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the weather
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Local rains Saturday and probably
Sunday.
VOL. XI. NO. 36.
NEGRO LOOSE
I. RIOT;
POLICE EM)
SEWS
Weapons • Drawn at Colored
Odd Fellows Meet in an All-
Night Election Row.
FORCED TO ADJOURN
WITHOUT NAMING CHIEF
Fight Is Precipitated by an
Attack on the Character of
Atlanta Candidate.
After a week of peaceful and orderly
meetings, the national convention of
negro odd Fellows, in session at the
Auditorium, was adjourned by orders
of the police at an early hour today as
the climax of an all-night session at
which a struggle for the chair was
marked by drawn weapons. The dis
order arose over the election of officers,
and when the police interfered the con.
vention was adjourned for 60 days
without an election having been
reached The factional dispute threat
ens to bring on a. split in the organi
zation which may have serious effect
upon its future.
Yesteroay was the last day of the
convention, and the delegates contin
ued their work far into the night. It
was late in the day when the election
of a grand master, head of the order,
was reached, and the delegates bal
loted and argued until far after mid
night There bad been circulated an
attack on the character of Benjamin
J. Davis, an Atlanta editor, who was
a candidate for grand master, and the
delegates divided into his supporters
and the- of R. H. Morris, of Chicago,
present head of the order and candi
date for re-election.
Morris was presiding, but shortly aft
er midnight left the chair and took the
floo- in his own behalf, turning over
the gavel -to Henry Lincoln Johnson,
registrar of deeds at Washington, and
a prominent negro politician. Johnson
is deputy grand master rtf the order and
next in line to Morris.
Police Forced
To Inetrvene.
It was close to 4 o’clock, and the bat
tle had been waging for hours, when
Morris, finding his contentions over
ridden by Johnson, in the chair, at
tempted to resume the gavel and pre
side over the convention. Johnson re
fused to yield his place and the whole
convention was thrown into disorder.
Tin yelling and hissing caused such a
s ene that Policemen King and Smith,
detailed to duty at the Auditorium, ran
to the rostrum, ordered Johnson to
yi l the chair to Morris and forced the
latter to declare the convention ad
journed. One knife was drawn by a
'!■ gate, said to be an assistant aec
r-mry front North Carolina, but the
policemen took this away from him and
'■ took the heavy gavel from John-
s "n. No arrests were made. The ad
nment was taken for 60 days, in
which time a campaign for votes will
b waged by the rival candidates and
h"i convention called in the At-
' ' V.iditoriuin. provided the negroes
can that building again.
M- r is at first attempted to have the
■ ' I nt ion adjourned sine die. it is re
:■>;■!■■’. which would have left him at
*h : , ad ~f the order, but Johnson, who
p - siding at the time, put over a
.->i 60-day ad.i lurnment in-
' ii dec'ared today that. Morris,
--n the 11, or, endeavored to have
i"tes cas - in away most favorable
10 i'u. and de'. ~ati s from Georgia and
’1 "sippi led a vigorous protest
against this.
WILKES COUNTY'S AGED
TAX RECEIVER IS DEAD
W ASHINGTON. GA., Sept 14.—Ed
r "d, tax receiver of Wilkes count?,
at his home eight miles northeast
■ 'sllMmton yesterday, following an
■ of six months. He was 75 years
and is survived by his wife and
- hildren, all of this county with
• xeeption of Mrs. J. W. Husby, of
’e villi-, on account of his age and
' »ing la ilth he ri fused to stand fol
• ■ tion in the county primary last
The funtral will be conducted
Masonic honors this afternoon at
' nl-ui g
FIRST BALE AT LAVONIA.
ONIA GA S. pi if If O.
ill. of Lavonia, loought to town
ht't bah of ration of t||e season
11 '"ton brought l.’ ’>6 1 I cents Th--
1,1 brought last ji at huh brought
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The Atlanta Georgian
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• Jane Addams to •
• Stump Country •
i: For Bull Moose •
• NEW YORK, Sept 14. —Miss ®
i • Jane Addams, of Hull House. Chi- •
; • cago, will take the stump for the •
• Bull Moose party, it was an- •
• nounced today, beginning Septem- •
• ber 25, and will begin her work o
I • with a big mass meeting in New •
I • York. •
• "Much of Miss Addams' speak- •
• ing will be done in the middle ®
• West and West, where an active •
• suffrage campaign is on,” said •
• Miss Frances Keller at the na- •
• tional headquarters. Miss Keller •
• will direct the tour of Miss Ad- •
: • dams, which, from the number of •
H* speeches to be made and the •
• jumps, will be almost as strenu- •
• ous as those of Colonel Roose- •
• velt. •
SUNDAY SCHOOL TO
BE TURNED OVER TO
BOYS FOR ONE DAY
The Sunday school services of the
Second Baptist church are to be turned
] over to the boys tomorrow morning
Moore Pearson, the fourteen-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pearson,
will preside, and there will be talks,
recitations and music by the boys of
the school.
In an effort to stimulate the interest
of the boys and young men of the city
in Sunday school work, the Second
- Baptist church has begun an aggres
> sive campaign. Thousands of invita
i tions have been sent out to the schools
, and working places of the young men.
Next Friday night, at 7:30 o’clock, a
reception will be given in the Sunday
school rooms, at which moving pictures
will be shown. This new feature will
. be a permanent part of the Sunday
school work.
. The Invitation to these exercises is
( general.
MR. JINX GOT SAFELY
THROUGH FRIDAY, 13.
EVEN SLEEPINGIN 1323
CHICAGO, Sept. 14. —Mr. Arthur
! Henry Jinx, of Nassau, N. Y . awoke
today with a sigh of contentment in
his room at the Congress hotel. The
world was running smoothly for Mr.
Jinx. He arrived at the Congress yes
terday—Friday, the 13th—Jinx day. Hi
registered with a flourish. Then he
’ confided to the clerk. John Burke, that
' he was born on the 13th day of the
month and was the thirteenth Jinx in
’ his family.
Clerk Burke was interested.
“I was born on the 13th myself,’’ he
said. ‘‘You can have room 1323 —the
double hoodoo.” Then be called bell
boy No. 13 to show Jinx to his apart
' merit.
I
STORM SWEEPS SEA
OVER BULKHEADS OF
HARBOR AT MOBILE
MOBILE. ALA., Sept. 14. This city
'. is threatened with a flood as the result
of a heavy storm which is sweeping the
sea over the harbor bulkheads. The
wind attained a velocity of 75 miles an
hour. Rain has been falling in torrents
for hours. Early today a number of
' cellars were flooded and merchants be
-1 gan moving their stock to high pjaces.
The storm has extended along the
coast as far east as Florida. Ship
-1 ping along the eastern rim of the Gulf
of Mexico was driven into harbors, but
fears are felt for vessels which were
1 overtaken too far away to make port.
ARMY WORM AT WORK
ON DELTA PLANTATIONS
i JACKSON. MISS., Sept. 14. —Advices
I received here state that the army
I worm has appeared.in several counties
> in the lower portion of the delta, nota
i bly Issaquena and Sharkey, and is mak
ing heavy inroads on the cotton Holds.
' Fortunately , the pest appears some
what later than usual, and can not work
the heavy destruction of last year.
1 However, the wroms will cut off all
1 possibility of a top crop in tin- neigh
borhoods infested.
Some of the delta planters arc busy j
■ at work using parts green and arsenate]
' of lead in their cotton fields to cheek
' the ravages of the army worm.
NEGRO PICKPOCKET HELD
FOR ROBBING LODGE MEN
John Cox. a negro, living at 127
I Bradley street, today was bound over
to the state courts by Acting Recorder
. Greer in bond of $2,000 on the charge of
robbing two of the delegates to the ne
’ gro Odd Fellows convention. Cox is
the second pickpocket caught operating
among the negro visitors.
i I He was identified as having robbed
lone negro on a trolley car and anotlie’ I
'. at Ponce DeLeon park yesterday after
! | noon.
MAN WITH HYDROPHOBIA
CREATES RIOT IN HOME
CHICAGO, Sept 14 Police were
called today to subdue an insane man
who had driven his wife from his home
and was breaking up the dishes and
. furniture.
i They found the man. J .1 Garritty.
suffering from hydrophobia Aftei a
| battle, in which a wagon load of uffi
lit rs engaged. Garritty uns subdue I
j mi* tn ii sti alghtja- k- t and taken tn a
Hi-i'pltal. where, it I said, lie will die.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1912
fMUSM
TRIMS COSE
IF WTO
UNIT
i
Off on Speaking Jaunt Tomor-
row, He Will Travel on
Slow, Cheap Train.
DISLIKES PRIVATE CAR.
BUT IT IS A NECESSITY
'
Prorates Cost of Journey With
Correspondents, Cutting Ex
pense to Minimum.
i
SEAGIRT, N. J , Sept. 14. —Governor
i M ilson will enforce in his own cam
-1 paign trips the economy which he has
i advocated since lie accepted the Dem-
I ocratic presidential nomination. This
. was show n today when he announced
1 j the plans for his first Western trip,
■which starts from Philadelphia at 4:30
J| p. m. tomorrow. One of the slowest
I trains on the Pennsylvania railroad,
I No. 21, which is not an extra fare train,
i will be used. It will take the Panhan
' ] die Route via Columbus instead of
: shooting straight through Fort Wayne
I from Pittsburg and will arrive in Chi
cago at 5 p. m. Monday. A private
Pullman will be used, because the gov
, ernor will be accompanied by a party
• of a dozen, including his secretary, two
•stenographers and nine newspaper cor
respondents, who by prorating the cost
1 will enable the governor to keep it
i down to about what it would cost the
■ governor to travel alone.
I "I dislike the idea of a private car,”
- I said the governor today,“‘but it seems
j to be necessary.”
■ '
Harry S. Edwards
Joins Moose Ranks
>i
■ MACON, GA., Sept. 14. —Harry Still-
I i well Edwards, Macon postmaster and
i famous Southern novelist, has an
nounced in a statement to the public
I that his hat. his head and his heart are
' in the ring with the Bull Moose party.
, "Colonel Roosevelt has been my close
personal friend sot eleven years,” he
said, “and I think he is the ablest,
straightest, squares!, fairest and brav
est man now living whose hand has
ever touched man.”
Mr. Edwards was one of the two ref
, eiees of Federal patronage for Georgia
| during the entire Roosevelt presidential
' regime. As he is an office holder Mr.
] , Edwards says he will take no active
• part in the campaign, but will vote the
I Progressive ticket.
GIRL KILLS FATHER ON
EVE OF HER WEDDING
CALDWELL. TEXAS. Sept? 14. Miss
Effie Tanner, 19. accidentally shot and
killed h-r father. J. B. Tanner, at
Hook- -rsville, nine miles south of here.
> | The girl was to have been married
today, and is so heartbroken she has
postponed the wedding indefinitely.
Daughter and father were in a field
and after trying to shoot a squirrel,
Tanner handed the girl the gun. It ac
cidentally discharged as he was plac
ing it against a tree, the load tearing
through her father's body. Death was
instantaneous.
Tanner was 50 years old and wealthy.
Effie was his only daughter.
WOMEN INVADE STAGE
TO PLEAD FOR VOTES
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 14.—An inva
sion of the stage in order to plead their
cause is tV- be made by the suffragettes
in Indianapolis, according to plans to
day. Mrs. Mark Pfaff, a member of
the woman's franchise league, is pre
paring a sketch which will be pre
sented at a local vaudeville theater
September 30.
This week at another theater talks
on the suffrage question will be made:
between the acts by Miss Sarah Lau- [
ten, a votes-for-women advocate.
MISSOURIAN WAS “SHOWN”
TO THE TUNE OF $7.000 i
OMAHA, NEBR., Sept. 14.—Albert
IS. Hanna, of Marysville, Mo., com
plained to the Omaha police that he
had been swindled out of more than
$7,000 on fake returns from a mythical
, horse race, the hoax having been per
petrated In Omaha last week by a trio
of confidence men Hanna has filed
suit for $3,000 against the men. all of
whom gave fictitious names His at
torney attached n small sum of money,
which was In an < nnalia bank to the
credit of the swindlers.
VICE GUARDED
ft mm
■system;
SHE SAYS
Woman Detective Lays Some
Startling Charges Before
Police Chief Beavers.
IWILL PRODUCE EVIDENCE
TO FORCE INVESTIGATION
Accuses Unlicensed Detectives
of Giving Protection to Chain
of Illegal Places.
•
Charging the protection of vice and
the furtherance of the white slave traf
fic by a band of unlicensed private de
tectives in Atlanta. Mrs. Hattie Bar
i nett, the only woman detective tn the
i South, has laid her accusations before
j Chief of Police eßavers and has prom
| ised to produce evidence that will star
| tie the city.
Chief Beavers today said he was loath
,] to discuss Mrs. Barnett's sensational
j charges, but that he would proceed to
I Immediate action as soon as actual evi-
I dence was tn his possession.
[ Declares She Will
i Produce Evidence.
> I Mrs. Barnett assured the chief that
she could produce the evidence. She
t w ill go before the police commission at
t Its next meeting and present facts
which she believes will warrant a
sweeping investigation.
"I know that I will be able to show
s up a system of the existence of which
the average Atlantan does not dream,”
! said Mrs. Barnett today. “There is
j widespread "Protection' by men who
i should have no power to protect, but
■ whose guardianship seems to be ef
i fective. I will show this system up,
and when 1 have produced the facts 1
I have no doubt the city authorities will
I I agree with me that drastic action is
] necessary.”
The woman detective declares that
; there is a chain of houses and hotels
• I
] under the law’s ban by their character
1 but never Interfered with. Under the
protection guaranteed and given by the
band of so-called detectives these
houses and hotels continually violate
the law with impunity.
The same system that shields them
upholds the white slave traffickers ac
cording to Mrs. Barnett.
DISMISSES COUPLE IN
COURT SEVENTH TIME
TULSA, OKLA., Sept. 14.—Splitting
a six-foot board in two and handing
each of the principals a piece as a sou
venir. with instructions to go home and
live In peace. Justice J. J. Slack dis
missed the cases against John Thomas,
a wealthy’ resident of this city, and Mrs.
Missouri A Thomas, his wife, cross
charged with assault and battery.
The board had been Introduced as
evidence by Thomas, who claimed his
wife used it on him. Recently Mrs.
Thomas brought her third suit for di
vorce. charging extreme cruelty. She
sued him three times for breach of
promise before they were married three
years ago.
WILL BARS WIFE’S BODY
FROM HIS FAMILY LOT
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 14.—Michael Tor
lotting. whose marital troubles were
aired in several courts in 1905, re
sulting in a divorce from Mina Torlot
' ting, expresses a wish in his will, filed
in the probate court, that no bodies,
except those of himself and his chil
dren. shall be buried in the family lot
in Calvary cemetery.
Mrs. Torlottlng married Herbert H.
Goldsmith October 21. 1904, and he
sued to divorce her September 23. 1910.
declaring she threatened to begin at his
toes and eat him. Mrs. Goldsmith filed
suit for S6O a month separate rnainte
| nance. Neither suit ever was tried.
OLDEST RAIL ENGINEER
IN SOUTH IS DEAD AT 86
J S. Morris, the oldest railroad engi
neer in the South, who made his first
run out of Atlanta before the Civil war,
is dead today at the age of 86. He
pas ed away In Brunswick and the body
was brought to this city today for in- ,
terment in Oakland cemetery tomorrow
I afternoon
Mr. Morris was Glynn county's oldest
' citizen He quit the throttle some years
ago and had devoted himself to his big
-state. He Is survived by his wife and
. two sons. L. S Morris and J. H Morris,
a well known attorney of Brunswick
WOMAN SLEUTH SAYS
VICE IS PROTECTED
llb 1
. - ?***<' -’l®, jF
Mrs. H.ittic Barnett, woman detective, who charges prole
tion of vice hv unlicensed detectives.
BRITISH PRESS
ASSAILS m
London Mail Finds Him Flabby,
But Speaks of Wilson as
Real Leader of Men.
LONDON. Sept 14.—The London
Daily' Mail prints the following by
"Anglo American,” on its editorial
page, under the head, "The Failure of
Taft:’’ l
“Taft we know pretty well by now to
be a rather dull, unimpressive presi
dent, singularly maladtoit in his po
litical tactics, well meaning and not
without some stock of executive effi
ciency, but flabby in his convictions,
Indecisive in his actions, with no in
stinct for leadership or for gauging
public opinion or for comprehending
the unrest which is agitating the -oci- -
ty of which he is the chief magistrate.
"It is a pitiable ending of what four
years ago had every promise of being
u fruitful piesidency. He has proved
an unexampled failure and Aim ri-a
will never again commit its fortunes to
his keeping."
Concerning Wilson, “Anglo Ameri
can” says:
“He is sort of Chamb-rlainizi-o Bal
four whose convictions ar- founded on
reflections, are stubbornly held and
translated into acts with the diie- tn-ss
of a real leader of men. He is the
strongest candidate now making an ap
peal for the suffrages of the American
people."
SECOND MISTRIAL FOR
MACON BLIND TIGER KING
MACON, GA., Sept. 14. —The guilt or
innocence of Chauncey Groves, the for
mer blind tiger king of Macon, seems
impossible of determination
Last night the second mistrial in his
case was declared after the jury had
been out 24 hours. Groves, who now
lives in Miami. Fla., came here for
trial. The present case against him
was made by Sheriff Hicks after the
latter had raided Groves’ home In per
son ami secured eight barrel' of whir
ky.
TEAM DASHES THROUGH
COTTAGE: WRECKS ROOM
WAYNESBURG. PA. Sept. 14.—A
runaway team of horses crashed
through the front of Mrs <'aroline
Smith’s cottage and wrecked the din
ing room
ELAT FREIGHT
RATEISURGED
Macon Chamber of Commerce
Asks Railroad Commission
to Revise Methods.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce
lias petitioned the state railroad com
mission to revise its pres-nc methods
of prescribing freight rates in Georgia,
ami to substitute instead a plan pre
scribing an arbitrary flat rate, and to
require all roads to adopt that rate and
no othf R
Roads in Georgia-are now classified
in four divisions A. B. C and D. The
first class is permitted to charge a
standard tariff only, without additions*
The others are permitted to add a fixed
percentage above the tariff, according
to their earnings.
The Macon Chamber of Commerce
wishes the existing right of adding to
freight charges according to the earn
ings of roads abolished and petitions
that ajl roads, regardless of all things,
be required to charge the same rate for
freight.
The commission has not considered
the Macon petition and will not do so
immediately. It involves radical and
revolutionary changes in lhe present
methods and is sure to be opposed both
by shippers and the railroads in many
instances, although it will find support
in other quarters.
CLASSICAL AIRS ON FREE
SUNDAY MUSIC PROGRAM
The celebrated overture to "William
Tell" will open the free concert Sun
day afternoon at the Auditorium. Dr
Percy J. Starnes will play the great
organ, and the concert 4 as usual, will
be under the auspices of the Atlanta
Music Festival association
The program will include an impro
visation by Dr. Starnes. Schumann’s
“Traumerei” and a series of Spanish
dances by Moszkowski.
CHICAGO PROPERTY VALUE
UP $500,000 IN TEN YEARS
CHICAGO, Sept. 14 Property at the
corner of Michigan avenue and Wash
ington street, fronting 91 feeton Michi
gan avenue, has been sold by A. Mont
gomery War-1 to a syndicate of real es
tate men for $1,100,000. Eventually the
syndicate plan-- to erect a new office
building on the site. The holding was
purchased by Mr. Ward in 1902 at a
cost of $600,000.
F YTDA |
Mr A IkJk. JIIm >, [
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R l°
ks cun
IS 1 SHE
rai'E
RECORD
All Japan to Pay Tribute to the
Aged General, War Hero,
and His Wife.
YOUNG EMPEROR WEEPS
FOR OLD SOLDIER FRIEND
I -
Other Tragedies Are Expected
Among the Commander’s
Intimate Friends.
t
TOKIO, Sept. 14.—Full national hon
lors will he paid to the late General
| Nogi and his wife, who committed sui
: clde last night because of grief over
i the death of Emperor Mutsuhito.
Plans for the funeral were held in
I abeyance today while the final rites
| were being performed over the body of
I the late mikado, but it is understood
-that th- funeral of Count Nogi and
I the loyal wife who committed hara-kiri
with him will he a double ceremony, in
j which the countess will receive prac
| tically the same honors as her hus
, band. This is a most unusual proceed
• ing in Japan, but both the general and
thia wife have endeared themselves to
|the great Japanese masses by obeying
the precepts of Samuri. and undoubt
edly will be honored together in death.
The bodies of the two suicides lay in
the magnificent family home at Akasa
■, ka. About the house was stationed a
detachment of the new emperor’s fa
i vorite regiment, which he had sent as
a signal mark of respect as soon as
he learned of the tragedy.
Emperor Yoshihito wept upon learn
ing of the double death, for he was a
warm admirer of the old soldier.
Fear Other
Suicides Will Follow.
So widespread was the esteem in
which General Nogi was held by the
populace and the army that it was
feared a number of other suicides
would result from his act.
By his own hand the warrior wiped
i out the most commanding military ge
nius in the empire, and in any even
tuality his loss would be felt keenly bv
his country. Should the thread of
grief extend still further in official
ranks in th- army and navy, Japan
would seriously feel the result.
This view of the situation was pre
sented so strongly today that many men
of prominence and influence in public
life openly expressed the belief that the
time had come for Japan to break away
from the tradition which glorifies sui
cide.
1 here was a prevalent opinion that
an Imperial edict against suicide as an
"honorable death" will result from the
double tragedy. When it was recalled
that th- late Emperor Mutsuhito was
opposed to hara-kiri and the present
mikado, Yoshihito, has voiced his In
tention of following in his father’s
I footsteps, it was regarded as certain
that an imperial ban would be placed
upon suicide and every attempt be
made to obliterate the tradition which
encouraged It. The edict, however, will
not be issued for several months.
Russian War Soldiers
Stricken With Grief.
General Nogi was so generally be
loved that his death and that of his
wife have intensified the grief which
was felt for the late emperor. The
most path- tic exhibition was given by
soldiers who had fought under Nogi in
the war with Russia. It was reported
today that several soldiers who were
with Nogi in the campaign around Port
Arthur had committed suicide In honor
of the memory of their chief.
Despite knowledge of the Japanese
I customs, the sudden and unexpected
death of Nogi was a distinct shock to
the representatives of European and
; American governments. Representa
| tives of countries where suicide Is re
igarded with horror were amazed at the
; manner in which news of the Nogis’
, self-wrought death was received.
As} a result of the suicide, a change
! had to be made in the plans of some of
j the foreign representatives. General
: Nogi was to ti.ivc accompanied Prince
I Athuor of Connaught, especial envoy of
| Great Britain, to Kamakura today.
Note to Emperor
Wish Long Reign.
The note left by Nogi for Emperor
| Yoshihito was read by the mikado to-
I day. Although* written on the eve of
i death, the tone of the letetr was calm,
land there was nothing of fear indicated
lin any way. Nogi expressed hope that
Yoshihito would have a long, prosper
ous reign, that his country would enjoy
peace and that there would be no un
wonted mourning either for himself or
his wife.
Philander C, Knox, special envoy