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WILSON VETOES THE
army immra
BILL FOBJE CLAUSE
President Backs Up War De
partment in Objections to
Revision of Courts-Martial
Law.
■By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 18.—President
Wilson today vetoed the army appropri
ation bill because of exemptions from
discipline for retired officers forced into
it by the house conferees, led by Rep
resentative Hay, over the opposition of
the war department. A new bill will
be necessary and may delay adjourn
ment of congress.
Representative Hay said he would
re-introduce the bill in the house im
mediately. with the features to which
the president objected eliminated.
Mr. Hay followed his announcement
by introducing the bill minus not only
the section to which the oresident ob
jected. but with tne wnote revision of
the articles of war eliminated- This
threatened to complicate the situation.
UNDER SPECIAL RULE.
Representative Hay announced that
he would seek to repass the bill in the
house under a special rule next Tues
day.
"The articles of war will not be per
mitted to get through in this bill again.”
he declared, after a conference with
several members of the military com-
I mittee.
The danger 9 of complication lies in
the fact that Chairman Chamberlain,
of the senate military committee, said
that if the house passed the bill without
provision of the articles of war the sen
ate would probably reinsert them, as
they were passed by the senate. The
president and war department were sat
isfied with that provision.
“The veto." said Senator Chamber
lain, "reopens the whole bill, and there
may be some senators who will want
to review their fight for amendments
stricken out in conference.”
NIGGER IN WOODPILE.
There have been broad fntimations
that the revision which proposed to re
move retired officers from the jurisdic
tion of court-martial was in the interest
of a certain retired officer who was wait
ing for so time when he would be im
mune from discipline to make a public
attack on the army.
The officer, whose name was mention
ed in connection with the report was,
while in service, very active in executive
affairs; was very close to congressmen
framing army bills and until his re
tirement was reckoned with as a power
in legislation affecting the army.
The president s veto of the bill is one
< o* *he developments of years of contest
between the army and Chairman Hay.
The downfall of the continental army
scheme and substitution of the national
JAMES A. PERRY
Os the RaUtoad Commission,
RAPS S. GUYT. M’LENDON
TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA;
Mr. S. G. McLendon is opposing me
for re-election on the Railroad Commis
sion. On account of being engaged dally,
and as I will be far beyond the date of
the primary, in the hearing of a rate
case. I am compelled to present, through
the columns of the press, such matters
I * for your consideration as I feel is due
r you.
Differing as I do with certain conduct
of Mr. McLendon while he was Chair
man of the Railroad Commission of
Georgia. 1 beg to submit these differ
ences to your consideration:
Section 3630. Code of Georgia 1910.
• provides, in part, as follows:
"Said Commissioners (Railroad Com
missioners) shall not, jointly or sever-
I ally. or tn any way. be the holder of
any railroad stock or bonds, or be the
agent or employe of any railroad com
pany. or have any interest in any Way in
’ any railroad, and shall so continue dur
ing the term of his office."
Notwithstanding this inhibition of the
law against the right of a member of the
Railroad Commission to deal in stocks
or bonds. Mr. McLendon, while Chair
man of the Railroad Commission, dealt
in bonds of a certain street railway
company to the amount of 850.000.u0,
making a profit thereon of 31.600.00.
This street railway company was. at the
time, under the jurisdiction of the Rail
road and the bonds in
which he dealt had been approved and
authorised by the Commission of which
ho wag a member at the time.
For this conduct, in part, the Legisla
ture of Georgia in 1909 removed him
from the Railroad Commission, which
action by the Legislature was reviewed
and affirmed by the Supreme Court of
| Georgia without a dissenting opinion.
Not satisfied with the action of the Leg-
■ islature and the Supreme Court, he has
since, in two different primary elections
—primaries of 1913 and 1914 respective
ly—asked you to put him back on the
■ Railroad Commission, and in both in
stances you have refused to do so. It is
L my belief that your action on his case
In the coming primary is going to be so
strong against him. that he will not
bother you again.
Mr. Thomas E. Watson, who is active
ly supporting Mr. McLendon, has seen
fit to criticise me for voting with the
majority of the Commission in the au
thorisation of a stock and bond issue of
the Georgia Railway and Power Compa
ny. The capitalisation referred to is on
basis of 8167.00 per horsepower. Mr.
McLendon, whom Mr. Watson co much
desires nominated, while on the Com
mission. voted for the authorization of
a stock and bond issue of the Central
Georgia Power Company in the sum of
twenty-two million dollars, and on a
basis of 8550.00 per horsepower.
i * ’ As the campaign progresses, 1 shall
address you again, as there is more to
follow
Very respectfully.
* JAMES A. PERRY.
(Advt.)
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Undersea Freighter Made
Home Port
GENEVA, Aug. 18—(Via Paris.)—A
private telegram received today from
Berlin by the Neue Zuricher Zeitung
says that the German submarine
Deutschland arrived safely yesterday at
Bremen from the United States.
guard reorganization against the recom
mendation of army officers is attributed
to him.
Only the force of President Wilson’s
interference put the regular army In
crease in the new reorganization bill
through the house in the face of Hay’s
opposition.
Recently President Wilson appointed
Hay to a judgeship in the court of claims
and he is now serving his last term in
congress.
The war department contends that
many features of the army bill were
written into it in the conference and
never were debated in house or senate.
VETO MESSAGE.
President Wilson’s veto message fol
lows: .
"To the house of representatives:
“I have carefully considered the bill
entitled: ‘An Act Making Apppropria
tions for the Support of the Army for
the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1917.
and now take the liberty of returning
it with my objections to its approval.
. “The bill constitutes an essential part
of the legislation providing for the mili
tary establishment of the country and
wisely and generously provides for the
reorganization of the agencies of our na
tional defense, and it is with genuine re
luctance' that I delay its becoming law
by suggesting the elimination of one of
the provisions which has been embodied
tn the very necessary and important re
vision of the articles of war which has
been added to It.
“The existing articles of war are un
doubtedly archaic. They have not under
gone comprehensive revision for more
than one hundred years. They do not al
ways furnish the means of meeting
prompty and directly the needs of disci
pline under modern conditions, and many
contingencies now frequently arise in
the government of the military forces
which were not contemplated when the
present code was formulated. The rela
tions of the government of the United
States have greatly broadened within
the 100 years. We now have insular
possessions and national interests far
away from our continental shores. Both
the practice of arms and the theory of
discipline have undergone many modern
changes and a manifest need for such
a revision of these articles as is here
presented has long existed. I. therefore,
the more keenly regret to find in the
proposed revision of the articles of war
a provision to which I cannot give my
approval.
RETIRED OFFICERS.
"The original act establishing the re
tired list of the army referred to the
personnel therein included as only par
tially retired, and provided that a re
tiring officer should be entitled to wear
the uniform of his high grade, should
be borne on the army register, and
should be sublet to the rules and arti
cles of war, and to trial by general
court martial for any breech of these
articles. By the act of July 34, 1878,
officers of the army on the retired list
were specifically declared to constitute
a part of the regular army, a provision
which is found repeated in subsequent
acts affecting the organization of the
army, and other statutes enacted dur
ing this period made retired officers of
the army available for certain classes
of active duty, in time of peace with
their consent, and in time of war with
out their consent. By the recently en
acted national defense act, the authority
of the president over retired officers
has been further extended so as to
make them subject to his call in time
of war for any kind of duty without
any restrictions whatever. Courts and
attorneys general have in a long line
of decisions held that officers of the
army on the retired list hold public of
fice- . ,
“It thus appears that both the legisla
tive and judicial branches have drawn a
sharp distinction in status between re
tired officers, who are regarded and gov
erned at all times as an effective reserve
of skilled and experienced officers and a
potential source of military strength,
and mere pensioners, from whom no
further military service is expected. Of
ficers on the retired list of the army are
officers of the army, members of the
military establishment distinguished by
their long service, and, as such, examples
of discipline to the officers and men in
the active army. Moreover, they wear
the uniform of the army, their education
and service hold them out as persons es
pecially qualified In military matters to
represent the spirit of the military es
tablishment, and they are subject to ac
tive duty in time of national emergency
by the mere ordfir of the commander-in
chief.
"They are. therefore, members of the,
army, officers of the United States, ex-!
emplar of discipline and have in their |
keeping the good name and the good
spirit of the entire military establish-1
ment before the world. Occupying such [
a relation, their subjection to the rules
and articles of war and to trial by gen
eral court-martial have always been re
garded as necessary, in order that the
retired list might not become a source
of tendencies which would weaken the
discipline of the active land forces and
impair that control over those forces
which the constitution vests in the
president.
“The purpose of the articles of war in
times of peace is to bring about a uni
formity in the application of military
discipline which will make the entire
organization coherent and effective and
engender a spirit of co-operation and
proper subordination to authority which
will in time of war instantly make the
entire army a unit in its purpose of
sell-sacrifice and devotion to duty in
the national defense. These purposes
cannot be accomplished If the retired
officers, still a part of the military es
tablishment, still relied upon to per
form important duties, are excluded,
upon retirement, from the wholesome
and unifying effect of this subjection
to a common discipline. I am persuaded
that officers upon the retired list would
themselves regard as an invidious and
unpalatable discrimination which In ef
fect excluded them from full member
ship in the profession to which they
have devoted their lives, and of which
by the laws of their country they are
still members. So long as congress
sees fit to make the retired personnel
a part of the army of the United States,
the constitutionality of the proposed ex
emption of such personnel from all lia
bility under the articles of war is a
matter of serious doubt, leaving the
president, as it does, without any means
sanctioned by statutes of exercising
ever the personnel thus exempted the
power of command vested in him by the
constitution.
“Convinced as 1 am of the unwisdom
of this provision and of Its baneful ef
fect upon the discipline of the army;
doubting, as I do. the power of con
gress wholly to exempt retired officers
from the control of the president, while
declaring them to be a part of the regu
lar army of the United States, I am
constrained to return this bill without
my approval.” *
THE ATLANTA SEMLWEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUG. 22, 1916.
HARRIS PUTS SIGNATURE
TO IMPORTANT MEASURES
Cincinnati Southern, Convict
Distribution, Compulsory
Education Bills Signed
Several important bills passed by the
legislature at the 1916 session were
signed by Governor Harris Saturday
night, including the Cincinnati South
ern bill, the convict distribution bill
and the compulsory eduation bill.
Governor Harris signed the Cincin
nati Southern railway bill in spite of
the fact that several members of the
board of trustees of the railway ap
peared before him protesting against
the action of the legislature :n repeal
ing the act of 1879 granting the Cincin
nati Southern an entrance Into Chatta
nooga over the right of way of the
Western and Atlantic railroad from
Boyce’s station, - - , -
The convict distribution bill, as pass
ed by the legislature and signed by the
governor, provides for the distribution
of convicts so that they may be distrib
uted according to the rural miledge of
roads in each county, and not according
to the population of the different coun
ties, The law will be in effect January
1, 1917.
COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
The compulsory education bill was
introduced in the senate by Dr. A. J. S.
Stovall, and is the first compulsory edu •
cation bill Georgia ever had.
For nineteen years the Georgia Fed
eration of Women’s clubs have worked
.for compulsory education in Georgia,
only to finally score a victory when the
bill was passed by the senate. The
measure makes school attendance for
the children of Georgia between the
ages of eight and fourteen compulsory,
at least four months in the yeai, the
school term beginning at the first of
the year.
The following were the other general
bills signed by the governor Saturday
night:
The bill to amend the act establishing
a state board of osteopathy examiners
The bill to prevent the bringing of
alcohol into the state for use In the
manufacture of articles of commerce.
EXTENSION OF W. & A.
The bill to amend the act creating the
Western and Atlantic leasing commis
sion so as to authorize the commission
to consider proposals for the extension
of the railroad to the sea.
The bill providing for the appointment
of factory inspectors by the commis
stoner of commerce and labor.
The bill ta amend the act providing
for the leasing of the Western and At
lantic railroad so as to allow the com
mission to except from lease such prop
erties as may not be needed for railroad
purposes.
The bill to make it a crime to steal
gas or tamper with gas meters or inter*
sere with gas pipes.
The bill to create a new judicial cir
cuit of the superior court to be known
as the Tift circuit.
Negro, Sentenced to Die,
Saws to Liberty on Eve
Os Day Set for Hanging
BRUNSWICK. Ga.. Aug 18.—Aaron
Williams, a negro convicted of the kill
ing of ’Willie Newman, a negro consta
ble, by stabbing on last Christmas
afternoon and who was to have been
hanged In Glynn county jail this morn
ing, escaped last night a few minutes
before the placing of the death watch,
and has not been apprehended. With
the aid of a small saw the condemned
man gained his liberty by sawing
through a number of heavy steel and
iron bars.
Howard Sees Gregory
On Gasoline Situation
•
BT BALPH SMITH.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Congress
man Howard has an appointment at the
department of Justice this afternoon to
confer with Attorney General Gregory
concerning the alleged gasoline situation
in Atlanta and the alleged discrimina
tion of the producers in the sale of fuel
to the retailers.
PROSECUTE LANDLORDS
FOR THE SALE OF LIQUOR
SAVANNAH, Ga., Aug. 19.—Chief of
Police Meldrim announced today that
he would begin prosecution of landlords
who permit the use of their property for
the sale of liquor by tenants. He lias
a right to do this under the law. He
will be the first officer In the state to
adopt this plan of suppressing the §ale
of liquor.
WHY WOMEN
WRITE LETTERS
To Lydia E. Pinkham Medi
cine Co.
Women who are well often ask “Are
the letters which the Lydia E. Pinkham
Medicine Co. are continually publishing,
genuine?” “Are they truthful?”
“ Why do women write such letters? ”
In answer we say that never have we
published a fictitious letter or name.
Never, knowingly, have we published
an untruthful letter, or one without the
full and written consent of the woman
who wrote it-
The reason that thousands of women
from all parts of the country write such
grateful letters to the Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co. is that Lydia E. Pink
ham’s Vegetable Compound has brought
health and happiness into their lives,
once burdened with pain and suffering.
It has relieved women from some of
the worst forms of female ills, from dis
placements, inflammation, ulceration,
irregularities, nervousness, weakness,
stomach troubles and from the blues.
It is impossible for any woman who
Is well and who
has never suffered Pr
to realize how these ///
poor, suffering wo- S [ VJ
men feel when re- I & MJ? i
stored to health; II I a/ II
their keen desire to V /,)
help other women \Vi\ t
who are suffering as [(k
they did,
•SAVIOR OF SERBIA,” Dr.
Strong, who last year headed an ex
pedition sent by the Red Cross and
vhe Rockefeller institute to stamp
out the typhus plague, is inspecting
sanitary conditions in the army
camps on the Mexican border. He
is a specialist on sanitation and
tropioal diseases.
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IJ).UTU»BWOOD «• WDERTCOD
DR RICHARD P STRON(j
fiWEnfM -
ANOTHER SHOT 111 FLORIBA
Victims Were Accused of Aid
ing Negro to Escape After
Shooting Officer
(By Associated Tress.)
GAINESVILLE, Fla., Aug. 21.—Five
negroes—three men and two women—
were taken from the jail at Newberry,
Fla., early today and hanged by a mob,
and another negro was shot and killed
by a posse near Jonesville, Fla., as the
result of the killing yesterday of Con
stable S. G. Wynne and the shooting of
Dr. L. G. Harris by Boisey Long, a ne
gro. The lynched negroes were accused
of aiding Long to escape.
Posses consisting of several hundred
men tonight are searching the woods
here, for trace of | Long. Further trou
ble is feared.
Dispatches from Newberry tonight
said that the mob which lynched the
five was composed of auout 300 men.
After gaining entrance to the jail, they
took their victims to a point about a
mile from town and hanged all on one
large oak tree. Not a shot was fired,
the dispatches said.
Wynne and Dr. Harris were .shot
when they went to Long's home at New
berry yesterday morning to arrest him
on a charge of stealing hogs. It is said
Long drew a pistol from his night
clothing and fired. . Wynne was rushed
to Jacksonville, where he died yesterday
at noon.
Several hundred negroes are employed
in phosphate mines near Newberry.
Parents Are Warned
To Keep Children Away
From New York Now
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—The headth de
partment today Issued a warning to pa
rents who are out of the city with their
children advising them to remain away
as long as possible on account of the in
fantile paralysis epidemic.
It was pointed out that In Brooklyn,
particularly, the epidemic appears to be
burning itself out and that if a large
number of children were brought back
now the result might be serious. The
total of new cases in Greater New
York for the week ending today was
912 as compared with 1,151 for the pre
vious week while the number of deaths
was 226 as compared with 301 last week.
Sheriff’s Wife Drops
Dead in Her Garden
VALDOSTA,-"Ga., Aug 19.—Mrs. J. E.
Gornto, wife of Sheriff Gornto, of
Lowndes county, died about 9 o’clock
this morning while looking after the
gathering of vegetables In her garden.
There was no premonition of death and
she was apparently in the best of health.
Besides her husband, she is survived by
several children and step-children. She
was a native of Brooks county and was
a Miss Roberts before her marriage.
The funeral will probably occur Sunday,
though arrangements have not been
made.
FARMERS’ PRODUCTS CO. OF
WEST POINT REORGANIZED
WEST POINT, Ga., Aug. 19.—The
Farmers’ Products company, of West
Point, has been reorganized and new
officers elected, and is now ready for
business. The new officials are: A. C.
Booker, president and treasurer; J. L.
B. Bar row, vice president; J. T. John
son, secretary; J. L. Davidson, general
manager. Directors, W. C. Batson, J. T.
Johnson, J. L. B. Barrow, A. C. Booker,
J. A. Avary and A. F. Zachry.
Many improvements have been added
in the electric ginnery and the brick
warehouse.
wife’sHneck broken,
MAN IS HELD IN JAIL
ELKINS. W. Va.. Aug. 18.—Dr. Charles
A. Howard, aged fifty-two, of Marlinton,
is being held in jail here pending a fur
ther investigation into the sudden death
of his wife last Tuesday. Following
a coroner’s Inquest a verdict of death
from unknown causes was returned. A
second inquest and autopsy, however, re
sulted in the discovery that her neck
and nose had been broken. The arrest
of Dr. Howard followed.
Law Classes at Night
Conducted by some of the foremost
lawyers of Atlanta and Georgia, and
Including in Its faculty leading judges
of the Georgia supreme and appellate
courts, the Atlanta Law school offers
exceptlnoal opportunity for young men
over the south to beeftme thoroughly
acquainted with the law, and at the
same time to be self-sustaining.
In order to offer this opportunity,
the Atlanta Law school has become
wholly a night school. All its classes
are held at night, and the day hours
are at the command of those who desire
to work and make their own way. Now
that Georgia has opened the way for
woemn lawyers, who may be interested
in acquiring a knowledge of the law,
many young women are expected to at
tend the class.
CHAMP CLARK OPENS
CAMPAIGN IN MIE
FOR NATIONAL TICKET
Presents to Voters a Forceful
Review of Democratic
Achievements and Principals
for the Future
(By Associated Press.)
AUGUSTA, Me.. Aug. 20.—Speaker
Champ Clark opened the Democratic
campaign in Maine today by urging the
voters to support the Democratic na
tional ticket because in “three and a
half years it has placed on the statute
books more constructive, remedial legis
lation than the Republicans did in
twenty.”
"Judge Hughes," Speaker Clark de
clared, “has endeavored to. make an is
sue of the separation of E. Dana Du
rand from the payroll ae director of
the census, but it is not within the
power of any complaining orator to
make a national issue of Durand any
more than he can make a national is
sue of ’who Struck Billy Patterson.’
“Actions speak louder than words.
Here are some of the things we have
done and on which we stand:
“We passed a great tariff bill with
the income tax.
“The Democrats, with the assistance
of patriotic Progressives and a patri
otic contingent of Republicans, placed
on the statute book the national reserve
bank act, which It Is believed will ren
tier panics Impossible In the future.
"We passed an anti-trust law which
tends to promote a legitimate business
and to crush illegitimate business.
“We passed a bill tp open up our
amazingly rich Alaskan empire for the
benefit of all our people and to prevent
that marvelous storehouse of wealth
from being exploited by the few.
“The trades commission law is in
tended to regulate trade so that it will
be fair trade —fair to all, big and little.
"The rural credits bill will undoubt
edly prove a great blessing to the far
mers.
“The bad wagon roads of America are
a sad commentary on our sense, for,
stated in briefest terms, they constitute
wicked and wanton waste. The Shackle
ford good roads bill Is a long step in
the direction of giving us a system of
wagon roads which will be of permanent
and vast utility to all our people.
“After many years of agitation in
favor of electing United States sena
tors by popular vote, we secured a con
stitutional amendment authorizing it
and passed laws to put the amendment
into effect.
“What is known as the Rucker corrupt
practice act will go far to lift our poli
tics to a higher plane, into a purer at
mosphere.
“We have passed grain grading and
cotton future bills to prevent swindles
upon the public and* to aid honest trade
in those necessary commodities.
END OF MONOPOLY.
“We have passed a carefully prepared
and thoroughly discussed water power
bill which will put an end to the at
tempted monopoly of water power sites
and the charging of exorbitant charges
for power.
“We passed amended and better bills
for the government of Porto Rico and
the Philippines, giving more of self
government, to the peoples of those
islands.
“The house has passed the Alexander
ship bill, intended to resusicate the
American merchant marine, which all
wise and patrlo'tio Americans favor.
“The house has passed a good, con
servative ‘overflow-prevention bill,’
which we hope will prove valuable in
preventing the appalling loss of life and
property caused by the great floods. That
bill is now on the calendar of the senate.
“We have passed such bills for de
fense of our country by land and sea as
public opinion demands.
“The last three congresses—lncluding
the present one—have done more to im
prove the conditions under which wage
earners live and move and have their
being than all the preceding congresses
put together.
“The chances are the voters of Ameri
ca will ac't on the sage dictum of Abra
ham Lincoln, that ‘lt Is unwise to swap
horses while crossing the stream,” and
continue the Democrats in power.
“The people seem to have absolute
confidence in the pilot of the ship of
s'tate. Woodrow Wilson, and are not like
ly to drop him overboard in mid-ocean
while the storm whips the waters into
fury.”
Speaker Clark came here from Bruns
wick where he spoke today.
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ATLANTA “J. RUFUS” IS
ACCUSED 81 POLICEMEN
Big Man, With Air of Im
portance, Had Mythical
Railroad for “Suckers”
Three Atlanta policemen—J. R. Col
lins, H. T Adams and P. V. West—
Thursday took out an accusation against
Henry C. Ferriot for cheating and
swindling. His bond was fixed at 8700,
which he made almost immediately.
According to the three policemen, who
state that Ferriot has fleeced them out
, of over 87,000 in the last three years,
Ferriot is a clever artist in his line.
The three policemen tell a story about
this man that George Randolph Chester
should look into. According to them,
he out-Wallingfords Wallingford.
The immediate case upon which the
accusation Is based concerns itself with
a railroad scheme for the improvement
of a road In south Georgia.
The policemen state that, following
him through several years of transac
tions to which they contributed sums
from 8100 to 8300, but upon which they
had failed to realize any dividends, he
came forward with one more proposi
tion.
The policemen state that he made the
representation to them that he had pur
chased three engines, twenty-five coaches
and seventy-five miles of 60-pound rail
from W. J. Oliver, a prominent Knox
ville contractor, and that some of the
stuff was on the way to south Georgia.
Upon these representations they each
contributed more money to Ferrlot's “ex
pense fund.”
LOOKS IMPORTANT.
The policemen declare that they have
Ferriot’s record and that he has operated
in many cities of the south and that he
has made a living with his get rich quick
schemes. They claim he is a big, well
built fellow with a fine front. He looks
“important,” said one of the cops. They
say he can ramble off schemes by the
hour, that he talks familiarly of Wall
street and the big concerns there. He
even calls some of the leading financiers
of the country by their first names. The
policemen say they are not the only vic
tims of Ferriot’s work. According to
them there are warrants out for him in
a number of cities.
The three officers claim ho started in
Atlanta in 1918 by organizing "The Uni
versal Ice company." He sold etock to a
large number of Atlantians, they allege.
When this company fell through he had
a perfect alibi which they swallowed and
he immediately unfolded to them a new
plan, rich in promise and to which they
contributed a few hundred. The idea,
they state, was the organization of a
railroad with a name longer than the
actual mileage. Ferriot showed them a
charter and claimed that he was being
backed by New York capitalists, it is
claimed.
DEPUTY DIES OF WOUNDS
RECEIVED IN COURT ROOM
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
DOTHAN, Ala., Aug. 19.—Deputy
Sheriff A. Ivan North died In a local
Infirmary here today as the result of
wounds received in a pistol duel Thurs
day of last week when Jeff Newman and
his son John shot up the court of Jus
tice of the Peace John T. Brown at Gor
don. Jeff Newman is being held in the
Houston county jail in this city on a
charge of murder in connection with
the death of North. John Newman re
ceived a wound over the heart in the bat
tle with Deputy North when he and his
father raided the court room, and died
a few hours later.
WEALTHY LAND OWNER
SHOT FROM AMBUSH
LUCEDALE, Miss.. Aug 19.—George
Powart, a wealthy land owner and mem
ber of the board of supervisors of
Greene county, was shot and killed to
day near Merrill, Miss., while riding
along a country road. There were no
witnesses to the shooting, but It is be
lieved by the authorities that Powart
was shot from ambush. Bloodhounds
have been sent to the scene of ths
killing.
TRAVELING MAN DIES
FROM AUTO ACCIDENT
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 19.—The
fourth fatality resulting from an Illi
nois Central train striking an automo- ■
bile at a crossing here Tuesday night
occurred today when Charles I. Saun- (
ders, traveling salesman, died in a hos
pital of Injuries he received. Three
other salesmen were killed outright in 1
the accident.
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Have to Gasp for Breath.
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Mrs. Pate, a neighbor, came In while
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