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.
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‘ HEW YORK, April 10.——“ T will work
for the safety of others as I would
‘want them to work for my safety,
- “I will try to protect mygelf and
‘those with whom I come in contact
from the risk of unnecessary chances,
~ “I will do my part to help reduce
the number of accidents for 1914.”
This is part of the safety propa
randa Mrs. Jessie K. 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.”
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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
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