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HUERTA DECISION
DEFIANCE OF DICTATOR CAUSES
STIR IN NATION CAPITAL
LIKE MAINE DISASTER.
STIRRING SCENES ENACTED
Many Believe That He Plans to Turn
Over Government to U. S. So
Order Can Be Restored.
Washington.—-Only one event in
American history is comparable to the
thrill that shot through Washington
-when Huerta refused to do homage to
the stars and stripes, barring, of
course, the circumstances and cli
maxes that preceded and marked the
Civil war. The blowing up of the
Maine in Havana harbor in 1898 is the
one comparable event, and this epochal
occurrence heralded as the ‘‘daring
deed of a designing dastard,” occasion
ed no more patriotic fervor than did |
the announcement of Huerta's defiance
of President Wilson's ultimatum.
Washington had been on edge for the
announcement, but Washington was
much in doubt as to the nature of the
denouement. The speculation caused i
by the doubt increased the sub-surface
excitement, evidences of which were
manifest in all parts of the city among
all sorts of persons.
Although the Mexican situation and ।
the president’s unyielding position ,
were topics of talk before and after
church services, in the hotels, on the
cars, in the club and everywhere else
in Washington, the center of activity ;
,on the eventful day shifted at intervals
from the white house to the state, the
war and the navy departments, just
across the street.
And when ‘‘the story broke" the 1
scene at the white house was full of
vivid theatricals. A bride and groom
from Jersey City had dropped in to
pay their respects to Secretary Joseph
P. Tumulty. They found him in the 1
midst of history making business, sur
rounded by 200 nervous newspaper-cor
respondents. But with his capacity
for handling persons and pleasing
them, the secretary made the bride
and groom, M* and Mrs. Jame's Dolan,
perfectly at home and he never lost
step with the march of stirring
events.
Two of the cabinet veterans, men
used for years to all the stress and
storm of public life, Secretaries Bryan
and Daniels, the one a campaigner of
unparalleled powers, the other an edi
tor of many battles, found themselves
so upset and troubled over the turn of
events that they could not deal with
the throng of newspaper men and con
gressmen waiting to hear the news. So
upon Mr. Tumulty fell all the brunt of
that labor. He moved in and out of
the conference room, serene and with
unshaken poise, greeting his friends
by their first names and dropping what
bits of information he thought avail
able in advance of the publication of
the official messages.
‘‘The president sent a simple mes
sage to Bryan, telling him to inform
O’Shaughnessy that this government’s
terms are unconditional,” remarked
Mr. Tumulty to a group of newspaper
men.
‘‘lt’s a fine note, brief and full of
the real American spirit." As the cor
respondents hurried to put this fact on
the wires, he called out after them:
"Won’t that help the headline writers
in preparing to lay out this story'.’"
Emperor Joseph Sick.
Vienna.-—Emperor Francis Joseph is
suffering from catarrh of the bron
chial tubes, according to official an
nouncement. This has resulted in In
creased temperature and loss of sleep
through fits of coughing, but his
strength and appetfle are .satisfactory
and the emperor continues to attend
to state business.
Searchers Give Up Seal Ship as Lost
St. Johns, N. F. —After two weeks’
unsuccessful search for the missing
sealer Southern Cross, the steamer
Kyle returned to port. The Southern
Cross with her crew of 173 ftien finally
has been given up as lost.
Indians Want to Be Free.
Washington.—A large majority of In
dians believe they should be given
their property and made independent
of the Indian bureau of the govern
ment. This expression of opinion was
developed by Secretary Lane, it was
announced, as the result of letters he
sent to representative Indians in the
country, asking them questions con
cerning phases of the Indian problem.
The letters were sent to three In
dians at each of the more titan a
hundred reservations and agencies, the
men being the most intelligent.
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railroad magnate, has bought for more ;
than $1,000,000 the great library of the
Duke of Devonshire
TRMTO BUTTS’MEMORY
BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL BRIDGE IS
DEDICATED AT AUGUSTA, GA.,
TO TITANIC HERO.
EX-PRESIDENT TAFT COMES
Prominent Men and Washington, D. C.,
Masonic Lodge Took Part
in Exercises.
Augusta, Ga. —Simple but Impressive
exercises attended the dedication here
of the Butt memorial bridge erected
as a tribute to the memory of the
late Maj. Archibald Willingham Butt,
aide to former Presidents Taft and
Roosevelt, who perished in the Titanic
disaster on April 14, 1912.
Former President Taft, a delegation
of Masons from the Temple Noles
Lodge of Washington, of which Major
Butt was a member; local Masons and
members of the Butt Memorial associa
tion, participated in the services, which
were held on the handsome new bridge
spanning the canal at Fifteenth and
Greene streets.
The formal dedication of the bridge
was preceded by the laying of a cor
nerstone with ritualistic ceremonies by
the Masons.
Former President Taft, the first
speaker, spoke feelingly of his former
aide as a “Southerner through and
through.”
The bridge proper is constructed of
concrete. At each of the two ap
proaches are two massive lions, carved
from limestone, one bearing a bronze
shield engraved with the coat of arms
of the United States, another with the
Georgia coat of arms of the Butt fam
ily and the fourth the Temple-Noies
lodge coat of arms. Four tall columns
surmounted by bronze eagles rise from
the four corners of the central arch of
the base relief of Major Butt. A bronze
tablet bears the following inscription,
which was written by former President
Taft:
“In honor of Archibald Willingham
Butt.
"Born in Augusta, Ga., September 26,
1865.
“Graduated University of the South,
1888.
“Major in United States army, trust
ed aide-delcamp to two presidents.
“Major Butt went to his death on
the steamer Titanic after the rescue
of the women and children from that
ill-fated vessel, April 14, 1912.
“In memory of his noble and lovable
qualities as a man.
“His courage and high sense of duty
as a soldier.
“His loyalty and efficiency as a pub
lic servant.
“His fellow citizens of Augusta deli
cate this bridge.”
Paul Revere Honored.
Boston. —The celebration of Patri
ots’ Day was at its height throughout
the state, with the principal celebra
tion at Lexington. The celebration
was opened formally when lights like
those that sent Paul Revere away to
warn the populace of the coming of
the British 169 years ago were dis
played from the belfry of the Old
sightseers on their way to the histor
ical battle ground.
Congress Stands Behind Wilson.
Washington.—Congress stands be
hind the administration almost to a
man in the aggressive policy to de
mand reparation for indignities the
Huerta government has offered. In
senate.and house the opinion was gen
eral that the president would be back
ed even to actual warfare. Both ad
ministration and Republican leaders
expressed emphatic views Uiat the
United States is not sending the fleet
to Tampico as a “bluff;” that it is
acting to signize the fact that Ameri
can patience has been exhausted.
WHEELER COUNTY EAGLE, ALAMO, GEORGIA.
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TO JUSTIFY MS
HUERTA USES MINISTER OF FOR
EIGN AFFAIRS ROJAS AS
HIS MOUTHPIECE.
THINKS REQUEST IS UNJUST
Dictator Says He Has Made All the
Apology Necessary and Believes
World Will Agree.
Mexico City.—Portillo y Rojas, min
ister of foreign affairs, announcing it
would be impossible to agree to the de
mand of the United States that the
flag of that country be unconditional
ly saluted, gave out the following state
ment: •
“On the 9th of the present month,
between 11 and noon, a boat without
an American flag and with nine ma
rines and one officer landed at a point
called the Beach of Iturbids in Tam
pico. Col. Raymond Hinojosa, who has
charge of defending that point, de
tained the marines and officer and
conducted them to the presence of the
general who had command of the fort,
Ignacio Morelos Zaragoza.
“It should be remembered that at
this time the port not only was under
military control, but was withstanding
an attack by rebels.
“General Zaragoza immediately and
without even investigating the case
but the marines and the officer at
liberty, placed Hinojosa in prison and
sent an apology to Rear Admiral Mayo,
the commander of the American fleet.
“We thought the incident was closed,
but unfortunately this was not so be
cause Mayo sent to him some time af
terward an ultimatum wherein he ask
ed that a second apology be presented
to him by the staff of the chief of the
for General Zaragoza, that the Ameri
can flag be hoisted at a public place in
Tampico and saluted by twenty-one
guns and, besides the severe punish
ment of Hinojosa, stipulating that all
this be done within twenty-four hours.
“The time was later extended when
diplomatic parlors were begun between
the sub-secretary of foreign affairs in
Mexico, the minister being absent at
that date, and continued until now.
“The president of Mexico, when in
formed of the case, ordered another in
vestigation of the facts and the pun
ishment of the guilty officer if it were
proved he was blameworthy. He also
authorized the minister of foreign af
fairs to express regret on account of
the Incident. When he became aware
the American government supported
the request of Admiral Mayo relative
to the salute of the American flag,
which had not been insulted, he pro
posed to show his good will toward
the American people, though he did not
think such a request was just, propos
ing that the flags of the two nations
be hoisted and salutely reciprocally
and simultaneously.
"The American government did not
agree with that idea, but insisted on
Rear Admiral Mayo's request, giving
assurance that according to interna
tional practice the salute would be re
turned by American cannon after the
salute to the American flag.
TRIED TO KILL N. Y. MAYOR
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Chief Executive of New York City
Shot at by Irresponsible Man.
New York.—ln an attempt to take
the life of Mayor John Purroy Mitchell,
Michael P. Mahoney, an apparently ir
responsible elderly man, who later
said he was a blacksmith out of work,
fired into a group of three men seat
ed in the mayor’s automobile at the
east side of City Hall Park.
The bullet entered the jaw of Frank
L. Polk, corporation counsel who was
sitting next to the mayor. With blood
spurting from his mouth, Mr. Polk was
taken into the city hall and after
awrd to a hospital, where. It was said,
the wound would not prove fatal.
Mahoney shot at the mayor, he de
clared, because he felt aggrieved at
tlie city executive's “extravagant ex
■ penditures," and because he was in
> censed at being refused an audience
> with the mayor on two occasions.
1 Mahoney fired only one shot. Be
fore he could fire a second time he
■ was overcome by Detective George
I Neun, who, in the capacity of chauf
feur, was adjusting robes about the
men in the automobile.
Indiana Farmer Kills Wife.
Boonville, Ind.—Throwing his wife,
Mary, 42 years old, against a hot
. stove in his home here, William Fol
i som, 52 years old, formerly a pros
■ perous farmer, fired two shots into her
- heart, killing her instantly. Then he
- inflicted three wounds in his own
s breast, none o fwhich, doctors say,
1 will prove fatal. The shooting occur
: red from his wife’s denial of infidelity
< made to Folsom, it is said, and her re
- fusal of his demand that she surren
der her wedding ring.
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Madame da Fonseca is the wife of
the new military attache of the Bra
zilian embassy at Washington. She
Is the latest addition to that cosmo
politan social circle and has become
a great favorite.
THAW IS DECLARED SANE
FIGHT FOR HABEAS CORPUS
WRIT WON BY SLAYER OF
STANFORD WHITE.
Thaw Has Won Fight as Far as Pos
sible Without Decision of
United States Court.
Littleton, N. IL—Harry K. Thaw has
won his fight for a writ of habeas cor
pus. Federal Judge Edgar Aldrichs, of
the United States District Court of
New Hampshire, handed down his de
cision on the petition of Thaw asking
that he be discharged from the extra
dition proceedings under which the
state of New York has been trying to
force Thaw's return to Matteawan.
The decision was in Thaw's favor.
The court grants the writ, but the for
ma) order will not be entered until the
state of New York can appeal the case
to the United States supreme court,
which will determine whether Thaw
shall be admitted to bail.
Judge Aldrich’s decision is a tre
mendous victory for Thaw. It means
that he has won his whole fight so far
as victory is possible without a de
cision by the supreme court.
The net results of the court decision
are.
1. Thaw is declared sane by the ac
tion of the court approving the find
ing of the insanity commission which
reported to the court.
2. Thaw is declared to be no menace
to New Hampshire.
3. Thaw is declared to have the
right to go free without extradition.
4. The entire finding is to be held in
abeyance until the supreme court of
the United States can pass upon the
court decision.
WORKING ON TRUST BILLS
Labor and Farm Bodies Are Exempted
From Ban of Law.
Washington.—President Wilson’s re
iterated desire for completion of the
anti-trust legislation program at this
session of congress spurred congress
committees to action. The house ju
diciary subcommittee responded with
the introduction of the omnibus bill,
including trust regulation measures
and provisions to meet demands of la
bor for restriction of injunction pow
ers and to Insure jury trials in con
tempt cases.
Members of the senate subcommittee
on interstate commerce conferred late
in the day and agreed to submit to the
full committee as soon as possible a
tentative draft of a long-considered
measure to supplement the Sherman
law, which will differ in many respects
from the house measures.
In intorducing the house bill. Repre
sentative Clayton, chairman of the
। judiciary committee, announced that
. the full committee would meet to
i consider it and that he hoped the
measure could be reported in the near
! future.
Underwood and Hobson Meet.
Washington.—Representative Under
wood and Hobson, senatorial candi
dates in one of the bitterest cam
paigns fought in Alabama, met and
shook hands in the house. “How are
you Underwood?” said Mr. Hobson,
and the majority leader returned his
handclasp with a “Fine, Captain Hob
son.” It was the first exchange be
tween the two on the floor of the
house for months, but there was no
evidence of bad feeling between the
two men.
LITTLE NEWS ITEMS
THROUGHOUT STATE
Perry.—Tile Hawkinsville and West
ern railroad has been made a mail
carrier, and will carry mail to and
from Perry, Hawkinsville and all
points on the Georgia, Southern and
Florida railroad. This will give two
malls per day except Sundays.
Rome.--Directors of the Georgia-
Alabama League met here and arrang
ed for a schedule of 114 games this
season, _which will open on May 4.
OpeninfTday games will be as follows:
Rome in Talladega, Ala; Selma, Ala.,
in Annistno, Ala.; Gadsden in New
nan; Opelika, Ala., in LaGrange.
Pelham—After an investigation, the
Mitchell county gran jury returned an
indictment against Chief of Police D.
C. Campbel, charging him with mur
der. Campbell killed John Harrell on
a street of Pelham. No indictments
were returned against Policeman J. C.
Haire and J. C. DeGraffenreid, who
were held on warrants charging mur
der. As Campbell is wounded, it is
not known whether the case will be
trie dat this ter mos court or not. -
Canton.— Sunday was a great day
i for the Baptists of Canton and vicin
( ity. The First Baptist church, just
I cmopleted, at a large expenditure of
i money, was dedicated with imposing
■ services. Dr. W. L. Cutts, its pastor,
! preaching the sermon. The Sunday
school of this church, of which Hon.
i R. T. Jones, is superintendent, had a
part in the day’s services and Its at
j tendance reached a grand total of 690
i pupils, making it probably the largest
। Sunday school in the state, outside of
; Atlanta.
I Rome. —Street cars are runing once
I again oxer the bridges acres sthe Eto
-1 wall river in Rome. Use of the bridgse
• was forbidden the trolley company by
' ! former Mayor Ben Yancey. When the
new mayor, J. D. Hanks, assumed of
‘ flee he informed the company that it
■ they wished to cross they would meet
11 with nd opposition from him.
’ I Lawrenceville.—The improved road
; ! machinery recently' purchased by the
commissioners of Gwinnett county ar
' rived and is now being tried out for
: the first timefl The board of commis
' sinners and a number of citizens who
' have seen it work are well pleased
’ with the same and regard it as a good
investment. The machinery consists
of a tractor engine weighing ten tons
' and developing thirty horsepower,
which pulls a number of other ma
! chines. A scarifier does the plowing,
’ and is hitched next to the engine. Then
ther eis a set of a dozen plows to tear
the earth up, followed by a set of
scrapes that throw the dirt toward the
’ center of the road, clean the sides
and fill th egullies. This is followed
by a planer, which packs and levels
the road bed. The machinery costs
in the neighborhood of $6,000 and it
is said to work about ten miles in a
day with convict labor. Gwinnett al
ready has over one hundred miles of
graded roads.
. Statesboro.—That Statesboro is
about to experience a meat famine is
. evident from the difficulty the local
butchers are having in getting fresh
meats, and even when it is obtaina
■ ble- the price of the near delicacy
. causes the citizens to take notice, and
it is evident that cattle raising would
be the most proztable industry one
could engage in. Citizens are compar
ing the prices at this time with those
of ten years ago when pork and beef
1 were plentiful and sold at 5 and 6
cents per pound at the markets. One
citizen went into a market and called
’ for five pounds of pork, for which he
gave $1.25. For the same amount ten
1 years ago he would have paid 25 or
30 cents. The reason for the scarcity
and high prices is said to be the exo-
’ dus of cattle from this county. Buyers
1 from others parts of the country have
scoured the entire section in search
■ of beef cattle and great herds have
i passed through Statesboro for ship
j ment. One butcher said that he had
I bought a calf and was certain that the
price he gave would have wrapped it
1 up in one dollar bills.
J ! Columbus.—“ The progress being
I made south Georgia cities is remark
i able," said Walter J. Woodall, editor
’ ! of the Industrial Index, who returned
; to Columbus, after spending several
, i days in that section o fthe state. Colo
: I nel Woodall was one of the speakers
,; at the banquet at Quitman
, ! given by the Brooks County In
. I dustrial club. “Every city in south
! Georgia is growing," said Colonel
i Woodall, “and it is both interesting
i and inspiring to see the progress that
:is being made. The dities and towns
are not only enterprising and public
’ spirited enough to vote bonds for im
provements and for extensions of
I ‘ street paving, sewerage and water
, j works plants, but their credit is good,
i and they sell their bonds without any
’ trouble. South Georgia is making won
derful progress, and the great indusr
trial, commercial and agricultural de
, velopment there is typical of the gen
, era! development of the great south
s east.”