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PREACHER JAILS
GIGGLING GIRLS
Magistrate Releases Rome
Young Women Who Had
Disturbed Church Service.
ROME. GA.. Aug 26—Because the'
giggled and talked too loud, the Rev
Mr. Curtis, pastor of the Baptist church
in the North Carolina district, got in
dignant and had two young women,
daughters of L. J. Walters, lodged in
jail on a charge of disturbing public
worship.
The girls, the pastor claim*, wore at
tending a service recently at his church,
and during the meeting talked and
laughed loudly. The preacher Haims
the alleged conduct of the young women
was very annoying Justice of peace
Anderson thought otherwise and dis
charged the two girls.
HERE’sHdEAL SITE FOR
G. 0. P. TRAINING CAMP
ALBANY. N Y., Aug 26 Warwich
Stevens Carpenter, a magazine writer,
Just returned from the Canadian woods,
says the guides up North amuse them
selves by riding wild bull moose neat
the water.
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snapshot of the crowd in attendance on the
first Atlanta Manufacturers’ Exposition. The
crush around the Shoe factory exhibit shows the
human interest in the manufacture of Shoes.
1 hree thousand merchants and fifty thou
sand folks, many of them for the first time, jaw
a Shoe F actory in operation.
During the ten days of the Exposition the
factory made 1,200 pairs of Men’s Goodyear
V/elt RED SIAL Shoes right in the exhibit
REVOLT IN SUBURB OF
PEKIN; RINGLEADERS
QUICKLY EXECUTED
PEKIN. Aug. 26. Hing leaders of
| I the uprising at Tung Chaw, twelve
I miles from this eit>. wlvre fourteen
persons were slain yesterday by mu
tinous troops, were arrested today and.
> • five of them executed without the for
| mallty of courtmartfal. The suburb is
undo, martial law. A troop of loyal
republican soldiets from this city is on
guard there. A special corps of soldiers
is convoying guard ever the I.ttng (’how
college, of which E. •’ Porter, an
American. Is the head.
“CUSSING” A PREACHER
NO SIGN OF INSANITY
ROME. GA Aug. 26. That a man
who curses a pr»a< her is not insane is
the opinion of a Floyd county jury,
which declared that Joe Mullin was not
a fit subject for the Milledgeville sani
tarium.
Rev. E. I>. Petty, pastor of a Metho
dlst .church hero, took offense at Mullin
because he persisted in talking about
him and 'cussing him out” before other
people. The parson finally decided that
the best way to get rid of Mullin was
to put him in an insane asylum. The
scheme failed, and now Mullin threat
ens to sue Petty for alleged damage to
his character.
RECOUNT DENIED IN LOWNDES.
VALDOSTA, GA., Aug. 26.—J. F.
Passmore, one of the defeated candi
dates for ordinary of Lowndes county
in the primary last Wednesday, has
asked for a recount of the votes cast
in the Valdosta district, but he waited
too long to make the demand and
(’hairman Wccdward has declined to
grant his request.
TTIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. MONDAY. AUGUST 26, 1912.
SECRET LINK IN
GRAFT IS BARER
New York Prosecutor, After
Civilian, Compels Banks to
Produce Deposit Books.
NEW YORK. Aug 26.—Evidence of
a secret link between Lieutenant t'has.
|A. Becker and police headquarters by
which Becker transferred $5,000 month
ly to a < ivflian attache of the depart
ment is alleged to be In the possession
of District Attorney Whitman today.
The civilian attache is the same
whose personality has figured frequent
ly in the graft hunt, but whose name
has not been revealed.
It is learned that Police Commis
sioner Waldo 's conducting a secret
personal investigation into the depart
ment which he commands. Friends of
the police commissioner declared he has I
decided to “stick to the ship” and that I
he is spending part of his private for
tune to unearth graft. No end of in-|
qulry is being neglected.
Following the release of the suppose’, 1
“Gyp the Blood" in Pike county. Penn- ‘
sylvania, yesterday, the authorities are
again completely at sea over the where- j
abouts of the gun man Although tael
Off. ■ of s.’.. reward for “Gyp the
Blood" and “1.-tt\ ’ i.,. ue stimulates
tio- <>■., ch, no fresh clews ;
tanee have been found
The machinery used was furnished by the
United Shoe Manufacturing Company, of Bos
ton, and the operatives were the regular em
ployees of the J. K. ORR RED SEAL Shoe
Factory.
Expositions of this kind will do much to
stimulate other cities to show their own people
what can be done at home.
°, rr is on record with a statement that:
‘ Within the next tew years the South will make
its own Shoes. Ihe leasing system employed
TURKS MASSACRE 400
SERVIANS,LOOT TOWN
AND CARRY OFF GIRLS
<’(>NST A NT] NOPLE. Aug. 26. —Re-
plying to protests of King Peter of Ser
| via and demands for an explanation of
the massacre of several hundred Ser
vians at Senistza on Saturday by Turk
, ish troops, the porte today replied that
an investigation will be made and the
guilty persons punished.
Senistza is in southren Sei via. Dis
patches from there state that a heavy
body of Turks entered the town Satur
day and took possession of the barracks
and all public buildings. Soldiers
mat < hed through the streets looting
private property and shooting down
non-resisting inhabitants.
Many girls were seized by the Turks,
w’ho carried them into their camp, de
manding ransom for their release.
It is believed that nearly 400 persons
were put to death. , '
12 JUDGES REFUSE
TO SIT IN SECOND
TRIAL OF DARROW
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 26.-Twelve
I superior judges in Los Angeles county
I have refused to pre-Ide at the trial of
• ’larence S Darrow for alleged Jury
i bribt r\'
The a.tion of the judges follows the
I announcement of Judge Gem g. II Hut
i ton. who heard the first trial of Darrow.
that he would not preside at the second
. hearing District Attorney John D
I Frederic ks is in a dilemma. He maj
demand that a special judge be ap
. pointed or may ask for a change of
i * * nue to '••me other countv.
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ALABANiA POSSE
PURSUES NEGRO
Fugitive Has Killed One and
Wounded Three- Dogs Are
on His Trail.
GADSDEN. ALA.. Aug. 26. One man
is dead and three wounded, and a posse
of 300 men have a negro who made the
assault surrounded in the mountains
around t'olbert. DeKalb county, accord
ing to a telephone message received
here today.
Saturday night an unknown negro
was caught in the act of entering a
store at Collinsville. Oliver and Charles
Pall tried to arrest him. He opened
fire, shooting one in the leg and the
other in the foot A posse was formed
and. led by dogs, started in pursuit.
Today, w hile surrounded in the moun
tains. the negro shot and killed a man
named Murphey and wounded another,
it is believed the negro is badly wound
ed and will be captured in a few hours,
if he is taken alive, he will probablj be
lynched.
DECLINES GEORGIA CALL.
KNOXVILI.E TENN.. Aug. 26.—Dr.
B. Cabel Hening. of this city, announces
that he has declined the offer of su
perintendent of the Baptist educational
work in the state of Georgia.
FLORIDA SHERIFF SHOT
DEAD IN JACKSONVILLE
HOTEL WITH OWN GUN
JACKSONVILLE. FLA., Aug. 26
I VV. T. Andrews, of Ratford, today is
iin the county jail charged with the
death of John N. Langford, sheriff of
! Bradford county, who was shot and
■ killed in the DuVal hotel here yester
day afternoon.
The only witness to the shooting was
I John V'. ilatcher, of White Springs, a
member of the Florida legislature.
Hatrher told the police that all three
men had been drinking heavily and
that Andrews and Langford had been
quarrelling all day. Langford was hit
five times with his own gun, a ,38-cali
ber Colts automatic.
MRS. BELMONT WILL TAKE
STUMP FOR WOMEN'S VOTES
MILWAUKEE, WIS„ Aug. 26.—Mrs.
O. H. P. Belmont, New York sufftagist
is to come to Wisconsin September 15
for three weeks touring by automobile,
working for enfranchisement o£ Wis
consin women.
Mrs. Belmont will probably speak in
Milwaukee, although she expressed a '
preference for small towns.
BOY, 2, FALLS 2 STORIES:
BRUISED: MOTHER FAINTS
PHIL.-\DELPHIA, Aug. 26.—Landing
upon an ash heap and thus breaking
his fall from the second-story front
room of his home, two-year-old Harry
Levinson, of 208 Mountain street, es
caped with a few slight bruises yes
terday morning. The boy's mother ;
fainted as she saw him drop from the
window. She was taken to Mt. Sinai
hospital.
by the United Shoe Manufacturing Company in
p acme the wonderful Goodyear Welt Machines,
which were shown in this exhibit, makes it pos
sio’e tor a Snoe manufacturer with surprisingly
small capital to secure all the advantages in
equipment of the largest manufacturers in the
country. The amount now sent out of the South
tor Shoes would, in five years, build a Shoe Fac
tory in every city of the South.”
The example of the J. K. Orr Shoe Company
wnl do much to hasten this day.
MEIR TO SHOOT
fflfl PRISONERS
Suspension of Constitutional
Guarantees in Effect—Reb
els Spurn Amnesty Offer,
JUAREZ. Aug. 26. —Suspension of
constitutional guarantees thioughout
the Mexican republic went into effect
today. Prisoners of wai may be shot
without trial as long as the suspension
continues. The suspension follows a
special act of the Mexican congress.
Amnesty was extended to rebels who
chose to lay down their arms before the
suspension order went into effect. Ac
cording to reports at the rebel camps,
not a single one of their number took
advantage of the order.
HORSEWHIPPED SWAIN
AND SWEETHEART ELOPE
ROME. GA., Aug. 26.—Although he
was horsewhipped a month ago by Mrs.
A. P. McGinnis and fined $25 in police
court on the testimony of Mrs. Mc-
Ginnis that he was annoying her with
his attentions to her daughter. Brack
Harless never once became discour
aged in his determination to win pretty
Miss Mary McGinnis, and last night
slipped his sweetheart away and mar
ried her.
