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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 ‘ 'KU*: The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. - V- . _ .. . ••••••••••••••••••••••••a* • 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