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tW: VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1913. NO. 32. (IE-SWEPT FIRE L! Flames That Originated In Mobile Theater Thursday Claims 5 Dead and Injured Firemen-Loss $100,000 (By Associated Press.) MOBILE, Ala., Jan. 9.—Fire, which started somewhere on the stage of the Mobile theater shortly after 6:30 o’clock this morning, completely destroyed the building. Several buildings • adjoining were damaged, principally by water. One fireman was killed and two seri ously injured by a falling wall, while several were slightly bruised and burned. The dead: JOSEPH CERDA, pipeman, company No. 3. The injured: Captain James Stanton, company No. 3, seriously. Herman Heckman, company No. 3, said to be serious. Frank Nettles, lineman, face burned during rescue work. Manuel Tapia, shoulder dislocated. ALARM WAS DELAYED. The fire started on the stage, and al though smoke was noticed issuing from the top of the structure by roomers in an adjoining hotel no attention was paid to it. The fire had been burning half an hour before the alarm was turned in and when the firemen arrived the entire interior was a mass of flames. A high north wind was blowing and brands were carried to other structures in the vicinity, including the county court house, which were saved with dif ficulty. At one time it was thought that the business section of the city south of Conti street was in danger. The loss on the theater building and contents is about $65,000. Other losses will run the total to fully $100,000. Many important bookings, including Adelaide Thurston for tonigne, will be cancelled, involving considerable loss t the companies. SOUTHERN EXPRESS CO WON’T FICHT PARCEL POST BANK. PAID 226 PER CENT ON DIVIDENDS. SAYS BAKER Aged Financier Tells Pujo Committee of Prosperity of the First National (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—As one of the star witnesses in the probe of the so-called money trust, G. F. Baker, of the First National bank of New York, was on today’s program of the house money trust committee. Mr. Baker, who with J. P. Morgan and James Stillman, makes up, accord ing to Samuel Untermyer, counsel for the committee, the most powerful group of financiers in New York, was called to testify as to the financial relations of these three men, the institutions in which they are factors and the funds they control. Mr. Baker, despite his seventy-odd years, appeared cheerful and hearty as he prepared to submit himself to what promised to be a long ordeal in the witness chair. Before the examination of Mr. Baker was begun an executive session of the full banking and currency committee was called to certify to the speaker of the house the case of George G. Henry, who declined on Wednesday to reveal the names of national banks and their officers who participated in the syndi cate flotation of the California Petro leum company. Mr. Baker, as he took the stand, pre sented by his dignified appearance and his ruddy face and white side whiskers, a type of the traditional old-fashioned business man. He testified that in 1874 the capital of the First National was $500,000, in creased in 1901 to $10,000,000 by a div idend of $9,500,000. Surplus of $11,641,- 000 was left after that dividend. He went over the yearly dividends since then, showing they ranged from 20 to 126 per cent. In the last four years dividends of 226 per cent have been paid. In 1908, beside a regular div idend of 32 per cent, an extra dividend of 100 per cent was declared for or ganization of the first security com pany to do business not authorized by the national bank act. He said the com pany did little business in stocks. Wells-Fargo Plans to Change Rates, but Southern Says It Will Not. Compete NEW YORK RANKER CITEO FOR CONTEMPT OF HOUSE Following the announcement from San Francisco that the Wells Fargo Express company is ready to put into effect plans that have been four years matur ing to compete with the parcel post, and that this competition would probably be national ip scope, it was stated at the Atlanta offices Thursday afternoon that the Southern Express company will make no changes in* service. ' ’ * ' ' The Southern Express company feels that it is already giving the best^ possi ble service, it was stated, and will mere ly continue to, do so* dejiyering as quick ly as possible. i It was stated by an official of the company that the parcel post rates in many instances are higher than those of tjie Southern Express company. “To send a package, by the parcel post," he said, “you have to go to the postoffice, wait in line, use a special kind of stamp and be delayed in other Vays, while the express company will send for your package, deliver it, and pay for its loss.” Replying to the objection that the ex press company does not deliver beyond certain boundaries, while the parcel post does, it was stated that the ex press company had made the fre e de livery zone as large as it could reason ably be made. The cost of delivery was so great that this territory could not be in creased, it was said, and there was no intention of doing so. According to dispatches from San Francisco’ the Wells . Fargo compapy will change delivery plans, with especial regard to perishable stuffs, and will give cheaper rates on packages eleven pounds or less in weight. This movement was expected to be of nation-wide scope and one that would assure the public of far more expedi tious delivery by express than by- the parcel post. Lik e the Southern, the American Ex press company has announced through its president, James C. Fargo, that its company will not enter into competition even if the others do. George- L Henry, of Solomon & Co,, Refused Information to Money Probe (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Because he refused to give to the house money trust committee the names of twenty- four national bank officers who profited in a syndicate formed to market stock to the California Petroleum company, 'Ge'cr'ge G. Henry, of Solomon & Co., New York bankers, was certified to the speaker of the house today for con tempt. The full banking and currency committee voted unanimously for that action. Mr. Henry testified that national banks and national bank officers par ticipated in a syndicate to the extent of $1,085,000 and without putting up any money or taking over any stock took profits of about $50,000. He main tained that his confidential relations with his customers would not allow him to furnish the names of the partici pants, and presented a statement framed by former Senator John C. Spooner as counsel, justifying his refusal to an swer. Speaker Clark will review the case to determine whether he will certify the record to the district attorney of the District of Columbia for criminal pros ecution. The case threatens to Involve the ulti mate question of the money trust com mittee’s authority to inquire into the affairs of national banks, which prob ably would be taken to the supreme court. Opinions on th e subject among the government’s legal experts in the department of justice differ. If the Henry case is fought to a con clusion the committee’s inquiry into the case in which it is related may be blocked pending a decision. FACTIONAL OIFPEOENCES DIVIDE WOMEN'S LEAGUE When Speaker Takes Platform She Is Invited Back to the Floor NO LICENSE ISSUED FOB MRS. GRACE’S MARRIAGE THE INGLORIOUS FINISH OF THE “SPUDS” -y. : L Alleged Wedding in New York to George Oldham Is Not Recorded (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—The reported marriage of Mrs. Daisy Elizabeth Ul rich Opie Grace to George Oldham, which is alleged to have occurred in “The Little Church Around the Corner," in this city, is only a hoax, that is so far as verification of the fact with the- records is concerned. No license was issued to either and no one at “The Little Church" knows anything about the affair. They could have gone into New Jer sey and there obtained a license and married, but at the present time a mar riage between them in that state has not been reported. Mrs, Grace Disappears from Mother’s Philadelphia Home (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 9.—Mrs. Daisy Grace, acquitted in Atlanta on the charge of attempting to kill her hus band, Eugene, has disappeared complete ly from Philadelphia and all efforts to find her followinj her reported mar riage to George Oldham, a prominent t: action man of Coatesville, -have failed. Mrs. Grace has not been liberated from her marital vows with hei invalid husband and any wedding to Oldham or any one else would be bigamous. Mrs. Martht Ulrich, mother of Mrs. Grace, declares that she does not know tn3 whereabouts of her daughter who left her home and rented an uptown apartment some time ago. Mrs, Grace Left Here Soon After Acquita! Immediately after being acquitted of 6hooting her husband, Mrs. Daisy Opie Grace left Atlanta to return to Phila delphia. Her trial in the criminal division of the superior court had aroused greater interest than any court hearing in the history of the county. The element of mystery entered so largely into the shooting of her husband, Eugene Grace, that the country over turned first to the Grace case in its newspaper reading. He was found wounded on March 5, 1912, in their flat at 29 West Eleventh street, and accused bis wife when she was brought before him at the hos pital. She was released on bond, but later was re-arrested and spent days in the Fulton county tower. Doctors agreed that Grace was doomed and he was taken home to die. But at the trial of his wife he was brought into the court room, and faced her as he lay on a stretcher. As soon as she reached Philadelphia, following her acquittal, Mrs. Grace en tered suit for divorce; and as soon as he had been a , resident of Georgia the required length of time, ^Grace also asked- for divorce. But fils suit has hot been heard,‘and Mrs. Grace’s Philadelphia lawyers say that neither has she been granted a divorce. “God Pity the Man, If He Carries Life Insurance” (Special Dispatch io The Journal.) NEWNAN, Ga., Jan. 9.—When seen at his home this morning and shown a newspaper statement of the reported marriage of Mrs. Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace, Eugene Grace made the follow ing comment: “I do not know whether Daisy Ulrich Opie Grace has secured a divorce in the Pennsylvania courts or not, but if the report of her last marriage b© true, God pity the man. If he carries no' life insurance he may live six months; if he does carry insurance his end may be expected in three months at the least. I see she »still loves ..otoriety. “I sincerely hope that the so-called Daisy of the Leopard Spots has caught another victim and will never use my name again. I hope also that before death ends her sinful career, she will confess the truth concerning her brutal attempt upon my life and not go before her Maker with a lie upon her lips. “She has put two husbands ‘out of business,’ and I guess this poor fellow, her last victim, will go the same way. He has my sympathy. Whether the re port of her last matrimonial venture be true or not concerns me not at all. I hope soon to be divorced from the wom an and that she will be taken out of my life forever.” 2L 3)wnkins] l<" »ii min/i in,, II III,, W o.iii /4 S' '""""nTiT iiiuiiii,,. 'Mill, <111,1 BUTDECLIHMK President-elect Refuses to Be Interviewed Further Than to Say “We Talked as All Visitors Do” SUFFRAGETTES SENTENCED TO EIGHT MONTHS IN PEN OFFICERS BOUND AND LEFT BY BAND OF MOONSHINERS (By Associated Press.) TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 9.—President elect Wilson sat for three hours In hlw office here yesterday In conference with Senators Hoke Smith, of Georgia, and Thomas P. Gore, of Oklahoma. Mr. Wilson declared last night that besides talking over a number of cab inet possibilities he had discussed with the senators a program for the extra session, including tariff and currency legislation. Both senators departed with their llpa sealed. From the governor alone, they said, could Information be obtained. The president-elect spoke of his confer ence only in general terms, stating that no conclusions had been reached. “We discussed, as do all my visitors,” he said, “all the names for the cabinet I could think of, just to get their views.” The president-elect was questioned as to details of his conference but said merely that he had discussed the whole ground of an extra session program. Reiterating that he had arrived at no specific conclusions, be added: “I am sincerely seeking to get the point of view of these men. I am not asking for conclusions, but merely want to talk things over wtlh them.” The president-elect was asked, in view of the prominence of both Senators Smith and Gore In the proposed plans for a reorganization of senate commit tees and the abolishing of the seniority rules, whether that subject was dis cussed. ”1 don’t bring that matter up unless my callers do,” he said. "Senator Smith simply said he thought they were In the way of a satisfactory solution In the senate of the difficulty. They make a point of not Involving me In the mat ter.” Mr. Wilson Indicated also during the day that he preferred not to Interpoee his influence In the reorganization of senate committees any more than he cared to In connection with the talked of abolition of the seniority rule In the house committees. Today Senators O'Gorman, of New York, and Culberson, of Texas, will con fer with Mr. Wilson. t: May Billinghurst and Louis&V • Gay Sent to ‘London Pris on for Outrages (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 9.—Long sentences were passed today on two of the mili tant suffragettes, many of whom In recent months hav© engaged in a cam paign of destruction of mails. May Billinghurst and Louisa Gay. <two of the first to be arrested in con nection with these outrages, today were condemned to eight months’ imprison ment each. May Billinghurst, who is a cripple and is unable to get about except on a tricycle, already has been infprisoned on several occasions in connection with the suffrage campaign. Evidence given today showed that letter boxes throughout the center and the west end of London had been dam aged, together with their contents, by means of acids, sticky fluids of various kinds, varnish and ink. Rags soaked in lamp oil sometimes were placed in the boxes. Many valuable documents had been destroyed in this way. It was difficult to capture the perpe trators of the outrage in the act as in most instances the fuid was passed into the box in uncorked bottles contained in ordinary envelopes. AMUNDSEN DOESN’T WANT (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MOUNT AIRY, N. G., Jan. 8.—The In cident that was the direct cause of thj larkness, seized, disarmed and the prisoner released. Thf two officers were then handa iti the Blue 'ftidge mountains, twenty miles west of here, last night, when Turner Todd, a famous blockader, who was wanted by the federal authorities, was rescued from Deputy Marshal S. J. Harkradee and T. W. Davis, sheriff of Surry county, by a body of armed out-* laws. Todd was captured in a cave in the mountains after a rifle and pistol duel of several hours with the officers. The officers had started with their prisoner to jail when they were surprised in the GARDNER’S CASE UP TO UNCLE SAM’S OFFICERS Captain Portman, Uncle 'of Louisville Girl, Says so. Will Take Her Home DRIVE MANY FROM HOME WIRELESS OR AEROPLANE GONZALES MUST HANG AT NATION’S CAPITAL (By Associated Press*) WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Andrew Gonzales will be hanged here January 27, for the murder of his wife, despite the report of alienists that ne shows symptoms of insanity. President Taft, after an exhaustive examination, de clined today to extend clemency, hold ing that his condition Is not such as to exempt him from the responsibility for murder in the first degree. The case creates a puzzling question of ethics for officials—the propriety or hanging' a probably insane man, al though he may have been sane when the crime was committed. The murder was a brutal one. Gonzales cutting his wife’s throat on the street as she was returning from an errand on which he had sent her, while preparing to take her life. Rivers Flood Mills and Throw Many Workers Out of Work Antarctic Explorer Says _ He Will Use Neither on Arctic Expedition WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Indications of factiofial feeling developed at the convention of the Woman’s National Democratic league today and furnished at least one interesting scene. When Mrs. Ma’tthew T. Scott, pres ident general of the D. A. R. mounted the platform to place in nomination for president of the league, Mrs. Steven B. Ayres, of New York, Mrs. John Sher- win Crosby, the incumbent, invited Mrs. Scott nominated Mrs. Ayres from her nomination from the floor. The announcement was greeted with hissing from one part of the hall. Mrs. Scott nominated Mrs. Ayers from her place on the floor. Mrs. Crosby had been nominated. SENATOR SMITH SILENT CONCERNING CONFERENCE BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—-Senator Hoke Smith is silent concerning his con ference with President-elect Wilson at Trenton on yesterday. He returned to Washington last night and says he en joyed the visit very much. The senator was besieged today with inquiries about his conference, but all who sought information were disap pointed. “Any one who has a confidential con ference with the president-elect should regard the confidence and leave to the president-elect to determine what should be published,” said the senator. (By Associated Press.) PITTSBURG, Jan. 8.—The Mononga- hela and Allegheny rivers rose sc$ rapidly during last night that they were at floddi height this morning and it was expected that when the crest of the rise reached here tomorrow afternoon there would be thirty-two feet of water in the Ohio river, the most serious flood since 1907. Scores of families already have been compelled to leave their homes and many men are temporarily out of em ployment because of the flooding of mills. AGED MAN INDICTED FOR DEATH OF SON (By Associated Press.) DALTON, Ga., Jan. 9.—A. H. Davis, aged seventy-three, was indicted here today for the murder of liis son, Hew lett Davis, by the grand jury. Young Davis was shot and killed by the elder Davis at -the latter’s home. The son had been told by his father not to en ter the latter’s home. Ill feeling between the father and son is said to have resulted from the separation of A. R. Davis and his wife two months before the killing. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Capt. Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the south pole, will not Include either the aeroplane or the wireless telegraph in the equipment he will take on his forthcoming flve- year trip through the northern ice. The first, he said today, was useless; the other would be annoying because It might bring news of the outside world to the prisoners in the floes. Gifts of both had been offered the explorer by admirers. “I don’t want it,” he said, referring to the wireless. “It is very much bet ter to be without news when you can not be where the news comes from. We are always more contented if we get no news.” The explorer expects to start for the far north as soon as his ship, the Fram, can make the journey from Buenos Ayres, where she now is, to Saji Fran cisco, whence the expedition is to start. Captain Amundsen will be the guest at a dinner given by the Geographic socie ty Saturday night. Admiral Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the north pole, will be the toastmaster. Eyeball Is Severed been received in this city of a peculiar accident sustained by Alfred Ingram, a young man of Spring Garden, north of here, who had his eyeball completely smashed Tuesday evening while cut ting wood, the wedge slipping and cut ting him in the face. About Christmas time one of Ingram's children was se verely burned. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE’S EX-PRESIDENT DEAD That the United States attorney gen eral has yet to say whether or not the machinery of the federal government shall prosecute G. Holman Gardner, the Atlanta educator, for his part in the affair with Marie Portman, the Louis ville girl, both of whom were arrested in Atlanta, became known Thursay morning after the uncle of the girl, Captain Frank T. Portman, of the Louis ville police, had arrived in Atlanta and conferred with federal authorities re garding the case. Lewis J. Bailey, special agent of the department of justice, with headquar ters in Atlanta, was in conference with Captain Portman and Assistant United States District Attorney Howard Tate and City Detective Hollingsworth short ly before noon, in the district attor ney’s office. Before seeking that con ference, Captain Portman had spent come time with the city police and de tective chiefs at polic e headquarters, immediately following his arrival in the city, and Detective Hollingsworth had accompanied him from the first confer ence. “I informed Captain Portman of what I had done, and stated that I was still waiting to hear from th e attorney gen eral,” said Inspector Bailey. He ex plained that after investigating the mat ter Tuesday at police headquarters, where he talked to both principals, he sent a telegraphic report of it to the attorney general at Washington and asked for instructions. “The depart ment has adopted a policy of not prose cuting cases where the woman who is involved was not coerced and in which no slavery conditions were imposed,” he said, adding that he considered the Gardner-Portman affair to ue under that head, -and that he wished to know whether the attorney general desired to make an exception and prosecute it. Captain Portman likewise put the mat ter up to the attorney general. (By Associated Press.) LONDON, Jan. 9.—W. N. Miller, formerly president of the Christian Science church, was found dead today in an arm chair in a room adjoining the church. CHILD SIX YEARS OLD DIES FROM STRONG DRINK HENDERSON, Ky., Jan. 7.—Shortly after drinking nearly a half-pint of whisky, which was left on the table by, hig father, Angus Johnson, six years old, died In convulsions here yesterday. Finally the officers succeeded In reaching a farm house where they re ceived medical attention. Deputy Mar shal Harkrader’s condition is critical, while Sheriff Davis *is seriously though not fatally injured. A posse of civil and revenue officers arfl| scouring the mountains for th e out-' laws, several of whom were identified by the sheriff. It is believed it will be impossible to capture some of the th e blockaderfe alive. EXPERTS TELL ROW TO MAKE ELASTIC CURRENCY Found Dead in Squalid Room of New York Lodging House Glass Committee of House Hears Testimony on Remod eling Monetary System (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—More expert advice on how to remodel the monetary system of the United States to pro vide an elastic currency and strong, centralized reserves, was heard today by the Glass committee of the house. The principal witnesses called were Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treas ury, and Prof. Lawrenc e Laughlin, of Chicago. Questions asked by the Democratic members of the committee seem to in dicate that the committee favors the establishment of a system of divisional reserve banks, operated under close gov ernment supervision, as a substitute for the national monetary commission’s pro posed central bank. (By Associated Press.) NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—C. L. Swords, clerk of the folding room in the house of representatives at Washington was found dead at midnight in a squalid room at a Seventh avenue lodging house under conditions which led the police to start an Investigation today. Swords, a middleaged man, wearing good clothes, was found by an employe of the house sitting upright in a chair dead. Official papers and a ring were means of identification. A physician reported death as “probably due to heart failure,” but this was not satis-* factory to the police, who could not un derstand how a man of Sword’s type came to be In such a place. Probably an autopsy will be ordered. Man Has Been Missing For More Than a Week .(By Associated Tress.) WASHINGTON. Jah. 9.—C. L. Swords, folding clerk of the house, found dead In a New York lodging house last night, had been missing since December 31. He was forty years old and was horn In Vicksburg, Miss. He leaves a widow. < His body probably will be cared for by the house. BAIL FOR TVEITM0E AND CLANCY ACCEPTED (By Axiocl&tfed, Ft«m.) SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9—Ball i bonds In the sum of 8240,000 for the re lease of Alaf A. Tveitmoe and Eugene! Clancy, the convicted dynamite conspir ators sentenced to six years In the fed-j eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan., was, accepted here today by the United States district court. CRASHES INTO TROLLEY HUSBAND BEFORE SENATE Ben Cleveland, of Fitzgerald, Is Painfully Injured in Accident at Macon (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON, Ga., Jan. 9.—Ben Cleveland, a prominent citizen of Fitzgerald, still lies in the city hospital, suffering from lacerations of the sclap he sustained a week ago when he accidentally collided with a standing street car at the inter section of Third and Mulberry streets. It was first thought that his skull was fractured, but it is now known that he was only painfully hurt. The accident occurred on Thursday night, wfien the unfortunate man left a drug store on the corner and chased across the street with his head down and collided with the oar before he could be halted. Dalton Man Indicted DALTON, Ga., Jan. 9.—Ben Staten, Joe Matthis, Pink Miller and Will Guff were indicted here Wednesday for crim inal assault by the local gr ind Jury in special session. The men are charged with invading Manlytown, Ga., a few weeks ago in disguise and assaulting la white woman. Wife of Accused Jurist Ex plains That “Free” Trip to Europe Given Judge (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Managers, foi the house of representatives were ready for cross-examination of Judge Robert W. Archbald, of the commerce court, when the jurist took the stand again today before the senate sitting as a court of impeachment, where -he is answering charges of misconduct in of fice and corrupt use of his judicial in fluence tO| attain private ends. Judge Archbald’s testimony* yesterday was limited to direct questioning by his own attorneys. This took the form of a narrative that ran through the thir teen articles of impeachment filed against him, and gave his own version of th e acts charged to have been ille gal or connected with the misuse of his Judicial powers. While Judge Archbald has admitted many of the circum stances of the charges, he denied yes terday any wrongful motives^ ooTrupt acts or purposes. • m a