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VOLUME xm.
ATLANTA, GA,,, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1913.
NO. 24.
LEO MK'S LIFE
Reuben Arnold and Solicitor
General Have Tilt Over
Charge of Misstatements in
Frank Case Briefs
When the state supreme court ad
journed its session Monday afternoon
at 1 o’clock half of the time which the
ccurt had agreed to give to arguments
for and against the appeal of Leo M.
Frank had been consumed. Attorney
Reuben R. Arnold, for the defense, con
cluded his arguments at 11:40 o’clock,
having spoken two ..ours and forty
minutes. Solicitor H. M. Dorsey, for
the state, followed Mr. Arnold, and
when adjournment was taken he had
spoken' one hour and twenty minutes.
will resume when court opens Tues
day morning at 9 o’clock, and will be
followed by Attorney General Thomas
S. Felder, for the state. Attorney
Luther Z. Rosser, for the defense, will
make the closing arguments. The hear
ing will most likely continue until 1
j’clock, the hour for adjournment, Tues
day afternoon.
In his argument Attorney Arnold laid
particular stress upon the contention op
he defense that the conviction of
(Trank was brought about by the inf
luence of the mob spirit which -per
vaded the courtroom during Frank’s
:iial. ’ He charged that the solicitor had
wisted and distorted every little cir-
mmstance into an alleged proof of
Crank’s guilt, and had included in his
Arguments, to the jury assertions which
' jvere not based on fact or evidence.
“This man's conviction,” declared Mr.
Arnold, “was brought about by innuendo
uid trumped-up charges.”
SAYS JUDGE ROAN ERRED.
Judge Roan s refusal to declare a mis-
rial following the alleged demon^tra-
:ions in the courtroom was attacked as
irror by Mr. Arnold, and his failure to
. sustain the motion for a new trial was
tlso declared to have been, an error.
Solicitor Dorsey at the outset of his.
irgument charged that the brief of ar
gument submitted by the attorneys for
he defense contained numerous glaring
nisstatements of fact, and announced
hat he later would ask permission of
he court to submit a supplemental
orief calling attention to these mis
statements. Mr. Dorsey declare^ the
iefense wad obsessed with the idea
};4.t..t,he state had done something
vrongk and irregular in gathering and
presenting its evidence. He insisted
hat the ststte had proven that Frank’s
Uaracter w^s bad and that it had
offered ^sufficient circumstantial evidence
n addition to the direct evidence of the
legro Jim Conley to justify Frank’s
conviction on the charge of having
nurdered Mary Phagan.
At 9 o’clock Justices Beverly D.
Ivans, S. C. Atkinson and H. W. Hill
r.tered the court and mounted the
bench. Justice Evans presided. He
called the case of Frank, plaintiff in
• error, vs. the state.
Attorney Arnold, of counsel for Leo
M. Frank, arose and asked the court
for an extension of the usual time of
argument, two hours, allowed each side.
Just/ice Evans answered that f the
court was U hear 200 cases during the
next sixty days, and was to decide that
many more; and that, therefore, it could
.not yield unduly to the Frank case.
Mr. Arnold argued that the lower
courts had spent much time on the case,
and it could not possibly be reviewed
within too narrow lirr tations in the
supreme court.
The justices conferred a moment and
announced they would extend the time
.of argument by gachj side to four hours,
‘with the request that no more time
than was absolutely necessary within
the limit bo used. This means tnat if
the lawyers take all the time allowed
them 4iey will not finish before 1
o'clock Tuesday. >
Fewer Doctors Ahead:
Medical Schools and
Students Decreasing
(By Associated, Press.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—A gradual
but steady decrease in the number of
medical schools In the United States is
indicated in a report compiled by the
federal bureau of education. There also
in 1913 was a considerable decrease in
both the number, of students attending
these schools and the number of grad
uates.
The figures show that theer were
10, fewer schools, 1,200 fewer students
and a decrease of 600 in the number of
graduates in 1913 as compared with
1912. Although the number of students
has decreased the number of women
studying medicine showed an increase
last year. Of the 18,451 students in
1912, 712 were women, while in 1913
there were 355 women among 17,238 stu
dents. Only 70 women graduated this
year as compared with 142 In 1912.
Deduction In the number of medical
schools is part of a general movement
inaugurated some years ago for the im
provement of these .institutions. En
trance requirements and courses of
study have been materially raised in
practically all states.
NEW TRIAL PLEAS FOR
NICK WILBURN ARE MADE
IS LEFT TO
FEDERALS BY REBELS;
FOREIGNERS-UNHURT
Battle Over, Attacking Force
Withdrawn and Water Sup
ply Shut Off by Retreating
Consitutionalists
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Latest mes
sages from Admiral Fletcher concerning
the Tampico sitqation were summarized
in the following statement' by the navy
department:
“A dispatch from Admiral Fletcher on
board the Tacoma dated 3 p. m., Satur
day, December 13, advised that the con
stitutionalists have shut off the water
supply of the city..
“At 10 p. nj. he advised that H. M. S.
Hermione was in the river carrying the
flag of Rear Admiral Cradock.
“Writing at noon on Sunday, Decem
ber 14, Admiral Fletcher advises that
conditions have not changed and that the
Ward liner Morro Castle has arrived.
There is a north wind blowing and until
the weather moderates it will not be pos
sible to transfer refugees to take steam
er. He advises that the constitutionalists
have withdrawn from the immediate vi
cinity of Tampico.
“At la. m., December 15, Admiral
Fletcher advises that conditions have not
changed since he sent his last dispatch.
Firing had ceased this morning in the
vicinity of Tampico, the rebels having
retired evidently to avoid the continuous
cannonade of the federal gunboats, says
the report sent to Vera Cruz, by wireless
today from Rear Admiral Frank F.
Fletcher. The distance to which the reb
els had withdrawn was not stated.
Military men regard it as probable that
the'rebels discontinued firing on the out
skirts of Tampico pending the arrival of
artillery from Victoria.
The only foreigner mentioned in R$ar
Admiral Fletcher’s dispatches as hav
ing been injured is Edward Finlay, who
was shot in the ankle, but is being
cared for inthe hospital in Tampico, and,
is reported to be doing well. ^
Practically all the foriegners* were
out in the harbor several miles from
the. scene of the fighting, some aboard
the German and English ships, but the
greatest number on the American bat
tleships Rhode Island, Virginia and New
Jersey. The American army transport
Sumner and the American liner Morro
Castle were due to arrive at Tampico
toda, to take away any refugees who
desired to go. The official nummer of
refugees aboard ^.the American battle
ships will be given at the navy depart
ment tonight as 195 men and 166 women
and 146 children.
Barber Shop Lotions
Are Held Responsible
For Eye Weakness
(By Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The New York
committee on the prevention of blind
ness sounds an alarm today by the re
port that more than half of the cases
of eye weakness among men of this
city may be traced to barber shops. It
is alleged that bay rum and other lo
tions used in some shops contain wood
Alcohol and that the inhalation of the
fumes or drops of the liquid in the
eyes cause serious trouble. There is
already a law prohibiting the use of
such lotions, but the committee on
blindness has found it to be rarely en
forced. The aid of the inspectors of
the health department has been sum
moned in the crusade to be waged for
enforcement of the laws.
Several barbers and proprietors of
barber supply concerns were summoned
for arraignment on such charges in the
court of special sessions today follow
ing two convictions for similar offenses
obtained last week.
IE
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Dec . 15.—With an
overwhelming majority in its favor, the
Burnett immigration bill, including a
literacy test such as was Vetoed by
President Taft, was ordered reported to
day by the house immigration commit
tee.
The committee cleared up its differ
ences relating to militant suffragists,
advocates of sabotage and forms of vio
lences, by adopting an amendment which
provides for the deportation of “any
alien who at any time within three
years after entry snail be found: in the
the United States advocating or teach
ing the unlawful destruction of prop
erty or advocating or teach the over
throw of organized government or the
assassination of any public official."
That, it was agreed, would include
advocates of sabotage, anarchists or
militant suffragists who might advocate
destruction of property.
/
MADISON, Ga., Dec. 15.—*Motion for a
new trial for Nick Wilburn, convicted
in the Jones county superior court sev
eral weeks ago for murder of James
King, will be argued before Judge J. B.
Park heer today. Wilburn is confined
in Bibb county jail.
In the argument for new trial, At
torney John R. Cooper will stress three
important points. First, that one juror
who convicted Wilburn was a relative
"of the dead man; second, that Wilburn
was forced to give evidence against him
self in that Judge Park admitted in
evidence his confession, and that his
trial was unfair through the refusal of
Judge Park to grant a change of venue.
Great Crowds Fight
To Obtain View of
Famous “Mona Lisa”
FLORENCE, Italy, Dee. 15.-—So great
is the crowd, striving to obtain a view
of Da Vinci’s paintin, “Mona Lisa,” au
thorities have been obliged to remove
many of the busts and statues from
the Uffizi gallery to prevent them be
ing broken in the struggle to get near
the picture.
In four hours more than 30,000 per
sons viewed the Leonards masterpiece.
When order was partly restored 125
visitors on the average were admitted
eevry minute.
Resentment is vigorously expressed in
many quarters at the action of the Ital
ian government in returning the picture
to France.
A close examination of the painting
disclosed a slight abrasion on the cheek
and .a scratch on ’ the left shoulder,
which were received while the picture
was In the hands of Vincenze Perugia,
The Famous White House Mint Bed Has Been Removed ---By Webster
illicit,'
r:
FOR SATIRE AT FEAST
Carabao Club Holds High
Jinks and Indulges in Roasts
of /Government’s Philippine
Policy '
PISTOL FAILURE SAVES
LIFE OF
GOAL YARD
i
One Safe of Randall Bros.
Blown Open and Robbed,
Burglar Makes Attempt oi>
Other Plant
OF CHANGES IN CABINET
NEW YORK, Dec. 15 —The stlamer
Christobal, operated by a government
season for rumors of changes in the ^famship company between New York
Wlfson cabinet has opened auspiciously? laden with the 'first of the big guns to
(Special Dispat9h to The Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The winter
The premiere of the season was that
Secretary of Agriculture Houston was
on the toboggan and would be out of the
cabinet inside of another year.
Why those writers who make a spe
cialty of prognosticating cabinet resig
nations should pick on Houston is not
explainable, except it be the fact that
Houston has drawn fire from Ohio con
gressmen by reason of his refusal to re
ceive a boys’ corn club from the Buck
eye state. Mr. Houston’s friends admit
he made a tactical error in not receiving
the boys, but it was an error of the mind
and not of the heart. At the puresent
writing there is as much chance ot
Houston leaving the cabinet as there is
of Woodrow Wilson appointing James
Smith, Jr. f as his successor.
Of course, it rumors came true, Attor
ney General McReynolds would have
been out of the cabinet long ago. But
he Is still there. He has grown in the
esteem of President Wilson and he is al
most as good a politiciari in handling
people as he is a practitioner before the
supreme court. The great complaint
against McReynolds last spring was that!
he didn’t know the art of handling men.:
He has learned a lot since then.
BIO SONS TO PANAMA;
ILL
be s^nt to the isthmus for the fortifica
tion of the canal. She carried fourteen
large mortars, whose carriages are al
ready in place at the,Atlantic and Pa
cific entrances 9f the canal. Within two
weeks the guns will be mounted and
ready for use. A detachment of coast
artillerymen sailed with the guns to
day. |
The largest gun in the Panama forti
fications will be a sixteen-inch rifle,
which will be installed at the Pacific en
trance. It will be carried by the Chris
tobal on her next trip, about the mid
dle of January.
In addition to the forts at the en
trances of the canal, inland defenses
will be constructed along the shores
of the canal. The headquarters for the
army, navy and marine corps on the
isthmus will be at the Pacific entrance
of the canal, but several posts will
b£ maintained elsewhere, including the
Atlantic entrance, the locks, probably
at some point along Culebra cut and at
Gatun dam.
I Stole for ItalyV'
Says Man Defending
Theft of “Mona Lisa”
Old Court Sinecure,
King’s Pipe Filler,
Still in Existence
LONDON.—There is still existing a
courtous court sinecure which is heredi
tary to a family by the name of Har
rison that of king’s pipe-filler. This
strange office was created by Charles II,
who acquired the habit of pipe smoking,
employed a page at a salary of $500 a
year to perform the task, like a Ger
man ITaus-frau for her husband, of
filling his pipes. In a moment of gen
erosity the merrie monarch signed a
royal decree creating the pipe-filler a
permanent court official. Until 1765 the
office was hereditary to the dukes of
Grafton, after which it passed to a
merchant named Harrison.
On the accession of Queen Victoria
the job naturally became a sinecure, bu*
the holder retains to this day the priv
ilege of entering the royal presence at
any hour of the day.
Dr. Taft’s Beauty Hints;
Or How toGet a Figger;
He Takes Off 70 Pounds
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—A smile more
cheerful than any of his friends of
longest standing could recall bespread
the face of William Howard Taft today
when he stood on a scale platform, slid
the marks along and saw the scale
[beam tip at 271 pounds and eight ounces
or a drop of sixty-nine ounces from
his weight when he left tjie White
House last March.
Prof. Taft later told how he reduced
his weight. Avoid quacks who give dan
gerous advice, he said, and get compe
tent medical advice. lie had to eschew
potatoes and all starchy foods, fatty
fish, pastry, and was allowed to use
only amounts of sugar. Lean roast
beef and mutton was permitted also
vegetables that contained little starch
or sugar.
,“I am morel alert mentally and physi
cally than aver before,” he said. “I
can do moral It te a greater joy to
live. When Jr left the presidency I was
about on th|l verge of nervous prostra
tion. I weKrhed 341 pounds. I wasn’t
happy. Thin I took up my course of
treatment Jand here Is the result. I’m
hard as nails. I can walk all day or
play all day and I love everybody.”
FLORENCE, Italy, Dec. 15.—Vincenzo
Perugia, from whom Leonardo Da Vin
ci’s masterpiece, “Mona Lisa” was re
covered here yesterday, declared to the
police he had no accomplices, either di
rect or indirect, in the theft of the
painting from the Louvre in Paris. N6-
body knew of his plan before its exe
cution; nobody saw him when he ab
stracted the picture, and nobody knew
he had tjie /picture in his possession.
“I did not take the painting through
a desire for gain,” he said, “but wish
ed to accomplish a good and holy work
by returning to my country one of the
many treasures stolen from it.”
While working in the Louvre, he con
tinued, he was overcome with shame
on hearing visitors indicate the best
works as Italian. One day he took this
oath: “I will be unworthy of Italy if
I do not return to her one of these
masterpieces.”
The idea obsessed him and the
“Mona Lisa” was ever before him. When
he could delay no longer he found he
could accomplish his purpose without
gr^at difficulty, as he was already
known by those employed about the
building. After the theft he was in
terrogated by the police, but his frank-:
ness and his request that they search
his room, disarmed suspicion.
Perugia declared he did not intend
to sell the picture to the government,
but he thought he ought to have ade
quate compensation for “the great
service rendered Italy.”
Bedbug Transmits
Tubercular Germs,
According to Expert
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—The Cimex
Lectularius, less elegantly but more fa
miliarly known as the bed bug, is a
still more dangerous jnsect than is gen
erally supposed. It is a potent factor
in the transmission of tuberculosis, ac
cording to Dr. J. Walling Beveridge, who
presented a paper on the subject tjo the
conference on safety and sanitation in
this city.
He said it was only recently that the
bed bug had been given serious consid
eration as a carrier of germs, but that
lately a number, of authorities were
agreeing upon the possibility that lep
rosy and spinal meningitis germs were
carried by this household pest and that
numerous cases had recently been cited
where tubercular infection had been
seemingly caused by the bed bug. It
has been discovered the bug is able to
live 229 days without food.
(Special Dispatch to Th<* Journal.)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—This city
finds nothing new in what was said
by Dr. Chores W. Eliot In his annual
address Thursday night in Boston, be
fore the National Civil Service Reform
league, about the policy which has
dominated Secretary of State Bryan in
making certain diplomatic appoint
ments, especially those in Latin-Amer-
ican countries.
President Wilson has reserved to him
self the making of the major diplomatic
appointments, and little criticism of
these appontments has been heard here.
The minor appointments, however, seem
to have been turned over, to consid
erable degree, to Mr. Bryan, whose ap
pointments have been the subject qf a
good deal of criticism the past few
months, most of which Dr. Eliot voiced
in hi& address last Thursday night.
The plain truth seems to be that the
pressure for place has been so terrific
as to cause the Wilson administration
considerable embarrassment. Thq Dem
ocratic party came into office last March
for the first time in twenty years, and
its leac.ers quickly discovered that the
onward march of the civil service prin
ciple had left only a small number of
offices at the disposal of the men who
wanted appointment as a reward for
party service. It has been estimated
the number of places today is perhaps
not one-half as great as it was twenty
years ago; but the demand has not
diminished. President Wilson, in thor
ough sympathy with civil service prn-
ciples, said there was little he could
do. Secretary Bryan, also in sympathy
with those principles, but placed on the
filing line in immediate charge of the
minor diplomatic appointment, found
himself unable to resist the pressure.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 —President
Wilson today ordered an investigation
by the war and navy departments of the
satires <_n the administration’s Philip
pine policy which ieatured the annual
banquet last Thursday of the Order of
Carabao, an organization of army and
navy officers who solved in *.ii6 islands.
President Wilson suggested to Secre
taries Garrison and Daniels reprimands
for those responsible
Secretaries Daniels and Garrison con
ferred early today aid called for a
stuteiiiei.t of explanation irou. ar Ad
miral Howard and Quartermaster Gen
eral Aleshire, the highest ranking of
ficers at the dinner
Secretary Daniels at the same time
suggested to Admiral Howard that he
declined the presidency of ttfe older 'to
which he was elected last Thursday and
informed him tha ,-/ me yon? Damn,
Damn, Damn, the Insurrectos,” which
was sung at the binquet, would never
be sung again under the present ad-
mi Aistration with officers ot the' navy
present.
PEACE J^OLICl' SAURTZiSD ’
The piesiiient expressed his indigna
tion to members of his l cabinet after
he had lead published accounts of the
banquet. He felt particularly displeased
over the travesty on rthe administra
tion's peace policy and' crltuism aiftied
at Secretary Bryan when six models
of battleships, born by concealed boys,
were carried into ;he banouet ivom.
In the muzzle of -he guns were stuck
nosegays and the nuik w rite dove was
perched on each fighting .up.
They were named "UnLfd States
Steamship Fellows!-p,” “United States
Steamship Friendship,’ “L-iitod States
Steamship Piffle." Another satlie was
a moving picture film of a three-year
pursuit cf a Filipino colonel, who time
and again escaped .apture and hardly‘
had been apprehended when he was
made governor of a urovince
The performance, anoord.ng to ad
vance stateu. ents given out by the Cara
bao society, .was designed to show th^
“lack of sympathy for recent develop
ments and (endencie3 in Philippine gov
ernment. f
President Wilson himself was not sa
tirized b> the twiner > but made It
plain to his associates that he felt keen
ly th^ burlesques'on members of hls^ab-
inet. Secretary Daniels - in- Secretary
Garrison shared the president’s feeling
in the matter. Secretary Daniels said to
day that he left the dinner Immediately
after making his speech in order to keep
another engagement and rce sdng,
“Damn, Damn, Damn, tlm Insurrectos,’’
was particularly offensive to 1dm
Herrick Gets Thrill
When Biplane Engine
Quits Work in Mid-Air
BUC, France, Dec. 15.—The American
ambassador to France, Myron T. Her
rick, made his first aeroplane flight
today.- He ascended in a biplane with
Aviator Bldault to a height of half a
,n ile. When he returned to the ground
he remarked that the only moment of
discomfort he experienced was when
the enginfe stopped at their greatest al
titude and they planed down in great
spirals. The sensation then resembled
a swift descent in an elevator.
Ambassador Herrick, Italian Ambassa
dor Signor Tlttoni, and several sena
tors and deputies motored here from
Paris to watch the flying exhibitions.
After Pegoud had turned aerial somer
saults with Deputy Girod as a passen
ger, the American ambassador expressed
a desire to try a flight:
ODDS SEEM TO FAVOR
\
Tribe of Head Hunters
In New Guinea Claim
Descent from the Dog
LONDON.—There would seem to be
no end to the stories of strange people
and their strange customs to be found
by explorers in that wild part of Aus
tralia, New Guinea.
W. N. Beaver, resident magistrate in
the western division of New Guinea,
taking leave in this country, has given
some interesting particulars of recent
exploration in Papau.
Just before leaving Port Moresby he
met John Henry Warner, who, accord
ing to news from Melbourne a few
days ago, has been killed and eaten by
natives. Mr. Warner, wh£ was a middle-
aged man. had just arrived from Aus
tralia, and told Mr. Beaver he was go
ing on an expedition in search of radium
in the gulf division of Papau, part of
which is very wild.
Two of the most interesting expedi
tions in which Mr. Beaver took part
were to the Girara country, which for
three parts of the year is almost en
tirely submerged. The inhabitants are
practically unknown, apd in their cere^
monies and customs are distinct from
other Guinea natives. The expedition
was dispatched to punish the people for
severe murders committed in an inter
tribal raid. These natives, who, though
head hunters, are not cannibals, claim
descent from a dog.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Such mem-
bers of the Republican national com
mittee as had arrived here today Indi
cated almost an even division of senti
ment on the questions of party reorgan
ization which is to be taken up in con
ferences beginning tomorrow.
Forces opposed to an extraordinary
convention were lining up against the
proposed reduction in southern repre
sentation. Some committeemen re
garded it as probable that before tne
actual work of the committee begins
tomorrow there will be three divisions
of polnion.
In the first will be found the na
tional committeemen who favor the
calling of a convention immediately; m
the second will he those opposed to any
convention at all, and in the third will
be others who are willing to have a na
tional convention who do inot see any
Pressing need for it.
The first and third groups are ex
pected to join against the second ana
the odds are said to be in favor of a
convention.
Because his revolver happened to be
a hammerless with the safety catch
locked. Charley Stephens, a negro bur
glar, was prevented from doing murder
early Monday momihg, and three men
are alive and well who might otherwise
have been dead.
Seizing the revolver from a tabid
where J. L. Chandler, manager of Ran
dall Brothers coal yard at 64 Krog
street, had laid it when he picked up
the telephone to call the police, tha
burglar aimed at Mr, Chandler and
pulled the trigger. He had knocked a
monkey wrench from the hand of Frank
Moss, a negro driver for the company,
whom Mr. Cha.ndler had left guarding
him. He covered Frank with the re
volver and pulled the trigger several
times with the muzzle aimed at that
negro.
All this happened In three or /our
seconds. At the juncture when the bur
glar was backing away from his ex
captors Jackson Reed, another driver
for the company, entered the office and
threw himself upon the Intruder, ex
claiming “He’ll get me, boss, before he
gets you.”
The two grappled, and Frank Moss
joined them, the two drivers overpow
ering the burglar after a moment and
holding him for the police, whom Mr.
Chandler now called without interrup
tion.
When Mr. Chandler entered the office
of the yard at 6 o’clock Monday morn
ing he heard ti noise In the back. In
vestigating, he discovered some bur
glar’s tools and a cap en the floor, as
thotigh some one ha.d dropped them and
fled. Getting his revolver, he continued
his investigation, and found a strange
negro crouched in a tool house at the
hack. HJhe negro submitted when Mr.
Chandler aimed the weapon at him, and
Frank Mpss, the negro driver, coming
up at that moment, the two of them led
the Intruder to the telephone.
In recorder’s court, less than three
hours later, Charley Stephens was
bound over to the' higher courts for
burglary and for, assault with Intent to
murder. ,
During Monday night another of the ,
Randall yards—rthat at the corner of.
Boulevard and the Georgia railroad—
was robbed,/ the safe beingt hlpwn open
with , such force as to break window
pane3 and loosen the doors of the office
bouse. No one heard the explosion. Alt
the valuable contents of the safe were
taken. The loss had not been estimated
at 10 o’clock.
Miss Emerson Center
Of Suffragette Battle
With London Police
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Dec. 15.—The Americar
Suffragette, Miss Zellio Emerson, oi
Jackson, Mich., was the central figure
or a fusious scrimmage Sunday evening
between the police and suffragettes -and
their supporters in (he Bow street dls-
trict. Miss Emerson and three men
"were arrested.
The suffragettes gathered for ths
purpose of demonstrating before tht
house of counsellors, who had deprived
them of the use)of the Daw by.ths as a
meeting place. One hundred police
mounted and afoot, corralled ths )
demonstrators, and, falling to dissuade
them from their purposed action
charged the procession.
They seized Miss Emerson, and mer.
and women rushed to her rescue. A
will} scene followed, and women am.
children were thrown to the ground and
trampled in the semi-darkness. The
snrieks of the frightened mob terrified
tlie onlookers, but when the field was
cleared the Injuries proved not to be
serious.
Miss Emerson was brought up in po
lice court today charged with disturbing
the peace. She appeared in the prison
er’s enclosure with one arm in a sling
It had been badly wrenched in the scuffle
with the police.
The police testified , Miss Emerson
smashed a policeman’s helmet with the
pole of a banner. The magistrate re
manded her for a week on ball after she
promised to keep the peace until the
conclusion of the case.
WILSON STAYS IN ROOM
BUT DOES SOME WORK ‘
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1,200 Rabbits Killed;
Meat Is Given Away
(By Associated Press.)
PENDLETON, Ore., Dec. 15.—Meat for
the needy in several Oregon cities was
furnished free of charge by farmers of
this section yesterday. In a drive cov
ering only two square miles, the farm
ers killed 1,200 rabbits which have de
stroyed much fall-sown wheat. The
rabbits were shipped to Portland and
other cities for distribution among the
poor. It is planned to continue the
drives over a territory of twenty-five
square miles and clear the fields of the
pests.
Twice u Dead,” Hooker
Still Kicking Though
Heart Is Like Paper
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.—Edmund W.
Hooker, Connecticut state senator and
former mayor of Hartford, who sailed
today for Bermuda, has twice been pro
nounced dead. Physicians say his case
is one of the most remarkable in the
arnals of pathology. His heart recent
ly distended itself to ten inches in
width, as compared with four inches,
the width of an average person’s heart.
When this dilation occurred the first
time a year ago Mr. Hooker became un
conscious and was thought to be dead.
He was revived by artilficial respiration.
A physician said the wall of his heant
was almost as thin as paper and that it
had-not broken was a marvel.
It is said that persons are not known
to have lived after their' hearts had
been widened to more than seven inches.
Mr. Hooker's heart is now reduced to
one-half more than its normal size and
its walls are ^ slowly resuming thir nor
mal thickness.^ His condition is such he
cannot travel by rail. He ateributes his
ailment to over exercise.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—President
Wilson was declared today to be “doina
very nicely.” The president remained In
his room but took up his work for th«
first time in several days, dictating let
ters and reading official papers.
LEARY MERCHANT KILLS
EMPLOYE OF SAWMILL
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ALBANY, Ga., Dec. 15.—Jerome Clem
ons, a widely /known merchant of Leary,
Calhoun county, shortly after dark last
night shot and killed Alfred Dyer, an
employe of a sawmill near Leary. The
shooting occurred in front of the Clem
ons home, where, it is said, Dyer went
on learning of an alleged threat against
him Clemons is said to have made.
The affair is said to have grown out
of ai* alleged insult by Dyer to Mrs
Clemons, whose husband is said to havf
threatened to shoot Dyer on sight. Dyer
on hearing of the alleged threat, i» sul<3
to have gone to the Clemons home
where the'Vphooting took place.
Dyer’s body has been sent to Turner
ville, where his wife and children re
side.