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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1913.
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LAW IS
UPHELD BY COURT
U. S, Supreme Court Holds
Newspapers Must Publish
Sworn Statements
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 12.—As inter
preted by it, the supreme court today
upheld the constitutionality of the
newspaper publicity law enacted as a
part of the postal appropriation act of
1912.
The particular section attacked was to
bar every newspaper and periodical
from the mails unless the editors or
owners filed with the postal authorities
cemi-annual sworn statements giving
the names of the editors, owners, stock
holders and bondholders and the aver
age daily circulation and thereafter im
mediately published the statement. It
also forbade publication of the paid-for
articles without marking them “adver
tisements.” .
The Journal of Commerce and Com
mercial Bulletin, of New York, sought
to have the United States district court
for southern New York enjoin the post
master general from enforcing the act
on the ground that it was unconstitu
tional. The objection then raised was
that the law abridged the freedom of the
press. The government defended the
law as a regulation of the use of the
second-class mail privileges.
The New York court sustained the
validity of the law in this case, as it
did in that brought *by the Lewis
Publishing company of New York. It
is said the law affects more than
25,000 publications in the United
States.
Chief Justice White interpreted the
regulation objected to as being not a
restriction of the freedom of the press
but merely as affixing additional con
ditions for admission of newspapers to
the mails.*
In the course of his opinion he said:
“Was the provision intended simply
to supplement the existing legislation
relative to second-class mail matter,
or was it enacted as an exertion of leg
islative power to regulate the press, to
curtail its freedom and under the as
sumption that there was a right to
compel obedience to. the comand of
legislation that object in view
to deprive one who refused to obey, of
all right to use the mail service?
“When the question is thus defined,
its solution is free from difficulty,
since by its terms the provision only
regulates second-class mail .and the
exclusion from the mails for which
ir provides is not an exclusion from the
mails generally, but only from the
right to participate in and enjoin the
privileges accorded by the second-class
classification.”
RECALCITRANT SENATORS
ARE DRIVEN TO
READ! TO
CONSIDER COTTON TARIFF
AMERICANS PREPARE chemist hints that
FOR BIG BUTTLE IN ™ is POISONED
President Wilson Has Placed
Them Where to Waver In
dicates "Lobby”
THOMAS CROPS HURT
BY HEAVY RAINS
BOSTON, Ga., June 12.—The inces
sant rains of the past ten days have
worked great havoc upon the crops of
this secion. Complaints are coming
from all sections of this county, 'espe
daily from the melon growers.
Quite a number of formers, assem
bled here today, state It is conservative
to estimate that the melon crop has
been cut off at least 20 per cent by the
unfavorable weather.
E. R. Whaley, a large farmer of this
section, states that the corn crop
has been damaged inestimably by the
wind and rains.
Farmers were just ready to “lay by”
corn when the rains began; but the
effect pf the wind has made it prac
ticably impossible to plow the corn
the last and most important time.
Cotton is also suffering from the cool
and rainy weather.
STRIKE THREATENED
IN W. VIRGINIA MINES
(Bv Associated Press.)
CHARLESTON, W. Va., June 12—The
United States senate subcommittee,
charged with beginning today a thor
ough investigation of mining conditions
in this state, faced the possibility of
a strike in the entire Paint and Cabin
Creek regions, Many miners Have openly
deolared they believed the committee
will make the Investigation for their
benefit and should they strike they
would be upheld by the federal body.
Much anxiety is felt here because it is
not known how great a percentage of
the miners havfe this view.
About 100 operators and miners are
here ready to testify before the com
mittee which is scheduled to hold its
first session at 2 o’clock this afternoon.
BOUND OVER ON CHARGE
OF ATTACKING GIRL
<Speclal Dispatch to Tho Journal.)
LAGRANGE, Ga., June 12.—H. G.
Haygood, night watchman for Unity
Mill, No. 1, waived preliminary trial
yesterday afternoon and was bound oVer
without bond to the higher court. On
last Saturday night about 10 o’clock he
Is alleged to have attacked a little fif
teen-year-old girl.
Her screams attracted the neighbors,
It Is said, and Sheriff Florence went to
the scene at once and arrested the
man. Threats of lynching being so
strong when the sheriff reached town
with his prisoner he decided to carry
the man on to Nqwnan for safe keeping,
which he did, bringing him back here for
trial yesterday 'afternoon.
DYNAMITE EXPLOSION
ENDS LIFE OF BOY
(By Associated Press.)
JESUP, Ga., June 12.—The fifteen-
year-old son of Farmer Bud Kennedy
died Monday from injuries sustained
Sunday when a box of dynamite per-
cushion caps exploded in his pocket.
His leg was amputated Monday morn
ing, but the operation did not save the
boy’s life, and he died soon aftofWard.
Stops Tobacco Habit
in One Day
Sanitarium Publishes Px®e Book Show
ing How Tobacco Habit Can Be
Banished in Prom On© to
Piv© Days at Home.
The Elders Sanitarium located at 640
Main St., St. Joseph, Mo., has pub
lished a free hook showing the deadly
effect of the tobacco habit, and how it
can be banished in from one to five
days at home.
Men who have used tobacco for more
than fifty years have tried this method
and say it is entirely successful, and
in addition to banishing the desire for
tobacco has improved their health won
derfully. This method banishes the de
sire for tobacco, no matter whether it
is smoking, chewing, cigarettes or
snuff dipping.
As this book is being distributed free,
anyone wanting a cpy should send their
name and address at once.—(Adyt)
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, June 12.—President
Wilson has maneuvered the senate into
a corner. He has-created a background
calculated to reveal recalcitrant Dem
ocratic senators as tools of an “insid
ious” lobby. If Democratic senators
waver on the Underwood bill, the infer
ence is that the lobby has “got” them.
The Democratic senators know this and
the tariff will not be revised upward.
They do not dare take the risk, especial
ly In these days of /direct elections.
The president’s charges of an “in
sidious” lobby was one of the most ef
fective strokes of practical statesman
ship which Washington has witnessed
in years. Faced with a critical situa
tion in, the. senate, the president built
a backfire upbn the senate’s reputation.
During the past ten or fifteen years the
senate has been known the country over
as the milionaires’ club and the citadel
of the interests, under Republican con
trol. Popular distrust has grown even
faster than the senate’s bad reputation.
The president struck at the senate’s
weakest spot and said, in effect: “If you
do what the Interests want rather than
what the consumers want, you prove the
accuracy of the country’s suspicion. Re
vise this bill upward, and you will be
branded as a lobby-directed, interest-
controlled club of legislative free
booters.”
The mood of some senators is now
Becoming almost the same as it was in
the old Roosevelt days. They do not
yet hate Wilson as they hated Roose
velt, but they are quite as strongly op
posed to Wilson’s policies. The presi
dent’s tact, however, has made personal
animosity out of the question. But if
the president puts weak-kneed senators
into one or two more disagreeable holes
such as this one, Mr. Wilson may be
come to some senators one; of the best-
hated presidents the country has ever
had.
Quite likely Mr. Wilson has dis
counted this possibility and is willing
to take the chance. From the standpoint
of popularity it was found in the Roose
velt administration that the hostility of
the senate was a splendid asset.
PLAN RETALIATION.
Senators in the privacy of the cloak
room discussed methods of getting back
at the president. One proposal was
that a senator, in testifying at the lobby
inquiry, should define a lobbyist as a
man who influences legislators to do
what they know not to be right; then to
declare that a number of Democratic
senators are being forced to do what
they believe to be wrong and to charge
that the pressure influencing them comes
from the White House itself. The tes
timony of Senator Townsend, of Michi
gan, was along the line of this cloak
room gossip.
The indication is that the country at
large is with the president, and that it
is taking delight in the strong hand
with which he is directing legislative
affairs. The people have always en
joyed having a president who knows
what he wants and knows how to get it.
Woodrow Wilson is proving himself just
about that kind of a president.
So even if this program, started by
Townsend, is fully carried out, the sen
ate can count upon the gun recoiling
in accordance with that law of physics
which says that the force in each direc
tion is equal. The only question in this
case is whether the law of physics will
not be smashed by the schoolmaster-
president, who shows an inclination to
make reaction stronger than action, un
less he is the man behind the action.
Another proposal which is receiving
quiet consideration is to put a crimp
into the power of the president. Many
senators agree that the president has
too much power. This belief has always
prevailed in the senate when the White
House has contained a determined and
brainy president. So now the proposal
is renewed to curb the presidential pow
er. For instance, the senate would be
willing to relieve the president of the
power of making many appointments
which are confirmed by the senate. This
would do away with the opportunity of
the White House to coerce senators by
withholding .patronage.
WITHHOLDING PATRONAGE.
Now it is true that President Wilson,
whether for effect upon legislation or
not, has been going slowly with the
distribution of patronage. But it is
not at all true that the power of the
president is gauged by the dispensing
of patronage or by any actual legal
rights or limitations. Usually the use
of patronage has been a boomerang.
Mr. Taft tried it on the insurgents,
made them angry and lost power by it.
His course was an important step to
ward the party smash.
The power of the president rests
chiefly, if not altogether, upon his own
wisdom, his skill as a strategist and
the popular approval behind him. If
the senators do what the president
wants done with the tariff, it is be
cause they defy popular disapproval if
they do not follow the presidential wish.
In the event of opposition from them
the president will, of course, use against
them the influence of the presidency
and will try to retire them to private
life. But in this attempt the people
will be the jury and the withholding
of patronage will only gain sympathy
for recalcitrants, in the event that the
people consider them right and the
president wrong.
Mr. Taft had just as much power
as either Roosevelt -or Wilson, and
used the patronage power in a fashion
as striking as is known in modern poli
tics. But he was not a powerful presi
dent, because he lacked strategical
ability, determination and popular ap
proval. No legislative enactment or
constitutional amendment can head off
the sort of power which Mr. Wlson
is now exercising, unless perchance the
president should be relegated to the
same innocuous aloofness as the kings
in the exceedingly limited monarchies
of Europe.
THE SENATE’S ATTITUDE.
Senators have tried to take the teeth
out of the lobby inquiry. They have de
fined a lobbyist as a professional so
licitor who uses undue influence and
perhaps money. Having pictured the
lobbyist as an individual so dark, most
of the senators have said that they
knew nobody of that sort in Washing
ton. This attitude has tended to free
the senate of the imputation of harbor
ing a lot of hirelings of the interests—
which is what the senators were prob
ably after. Had the definition been fex
tended by all to cover lobbying in tne
sense set forth by the average diction
ary, the committee would have been
provided with a choice assortment of
subjects into whose operations they
plight inquire.
The impression in and out of con
gress, however, is that the lobby in
Washington is not disreputable in the
sense that it formerly was. Washing
ton no longer knows the stout railroad
agent with passes sticking out of every
pocket. When there used to be eight
or ten former members of congress lob
bying with their one-time colleagues,
now there is hardly one. But two
former senators are now recognized in
Washington as professional lobbyists,
Faulkner and Thurston. Nor is there in
evidence a lobby of anything like the
proportions which haunted the capitol
Majority Members of Finance
Committee of Senate
Considering Reports
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Majority
members of the senate finance commit
tee continued today to consider changes
in the Underwood tariff bill proposed
by the sub-committees.
Under discussion today was the met
al schedule reduced by Senator Stone's
sub-committee, duties on pig iron and
ferro manganese having been removed
and reductions proposed in structural
steel and other rates. The pottery
schedule, in which there have been
some changes, including increases, also
was taken up and the committee ex
pected to reach the cotton schedule.
With regard to print paper. Senator
Johnson’s sub-committee has under
consideration a plan to leave paper
valued at not more than 2 1-2 cents a
pound on the free list, but, in lieu of
a proposed countervailing duty, to in
sert a clause which would provide for
a duty of $2 a ton should restrictions
on exports of wood and pulp in the
Canadian tariff not be removed within
a stated period, probably a year.
The provision would not specify Can
ada. but that would be the only coun
try affected.
ANTI-TRUST SUIT FILED
Decisive Fight Will Be Made
Against Rebellious Moros
Entrenched at Bagdad Un
der Sultan of Jolo
(By Associated Press.)
MANILA, P. I., June 12.—Brigadier
General John Pershing, commander of
the department of Mindanao, has made
arrangements to engage in a decisive
fight against the rebellious Moros en
trenched at Bagdad, under the Sultan of
Jolo.
A stubborn resistance to the advance
of the American troops was expected,
and a strong force had therefore been
assembled, consisting of a company of
regular infantry, a troop of cavalry,
seven companies of scouts, two com
panies of constabulary with a battery
of four mountain guns, and a machine
gun platoon.
Such precautions had been taken that
it -was belieevd the American casualties
in the fight would be few.
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Government Charges Quaker
People With Controlling
Oatmeal Products
(By A.soeiftted Pres,.)
CHICAGO, June 12.—The Quaker
Oats company—the so-called oatmeal
trust, controlling 90 per cent of tho
oatmeal products and byproducts of the
country—was attacked by the* federal
court In a civil suit filed here today,
charging a monopoly In "derogation of
the common rights .
United States,” and in violation of the
Sherman law.
UNFROCKED CLERGYMAN
WEDS FLORETTA WHALEY
Marriage License Obtained as
Soon as Certified Copy of
Divorce Was Procured
(By Associated Press.)
STAMFORD, Conn., June 12.—Jere
Knode Cooke and Floretta Whaley were
married by a justice of the peace in the
parlors of a local hotel this morning.
The witnesses were a party of friends
who came here with the couple last
evening.
The unfrocked Episcopal clergyman
and his bride came here late last even
ing after, a trip to Willimantic to get
a certified copy of decree of divorce in
favor of Mrs. Marinda Clarke Cooke.
The certified copy was a necessary pre
liminary to the application for a mar
riage license in this state.
This morning Cooke and Miss Whaley
obtained marriage license as soon as
the. license clerk’s office opened, and
shortly after 9 o’clock the marriage
service was read.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooke then returned to
their home in New York.
The divorce decree granted to the
former Mrs. Cooke named as co-respond
ent Floretta Whaley, with whom Cooke
eloped'from Hempstead, L. I., six years
ago.
Two children have been born to the
pair since that time. Since his expul
sion from the ministry, Cooke has been
working as a house painter in New
York.
Child In Ohio Has
Nine Grandparents
Who Are Living Yet
(By Associated Press.) *
ASHTABULA, O., June 12.—Miss
Jean Elisabeth Porter, aged ten months,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Homer Por
ter, of Conneaut, is believed to be the
luckiest child in the world in the matter
of grandparents. She has nine of thorn.
They are divided as follows:
Grandparents: Her father’s father and
mother, Mr.*and Mrs. E. D. Porter, of
Cageville, O., and her mother’s father
and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Peck, of
Kingsville, O.
Great-grandparents: Her father’s
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Jane Swat, of
Wanetta, Pa.; her mother’s paternal
grandmother and grandfather, Mr. and
Mrs. Anson S. Peck, of Kingsville, O.,
and her mother’s maternal grandmother
and grandfather, Mr. and Mrs. S. B.
Morrio, of Charleston, O.
Long and Bitter Fight Likely
to Ensue, Intimates Man
Examining Organs
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
BALTIMORE, Md., June 12.—That a
long and bitter fight will ensue between
the heirs of the late E. O. Painter, the
millionaire fertilizer manufacturer, and
the combination of insurance companies
before the $1,178,000 in policies are
paid, is the intimation made' by Dr. C.
Glazer, the Baltimore chemist, who is
now analyzing the internal organs of
the dead man to decide whether death
was caused by an accident or poison.
Dr. Glazer has not completed his re
port. In fact, he says it will be some
time before the chemical analysis of the
stomach, liver and kidneys of the
wealthy Florida man can .be made. As
soon as it is completed it will be for
warded to the coroner of Jacksonville,
who ordered the examination made.
The chemist would give no specific in
formation as to what he had already
•found, but he hinted that some trace of
poison had been detected. Should it be
found that Mr. Painter died from the
effects of poisoning instead of drowning,
as first reported, the bula of insurance
money will cause a legal battle.
Painter was on a ferry boat in the
St. Johns river when he was taken, it is
said, with a violent coughing spell arid
fell into the water.
Redmond Stewart, of Barton, Wilmer
& Stewart, representing one of the in
surance companies’ interest, has super
vised the investigation here. It is ex
pected that Dr. Glazer will make a
formal report within a few days.
His Brother-in-Law Leaves
Paris for Mexico to Nego
tiate Dictator’s Return
Y POSTOFFICES
BY
HINEBAUGH ASKS TWO
PROBES OF FRISCO ROAD
Illinois Congressman Wants
Congressional Committee and
Commerce Com, to Probe
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Investiga
tion pf the receivership of tWe St.
Louis and San Francisco railroad sys
tem by a special congressional com
mittee of nine representatives was pro
posed in a bill today by Representative
Hinebaugh, of Illinois, a Progressive.
He already has a resolution directing
an investigation before the interstate
commerce commission.
NEGRO ESCAPES GALLOWS
FOR KILLING ANOTHER
Governor Brown Tuesday morning
commuted the sentence of Wash Dean,
a negro, scheduled to hang Friday at
Perry. Houston county, to life impris
onment; In doing so the governor act
ed upon the recommendation of the
prison commission, the trial judge and
the solicitor general who prosecuted
Dean.
The negro was convicted at the Oc
tober term of the Houston superior
court for the murder of Tom Johnson,
another negro. According to the rec
ord, the killing occurred in an alter
cation and there was great provoca
tion.
Had the governor not interfered Dean
would have been hanged on Friday, the
13th, in the year 1913. Quite a hoo
doo combination, that.
during the pendency of the Payne-
Aldrich bill. Then all kinds of interests
were heavily represented, while now
few interests are represented in force
save sugar and, wool. The lobby .for
these interests is evidently what the
president had in mind when he issued
»his statement.
I Some few of the Democratic senators
believe that the administration tariff
program is too drastic. They would
not stand in line at all were it not for
constant and heavy pressure. But the
pressure is there and the senators have
to stand by. For instance, while a
committee was investigating the “in
sidious” lobby, a subcommittee of the
senate equalized a schedule by putting
flour and meat on the dutiable list.
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
finance committee, visited the president,
secured a few “suggestions,” reported
to his colleagues and another method
of equalization was adopted. Wheat
and cattle were put on the free list,
instead. Prevision upward, it appears,
is out of the question, in the face of
this “insidious” lobby. President Wil
son does not propose that the senate
shall do to his tariff legislation what
it did to the tariff bills of Cleveland
and Taft.
NATION-WIDE ORDER
FOR BOYS IS PLANNED
WASHINGTON, June 12.—Through
the incorporation of the Boys’ league of
ths District of Columbia a number of
men prominent in public life hope to
establish a nationwide organization for
bays which will combine the features
or the Boy Scout, the Y. M. C. A. and
the Junior Republic. The intention is
to make the local league a model on
which similar organizations may be pat
terned.
TERRIBLE AGONIES
WORSE MISERY
Advices From Durant’s Neck
Tell of Mrs. Bazemore’s
Trying Ordeal, and Her
Condition at Present
DURANT’S NECK, N. C.—Mrs. Emma
Bazemore, of this plac°, says: “Words
fail to express my appreciation and
gratitude for the benefit I received
from Cardui, the woman’s tonic. I
suffered agonies from womanly trou
bles. I tried different doctors, but they
didn’t help. The last one I went to
said I needed an operation, so I agreed
to it and bore those terrible pains. I
felt better, but only for a short time,
and soon the misery was worse than
ever before. I began to use Cardui,
and it made me feel entirely different.
Now I am the picture of health, weigh
ing 170 pounds. Before I started the
treatment I, could not do my house
work. Now I can do my work, a’nd I
feel so much better.”
Cardui, the woman’s tonic, acting in
its gentle, healing way, upon the worn-
only organs, helps to restore your
natural vigor and to build up the
womanly constitution.
If you are /( tired, worn-out, weak, ner
vous, or suffer from any of the ail
ments peculiar to women, do what over
a million other women have done—try
Cardui. It canpot do you harm, and is
almost sure to help you, just as it has
them. Begin taking Cardui today.
Your druggist sells it.
N. B.—Write to: Ladies’ Advisory Dept.,
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga, Tenn.,
for Speoial Instructions, and 64-page book,
"Home Treatment for Women,” sent In plain
wrapper.—(Ad rU)
Georgia Places Filled by Nom
inations Sent to Senate
on Tuesday
Woman Wins Struggle
With Husband’s Slayer
(By Associated Press.;
HARRISONVILLE, Mo., June 12.—
Arthur Keller, a railway empxoye living
here, was murdered with an axe in his
home last night and his seven-year-old
daughter was seriously wounded. A
blow, aimed at Mrs. Keller, struck the
side of the bed and awakened her.
Mrs. Keller leaped from the bed and
after struggling with the murderer
drove him from the house. She then
gave the alarm and soon a posse was
searching for the slayer.
HIS LOVE FOR BASEBALL
MADE HIM FORGE CHECK
LOS ANGELES, Cal., June 12.—His
love for baseball caused William H.
Calder, seventeen years old, to forge
checks to the amount of nearly $1,000,
according to his alleged confession to
the police here last night. The vic
tims were his employers, members of
a promiennt law firm.
Calder said he went to Chicago, first
to attend the Frank Chance day cere
monies. Then he attended several
games in Detroit and Denver and since
his arrival in Los Angeles ten days
ago has attended every game here.
Calder will be taken to New York for
trial. He said his father is John H.
Calder, a woman’s suit manufacturer.
BY RALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, June 12.—The follow
ing po^toffice nominations were sent to
the senate today by President Wilson
for Georgia: A. .1. Lovelady, Ball
Grounds; John S. McKenzie, Comer; L.
F. Maxwell, Cornelia; Martha *E. Gor
ham, Crawfordsville; Alman G. Hocken-
hull, Cummins; Thomas K. Dunham, Da
rien; W. A. Talley, Milltown; John N.
King, Rochelle; Hattie F. Giler, Toccoa.;
Josephine Hilliard, Union Point.
(By Associated Press.)
PARIS, June 12.—A brother-in-law of
ex-President Diaz left for Mexico today
to discuss with the government there
the question of the return of the former
dictator.
General Porflrio Diaz, former president
of Mexico, recently received a delegation
of Mexican friends who had come to re
quest him to .return to Mxico to assist
by his counsel in the restoration of
tranquillity to that country.
The reply of the old dictator is said
to have been: “I Should be pleased to
return to reside in my country, but I
am determined not to participate in its
politics.”
E000 KILLED BY BUST
FROM SHIP'S BOILERS
Five Others Missing and Two
Hurt-Barge Boilers Ex
plode at Racine, Wis,
WORLD’S BEST
SHIP BEGINS
FIRST VOYAGE
(By Afiociated Pres*.)
HAMBURG, June 12.—The giant
steamship ImperatorPof the Hamburg-
American line, started from here on her
maiden trip to New York at 4 o’clock
this afternoon.
She started from an anchorage in tho
open roadstead. She is too big to lie at
the regular pier, and rooted up her spe
cial mooring in the recent gale.
RESCUES COW-GIRL AND
DISCOVERS HIS WIFE
“Buffalo Bill parades end in lovers’
meetings.”
If you don’t believe it ask Mr. and
Mrs. John R. Edwards, who separated
fifteen months ago in Boston and were
reunited in Atlanta Monday by a dra
matic meeting in the middle of Peach
tree street.
The story goes that following the
separation Edwards went to NiNcara-
gua. espoused the cause of the Revolu
tionists, fought through a dozen or so
battles, was wounded, and came home
with a corporal’s chevrons. His wife
in the meantime made use of her Bos
ton experience to get a job as “cow
girl” with the wild west show.
When the parade filed down Peach
tree street Monday, Mrs. Edwards’ sad
dle-girth happened to slip, she hap
pened to fall, a man from the side
walk happened to rush to her assist
ance and he happened to be Mr. Ed
wards. He caught her in his arms and
exclaimed “It’s Agnes V*
It was Agnes, it seems, and the at
tractions of Nicaragua and the lure of
the big canvas were both forgotten in
the joyful reunion which followed.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards wiU make their
future home in Atlanta, where he is
a stone-cutter.
JOKES WITH FRIENDS;
THEN SWALLOWS POISON
• Special Dispatch to The Journal)
CALHOUN, Ga., June 12.—Charlie
Guntz, a young man about twenty-five
years old, committed suicide this morn
ing about 8 o’clock at a local hotel by
taking poison. He was apparently
in the best of spirits and laughing and
talking with friends when last seen.
He left sealed letters to his father,
an undertaker and a young woman, and
an open letter to his friends advising
them that it was an act of his own
free will and accord. He was formerly
of Dalton, Ga. His parents now live
in Gainesville, Fla.
BOLT STRIKES GIRL,
PLAYING AT ORGAN
JACKSON, Ga., June 12—Miss Grace
Barnes, organist of the Macedonia Bap
tist church in the eastern section of
Butts county, was struck by lightning
and severely injured Sunday afternoon
while the Sunday school was in session.
Another lady who was at hjer side was
uninjured, although the bolt shattered
a plank beneath her feet.
The interior of the church was dam
aged from the holt which struck upon
the belfry. The church was completed
last year on the place where the first
house of worship was built in the coun
ty.
NORTH CAROLINA WILL
PROBE FREIGHT RATES
(By Associated Press.)
ASHEVILLE, N. C., June 12.—In re
sponse to a question from a Citizen rep-
xesentative. Governor Locke Craig who
has arrivel here for a month’s rest, de
clared that a special session of the leg
islature will be called to consider the
freight rate question as it affects this
state. He said:
“There will be a special session of the
legislature. That has been contemplated
ever since the last session of the gener
al assembly, and I will certainly take
any proper action that may be necessary
to secure for North Carolina fair treat
ment by the railroads.
“The people are determined that they
will no longer suffer the injustice to
which they have been subjected for
years in the matter of freight rates,
and I will do all in my power to aid
them in this contest. With fair treat
ment the cities and towns of North
Carolina would grow and prosper, and
we are going to have that treatment
before long.”
(By Associated Press.)
RACINE, Wis. (, June 12.—Four men
were killed, two hurt and five are miss
ing as a result of an explosion of boil
ers of the barge E. M. Peck here today,
according to the casualty list given out
by those in charge of the barge when
the explosion occurred.
The stern of the craft was blown
away and the barge is on fire.
First reports gave two men dead and
four badly injured. It was thought
however that other victims were aboard
the blazing boat.
The boiler was blown forty feet Into
the air and landed 200 feet astern of the
vessel*. The vessel was about to shift
her position and had cast off when the
accident occurred.
RECEIVERS ARE NAMED
FOR TOBACCO FIRMS
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GREENSBORO, N. C., June 12.—Tem
porary receivers for Robert Harris# &
Brother, tobacco manufacturers, and J.
H. Walker & Co., a milling concern, both
of Reidsville, N. C., were named today
by the federal court on petition of cred
itors.
They are cited to appear June 23 and
show cause why they should not be
declared bankrupt.
SECOND WEDDING PUTS
THIS MAN IN JAIL
(By Associated Press.)
MOBILE, Ala., June 12—John Fowler,
a local inventor whose first wife, pro
cured through an advertisement in a lo
cal newspaper a year ago, left him eigjit
days after the ceremony, took a second
venture into matrimony today. He mar
ried Mrs. Mary S. Maupin, where three
children, he said, would be surety for
her regular appearance at home. Hardly
had the fire on the new hearthstone been
lighted, when a police officer'stepped in
and arrested the bridegroom on a charge
of being a dangerous and suspicious
character.
The officer said the fire was too large
for such a warm evening. Mrs. Maupin
took Mr. Fowler as her third husband.
Mrs. Fowler says she married her first
husband 12 years ago in the house in
which President Wilson was born in
Staunton, Va.
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HARRISBURG. Pa.. June 12—More
than 22.000 applications have been filed
with the Gettysburg semi-centennial
celebration commission from Penn
sylvanians for transportation to the
historic town to participate in the four
days’ celebration beginning July 1.
About 1.300 Pennsplvanians who
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MISS PAINTER TAKES UP
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 12—Miss
Okie Painter, daughter of the million
aire fertilizer king who was drowned
in the St. Johns river on May 22; and
who carried $1,178,000 life insurance at
the time, was elected president of the
E. O. Painter Fertilizer company today
and the company voted a 10 per cent
dividend.
Cold at Quitman
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
QUITMAN, Ga., June 12.—Tempera
ture fell to 55 degrees today, breaking
all records for June. Steady rains
have fallen for forty-eight hours, which
will inflict some damage on all crops.
This is the first adverse weather condi
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the best crop years ever known here.
ALL THE WORLD COMING
TO AMERICA FOR SHOES
WASHINGTON, June 12.—All the
world is coming to the United States
for boots and shoes, according to the
bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce, which, in a statement today de
clares that about 100 countries and de
pendencies are buying that class of
merchandise here. It is estimated that
the sale abroad of boots and shoes in
the fiscal year ending this month will
total $20,000,000. In 1900 only $5,-
000,000 worth left the shores and in
1890 less than $1,000,000 worth. The
importation into the United States will
be only about $260,000.
LEAPS FROM HOSPITAL •
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SAVANNAH, Ga., June 1?.—Richard
Emory Davis, for thirty-live years a
member of the Savannah 'police force,
Monday leaped from the second-story
porch of the Savannah hospital, dying
an hour later from injuries sustained
in the fall. His skull was crushed.
He was a native of Hampton county,
S. C., and a veteran of the Civil war.
For a number of years he was sergeant
of police here.
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