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VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1913. NO. 8ft ■■■ ran mis BOW HEW TO ifHI mu. SIDES ODDER TOOCE WITH CREEK IT COTHBERT 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. vmr Y'GdNMA, DO AdOOT THAT- 5AM ? vjhat'h 'i’oo d ° flfcour- TH£ r r 0 Old L-AO^ y P idi> CR $/ ft TIT FOR TAT PILGRIM SUFFRAGETTES EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON On July 31 They 1 Congress With for the Ballot ill "Storm" Petitions 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 fci. i (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.