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WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—After it more
or less satisfactory cruise, the gunboat
Princeton fa approaching Nicaraguan ter
ritory and was reported at the navy de
partment at Acapulco. Mexico, yesterday.
She is bound for Corinto. and her arrival
there will make four war vessels at that
port of Nictaragua
On the way from Seattle. Wash., the
Princeton achieved an undesirable record.
Os the American vessels scurrying toward
Nicaragua she was the first to run
aground.
The cruiser Prairie by attempting to
take a short cut to Panama across Pea
Patch island tn the Delaware river now
shares honors with the Princeton.
It was officially denied today at the
navy department that the battle ship Mis
souri was making ready to go to Nicara
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ERIE. Pa., Dec. 15.—Deputy coroners
and railroad inspectors today investi
gated the wreck of the limited passen
ger tram on the New York Central
lines last Monday midnight at North
east. Pa., when three mere killed, seven
seriously injured aM a score slightly
kart.
Railroad expert* been unable to
give a satisfactofg ggplanation as to
how the accidens Mseurred. While it
is admitted several trains were stalled
in advance of the limited, it is claimed
flagmen were at the rear protecting tao
trains and the block signals are al
leged to have been in good working
condition.
It Is suggested that on account of
blixsard-like weather prevailing at the
time the engineer of the limited failed
to see the signals soon enough to pre
vent a collision.
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PLAN ALL-DAY SMOKER
The Georgia Traveler*’ association
will have an all-day smoker, a Dutch
lunch and several speeches by “Live
Wires" at the New Kimball house
breakfast room on Saturday, December
18th.
This organization is scarcely six
months old and bids well to become the
largest association of traveling men of
the south. The entertaining commit
tee. consisting of B. 11. H. Roan, C. C.
Coyle and B. H. King, are preparing to
give the association the greatest treat
of their lives.
From 10:30 a. m. to 1 p. m., and
from 2:30 p. m. to 6 p. m , smoker and
social gathering
At 8 p. m. there will be a flow of or
atory from some “live wires.”
THINKS MISS TAFT
LEFT HIM MONEY
NEW YORK. Dec. 15.—Kills L. Rossen,
formerly principal of a New York public
school, appeared in court today, where his
sanity will be investigated, chiefly be
cause he has delusions concerning Miss
Helen Taft, the president’s daughter.
According to the testimony Rossen imag
ined Miss Taft, disguised as a nurse, had
visited Bellevue where he was confined
previously and had left a sum of money
for him.
Rossen was detained in Washington last
spring for annoying President and Mrs.
Taft, according to an affidavit submitted
today. The hearing was not concluded.
WOMAN ROUTS THIEF <
’ WITH A FOOTSTOOL
CHICAGO. Dec. 15.—Mrs. Argyra Hun
ter. wife of Dr. Edwin L. Hunter, broke
down the door of her residence yesterday
and arming herself with a footstool,
drove away a burglar, who fled through
the rear door of * her apartments with
jewelry valued at 1200.
Several hundred dollars in money and
jewelry were left behind by the thief in
his haste to escape. Mrs. Hunter had
been visiting a neighbor.
Masons Elect Officers
REYNOLDS. Ga., Dec. 15.—The fol
lowing officers have been elected by
Burns lodge. No. 56. F. A. M.:
C. L. Pyron, W. M.: W. E. Marshall,
S. W.; A. G. Hicks. J. W.; R. H. James,
secretary: J. A. Matthews, treasurer;
W. L. Carter. S. D.; E. J. Poole, J. D.;
J. M. Hicks, tyler.
The lodge presented the retiring W.
M.. E. E. Hodges, a beautiful gold
mounted walking cane, appropriately en
graved. as a token of appreciation for
his faithful fidelity to the lodge, hav
ing served in this capacity for six years,
noon at 2:30 o’clock, and the interment
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17,1909
GIRL KILLED, FIANCE IS
i INJURED, IN AUTO'S FALL
I
Bissell Told Miss Claypool to
Jump When Machine
Reached Incline'
PASADENA, Cal.. Dec. 15.—Miss Agnes
Claypool, 18 years old, daughter of a
wealthy resident of Pasadena, was killed,
and Harvey Bissell. 24 years old. son of
a Grand Rapids. Mich., millionaire, manu
facturer. was perhaps fatally injured last
night in an automobile accident.
Mr. Bissell and Miss Claypool were rid
ing in a racing automobile, which went
over the edge of the narrow Eagle Ro< k
' valley road, and fell 100 feet down the
i steep incline.
; Bissell said that as the machine start
ed over the edge of the incline he was
unable to check Its flight with the brake.
: He called to Miss Claypool to jump, but it
I was too late. The heavy machine plung
i ed down the embankment and turned
• over within a few moments. It is said
{that Bissell and Miss Clayplool were to
; have been married this winter.
PHENIX SAYS STOCKDELL
IS SHORT $50,000
Continued From Page One
ficial active in reorganizing the Phenix
was asked if there had been any collu
sion between Sheldon and any one In
the Atlanta office.
“Nothing of that nature has been de>
veloped.” was the answer.
“AU that we know Is that Mr. Sheldon
! knew of the irregularities in the Atlanta
office. We do not know why he did not
make them public, or call a halt, save
it was that he feared if he did so he
might invite a general investigation of
the company’s affairs by the state insur
ance department. Mr. Sheldon was not
in a position to welcome such an inquiry,
as the report of Mr. Hotchkiss would in
dicate.”
“How extensive were the irregularities
charged against the Atlanta office?” the
correspondent asked.
“We don’t know exactly. There ap
pears to be something like 150,000 in
volved.”
“Was it because of these so-called ir
regularities that Mr. Stockdell was re
moved?”
“Yes.”
“Just what do you mean by irregulari
ties? Were the funds of the Phenix In
surance company used, as was charged
against Mr. Sheldon, for the purpose of
speculating in stocks?”
“Not that we know of. All that we
know is that there is a shortage of
something like 150,000. The money is
• gone. We have placed another man in
charge of the Atlanta office.”
The Jourfial correspondent's informant
stated that the investigation of the At
lanta office was not closed, although he
did not believe the shortage claimed
would grow very much beyond the esti
mate now made. A general Investigation
of all branches, he said, is being made.
The next important branch to be gone
into is the western department, which
has its office at Chicago, and does many
millions of dollars’ w’orth of business.
Henry Evans, president of the Conti
nental Insurance company, and chairman
of the recently-appointed executive com
mittee of the Phenix Fire Insurance
company, would not talk about the
charges made against Mr. Stockdell’s ad
ministration or of Mr. Sheldon’s knowl
edge in the alleged irregularities uncover
ed there.
"All that I will say is that nothing that
has been found will in any way impair
the solvency of the x'henix Insurance
company,” he said. “As proof of this
you can say for me that I stand ready to
purchase 5,000 shares of the Phenix In
surance company’s stock at 150 per cent
of the value. That is to say, I will pay
$75 for the stock, whereas its par value
is but $50.”
E. W. T. Gray, who was appointed
president of the Phenix Fire Insurance
company, following the removal of Presi
dent Sheldon, refused absolutely to dis
cuss the irregularities charged against
Mr. Stockdell, or his office.
“All I will say is that Mr. Stockdell
was removed,” he said.
Charles Hard, formerly connected wdth
the Continental, has been placed in charge
of the Atlanta office. Whatever else may
be said on the sultfect will have to come
from Superintendent Hotchkiss, of the
state insurance department,
was 64 years of age. {
TROOPS SEARCH SWAMPS
FOR FLEEING PRISONER
PENSACOLA, Fla., Dec. 15.—With or
ders to shoot to kill, attempts to
escape, about 60 artillerymen from Fort
Barrancas are closing in on James A.
Gallup, a prisoner, who
; made a bold dasiwfor liberty at the fort
I yesterday afternoon.
The man, it is believed, is somewhere
in a thick swamp about fiv* miles west
I of the city, and this has been completely
I surrounded by soldiers, while others this
morping started in to search for the
convict. Gallup, who was to Ijpve been
taken to Fort Leavenworth tomorrow,
is desperate, and if the soldiers find
him it is believed he will be killed be
fore surrendering.
state’ rests case
IN NIGHT RIDER TRIAL
UNION CITY, Tenn.. Dec. 15—The state
rested its case today in the prosecution
of Arthur Cloar and Garrett Johnson, al
leged night riders, charged with the mur
der of Captain Rankin. The defense an
l nounced they would be ready to continue
the case late today.
The only witness heard this morning
was Ed Powell. He corroborated the tes
timony of previous witnesses that Cloar
and Johnson were among the night rid
ers the night of the murder of Rankin.
He gave a description of the hanging
and shooting of Rankin and the subse
quent finding of the dead man under an
ash tree with one end of the rope around
his neck and the other over the forks of
the tree. He stated that he had been re
quired to take the oath of a night rider
before the murder, this oath being admin
istered by Garrett Johnson. He was pos
i itive that Johnson had the rope when
I Rankin was hanged.
ILOST HIS SURNAME;
SEEKS IT IN COURTS
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Hjalmer .Leonard,
robbed of his surname by aq oversight,
has appealed to the courts to regain it.
Hjalmer inherited the name of Bordach
from his forefathers and never intended
to Ifive it up when he came to America
from Sweden, but when he took out his
naturalization papers the clerk, through
an oversight, omitted the surname and
Hjalmer Bordach became just
Hjalmer Leonard.
Mr. Leonard never troubled about the
I mistake until he learned theie was an in
heritance at stake. Now he has filed a
: petition in the circuit court to recover his
I lost patronymic.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Former Con
; gressman Phillip B. Thompson, Jr., of
I Kentucky, who was stricken on the
[street last night with a hemorrhage of
the stomach, died at the emergency hos
pital at "5:15 o'clock this morning. He
COMMITTEE REPORTS
FMORHLY ON LURTDN
' " 1 I l '
Only Objection to New Justice
Was His Age-Report
Thursday.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 15.—The senate
committee on judiciary voted unanimous
ly today to report favorably the nomina
tion of Judge Horace H. Lurton to be an
associate justice of the supreme court of
the United States.
Some members of the committee ex
pressed the opinion that it would have
been better to have named a younger man.
Judge Lurton being in his 66th year, but
there was no general opposition to him
or any criticism except as to his age.
The report will be made on Thursday
by Senator Bacon.
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as the German Kali Works puts it. The
trouble for the farmer has been not only
the price, but the difficulty of getting
Potash at any price. The manufacturer!
have heretofore absorbed it all.
All this has been changed, and thou
sands of farmers who rarm for profit
rather than for mere wages and a liv
ing, will now be able to buy alt the Pot
ash Salts they need, in any quantity they
want it, of local dealers everywhere
And not only this--but they can get it at
lower rates than have ever before been
charged.
This means that farmers can now in
vest in plant foods that they themselves
can buy and mix—fertilizers without fill
ers and mixing charges into so much
more actual crop-making fertilizer.
The great German potash mines are
now producing enough potash to enable
the American selling agency to guaran
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by fertilizer manufacturers and by local
dealers and farmers. Ask your dealer to
carry these invaluable salts tn stock.
Tell him to write to the German Kali
Works Continental Building, Baltimore,
for particulars and prices. And we rec
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their "Farmers Note Book” and their
valuable literature on fertilizing and cul
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it. And see your dealer the next time
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MOTHER-IN-LAW AND
MOTHER BOTH HELD
Continued from Page One
it was expected she would be taken dur
ing the day.
The warrant sets forth that the pris
oner "did willfully.'feloniously, of her owr
malice and forethought murder Ocey W.
M. Snead, her daughter. Her arrest was
made at the Hotel Bayard, where Mrs.
Martin arrived Tuesday and from which
it was first thought that she had escaped.
But after a day of mystery, news came
from police headquarters early today ol
her arrest.
WIDOW AND HOMELESS.
The prisoner gave her age as 64 years,
said that she was a widow and had no
home. Her condition was pitiably weak
and she was shown every courtesy pos
sible. She was taken to headquarters in a
taxicab and was soon in conference with
her lawyer, Franklin Fort, Jr., son of
the governor of New Jersey, who also is
counsel for Miss Virginia Wardlaw, the
victim’s aunt, now being held in New
Jersey for the grand jury in connection
with the case.
When Mrs. Martin was confronted in
her room by detectives she almost col
lapsed and it was some time before she
gained sufficient strength to start on her
journey to headquarters. It was first pro
posed to take her to headquarters, on the
subway, but her weak condition made this
impossible. Urged by the officers, she
made several attempts to start, but wopld
then sink gasping into a chair. ;
A taxicab was finally called and with
Mrs. Martin murmuring, “I think I can
stand U> now.” she was taken away, as
sisted on each side by a detective.
REFUSES TO TALK.
The warrant for Mrs. Martin's arrest
was issued by the New Jersey authorities
who had learned yesterday of the pres
ehce of a mysterious woman at the Hotel
Bayard.
Mrs. Martin was dressed in deep mourn
ing and her face was almost completely
hidden by a heavy veil. She gave her
pedigree in a whisper and said that her
occupation was “house work.
Detectives tried to question her con
cerning the case but she was quick to re
ply: “I will not talk about this until I
have had the advice of my lawyer.”
Thereafter she sealed her lips concerning
the mystery.
Mrs. Martin, much sought in connection
with the mysterious death of her daugh
ter, appeared in New York yesterday
with characteristic eccentricity for a
brief moment, disappeared again, after
defying the police of two states, and left
behind her the most valuable bit of evi
dence in the case yet discovered.
FIND THREE NOTES.
In the bath room of her vacated room
in an up-town hotel were found three un
dated notes written on soiled note paper
in a round girlish hand, identical with tne
hand writing of the note found in the
East Orange bath room penned to tne
little heap of clothes near the body of
Ocey Snead. The notes vary slightly in
phraseology, but are all substantially as
follows:
"Last year my little daughter died.
Near and dear kindred too have gone to
heaven. I long to go there too. I have
been very weak and ill a long time.
Death wouffi be a blessed relief to my
sufferings. When you read this I will
have committed suicide. My sorrow and
pain in this world are greater than I can
endure.
"OCEY W. M. SNEAD.”
This wording is substantially the same
as that of the East Orange- note on
which hangs the whole case of New
Jersey against Virginia Wardlaw, Mrs.
Martin's sister and the last person known
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to have seen Ocey Snead alive. Experts
have doubted the genuineness ot this
note. If proved a forgery the theory of
suicide held by the' defense would fall.
The evidence discovered that some one
has made repeated trial drafts of the note
will be used by the prosecution to fur
ther combat the question of its author
-Bh,P’ HOTEL IS SUSPICIOUS.
Tuesday afternoon a heavily veiled, tac
iturn woman, well advanced in years,
alighted from a cab at the Hotel Bayard
and gave her name at the desk as Mrs.
Mayberry.” The clerk misunderstood her
and by another coincident of 111 omen,
registered her as Mrs. Maybrick.
Her actions were so unusual as to
arouse the suspicions of both the hotel
management and the cabby. For hours
she had driven about aimlessly with no
apparent destination.
Once in her room she allowed no one
to enter, not even the chamber maid.
What little food she ate wsfs left outside
her door.
Accordingly the hotel management no
tified police headquarters, which In turn
notified East Orange. Detectives who,
knocked at the door were refused ad-;
mission. I
“Mrs. Mayberry” knew her rights. The;
New Jersey police cannot extradite herj
as a witness, however, much she is de- i
sired, and inasmuch as she is not under j
indictment, they can seek her on no oth-,
er pretext
The New York police, on the other |
hand, have no complaint whatever j
against her.
ANSWERED BEHIND DOOR. |
Therefore, “Mrs. Mayberry” answered;
what questions she chose from behind (
a closed door, and then dismissed the
baffled detectives. But her case had
given the hotel such notoriety that it re
quired her to surrender her room. The
woman hastily collected such loose ef
fects as she could cram into a paper
box, tipped a bell boy liberally and es
caped by the hotel basement into an ad
joining back yard and thence to the
open street.
In the vacated room newspaper men 1
foqnd in addition to the three notes, a
bundle of clippings and memoranda all'
bearing on the Snead case, disputed
wills and life insurance. This material
will be turned over to the prosecuting j
attorneys. i
Mrs. Martin has been hitherto conspic-l
uous by her absence. She did not even I
attend her daughter's funeral, and has,
made no mbve to come forward in de
fense of her sister, now held for the
grand jury at East Orange, N. J.
Those who talked with her say she did
not deny her identity, though she refus
ed to admit them to her room.
WAR IS DECLARED ON
ON U. S. TRUST BY LABOR
PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 15.—War was !
declared upon the United States Steel
corporation by the leaders of organ- !
ized labqr throughout the United States j
and Canada at the close of a moment- |
ous two days’ conference yesterday. ,
The decision to battle, long and hard. !
against the stand taken by the steel ,
corporation in its policy of “open shop :
was reached by the labor conferees
only after hours of debate.
Samuel Gcmpers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, presid
ed over the conference, and through
him the measure was put upon the rec
ord books of the executive council of |
the federation.
The grievances of organized labor
against the steel corporation, as set
forth in the resolution, have been for
warded to President Taft and the
United States senate and house of rep- i
resentatives. The governors of the I
states in which the United States Steel I
corporations owns plants or has inter- I
ests will also receive a copy of the j
resolu t,, *“-
MRS. KIRKPATRICK
DIES IN KIRKWOOD
Mrs. Mary A. Kirkpatrick, widow of
the late Capt. John C. Kirkpatrick, died
Tuesday evening at 6 o’clock at the fam
ily residence in Kirkwood. Over two
months ago she suffered a stroke of
paralysis, which at her advanced age
she was unable to rally from, and sur
rounded by her loving family, passed
quietly to the great beyond. She was in
her 64th year.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick was one of the most
beloved women in Atlanta, and leaves
a large circle of friends who sympathize
with the faniily in their recent bereave
ment. She was born in Decatur, but
had lived most of her life in Atlanta
and Kirkwood.
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AND WIN A PRIZE !
Contest now running. The Semi-W eekly
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letters on Farming and Stock Raising, and Cultiva
tion methods in all sections of Dixie Land.
Every farmer of the South, who is a subscriber
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BURN PROFESSOR OF
HEBREW IN EFFIGY
CHICAGO, Dec. 15.—Thirty divinity
students of the McCormick Theological
seminary last night hanged their profes
sor of Hebrew in effigy before his resi
dence, to the noisy accompaniment of
barrel staves, broom handles canes
on a handy iron lamp post and surround
ing fences and doors. About midnight,
tiring of this, they set fire to the durnnyr
amid shouts of “What’s the matter 13Mb
Robinson? He’s all wrong.’’
Prof. George L. Robinson was the sub
ject of the demonstration, being consid
ered the chief cause of the defeat the
students had received at the faculty’s
hands earlier in the day in the attempt
to have Hebrew dropped from the semi
nary curriculum.
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