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VOL. X. XO. 270.
IBM KILLS
WICKLIFFE
LOUEUNA
SOLDI
Congressman’s Body Found by
Police at Railway Crossing in
Washington. D. C.
INVESTIGATORS FAIL TO
FIND CAUSE OF ACCIDENT
Lawmaker May Have Been
Riding on Express Under
Which He Died.
WASHINGTON. -lune 11.—
Representative Robert W. Wick
liffe, of Louisiana, was killed this
morning by a train at the north
end of the Potomac River rail
road bridge. llis body was found
at 10 o’clock by the Washington
police, who are investigating the
accident.
The police are unable to determine
whethei rhe congressman was aboard
the train No 235 of the Southern which
killed him. or whether he was standing
on the track and was struck.
A great gash was cut. on his head and
his right leg was badly crushed.
It was said Mr. Wickliffe.had been
away for a day's fishing and was re
turning this morning when he was
killed.
Mr Wickliffe's watch had stopped at
9:23 a. m. A number of passenger
trains of various railroads cross the
bridge at that hour.
HAIL RUINING CROPS
MAY PROVE A BOON
TO COTTON GROWERS
\ hailstorm which caused dismay
among the farmers of Macon county last
summer may prove the direct cause of a
revolution in raising cotton.
It will if the experiments now being
made by Governor Joseph E. Brown at
his Cherokee county farm are successful.
The Macon countiy hailstorm beat the
cotton plants so badly that most of the
foliage was stripped. As a result all but
one Macon planter plowed in cotton and
substituted a crop of late corn. This one
farmer did not have the energy of his
fellows and just let his stripped cotton
plants stand.
In the fall he war amazed to find that
ihe sap in the stalk that formerly went
to leaves went into the "cotton bolls and
hp made a bale to the acre where he had
heretofore made but one-half bale.
Governor Brown has instructed his
overseer at Cherokee to shear a portion
< f his cotton plants of leaves and care
fully watch the result when the cotton Is
picked in the fall.
LAWYER, BOUND OVER
AS SWINDLER, CURSES
AND RAILS AT COURT
How dare you treat a brother law yer
in this manner?" asked Harvey Yea
mans of Henderson, Kv.. this morning
hen lie was bound over by Recorder
Pro Tom Preston to the superior court
for cheating and swindling.
Recorder Preston didn’t care to discuss
riliics with Teamans and the latter was
led away by tlv* court bailiff cursing and
shouting.
Teamans, it. is charged, played the
’•millionaire at the Piedmont hotel for
more than a week, but finally wound up
with a stock of unpaid bills and an empty
pocketbook. Os late he had appeared
mentally excited. His friends say that he
j deranged nn account of overwork.
\ MOO bill held against him by the
Piedmont and several cab fares are the
basis of the cheating and swindling
charge
60 CENTS ON DOLLAR
TO WIND UP ATLANTA
HORSE SHOW AFFAIRS
rhe affairs of the Atlanta Horse Show
association will be closed out at a loss of
to cents on the dollar for each stockhold
er In a letter sent out to each stock
holder today, Brooks Morgan, chairman
of the diractorate, notified them that the
committee had taken the necessary steps,
legal and otherwise, for closing out the
affairs of the stock company.
The letter said that a check for approx
imatob' S6O would be mailed to each
stockholder, which would mean a recov
er.- of about 60 cents on the dollar.
ASHBY SCHOOL CLUB ASKS
LIGHT FOR SUNSET PARK
rue Ashby School District Club will
petition council to place an arc light on
Leuna street to light Sunset park just
west •>( the school.
I'hc < lub has asked John Harwell, for
mer aiderman from the Fi st ward, to
br< t.mr a candidate for the same office
a' the next election. Air. Harwell will
run
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
Telegraphone Beats
Dictagraph; Now Used
By Detective Burns
* _
Machine Attached to Telephone
Will Hear Through Walls
Well As Ear.
LOS ANGELES. June 11.—A new In
strument, more deadly in its incrim
inating possibilities than the dicta
graph. nas been put into practical use
by Detective W. J. Burns. It is called
the telegraphone, and in the opinion
of Burns, who is now in Los Angeles,
the new invention will be a great re
ducer of crime, as well as an effective
and unimpeachable witness against
criminal agents.
“The new instrument is a simple
contrivance." said Burns, "ami possess
es all the good points of the dicta
graph. In addition its phonographic
possibilities make it of incalculable
worth. It is based on a small box and
the recording is done through hair
wires connecting with two steel posts.
"It can be attached to a telephone
and will record the conversation. It
is not necessary for the instrument to
be placed in a room or even near a
person to get every statement he may
make. It seems to hear through the
Avails and just as well as the human
ear."
WOMAN VALUES HER
BEAUTY AT $5,000.00 IN
A SUIT FOR DAMAGES
Loss of beauty is the reason given
by Mrs, A. E. Parker for asking in lhe
superior court $5,000 damages from
Weinberg Brothers, soda fountain pro
prietors at South Pryor and Alabama
streets,
Mrs. Parker asserts a 100-pound ceil
ing fan fell on her head while she was
drinking a glass of soda water in
Weinberg's place, scarring her face so
that her beauty was lost.
She maintains that the fan was in
securely fastened and was running at a
rapid rate when it fell The whirling
blades cut" a deep gash in her head
and severed one ear.
Moore * Branch filed the suit for
Mrs. Parker.
HERBERT TALLEY IN
‘WILD WEST’ REVEL;
FACES 2 CHARGES
Herbert W Talley, 470 Whitehall street,
who has figured in numerous escapades
in Atlanta and vicinity, is waiting today
to learn what the recorder is going to
do to him for shooting up the town from
a cab window last night.
Talley was nabbed by policemen in the
midst of wild Western revelry at the cor
ner of Butler and Armstrong streets.
Ordinary methods of showing his en
thusiasm over things in general did not
suit Talley in the early evening, so he
hired a negro cabman, jumped inside
the hack and started down Edgewood
avenue shooting from the side windows
and frightening pedestrians.
When the officers rounded him up,
they took away a .44-caliber gun. in
scribed "Mustang Jack," and hustled Tal
ley to police station. Two cases were
made against Talley.
ACCUSING~HEN FAILS
TO HOLD NEGRO FOR
BIG FIRE IN FORSYTH
FORSYTH. GA.. June 11.—Bernice
Bell, the negro who was placed in the
Monroe county jail at the time of the
disastrous fire of May 25. charged with
setting fire to the Forsyth hotel, and
who was accused by one of the jail
yard hens, through the medium of an
egg. was released by the committing
court. Because of certain threats. Bell
was arrested on~the night of the fire.
Then came the egg laid by the jailyard
hen. upon which was dearly decipher
able the words, Bernice Bell burned
the hotel." But upon the trial the hen
was not called, and the court did not
think the evidence sufficient to hold the
prisoner.
THREE RIGHT ARMS IN
SLINGS FROM A SERIES
OF.FORSYTH MISHAPS
FORSYTH. GA June 11. —Three per
sons in Forsyth today are wearing their
right arms in lings, ami for totally
different reasons.
While assisting a negro in loading a
sack of guano. Lem D Alexander lost
his balance and fed with full force upon
the wagon body. His right elbow struck
a piece of iron, lacerating the ligaments
of the arm.
While attempting to clean the spin
ning frames at lhe Trio mills. Lorell
Reeves, a 12-year-old employee, caught
his right hand In the machinery and so
badly wa§ his hand mashed and torn
that, amputation of the middle finger
was necessary.
T. R. Talmadge. local manager of the
mill of the Southern Cotton Oil Com
pany, in opening a door, scratched his
right hand, causing inflammation and
threatening blood poison.
WOMAN CLAIMS MALICIOUS
ARREST: ASKS SI,OOO BALM
Asserting that Charles O, LaHatte. of
the LaHatte printery. caused her arrest
on rumors that she intended to “clean up
the print shop'' when she had no such
intention. Mrs. Lila Weaver* today tiled
suit in superior court for SI,OOO damages.
She telephoned to her husband. .1. W.
Weaver, she maintained and shortly after
a police officer came to her home and took
her to police headquarters on LaHatte's
accusations. LaHatte. the suit recites,
had informed the police that she headed
for the prim .shop io make :> cleat l up.
LaHatte's actions, she says, were pureb
maliclou:;.
ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 11. 1912.
VALJEAN OF
IGA.INCELL
PLANS VOTE
MACHINE
Stripling. Ex-Chief of Police.
Would Weld Influence of
Prisoner’s Friends.
PLEADS FOR POOR WIFE
AND LITTLE CHILDREN
Principal in Remarkable Case
Like Hugo’s Hero Writes
Letter to Hudson.
Shut out from the world by prison
bars, separated from wife, family and
friends. Thomas E. Stripling, former
police chief of Danville. Vs.. who was
brought back to Georgia for life Im
prisonment after having lived a life of
rectitude for years, plans to exercise
a considerable influence in political af
fairs in Georgia.
In a quite pathetic letter to Thomas
G. Hudson, written from the state
farm at Milledgeville, when he thought
Mr. Hudson was still a candidate for
governor. Stripling, whose case has
been likened to that of Victor Hugos
j famous hero. Jean Vai Jean, offered to
i recruit every relative he had in the
| state as an active agent for the Hudson
campaign.
I "Send me postage stamps," he wrote.
I "and F will spend every spare moment
! I have appealing to my friends and
relatives to support• you.” He indi
cated further that he would organize
a campaign headquarters at the farm
and conduct it "asactively as possible
1 under the circumstances
: Pitiful Letter
To Tom Hudson.
Fifteen years ago Stripling was tried
and convicted of murder in Muscogee
county, Ga.. and received a life sen
tence. While in the county jail waiting
to be transferred to the penitentiary
he made his escape with several other
j prisoners. Last year it was discovered
I that the chief of police of Danville. Va„
: was none other than Stripling. He was
brought back io Georgia and recom
mitted to prison, despite the extensive
effort that was made to pardon him.
His letter to Mr. Hudson read as
follows:
Hon. Thomas G. Hudson.
Dear Sir: I guess you will be
somewhat surprised to receive a
letter from me. However, I am
wrltkig you because I fee! a deep
interest in your present campaign
for governor of the state of Geot -
gia.
With all due respect to others,
I believe that you are the best
qualified man in the race and f do
believe, if fleeted, you will be fair
and impartial to everyone, i want
to see a God-fearing and a God
loving man fill this high office, and
that will not have the blood of poo:
suffering women and children on
his hands when he goes before the
Judgment Bar of Gori. Lam daily,
yea. hourly praying—praying for
your success. I want to give you
the names of a few relatives and
friends for you to write to if you
like, who will do all in their power
for your success.
Asked Prisoners
To Aid the Cause.
The writer then gave a long list of
friends and relatives with residences all
over Georgia. Continuing he said:
I don't say this in a boastful
manner, but I am proud to say that
I have scores of friends and rela
tives all over the state of Georgia,
and I feel like I have had a raw
deal. If you will furnish me post
age ami think it will be worth any
thing to you I will spend every
spare moment I have from now un
til the primary appealing to my
relatives: and friends to support you
for governor, and furnish you with
a ust of letters written by me and
return postage left, if any. Charles
R. Winchester, of vour city, can
tell you something about me. I
had the pleasure of meeting a cou
ple of gentlemen from your city a
short time ago.
1 would not ask for the postage
if 1 had any one to appeal to ex
cept my poor wife and little chil
dren, who are almost dependent
upon my .relatives and friends for
support.
If you don't think well of my
! proposition, no harm done. lam
i appealing to the other prisoners
here io appeal to their relatives
ami friends to support you, . and
| God grant you will be successful
and be the next governor of the
"state of Geotgia.
May God abundantly bless you
and yours are the prayers of your
humble sonant.
THOS E STRIPLING.
Route 5. Box. I, Milledgeville, Ga.
Blue-Eyed, Curly-Haired Girl Ideal Baby
GEORG I A H AVEN FOR WAIFS
One of the little waifs for whom
the Children’s Home society seeks
a good home. TO
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DIXIE’S LITERS
TO BREAK STRIKE
Exodus of Negroes From State
of Georgia Expected to
Result.
An invasion of the South for ne
groes to break the great waiters strike
in the most luxurious hotels and res
taurants of New York was planned to
day. according to information received
in Atlanta. Agents of the Waldorf-
Astoria. the Vanderbilt, Rector’s, 'the
Astor and other famous hostelries were
said to be on their way to this section
to round up blacks to take the place
of the skilled Europeans whose walk
out has caused the lobster belt in Man
hattan ail sorts of anguish the past
ten days
An exodus of blacks from Georgia
and other Southern states is looked for
as a a-esult of this unexpected move.
News of the places to be had up North
has already spread among the colored
domestic help here and many a house
hold in Atlanta is threatened with a
resignation from a butler dreaming of
automobiles and country places ob
tained wi.h tips gleaned on the Great
White Way.
Foreign Invasion
Os South Likely.
However, there is little likelihood of
a dearth of help, as the supply of
butlers and valets and handy men in
gene al is said to be far In excess of
the demand, ft is probable, however,
that the proposed move will mean an
influx of foreigners into the South.
Most of the polished help in the lux
urious cases of New York is of eithe r
French. Swiss or German nationality.
Atlanta may expect Adolph. Gaston
and Henri to be packing their grip-;
and hiking Southward if the importa
tion of negroes should break the strike
they have been waging with remark
able success thus far.
Hotel keepers in New York are plan
ning. ft was said, to keep the colored
help permanently, throwing out of work
a vast army of skilled Europeans.
Chicago Waiters
Strike at Banquet
CHICAGO. June 11.—Fifty waiters
employed at the LaSalle hotel went out
on strike while 450 members of the
Northwestern university medical school
sat dinnerless until others could be
obtained to serve in their places.
Just as the medical students started
to dine, a delegation of waiters de
manded of Managei Wolf that they be
pa'd $3 instead of $-’ fm erving the
banqueters. They were summarily re
fused.
I
I Atlanta Charitable Institution
! Finds Homes tor Fatherless
and Motherless Ones.
j
A girl, eighteen months old. w ith blue
eyes and curly hair.
That’s the ideal baby, in the consen
sus of Georgia opinion, according to
statistics in the office of Robert B. Mc-
Cord, superintendent of the Georgia
Children's Home Society, whose motto
is "a home for every child and a child
in every home.” It was gathered from
the hundreds of requests -for children
from would-be foster-mothers.,
Mr. McCord has a peculiar profession.
He is a kind of baby broker, for he
acts as go-between for homes without
children and children without homes,
bringing the two together. But he
doesen't get any commission. Indeed,
the society is struggling along without
the funds it really needs.
The society's idea is just opposite
that of the old system of building or
phanages to tear children in. If lite
society could realize its ideal there
really wouldn't be any need of or
phanages.
Extreme Care Used.
"We get .our.children on reports from
the charities, from physicians ami min
isters, from friends of a destitute fam
ily. sometimes from the parents them
selves." says Mr. McCord. "Then we
set about finding a home for the baby.
We must be extremely careful here.
A long list of questions must be signed
by the applicant and the foster-parent
must enter into a binding contract with
us to care for th' child properly. We
turn over a baby to a family only after
a ragid investigation, and wo keep up
our supervision until the child is grown
to legal age, or formally adopted. We
do not ask that it bo adopted at first;
in fact, we prefer that no such step
he taken, a- w e can retain supert ision I
of the child until such papers are |
drawn up.
"We don't like to place a child in a
home where there are other children.
It wouldn't be human nature to give an
adopted child th: same affection one
gives a real son or daughter. We don’t
care for wealthy homes, especially. Just
good, middle-class families make the
best foster-parents. We must bo care,
ful that the family is healthy, the home
well kept and sanltarv, atul that there
is an income sufficient to give the fos
ter-child comfort and happiness.
Not Told of Child's Past.
"And those who come to us for chil
dren must take them on faith. We will
not tell an applicant who are the
parents of a child, or anything of the
child's past. We only guarantee that
the baby is healthy. Os course, if they
care to adopt the child in after years,
we will then give a complete record, but
not until then.
“A woman came to see us from south
Georgia a few days ago. Her was
fixed on a baby about eighteen months
old, either a boy or a girl, and she was
so confident, of finding what she de
sired that she had brought a complete
outfit of clothing, and even a little
gold pin engraved with a name which
might fit either a boy or girl. No. we
didn't have just the baby she wanted,
but she went to an orphanage and
found .in t the Ideal she had pictured
in het thoughts"
SEEKING DIKE
ACCUSES TTPIST
Wife Says She Pleaded in
Vain With Girl to Give Back
Her Husband.
Mrs. Mamie McCullen Barnes has
brought suit for complete divorce against
her husband because, she says, he has
been intimate with a stenographer in his
office since three weeks after they were
married and because both he and the girl
resisted her appeals to separate.
Mrs. Barnes’ husband is Oscar Barnes,
of the Barnes Furniture Company, at 93
Mitchell street, and they have been living
at No. 73 Milledge street, up to the time
six mouths ago when Mrs. Barnes says
her husband’s relations with his un
named stenographer made her move
away.
In her complaint she says that she
married Barnes in January. 1911, and had
lived with him only three weeks when
she first discovered that he was staging
out late nights under pretense of office
work, whereas* he was rea j keeping ap
pointments with his stenographer.
She says that first she pleaded with
him. unavailingly to give up the other
woman, but that he told her her suspi
cions were groundless.
Then Rhe says, she went to the girl
herself at her husband’s office, when he
was absent and bogged her to give up
Barnes.
• You’re fortunate in marrying such a
fine fellow," she says the unabashed ste
nographer told her. "You're so fortunate
that you shouldn't mind seeing w'hether
you can him or not."
NEW SCANDAL DEVELOPS
IN MACON CITY COUNCIL
M.'CON. GA . June 11.—Another po
litical .vandal has developed here to
day through the publication of the fact
that three members of council, who
are in business, have been selling the
city goods for the last four or five
months The sales are recorded at
the city hall, the vouchers have been
paid, and there Is no denial made. One
aiderman only yesterday sold the city
goods amounting to $1,368 and this
voucher has been approved by the
finance committee for payment.
The city code specifically says that
aidermen shall not participate in any
contract with the city and are liable
to removal from office upon conviction
of the offense.
TWENTY-FIVE MLLED IN
MEXICAN EARTHQUAKE
MEXICO CITY, June 11. —An earth
quake shock of three minutes dura
tion shook the states of Colima and
Jalisco today. Ovei 25 persons were
reported to have been killed. Mi.tint
Colima, a volcano, is In eruption.
3 DEAD. 7 HURT IN GAS
EXPLOSION AT FURNACE
PITTSBURG, June 11. T hree men were
killed and .seven injured today in a gas
explosion ai the Isabella blast furnace in
Etna, a suburb.
HOME
EDITION
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE XV °
T. R. LOSES
TEN; WINS
ONE IN
o
Steam Roller Gives Kentucky
to the President, Refusing
Fraud Proof.
ALA. TAFT DELEGATE.
DISGUSTED. DESERTS
Alverson of Seventh District
Says, Although Instructed,
He’ll Vote for Colonel.
Chicago, June 11.—The second
district of Kentucky went to
Taft on roll call, the vote being
51 to 0. Taft's total 92; Roose
velt 0.
Governor Hadley, of Missouri,
who had taken a seat in the com
mittee, did not vote, not, having
heard all of the case.
Inasmuch as the Fourth dis
trict Kentucky contest is the same
as the First and Second, the
Roosevelt forces gave it up as
useless and withdrew it. Chair
man Rosewater held that this
placed Taft men of the Fourth
district of Kentucky on the tem
porary roll. This gives Taft 10
today, a total of 94 for him.
CHICAGO, Jun.' 11.—The four
Taft delegates at largo from Ken
tucky and the two from the First,
district representing the Taft fac
tion were seated by the Republi
can committee today. Taft’s total
seated by the committee now lias
reached 90. Roosevelt men have
not won a .single contest.
At the same time positive informa
tion was received from Roosevelt lead
ers at Birmingham, Ala., that they had
received a telegram this afternoon
from D. Alverson. Republican dele
gate from the Seventh Alabama dis
trict, stating that he has switched
from Taft to Roosevelt. Alverson stated
that, although he was elected on the
Taft ticket and instructed to vote for
Taft for the nomination, he has becomg
so disgusted with the steam roller pro
ceedings of the national committee in.
< 'hicago that he has decided to vote for
the nomination of Roosevelt.
Refused To Read
Fraud Affidavits
The vote on the Kentucky delegates
at-large was taken under protest, it
stod 38 to 11. three committeemen not
voting. A hale of affidavits had beer
filed b.v tire Roosevelt men in the dele
gates-at-large case The ftoosevelt
men on, the committee wanted delay
until these could bo read. The Taft
men refused, and the vote was ordered.
The Taft delegates-at-large are Sen
ator William O. Bradley, James Breath
itt, W. D. Cochran and J. E. Wood.
The Roosevelt contestants are E. C.
O'Rear and Leslie < 'ombs.
Besides the squabble over the dele
gates-at-large, contests were brought
by Roosevelt in the First. Second.
Fourth. Seventh. Eighth, Tenth and
Eleventh congressional districts.
Judge Ed O'Rear. xme of the con
testing delegates-at-large. presented
the ease for the Roosevelt men. He
filed a bundle of affidavits to show that
the charges that Taft appointees had
captured the delegation by “gavel”
methods in the convention were true.
Roosevelt had secured the delegates, he
said, but they were not allowed to
vote.
Federal Officers
Ruled Conventions.
W D. Cochran, of Marysville, a Taft
delegate-at-lerge, presew««< ,’<« d*
sense.
In speaking for the Roosevelt men,
Judge O'Rear said:
“i charge that there was a deliber
ate plan to carry Kentucky for the
president despite the will of the people.
The plan was participated in by the
Republican state central committee of
that state. Os the thirteen members,
twelve favored Mr. 'Taft.
“Now the party rule is that the del
egates holding tiie credentials signed
by the eoun’ chairmen are entitled
to seats, in about one-third of tha