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VOLUME XIII.
ATLAMTA, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1913.
NO. 20.
Huerta Disappears Again,
Starts Rumor He Has Fled
Country, and Turns Up at a
Farm Near By
JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 1.—General
Francisco Villa’s advance army of 3,500
rebels, which is moving to attack Chi
huahua City, 22,5 miles south of Juarez,
today reached a point sixty-three miles
from the border. They were forced to
detrain there because of the destruc
tion of the railroad.
Preparations were made at once to
march overland ot the state capital.
Another train, carrying 1,000 rebels,
was made ready here for the journey
south*
General Villa said that before reach
ing Chihuahua he expected to be re
inforced by General Manuel Chao and
Juan Cortinas, who were reported ad
vancing from Torreon. Unless this
movement is intercepted, Villa hoped
to rally at least 7,000 men to attack the
' 5,000 federals said to be garrisoned in
the capital. The last reports from Chi
huahua City, which has been under siege
fcr two weeks, were that the cathedral
had beeen converted into a fort, breast
works of sand bags having been built
or the roof which overlooks the sur
rounding country. Entrenchments
manned by artillery guard the ap
proaches and loop holes have been cut
ii. the walls of many houses.
Advices say the federal governor has
commandeered all provisions in the city,
and these are being issued to civilians.
Rebel Victories Seem to
Please President Wilson
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1—President
Wilson observed to callers today that
the Mexican factions seemed to be run
ning things in an interesting way at
present and that no development was
contemplated so far as the United
fctates was concerned. His visitors be
lieved he had in mind the increasing
number of constitutionalist victories
and the rapidly diminishing zone of
control, of the Huerta government.
William Bayard Hale, who talked with
General Carranza and the constitution
alist chiefs at Nogales, returned here
early today and will see the president
late today or tomorrow.
Officially nothing was known at the
\White House concerning the visit of
Qucrido Moheno, the Mexican foreign
minister to Vera Cruz. He has not
j conferred with John Lind, according to
information here today.
The policy of the American govern
ment continues to be one of waiting.'
while the financial blockade weakens
. the resources of the Huerta regime and
1 the constitutionalists press forward
their vigorous campaign.
Huerta Vanishes Again, but
, Shows Up After Wild Rumors
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 1.—Provisional
• President Huerta, whose disappearance
from the federal capital gave rise to
many rumors today, returned this after
noon. He had been paying a visit to
a farm in the vicinity.
Picture Painted by
Raphael in 1505 Is
Bought by American
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Another of
Europe’s most highly prized treasures
of art is coming to America, according
to special cable advices, wffich say the
celebrated Cowper “Madonna and Child,”
by Raphael, has been purchased by
American dealers at a price above half
a million dollars. The painting is
known as the Cowper picture because it
was the chief treasure of the late Earl
Cowper’s collection at Panshanger,
Hertfordshire. England. It has lately
been in possession of Lord Desborougli.
One of the conditions under which
the famous picture was sold is said to
be that it should first be offered to the
British national gallery. This was done
a month ago, but the national gallery,
with its small annual grant, was irnable
to raise the high price asked.
The painting portrays tne virgin
wearing a red tunic cut square ever the
breast and a blue mantle. The child
has one foot resting on its mother’s left
hand with its arms around her neck.
The canva,s is of small dimensions, 23
bj 17 inches, but it has often been de
scribed as one of the most valuable in
the world. It was painted in 1505.
New Mexico Broke,
Is Unable to Pay
The State Official
CBy Associated Press.)
SANTA FE, N. Mex., Dec. 1.—For
the first time in thirteen years, the
commonwealth of New Mexico is un
able to pay in full the salaries of of
state officials and clerks of the various
departments. Today marked the end of
the- fiscal year, and salaries were paid
on seventy per cent basis, with no
assurances when the officials will re
ceive the remainder due, or, in fact, any
future salary, cecause of trouble arising
out of tax and assessment litigation,
which has brought about a financial
crisis i nthe state. Because of this
condition there are rumors of a special
legislative session. Governor McDon
ald is silent on the subject.
Auto Climbs Bridge;
Tumbles Into River;
Two Passengers Saved
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—Despite their
plunge of fifty, feet from an automobile
into the Chicago river last night Frank
Williams and Miss Mary Scheran will
recover, it was «aid today. Williams,
driving his car, reached the Division
street jack-knife bridge just as it began
to rise. He threw on full power. The
machine climbed the bridge leaf to the
top and fell into the river. Williams
and Miss Scheran ware rescued by a
crew of a passing fireboat.
More Than 100 Counties
Be Represented When Doors
Open at Capitol on Tuesday
Morning
Corn banked up on tables thickly cov
ering the entire tower floor of the state
capitol and paTT" f of the second floor,
with exhibits from twenty-eight girls’
canning clubs completely filling the
wing at the Washington street en
trance, is the interesting sight that
greeted visitors to the statehouse to
day.
The 3,000 corn club exhibits from
more than a hundred Georgia counties
are being put in place under the direc
tion of Chairman H. G. Hastings, of the
corn show committee of the Atlanta
chamber of commerce, and by night the
show will be ready for tomorrow’s
opening. Mr. Hastings has supplied a
special crew of his own men, in charge
of Roland L. Lyon, to place the exhib
its, and an attractive and advantageous
arrangement has been secured.
Reports to the chamber of commerce
from a hundred counties show that 94**
corn club boys are coming to Atlanta
Tuesday and Wednesday. It is esti
mated that approrimately 160 of these
will visit Atlanta relatives, leaving 784
to be provided for. Homes have already
been secured for 700 of these, and it
is anticipated that the returns of cards
from the high schools and from the
sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the
grammar schools will more than take
care of the surplus.
In addition to the features of the
program heretofore announced, there
will be special exercises in the hall of
the house of representatives at 10
o’clock Thursday morning, December 4,
for the visiting boys and girls. Presi
dent Wilmer L. Moore, of the Atlanta
chamber of commerce, will preside, and
interesting addresses will be delivered
by Chancellor David C. Barrow, of the
state university; J. Phil Campbell, rep
resenting the United States department
of agriculture; M. L. Britain, state su
perintendent of schools, and Dr. A. M.
Soule, president of state college of agri
culture, who will deliver the diplomas
from that institution to all the boys
who have a record this year of a hun
dred bushels or more. J. D. Price, com
missioner of agriculture, will addess
the boys at the Gand opea house Wed
nesday evening.
FREE PICTURE SHOWS.
Three of Atlanta's leading moving
picture shows have opened their doors
free of charge to the corn club boys
during their stay in the city. The boys
will be admitted on their corn club
buttons to the Vaudette, on Whitehall,
near Hunter street, at any hour of the
day, while they will be admitted on
their buttons to the Savoy and Alcazar,
on Peachtree street, between -the hours
of 10 and 1 o’clock.
A special bureau of information will
be established at the capitol, near the
Washington street entrance, and all the
corn club boys arriving in the city are
requested to report there. Cards of in
troduction to the hostesses who are to
entertain the boys will tie given to the
corn club agents and county school
superintendents in charge of them, and
information will be furnished as to the
street cars to be taken.
There are more th^n twice as many
exhibits by the girls’ canning clubs this
year than last. Miss Mary E. Creswell,
in charge of this work, is busy placing
exhibits from twenty-eight counties, each
representing a different club, while there
will be twenty individual exhibits made
by the girls who have done the best work
in their respective counties.
Probably the most remarkable showing
made by any of the girls this year is that
of Clyde Sullivan, of Ousley, Lowndes
county, fourteen years old. Little Miss
Sullivan cultivated her one-tenth of an
acre in tomatoes, from which she put up
more than 2,000 No. 2 cans, which she
sold to a turpentine commissary near her
home for $227. Her expenses were $96
in which she included her own time at
10 cents an hour, so that her net profit
after paying herself for her work, was
$131.
UNDAUNTED B DROUTH.
Undaunted by an early spring drouth,
Little Miss Sullivan carried bucket after
bucket of water every night for weeks
and poured it on her young tomato
plants, so that they -finally yielded her
a bountiful harvest. Her exhibit $or v the
state fair was so hurriedly prepared that
it was not in the best of shape when set
up in Macon. She noticed this and when
her exhibit came for the corn show,
every package was as neatly and care
fully prepared as if it had come from
a canning factory.
Another splendid showing is made by
Eron Dooly, 12 years old, of Oconee coun
ty, who put up this year 1,450 No. 3 cans
of tomatoes on which her profit was
more than $100, or nearly double what she
did last year.
One of the girls In Jenkins county,
whose name Miss Creswell could not re
call, picked all the worms off her toma
toes in the spring and sold them to fish
ermen as bait for enough to pay for all
the fertilizers she used.
There will be at least forty of the can
ning club girls here for the corn show,
and through the kindenss of A. L. Belle
Isle, provision has been made for them
to take part In Thursday’s parade. Seats
will be placed on his big truck, and they
will ride in the parade at the head of the
corn club boys.
Frank Harrell, lessee of the Winecoff
hotel, has nptified the chamber of com
merce that he will provide rooms at his
hotel for twenty of the Corn club boys
who will visit Atlanta during the show.
Birmingham Officials
Cut Their Own Pay to
Boom the City Budget
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 1.—The
city commission of Birmingham Satur
day established an unusual precedent by
recucing their own salaries in a general
slashing of operating expenses of the
city. This step was taken despite the
fact that the commissioners’ salaries are
fixed by the legislature and no reduction
can be legally made.
The three members of the board, James
Weatherby, George Ward and A. O.
Lane say that the reduction will be ef
fective by their making an annual appro
priation to the city equivalent to the re
duction desired. A total of about $1,000
was cut from the salaries of three.
ANOTHER WEDDING IN WASHINGTON SOON
STRICT MARRIAGE LAWS
WANTED BY METHODISTS
Child Labor, Women’s Styles,
Sunday Golf and Baseball
Strongly Condemned
BX REV. IOY WARWICK.
MACON, (5a., Dec. 1.—The committee
on temperance and other nforal reforms
made a report this morning which was
adopted by the South Georgia confer
ence. The report condemns “the or
ganized system of child slavery” and
“notes with shame the tow rank our
state takes in its statutory protection
of little children.”
The report condemns the lax marriage
laws of the day and calls for the en
actment of some law that will prevent
the marriage of people unfit to marry.
Sunday golfing, ball playing, card play
ing and Sunday dancing were spoken
against in vigorous language. Strong
language was also used against ‘‘the
importation of Parisian shame in the
way of feminine fashion.” It was said
that “some women bow down to and
worship modern styles which are neith
er decent or pretty.”
The report spoke of the progress of
the temperance and prohibition causes
and commended Commissioner W. J.
Harris for his stand against the em
ployment of ’drinking men in the pen
sion department.
A great many preachers in the South
Georgia conference voted against the
resolution offered by the temperance
committee in regard to women’s fash
ions. They thought that the conference
would be presuming to say anything
about how ladies should dress. One
minister who wore a Prince Albert coat
spoke in favor of the report, when an
other speaker said that his brother who
had just spoken was himself wearing a
“slit skirt,” and the same might be said
of all who wore Prince Albert coats.
The resolutions prevailed, but many who
do not approve of extreme styles felt
that the conference should leave the
whole matter alone. The motion pre
vailed by a small majority.
Spug Plan Spreading;
Work Will Be a Boon.
For Poor Old Father
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—The fight
against the useless giving of Christ
mas presents—not to give less but to
give discriminately and intelligently—is
spreading throughout the country with
the approach of the holidays. The
“spugs,” as the society for the preven
tion of useless giving has nicknamed
its members, are supplying copies of
membership cards and by-laws with
which to inaugurate branch societies in
various parts of the country.
Every spug must wear a membership
pin and pledge himself to aid in the
fight against the useless Christmas
presents. The cost of the pin is cover
ed. in the membership dues, which are
ten cents a year. Five hundred persons
enrolled in Washington in one day, ac
cording to reports received by the spugs
headquarters here.
WITH “UNLOADED” RIFLE
Body of Shooting Gallery Man
Brought From Piedmont,
Ala., to Atlanta
Friends of New York
Park Commissioner
Still Search for Him
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Friends of
Park Commissioner Charles B. Stover,
who disappeared October 15, are begin
ning almost to despair of finding him
alive. Nevertheless, the widespread
search for him will be pressed vigorous
ly. The moving pictures taken of him
some time before his disappearance,
and the exhibition of which it is hoped
will aid in finding him, are being shown
in theaters throughout the country. It
is estimated the pictures were seen by
15,000,000 persons yesterday in more
than 10,000 moving picture houses.
Some one/among the’ millions of specta
tors, it m hoped, may recognize the
missing commissioner.
Accidentally sho+. through the temple
by Miss Pearl Hawes, a prominent
young woman of Piedmont, Ala., Rob
ert C. Moore, manager of a shooting
gallery there operated by the May
Olympic Carnival company was rushed
to Atlanta for medical attention only
to die en route. The body was taken to
Bloomfield’s undertaking establishment
by E. J. Janz, manager of the carnival
company.
According to tong distance advices
from Piedmont, Miss Hawes visited the
shooting gallery shortly before 5 o’clock
and was aiming one of the twenty-two
caliber target rifles that was supposed
to have been unloaded. As she pulled
the trigger, Moore is said to have step
ped directly in ffont of the barrel, re
ceiving the bullet in his temple. He
dropped to the ground as if instantly
killed.
Bystanders and attaches of the car
nival company picked the wounded man
up and reached the depot just in time
to catch the 5:30 train for Atlanta.
Moore died without regaining conscious
ness.
Moore is thought to have relatives in
Thomaston, Ga.. but efforts made last
night by Mr. Bloomfield to locate any
of them failed. He was apparently
about forty-five years of age.
Janz said that he would call and
make disposition of the body this morn
ing at 9 o’clock.
Miss Hawes was not taken in cus
tody. The coroner left Anniston for
Piedmont late Saturday evening to in
vestigate the circumstances of the acci
dent.
No Christmas Tree
Ship in Chicago's
Port This Season
(By Associated Press.)
CHICAGO, Dec. 1.—No Christmas
tree ship will be brought into Chicago
this year by members of the Schoene-
mann family. Last year Captain Her
man Schoenemann and his crew of twelve
went down in Lake Michigan while
bringing their Christmas tree harvest
to market here.
His widow, Mrs. Barbara Schoenemann,
and her daughters are carrying on his
work and had intended to bring another
Christmas tree ship into port this year,
but the storms of two weeks ago
changed their plans and this year’s
harvest will be brought to Chicago by
rail. The widow, who has superintended
a gang of men cutting trees in northern
Michigan, returned for Thanksgiving and
declared she would not tempt fate.
“If we had sailed from Manintique at
the time we had first planned, our fate
would have been the same as that of
my husband and his crew last winter,”
she said.
Barrels of Oysters
Dumped Into Ocean
For Lack of Shuckers
UNCLE SAM WILL NEED
SI ,103,681,777 IN 1019
Departments Submit to Con
gress Estimates of Expenses
for Fiscal Year
(By AiqocUted Press.)
W A SI J ING'yON, Dec. 1.—Congress
will have to appropriate just $1,108,-
681,777 to operate the government of
the United States during the fiscal year
1915, according to estimates prepared
by each department and sent to the
house today by Secretary McAdoo, of
the treasury.
With this vast sum the government
will maintain the battleships and forts
and the armies in the states and in the
countries that border the seven seas; It
will keep the scales of justice balanced;
endeavor to retain the friendship of
foreign nations; took after domestic
prosperity and seek at intervals to dis
cover new ways in which to better
health, improve living conditions and
investigate the merits of the thousand
ne^r things in industry and commerce
that come to its attention.
ESTIMATES FOR YEAR.
The estimates submitted today are
$22,864,067 in excess of the appropria
tions for the last fiscal year, but their
total falls $39,256,066 below the esti
mates lor that year. The estimates are
as follows:
Postofflce department, including the
parcel post, $306,953,117.
Legislative establishments, $7,533,331.
Executive establishment. $30,809,268.
Judicial establishment, $1,242,110.
Department of agriculture, $19,061,-
332.
Foreign intercourse, $4,447,042.
Military establishment, $105,937,544.
Naval establishment, $139,831,953.
Indian affairs, $10,208,865.
.Pensions, $169,150,000.
Public works, $97,917,592.
Miscellaneous, $84,393,213.
Permanent annual appropriations,
$131,196,407.
More Than 4,000 Prize Birds
on Exhibition This Week,
Prize Winners From All the
Breeders Are There
NO REST FOR WEARY
Both Houses Begin Sixty-Third
Session Without Intermission
and Settle Down to Grind of
Routine Work .
The Southern International Poultry
show opened today at noon in the audi
torium-armory.
Chanticleer’s voice soars as high and
proud as Caruso’s erstwhile songs; a
solemn duck in Tosc ini’s place is
leader and director of the cackling chor
us, while the boxes and arena, throng
ed not tong since with Atlanta society,
are now occupied by the :.ristocracy of
chickendom, the “beauty and chivalry”
of every poultry fancier’s barnyard
south of the Potomac rnd east of the
Mississippi.
The chickens have a right ot be proud
—for they are the ne plus ultra of
their kind. Many of tl.em make annual
trips to Europe, and have articles writ
ten about them in fourteen languages,
including the Scandinavian. Others
have their photographs in the paper as
often as the candidate for council, and
best of all the public pays money to
come and look at them.
The officers of the Southern Interna
tional Poultry association predict the
most interesting week in the history of
southern fancying. Over 4,000 birds are
disposed already in the main hall and
in Taft hall of the auditorium-armory.
In addition to the bird6 which are com
peting for the many prizes, scores of
other world-famous prize winners are
in the show for exhibition purposes
only.
Even for the person who takes no
technical interest in poultry fancying
or the different breeds of birds, there
are exhibits that will interest him keen
ly. Children's pets, doves, rabbits,
guinea pigs and the like are exhibited
in abundance. Besides there are num
erous freaks, including the strange
fowl that is a cross between the guinea
and the ordinary hen.
The tickets for the poultry show went
on sale at 9 o’clock Monday morning,
at the auditorium-armory door, and will
continue on sale there throughout the
week. They are 10 cents. The show,
which is the big annual southern event,
and which unites the leading poultry
fanciers of this section, will continue
through Saturday. It will be open to
the public day and night. It is estimat
ed that fully 75,000 people will visit the
show during the week.
The judging of the birds will begin
Tuesday morning. On Thursday there
will be a meeting ot the officers and
directors to make plans for the 1914
show.
The officers of the association are:
President, Will V. dimmer; vice presi
dent, J. M. Karwisch; secretary and
treasurer, T. M. Poole.
The executive committee is composed
of Loring Brown, chairman; T. M.
Poole, T. P. Hunnicutt, John S. Mc-
Creight, J. M. Karwisch, Will V. Zim
mer, W. S. Thomson and O. O. Ray.
Five Bridal Parties
Joined in Wedlock
With One Ceremony
WATERBURY, Conn., Dec. 1.—Five
bridal parties stood within the altar
rail in the Church of Our Lady of
Lourdes this morning and the one cere- j
mony completed five marriages, the
grooms responding in unioson, “We do/’ j
as the pastor asked:
“Do you take these women for your ;
lawful wives?”
Six couples were married at one cere
mony at the s'ame altar rail last night.
Methodist Preacher
At Macon Conference
Is Burglar's Victim
(Special Dispatch to The journal.)
MACON, Ga-, Dec. 1.—Burglars in Ma
con are no respectors of person as can
be attested to by Rev. W. A. Brooks, of
Blackshear, a Methodist minister, who is
here attending the south Georgia confer
ence. The home of C. D. McCowen, 765
Mulberry street, where he was visiting
was entered by robbers and among the
loot, taken was $30 in money belonging to
Rev. Mr. Brooks.
A small iron safe containing two gold
watches, deeds to Mr. McCowen’s home,
insurance policies and other valuable pa
pers also were carried off by the crook
but everything was recovered except the
two watches. The small safe was found
broken open, containing nothing but the
papers, a short distance from the home.
Besides $30 in money, a new overcoat
and a small savings bank were stolen.
The burglar, declare the police, was a
professional second-story worker, as he
climbed the lattice work in the rear of
the house until he reached a second-sto
ry window in order to enter the house.
For the past six weeks, not less than
two score of burglaries have been re
ported. Only this week five burglaries
was reported from Cherokee Heights in
as many hours, but the police are unable
to land the vandals.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 1.—A new ses
sion of congress—the second in Presi
dent Wilson's administration—began at
noon today.
Vice President Marshall, as the noon
hour arrived, declared the old session
adjourned "without day," and in the
next breath announced that congress
had assembled "in accordance with the
constitution.’’
A widespread demand for tickets far
the house gallery for tomorow’s ses
sion indicated the Interest that centers
about President Wilson's reappearance
at the capitol to deliver a presidential
address. The president will read his
first general message to congress at a
joint session of the two houses at 1
o’clock tomorow and it is expected he
will touch upon many of the problems
to be taken up at the new session.
The senate practically merged the old
session into the new one. Democratic
leaders were prepared to push Ole cur
rency bill forward as the chief busi
ness and to hold the senate in daily
sessions from 10 o’clock in the morning
until 11 o’clock at night until it 1s dis
posed of.
Meanwhile the house will start work
upon the great appropriation bills car
rying more than $1,000,000,000 of funds
for the needs of the government during
the year that begins next July.
White House Couple
Dodge Crowd at Dock
And Sail for Europe
*'\ EW „ YORK, Dec. 1.—The elusive
White House bridal pair—Mr. and Mrs.
Francis B. Sayre—avoiding the gaily
decorated gangway and hunting bedecked
pathway arranged for them, slipped
quietly on the liner George Washington
through the second cabin today and
sailed away for Europe on their honey
moon. A great crowd that gathered on
the decks at Hoboken was keenly dis
appointed at not seeing them and even
President Wilson did not know of his
daughter’s and son-in-law’s arrival on
the ship until he found them in their
cabin five hours before sailing time.
Mr. Wilson, accompanied by Miss
Eleanore Wilson and Dr. Cary T. Gray
son, reach d the boat half an hour before
the George Washington was due to qtart
The ship’s officers stood at attention as'
he came on deck and the band played
the Star Spangled Banner. Thfe crowd
cheered. There was a wait of 15 min
utes for the Sayres. Nobody seemed to
know ujhere they were. The captain of
the liner was growing nervous. Finally
the president entered the suite assigned
to the pair and to his surprise there they
were with a few friends and many Dow
ers. The band struck up Mendelssohn's
wedding march as the hawsers were cast
off.
Among the fioral pieces presented to
Mr. and Mrs. Sayre was a cluster of
American beauty roses, presented by a
committee r presenting the Hoboken Bet
ter Carriers on behalf of all letter car
riers in the United States.
High Price of Eggs
Results in Boycott
By Chicago Women
CHICAGO, December 1 -Representative
of women's clubs and of the wholesale
egg dealers of this city met today to
discuss the price of eggs, which, the
women declare, has attained an artifi
cial altitude.
‘‘Eggs, strictly fresh,” are selling at
45 and 46 cents a dozen and the women
of ninety-six clubs of Chicago have
pledged themselves to boycott them until
the price drops to 32 cents. What the
outcome of the conference, which was
sought by the wholesalers, would be,
could not be predicted. One of the ship
pers charged v „th inflating the price is
quoted as threatening to ask an injunc
tion against the boycott while among
the women there was talk of seeking the
assistance of the United States district
attorney.
Unidentified Man Tries
To Hang Himself from
Bridge in East Rome
Eye Worth $6,000 Says
Federal Judge's Ruling
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 1.—An
eye is worth $6,000, according to a
jury in the federal court in the case
of J. R. Oliphant against the Casey-
Hedges company, of this city. The de
fendant alleged that he tost his right
eye as the result of an accident while
pouring metal. The jury returned a
verdict of $6,000.
FAIRFAX HARRISON IS
SUCCESSOR OF FINLEY
(By Associated Press.)
MOBILE, Ala., Dec. 1.—Many bar
rels of oysters were thrown into the
sea yesterday at Alabama and Missis
sippi coast points where canning fac
tories are located, owing to the fact that
the canning plants have been forced to
close because of a scarcity of shuckers
and unskilled laborers. Bohemians by
the tralnload are brought south every
winter, principally from Baltimore, but
factory representatives have been unable
to secure only about a dozen families
this year. Unusually warm weather
has spoiled practically all the supply of
oysters brought in for canning during
the past week.
President of Chicago, Indian
apolis and Louisville Road
Heads Southern
I
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.—Fairfax Harri
son, president of the Chicago, Indianapo
lis and Louisville Railroad company,
was today elected president of the
Southern Railway company to succeed
the late W. W. Finley. Mr. Harrison
was also elected president of the Ala
bama Great Southern, the Mobile and
Ohio and the Virginia Southwestern
railway.
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ROME, Ga., Dec. 1.—An unidenti
fied man with a rope around his neck
tied to the East Rome bridge across
the Etowah river, leaped from the span
tonight with suicidal intent. Under the
glare of an electric light, his actions
wer enoticed by pedestrians who ran to
the spot and dislodged his body from
the framework of the bridge in which
it had caught before it reached the
rope’s end. He tried to cut the rope
as he was being pulled toward the top,
but was unsuccessful.
He was carried to a local sanitarium
where he was unconscious late tonight,
being still unidentified. Parties are
dragging the river for his suit case
which he threw over the bridge ahead of
him in hope of finding papers of iden
tification.
He is about fifty years of age and is
eblieved to have reached Rome in the
early night from Atlanta-
Pavlowa's Costumes
Taken on $7,400 Claim
CLEVELAND, Ohio., Dec. 1.—A writ
of attachment was served this after
noon upon Pavlowa, Russian dancer, at
a local theater, and scenery and cos
tumes were seized by a deputy sheriff.
The attachment was made on behalf of
Ben H. Atwell, of New York, on a
claim of $7,400. Bond was furnished.
The hearing will be held the coming
week.
Picks Wife From More
Than 400 Applicants
Who Wanted to Wed
NEW YORK. Dec. 1 —Ernest W.
Darrow, a contracting mason, ot P&tch-
ogue, L. I., celebrated this Thanksgiving
day by taking his pick of more than
400 women who had offered to be his
life-mate. Darrow had been advertis
ing for a wife since last May and the
several hundred applicants not only be
sieged him by letter, by telegraph an<J
telephone, but many visited him in per
son.
It was learned today that Miss Julia
Stagg, an English girl who landed In
Canada from England nine months ago
and went to live In Brooklyn, had won
and the couple will be married late this
afternoon. According to the terms of
his advertisement Darrow, who an
nounced that he made $50 a week and
that he had four motherless children,
will turn over four-fifths of his weekly
salary for the support of his wife and
children and household expenses.
Rain Brings Relief to
Smoky Chattanooga
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 1.—
After a drouth of twenty days, a light
rain fell here this afternoon, material
ly clearing the atmosphere, which has
been dense with smoke as the result
of forest fires upon Lookout mountain
and the ridges surrounding the city,
general discomfiture has resulted, espe
cially to the eyes.
Gen, Villa Accepts Offer
EL PASO. Tex., Nov. 29.—General
Francisco Villa tonight accepted an of
fer of the American Red Cross to care
for the 222 wounded rebel and federal
soldiers in the Juarez hospitals. The
El Paso chapter of the society took
charge.