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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1914
Page
17
In Eccles West Virginia a gas explosion buried 203 miners in Nos 4 and 6 of the New River Coal Company. Four dead and 59 rescued were reported as rescuers battled flames in shafts 5 and 6. The town of 1500 watched as cages returned with two injured and several corpses.
President Wilson extends federal protection to Colorado where riots and clashes between mine guards and striking miners overwhelmed state militia. Colorado officials and industry groups joined the request. Federal troops will stay to maintain order until state authority is restored. Troops from Fort Leavenworth and Fort Russell ordered to Trinidad and Canon City.
Plans published at Governor's Island outline camps for National Guard units across the east. The sites include Staten Island New York Mount Gretna Pennsylvania Hale Thorpe Maryland Seagirt New Jersey New Castle Delaware and Macon Georgia.
In concluding remarks of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association convention speakers urged abolishing the New York cotton exchange if Congress cannot regulate it to enforce its proper functions. A resolution, proposed by Lewis W. Parker, called for federal action to compel reform or abolition.
Secretary McAdoo announced the treasury department expects the new federal reserve banks to be ready for business by August 1. The Reserve Bank Organization Committee reported $71,998,600 in subscriptions to stock across the twelfth districts, with six districts already exceeding the $4,000,000 minimum to organize the banks.
The United States faced a 150 million dollar loss in meat animals in 1913 due to disease and exposure. Cattle hogs and sheep losses reached 122 million from disease and 28 million from exposure, with 7,005,000 hogs killed and cholera driving the bulk of the damage. Officials say the total meat loss could have fed New England for a year, and urge cooperative prevention efforts.
A refugee train of fourteen cars carried about 150 Americans 100 Germans 300 Spaniards and Mexicans and 50 Englishmen from Mexico City to Vera Cruz. The exodus was arranged by British and German diplomats with the war office. Three miles from Vera Cruz a track section was found torn up and four railroad officials were detained before release ordered by General Maas. British marines escorted the refugees during the final leg to Vera Cruz. In Washington measures to detect income tax dodgers were launched by Commissioner Osborn asking corporations and stockholders for 1913 dividend details and high paid officials.
Col. M. L. Maus chief surgeon of the First army division warns water and sanitation in Mexico lag behind modern methods. He says if troops move into Mexico City a new system would be needed and millions of dollars would be spent by the United States on sanitation efforts.
A jury in Opelousas found W. C. Walters guilty of kidnaping five year old Robert Dunbar with no capital punishment. The verdict, treated as life imprisonment, settles the case and clears Julia Anderson of misidentifying the boy. Walters faces possible appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Washington reports the federal stronghold Monterey fell to the Constitutionalists. An American consul at Nuevo Laredo relays that Monterrey was captured amid quiet nights and ruined business areas. In Chihuahua celebrations followed the victory with band concerts and bells. General Antonio Villareal named governor of Nuevo Leon and Nicefaro Amerano named mayor of Monterrey.
A telegram signed by fifty Mexican American residents of San Antonio voices unqualified support for President Wilson and offers service in any coming conflict with Huerta, stating the Stars and Stripes must be respected and lives may be sacrificed for the country. Sheriff in Georgia shot deputy after political dispute. both men detained.
In Macon Georgia three African American convicts were badly burned and one will lose an eye after an explosion at the bridge work site on Seven Bridges Houston road. Tom Patterson a forty year term from Jefferson county packed powder in a hole when the blast occurred. Marshall Wimberly life term from Houston county and William Warren six year term from Bibb county suffered severe facial burns.
Senate canals committee closed hearings on repealing free tolls in the Panama Canal Act. The panel, split about evenly, may report with or without amendments, with a fight expected on the Senate floor over weeks. Witnesses argued economic and legal points as discussions continued.
Advance data for the railroad commission’s 1913 annual report indicates 16 additional corporations reporting, raising total to 229. The report notes more formal hearings, a rise in cases, and $18.86 million approved in stock and bonds.
A Georgia bill may authorize state funding for transporting indigent Confederate veterans from their homes to the Soldiers' Home in Atlanta. Capt. W. H. Harrison notes many veterans lack funds for travel, citing 75-year-old Coffee county resident John Channell seeking transport. The piece also covers Georgia Sunday School association leaders from Atlanta and mobilization plans for the National Guard with Macon favored as a mobilization site.
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