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WILSON'S CANDIDATE SNOWED UNDER AT POLLS Two Maniacs Enliven Proceed ings While They Are Tried on Insanity Charges. Tw) maniacs, ore of whom insistea on disrobing and calmly appointing himself court stenographer, and wh tried 'o cap his strepuosity with a desperate attempt to knock Maniac No. 2 down with a policeman's club when No. 2 told judge and jury he had forgotten more than they ever knew, threw Judge Andy Calhoun’s court, on the fourth floor of the Thrower Building, into a fever of ex citement Wednesday. While the maniacs were trying (o take Judge Calhoun's court awa) from him and run it according tc their own ideas, a negro who had heen bound over by Judge T. 1. Hathcock, of the Municipal Court, on the third floor, added to the excitement by es caping from Deputy Marshal Hernan dez and doing a high dive, headfirst, down two flishts of stone steps He landed right side up and, ruinning, disapepared up Mitchell street like a black comet, pursued Ly half a dozen shouting county police men and court attaches, So far as is known, the negro is still running. The maniac who tried to do a Sep- What Safety Squads Prevent tember morn monologue was C(arl Matthews, who achieved renown sev eral weeks ago by removing his clothes and piling them on White hall strest, setting fire to them, and then doing an Indian war dance around the flames. Maniac No. 2 was W. R. Goodwin, a Scotchman, who was the hero of a bathtub episode at the Piedmont Hotel some weeks ago. Matthews was brought into court and placed on trial, showing much interest in the proceedings, but offer ing no resistance. He had or all his clothes, but he unbuttoned his shoes as soon as he sat down. The jury filed in, and Matthews began laugh ing. “Ha ha!” he laughed. “That's a funny-looking bunch to be trying ME!"” The jury heard him, and then they heard the evidence in a bored sort of way, and two minutes later adjudged Matthews insane, Mathhews took it good-naturedly. He rose, stretched his arms, yawned, and began calmly removing his clothing. He took his coat off, removed his shoes, rolled his trousers tip above his knees, and calmly elevated his feet to the top of a table. He then reached out and appropriated a notebook belonging to a lawyer, and began to write vigor ously. “Im the court reporter,” he de clared. “Bring on your old cases!” | THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS. 'SAFETY FIRST' TAUGHT BY SOUTHERN MATRON| ma o o eol ¥ 4 N 2 g el » : o i \ :T % \ i g ,' s 3 G Y 2 S e 5 220 “,,. /A T 8 e 4 -b, 5 A it W 8 i : ‘;‘ * A F ; ] :::. < ? . 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Mc(Call, origi nally from Louisiana, and now of New York, teaches the school children of Brooklyn in her capacity as super visor of the bureau ol public safety of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com pany—a position that was created for her. “Our best work is in the lectures given in the schools, illustrated oy slides,” said Mrs. McCall. “I try to impress on the. children throughout these lectures that to be Kept vaiua ble the human body must be valued and looked out for, and I try to show them how, through the « :relessness of one person, an endless chain of disas. ter often follows. “The organization of safety patro!s in several of the schools, consisting of ten or fifteen bove ‘o each patrol, with a captain, is one of the strong-| est features of this work. About len minutes before school is “out” cr “in,” the patrol appears, marching gayly with its flag fluttering above each squad, and establishes itself around the school, and helps the littlest ones over the car tracks or around dan gerous corners, ¢ _“The greatest number of accidents happen in the congested parts of the city, inhabited largely by foreignecs, and wg are only able to reach the old er generation thrcugh the children in the school, as they tell at home what they learn in school Saving in Damage Suits. “It's really not a philanthropy. vou know, for through the education of the children of Brooklyn the strect railways save .aousands of dollars in damage suits. “When you stop and try to realize that statistics prove one accident oc ‘rurs every fifteen minutes of each day of the year, and that twelve out of ‘v\’(-ry thirteen killed and thirty-three out of every thirty-four injured are in 1“[“(.‘ accidents, it seemms a pecessary work to try by education to show children, and through them the grown ‘ups, how to avoid some of them.” L e ! U. 8. to Pay Colombia $25,000,000 for Zone WASHINGTON, April B.—The Uni ted States Government will pay Co lombia $25,000,000 for the partition of Panama and the acquisition of the Canal Zone in accordance with a treaty which has just been signed, ac cording to an announcement made at the Colombian Legation to-day. Senor Betancourt, the Colombian Minister, said that the treaty did not give the United States the right for a new oceanic canal across Colombian territory, nor did it give any coallnzi privileges on Sandreas and Provigen cia Islands. ' James J. o'Byrne Is Signally De feated for Congress by Dow H. Drukker. ; PATERSON. N. I, April B—Tre first fruits of the Wilson administra tion's un-American policy in the mat.- ter of the Panama Canal tolls and of its repudiation of the Baltimore platform were reaped by the Demo cratic party to-day, when James J. O'Byrne, Wilson Democrat, went down to crush nz and overwhelming defeat for election to Congress before Dow H. Drukker, Republican, and un openly avowed advocate of free tolls for American coastwise vessels through tNe canal. (O'Byrne, besides living in the Pres ident’s own State, where his personal influence is supposed to be strongest, was publicly indorsed by the President and back by many Administration speakers sent into New Jersey to push him to victory. White House Anxious. The White House was frankly anx ious to win with O’'Byrne. It was made a point that O'Byrne's election would be heralded throughout the country as an indorsement of Wil son's attitude on the canal toils meas ure The result epeaks for iteeif, O'Byrne received 5,240 votes and Drukker re ceived 10,629. The Congress: nal dis trict immediately concerned was the big Paterson-Passaic district, which has been Democratic, Tor weeks O'Byrne refused to take position on the canal tolls matter at all but under the constant pressure of the Hears: newspapers finally was forced to take a stand one way or the other—and elected at last to declare for the Wilson administration Then the President sent the word “back home” that he wanted O'Byrne elected, and he sent some staunch Administration speakers into New Jersey to help land the Administra tion champion, Drukker frankly and persistently A Narrow Escape assumed an attitude in favor of freo tolls, and his position was made clear, The defeat of O'Byrne, with all the Administration support he had, is re garded in New Jersey as even more significant of the lrend;." events than is the election of Druklter. TOLLS AND TARIFF G. O. P. ISSUE WASHINGTON, April B.—Elated over the victory of D. H. Drukker in his campaign for (C'ongress from tha Seventh New Jersey District, leaders of the Republican party predicted to day that the Democraits would be overwhelmingly defleated in the fall C'ongressionsl elections. The Demo crats admitted that they were disap pointed by the defeat of their candi date, J. J. O'Birne, but asserted that the district was normally Repubiican and that the resutlt of the elecliou was not evidence of dissatistaction with the Admintstration. Floor Leader James R. Mann, of the Republicans in the House, wa, jubilant to-day over the victory of Drukker. “Panama tolls and the tariff will be the issue on which the Republican g will wage thetr battle from now on,” he said. Man, 102, Dances Self ToDeath on Birthday SOUTH NORWALK, CONN., April 8. —Captain Joseph H. Bixbee is dy ing as a result of dancing too much at the celebration of his 102 d birthday anniversary, it nnl ) i)t i 3