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VOL. XL NO. 3.
4AHL BURNED
IN SET FIRE
RESCUING
HORSES
Animals Perish in Big Blaze
at College Park Started by
Incendiary.
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VOLUNTEER FIREMEN
FIGHT FIRE IN VAIN
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City Stables Burned Down and
Auto Destroyed—Marshal
Begins Hunt.
In an exciting tire. declared to have
been incendiary w in College Park early
. today J. S. Martin, head of the Martin
Livery Company, and three other men
were badly burned in attempting to
rescue animals kept in his stables.
Tlie city stables, the livery company's
quarters and a blacksmith ehop were
destroyed, and three horses, a mule and
a cow were burned to death. An auto
mobile and a buggy were also de
stroyed.
Marshal Creel today began a hunt for
the incendiary, the authorities feeling
certain that the stables were set afire.
Fire Had Made
Great Headway.
The blaze had made much headway
when the alarm was given ( rousing the
residents of College Park from their
beds. When the volunteer tire fighters i
arrived it was seen that It would be i
hopeless to attempt to save the struc- j
I'•res.
However, a heroic effort was made to
save the animals, whose cries of dis
tress could be heard as the flames
threatened them. One horse and two
mules were rescued. Several of the
animals burned were property of the
city. The cow, auto and buggy lost be
longed to Dr. C, M. Curtis, and the doc
tor today had to look for a new vehicle
in which to make his calls.
Mr. Martin was badly burned about
the head and hands.
SWATTING FLIES IS
MURDER, DECLARES
PASTOR IN SERMON
DENVER. Aug. 7.—Swatting flies is
murder; the cabbage has the same right
to live as man; plants are conscious; it
is a sin to kill an egg: only nuts and ripe
fruit are legitimate food for man; a real
ization of this truth will be the .next ad
vance beyond simple vegetarianism.
These arc some of the statements made
today by tlie Rev. Dr. Prather in his ser
mon at the Second Church of Divine
Science in this city.
Flies, bedbugs, fleas and other vermin
all have their proper places in the world.
They can be expelled from our homes by
a proper mental attitude, said Dr. Pra
ther. He admits that he still kills vege
tables for food, but explains that he lias
not reached the spiritual level that en
ables him to practice his theories.
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTES
ARE INDORSED BY FARMERS
DALTON, GA.. Aug. 7. —C. L. Foster
was elected president and I. E. Duckett,
secretary, of the Whitfield County
Farmers institute during an interesting
session at the court house here yester
day afternoon.
Tlie meeting was .promoted by the
State College of Agriculture, and ad
dresses were made by Professor .1. L.
Bishop and Professor Alfred Akerman,
of the college, and'llr. William Brad
ford. district agent of Boys Corn clubs.
The meeting indorsed the extension
work of the college, and asked that it
be continued next year. At a similar
meeting of the farmers of Catoosa
county the day before, a like resolution
was unanimously adopted.
RECORD TARPON CAUGHT
OFF THE TEXAS COAST
PORT ARANSAS. TEXAS, Aug. 7.
H. B. Webster, of Waco, Texas, landed
the world's largest record for tarpon
after a desperate struggle lasting nine
hours.
Webster got the strike soon after
daylight, using a light tackle. He and
the boatmen were so fatigued when the
tarpon was landed they could hardly
make their way to shore. The "silver
king" was 7 feet 6 inches long.
SLAYS MAN WHO STOLE
TWO QUARTS OF MILK
SVVAMSCOTT, MASS.. Aug. 7. Harry
Jermin, driver of a milk wagon, shot and
killed Guisseppe Parlie today on the state
road Swamscott. Parlie had stolen two
bottles wf milk, valued at 20 cents. Jer
min says he did not intend to hit the man.
He will be charged with tirst degree mur
der. .
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Uss For Results
Tech Students Plead
For Reinstatement of
Pupil Tired* as Hazer
Charles Porter. Who Tried to Dic
tate Freshman's Headgear,
Dismissed by Faculty.
Students of the summer school at
Georgia Tech are trying hard today to
obtain the reinstatement of Charles
Porter, an upper classman. who was '
dismissed by the faculty for hazing. J
It all happened because a freshman !
wouldn't wear the white cap, which is j
a badge of the Tech freshman class, i
and Porter tried to make him do it.
Elwln Newbanks, the freshman, ■
didn’t believe it was anybody’s busi- ,
ness what kind of cap he wore, and '
when Porter tried to enforce the upper j
classmen s ruling a lively scrap fol- I
lowed. Then the faculty dismissed Por- |
ter on a charge of hazing. The dismis- |
sal only affects his standing in the i
summer school.
Other students drew up a petition j
to the faculty urging Porter’s rein- •
statement and will submit it today.
AUGUSTA MUNICIPAL
ELECTION ‘SQUABBLE’
UP TO LEGISLATURE
The municipal politics of Augusta,
said to be the most strenuous in Geor
gia, were aired before the house com
mittee on corporations yesterday aft
ernoon. when partisans from the Rich
mond county metropolis urged and op
posed a bill to use the secret ballot in
the Richmond county general elections.
Tn a recent mayoralty primary, one
Augusta faction withdrew, charging
the other side with fraud, and gave no
tice of a final fight in the general elec
tion. The other side then appealed to
the legislature for the secret ballot to
prevent, so they assert, the purchase
of negro votes. Judge Enoch Calloway
appeared for the bolters and talked
against the bill, white Clem E. Dunbar,
former legislator, appeared for the reg
ulars and urged its passage.
PERSIAN REBELLION
INCITED BY EX-SHAH;
20 GENDARMES SLAIN
SHIRAZ. PERSIA, Aug. 7.—Smolder
ing revolution against the Persian gov
ernment, fostered by the ex-shah, Sa
la r Ed Doloji, is assuming a dangerous
aspect, and lighting is going on. A
force of 200 Persian gendarmes, accom
panied by two Swedish officers, and
supported by a mountain gun. has been
defeated ten miles from this city and is
in retreat.
The troops had been sent to dis
lodge a force of the ex-shah’s rebels.
The rebels stood their ground and gave
battle. Twenty gendarmes and an of
fice: were killed and the balance were
compelled to draw off. leaving their
mountain gun in the hands of the in
surgents.
It Is charged Russia is giving finan
cial backing to the revolutionists in or
der to harass the Persian government.
WITH 100 SUITORS, SHE
CAN NOT FIND IDEAL
FOR THIRD HUSBAND
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. —Mrs. Jeanette
Rodd Rice Francis says today that she has
not found an ideal, though she has one
hundred suitors who are anxious to marry
her as soon as she can divorce her second
husband.
She has set down six requirements that
her third husband must meet. These are:
He must not have red hair.
lie must be intelligent.
He must have a fair income.
He must like music.
He must be possessed of athletic prow-
He must be of a joyful disposition.
INSURANCE FIRM SUES
TO COLLECT $4,000 NOTE
Suit to recover $4,000, with interest,
by foreclosing on a piece of property in
Carrollton, owned by Jesse D. Smith,
was brought today in the Federal court
by the Jefferson Standard Life Insur
ance Company, of Raleigh, N. C.
Tlie bill in equity states that in De
cember. 1911, the plaintiffs loaned Mr.
Smith $4,000 and took a mortgage on
the Carrollton property to secure the
debt. An interest coupon due on June
1, of this year, has not been paid, and,
according to the contract, the entire;
note now is due. The defendant was
subpenaed to appear on the first Mon
day in September.
THOMASVILLE. GA., WANTS
TAMPA NORTHERN FINISHED
THOMASVILLE, GA., Aug. 7.—Wheth
er the Seaboard Air Line will complete
the Tampa Northern into Thomasville is
a question Thomasville people have been
asking ever since the report was given
out recently that tlie Seaboard had pur
chased that property from the Atlanta,
Birmingham and Atlantic road.
Tlie Tampa Northern was started with
the primary object of reaching Thomas
ville and the road was completed as far
as Brooksville when financial difficulties
prevented its being built any further. A
survey had been made to Thomasville
and all arrangements completed to bring
the road here, this place being considered
the legitimate terminus of the line.
Thomasville people would, of course, be
very glad to have the Seaboard finish the
work, as it would mean much for the city.
SJiould it be dune, witli the extension ot
the Atlantic Coast Line completed to
Tampa, Thomasville would form a gate
way to western Florifk. —...
M ASSEE CASE
UP BEFORE
CAROLINA
COURT
Macon Capitalist Faces Judge
Sease at Spartanburg to
Resrst Extradition.
TENNESSEE LAWYERS
PUSHING THEIR CLAIM
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Georgia Attorneys Accompany
Wealthy Defendant to South
Carolina for Hearing.
SPARTANBURG. S. C., Aug. 7.—W.
J. Massee, capitalist and railway pro
moter, of Macon, Ga.. who arrived in
Spartanburg last night, appeared for a
hearing this morning before Judge
Thomas S. Sease to determine whether
or not Massee shall be extradited to
Tennessee. In that state he is accused
of attempting by threats to induce
Robert M. Williams to drop a lawsuit
which he had instituted against Mr.
Massee. The hearing began at 10:30
o'clock.
Mr. Massee’s brother. O. J. Massee.
and Attorneys Felton. Hatcher. Roland
Ellis and W. D. McNeil, of Macon, ac
companied him here. Sanders & Dr
pass and Cecil C. Wyche, of the Spar- ;
tanburg bar. have been retained by i
Mr. Massee.
Horace Frierson. Jr., of Columbia.
Tenn., attorney general of the Elev
enth judicial circuit of that state, also
arrived in the city last night. He is
leading the legal battle for the extra
dition of Mr. Massee. With Mr. Frier
son came L. L. ,F. Koch, deputy sheriff
of Maury county, Tennessee. Harry S.
Stokes, a Nashville attorney, retained
by Mr. Williams, the prosecutor in the
case, is also here. Assisting the Ten
nessee attorneys in the proceedings are
Nicholls & Nicholls, Spartanburg law
yers.
After two governors of Georgia had
refused to honor the requisition of the
governor of Tennessee for Mr. Massee,
the Macon capitalist was arrested in
Spartanburg as a fugitive from justice
as he was passing through on a train
from New York to Atlanta twelve days
ago.
POLITICIAN, BEATEN
IN PRIMARY, FOUND
DEAD NEAR HIS CLUB
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 7. —Michael F. Smyth,
secretary of the Jefferson club, who was
defeated for the Democratic legislative
nomination in the Sixth district yesterday,
was found dead early today. The police
say he was murdered.
His body was found in a gangway west
of the Jefferson clubhouse at 3639 Olive
street. His head was badly bruised and
his skull was fractured.
LINER IN PERIL WHEN
SHE GETS IM RANGE OF
BIG GUNS IN PRACTICE
BERLIN, Aug. 7.—According to a
report received here today, the Ger
man liner Kron Prinz while passing
Dover, England, got within range of
the cannon of the shore batteries dur
ing target practice and had a narrow'
escape from being sunk.
Three projectiles passed perilously
near to the Kron Prinz, before she
could draw’ out of the line of fire.
WESTHOFEN KILLING TO
BE FULLY INVESTIGATED
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug. 7.—The
Montgomery county grand jury has
been summoned to assemble in ex
traordinary session next Munday The
special term is partly due to Governor
Emmet O'Neal, who requested Judge
Brown to reconvene the inquisitors for
an immediate investigation of the mys
terious death of P. J. Westhofen, who
died here a few days ago from a pistol
shot wound.
Ike White, a negro chauffeur, is un
der arrest accused of the killing. I. E.
Boyette, son-in-law of Richaid Tillis,
a Montgomery millionaire, was also
charged with the clime, but he was
discharged Saturday upon proving an
alibi.
FAILED AUGUSTA BANK'S
ASSETS ARE WORTHLESS
AUGUSTA, GA., Aug. 7.—J. P. Arm
strong was named by Judge Henry C.
Hammond on yesterday as the receiver
for the Citizens Trust Company. It is
said that $160,000 of the so-called as
sets of the institution are worth noth
ing. The institution owes depositors
and creditors about $275,000. Mr. Arm
strong is cashier of the Irish-American
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ATLANTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1912.
Merchants Praise Atlanta's Hospitality
CONVENTION DOWN TO WORK
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At, top. three delegates to the Merchants Convention. Left
to right, W. P. Sewell, of Ragan. Malone & Co.; Will Richards,
Jasper. Ga., and J. F. Tate, with Brown Perryman & Green Co.
Below. J. K. Orr. of Atlanta, president of the Southern Mer
chants association.
NIOQSERS HI BI
50,000 INKANSAS
Taft Leaders Save Only One
Congressman in the Repub
lican Primary Battle.
TOPEKA, KANS.. Aug. 7—Latest re
turns from yesterday’s primaries showed
today that tlie Progressive victory had
been even greater Ilian expected. Not
only were the eight Roosevelt” electors
cliosn, but their majority is fully 50,00'
on tlie face of the returns thus far in.
Practically the only balm the Taft lead
ers have is tlie renomination of ongress
man I’. P. Campbell, a staunch supporter
of the administration in the Third dis
trict. First returns indicated a victory
for H. M. Gray, Progressive, but later re
turns wrecked his hopes.
Governor W. ft. Stubbs defeated Sena
tor Charles Curtis for reelection to tjie
United States senate by a safe majority.
Stubbs has been Roosevelt’s campaign
manager in Kansas.
Arthur Capper, of Topeka, Progressive
Republican candidate for governor, won
easily over Frank Ryan. George H
Hodges, Democratic gubernatorial candi
date. apparently has been nominated over
J. B. Billiard, who made a tight with re
submission of tlie prohibition question as
the paramount issue.
The Taft machine was rebuked in the
First congressional district, where Repre
sentative l>. R. Anthony was defeated for
renominatlon by Judge \V. 1. Stuart, tlie
Progressive candidate.
BARNESVILLE WOMAN
BURNS TO DEATH IN FLA.
OCALA, FLA., Aug. 7.—Mrs. Mattie
Head was burned to death near Dun
nellon when a lighted alcohol lamp she
was carrying from one room to an
other exploded, covering her with the
burning fluid. She lived but a few
hours after the iieeident. She was a
reaident of Barnesville, Ga.. and was on
'w. visit to het daughter, Mts. Black.
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Judge Worrill Will Not Convene
Terrell Grand Jury to Inves
tigate Whipping.
MACON, GA.. Aug. 7.—Judge W. C.
Worrill will not convene a special ses
sion of the Terrell county grand jury to
investigate the recent flogging of Essie
Carter by W. S. Dozier at Daw son. He
was requested to have an immediate
inquiry made into this affair by Essie
Carter’s Macon attorney, but he will
not accede to the request.
It is said that Judge Worrill thinks
the ease should be tried in the Dawson
city court, if taken up at all. as Dozier,
if guilty, is only guilty of a misde
meanor charge.
Solicitor Laing, of the Pataula cir
cuit, has written the young woman’s
attorney extending him an invitation
to assist in the prosecution, which In
dicates that this official contemplates
bringing tlie matter to the attention of
the next grand jury in November.
HUNGER DRIVES ESCAPED
PRISONER BACK TO JAIL
SCRANTON, PA.. Aug. 7.—-Worn out
with hunger. Mike Drauehak one of the
three prisoners who escaped from the
county jail here Friday morning by
scaling the rear wall, has returned vol
untarily. Drauehak said he had been
hiding in the woods on the western
edge of the city, and was afraid to
show himself fo r fear of capture, lie L
under a year's sentence on tour sepa
rate charges of larceny.
Visitors Delighted by Reception
at Exposition—Entertained
at Piedmont Driving Club.
The Southern Merchants convention
opened In Taft hall today, with a reg
istered attendance of more than 1,100.
John D. Walker, of Sparta, Ga.. the
first speaker, was greeted by an audi
ence that filled every seat In the big
room and overflowed into the exhibi
tion apace behind and at the sides.
There was no question that the visit
ing merchants were enthusiastic over
their convention and their entertain
ment by Atlanta, T4iey said they never
enjoyed themselves more in their liven
than when they all went out to the ball
grounds yesterday and saw the Crack
ers win a game, and they were delight
ed with the reception given them at the
Atlanta exposition last night.
In getting down to real work today,
the convention l>egan a series of dis
cussions which are bound to lead to the
passage of new credit rules to govern
tbc members of the association in their
business and establish stricter lines of
book accounts.
Mr. Walker declared, byway of a
text, "the farmer should buy no more
on credit than he can pay for promptly
even on a short crop and a low price.”
He was followed by Benjamin R.
Vardaman, who told his hearers that
the art of making a sale was one of the
most important things for merchants to
teach themselves and their clerks.
W. W. Poole, of Hawkinsville, Ga„
talked upon the subject, "How Can the
General Store Work to Advantage.”
All the delegates joined in the discus
sion of best mediums.
Back to the question of credit giving
went the convention w’hen J. M. Nix,
of Commerce, was asked to exploit the
question, “Who Presses His Collections
Helps Both His Customer and Him
self.”
Many delegates from several widely
different sections are. agreed that the
association should adopt a rule by
which its merchants will "look up cus
tomers” before extending them credit
quite as thoroughly as do banks.
This afternoon the visitors will bo
guests at an entertainment at the Pied
mont Driving club. Tonight all hands
will attend the. merchants exposition,
for it will be "Merchants Night.” They
will listen to a speech by John M. Sla
ton in Taft hall on "The Farm and the
Factory.”
AUGUSTA WILLING TO PAY
$50,000 FOR BRINSON ROAD
AUGUSTA. GA., Aug. 7.—The city
council of Augusta has decided to donate
$35,000 to induce the Brinson railroad to
come to this city. The citizens are ex
pecting to raise $15,000 additional, which
will make a total of $50,000 that Augusta
will pay to George M. Brinson the day
that his road comes into this city over
its own tracks. Not a cent is to be paid
until then.
City council at it,s meeting last night
agreed to take $50,000 stock in a barge line
on the Savannah river. It is expected
that a stock company will be formed witli
a capital stock of $150,000 to do business
between here and Savannah.
TWO MORE DAMAGE SUITS
FILED BY WRECK VICTIMS
DALTON. GA., Aug. 7.—Two other
damage suits growing out of the Cal
houn picnic wreck north of here have
been tiled in - Whitfield superior court.
E. E. Nolan is asking for $40,000 dam
ages for injuries he sustained in the
wreck, and 6. <’. Young asks SIO,OOO
damages for injuries to his wife, Mrs.
Agnes Nolan Voting. Mrs. Young has
already brought suit for SIO,OOO.
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Threatened Lasting Break in
New Party Over Race Ques
tion Is Averted.
INDORSE COLONEL AND
ASK SUPPORT FOR HIM
Rough Rider To Be Nominated
and Notified, and Make Ac
ceptance Speech Today.
CHICAGO. Aug-. 7.—The third and
final day of the National Progressive
convention found the delegates weas-y.
but still enthusiastic. They planned to
wind up the work of the convention by
effecting- a permanent organisation,
adopting the most radical platform ever
drawn, nominating Theodore Roose
velt for president and selecting a run
ning mate for the ex-president.
The vice presidential nomination was
the only matter over which any contest
was in prospect. Governor Hiram John
son, of California, was still the leading
candidate, but there was enough senti
ment for several others to furnish the
only element of uncertainty that has
marked the most remarkable conven
tion ever held in the United States.
The dispute over the negro represen
tation of the South, which for a time
threatened to bring a real fight in the
convention, left scarcely a ripple today.
The few delegates who did discuss trie
matter sided with Colonel Roosevelt’s
view. Most of them seem to have for
gotten the incident entirely.
Colored Men’s League
Indorses Colonel.
As an interesting after-effect of the
colonel's statements the National Pro
gressive Colored Men's league has In
dorsed the colonel’s attitude and has
called on negroes everywhere to sup
port his candidacy.
The same organization the day be
fore had renounced Colonel Roosevelt.
Dr. W. A. D. Venerable, of St. Louis,
attempted to read a resolution at the
final meeting denouncing the colonel
for alleged discrimination against the
Southern negroes, but gave up the at
tempt when the negroes refused to
listen.
There was not the slightest doubt
that the platform would be adopted ex
actly as reported, and that the adoption
would be accompanied with the same
joyful acclaim that has marked the
other proceedings of the gathering.
Ben B. Lindsay, of Denver, the fa
mous juvenile judge who discovered
“the beast and the jungle” in the en
virons of his own city, refused to call
himself out of the vice presidential
struggle. Lindsay’s supporters had
opened vice presidential headquarters
for him here. They were still open this
morning, although they were not pack
ed with delegates.
Lindsay refused the proffer of tha
permanent chairmanship to remain in
the vice presidential race, therefore ha
didn’t want to get out until the contest
went to*the convention.
Some boomers today still mentioned
the names of Luke E. Wright, of Ten
nessee, and Colonel John M. Parker, ol
New Orleans, but it was generally con
ceded that there wag little sentiment
for either of them.
Platform Completed
After Long Session.
The platform committee worked ail
night putting the final draft of the
campaign document into shape. At 6
o’clock this morning their labors were
ended, after a continuous session that
started an hour before midnight. The
committee had as a w'orking base a
draft of 7,000 words completed yester
day and a whole hat full of added
starters in the way of resolutions and
suggestions from various delegates and
other interested persons. The commit
tee was unanimous on one thing. They
wanted a short platform.
When the sub-committee had finish
ed its use of the pruning hook, tha
committee had about 3,000 words left.
The platform had been entirely re
written. Largely the document Is a.
working plan designed from Colonel
Roosevelt’s "confession of faith.’’
The adoption of this document was
expected to follow the permanent or
ganization of the convention today
which was overlooked yesterday wher
the cheering and shouting in the wak>
of Colonel Roosevelt’s speech had suf
ficiently died down to permit any busi
ness to be transacted.
following the adoption of the plat
’form, the nominations were slated, am
