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2 TAFT'S ATTITUDE ON TRUSTS LIFE 810 [ROOFS —COL. ROOSEVELT Sherman Law Complete Fail ure. Says Rough Rider in Hot Statement. Continued From Page One. Mr. Edmunds’ plan, arc perpetuated and rewarded will join with us. "Everv great malefactor will support the Edmunds-Taft-Wickersham view, for he knows that if that view prevails he is certain of immunity; that the only people jeopardized are the honest business men who do not wish for Immunity baths, hut who do wish to have a rational law, to know what the law is, ami then to obey It." George F. Sheldon, of the Republican national committe. in 1906. telephoned to Colonel Roosevelt today, the colonel said, to -ay that the testi mony of ex-Governor Odell before the senate committee in Washington yes- I terday regarding the $240,000 campaign I fund raised In 1904 hi E. II Harriman' as not in accord with whit Mr. Odell! had told Mr. Sheldon. Before he made I his statement that Roosevelt had known I nothing of the Harriman fund until! after the election Mr. Sheldon said he; submitted it to Mr Odell. Colonel Roosevelt said Mr. Sheldon [ told him that the ex-governor, after reading the Sheldon statement, he said that it was correct. MEES PERILED BL BEBEL SHELLS Nicaraguans, in Revolt, Bom bard Managua. Endangering Lives of Foreigners. MANAGUA. NICARAGUA, Aug. 15. Americans tn this city are in a state of siege. Shells from General Mena's I big guns are dropping in the principal hotels of the city, and even the United States legation is in danger of being razed. American marines are doing their utmost to prevent rebels aiming shots at the foreign quarter, but as the United States troops can not go out side the city they are unable to hamper seriously the tire of the revolutionists. A shell from a rebel gun fell in the dining room of the Hotel Lapone, I wounding a number of diners and serv ants. Another dropped in the court I yard of the house occupied by an Amer ican named Hamm, a representative of New York banking Interests, demolish ing the house but injuring no one; and a number of shots struck dangerously near the American legation. New Orleans Asks Additional Troops WASHINGTON, Aug 15.—Sixteen New Orleans business firms today tele graphed the state department appealing for additional troops to restore order in Nicaragua. Set retail Knox replied that the state department was doing everything possible along this line but it did not wish actually to intervene until all other alternatives had been employed. TWO BOYS DRIFTED ALL NIGHT IN LEAKING BOAT PHILADELPHIA. Aug 15.—After drifting helplessly all night In a leak ing boat on the Delaware river, in con stant danger of being run down by larger craft. Charles Brown, eleven years old, ami Alfred Baton, thirteen years old. were picked up yesterday by the crew of the polka launch Mar garet. The bo) s w ere suffering from exposure and exhaustion and in mo . mentarj danger of drowning. They were rescued off Greenwich pier after having floated down stream from Pqrt Richmond SEVEN-INCH BABY IS GAINING WEIGHT FAST PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 15 -Russell Dalle) twelvt lay-old son »f M ■ and Mrs Charles Dailey, is making rapid I stride' in size and appeal.inc v His present weight is on. pound .lever ounces, and his length is six and three quarter inches The infant is k. pt w rapped in 5 lambs’ wool bag. in an incubator, at the University hospital. The mother of the bkhy is not yet sixteen. She weighs .ti an 100 pounds and is fiv. feet two n . ■ s ta 'l The father is not x .-t s. \. nter ■ at not stout. DOGS TO BE MUZZLED. THOMASVILLE. GA . Aug 1 T . city council has decided to rep. , th. law requiring dogs to be muzz.cd dur ing dog days. This law was pass, two years ago. Last sutnmei Miiiir Dekle decided that ft must be .nfo. >•- Thomasville dogs did not tak. kindly to the muzzling, and most of th. tn managed to slip the muzzles off tli. lt heads. AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP Horsford's Acid Phosphate Haifa teaspoonfu) of Horsford s Acid Phosphate in half a glass of water on r< tiring induces restful sleep ••• Children of the Regiment True Soldiers ‘PETS AT FORT MILITARY. TOO . F S' X- iflK saUtelU //•' WMn w\ /l Z. / \ Two beautiful children al Fort McPherson. Margaret Snvder, daughter of Lieutenant Sny der. on left, and Katherine, daughter of Captain Bankhead. Then, the soldierly dog “Jack.'” •••••••••••••••••••••••••« : Butchers Blame • : Government For : High Meat Prices • • __— .. • j • DETROIT, MICH., Aug. 15. • • The high dust of meat was put • • squarely up to the general govern- « • ment in a report submitted today • • by the legislative committee of the • • Master Butchers Association of • • America, now in annual conven- • • tion here. • • Chairman Haley, of the commit- • • tec, explaining its report, says the • • master butchers nearly ten years • • ago began pleading for the re- * | • moval of tile tariff on animals used • • for food, and that they have pre- • • dieted time and time again that • • tile prices would go up to the • • present high figure unless the pro- • • hibitli e tariff of two cents a pound • • was removed. • ••*••••••••••••••••••••••• Up and Down Peachtree Prunes Join in Living Cost Flight. Where are the prunes of yesteryear? Gone up -like beefsteak, flour, pota toes and everything else that man here below cares to eat. There was a time when prunes were served breakfast, dinner and supper. There was prune cake, prune pudding, prune pie. prune syrup and the good old Sunday supplement jyune joke, which ran like this: Landlady (passing the dish of prunes) —What are you bowing and scraping about. Mr. Starboarder" Mr Starboarder —I always salute old acquaintances. All of these have disappeared, how ever, because prunes have, within the I hist year, taken such an ascension that I they .-n now be well classed as luxu ries. A well known produce merchant of Atlanta stated today that prunes had advanced 100 per cent In price within the last twelve months. This puts them quite out of the reach of the "common rabble." Little Danger of Kiss Germs at Terminal Depot. If mother or father or brother or | sist.-r or aunt or uncle or well dressed I young man and his fiancee say a fond I farewell in Atlanta's Terminal station Just before making a summer trip, all tlie well wishes, cautions or perhaps last remembrances are given with the eyes not the lips. According to the station attaches, there is little kissing done in the great building which shelters the entrance to trains It is so much in the minority that train callers, matrons and regular visitors there look on witli mild sur prise when the parting ones forget those around them and kiss each other. When kissing Just must be done, ft is usually indulged in at the home, down at the husband's office—or maybe in a car riage. Even Erltz or Louie or Michael, fresh i into this country, rarely ever greet rei- I utives or friends who came before them i with the universally known smack Thei sometimes fall into one another's | .-rms or express their feeling with vig- 1 loious pats on the back, but not a kiss! TO FILE LIGHTING BIDS. MACON. GA.. Aug 15 - Blds from 'the Macon Railway and Light Compani and W .1. Massees new compani for the new five-year lighting contract will be filed next Tuesdai night in open council meeting and opened immediate ly Thus no mistakes cun possiblj oe -1 cur TIIE ATLAXT.X GEORGIAN AND NFWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912. Play Dropped for “Attention”! When They Hear “Star Spangled Banner.” it was afternoon and dress parade was on at Fort McPherson. A long, unwavering line of rifles caught the sun. A sharp staccato re sounded across the parade ground. A sonorous crash of melody came from the post musicians and the glittering hand Wheeled from the line and started its march the length of the column. Everything at the fort was rigid. The soldiers in line were at "parade rest,” the domestics about the place wore filled with sudden martial spirit. Even the convicts felt the melodic cadence. The sounds of it brought the wives to the front windows in officers row, and they thri w their shoulders hack a triflle while their pulses kept time with the martial beat. Jack Breaks Discipline. But to Katherine Bankhead and Mar garet Snyder, daughters of Captain Bankhead ami Lieutenant Snyder, it might have been "parade rest" or it might have been “mess call” for all that they heard. With a zeal more severe than was in the manner of any of the soldiers, they were laboring in an ef fort to persuade "Jack" to sit on his haunches. But Jack being a bulldog of the most militant sort was diffident, nay positively reluctant to perform while "Semper Fidelis" was being played. "Uome to attention there. Jack," ad monished Margaret severely, “or you'll be sent to the guard house." Jack must have doubted her author ity. for he continued to sniff about in disobedience. "Jack. ' wheedled Katherine, “won’t you sit up for us after all tile beefsteak and bread we gave you?" Children at Salute. Jack turned a whimsical glance upon her which as much as said: "I've paid you back many a time and oft for that, little bit of meat besides, 1 want to listen to the music." "Jack, said Margaret, taking her turn. "1 don't believe you know your manual. I think you will have to be placed in the green squad until you be come a real soldier." This must have touched Jack’s pride, for he immediatley sprang up on his hind feet and remained there until a sharp word from the two children brought him to ground again. By this time the band had completed Its circuit. The sound of "Open ranks" was heard, the cannon boomed and then with slow majesty the first few notes of the "Star Spangled Banner" fell upon the < ars of the playing chil dren Whereas before they had been playing with absolute disregard tn everything that was going on about I them, they now sprang to their feet, drew their heels together, held up their ' chins, threw out their chests, braced their shoulders and brought their right hands to the salute. Kiddies of the Post. ♦ At first glance the platoon of chil dren sons and daughters of officers— who plav about the grounds of the fort seem exactly like nil other children. Military life seems to interest them but little. In fact, the average boy outside of the army Is much more eager to don the armv blue than tin average child of the post. One small lad at the post was asked "Are you going to be in the army when you grow up"" "Naw." he responded, the army'll be over by then.” This sanv boy, hovveva r. has an !n --, timate acquaintance with the inside of a carbine, knows the military divi ■ sions from squad to brigade, knows the meaning <>f * vary bugle < all. knows the uniform, knows everything, in fact that ho well could know about army lite. FREECMLDNLy FDR [OUST TRADE Conference Committee of Con gress Reaches Agreement on Panama Bill. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Free pass age is denied to American owned ships engaged in foreign trade, foreign ship building materials are admitted free of tariff to the United States, and the in terstate commerce commission Is given power to break up any combinations of competing rail and water lines which it finds are not for "the public good" in the Panama canal bill agreed upon by the conference committee of the house and senate. Two of the six members of the com mittee, Senator Brandegee and Repre sentative Frederick C. Stevens, of Min nesota. declined to sign the report. As perfected in the conference com mittee, the canal bill now provides in brief: Coastwise Ships Free. Free passage for American coastwise ships. American registry for American owned foreign built ships engaged ex clusively in foreign trade. No tariff on foreign shipbuilding ma terials for use in this country. Trust owned ships prohibited from using the canal. Railroads prohibited from owning competing waterway lines operating "through the canal or elsewhere," when such ownership is detrimental to the public welfare. Interstate commerce commission au thorized to investigate control of water lines by railroads and sanction it where it is beneficial. One-man government for Panama canal and zone. In dropping out the senate amend ment giving free passage to American ships engaged in foreign trade, the con ference committee met the opposition of those who considered this a direct violation of the treaty with Great Britain. ship Materials Duty Free, The senate amendment admitting foreign built ships to American regis try, when owned by Americans, was supplemented with the provision admit ting shipbuilding material free of tariff, to meet the opposition of house mem bers who claimed the American ship building industry would otherwise suf fer. Practically all of the force of the Bourne railroad amendment attached to the bill in the senate was retained by the conferees. It was rewritten to give the interstate commerce commis sion the right t<i determine whether ailroads should be allowed to hold water lines, and to sanction such own ership when it was in the public inter est. The railroad section of the bill is drastic in its terms, and broad in the powers it confers on the interstat" commerce < ommission. It prohibits railroads after July 1, 1914. from own ing or controlling competing steamet in. s. "operating through the Panam. canal or elsewhere;" and gives to the interstate commerce commission- tht power to determine whether the rail road and steamship lines aty competing carriers, within the meaning of the law INHERITS SIOO,OOO ESTATE. MA'’ON GA., Aug. 15,—Dr. Henry McHatton is the principal beneficiary in the will of bis late mother, Mrs. Eliza Ripley, who died recently in Brooklyn. N Y , leaving an estate worth about HOo.OOO. He will go to Brooklyn | soon to settle up the estate. | CHILD LABOR BILL AIDS HIT COPELAN Secretary of State Commission Says Measure Was Smoth ered by Cotton Men. A. .1. McKelway, Southern sccrctatv of the child labor committee and acting secretary of the Georgia child labor commission, vigorously protests the a.- tlon of the Georgia legislature in chok ing to death, in the last days of its session, the child labor bill. Mr. McKelway says the bill was j passed in the shape it was because the advocates of a child labor bill on the one hand and the cotton mill men on the other supposedly had reached a com promise agreement in the matter, and the cotton mill men had given assur ance of their approval of the bill in Its final form. Notwithstanding this approval and agreement, McKelway charges that tile bill was smothered and prevented from | coming to a vote in the last Wednesday | night session of the senate, and that : the smothering was accomplished al | the hands of Senator Copelan, a mem ; her of the cotton manufacturers asso ciation and a directly interested party. “Relic of Barbarism.” Complaining somewhat bitterly of Senator Copelan’s action in this matter and the failure of his association to stand to its agreement, Mr, McKelway said today: "Manifestly an agreement that binds only one side Is of no avail. The de feat of this bill leaves the Empire state of the South occupying the bad emi nence as the only state in the Union allowing ten-year-old children to work in factories, and the 60-hour week al lows them to work eleven hours a day. Government statistics show that the children of the cotton mills have a per centage of illiteracy four times as great as the white children of the same ages, from ten to fourteen years, in the state at large. Georgia can not present a serene front to civilization while al lowing this relic of barbarism to re main untouched by law.” Mr. McKelway says the death of the child labor bill at the hands of Senator Copelan reopens the fight all along the line, and that now the friends of child labor bill will not- rest until the battle is carried to an absolute finish. He says the anti-child labor advo cates will go before the next legisla ture asking no quarter of the cotton mill men and giving none. EX-BLIND 'tIGER~KING OF MACON TO STAND TRIAL IN OLD CASES MACON, GA., Aug. 15.—Chauncey Groves, the former "blind tiger" king of Macon, who is now' a prosperous busi ness man of Miami, Fla.', and whose pardon by Governor Brown last year stirred up so much feeling here, must stand trial on two charges at the ap proaching term of the city court. Groves came here this week and. to gether with his bondsman. Nick Block, made an urgent appeal to Solicitor General Matthews to recommend the dismissal of the indictments against him. The solicitor general refused to do this, and Groves must be tried. He is charged with violating the prohibi tion law and also with pointing a pistol at another. Groves pleaded hfs residence in an other state and the fact that he has sold all of his Macon property and retired from business here as reasons why he should not be prosecuted. MARIETTA LAD RUN DOWN AND HURTBY AUTOMOBILE MARIETTA, GA., Aug. 15.—The lit tle slx-year-old son of Mr. Woodruff, manager of the Singer sewing machine office here, was run down by N. M. Mayes’ automobile near Sams’ drug store while Mr. Mayes was driving out Atlanta street. The little fellow started across the street, but suddenly changed his course, and before Mr. Mayes could stop, the machine knocked him down, cutting his forehead and one hand. While his injuries are not serious, they are painful. DIES OF FROZEN FEET: WAS TURNED OUT OF HOSPITAL CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Charles Anderson. 35, died here today from frozen hands , and feet. Anderson, according to a signed I statement, turned over to the coroner's jury today, was turned out of the Dun ning hospital March 14. although he was very sick. The next day he was found, his hands and feet frozen, and taken to Alexian brothers' hospital. Gangrene set in and after months of suffering the man died today. EUROPEAN RURAL CREDITS TO BE STUDIED FOR SOUTH' \t ASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The senate today adopted the N'ewlands joint reso lution providing for the appointment of an American commission for the inves tigation of the rural credit systems in Europe. The commission will be sent abroad by the Southern Commercial con gress and will be commended to the con sideration of the diplomatic corps. CONTRIBUTIONS BILL UP SOON. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Senator Culberson, of Texas, today served no tice that on next Saturday he will press the consideration of his bill to pro hibit corporations from making cam paign contributions and to limit the amount of all gifts to political parties. 6-VEAR TERM BILL UP TOMORROW " ASHINGTON. Aug 15. —By unani mous consent the senate today agreed to consider the Works bill limiting the term of the president to six years at 4 o’clock tomorrow. It probably will be I passed. , Woman Hails T.R. as Emancipator MRS. I I I TON ON POLITICS '■ W H > . land ten and a s. w . •>.' x.ov« vl.Gd lifelong resident ot < > t.-.t* , oml militant Rail <» •>- M » > the first time stove • w B-mii Dr ier Bay made h> i forg. ’». > rents hurry tv> t'hlcseo. and bo am,- ■•rr.- of the ' • ' s .. . . .-er . >■'. i.-m that nominated Th>o.'c r e'.t h'i president Mrs. Felton sees a »or’ond •rrtan.lt'r lion in the Bui Moose mov m tri she believes that through it t’w South rvlll be freed from a political tb’ n di'm I bat has hold it since the rra' While In Atlanta she talked the Proßre'sJro <loc trine not only to h<r friend" ami av quftintances. but made « vigil to the Capitol to toll the legislators rr hat she thought of the situation. Discussing the Bull Moose movement. Mrs. Felton said Sees Freedom of South. "I saw in Chicago an uprising of the plain people of this country, rvhlch has not been seen since the rear. Some one asked, ’Whore are the big men rr e expected to see?' " 'Not here,’ was the answer 'This is a convention of people tq)t accus tomed to the tricks of political .con ventions.' "And so it proved to be. For three days the plain people of the country thronged the Coliseum—fifteen thou sand or more. When the convention named itself the 'National Progressive party' they had formally eschewed th< old Republican party, with all that Mr. Taft's nomination stood for. When Mr. Roosevelt said on the platform what he had previously written to Mr. Julian Harris, I heard what I had longed to see and hear—a declaration that would free the Southern states from the in cubus which had been fastened on its politics since the war. "The Democratic party in the South simply meant a solid South—so long as race troubles and negro domination were dreaded. When these hindrances are removed, there will be opportunity for business progress and commercial prosperity. "The ftouth has nothing to expect from Mr. Taft's The pie counter is all It represents to the people of Georgia Once in four years negro delegates are carried up to a national convention and Mr. Taft's nomination was obtained by these rotten boroughs. The pie counter is only provided with enough seats for the white delegates with occasional crumbs to the negro politicians. South Has Suffered. "The Democrats have held the poli tics of the South in the hollow of their hand by reason of this policy of send ing negro delegates to tpake presi dents. They were obnoxious to white voters and the South has had to suffer in many ways. "The Democrats have had only one Democratic president in nearly 50 years. Mr. Cleveland came in by vir tue of Standard Oil favoritism and Wall Street's disgust with certain Re- FURORE TRANSITORIA PLEA OF WOMAN WHO KILLED HER HUSBAND CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Furore transi toria made its appearance in a Chicago court today. That is the defense that has been mapped out by attorneys conducting the case of Mrs. Florence Bernstein, charged with having shot her husband, George Bernstein, to death. According to Attorney Charles E. Erbstein, who is chief counsel for the defense, furore transitoria is a technical term meaning a state of mind super induced by the condition of the parties concerned. Mrs. Bernstein took the stand in her own behalf today and told a story of domestic unhappiness. The woman, pale and nervous, plunged at once into the story of her first quarrel with her husband. It came, she said, when her husband insisted on her going with him to the wedding of a former sweetheart of his over whom they had quarreled while they were engaged. Mrs. Bern stein said she refused to go and that her husband struck her. "He hit me in the face/’ she testified. “He knocked me down. My nose bled and I fainted. He put me to bed. I was very sick and asked him to get a doctor, but he would not." Mrs. Bernstein said that her husband had compelled her to go to her father to borrow money. MOULTRIE’S NEW SCHOOL BOARD GOES IN OFFICE MOULTRIE, GA., Aug. 15.—The new school law for Moultrie, recently passed by the legislature, which revolutionized the manner of conducting the local pub lic schools, went into eeffet yesterday when the new board held its first meet ing. at which the new' members qualified for office. The bill abolished the former i board of commissioners and divided the I city into four wards, naming two com missioners from each ward and one from the city at large. FIGHT FOR FREEDOM OF SCHIFF VALET RENEWED ALBANY. N. Y., Aug. 15—The fight to secure liberty for Foulke E. Brandt, for mer valet of Mortimer L. Schiff, was re sumed today. Announcement was made at the state prison department here that a writ of habeas corpus had been served upon the warden of Clinton prison at Dannemora directing him to produce Brandt in court tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock before Justice Kellogg at Platts burgh, N. Y. FREIGHTER GOES AGROUND. HALIFAX. NOVA SCOTIA, Aug. 15. The British steamer Erie, bound from Argentina to Quebec went aground off Sable Island early today. Her crew was taken off. The Erie, which is a vessel of tons, was loaded with maize. r ■il<ll> iit pi rsidontM. Iti I Minu’inl m In the Routh are no m.o piit ii w 11h the Democracy of <h t■•»««, awl \Yr»t. than negro poli- H.tnqo ar, popular with Republican ad mttiiol i«lions I'lur In four years the negroes aie .<■ ilicil In foi service and once in four <. n > |be Southern Democrats are v.qmiai «llh I heir party. Both gangs Hum told to go home and behave an b> «i tliei < nn until they are drafted qu ,i>ll clilnlli ilKnin. Ihcie nrn iiui groat, or two noted, men In Hue United States, namely, Mr Brian and Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Ijooni velt lum been more fortunate than Mi Brian, lull the latter completely dominates latter day Democracy. He cartb'd out n deep-laid plan at Bal timore He went there with a Champ i'l n k badge on his coat and a Clark b.inner over bls head, but he absolutely Kb Red Chump Clark all over the hall— like Clark's own hottn’ dawg. He has never liked Southern Democrats for reasons above stated, and refused to vote for Crisp for speaker. Bryan Greatest Democrat "But ho resolved to name Woodrow Wilson ns the party’s choice, and ap plauded Ryan. Belmont and Tam many's 90 wax figures to get them to nominate him. "For sixteen years Mr. Bryan has been the nation's greatest Democrat. He will dominate Mr. Wilson, or he will make him look like 30 cents. "No Southern man has a ghost of a chance while Mr. Bryan is the king bee of the Democratic party. Knowing all these things. I decided I would pre fer Mr. Roosevelt, who is a son of a noble Georgia woman. He is a man who understands his business and he gave the United States the greatest season of prosperity known to this country. He is more than all a man who belongs to himself. Mr. Taft's connection with the Penroses and Gug genhelms and his weak yielding on the tariff question shows his weakness as an executive. His pardon of Morse ap pears to me to be indefensible. He seems to be obliged to lean on some body or obey his bosses. “I have never said a word In public on woman suffrage until today. I shall never stand in the way of those who claim their natural right to vote on public issues. No woman can be com pelled to vote and those who desire the privilege can have it, so far as I am concerned. Heaven knows we need purification in our man-made politics. "I heard a gentleman who lives In Marietta say today that he had just returned from the Pacific coast, and he heard one man say he was for Wil son; another said his friend said he would vote for Taft, but the balance were for Roosevelt. M ith Mr. Bryan’s continued owner ship of the Democratic party and Mr. Taft’s continued servility to the great grafters, I shall give what little Influ ence I have to a candidate who will give the South freedom from negro domination in politics—and enable us to pass prosperity around.” GOVERNMENT READY TO TAKE TESTIMONY IN HARVESTER SUIT ST. PAUL, MINN., Aug. 15.—The replication of the department of jus tice in the case of the government against the Harvester trust was filed in the United States district court here today by Federal District Attorney Charles C. Houpt. It states that the answers of the defendant to the gov ernment’s bill asking for the dissolu tion of the trust are untrue and affirms, the allegations contained in the origi nal petition. This is the last step in the lltigatior before actual testimony is taken as to the alleged violations contained in the The government will proceed with evidence about October 1 before an ex a miner. NASHVILLE IN LEAD FORI9I3CONVENTION OF UNION PRINTERS CLEVELAND. Aug. 15.-A report ol he committee on subordinate unions will be made late this afternoon in the con vention of the International Typograph ica union in session here. The report L ea L Wi * h ,he Chl «*KO newspaper strike, rhe place of meeting of the next convention will also be fixed. Nashville, Tenn., is the place that probably will be named for the convention. Richmond, \a., has asked for the convention in 1914 and Washington for the gathering in 1915. A walk-out from the meeting of the M Oman's Auxiliarj' occurred when the convention refused to name the private secretary of Mrs. Frank Long official stenographer of the convention. Mrs. Long, whose home is Cincinnati, was sec retary O s the auxiliary. She refused either to resign or turn in her report, ii hen she left the convention four dele gates walked out with her. Her place was declared vacant. CONDEMNED MAN SLEEPS 18 1-2 OF EVERY 24 HOURS I BIRMINGHAM. ALA., Aug. 15,-Arm ' stead M hite, the negro who will he hanged In Birmingham August 23 for killing a negro in the mines near here several months ago. sleeps in bls cell eighteen and one- half hours out of each twenty-four. The negro talks to no one. eats the food that is passed to him daily and refuses to answer questions nut to him. JUDGE POTTLE INDORSED. LA GRANGE, GA., Aug. 15.—Judge J- Pottle, of the court of appeals, has been Indorsed by members of the Troup County Bar association. The Indorse ment is signed by Attorneys E A Jones, R. M Young. M. F. MpLendon, R L. Lee, E. R. Bradfield. Jr., M. U Mooty, Henry Reeves, Benjamin H Hid F. M. Longley, w. R Campbell Hatton Lovejoy and Arthur Greer.