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Organs, Buggies.
VOL. XX.—lB Pages.
DIXIE FLYER
Saved From Death Trap by Vig
ilance cf Engineer Ragsdale.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 17th.—En
gineer T. B. Ragsdale frustrat
ed an attempt to wreck the Dix
ie Flyer/‘Pride of the Central of
Georgia,” at Hampton, Ga., Tues
day night at 9:20 o’clock. But
for his vigilance and presence of
mind the train ,laden with scores
of passengers just retiring to
their berths, would have dashed
into the ditch, a mass of twisted
wreckage.
Railroad detectives and spec
ial agents are endeavoring
to find the man or men
who, plotting the destruction of
the fast train .broke open the
lock of a switch stand controll
ing the approach of a siding, cun
ningly set the switch point in a
neutral position between the
rails of the main line and those
of the side track, and then placed
blocks of steel in the opening so
the locomotive would be thrown
from the track. Bloodhounds
brought to the scene from the
Monrop convict camp
failed to pick up the trail of the
men, owing to recent rains.
The motive for the attempted
vrreek is not known. Robbery
is scofffed 'at by railroad officials
The crime has the earmarks of
the work of a fiend who planned
the disaster for revenge or sim
ply to gratify an abnormal desire
to wreck destruction.
Death of Aged Woman.
After several months of se
vere suffering l "Mrs. GaTrie' TTarri
son widow of flip late John ITar
rison died recently at the home
of her sister, "Mrs. Cal Stanley.
Somp months ago she left her
home in Lawreneeville and eame
to live with her sister. Her re
mains were interred at Cedar
Creek, the funeral services he-
Ingr eondneted hv Rev. "William
phimhar, of Winder. She was a
"member of the Winder Method's*
church and lived a devoted Chris
tian life until her death. She
was 64 years of age and is sur
vived by one brother and five sis
ters.
Death of Larenceville Citizen.
LawreneeA'iTle, Ca.. Sept. 17.
Nathan Russell, seventy-five year;
; old and a prominent citizen and
farmer, died yesterday at his
home in West Larenceville. Tie
was a member of the Methodist
ohnreh and a Confererate veter
an. . He is survived by his wife
and four children.
Funeral and interment took
i place at Harmony Grove church.
Revival at Baptist Closes
After ten days’ meeting the
services at the Baptist church
were brought to a close last Tues
day, ni^ht.
gfeiße-v. Faust did some fine
and made many friends
1 'Vfche city. Twenty-ane addition. 1
ajjdte made to tlie church as a
■Unit of the services.
Dogs Wanted.
I want to trade or buy a good
trained bird dog and also a
good opossum dog. Give full de
scription and lowest cash, price
Jjn first letter. W. A. Gordon, Jet
Iferson-Ga., Route 5. adv:
iIIIV
MANY SWAINSBORO
CITIZENS PROTEST.
Recommendation of Prison Com
mission in McNaughton
Case Condemmed.
A Swainsboro special to Con
stitution says:
A petition issued as a result
of a mass meeting of* Emanuel
county citizens at Swainsboro,
called for publicly con
demning the action of the pris
on commission in recommending
a full pardon for Dr. W. J. Mc-
Naughton, who was convicted
here in 1910 of the murder of
Fred Flanders, and who has been
three times sentenced to death,
was sent to Governor Slaton to
day.
Men who attended the meet
ing were greatly incensed at the
action, saying they were entirely
unable to understand why the
courts of the land should be over
ruled, the sentence of judges set
aside and the verdict of unbiased
juries disregarded.
“We are convinced. beyond
doubt,” they say, ‘‘that if this
recommendation is heeded by
his excellency, it will directly fos
ter and instigate lynch law, as
men will feel no protection un
der the law .and it will ultimate
ly leacj to anarchy ,which
know is a blot on civilization, and
will impoverish us of justice and
the freedom which our fathers
fought to establish.”
Upon receipt of the petition
The governor said:
“I wrote Mr. Price today and
told him that I) would soon hear
arguments in the McNaughton
matter, as 1 have gone over th
papers in th. cease and notified
him to be present at the argu
ment date.*”
Murderer, Counterfeiter, Thief
New Fork, September 18tb. —
That Hans Schmidt whose don
bit life was exposed Sunday
when he was arrested and
confessed the murder of Anna
Anmuller after killing the girl
and dismembering her body
in a Bradhurst avneue flat, hired
another apartment in which he
presumably planned to conceal
himself, has been discovered.
In ransacking Schmidt’s room
detectives found evidence that he
had stolen S4OO from the Easter
collection at St. Joseph’s church
and that he had robbed a visit
ing priest who spent the night, at
St. Joseph’s rectory.
Evidence was found linking
closer and for a longer period
Schmidt and his alleged coun
terfeiting partner, the unlicensed
dentist, Dr. Ernest Muret.
Moonshimng No Lost Art.
Atlanta. Sept. 18. —And yet
they write from time to time that
moonshining is a lost art in the
north Georgia mountains. When
Judge Newman calls fhp docket
for the criminal branch of the
federal court in this city early
in October more than one hun
dred and fifty North Georgia
mountaineers, some in jail and
some out on bond, will appear to
answer to the charge of the illicit
manufacture of whiskey. 1
Moving Picturse.
Manager Sharp f on of the Lyric
is still pleasing large audiences
nightly with splendid pictures at
his playhouse. If you have no}
got the habit, now is a good time
to get it on you. Everybody else
is doin’ it.
Winder, Jackson County, Ga., Thursday, September 13, 1913.
U. C. V. BARECD.
After Being Invited Confederates
Not Allowed in Parade .
Chattanooga, Tenn.. September
17—Enforcement of an order ex
cluding women and civilans from
the fortyseventh annual Grand
Army of the Republic parade to
day prevented Confederate
Veterans from participating in
the pageant. Clad in their gray
uniforms the southerners were
preparing to form* in the line of
march when the order was exe
cuted.
An invitation to join in the
parade had been tendered to Col
onel L. T. Dickinson, commander
of the Forrest camp, by Colonel
Henry N. Hanson, commander of
the Forsyth post.
Just whe.n they were ready to
take their places Colonel Han
son informed Colonel Dickinson
that the commander of the de
partment of Ohio, had been in
structed to bar every one from
the parade except union veterans.
Colonel Hanson expressed deep
regret over the incident. The con
federate veterans also appeared
distressed.
Half a dozen confederate veter
ans clad in gray uniforms, were
taken prisoners by union veter
ans during the progrses of the*
parade and amid shouts of laugh
ter forced to participate in it.
Laughing and chatting with their
captors the confederate Veterans
brought forth repeated cheering
from the spectators.
Many unique features marked
the demonstration. Umbrellas
were more numerous by far than
arms. Tn many instances red.
white and blue pennants were
substituted for guns and tin*
Louisiana, Mississippi, mostly
composed of negroes , carried
stalks of sugarcane, topped with
cotton bolls.
Can’t Collect for Sunday Hire.
Atlanta, Ga.. Sept. 18. —If you
hire your automobile or horse
and buggy out on Sunday, better
get. your money first, or else you
can’t collect it in tin* event the
party hiring is inclined to avoid
payment.
The Court of Appeals recently
ruled: “A contract made on Sun
day in furtherance of work of
the ordinary calling of one of' the
contracting parties cannot be en
forced by him.
New Weekly Jourtial.
Oahrles S. Barrett, head of
the National Farmers’ union, has
been in Atlanta for several days
arranging for the publication of
the weekly organ of the organiza
tion, which will be begun early
in November.
The name of the new paper
will be the National Field. Ac
cording to Presidnet Barrett, it
will start with a circulation many
times greater than most agricul
tnral journals achieve after a
number of years.
At the head of the new publi
cation will be Mr. Barrett him
self ,assisted by the national sec
retarv, A. 0. Davis In charge
of the editorial end will he Mrs.
Grace Kirkland ,of Los Angeles
Gal. Mrs. Kirkland has been
for many years with the Scripps-
McLane publications and has
experience as a newspaper wom
an.
SOUGHT FOR DEATH IN VAIN
Experience of Two Men Goee to Prove
That the Black Angel Will Not
Be Hurried.
Ever since his first wife 1< ft him In
1909 Peter B. Hicks of Passaic, N. J.,
has wanted to commit suicide, but, as
he told Special Master of Chancery
Van Bl&rcom recently, he lacked the
nerve The other day he hit upon the
alternative expedient of seeking em
ployment In the Du Pont Powder Mill
company's works at Wayne, N. J.
Death kept away frem him there until
1912. Then he recovered his cheerful
ness. Shortly afterward there was an
explosion and he was blown through a
window.
Hicks’ case is not unlike that of
Robert P. Schroeder, of Oak Park,
Chicago. His sweetheart died the
night before they were to be married,
just a year ago. He was Inconsolable.
He had been In the United States
army, and with the soldier’s Instinct
for danger to help him forget his mis
ery—and to help him out of It if pos
sible —he went to Mexico, joining the
rebels arrayed against Madero.
He had not been three days In the
rebel ranks before Madero was taken
prisoner. He went to the coast and
got aboard a vessel going to Banto Do
mingo, where there was still a fair
sized revolution In progress. He had
no sooner reached San Pedro de Mb
coris when the revolutionists fought
their last battle and marched triumph
antly into the capital. Schroeder be
gan to feel better by this time and last
reports had him engaged to a Spanish
girl visiting in Santo Domingo.—New
York Herald.
Press Talks About Degenerates
The Associated Press is send
ing out colums of slush about the
noted degenerate, Harry Thaw,
Jijn Woodward and a publicity
seeking preacher are having a
powwow over Atlanta’s kissing
bugs and Jack Johnson has been
refused permission to fight in
Paris, hut 13c cotton is of more
interest to us than the antics of
all these red-light fellows.
Old Henley Rowing Match.
It is a far cry from Henley to Ven
ice, but there is at any rate one con
nection between them. For our first
English regatta was introduced from
Venice, and took place ofT Ranelagh
Gardens in 1775. Cotemporary ac
counts give us full details of the fes
tivities and the splendor of the lord
mayor's barge, but have not much to
say about the racing, which was con
fined to the professional watermen
It Is a curious fact that our early row
ing was almost entirely fosterd by the
proprietors of Ixindon’s places of
amusement. Vauxhall Gardens of
fered prizes each year, and Astley, of
circus fame, was an early patron of
the sport
It was not until the nineteenth cen
bury that rowing ceased to be regard
ed &s merely hard work by the ama
teur sportsmen. The Leandar club
was formed about 1818, and the first
mention of rowing at our public
schools occurs five years before. Then
the sport went ahead by leaps and
bounds, and by 1829 the need of a
central spot for an anual regatta was
felt, and Henley was chosen after a
due consideration of rival sites.
Walks With Neck Broken.
Waldorf Miller, who broke his neck
driving from the rocke at Hudson
Park two years ago, put his crutches
under his arms the other afternoon,
with the intention of walking to the
place of the aocident from hts home
on Clifton avenue, a distance of two
miles. He hobbled along for a quar
ter of a mile and then had to give
up the attempt. But he got there
anyway, for a friend who was passing
in a machine drove him the remain
ing distance.
Fred Miller, Waldorf's brother,
broke hts neck in the same manner
at the same spot five years ago and
died. When Waldorf was fished out
of the water two years ago the doc
tors said he could live only a few
hours. Sinoe then he has improved
steadily.
It was a year before he could
stand. Fifty feet Is the most he had
walked before this attempt.—New
Rochelle Corespondent to the New
York Times.
Will Gath right , colored, con
victed of the murder of George
L. S,*ay, near Duluth is to be
hung in Lawreneeville Ock 10.
SHINGLEMAN.
18 Pages.—No. 23
FOR COURT OF APPEALS.
Will Not Make Formal Announce
ment Until April or May, 1
Though.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 17th.—City
Recorder Nash R. Broyles will be
a candidate for appellate court,
bench in the election the latter
part of next summer. This is
a practical certainty.
Judge Broyles would not make
positive announcement Tuesday
morning, however. Ho said that
it was yet too early to declare
himself.
‘‘ln all probability I will be a
candidate,” he said. ‘‘l wilt
not make formal announcement
until April or May, though.”
Suffragists After Stark.
The following clipping is taken
from the Georgian of Wednes
day. Should masculine womui
and .sissy fied men he the only
stumbling block placed in the
way of Judge Stark’s political as
pirations, we predict for him
smooth sailing in the state of
Georgia :
Georgia sufffragists are plan
ning a winter of activity, center
ing in Atlanta, by which they
hope to bring their cause promi
nently before the people of Geor
gia. Several open meetings are
planned, at which time there will
ht heard some of the most prom
inent advocates of suffrage in
the United States. Among them
will be Jane Addams, fo Chicago
the noted haed of Hull House.
Those who say they are in fa
vor of woman suffrage will be
given the indorsement and sup
port of the suffragists; those who
openly express their opposition
or fail to make their opposition
plain will be fought by the suf
fragists.
T|n view of the faet that Sena
tor Stark, of the Thirty-third
District, led the opposition to
woman suffrage during the last
session of the Legishature and
prevented them from holding a
meeting in the Senate Chamber,
it, is understood that the guns of
the suffragists will be trained on
him when In* runs for office
The laeders of the “votes for
women” movement have the
names of several other State Sen
ators and several members of the
House of Represenatives who
will meet with opposition in their
campaigns for re-election.
Commiss:cm Gcver/gmnet
Athens will soon have an elec
tion to determine whether not the
people desire to change from pres
ent form of governmnfct to the
commission form. Already the
advocates and opponents of the
bill recently passed by the Geor
gia legislature are present
ing their argumnets in the city
press, and in other ways. The
campaign is fairly under way.
Another in Jea-sey River.
Newark, N. J., Sept. 17th—The
hodv of Alice Hopper, 16 years
old, who had been missing since
Saturday night from her home in
Kearbiy, N. J., was found in the
Passaic river, at Harrison, to
night, her -kirP* weighted with
StOueg.