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U.S.ORDERSMEXICO
10 ME REDRESS
DEMAND MOST DRASTIC THAT
HAS BEEN MADE BY WILSON
ADMINISTRATION.
WANT SOLDIERS PUNISHED
Release Is Also Demanded of Bissell
and McDonald, Held by Huerta's
Soldiers.
Washington. — Strong representa
tions, the most drastic in phraseology
that have been made since the pres
ent American administration came in
to power, were made to the Huerta
government in Mexico.
The United States government de
manded not only the prompt arrest,
courtmartial and punishment of the
Mexican federal soldiers who shot
Charles B. Dixon, an American im
migration official at Juarez, Mexico,
but the immediate release of Charles
Bissell and Bernard McDonald, min
ing managers, imprisoned by federal
soldiers at Chihuahua City, and said
to be threatened with execution.
So serious were these incidents re
garded in officials circles that they
overshadowed largely the theoretical
considerations of policy which the
visit of Ambassador Henry Lane Wil
son has brought, to a climax.
The ambassador himself was so
exercised over the developments in
Mexico that he dictated two strong
telegrams, one to the embassy at
Mexico City and the other to the
American consul at Juarez, and while
Secretary Bryan slightly modified
their tone, they were approved and
promptly dispatched.
El Paso, Texas.—Charles B. Dixon,
Jr., the United States immigration in
spector, who was shot in Juarez by
Mexican soldiers, was released from
the Juarez hospital and brought to E>
Paso after American Consul T. I).
Edwards had made a demand for his
release and for the arrest of the men
who shot him.
Mexican Consul Miranda and Guil
lermo Forans, former secretary of the
state of Chihuahua, also interceded
for the release of Dixon, after confer
ence with the United States officials,
who represented to the Mexicans the
grave impressions that had been pro
duced in Washington by the news of
the shpoting of the inspector.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN BALKANS
On Eve of Peace Conference Greeks
Continue to Press Bulgars.
London. —The Balkan peace confer
ence is expected to open at Bucharest,
but meantime serious fighting contin
ues.
The Greeks refused Bulgaria’s re
quest for even a thre edays' truce and
after heavy fighting have gotten
• through Kreflua pass, defeating the
Bulgarians at Simekle, capturing three
siege guns and driving the Bulgarians
back on Djuma.
The Greeks claim they annihilated
the whole left of the Bulgarian army
and that they have forced the Bul
garians back along the Struma valley,
to Djuma on the Bulgarian frontier.
Unless peace speedily is negotiated
another great battle is likely to oc
cur at Struma.
No news was received of fighting on
the Servian frontier, but the large
numbers of wounded men arriving in
Bulgaria indicate severe engagements.
The concert of the powers seems as
powerless as before to adopt any united
action against Turky. The porte, how
ever, has disavowed the action of its
troops in penetrating old Bulgaria,
and no further advance of Turkish
troops has been reported. The Turks
claim their spoils at Adrianople con
sisted of 150 guns, 50,000 rifles and
1,000,000 sacks of corn.
Farm Commission Back From Europe.
Washington. —After six weeks spent
in investigating agricultural conditions
in Europe, with particular reference to
farm credits and farm co-operation,
the commission appointed by President
Taft, with another from the Southern
Commercial congress, returned to the
city of Washington,
Unknown Fire Victims Interred.
Binghampton, N. Y—Attended by
thousands of mourners, many of them
relatives or close friends of the vic
tims, the funeral of the twenty-one
unidentified dead, who lost their lives
in the Binghampton Clothing compa
ny fife, was held. Services were held
in the opera house, clergymen of all
religious dnomienations taking part
in the exercises. A special trolley
funeral car bore the twenty-one cas
kets to Spring Forest cemetery. Fire
men and policemen bore the coffins
to the graves.
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Dr. Pablo Desverino y Galdos, the
newly arrived minister from Cuba, Is
a lawyer and a close personal friend
of President Menocal. He Is president
of the National university of Cuba.
REBELLION GAINING IN CHINA
MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED
THROUGHOUT THE CHINESE
REPUBLIC.
Great Explosion Is Indicated—Sun
Yat Sen Heads the Southern
Revolt.
London.—The Pekin correspondent
of The Daily Telegraph sends the fol
lowing dispatch:
"The declaration of martial law
here shows that the northern govern
ment admits its desperate position.
This synchronizes with the creation of
a complete confederate government
at Nanking. Parliament has not yet
been dissolved, but it is unlikely that
it will survive.
"The war news is baffling, but for
eign military experts now believe the
southerners are in far greater strength
than has been supposed.
"A private dispatch says the south
erners have not been repulsed from
the Pukow railway. Reinforcements
are coining daily and Kwangtung pro
mises 60,000 troops, half of which
are due this week.
“All indications point to a great
explosion in Hu-Peh province. There
is a general reluctance among the
merchanttie classes to hazard their
lives and fortunes and the iron will
of the southern leaders must shortly
bring all into light.
"Dr. Sun Yat Sen, former provision
al president, issued a manifesto ir
revocably backing the rebellion. He
makes three appeals, the first to
Yuan Shi Kai, rec Minting the south
ern grievance and declaring that just
resistance to intolerable tyranny is
no rebellion. He concludes: ‘I am
determined to oppose you as firmly as
I did the Manchus. Retirement is ab
solutely your only course.’
GUARDS DEFY THE VATICAN
The Residence of Pope Pius in a
Veritable State of Siege.
Rome. —The Vatican is in a vertable
state of siege. This was the outcome
of the mutiny of Swiss guards, whose
demands, in form of a memorial relat
ing their grievances and setting forth
the conditions on which they would
remain in the service, were rejected.
Three leaders in the movement
were expelled from the Vatican. Four
others left and twelve have request
ed leave to depart for their homes
in October.
Those who left were accompanied
to the gates of the Vatican by their
comrades. At the separation they
cried: “Viva Garlibald!"
Serious trouble was expected when
the guards were notified that all their
claims had been rejected and it had
been arranged that any of the guards
attempting a demonstration should be
arrested by the papal gendarmes and
turned over to the.ltalian police for
transportation to the Swiss frontier.
When the reply to their memorial was
read the commander and other offi
cers, armed with revolvers, stood
ready to suuupTess any show of force.
Weekly Information for Farmers.
Washington. — Secretary Houston
announced that hereafter the depart
ment of agriculture would send a
weekly letter to its 35,000 townships
and 2,800 county correspondents of
the department, giving the latest ag
ricultural information of value to the
farmer. The letters will treat of
crop conditions and prices, the dis
covery of new plant or animal pests,
pure food decisions and those which
affect users of irrigated lands and
the national forests and any other
work which can benefit the farmer.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
CHARGES HIDE
in PARCEL POST
PARCEL POST CHANGES WILL
TAKE EFFECT AUGUST
FIFTEENTH.
RATES ARE TO BE LOWER
Postmaster Burlesons' Proposition Is
Sanctioned by the Commerce
Commission.
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A Maximum weight of mailable A
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A Cost jot delivery of 20-pound A
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A Maximum cost, 20-pound pack- A
A age carried 150 miles, 24 cents. A
A Express charges for same serv- A
A ice, 40 cents. A
A Cost to department of hand- A
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A cd 75 miles, 14 cents. Postoffice A
A profit, 10 cents. Fifty-four per A
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A weigh under four ounces. Thir- A
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Washington. — Postmaster General
Burleson appeared before the senate
committee on postoffice and post roads
to explain new regulations in the par
cel post service to become effective
August 15. He indicated that the serv
ice will ultimately be extended to
handle 100-pound packages as demand
ed by various parcel post experts in
congress.
The promised development of the
parcel post service will mean the
practically complete absorption of the
express companies.
Senator Hoke Smith, a member of
the committee, heartily approved the
changes, and, said Mr. Burleson, was
entirely within* the law in making
them. Because* of the great increase
in work put upon the rural letter car
rier by the parcel post service. Sena
tor Smith has introduced a bill in
creasing their compensation to 11,200
a year.
Senator Hoke Smith, a member of
the postoffice committee, has from the
first sided with the postmaster gen
eral in his parcel post reform. After
the hearing the senator said:
"I think the order is entirely with
in the authority given him by the act
adopted by the last congress, and
that it will greatly facilitate the use
of the parcel post and lessen the cost
on the people from one-third to one
half.”
REAFFIRM MONROEDOCTRINE
Resolution Aimed at Those With
Whom Caucasian Will Not Assimilate.
Washington.—Representative Clark
of Florida introduced a concurrent res
olution reaffirming the Monroe doc
trine. It was directed particularly
against "people with whom the Cau
casian cannot and will not assimi
late.” “We hereby reaffirm what is
known as the Monroe doctrine in each
and every essential,” the resolution
read, “and declare our unfaltering al
legiance thereto.”
"In reaffirming the Monroe doc
trine,” concludes the resolution, “we
do so with the earnest desire to main
tain peace and friendly relations with
every nation upon earth, but we can
not permit the further ^extension of
any colonization systems of Europe
an nations upon any territory of this
hemisphere, and particularly shall we
object to such colonization by peoples,
with whom the Caucasian cannot and
will not assimilate.”
60 Barrels of Liquor in Jail.
Decatur. Ala.—Sixty barrels of whis
key, shiped from Chattanooga, Tenn.,
to various persons here, were attach
ed by Sheriff R. N. McCullough and
locked in thee ounty jail here. The
sheriff met the steamer carrying the
shipment before it had reached the
boundaries of Morgan county. As
soon as the line was crossed the sher
iff made the attachment.
Move Convicts Because of Riots.
Ossining, N. Y — Sixty convicts—
the dregs of the New York criminal
class—were taken one by one from
their cells in Sing Sing prison and
placed aboard a train for the state
prison at Auburn. Recent roits'in
Sing Sing caused the warden to take
no chances. Each convict was heav
ily handcuffed and shackled and then
chained to his place in the railroad
car which had been brought inside
the prison enclosure. A hundred pris
on guards did this work while in Hie
state armory them ilitia waited.
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Mr. Gittlns, who now represents the
Fortieth New York district In con
gress, is a Democrat and lives In
Niagara Falls.
59 CIS ARE CREMMED
THE FIRE SPREAD SO RAPIDLY
THAT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE
FOR GIRLS TO ESCAPE
At First It Was Thought the Alarm
Was for Fire Drill and the Girls
Continued at Work.
Binghampton, N. Y. —Fifty persons
were killed, and as many injured, a
dozen or more fatally, in a fire which
swept the four-story factory building
of the Binghampton Clothing company.
The victims were chiefly women and
girls. Twenty-two bodies have been
recovered. In the city hospital and in
I private institutions are thirty Injured,
i Some two score persons are known to
I have escaped, as if by a miracle, from
i the building, which burst into flame
i like a tinderbox and became a roaring
! furnace almost in no time after the
, first alarm was sounded.
Around the scene of the catastro
i phe, the greatest this city has ever
■ known, thousands watched the res
। cuers work in the glare of three big
■ searchlights, many in the great throng
! being restrained only by the closely
■ drawn police lines from rushing into
the ruins tb seek the bodies of rela
! stive or friends.
As the ruins were cooled slightly,
i from time to time in a spot upon which
| the streams were centered, men went
j forward to dig as long as human
I endurance would allow them to work.
, Occasionally a body was found
MAY INVOLVE THE POWERS
Action of Turkey in Reoccupying Ter
ritory Threatens War.
London. —The European concert is
faced by a moat delicate and difficult
; suitation, requiring the exercise of
the utmost diplomatic tact, if Europe
; is not to be plunged into a general
; war by the Turkish reoccupation ’Of
' Adrianople and Kirk Kilisseh.
Burgaria, helpless, sees the fruits
| of her dearly won victories snatched
; from her hand, and, while negotia
-1 tions for an armistice are proceeding
; in a leisurely manner at Nish, the
i Greeks and Servians continue to push
‘ their advantage.
The official announcement made at
j Constantinople that the Turkish
I troops had reoccupied Adrianople
I created the worst possible impression
■ in diplomatic circles, and the powers
i immediately began an exchange of
J views to find the best means of check
j mating Turkey's action.
South Carolina Detached,
j Washington.—President_Wilson has
; issued an executive order that the
state of South Carolina, now a part of
I the fourth internal revenue district of
North Carolina, be detached and here
after constitute one collection district
to be known as the district of South
: Carolina.
Carnegie's Bomb Just Juicy Cheese.
Nek York.—The mystery of the
( bomb sent to Andrew Carnegie in
i care of the seecretary of the Carnegie
i corporation was solved. It was a juicy
j cheese inclosed an s smell-proof case
i of zinc, a Scotch cheese, according to
। an expert called into conference after
I the bureau had definitely determined
i that the bomb contained neither nitro
glycerin, dynamite or other deadly ex
plosives. On a vacant lot officials of
the bureau of combustibles fired four
bullets from a safe distance through
the box before they opened it.
LITRE ITEMS OF GEORGIA CHIES
Greensboro. —For the past two
years the annual pilgrimage of Editor
James C. Williams of the Greensboro
Herald-Journal to the meeting of the
Georgia W’eekly Press Association, has
brought a large loss of chickens to
his poultry yard. Last year his yard
was visited on two occasions during
his absence by chicken purloiners who
secured something over 100 frying
size fowls. This week the rats have
invaded his hen houses and killed sev
eral dozen of his choice frying size
chickens, and he is now leading a cam
paign against rats, similar to the cru
sade he led against the thieves last
year.
Royston. —During a severe rain and
thunderstorm here the tower on the
high school building was struck by
lightning, setting the building on fire
and burning it down. The building
was of brick with wooden roof and
was valued at $15,000 with $9,000 insur
ance. Only a few of the fixtures were
saved.
Washington.—When Tax Receiver
J. T. Harris of Washington complet
ed the compilation of interesting fig
ures embodied in the 1913 tax digest.
lof Wilkes county, it was announced
' that Wilkes county would show a de
i crease in taxable values of approxi
> mately $50,000 over the figures of 1912.
Waycross.—While preparing dinner,
I Mrs. J. D. Ridley’s clothing cauglv fire
; in some unexplained manner and the
: burns inflicted caused her death. The
■ woman ran into the street screaming
' for help, and neighbors rendered such
: assistance as was possible. All the
clothing was burned from her body,
and physicians who hurried to aid her
held out no hope for her recovery.
Louisville. —Charles Oliphant, a
ypung Augustan, was drowned at
Clark's mill pond, where he was in
company with a party from Augusta.
' Some of his camp fellows were fish
ing and he decided to go a short di
tance below them and take a swim.
His friends, after . waiting for some
time, instituted a search and soon re
covered his body in about six feet of
water. He was a good swimmer, and
the accident is hard to account for
unless he struck something when div
ing.
Macon. —Three members of the fam
ily of rFank Stegers, president of this
division of the Order of Railway Con
ductors, had a' narrow escape from
death during an electrical storm, when
a bolt of lightning struck their home.
The bolt demolished the rear porch,
passed through the house and came
out at the front gallery and went down
the chains of swings in which Mrs
Stegers and her two daughters, Missi s
Francis and Aleen, were sitting. The
; latter two had hold of the chains at
the time and were severely shocked.
Lyerly.—A new road building outfit,
| consisting of a 30-horsepower gasoline
traction engine, three graders and a
scarifier, has been purchased by this
county, and arrived a few days ago.
and is being tested. Mr. O’Neill of
; Atlanta, representing the sellers, and
;R. A. McWhoter, representing the
■ board of roads and revenues, are trying
■ out the machinery on the roads and
: the outfit is doing excellent work and
' with this outfit Chattooga' county
should have good roads. Several miles
of fine road can be made in a day.
Milledgeville.—At this early date in
the fight of the Tenth congressional
I district the first organized effort is a
i Vinson club of as many as one hun
' dred names of voters from Hardwick,
i Ga., a new postoffice opened last year
i and named in honor of the present.
■ congressman. Thomas Hardwick. This
■ is the first political club organized to
j foster Col. Carl Vinson in his con
: gressional race, and is unique in that
. those composing its membership are
I from the postofflee that Congressman
j Hardwick recently worked to create.
Macon.—J. F. Ham, a merchant at
i Cross Keys, was stabbed six times
| by a negro when the latter resented
being dunned for ad ebt of 20 cents.
At the hospital, where Mr. Ham was
taken, it was stated his injuries were
not necessarily fatal. The sheriff's
deputies had a hard fight before they
succeeded in placing the negro under
arrest, and they found it necessary to
beat him up considerably before he
could be taken.
Albany.—By a good margin over the
necessary two-thirds, the entire mu
nicipal bond issue of. SIOO,OOO propos
ed by the city council, was carried in
the election. The special registration
I held for the election was light, and
therefore the number of votes neces
sary to carry the election was not large.
The registration was 236, making a
vote of 158 in favor of bonds neces
sary to carry the issue. In the elec
tion 184 votes were cast and each
i proposition was carried.
Tifton.—Tift county wool growers
; sold their season’s clip in Tifton to
; J. N. Griffin of Valdosta, for 21 cents
। a pound. There were eleven growers
represented with over thirty bales.
The sheep men report wool light this
year, owing to the dry winter and
spring, averaging but a little over two
pounds to the sheep. Last year the
same growers sold 6,000 pounds at 26
cents a pound.
