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2 TAFT'S ATTITUDE ON TRUSTS LIKE DIGCROOKS —COL ROOSEVELT Sherman Law Complete Fail ure. Says Rough Rider in Hot Statement. OYSTER RAY. N Y.. Aug 15. The Sherman 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 cific method of handling the trust ques tion The ex-president 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. Hoekefellei ami the American Tobacco trust people He takes precisely their view. They tin even better contented with the method of enforcement of the anti-trust law- of which he approves than he la himself. I do not wonder that Senator Edmunds and Mr. Rockefeller and the Tobacco trust people feel that all that Is neces •ary 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, Mi. Edmunds, .Mr Rockefeller and all other trust magnates and trust law yers. that no further legislation Is needed “Mr. Edmunds' proposal is in the In terest of e\ cry great corrupt organir.it ■ thin and against the interest ol every honest business man. He can not be 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 thf value of tile stock held by Mr. Rocke feller and his allies and the tobacco i 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 (lie supreme court has unsparingly condemned the Standard Oil and the Tobacco trus* 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. Edmunds' 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 la 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 malefactor w ill support the Edmunds-Taft-Wickersham view, for he know - that if that view prevails he is certain of immunity; that the only people jeopardized art the honest business men who do not wish for Immunity baths, but who do wish to have a rational law, to know what the Jaw is, and then to obey it " George F. Sheldon, treasurer of the Republican national committee in l'.H>6, telephoned to Colonel Roosevelt today, the colonel said to -ay that the testi mony of ex-Gtivetnor <>de|| before the senate committee in Washington yes terday regarding the J24o.o<iu campaign I fund raised in 1904 by E 11. Harriman a.s not in accord with what Mi. ttdel’i had told Mr. Sheldon flfefor, 1.. mad> his statement that Roosevelt had known i nothing of the Harriman fund until I after the election Mr. Sheldon > id he submitted it to Mr. Odell t 'olonel Roosevelt said Mr Sheldon; told him that the ex-gov ernut nft'f | leading th' Sheldon statement, he said that it w is correct. AN EXCELLENT NIGHTCAP Horstord's Acid Phosphate Half a eastioonful of Horsford'.' Vcid | i ' I' l ,- ' in half u glass of watet on re- i ••• I Children of the Regiment True Soldiers PETS AT FORT MILITARY. TOO .k—II * *** Wsw ' Hjz VHB - -A / •*»-- -a X ' fix .#> vBF flflv S *. ■■ Z'jf’l ' B\ //m"-'*-- jßflf 'W ;: Twit beauiiftil children at Fort McPherson. Margaret Snyder, tlaughwr of Lieutenant Sny der, on left, and Katherine, daughter of Captain Bankhead. Then, the soldierly dog “.Jack.” : Butchers Blame • : Government For : High Meat Prices • • __ • • DETROIT, MICH . Aug 15 • • The high cost of meat was put * • squarely up to th. general govern- • • mint in a report submitted today • • by the legisla:ive tommlttee of tin • • Master Butchers Association of • • America, now in annual convert- • • tion here. • • t'liaiiman II ilex, of th.'' commit- • • !•'< . explaining Ils report, say s the • • master butchers nearly ten years • • ago began pleading for the re- • • moval f tin tat Iff on anim ds used • • for food, and that they have pre- • • dieted timt ami time again that • • the price.- would go op to the • • pie , nt high figure unless the pro- • • hibitiv, 'arllf of two cents a pound • • was removed. • • • (••••••••••••••••••••••••a Up and Down Peachtree Prunes Join in Living Cost Flight. Where ate the prune-- of yesteryear'.' Gone up—like beefsteak. Hour, pota toes and everything else that man here below cates 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 prune Joke, which ran like this: Landl&dy (passing the dish of prunes) What are you bowing ami scraping about. Mr, Stni lu>tii<|or'.’ Mr. Starboatdei I always salute old acquaintances. All of these have disappeared, how ever, because prunes have, within the last year, taken sinh an ascension that they . m now be well classed as luxu ries. A well known produce merchant of Atlanta stated today Hint prune'- had advanced 100 per cent in price within the last twelve months This puls them quite out of the reach of the "common rabble " Little Danger of Kiss Germs at Terminal Depot. If mother or father or brother ot sister of mini or uncle or well dressed young man and 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 ate given with the eyes —not the lips. According to the station attaches, there is little kissing done in the great blinding which shelters the entrance to trains, it is so much in the minority that train callers, matrons mid regular visitors there took on with mild sur prise when tilt’ parting ones forget those around them and kiss each other. When kissing just must be done. It is usually indulged in at the home down at the husband's office -or may-lie in a car riage. Even Fritz o: Louie or Michael, fr sh nt , this country, rarely evet greet rel ! ,ttv« or frl' tius who came before them I with 11"- universally known smack. They sometimes fall into one another’s j.irms or ■ xpre«s their feeling with Vig . oroiis pats <>n tl;, back, but not a kiss I — TO FILE LIGHTING BIDS. M.M'ttN GA. Aug 15. Bids from I the Macon Railway and Light t'ompany and 11 . .1 Masse,, s new company for ; new five-year lighting contra, t will tin filed mx; Tii'-tljy night in open council meeting mid opened immediate ly Tim- no mlstakt s can per. Ildy o, - |< .r THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. AUGUST 15. 1912. Play Dropped for “Attention” When They Hear “Star I Spangled Banner,” It was afternoon and dress parade was on ; t | j.'oit McPherson. A long, unwavering line of rifles eaught the sun. A shaft, staccato re sounded niiies the parade ground. A sonorous crash of melody came from the post mnsieians and the glittering band wheeled from the line and started dis march Ihe length of the column. Everything at the fort was rigid. The soldiers in line were at "parade rest," the domestics alwut flu- place w ere 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, ami 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 Hnyder. daughters of Captain I Bankhead and Lieutenant Snyder, it might have been “parade rest" or It might have been “mess < all" 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. Put Jack itelttg a bulldog of the most militant sort was diffident, nay positively reluctant to perform while ‘Sempci Fldells" was being played. "t.'emt- to attention there. Jack," ad monished Margate) severely, “or you'll be sent to the guard house." Jack must have doubted her author , ity. for he eontihued to sniff about in disobedience. "Jack.'' wheedled Katherine, "won't you sit up for us after all the beefsteak ami bread we gave you',"' Children at Salute. •lark turned a whimsical glance upon her which as much as said: "I've paid you back malty a time ami oft for that little bit of meat —besides. I want to listen to the mtiSii ." ".lack." said Margaret, taking het • turn. "1 don't believe you know your I manual. I think you will have to be placed In the green squad until you be . i-mne a real soldier." , This must have touched Jack's pride, for lie iminediatley sprang up on his hind feet and remained there until a shari> word from the two children brought him to ground again. By this time the band had completed its '-Iteult. The sound of “Open ranks” was heard, the cannon boomed and ' then with slow majesty the tlrst few 1 notes of the "Stat Spangled Banner" 1 fell upon the ears of the play ing 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 tight hands to the salute. Kiddies of the Post. ‘ At first glance the platoon of ehil dren sons and daughters of officers— who play about the grounds of the fort ’ seem exactly like all other children. Military life seems to interest them but little, in fact, the average boy outside of lite army is much more eager to don the army blue than the average child of the post. One small lad at the p, st was asked: "Ate you going to be in the artny when you glow up.'" Naw ," ho rrSpobded: the army tl be over by then.” This same boy. however, has an in timate nequalntam e w ith the inside of a earbine, knows tit, military divi sions from squad to brigade, knows the meaning of every bugle call, knows the I uniform, know -- everything, in faetl I that be «■*!! could know about army I lite. Firaim FomraDE Conference Committee of Con gress Reaches Agreement on Panama Bill. WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. —Free pass age is denied tg American owned snips engaged in foreign trade, foreign ship building materials are admitted free of tariff to tire United State?, and the in terstate commerce commission is given powe; to break up any combinations of comp' ting raYbajid which it finds are not'T«r-*'jhe'-pubHe_gnod" in flu- Panama <ati4T bill tuireetl upon by the conference oominlttefe of 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, the ,-anal bill now provides in brief: Coastwise Ships Free. Fiet passage for American coastwise ■thlps. American registry for American own,-,I foreign built ships engaged ex clusively in foreign trade. No tn-iff on foreign shipbuilding m.i teilals for use in this country. Trust owned salps prohibited from u.-ing the canal Railroads prohibited from owning , mtpeting waterway lines operating "through lite canal or elsewhere.” when such ownership is tiet: imental to th’ public welfare. Interstate eotmnerce commission tu tlmiized to investigate control of watc- Im'.-- by railroads and sanction it where it is beneficial. One-nmh government for Panama canal and zone. in dropping out the senate amend ment giving free passage to American ships engaged In foreign trade, theeon ference committee met the opposition of those who considered this a diree, 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 supolennHied with the provision admit ting shipbuilding material free of tariff, to meet th, opposition of house mem bets who claimed the American ship building industry would otherwise suf fer. Practically all of the force of tiie Bourne railroad amendment attached to the bill in the senate was retained by the eonfe ces. It was rewritten Io give the interstate commerce commis sion the right to determine whethet ■ailroads should be allowed to hold water lim s. ami tn sanction such own ership when it was in the public inter est. The railroad section of the bill is drastit in its terms, and broad in th" powers it confers on the interstat commerce yommlssiun. it prohibit? ail oads afti r July 1, 1914. from own ing o; controlling competing steam" lines, “operating through the Panatm eanal or elsewhere;" and gives to th- Interstate commerce commission th, powe- to determine whether the rail road and steamship lines are competing carriers, within the meaning of the law INHERITS SIOO,OOO ESTATE. MAt'ON. GA.. Aug. 15.—Dr. Henry McHatton Is the principal beneficiary ,In the will of his late mother, Mrs. I lilixa Ripley, who died recently in Brooklyn. N Y . h aving an estate worth about 9100.00 H. He will go to Brooklyn soon to settle up the estate. CHILD LABOR BILL AIDS HIT COPELAN I Secretary of State Commission Says Measure Was Smoth ered by Cotton Men. A. J MeKelway, Southern secretary of the child labor committee and acting secretary of the Geo gia child labor commission, vigorously protests the ac tion of the Georgia legislature in chok ing to death, in the lasi days of its session. the child labor bill. Mr. McKelway jays the bill was 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 hud leached 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 the bill was smothered and prevented from coming to a vote In the last Wednesday night session of the senate, and that i the 'mmthering was accomplished al I the hands of Senator Copelan. n mem ber of the cotton manufacturers asso '•iatlon 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 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 allotting 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 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 befoie 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, w ho 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 tiie 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 w ith pointing a pistol at another. GroVes pleaded his residence in an other stale 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 RUM DOWN AND HURT BY 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. Aug. 15.—Charles Anderson, 35, died here today from frozen hands | aiid feet. Anderson, according to a Hlgned statement, turned over to the coroner’s jury today, was turned out of the Pun ning hospital March 14, although he was very sick. The next day he was found, bis hands and feel 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 WASHINGTON. Aug 15 The senate; today adopted the NeWlabds Joint reso I 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- I gress and will be commended to the con sideration of the diplomatic corps. CONTRIBUTIONS BILL UP SOON. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16.—Senator Culberson, of Texas today served no tice that on next Saturday he will press ihe consideration o' bls bill to pro hibit corporations from making cam paign contributions and to limit the amount of all gifts to political parties. 6-YEAR TERM BILL UPTOMORROW WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. — By unani mous consent the senate today agreed to consider the Works bill limiting the term of the president to six years ai 4 I o'clock tomorrow it probably will be I p ssed. UNGLESOFSUIN BOIOIMI Relatives Will Probe Lynching of Negro Who Killed Cedron Land. COLUMBUS. GA., Aug. 15. With' two uncles 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 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. BROWN SWAMPED WITH REQUESTS TO VETO LOCAL BILLS Because he 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 measure*, 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 local bill In his entire career as chief magistrate, and then lie was pe titioned to do so by a heavy majority of toe 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 agaihst him to succeed him sel f. moultrTe'slew SCHOOL BOARD GOES IN OFFICE— M(H’LTItIIL 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 board of commissioners and divided the 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. In.—The fight to secure liberty for Foulke E. Brandt, for- I 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 j o'clock before Justice Kellogg at Platts burgh. N. Y. JUDGE POTTLE INDORSED. LA GRANGE, GA.. Aug. 15.—Judge J. R. Pottle, of the court of appeals, has been indorsed by members of the Troui County Bar Association. The indorse ment is signed by Attorneys E. A Jones, R. M. Young. M. F. R. L. Lee. E R. Bratifieltl, Jr.. M I' Mocty. Henry Reeves. Benjamin H HUI. I', M Longlet, \V R t’ampbc Hutton Lovejoy and Arthur Greer. GIRLUMBLETO SAVEDROWNING IDUNGHERD. ' Atlanta Youth Dies in Surf as He Goes to Assistance of Companion. Miss’Emma Adele Finchier. 386 Spring street.. reached her home today hys terical. She narrowly etuiaped 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 wasAsaved, 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 stoijjping at the Arnold house at St. Simons. Mr. Hawes was making the new hotel his head quarters and hexwas late fior the surf bath. Just as he arrived the young women were preparing to return to the bath house, having been in the water t 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 _ z 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 She made repeated efforts to aid he» companion. Leo Arnold, who is connected with the Arnold house, was standing'on the' beach and he rushed into the surf in an * effort to rescue the young couple. Hs reached Miss Fincher just in time, but Hawes had gone down and did not ap pear again. His body was recovered yestepday 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 ST. PAUL, MINN.. Aug. 15.—The replication of the department of jus tice in the case of the government againsl the Harvester trust was filed in the United States district court he:e f 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 litigation before actual testimony is taken as to the alleged violations contained In the bill. The government will proceed with evidence about October 1 before an ex aminer. NASHVILLE IN LEAD FORI9I3CONVENTION OF UNION PRINTERS CLEVELAND. Aug. 15.—A report of the committee on subordinate unions will be made late this afternoon In the'con vention of the International Typograph ' leal 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, \a . has asked for the convention in 191 i and \\ a°hington lor the gathering in 1915 A walk-out from the meeting of the M otnan's Auxiliary occurred when thu convention refuged to name the private secretary of Mrs. Frank Long official stenographer of the convention. Mrs Long, whose home is Cincinnati, was sec retary of the auxiliary. ghe refused either to resign or turn in her report. When 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 BIRMINGHAM. ALA . Aug. 15. Arm stead White, the negro who will he hanged in Birmingham August 23 for killing a negro In the mines near here several months ago. sleeps m bls cell eighteen and one- half hours out of each twenty-four The negro talks to no one cats the food that is passed to him dallv ami refuses to answer questions put tn him FREIGHTER GOES ACROUND HALIFAX, NOV.A SCOTIA. .Yug. 15 - The British steamer Erie, bound from Xrgentina to Quebec, went aground oft 1 Subic Island early today. Her crew wt, ■ taken off. The Erie, which is a vessel of 3.900 tons, was loaded with maize.