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I . 'VOLUME XII. ATLANTA. GA.. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1913. NO. 46. -—Juan Vargas. Huerta's Rurales Capture a Small Band of Zapatistas Near Mexican Capital and Put Them to Death (By Associated Press.) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 27.—Seventeen Zapatistas, who carried their vocation of looting and murder to the edge of the federal district, eight miles from the capital, were captured today and execu ted. ' The rurales encountered the rebels at early dawn* today and defeated them. Later Juan Vargas, commander of the rurales, sent a terse message to Presi dent Huerta, in which he s&id: “I have the honor to report the execu tion of seventeen bandits taken in out lawry and rebellion." Confidence in the Huerta ad ministration appear to wax strong er daily. if faith is .to be placed in the government reports as to the raports as to the rapid vanishing of the rebel spirit throughout th republic. Conspiracies against the provisional president are* still whispered of in the capital, but there is at least an outward appearance of harmony between the leaders of the new regime. Provisional President Huerta and Felix Diaz seem to be working together to bring a^out general peace, which both express themselveg. as ardently desiring. Collapse of the revolutionary move ments both north and south appears to be imminent. The latest adherent to the government is General Orozso, who has sent a telegram declaring his allegiance. ZAPATA OBDURATE. Emiliano Zapata, on, the other hand, remdins obdurate, although many of hjs chief supporters have come into line wifh the new xfrder. • Venustiano Carfanzo, former governor of Coahuila, according to dispatches re ceived here, has not succeeded in gather ing general support for his attitude against Huerta. A further adhesion to the government was registered last night when Rafael ‘^api&r a former chief of rural guards in the state of Tlaxcala with 600 of his men signified his desire to surrender. Tapia conferred with the federal minister* of war yesterday and was told to return for another conference, bringing with him Antonio Hidalgo, a candidate for the governorship of Tlaxeala, who is in re bellion. * ANOTHER MADERO SLAIN. To the report that Emilio Madero, bt other of the slain president, has been executed, is added a rumor that his brother Raoul, has met the same fate at Torreon. Both these young men were actively allied with Carranza and, if true, their taking off doubtless will have a deterrent effect on rebel ac tivity in that district. ^ Two hundred million pesos is’ the amount the minister of finance prob ably will ask congress to authorize the governments to raise by m-*ans cf bonds for the pacification and the re habilitation of Mexico. At tfie time of the fall of the Ma dero regime a bill for a bond issue of 100,000,000 pesos for the same purpose was under discussion in congress. Ottoman Government Signifies a Willingness to Treat for Peace With Bulgaria and Offers Prized Citadel (By Associated Press.) SOFIA, Bulgaria, Feb. 27.—Turkey has at last signified her readiness to negotiate for peace with Bulgaria on the basis of the cession of Adrianople. The Turkish government has solic ited the good offices of Russia. The Russian government today transmitted to the Bulgarian government a mess age received from Constantinople, con taining the Turkish proposals for fresh negotiations. The Bulgarian council met today to discuss the subject. Russia Will Not Support Bulgaria for Indemnity (By Associated Press-) ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27.—Dis patches received here today confirm the report that the Turkish govern ment has expressed willingness to sur render the fortress of Adrianople. Russia will not support Bulgarians demand for a war indemnity from Tur key. IKE SMITH Senate. Adjourned at 4 o’Clock Thursday Morning After an All Night Session on Public Buildings Bill C DEATH AND RUIN LEFT II \ Fifty Buildings Are Demolish ed and Loss Is .Estimated at $100,000 FLORIDA WEST COAST TO HAVE NEW TRUNK LINE G, ■& W, C, and F, & W. Will -Combine and Join the Tampa Northern (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) QUITMAN, Ga., Feb. 27,—Much in terest is occasioned in local business circles by the repeated rumors that the Middendorf-William’s company, bankers, of Baltimore, are about to purchase the South Georgia and West Coast Railway. It is kifown they have an option on the road which will expire March 2, but so far nothing of their ultimate intentions In regard to the property has been made known. i It is said these people are interested in the Florida and Western road and the idea is that the two roads will be combined, and with the Tampa-North ern will be eventually developed into a trunk line along the Florida west coast. ‘>.ne road is owned almost entirely bv jocal people, prominent among them being J. W. Oglesby, president, and C. T. Tillman, treasurer. It is rumored that if -the sale is effected Mr. Oglesby will continue with the new company in some official capac ity. The general offices and shops of the road are located in Quitman and naturally much interest is felt as to the outcome of the matter. POSING AS OFFICER, * SMITH IS ARRESTED (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) KBWNAN, Ga., Feb. 27.—Will Smith, alias Pink Blue, wanted at Griffin for bigamy and also for cheating and swin- 11 i ng, has been arrested here. When taken up by the arresting of ficer he was wearing a detective’s badge, and said he belonged to the city detec tive force of Atlanta. He was surren dered today to the Spalding county au- (By Associated Press.) MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 27.—Ac cording to long distance telephone mes sages received by The Journal today damage, aggregating more than $100,000 has been done by a Cyclone of marked intensity which passed over Butler, Crenshaw and adjoining counties early this morning. In the neighborhood of fifty buildings are known to have been partially or wholly destroyed while at least one is known to have been killed and one is believed to be dying. Rufus Summerlin, living between Pattsburg and Petrey, in Crenshaw county, was killed in a collapse of the building in which he was in at the time of the cyclone, while Miss Lena Patter son, of the -same section of Crenshaw county, was seriously hurt. She is be lieved to be dying. Greatest property damage, according to these reports, was done at Green ville, in Butler county, though later re ports received ate to th e effect that much of central Alabama has been laid waste by the storm. Long distance telephone messages with Greenville established the fact that the cyclone was at its greatest intensity at 6:30 o’clock, when house^ were un roofed and uprooted and when trees were blown about in the country’s waste spaces. At least twenty-five buildings in Greenville were partly or wholly demolished, including churches, office structures and cottages. Two negro churches at Greenville were totally wrecked. While the ma jority of the buildings in the western and southwestern parts of the county were badly shaken by the storm. The Greenville pest house was de molished, while the Lomax-Hannon In dustrial institute was damaged to the extent of about $1,000. It is reported that the plan* of the Purity Fertilizer company at Greenville, was almost totally wrecked. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The sen ate, after a long and turbulent session, passed the public buildings bill at 3:50 o’clock this morning and ad journed until 10 o'clock today. Passage of the bill was ’threatened when a stubborn contest arose after midnight over the proposed $5,000,000 memorfal bridge across the Potomac river, in course of which the senate twice refused to adjourn. Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, then took the floor and frankly admitted he proposed to filibuster against the ap propriation. A compromise eventually was reach ed by which the $5,000,000 appropria tion for the memorial bridge was re duced to $1,500,000 and agreed to. Provision for a home for the Ameri can Red Cross was made in the bill. The building would 'cost $700,000, of which the United States government would provide $400,000 and the Loyal Legion thej remainder. The site would be here and the structure would be ded icated to "the loyal women of the Civil war." SOUTH WINS VICTORY. The amendment to the bill was adopt ed after a bitter fight, in which south ern senators insisted that the dedica tion should not’be partisan but should include the women of the Confederacy as well as those whose fathers, hus bands, brothers and sons fought for the union. • Senators who supported the amend ment insisted there was no sectional ism in the proposal, but it was only after a lengthy debate v that it was car ried by a narrow margin. The bill carried an increase of nearly $16,000,000 over the $25,000,000 bill as passed by the house. One sweeping amendment inserted just be fore i&tssage at the suggestion of Sen ator Kern, of Indiana, prohibiting the erection of a building or the purchase of sites for postoffices exclusively in any ^ity where th e / postal receipts were less than *$10,000 a year. This change would hold up indefinitely the erection of sixty or seventy buildings authorized in the bill. The all-night session was replete with factional argument, arising over appropriations made for memorial buildings at Washington and over al leged preference given to “loyal wom en” of the Civil war, in control of the affairs of the American Red Cross. 4. U T/qai WILL THE LAST LID STAY ON? r ILDING FALLS KILLING FIREMAN SECRETARY OF LABOR SENATE COMMITTEE HITS COURT’S HOLE OF REASON Report Recommends Amend ments to Sherman Anti- Trust Law (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The su preme court s so-called modification of the Sherman anti-trust law to invoice the rule of reason” in decisions upon restraints of trade, is attacked in vigor ous terms in a report presented to the senate by the interstate commerce com mittee today, which points' out the dan gers of “uncontrolled and unguided ju dicial discretion," and makes emphatic demand for amendments to the Sherman law to remove from the courts the pow er to determine what are “reasonable” restraints of trade. The report is the result of the com mittee’s long investigation into opera tion of anti-trust law. The commit tee recommends new laws to define ex actly what combinations are unlawful, so that bpth the business interests and the courts will have a standard upon which to proceed. It recommends a federal interstate corporation commit tee, with power to subserve corpora tions. pass on and approve combinations and agreements, and take over the work of dissolving illegal corporations, such as the Standard Oil company or the American Tobacco comjjanr, Cabinet Gossip Draws in Sev eral New Names on Thursday (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The pleas of union labor for representation at the council table of the president of the United States may be recognized in the selection of Representative William B. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, to be secretary of the newly-created department of la bor. This information, along with other reliable advices, came to the political leaders at the capitol today, /direct from Trenton. Representative Wilson has been in dorsed by the American Federation of Labor and was at one time secretary of the United Mine Workers of America. From the same sources it was learn ed that William # C. Redfield, of Brook lyn, might be a member of the cabinet. Just what portfolio he is being consid ered for was not divulged, but it Is knowrt that th e president-elect holds the highest regard for Mr. Redfield’s views on the tariff and has for some time hoped to have him as one of his close advisers. THREE PLACES—MANY PROSPteCTS. About three portfolios—agriculture, interior and war—little information is known and it is hinted that they will be filled by men whose names have not been generally mentioned heretofore. Though William A. Glasgow, a Phila delphia lawyer, and Edgar Farrar, of New Orleans, former president of the American Bar association, are report ed still to be under the consideration of the president-elect, th e most reliable information obtainable today is that James C. McReynolds, of New York, will be the new attorney general. Confirmation comes from every side that the president-elect has picked Wil liam J. Bryan for secretary of state; William G. McAdoo for secretary of the treasury; Josephus Daniels for secre tary of the navy, and Representative Albert Burleson, of Texas, for post master general. MAY- NAME A MOOSE. The name of Louis D. Biandeis is still known to be uppermost in Mr. Wilson’s mind for the secretaryship of com merce, as the post now held by Mr. Na gel probably will be called hereafter. It is said that Mr. Wilson from the first was anxious to place a Progressive Republican in his cabinet and the se lection of Mn Brandeis is believed to be a result of that desire. • Though information as yet with re spect to diplomatic posts is meager, it became known here today that Freder ick C. Penfield, of Philadelphia, and Henry N. Morganthau, of New York, very likely would be chosen for ambas sadorships, the former to Rome and the latter to Berlin. J. I. Gillespie Is Killed While Rescuing Tenants-Others Were Hurt ■■■ ^\ James I. Gillespie, a fireman of en gine hous^ No. 1, was killed and a doz en of his comrades narrowly escaped death, when the buildings at 140-142 Whitehall street, corner of Trinity ave- nu6, collapsed shortly after 4 o’clock "Wednesday morning. / / Patrolman James Chapman saw the dust arising from the first collapse of a portion of the building, and think ing it was smoke, he turned in an alarm on the nearest, fire box. All of the companies responded because the box i£ one of the downtown stations which cause a general alarm. The six occupants of the buildings had found refuge on the roof of an adjoining building or had been res cued by firemen when the building fell, after four distinct shocks. Firemen from three engine houses had been at the scene only a minute or two when the* building collapsed, and most of the drivers were on the ground, blanketing their horses, when ***e resounding crash came. Th,» startled fire horses broke and ran in many directions, one truck wagon striking and injuring Patrol man James Chapman. A horse from the truck of engine house No. 4 fell to the ground and was dragged to the corner of Mitchell street by his team mate, and was so badly injured that h e was immediately shot. The horses of the hose wagon of engine house No. 5 ran out Whitehall and were found uninjured in West View cemetery. All gas pipes in the house had been broken when the walls collapsed, and the firerqen near the scene were almost overpowered by the fumes of the gas after the crash. To add fo the horror of the scene a fire broke out at once in the debris, and this was not fully ex tinguished at 8:30 o’clock, although there was never any* danger of its spreading. Gillespie was on a long ladder, which was leaning at an angle from the street corner to the building at 136 Whitehall. He had formed one of a crew, which had assisted people through the windows and up the ladder a minute before, and was returning to search the house and make certain that there were no more lives to be saved, when the crash came. Tumbling brick broke the ladder and hurled him to the pavement, many brick falling on top of him. He died in stantly. C. T. Lemons, of the same engine house, was standing by the truck when a brick crashed intg his forehead and knocked him to the pavement. . He jerked himself under the truck, and saved his life,. The vehicle above hirp was badly injured, the falling house do ing damage to the extent of $1,000, ac cording to Chief W. B. Cummings, but Lemons was not hurt further. This truck had been braced, the firemen ex pecting to raise a ladder from it, and so it did not budge, when the frantic horses tried to run. Several other firemen were struck by the falling brick, but none was serious ly injured. Policeman G. C. Watson was among those hurt by the brick, but his . in jury is not serious. Both he and Chapman returned to the scene of the catastrophe when their wounds had been dressed. Th e building at 142 Whitehall, for merly owned by I. S. Mitchell, is now said to be the property of S. A. Aiider- son, of Marietta, and the structures on it were being remodeled for stores. “Several apartments upstairs were not occupied. It was this building which first gave way, and the upper portion of 140 Whitehall, where a number of people were living, followed. The stores on the ground floor of 140 Whitehall were not occupied, but on the two upper stories Mr. and lire. J. P. Ramsey conducted a lodging house. They, with Peter Lavasuer, a Frencn- man, occupiej the top story. At out 4 o’clock they were awakened by the falling of mortar and an occ£*sional brick. WILSON TO PAY DAILY VISITS TO THE CAPITOL To Use President's Room in National Capitol to Watch Congress (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Lively dis cussion was precipitated in congression al circles today by a published state ment credited to President-elect Wilson that he intended to spend part of each working day in the president’s room at the capitol, to keep in closer touch with legislative affairs. Such action on the part of the presi dent would overturn a precedent which has restricted the president’s visits to the capitol to the last hours of a ses sion in congress. Democratic leaders today discussed 'the reported plan of Mr. Wilson with reluctance, though many seemed to favor it. “If President Wilson wishes to come to the capitol and advise with congress, he will be welcome,’’ said Senator O’Gorman. "The closer the president and con- egress can get in the transaction of pub lic business the better it will be," said Senator Pomerene, or^Ohio. His expres sion was concurred in by Senator John son, of Maine. "PRESIDENTIAL ENCROACHMENT." The chief reason tor the long estab lished precedent keeping the president in the White House a mile away from the capitol is said to be a sentiment in the house and senate to what has been interpreted as “presidential en croachment’’ upon the freedom of action of congress. Sortie Democratic leaders of the sen ate said they believed Mr. Wilson would find it impossible to leave his executive duties and visit the capitol from day to day, and that he would not find it so easy to confer over the progress of legislation at the capitol as at the White House. Some Democrats expressed the opin ion that such visits of a president might not be received with favor if he came to take a hand in shaping leg islation. WHAT TILLMAN SAYS. "Much will depend on what he comes for," said Senator Tillman. “If he comes to advise with us. we shall be glad to have him; if he comes to dictate to us, as I do not believe he would, we should not want him here. When he has an opportunity to study conditions at a closer range, I think we will change his mind about coming." Senator Fletcher. Democrat, and Bur ton, Republican, spoke approvingly of the plan. “We shall be glad to have him; it will give us an opportunity to get ac quainted,” said Mr. Burton. “It is a good thing to do if the presi dent can spare the time. To have the president in his room at the capitol would greatly facilitate business,” said Senator Fletcher." MORGAN'S GO. DENIES MONEY TRUST EXISTS Says Evil Hands Would Spoi Congress a3 Well as Banks BILLS GAUSE BIG SUIT Baltimore Hotel Sues Bank- head for Board of the "Marching Club" (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Senator J. H. Bankhead, of Alabama, manager of the recent campaign of House Leader Oscar W. Underwood for the pregidency, is defendant in a suit filed here .by the proprietor of a Baltimore hotel to re cover t $1,273, which is alleged to be due on a contract for quarters for “the' Oscar W. Underwod Marching club.” The hotel proprietor declared that on June 6, Senator Bankhead, acting for the marching club, contracted for sleep ing accommodations for 400 members of the organiaztion from June 24 to WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A general denial of the existence or possibility of a “money trust" was presented to the house money trust committee today In a long letter from J. P. Morgan & Co,, at the invitation of the committee. Upon the receipt of the Morgan let ter today, Chairman Pujo gave out a letter written to Morgan & Co., saying that the invitation to Morgan & Co. had been extended on January 27, and that the committee had been at work on its report for a month. “Your iyemorandum," the reply con cluded, “manifestly comes too late to be of value." The Morgan letter laid at the door of the present banking and. currency laws the responsibility for any “concentra tion” of money and credit that may exist. * ” I# its conclusions as to the commit tee’s activities the letter said: “We venture to submit the consider ation! that in a strong public opinion; such as exists in this country, there lies the greatest safeguard of the com munity—always assuming that congress will evolve a basic system of banking which is scientific and su^iid—as at the present time, ours admittedly is not. “The public, that is the depositors, are the ones who entrust bankers with such influence and power as they today have in every civilized ldnd and the public is unlikely to entrust that power to weak or evil hands. “Your counsel asked more than one witness whether the present power held by bankers in this country would not become a menace if it lay in evfl hands. “Such inquiry answers itself. All power, physical, intellectual, financial or political is dangerous in evil hands. If congress were to fall into evil hands, the results might be deplorable. “But to us, it seems as little likely that the citizens of this country will fill congress w]th rascals, as it is that they will entrust the leadership of their business and financial affairs to a set of clever rogues." The letter says that such concen tration of money in New York as hrts occurred is due to the “antiquated bank ing system" and the natural law, which “in every country, creates some one city as the great financial center." That pan of the money trust resolu tion declaring that it ^is “generally be lieved" that groups of financiers “create, avert, and compose compa nies," was particularly attacked by the letter. Morgan & Co., set forth that any withholding of money or credit by one man in any market, would be “prompt ly relieved by the automatic flow of credit from some altogether foreign source.” “We regret,” said the letter, “that a belief so incredible, so abhorent and so harmful to th e country should for a moment have found lodgement any where. And we welcome your invita tion as an opportunity for us to state that to the extent of our observations and experience, there is not even a ves tige of t^uth in the idea that in whole or in part the financial convulsion of 1907 was brought through the design of any man or men." Bainbridge Carnival (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) BAINBRIDGE, Ga., Feb. 27.—There is a carnival being held in Bainbridge this week, the first that has been here in over two years. -■ - \ June 2t>, inclusive, at a rate of $1,200 a clay. The $1,273 represents the amount, ac cording to the hotel man, that is still due upon the contract. Senator Bankhead has not yet made reply. IT POLICE cum TRIED MOT SELF New Light Thrown on Mrs, Appelbaum's Spectacular Montgomery Career by Lat est Dispatches Mrs. J. A. Appelbaum has been men tally abnormal for several weeks, ac cording to her physician, Dr. J.' S. Liebman, and now verges upon a men tal and a physical breakdown. She fell upon the floor of her cell In convulsions at midnight on Wednesday, and an hour of heroic treatment was all that brought her back to con sciousness. Dr. Liebman attended her then. “If she suffers another fit of convul sions,” announced Dr. Liebman Thurs day morning, “she probably will die. And if the police put her through the third degree, I doubt that a trial will be necessary. No one will be left to try. “Since I first saw her three weeks ago, when she attempted suicide by drinking laudanum, she has not been mentally normal. “She is now on the brink of collapse, and another day like that of yesterday could very easily end in her complete breakdown—possibly her death.” That this is not the first occasion on which her alleged manipulation of a re volver has caused Mrs. Callie Scott-Hen- derson-Keller-Appelbaum to find herself In difficulties with the police, Is the statement made' in special dispatches to The Journal from Montgomery, the for mer home of the woman, who is charged with the shooting of Jerry A. Appel baum, who was killed in his room at the Dakota hotel Monday morning. According to these dispatches. Mrs. Appelbaum onc e fired on ex-Captain Martin, of the Montgomery police force, and once she came to the attention of the authorities, when she attempted to shoot herseV to death. In additio^Mt is said that she appeared in the Montgomery police court more than once as the result of strenuous dif ficulties with J. M. Keller, heti jjecoui— husband. On the morning of her arrest, when she was being queetioned about her knowl edge of firearms, according to Chief of Detectives N. A. Lanford, the woman told him that'she was an expert with a revolver and rifle, agd that often she had shot birds with a rifle from horseback. This was one of the many semi-hys terical statements made by the woman directly after her arrest, according to the official, and he was unabje to get her to tell about her practice with firearms. Interesting among the dispatches dealing with the checkered past of the woman, I who is a principal figure in the latest sensational murder mastery, is that stat ing that she was an excellent business woman, and Is believed to have a small fortune of her own, despite her state ments that Appelbaum ran through $8,000, all she jmd, during the few months she lived with him. Friends of the woman in Montgomery deny the statement by her second hus band (Keller) that she did not give him money to start hi s flourishing automobile business in the Alabama capital. On the contrary, they say, she was an excellent business woman and not only supplied the capital for the venture, but assisted In conducting the enterprise.' LEFT INSURANCE. The latest development with refer ence to the dead man Is that he car ried an accident insurance policy in the , United Commercial Travelers’ for $6,300, made payable to Mrs. Callie Scott Ap- petbaum. This, however, is probably not collect- i able in the event ltl is proven that she i killed him, or that he killed himself, ! although should it be decided by the jury (as in the Grace case) that she j shot him accidentally In a sctiffle over i a revolver, she might b e able to collect the policy. body Unclaimed. Manager Brown, of the Dakota hotel. Is In receipt of a letter Thursday morn-I ing from the Charlotte, N. C., council I of the United Commercial Travelers' as-1 sedation in reply to his wire of re cent date seeking Information regard ing relatives of Appelbaum. The letter states that the dead man i who lies unclaimed in the undertak ing parlors of Greenberg & Bond was a member of the Charlotte council. They had no information of his relatives. Montgomery Dispatches Tells of Troubles There MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 26.—Callie Scott’s arrest in Atlanta on a charge of killing her supposed husband. J. A. Appelbaum, created little surprise in Montgomery. Several times she has been in serious trouble here, having shot at one man, attemtped suicide by the pis tol route, and fired at Mr. Martin, for mer captain of police. She came to Montgomery ten or fif teen years ago, and became a seam stress. She rented a house and placed a sign, "Plain sewing" at the entrance. Persons who know her denied her for mer husband’s (I*. H. Keller’s) state ment that she did not furnish him the money to begin the automobile busi ness. It was said that the woman sold her property and started Keller in the automobile business, and that she mort gaged his automobile later. P'-'i*.- Practically every attorney in Mortt-* gomery lias been consulted by the wprri- an in one case or. another. She and her " husband, Keller, were in difitapltiea often, and they were aired in recorder's court. Story of the Murder On Page Two