The Weekly Georgian, 1914-06-30

SALEM, MASS, June 26. - Two hundred persons were unaccounted for to-day in Salem's great fire. The flames were gotten under control at 5 a. m., after raging for fifteen hours unchecked. Four persons are known to he dead. Fifty injured are in the hospitals. Twenty thousand are homeless. The property loss ig esti estimated - mated estimated at $5,000,000. The city is prac practically - tically practically without water. The thousands of homeless are be being - ing being fed to-day in a great army camp set up on Highland avenue. One thousand cots, one thousand tents and one thousand blankets are being distributed among the fire sufferers. Rations for 10,000 are being served by the militia commissary department. Five thousand homeless are being sheltered ynder canvas to-day. To-day's rations to the homeless consisted of a loaf of bread, a can of beef and a cup of coffee. Rich and poor were served alike. The wealthy section of the city as well as the ten tenement - ement tenement districts are in ruins. One thousand buildings were burned. Refugees Spend Night in Open. Most of the refugees were forced to spend the night in the open, the main refuge camp being on Salem Com Common. - mon. Common. Governor Walsh personally is su supervising - pervising supervising the relief work. He arrived on the scene last night and worked all night among the fire sufferers. The city is now under martial law of the strictest kind. All looters will be shot on sight. A cordon of militia now extends around the burned sec section. - tion. section.

President and Bryan Proceeding Carefully and May Refer Case to The Hague. MWASHINGTON, June 26.<-That the pending Javanese-imbrogiio with this Government over the treatment ac accorded - corded accorded Japanese citizens in the State of California through its adoption of the anti-alien land law overshadows the Mexican situation in importance was indicated by State Department officials to-day. It is feared that fresh complica complications - tions complications of an international character will be precipitited by the depart department's - ment's department's answer to the Japanese note of August 20 last. The President and Secretary Bryan are making every ef effort - fort effort to prevent any undue procedure by either country, and there is much discussion as to the possible reference of the whole controversy to The Hague tribunal for arbitration, or as to possible mediation by friendly Eu European - ropean European nations. It has been agreed by the two gov governnients - ernnients governnients to keep the diplomatic con conferences - ferences conferences secret until next week, when the State Department's reply to the Japanese note will be made public.

. 5 Hurt, Cow Killed And Auto Wrecked; ! Machine Hits Bovine DUBLIN, June 29. - Five men were injured, one perhaps fatally, in an 'nutomubiln wreck near this city when a car owned and driven by J. W. Mc Mc('umber, - ('umber, Mc('umber, making 50 miles an hour, struck a cow in the road, tore thirough a high wire fence and turned turtle, pinning the occupants under the ma machine. - chine. machine. The iniured are: Lonnie Rowland, =kull crushed, may die;: J. W. Me- Cumber, collar bone broken shoulder dislocated; W. P. Bellentower, cut about head and face; E. W. Watson, bruised and probably internal in injuries; - juries; injuries; Grover Howard, back wrench wrenched. - ed. wrenched. The car was completely wrecked, The cow was knocked into a fieid and Killed. Jail Man Who Would Wed 'Sept. Morn' Girl ed 'Sept. Morn' Gir NEW YORK, June 29. - henry Wal Wallace - lace Wallace Phillips, the author, !¢ under ar arrest, - rest, arrest, charged with causing 14-year-oid Marjorie R. Cluxton to be placed in a situation where her morals were in damger of being impaired. Phillips says the girl has a figure '"'the very image tends to marry her when she is oid enough

WASHINGTON, June 27. - Dr. Mar Marshall - shall Marshall H. Saville, Loubat professor of American archaeology in Columbia University, discovered in a trip to Yicuador last year evidences of suc successful - cessful successful transplanting of human teeth by dentists of Atacames more than 1,000 years ago. "In a skull found on the right bank of the Rio Atacames,' writes Profes Professor - sor Professor Saville in the Bulletin of the Pan- American Union, "is a right lateral ir.cisor which _does not belong to the jaw, but wasstransplanted to replace the middle incisor. There seems to be rno reason to doubt that the replace replacement - ment replacement was a genuine triumph of the ancient dentists."

SALEM, MASS, June 27. - Flame 27. - Flameswept - swept 27. - Flameswept Salem was startled by another fire to-night on the rim of the dev devastated - astated devastated district. Hundreds were pan panfc-stricken - fc-stricken panfc-stricken and fled when the streets were lighted up once more by an ominous red glare. The flames destroyed a two-story tenement house. Out of the burning house fled women and children, moth mothers - ers mothers with babes in arms. When the flames spread to a nearby house, Peabody was asked to rush its appa apparatus - ratus apparatus into the city. The Salamn fire firemen, - men, firemen, however, managed to prevent further spread of the flames, and the panic subsided.

For Declaring 'Hell Is Full of Infants' HAMMOND, IND., June 29. - The Rev. A. H. Sorby, of Nashville, Tenn,, sustained a fractured skull when he was atta-ked last night by a mob of people who disbleieved his statement that **hell is full of infants." The attack occurred during serv services. - ices. services. The church was riddled with stones, rotten eggs and bullets. A number of women worshippers were struck by missiles. After the first fusillade the lights were extinguished and ([ree-for-all fighting began. Sorby was hit on the head with a large stone and picked up unconscious.

SAVANNAH, June 25. - Pretty Miss Dorris Lippman, 18-year-old Girl Scout, of Savannah, who has been awarded a prize of $5O for saving the life of 2 man who was overcome by gas while digging a well, according to an announcement just made by the Nationa! Red Cross Society, says any Scout could nave done what she did had the opportunity presented it self. Miss Lippman, age 18,, was one of the first to join the (iirl Scouts, the pation-wide otganization formed by Mrs. W. W. Lowe, of Savannah and l.ondon, daughter of General W. W, Gordon of Civil War fame.

. | > 'Hoke Smith Grandpa ~ 0f New Twin Girl | Friends of Marion Smith, sno of lL'niled St/ tes Senator Hoke Smith éund a leading young member of the :Atlama bar, were congra'ulating him ' Monday on the arrival Sunday at ' noon at the Smith home on Peach Peachtree - tree Peachtree road of twin girls, who have kbeen named Lucia, for the maternal grandmother, Mrs. William Rawson, and Marion, for the paternal grand grandmother, - mother, grandmother, Mrs. Hoke Smith. A telegram of congratulation was received Sunday from Senator Smith at Washington,