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VOL.VLNO.I3. _cmm, ATLANTA, GA.,, WEEK ENDING MARCI 17, 1914 CpuEublsned Weekiy 8y
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BURNS FINDS NEW FRANK GLEWS
Wellesley Hall Burns—Squads
of Rescuers Smash Doors of
Historic Building.
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WELLESLEY, MASS., March 175~
Two hundred and fifty girl students at
Wellesley College fled in their mnight
clothes early to-day when College Hall,
the largest and o'dest of the Wellesley
College group of buildings, was de
stroyved by fire. The damage was $200,-
000.
One fireman was overcome by smoke
and a score of girls had narrow es
capes. After fleeing from the building.
the girl studefits fought the flames un
til the firemen arrived.
The girls were hurried or assisted out
of the buildings by squads of rescuers,
who ran through the halls smashing in
doors.
Dense smoke filled the hal's and stair
ways as the girls groped their way to
the first floor. Most of them lost all
their effects, The fire had gained great
headway before it was discovered. One
of the girls awoke to find her room
filled with smoke and she gave the
alarm.
The fact that the fire started near
the roof prevented a serious loss of life.
The building was situated on a hill
overlooking the town, and the flames
leaped high and were seen for miles.
College Hall was erected in the early
seventies. It was five stories high u_nd
-475 feet long.
1,000 Women Found
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In 61 Chicago Bars
CHICAGO, March 17.—A census of
women found in the back rooms of
saloons in Chicago on Sunday night
showed 1,000 women drinking in 61
saloons, according to figures com
piled by a committee of the Law and
Order l.eague,
KING FROWNS AT SLIT SKIRTS.
BRUSSELS, March 17.—King Albert,
at a court ball, noticing a woman whose
dress wus extremely decollete and whose
skirt was daringly slit, whispered
to the Court Marshal. = That function
ary gallantly offered his arm to the
wearer of the offending gown and led
her from the ballroom, saying:
*‘His Majesty noticed that you have
torn your dress up the side and re
quested me to escort yow to your car
riage so that you may return home and
have the damage rpaird.”
NO NAUGHTY CHILDREN,
WASHINGTON, March 17.-—There are
no naughty children nowadays, accord
ing to Dr. Maximilian-.P. Groszman,
children’s specialist, who déclared so
called maughtiness was simply asymptom
of physical ailing,
llle gave out these statistics of an in
vestigation, Fifty to 75 per cent of
children suffer from decayed tecth, 30
per cent from nasal cobstructions, 26
per cent from eye strain, 12 per cent
from some deformity-4 per cent from de
fective hearing, 2% per cent from tu
berculosis,
MILITANT GETS SIX WEEKS,
LLONDON, March 17.—The pretty
young suffragette who gave the name
of Catherine Wilson and who was found
yesterday in the lobby of the House of
Commons, wearing male attire, with a
dog whip hidden under her coat, was
sentenced. to six weeks' imprisonment
to-day.
She came near being successful in her
design to attack Premier Asquith, as he
left Commons just as she was arrested.
LABORER HEARS HE'S RICH.
HAMMOND, IND., March 17.--As
soon as Mathias Constante, a laborer,
received a letter telling him he had
inherited $7.000,000 from.a relative in
the old country, he quit his job in the
steel mills and with five companions
started on a trip around the world.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, March 17,
Three persons were killed in a fire that
destroyed a small suburban hotel here
early to-day. They were trapped in
their rooms and the firemen were unable
to rezcue them,
NO AVENUE OF PRESIDENTS.
WASHINGTON, March 17.—Senator
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, has lost
his fight in the Senate for the retention
of the name of the “Avenue of the
Presidents”” by old Sixteenth street, 'a
thoroughfare running nerth from the
White House,
The new name was imposed during
the Taft administration.
Team of Horses Becomes Fright
ened, Runs Away and Ranch
~ man Is Killed.
I.OS ANGELES, March 17.—The
booming roar of a lion at the Selig wild
animal farm was the indirect cause of
the death of Charles Mountain, a San
Gabriel rancher.
Mountain was passing thé animal farm
with a heavy team when the lion roared.
The horses became unmanageable, and
Mountain was thrown to the street and
killed.
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Hides Money inStove;
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Wife Lights the Fire
CONGERS, N. Y., March 17 lear
ing burglars, Philip Priore hid $163 in
the stove., Fearing pneumonlia, his
wife lighted a fire. The money was
burned, .
U. 8. EXPORTS LEAD IMPORTS.
WASHINGTON, March 17.-—The for
:elgn trade halance in favor of the United
States for January, 1914, is about $50,-
000,000 and for the seven months ending
January 14 about $545,000,000, according
to the Department of Commerce, Im
ports in January approximated $154,000,-
‘OOO and exports $204,100,000, a total trade
ol about $358,500,000.
“We'll Do All in Our Power to
Help Burns,” Says Atlanta
- Detective Chief.
William J.- Burns, continuing hils
work on the Phagan murder mystery
Tuesday, had another long interview
with Leo M. Frank in the prisoner's
cell in the Tower.
Burns and his men are actively at
work, and, it is reported, have devel
oped several important trails. Start
ling announcements are expected
within the next few days, and Burns
is known to be more confident that
ever that he will glear the mystery.
Burns haAs assurance from Newport
Lanford, Chief of Detectives, that il
the assistance his department could
furnish would be at the famous de
tective’'s disposal, and that he, or any
member of his department, would be
ready to answer any questions Mr.
Burns might desire to ask.
“I will throw open to Mr. Burns all
the information available to my de
partment,” said Chief Lanford, “and
if there is anything in this case that
the Atlanta department has over
looked we will be glad to have 1t
shown to us. We want ta solve tha
mystery—if it has not already been
solved, as, of course, we believe 1t
has. But if there is any uncertaintly
remaining, we are us eager as anyono
else can be to clear it up, and we wiil
do all in our power to heip Mr. Buras,
if he needs our help.”
Will Talk to Detectives.
It is probable that Mr. Burns will
talk with a number of the Atlanta de
tectives. The #Jee &3 that he espe
cially wishes to confer with “Pat
Campbell and John Starnes, named s
pfosc(-umrs in the ¥Frank bill of in-
dictment, and J. A. Chewning and W,
H. Xlorris, who are charged by the
defense with framing up the affidavit
of Nina Formby prior to the first trial,
It was understood Tuesday that the
detective department had quietly col
lected a mass of new evidence that
would be uso'd to oppose the motion
of the defense for a new trial,
Some of the evidence, it was said,
was connected with -the recent affi
davit of Mrs. J. B. Simmons, the Bir
mingham woman who says Solicitor
Dorsey tried to get her to readjust
her statement as to the time she
heard screams in the basement of the
National Pencil I"actory the afternoon
of the murder.
Has Long Talk With Frank,
Burns' plan includes the intention
to have a long talk with Solicitor
Dorsey and the private investigators
attached to his staff. He had a long
talk Monday night with Frank in hi 3
cell at the Tower, and most of the
afternoon he was closeted with Leons
ard Haas, of counsel for the defense,
when h went over the brief submit«
ted by Frank's counsel in the appli
cation to the Supreme Court for a
new trial.
Albert McKnight, the State’s wite
ness who recently made an aflidavit
repudiating hio testimony on the wit.
ness stand, wao able to talk Monday
afternoon for the first time following
his severe injury on the railroad
tracks at Roseland.
His story of the accident was cone
fused, as he asserted he was not
struck by the train near Roseland,
where he was found, but near ‘the
McDaniel ¥%treet viaduct crossing,
which is in the city, Dr, Hancock
gays it is probable that the shock of
his injury has caused the mnegro tu
forget the events immediately pree
ceding it, ag is frequently the case,