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VOLUME XII.
ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913.
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Train No, 12 Goes Through
Trestle Weakened by Wash
out Into Pachita Creek, but
No One Is Killed
Proposal Does Not Bind U ,S,
to Nicaragua's Debts—Ob
tains Canal Control
\
(Special Dospatch to The Journal.)
4. CUTHBERT, Ga., July 21.—Crashing:
through a trestle weakened by wash
outs,- Central of Georgia train No. 12
fell into Pachita creek, five miles east
of here," last night, but no one was
killed.
A mail clerk by the name of Menden
hall is reported seriously injured and
minor injuries are reported sustained by
other members of the crew and several
passengers.
Every car left the track and part of
the train is submerged by the waters of
the creek, which was swollen under the
recent heavy rains.
The Pachita creek, which is about
half way between here and Shellman, 1*
ordinarily a small stream, but its swol
len condition of late hau weakened the
trestle to such an extent that ti was
unable to withstand the weight of the
train.
The washed out trestle is on the main
line connecting Montgomery, Ala, and
Macon. Ga.
CANDLER COUNTY BILL
GETS RECONSIDERATION
However, It Goes to Foot of
the Calendar and May Not
Come to Vote '
By a vote of 92 to 69 the house Mon
day morning adopted a motion to recon
sider its action of l^erc Thursday in
voting down the report of the commit
tee on constitutional amendments which
recommended the passage of the bill
providing for the creation of Candler
county.
Soon after the house convened Mon
day morning Representative Wohwender
who on Thursday moved the previous
Question on the committee report offered
a motion that the matter be reconsid
ered. He explained that in moving the
previous question he had not done so
^ with any intention of running the steam
BF . ( roller over the house and declared that
P he had no desire to prevent the oppo-
k nents o fthe bill being heard.
p Representatives Hardeman and Full-
* bright opposed reconsideration giving
ip thefr reasons that more than half the
session of the legislature had passed
without the enactment of any important
legislation. They held the several new
county propositions as responsible for
this condition of affairs.
Representatives Blackburn and Gower
took i^sue with these statements and
Insisted that the business of the house
was further advanced than it had been
at this period of the session during the
past fifteen years.
Although the Candler county bill gets
a reconsideration it may not reach a
vote at this session of the legislature,
for it has been placed at the foot of
the calendar. Its friends, however, will
make an effort to have it advanced on
the calendar.
Representative Moss made an unsuc
cessful effort to have the house recon
sider its action in passing the measure
providing for a commission consisting
of the governor and three other state
house officials to represent the state in
claims which citizens might bring
against the Tennessee Copper company,
of Ducktown, Tenn.
A large number of local bills were
Introduced in the house Monday.
Men Threatened
To Release Woman;
Dispersed By Shots
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DALTON, Ga., July 21.—Seemingly
Intent on a plan to break into the coun
ty jail last night, several men marched
solemnly around the building, mutter
ing threats about entering in spite of
the jailer.
Deputy Sheriff Thompson, who acts as
Jailer, was expecting his callers, for he
had a woman prisoner who had brought
embarrassment to the city several years
ago when several men “indignant” at her
being in the city lockup, broke in and
took her out.
r Deputy Thompson was determined
that the woman should remain in jail,
and after watching the men walk around
► for a while, he went onto the porch
pjQd shot several times. The remainder
of the night he spent unmolested.
HUDSON RIVER STEAMER
FORCED TO TAKE BEACH
(By Associated Press.)
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., July 21.—
Loaded with panic-stricken passengers,
the steamer Tremper was beached on
the west side of the Hudson river here
today with the water pouring through
. a big hole In her bottom, which she
received from running on a reef on
teeopue Island.
The boat had settled very low before
sie reached the mainland after an ex-
c«glng two-mile race.
HANKS ARRESTED FOR
MURDER OF BLANKS
» (By Associated Press.)
MIAMI, Fla., July 21.—W. Hanks, a
former county convict, is in jail charged
with having killed S. L. Blanks, a farm
er of Arch Creek, last night. Blanks is
said to have been choked to death. The
trouble is said to have begun when
Blanks, a town trustee, ordered Hanks
to leave the community.
Actor Kills Self
(By Associated Press.)
COLORADO SPRINGS. Col., July 21
—William Lashley, aged thirty, a
vaudeville actor, of Steubenville, O.,
* committed suicide yesterday by cutting
his throat. He was in poor health.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 21. — Strong
support has developed in the senate for
President Wilson’s new policy of pro
tection and supervision over Nicaragua.
An informal poll of the committee on
foreign relations today indicated that
the treaty proposed Saturday by Secre
tary Bryan will receive indorsement
with a safe margin of votes and come
into the senate with the backing of in
fluential members of both political par
ties
It became known definitely today that
the proposal does not bind the United
States to any obligation for the out
standing debts of Nicaragua The re
habilitation from the republic’s finances
is expected to come |ibout through the
stability that would be given to future
operations through the cpntrol to be ex
ercised by the United States
Nicaragua would agree to make no
debts in excess of her current re
sources, however, and the United States
would be given the right to intervene
with troops at any time to insure
Nicaraguan independence or to protect
life and property. Nicaragua would
agree to make no foreign treaties that
would threaten her Independence. The
United States would pay Nicaragua
$3,000,000 for an exclusive right to
build a canal route and for a naval base
in the Bay of Fonseca
"The proposed control by the United
States over the financial operations of
Nicaragua is virtually an enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine in advance,”
said one member of the senate foreign
relations committee today
Senators Hitchcock, Sutherland, Mark
Smith, O’Gorman and Stone expressed
approval of the general principal of the
proposal.
ATTITUDE OF BACON.
Chairman Bacon, of the foreign re
lation committee, who was strongly op
posed to the original Nicaraguan treaty,
said he believed the new proposal by
Secretary Bryan greatly changed the
situation and entitled the treaty to “the
most careful consideration.”
The proposed treaty will be attacked
in some quarters on the ground that
it would put a moral obligation on the
United States to see that Nicaragua
refunds and repays her old debts, even
though the treaty does not make this
country directly responsible for them.
Whatever the actual result may be,
the underlying purpose of the adminis
tration is framing the agreement with
Nicaragua was to secure the concession
for a canal route and the extension of
the Platt amendment was merely an
incident in the minds of the negotia
tors. This was developed in the course
of a conference between the president
and the White House correspondents to-’
day.
In the administration view, the scope
of the plan was not intended to be laid
down as a general policy for all Central
America, but the affairs of the little
republics are to be dealt with separately
as they may require attention.
The attiude of the administration, it
was said, is one of extreme friendli
nes and there is no disposition to force
upon them any such plan, unless it is
thoroughly acceptable.
In making this sort of an arrange
ment, the adrr nistration, it was stated,
was animated by a desire to look after
American interests, but only in a large
way; it was not the purpose to exploit
those countries. This statement was
taken to apply to the suggestion that
European governments may feel an in
terest in the new Nicaraguan proposi
tion, and wish to assure themselves that
the United States was not to acquire
any advantages over them in that quar
ter. The administration knows nothing
of the attitudes of the governments of
Costa Rica and Salvador, as no repre
sentations have yet been made.
NO CANVASS MADE.
The president himself does not know
how the proposition which he thorough
ly approves will be received by the sen
ate, having taken no steps to make a
canvass of Democratic sentiment.
“This is not dollar diplomacy; it is
good sense,” said Senator Lodge in gen
eral support of the plan.
Senator Borah, also a member of the
foreign reltions committee, attacked the
policy of the plan.
“This means the going up of the
American flag all the way to the Pana
ma canal,” he declared in a statement.
“It is the beginning of that policy,
whose irrefutable logic is complete dom
inance and control and ownership by
the United Statefe from here to the Pan
ama canal.”
“It is not exactly in accord with
either the conceptions of those who
formed the republic, or our own present
profession of what it ought to be.”
Now that Secretary Bryan's proposal
for a virtual protectorate over Nicara
gua has become public, state department
officials are expecting inquiries from
the ESuropean powers respecting its de
tails.
The suggestion that the plan be ex
tended to cover all territory near the
Panama canal zone has aroused keenest
interest in Latin-American circles with
some hints of opposition. Salvador re
cently made some objections to the
Nicaraguan treaty in its original form
and oCsta Rica more recently objected
to certain provisions relating to the
proposed canal route, but the latter were
based solely upon a claim for considera
tion in connection with the use of the
San Juan river, which Costa Rica claims
as her territory.
Europe’s interest, however, is chiefly
In the investments of her citizens in
enterprises ifnd securities of Latin-
America. An association representing
those interests has recently been sup
ported by the British, French and Ger
man governments, and very recently
Great Britain made a naval demonstra
tion against Guatemala to force pay
ment of.interest on bonds. The object
of European representations will be to
see that provision for guaranteeing
such obligations is made in any treaties
such as that proposed with Nicaragua.
CONFERENCE NEXT SATURDAY.
Secretary Bryan will confer on the
project with the senate foreign rela
tions committee next Saturday. His
plan is said to have the support of
President Wilson.
Assistant Secretary Osborne’s recent
visit to Santo Domingo and Haiti has
brought up the suggestion that the
system of American supervision of cus
toms collections which has been in
force for some time in Santo Domingo
might be extended to Haiti if that re
public Is responsive to overtures.
New Cabinet Notifies Euro
pean Powers It Will Stop
Fighting If Powers Can Stop
Servia and Greece
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, July 21.—The new Bulga
rian cabinet, under M. Radoslavoff,
formally notified the European powers
today of its readiness to order the ces
sation of hostilities immediately if the
powers can induce Servia and Greece to
take a similar course.
Serbs Would Exterminate
Entire Albanian Districts
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, July 21.—A private
message received by the Rev. Dr. Henry
Otis Dwight, secretary of the American
Bible society, from an American mis
sionary now making his way • from
Scutari into the devastated regions of
Albania, says that the Servians are en
gaged in what is their belief to be an
attempt to exterminate the population
of several of the Albanian districts.
Guards from the Servian army, the
message says, are patrolling territory
definitely assigned to Albania, at a dis
tance of as much as twenty-five miles
from the boundary, to prevent any one
getting out of or going into the region.
Thousands of refugees are in the moun
tains without shelter or food, ex
patriated and starving, feeding on roots,
grass, bark and twigs.
“I found near Leah,” said the mis
sionary, “and all the way from Scutari,
a great many villages burned, and few
fields planted. The country has been
ravaged by the Servians, by the Monte
negrins and by the Turkish army under
Essad Pasha, who thus punished the
inhabitants for refusing to help him
save Turkey. At Kroya we heard of
four women and forty-eight men who
had been wantonly hanged, shot or cut
to-pieces with swords by the Servians.”
THREE BROTHERS FIGHT;
ONE SHOT, ANOTHER HURT
John Ebberhardt Abuses
Father, Breaks Buster’s Rib
and Shoots Joe
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GAINESVILLE, Ga., July 21.—One
brother is near death from a gunshot
wound, another is in bed with a broken
rib, and a third is in jail, as the result
of a family row Saturday afternoon be
tween Joe, Buster and John Ebber
hardt.
John is said to have beaten Buster
with a stick, breaking a rib and other
wise bruising him, and was proceeding
to abuse his father, when Joe interfered.
John thereupon threatened Joe with a
shotgun, it is said, and Joe told him he
wouldn’t shoot.
John blazed away at a distance of
thirty yards with a load of No. 3 shot,
filling Joe’s breast and narrowly miss
ing his heart. Physicians say his
chances of recovery are slim.
The mother of the brothers died one
month ago.
SHOOTS SELF PLAYING ..
WITH RUSTY REVOLVER
(By Associated Press.)
HAMMOND, Ind.. July 21.—Drops of
didty water spattered about Mayor
John D. Smalley as he sat in a Chinese
restaurant here last night. Upon inves
tigation the mayor found Mrs. Frank
O’Ric kmopping the floor of the apart
ment above. She informed him that the
scrubbing was a part of a campaign of
several members of the Women’s Tem
perance union to oust the restaurant
with its mechanical piano and a saloon
next door. She asserted she bored
holes in the floors of her rooms and
that she mops them every night. She
said that thirty members of the temper
ance organization would assist her in
going over the floors tonight.
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Nashville Man Probably Fa
tally Wounded After He
Had Gone to Bed
(By Associated Press.) .
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 21.—G. M.
Parrish, twenty-two years old, a street
railway employe, was shot and probably
fatally wounded shortly after retiring
last night. The bullet entered behind
the left ear, struck the teeth and was
deflected into the brain.
According to statements of Parrish’s
wife he had gone to bed and while jok
ing with her picked up a rusty revolver
which way lying on a radiator. She said
she heard the shot and screamed when
she discovered her husband had been
wounded.
Seven Lives Between
i
"Last Man's Banquet"
Bottle of Champagne
(By Associated Press.)
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 21.—The “last
man’s banquet” will take place at Still
water, Minn., today. Eight men will at
tend, and twenty-three vacant dhairs,
draped in black, will be placed at the
table, on which will rest a chest con
taining a bottle of champagne.
Some day, when death has depleted
the veterans of Company B, First Min
nesota, to one man, this survivor will
attend the annual banquet and, after
calling the roll, he will drink to the
memory of his thirty-one comrades
who fought with him at Bull Run and
at Gettysburg.
The first banquet took place in 1886,
when Louis Hospes, father of one of
“the boys.” presented the champagne
on condition that the bottle remain un
opened until the “last man’s” banquet.
“That last banquet is going to be
more heart-rending than any of our
battlefield scenes,” said one of the vet
erans. “and none of us hopes to hear
j the cork pop.”
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Scores of
suffragist-laden automobiles are hasten
ing toward Washington bearing peti
tions to congress for a constitutional
amendment granting universal suffrage,
and by the end of this week, leaders of
the National Woman Suffrage associa
tion said today, these automobiles would
be numbered by the hundreds. The sen
ate and house are to be stormed by the
motoring women July 31.
Already a number of state parties
women are on their way here awheel.
An official announcement s&iys that dele
gations are now in road from Montana,
Tennessee, Virginia, New York, Massa
chusetts, Pennsylvania. New Jersey and
several other states. These early start
ers are speaking for the “cause” along
the way and swelling their lists of sig
natures to the petition to congress.
Extended preparations are being made
for the general receptions at Hyatts*
ville, Md., to the women pilgrfms. Mar
tin Williams, reading clerk of the house,
has volunteered to act as announcer as
the several state delegations arrive in
their cars. A large num'-er of senators
and representatives have promised to
serve on the reception committee, pro
vided public business will permit, and
there is to be music and other fea
tures.
She Mops Floor
Over "Chop Suey"
To Run Him Out
Stiff Fight With Bull
Put Up By Boy of 13
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GREENVILLE, S. C.. July 21.—News
reaches the city from Mauldin of the
serious injury to Shuman Clarie, a thir-
ten-year-old boy, resulting from an at
tack from a ferocious bull. When at
tacked the young boy put up a stiff
fight for several minutes with sticks and
rocks, but the mad bull soon got the
better of the combat.
Catching the lad on his horns he toss
ed him in the air, and when the injured
lad reached the ground the bull was
upon him again, goring him seriously in
the abdomen and side. A paserby saw
the boy’s plight and rendered quick
aid.
A physician was summoned as soon
as young Clarie could be carried home,
the boy’s wounds dressed and made as
comfortable as possible. The physician
says that while the boy is badly in
jured, he has hopes of his recovery.
FIVE NEGROES ESCAPE
FROM JAIL AT CAMILLA
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
THOM AS VILLE, Ga., July 21.—Of
ficers here and elsewhere are on the
lookout for five negro prisoners who
escaped from the jail at Camilla a few
days ago. The negroes managed to
make their escape by attacking a weak
place in the steel cell wh^re a former
attempt had been made and from there
digged their way through the brick
wall. The only instruments left behind
were a hoe and an iron rod, though it
is supposed they must have had other
tools to work on the steel. How they
secured tools for the purpose is a mys
tery to the officers in charge. All of
the prisoners were charged with misde
meanors except one, Joe Jenkins, who
was charged with criminal assault.
IE IS EXPLAINED
New York Financial Writer
Now Believes There Was
No Forgery
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, July 21.—Martin M.
Mulhall, former lobbyist for the Nation
al Association of Manufacturers, con
tinued his story today before the sen
ate investigating committee.
A letter from Thomas Gibson, a New
York financial writer, from whom David
Lamar testified he got information to
base his charge of an $82,000,000 forgery
on books of the Union Pacific railroad
was put in the record. Gibson wrote
he did not know Lamar, did not now
believe there was a forgery and was
sending out a retraction to his sub
scribers.
Paul D. Cravath, counsel for the rail
road, put In a letter from a firm of pub
lic accountants, explaining the apparent
discrepancies upon which Lamar based
his sensational charge. *
The late Representative Henry Loud-
enslager, of New Jersey, secretary of
the Republican campaign committee in
1908, seemed to have incurred Mulhall's
enmity. Mulhall wrote to Secretary
Schwedtman, of the manufacturers:
“I told this gentleman that the manu
facturers of this country were tired of
pin-head policies and pin-head poli
ticians, when I thought Mr. Louden-
slager offered an apology claiming that
he would be good from this time on,
but I plainly gave him to understand
that when Ire comes up for renomina
tion he would hear from our people.”
Mulhall did not fully explain why he
had fallen out with Loudenslager.
Schwedtman wrote Mulhall one letter:
“I do hope that when James E. Wat
son (of Indiana) gets in the governor’s
chair, he will lay a half dozen of his
good friends (?) over his knee and
spank them to beat the band, including
your special friend, Senator Beveridge.
I hate false friends more than I do the
worst enemies.”
Mulhall said all his accounts were
kept by an expert who accompanied him
in his trips, evidently his wife.
STOCKHOLDERS OF BANK
MUST PAY DEPOSITORS
Receivers of Old Bank of
Waycross Win Warm
Contest
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
WAYCROSS, Ga,, July 21.—By a de
cision just handed down by Judge W.
E. Thomas, receivers for the old Bank
of Waycros have won a warmly con
tested point on the question of payment
of stock subscriptions made shortly be
fore the bank closed in 1907.
In the disqualification of Judge T. A.
Parker, the case was heard by Judge
Paul E. Seabrook, who as auditor, found
in favor of the receivers and against
the stockholders.
Judge Thomas had entered judgment
against the stockholders and those who
have not paid will have to pay with
out delay. The new stockholders are
also liable for an asessment to pay off
depositors in full. Morgan V. Gress,
a prominent lumberman of Jacksonville,
is one of the parties who lost by the
court’s decision.
EXPERIMENT STATION ID
REMAIN AS HERETOFORE
House Committee Decides to
Vote Favorably on $5,000
Appropriation
Georgia’s experiment station, located
near Griffin, will not be removed to Ath
ens and consolidated with the State Col
lege of Agriculture—not within the next
two years, at any rate.
Members of the house appropriations
committee, yielding, to the 1 arguments of
the trustees of the 'station, have decided
to report favorably upon a special ap
propriation of $5,000 a ye*ar for 1913-14
for the maintenance of the station.
This will mean that the government’s
annual appropriation of $30,000 for sci
entific agricultural research work will
be available to the station.
Several days ago it appeared that the
appropriations committee would not
recommend the appropriation of $7,600
asked by the station trustees, the dispo-
01 }ou Sujaq Qatniuiuioo eu$ jo uonjs
favor any special appropriations that
were not absolutely necessary. When
this became i own a movement was
started to have the station consoli
dated wtih the state agricultural col
lege.
t The trustees, however, are opposed to
this amalgamation and have informed
the appropriations committee that by
the exercises of strict economy the sta
tion can be conducted on an appropria
tion of $5,000 from the state. A ma
jority of the members of the commit
tee appear to favor such an appropria
tion and a bill carrying this amount
probably will be reported to the house
during the present week.
No portion of the federal appropria
tion is available for maintaining the
station. The erection and repair of build
ings, and other expenses not incurred
in experimental wor*., must be paid for
by the state.
DAN HATFIELD IS TAKEN
PRISONER IN TENNESSEE
Reward Offers Were Just
About to Be increased When
He Was Caught
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DALTON. Ga., July 21.—-Sheriff T.
R. Glenn and deputies left here Sunday
in an automobile for Cleveland, Tenn.,
In response to a telegram notifying
him that Dan Hatfield, charged with
the murder of Will. Parrish in North
Dalton, had been apprehended by offi
cers of Bradley county.
Hatfield’s capture occurred a week
after Parirsh wag killed. There was a
reward of $50 for his apprehension, and
plans for increasing the reward were
pending when his capture occurred.
John and Tom Ntcodemus, both eye
witnesses, insist that Hatfield killed
Parrish in self defense; but both of
them are being held as accessories to
the crime.
Officials Declare Information
Is of Such Delicate and Im
portant Nature That It Can
not Be Published
Tprr
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(By Asaocl&ted Pros..)
WASHINGTON. July 21.—Alarming
reports of an approaching crisis lrt
Mexico have been received here by high
officials. It was stated today,
upon unimpeachable authority,,
that the developments of the coming
two weeks are regarded as fraught with
tremendous importance to the Huerta
government.
So delicate is the information they
contain that an intimation of the ad
vices became known today only with
the stipulation that it was unofficial,
and that it should not be repeated as
being the view of any official of the
United States government.
PUBLICATION WITHHELD.
Authoritative publication of the na
ture of the advices, it was said, prob
ably would precipitate the very crisis’
th 8 Qispatches forecast. The means
by which the predicted events were to
be brought to pass or what was to fol
low, were not hinted at in the reports,
which, so far, have found no reflection'
in military or naval preparations by tfie
United States.
Meanwhile the administration is
marking time on the Mexican problem,
pending the arrival of Ambassador Wil
son from Mexico City, which is ex
pected by Thursday or Friday.
President Wilson finds himself in the
same state of doubt as to actual con
ditions in the rebellion-torn republic as
he did When, in the hope of getting at
the facts, he summoned the American
ambassador to the capital.
He realizes that even the Americans
scattered throughout Mexico individual
ly are unable to get a comprehensive
view of the situation In the whole of
the country, their Judgment being af- ^
fected by purely local events.
MEXICO REPORTS ONE-SIDED.
From the Mexican capital come re
ports that have turned every engage
ment Into a federal victory and so far
the administration has heard absolute
ly nothing except through the press re
ports from the constitutional side of the
case.
This has led to an Intimation that
Information of reliable character from
thjt source would be welcome by the
administration. # I
At the request of Secretary Bryan.
Surgeon General Blue, of the public
health service, has ordered quarantine
officers at Havana and Key West to
expedite the passage of Ambassador
Wilson.
The suggestion from Consul Lespl-
nasse, at Frontera, Tebasco, that a
United States gunboat there would
quiet the fears of Americans who are
apprehensive because rebels have
threatened to attack that port and al
ready have occupied a few American-
owned plantations near the city, is be
ing considered, but no request has yet
been made to the navy department for
additional war craft in the Gulf of
Mexico.
RECEIVE FIRST CHECK ON
Y GIFT
Chancellor Makes Announce
ment to Show Episode of
Bishops' Veto Is at End
(By Associated Press.)
NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 21.—Chan
cellor J. H. Kirkland announced today
that a check for J200.000 of Andrew
Cernegie’s gift to the Vanderbilt uni
versity medical department had been re
ceived. This sum is for the erection of
laboratories.
The interest on the remainder is being
held by the Carnegie corporation for
the benefit of the medical school. The
announcement is made that so far as
the present board of trustees is con
cerned the episode of the bishops’ veto
of the Carnegie gift is at an end.
The governing board of the medical
school, appointed by the university
board of trust recently will meet in w.
tober.
POLICEMAN MURDERED
BY CHURCH BURGLARS
New York Officer Found Dead
Near Catholic Par
sonage
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, July 21.—John Cahill, a
policeman, was murdered' early today,
probably by burglars whom he sur
prised in an attempt to break into the
parsonage back of St. Matthews Catho
lic church in Brooklyn. The marks of
a burglar’s jimmy were found on the
door of the rectory. The thieve* were
supposed to be after a special contribu
tion taken yesterday at the church.
Bite of Big Rattler
Kills Hazlehurst Man
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
HAZLEHURST, Ga.. July 21.—Will
Morris died here at 10 o’clock Satur
day night from the bite of a rattlesnake
received during the afternoon in the
country ten miles east of this place.
Morris was chipping boxes when the
snake struck him. As the snake drew
back to strike a second time, Morris
killed it.
Mr. Morris is survived by a wife and
three children.
Jury on Sunday
Finds Man Guilty
Of Murder Charge
(By Associated Proas.)
SAVANNAH, Ga., July 21.——Henry
Johnson last night was found guilty
of the murder of Joe Grant, April 19.
He will be sentenced by Judge Charlton
this morning. The Jury had been de
liberating on the case forty-eight hours
and Judge Charlton permitted them to
return their verdict Sunday night In
order that they might be dismissed.
The crime for which Johnson was
convicted occurred near Burroughs,
April 19. at a dance. Johnson, who shot
and killed Grant with a shotgun, claim
ed Chat he shot In self-defense.