
VOLUME XIX. No. 07.
WITH SNOWFALL OF TEN AND ONE-HALF INCHES
ALL RECORDS WERE SHATTERED IN AUGUSTA
Snow Ceased Fallina Shortly
After Midnight—Fair Thurs
day Night and Friday With
Continued Cold
THOUSANDS MADE
MERRY ON BROAD ST.
Lowest Thermometer Has Reg
istered During the Winter
Was 21 Degrees Last Even
ing. Snow Melting Fast.
With a snow fall of tan and one-half
Inches Aumieta was visited yesterday
and last night by the worst snowstorm
In her history. * The fall was almost
four Inches greater than the Mb snow
during the time the United States sol
diers were encamped at Augusta In
1899. On Feb. 12 and 13 of that year
a total fall of 6.9 Inches was recorded.
The snow fell up until after midnight
last night and Thursday morning
dawned bright and partly fair. The
weather forecast, Issued at ten o'clock
Thursday morning Is for fair weather
Thursday night and Friday night with
continued cold Thursday night. Tho
lowest the thermometer has registered
this winter was 21 yesterday evening,
while from twe.ve o'clock Wednesday
noon, throughput the afternoon the
thermometer registered 22 degrees.
It Is warmer today, thethermometer
registering 26 at six o’clock, 27 at
seven o'clock and 28 at eight o'clock.
The enow has practically paralyzed
business snd forced the workmen on
tho various buildings now under con
struction to stop work Wednesday
morning. The Whitney Company,
builders of the Empire, stuck to the
work until noon, but then had to quit.
Thousands Made Merry.
There were thousands of Augustan o
who made merry because of the snow
and there were throngs on the streets
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Fourteen Survivors of
Foundered Ship Land
Corunna, Spain.—The steamship
Wildenfels tolay landed fourteen sur
vivors of the Danish steamship Eklip
tlka, which foundered In the Bay of
Biscay during a storm on February
23rd.
The rescue of the shipwrecked
sailors occurred amid enormous seas.
Boats were lowered from the Wilden
feds but were unable to get along
side the Ekliptika. Everybody on the
Ekliptika Jumpel into the water and
tlfteen were picked up, but the cap
tain of the Danish vessel was fatally
Injured and died after he had been
dragged into the lifeboat. Secen ot
the crew were drowned.
Says the Guilty
[For Execution of
Vergara Punished
Laredo, Texas.—United States Con
sul Garrett and S. J. Hill, of I-aredo,
brotlvers-ln-law of Clemente Vergara,
were to reach the scene of Vergara's
execution by Mexican federal* near
Hidalgo, Mexico, today.
The consul’s visit was largely to
demand that Vergara's body be sur
rendered to the family for burial. Op
position to this was not expected.
Personal responsibility for Vergara’s
death, however, scarcely will be fixed
until an extensive investigation is
Vnade. Col. Alvarez, commander of
Nuevo Laredo, has assured Consul
Garrett that the guilty -men will ’ be
punished.
militant suffragettes
burn old parish house
Dunbar, Scotland. —Militant suffra
gettes today burnel to the ground
the historic parish church of the vil
lage of Whitekirk. Many iprlceies*
relics and curios of the Holyland
■were restroyed.
The church was erected in the six
teenth century and contained many
relics of the battle In which the
Scots were routed by Oliver Crom
well’s forces in 1650. In the vicinity
is the famous battleground of Dun
bar, where the English defeatel the
Scots in 1296 and caused John Baliol
to give up the crown of Scotland.
TWELVE KILLED IN AN
EXPLOSION IN GERMANY
Occurred in Dye Factory, Near
Berlin —A Great Many Were
Injured.
Berlin.— At least twelve men were
killed,and eight others fatally injured
an explosion which destroysd
an analine dye factory in Rummel#-
burg, a subrub. There were 400 em
ployes in the building at the time of
the explosion, which was heard all
over Berlin.
The firemen were unable to enter
the buildings owing to the poisonous
fumes and it was not possible to as
certain the full extent of the disae
.Ui.
CLEARING IN THE
SOUTH THURSDAY
Storm Which Left White Layer
From Tennessee to Gulf of
Mexico Moving Southeast
ward
FALL OVER 11 INCHES
IN COLUMBIA YESTERDAY
Business Practically Suspend
ed in That City—Sleet in
South Georgia and Florida
Today.
Atlanta, Ga. —Clearing conditions
prevailed generally throughout the
■snow covered south and southeast
today. The storm which yesterdaj
left a white layer of snow from the
Carolines and Tennessee almost to
the Gulf of Mexico, today was mov
ing southeastward. Over Southern
Georgia and Florida It had turned to
eleet and today that district practi
cally was cut off from wire communl
cation with the North and West.
Under a clear, bright sun, the snow
which in many districts had reache 1
a new record flepth Tor years when It
ceased to fall late yesterday, slowiy
disappeared today. Railroad and
street traffic, crippled by sleet anl
snow improved hourly. In many cities
ilnconvenience was experienced by
the bursting of water mains, due to
the low temperatures reached last
night, but with the warmer weather
today little additional trouble from
this source was expected.
Records Broken.
Macon, Ga.—Eight inches of snow
fell in Macon in a period of eighteen
hours, breaking all records for this
section of the state. The weather
bureau announces that the tempera
ture dropped to 21 degrees last night.
Today the weather is clear and the
snow is thawing out fast.
11 Inches In Columbia.
Columbia, 8. C. —The snowfall in
Columbia and vicinity reached a total
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WOULD REQUEST
SOUTH AMERICA
TO JOIN 0. S.
Renewed Effort to Bring
About Peace in Mexico Urged.
“Deadly Drifting” More Ac
curate Than “Watchful Wait
ing,” Says Kahn.
Washington.—urging that renewed
efforts be made to bring about peace
in Mexico, Representative Kahn, re
publican, in the house today express
ed belief that if the Washington gov
ernment were to invite the co-opera
tion of Argentine, Brazil and Chila,
tranquility soon could be restored.
“The co-operation with us of these
states,” he said, "in extending the
hand oT friendship and fellowship for
the amicable settlement of difficulties
that confront the inhabitants of any
Latin-Amerlcan republic will have a
great influence in establishing stable
government in all the republics on
the western continents.”
Kahn said he did not want to see
armed intervention. "We have in
tervened politically already,” he said,
"and, in my humble Judgment, it was
a mistake to have done so.”
Rather than "watchful waiting.’ he
thought, “deadly drifting” a "much
more accurate description of the ad
ministration policy.”
' The present policy unless speed
ily and radically changes,” he said,
“must Inevitably lead to armed in
tervention.” ,
— 4~
BREAKS ALTITUDE RECORD.
San Diego, Cal. —America’s altitude
record, made by Lieutenant H. B.
Post in his recent fata] flight at
North Island was broken to.lay when
Theodore Maccaullay, aviation in
structor, ascended to the height of
12,139 feet. Post’s record was 12,120
feet.
KILLED IN DUEL.
Metz, Germany.—Lieutenant Haage
of the 98th Infantry regiment was
killed today in a duel with Lieut.
Von Valette Saint George, of the
same regiment. The encounter wah
brought about by a “gross insult,” ac
cording to tbs ettcAai , ,
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FEBRUARY 26, 1914.
BRITISH CONSUL
WONT PROCEED
lITOJIEXICO
Decided at Conference Be
tween Sec’y Bryan and Eng
lish Ambassador to Postpone
Examination Benton's Body
Until “Better Arrangements
Can Be Made.”
Washington.—At a conference to
day between Secretary Bryan and Am
bassador Spring-Rice, It was decided
that British Consul Percival will not
proceed Into Mexico for the examina
tion of Wm. S. Benton's body until
“better arrangements can be made.''
Conflicting reports of the location
oT Benton's body convinced officials
here that the British consul could not
proceed until the situation was made
more definite and meanwhile the
American government will press for
such information as It needs for in
investigation.
It was said that tho British gov
ernment was not looking to the
United States for the recovery of the
body as a matter of legal right at
this ipoint, but was depending upon
the good offices of The Washington
government to bring about a final de
termination of how the Englishman
was killed and the possible/•eturn of
the body to the family.
LAUNCH 00.000
TON LINER«
Lines of the Brittanic Changed
Following Sinking of the
Titanic.
Belfast, Ireland. —The launching to
day of the Britannic, the 50,000-ton
White Star Liner, marked an impor
tant development In constructural
safety, so far as engineering ingenui
ty can ensure it.
The Britannic Intended Tor the
trans-Atlantic service had Just laid
down when the Titanic disaster occur
red. Immediately the plans of the
new liner were almost completely re
moledel.
She is a triple screw steamer, 900
feet in length an I there has been in
troduced into her construction every
device to prevent a recurrence of
disaster which overtook the Titanic.
A complet inner skin extends to a
considerable beig’ht above the load
line, the most vulnerable portion of
the vessel and the height and num
ber of bulkheads had been increased
It is claimed the Britannic will be
able to float with six compartments
flooded. The Inner skin consists of
heavy platting whiVh extends for
more than half the length of the ves
sel from the watertight bulkhead in
front of the forward boiler room to
the after end of the turbine engine
room. It is connected to t!he outer
shell by loDgltudal tubes and an
gles with especially strong connec
tions at bulkheads and watertight
divisions. In addition an extra water
tight bulkhead has ben introduced
and the existing bulkheads have been
carried up to the bridge deck.
PROF. DRIVER DEAD.
Oxford, Eng,—Rev. Samuel Rolles
Driver, reglus professor of Hebrew
at Oxford University and canon of
Christ Church, died here today, aged
C 8 years.
Professor Driver was .probably the
greatest authority on Hebrew.
METEORITE DESTROYS HOUBE.
Warsaw, Russian Poland. —A num
ber of houses were destroyed by a
huge meteorite which descended to
day In Jendkovitzy in the Polish
province of Kleloe. It emittel sul
phurous fumes.
RENEW BHIPPING POOL.
Hamburg,—The Continental shipping
pool In which the Hamburg-American
and North German Lloyd Lines are
tho principal parties concerned, was
renewed today for five years.
CRUIBER REFLOATED.’
Toulon, Franc*.—The French cruiser
Waldeck Rousseau which went ashori
on Feb. 23 In the Gulf of Juan, was re
floated today. The vessel aparently
did nut xuffur aw e.-—i ztaznagfl.
* AMERICAN VICTIM MEXICAN TUNNEL OUTRAGE
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l.ee William, one of the ten Ameri
cans who were roasted alive in thv
tunnel Cumbre In Mexieo, when Ca
milla's bandits caused a train to lie
sent speeding into the tunnel without
an engineer. Fifty-one pasaengera
were killed In the wreek.
FELIX DIAZ ID
BE HANDS OFF
Says There is Nothing Ho Can
Do in the Present Mexican
Situation to Help His Country.
New York. —General Felix Blaz,
nephew of Former Pieshlent Diaz of
Mexico, himself a recent presl
dential anplrant. has no intentl.m of
taking part In Mexican politics at abe
present. Under existing conditions,
he declared today, ho did not see wh»*
he could do to help matters. "To
borrow the phrase of another, I may
say that my policy Is one of "watch
ful waiting’ ” »aid Diaz. “I am of
course, very anxious to help my coun
try In any way I can, but I can do
nothing at present.”
ARE SKEPTICAL
REGARDING TALE
Consul Edwards Does Not
Think Story of Michaeles
True. No Political Prisoners.
El Paso, Texas.—“l am convinced
there are no American political pris
oners at Juarez,” declared Consul Ed
wards today In connection with the
story toid last night by A. Mlchaells,
who declared he has Just left Juarez
Jail where he had been a prisoner
and that Gustav Ranch and thirteen
otJier Americans were there at the
time of his release.
Skeptical.
El Paso. Texas. —Investigation of
the story told last night by A. Ml
chaells that Gustave Rauch an 1 thir
teen other Americans were locked up
In Juarez was begun today.
Despite Mlchaells’ assertion that
his father Is a Rrooklyn, N. Y., ban
ker, his statement was received
skeptically, for American Consul Ed
wards at Juarez has been assured that
with the execution of Win, 8. Renton
and the removal of Rauch no for
eigners remained behind the bars.
Can’t Be Found.
New York.—No relatives or ac
quaintances of a Mlehaelis could be
found tolay 1n Rrooklyn. Thorp Is
no such street and number as that
given by Mlchaells, as his former
home.
OFFICERS RE-ELECTED.
New York. All officers and direc
tors of the Southern Bell Telephone
and Telegraph Company were re-elect
ed at the annual stockholders meeting
here today.
HOBPITAL ANNEX DEBTROYED.
Montrsal, Qusc-Flre which broke
out today In the St. Vincent I)e Paul
penitentiary, destroyed the hospital
annex. Patients In the hospital were
all moved safely.
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HUERTA REFUSES
LEGATION GUARD
Provisional President Declines
to Permit 2,000 American
Marines in City of Mexico.
Savs He Was Requested to
Assent Bv U. S. Government
PRES’T WILSON DECLARES
NO SUCH REQUEST MADE
Announcement Regarded in
Washington As Being Made
For Effect it Will Have in
Mexican Capital Regarding
Assurances That All For
eigners Are Safe.
Mexico City -Later Mr. O’Shaugnes
sy denied any knowledge of the pro
posal. According to report the plan
Is said to have reached President Hu
erta. through other channels.
Frim Huerta Direct.
Mexico City.—Provisional President
Huerta today refused permission to
the Unletd States government to send
2,000 American marines as a guard for
the legation here. Thlss Information
came direct from General Huerta hlim
self.
General Huerta says he was asked
by Washington to agree to the dis
patch In addition to the Americans—
of 1,000 more men made up of Ger
mans, English and French. To all of
this he returned a negative reply on
the ground that there was no need for
precaution*. Nelson O’Shaughncssy,
American clmrged’affalres, refuses
either to confirm or deny the Informa
tion.
Denied by President Wilson.
Washington.—Word came direct,
from President Wilson today that the
United States had never requested
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permission to send marines to Mexico
City, and had not discussed, nor taken
up'the subject In any way with Mexi
can officials.
For soveral days there has been con
siderable discussion In official circles
about tho sending of a legation guard
to Mexico City, similar to those sent
by Great Britain, while it is admit
ted that tho Washington administra
tion had been considering the advisa
bility of such step, it was positively
stated that no decision In the matter
had been reached.
Position Unchanged.
It also has been reported here that
the Huerta government was not averse
to having foreign countries send lega
tion guards and that the diplomatic
representatives In Mexico City from
practically all tho nations had recom
mended such action. The United
Htates had been advised previously of
the Intention of other countries to
send guards and has offered no objec
tion, recently President Wilson 1 told
callers ho saw no occasion to follow
the action of other nations In sending
marines to Mexico City. H was stated
today that his position was unchang
ed. Officials here made it plain that
they regarded such an announcement
by General Huerta as being made for
Its possible effect In Mexico City and
to accentuate the provisional presi
dent’s repeated wAurances that for
eigners are In no danger.
Put Ban on American
Papers in Mexico City
Mexico City.—A ban appear* to
have been put, on the delivery in Mox
Ico of newspaiMtrs from tho United
Htates. By tho last mall or two al
most none have reached tho ad
dressees. News dealers hern (lee.lara
they have no doubt the deliveries are
impeded by the officials.
VILLA MUST
SURRENDER
THERODY
OFRENTON
No Reply Yet Received to In
structions Sent U. S. Consul
Letcher. Persistent Rumor
Corpse Cremated. Admiral
Fletcher Denies Recommend
ing Landing Marines at Vera
Cruz
Chihuahua.—General Villa to
day reiterated he would permit
tho examination but not the re
moval of the body of Wm. S. Ben
ton, which he asserts la buried
here. Me said that representa
tives of the American and British
government and of the widow
alone would be permitted to view
the body.
11 Americana to Leave.
Chihuahua, Mexico. —Fifteen Amer
icans who rams hero with VUla’a
rebel troops were mustered out to
day on advice from Washington, and
will bo returned to Juarez.
Carranza and Villa,
Washington.—Tho American gov
ernment today was exerting every In
fluence to obtain from General- Villa
tho surrender of tho body of Wr. S.
Renton, British subject, executed at
Juarez. No reply had been received
to Instructions tent to Consul I,etcher
yosterlay to find Renton’s grave and
Becretary Bryan was surprised by
news dispatches quoting Villa as say
ing Benton was buried in Chlhuanua
City. There have been persistent re
ports here, too, thnt the body was
cremated.
Official denial came from the
White House of one published report
that Roar Admiral Fletcher had rec
ommneded tha latrllng t»f marines'at
Vera Cruz.
On Inquiry’s Outcome.
Attention was chiefly centered on
the Benton Investigation and high of
ficials conceded that future develop
ment of the American pollcv toward
Mexico binged largely on the outcome
of the Inquiry.
Another feature which loomed as
of commanding Importance waa the
fact that the Benton Incident prom
ise,! to develop Into a test of Carran
za’s authority as chief of the Consti
tutionalist movement. Every sort ot
pressure, It Is understood, Is being
brought to bear on Carranza both by
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McCarthy's Family Waits
on Word From Sec’y Bryan
Paineeville, Ohio.—The family her*
of George W. McCarthy, a railroad en
gineer, were waiting today for word
from Secretary Bryan ns to whether
a report that McCarthy had been slam
In Mexico more than a year ago had
been verified. McCarthy was reported
to have been dragged from a train on
the Texas and Pacific Railroad en
route from Kl Paso to Mexico City and
killed two years ago.
Will Consider Expulsion
of American Militant
London. —Confirmation of the state
ment that no steps are being taken bv
the British government for the depor
tation of Miss Zello Emerson, militant
suffragette, of Jackson. Mich., was
given by Reginald McKenna, home sec
retary, In a printed reply to a question
put to him In the House off Commons
today. Tho home secretary added:
“However If Miss Emerson again com
mits an offense bringing her within
the provisions of the Allens Act, the
question of applying to the court for
a recommendation for her expulsion
will be considered.”
Bryan Says They Are
Costing $75,000 a Month
Washington. Mexican refugees,
soldiers, women, children and camp
followers harbored on the border have
coat the United States *142,254 so
far and will cost *75,000 a month here
after. Secretary Bryan so Informed
congress today.
WITH MASONIC HONORS.
Denver, Colo.—The funeral of Eon
mer United States Senator Henry M.
Teller took place here today. Inter
ment was with Masonic honors. The
services constituted one of the most
remarkable MaHonic tribute*
paid a Coloradoan.