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WILL PROHIBITION
ENCIRCLE THE SOUTH?
NEW YORK. Oct. 9- “It looks to me
as If the -solid south’ would be solidly
prohibition Within the next five years.”
said Gov. M. F. Ansell, of South Carolina,
nt the Waldorf-Astoria tonight, "and then
what will happen when the governor of
North Carolina pays a visit to the govern
or of South Carolina?
"Prohibition is. making tremendous
strides all through the south and in my
own state. |he cases where a thirsty
man can get a drink are few and far be
tween. Os 42 counties in the state of
South Carolina 21 were prohibition prior
to August last.
"Fifteen additional counties went dry
at the elections held in that month and
after November 15 next, it will be possi
ble to get a drink in only six counties of
the state. Charleston and Columbia, the
two principal cities of the state and the
latter the capital, are still wet.
"But there la no doubt that the prohi
bition movement has come to stay. It is
• potent force which all political parties
have to recognize. It Is making steady
progress throughout the south."
Governor Ansell was only one of a
number of governors of states and other
distinguished men at the Waldorf-Astoria
to attend the annual meeting of the trus
tees of the George Peabody educational
fund. These trustees number 15, all of
whom with one exception attended the
meeting.
During the roll-call there was no re
sponse when the name of Theodore Roose
velt was called and the attendants
promptly ‘went through the corridor of
the hotel calling for “Mr. Roosevelt;
Mr. T. Rooeevelt "’
BURNEtTwIFE’S BONNET:
KICKED STOVE DOWN?
Judge Fills is engaged Friday morning
tn bearing the J. W. Pounds divorce case,
tn which Mrs. Pounds brought suit against
her husband on the ground of drunken
ness and cruelty, asking alimony and the
custody of her child. The husband filed
a counter-petition alleging that his wife
drank more liquor than he did.
Testimony was introduced Friday to
show that on one occasion Pounds re
| turned home and found his wife, wearing
r a sun-bonnet. kneeling on the kitchen
floor, engaged on some menial labor, and
that he became angry, snatched the bon
net off her bead and threw It In the
stove, afterward kicking over the stove.
"But if he didn’t like to see me doing
that kind of work, why didn't he give me
money enough to employ a servant?" sug
gested Mrs Pounds, who further averred
that her husband never gave her much
more than *2.50 per week for all the
household expenses.
COUNTESS KILLED BY
INFATUATED CLERK
BERLIN. Oct. 9.—A murderous attack
tn Berlin last night upon a woman well
known to the night nfe of the capital,
followed by the suicide of her assailant,
came to light today, when the Countess
Augusta Von Strachwitz died in a hospi
tal. The woman was shot and stabbed
by Alfred Friedlander, a clerk. 23 years
old. who was infatuated with her. After
wounding tha countess the clerk commit
ted suicide.
Countess Augusta Von Strachwitz was
the daughter of a small farmer. After
being divorced twice she married Count
Guenther Von Strachwitz and paid him
a sum of money on the condition that they
separate at the registry office. The count
obtained a divorce and married again. The
dissolute life of the countess and her ex
travagant adventures made her noto
rious
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4 BURNED
TO DEATH
Early Morning Fire Destroys the
Building and Burns Members of
Family to Death Before
Aid Can Arrive.
I NASHVILLE. Tenn., Oct. B.—Fire at 1:45
o'clock this morning in a brick building
at Nos. 721-728 Jeff- rson street, wiped out
a whole family of four persons, two of
whom were so badly burned mat their |
features were scarcely recognizable.
' W. H. Mustalne. assistant city
ticket agent of the Louisville and
Nashville, who occupied the sec
ond floor of No. 723. together
with his wife and two children,
were taken out of the burning building
by neighbors, who came to the rescue
with a step ladder.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
The dead:
MRS. DORA FISHMAN, his wife, aged
24. burned to death.
MISS ROSIE FISHMAN, aged 14 years,
died from suffocation.
MISS RACHAEL MARKESON. aged 16
years, died from suffocation.
MRS. ROSIE A. FISHMAN, aged about
50 years, burned to death.
Moses Fishman was taken to the hospi
; tai suffering suffocation and serious
! burns.
I There is a bare possibility that he will
recover.
NEGROES ARRESTED.
Jim Butler and George Harrison, two
negroes, who have been seen about the
building and who are known to have had
trouble with J. A. Thuss, a grocer, whe
' occupied the ground floor, are under ar
rest at the police station on suspicion of
' knowing something of the origin of th a
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So great a headway had the conflagra
tion gained, when it was discovered and
so great was the excitement caused oy
the horrified screams of women and ter
rified appeals for help of those in dan
ger, that no organized attempt at res
cue was made for some minutes after the
• four fire companies had arrived on the
. scene.
J It was only after some one had secured
a long step 'adder, which tvas mounted
by Frank Fetzer. after being placed
against the front wall of the Mustalne
| apartment that it was known that the
members of the Fishman family were still
.in the burnlne building.
EFFORTS IN VAIN .
Desperate efforts ter enter their apart
ment were frustrated by the flames burst
ing from the windows.
The entire family, numbering four, were
burned or suffocated to death, and with
I them perished Miss Rachael Markeson,
who lived in the same apartment.
Two of the victims in this apartment
were burned so that their features were
hardly recognizable.
The Development of the Telephone
The telephone is not so old. There are
among us yet those who remember how
they viewed with awe the little box-like
instrument that was exhibited at the Cen
tennial Exposition of 1876.
Crude and imperfect though it was. it
actually transmitted the human voice,
something that had been attempted with
out success many times before. St that
I time but few realized its value or fully
believed the statements made about it.
Today everyone recognizes the true worth
of the telephone. Without It business
would be paralyzed, the comfort and safe
ty of our homes would be imperiled and
the general stability of the country af
fected.
The present perfection of the telephone
is due mainly to the efforts of th. Wet-,-
ern Electric Cmpany, of New York, Chi
cago and other large cities. This com
pany took the undeveloped invention o!
Alexander Graham Bel! shortly after the
Exposition, and during these thirty-three
years has been constantly delving into
the theory of the telephone, and at the
same time perfecting machinery for the
I manufacture and testing of every piece of
material going into its construction.
Not only does the Western Electric
Company make telephones for city use.
but it also manufactures telephones and
supplies for rural telephone systems
whether the system consists of only four
or five subscribers or is one that supplies
service to a village of several hundred or
more Inhabitants.
It has for distribution free booklets
| that tell all about a rural telephone sys
tem, the exact cost, how to organize one,
how to build one; everything, in fact,
that you need to know. It also offers the
free services of its telephone experts to
anyone who is interested in rural tele
phones.
WRIGHT ANNOUNCES
RACE FOR CONGRESS
ROME, Ga., Oct. 9.—Judge Moses
Wright, one of the most prominent jurists
of the state, has made the following an
nouncement of his candidacy for congress
from the Seventh district:
To the People of the Seventh Congression
al District:
I am a candidate for congress, and from
this date on will be actively In the contest
for the Democratic nomination.
I shall not hold another regular term of
court, and will be out of office by January
1, 1910. Ten days from this date my resig
nation as judge of the superior courts will
be in the hands of the governor. This ten
days’ notice of my resignation is given
that all those desiring to succeed me upon
the bench may have equal opportunity to
present their claims.
My candidacy will be an appeal directly
to the people. I hope to meet them and
talk to them everywhere—openly, fairly
and fearlessly.
This early announcement is made to set
tle finally the question of my candidacy,
and to put an end to persistent rumors to
the effect that I may not run.
(Signed) MOSES WRIGHT.
MACON TROOPS TO WEAR
FULL DRESS FOR TAFT
MACON. Ga.. Oct. 9.—For the first time
in the history of the military organiza
tions of Macon the soldier boys of this
city will be seen in full dress parade
next month. The occasion of this signa!
appearance will be the presence of Presi
-dent William Howard Taft In Macon.
The program is for the battalion to
escort President Taft from the city to
the fair grounds and from the fair
’rounds back to the Union depot on the
morning of November 4. There will be
about 150 men tn full dress uniform, and
the spectacle will be most imposing.
ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD BOY
IS STUDENT OF HARVARD
' CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Oct. 9—The
! youngest and smallest student who ever
i matriculated at Harvard university, so
far as known, entered the college today
as a special student.
He is William J. Sldls. of Brookline, the
11-ycar-old son of Dr. and Mrs. Bory
Sldls. natives of Poland.
Young Sid'.s is a men’al prodigy, par
ticularly in mathematical studies, he hav
‘ng already mastered all the elementary
branches. Sials attended Tufts college
last year.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1909.
UH ROUGHS IT
INjMB
Clothes Were Wet With Perspir
ation, None Were Found Large
Enough to Replace Them—Has
Fine Time.
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YOSEMITE. Cal., Oct. 9.—Hot, tired,
perspiring, but declaring that “this is the
best that we have seen since we started
the trip,” President Taft reached the Sen
tinel hotel, on the floor of Yosemite val
ley, at 11:45 o’clock this morning.
The four-mile walk down a descent of
3,900 feet, was made in exactly three hours,
the hotel at Glacier Point having been left
behind at 8:30 this morning. Coaches
met the party at the foot of the trail and
carried them aver the 15-minute ride to
the Sentinel, where a squad of Indians,
regular cavalrymen, cowboys and moun
taineers gave the president.a rousing wel
come to the valley and then shook hand.-
all around before retiring to his room for
a rest.
When the president finally reached Yos
emite he was so bathed in perspiration
that he had scarcely a dry stitch of
clothing on him.
NO CLOTHES LARGE ENOUGH.
What was worse, the clothing at hand
was too small for the president to wear.
As many another has done in like circum
stances. the president simply took off
:his wet clothing and went to bed, trust
ing to his valet to have the clothing dried
for him by the time he wanted it again.
Fortunately there was no local committee
waiting to see him. so he was able to rest
quietly in bed. in the Boke cottage, while
the presidential habiliments were drying.
An hour passed and Mr. Taft was on the
• point of rising from bed and re-donning
his half-wet clothing when the baggage
wagon, which had been sent down by the
wagon road, lumbered in and the situa
tion was saved.
It was the culminating accident in the
four days of roughing ft in the mountains
during which Mr. Taft had what Roose
velt would have described as q "bullv
time”—eating outdoors, retiring by candle
tight to a hard cot bed. bathing in a
spring and climbing up and down the
mountains, joshing the natives and living
off the country—that is to say, on the
products of the section—eggs; ham. chick
en. com bread, cold milk and fruits, with
all the frills of civilization tabooed. Aft
er luncheon the president again boarded
a stage coach and had a drive around the
floor of the valley before departing for
Fl Portel, where he boarded the car May
flower. in which he is spending the night,
preparatory to departing early tomorrow
for Merced and Fresno, in each of which
pleaces he is billed for brief addresses.
I He will arrive tn Los Angeles on Monday
morning.
Members of the California delegation
I to congress who have been accompany-
I Ing him through the Yosemite having
been urging the president to make a
| trip to the Philippines in 1911. Mr
Taft has no deeper interests than those
of the Philippines and he has listened
to the suggestions of a trip to the is
lands wdth some enthusiasm.
MAY GO TO PHILIPPINES.
It has been pointed out to the presi
dent that he could make a trip to the
Philippines well inside of three months,
by taking a fast cruiser and that he
would actually be away from Washing
ton but a little longer than on his jour
ney through the west.
If the president should decide to go
it would be his idea to have a large
congressional delegation precede so that
they might go over the Island with him.
The president is extremely anxious to
return there for a visit.
With a contemplated visit to Alaska
next year and a stop at Honolulu on the
way home, followed by the voyage to
th Philippines in 1911 and an occas
| mnal visit to Panama, President Tart
j would easily set a new mark for presi
| dential travel.
Novel Entertainment
Planned for Visit of Taft
MACON, Ga., Oct. 9.—Tnough plans
of a general nature have been made
for the reception of President Taft
when he comes to Macon on November
4, there are some details yet to be com
plete 1 and two committees win work
, them out. These are the entertainment
I committees of the Macon Fair asso
ciation and the Macon chamber of com
, meres. Mr. W. E. Dunwoody heads the
former, and Mr. James W. Callaway
the latter.
It is the Intention of the two com
mittees to prepare some new and novel
teature for the morning’s program
but what it will be they have not yet
stated. Botn men are more than anx
ous to do something to make the
president remember his stay in Macon
and for this reason special pains are
being taken.
If President Taft had so arranged
his trtp that he could have spent the
entire day in the city a' reception
would have been planned for the coun
try club in his honor and he would
I have been invited to a game of ancient
and honorable gotf. as it is he will
. be given a souvenir of the club in the
[ form of a driver that is now being
fashioned by Mr. Wilbur Oakes, the
professional in charge of the Log Cabin
links.
BOULDER BLOCKED ROAD.
Half a mile up the pass, across the
i road, where the president’s stage coach
j passed this afternoon, a 40-ton boulder
• crashed down last night, blocking up the
; road for several hours.
I ' A gang of men was put to work imme
diately and the road was cleared by the
time the president’s party returned here
this afternoon. No one was Injured.
i FULL DOCKET WAITING
FOR U. S. SUPREME COURT
, W ASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—When on next
| Monday the supreme court begins its
: term for 1909-10, there will be 630 cases
on the docket, a considerably larger num
ber than for several years past. The real
business of the term will begin on Tues
day. when the call of the docket will be
commenced. Os the assigned cases which
will be taken up in order, the suit of the
government for the dissolution of the To
bacco Trust probably will be argued to
ward the end of next week. A num
ber of cases Involving interstate railroad
interests are also included in the list.
There are several cases of importance
which have been docketed since the court
adjourned last June, which have not yet
been assigned, among which is a case in
volving the validity of the Missouri 2-cent
rate law.
SHOOTS AT CHICKEN,
BUT WOUNDS SISTER
FAYETTEVILLE. N. C., Oct. 9.-Mos
e* McLe«n. while a’ternntlnir to »hor>t a
wild chicken, accidenta’ly shot an ! dan
gerously wounded his sister. Hager. The
woman was behind a clump of woods and
could not be seen by the man.
Later in the day the home of James
McLean, a brother of Moses, was destroy
ed by fire, the occupants barely escaping
with their lives. •
Conyers Named Judge by Brown.
Governor Brown has appointed C. B.
Conyers judge of the newly created
Brunswick circuit.
Some time ago the Brunswick circuit
was divided into the Waycross circuit and
I the Brunswick circuit. Judge Conyers was
opposed by Judge Boling Whitfield.
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BEACON FIRES WILL
BLAZE ALONG HUDSON
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—More than two
score great beacon fires will blaze tonight
along the entire valley of the Hudson riv
er from New York bay to Albany, and
bring to a close the two weeks of festivi
ties which have made the Hudson-Fulton
celebration one of the most successful
events in recent times.
Each beacon light is built on a stone
foundation on some historic mountain or
other promontory along the Hudson, is 90
feet in cirqumference and 30 feet in
height, and constructed of dried peat,
which will burn briskly for at least six
hours and diffuse a great light. Each of
these beacons has cost *I,OOO.
Besides those constructed by the cele
bration commission, other beacons will be
burned on maViy of the great private es
tates overlooking the river. All of the
beacons will be set blazing simultaneous
ly by an electric current sent from this
city. As President Taft is deep in the
Yosemite valley and far from telegraph
communication, he has authorized Gen.
Stewart L. Woodford to press the button
which will start the fires.
Besides these fires, a number of cities
along the Hudson will have brilliant pyro
technical displays and there will be a
parade in Brooklyn and other cities.
AUGUSTA PHYSICIAN
SENT BACK TO JAIL
AUGUSTA, Ga., Oct. 9.-Dr. W. H.
Shaw, the city physician who Thursday
afternoon shot Mr. Thomas S. Gray, cash
ier of the Union Savings bank, is still in
jail. He was released on SI,OOO bond about
an hour after the shooting, but was later
re-arrested on a second warrant from the
sheriff’s office, and no bail has been ask
ed in the second arrest.
He > charged with assault with intent
to murder. Mr. Gray, who is in the Mar
garet Wright sanitarium, spent a quiet
night and is resting well.
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EIGHTY-ONE YEARS OLD,
HE FACED PRISON CELL
Leaning upon a hickory staff, a fros
ty-haired old man who was born just
81 years ago arose from the prison
er's bench in the United States court
room yesterday morning and faced
Judge Newman in placid expectancy.
His manner bore the freedom of
the mountaineer and that simple, quiet
dignity which marks a race bred close
to the soil and the naked sky. His
shoes were of goatskin. His blue
shirt hung open at the collar. The
long, knotted staff reached past his
stooping yet sturdy shoulders. His
bristly beard seemed to have been
blown by the gales of many a winter.
He looked for all the world like an
aged pilgrim such as you may see
woven upon dim old tapestries In Eng
land’s most ancient byways.
"What is the charge?” asked the
judge, glancing up from his docket.
The frosty-haired defendant remain
ed silent. The district attorney ex
plained that he had been found guilty
of making moonshine liquor. His name
was Adolph Hayes, known tetter as
“Dolph” among the craggy hills of
Gilmer county, where he has dwelt
since the last century was in its youth.
In his little red cottage sitting half
askew behind its mountain laurel
about 10 miles out from Ellijay, he has
reared 11 stalwart sons and daughters.
“Guilty”—that had been the jury's
verdict and now the moment for pay
ing the law’s debt had arrived. Judge
Newman observed him closely and then
gazed reflectively through the court
room window to a line of blue, misty
hills stretching away in the distance.
To' sleep in jail upon a straw pallet
when you are 81 years old, to breathe
the musty air of a prison cell when
you have been used to the ozone of
spruce pines, to tell your wi?* good-by
and be marched away to iron bars
when her head as well as yours is
white—this is no pleasant prospect,
but this was the future which old
“Dolph” faced as he stooa leaning upon
his staff.
If you turn back into the dustiest
files of the revenue office, it is said,
you will find the name of Adolph
Hayes. Long decades ago his name
was familiar to the raiders. This wai
not his first conviction.
As a young man he brewed moon
shine liquor as a matter of principle.
As an old man he brewed it as a cher
ished custom. He never brewed it
with sordid financial designs. "Dolph"
could never understand why he hadn't
the right to do what he pleased with
his corn when his own hands had
sowed it each springtime and his own
shoulders had borne it to the barn each
autumn. And, then, it was always such
honest liquor with a tang of joy in every
jugfull and merry bubbles roistering on
Its brim.
But he was guilty under the law.
“I don’t want to send this man to jail,"
• said the judge.
The defendant waited in silence.
“How old are you?”
"Eighty-one.”
After a space of several minutes the
I judge took up his pen and wrote across
I the docket.
I "You may go for this time,” he said,
“but you must stop breaking the law.”
I The aged* man bowed very low and
' picking up nis gray hat went slowly from
. court, bls staff tapping before him.
CARL FOSTER MUST APPEAR
BEFORE THE COMMISSION
After consultation with Governor Brown
Saturday morning. Chairman Hutchens
decided to subpena Carl Foster, who
• claims to have been an eye-witness to the
killing of Sheriff Dan Keith, of Murray
I county, by John Harper, now confined at
! the tower under sentence of and
! who was recently respited by Governor
Brown until October 22.
! It was in order to hear Foster's affidavit
that the case was re-opened. It has been
decided that Foster’s presence in the city
is imperative in view of the gravity of
the case. He Is expected to appear be
fore the commission next Saturday.
NEGROES ASK SEATS
AT TAFT BANQUET
PASADENA, Cal.. Oct. 9.—Whether
there shall be representatives of the ne
gro race at the Taft banquet here, Oc
tober 12, is a question the president, or
. some members of his party, will be called
.upon to decide today.
I A committee, representing the Afro-
American league, demanded that two ne
groes be given place at the banquet. E.
• Toss, chairman, referred the matter to
jthe executive committee, which will first
| ascertain Mr. Taft's wishes.
BURGLAR BY TRADE, NOT A
MURDERER, HE BOAST?
NEW YORK. Oct. 9.—Frederick Schlie
-1 man and Carol Giro were sentenced today
to execution at Sing Sing during the week
• beginning November 15 for the murder of
Mrs. Sophia Staber.
Giro insisted on his innocence.
“I am a burglar by trade,” he declared,
"but not a murderer.”
Mrs. Staber was shot during a pistol
duel between her son and the two burg
lars.
DROUTH AT WAYCROSS
IS BROKEN BY STORM
| WAYCROSS. Ga., Oct. B.—A heavy rain
yesterday afternoon broke a drouth
which has lasted here for some weeks.
The rain was accompanied by thunder and
lightning. Some hail fell also, stones as
large as marbles being noticed.
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S ' that 11 will surprise you.
f WANT A LIVE AGENT
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AMERICAN WOOLEN MILLS CO., Chaagu. IU
ALABAMA NEWS
MOBILE, Ala., Oct. B.—Lieut. H. E.
Honeywell and J. W. Tolland, his aide,
who came down with the balloon Centen
nial at Silas, Ala., stated today in an
interview with an Associated Press cor
respondent that the descent was due to
adverse currents which caused them to
change their course due west.
The adverse wind was due to a dis
turbance approaching from the south of
Cuba. They say that had they continued
the distance already made would have
been cut short.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Oct. B.—Authori
tative figures given out as to pig iron pro
duction in Alabama for the month ot
September shows a total of 149,187 tons,
an Increase of more than 20,000 tons as
compared to the same month a year pre
vious, and over 11,000 tons increase as
compared to the month of August, this
year. Jy
PIEDMONT BAPTISTS
MEET AT PATTERSON
WAYCROSS, Ga., Oct. 9.—The Piedmont
Baptist association is holding its annual
meeting at Patterson this week. The
meeting was opened by the retiring mod
erator, Judge T. A. Parker, of Waycross.
The delegates from this city include Rev.
A. M. Bennett, Rev. W. J. Carswell, Judge
T. A. Parker, Prof. R. F. Zeigler, Mr. J.
M. Bell and Mr. Jasper Wylding.
The Piedmont association Includes all of
southeast Georgia, from Folkston to
Brunswick, Jesup, Baxley and Douglas.
At the Thursday session. Judge T. A.
Parker was re-elected moderator, Rev. A.
M. McCool, of Patterson, was elected
clerk of the association, and Rev. W. J.
Carswell, treasurer.
Mrs. Ramsay Appointed
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Oct. 9—Mra
Daisy D. Ramsay has been appointed
postmaster at Phlnizy, Columbia county,
vice J. B. Ramsay, resigned.
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