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2 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.