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_THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-IIERALD
VOLUME xxxxm __ BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, MONDAY, JULY 7. 1913 _XU MBEK 62
HEAVY FIGHTING
TO SOUTH OF ISTIP
About 200,000 Bulgarians
and Servians Are En
gaged—Losses Heavy
_ /
DESTITUTE REFUGEES
FLEE TO SALONIKI
Wrecks Occupy Doiran Right Wing,
Taking Possession of Oriiakon.
Bulgarian Ministers Have
Been Recalled
London, -Inly 8.—After 10 days' fighting,
more severe than anything In the last Bal
kan war, a little light begins to break
upon the obscure operations. The Ser
vians have lost mere men than in the
whole previous campaign, and semi-orfl
clal statements from Belgrade have the
spl-carance ol preparing the public for
1 tws of a disaster.
Desperate fighting with fluctuating for
tunes is proceeding along the Vardar and
.Kregollnitsa rivers, apparently to Bul
garia's advantage. %ews has been re
ceived of tlin Bulgarian invasion of Servla
through Belogradchyk. The Bulgarians
claim to have defected the Servians and
captured five guns and a quantity of other
war material and by m eoccupatlon of
tlie passes, to have opened the road to
Kish, Servla's most Important fortified
town.
There is heavy fighting between the
Servians and Bulgarians south of Istlp,
sod In tho neighborhood of Kotchana.
About -00,000 men are engaged ami the
losses on both sides Rppear heavy.
Bulgaria's strategy appears to be to
hold the Greeks in rheck, probably with
comparatively small forces, wbile site
deals wlt.li Servla.
I'noonflrmed reports credit the Bul
garians with victories near Koprill, giving
them the key to Uskup, and with an out
flanking movement from the south of
Tahynos lake, which would cut off the
Greek retreat. Salonlkl dispatehts report
that the Greeks have captured 16 guns
at Doiran. Ktidencc of desperate fighting
is found In the arrival or 8000 wounded
at Salonlkl. A conservative estimate of
the killed or disabled in last week's fight
ing Is lrom 30.000 to tn.000. Thousands of
destitute refugee.'; front the scene of the
fighting are pouring into Salonlkl. The
Greeks have made charges against the
Bulgatians of burning end pillaging all
the villages they a non don, and of com
mitting murders, mutilations and other
horrors.
St. Peterhurg. July 6.—The Reoh as
sorts that pourparlers are passing be
tween Greece, Servia, Montenegro and
RunialnJa .with the obiect of forming a
new quadruple alliance. Rumor* are
persistent that Turkey threatens war
unless Bulgaria evacuates Rodeato and
the roast of Marmora.
Accept War With Bulgaria
Washington, July 6.—The Greek le
gation herr was informed, by 11s gov
ernment today that without Informal
declaration Greece, Servia and Monte
negro have accepted war with Bulgaria;
that the Greek secretary of state had
notified the Bulgarian minister at
Athens he consfdeerd the latter's mis
sion at an end and that the Greek min
ister at Sofia had been instructed to
return home.
Creeks Occupy Doiran
Athens. July 6.—The Bulgarian min
ister has left Salonlltl. The Greeks have
occupied Doiran, and the right wing
has taken possession of Orliakon. on
the river Strymon. Advices from head
quarters say that news Is continually
arriving of fresh victories.
Ministers Recalled
.Sofia, July 6.—The Bulgarian minis
ters at Belgrade and Cettlnje have been
recalled and the Bulbarian Interests
have been confided to Russia. The So
bianje has been convoked for Tuesday.
Belgrade, July ft.—The Servian govern
ment has addressed a note o Bulgaria,
formally breaking off diploma t relations
and announcing the recall of her minister.
Servian troops have entered Kotcliani.
, .\ semi-official statement claims that Ser
via has prev •nted Bulgaria from execu.
lug her plan of gaining possession of ,hn
Macedonian territories, which she wished
to occupy pending • rhltratiou. The state
ment says the Servians succeeded in ■••e
I elllng tlm Bulgarian advance. The Ser
vian army gradually assumed the offen
sive and t'n ■ Servians forced the Hul
varlan right whig back over the River
Qregallnltxa. Another semi-official com
munication nh.vs hist week's battles cost
the Servians 15,000 killed and wounded, the
Bulgarians 20.000.
According to the 'atest advices the Ser
vians have lccapiured K'rlvoluk. where a
desperate battle has been raging three
days.
OFFICER IS SHOT BY
* WOULD-BE RESCUERS
Knoxville, Tenn., July 6.—Night Police
man J. S. Silcox of LaFollette, Tenn., shot
ami .seriously wounded Lee Rucker and
Bait Heatherby at that place last night.
The two men, it is charged, were trying to
get a prisoner whom Silcox had arrested. |
Today Deputy Sheriff Charles Scarboro
shot and killed .wo negro miners at
Habersham, near LaFollette. They re- j
stated arrest. Scarboro fired but two 1
tshots, a bullet piercing the heart of each.
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TODAY’S AGE-HERALD
1—Heavy fighting among armies in Bal
} kans.
j Strike settlement in Rand district
jt proves ineffective.
] Girl sees mother’s brain blown out.
§ Opposing forces within striking
distance.
Simmons believes five weeks enough
| for tariff debate.
, Perry centennial at Erie, Pa.
|-How Jesus deals with the doubter.
Programme announced for institute
workers.
Crowd hears band in Capitol park.
9—Sta news section.
4—Editorial comment.
g—Corner stone of Catholic church laid
j at Cullman.
: Contempt cases against grocers will
begin today.
[ lacy’s theft sure to he conspicuous
| in coming campaign.
No change in policy of Alabama Power
company.
The w'eather in Birmingham.
fr-Sports. *
7— Society employs army of watchers for
* own purposes.
$~iCotton exchanges get serious blow by
T.
STRIKE SETTIENIENT
IS INEFFECTIVE
Mobs Reassemble, Traffic Is
Suspended and Newspa
pers Unable to Publish
ADDITIONAL TROOPS
GUARD RAND CLUB
Resolution Adopted To Recall Strike
Month Hence Should Grievances
Not Be Adequately Settled.
Suggest Gladstone Recall
Johannesburg, July fi.—The settle
ment of the strike among the gold
miners in the Rand district, which the
government arranged with a commit
tee of strikers yesterday has proved
ineffective, although comparative order
was preserved over night and today.
The mobs reassembled today. All
trains and street cars suspended serv
ice, the crews refusing to work and
no newspapers were able to publish.
Additional troops guarded the Rand
club, the scene of serious encounters
Saturday. A great mob assembled there
hooting ami jeering the troops. Up to
midnight there had been no serious
trouble but armed police everywhere
were guarding property.
At a mass meeting this evening to
celebrate the strikers’ victory, the
leaders strongly ' deprecated the pro
posal to employ force to liberate the
rioters arrested during the disturb
ances. The suggestion that Governor
General Gladstone’s recall be demand
ed was greeted with cheers.
Ravor Accepting Settlement
A ballot of the Amalgamated Society
of Engineers of the Whole Reef gave
a vast majority in favor of accepting
the proposed settlement. The council
of the society adopted a resolution
to call a strike a month hence should
the grievances not be adequately re
dressed.
The opinion is general that the gov
ernment has made serious blunders
throughout the present trying situa
tion. The federated unions are flushed
with success and the trades unionists
leaders have commanded the newspa
pers to cease publication until further
notice. They count on the government’s
fear of the natives, ilOO.OOO of whom
are locked in the compounds at the
mines, who might start looting and
killing If unloosed. The tot ms of the
settlement lulled to stipulate when the
men should . otufn to .Vork. toils'leav
ing matters In a chaotic condition.
Casualties resulting from the fight
ing Saturday are now estimated at 110.
Two officers, three soldiers and several
policemen were wounded.
Strike Leaders Lack Power
Strike leaders apparently lacked
power tonight to get the men to ac
cept terms dissatisfaction is ex
pressed. A spirit of anarchy has been
aroused which is difficult to control.
A great crowd of strikers wearing red
budges surrounded the Carlton hotel
while the terms of settlement were be
ing arranged last night. When the
leaders announced from the balcony
that a settlement had been reached
they were greeted with shouts of
“What about (he dead?” “You’ve been
bought.”
The editors of the various newspa
pers conferred with the federated
union’s leaders tonight with the result
that the Typographical union will pub
lish a paper giving colorless reports of
events.
Except at the times of the Jameson
raid in lN9tJ and the outbreak of the
war in 1899. this city lias not exper
ienced such a day of terrorism as Sat
urday. The mobs in the business sec
tion caus<*d less fear than desperadoes
who were threatening to dynamite the
homes of the wealthy. All places of
business were closed and guarded by
troops while bands of citizens armed
with rifles patrolled the residential
quarter.
Rand Club Attacked
The strikers lirst made a raid on the i
Rand club, whose members are mine j
owners. Three times the dragoons scat
tered the mob, which quickly re-formed. ,
The troops then fired two volleys di
rectly imo the rioters’ ranks and the
rioters fled, leaving behind many
killed and wounded.
After almost three hours’ fighting
delegates from the strike committee
marched through flu* streets under a1
white flag, ordering the men to return
to their homes.
The strike leaders said at midnight that
the terms of settlement were being ac
cepted all along the reef.
Recall Demanded
■ Pretoria, Transvaal, July C. -The recall
of the governor general of the 1'nlon of
South Africa, Viscount Gladstone, because
he employed troops to suppress the strike,
Is demanded by the federated trades
unions in resolutions adopted at a meet
ing today.
Plant of Bolling & Powers
Burned* to Ground in
Nashville Sunday
\
Nashville, July B.—Three hundred and
fifty animals—300 hogs and BO head of cat
tle—were cremated today when the big
stock yards of Bollnt & Powers burned
to the ground within 30 minutes after the
alarm was turned in. The fire was discov
ered shortly after noon, and burned si
fiercely that the tanks of the Nashville
Gas company, across the street, were ex
pected to explode. Three streams of
water saved the gas plant, while a cordon
of police forced the big crowd that had
collected out of the danger zone. Auto
engine No. 10, recently purchased, was
caught in a mass of flame when the wind
veered, hut ire firemen jumped anu es
caped lnjur o The wind shifted back at\d
the engine was saved. The property loss
is estimated at about 325.000. The stock
yards burned last Thanksgiving and were
but recently rebuilt.
MACEDONIA IS AGAIN THE SCENE
OF ANOTHER BITTER STRUGGLE
THE KING w .
OF THE HELLENES
rnoM -!■»» BtHMUakAMBOlTIffM »tm HWMU
The Bulgarian ministq' 't Athens
has been recalled and / /*• ave for
Sofia. Before giving r V^^ne called
on the Greek governn; f order ces
sation of hostilities./ j/To protested
against the capture ySie Bulgarian
detachment at Sa/
Macedonia is ■ ne scene of a
bitter war. Th/ OjpY the Balkan al
lies are fight;" o ^Tong themselves,
with Servia a/ *ece apparently in
flicting heavy ^ .nages on the sup
posedly invincible Bulgarian armies.
.WUN&
■PETER.CJF
SBTeVIA
-FERDmXnr'
Wap showing Tire principal places involved m new
outbreak
EE
No Inquest Necessary in the
Strong Tragedy in Madi
son—Funeral Saturday
Afternoon
Huntsville, July 6.—(Special.)—No cor
oner’s inquest of Ben Strong's murder of
his wife and his suicide, which followed
immediately after, at their home near
Merldianville was necessary. Coroner
Laughlin ascertained that a son and
daughter of the couple had seen the trag
edy. There was no doubt of how it oc
curred and consequently no necessity for
an inquest.
Ethel Strong, a small daughter, saw the
first, shot fired by her father. As the shot
-vafc tired ftfe w-mab threw up left
hand and the arm was almost shot away
at the wrist. The girl then ran out of the
house and no one saw’ the second shot.
She w’as afarid that her father would be
gin shooting at her and made her escape
to MeridJanville, where she gave the
alarm. A younger son, who is mentally
afflicted, w’ent in the room Just after his
mother had been killed and asked his
father if he w’as going to shoot anybody
else, and the reply was: ’Yes, 1 am going
to kill myself." The boy stated that his
father had whittled out a forked stick to
pull the trigger of the shotgun in com
mitting suicide. Strong went into a bed
room a few minutes after killing his wife
and placing the muzzle of the gun over
his heart, touched the trigger with the
forked stick and fell over dead.
The burial of Mr. and Mrs. Strong took
place at Maple Hill cemetery in Hunts
ville Saturday afternoon, and it was one
of the saddest funerals ever witnessed in
that historic burial place. Led by two
hearses, (he funeral procession became
longer and longer as It approached the
city. The murdered wife and suicide were
buried side by side.
Friends of the dead man believe that
he had been insane for years, tyut they
ndver expected him to experience such
a murderous outbreak. He had apparently
planned the tragedy hours In advance, for
his. sou saw’ him w hittling on the forked
stick during the early morning. There are
five surviving children of the couple. Tur
ner Strong, Robert Strong, Balridge
Strong and Ethel Strong, and a married
daughter, Mrs. Battle of Denver.
The campaign for city commissioner to
succeed Commissioner R. E. Smith, whose
term will expire next October, was
launched this morning, Turner Petty, a
well known lawyer, being the first candi
date to announce himself. The election
will be held September lo, and there will
be three and probably four candidates.
A brilliant meteor passed over this lo
cality at 10:30 o'clock Saturday night go
ing from south to northeast. The meteor
apparently burned Itself out in the dis
tance, leaving a trail of sparks.
All of the county officials have finished
moving their office equipment from the
historic old courthouse' to the temporary
offices in the Elks' building, and business
is now going on in the temporary court
house as smoothly as ever before. Con
tractors will take charge of the old build
ing Monday.
WASHINGTON “DRY”
Washington, July 6.—'Washington was
actually '(lrv” today, probably, for the
first time In its history. It wds the first
Sunday of ‘he new Jones-Work* excise
law for the District of Columbia, and its
strict provisions were enforced to the let
ter, Not even a bona fide registered guest
at a. hotel could 1 ave a drink with *i
meal, and the exclusive clubs could serve
no liquor.
Camoys Have Heir
London, July 0.—A son was born last
night to Lady Camoys, who was Miss Mil
dred Sherman of Newport,, before her
marriage to Lord Camoys at New York in
November, 19H1.
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4 HAVOC WROUGHT BY •
4 CYCLONE IN WAY CROSS 4
4 4
4 Waycross, Ga., July 6.—Three 4
4 churches, two negro and one 4
4 white, and five frame houses 4
4 were almost completely de- 4
4 stroyeu here today by a cyclonic *
4 storm. No loss of life has been 4
4 reported. Many other buildings 4
4 were badly damaged. 4
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Federals and Constitutional
ists Between Panuco
and Candela
STRENGTH OF THE
FEDERALS UNKNOWN
German Mining Engineer Shot As a
Spy By Federals at Torreon.
American Arrested on Se
rious Charge
El Paso. July 6.-—Federal and constitu
tionalists in Coahuila have arrived within
strj^ng.. dfsttp*.f:e of e'-; i other between
Panuco and Candela, 40 miles west of
Monclova. according to news received to
day at Pledras Negrao, opposite Eagle
Pass, and the headquarters of VenustJano
Carranza, leader of the rebels in the north
of Mexico. Carranza left Moncldva Thurs
day with 3000 men. The strength of the
federals, with whom he is expected to
give battle, is not known.
Mining Engineer Shot
Eagle Pass, Tex.. July 6.—Gustavo
Hanson, said to have been a German min
ing engineer, was shot last Sunday as a
»py by Mexican federals at Torreon, and
Francisco Martinez, an American citi
zen, has been arrested by the rebels at
Colombia, Coahuila, where he is manager
of an American owned ranch, charged
with giving information to the federals.
according to repeats reaching Pledras Ne
gras today. The report of Hanson’s al
leged execution came from Carranza
i sources at Monclova, and were said to
have been brought from Torreon by an
American refugee, whose name is not
given. A report of Martinez's arrest has
j been made to \ nited States Consul
Luther T. Ellsworth at Pledras Negrafl,
to which place he is being hurried by his
captors.
THEATRICAL MANAGER
DIES OF TETANUS
Jules Bistes of The New Orleans Or
pheum Dead After Twenty
four Hours’ Illness
New Orleans, July 6.—After suffering
more than 24 hours with tetanus with
out knowing how he became infected,
Jules Bistes, aged 34. resident manager
of the Orphum theatre and well known
in southern theatrical circles, died early
today at a hospital here. There were
no abrasions on the body and physi
cians have been unable to definitely
ascertain how Mr. Bistes became in
fected.
While at a resort Friday he com
plained of pains in Ids shoulders and
neck and spoke of it being difficult for
him to place a cigar between his teeth.
At that time an impediment in speech
was the subject of jesting friends. A
widow survives him.
-.
FRANCIS BOWERS SAYRE
Francis Bowers Sayre, whose en
gagement to Miss Jessie Wilson, sec
ond daughter of the President, is a
process server in the district attor
ney’s office in New York. He belongs
to the old and wealthy family of
Pennsylvania, which built and partly
owned the Lehigh Valley railway.
KILLING OF SHERIFF
Body Shot by Hundred Guns
and Revolvers and Ears
Severed for Souvenirs
By the Mob
Jacksonville, Fla.. July 6.—Shot and
killed by the fire from 100 guns and
revolvers, then mutilated by the sev
erance of his ears, w as the fatc-today
of Roscoe Smith, a negro, at Yellow
River, near here. The lynching followed
the shooting and killing of Sheriff T.
S. Cherry of Clay county, Florida, by
the negro.
The sheriff, accompanied by a dep
uty, went to Yellow River to inves
tigate a report that gambling was go
ing on in a turpeijtire stlfl there. He
found the negro, armed with a shot
gun, walking in the road near the mill.
The latter was commanded to stop, the
sheriff at the same time leaving his
buggy and starting toward the negro.
In reply Smith fired his shotgun at
the officer, the load entering his side
and killing him Instantly.
A mob of more than 100 men formed
and the negro was captured several
miles from the scene of the shooting.
He was returned to the place of the
crime, commanded to walk down the
road and then riddled with bullets.
The members of the mob then
surged about the body, cutting off
pieces of Ills ears for souvenirs.
RELIEF FROM HEAT
—.
Showers Probable Over the
Missouri and Mississippi
Valleys This Week
Washington. July 6.—Relief from the
I eat wave was promised today in the
weather bureau’s weekly bulletin, which
states that present pressure distribution
over' the no; them hemisphere Indies cs
that unseasonably high temperatures need
not be expected during the coming week.
It will be cooler during the first part of
the week over the eastern portion of the
country, followed by some rise in temper
ature.
High press re and generally fair w'eafh
er will prevail during the week over the
greater portion of the country. A moder
ate disturbance is now off the extrema
north Pacific coast, but its eastward
movement will probably not be attended
by more than local showers over the
r orthwest during the early portion of the
week and possibly over the Missouri and
upper Mississippi valleys about the mid
dle of the week.
CHARITY WORKERS
MEET IN SEJATTLE
Seattle. Wash., Tuly <».— Many prom
inent speakers attending the National
Conference of Charities and Correction
appeared in the pulpits of Seattle churches
today. In l!»e afternoon a large au
dience attended the conference devotion
al exercises at a theatre. The confer
ence sermon was delivered by Rev. A. A.
McKelwane of Atlanta, Ga.
At a general session tonight in tlie
j Broadway High school auditorium Rev.
| Brother Barnabas, superintendent of the
! Lincoln Agricultural sc hool of Uncoln
dale, N. J.. read of the report of the
'citizens* committee and F. J. Sessions, su
perintendent of the Soldiers’ Orphan
Horne, Dnvtnport, la., spoke on “Voca
tional Training Institutions."
STRIKING EMPLOYES
WILL RETURN TO WORK
—
| Cincinnati. July 6.—Following confer
ences today between representatives of the
unions affected, and ice manufacturers,
striking employes decided to return to
work tomorrow, thus ending th«* three
weeks' strike which lias caused much suf
lering and B reed the city authorities t »
weir.e the ice plants and operate them **0*
the city. Tile drivers and helpers an
granted increased pay and recognition of
their union will be considered. The engi
neers and firemen’s union will be recog
nized.
ERIE CELEBRATES
1 GOTH ANNIVERSARY
Chimin# of Church Bells
and Boomin# of Cannon
Opens Event
THOUSANDS VISIT
OLD FIGHTING VESSEL
Replica of Train Which Carried Am
munition for Perry’s Squadron
Arrives Today—Secretary
of War to Attend
Erie, Pa.. July fi.—True to their con
viction that their observance of the
one hundredth anniversary of Com
modore Perry's victory on Lake Erie
was more to commemorate a century
of peace than to gloat over the fallen
foe. the chiming of church hells and
the booming of cannon tliIh morning
formal opened the celebration of the
event in Erie.
“Peace Sunday" was the name given
to the occasion by \V. Pitt Gifford,
chairman of the Perry centennial com
mission. and throughout the day there
Was no deviation from the title. Spe
cial services were held in all the
churches in the morning and a great
throng tilled Perry Square in the af
ternoon when churchmen of all denom
inations gathered in a mass meeting.
The Rev. Dr. Rogers Israel, bishop
of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Erie delivered the invocation. State
Senator Henry A. Clark and Charles j
E. English of Erie, made the principal
addresses and the Rev. John E. Fltz
maurlce, bishop of the Roman Catholic
diocese of Erie pronounced the bene
diction.
Electrical Display
At dusk tonight the electricity was
switched on in the court of honor and
sent through the miles of wire stretch
ed through the principal streets. From
these wires hung approximately 100.V
000 incandescent lamps. In the harbor,
moored to a dock near the point from
which she sailed at the head of Com
modore Perry's little fleet a century
ago to find the British ships in the
western waters of Lake Erie, lies the
Niagara. Thousands of visitors were
handed up the gang plank of th« old
fighting vessel by sailors from tin*
Wolverine. Each sailor knew the story
of how. years after Perry bad swept
the British from the Great Lakes, the
Niagara had sunk in Misery Bay near
Erie and how she had been raised and
reproduced from the drawings used by
the shipbuilder who gave her form and
being.
The Erie celebration will continue*'
throughout the week. Already thou
sands of persons have arrived from all
parts of the country. Tho programme
tomorrow provides for the entrance
Into the city of the replica of the train
which carried the ammunition for
Perry's squadron across rvnnsylvania.
The train has been at Waterford since
Saturday. It will be escorted into the
city by a squadron of cavalry of the
Pennsylvania National Guard.
The first important spectacle of the
centennial will take place in the even
ing and will commemorate the arrival
into Erie of Commodon* Perry im
personated by Ludwig Meyer, a local
resident. He will be escorted by ;i pag
eant to Peril Square. where Mayer
Etein will give him the keys to the
city.
The school children will occupy the
greater part of the time Tuesday, more
than 12.000 of them having been drilled
for the parade. Wednesday will be
Governor's day with Governor Tenet
and the chief executives of eight other
states us the guests of the city.
Secretary Daniels Coming
Secretary of the Navy Daniels is ex
pected to deliver an address Thursday,
which has been given over .to the
naval parade and the fraternal socie
ties will take up all of Friday. The
celebration will end Saturday with tin*
industrial pageant and in the evening
the Niagara will depart for Cleveland
where the next number of the centen
nial celebrations will be held next j
week.
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LAST BREAKFAST IS
SERVEDTO VETERANS
Less Than 300 Remain in
Camp for Final Night
in Gettysburg
Gettyeburg, July 6.—The serving of the
last breakfast anti the departure of the
last train of veterans this morning marked
the actual closing of the celebration of
the fiftieth rnnfvcrsary of the battle of
Gettysburg.
Less than 300 veterans remained in camp
for the last night. Work of dropping the
tents will be started tomorrow. The stab*
police probably will leave tomorrow. The
students' military camp to instruct young
men in tacti-w will open tomorrow on the
site of the big camp with about 40 col
leges represented.
ACTOR KILLS WIFE
AN1) THEN SUICIDES
Jealousy Believed To Have Led Frank
Bailey to Commit Double Crime
in Kansas City
Kansas City. .July 6.—Jealousy prompted
Frank Bailey. dj vaudeville aetor
of Atlanta. Cla.. to shoot and kill his
wife and team mate, atuzle Kdwards of
Denver, and to commit suicide here today.
The woman was asleep when Bailey tired
the fatal shot. The pair were married In
Chicago three years ago. after playing In
the same bill at Chicago. In the last year
Bailey had become extremely jealous.
The pair came here Saturday night to
open a v.t-.k’s engagement. TJarly today
two shot* wi re heats] In their rooms. A
friehd Investigated and found the woman
In bed with e gaping wound in the ItaoK
of her head and Motley upon the floor, a
revolver In bis hand. A bullet had pierced
Ids brain. A lelt r found in the room
bore the return address of Mrs. V. IS.
Bailey, &i Kennedy street, Atlanta, Ga.
SIMMONS BELIEVES
FIVE WEEKS ENOUGH
DEBATE ON MIFF
Prominent Republicans Are
in Doubt If Bill Can Be
Disposed of So Quickly
BILL GETS BACK TO
SENATE THIS WEEK
LaFollettc Prime Mover in Opposition
to Bill—I^obby Investigations
Will Again Occupy Atten
tion of Congress
Washington, July 6.—Republican
members of the Senate have been quiet
ly preparing for some weeks for the
attack that Is to be made on the tJn
dorwood-Siminona tariff bill, when it
gifts back into the Semite late this
week. While a programme of tariff
policy has not been laid out by the
republicans, lending representatives of
the party in the Senate have prepared
amendments, substitute schedules and
protection arguments, directed at many
of the important sections of the demo
cratic bill.
Give Week’s Debate
Chairman Simmons of the Senate
finance committee, who will bring the
bill in from the committee with the
seal of the democratic caucus approval
upon it, estimates that five weeks will
be enough to wind up general debate
and discussion of the measure to se
cure a vote on ils final passage.
Prominent republican senators doubt
whether the tariff can be disposed of
in the Senate in that time.
The bill has been in the democratic
caucus for more than two weeks. While
the party members wore practically
agreed upon the general scope of tar
iff revision before the caucus began,
it lias taken much longer than had
been expected to smooth over debated
questions and something has been said
about an agreement on tariff rates, in
come tax and other important features
in the bill.
The democrats are not yet in com
plete harmony over the measure be
cause of the insistence of some west
ern and southern senators that tree
sugar and free wool plans of the ad
ministration be modified. An attempt
is to be made late tomorrow to put
a binding rule through the caucus,
pledging every democrat to vote down
amendments in the Senate and to sup
port the bill in its entirety. Pronounced
opposition to tills plan exists within tho
party ranks.
Republicans Will Oppose
riven though thd democrats may
adopt the unit rule and attempt to
damp put all «Hu»osttlou to the bill
that might come from sugar and wool
districts, the republican loaders will
use every effort on the door to break
the democratic ranks. Advocates of
protective dyties on these articles and
on many others that have been greatly
reduced by the democratic bill will
seek to muster strength from the
sugar and wool states to effect de
sired changes.
Two views of the public attitude
are shown in the work that has been
done by Senator Smoot of Utah and
Senator UaFollette of Wisconsin in
preparation for the approaching tight
in the Senate. Senator Smoot has pre
pared amendments to scores of the
democratic items and will offer a com
plete substitute lor the democrats’
wool tariff plan. Ills proposal will be
for a substantial reduction in raw wool
and manufactured goods on such a
basis that a reasonable protection will
l>e retained.
LaFollette Prime Mover
Senator LuFollette has been at work
for weeks with the aid of experts, pre
paring substitute schedules for muny
sections of the Underwood-Simmons
bill. He also has attacked the woolen
and cotton schedules and is prepared
to make a long light In the effort to
rally republicans, progressives and
some democrats to the support of a
woolen tariff that will be much below
the present rates, but will preserve
some protection. It, Is expected, how
ever, that the LaFollette proposals will
suggest much lower rates than those
to lie made by Senator Smoot.
other republican senators have been
working upon various features of the
tariff revision and will Insist upon dis
cussing from every angle reductions
they think threaten the life of Amer
ican industries. It is believed that tho
tariff debate, even should it start the
liist of next week, us the democratic
leaders now expect, will not he con
cluded In the Senate before the latter
part of August.
Lobby Investigations
Lobby Investigations, which grew
out of the tariff revision, but have gone
fur beyond Its realm, promise to en
gross the attention or uongress again
this week. The Senate’s investigating
committee will begin tomorrow a series
of hearings that Is expected to last
for two weeks or more. Interest will
center about the activities of officers
in the National Association of Manu
facturers. who have been charged by
Martin M. Mulhall. one of their for
mer employes, with being engaged In
a genera] attempt to influence legisla
tion and to control tit** election of mem
bers of Congress.
Should the House succeed Wednes
day in adopting the resolution debuted
In that body yesterday, the Mulhall in
vestigation will be a double barrelled
affair, with committees working upon
It at each end of the capltol.
The Senate committee will dispose
of witnesses connected with Wall street
activities and with the activity in
Washington in support of tariff duties
on sugar and wool before taking up
the Mulhall charge.
Washington, July 6.—Edward Lau»er
baeh. the New York lawyer, about whom
centered th* extraordinary activities f
"David Lamar,” has been subpoenaed ro
appear tomorrow morning at 10:30 o’clock
a fid probably will be the first witness be
fore the Senate committee.
It was an effort i > get Lauterbach a job
with the Union Pacific railro.d or other
interests that Lamar said he schemed and
planned and Impersonated congressmen.
He represented Lauterbach as a m n
who could 'grease the wheels” at Wash
ington.
The currency and banking committee of
the chamber of commerce of the United
States will meet, in Washington July 9, to
consider currency reform legislation
pending in Uongress. It had been intend*
ed to have the various groups of th*
committee meet in their respective sec
tions, but because of the importance of
the subjects to \v* considered the first
Joint meeting in the history of the organ
ization was decide I upon. Members ex
pected lo attend include: F. H. Holteii
berg, Little Rock. Ark.; J. A Pondrpn,
Texarkana. Ark., end Charles Godchaux#
New Orleans, La.