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VGLUME XIII.
ATLANTA, GA. TUESDAY,-NOVEMBER 11, 1913.
NO. 14.
STITE Hi DEFENSE SHin mutinous cm
REQUEST DEUIY IN »™»«
man ms hick
Attorneys Call at- Supreme
Court and Ask That the Case
Be Put on January Instead
of December Calendar
The supreme court of Georgia Mon-
lay- flatly denieti what amounted to a
Joint request of the state and the de
fense to postpone the argument in the
Leo M. '^rank case until the January
enn of the court.
“The rule of the court cannot be
aried,” the clerk told the attorneys
after the judges of the state's highest
court had held a conference, “and if
the papers reach the court by Decem
ber 1 the argument will be set for
about December 15.“
Another development of Monday in
, the famous criminal case was the state-
_ ment of many attorneys that after Jjm
Conley is allowed to enter his plea
Tuesday to the indictment charging
him with being an accessory after the
fact of Mary Phagan’s murder he can
never be tried for the girl’s murder.
Although at present it is believed Con
ley will be arraigned Tuesday, it is
possible that his arraignment may Spe
postponed to later in the week.
While there has been little probabil-
• ity of Conley’s facing a murder charge
since the emphatic statement of So
licitor Hugh M. Dorsey that the negro
would never be tried for the capital
crime while he was in office, friends
of Frank have always insisted that
Conley w*as guilty. With the accept-
v/ill enter a plea of guilty for him,
however, all possibility of his ever
going on trial for his life is eliminated.
CONLEY TO PLEAD GUILTY.
Conley’s attorney, William M. Smith,
will enter a plea of guilty for him Tues-
and it will then be up to the court
to decide whether Conley should be sen
tenced for a felony or a misdemeanor.
The maximum penalty which he can
receive, even if sentenced for a felony,
, will be three years. The maximum sen
tence in all misdemeanor cases is one
year. Wl^lle the solicitor will not dis
cuss this phase of the case, criminal
attorneys of the opinion that Conley
. will be- sentenced for a misdemeanor.
The matter will probably be left large-
If. to the solicitor to decide, as in cases
where a plea of guilty is taken the
‘ court is generally governed by the state
ments made by the prosecuting attor
ney.
It was definitely learned Monday that
Attorneys Luther Z. Rosser and Reuben
R. Arnold, who represent Frank, will
make no move to block the trial, or
rather the plea of Coqjey. The attor-
~ffeytfY&r Frank, while tr iey have chareefl
before Judge Roan that Conley is guilty
of murder, do not represent the state or
the defendant, so they will take no part
i n the proceedings.
COlfRT DECISION SURPRISES.
The action of the supreme court in
denying the application to postpone the
Prank case caused considerable sur
prise.
Monday morning Attorneys Rosser and
Vrnold called upon the solicitor and
asked if he would consent to a motion
io postpone the argument in the* case
until the January term of the supreme
court. He did consent and sent his as
sistant, E. A. Stephens, to the capitol
with the Frank attorneys to make the
•’ equest of the supreme court.
The judges heard the plea informally
in chambers. The attorneys for the de
fense stated that on account of the ex
tremely voluminous record In the case
and the fact that both of them will be
engaged most of the time in the lower
courts during the next few weeks, that
hey would like a postponement
The assistant solicitor stated that Mr.
horsey will be engaged in the criminal
iivision of the superior court continu
ously until Christmas. Ho explained
that the criminal docket is extremely
ongested and that the jail is filled with
prisoners waiting trial.
Revenue Cutter Takes Charge
of Manga Reva After Revolt
on High Seas
—
(By Associated Press.)
LEWES, Del., Nov. 10.—An armed-
guard from the United States revenue
cutter Onondaga was today placed
aboard the American four-masted bark
Manga Reva, the crew of the latter hav
ing mutinied on the high seas.
The Manga Reva sailed from Phila
delphia a month ago for San Francisco
with a cargo of coal. When several
hundred miles at sea the crew of twen
ty-eight men mutined; tied the captain
and mate in their berths and took pos
session of the ship. Subsequently the
officers were released to navigate the
ship after a promise had been extracted
that the mutineers would be returned
io the Delaware cape.
A wireless message from the com
mander of the Ononuaga recommended
that the bark with the crew aboard be
towed back to Phiiaueipnia, witn the
armed guard ot United States sailors in
charge, and this will prooauiy be uone.
The little marine reporting station
lie re was thrown into a state of excite
ment yesterday when word came that a
ship with mutiny aboard was coming
in. A letter trom Captain H. C. Town
send, of the Manga .Keva, cajne ashore
conveying the intormation about the mu
tiny and asking immediate assistance.
The Onondaga was picked up by wire
less and came alongside the Manga Keva
about daylight this morning.
It was stated when the bark sailed
that her crew of twenty-eight men
comprised so many different nationali
ties that scarcely two of them spoke
the same language.
ATTACKED BY SAVAGES.
The Manga Reva formerly was the
British bark Pyrennet and was built on
the Clyde in 1891. In 1900, while bound
from Rangoon to Newcastle, New South
Wales, she struck the island of Manga
Reva, for which she later was named,
a low lying coral reef in the south
Pacific.
When the vessel struck, the natives,
many of whom never had seen a white
man, showed a warlike disposition and
the crew was kept below while the sav
ages threw poisoned speaks at them.
Finally the supply of spears became ex
hausted and the crew with a half dozen
rifles went ashore and captured sev
eral of the natives, who were responsi
ble for the injury of some of the crew
For months the thirty-three survivors
of the crew lived on the island without
being molested, subsisting mainly on
cocoanuts and birds’ eggs, tlie only
edibles to be found there. All hands
finally were rescued by a passing sail
ing vessel and brought to ‘Sarr* Fran
cisco.
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4100 APPLICANTS FOR
AAALONE IS COLLECTOR
FOR PORT OF NEW YORK
(By Associated Press.;
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Announce
ment was made at the White House to
day that the nomination of Dudley Field
Malone to be collector of customs at
New York would be sent to the senate
during the day.
Mr. Malone is now third assistant sec
retary of state and fought Tammany
ticket In the last campaign. He 16 a
son-in-law of Senator O’Gorman.
Mr. Malone’s nomination was sent to
the senate shortly after noon.
Everybody Wants to Help
Uncle Sam Collect Income
Tax, bat- PFaoes A-re Scarce
.WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Applications
from persons who .want to help the treas
ury department collect the $100,000,000 it
hopes 4.0 raise through the Income tax
are flowing Into the office of Commission
er of Internal Revenue Osborn at the
rate of 100 a day. Since the tariff bill
with the tax provision in it was signed
by the president more than 4,000 applica
tions have been received and they still
are pouring in.
Deputy collectors, agents and minor
employes to be appointed to collect the
millions amout in number only to abou*
400, so it is probable that more than nine
applicants in ten will be disappointed.
Plans Under Way for Fair Next
Year to Be Even Greater
----- Than-One Just dosed- -
Two Girls to Run
A Farm in Texas
Rayal Joy Riders Get
Rebuke From Press;
Prince Kills a Girl
BERLIN, Nov. 10.—The speed witn
which royal personages run their motor
cars in Germany has given rise to in
dignation on the part of the Mongen
Post, which calls attention to the fact
that the royal automoones have caused
five fatal accidents within a short time.
Bast week a car in which a son of Prince.
Friedrich Leopold was riding ran over
and killed a girl in Potsdam. The Post
asserts that the royal cars have become
'a perfect terror in the streets, owing
to their reckless pace,’’ and demands
that such machines shall in future be
subject to the rules governing ordinary
traffic.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 10.—Two
college girls, both teachers, have turned
farmers ’and have bought a tract of
land near town. They will do all the
work themselves, from feeding the
chickens to plowing.
Miss Christine Schott, of Galveston,
an instructor in the high school here,
and Miss C. L. Biglow, who has been
teaching at Ann Arbor, Mich., recently
decided they preferred a farmer’s life.
The ycoing women are athletic. Last
summer they paddled a canoe for 100
miles on the Hudson river.
DALTON‘COTTON RECEIPTS
ARE BIGGEST IN HISTORY
^Special Dispatch to Trie Journal.)
DALTON, Ga., Nov. 10.—Dalton is shar
ing in the prosperity of the south, for
local merchants unhesitatingly state that
never before have business conditions
been so good. The fall trade is far bet
ter than it has been during the past de
cade.
They attribute this to the success of
their extensive advertising campaign
which has brought cotton to Dalton.
Farmers in adjoining counties have
brought their cotton here, and indica
tions point to the biggest cotton receipts
In history here, in spite of the short crop.
Already about 7,500 bales have been re
ceived, and the season is far from over.
Dalton has already received more cotton
than was brought here during the entire
season of last year, and predictions are
made that over 10,000 bales will be receiv
ed before the season closes.
Just before the' season opened, the
merchants raised a fund of $750. and this
has been spent in judicious advertising,
vhich has brought results exceeding
l heir hopes.
LONDON’S LORD MAYOR
INSTALLED WITH POMP
LONDON, Nov. 10.—Sir T. Van Slttart
Bowster was today installed lord mayor
of the city of London, with all the sol
emnity and display that ancient custom
commands. The oath was administered
by the new lord chief justice, Sir Rufus
Isaacs.
The “lord mayor’s show” was a repro
duction , of the show of just 800 years
ago. It was called the “Triumph of
Time,” and included a number of curious
old floats and detachments of soldiers
and sailors in uniforms of the period of
Waterloo and Trafalgar.
The civic authorities of the lord mayor
of the city of London extends over a res
ident population of less than 20,000, the
greater part of the teritorp of the city-
proper being covered with warehouses
and business offices. London has twenty-
eight other borroughs, each with its own
mayor.
Fifty Widows in
This Town of 500
REPUBLIC, Ohio. Now 10.—This
prosperous village has a population
•of 500 and many industries, all of
which are thriving, with a single ex
ception—that of matchmaking. Figures
show that Republic’s home owners un
provided with life partners include: Fif
ty widows, twenty widowers, fourteen
bachelors and eighteen spinsters, of
assorted ages.
GROW RICH ON LUMBER
IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—“Become a
Philippine lumber king,” is the burden
of an invitation extended today by the
bureau of insular affairs of the war de
partment to bidders, who, if successful,
must show a certified checl^ for at
least $50,000 before thew can go to the
islands and secure timber royalty. The
government has 95,000 acres of timber
containing approximately two billion
board feet of lumber, which it is anx
ious to have cut down and marketed.
It is willing to grant a twenty-year
concession to bring about this result.
“In the four principal types of forest
embraced in the area,” says the bureau
officials,” much valuable material can be
secured from even the least desirable
type, and the most valuable type will,
according to figures of the bureau, pro
vide a handsome profit for an outlay
comparatively small in relation to the
value of the timber, which is to be ex
ploited.”
The prospectus declares the area “pre
sents ideal logging conditions” and
points out that China and Japan afford
markets for practically all the lumber
produced.
JUDGE SPEER’S HEARING.
SET FAR NEXT JANUARY
Lived Often Before,
She'Tells Friends
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
LAGRANGE, Ga., Nov. 10.—-The larg
est undertaking ever put over in La-
Grange came to a successful close Sat
urday night when the gates of the Troup
county fair were locked and the affair
became a part of the history of the
town. Between fifteen and twenty
thousand people went through the gates
during the four days of the fair and the
company will show a profit of two or
three thousand dollars.
Already plans are under w&y for the
holding next year of a minature expo
sition the like ef which has never be
fore been attempted in Georgia outside
of the exposition held some 3 r ears ago
in Atlanta. The present main building
a portion of which was turned over this
year to the women, will be given entirely
next year to the woman’s department
and several other buildings erected.
During the entire progress of the
work of preparing for the fair and in
its conduct not one bit of friction oc
curred between those in charge, a con
dition unusual in such affairs. To the
executive committee, composed of A.
H. Thompson, W. S. Davis, C. N. Pike,
Eli R. Callaway and H. W. Caldwell. The
president of the fair company was des
perately ill and the heaviest part of
the work fell on W. S. Davis, chairman
of the board of directors and J. D. Hud
son, the vice president, who practically
deserted their own business in order to
make the fair a complete success.
Illness of Macon Jurist Causes
Delay in Trial of Charges
Brought A-gainst Him
SOUTH NORWALK, Conn., Nov. 10.—
Mrs. S. Sv Raymond, a school teacher of
New Canaan, has astonished her friends
with tales of several previous exist
ences. In one case she recites the de
tails of her death, when, as a child of
four, she plunged down the cellar stairs ,
of her home in Rowayton.
“The truth dawned on me,” says Mrs.
Raymond, “when I was driving with my !
husband to a house and said that I had j
lived there in a previous existence. He j
was skeptical, and I told him how I, as :
a maid in the household of the minis-,
ter who then lived there, was sent out!
at night, and. being molested by some |
men, had hid behind a fir tree in the •
hack yard, I never seen the place before,
but Mr. Raymond went around in back
and found the stump of the fir tree, just:
as T said.”
BEILESS IS ACQUITTED
IN GREAT-RUSSIAN CASE
(By Associated Press.)
KIEV, Russia, Nov. 10.—Mendel Bei
liss, charged with the murder of An
drew Yushinsky, as a religious sacrifice,
was acquitted by the jury today.
The trial of Mendel Beiliss, a Russian
of the Hebrew faith, for the alleged
murder for purposes of “blood ritual”
of Andrew Y’ushinsky, a Christian lad,
began on October 8. The case caused
ari immense sensation, which stirred the
whole oU Russia. The mutilated body
of the boy was discovered on March 25.
1911, in a cave on a suburb holding out
side Kiev.
Beiliss w&s shortly afterward arersted
and charged with the murder and was
kept in close confinement till the trial.
Extensive precautions were taken by
the authorities to prevent threatened
outrages by members of a society of
anti-semite Russians known as the Black
Hundred.
Cures Ankle by
Running From Bees
MARYVILLE. Ohio, Nov. 10.—Thir
ty-one years to the day. after he had
crippled his ankle, William Kurtz, farm
er. fell while running from bumble bees
and gave the ankle a twist. The an
kle was cured.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Hearing of
witnesses in the investigation of charges
of official misconduct against United
States Judge jlfreer, of Georgia, will
commence on January 19 next. This de
cision was reached by the house sub
committee on the judiciary today.
Taking of testimony originally was
scheduled to begin November 1, but the
illness of Judge Speer led the committee
to postpone action until today, when It
was agreed that a date should be set.
Representatives of the jurist said today
that it was believed he would be able
to appear before the committee by the
middle of next January.
The first testimony probably will be
taken at Macon, Ga., Judge Speer’s home,
for the convenience of himself and of
other witnesses.
Sulzer's Family Bible,
> Heirloom Since 1660,
Is Exhibit in Library
ALBANY. N. Y., Nov. 10.—Visitors
to the state library are finding there
an old folio Bible, on the fly leaf of
which is written “This grand old Bible
has been in the Sulzer family for more
than 300 years. It was willed to Gov
ernor Sulzer by his grandfather. At
the request of friends, it was loaned to
the New York state library.
(Signed) “WILLIAM SULZER.*’
The age of the Bible is not exactly
correct, as the date of its publication
at Amsterdam is given on the title
page as 1660—253 years ago—but it is
an interesting relic, having recorded, in
it vital statistics concerning the Sulzer
family brought down to recent date,
with the entry of the manage of Wil
liam Sulzer to Clara B. Rodelheim, Jan
uary 7, 1908, and the following as its
latest record:
“January 1, 1913, William Sulzer be
came governor of the' state of New
York.”
BRITISH 0FICIALS DENY
MONEY WAS GIVEN HUERTA
LONDON. Nov. 10.—Walter H. Page.
United States ambasasdor at London,
presented to the English foreign office
today another message from President
Wilson, the general effect of which is
that under no circumstances will the
president recognize Provincial President
Huerta or any of his acts.*
President Wilson’s message is regard
ed here as in the nature of an interim
report not calling for a reply. Great
Britain therefore awaits a more defi
nite pronouncement from President Wil
son setting forth precisely the steps he
purposes to take to enforce his policy
before sending a formal reply.
British officials are inclined to resent
what they term the persistent misrep-
j resentation of Great Britain’s attitude
'current in the United States. They deny
that any British money has been ad
vanced to support Provincial President
Huerta.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Senator
Hitchcock today attacked the proposal
to take the currency question into a
Democratic caucus. He is one Demo
crat on the banking committee standing
out against the administration bill. In
a statement of his position on the floor
of the senate here today, he declared
he would not yield his convictions “to
meet the views of the president of the
United States.”
Mr. Hitchcock spoke after the com
mittee had worked in vain all morning
to reconcile "conflicting views. He said
the deadlock was duo to his declining
to change his view of fundamentals of
the administration bill.
“I would not permit myself to be
bound by the decisions of a secret
caucus on an important matter of
legislation like tills,” declared Mr.
Hitchcock. * “I am assured by several
senators that they are equally opposed
to a secret legislative proceeding. The
senate is the proper place to discuss
this bill.”
The senator concluded by suggest
ing that the senate might order a re
port in a certain time or discharge the
committee.
A caucus, which could neither report
the bill nor compel the committee to
do so, he declared, would result only in
delay. Reviewing the senate commit
tee's amendments to the bill, Mr.
Hitchcock spoke of “outside influences”
brought on the committee when Its
members were told the president could
not accept the decision of -the majority.
Kills a Robber
With Her Hatpin
CHICAGO, Ill., Nov. 10.—In a death
bed confession in a hospital here, John
Niemitz, a robber, said that the woilnds
which caused the blood poisoning of
which he later died, were inflicted by
Mrs. Josephine Karmecinsk, whom ue
had attacked.
Mrs. Karmecinsk, according to Nie-
mitz’s confession, stabbed him several
times in the face and body when he
had commanded her to give him her
pocketbook and had sprung at her. She
weighs nearly 200 pounds and is six
feet tall, while Niemitz was only k
feet 6 inches tall and slight In build.
She mastered her assailant easily, and
while she had him In her grasp, thrust
the hatpin in his body.
RED MEN OF GEORGIA
FO MEEF IN ATLANTA
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
GRIFFIN, Ga., Nov. 10.r-The Red Men
of Georgia are going to have a “booster”
meeting in Atlanta on the 8th of next
month, at which time they expect to
“take the scalp” of more than 1,000. At
that time £he Great Incohonee of the or
der, Carl Foster, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
will be in Atlanta, and Red Men from
all over the state will go up to the cap
ital city to meet him and witness the
conferring of degrees on the new mem
bers. Great Chief of Records M. J. Dan
iel, of Griffin, has prepared a letter to
the various tribes throughout the state
urging them to be properly represented
at the Atlanta meeting.
LOUISIANA CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION IS IN SESSION
(By Associated Press.)
BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 10.—The
Louisiana state constitutional conven
tion, called for the purpose of refund
ing the $11,108,000, “baby bonds” due
next* January, assembled at the state
capitol today and began deliberations.
It is believed short term notes will toe
authorized, to be followed later by
longer term notes when the money
market becomes easier. After this
convention finishes its labor an extra
session of the state legislaure will be
called to ratify its action.
Eugenic “Bridegroom"
Jilts Hundred Women
DENVER, Colo., Nov. 10.—M. D.
Bowen, of Denver, the only prospective
eugenic bridegroom who had volun
teered his services to the state board
of health and who was held up as a
possible husband to more than 100 wom
en from all parts of the United States,
has backed out. One hundred women,
all of whom say they are comely, of
good figure and in perfect health, have
been given the cold shoulder by one
mere man.
H. 3. EXPECTED TO
REPUDIATE ACTS OF
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Huerta’s Intention to Recog
nize Law-Making Body Re
garded as Inconsistent by
Washington Officials
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10—Recogni
tion of the Mexican constitutionalist*
and the removal of the embargo on
arms to the revolutionists is not con
templated by President Wilson at the
present time. He made this clear to
day in talks with callers.
A copy of Huerta’s note to the dip
lomats was received by the state de
partment today from Mr. O’Shaughnes-
sy. Secretary Bryan would not com
ment on it further than to say last
night’s dispatches from Mexico City
described it accurately.
Informal comment on Huerta’s state
ment, however, emphasizes that while
the elections of the president and vice
president were to be declared null and
void. Huerta Intended to consider the
election of congress valid. By the
Washington government that is re
garded as an inconsistency of which
foreign nations must take cognizance
and the impression prevailed that the
repudiation of all acts of the new con
gress would be forthcoming by the
United States.
FOREIGN POWERS ADVISED. f
The president made it plain that for
eign governments had been fully ad
vised, within the last week of the steps
taken by the United States to bring
about peace in Mexico, but that the
future policy of nis government was
dependent on developments.
Discussing the Mexican situation
with rewspaper men, the president
spoke especially against reports repre
senting the situation* as more seriou*
than it really was. Sensational reports,
the president pointed out, bad embar
rassed the task of the administration,
especially when these reports predicted
mo es In advance of action by the ad
ministration.
The first squadron, four troops, of.
the Fifteenth cavalry, commanded by
Colonel Joseph Garrard, left Fort
M * r, Va., today by train for Fort
Bliss, Tex., to relieve the Third squad
ron of the Fifth cavalry patrolling the
Mexican border. The movement Is in
accordance with orders issued a month
ago.
Two squadrons of the Fifteenth cav
alry at .Fort Sheridan, I1L,. And Fort
l^eavenworth, ,ftan., are to relieve tbs
other two squadrons of the Fifth cav
alry on the border and the Second cav
alry is to be relieved by the Tenth cav-
already now at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.
Orders have not been issued for the
transfer of the Second and Fifth cav
alry to their northern and eastern sta
tions.
LAST WORD NOT SAID.
One official familiar with the ex
changes with Huerta said today the
latest representations from Washington
were not such as to place President Wil
son in the attiude of having said the
last word if Huerta declined to abdi
cate. It was said the language of
the last representations did not'directly
call on Huerta to resign, but made it
clear that if he had the good of Mex
ico at heart and really desired that
some government In Mexico City be .
recognized by the United States, ho
would retire from the situation. The
communication is also said to have in
dicated to Huerta that if he remained
in power the United States would repu
diate all his powers as well as the
new congress.
Chairman Bacon, of the senate for
eign relations committee, who called ar.
the White House early today, said this
government would proceed cautiously,
but with the same fixed purpose.
An unofficial statement was Issued
by Charge Algara, of the Mexican em
bassy, stating that on November 20 next
“the legislative power assumed by Pres
ident Huerta will be reinstated and the
new congress will pass on the result of
the presidential feleclion.”
ATTITUDE OF HUERTA.
“The dispatches received by Senor Al
gara,” says the statement, “and signed
by Foreign Minister Moheno, it may be
assumed, represent the attitude of
President Huerta and indicate the na
ture of his reply to the inquiry of the
government of the United States re
garding his purposes in view of the
recent presidential elections.
“As the public realizes the recent
election was imperfect, and should the
Mexican congress so decide In Its wis
dom, the government wfll call a new
election In constitutional form. The.gov-
ernment will proceed with Its purpose
to pacify the nation as the imperative
condition to a legal and valid election.
The confidence Is expressed by my gov
ernment that no obstacle will be Inter
posed to complicate the situation or dis
turb the end Resigned of a valid choice
of president.”
In Boys Clothes, She
Flees From Convent
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Nov. 7.—The
police are sadly hampered in their
search for Emmeline Thomas, the six-1
een-year-old granddaughter of former
Governor BiSseil, of Illinois, by the
aHure to learn any facts of her early
Jfe. The girl ran away from a con
vent about a week ago. She had just had
her hair cut short and it is believed she
doned boys' clothes for her escapade.
Motor man Thrown Off
His Car and Killed
(By Associated Press. - '
SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 10.—While
turning a cur%’e on a street car at a
rapid rate at 1 o’clock this morning.
Henry K. Jackson, a motorman em
ployed by the Savannah Electric com
pany, was thrown to the pavement,
sustaining a fractured skull, from
which he died a few minutfete later.
SOLDIER KILLS HIMSELF
WHILE GUARDING CULPRIT
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Nov. 10.—While
guarding a prisoner at the navy yard
yesterday, private Thomas Johnson, of
the United States marine, shot and killed
himself.
The prisoner was placed in irons on
suspicion of having done the shooting,
but the board of inquiry summoned at
once by Major Thorpe, commandant ot
the prison, cleared him.
Johnson was escorting the prisoner to
a spring for water and while the pris
oner’s back was turned, shot himseli
with a revolver.
GROOM WILL NOT SEE BRIDE
UNTIL AFTER THE CEREMONY
BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 10.—To marry
a woman he has never seen, and whose
face he will not look upon until after
two wedding ceremonies have united
them, Dr. Francis W. Hartley, obtained
license here. His bride to be is Mrs.
Marion C. Arnett a widow, of Phila
delphia, Pa. Their wedding will follow
a romance begun when a friend of Dr.
Hartley introduced him to Mrs. Arnett
over the long distance telephone. The
doctor began a courtship by telephone
and mail. It was Mrs. Arnett’s wish that
they meet face to face, when she said
“Yes” to the long-distance proposal, but
Dr. Hartley insisted that they jpot see
each other until the day of the ceremo
ny and that she should not allow him
to see her face until after the wedding
In accordance with his wishes she will
wear a heavy veil from the time she
arrives in Baltimore until after the
second ceremony. Hartley insists on
two services, because his real name Is
James H. Hellyer, he having assumed
the name of Hartley because that was
the name of his foster father.
Dr. Hartley, who is fifty-six years
old, says that he does not wish to see
the face of his bride until afte.r the
cererffony because their wedding ha?
been planned by Providence.
BANKS OF ALABAMA
MAKE FINE RECORDS
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 10.—
Twenty-one banks with a combined capi
tal of $657,000 were organized and not
a single financial institution in Ala
bama failed during the fiscal year end
ing October 1, according to a report on
the examination of the state banking de
partment which was submitted to Gov
ernor O’Neal by J. T. Gorman, examiner
of public accounts, Saturday.
Dog Mothers Pigs and Puppies
SIDNEY, O., Nov. 10—A Scotch collie
that is mothering seven of her own pup
pies and four small pigs, is owned by
J. M. Thompson. The dog is eight
years old. The seven little pups came in
September. Three weeks later a sow,
owned by Thompson, gave birth to ten
pigs. The mother of the pigs died and
Mr. Thompson tried method, but when
six of them died he put the remaining
four with the puppies to raise the moth
erless pigs by the battle and all are
now doing well. P
Mother Finds Lost
Daughter in Dream
SYRACUSE, N. Y., Nov. 10.—A dreanr
so vivid that it led a mother to travel
nearly 1,000 miles came true with the
reunion of Mrs. Marian A. Dexter, ot
Chicago, and her daughter, Alice G,
Dexter, for whom she had been search
ing for fifteen years.
Mrs. Dexter, in Chicago dreamed that
she found her daughter living with the
family of James S. Slocum, in Moravia,
N. Y. Mrs. Dexter was so impressed
that she journeyed to Moravia and found
the dream true.
Fifteen years ago Miss Dexter’s par
ents decided to separate *at. Boston,
Mass. Mrs. Dexter at once went West,
moving recently to Chicago. She had
lost all trace # of her daughter. Mr.
Dexter died in New York a year ago.
The daughter, who is'a painter, had*
been visiting tbe Slocum family for a
week.
Find Girl's Head
On Engine Pilot
SEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio. Nov.
L0.—Lillian Myers and Charles A. Mil
ler were killed when struck by a freight
train at a grade crossing. The crew
knew nothing bf the accident until the
train reached Midvale, Ohio, where the
girl’s head was found on the engine pl-j
lot.