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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1913.
NO. 52.
E ON L
QUITS BUMS OFFICE
In Wordy Statement, First As
sistant Secretary of State
Asks Immediate Release
From State Department
BT RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON,. March 20.—Aside
from the news of the withdrawal of the
American bankers from participation in
the six-power loan, the chief develop
ment growing out of President Wilson’s
Chinese statement was the further as
surance today that the administration
will soon recognize the Chinese republic
and the unexpected resignation of Hunt
ington Wilson, assistant secretary of
state.^
Huntington Wilson was evidently
peeved at the president’s repudiation
of the Taft policy, which *he helped to
frame. In his letter of resignation the
assistant secretary of state presumed
to read the president a lecture which
evoked much amusement at the White
House.
He resented the failure of the presi
dent . to consult with him about the
Chinese situation before making pub
lic his statement.
Mr. Wilson has been acting secretary
of state in Mr. Bryan’s absence. His
action doesn’t embarrass the conduct of
the state department-in any way.
The assistant secretary of state de
voted fully 1,000 words to set fo^th his
plan and the president accepted the
resignation and dismissed the matter
in a straig 14 note of a dozen wbrds.
Mr. Wilson, like all assistant secreta
ries in the various departments, tendered
his Resignation as a matter of form to
President Wilson directly upon the lat
ter’s assumption of office.
Mr.- Wilson was requested to continue
in his place until it should be convenient
for the president to name liis successor.
He consented to do so to accommodate
Secretary Bryan in his desire to make
his present visit to Lincoln, Neb.
The issue of the statement from the
White House denying the administra
tion’s attitude regarding the Chinese.loan
negotiations is believed to have been re
garded by Assistant Secretary Wilson as
sufficient to justify him in requesting to
be relieved at once from duty.
After telegraphic notice to Secretary
Bryan of his intention, Mr. Wilson late
yesterday afternoon dispatched a rfote to
the White House terminating his own
service and President Wilson immediate
ly designated Second Assistant Secretary
Adee to act as secretary of state during
Secretary Bryan’s present absence.
SOUTH GEORGIA FIRMS
Planters Are Unable to Pre
pare Ground and Crops
Be Delayed
.(Special Dispatch to The Journal. - )
DUBLIN, Ga.. March 20.—Great dam
age has been done by the lfeavy rains
which fell Friday and Saturday of last
week to the roads and bridges of Lau
rens county.
Reports from all over the county tell
of the damage done, and it will take
several weeks to repair them.
The rains have interfered with the
farmers who were preparing to plant
their crops, badly washing up the farm
land, and will delay them several weeks
In getting things in shape again.
Quantities of fertilizer are being sold.
One planter has bought $5,000 worth
of fertilizer for his land.
The Oconee river at , this place has
reached the highest point known here
in years. The depth is over 26.5 feet
and is still rising. In 1895 the.govern
ment weather station began to keep
records. March 5, 1902. the highest
stage of the river recorded was a depth
of 25.5. It is thought the highest point
will be reached today.
Crops of Emanuel
Are Delayed by Rains
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
•SWAINSBORQ, Ga., March 20.—The
continued rains in the county have given
crop conditions somewhat of a setback,
yet no serious results were experienced
locally as came upon some sections of
the state. There has been no wind to
amount to much harm, the only injury
coming from the torrential rains.\
Lands, recently broken, were washed
in some places and corn that was plant
ed will have to be planted again.
A setoff of two weeks’ work probably
will be the only thing to overcome out
side qf the washed land.
The roads of the county are torn
up considerably in many places and
some few bridges undermined and travel
delayed on certain roads out from
Swainsboro.
Harris Farms Damaged;
Tracks Washed Away
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
SHILOH, Ga., March 20.—The heavy
rains last week were disastrous to Har
ris county. Farmers are in bad shape,
and the Southern railway track was
washed away for a mile between Shiloh
and Waverly Hall. A trestle was also
undermined. There have been no trains
in four days—Shiloh having been iso
lated completely from freight and mail.
PLAN FULL SETTLEMENT
Bankers Reach Savannah for
WILSON TITS ROLE
OF DEMOCRATIC LEADER
Dream of the Boy Who Has Been Spanked and Put to Bed
BY H. T. WEBSTER.
President Will Remain in Cap
itol During Extra Tariff
Congress
^Wilson will
members of
A probably result of the resignation ,, , ,
•vill be the immedlUte appolntraect, under IVIeetlRg t0 DeVISfi MOBIIS OF
of John Bassett > . . ,,
Liquidating Obligations'
a recess commission
Moore as counselor of the department of
state with authority to act as secretary,.
In a thousand-word letter to President
Wilson, the former acting secretary of
state set forth that when he consented
to continue for a time with the new ad
ministration he did not understand there
was to be any radical change of policy
for which he would be called upon to act
as spokesman. The letter oontinued in
part:
ILLINOIS VICE PROBE
W| LL CALL ON WILSON
Senate Committee to Visit
Washington and Eastern
Cities
CHICAGO, March 20.—The Illinois
senate vice committee will leave Chica
go today for Washington, where a con
ference with President Wilson has been
arranged for noon Saturday. Later
public hearing will be conducted in
Washington that the members may fa
miliarize themselves with eastern con
ditions.
En route the committee will stop at
Harrisburg, Pa., for a conference with
Governor Tener. The committee plans
to urge the president to include a min
imum wage for working girls clause
in his message to congress.
• —
ROADS MUST INCORPORATE
TO RUN IN MISSOURI
(By Associated Press.)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., March 20.—
The house today passed a bill prohibit
ing railroads from doing business in
Missouri unless incorporated .under the
law of the state. The bill already has
passed the senate and now goes to the
governor.
The bill is intended to prevent rail
roads from transferring cases from the
Missouri courts to the federal courts,
and affects thirteen of the eighteen lines
in Missouri.
NAVAL STORES CASE IS
IN U. S. SUPREME COURT
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Argu
ments that no substantial evidence of
wrong-doing had been presented to the
jury which convicted officers of the -
American Naval Stores company, of vio
lating the Sherman anti-trust law, were
made today to the supreme court in .the
second day’s argument on the appeal
from the jail sentences imposed by the
Georgia federal courts.
80-YEAR-0LD WOMAN
DIES AFTER SMOKING PIPE
(By Associated Press.)
EL NORA, Ind., March 20.—Mrs. Wil
liam Sneff, eighty years old, while
smoking a pipe last night, aJlowed some
of the burning tobacco to drop on her
dress. Before other members of the
family could reach her she had been
so severely burned that she died a few
hours later.
“THE ROCK” tTbF
ABANDONED SOON
(By Associated Press.)
SAN FRANCISCO. March 20.—Alca
traz island; known as the “‘rock”
throughout the army, is to be aban
doned as a military prison and turned
over to 'he department of justice as a
place of incarceration for civil offend
ers against the government. The San
Francisco Chronicle makes this declar
ation today but gives no authority.
(By Associated Press.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., March 20.—Coming
early to make preliminary investigations
into conditions, several representatives
of the creditors of the American Naval
Stores company arrived in Savannah
Wednesday. Others will be here Thurs
day for the formal creditors’ meeting,
which will be held Friday.
Two informal conferences were held
by the advance guard of representatives
Wednesday. In the morning they had
a meeting and compared notes. In the
afternoon they assembled again, and to
this conference they invited the Savan
nah bankers who are interested.
A conference was held with some of
the officers of the American Naval
Stores company, as a result of which
free access was given to the books of
the naval stores company.
The chief auditor of the company is
here, and he will go over the books
in company with some of the representa
tives of the creditors so that facts taken
from the books will be in their posses
sion at the meeting Friday.
It was stated after the meetings that
if the conditions as stated by the Amer
ican Naval Stores Co. in its formal sus
pension announcement are found to be
true, a plan for enabling the company
to handle its stock is certain to be de
vised.
The bankers here, while they decline
to be interviewed, appear optimistic.
•They all say they feel satisfied a plan
will be agreed upon so that assets may
be administered in a way to enable the
company to meet all of its obliga
tions.
(By Associated Pross.)
WASHINGTON, March 20.—President
confer frequently with
the house and senate in
the president’s room at the capitol.
during the extra session of congress.
This was announced at the White House
last night.
The president intends to make him
self as accessible as possibl’e to mem
bers of congress on those days when
tariff legislation will have reached its
most important development. He found
while governor of New Jersey, that
legislation often was expedited by
his close communication with the New
Jersey legislature. He made it a
practice to be at his own office when
ever the legislature was in session
day or night and gave precedence in
his engagements to the legislators.
The president will go to the capitol,
it was said at the White House, in a
spirit of friendly co-operation, there
to consult with Democrats and Repub
licans alike on the progress of legisla
tion. He believes ( however, that he
should go to the capitol as party lead
er and he hg/s always said that the
president of the United States is the
elected leader of his party and that
he particularly was charged by the
people with the carrying out of party
pledges. Mr. Wilson believes that the
tariff bill should be treated as a party
measure.
f The announcement that the finance
committee of the senate and the ways
and means committee of the house will
work, on the tariff bill in joint confer
ence, consulting the president often, is
in line with the idea that the leaders
in congress should draft a bill which
should stand or fall on its merits both
in congress and before the country. He
believes in enforcing party discipline,
and after the leaders have approved
the tariff bill he will make every ef
fort to .have it passed in both houses
without material alteration.
HARRIS SURE OF PLACE.
It became known that W. J. Harris,
chairman of the Democratic state com
mittee of Georgia, very likely would
be chosen director of the census. It
also was stated authoritatively at the
White House that the ( nomination of
Charles P. Neill to be commissioner of
labor statistics, which failed of con
firmation at the special session of the
senate, would be sent to the senate
again when congress convenes on
April 7.
Mr. Wilson was formally congratu
lated on his election by a committee
of the American Philosophical society,
of which he is the eighth member to
become chief executive of the nation.
The committee consisted of W. W.
Keen, Philadelphia, president; Charle
magne Tower, Philadelphia; Senator
Elihu Root, Dr. Robert S. Ward, presi
dent of the Carnegie institution; Dr.
Charles Walcott, h^ad .of the Smith
sonian institute; tft.' Henry B. Osborn,
head of fhe, association of musical sci
ence, ‘NeW York, and Dr. O. H. Tittman,
chief of the coast and Geodetic sur
vey.
IAUA.
ITI
BILE DIES IN SENATE
This Is Officially
Last Day of Winter
And It's Stormy, Too
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, March 20.—Two well
defined storms causing widespread pre
cipitation exist in the country today,
the weather bureau reporting one cen
tered in the lake region and another over
the plateau.
On this, the last day of the winter
season, the thermometer at Havre, Men.,
registered 22 degrees below zero.
Cold wave warnings have been issued
among other points for Oklahoma, Tex
as panhandle, Arkansas, Missouri and
Kentucky.
PAUL SELBY DIES
AT AGE OF 88 YEARS
CHICAGO, March 20.—Paul Selby,
asred eighty-eight, western Illinois edi
tor, die.d last night at the home of his
son-in-law, Key. Harmon Johnson, at
River Forest, near Chicago. He was the
last of the Illinois editors who issued
the call for the meeting held in Decatur,
which led to the formation of the Repub
lican party in the state. Mr. Selby was
at one time editor and owner of the Il
linois State Journal at Springfield. He
was a prominent figure in Illinois poli
tics for many years.
HARVESTER COMPANY
RAISES WAGES OF GIRLS
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, March 20.—President Cy
rus H. McCormick, of the International
Harvester company, made the an
nouncement last night that beginning
next Monday the minimum wage for
girls and women employed anywhere in
the United States by the company will
be $8 a week. The present minimum is
$5 a week for apprentices.
About 800 girls will be raised to $8
minimum.
Tennessee Legislature Refuses
Chattanooga Authority to
Condemn Georgia Property
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., March 20.—By a
vote of 19 to 14 the senate shortly after
noon today defeated the bill which has
passed the house authorizing the city
of Chattanooga to amend ifs charter so
as to give it the right to extend its
streets through railroad yards of the
W. & A. railroad.
The vote was in contradiction of the
recommendations of the judiciary com
mittee which, after an argument last
ing two hours last night, decided to
recommend the bill for passage.
When the bill was being argued be
fore the committee, Hon. Judge John C.
Hart, representing the state of Geor
gia, opposed its passage, claiming that
the legislature of Tennesese should not
give to the city of Chattanooga such
power as the bill asked for.
He said that the terminals of the
W. & A. railroad were the property of
the state of Georgia an<J it was through
these terminals, which were essential
to the state of Georgia for the operation
of the W. & A. road, that Chattanooga
would extend Broad street if the bill
passed.
General Counsel Claude Waller, of
the N. & C. and President J. W. Thomas
argued against the bill, while Chatta
nooga was represented by a committee
from the board of trade.
I-5TWCKEN TOWNS
FACE SECOND DELUGE
Rivers Are Again Booming,
Four Towns Are Deep in
Water
Child Falls Three
Stories Into Arms
Of a Pedestrian
(By Associated Press.)
BOSTON, Mass., March 20.—Patrick J.
Moriarty, a stonemason, saw a little
girl about to fall from a third-story
window of a building yesterday and
lushing across the street caught her
in his arms before she struck the side
walk.
The girl, who was Helen J. Hutchin
son, aged five, was unhurt.
JAIL PRISONERS WANT
BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS
Prayer Services Are Field Each
Evening by the Inmates
of the Tower
A religious wave has struck the
prisoners in the Fulton county jail and
as a result prayer services are held each
evening. These services are led by first
one and then another of the prisoners.
A big demand for testaments and
Bibles has sprung up at the jail since
these daily prayer meetings were in
augurated, and one of the prisoners,
who signs himself “McCloud,” has writ
ten The Journal requesting that its
reader/3 donate testaments, Bibles and
hymn books for the use of the prisoners.
(By Associated Press.)
MOBILE, Ala., March 20.—Rains in
south Alabama have caused another rise
of the flood waters at Brewton, and
threaten to prevent the resumption of
service on the main line of the Louis
ville and Nashville railroad, which was
to have been restored Thursday morn
ing.
A second rise of the Escambia river
has caused a second suspension of serv
ice between Pensacola and Flomaton
on the Louisville and Nashville. The first
train since Friday made the trip over
the main line today on a slow sched
ule.
Delayed specials tell of the flooding
of four towns in the vicinity of Green
ville, Ala., a town of 5,000 population.
Greenville itself, Bolling, Chapman and
Garland, Ala., sustained losses variously
estimated up to $200,000. The loss at
Garland alone, it is said, will amount to
$75,000.
At Garland the L. & N. depot was
just visible above the water; telegraph
and telephone poles were covered; the
stores were inundated and many of the
500 persons living in the town were
forced to go hungry. Garland made a
vain appeal to the state for relief. The
Montgomery Business Men’s league has
sent a carload of provisions to the suf
ferers.
i A special from Montgomery says the
property damage in central Alabama
will reach a quarter of a million dol
lars.
The Alabama river at Montgomery
is more than a mile wide and still ris
ing, according to another dispatch.
SUfFHETTES BURN
LADY WHITE’S HOAAE
Golf Club in Weston Super-
Mare Also Destroyed-Prop-
erty Loss $100,000
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 20.—Two “arson
squads” of militant suffragettes destroy
ed $100,000 worth of property early to
day.
One squad burned down the country
residence of Lady Amy White at Engle-
field Green, near the Thames. The
other suffragettes fired the building of
the golf club at Weston Super-Mare,
a fashionable watering place in Somer
setshire.
Lady White is the widow of Field
Marshal Sir George \yhite, the hero of
Ladysmith in the Transvaal war. Flahies
in her mansion were discovered at 1
o’clock this morning and at that time
had such a start that the efforts of
the local fire brigade were hopeless.
Traces of oils and inflammable ma
terials were found scattered about the
house, while around the grounds were
papers inscribed, “Stop torturing our
comrades in prison!” “Votes for wom
en!” “By kind permission of Charles
Hobhouse!” the last being a reference
to the recent taunt of Chancellor Hob-
house that “women lack the real revo
lutionary spirit of men who burn and
sack in support of their cause.”
Two women on bicycles were seen in
the north half an hour before the fire
was discovered.
The house was unoccupied. The in
cendiaries at the golf house also
escaped.
IN ATHENS LOR OATH
Ninety-One and One
Half Miles Per Hour
Is Speed of Airship
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, March 20.—The British
army has the fastest and the best aero
plane in the world and has secretly
perfected a type of flying machine far
superior to any in the possession of
other nations.
This announcement was made today
in the house of commons by Colonel
John Seely, secretary of state for war.
It caused a great sensation.
“For our purposes,” Colonel Seely
said, “the great^ problem has been to
secure an aeroplane that can fly at
both low and high speed. The British
army now has machines which have
beaten eighty miles an hour and which
also are able to reduce their speed to
forty miles an hour. An army biplane
yesterday passed all t h e tests at an
average speed of 91 1-2 miles an hour.
“We shall have 148 aeroplanes by next
May. We have deliberately rejected
large airships as being useless for war
purposes. The war deparatment is de
voting some attention, however, to
small dirigibles which can be packed
up and sent abroad with expeditionary
forces.
“I take pleasure in announcing fur
ther that the mechanical problem of re
pelling attacks on aircraft has been
solved by experiments carried out by
the army service.’’
AMAZON EXPLORERS SAIL
FOR WATERS OF TROPICS
(By Associated Press.)
PHILADELPHIA, March 20.—The
yacht Pennsylvania, bound for one of
the most adventurous voyages of mod
ern times, sailed down the Delaware
river today, carrying a daring party of
explorers, who purpose penetrating to
the far reaches of the Amazon Mid to
the head waters of many of its mighty
tributaries, in the interest of science
and humanity. They seek what is
known as the “Lost World,” in the
basin of the Amazon.
The expedition has been organized and
equipped by the University of Pennsyl
vania museum. It will be gone about
three years and is expected to penetrate
to regions never .before visited by white
men.
The yacht is in command of Captain
J. C. Rowen, U. S. N., retired, and the
expedition is headed by Dr. William C.
Larrabee, curator of the American sec
tion of the museum. His chief associ
ates are Dr. Franklin B. Church, an au
thority on tropical medicine, and Sandy
McNab, a traveler of wide experience
and a scientist.
The Pennsylvania is only of 184 tons
burden and carries a crew of eleven
men.
New King of the Hellenes Will
Ascend the Throne on
Friday
(By Associated Press.)
ATHENS, March 20.—King Constan
tine arrived in the Greek capital today.
He traveled by automobile from Phale-
ron where he landed. Constantine will
take the oath as king or the Hellenes
«n Friday.
The hope is expressed that the king
will be proclaimed as Constantine XII.,
the last Byzantine emperor having been
Constantine XI.
The chamber of deputies will be
summoned tomorrow to take the oath
of fealty to the new king, after which
the ministry will resign.
Messages of condolence and sympa
thy for the royal family, the Greek
government and the Greek nation
poured into the capital all day. The
first message from the head of a na
tion received by Queen Olga came from
President Wilson.
All Greece mourns the death of a
sovereign who had done so much, par
ticularly during the past year, to ad
vance the prestige of the nation.
Emblems of sorrow ace displayed on
all sides, and manifestations of grief
are even more marked among the poor
and lowly than among those of the
higher classes.
Premier Venizelos, after eulogizing
King George today for his great serv
ice during his long reign, asked , the
chamber of deputies to acclaim Con
stantine king, to which the deputies re
sponded with cheers.
In his first message to the Greek
army, King Constantine, # from the
fortress of Janina, promised that he
would ever concentrate all his efforts
to his land and sea forces to which
war indissolubly bound him.
Queen Olga, accompanied Dy several
members of the royal family, is now
on her way to Salonikl. She suffered
greatly from the shock of the an
nouncement of the king’s taking off,
but before her departure showed that
resolution which had actuated her early
in w.ie war in going to the field to care
for the wounded.
Tte body of the king will be brought to
Athens and Interred In the mausoleum
which he had constructed on one of the
hills at Tatoi, where he was accustomed
to spend the summer.
Mrs', Joseph G, Eaton Is Plac
ed Under Arrest at Hing-
ham, Mass,, Following an
Investigation
(By Associated Press.)
HINGHAM, Mass., March 20.—Mrs.
Eaton, widow of Rear Admiral Joseph G.
Eaton, was arrested here today charged
with the murder of her husband.
Mrs. Eaton was a witness today at the
secret inquest into her husband’s death.
She drove from her home in an automo
bile, accompanied by two police officers.
It was expected that the inquiry would
be concluded today.
District Attorney A. F. Barker an
nounced the arrest in the following
statement: ^
“Mrs. Eaton is under arrest, charged
with the murder of her husband, Rear
Admiral Joseph Giles Eaton.
ARSENICAL POISONING.
“Admiral Eaton died of arsenical poi
soning. This fact was communicated
me on March 10, by Prof. Whitnet in.
a verbal report, and has been known to
the officers working on the case since
that time. Certain features which are
involved have been presented to the
authorities and will be .communicated to
the public. We have been unable thus
far to ascertain where the poison was
procured. Mrs. Eason was arrested at
her home at Assiniphi this morning.”
Mrs. Eaton later was arraigned, plead
ed not guilty and was committed to .jail
without bail, for a further hearing on
March 28.
Admiral Eaton, a native of Alabama*
died suddenly on the morning of March
8. He was sixty-six years old but,
according to his friends, > had been in
good health. Two days later the body
was buried at* Dracut, his former home.
There was no service at the grave,
and besides undertakers and newspaper
men, only the widow and her daughter
by another marriage witnessed the in
terment.
HERO OF 1898.
The rear admiral had seen thirty-nine
years’ service in the navy. He com
manded the transport Resolute, at San
tiago, and received a medal of honor
for his share in that battle.
The present Mrs. Eaton was the ad
miral’s second wife and was formerly
the wife of D. A. Ainsworth, once a
clerk in the United States senate. Her
father was George Harrison and the
family home was at Alexandria, Va.
She is forty years of age. Thp in
vestigation is said to have developed
that her married life was not altogether
happy. Her explanation that her hus
band died of indigestion was not satis
factory to the medical examiner, and he
delayed the body's preparation for
burial until after a post mortem.
Mrs. Eaton had two daughters by her
first marriage, Mrs. Mary Ainsworth
Keys, and Dorothy Ainsworth, who lived
with her.
District Attorney Barker later added
to his statement declaring that Eaton
died of arsenical poisoning.
FINISH FIGHT ON
SUNDAY “MOVIES”
NAVAL HERO OFFICIALLY
COMMENDED FOR ACT
WASHINGTON. March 20.—Lieuten-
ant Alfred H. Miles, in command of
the gunboat Castine, has been official
ly commended for jumping overboard
at Guantanamo, March 2, to assist in
rescuing a drowning sailor.
LEAKING GAS KILLED
ENTIRE CHICAGO FAMILY
Ministers of Atlanta Get To
gether to Oppose Moving
Picture Men
. *
The Evangelical Ministers’ associa
tion decided Thursday morning that all
evangelical churches shall unite in
fighting all moving picture theaters that
continue to give Sunday exhibitions. •
A committee of ministers represent
ing each evangelical denominatiyi was
appointed to confer with managers of
the moving picture theaters upon fu
ture exhibitions upon Sunday.
If the theaters continue such Sunday
amusements, the churches will accept
them as enemies of Christianity and
w r ill fight them in city council, in the
courts, in the state, legislature, and
from the pulpit.
Every protestant church member of
Atlanta will be called upon to regard
the moving picture theaters as an ene
my of the church and to treat them as
such.
The association of evangelical minis
ters is opposed to the word “boycott,”
but if the Sunday exhibitions continue,
e^ch evangelical minister will call upon.
his congregation to avoid moving pic
ture shows at any and all times.
Dr. John E. White, who is acting as
chairman of the committee appointed
by the association, will endeavor to
have a conference on Friday between
this committee and managers of the
moving picture theaters.
On Monday at noon a report will be
made to the association by the commit
tee, and if the theaters have decided to
continue their Sunday exhibitions, war
wifi be declared by the churches.
This committee consists of:
Dr. John E. White, Baptist.
Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden, Presbyterian.
Dr. G. C. Hanscom, Congregational.
Dr. C. O. Jones, Methodist.
Dr. Charles W. Daniel, Baptist.
Dr. W. C. Schaeffer, English Luth
eran.
Dr. John D. Wing, Episcopal.
Dr. L. O. Bricker, Christian.
The committee was appointed at a
meeting Thursday morning of the
Evangelical Ministers’ association at
the Y. M. C. A.
Father, Mother and Three
Children Found Dead in
Home Thursday
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, March 20.—A family of
five persons were found dead from illu
minating gas in a cottage on North
Lawndale avenue today. Circum
stances indicated that an accident
caused the tragedy.
The victims were Engbert Cornelson,
fifty-five years old, a machinist, his
wife and two sons and a daughter.
ROBERT RUSSELL SHOT;
NEGRO TAKEN TO ATHENS
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
COMER, Ga., March 20.—News has
reached here of the shooting of Robert
Russell, a well known farmer of Madi
son county, who resides at Carlton. Mr.
Russell, it seems, had sharply upbraided
Jim Colbert, a negro. At night the.
brother of the negro waylaid Mr. Russell
and Neal Johnson on the side of the
road and emptied the contents of a
double-barrel shotgun into Russell’s
body.
The negro was captured several miles
from the scene of the shooting and
Sheriff Davis, of Madison, carried him
to Athens to await trial at the ad
journed term of court in July.
Russell is a well known farmer and
landowner of this county and has many
friends. He is reported improving and
not seriously hurt.