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TAFT'S ATTITUDE
ON TRUSTS LIKE
BIG CROOKS
—COL ROOSEVELT
Sherman Law Complete Fail
ure. Says Rough Rider in
Hot Statement.
OYSTER BAY. N. Y Aug. 15 The
Sir iman anti-trust law was today
branded a complete failure by Colonel
Roosevelt He replied to an attack:
made on his policy in regard to trusts|
by ex-Senator George F Edmunds, of
Vermont, by asserting that the Pro
gressive party platform offered a spe- ,
clfic method of handling the trust quez
tlon.
The ex-presldent declared that Mr
Edmunds' attitude was the same as
that of President Taft and of "every
great crooked corporation in Wall
Street and outside of Wall Street."
The colonel’s statement was as fol
lows .
"Senator Edmunds Is in thorough ac
cord with Mr. Rockefeller and the
American Tobacco trust people. He
takes precisely their view. They are
even better contented with the method
of enforcement of the anti-trust law of
w’hich he approves than he Is himself.
I do not wonder that Senator Edmunds
and Mr. Rockefeller and the Tobacco
trust people feel that all that is neces
sary is to continue without change the
present anti-trust law and the present
method of Its enforcement.
Results Represent
Nothing Satisfactory.
"To say that the results of the en
forcement of the anti-trust law against
the Standard Oil trust and the Tobacco
trust represent anything even moder
ately satisfactory in the direction of
solving the trust question is too pre
posterous to discuss.
"One of the most significant features
of the present situation is the way in
which all the big trusts, all the corpor
ation lawyers representing big trusts,
and every public man who now repre
sents or has represented the cause of
reaction and privilege In public life,
should rally to the defense of the pres
ent administration’s method of enforc
ing the anti-trust law and admiringly
approve of the position held by Mr.
Taft, Mr Edmunds, Mr. Rockefeller and
all other trust magnates ami trust law
yers, that no further legislation is
needed.
"Mr. Edmunds' proposal is in thi In
terest of every great corrupt organiza
tion and against the interest of every
honest business man. He cun not be I
ignorant of the fact that the enforce
ment of the anti-trust law by Messrs
Taft and Wickersham against the
Standard Oil and Tobacco trusts has
resulted in an enormous rise in the
value of tile stock held by Mr. Rocke
feller and his allies and the tobacco
people, while the price of the commodi
ties to the consumer has slightly gone
up and the competing concerns are left
wholly at the mercy of the two trusts.
Only Made Offenders
Richer and Stronger.
“Mr. Edmunds must know this: he
must know that while the supreme
court has unsparingly condemned the
Standard Oil and the Tobacco trust
people, yet the only result of the deci
sion has been to add to the already
swollen and ill-gotten gains of the of
fenders, and still further to deny jus
tice to the public. Mr. Edmunds, with
his eyes open, appears as the apologist
and defender of the men and practices
against whom and against which it was
originally supposed the anti-trust law
was aimed. Every crooked corporation
lawyer and every crooked head of a
corporation will follow Mr. Edmund?'
lead in this matter and naturally and
properly will oppose the attitude taken
by the Progressives, for our attitude—
and our attitude alone—offers the
chance of really grappling with and
solving the problem of really controll
ing the trusts in the interests of the
people as a whole and In the Interests
of the honest business man
"The Progressive platform is explicit,
and my speech before the Progressive
convention was explicit. Every sincere
man who has studied the subject and
is honestly desirous of putting a stop
to the corrupt practices which, under
Mr. Edmunds' plan, are perpetuated and
rewarded will join with us.
"Every great mal< factor w ill 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 riot wish for
Immunity baths, but who do wish to
have a rational law, to know what the
law is. and then to obey it
George F. Sheldon treasurer es the
Republican national committee in 1906,
telephonefl to Colonel Roosevelt today,
the colonel said, to say that the testi
mony of ex-Governor Odeli before the
senate committee in Washington yes
terday regarding the $240,'"0 campaign
fund raised in 1904 by E H Harriman l
a.s not in accord w ith what Mr. Odel',
had told Mr. Sheldon. Before In made
his statement that Roosevelt had known
nothing of the Harriman fine unit:
after the election -Mr Shell.on -aid hi
submitted it to Mr. Odell.
Colonel Roosevelt said Mr Sh< Id. t
told him that the ex-governoi. after
reading the Sheldon statement. ■ a d
that it w is correct.
AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP
Horsford's Acid Phosphate
Half a t eiisp. on lul of Horsford's Acio
I’lio-pl ;1 -o m half a glass of water on i
to ... ■ . . •••
Children of the Regiment True Soldiers
PETS AT FORT MILITARY, TOO
At- ' 7 ~
Two beautiful children at Fort Md’herson. Margaret Snyder, daughter of Lieutenant Sny
der, on left, and Katherine, daughter of Captain Bankhead. Then, the soldierly dog “■lack.”
: Butchers Blame •
: Government For
: High Meat Prices •
• •
• DETROIT. Mil'll, Aug 15. •
• The high cost of moat was put • 1
• squaicly up to tin general govern- • j
• ni'-ut In .1 r» port anbmittod today •
• In the legi. mlive < ommltlee of the •
• Master Butch' is As.-oclalion of •
• Ameiica, now In annual eon* in- •
• tion here. •
• I'hulrman Haley, of the commit- •
• l■ . . i,;u■! I. -:i * . •
• m:i-ti r bulclu i - near!* ten years •
• ago began pleading for the re- •
• movul i f tlie tariff on animals usd •
• for food, and that they have pre- «
• dieted time and lime again that •
• the prices would go up to the •
• present high figure unless the pro- •
• hibitlve tariff of two cents a pound •
• was removed. •
• •
Up and Down
Peachtree
Prunes Join in
Living Cost Flight.
Where tire the prunes of yesteryear?
Gone up like beefsteak. Hour, 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
1 old Sunday supplement prune
which ran like this:
Landlady (passing the dish of
prunes) What are you bowing and
scraping about. Mr Starboarder?
Mr. Starboarder 1 alwavs salute old
acquaintances.
All of these have disappeared, how
ever. because prunes have, within the
last year, taken such an ascension that
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 teach of the
“common rabble "
Little Danger of Kiss
Germs at Terminal Depot.
If mother or father or brother or
sister or aunt or uncle or well dressed
young man ami his fiancee say a fond
farewell In Atlanta's Terminal station
just before making a summer trip, all
the well wishes, cautions or perhaps
last remembrances are given with the
eyes—not the lips-.
According to tlie station attaches.
, there is little kissing done in the great
, building which shelters the entrance to
trains. It is so much in the minority
■.liat tlYiin callers, matrons and regular
visitors there look on with mild sur
prise when the parting ones forget those
around them and kiss each other. When
. kissing just must be done, it is usually
indulged in nt tlie home, down at the
, husband's office—ot maybe in a car
i ri-.ige.
Even Fritz oi Louie or Michael fresh
mtn this eountrv. rarely ever gleet rel
atives if friends who came before them
wltli the universal!) known smack
The) sometime- fall Into one another's
.arms or express their feeling with vfg
oious pats >n the back, but not a
tI ' '
TO FILE LIGHTING BIDS.
' ■'N GA . Aug 15 Bid- from
the Me, <>n Rnilwav and Light ('on>( an)
and W J. M. ssec's .new eompanv for
: the n, * th ■-v ar lighting "Uitraet w ill
: b< filed next Tuesd iv night in open
ip'' m 1 a''inc undo: 'tied immediate
. | I'- Th i no mi-ink. - can possible oi -
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912.
Play Dropped for “Attention"!
When They Hear “Star |
Spangled Banner.-’
It was afternoon and dress parade
I was on at Fort McPherson.
A long, unwavering line of rifles
caught the sun. A sharp staccato re
sounded aero a the parade ground. A
sonorous crash of melody ca.me from
tlie post musicians and the glittering
band wheeled from the line and started
Its march tlie length of the column.
Everything at the fort was rigid. The
soldiers in line were at "parade rest,"
tliedomosii, s about tlie place were filled
with sudden martial spirit. Even the
convicts fell the melodic cadence.
Tiie sounds of it brought tlie wives
to the front windows in officers row,
and they threw their shoulders back a
triflic while their pulses kept time with
the martial beat.
Jack Breaks Discipline.
But to Katherine Bankhead and Mar
garet Snyder, daughters of Captain
I Bankheart anrt 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
soldiet s. they were laboring in an ef
fort to persuade “Jack" to sit on his
haunches. But Jack being a bulldog
of Hie most militant sort was diffident,
nay positively reluctant to perform
while "Semper Fidelis” was being
played.
"t'ome to attention there. Jack." ad
monished Margin et severely, "or you'll
bi sent to the guard house "
Jack must have doubted her author
ity. for he continued to sniff about in
dis'obedience.
"Jack,” wheedled Katherine, “won't
you sit up for us after all the 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 lime and oft for that
little bit rd' meat besides, 1 want to
listen to the music."
"Jack." said Margaret, taking het
turn, “1 don't believe you know your
manual. 1 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 "Stat Spangled' Hanner"
fell upon the ears of the playing chil
dren. Whereas before they had been
playing with absolute disregard to
everything that was going on about
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
iiands to the salute.
Kiddies of the Post.
At first glance the platoon of chil
dren—sons and daughters of officers—
w ho play about the grounds of the fort
seem exaetlj like all other children,
l Military life seems to interest them but
little. In fact, the average boy outside
of the army is much more eager to don
the army blue than the 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 same boy, however, has an in
timate acquaintance with the inside of
a earbine, knows the military divi
sions from squad lo brigade, knows the
meaning of every bugle < all. knows tlu
I uniform, knov. s everything, in fact,
| that ht wail could know al.out army
IFBMMLI
FOmSTW
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 tlie in
terstate commerce commission is given
priwer to break up any combinations
of competing rail and water lines which
it finds are not far "tlie public good” in
| th- Panama cuuaf bill agreed upon by
the eonfe. en?t commiare® <>f the house
and senate.
Two of the six members of the com
mittee. Senator Brandegee and Repre
sentative Frederick ('. Stevens, of Min
nesota. declined to sign the report.
As perfected in the conference com
mittee, tlie canal bill now provides in
brief:
Coastwise Ships Free.
Free passage Jor American coastwise
ships.
American registry for American
owned foreign built ships engaged ex
clusively in foreign trade.
No tai iff on foreign shipbuilding ma
terials for use in this country.
Trust owned ships prohibited from
using tlie canal.
Railroads prohibited from owning
competing waterway 'ines operating
“through the canal or elsewhere," when
such ownership is detrimental to th’
public welfare.
Interstate commerce commission au
thoiized to Investigate control of watr*
lines by railroads and sanction it where
it is beneficial.
I 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 direc.
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
supnlemented with the provision admit
ting shipbuilding materia) 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 tin
Bourne railroad amendment attached
to the bill in the senate was retained
by th. conferees. It was rewritten Ic
give th 1 * interstate commerce commis
sion the right to determine whether
railroads should be allowed to hold
water lines, and to sanction such own
crslup when it was in the public Inter
est.
The railroad section of the bill is
drastic in its terms, and broad in th"
| powers it confers on the interstat
commerce commission. It prohibits
railroads after July 1. 1914. from own
ing or controlling competing steams'
lines, “operating through the Panant
canal or elsewhere:" and gives to th
Interstate * ommei ce commission th)
power io determine whether tlie rail-
I road rind steamship lines are competing
learriers, within the meaning of the law
INHERITS SIOO,OOO ESTATE.
MACON. GA„ Aug. .5. Dr Henry
! McHatton is the principal beneficial)
lln the will of his late mother. Mis
I Eliza Rlple). who died recently it
Brooklyn, N V leaving an estate worth
about $ 100.1)00. He w ill go to Hto>»klyr
soon to settle up the estate.
CHILD LABOR RILL
AIDS NIT COPELAN
Secretary of State Commission
Says Measure Was Smoth
ered by Cotton Men.
A. .1 McKelway. Southern secretary
of the child labor committee and acting
secretary of the Georgia child labor
commission, vigorously protests the ac
tion 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
I 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, anti
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 the
bill was smothered and prevented from
coming to a vote in the last Wednesday
I night session of the senate, and that
i the smothering was accomplished al
I the hands of Senator Copelan, a mem
ber 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 io
island to its agreement. Mr. McKelway
said today;
"Manifestly an agreement that binds
*nly one side is of no avail. The de
j 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 hou's 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 stale
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 eotton
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 his 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 six-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. \ug. 15.—Charles Anderson.
25. died here today from frozen hands
and feet. Anderson, according to a signed
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
Ms hands and feet frozen, and taken to
Alexian brothers' hospital. Gangrene se'
in and after months of suffering the man
died today.
EUROPEAN RURAL CREDITS
TO BE STUDIED FOR SOUTH
WASHINGTON, Aug 15.—The senate
today adopted the Newlands joint reso
lution providing for the appointment of
an American commission fur the Inves
tigation of the rural credit systems in
i 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-YEAR TERM Bl LL U P TOMORROW
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—8 y 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 pissed.
ANCLES OF SLAIN
BOYONTHEJURY
Relatives Will Probe Lynching
of Negro Who Killed
Cedron Land.
COLUMBUS. GA.. Aug. 15.—With
two uncies of Cedron Land members of
the grand jury, an investigation was
begun today of the lynching of T. Z.
Cotton, alias T. Z. McElhenny, late
Tuesday afternoon, when the negro
youth was taken from officers in the
Muscogee county court house, just after
he had been sentenced to three years
imprisonment for killing the Land boy.
Judge Price Gilbert delivered a strong
charge to the grand jury in superior
court today, denouncing the lynching
and ordering the jury to make a thor
ough investigation. Several witnesses
have been summoned before the in
quisitors.
There were eighteen men in the mob,
and it is claimed that a number of them
are known to the officials, but the in
vestigations of the grand jury are kept
quiet and nothing will be given out un
til it is ready to make its findings
known to the court. The men who en
gaged in the lynching are not residents
of the city and those who know them
have refused to publicly divulge their
names up to the present time. The
lynchers were from the northern part
of the county, where the Land family is
prominent.
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
iter 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 tier to go to her father
to borrow money.
BROWN SWAMPED
WITH REQUESTS TO
VETO LOCAL BILLS
Because be vetoed one general bib
and one general bill with a local appli
cation, the idea seems to have gone
abroad in Georgia that Governor Brown
has embarked on a sort of vetoing jam
boree.
With five days in which to consider
legislative matter yet unapproved, the
governor is being swamped with peti
tions to veto this, that and the other
measure, particularly local bills.
Dozens of local measures, passed
with the unanimous approval of the
county delegations in the legislature
affected, have been brought to the ex
ecutive’s attention as matter worthy
of the governor’s sharpest dissent.
The present governor has vetoed only
one tocal bill in his entire career as
chlefwnagistrate. and then he was pe
titionßd to do so by a heavy majority
of the taxpayers in the territory con
cerned. Turner county, the locality af
fected. switched away from the gov
ernor's standard in the next campaign
and voted against him to succeed him
self.
MOUL T R lE' S~N E WSCH 00 L
BOARD GOES IN OFFICE
MOULTRIE, GA.. Aug. 15.—The new
1 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
board of commissioners and divided the
city into four wards, naming two com
mission! rs 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
I lannemora directing him to produce
Brandt in court tomorrow afternoon at 2
o'clock before Justice Kellogg at Platts
burgh, N. Y.
JUDGE POTTLE INDORSED
LA GRANGE. GA., Aug. 15.—Judgj?
J. R. Pottle, of the court of appeals, has
been indorsed by members of the Trouj
' County Bar association. The indorse
ment is signed by Attorneys E. A
Jones, rt. M. Young. M. F. McLendon
■ R L. Lee. E R Bradfield, .1 M U
Mooty. Henry Reeve-. Benjamin H
Hi". >•’ m Longley, W R Campbel
Hat’on Lovejoy ami At am Greer.
GIHLUNABLETO
SAVEDROWNING
YOUNGHERO '
Atlanta Youth Dies in Surf as
He Goes to Assistance of
Companion.
Miss Emma Adele Fincher. 386 Spring
street, reached her home today hys
terical. She narrowly escaped drown
ing in the surf off St. Simons island
yesterday. W. E. Hawes, of Atlanta,
with whom she was enjoying the wa
ter, was drowned. He had refused to
seek safety when he saw she was en
dangered. She barely was saved, be
cause she recognized his peril and tried
to help him to shore.
Young Hawes had an engagement to
take an early morning surf bath with
Miss Fincher and another young wom
an, both of whom were stopping at the
Arnold house at St. Simons. Mr. Hawes
was making the new hotel his head
quarters and he was late for the surf
bath. Just as he arrived the young
women were preparing to return to the
bath house, having been in the water
for some little time, but the young man
insisted that Miss Fincher remain in a
little longer.
There was little surf rolling and but
few were In bathing. Unaware of the
fact that they were gradually ventur
ing out a little too far, the couple were
struck by a wave which separated them
It was then that they both realized
that they had gone out too far. and be
fore they had recovered from the first
wave another came along which knock
ed both of them off their feet.
Youth Tries Vainly ;
To Save Girl.
The young man made an effort to
reach* the young woman who was near
er the beach, but he was unable to
swim and had never regained his foot
hold on the bottom after he was knock
ed over by the wave. They both strug
gled for their lives, the young woman
being able to touch the bottom at times*
She made repeated efforts to aid het
companion.
Leo Arnold, who is connected with
the Arnold house, was standing on thd
beach and he rushed into the surf In ar,
effort to rescue the young couple. He
reached Miss Fincher just in time, but
Hawes had gone down and did not ap
pear again. His body was recovered
yesterday afternoon when the incom
ing tide washed him ashore almost in
the identical spot where he had lost
his life.
Young Hawes arrived at the hotel
at St. Simons only a few days ago to
spend his vacation. He was connected
with the T. S. Lewis Cracker Company
of Atlanta.
In the morning mail, which reached
the island a few hours after the drown
ing, was a postal card and a. letter
from the young man’s mother, wishing
him a pleasant time and warning him
to be careful while in the surf.
GOVERNMENT READY
TO TAKE TESTIMONY
IN HARVESTER SUIT
i
ST. PAUL, MINN.. Aug. 15.—the
, replication of the department of jus
i 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
* Chalies 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
1 the allegations contained in the origi-
> nal petition.
* This is the last step in the litigation
before actual testimony is taken as to
’ the alleged violations contained in the
bill.
The government will proceed with
s evidence about October 1 before an ex-
■ aminer.
NASHVILLE IN LEAD
FOR 1913 CONVENTION
OF UNION PRINTERS
CLEVELAND, Aug. 15.—A report of
the committee on subordinate unions will
be made late this afternoon in the con
; ventfon of the International Typograph
ical union in session here. The report
will deal with the Chicago newspaper
■ strike. The 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,
Va . has asked for the convention in 1911
’ and Washington for the gathering in 1915.
A walk-out from the meeting of the
Womans Auxiliary occurred when tlie
convention refused to name the private
’ secretary of Mrs. Frank Long official
stenographet of the convention. Mrs.
Long, whose home Is Cincinnati, was sec
retary of the auxiliary. She refused
either to resign or turn in her report.
| " hen sh< 1< ft ■he < onvention foui ■<'
I gates walked out with her. Her place
was declared vacant.
> I
CONDEMNED MAN SLEEPS
;| 18 1-2 OF EVERY 24 HOURS
H BIRMINGHAM. ALA., Aug 15. Arm
a stead White, the negro who will be
” hanged in Birmingham August 23 for ,
killing a negro in the mines near here
several months ago. sleeps in his cell I
eighteen and one- half hours out of each
twenty-four The negro talks to no one, j
a eats the food that is passed to him daii'
and refuses to answer questions put to I
s him.
FREIGHTER GOES AGROUND
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. Aug. 15
The British steamer Erie, hound froi.i w
Argentina to Quebec, went aground U
Sable Island early today. Her crew v i
taken off. The Erie, which is a vessel
<>f 3,1'00 tons, was loaded with maize.