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VOL. 10, NO. 78, SEMI-W
ME Alt DEAD AS .
RESULT OF RACE RIOT,
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One White Man and Two Ne- '
groes Shot in Georgia. G
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White Man Near MAcon Went to Negro's
House to Collect Bill and ]
Was Killed as Result of Plot. c
Macon, Oa., July 5.?Two negroes 8
are known to have been shpt to death
by a mob last night near Round Oak
and Wayside, two villages about 30
miles from here, and authorities today
began to search for others who
are missing.
Telephone wires leading to th< villages
were cut last night and iuwh
of the killings did not become known
here until early this morning when
sheriff's deputies arrived with three
negroes who were being held in connection
with the killing of Silas Tur
ner, a young farmer whose death precipitated
the outbreak of race feeling.
Turner went yesterday to the home
of W. H. King, a negro near Round
Oak, to collect a bill 'from one of
several other negroes who were there. J
A dispute resulted during which the
aiuici naa miui nnu a pimui. 1 lie
negroes then fled. 1
Turner's body was found later by
friends, who were searching for him.
Plans were made to avenge his
death and, acording to the sheriffs
deputies, fully 500 persons composed
the mob. The three negroes
brought here gave their names as
Will Gordon, Squire Thomas and
Scott Farrar. They were found by
the officers before the mob learned
their whereabouts.
An armed posse of about 100 farmers
today continued their search of
more than 24 hours for John Rlchey
^ and Thomas Brooks, two negroes, believed
responsible for the murder
yesterday morning at Grays, in Jones
county of Silas Turner, a prominent i
Jones county planter. |
The two negroes killed last night
are now believed to have had no con- J
nectlon with the shooting which resulted
in Turner's death. The men
were Will Oreen and his son.
Will Gordon, one of the negroes
brought here for safe keeping is said
to have cosfessed to the Jones county
authorities that he saw the fatal
shot fired. He accuses Thomas Brooks
a negro yet at large, with being the
murderer.
According to Gordon's confession,
Turner went to the negro's home
near Round Oak. seeking to collect
a debt. The negro was not there.
Brooks and two other negroes, according
to Gordon, plotted to kill
Mr. Turner when he returned. Mr.
Turner returned again in a few mo- I .
merits and while he attempted to en- '
ter another room Brooks, it is said, , ,
shot him in the ' back of the head, .
killing Turner Instantly.
HOLT WOULD MAKE 1
4 HOSTAGES OF FAMILY
Planned to Hold Morgan's Wife and ,
Children In Hoom With Dynamite
t'nder Threat of Death.
Glen Cove, N. Y., July 4.?Mrs. J. :
P. Morgan and the Morgan children
were to be held as hostages in their
own home and killed with dynamife !
if J. P. Morgan refused to use his '
Influence to stop the exportation of '
war munitions. Frank Holt who yesterday
attempted to assassinate Mr. |
Morgan at his home near here, fold
the police commissioner, Arthur
Woods, in his cell at Mineola to.lav.
Holt said his plan miscarried; that
he planned' to send Mr.| Morgan out
to stop the exportation of munitions
while he held the other members of
the family in cn upstairs room.
Mr. Morgan, the victim of the bul- '
lets which Holt fired, continued to '
show improvement today. The only j
bulletin issued was reassuring. It
said the bullet did not enter the
abdomen and that an X-ray examlna- <
tlon showed that no bones ha<t been >
damaged. Late tonight it was said
the financier was resting easily; that j <
he had slept all the afternoon. No i <
reference was made to another bul- i
let which was said yesterday to have
^ come out of the upper part of the
leg. ' i
EEKLY.
FOR RELIEF OF MEXICANS. I
<iglit Supplies for Suffering in '
Mexico City.
Washington. July 5.?With American
Consul General Shanklin and
'harles J. O'Connor in Mexico City
n charge of relief measures under- ]
aken by the Red Cross with the aid
if the United States government ofIcials
today expected that they would
et in motion plans to assist the <
amine stricken population of that
ity.
In reporting the arrival of Shankin
and O'Connor in the Mexican
apital. American Consul Sllliman
aid that they took "light supplies"
vith "them. The fact that the two l
nen carried light supplies is believ- ]
id to have been due to the roads beng
too soft for motor trucks because 1
>f heavy rains. It was expected here ]
hat they would immediately arrange i
or the transfer of heavier supplies, <
eft behind at Pachucah, to Mexico
>ity by automobile instead of by j
ailrnmlR whlrh hnvn hoon rloatrnvml
>y military operations. ]
The fact that Mr. Silliman made i
10 reference to disorders or of for- j
dgners in Mexico City was taken ]
lere to Indicate that the foreign ele- j
nent there had not been molested by j
he fighting between the Carranza j
md Zapata forces.
BECKER TO SHARE
GUILT LIKE GOLD !
ro Make Clean Breast If He Must
Hie and Would Lessen
Load.
New York, July 3.?On the author
ly vi ^iiaries uecKer B counsel, Mar- |
in T. Manton it was said today thai
f Becker fails in his appeal to the
Jnited States supreme court he will,
jefore going to the electric chair for
he murder of Herman Rosenthal,
nake a public disclosure of the
lames of the men with whom he is
illeged to have divided $100,000 in
jraft money collected from gamblers
ind keepers of illegal resorts during
lis career as head of the famous
itrnng arm police squad. Six men,
lome of them police department ofn:iale,
are understood to be named in
he statement Becker has prepared.
"Becker will make a clean breast
)f the grafting," said Mr. Manton.
'He will issue a statement not for
>ay, but to djvide the guilt of graft. \
le realizes his perilous position, and
loes not want to die, if die he must,
ind leave a set of men to use others
is ne Das Deen useu. Me vvlanes to
lave the truth off bis mind as soon
is possible."
It Was reported Becker's statement
would attempt to explain the death
>f "Big Tim" Sullivan, who was beieved
to have been killed by a New
Haven Railroad train.
Conflicting statements and denials
ly some of the "informers" against
Becker, and by others, confused the
iituation today. One clear point was
that the "informers" could not deny
their testimony against Becker without
violating the contract under
which they were granted immunity
by the state's representatives. Under
this agreement they were to enjoy
Immunity unless shown to be guilty
if perjury.
.Morgan Better; Assailant III
Glen Cove, L. I., July 5.?J. P.
Morgan, shot twice by Fran'; Holt,
last Saturday, is out of ail danger,
tils physician announced this morn- ,
Ing. Mr. Morgan's pulse and temperature
are normal, they said, and
lie passed a restful night.
Mr. Morgan's asailant was so weak
today that when his keepers went to
tifs cell to arouse him he could not
sit up on his couch. Unless hia condition
Improves rapidly?and physi
"inns say there seemed no icason to
axpect so radical a change?it will be
Impossible (or him to be taken Into
court for examination next Wednesday.
All plans to submit Holt to a further
questioning today were abandoned
because of his serious condition.
To Guard the President.
Cornish, N. H., July 4.?With the
arrival here today of . additional
secret service men, extra precautions
were taken to guard President Wilson
from cranks who might be stirred
up by the assault on J. P. Morgan
?nd the explosion in the capitol at
Washington.
All strangers In Cornish and Windsor
are being carefully scrutinized.
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LANCASTER, S. C. TUJ
)IAZ. FORMER PRESIDENT 1
OF MEXICO. DEAD
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Former President of Mexico I
Passed Away Friday Night.
SICK FOR SOME TIME. I
Had Been Seriously 111 for Three I
Weeks?Wife and Son With Hiin.
Daughters in Mexico.
Paris, July 2.?Gen. Porflrio Diaz
former President of Mexico, died t
lerc early tonight. \
General Diaz's wife, Senora Car- i
nine Homero Rubias and their son, t
Porflrio Diaz, Jr., and the latter's i
wife were by his side when the end >
?ame. i
General Diaz began to fail rapidly t
ibout three weeks aao and while hi? ! *
death was not unexpected, owing to
tiis advanced age and recent failing j
health, the crisis came suddenly this a
afternoon. Porfirio Diaz, Jr., and t
his wife were hastily summoned and j
arrived at the bedisde only a few i
minutes before the end, which came
at 7 o'clock tonight. I
Colonel Diaz, in announcing the <
death of his father, said that he was i
unable to state the nature of the '
malady, but expressed the opinion i
that a complication of diseases due i
to advanced age was the cause. 1
Two tragic circumstances marked 1
the death of the exiled ruler. Owing <
to the troubled state in Mexico it i
has been judged impossible to send ]
the body home with all the ceremony
which would have befitted one
of the figures of Mexican history, l
and further. Col. Porfirio Diaz, Jr. |
has tried in vain to inform his sis- i
ters, Senora Ignacio de La Torre and i
Senora Rincon Gallardo, now in
Mexico, of their father's death.
No less tragic, perhaps, is the fact
that not one of those whom General
Diaz raised up as his assistants in
governing Mexico and who prospered
and grew rich in the shadow of
his greatness were with him when he
died. Jose Yves de La Mentour,
former minister of finance, is in
London; Francisco de la Barra,
former provisional president of Mexico
and holder of other important
positions, and Guillermo de Landa,
former governor of the federal district
in Mexico, are in Biarritz,
France. Scarcely any one outside
the family knew of the seriousness
of General niai'a Mlnooo n. ?><? u
was In Paris.
The end seems to have been due ,
to failure of the heart, weakened by
an attack of grippe last year.
This Illness left the aged ex!le
blind. Nevertheless he walked daily
last spring in the Bois de Boulogne,
which he loved because it resembled
the Chapultepec in Mexico City. He
had been hoping to go to Biarritz
shortly but illness prevented.
General Diaz lived here in sim- ,
plicity, occupying a modest apartment
in striking contrast to the
great houses maintained by friends
who left Mexico with him.
No decision has been made concerning
disposition of the body or
the date of thp funeral.
lluerta Deeply Affected.
Kl Paso Texas, July 2.?Gen. Vic- ^
toriano Huerta. selected by I'orfirio
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Diaz to command the guard that escorted
him from his capital to Vera
Cruz when he left Mexico, sent this
message of condolence tonight to 1
Mrs. Diaz: (
"My family, those sons of Mexico ^
who are about me and I lament Hit ^
news published in the'papers today.
The death of President Diaz has re- '
moved one of the greatest men the
republic has produced."
Twelve Killed by Shell Ktre of Submarine*
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London, July 5.?The British '
steamship \nglo-fallfotninn of I
7,338 tons gross, bound from" Mon- 1
treal, arrived at Queenstown today j '
with a number of dead on board as 1
the result of being shelled by a Oer- j1
man submarine. 1
Twelve men were killed on the AnRio-Californian,
including the cap- lain.
Eight injured men were land- 1
ed at Queenstown. 1
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Schooner Sent Dow n. 11
London, July 6.?The schooner , i
Sunbeam of Kirkwall, Scotland, has i
been sunk by a German submarine, j i
The crew was saved. t
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ESP AY, JULY (>, 191 r>
WIC HAVOC WAS
uinnnniiT nu rum nninu
nnuubm dt tAn.u^iuri
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deception Room of United
States Senate Wrecked.
HUCH DAMAGE WAS DONE.
iCttcr of "R. Pean-e" Detectives
to Connect Morgan's Assailant !
With Dee?l.
Washington, July 3.?Investiga-I
ion of the explosion late last night !
vhieh wrecked the senate reception |
'oom of the national capitol, was inerrupted
tonight by the confession
n New York of Frank-Holt, the man
vho shot J. P. Morgan at his home ,
n Glen Cove, L. I. this morning, 1
hat he also had been responsible for I
he Washington crime.
Early in the day Washington ,
lewspapers received a letter signed '
'R. Pearce," in which the writer ,
itated he had planned the capitol ex- |
jlosion as "the exclamation point to j
ny appeal for Deuce."
While experts were at work satis'ving
themselves that an infernal ma- i
'hine had wrecked the senate room. '
he police were searching for clues. |
rhey could find no trace of the mys- |
:eriou8 "It. Pearce," but tonight they
sought to trace the movements of
Holt who confessed that he came to
Washington yesterday noon and waitid
last night at the union station until
he heard the bomb explode.
MORGAN'S ASSAILANT SUSPECTED.
Hours before Holt's confession. (
iiowever, suspicion was aroused here J
that the assailant of Morgan and the j
man who sought to wreck the capitol
ivere identical. Holt had given utter- ;
ince in New York following his arrest
to statements strikingly similar
to expressions in the "R. Pearce"
letter.
"If Germany should be able to buy
munitions here, we would, of course,
positively refuse to sell to her," Holt
laid after his arrest.
"We would, of course, not sell to j
;he Germans if they could buy here,"
s a statement in the "Pearce" letter. |
Other portions of Holt's interview :
ind the Washington writer's letter
ilso were similar, and officials here
'egarded this as more than a coincllence.
An investigation to establish
i possible connection between the
two crimes was started.
CHEAT HAVOC WROUGHT.
The havoc wrought by the bomb
was terrific. In the reception room
;elephone booths lined the wall near [
the window where the bomb was !
placed behind the telephone switch- 1
ooard. The framework around this i
window was of iron and was shattered
by the concussion. The tele- I
phone booths were blown into splin- '
ters and bits of metal were imbedded
in the splinters gathered up by the I
investigators.
Directly in front of the switchboard
no vestige of which could be
found save a few pieces of the metal,
tvas a mantel on which stood a large
gilt-framed mirror, admired by capIto!
visitors for years. It was shat- \
tered into thousands of pieces and
souvenir hunters, seeking these fragments
had to be restrained by the police
while the inquiry into the explosion
progressed.
An onyx clock a fixture of the reception
room for twenty years, was
ground almost into powder.
Experts declared that the destruction
would have been more complete
bad the recreation room been entirely
closed, but a window was open
ind at the opposite end of the room
Is an arch leading to the senate hail
way. Notwithstanding this outlet
for the force of the explosion, it \
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Ing. The doors leading to the office
sf the sergeant-at-arms of the senate
were wrecked and doors to the office |
of the Vice President were sprung j
from their hinges. The floor of the
room whs sprinkled with bits of the
Kreat chandeliers. The damage to
these will be difficult to repair.
PUT BLAME ON* BOMB.
Early in the day Elliott Woods,
superintendent of the capitol, was
?onvlnced that the wreck was the re-1
suit of a boinb explosion. He summoned
Professor Munroe, who is connected
with the bureau of mines and
geological survey. Professor Munroe
looked Into the debris and soon
satisfied himself that the room ha.l
HUKRTA REMAINS IN JAIL.
No Effort Made to Provide lloml for
Release.
El Paso, Texas, July 4.?Gen Victoriano
Huerta, three former Mexican
generals and two members of his
personal staff, arrested here yesterday
on charges of conspiracy to vio
laie American neutrality laws,?remained
in jail here tonight. Apparently
no effort was made today to
provide bond for their release.
Huerta's attorneys conferred with
him at the jail but no one else was
permitted to see him. It * understood
an effort will be made to get
bonds for the men Tuesday.
Whether last week's developments
mean the abandonment of a new revolutionary
movement has created a
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w...oiv>u ui upiiiiun even among
Huerta's adherents. Certain persons
close to Huerta say his arrest
merely has delayed action, but
others say that any organized movement
has been indelinitely postponed.
That Pascual Orozco, who escaped
from his guards Saturday, has reach\fttvlnn
to ^
...^^io luuicueu, urozco is reported
to have joined a small party
of his followers east of Juarez and
from his camp across the river to
have summoned his partisans to join
him in an attempt to wrest Juarez
from Villa.
BID GODSPEED
TO LIBERTY BELL
Elaborate Precautions Taken to
(>iiar<l ltelic From Injury on
Trip to Exposition.
Philadelphia, July 4.?Thousands
io jimepenuence nail today to
bid godspeed to the Liberty bell
which will be started tomorrow across
the continent to the Panama-Pacific
Exposition. The journey will be the
longest ever made by the bell and
elaborate arrangements have been
made to guard it from injury. Along
the route preparations have been
made for patriotic demonstrations
that promise to surpass any that have
marked the progress of the bell on
previous pilgrimages.
T\V'pl VP nf tbo IK
i<> guicriiurs
through whose states the bell will
pass have replied to invitations of
council's Liberty bell committee to
travel on the special train within
their respeitive borders.
The train that will carry the hell
will consist of five cars in addition
to the bell car. To avoid shocks and
eliminate vibration the all steel gondola
car on whic hthe bell will ride
lias been equipped with specially designed
springs. The car has been
tested on trial runs at all speeds up
to 55 miles and even at the highest
speed vibration was barely perceptible.
The bell will be suspended in the
center of the car from a huge frame
of seasoned ash, weighing about a
ton. In order that people near whose
home the relic will pass at night may
see it, a special lighting system has
been designed for the car. A larg
reflector has been arranged so that
the light will be sufficient to give an
excellent view of the bell from a distance
of at least a mile.
Folindce Takes Warning.
Tnrrytown, N. Y., July 5.?John
D. Rockefeller has ordered his Poeantelico
Hills estate closed to visitors
and has had the guard doubled, it
was said here tonight. Only employes
are permitted with the
grounds.
been wrecked by a dynamite bomb
and could not have been an accident.
The letter sent to the newspaper
was a rambling argument against exports
of war munitions to Europe.
I DON' T BLAME GERMANS OR
BRYAN.
"By the way," said the writer at
| the outset of his argument, "don't
j blame this on the Germans or 0:1
Bryan. 1 am an old-fashioned American
with a conscience, if it is not .>
sin to have a conscience. * * * *
Let each nation make her own mankilling
machines. Sorry I had to
use explosives. (For the last time.
1 trust.) It is the export kind and
ought to make enough noise to he
heard above the voices that clamcr
for war and blood money. This explosion
is tho exclamation point to
mv aoDeal for oeace."
He closed his letter with a proposal
for a referendum on the ck
tlon of war exports, which he characterized
"a collossal American
crime."
Part of his letter was typewritten
and part was written with a pen.
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$1.50 A YKAK.
MORGAN COMPANY'S
MUNITION ORDERS
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Hiik HanillA^ t\
Worth of Munition Contracts.
MOST OF IT FOR ENGLAND.
Only Small Amount of St till' Ordered!
Has llecn h'oruardtHl to
Purehasers.
New York, July 4.?In explaining
the part J. P. Morgan had taken in
the furnishing of war munitions and
supplies for the European nations at
; war, it was stated authoritatively
here tonight that the firm had handled
more than $500,000,000 worth of
| contracts for the account of foreign
governments since the war began.
Of this amount about $400,000 -
j 000 worth has been purchased for
the British since the Morgan firm
was appointed agents for Great
Britain in this country, and $50,000,000
worth for the French contracted
for within the last month, the Morgan
firm having been appointed by
the French government to act in the
same capacity as it does for the British
government.
i About one-half of the total amount
contracted for in this country repj
resents contracts for ammunition,
1 ?hells, powder and the like, but of
the whole amount of ammunition
i contracted for only a small part, it
| was stated had been forwarded to
the purchasers. The remainder is
' being manufactured.
The Morgan firm's commissions for
placing the contracts was said to be
on a sliding scale, which began at 2
per cent and decreased in proportion
to the magnitude of the contracts.
It was claimed that of the total
of $450,000,000 worth of war supplies
contracted for by the Morgan
I firm only a small proportion had
been paid, although advances have
j been made to some Arms,
i This explanation was given to correct
the impression that the large
purchases of war supplies had beej^
responsible for the fall of foreign exchange.
The low quotations were
(due, it was stated, to enormous purI
chases in this country of grain and
. foodstuffs.
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WOl ur JUlVlJNljr
SOARS YET HIGHER
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Workitigmcn Paid Two IVr Cent
More for Koo<l in 1014 Than in
1013, Say Statistics.
Washington, July 3.?The cost of
living in the United States is higher
now than it ever has been before.
.This fact is shown in statistics which
: the United States department of la'
bor has just published in regard to
retail prices in the United States.
These statistics show that for fifteen
articles which are served on
the table of workingmen in the UniI
ted States the average price for the
year 1014 was 2 per cent higher
I than in 1913, and about 5V& per
I cent higher than in 1912. In other
I words, the American workingman is
I now paying an average price of 102
i?? i >.ciu ioi ?uai n?* goi in xni.i ior
100 per cent, and In 1012 for 07.4
per cent. The statistics show that
the cost of living has increased
steadily for these fifteen articles
since 1007, when the average price
was only 81.9. In 1008 it jumped to
84.2; in 1909 to 88.6; in 1910 to
i 02.0; in 1911 to 91.9, and so on up
to 102, the average price which the
American workingman paid in 1014.
The figures show that the highest
prices in 1014 were reached in September
when the price of all foods
was 7.1 per cent higher than the average
price for 1018. The lowest
point was reached in April, when the
price was 2.5 per cent lower than the
average price in 1012.
Toll of Death on the Fourth.
Chicago, July 5.?Right persons
were killed and 177 injured as a result
of Fourth of July celebrations
throughout the nation yesterday, according
to figures compiled today by
Tlio ehl,.o<rn T~ I- IftlJ *> -
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total number of victims was !? hilled
and 601 injured.
The fire los.-, due to accidents combined
with the use of explosives yesterday
was $66,550, compare'1 to the
loss of $7 6,035 last year.