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VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1913. NO. 38. BUI TO ACCEPT NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL SHOW AT Miami Newspaper Announces Nebraskan's Acceptance But Bryan Declares Statement Is Unauthorized Prizes Awarded-Show a Great Success-Charles S, Bar rett to Speak (By Associated Press.) MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30.—Declaring: that Henry Alexander, of Trenton, N. J„ did not call upon him on political business, William ,T. Bryan today replied to the reports sent out from Miami to the ef fect that Mr. Bryan had given assur ances that he'would accept the portfolio of secretary of state in the Wilson cabi net. Mr. Bryan dictated the following: “No attention whatever should be-paid to such reports as sent out from Miami last night. No friend would presume to speak for me in such a matter and no man who would assume to speak for me can be considered a friend. I take it for granted that President-elect Wil- ccn will give out anythin ghe wants pub lished and I will give out anything I want published. Neither of us should *he held responsible for what anybody says. Speaking for myself, 1 do not • are to discuss unauthorized reports. Mr. . exander did not call upon political i -. . si ness, and our conversation was o.-.t j;n entirely‘different matter.” Li'ami Herald Announces That Bryan Has Accepted (By Associated Press.) MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 30.-—Conferences • ween William J. Bryan and other ininent Democratic leaders, including *nry E. Alexander, of Trenton, N. • J., (■ ose personal friends of President- e ?ct Wilson, resulted in the announce ment by the Miami Herald that Mr. Bryan had given a positive assurance that - he would accept the portfolio of secretary of tsate in the Wilson cabinet. Mr. Alexander left early today for Trenton and he is believed, to be the bcaree of Mr. Bryan’s answer to Mr. Wilson. Others who called on Mr. Bryan in cluded Coionel E. M, House, of Texas, and Hugh C. Wallace, of Washington, one of the leading Democrats of the northwest. Mr. Bryan will, it is said, remain at I / his winter ;c>me here until .the last ^ U *'^t^e'bruary, ho will leave for Wash- p ington to be present at the inauguration ^ ceremonies. Falls Off Wharf (Special Dispatch to Tne Journal.) ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 30.—E. B. Green narrowly escaped drowning by jailing off the Atlantic Coast Line wharf into the waters of Tampa bay before daylight this morning while in an al leged intoxicated condition. Car Repairer Is Killed and Two Companions Injured in Accident at Macon - ecial Dispatch to The Journal.) MACON. Ga.. Jan. 30.—George W. f a car repairer. was intsantly ’ c-d yesterday afternoon in the South- * ' * yards when a freight Car was “kick- ■ against the string of cars he was 11 pairing. The trucks of a coal car passed over 1 body crushing it to pieces. For ten feet up the track where the accident happened, the dead man’s brains was scattered. Two of. his associates, S. D. Johnson and Clinton Lavander, were se riously injured. The two latter carpen ters were pinned beneath a car and drag ged about thirty feet. Johnson sus tained a -fractured left hip and collar bone. • Lavander sustained a broken right leg fcnd bruises. The condition of the men at the hospital is critical. The jury that investigated the death of O’Neil found the railroad company responsible. It was said by a witness f at the loose car jumped the switch and struck the string cf cars, killing one man and in juring two. O’Neil is a singfe man but the ether two are married. His funeral v. held this afternoon and the body i: tuned in Riverside cemetery. OPENING OF 010 DITCH Panama Canal Cannot Be Opened This Year if Slides Continue (By Associated Presa.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Recent slides of earth and rock into the Cule- bra cut will necessitate great activity if the Panama canal is to be opened be fore the end of the present calendar year, as has been predicted by Colonel Goefnals. More than half a biilion yards ot «-\irth and rock have fallen into the cut this month, and engineers tear that an other impending break at Purple hill will add not less than one million yards. For a long time the notorious Cucura- cha slide, on the east bank of the canal, has been quiet, but on the afternoon of January 16 the earth movement began so rapidly as to carry away some of the dirt cars and completely covered all of the railroad tracks in the canal ex cept one. Purple hill is Holding back a tremendous amount of earth. slowly moving towards the cut, but the hill is snowing signs of weakness, and should it break away the canal prism would be almost filled at tha^ point. COLUMBIA, S. C„ Jan.* 29.—This was '“live stock day” at the Fifth National Corn exposition here, and all of the speeches of the day were devoted .to stressing the importance of animal in dustry as the salvation of the farmer. A number of experts made short talks. B. H. Rawl, chief of the dairy divi sion of the national department of ag riculture, delivered the principal ad dress of the day. A feature of the day was the award ing of the prizes in the sweepstakes classes for individuals. I. O. Schaub, of North Carolina, chief of the judges’ council, announced the awards. The Indiana ten-ear trophy, valued at $1,000, was awarded to Charles Short, of Greensburg, lnd. The Kellogg single-ear trophy, valued at $1,000, was won by Joe Holmes, of Richmond, lnd. The award of the Indiana ten-ear tro phy and the Kellogg single-ear tropjiy were concluded after several days’ work. \ For the purpose of this judging the various states entering samples of corn in this competition were grouped into zones. For the northern zone, the sweep- stakes winners were Charles Steon, Beresford, S. D., mixed; F. H. Roessler, Beloit, Wis., yellow and white. Eastern zone. Barton Bayard, Waynes- burg, Pa., yellow. Central zone, C. A. Brown, Franklin, lnd., mixed; Charles Short, Greensborg, ^nd., yellow; J. T. Henderson and sons, Kentucky, white dent. Southern zone, B. A. Rucker, Dela- plane, Va., yellow-; G. T. Buford, Pu laski, Tenn., white; G. L. Fentress, Sansaba, Tex., mixed. Out of these zones sweepstakes win ners Mr. Short’s grain was decided to be the best of the samples entered and the trophy went to Indiana. Tomorrow will be National Farmers’ union day. The principal speaker will be Sir Horace Plunkett, the celebrated leader of the agricultural reform move ment in Ireland. The National Farmers’ union will hold its winter meeting here tomorrow-, being called to order at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning in the main auditorium at the exposition grounds by E. W. Dabbs, president of the South Carolina Farmers’ union. Com missioner of Agriculture Watson will deliver the welcoming address, the re sponse being by A. C. Davis, of Ten nessee. Charles S. Barrett, president of the union, will deliver an address at 11:45 o’clock, being introduced by L. M. Rhodes, of - Tennessee^ ^ After the dinner recess Clarence Poe, of Raleigh, N. C., will introduce Sir Horace Plunketit, whose address will be delivered at 2:45 o’clock. A i;ound table conference with Sir Horace will take place at 4 o’clock, at which the great leader’s work in Ireland will be dis cussed informally and many questions will be asked and answered bearing upon the agricultural reform movement of the Emerald Isle, The significance of this movement to the south will be clearly indicated. o'clock Thursday and Fight ing After' Four Days Is Ex pected to Be Resumed (By Associated Press.! CONSTANTINOPLE, .Jan. 30.—The Balkan allies ’today gave notice of the termination ot the armistice, the pe riod of gracd pf four days to start at 7 o’clock this evening. The armistice which has been in op eration since December 3 was signed on that day by Bulgaria, Servia and Mon tenegro on the one side and Turkey on the other. Greece w-as never a party to the cessation of hostilities. She has continued fighting both on land aTid sea. y , The Montenegrins also have come into conflict ?pith the garrison of Scu tari on several' occasions notwithstand- v • V ing tlie truce.' > Turks Refuge Demands of thfe; European Powers (By Associated Press.) LONDON, JAn. 30.—Events in the Balkan peninsula are moving with such rapidity that the world may soon be confronted, not with th e question of peace or war, but with a catastrophe w-hich will lead,/Turkey into a tremen dous civil strife* Those who lvhow the Ottoman empire believe that thfe Revolt among the Turk ish troops on ttie Tchatalja lines was much more grave than was announced in the short dispatches passed bj^ the qensor. Close observers of events in Turkey expect that siri^4lar revolts will occur in the Asiatic provinces, where the ele ments opposing the young Turks are stronger than ift European Turkey, Turks Refuse Demands of the European Powers CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 30.—The Turkish government displays a spirit of Compromise in its reply to the note handed to it by the representatives of the European powers on January 17. The response;was presented today*by the grand Mahmoud Shefke.t Pasha, vizier, to Margrave Johann Yon Palla- vicini, dean o&jrtdie diplomatics corj)£ in. the Turkishv captial. The porte stipulates for the retentibn by Turkey of those Quarters of the fortress of Adrianople in which the holy shrines are situated. It proposes to leave in the hands of the powers the dis posal of the land on the right bank of the Maritza river which runs through Adrianople. At the same time the Ot toman government consents to the dis mantling of the fortifications of that city. IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Former Atlantian Passed Away Thursday Morning at Brookline, Mass News has been received in Atlanta of the death at 11 o’clock Thursday morning of Mrs. Livingston Mims, wife of the late Major Mims, former mayor of Atlanta, at Brookline, Mass., a suburb of Boston. Mrs. Mims had been ill for seven or eight months at Hotel Beaconfield, where she stopped with a companion,* Miss Mary Stone. Mrs. Mims was well known in Atlanta, where she was a social leader. She was a prominent member of the Christian Science church. The old Mims home stood on the present site of the Geor gian Terrace. Submarines Arrive ;.R- Associated Press.) KEY WEST, Fla., Jan. 30.—The United Slates i*r.vy submarines, E 1, D 1 and I> 3. three of the flotilla of four that sailed from Brunswick, Ga., two days ago for Guantanamo, Cuba, to partici pate in navy maneuvers, arrived at this port Wednesday. Dog Cries Causes Girl Firebug To Confess Incendiary SPEECH HE ASQDITH E TELLS OF "1 Will Answer to God for 1 My Acts-Have No,Apologies to Make for Single Pa- 77 IS RAINING (BRICKBATS) IN LONpON AGAIN! . PATTEN MUST FACE TRIAL FOR CORNER VERY SOON tr . • Supreme Court Issues Man date and trial Will Begin at Early Date “Traitor” Is Hurled at Premier When He Speaks in Dundee, Scotland (By Associated Press.) DUNDEE, Scotland, Jan. 30.—Well or ganized bands of suffragettes raised pan demonium during the ceremony of con ferring the freedom of the city of Dun<- dee on Premier Asquith here today. The premier scarcely had risen to acknowl edge the honor when shrieks of “Trai tor! traitor!” resounded through the hall. Stewards and policemen were soon hard atVork throwing the women out of the building. Howls of “you brutes! You brutes!” and sharp scrimmages marked the passage through the hall of each group. One woman sprang over the front of the gallery and was saved from falling among the crowded audience twenty feet below only by the fact that sev eral men seized her by the skirts and held her suspended. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The su preme court today granted the request of the department of justice for an Im mediate issue of- the court’s mandate in the Patten cotton corner case. The mandate is the official notifica tion to the federal court of southern New York that the supreme court has reversed the New York court’s holding that the indictment against James Pat ten, Eugene G. Scales, Frank B. Hayne and William P. Brown for alleged con- ’ ‘-.piracy to corner cottftn, did not state i offense under the Sherman anti- i ust law. The effect of the issue of .the mandate is to put the case before the lower* court for trial. In the regular course the mandate would not have been issued until Feb ruary 6, but Solicitor General Bullitt requested its issue, stating^ that the statute of limitation would run before long in the case and it might posibly be desired, in the case the indictment was held bad on some points not concern ing the construction of the Sherman anti-trust, to bring new* indictments. The effects the supreme court’s action today will be to put the government in position to press the case against the defendants, and also R. M. Thomp son, who was indicted on the same charge, but did not question the con struction of the Shermd-p law’, as soon as the papers issued by the court? today reach New York. Unless some settle ment or further technical objections to the indictments are made, the case will proceed to trial. COURT DECIDES one col feature Charges Preferred (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) ANNISTON, Ala., Jan. 30.—W. W. Cogswell, a dairy man, who ves north east of the city, was fined $100 and given a street sentence of six months Wednesday morning by Judge J. F. Green on a charge of having taken an improper advantage of llttre ten-year- old daughter of a farmer neighbor. ROOSEVELTS MANAGER OPPOSES “SINGLE” TERM OF CONTROLLING SENATE Dixon Would Not Like to See Six-Year Single Term Amendment Adopted BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—An attack on the proposed single six-year presiden tial term as a measure advocated by “as pirants for the presidency,” was made in the senate today by Senator Dixon, chairman of the—(Progressive national committee, who declared he did not be lieve there was any great public de mand for the proposed change in the constitution. “If the truth must be stated,” he said, “this resolution might better be entitled *a proposed amendment to the federal constitution for the’relief of cer tain aspirants for the presidency of the United States.” The senator took up the Works res olution proposing' the amendment, under agreement to vote before the ’close of the legislative day. Senator Paynter, Democrat, offered a provision that when the amendment should be ratified, the president then in office should be en titled to a six-year term. He declared no question should be left open as to whether it applied to President Wil son. “Wasn’t it your understanding that Mr. Wilson was elected for a four-year term?” asked Senator Dixon. Senator Paynter returned tha£ the amendment should be made so that it would take effect immediately, notwith standing who might be in office. Senator Dixon’s retort was to suggest that it be so changed that it would not apply to “President-elect Wilson.” He de clared that no amendment should be adopted to the constitution that would prohibit the people of the United States from exercising their own judgment as to whether a president should be re elected. Democrats Have 49 Members Against 43 Combined Re publicans and Progressives WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—With the election yesterday of Willard Saulsbury as United States senator from Delaware the Democratic strength in the next senate swung from the precarious fig ure of forty-eight, or exactly one-half the senate, to the safer total of forty- nine, a majority of two. Mr. Saulsbury’s eletcion, added to the victory recently secured in Ten nessee, assures the Democratic party absolute control of the senate after Majch 4. The vote of Vice President Marshall would have been the decid ing factor in any event, but the addi tion of another Democratic vote to the column gives the party leaders what they believe to be safe margin for tariff and legislative action. Contests still exist in the legisla tures 6f New r Hampshire, West Vir ginia and Illinois with a total of four senators to be elected, about whose political affiliations doubt now ex ists. A victory in any one of these states would so materially strengthen the Democratic party that the senate would be completely removed from the element of uncertainty. The attitude of the Progressives and the Progres sive Republicans upon tariff matters is as yet unknown, but the margin of strength promised to the Democrats make it unnecessary, it is believed, to count upon any combinations with the Progressives. Of the entire membership of 96 senators, 63 will hold over beyond March 4. Of these 32 are Republicans and 31 Democrats. The terms of 32 senators expire in March, and there is in addition, one vacancy in Illinois. Thus far 17 Democratic senators, have been elected and the election of Sena tor Bacon in Georgia is certain, mak ing 18 Democrats to take the oath of office March 4. The opposition forces, including both the Republicans and the Progressives, have elected 11 new senators. The senate, after Marcfi 4, will stand as follows if the deadlocks are not broken in Illinois, New Hampshire and West Virginia: Democrats, 49; Re publicans arid Progressives, 43; vacan cies, 4. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 30.—In trans- mitting the list of pardons and paroles granted last year with the reaeons therefor, Governor Blease scores his enemies in a caustic manner. Clemency was exercised in 190 cases, making a total of over 500 for the two years of Governor Blease’s administration. The message in part, says: ; ' * ■■ i "I want all of my acts as governor of South Carolina to be known to the public. 1 am not afraid of them, for the indorsement which I received from 72,243 of my white fellow-citizeng, is pretty strong proof of the fact that my administration was indorsed, and if the machine had given m e all of the votes that were cast for me, and my oppo nents had not used money, whisky and intimidation, instead of being 73,243 A it would have been at least 90,000, as I ,.*■ predicted at the beginning of the cam- palgn; and as a very large number of ' , my fellow-citizens now .believe, fully feeling that I was not given all of the votes which were cast for me, besides the ones which were taken from me for. the reasons Just above mentioned.” "HELP PROM ALMIGHTY," ! Referring to his re-election he says: "My people gave me my reward a sec ond term as governor of my state and 1 believe that my reward hereafter will come in due season, for I still believe that only by the help of God Almighty could I have won my first race and I know positively that only by His help could X have defeated the unholy or ganization that was formed against me last summer by men of two different factions, which hated each other then, and who hate each other now, but were willing to lie down and swap odors in order to defeat Blease. "Think of it- Many preachers, nearly all the newspapers of the state, the cor porations, that is the leading officials thereof, the lawyers, almost i na body, a large majority of the legislature, - nearly all the state officials,, a targ majority of the delegates*)^- convention in May, the money Interests, a large majority of the commercial travelers, commonly called ‘drummers,’ some of the women praying, some of the old-line so-called reformers, some of the old-line so-called conservatlevs, many of the XIaskellites, the Cubans, the Spaniards, and the mixed breeds, a ma jority of the state executive commit tee, a large majority of the county ex ecutive committees and all of the elec tion machinery—what a combination, and yet I beat. (By Associated Press.) NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Jan. 30.— The death cries of a dog in a barn she had fired has led Julia Schlosser, a fif teen-year-old orphan, to confess that she started the fire which destroyed all of th e farm buildings of Mrs. Anna Schoop's estate at Monmouth Junction last Sunday with a loss of $5,000. “I edn’t keep the noise of that poor j dog out of my ears,” she told Mrs. Schoops, who had recently adopted theI girl, and in a torrent of remorse con-1 fessed, according to the authorities. She I was removed to the state home for girls, where she had formerly been committed as an incorrigible. The only reason Julia gave for starting the fire was that she wanted to see some excitement. President-Elect Says He Will Eeel Uncomfortable in Silk Hat (By Associated Press.) TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 30.—President- MARSHALLVILLE SHIPS ASPARAGUS TO EAST (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MARSHALLVILLE, Ga.. Jan. 30.—R. H. Richard shipped on Tuesday, January 28, a crate of asparagus to New York. This is the first shipment of the season and is the earliest ever sent to market from Georgia. elect Wilson expects to begin work on his inaugural address in a few days. Asked if he had made any further plans for his inauguration, he replied that he had decided to wear a silk hat when reviewing the inaugural parade. “I suppose I’ll have to concede that much to custom,” he said. The only time he ever felt uncomfortable as governor of New Jersey, he said, was the day he wore a silk hat and sat on a horse, reviewing state troops. He has worn a felt hat on every occasion since then. Governor Wilson planned to confer today with Representative Glass, of Vir ginia, chairman of the house subcom mittee on banking and currency. Mr. Wilson said he expected to get a “round up’’ of the views presented to the com mittee. He added that he had made Takes Fatal Drug As Sheriff Waits To Serve Papers MRS. MYRTLE HINES IS (By Associated Press.) JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Jan. 30.— While a deputy sheriff was in his store to serve a writ of attachment on his stock of goods, W. E. Daughtry, a well known South Jacksonville merchant, ex cused himself for a moment, ^ent t'> the back of the store and drank tl % e con tents of a bottle of carbolic acid, which caused instant death. Start Prohi Crusade (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 30.—Pro- hibitiQn is sure to be agitated at the extr«. session of the legislature if it is held. up his niind not to announce until he got to Washington whether he would recommend currency legislation or any other subject foe action by the extra session of congress. “I don’t want to make any decisions here,” he said, “because I feel too far away from the men in Washington with whom I should %s>nfer.” Jealous Wife Who Killed Rival Woman, Is Freed by Jury (By Associated Press,) NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 30.—At Cookeville, Tenn., today Mrs. Myrtle Barnes, thirty-five, was acquitted of the charge of murdering Mrs. Della Judd, wife of the proprietor of a hotel at Double Springs. The tragedy, a highly sensational one. occurred May 31, last. At Buffalo Valley, her home, Mrs. Barnes boarded a Tennessee Central passenger train, walked to the rear plat form and emptied a pistol into Mrs. Judd’s body, death being instantaneous. ,Mrs. Barnes’ defense was that an al leged intimacy between her husband, J. C. Barnes, and Mrs. Judd existed, preyed upon her mind and made her irresponsi ble. Barnes is one of the wealthiest men in Putnam county and owns a drink stand here. N. Y. Society Women L^an Aigrettes and Birds of Paradise (By Associated Pre&s.) NEVt YORK, Jan. 30.—Pledges never again to wear the much prized plumage of ettYier the bird of paradise or the aigrette, are being signed by worwera prominent in society here. Mrs. H. Fairfield Osborn, wife of the president of the American Museum of Natural History, started the cam paign at a club meeting yesterday when it was resolved that everything possi ble should be done to save from ex tinction the two birds whose plumage has been much sought by women of fashion. The women pledge takers are mainly members of the ladies’ auxilihry of the New York Zoological society. By formal resolution they indorsed the principle of federal protection of birds embodied in the McLean bill now before con gress. COE. DLLA EEUNTE AGAIN BUSY IN MEXIC REVOLT Named Chief of Staff of Salazar in New Revolution (By Associated Prees.) WASHINGTON, Ja*t. 30.—Colonel dt la Feunte, released a few weeks ago from Fort Sam Houston, Tex., where he was held on a charge or violation of the neutrality law, is again back In Mexico as chief of staff in a new rev olutionary movement headed by General Inez Salazar. Brigadier General Steev- er reported that Salazar was elected chief of a new revolution on Wednesday and the announcement of his appoint ment of Colonel de la Feunte followed. No mention is made of Orozco, who ap parently has been superseded. Two Columns of Federals Sent Out Against Rebels (By Associated Press.) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 30.—Two mixed columns of federal troops, including artillery, have been ordered to proceed against the rebel forces menacing Jua rez. General Antonio Rabago, at Chi huahua, has been told to furnish the troops and to send them toward the north over the Mexican Central rail road. FOUR DIE IN HOTEL ' EIRE IN WINDY CITY Chicago Hotel Burns-Four Men aivj One Woman Lost (B* Associated Press.' j CHICAGO, Jan. 30.—Three men and one woman were burned to death, three men were seriously injured and a dozen others suffered less hurts in a fire which early today destroyed the Iowa hotel, a four-story brick structure, at 330-332 North Clark street. Those seriously hurt jumped from windows, either into the alley or on to the spur of the Northwestern L. The damage to the building was esti mated at $15,000. No cause was given for the fire. NEW MEDICAL HALL DEDICATED BY STATE AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 30.—The new building of the College of Medicine of the University of Georgia was dedica^d here Wednesday. The honorary degree, doctor of laws, was conferred upon Drs. W. M. Polk and J. A. Witherspoon. “GRUB STAKER” DIES; LEAVES $3,000,000 (By Associated Press.) DENVER, Jan. 30.—F. L. Sigel, who "grub staked” hundreds of prospectors during the last thirty years, died yes terday, leaving an etsate valued at $3,- 000,000. -r'Affy V.sV ii.