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THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and to morrow. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 67 degrees: 10 a. m., 70 degrees: 12 noon, 74 degrees; 2 p. m.. 77 degrees. 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 /Z y v / A v. \ mH 4 I. > J® 1V * W W 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