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The Macon Daily Telegraph WEATHER FORECAST FOR GEORGIA! PROBABLY SHOWERS MONDAY AND TUESDAY) MODERATE VARIABLEWIND8. ESTABLISHED IN 1828. MACON, GA., MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 1908 LEFT OF REPLY Roosevelt’s Statement to Congress Will Be Dig- nified. WILL QUOTE ROM RECORD TO SUSTAINHIS POSITION 8teret Service Matter to Be Handled With Gloves—Personalities arc Not to Be Dealt In by President—Relies on House Record—Message to Con tain About 5,000 Words—Meritorious Record of Secret Service is Stressed —•Interesting Phase of the Contro versy. is the Fact That the President Has Reoeived Substantial Endorse ment of Hie Position—Reply is in J’fint and Heady for Distribution. WASHINGTON, Dec. 27—President Roosevelt lias completed his reply to the house with reference to the secret service and the message is in print and ready for distribution. It may be expected, according to close friends of the president, that he will seek to show out of the words from the vfoatk of the house itself that he transgressed none of the proprieties in what he eald-in his annual message to congress, regarding the secret ser vice. May Bring Debate. It Is expected to bring up tho debate of May 1. 1908,.-In--which there was running discussion on tho house floor over tho question of curtailing the uses of the secret service. 'The president Is expected to refer to this debate' in his message and to give some extracts from it to show that when her said the argument In question was used, ho was justified by tho record. Contains 5,000 Words. The message will be of about 5.0U0 words in length and will be calm, dig nified, and dispassionate. It will not only seek to turn the record of the houso against the house, but It will go Into detail about the meritorious use to which the secret service ties been -tfut In the past. It will tell much of what tlio secret service has done. It will be barren of any personal attacks on members of congress. President’s Course Endorsed. It is a most interesting phaso of this controversy that the president has re ceived ail manner of messages and letters from all over tho country up holding his course respecting the so- cret service. On the other hand, while there is no dougt congressmen have received some letters of support, they have also been hearing much edvice from the country, through letters and otherwise, to go slow. OTHER NIGHT RIDERS TO GIVE EVIDENCE WHEN COURT CONVENES TODAY ^BIG SURPRI8E IS EXPECTED TQ BE SPRUNQ. UNION CITY, Term.,’ Dec. 21.—When coinl* convenes Monday morning, after th^Tioliday recess, it Is confldently ex pected that the [prosecution will spring another big surprise Tn the trial of the eight alleged night riders. This sensation Is no less than another and possibly two or three confessions, and from such sources that the case of the sUte will be materially strengthened. For somo days overtures have been mado to the state’s attorneys by the brother of one of tho alleged night riders who is now on trial, but no satisfactory compromise could be reached. Two others confined In the barracks have expressed a desire to tall what they know, but neither with these two has any agreement yet been reached. The attorneys who loft the city tn spend Christmas at homo arrived Saturday and discussed this matter. Rider Anxious to Talk, Efforts somo time ago were made to get a confr-sslon from ono of the prison ers In tho barracks, but he refused to talk. Now ho Is anxious to talk, and the prosecution is somewhat averse to giv ing him tho privilege. Another thing in tho way is tho fact that the state con siders that it has made out a complete caso and does not need tho testimony of any more of the guilty. The confer ence will decide whether further testi mony Is needed, and on tho decision of this question will depend whether or not further confessions will bo allowed. When court adjourned Thursday after noon it was understood that tho prose cution would be allowed to offer tho evi dence of three witnesses, for whom In- Stanter subpoenas have boon issued, to^ gether with any other testimony they might wish to psesent. Tho witnesses summoned are O. W. Thurman, Walter Bolt ttd Will Rogers. No Promise of Pardon, The state has offered to receive the confessions without any promise of par don but tho men will probably —* * ” what they know unless a full p< promised them In advance of their sto ries. Counsel for tho state admit that negotiations with the m«n In question are In progress. Rut while the state Is fixing up its sur prise party the defense claims to have a As nnnies also up their sleeves and will beam to spring them early nest week when they begin putting on their proof. It was patent from the class of cross- examination of state’s witnesses that the main line of defense will be that of aHble. Ain i- for most if not all of the eight men t-n trUl and In addition to this Impeach ment of more than one of the *Ut« T s wit n-s* it id an open secret that this will be the line rf defense offered and. If fr r n.- a.: , 1 r'tt r!!-r« jro„i Tl»#tr rtl-.n*■ TAFT’S PLAN TO CONTROLJRUSTS Post-campaign Story Re lative to President-E lect’s Policy. AUGUSTA, Ga., Dec. 27—In reply to numerous inquiries received here re garding President-elect Taft's new plan for governmental control all corpora tions doing an interstate business, it may safely be said that Mr. Taft will do all in his power to establish the ri-fiinn as outlined in his speech of acceptance and his campaign speeches. In carrying out this plan the presi dent-elect will need certain necessary additional legislation by congress in volving a decrease of the powers of tho interstate commerce commission, an Increase for the bureau of corpora tions in the department of commerce and labor and t r no creation of a prac tically new bureau in the department of justice. i Working of State Machinery. The interstate commerce commission will exercise purely and only a quaai- judlclal function. The bureau of cor porations will -be given jurisdiction over all corporations doing an inter state business, including the railroads, and will have for Its duty the work of preparing and presenting to the Inter state commerarco commission all cases brought up by complaints from indi viduals and ell cases made necessary by the bureau’s own investigation. Department of Justice. Th depeatmrten ISSlnts vestigotetfd The department of justice will have a bureau whoso duty will be to assist tho bureau of corporations in tho pre paring and prosecuting of cases when ever the bureau of corporations feels tho need of calling on the department Qf justice for certain legal and techni cal co-operation. It is not likely that tho new executive will recommend the federal licensing of the corporations that will come under the jurisdiction of the bureau of corporations, but ho will probably favor some provision which compel these concerns to sub mit themselves to the most thorough scrutiny of the agents of the bureau. This will apply to the matter of rates, methods of operation, accounts, books, • and all features affecting the public interest. Will Affect Another Branch. This reform will affect a fourth branch of tho government, tho depart ment of agriculturo. as that depart ment, by tho operations of-the pure food law and other laws, has much to do with certain classes of corporations. Arrangements will, therefore, have to be* made Jn the detailed plan for the agricultural department to., give the bureau of corporations any assistance that may be required. sixariThurt BY MINEPOWDER Cigarette Stump Causes Fatal Injuries to Three Boys. FAIRMONT. W. Va., Dec. 27.—When Oscar Harr ignited with a cigarette stump a bottle filled with mine powder tonight, he and three companions living at Bellevlew, & auburn, were probably fatally injurod, and several others were seriously hurt by being burned and cut John iAUghlln, aged 16, cut about the face and arms, serious. Elmore Bidwell, aged 16, burned about the face and hands, probably fatal. Dennings Smith, aged 13, burned and cut. Jesse Wilson, aged 14. head terribly burned. John Boland, aged 11, eyes possibly destroyed by bqrns. A hurry call brought a half dozen doc tors from Fairmont who dressed the FOR GOAL MINERS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PLANS E8 TABLISHMENT OF SEVERAL AT DIFFERENT POINTS. WASHINGTON,’ Dec. 27.—Carrying out its efforts to zeduca the number of fatalities In coal mines, the United States geological survey, is about to es tablish rescue stations In the principal coal fields of the country In addition to the experiment station now located at Pittsburg. The new stations will be at or near the greatest centers of accidents and it will be the purposo of the experts to teach the miners and mine bosses how to use the most, approved apparatus for mine rescue work. The expvtswlll be equipped with oxygen Cermets, which will enable them at once, even though It Is filled with ga* or smoke, to enter i mine. These stations also will be head' quarters for the study of the waste of coal In raining. Every station will be fitted tip with y station will be fltte r-tlght room, where g ted. The coal mining VANFVERA HURT IN BADWRECK Macon Engineer Bruised and Scalded When Train Is Ditched. EXTRA FREI6HT ON SOUTHERN RAILWAY Leaves Track Near Lumber City Before Daybreak Yesterday, Rolls Down Env bankment and Becomes Mass of Wreok* age on Brink of the Ocmulgee River— Fireman Ed Langston, of Macon, Also 'Bruised and Scalded—Split Switch As- elgned as Cause of Accld-.nt—Trafflo Delayed Over Road for Many Hours. DUMBER CITY, Ga., Dec. 27—Six persons were Injurod, none fatally, though all had narrow escape from death, when a special freight north bound on the Southern railway, split a switch near this city at 12:80 o’clock today and rolled down a high embank ment to within a few yards of the Ocmulgee river. The injured are: A. A. Walker, leg crushed. A. K. VanEvera, engineer Macon, arm mashed. Ed Langston, Macon, fireman, bruis ed and scalded. Conductor H. D. Butler and A. H. Johnson, brakeman, both of -Macon, were bruised and scratched but suf fered no broken bones. Thomas E. Skipper, who, with Wal ker, was an engineer learning the road, was badly bruised and hla back injured. Train Reduoed to Splinters. The engine in which the three engi neers and the fireman wero riding and the nine freight cars that mado up tho train, wore reduced to splinters and scrap iron in their tumble to the bottom of tho embankment. The freight train left Jesup at 6:3C o’clock yesterday afternoon and was near, but south of Lumber City, when the accident occurred, Tho engino, it is said, split the switch at that point on the road and left tho track. Th© cars followed and the engine led the way over the edge of the fill and rolled and plunged to the bottom. The track was torn up for a consid erable distance and malls and passen gers for southeast Georgia wero delay ed many hours; A passenger train passed by'tho obstruction this after noon, the track being declared clear ot 3 p. m. The sceno of the accident was two miles south of this place Walker, who received the worst in Juries, was carried to Atlanta for treatment, whllo Engineer VanEvera and Conductor Butler were taken to their homes in Macon. It was stated that two of th© men In the cab were thrown out as tho engino began to roll and that the others were ablo to crawl from the wreok with littlo assistance. Tho en- tiro train is a completo wreck. Another Account. fore daybreak today and rolled down a high embankment to becomo a mass of wreckage within a few yards of the banks of the Ocmulgee river. The in jured are: A. K.,Von Event, Macon, Ga., engineer, bruised and scalded. Thomas E. Skipper, Atlanta, englneei, covereJv bruised. Ed Langston, Macon, fireman, bruise 1 and scalded. H. D. Butler, conductor and A- II, Johnston, brakeman, bruised. A. W. Walker, leg. crushed. Walker was taken to Atlanta for treat ment and others came to Lumber City. A split switch is believed to have caused the accident. Traffic was delayed over the rood for many hours. MRS. IAVIE KILLED IN BLOODY FIGHT HOTEL PROPRIETRESS ATTACKS STEEL WORKER WITH KNIFE AND IS SHOT. gas can be - —g companies are to be Invited to send picked men to these stations to be trained in the use of the oxygen helmets. All of the ■tate geological surveys. One of the reecue stations will he at Urbane, Ilia. A second station will be located probably at Raton. New Mexico. Another station Is suggested for this district, to be located at Balt Lake City, The coal fields of Oklahoma. Arkansas aad. eeetaweetem Missouri wUl be taken of .hv a statlw In the neighborhood I Of liAVl > a etnr.ai. llnml [.(.lion ifrAIUl.r. OVlofin loetUo,, . Iik'h will Virgin!.. t«4 for Ih. bUM, K.ntu It 1. claltrM i. m.n »!«•«» fT» i.'inM. nllt. hr v.t obor iKliwim lS >T„1 ■«utr.*rn Wool Vtrzlnlit. Ono I plan la to loiai* a a'at Ion ait Knoivlll., UJ. In MMM nll'i th. Uju> iron....a w.-ilrh I..,, » i M ln- lllmtlnaljam, Alila-nn inn Ky., Iav. ala,, aoag.at* hlftm of it., elation In tltla lletrtcL BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Doc. 27.—At Ensloy yesterday afternoon Mrs. J. Lavle, after seriously cutting J. W. Griffith In the Breast and throat, was Instantly ^killed by tho man whoso life she had attempted. The cause of tho, difficulty is not posi tively known. Mrs. I.avlo was the proprietress of the Steel City hotel .And Griffith Is an employe of tho steel mill. The trouble occurred In the hotel building. Griffith Is so badly wounded that It Is Impossible to get a statement from him. It Is judged, however, that the woman made the attack on the man first, and that alter he fad fallen he shot his assailant. Two shots took effect, one in tho stom ach and the other In tho chest. Mr. and Mrs. Davis wore not living to gether at the time ot the litters death. ARTHUR OF SHELLMAN INJURED IN RAD RUNAWAY AMI3RICU0, Dec. IT—Col. Fred D. Arthur was advised yesterday of a painful a,cld.nl In hi. brother, Mr. Charles Arthur. »f Hb.llnun, and wall known In Amartcua. Whth: driving a spirited hors, tha animal ran away. Mr, Arthur was thrown from tha buggy on don. of hla Umbs broken. VARIETY OF NEWS FOR THIS WEEK New Year Will Witness Many Changes In Human Activity. 4 Now Year’s week with many impor tant ohanges in governmental affair* and other spheres of human acflvlty promises to ■>© full of news of wldo interest. In fnany states the first day of th© year marks the ending of one administration and tho beginning «of another, legislatures will convene nml & new order of things governmental thus will be inaugurated. In tho foreign Hold there will bo tho inauguration Of H. Deucker as president of tho SwIbs republic and tho opening of tho Portuguese parlia ment In Lisbon. In tbo sania category perhaps way bo mentioned the "Evac uation” of Cuba by the American troops who for nearly two*years have been on duty in tho Island* On Now Year’s day the roturn of theso troops will begin. In Atlantic City, N. J., tho first three days of the week, th© American So ciological Society will nold its own an nual convention and will also hnvo Joint meetings with the American Sta tistical Association, the American Eco nomic Association and the American Association for Labor Legislation. During th© first four days of tho week tlio American Historical Association and the American Political S- h-n.o Association will hold a Joint meeting boginning in Washington and ending In Richmond, Va. On Matters of State. Leading financial authorities of the oast will confer in New York this week with Senators Aldrich and Toller and Representative Vreeland In favor of tho bill to bo Introduced In congress shortly after the holiday recess to cor rect defects in the laws governing the administration of banks. The trip to Panama of tho house committee on Interstate and foreign commerce, starting from Charleston, Is scheduled for the week. The commit- tee believes the 'timo is near at hand to give tho canal zono a permanent code of laws. With this object In sight they arc going to look over the ground. Th© report of tho National Conser vation Commission Is expected to bo rendered this week. On It the presi dent will baso a special messago to congress. Many Important Trials. •Many cases and hearings of inter est Interrupted by th© Christmas holi day, will be resumed. Among them tho night rider caso in Union City, Tenn., and the hearing in New York In tho matter of-tho bankruptcy of tho Fidel ity Funding Company to dotermlno whether the affairs ot_tb« failed Klo- rnn concern with Its millions of nu bilities seriously affecting a largo num ber of Roman Catholic Institutions, shall be wound up by the federal or state receiver. In tho domain of tho criminal law there arc tho decision, scheduled for Monday, in tho applica tion for ball for th© three men under arrest for the killing of former Sen ator Carmack, In Nashville, Tenn.; the sentencing of Abraham Ruof In Ban Francisco on Tuesday for bribery, and perhaps the calling in New York of the case of Sarah Koten, the nurse who killed a doctor in revengo for al leged wrongs at his hands. Tho two-cont postage rato with Ger many will go Into effect on January 1. On the same day th© Canadian and United States governments simultane ously will proclaim the new uniform fishery regulations which have been adopted for the boundary waters be tween them. DeCaetellane Decision. The new year’s list of winners of decoration of tho French Legion ot Honor is expected this year to contain tho name of Wilbur Wright, tho American aeroplnnlst. Out of Paris this week Is due tho court decision In the contention of tho Count peCastel- lane that the children of h'is marrlago with the former 'Anna Gould, now Princess DeSagan, should be taken from their mother and entrusted to him. There will bo two events of parti cular Interest In tho automobile world. For tho first time In fifteen months an autommoblle show will be held In New York. It will open on Friday and last a week. The other will bn a two-day run to Philadelphia and back of the Women’s Motoring Club, of New York, on Tuesday and Wednesday with only women as drivers and passengers, but each car will be allowed to carry a male mechanist for cranking tho mo tors and such 'other work. WALTERS MAY SURVIVE WOUND Unless Pneumonia Devel ops He Has Good Chance. OCILLA. G»„ Dec. 27.—Tom Pollock and Jack Shepherd, who ware arreted Tueaday night on n chargo of being Involved in th. killing of I,*',.nurd Smith, Charlie Moor, and O. V. Moore, and tho wounding of Policeman One Waller., are out of jail on bond., awaiting a commitment trial on tji. Hat Inat. Pollock gave bond In tha aum of 15,000 and Shepherd In th. aum of 12,000. Pollock la charged with M- unit with Intent to murder Police man Walter, by .hooting him In th. back, and Hh.ph.rd la charged a. principal In the a*cond degree. T caer. war. called by Wm. Hi nder., tu.tlce of th. PMC, for a preliminary hearing, but In th. aheence of Solic itor-General W. K. George, who agreed to attend court to proeeculr the caeca on the part of tho .tat., whom boy had the aorldent to have ono of hla P k> broken Wednee.lay, the caae. worn peed over until ho could attend Officer Reeling Well. Policeman„ Walter, I* railing wall. STOP SPEEDING Serious Accidents of Past Week Bring Police to Work. SPECIAL ORDER TO FORCE Two Officers Detailed on Special Ap- tomoMlo duty—They Will Patrol Street Most Frequented by Motor- lata—Council Will Strengthen Fils ting Regulation*—Talk or Penclitroo Residents Fmploying n Specclal Officer to Protect Them Prom tho Speed Fionds. ATLANTA, Ga„ Deo. 27.—(Tel egraph Bureau, Kimball Houso)— Chief Jennings, of the Atlantn police force, has taken stops to suppress reckless automobile driving on tho stroots of Atlanta. During the past week two serious accidents have Illustrated tho need of more strln- gont regulations. Ono of thorn re sulted In death and the other In woll-nlgh fntqj Injury. Both are to be Investigated by tho recorder. Two poltcomon havo boon do- tailed on special automobile duty. They will patrol tho atreotg moBt frequented by tho drivers, and ar- rost all thoso caught violating tho speed laws. It Is not imprbbablo that tho city council will strengthen existing regulations, particularly as far iib they relate to tho central portion of tho city. Thore la some talk of the resi dents on Peachtreo road, a much frequented tuoroughfare, employing an ouiccr to protect them from tho speed fiends. Chamber Commerce Bnnqurt. ATLANTA, Deo. 27.—The annual meeting and hanquot of tho Atlantn Chamber of Commorce will take pluco on tho ovontng of Jnnunry 7, and Clarence M. Ousloy, odttar of tho Fort Worth, Tex., Record, will bo chief spoakor. Mr. OuBloy will speak on "Government by Commis sion," nnd will tell how tho now municipal idea 1b working In many Texas cities. Ho will bo Introduced liy Krlgnr Watkins, member ot fho law firm of Wlmblsh, Watkins A Ellis, himself a former Toxnn. Speeches will alBO be made by Col. Robert J. Lowry, J. G. Oglesby, both former presidents of tho chamber, and others. Covors will ho placed for moro .tban 400. Cotton Mill Mail Arrested. ATLANTA, Oa„ Deo. 27.—J. M. OamewoII, a prominent cotton mill man of Spartanburg. B. C., was nr- rcstod here yostordny afternoon nnd was held until lio furnished a bond of 12,000 to Insure payment of whatever Judgment Is rendered against him fn a suit for alimony brought by his wife. Mrs. Oamowcll ho. sunl for fl.1,000 permanent anil temporary alimony, tho “". t anticipating on. for dlvorc*. which will bo brought ns soon ns .he com plete. the requisite twelve month. reel- donee In this state. Mr. Cumewel! furn ished the bond and was released. Mrs. asmcw.1t wa* visited by h.r hus band at the homo of her sister on Car- negie place, and he was taken In charso there by a. superior court officer. Nego tiations looking to a settlement of "he troubh) were under way at tho time, nnd It Is probable that they will be ad justed. ’ 8upt. Slaton Better. ATLANTA, Qo., Dec, 27.—William M. Slaton, superintendent of tho Atlanta public schools, has been seriously III at Ids home on Jnckson street for .ever.! days. Ho ts suffering from pleuro-pneu- mania, and his condition was precarious last night. Blight Improvement was re ported this morning. , Gov. Folk to Visit Atlanta. ATLANTA, Ga., Itee. 27.—Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Missouri, will be en tertained at a hanquot by local thambera of the Kappa Alplin Fraternity whan he cornea to Atlanta to deliver a lecturo during the latter part of January. Those who are making arrangements for tho entertainment »ro Robert Loo Avery. 7-amar Hill, Hen Leo Crew and Carl Hutcheaon, all prominent member, of-th. fraternity. Clark Howell, a leading aouthem Kappa Alpha, will act aa toastmaater, and Buch prominent men ne United htatea Senator. Bacon and Clay. Oover- nor-eloct Brown and Governor link. Hmlth will be Invited to attend and re spond to toast. In honor of tho dhstln- guiahed Missourian. ' Georgia Fruit Exchange. ATLANTA, Go., Vtc. 27.—Permanent organization of the Georgia Fruit Kx- eluingc will he made at a meeting to be held here on Tuesday, Jan. 5. It la an nounced that all preliminary work hta been completed, and sufficient support obtained to Inaura the auccraa of th, movement. If. C. Harley, chairman of th. organ! antlon commltta. and who haa hoep^jha leading spirit In orgnnlalng th. exchange. r te that 1,600 care of peaehe*. or about per cent of the Georgia crop, have been pledged. Thla will place the ex change, which la mutual cliararter. In virtual control of tha Georgia crop. Robert F. Maddox, may or-elect of At lanta, will he eftoeen treasurer of th, exchange, and I. M. Fleming will bt elected general manager. Minutuuninit, iniuilU mniuiUi IDee. 27.—According to wireless dis patches received here the United State* I cruller North Carolina was a hundred miles from Curacao at 3 o’clock Satur day afternoon bound for LaGuayra. Ob board the crulaer lx W. I. Buchanan. “Pedal commissioner of tho United States to Venezuela. Another wlrelena Imexflage stated that the battleahtp Maine won following tho North Carolina at a dUtnnco of about two hundred mile*. I Political cxllcu are returning to Ca racas at the summons of Preildent Go- Iniex, who has ordered the prison* to be cloared and has Invited thoso long since I banished from the country to coine back. Tho Htoamxhlp Zulla arrived here th!» morning from Maracnlbo with eighteen former political prlxonerx ulux^rd. Tho Zulla left hero this afternoon for LaGuayra with tho exilex who represent all political narttS*. They wore given an enthusiastic ovation by the people of Curacao and before their departure were prosen ted with a paper bidding them adieu on behalf of tno entire population. In this document It wa« stated that only ono man was the enemy of the exile* uer oi year* no* peon worKing iifrr in conjunction with the revolutionist* against President Cn*tro, Joined the ex iles on the Zulu, and is now on hi* way to th© Caracas. He told the people of Curacao that they could consider him alway* an the bo** friend of Curacao. Latent ndvlcen from Carnca.* say the situation throughout Venezuela, under the new ndmlnlntraition In excellent. Tho new president’* policy has been directed toward* repairing the injustice Buffered by the people of the Interior nnd In es tablishing harmony with outside powers. This policy has been received with en thusiasm by all parties. Th© departure of Jose DeJ. Paul, until recently minister of foreign nffalrn. on a mlMHlon to Europe, is confirmed. 4 He Is to enter Into negotiations for the set tlement of the existing differences be- i#ti Venezuela and France and IIol- and'hla physician states that ha has an excellent charter? for hla life, pro vided pneumonia Is not contracted. The sadnes* cast over tha town haa greatly marred tha holiday spirit. Tho pathos witnessed nt the funar< ala of tha three dead men In Indeacrib able. The nctries were heartrending aa tha families and friends followed thrso hearses to th* cemetery. Th* curtain dropped on the saddest geene ami the most shocking tragedy In the hlatory of this community# ■ i EXILES RETURN TO VENEZUELA And President Gomez Also Orders the Prisons Cleared, WILLEMSTAD. Island of Curacao, SHOWS OPEN IN NEW YORK CITY Protected By Court Injunc tion Do Usual Sunday' Business, NEW. YORK, Dec. 27.—Protected from interference by n suprcmQ court injunction, practically nil of Noy York’s 600 and more moving picturo exhibition places wero today in full operation dosplto tho revocation of their license* by Mayor McClellan on Christman eve. Most of them wero favored with tho v customary Sunday patronage, the heaviest of the week. There wan no sign of any deposition on tho part of tho pollco to Interfere, hut their, proprietors generally elimi nated views Whioh tho authorities could In any way connlder objection able. In nearly all of them, too, lec tures were delivered with a '/lew to bringing the performances within the interpretation of tho Hantlay law no laid down by the corporation counsel's opinion rendered • yesterday, which placed lectures "Of an educational character, illustrated by moving pic tures" on the permitted list. Pollco Commlnsipner Bingham's ac tion In warning the proprietors of vsudovillo houso* that they must llvo strictly up to the Sunday observanca law had tho effect of greatly modify ing tho charairUr of the hills In all the houses which open their doors for "Sunday concerts." / The real fight fqy the closing of the cheap moving picturo places, I* fichcd- uled to begin In the supremo court tomorrow. Injunctions granted on Saturday by Superior Justice Gaynnr prohibited the police from Interfering with the exhibition* last night and today, and required Mayor McClellan to «how caumo on Monday why hla order should not be rcnrlnded. Tho nhow manager* and others financially Interested have formed an organiza tion. and it Is stated, rained a large fund with which to resist the move against them. Organizations of cler gymen nnd other* «f.* arrayed on Mayor McClellan’s side* I There was one arrest today of a moving picture show proprietor, Mor ris Tapter, charged wltli^ayhlbKing an objectionable picturo nt ill* place on tho Bowery. MAN SHOOTS THREE THEN KILLS HIMSELF VICTIMS ARE HI8 WIFE, HER DROTH ER AND THE LATTER’S WIFE. JOHNSTOWN. Pa.. ' Dee. 27.—John gtormer, a blacksmith, on a much trav eled street today shot his wife, her brother and tha latter’* wife, Mr. end Mrs. William Kurts, of McKeesport, Pa., and than blew out bin own brains In plain view of a crowd of horrified bystand* Htormer had'not been living with his wife for aeversl years and domestic trou- bio Is assigned as the causo of the •TRKi ascertained at the hoapltal that the Kurtxcs are both dangerously wound ed. Mr*. Htormer was shot In both legs and sustained a scalp wound, but will re cover. Btormer was dead when the officers arrived. Bla Flyers to Take Part. ROME. Leo. 17.—Mi ssi n. Wright. Fa.* man. DeLagrange lilerlot and Ksnault- Polterle, the noted- aeronauts, have promised to take part In the International av|«tlon races at Breacla In Au|u*t, 1962. Leading Cotton Men to Consult With Bureau Experts. WiLL WORK if J LAN THAT IS EASYAND PRACTICAL Great Diversity In the Method of Grad« ing at Present to Bo Supplanted by Government Standard — Proposed Standardization of Various Grades to Bo Mado in Accordance With a Provision of the Last Agricultural Appropriation Act—Standards to Be Furnished to Any Person on Appli cation. WASHINGTON. Dec. 27—Definite steps towards tho establishment of a standard for tho different grades of cotton shortly will bo undertaken In this city by a committee of tho lead ing cotton men of this country and Europe In co-opcratlon with tho ex perts of tho bureau of plant Industry of tho department of agriculturo and th© proposed meeting will bo held in Jan • uary. Secretary of Agriculture Wil son In now engaged in selecting the committee of cotton experts. Tho proposed standardization of tho various grades on cotton which al ready has been making splendid prog ross, has been undertaken in accord ance with a provision of the last ag ricultural appropriation act requiring "th© secretary of agriculture, through tho bureau of plant industry, to estab lish a standard for tho different grades of cotton calling to his assistance for that purpose expert cotton classifiers, by fixing a standard of .nine dlfferopt grades to bo designated middling fair, strict good middling, good middling, strict middling, middling .strict low middling, low middling strict good 9 ~ ordinary and good ordinary, which shall bo the official standard of cotton classification*. These standards aroto bo propared . in practical form and furnished upon request to any person, the cost to be paid when dcllvsred by tho person requesting tho stundard." Great Diversity at Present. At tho present tlmo there i* a great diversity in the method and practice of grading cotton as no definite stan« dard exists. In order to aeoure the most reliable information as to the present accepted grades, tho secretary of agriculturo has secured from authoritative aourcea In tho United States sets of grades un der seal which are now held, under seal for examination by the special committee of experts. "It la proposed to baso the new of ficial standards on the old, more or lens hoterogenoous standards of the cotton exchanges, departing therefrom only Insofur as will bo necessary to *e- curo uniformity," said Prof. B. T. Gal loway, chief of the bureau of plant' In* duntry today. "At a later dato it Is hoped that the official standards will bo elaborated, without alteration of their fundamen tal character, so us to bo much moro useful than any such standards have been In tho pist. "It Is not too much to nay that wo can now sc© clearly the possibility, by technical examination of the cotton fibre of this country, of so Improving the classification that all Interested IA tho cotton industry will bo materially benefited," TWELVE PISTOLS BOOTY OF THIEVES ATHENS PAWN BROKER FLEEC ED BY GANG OF NEGROES WHO T8CAPE. ATHENS, Ga., Deo. 27—Last night at 10 o’clock Mr. Herman Smith, the proprietor of a pawn ghop on Foun dry street, was robbed of twelve pis tols. Four negroes entered th# place of business of Mr. Hmlth, three of tho number engaged tho proprietor of the establishment In conversation regard ing some purchase* which they seem ed to be Interested to make, but after their companion had left the place sev eral minutes, the negroes decided they did not want the goods and In a very pleasant manner left the store. It was not long after their departure before Mr. Smith discovered that a box containing twelve pistols which was accessible had disappeared and the game of the four negroes played so suc cessfully dawned upon tho proprietor of the pawn shop. He did not remem ber a very good description of tho ne groes and was not acquainted with any of them. He Immediately report ed the matter to the police department, but no clue has br^n secured by the police which would throw any light as to who the guilty negroes arc. Anothsr Triumph for Wright, PAHIH. Dee. J7.7 One rf tn** I newspapers states that Wiilmr Wright, th* American n* «oplsc|«i, *1 l shortly go to Korn* to glvs Instnietloas to tin ' Italian pilots in tbs working of hts as pita*. , MAY vm TO GEORGIA AMBRICUSp Ga., Dec. 27.—Dr, Lancing HurrouKhu, p.tslor of tho Find Baptist church of Nashville, and among tho inoi<t eminent mins ter* of that denomination hi the south, preached two sermona to day hi lho First Baptist church of Americas. This chunh recently extended Dr. Burroughs a ntll an pastor nnd hope Is oxpreMsed that hU pr«‘senro today mean* ultimate acceptance of tbo call, w