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THE GEORGIAN”
VOL. VIII. NO. 255.
KNIGHT ISFISHiNG
AS COURT PROBES
AFFAIRS OF FIRM
WORDS OF DEATH
Hunter Is Convicted of Triple
Murder in Savannah
Superior Court.
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Like I
THE GEORGIAN" Ml
Failed For Five Million and Is
Also Charged With
Fraud.
William S. Young, Once a
* vict, Hangs Himself
to a Tree.
Con-
Patterson and Morrow Called
to Give Testimony Before
Investigation Conduct*
ed For Creditors.
Blralnfhim, Alt., M*y 28.—Whit. rrfdlt-
nr. ef t)>* Knlght-Ysoc-y Compair, of De-
rail,r. whirl, recently failed for something
llko IS.mMOO. urn in Birmingham with a
vj.w to a.rortalnlDg the exact atatu* of the
firm, report haa It that John W. Knight la
off on n fluffing trip.
Immediately on rooolrlng tho Information,
a United States marshal loft for Decatur
for tho purpooa of flmllng Mr. Knight anil
t.rrlnf him with anothor anhpani. fie la
winter] na a wltnria lo teatlfy before the
creditor*. •
At tho hearing y.it.rdty, Charlea Patterion
tho company'* agent at Selma, and J. L.
Morrow, i,gent at. Mobile, were the chief
witneeeee
Much time, waa taken up In dlacnaalng
ronon recelpta and drafta. They denied
knowing anything of hogua drafta.
KNIGHT-YANCEY COTTON
FOUND IN PENSACOLA
Panaacola, Fla., May 28.—Detectives
Edward Elliott, of Memphis, and
O'Connor, of Mobile, accompanied by
local officer*, who have been searching
for unaccounted Knlght-Tancey cotton,
found 8.000 bales In a local warehouse
here today and are not yet thru with
their work.
LARGE SENIOR CLASS
ISAWARDED DIPLOMAS
Commencement Exercises Are
Concluded at Wesleyan
With Banquet.
Macon, Ga„ May 28.—At the eonclu-
alon of the' annual meeting of the
hoard of truateea at Wesleyan college
last night It had been dellnltely de
cided that a vice president to aaatat
Preeldent Ainsworth In the Internal
management of the affairs of the col
lege must be chosen.
Thla vice president will be chosen
by the executive committee of the
board and will be some prominent
educator of the state.
Many Improvements are planned for
the college during the year. Presi
dent Ainsworth's financial report to
the board yesterday afternoon was one
of the best that his ever been made
from the school. The board highly
commended It. The members pledged
their hearty co-operation In the com
pletion of the campaign for a quarter
of a million dollara for endowment.
At the annual banquet of the grad
uating class at the college yesterday
evening President Ainsworth deliver
ed the baccilaureate address and con
ferred the bachelor of arts degree on
the following young ladles:
I.ole Atkinson, of East Point: Lee
Belk, Atlanta; Octavla Bethea, Dillon,
8. C; Agnes Dupree, Canton: Sara Lee
Evan*, Atlanta; Nell Purr, Pontotoc,
Mir*.; Susie Mae Greer, Oglethorpe:
Either Moseh, Moachton; Jessie Isaacs.
Macon: Susie Kroner, Wtntervllle;
Ituth Parrish, Brooklet; Maude Phil
lips, Quitman; Rena Plllard, Wlnter-
vtlle; Blanche Rucker. Alpharetta;
KmiIo Cooper, Brookhaven, Miss.;. Cor
nelia Smith. Montlcello; Leonora
Emlth, Atlanta; Mattie May Tumlln.
Hogansvllle; Bessie B. Warren, Ma
con; Martha Wilkinson, Bameivllle.
But the Doughty Insurgent Re
fused and Fight
Goes On.
Pluviosea Sepulcher of Steel
For 27 Men—All Efforts of
the Divers Prove
Unavailing.
Blutfields, May 28.—Under a flag of
'nice a demand for the surrender of
Bluefleldi, provisional capital, waa to-
“fly sent to General Estrada by Preal-
1-nt Madrit. The demand waa per
emptorily refused.
Tho the city Is aurrounded and the
fluff, of great strategical Importance, Is
I” the hands of the regulara, Estrada
declared he would light on.
Report* received this morning say
that Rama, held by Eatradan forces.
I* being attacked by Generals Lara and
; hnvaro, with a superior force. The
insurgents at Rama hava been cut off
c>m Rlueflelds and can not aid Estrada
Woman and Child Pariah.
Islington, Ky„ May 28.—Mrs. Caaale
tnlth and her eleven-year-old aon,
;* n . were burned to death at Cadis,
'v. yesterday.
Calais, May 28.—Thd submarine Plu-
vlose, sunk with her 27 men by the
packet Pan de Calais, atlil lie* at the
bottom of the English channel, a sep
ulcher of steel. Tho the crack diver*
of th# French navy worked all ,hlght
long, with.the searchlight* of warships
piercing the waters. In the attempt to
place lifting tackle,on the crushed hull,
when day came they were atlil baffled
by the enormous force of th* currents.
The haiards of the work were Increased
by the position of the Pluvlose.
With the abandonment of hope for
the officer! and men trapped In th*
craft, alienee settled down over the
flotilla of wrecken, dredge™ and war
ship*. and today the struggle went on
with no shouting of command or cries
of sailors. Crowd* atlil lined the ahore
today, pnytng and weeping.
The tow of the water, sufficient to
aend the 450-ton dead weight of the
180-foot subme™ib!e on a ghastly;
cruise over the bed of the channel, at
times washed the divers about like
straws In a wind. Few were able to
day to remain In the deptha more than
a few minutes at a time. They were
fserlouily handicapped by being com-
pelted to cling to rocka to prevent be
ing dashed to,death. •
It waa reported today that they had
found the Pluvlose turned over when
she teas relocated, and were able par
tially to Investigate the extent of dam
age. The steel shells, both Inner and
outer, according to authentic Informa
tion. were smashed like an egg shell
where the paddle of the Pas de Calais
"'The belief Is now held that th# men
were killed almost Immediately by the
liberation of gases. This would ac
count for their apparent failure to
make a move In the few mlhutes be
tween the time she was struck and
when she sank. •
$160,000 IS RECEIVED
FOR LANDS IN FLORIDA
Waveroii. Os.. May 28.—Twtnty theuand
acre* 3 Florid* l«nd has b**n disposed *f
hr O. II. Urethra..who Is now In Wsyrroasr
for The d**l wt* msd* thru an
st*ncy at Bowlin* Green. Fla., whra* Mr.
Lowther resides when-sot In Wsrcross.
Northern -aplt*ll»U are the purchaser*.
This deal It nee of sevsrsl Israe one* made
recently is UaSate counts by Mr. Lowther.
GIRL HURLED TO DEAIH
AN HER_WEDDING EVE
Auto in Which She Was Riding
Turns Turtle—One
Other Killed.
Logan, Ohio, May 28.—Mlsse* Lillie
Wright and Flossie Newman were
killed and Will Snyder, president of the
Snyder Manufacturing Company, waa
fatally hurt and Mrs. Jesse Goss pain
fully Injured In an automobile accident.
The party had attended a pre-nuptial
dinner at the home of Fred Ambrose.
In Union Furnace, five miles south of
here. Ambrose and Miss Wright were
to have been married Wednesday.
Snyder drove the party home. He
lost his'beatings at a turn In the road
and plunged over a 15-foot embank
ment. The machine turned turtle.
Mrs. Gom, despite her Injuries, ran
half a mile to the nearest farm house
to summon aid.
Want Elsetion Date Changed.
Waycross, Ga., May 28.—At the next
session of th# legislature an effort will
be made to pass a bill changing the
dale of election for city officials In
Waycross. It Is now provided for on
the first Saturday in January, with a
primary In December.
The buying public—the workers find spenders—
the real “backbone” of the country—are demanding
quality goods.
Hysterical advertising of underpriced gooda and
exaggerated values have gone out.
The opportunities for honest and intelligent re
tail merchandising thru honest and intelligent advertising have
never been so great as now. The readers of newspapers are
educated and intelligent people. They know qualitiea, they want
qualify, they will have quality, if not from one merchant, then
from another.
The retail merchant who is broad enough to realize the pos
sibilities of meeting the time and condition with quality rather
than quantity and profit, who can realize the possibilities of ad
vertising absolutely dependable goods arid backing it up with
his reputation, will make friends'of his customers. They will
have a Veason for preferring his store to any other.
To such a merchant here is what we offer in the way of
quality and service: More than forty thousand home snhscrib-
er*. two hundred thousand interested, intelligent and educated
readers who want quality goods and have the money to pay
for them.
We have added to our Advertising Department an Advertis
ing Service of quality which will help to make your apace more
productive.
Phone Main 8000 and a representative will call.
Seat on Exchange Will
Cost $100.
Want Ads
Os« Cent a Word.
On yesterday the
Atlanta papers carried
Want Ads as follows:
Georgian 563
Journal... 416)rq^
Constitution 177)
To h«lp those who are oat of a post,
tlon or who desire a better one. The
Oeorglsn prints want ads under the clas
sification •'Situations Wanted'* free.
Want Ads published by
all the Atlanta newspapers
for the week ending May
21, 1910, a period of six
working days: The Geor
gian carried 2,769 PAID
Want Ads; Journal, 2,217;
Constitution, 1,046 Want
ads.
The Georgian prints no
Sunday paper.
SUICIDE IS VERDICT
OF CORONER’S JURY
Somber Story of Saddened Life
Finds Its Final Chapter
in Ravine Near the
City Prison.
Will Be Sold by Foreclosure of
Mortgages Held by
Trust Company.
Cartersvillt, Ga., May 28.—Th* prep,
erty nf the Etowah Power Company In
Bartow county will be eold by the re
ceiver, W. A. I’arllale, on the flrat
Tueailay In June at the court houae In
Canton. Cherokee coqnty, Georgia.
This property comprise* all tha
properly conveyed to th# Etowah Pow
er Company by the Etowah Develop
ment Company by deed dated May 25,
1905, and la all of the water power on
the Etowah river In Cherokee and Bar
tow counties, lying, east and north of
the Weatern and Atlantic railroad
bridge, near thla city, w|th the right
fo flood and back Water upon the lands
adjacent thereto.
The property la aold under th* fore-
cloeure of a mortgage by the Knicker
bocker Truat Company, of New York.
Valuable Farm 8old.
Macon, Ga., May 28.—Thomas B.
West yesterday aold to Giles Harde
man the farm known ae the Breezy
Hill place for - 220,000. There are 215
acre* In the farm. Both men Interested
are real estate dealers. -
Crushed by a aorrow that had bur
dened his heart during all of the tatter
year* of hla life: broken In health and
enfeebled by old age. William 8. Young.
82 years of age, Tuesday afternoon left
the home of F. C. A. Mullins, In Glenn-
wood-av*.. where he had been staying
for aeveral months, and sought solace
In death. In a dense thicket Just be
yond the city prison reservation he
found It. Friday afternoon ehortly be
fore 8 o'clock the aged man was found
hanging to the limb of a cherry tree
beside a little stream, and almost ob
scured by the heavy undergrnth. He
had hanged himself with a rope with
which he had many times led the Mul
lins cows to and from the pasture.
Coroner Paul Donehoo Saturday
morning at 9:20 o'clock held an In
quest over the remain# In the under-
taking parlors of Greenberg, Bond &
Bloomfield. the Jury finding that the
old man died a suicide.
A Story of Tragedy.
The tragic death of.the aged man
marked the sequel to «n equally tragic
life story—the etory of an Incident thnt
had cast a gloom over hla life and
had caused him to be a wanderer upon
the face of the earth. At on# time a
well-to-do and highly respected cltlsen
of Walker county. In the northern part
of the elate. Young waa arrested, s
number of years ago, as th# principal
In a sensational affair. He faced a
Jury, was convicted anfl sentenced to a
long term In the penitentiary.
Sent To Convlot Camp.
He was sent to the camps nf the
Chattahoochee BHck Coiqpapy, nea»
Atlanta, whore ho served a portion or
hla term. There he conducted himself
In an admirable manner and was made
A 'trusty." Later he was transferred
to the Durham coal mlrtea On Lookout
mountain. Whether h# completed hla
term or waa pardoned la not known
here.
Aftfr being released, however,
worked at different place*—on farms—
and Anally came to Atlanta. He waa
given work on a farm near Burkhead
about a year ago by Mullins, and. after
Mulltns moved to Atlanta, the old man
was given quarters In his home and did
Ugrit r Wbrjf about the place.
Reoognlzed By Dootor.
Dr. Green, physician for the coroner,
was formerly physlrlan at the Chatta
hoochee camp*, at th# time convict*
were confined there, and. as he looked
on the ashen face In a hack room In the
undertaker's parlors Baturday morn
ing, easily recognised the'famlllar old
"trusty" of the convict camps. It qa*
the flrat time Dr. Green had seen the
aged man In many years.
Assistant Secretary Weaver, nf Po
lice Chief Jennings' office, knew Young
well. Mr. Weaker Is a minister and
at the time of Young'* arrest, was the
family's pastor In Walker county. After
the trial Mr. Weaver brought Young'*
two small hoys to Atlanta and Placed
them In the orphans' home at Decatur.
Young, It la understood, has three
daughters, two of whom are said to b“
In Washington, D. C.
Young hanged himself on a small
bluff, on which the cherry tree stand*.
After fastening the rope about a limb
of the tree and about hi* neck, the aged
man leaped off of the bluff, a distance
of about four feet, dying of strangula
tion. He la believed to have done thla
on Tuesday afternoon.
The swinging form was dlscovsred
by Henry Sparks, aon-ln-law of Mul
lins and a driver at the city prison.
Sparks had gone after Mullins' rows In
the pasture, and while passing thru the
thleket made his grewsome find. H*
then promptly summoned his father-in-
law and the two gave the alarm.
DEATH OF THREE WOMEN
IS PLACED ON AGED MAN
J. C. HUNTER.
Aged man convicted In Savannah
of murder of his wife, aged Mrs.
Grlbble and her daughter, Mrs.
OOhlander, and sentenced to hang
June 10.
TAFT TOA RETORT
Democratic Remarks About His
Traveling Expenses Annoy
President—Always Found
the South Hospitable.
Taft
Washington. May 28.—Stung hy th« critl
«*Um of hit traveling txponie account
recently by Demo-rats. President
haa aent to Reprcpnntatire Tuunry, chair
man, of tha house appropriations mminitt-e,
• letter expressing hia resentment.
“Rugeited reflection on 8onthvrn hospi
tality" in the criticism. Mr. Tift durlarea.
waa particularly distressing to him. Tha let
ter waa as follows:
"My Dear Mr. Tawneyf ‘ I am deeply
grtered over thy phase which the diicnlalon
of the appropriation for the traveling ex-
P««es of .4he present took yesterday. . I
thtpv It' H • legutmete argument in fsror of
such an appropriatian that congressmen and
many others press the acceptance of Invita
tions to visit their sections and districts, be
cause the urgency of auch requests indicate
the opinion on the part of the people that one
•of the duties of the president is to
visit tha people In thefr, homes. But
the intimation or suggestion that
acceptance hy congressmen of tha '
dent a invitation to trivel on tha train* with
him In their respective district* or states
waa a reason why they should' nbt rote their
free opinion on the question nf such an ap
propriation ia to me a moat painful one. Ir
traveling upon the train thay were not re
wiring my hospitality—they were only mak
ing a little more elaborate the enrdul urel
come which tbey..aa represent*rirv. of fheir
districts wished ■ to give,
"The feature of the discission yssterdi
which wae especially distressing to me was _
suggested reflection on Southern hospitality.
and I merer heard It intimated until I as
In thla morning’* paper. In all nr ex
perience, and I hare enjoyed, the, hospitalltiaa
of many sections and countries of the world.
I neeer had • more cordial, generous, open
and lavish welcome than I had in the South
*rn state* daring hy trip, and the slightest
hint that puts me In tha ettitude of. a critic
of that hospitality glvea me great-pain..
“* am goinr to talre the liberty of making
MONEY FOR FAMILIES
OF^DEAD FIREMEN
Macon, Ga., May 28.—Dr. R. E. Doug
las#, pastor of the Flrat Presbyterian
church; Rev. J. E. Wray, pastor of
Mulberry-at. Methodist church, and Dr.
E. C. Dargan, pastor of the First Bap
tist church, yesterday made a division
of the 88.000 which ha* been collected
for the families of tha unfortunate fire
men who were kllled*ln the Are engine
accident three weeks agn. The. minis
ters divided the money so that the
families of J. E. Buffington and (\ A.
McCrary receive $1,250 each and the
mother of Irte Robert* will gel 8600.
The division was made In this manner,
giving Mr*. Robert* a smaller portion,
because Robert* left no one dependent
upon him.
MUTES ARE INDICTED
FOR OBSTRUCTING TRAIN
Macon, Ga„ May 28,—The Bibb coun
ty grand Jury yesterday Indicted Gor
don Monroe and Wesley Payne, two
young deaf mutes, for effort# to ob
struct a passenger train on the South
western railroad. Both were arrested
several week* ago on the complaint of
Section Foreman J. M. Ross and lodged
In Jail. Yesterday a confession from
Monroe Implicated Payne and this
caused the grand Jury to Indict both.
Mrs. Bradley to Addrata Street Car Man
Mr*. D. C. Bradley will address the
street car men Sunday morning at 9:80
In the transportation building. Every
one I* Invited.
Chain of Circumstantial Evi
dence Was Woven Around
Husband of One of
the Victims.
(hit l*l»*r (a you public.
'•Vary truly ronr
f * WILL* AM
H.-TAFT,"
Local Securities To Be Listed.
I a meeting of the lo<;*| stock
brokers and aeveral prominent Invest
ora at the Chamber of commerce. Frl
day afternoon It was decided to estab
lish a stork exchange In Atlanta. A
aet of by-lawa- and a constitution, re
cently drawn up by a special commit
tee appointed for'the work at.a meet
Ing of brokers a week ago, were adopt
ed, and a committee of three prominent
broker* was selected to attend to tho
securing nf member* and list the stock,
which will In all probability be. very-
large, aa a number of the local;banks
and larger corporation# have an
nounced their Intention of listing their
Ktock with the exchange. .Thla com
mittee Is composed pf Herbert I„
Wiggs. W. E. Wardlaw and A. J. Spen
cer.
The hy-lawa provide that th* mem
bership ahall not exceed 25, the coet of
a seat being 810A. with annual due*
of the same amount. The exchange
will he open far business every, day
except legal holidays, from 10 to It
o'clock In the mornings and 2 to 8
o'clock In the afternoons, except Sat
urday*. when the hours will be from 9
to 11 o'clock In the morning*.
Gambling In any form I* strictly for
bidden on the floor of the exchange.
The government of the Institution ahall
be under the direction of ^even mem
bers, one of whom ahall be the presi
dent., There will also be a secretary,
an assistant secretary and a treasurer.
The annual election will he held on the
flrat Tuesday In June, thirteen mem
bers constituting a quorum.
Th* meeting Friday waa preluded
over by Samuel N. Evln*, who w*«
made temporary, chairman at the meet
ing, a week previous. A. T. Whitman
acted a* secretary- Aa soon aa' the
committee on membership haa com
plete.] It* report another meeting will
be called by Mr. Evtns lo perfect th*
Anal plans.
Savannah, Ga., May 28,—J. C. Hun
ter, found guilty of murder of hi* wife.
Mra. Maggie Hunter, and aged Mra.
Eliza Grlbble and her daughter, Mrs.
Carrie Ohleander. In Perry-at. last
December, wo* the verdict returned
after midnight this morning In Chat
ham superior court. With the court
room silence broken only by the sound
nf th* voice of Judge Charlton, the sen
tence of death was pronounced, and the
data of execution set for June 10.
The verdict came after the Jury had
been out 28 minute*.
Nearly all of the afternoon and night
session* of the court were devoted to
two arguments—that of Attorney Don
Clark, for the defense, and of Solicitor
General Walter Hartrtdge. - . ■ v,
At noon. Just before the. testimony
waa ended, the Jury wa* directed, from
the court room to the Perry-st. houair
and saw the room# In which the three
women were killed. Mayor George W.
Tledeman was on# of the last wit
nesses. *
Th* state's caae against Hunter rest
ed upon evidence that he had quarreled
with hi* wife, and waa seen rated from
her; that he knew of alleged Ihtimac)
between her and W. H. Walls: that he
waa seen near the house of murders
about the time of the murders, and
that he had threatened hts wife.
Hunter's defense was an alibi.
Wall la Yet To Bo Tried.
The murdeCa of which Hunter Is con-
vlcted were committed in the early aft
ernoon of December 12 In a small frame
two-story houae on Perry-at.
Mr*. Grihble'a skull waa crushed in
with blow* of a blunt Instrument. She
waa very old.
Her daughter met death, almost In
stantly from bfoiy* over the head. Mrs.
Hunter waff not dead when a patrol
man discovered th* tragedy, but died
several day* later In A hospital without
recovering consciousness sufficiently'to
tell who struck her. She talked ramb.
Ilngly of a "white man" who attacked
her.
, W. H. Walla, Mr*. Hunter's alleged
lover, and John Cooker, a negro, are
charged with aiding Hunter and aro
prisoners.
A negro who confessed th- -rim- was
not held, hla story being proven untrue.
WRECK AND RUIN LEFT
' IN PATH OF TWISTER
Score of. Persons Are Injured
and Many Houses Are
Destroyed.
Mtwphli, Term.. May 88.—A number o(
p#rM>n» W-im-p liijnretl. n icAn* of hulldliifa
wore denrroyArl nn»l n pHfh M feet n-M* wn*
rnj Jbni ronj nn«l fnfton floliln. doing imirh
rlnmnfe, when n “twister" shot nrrrtss the
MIknImIppI rlrer nt Armlwto.iii Lmidlntr.
unuth of hero, turfy lodnr. Ilenrletfn Dnvl*
Mifferetl n frn» ruro«l nktill, rannod hy being
Htmik hy fulling limber*, mid mxy die.
Other* wore etrnck by flying boord* or fall
ing debrl*.
Tho lorniido traveled from went to east.
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