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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
TEXAS WILL QUARANTINE
AGAINST WHITE PLAGUE
BOV IS FOUND
Frightened Abductors
Strangle Child to
Death.
SUSPECTS HELD
BY OFFICERS
Strong Guard Maintained
To Prevent Angry Citi
zens From Storming
Jail.
Bptclsl to THt Georgian.
New Orleane, La.. June 24.—Tbe
headless body of Walter Lam an a. an
Italian child between seven and eight
years old, who was kidnaped and held
for 16,000 ransom two weeks ago, was
found by police and vigilantes just be
fore daybreak yesterday In the Interior
of a big swamp, about 20 miles from
the city. The head was found a short
distance from the body.
The boy had been strangled
death, according to tho confession of
one of several Italians held by the po
lice. His neck Is supposed to have
been broken when he was strangled,
causing the head to become separated
from the body when decomposition set
In.
By order of the police, the dead boy'i
funeral was held yesterday afternoon.
By 6 o'clock In the morning the entire
Italian colony appeared to have learned
the details of the murder, and the po
lice feared tbe crowds which would
r ther at the funeral If It was delayed.
string of carriages about fifteen
blocks followed the hearse, and police
kept the squares Immediately adjoin
ing the house free from loiterers on
foot during the services.
Five Italians, two of them women,
are under arrest charged aa accom
plices to the murder, and extra details
of police and deputies are maintaining
order In the excited Italian quarter of
the city. All day long small crowds
were dispersed promptly by the police,
despite whose precautions a report had
gotten out summoning a mass meeting
at Elk place. Seventy armed deputies
were placed on guard at the Orleans
parish prison, the strongest In the
state, where three of the prisoners are
held.
The murdered boy was found near
St. Rose, In a territory which has been
well searched with bloodhounds In the
past few days. Where the dogs failed
to locate the boy a "third degree"
sweating process wrung a confession
from one of the' suspects, who was
taken from hla home In St. Rose about
midnight and carried Into the woods
by a combined force of the officials
and vigilantes. This man. Ignaxto Cam-
plgclano, was kept In the woods an
hour, when he confessed, charging four
Italians with the murder. He said that
about the time of a mass meeting In
New Orleans, more than a week ago,
held for the purpose of prosecuting a
search for the boy, these men, who
were In a vacant house In St. Rose, be
came frightened and consulted about
what to do with the child. The boy
was crying, begging to be taken home
stop his noise. Later two of the kid
napers. he satd, came to him carrying
the boy In a blanket, and after threat
ening him with death If he told, took
tbe body Into the swamp.
FOR SAN FRANCISCO
Spreckles, Honey and Lang-
don Will Meet and
Select One.
Ban Francisco, June 24.—District Attorney
william II. LangUon. Btwlnl Prosecutor
Francis J. Henry and l(inloli>b K|>r*ckl*s
will meet this afternoon to talk over tbe
• mayoralty situation aud to And, If possible,
a man to succeed J nines L. (iallsgber as
acting major to All out tbo unesplrvd term
of Eugene 1C. Bcbmlts.
It la tbe Intention to select the man for
point blm to office after _
tlon for bis relaae from tbe county jail Is
passed on by the district court of appeals,
for the proeerutlon Armtj believes the writ
will "be denied and Bchmfta totally Incapaci
tated for performing tbe duties of mayor de
facto of 8an Francisco.
GLARING DEFECTS
IN BATTLESHIPS
Washington, June 24.—Alleged de
fects In tha construction of the battle
ships Oregon, Massachusetts, Indiana,
Iowa, Ksnturky and Kearsargn are
pointed out In an article In the cur-
. rent Issue of The Navy.
The gravest fault In the construction
of these battleships, the article ex
plains, la the "soft ends"—that Is, long
mm viio 1 1 Xlisax I o,
stretches at bow and stern unprotect
ed by side armor. Another defect Is
the open space in the armor about each
sain, '‘which is so great aa to Invite
the immediate wrecking of every* gun
by a hostile ship shooting moderately
. straight according to the standards of
the day*” m
Officer Shoots Negro.
Charlotte, N. C. t June 24.—Follow
ing an assault upon a 7-year-old yiegro
girl, Ethel Henderson, Patrolman John
son, of the local force, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Jim Crawford.
Crawford, after committing the Iced,
made his escape The officer waited foi
the negro to come back fo», his clothes.
Crawford resisted arrest, attempting
to hit the officer with a rock.
Washington, D. C., June 24.—Tbe an
nouncement by the Texas commissioner of
public health that be proposed In a day or
two to Issue a proclamation under which
persons suffering from tuberculosis In an
advanced stage will be debarred from enter-
ing tbe stufe has caused decided Interest
in government quarters In which tbe ad
ministration of t!|; public health and Fed
eral quarantine laws Is Involved.
While the officials don't wish to be
quoted at this time, they make plain the
opinion .that Texas Is raising a question
that will have to be settled by tbe highest
courts before It will be settled for good.
Under the Federal code, consumption Is
Yet, on the other bond, it Is recognised as
menace to the public health In tbe lmr£-
grntion regions, which lists It as one -*
dlsenses on scconnt of which Immi
grants shall be barred from tbe country.
If Toxns should adopt and enforce such
policy It would close that state, with I
peculiarly advantageous climate for con
sumptlves. against tbe Incursion of thou
sands wbo go there every year for their
health. It would further mark the Initia
tion of n new policy which other states
might ultlwutely enforce.
BAND LEAVES AS SCENE
AT VOTING POLLS BEGINS
Spsclsl to The Georftan.
Valdosta, Go., June 24.—The battle
here against aaloona Is the moat won
derful ocena ever wltnesaed in Val-
to l.
doata. The county Is going dry by 4
Two brass bands; Imported to play
for the liquor people, left town when
they saw the demonstration 'by fair
women and brave men around tho polls
at sunrlao, the songs, prayers, tears of
Joy falling and ealoon men being con.
verted In the whisky crowd, dlsheart*
enlng them.
Telegrams of congratulation from all
over Georgia are being read from the
court house steps amid wild enthu
siasm.
At 12 o'clock it looks like a great
prohibition landslide. The prohlbt
tlon leaders are claiming from 800
1,000 majority in the county.
Following a great rally at the the
ater last night, many workers, male
and female, went to the Flret Metho
dist church and remained up all night
singing and praying. A prayer meet
Ing was held at 4 o'clock and before I
o’clock hundreds of ladles and workers
were on the court house square sing
ing.
The voters are marching to the poll*
In this city through a long lane of la
dles and children.
Very few negroes are voting and the
wet side seems badly demoralised.
There has been no perlous disturb
ances.
MISTAKE CAUSES
DEATH BY POISON
T,
Drank From Bottle of Em
balming Fluid Left
in Closet.
Mistaking a battle of embalming
fluid for medicine which he had been
accuatomed to take, Frank T. Ryan, 69
years of age, swallowed a email quan
tity of the poison at his residence, 177
Woodward avenue, early Sunday morn
ing, and died at 3 o'clock Sunday after
noon In aplte of the efforts of skilled
physicians to save his life.
For a long time Mr. Ryan has been
accustomed to keep his medicine In a
closet at his home. Unknown to Mr.
Rynn, his son, Paul, who Is In the un
dertaking business, brought horns a
bottle of embalming fluid, which he
also placed In the closet, and the poison
from this bottle was swallowed before
Mr, Ryan realized Ills mistake.
Mr. Rynn was born In Jasper coun
ty In 1838. In enrly life he moved to
Atlanta and since his residence here
has been prominently Identified with
the buelnesa Interests of this city. He
served several terms In the city coun
ell. He was a veteran of the Civil war,
having served In the Confederate
army, Sixteenth Arkansas regiment,
until tha battle of Chlcanmugd, where
he loet a leg.
Mr. Ryan Is survived by three chll
dren, Frank T., Paul and Miss Annie
Ryan.
FIVE WERE KILLED
40 EIGHT INJURI
N HEAD-ON WRECK
Baggage and Smoker Tele
scoped and All Cauglit
Fire.
KILLED FREEMAN!
TOOK RAT POWDER
Was Recovering, When a
Drink of Water Caused
His Death.
With praise from his young wife of
three months os to his being a model
husband ringing In his ears, (J. O. Free
man, of 37 Carnegie place, left a party
of friends on the front porch of his
home Sunday night, and going upstairs,
swallowed poison.
In an hour he was dead, but if tes
timony of one of those present Is true,
actual death, though primarily
caused by poison taken purposely, was
in reality on accident.
This testimony Is to the effect that
Freeman swallowed rat poison, was
brought out of danger by a physician,
and then drank water after the physi
cian left. The water, with the poison
remaining, proved fatal.
Sunday night Freemun, who came to
Atlanta several weeks ago with his
wife, from Talbotton, was sitting on
the front porch of his boarding house
talking with several friends. He was
happy, or appeared to be, and had
heard Ills wife tell what a model hus
band he was when he decided to retire.
He went upstairs at 10:30 o'clock.
About 11 o'clock. Just after Mrs. Free
man had retired to her room, the peo
ple In the house were startled by
screams and investigation developed
that fVeentan was desperately ill from
the effects of the poison taken. A phy
sician was sent for and after work
ing over tho young man left, and It
was thought he was out of danger.
Then It Is said he drank some water,
hich proved fatal within a short
time.
Freeman had been unable to secure
position since coming to Atlanta and
nocheater, N. Y., Juno 24.—In a bead-on
collision between a passenger train. No. 230,
and a freight train near Pittsford* on the
Auburn branch of the New York Central
railroad at midnight, five persons were
killed and eight badly Injured. The cause
of the wreck Is not deAnltely known.
Tho smoker of the passenger train was
telescoped by the baggage car. It contained
Afteeu persons. Neighbors came quickly to
rescuo with blankets, improvlaed
stretchers, etc. Doctors from l'lttsford were
i on the scene and calls for ambulances
were sent to Hochester. The wreckage
cought Are, hut was soon extinguished. The
pnssonger train had been put ou the ached
ule only last week, and as It runs only
Raturdny and Sunday It Is supposed that
the train crew forgot about It.
The Dead.
The IdentlAed dead are:
MILES H. CUTTING, station agent at
Hall road Mills.
J. McARTHUR, a bridge foreman.
H. If. YKOON, a freight brakeumn, of
East Uuffnlo.
The Injured.
The seriously injured are:
James Lyons, Rochester; ribs, arm and
leg broken and face cut and badly ■raided
James Lyons, Jr., Tiding in the euglue
ribs and a leg broken, face scalded.
William Madden, Clifton 8prlngs; arm
and ankle broken, cheat crushed; probably
Roy
Jured.
Martin Hinds, Ryrncuse; badly Injured.
F. A. Nopman, Rochester; badly injured.
NINE WERE KILLED;
THIRTY-FIVE HURT
Fast Passenger Crashes Into
Work Train Carrying
Laborers.
Hartford, Conn., June 24.—In a rail
road smash-up in the home section of
Hartford last night nine workmen were
killed and thlpty-flye Injured, some fa
tally. A passenger train on the High
land division of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford railroad ran Into
a work train carrying elxty-ftve men,
which was backing Into tho city, and
crushed the cars.
Hoth engineers tried to stop, but they
had little time, and the trains came to
gether In a smash. Some of the train
men and workmen Jumped, but most of
those on the work train were caught.
The engine of the passenger trnln tore
through the cars and piled up on top of
the debris.
Dead and Injured were scattered
along the street for some distance, but
many were caught under the wreckage.
The survivors and men from neighbor
ing bouses started the work of rescue,
and they were soon Joined by scores of
others. Fire started.In the wreckage,
and the firemen were summoned and
soon hail the flames under control.
Engineer Wilson jumped In time to
save himself.
MADE HISTORIAN
OF BLUE ANI) GRAY
Judge Robert L. Rodgers, one of At
lanta’s well known lawyers and a Con
federate veteran, lias received from J.
’nrr, commander in chief of the Na
tional Association of the Blue and
Gray, his commission, making him na
tional historian of the organisation.
Judge Rodgers will have the rank of
brigadier general.
Is believed he was despondent be
caupe of jbls. _ Ills young wife is pros-
/
t rated.
Fireman Waite Better.
The condition of George W. Walts,
the fireman who was badly Injured Fri
day morning. Is such that his friends
now hope for his recovery. He spent
a restless night Sunday until 1 o’clock
Monday morning, when he went to
sleep and had a good rest. He Is at hU
home. Stewart avenue.
Chamberlin-JohnsQn-DuBose C
o.
^The hois Harvest of my daily
Life is somewhat as intangible
And indescribable as the
Tints of Msming and Evehing. It is
A littk stardust caught; a
Segment of the raihbsw which I have clutched.’—Th
orsau.
You need not strain your
aural nerve in order to sense
the Aura of the store. The
Aura does not speak, but it
is intensely eloquent, just
the same. It assumes no tan
gible form—but is immate
rial, nebulous—an ethereal-
ized emanation, an exhala
tion, as pervasive as per
fume-silent, unseen, but
powerful in its appeal to the
spirit.
^he sum of the store’s
generic and specific elements
is the essence—the Aura—
of our business.
Concrete things do touch
the imagination. Vague ab
stractions are not all of fan
cy. A picture, a palace, a
bit of lace, a pressed flower,
a jewel, a quaint urn, a curl,
a rusty sword make the
blood flow faster.
The corona of tradition,
the radiance of legend, the
halo of history, the garlands
and wreaths of luminous
fame connect your heart
with the inanimate objects
of your amaranthine admi
ration and inspiration and
keep your veneration alive.
The atmosphere of the
store is what we are talking
about—the moral and men
tal atmosphere. It’s as
strong as it is subtle and sur
rounds every transaction.
It isn’t massive and ex
pansive, like the air that en
velopes the earth, nor is it
gaseous like the element that
surges about the sun and
stars. Therefore, it defies ex
act analysis. But you feel it
as soon as you pass the por
tals. It is the force that robs
our business of the sordid
quality which for so many
years kept storekeeping on
a level lower than that of the
learned professions.
We have smote had prac
tices at hip and thigh. The
best preachers, and doctors,
and lawyers now are busi
ness men.
They teach right living.
The laws they formulate
would be of small benefit un
less they were backed by the
businesses that supply the
necessities to humanity that
life demands.
Your clergyman opposes
short weights and inferior
quality. Your physician com
bats foul conditions in stores
and factories, and. largely
through his efforts sanitary
measures are being enforced.
Your lawyer guides you
along the smooth waters,
away from the treacherous
currents and eddies of litiga
tion.
Business men everywhere
are uniting with the priests
to do God’s work.
We learn; we teach. And
in our day we have witness
ed some vast reformations.
We’ve seen old standards
shattered and helped to es
tablish brighter and better
ones.
However, we’ve only clear
ed the stubble—burned out
or dug out the stumps—so
rapidly does our ideal out
strip the actual. But we are
doing our part, as best we
can, to prepare the way for
others.
The brain cudgeling over
delicate and intricate ethical
and practical problems pro
ceeds peacefully under the
propitiating influences of in
ternal and external harmony
and prosperity. We are on
good terms with everybody.
Are you with us in this
work? Deep down in your
heart, do you cherish the
same sentiments that we are
trying so hard to express
and succeeding so lamely?
Who shall say where our
sincerity ends and policy be
gins? We are keenly alive
to the comments that this
kind of advertising may cre
ate. But the fear of those
comments does not deter us
from printing these words of
hope and cheer. If corro
sive cynicism taints the fac
ulties of some men and ar
rests belief in the honesty of
our expressed and implied
motives, all we ask of them
is to plumb our promises
with our performances. We
are satisfied to rest our case
with the fair judgment and
safe reason of those who
know the store and its meth
ods by actual experience.
The winning qualities are
the same in all walks of life.
The soft acquiescence of
weakness that compromises
with standards has never in
this world marshalled forth
the inert mass of men and
things and moulded a "full-
measure” success.
Knowledge is acquired
slowly, and to establish truth
costs blood and tears.
As in the scientific study
of the horse, no progress was
made from the time of Aris
totle to that of Leonardo
(1800 years) , so Hegel says
there was no advancement in
philosophy from the time of
Aristotle to that of Spinoza.
Peter Cooper and George
Peabody were the evangels
of the higher ethical culture,
the application of which
widened the breach between
the merely shrewd and
smart shopkeeper and the
really fine and splendid mer
chant. Not because of the
millions they amassed, but
because of the way they
amassed them, is why we
have always cherished their
careers as shining exam
ples- i .. *
Peter Cooper gave an ex
quisite "atmosphere” to his
glue factory, and George
Peabody conducted his store
on the principle of not sell
ing a customer anything that
could injure him, or that he
did not need.
Both were practically al
truistic. One gave New York
"Cooper’s Union;” the other
gave Baltimore "Peabody’s
Institute”—two halls of
learning erected and endow
ed with money cleanly earn
ed.
Business is beautiful, of
course—if it brings a big in
come and gives power. But
business just for the money
and the power has small at
traction for us.
The reward we are striv
ing for is not alone the one
that fills our pocket, but the
one that fills our breasts as
well.
Chamberlin-JoKnson-DuBose Co.
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