FOREIGN WARSHIPS
TO GUARD ROUTES
STATE DEPARTMENT LEARNS EU
ROPE WILL REVOLUTIONIZE
NAVAL POLICY.
INVOLVES MONROE DOCTRINE
Great Britain to Establish Great Naval
Base in the Bermudas and Ger
many Seeks Naval Base.
Washington,—Keen interest has
been aromed in official circrles here
by the report reaching the state de
partment that Great Britain is con
templating a great naval base in the
Bermuda islands. It is authoritative
ly stated that the British government
has made inquiry concerning the plans
of the United States for protection of
the Panama canal routes, and it has
been suggested that this indicates an
intention to safeguard British ship
ping through the isthmus as is done
in the Mediterranean.
Officials realize that the prorblem
raised is a tremendous one, involving
as it may the very life of the Monroe
doctrine and marking, perhaps, a com
plete revolution in foreign naval pol
icy in the western hemisphere, for it
is expected that if Great Britain
changes her naval policy in American
Atlantic waters, other European na
tions probably will follow suit, and
while these changes may be expected
in the Atlantic waters and the West
Indies officials likewise realize that
with the opening of the canal, the
United States must contend with Ja
pan for domination of the Pacific.
The British royal navy abandoned
its naval stations in this country
about ten years ago, when the United
States gave up the idea of the con
struction of the Nicaraguan canal,
and set about digging the big water
way across Panama, whose approach
ing completion bids fair to revolution
ize international relations.
Apart from its West Indian stations,
the royal navy maintained stations at
Esquimault, British Columbia, and
Halifax, Nova Scotia.
There was once a plant to strengtn
en greatly the fortifications at Esqui
mault, overlooking the strait of Juan
de Fuca, in order to make that an
important base, but both these sta
tions now have a merely nominal ex
istence under the government of the
Dominion of Canada;, and are little
more than recruiting stations! or the
royal navy.
SERIOUS SITUATION IN CHINA
British and French Marines Are
Guarding Foreign Quarter.
Hong Kong—The situation in Can
ton remains serious. The electric
lights are cut off and the people Ire
fearful of mutiny. Trains, junks ami
other vessels leaving the city are
packed with refugees. A siege of
Canton is expected with the arrival
there of General Chi-K.uang. com
mander of tho government forces in
the province of Kwang-Si, who is
moving toward the city with his army,
Soldiers are patrolling the streets
of Canton as the police there are un
reliable. Seventy traitorous soldiers
were shot in that city. A reward of
$60,000 has been offered for the head
of Governor Chan of Canton.
Men with guns from British and
French warships are guarding the for
eign quarter of Canton, where valua
bles worth millions of dollars are
stored. The international fleet lying
off the city has been augmented by
the arrival of American, German, Jap
anese and French men-of-war. Sol
diers have been sent from Hong Kong
to Canton and three naval vessels here
are ready to start for that point at a
moment's notice with stores and addi
ttonaf troops.
Explosion Kills 18 Men.
Tower City, Pa.—Eighteen men
were killed and two seriously injur
ed in a double explosion in the East
Brookside mine of the Philadelphia
and Reading Coal and Iron company,
near here, by a double explosion ot
what is believed to have been dyna
mite and gas. Thirteen men died in
the first explosion and five met death
in the second blast after a heroic at
tempt to rescue the first victims. One
of the rescuers escaped.
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Injured 29 Persons to Save Girl.
Hammond.— Twenty-nine persons,
all of Chicago, were injured when Mar
tin Roy, a chauffeur of the autobus in
which they were riding, drove 'into
a culvert to avoid running down four
year-old Mary Banko. The bus turn
ed over on the occupants, but with
one exception none of the injuries
was serious. Martin Roy was cut
about, the eyes and at a hospital here
it was said he may lose his sight. The
party was returning from a night's
outing at a Lake county summer re
sort.
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if General Huerta is recognized as president of Mexico by the United
States, Senor Don Angel Algara, the young Mexican charge d'affaires In
Washington, will be named as ambassador. Nelson O Shaunessy, first sec
retary of the American embassy In Mexico, is In charge of American inter
ests there in the absence of Ambassador Wilson. Curios de Pererya,
an accomplished diplomat. Is acting minister of foreign affairs In the Hu
erta cabinet
HURRICANE STRKIESCAPiTAL
STORM LASHES BACK AND FORTH
ACROSS WASHINGTON, LEAV
ING DEATH AND RUIN.
Many Buildings Wrecked and the
Capitol and White House
Damaged.
Washington.—Like a giant flail, a
cyclonic storm of wind, rain and hail
whipped back and forth across the
nation’s capital, leaving death and
ruin in its wake. Three, dead, scores
injured and hundreds of thousands of
dollars’ worth of property destroyed
was the toll recorded in the hurried
canvass made when the city aroused
itself from half an hour of helpless
ness in the grasp of the elements.
Out of a blazing sky, under which
the city was sweltering with the tem
perature at 100 degrees, came the
storm, roaring from the north, driving
a mass of clouds that east a mantle
of darkness over the city.
The gale, reaching a velocity of al
most seventy miles an hour, swept
the streets clear, unroofed houses,
tore detached small structures from
their foundations, wrecked one office
building, overturned wagons and car
riages in the streets and swept Wash
ington's hundred parks, tearing huge
branches from trees and even uproot
ingf sturdy old elms, landmarks of a
century.
Washington's well-kept streets, with
their wealth of trees, were littered
with broken foliage, roofs, debris and
dead birds, as it a playful giant had
carelessly swished his club up and
down the city.
As the wind wreaked havoc, the
rain came, and in five minutes the
temperature dropped from the hun
dred mark to between 60 and 70. Then
the rain turned to hail and hailstones
battered on roofs and crashed through
skylights and windows.
For half an hour the city, covered,
paralyzed, under the beating of the
storm, every activity suspended. Trol
ley cars, street traffic and telephone
service were halted, government de
partments suspended operations.
Heat Wave Sweeps Country.
Chicago.—Mid-summer heat, bring
ing to many cities temperatures as
high as 106 and making the 100 de
gree mark common over wide areas,
extended throughout the centra!
states. Generally described the heat
wave extended from the Rocky moun
tains to the Atlantic coast, but the
maximum temperatures were reported
from points between Kansas and Ohio.
The weather bureau temperatures, usu
ally several degrees lower; than the
street level temperatures from Cincin
nati and Indianapolis were 102.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
M GROCERS FINED
U. S. JUDGE GRUBB HOLDS THE
CONTEMPT CHARGES HAVE
BEEN SUSTAINED.
Decree of 1911 Prohibited Any Vio
lations of the Anti-Trust
Law.
Birmingham, Ala. — Federal Judge
Grubb fined the Southern Wholesale
Grocers’ Association $2,500 for con
tempt of court in violating a decree
issued in 1911, commanding the or
ganization to abide by federal anti
trust laws. President J. H. McLaurin
of Jacksonville, Fla., was fined SI,OOO.
H, Lacey Hunt of Wilmington. N.
C., and L. A. Melchers of Charleston,
S. C., were fined SI,OOO each and the
costs were assessed against the cor
poration and the three individual de
fendants according to costs of their
respective witnesses.
The decree of 1911 prohibited any
violations of the anti trust law. A
suit was filed this year against the
Southern Wholesale Grorcers Associa
tion. its president and officers, and
many members, but after the trial was
on a few days all defendants were
expurgated except those named in the
decision by Judge Grubb.
MARVIN FOR WEATHER CHIEF
Chief of Instrument Division Is to
Succeed Willis L. Moore.
Washington.—Prof, Charles F. Mar
vin has been selected for chief of the
weather bureau to succeft Willis L.
Moore, recently removed. Professor
Marvin is now chief of the instrument
division. He was appointed to the
old signal service in 1884 from Ohio.
President Wilson sent his nomination
to the senate.
Professor Marvin, the new chief of
the bureau, was recommended for the
place by the National Academy of
Sciences. President Wilson was re
quested by the executive committee of
this body to delay the appointment of
a successor to Willis L. Moore until
it had canvassed the field and recom
mended a man.
••Uncle Joe” Cannon Tumbles.
Danville, 11l. —Former Speaker Jo
seph G. Cannon s automobile plunged
down a steep bank and alighted right
side up In a small lake in Spring Hill
cemetery near here. “Uncle Joe” was
riding with his daughter, Mrs. E, X.
LeSeure. At a sharp bend In the
roadway along the lake bank his chauf
four missed the brake with his foot
and the car leaped off the ten foot
bank. The water was shallow, and
the passengers easily waded to the
shore. Neither Mr. Cannon nor his
daughter were hurt
unit HEMS OF GEORGIA CITIES
Milledgeville.—The senate peniten
tiary committee spent a day at the
I prison farm and thoroughly examined
this Institution. Superintendent
Burke had prepared a splendid barbe
cue dinner, which was served in the
; lobby of the male stockade.
: Waycross.—From wounds inflicted
| shortly before by her brother-in-law,
; R. F. Smythe, Mrs. Lucy Moore is
i dead. Smythe killed himself after
;he had fatally wounded Mrs. Moore,
and saw that escape from a mob of
angered citizens and police was im
possible.
Tifton. —The plant of the Tifton Ice
and Power company, including site,
: franchise and all equipment, was sold
I to the Southern Utilities corporation,
I a firm which has recently purchased
i sixteen similar plants in Florida and
i several in Georgia. The purchase
j price was nearly SIOO,OOO.
Tifton.—Edward Yaun made a de
termined attempt at suicide immedi
i ately on being told of his father’s
; death. He first stabbed himself in
I the throat with a pocketknife. The
i wound was just an Inch too high to
prove fatal. By miscalculation the
knife blade ranged up toward the
j mouth instead of going straight into
! the young man’s throat.
Gainesville. —The sentencing of Mrs.
: Siiva Hawkins to life imprisonment
for instigating the murder of her hus
' band, Arthur Hawkins, brought to a
dramatic end a case that has been re
plete with the sensations ot a cold
! blooded crime induced by a guilty
• passion. Mrs. Hawkins received her
I sentence with stoical indifference,
i When, however, her accredited lover,
! Jim Cantrell, was sentenced to be
hanged, she burst into tears.
I Hartwell.—Thad W. Holbrorok, a
: prominent and Wealthy young farmer
i of Hart county, was drowned in Tug
i alo river. Holbrook was carrying a
j load of lumber to the Carolina side
■ from his mill when the boat was cap
j sized, drowning Holbrook and a ne
i gro man.
Tifton.—The giant rattlesnake for
j this section of the state was killed
' by J. 1. Cotney, a young farmer, who
lives about four miles north of Tif
ton. The snake measured exactly
seven feet from the tip of its nose
to the end of its rattles, and was 13
i inches in circumference. It had elev-
J en rattles, some of them having evi
i dently been broken off, as is often
' the case with large rattlers.
Mt. Airy.—A case of unusual im
' portance to the people of south Geor
; gia. and particularly to those of the
| city of Brunswick, was heard by Judge
j Emory Speer, who granted the appli-
I cation of the receivers of the Yaryan
j Naval Stores company authority to
; issue receivers’ certificates in the sura
of $100,060 for the purpose of contin
; utag the operation of the company.
: Griffin. —There was unusual excite
i ment at the local railway station over
a leaking package of rare old whisky.
' Several negroes almost came to blows
; in a mad rush to get one good drink
before it was all gone. The first man
J to make a dive for the package was
i a negro wearing a derby. He placed
I his hat beneath the flowing stream
: and soon had a large drink. He. re
peated this, but on the second attempt
; was given a knock-out blow by anoth
i er bibulously-inclined negro, who plac
ed his mouth beneath the stream and
I was soon almost blind with drink. In
। the meantime several fights were in
' progress.
Canton. —The Marietta and Blue
Ridge division of the Louisville and
Nashville railroad reports four wrecks
! kithin three days—a freight train at
Toonigh, a freight train at Univeter,
’ a passenger train near Woodstock,
! another-at Univerter. The wreck of.
' the passenger train near Woodstock
was the most serious of the wrecks,
and resulted in some of the crew
; being hurt and the passengers con
j siderably shaken up. Passengers and
j freight traffic has been demoralized
as a result of these misfortunes.
Valdosta. —An election to decide
whether the voters of Lowndes coun
; ty desire the levying of a special dis
l trict school tax for the rural schools
will be held on August 20. Petitions
; to call the election have been numer
ously signed in all of the districts
i outside of the city, and it is under
, stood that there is little opposition
Ito the proposed change. If carried the
tax will not effect the school patron
• or system of this city or other incor
j porated towns in the county.
Valdosta. —The phenomenal yield of
i watermelons grown D. T. Clyatt of
j Brooks county this year, which was
I played up by the newspapers, has
I caused a flood of inquiries to pour in
1 to Mr. Clyatt from every section of
; the South. Mr. Clyatt shipped six
; teen carloads from a field a fraction
less than fourteen acres, the melons
netting him $2,006. Railroad indus
trial agents, farmers and others inter
ested in melon growing are writing
Mr. Clyatt asking for his method of
cultivation, fertilizing, etc., his crop
being the largest ever made in the
melon belt. His field was made in
tensely rich with stable manure.
CASTRO RETURNS
TO LEAD RM
STATE DEPARTMENT HOPED TO
PREVENT HIS GOING BACK
TO VENEZUELA.
GUNBOAT SENT TO SCENE
Former President Is Reported at Coro
at the Head of an Armed
Force.
Washington.—News of the appear
ance in Venezuela of ex-President Cip
riano Castro, after Jais five years' ex
ile, caused something of a sensation
at the state department. For the past
five years the department has been
keeping Castro under surveillance to
prevent his returning to Venezuela,
which country has been enjoying a
period of unwonted prosperity and
quiet since his retirement.
Department officials supposed the
exile was living quietly in the Canary
islands until a cablegram came an
nouncing his re-entrance into the
country of his birth at the head of
an armed force, while various upris
ings in his behalf were reported from
different points in Venezuela. He was
said to be at Coro.
From the legation at Caracas the
state department was informed of up
rising in the state of Tachira, at
Coro and Masuro. Telegraphic com
munication between the capital and
the disturbed points was interrupted,
but the Venezuelan foreign office
claimed the revolutionists had been
defeated by state troops at all points.
The president had been granted dic
tatorial powers, it was said, and men
were being impressed for military ser
vice.
The United Stat.es government is
represented in Venezuela at present
only by a legation clerk, Richard J.
Biggs. Minister Northcott resigned
and left his post and Secretary Caf
fery now is in Washington attached
to the Latin-American bureau.
The state department called upon
the navy department for a warship to
look after American interests in Ven
ezuelan waters and the gunboat Des-
Moines, new at Brunswick, Ga., was
ordered to make the cruise. It is
calculated that the gunboat can make
the run to Laguira, the nearest point
to Caracas, in about six days.
TO DISTRIBUTE HUGE SUM
$50,000,000 of Government Funds Are
to Be Parceled Out.
Washington. — Secretary McAdoo
prepared to distribute twenty-five to
fifty millions of dollars of government
funds in the agricultural regions ot
the South and West. The secretary is
collecting information as to the rela
tive needs of each section where har
vesting is now under way or soon to
begin, and expects to have the money
in the banks in ample time for the
movement of crops. Treasury officials
were confident that the secretary's
plan would be a powerful factor in
averting or relieving the prorspective
tightness of money characteristic of
the crorp moving season.
Much interest was manifested in the
secretary's declaration of willingness
to receive prime commercial paper as
security for the deposits. This inno
vation marks the government's first
participation in the commercial mar
ket
Elephants in Panic.
Winnipeg, Manitoba. —During a se
vere electrical storm here a herd of
eighty elephants with a circus show
ing here, broke loose, wrecked half of
the circus tents and thousands of
seats, damaged a number of small
buildings and caused a panic in the
neighborhood. The elephants were
captured several times, only to break
their bonds again. Trainers with iron
bars and pitchforks at length subdued
them. No other animals escaped.
23 Hurt in Dust Explosion.
Hymera, Ind. —Five men were fa
tally burned and eighteen others dan
gerously hurt in a dust explosion at
Jackson Hill No. 2 mine, three miles
east of Hymera. It is believed the
dust was fired by a “windy" shot.
The mine property was heavily dam- .
aged. Rescuers brought out all the
injured miners.
Drastic Demands at Peace Conference
London. —The allies in demands
presented to the Bucharest peace con
ference proposed the establishment of
frontier standing east from the Stru
ma river, river running midway
; through Rumalia and reaching the
■ Aegean sea 15 miles west of Dedea
gatch. This would leave" Bulgaria a
coast line on the Aegean sea cf less
than thirty miles. If these drastic
terms are accepted, Bulgaria will is
sue from two wars a little larger than
when she entered into them, but she
will have to abandon a large amount.
