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VOL. VIII ; SCOUTS BY GET TO Chattanooga MONDAY EVENING X Left Knoxville Early Monday Morning—Their Arrival in Knoxville Sunday Signal for Big Ovation by Fair Ladies. INMAN HOMESTEAD AT DANDRIDGE, TENN., . VISITED BY SCOUTS They Look on Davy Crockett's Marriage License in Dandridge Court House —Day's Ride Half Rough, Half Good. LENOIR CITY. Tenn.. July 12.—Th* scout care of The Atlanta Journal and the New York Herald arrived here fifteen minute* before twelve, a distance of 27 miles A deep creek, ten mile* from Knoxville, caused one hour's delay. The next stop will be made at Loudon, Tenn. Trip to Knoxville An Interesting One KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 11—After a day's run which Included some of the worst and a great deal of the best roads tn eastern Tennessee, the good road* scouts of The Journal and the New York Herald reached Knoxville at 7:80 o'clock ths evening. All day Tong the Itinerary led The Journal's Oldsmobile and the Herald's White Steamer down the beauti ful Tennessee valley, and whatever criti cism may be made upon certain section* of the roads traversed It must be con ceded that no route more beautiful scen leally has yet been covered. Leaving Rogersville at 10:20 this morning; the good roads champions struck into roads almost as bad as those which had retarded them Bautrday during the run between Seven Mlle ford and Bristol. Sullivan and Hawkins counties In Ten nessee are now thoroughly aroused to the Importance of modern highways. They are going to have some of the best roads in the state within a year. Many es these are already being graded, though few have as yet been macadamised. SOFT ROADS AND RAIN. It was the misfortune of the scouts to encounter these new road* at a time when they had been deluged with almost continuous rains for a month. The result was that the newly placed earth roads had become little better than ditches . • through which the big cars plodded and floundered, making headway at the mis erable rate of about six miles an hour, and that only with the greatest effort. After a run of twenty minutes from Rogersville, the cars coasted down a Steep and rocky approach to the Tennes iaS—nee river, which was crossed on a float at Melendy's ferry. The primitive ferry apparatus was not so commodious as ■ome of those used heretofore and it was necessary to make two trips across the Stream, each of the big cars being car led separately. This consumed half an Mkir. Until within about eight miles of Mor fWawn the character of the roads chang ed only slightly for the better. But at that point, where the Hamblin county line was crossed, a welcome relief came in the sight of a splendid macadam turnpike, newly graded and stretching away as far as the eye could reach. The scouts, tired with the incessant jolting of their great vehicles and mud-bespattered from their continuous battle of two days, gave vent to their feelings in a lusty cheer. MORRISTOWN'S OCTPOST. Just as they did so they sighted two escort cars awaiting them at the begin ning of the smooth roadway. In a Ford, driven by James Tyler, of Morristown, were Samuel T. Welch, manager of the Morristown Motor company; John Carri ger, mayor of Morristown, and Maxwell Smith. In a Reo, which was driven by Mortimer Williams, rode W. 8. Meyers, president of the Morristown board of trade; F. Rodger Miller, editor of the Morristown Republican; J. Hale, chair man of the Hamblin county court, and John Donaldson, of the firm of Donaldson Brthers Mayor Carriger and the other gentle men welcomed the scout* informally and then escorted them into Morristown, which was reached at half past one o’clock. The visitors remained there for an hour, during which they were enter tained generously at dinner by their es cort. HAMBLIN COUNTY A PIONEER. Hamblin county cTsims the honor of having been a pioneer in Eastern Ten nessee in the building of flrst-class mod ern highways Some ten years ago that county constructed about twenty-flve miles of good macadam roads, and after work which is not- under way shall have . been complete! practically all the High ways of the county will be of the most approved macadam type. There will then be thirteen separate roads of that de scription leading out to the county line, j The original appropriation for this pur- 1 pose nearly a decade ago was only SIOO.- 00C It was precipitated by a severe storm which put the county highways so se-1 riousiy out of commission that even the' most conservative farmers realised the Importance of making roads that would better endure the stress of hard weather' and heavy usage. I200.W) BOND ISSUE. ■lnce then the county has appropriat ed money generously for good roads and less than two weeks ago. since the hope, has been inspired that the route of the national highway might lie through Ten-' lessee an additional $3)0.000 bond issu» rhas been order sd by a popular vote tn this county. lambiin. though not one of the largest counties of the state, is one of its most enterprising and progres sive. J Within the limits of Morristown its j residents say proudly there are a dozen wholesale concerns who do an aggregate business of about six millions yearly. The county is one of the flnest stock raising centers in the south and is probably the greatest producer of poultry and eggs for th* northern market. Whole carloads of tli**e edibles are shipped daily to the markets of New York. Philadelphia, and Washington, and a large proportion of the delicacies of this type which travel ers order in the dining cars of the rail ways come from the eastern section of Tennessee. The turnpike leading through and out of Morristown is si fine as any which the scouts have traveled since they left the ideal roads extending from Phila delphia to New York. BIG FLAG FOR SCOUTS. Before the big cars left Morristown a large flag was brought out and presented to the scouts. It bore the inscription "Hamblin county greets you and wishes you a safe trip." Th* flag staff was at tached to the tonneau of the Herald s '’Xtlitnti'i Ztownnl TO BUILD STORES ON STATE PROPERTY Representative Barry Wright of Floyd Plans to Use Right of Way of State Road in Heart of Atlanta for Buildings. A new development of Atlanta'* down town section —a development of startling possibilities—may come of a resolution that Representative Barry Wright, of Floyd county, will Introduce in the lower house of the general assembly Tuesday. This resolution, which calls for the concurrence of the senate, provides for a joint committee of two from the house and one from the senate to investigate the feasibility, cost and desirability of utilising the state’s property along the right of way of the Western and Atlantic railroad, in the heart of Atlanta, for the erection of store buildings. The reduction recites that the property in point is a valuable asset and can be mgde even more valuable to ths state by the construction of office and store buildings along the right of way on both sides of the Whitehall street viaduct and of the Broad street viaduct and of the Forsyth street viaduct. If the committee Is appointed, it will report at the next session of the legisla ture. White steamer and fluttered there during the remainder of the day. Jefferson county wa* the next travers ed during the day's run. It, too, has been voting money lavishly for th* making of new roads and the betterment of old one*. This county has spent within the last three year* or la now spending near ly half a million dollar* for this pur pose. Many of its ettisens With whom the scouts talked say that the work now being done by The Journal and the Her old has given a great stimulus to this movement, and when contracts now let or under way shall have been completed Jefferson will have within its borders about two hundred miles of excellent roads. The first town tn Jefferson county at which a stop was made was Dandridge, which was reached at 4 o’clock. The scouts from Atlanta were greatly Inter ested in Dandridge, and for Inman Gray this little Tennessee town had a senti mental interest as well. HOME OF SCOUT'S GRANDSIRE. It wa* here that his grandfather, ttn late Walker P. Inman, pne of the south’s most successful men, was bom. as well as the late Shadrach Inman,'Tather of the late John Inman, of New York, who was In hts time the president of the Richmond j Terminal company, now the Southern ’ railway. It Is. also the birthplace of Hugh > T. and Samuel M. Inman, two of At lanta's leading citizens. The home of these pioneer southerners Is still standing—an old-fashioned two- | story brick house. It is now occupied by John Wells, a grixzled veteran himself. The scouts and their cars, with Mr. Wells, and his son, were photographed in front of the old Inman homestead..lt lies two miles from the center of Dandridge, di rectly on the pike between that town and Straw Plains. LAVY CROCKETT S LICENSE. In the ancient Dandridge court house, the marriage license of David Crdckett, j of Alamo fame. Is displayed. It was signed by David himself, and was wit nessed by I. Hamilton, the first elerk of Jefferson county. It bears the date 1806. The bride. Polly Findley, also signed her own name to this interesting docu ment. After taking a drink at the Inman ' spring and enjoying some of Mr. Weils' fine old apples, the scouts hit the pike again, bound for Straw Plains. The day's delights were again intensified when an other fine macadam highway carried the pilgrims over a considerable part of this stage of their journey. There was then an Interval of well-graded dirt road, which , had not been macadamised, but which was so well built and so dried out by the last three days of warm sunshine that it afforded easy going. Ten minutes after the party had passed through Straw Plains the welcome gray of macadam turnpike was again sighted at the border line of Knox county. ’•HELLO" TO KNOXVILLE. Although this was more than thirteen miles from Knoxville. N. E. Logan, vice president of the Knoxville Automobile club, accompanied by Mrs. Logan In his Reo. had come out to the county line to welcome the visitors. After greetings and Introductions the Reo swung into the lead and piloted the scout* over this specimen of Knox coun-, ty road, which without a serious break In its surface leads directly into the city. I It Is not a new highway and in spots aould be the better for some new top' dressing. Though not equal to the stand ard established by Knox county's other highway*. It is so much better than the roads through which the scouts had been plodding in the vicinity of Bristol that. It seemed to them almost ide%l. As the big cars advanced along this road other automobiles from Knoxville which were awaiting tneir arrival, cheer-; ed the dust-stained travelers liberally as they passed and then swung Into line, Increasing the length of the escorting col umn. E. R. Oates was driving his four-, I cylinder Thomas, In which he had as his' guests the Misses Ellinora and Kate l Luttrell and Mr. W. E. Luttrell and D. IE. Schmitt. SOUTH'S PRIZE BEAUTY. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Glasgow were out ; In their eo. and David C. Chapman had i his E. M. F. car in line with a party, ’ smong whom was Miss Sue Johnson, who has the reputation of being one of the most beautiful women of the south. Wll-I Ham Kohlhase had another party out i In his Reo. As It was Sunday evening and the, ! church bells were ringing, the hoarse , electric horns of the big cars were Kept, I less demonstrative than usual and the i ■ pi occasion made a decorous entrance Into the city. On every porch, however, and tn front' of every house through the suburbs and into the very business part of Knoxville.' i Its citizens were standing awaiting the [ arrival of the visitors, who had been ex pected for two days. Smiling faces and j fluttering handkerchiefs greeted the dust begrimed pilgrims at every turn, and ; when the cars pulled up in front of the Imperial hotel they were instantly sur rounded by numerous throngs, all eager to shake hands with the scouts and to j hear the story of their rough pilgrimage 1 through the mud. KNOX COUNTY AWAKE. Knox county is also well forward in I the procession of the good roads advo- U cates. At the last session of county court : held there Monday and Tuesday, the ' pike fund for 1900 and 1910 was fixed at 268,000. The damage to roads has been such during the past year that 146,000 of this must go for reconstruction work and . $16,200 for new roads. Under the last i enactment of the Tennessee general as sembly the county convicts must do cer i tain work for the preservation of roads, which will allow far greater expenditure i for new roads from this time forward. COTTON BAGGING TO LEAVE FOEE LIST? k I Tariff Conference Between House! and Senate Will Result in Duty j Being Placed on Jute and Jute Butts. WASHINGTON, July 12.—The draft of the corporation tax amendment will pro vide for a tax of ’l per cent Instead of 2 per cent on the net earnings of Corpora tions. This wasdecided today at an in formal conference at the white house. At torney General Wickersham will prepare the amendment. “ ? i WASHINGTON, July 12.-That cotton ; bagging, which was put on the free l|st by the senate is not to remain undutiabie is one of the first predictions made in regard to the proposed action of the con ference committee on tariff bill. The house conferences contend that a num ber of American manufacturers of cot ton bagging would be compelled to shut down if that article should remain on the free ll*t, and It is said that the sen ate conferences will not need much urg ing to agree to return bagging to the dutiable list. Jut* and jute butts, from which cotton bagging is made, have been transferred to the dutiable list by the senate, but, as jute was on the free list in the Ding- j ley bill, as well as the Payne bill, the duty probably will be taken off In con ference.' Another prediction made with regard to the action of the conferees is that th* duty on coal, which is sixty cents in the senat* bill as compared with 67 cents in the existing law, will be fin ally agreed upon at 40 cent* In confer ence*. The house and senate conferees met again today at 10 o’clock to consider amendments In numerical order. The low tariff men on the house conference com- ' mittee objected to an increase of 35 cent* ■ per square foot made by the senate in the house rate on card clothing when made with face cloth containing wool. [ This is an Increase over the Dlnglay rate and was evidently made to cover the wool used. Similar objections are expected with reference to the counter duty on petroleum, the placing of hides on the free list and the return of cocoa to th* non-duttable list. These are to be among the most strongly contested sched-1 *<es. TAFT AT WORK ON TAX. ‘ President Taft and the lawyers of hi* cabinet have undertaken to save the tar iff conferees from haggling over the cor- i poration tax amendment. It is conceded that the measure as passed by the senate must be redrafted in order to remove constitutional objec-! tions and to meet the views of the ad-' ministration. The president has told the leaders of the senate and house that a* j the administration would be charged with • the responsibility of collecting the tax and defending the act if assailed in the courts, th* administration should be per-; mttted to perfect the measure. . , Senator Aldrich and Representative i Payne have made no objection to the sug gestion made by th* president, and as a re-, suit Attorney General Wickersham la I working out the legal problems it in-1 volves. In frequent consultation with! tho attorney general are Secretary of; State Knox. Senator Root and the pres-1 ident himself. When they have perfect-! ed the amendment, it will be sent to the! conferees, who will Incorporate it In the! bill as agreed to in conference. If the 1 corporation tax feature is changed at I all aft*r being redrafted In cabinet and l close administration circle*, the altera-i tions probably will be confined to the! rate of tax Imposed upon net earnings.' There Is a strong sentiment In congress’ that the tax should be not more thanl on* per cent, and it may be cut in half; accordingly, but the rate has not come up for discussion among the conferees. INHERITANCE TAX. Some reluctance Is being exhibited by members of th* house to the suggestion 1 that the Inheritance tax feature adopt-1 ed by that body sliall be left out of th* bill. President Taft has been Impressed by the arguments. It is stated upon the highest authority, however, that he does not think that fed eral and state governments should Both resort to this method of raising revenues. CUSTOMS COURT FAVORED. The amendment adopted by the senate, providing for the establishment of a cus toms court, is likely to be accepted by the house conferees. An effort will be made to fix the salaries of the judges at XK),000 as provided originally by the I amendment reported from the finance committee. The terms of the senate maximum pro- ] vision are meeting with some favor from the house members of the conference committee, and the indications are that it will be accepted after some minor changes have been made. This feature provide* that the maximum rates, which are fixed at 20 per cent, above the im port duties prescribed by the bill, shall go into effect on March 31, next, unless the president by proclamation in the meantime shall have released countries from the higher rate. If the senate gains its way in relation to the corporation tax. inheritance tax and the customs court, there is a feeling that it will be at the sacrifice of many of it* amendments to the dutiable Hat. The conferees plunged into their labor* today with vigor and enthusiasm. The metal and wood schedules were ta ken up in the morning hours. After agreeing to take a vote today at 4 o'clock on the joint resolution pro posing an amendment to the constitution authorising the levy of an income tax, regardless of apportionment among the several states, the house proceeded to dikcuss the proposition. All the senate amendments to the Phil ippine bill were rejected by the house to day and the conference requested by the senate was granted. "NATION OF LIARS." "I believe it tends to make a nation of liars,” declared Chairman Payne, in con nection with a statement that he was utterly opposed to such a tax in times of peace. He believed it was the most diffi cult of enforcement and the hardest to collect. ; “It is, In a word,” he said, "a tax upon the incomes of honest men and an ex emption to some extent, to the rascals.” IHe hoped it would never be invoked, i ! To pass such a resolution at the pres ent time without having been duly con sidered by a committee was characteriz ed by Mr. McCall (Mass.) as a "pro ceeding of extraordinary levity.” He was especially antagonistic to the idea of do ' ing away 'With the rule of apportion ment as showing no fealty to Democratic principles. It was his view that in im posing the tax the power of the central government, ’'already so great that it is devouring the state governments,” should I be limited to times of war. "You already have a sufficient oppor tunity for corruption and for the political Jack Cade of the future to levy black mail,” he claimed. TAX UNPOPULAR. The proposed tax, he said, was predea- ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1909 CHEER GINGLES GIRL ONHERWTOTRIAL Gre&t Crowds Pack Corridors and Speak Words of Encourage ment to Little Irish Lace Mak er—Bystander Faints. CHICAGO, July 12.—Ella Glngles, the Ir|sh lace-maker who alleges that a charge of theft placed against her is part of a conspiracy to drive her into I "white slavery,” was cheered today as she made her way alone through the cor ridors of the criminal court building. The crowd extended from the street to ■ the doors of Judge Brentano’s court room. One man wedged In the crowd fainted from the heat. Several shouldered their way to Miss Gingles' side and spoke, words of encouragement. The first witness today was Sigward Sorenson, an employe of the Newberrv; library. He was called for the purpose ( of refuting Miss Gingles’ statement that ehe read the papers at the library on January 4 last. She stated on the stand that she read the advertisements of po sitions? “We do not have newspapers for the use of the public,” said Mr. Sorenson. "We get the papers quarterly and then they are bound up In big volumes. We do not get them dally.” On cross-examination by Mr. O’Donnell, representing the defendant, Mr. Sorenson stated that there were tables In the ref erence room where the public could read newspapers. Mrs. Edna Wolf, matron at the LaSalle street railway station, told of two inter views which she had with Miss Gingles in January subsequent to the first alleged attack and prior to the Wellington hotel bathroom mystery. FOUND GIRL IN DEPOT. On the first visit to the depot Mrs. 1 Wolf found the lacemaker in the ladies’ 1 waiting room. She complained of feeling ! faint. Mrs. Wolf had forgotten the inci dent when Miss Gingles re-appeared a week later and re-introduced herself. “I asked her what I could do for her and she sadd she had been arested on complaint of Miss Agnes Barrette. She said she had bsen bound and cut in the Wellington hotel and her clothes taken away. I asked her If there was any sug gestion of 'white slavery’ made to her ahd she said there had not. She said Miss Barrette abused her because she would not give up her secret of lacemaking. | "Again I asked her if there was any thing I could do for her and said 'Well, if anybody comes here, tell them you found me weak and hungry. I haven’t eaten for three days.’ I told her T would say nothing except about her first visit when she appeared sick. About an hour later she appeared with a stout woman. The woman asked if it was true that Ella had been at the station and was suffer ing from weakness due to lack of food." Mr. O’Donnell then cross-exanftned the witness. "Did Ella appear sick »nd faint?” ••yes.” "Did she tell you .anything about being i taken from her home by two women?" TELLS OF WOMEI "Yes; she said Miss Barrette and an ! other woman had taken all her laces and ; had then taken her to the. hotel,” I “You mentioned 'white slavery’’?" ' "Yes; we always ask all young women ' who come to the depot and seem to be I lost whether anyone had approached I them.” , I "Is it, then, so prevalent that you ques -1 tion all friendless girls who seek your I assistance?” “Yes.” I "Did Ella know what ‘white slavery’ meant?” ”Y«a.” William H. Luthardt. clerk at the de tective bureau, testified that he had in spected the lace in dispute between Miss 1 Barrette and Miss Gingles. I “Were you in the office when the night gown and rope were brought in?*- "Yes.” I "Did the gown appear to have been laundered?” NAME JUST WRITTEN. "No; it seemed to be new. It bore the name of ‘A. Barrette' in clean Ink. To satisfy myself that the ink had not been through the laundry with the gown. I moistened the writing and it blurred." The testimony of the gown was intro duced by the state to show that the night gewn in which Miss Gingles was found ' in the hotel bath room did not belong to I Miss Barrette, but had been purchased by Miss Gingles and the name “A. Bar rette” written thereon. ! Detective Joseph Kinder gave evi dence damaging to Miss Gingles’ narra tive of the attack in the bath room. "We examined the bath room transom and Miss Barrette’s room. The lock had not been tampered with and the ledge of the transom was covered with undis turbed dust, showing that nobody had crawled over it, as claimed by Miss Gingles.” MAN SAVED FROM MOB IN SHADOW OF ROPE Pennsylvania Mob Is Robbed of Prisoner by Clever Ruse of Jailer. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 12.—Only a ruse by the authorities of Canonsburg and Meadowlands, near here, prevented the lynching early .today of a man who was arrested at midnight in connection with an attack on Lydia Spade, 12 years old. Believing the man had been captured, but uncertain, a large crowd gathered about the Canonsburg jail shortly after midnight. A rope was thrown over a tree and a demand was made of the jail offi cials to surrender the man. CHlef Swann told the crowd no arrest had been made and urged a hurried search for the criminal. In the meantime Joseph Johnson, of New Cumberland. W. Va., who had been arrested as a suspect, was kept hidden in the jail and today was heavily guarded by extra police. tined to be as unpopular a tax as was ever imposed. He was, he asserted, against abrogating an important part of the great compro | mise of the constitution and passing an amendment which had not been careful ly considered by a committee of the house, or by anybody in the country, "unless it be William J. Bryan.” * The president wil not allow himself to be quoted at this stage of the tariff pro ceedings, feeling that it would be more harmful than helpful. The best Interest of the people will be served, the presi- 1 dent believes, by using what influence he has in personal appeals to the con feree.* rather than in carrying out a pub lic campaign. Having personally brought forward the corporation tax, the president has a pe culiar interest in it. The ultimate rate jdoes not concern him so much, for it can I be raised or lowered as circumstances re ' auire. LEE TO LEAVE TRINITY; BRADLEY MAY SUCCEED Movement Has Already Been Begun to Have Dr. H. Stiles Bradley, Now of St. Louis, Return to Former Pastorate of Trinity st Expiration of Term of Dr. J. W. Lee—Latter May Go Again to Church in St. Louis, of Which Dr. Bradley Is Now Pastor. Under the itinerant system of Method ism, Dr. J. W. Lee’s pastorate of Trinity Methodist church will soon come to a close. It is understood in this connection that efforts are afoot to secure Dr. H. S. Bradley, now of St. Louis, Mo., as his successor. Dr. Bradley, as is well known, preceded Dr. Lee at Trinity and Is one of the most widely beloved men a* well as ministers who ever lived In Atlanta. The probability that he will return will be of Interest throughout the city. It is a notable coincidence that Dr. Lee came to Atlanta from St. John’s church, St. Louis to All the vacancy left by Dr. Bradley and Dr. Bradley went from here to St. Louis to take the place of Dr. Lee, so that it amounted to what might be termed a swapping of pulpits by the FORTUNE WAITING FOR MISSING BOY £ Jack Manning, Who Came to At lanta Eleven Years Ago Penni less, Is Now Heir to Rich For tune in Texas—Can’t Be Found. Where’s Jack Manning? This is a question being asked in At lanta, Florida and Texas. For this young man, who 11 years ago came to Atlanta a penniless and helpless orphan boy, accompanying an ill and enfeebled mother, has fallen heir to a fortune out in Lufkin, Tex. All efforts to locate Jack have failed and his relatives, in a Anal desperate try, have written Mayor Maddox, solicit ing his aid. The following letter from the young man’s step-grandmother, tells the story: "KYNEBVILLE, Fla., July 8, 1909. "City Mayor: About ten or eleven year* ago one Mrs. Carrie Bell Manning, the widow of Dr. J. R. Manning, then reduced in circumstances, health-wrecked, left here with her little son. Jack, to try treatment In a hospital in Atlanta. "After a time we could hear nothing from Mrs. Manning nor Jack. I presume she died. "I’ve been written to, to give th* whereabouts of Jack, as there is consid erable property at and near Lufkin, Tex., for Jack, which he will inherit from his grandfather's, the old Dr. Manning's, estate. "I trust that you will In kindness to the orphan boy, ft he Is where you can find him, tell him. Let me hear from you. This Is from Jack's step-grand mother. "NANNIE E. REYNOLDS.” ■ i . AMERICA TO GUARD WELFARE OF BABIES Academy o£ Medicine Plans Cam paign to Instruct Parents How to Care for Children. BALTIMORE, Md., July 12.—Plans to prevent the modern slaughter of the In nocents by Instructing the people of the United States In the proper care that should be given babies are being foxmu iated by the American Academy of Medi cine. As an initial step in the move ment a conference is to be held In New Haven next November, at which leading physicians, sociologists and educators from all parts of the country will join forces In a study of the problem. The general subject of the conference will be “The Prevention of Infant Mortality,” and the four aspects under which it will be considered are the medical, philan thropic, institutional and educational. It is suggested that first of all, the sources of each city’s milk supply may be investigated for the sake of the ba bies' health, and the sanitary inspection of tenements by health officers and vis iting nurses may also be undertaken. In going over the infant death rate of the country it is found that Chicago is the second city in this respect. The city has a record of 8,381 deaths of babies un der two years old out of a total mortality of 32,198 deaths of all ages. Among those on the national commit tee ready to direct the work of saving the Infants are Miss Jane Addams, of Chicago; Dr. Charles R. Henderson, pro fessor of sociology of the University of Chicago, and others prominent in social and medical work in this country. BOY BLOWS OFF TOP OF HIS HEAD STILLMORE. Ga., July 12.—Estu*. the ten year-old son of Mr. Love Lanier, is dead, at his home, four miles east of this plaee. the re sult of the accidental discharge of a shotgun while In company with hla brother hog bunting. His brother had left the deceased to go to their dog. which bad beyed something In the swamp, leaving hla gun with hla younger brother, who took It up and, it is supposed, let the gun drop upon the log where he was standing, the dis charged load striking the boy in the right eye and blowing off the top of his head, scattering his brains all about. Hla family is well known throughout this section. SENATE SECRETARY MAY BE OUSTED MOBILE. Ala., July 12.—A Montgomery (Ata.) special says: When the legislature convenes in extraordinary session an effort, it is said, will be made to oust Secretary of the Senate John A. Kyte. <>t Jackson county, who has long held the posi tion. It will be charged against Kyle that he Is responsible for the error* which occurred m preparing bills which bad been enacted into law and which resulted In ninny of them being de clared unconstitutional. The fight premises to be a hot one. LITTLE BOY KNOCKED DOWN AND DRAGGED BY AUTO Israel Averbach, Eight Years Old, Probably Fatally Hurt by Auto mobile—At Grady Hospital It I s Said He May Have a Fracture of the Skull and Little Hope Is Entertained for His Recovery. Israel Averbach, aged eight years, of 60 Gilmer street, was knocked down by a car driven by C. M. Love, of Smyrna, Ga_, and probably fatally Injured Monday at noon. The accident occurred at the corner of Courtland and Gilmer streets. The Aver bach boy and a number of his little friends w r ere playing an exciting game of ball. So engrossed was the lad in the game that he did not see the approaching car. nor did the driver, it is stated, see the two distinguished ministers. Os course, however, under the rules of the church, both appointments were made by the bishops. Still more interesting is the suggestion that if Dr. Bradley returns to Trinity this time. Dr. Lee may return to St. Louis. It is a regulation of the Methodist church that after serving one charge a certain number of years a preacher must be transferred. Dr. Lee will soon have completed his allotted stay at Trinity, and it is with keen regret that his con gregation and the city at large looks for ward to his departure. He is' considered one of the most forceful thinkers and personalities ir <-he city and has hundreds of friends outside his own church and denomination. GRAZED BY DEATH WHEN GRATING FELL Well Known Traveling .Man Al most Hanged When His Chin Held Him Dangling in the Air. Carried to Grady Hospital. When the sidewalk grating on the Ala bama street side of Jacobs' Whitehall street store gave way Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, L. B. Gllston, a well-known Atlanta traveling man, was dropped through the hole and seriously injured. He was at once rushed to the Grady hos pital and late Sunday afternoon was ta ken to his residence at 376 Washington street, where it was learned Monday that he was resting easy though in a serious condition. One panel of the grating on the sidewalk is kept loose, it is said, so that it can be taken up and ice and other articles plac ed in the basement in a convenient man ner and it was this panel through which Mr. Gllston fell. It Is thought the panel had become loose by being taken up so often and this is given as the reason for it slipping. When the panel fell out Mr. Gilston was dropped some eight feet to the base ment. In falling, his chin caught on th* side of the grating and for a moment he was suspended fn mid-air by his chin and back of his head. After hanging on by his head a moment he fell to the base ment and the panel fell on top of him. It is thought that the blow his head re ceived on the side of the grating in fall ing through the hole produced the serious injury to his head. At the Grady hospital the Injured man was given -the very best of medical at tention. He was In an unconscious condi tion upon reaching the hospital and it was with difficulty that he was revived. Though no bones were broken It is feared he suffered Internal injuries that may prove fatal. When the accident occurred Mr. Gilston was waiting for a Washing ton street car to go to his residence. Mr. Gilston is a traveling salesman for the Myers Millinery company, an Atlan ta wholesale house. He is about 35 years of age and is well known in Atlanta. RUSSIAN POLICE ArF BRANDED AS SPIES Revolutionist Says That Political Agents Intercept Even Mail by Bribery PARIS, July 12.—Bourtzeff, the Russian :evolutionist who recently charged Gen eral Harting, chief of the Russian politi cal police abroad, wtih being implicated in a plot against Alexander 111, has writ ten a letter to the Matin, accusing the Russian political police with systemati cally Intercepting the correspondence of Russians residing abroad. He declares that they do this by either bribing the letter carriers, or the jani tors of apartments or by stealing the letters outright. In the former case, the regular fee is five francs for a letter and two francs for a postal card. The correspondence Is then photographed and replaced. NEW SEASON RECORD IS MADE BY COTTON October Sold for 12.70 and De cember Contract for 12.74, In crease of 29 Points. NEW YORK, July 12.—Cotton establish ed a new record for the season today. The October contract sold for 12.70 and Decem ber for 12.74, a rise of 29 points above Saturday's closing. The rise followed heavy buying inspired by the continued dry, hot weather in Texas. Spot cotton In Atlanta Monday was quoted at 12 l-2c. PERU AND BOLIVIA ARE ON VERGE OF WAR Chilean Dispatches Say Argentine Boundary Decision Will Re sult in Clash. VALPARAISO. Chile July 12.-It is be lieved here that war between Peru and Bolivia is imminent because of the dis orders at La Paz following the decision handed down by Argentina in the bound ary dispute between the two countries. The Chilean admiralty said today that Chile would remain neutral, but she is preparing to send warships for the pro tection of Chilean interests. boys until too late. He turned the wheel to avuiu striking a group of them and the Averbach lad was knocked down. He sustained several bad scalp wounds, and a fracture at the base of the skull, and when taken to the Grady hospital by Mr. Love in his auto, the physicians pro nounced his injuries so serious that they would hold out no hope for his recovery. Shortly after the accident Mr. Love was placed under arrest and the hearing was placed for 2:30 o’clock Monday after poorx. * "NO USE FOR YDU,” NI'LENDONSNNFPED Deposed Railroad CommissjOnoT) Using Office Room of the Com mission, Invites a Newspaper Man to Leave the Room. i [2 J 8. G. McLendon, suspended railroad commissioner, has prepared a supplemdli tai statement for submission to the joint J legislative committee recently appoint** to Investigate his official conduct. Thi* statement, which he will offer at :h* hearing Monday afternoon, is undsrstoo* | to request a further postponement of the inquiry for one day, and urge that the rules governing the probe be mafft to conform with the rules of procedure in the courts of Georgia. The suspended commissioner declined to discuss the statement Monday mom- ’ ing. Indeed, his manner toward Th* Journal's representative was discourteolig | and Insulting. He invited the newspa;?er man to leave the audience chamber of the commission, though he did net mak# it clear just what authority he now 'tas . as an official.. He has been relieved of his commission, stripped of his authonsr and restored to the ranks of private citi zenship, temporarily, anyhow, yet he pre sumed Monday morning to have a mo nopoly on the commission’s office. Fur-: ther, he used employes of the stat* to perform services for him. "I have no use for you in here, I am busy,” abruptly stated Mr. Mcl>en<lon, in response to a pleasant and polite “good morning.” Then he resumed the dlctanibd of his statement to the secretary iof th* commission. It is not believed the committee will yield to Mr. McLendon’s suggestion for a postponement, but will resumd th* examination of witnesses. It is not InFv probable, however, that the commltte* will exclude from the record all extra neous matter that may be introduced, ftf which event little of the testomony sought of Hooper Alexander will be | unless Mr. McLendon can show that it bears directly on hl* case. W. H. Patterson, vice president of th* Central Bank and Trust corporation, ha* returned to Atlanta, and Monday morn ing was served with a eubpena to ap pear at the afternoon session. J. Y. Ckr rithers and W. G. Bryan, officer* of th* Athens Street railroad, have also t»e*n served, and are expected to be present. Hooper Alexander, Barbour Thompson, Charles E. Hartnan, Sam F. Parrott, At torney General Hart, Special Attorney Hines, Railroad Commissioner* Candler. Hill and Hfllyer and several others have also been summoned for Monday after noon. FORTUNE IS FOUND ON STARVING WOM.IN Nunes Discover Thousands of Dollars in Cash, Jewelry and Bank Notes. Hty Associated Trees.) nA NEW YORK, July 12—Nurse* in th* Kings County hospital have found thou sands of dollars in cash, jewelry, and b*nk books, concealed in the garments of Elizabeth Donegan, a servant who found starving to death on th* streets of Brooklyn. •."‘jfW A policeman was attracted to a f.hUt, half-clad and shivering little old womAll in a side street late last night and took her to the station. There an ambulanc* doctor said she was ill from starvation and sent her to the hospital. / * She protested as much as her streiigth would permit, against the taking of Mr clothing from her. In one garment thi nurses found $85.60 In gold and silver : money, ten large unset diamonds, * tdte watch and chain and other jewelry. To another garment was sewed S6OO in blit* and two bank books representing deposit* of more than $6,000. The woman had worked as 8. family servant until she became ill and then having no home and failing to provide herself with one, the police say she wan dered the streets Until she became weak from lack of food. TSETSE FLY CLEARED OF ILLNESS BLAMI Physicians Find Dreaded Sleeping Sickness Is Conveyed by Germ and Not Fly. NEW YORK. July 12.-The tsetse fly, the insect that jumped from scientific oh, ■curity to public notice on the eve df Theodore Roosevelt's departure for Af rica, received a certificate of character yesterday at the Rockefeller Institute. Dr. S. J. Meltzer, one of the affiliated *p*/ cialists. announces that the dreadbd sleeping sickness Is carried by the .set** fly only incidentally; that is. from one already infected to a fresh subject, ti* th* common house fly may carry typhoid. His bite is not venomous, says the phy sician. while the real offender la th* only disease germ known to have th* power of locomotion—the trypanesu**. J This microscopic organism ha* the dis ease bound up in its system and has been exclusively used recently by the Rocked feller institute in all the Inoculations of i mice. i The institute is at work with a new s4rum for the cure of the sleeping sick ness, for which It ha* high hop**, but no announcement of its nature will be made before next winter. J Since the sleeping sickness firlt made its appearance in Uganda in 19(4, two hundred thousand have died by it tn one district alone, and its toll in the Cionrft | Free State has been almost unbelievably ; heavy. TELLS OF BLOODY DUEL • J HE FOUGHT IN BAKERY NEW ORLEANS. Jnly 12.—A bloody deel t>»- twwn husband and the man charged with l>elng responsible for the a’.tenatlon of bis wife* *f- J f-ctions was graphically told of by Carl Bet tuna. slayer nt John Knecht here Sunday, »e --cording to the police records. Berttina. who l was" —iployed by Knecht, a baker, killed the I latter i’hiiraday. j "Knecht said to me that his wife thought I more of me than she did of him. and we would ! have to fight it ont," Lertuna is quoted a* 4*- I cl.trinc: "He attacked me. and we fought it 1 out in the baking room. I struck him dow* ' and then and told Mrs. Knecht what I had dA*e. I Together we went down and viewed the body, : and she then gave me money enough to leave ■ town.” i Bertuna was captured Saturday night in Mo idle. He made no effort against being brought 1 back to New Orleans today. POLITICIANS CLASH IN SUNDAY FIGHT LISBON, July 12.—There waa an encotmter yesterday between royalista and repubUeaiuF la i the town of Ixmra. I Tire royalists objected to the format io* or a 1 republican cinb. Shota were exchangee! a*g ’ aareral persona were dangerously hurt. NO. 86. . j