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Wheeler County Eagle
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
ALAMO. GEORGIA
A crying baby is simply developing
its lungs.
On some of the tight skirts one S.
R. O. sign should be hung.
Anyway, the grandmothers of the
office boys have thus far not died in
vain.
There would be fewer failures
could baseball enthusiasm be carried
into business.
Germany is trying to take the tang
out of the tango by sending those who
dance it to prison.
Joy-riding is one of the things that
ought to be done soberly—which, man
ifestly, is impossible.
The housemaids having organized,
the "copper" will now exchange the
back porch for the parlor.
It is always interesting at this time
of the year to find out in how many
new places the old garden hose leaks.
The painted gown is the latest
fashion from Paris. It is to be hoped
It is not Intended to match the face.
At that, no one ever has attempted
to describe a girl riding on the aft seat
of a motorcycle as particularly charm
ing
It begins to look as if the time had
arrived when no elopement can be con
sidered complete with out a press
agent.
A Chicago girl lost two of her
teeth In biting a footpad who tried
to rob her. Beyond question he was
a tough.
The prudent Englishman now looks
under his chair before sitting down to
dinner, and under his bed before going
to sleep.
According to a college professor,
baseball Is a nerve irritant Still, the
home team can’t be expected to win
always.
Now there is to be an astronomical
trust. If poetical justice is dealt out
to it the new combination ought to
see stars.
The new British ambassador is a
baseball fan, which is certainly better
than devotion to the tennis court or
even golfing.
Broadway, says an Intrepid woman
explorer, Is more in need of mission
aries than darkest Africa. And yet ft
has its angels.
Orville Wright says avlattng Is just
as safe as motoring. Which assuredly
goes a long way toward bolstering up
our motoring nerve.
A New Jersey school is to teach the
art of milking cows. The pretty girl
so doing is to become a fair fact in
life as well as In song.
At last all hazy notions of the falue
of a Missouri husband and a Missouri
mule haye been swept aside. A Mis
souri woman has traded the one for
the other.
Chicago policemen view' with pe
culiar approval the organization of
the housemaids’ union in that city and
the subsequent grant of the use of
the front parlor.
A Pennsylvania husband of ninety
was sent to jail recently for not sup
porting his wife. It is terrible the
way these youngsters' will disregard'
their responsibilities.
"Silt skirts" have been forbidden In
Los Angeles schools, the old fogy au
thorities having an Idea that their pu
pils should improve their understand
ings by other methods.
They want to know who first used
the slang term, "I should worry?”
When they find him they should not
be too rough. Many a man if allowed
to live learns to repent
Some word is required to denote the
place where the aviator keeps his ma
chine, and “hangar” Is objected to as
strained. Why not "nest” or “roost,"
as befits the tribe of aves?
It is said that there are enough tel
ephone wires in this country to make
60 lines to the inoon. But who wants
to talk to the man in the moon,
when ho can talk to Venus over a lo
cal wire?
Countless mothers throughout the
country will refuse to accept the re
port that the perfect baby has been
found on the lower East side, New
York. They know their baby has
never been there.
600 SOLDIERS DEAD
ON FIELD OF BATTLE
CRUSHING DEFEAT IS INFLICTED
ON THE HUERTA FORCES
BY THE REBELS.
RAILWAY LINES ARE TIED UP
All the Outlying Troops Called in to
Defend the City of
Chihuahua.
El Paso, Texas. —Six hundred fed
eral s were killed or wounded In a
battle at Sansillo, according to re
ports reaching here from southern
Chihuahua state.
After this victory over more than
1,200 federate, the Insurgents, under
Generals Villa, Chae and Hernandez,
marched north toward the state capi
tal, whence the Parral garrison had
retreated. They are reported as hav
ing taken Cusihuirachio, a mining
town, west of Chihuahua City.
The four hundred federate, who evac
uated Madera, were met by Villa’s
men at Bustillos. The rebels poured a
hot fire Into the federal troops train,
killing the engineer and fireman. The
train retired.
General Mercado, acting military
governor, has called in all other out
lying garrisons to the defense of the
capital. The insurgents are maneuv
ering to prevent these movements.
Some five hundred federate at Juarez
alone remain unaffected by the gen
eral’s orders. Juarez is threatened
by a movement of constitutionalists
from the Ojinaga district below the
Texas border, according to military re
ports received at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Practically every railway line in the
state is out of commission, as a re
sult of rebel activities. There is no
traffic on the Mexican Central north
or south of the state capital. The Mex
ican Northwestern railway is operat
ing below the border only as far as
Casas Grandes.
The only armed force of conse
qeunco in the Casas Grandes district
Is led by Colonel Costello, a mutineer,
from the federal ranks. He has pro
claimed for the Vasquez Gomez rev
olution, which Is not connected with
I the constitutional movement.
24 PERSONS HURT IN WRECK
Victims Mostly Women and Children.
Some of Them Will Die.
St. Louis, Mo.—Twenty-four persons
—mostly women and children —were
Injured in a rear-end trolley car col
lision on the Grove Couer Lake line
in St. Ixmis county. Two of them,
Mrs. Dora Bingham and Mrs. Regina
A. Carouthers, will probably die. A
score Os others were bruised and cut
by falling glass, but refused to go to
the nospital.
The accident occurred near Over
land, Park, and both were open-air cars
crowded with picnickers. The trolley
of th efirst car came off as it rounded
a curve, leaving the car tn darkness,
and the second car, running forty
miles an hour, crashed into it.
The cars were interlocked, and both
telescoped. A passenger ran a mile
to telephone for a wrecker. Nineteen
of the injured were taken to the Mis
souri Baptist sanltarjum and five were
treated by physicians at Overland. The
others helped each other banaage up
their wounds and were brought into
town on the wrecker.
The crash knocked women and chil
dren out from either side of the cars
into the gulley beside the tracks.
The shrieks of the children, frantic
mothers and the Injured passengers
brought farmers and suburbanites to
the scene from a radius of halt a mile.
The open-air cars were twice the
length of the city street cars and had
only awnings as roofs.
The forward end of one car and the
rear half of the other were reduced to
splinters. A similar accident occurred
on the same curve two years ago.
Women Policemen at Newport.
Newport, R. I. —For the first time in
the history of the famous Newport
Baech two women policemen were
placed on duty there. They wore as
uniforms blue blouses with brass but
tons, blue skirts and sailor straw
hats. They are appointed at the re
quest of the Newport Civic League,
and will be on duty all summer.
Urged to Save Lives of Babies.
Washington.—-Warning every com
munity in the nation that the great
death rate of babies is due to dis
eases which to a large extent are
preventable, the children's bureau of
the department of labor has prepared
a compilation of the steps which va
rious up-to-date cities are taking to
protect child life, and will circulate
it in a national campaign of diffus
ing child welfare ideas. This bulle
tin, which will be a feature of the
children's bureau, exhorts every com
munity to wage summer campaigns.
JUDGE R. C. FLANNiGAN
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Judge Richard C. Flannlgan or Ish
peming, Mich., Is the magistrate be
fore whom the Roosevelt-Newett libel
case was tried.
TURK GRAND VIZIER KILLED
MAHMOUD SCHEFKET AND AIDE
DE CAMP ARE SHOT DOWN
WHILE MOTORING.
Official Account of the Assassination
Is Given Out—Ten Shots Were
Fired by Assassins.
Constantinople.—Mahmoud Schefket
Pasha, the Turkish grand vizier and
minister of war, was shot and killed
by assassins. His aide-de-camp, Lieut.
Ibrahim Bey, was also killed.
Prince Said Halim, foreign minis
ter and ex-president of the council
of state, has been appointed grand
vizier ad interim. All the other min
isters retain their portfolios.
The following official account of the
assassination has been issued:
“On leaving the minister of war, the
grand vizier entered a motor car with
the intention of proceeding to the
sublime porte. But the car was oblig
ed to stop while going through Bay
czid and Divan Yolu square because
the road was torn up. Some persons
in anotiier car, whose identity lias
not been established, fired ten shots
at the car. The grand vizier, who was
severely wounded, was taken back to
the ministry of war, where he died
half an hour later.
“Lieut. Ibrahim Bey, who was ac
companying Mahmour Schefket Pasha,
also was hit by some of the bullets
and subsequently died.”
A man named Topa! Tewflk, has
been arrested; he is suspected of be
ing one of the assassins. He had in
his possession two revolvers and some
cartridges.
PASS WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL
Governor Will Sign Measure Giving
Women Right to Vote.
Springfield, 111. —The woman’s suf
frage bill, granting women the right
to vote for all statutory offices in
the state of Illinois, was passed by
the house by a vote of 83 ayes to
58 nays.
Pending notice of a motion to re
consider the vote by which the bill
was passed,«4L will remain in posses
sion of the house. Unless the house
reconsiders its vote, which is consid
ered not likely, the suffrage bill will
be up to Governor Dunne by the lat
ter part of the present week for exec
utive approval or vote. —
In order to give notice of a motion
to reconsider, Representative McCarty,
Democrat, of Chicago, changed his
vote from "nay’ ’to "aye.” He gave
the formal notice that on the next
legislative day he would move a re
consideration.
Snowfall in North Carolina.
Bristol. Va.—A special from Bakers
ville, N. C., says Uiat three Indies of
snow fell in Mitchell county. The
weather in this entire mountain sec
tion has been the coldest three days
that has ever been known in June.
Cattle owners in western North Caro
lina report that they will be compell
ed to pen their cattle and feed them.
Troops to Give Battle to Sultan.
Manila, P. I.—Brig- Gen. John Per
shing, commander of the department
of Mindanao, has made arrangements
to engage in a decisive fight against
the rebellious Moros entrenched _ at
Bagsag, under the sultan of Jolo. A
stubborn resistance to the advance of
The American troops was expected,
and a strong force had therefore been
assembled, consisting of a company
of regular infantry’, a troop of cavalry',
seven companies of scouts, two com
panies of constabulary with S’ batte
ry of four mountain guns.
FIGHT IS BREWING
ON MONEY REFORM
HENRY ALLEGES WALL STREET
IS BACKING CURRENCY
* LEGISLATION.
OPPOSITION TO THE MEASURE
The Administration Money Measure
Now Ready to Be Presented
to the House.
Washington.—An undercurrent of
opposition among a considerable num
ber of house Democrats to this ses
sion of congress took definite shape,
when Representative Henry of Texas,
chairman of the powerful rules com
mittee, openly charged that Wall
street was back of the propaganda for
currency legislation.
While favoring revision of the bank
ing and currency laws at the next ses
sion of congress, Mr. Henry insisted
that further investigation of the so
called "money trust” should be imme
diately pressed. The Pujo committee,
he declared, barely scratched the sur
face of the facts underlying the con
centration of control of money and
credit, because the controller of the
currency refused access to his records,
making it impossible for the investi
gators "to completely expose the ex
isting relations between the Wall
street bankers and their allies with
the trusts and monopolies, stock gam
blers and financial conspirators."
“Wall street bankers,” he added,
“now are demanding legislation on the
currency question in order that they
may make a market for their com
mercial paper, much of it based on
rotten securities, and have curren
cy Issued on their asests."
Mr. Henry introduced a bill to
amend the banking laws, so as to
make banking associations subject to
the visitorial powers, “exercised or di
rected," by congress or by either
house of congress.
While this was going on, it became
known that the administration meas
ure, representing the combined views
of President Wilson, Secretary of the
Navy McAdoo, Senator Owen of Okla
homa, chairman of the senate bank
ing and currency committee, and Rep
resentative Glass, chairman of the
house banking and currency commit
tee of the house probably would meet
to take up the bill. President Wilson
is expected to send a message on the
subject. Mr. Glass had a long con
ference with Secretary McAdoo, go
ing over the details of the bill.
$88,000,000 LEFT BY ASTOR
Is the Largest Estate Ever Appraised
in the United States.
New York. —The estate of Col. John
Jacob Astor, who perished in the Ti
tanic disaster, was officially appraised
at close to $88,000,000, of which Vin
cent Astor receives $68,964,499; Mrs.
Madeline Force Astor $7,678,896; Mur
iel Astor $4,856,758, and John Jacob
Astor.son of his second marriage, $21,-
922,672.
The estate is declared to be the
largest ever appraised in this coun
try.
Aside from the announcement of
the amounts that revert to the heirs,
there are two features of special in
terest in the aj praisal.
Oue is the affidavit of the examin
er^ that the property embraces in the
antenuptial agreement for Mrs. Ava
Willing Astor, amounting to about sl,-
738,000, which was to have reverted
to her at the time of her husband's
death, now terminates and goes to
Vincent Astor, for the reason that the
youth's mother, although once Colonel
Astor’s wife, was not his widow. Mrs.
Ava Willing Astor divorced her hus
band, whose legal widow is' Mrs. Mad
eline Force Astor.
Two Birdmen Are Killed.
London. —Lieut. James R. B. Kenne
dy of the naval wing of the royal
flying corps, was killed, and C. Gor
don Bell, another aviator, seriously
injured in the fall of a monoplane
near the Brookland’s aerodrome. Bell
was driving the machine with Ken
nedy as a passenger. The monoplane
at a height of about 30 feet was go
ing at the race of 80 miles an hour
when Bell essayed a turn and banked
the machine at too great an angle.
Gonzales Minister to Cuba.
Washington. — President Wilson
made the following nominations: Min
ister to Cuba, William E. Gonzales, of
South Carolina; minister to Nicara
gua, Benjamin L. Jefferson of Colo
rado: minister to Costa Rica, Edward
J. Hale of North Carolina; assistant
treasurer of tire United States at St.
Louis. Willard D. Vandiver. Major
Hale was formerly Democratic state
chairman in North Carolina and was
once consul at Manchester, England
He has been active in North Carolina
politics and is a friend of Bryan.
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Miss Olga Sheppard, sister of Sena
tor Morris Sheppard of Texas, Is soon
to become the bride of Cullen Thomas
of Texarkana.
STRIKE WAR UNDER PROBE
CONDITIONS WHICH HAVE KEPT
THE STATE IN CIVIL STRIFE
FOR YEAR INVESTIGATED.
United States Government to Deter
mine Who Is Responsible for the
Conditions That Exist.
Charleston, W. Va. —The power and
authority of the government of the
United States came to West Virginia
to determine who is responsible for
the conditions which have kept the
state in virtual civil war for more
than a year. Opening the investiga
tion of the coal mine strike which
has dealt death and destruction in the
Paint Creek and Cabin Creek mining
Sections, the senate mine strike inves
tigating committee called upon the
military authorities for the records of
the proceedings prior to and under
the declaration of martial law in the
strike territory.
Judge Advocate General George S.
Wallace, Adjutant General Charles D.
Elliott, Major James I. Pratt, Captain
Charles Morgan and Captain Samuel
L. sYalker were summoned before the
committee to produce the state rec
ords regarding the declaration of
martial law and the proceedings of the
military committee which was placed
in authority in the strike district. Sen
ator Borah of Idaho desired their tes
timony and their records as the basis
for the branch of the inquiry which
he is conducting as to the charge
that citizens have been "arrested, tried
and convicted in violation of the Con
stitution and the law of the United
States.”
WOMAN IS KILLED IN RIOT
Seven Persons Wounded When Pickets
Interfere With Workmen.
Ipswich, Mass. —One woman was
shot and killed, .seven other persons
were wounded by bullets and many
others, including several policemen,
were hurt by flying missiles in a strike
riot outside of the Ipswich Hosiery
mills. Fifteen persons were arrested.
The dead woman was Nocoletta Pau
delopeulou, aged 27, a spectator of the
fight. Five of the wounded were hur
ried to the Salem hospital in an auto
mobile. All are expected to recover.
Officers were rushesd here in auto
mobiles from Salem, but order had
been restored, before their arrival. The
actual fighting did not last more than
five minutes.
The trouble started when pickets
who have conducted a strike aginst
the hosiery mills for seven weeks tc
gain an increase in wages, Interfered
with the 506 English-speaking em
ployees as they left the mills.
Publicity Law Valid.
Washington.—As interpreted by it
the Supreme' court upheld the consti
tutionality of Use newspaper publicity
law enacted as a part of the postal
appropriation act of 1912. The partic
ular section attacked was to bar ev
ery newspaper and periodical from the
mails unless the editors or owners
filed with the postal authorities semi
annual sworn statements giving the
names of the ^editors, owners, stock
holders and bondholders. It also for
bade publication of paid-for articles
unless marked “advertisement.”