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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair today; showers tonight or to
morrow.
VOL. X. XO. 281.
GIRLS TRYING
TO SME PET
BITTEN BY
MAD DOG
Two Victims Are Rushed From
Dublin to Atlanta tor the
Pasteur Treatment.
ATTACKED IN PARK, FIGHT
RABID BRUTE WITH STICKS
Hound Mangles Arm of One
Young Woman Before It
Is Driven Off.
Bitten by a mad dog which attacked
them while they walked in the Dark at
Dublin. Ga„ Miss McGeckin and Miss
Tulia Ernest were rushed 160 miles by
automobile and train today to the Pas
teur instituei n Atlanta in a desperate
effort to save them from hydrophobia.
Midi; McGecken. who is the daugh
ter of R. B. McGecken, an architect,
was taking her blooded collie for an
airing in Stubbs park at<Dublin. when
a hound, with a piece of broken rope
adngling from his need, suddenly leaped
out from a clump of bushes and sprang
upon the collie. Miss McGecken. In a
brave effort tn protect her pet. sought
to drive away the frothing animal with
a small whip she carried. The hound
jumped upon her and fastened ~ his
fangs in iter arm.
At this moment Miss Ernest, who had
been walking with her friend, ran to
< Miss McGecken’s assistance ' with a
small branch which she had picked up.
The infuriated hound bit her again and
, aga'infl mangling her wrist frightfully.
Boh Victims
Near Collapse.
TJfe mad dog sprang away into the
woods just as Policeman John Tomp
kins arrived upon the scene. Tomp
kins took the two young women to their
homes and doctors were summoned, for
both were already upon the point of
collapse. The physicians advised that
both victims be sent lo the Atlanta
Pasteur institute as the only means of
saving their lives.
They started immediatley for tne sta
tion at Tennille and by pushing the
machine to the utmost the chauffeur
succeeded in reaching the station there
just as the train for Atlanta was pull
ing in. The two young women were
taken into a compartment in the Pull
man and friends attended them until
they n ere met at the Atlanta depot, by
doctors ami nurses from the Pasteur
hospital.
' At that instiution today it was said
• that both young women have an ex
cellent chance of escaping hydropho
bia.
The dog was shot by a young son of
tSidney Smith, a mile from the scene, an
hour after it bit the young women. Its
head was boxed and sent to the Pasteur
institute here for examination.
SOCIALISTIC BRIDE
NOT TO BOSS HUBBY;
TO BE PAID SALARY
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., June 24. Ed
mund Trowbridge Dana. Harvard in
structor, and grandson of Longfellow, the
poet, and his English wife, have com
pleted the first week of married life. I
The couple gave university and social I
circles the shock 6f a lifetime when they
were married under a Socialistic form of
matrimony and by a justice of the peace.
Roth are Socialists, suffragists and fruita
rians.
■ VThcre has hern no hossing as yet,”
said Mrs. Dana todaj. Her husband
-poke up: "She's just bossing me around
something fierce,” he said, "and we have t
orb been married a week."
When questioned about one of Mrs. '
Dana's statements that the wife should)
hr paid a salary, hr said: "Just at pres
ent I am looking for » Job. so the profit
sharing business isn’t causing any trou
llr."
But wr nill share and share alike when
Mr. Dana gets a job." interrupted the
bride
LATEST ANESTHETIC
PROVES SUCCESSFUL
DENI ED. COLO.. June 24.—Puinless
operations of a serious nature can be
performed with the patient entirely
conscious and without any of the un
pleasant nauseated effects that result
from ether if the new local anesthetic,
composed of quinine and urea hydro
chloride. is used.
Dr. Frank M. McCartney performed
an operation at St. Anthonys hospital,
which shows conclusively that this
preparation is the ideal local anesthetic.
He removed a tumor as big as a man’s
fist from th' should'r blade of Oswald
y Richter, who has been the director
of the oiihe tr;i at th' "rpbeurn tltea
tet for several years.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Proht—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
16 DROWNED
IN COLLAPSE
DE DOCK; 14.
MISSING
i Excursionists Crowding to
Board Niagara River Steam
boat as Crash Comes.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
j HURLED INTO CURRENT
Bodies of Known Dead Recov
ered-Feared Others Were
Swept Over Falls.
BUFFALO. N. Y.. June 24.—With six
teen bodies recovered and fourteen
missing, all of whom are believed to
have perished, scores of police and vol
unteer rescue workers dragged Niagara
rivet today for victims pf the collapse
of the excursion dock at Eagle park last
night.
Police worked ali night with grap
pling hogks and nets. They feat that
the swift current has carried the bodies
of some of the victims over Niagara
Falls and that they will never be
found. All rhe bodies taken from the
river have been identified and claimed.
The disa-ter came at the end of a
day’s outing of Court Amherst. No. 232.
Order of Foresters. The steamboat
Henry Koerber had just warped into
the dock, which was jammed, while
scores of others were crowding upon
-the staging. Captain Fox, of the steam
er. called out to the people to move
slowly, but tlie crush continued.
Just as the gangplank was. thrown
out and those upon the edge of the
pier began moving on the -vessel, the
crash came. The plapking held fast
‘ to the timbers on both sides of the dock
leaving a sort of chute or pocket into
which the frenzied stream of men. wo
men and children poured.
STATE PRINTER BYRD
FULLY VINDICATED BY
REPORT OF EXAMINER
* ———
in a letter sent broadcast today
Charles P. Byrd, sttae printer, declares
that he is absolutely vindicated by the
report of Frank .1. Cohen, expert print
er, who investigated the chatges that
Byrd had violated his contract wifli the
state. He declares that he tna'de no
answer to the accusations against him
because he knew lie had complied fully
with al! the requirements of his posi
tion.
He points out that Mr. Cohen’s re
port finds that instead of Byrd owing
the state, the state owes Byrd $119.98.
the difference between undercharges
and ovetcharges.
Mr. Cohen also finds that Bytd
couldn’t use "small pica" as specified
by law. because there is none of that
type now in existence So Mr Byrd
was perfectly justified, Cohen adds, in
using eleven point, which is recognized
over the entire country as being the
nearesl thing to small pica.
Mr. Cohen’s conclusion is that the l
state law should be revamped to make
the specifications more explicit.
NO POISON IN BODY
OF FIRST HUSBAND |
OF LOUISE LINDLOFF
CHICAGO. June 24. Tin inquest,
which will ojcially determine the cause i
of death of young Arthur l.lndloff will
be held this afternoon.
A chemical examination of the hoi’s
liver by Professor Hain' S, <of the Rush ‘
Medical college, had disclosed the pr, s- i
once of arsenic In quantities siiflieient j
to cause death.
One thread in lire web of evidence)
against Mrs. Louise Ltndloff. the al- I
legeci poisoner, who is being bold on |
the charge of slaying he son and is.
■suspected of putting several other ret- |
atives out j’of the way foi insurance I
money, has been broken.
Chemists failed to find any traces of
poison in the body of John Grannis, |
the woman’s first husband, whose burly
was exhumed at, Milwaukee.
CLAY. ON TRIAL FOR
KILLING WIFE,TAKES
HIS ORDEAL CALMLY <
Robert Clay, who shot and killed nisi
wife. Katie Clay, at the Lee street
home of her sister-in-law, Mis. W. \V.
Hughes, was put on trial for his life In
Judge Roan's court today.
The defense that ‘('lay’s lawyers have
prepared is based upon a special insan
ity plea Drs. James Baird. J M Ellis
and F. H. Green, the alienists appointed
by the court to test Clay ’s mental con
dition. will all testify that he is sain
Clay took tiv first Hay’s ordeal with
astonishing coolness.
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VICTIMS IN AUTO
CRASH NOT HELD
Police Blame Only Dead Driver
: of Car Wrecked on the
Forsyth Viaduct.
If Joseph J. Henesey, chauffeur, had
survived the automobile wreck on the
Forsyth viaduct early Sunday mornins.
he would have been prosecuted for
overspeeding.
He died at Grady hospital of a frac
tured skull shortly after the machine,
with its .six occupants, crashed into the
guard rails of the viaduct, and the au
thorities have determined that they
will take no further action.
Fred Ball. O. E. Pickett, Dan Shaw.
George Schaeffer and Louis Rebb. the
other occupants of the machine, all of
them injured, disclaim any knowledge
of the accident. They say they were
not intoxicated and did not know that
Henesey had been drinking when they
entered the automobile. The police have
accepted their explanations of the ac
cident and probably will not charge
them with disorderly conduct.
Going at High Rate of Speed.
Policeman Melton, who saw the
smashup, reported to Captain Poole
that the big machine, with the driver
and five men aboard, passed him at the
I rate of 60 miles an hour at the corner
lof Mitchell and Forsyth streets, two
I blocks away from the viaducj. Hene-
I sey had taken the muffler off for the
i rush up the grade to the viaduct, and
the great machine hurled itself upon
the structure at an almost unchecked
speed.
‘ It struck lite railing guards of the
underpass and was hurled back to the
sidewalk, fifteen feet away. The car
■atapulted from a second impact with
a giant viaduct beam, and its passen-
I gers were hurled in all directions
Henesey died on the operating table
of Grady hospital without regaining
I consciousness. ' *
Robert Millet. 624 Peachtree street,
who Owned the ear which Henesey had
taken from the garage without permis
sion. had the body of his chauffeur re
moved to undertaking rooms, where ii
[awaits the man’s relatives from Penn
j sylvania.
fRGES LAW TO PROTECT ’
PRESIDENT FROM ABUSE
CHICAGO. June 24. --Legislation to
protect the president of the United
States from vituperation was urged by
the Rev. Johnson Myers, in a sermon at
Immanuel Biltist church on Lessons
from the Great Convention "
"There should be some legislation
which will protect the dignity and
honor of the presidential office. It is
humiliating to the American people to
have the name and position of their
president slandered. The coTintrv needs
a higher standard of statesmanship."
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1912.
Forget Vacation if
You Have to Leave
YourGrocerUnpaid
Chicago Pastor Publishes Annual
Summer Appeal to Residents
of Suburb.
CHICAGO. June 24.—The thirteenth
annual notice, which has been inserted,
in a newspaper of Oak Park, a west
side suburb, appealing to residents not
to forget to pay their grocer, meat and
other bills before they leave on va
cations appeared today .
The proclamation has been publish
ed for thirteen - years by the Rev. Wil
liam E. Burton, pastor of the First Con
gregational chinch and chairman ><>f
the pastors union. The statement de
clares that one should not think of tak
ing a vacation, if by so doing any
other person is deprived of tlic moans
of taking an outing. He furthermore
calls upon all who are able to provide
the means for at least one needy per
son in the city’s congested district to
take ,i short country trip.
STATE TEACHERS TO
SELL PROPERTY ON
CUMBERLAND ISLE
<’[ MBERLAND ISLAND. GA., June
24.—The forty-sixth annual session >f
the Georgia Educational association
adjourned after the following officers
were elected for the ensuing year:
President, Superintendent A. G. Miller,
of Waycross; first vice president. Su
perintendent T. G. of Hawkins
ville; second vice president. Mies Nina
Scarlett, of Brunswick: treasurer. Su
perintendent Ralph Newton, of New
nan; secretary. Superintendent C. L.
Smith, of LaGrange; directors, Supet
intendent W. P. Thomas, of West
Point; Superintendent J. M. Rfcharo
son, of Montezuma, and Superintend
ent J. S. Allen, of Albany.
State Superintendent M. L. Brittain
introduced a resolution giving the trus
tees of tite association the power to
dispose of lite property on Cumberland
Island owned by the Georgia teachers.
This provoked the liveliest discussion
of the convention. Mr. Brittain’s reso
lution finally carried and the associa
tion will not in all probability meet
Imre again.
GEORGIA WOMAN 102
YEARS OLD DIES IN
WILKINSON COUNTY
DUBLIN. GA.. June 24. Mrs. Betsy
Billue Is dead at her home in Wilkinson
county, less than a month after her
one hundred and second anniversary.
She was born in North Carolina on
May 24, 1810, but moved to Georgia at
an early age. her family settling in Wil
kinson county, where she spent the re
mainder of her life. Her brother, Ze
nas Fords tn. of Laurens county, is still
living at the age of 92. On the occasion
of her last birthday a family reunion
was held at .Mis. Billue'-, home, whin
sbr talked to more than 100 of her rel
atives for the. last time.
BANOITSAGGUSED
OF KILLING THREE
Doctor Held as Arkansas Bank
Robber Declares Gang Slew
His Son.
MAMMOTH SPRING, ARK.. June 24.
Dr. E. R. Jones, under arrest on a
charge of participating in the robbery
of a bank here a few weeks ago. has
made a statement which, be says, con
tains the details of a campaign of mur
der, cattle stealing and bank robing,
resulting in the death of four persons,
the loss of innumerable cattle and the
looting of at least one bank.
Jones made a statement denying his
guilt, but implicating Loftus Davis,
Charles Davis, brothers, and Howard
Sears, all of whom nre under arrest
charged with robbing the Mammoth
Spring bank.
Among the crimes charged to the
trio in Jones' statement is the murder
of Mrs. Sears, a widow, whose body
was found in a cistern neat her home
May 18 last, with marks on the neck,
indicating that she had been strangled.
Accused Deny Slayings.
Jones' statement says that Howard
Sears, sons of the murdered woman,
formulated a plan to steal his mother’s
cattle, but did not otherwise take part
in the affair. The Davis brothers, co
conspirators, according to Jones, en
tered the Sears home on the pretense
that they wanted supper, strangled Mrs.
Sears, threw her body into the cistern
and later drove off her cattle.
Then. Jones declares, the Davis
brothers rejoined young Sears.
The trio then proceeded to the Davis
ranch, says Jones, and on the way they
met a stranger, whom they robbed and
murdered, throwing his body Into
Spring river.
Jones also charges the three mon I
with killing his own son, Ben Jones. '
and Will Dabbs, both of whom mys
teriously disappeared several weeks
ago.
Though they admit guilt In connec
tion with the robbery of the Mammoth
! Spring bank, the three mon stoutly
deny the other crimes charged to them
in the Jones statement. They charge
that Jones wat an accomplice in the
bank robbery. The charge against
Jones is yet to be tried.
CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE
HONORS DEAD SECRETARY
CHICAGO, June 24.—-The Board of
Trade was closed all day today as a
mark of respect for the late George
Frederick Stone, for whom funeral
services will be hold In Evanston this
afternoon.
Mt Stone, who died Friday after
noon after n long illness, was for 28
jearjj secretary of Hie institution.
DEMOCRATS LINED UP
FORB«M
SOUND DFKEYNOTE
I
Delegates on Hand for Opening of Balti
more Convention Tomorrow—Bryan
to Eight Parker to End, With Wil- ;
son Backing Him Up in Opposition.
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Governor Plaisted Put to Front by Progressives '
for Chairman-—New Yorkers Fling “Gaynor
lor President’’ Banner to Breeze—-Underwood
Supporters to Organize Tonight. t
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BALI IMOKK. -liitiv 24.- —-AXith the ineplirig’ of the Democratic
National Committee today to make final arranwenients for the Nation
al Convention that meets tomorrow, the struggle for the nomination of
a presidential candidate to oppose William Howard Taft was formally
ushered in. Many of the party leaders are already here. Others are 5
coming on every train. Baltimore has taken on a convention air. In
the hotels state delegates gathered for the caucuses on the big fight,
the first move of which will be the selection of a temporary chairman.
Indiana will hold its caucus at ■'» p. in. today and Michigan at 4 p. in.
Interest today centered in the
moves of the leaders over the
chairmanship light. William -Jen
nings Bryan, who has announced
that he will oppose -Judge Alton
B. Parker, of New York, for the
position, Jtegan to marshal his
forces. That he will fight to the
finish, in spite of the efforts of
the party leaders to induce him to
join ‘‘a harmony" movement.
I was apparent.
Clark 'Howell, a member of the com
mittee for Georgia, said:
“The committee will select Judge
Parker. He will have from 30 to 32
votes on the test. "
Speculation as to the candidate that
will be brought out to oppose Parker
was rife. The names of Senator John
Worth Kern of Indiana and Governor
Frederick Plaisted of Maine were men
tioned. Kern is a close personal friend
of Bryan. Four years ago he was vice
presidential candidate with Bryan. His
selection was made then at the sugges
tion of Bryan, and for this reason it
was believed today that Kern w ould be
selected to lead the fight.
Governor Plaisted, however, is a pro
gressive whose fight at the head of his
party’ in Maine brought him into prom
inence. and ho is favored by many of
those who are backing the Nebraskan
in his fight against the New York
jurist.
Seventy-Nine Contests
To Be Decided.
One of the most important things
slated for consideration by the national
-committee today was the making up of
the temporary roll of the convention.
There are 79 contests listed. One of the
biggest tights Is that which will come
when the Illinois contests are heard.
The fight there is that between Com
mitteeman Roger <’. Sullivan and his
faction and the faction headed by
Mayor Cartel H. Harrison of Chicago.
Before the meeting of- the national
committee today for the first test of
strength between the Bryan and anti-
Bryan forces it was confidently assert
ed by the anti-Bryan men that they far
outnumbered the Nebraskan’s support
ers. It was reported that Bryan him
self might enter the committee meet- ’
ing. holding the proxy of Committee- (
man P. L. Hall of Nebraska. Hall is a
close friend of Bryan and is his sup
porter in the tight that is being waged .
against Parker.
Interest in tin- candidates for the .
presidential nomination was two-fold
I
today. In addition to their race for
party leadership, there was much spec- ‘
ulation as to the part they would piny
in the Bryan-Parker fight.
Supporters of Champ Clark, of Mis- (
souri, according to statements of his ,
lieutenants, have been loft free l.>«tnke
what put t they choose in tlm 'skirmish, j
The Bryan men will support tite man
from Lincoln. The antl-Bryan-Clark
supporters will aid the backers of
Parker.
Woodrow Wilson has taken a definite
stand, saying that the progressive must
sound the keynote. Herates Parker as
a conservative, and his followers will (
take sides against the men from Esopus.
The otheis —Governor Judson Harmon .
of Ohio, Oscar Underwood of Ala
bama and Thomas R. Marshall of In
diana—have taken sides in the con
troversy.
In the matter of candidates, the field
is rich. Today the New York delega- '
tion added the name of William J.
Gaynor, mayor of New York, to the
list His picture was thrown to the
breezes and his workers got into ac- •
tion
The Cnd'-t wood people announced i
meeting of ah the supporters of the
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE £, A O Y RE NO
Alabama congressman for this even- ,3
ing. it Is a meeting not only of the 'll
delegates who ate instructed for Un
derwood. and those who. uninstructed. >9
favor him, but of all bis friends apd •i 1
workers.
Here is the wot king plan of the con- , I
vention:
June 25.
Convention < ailed to order by Chair- j!
man Norman E. Mack, of the national - s |
committee.
Temporary chairman introduced, key
note speech presented.
Members of tite resolutions and ere- si
d'-ntltls committee appointed'.
June 26.'
Committee on credentials reports.
Convention permanently organized.
Permanent chairman elected.
Committee on resolutions reports if
ready and platform adopted. S
June 27.
Nominations for president. Roll call
by states for nominations.
Nominating ami seconding speeches.
Balloting on presidential nominations
until a nomination I:- reached. In case ..
of deadlock, adjournment until next ’
da y.
June 28.
Vice presidential candidates nomln- J®
;t ted.
Clearing up of routine business.
Adjournment.
In order to win the nomination the
successful candidate must poll at least
two-thirds of the total vote.
An important item of interest in con
nection with the nominating of can- J
didates is that I lie states will vote tin- rgj
der Hie unit rule. This also applies to
Hu- voting on all other propositions,, It -13
will make a difference in a number of ■ '
instances where there is a split among f
delegates on candidates. Tlic majority -. j
under this rule van throw the delega- rd
tion to w hatevei candidate it favors. I I
This situation is found in the Penn
sylvania delegation. A majority is for jj
Governor Wilson. Congressman A. M. ’ <
Palmer controlling
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Taggart and Sullivan
Not Looking for Fight ’
BALTIMORE. June 24—" Alton B. |S
Parker, of New York, will he chosen j
temporary chairman of the Democratic ?El
national convention on the fust ballot
taken by the national committee. There
will be no set ions opposition to him
and he will have ai least 40 votes of (be F 3
53 that constitute the'committee.”’
The statement. was made today by t I
Thomas Taggart, national committee- * •
man from Indiana, and was indorsed f I
and seconded by Roger Sullivan, na- ,
tional committeeman, f um Illinois.
"We do not believe that Colon"! . cj|M|
Bryan will seriously oppose litis selee
tion of Judge Parker." continued Mr.
Taggart. "He has got himself a lot of
valuable advertising by the remarks he
has made and that was about all lt«
>
was looking for. If, however, he does
desire to make a real fight about it that •
fact will make absolutely no difference .4M|
in the outcome.”
Expect Harmonv Th/oughout.
The two leaders had just concluded <i - • I,
"little talk." as Mr. Sullivan termed it. ti g
Other and mote humble persons called i-MSMI
it a conference of some importance. f ■ •
They we:,- just leaving tite Belvedere . , :
hotel to ati.ml the meeting of the na- ‘
tional committee 'apl ■;!
Mr. Taggart also admitted that lie 3 i
will tie r> ttd national committee- ! ; j
man from Indiana. Mr. Sullivan said jaMHB
th.it ' ’co ltd sei,,msiein. tile present b •
ehail w ill of Hie Illinois state gptnmlt- ;{ J
to -uei .ed him Sullivan—as na- •!
F i a
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\\ . .mio ito have entire harmony,l|sEl
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