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r THE WEATHER Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor row. Temperatures: 8 a - rn.. 60: 10 a. m, 65: 12 noon. 71: 2 p. m.. 72. / VOL. XI. NO. 50. 'MUTIILLB INCUMMING JSBLBCKS »[ TRIED ** ~ Governor Orders Four Compa nies of Fifth Regiment. At lanta. to Guard Pi Isoners. STRICT BAN ON PRESS CRITICISM OF MILITARY Armed Mountaineers Said To Be Gathering to Avenge Kill ing of White Women. Governor Brown today issued an of ficial proclamation declaring martial law in effect at the town of Cumming. Forsyth county. Thursday, and in , strutted the adjutant general to pro- B vide troops to guard negro prisoners B io be tried in Cumming on that day. ■ The governor's act was performed un- ■ dir a law passed by the last legisla- ■ tvr<’. giving him power to declare mar. ■ >ial law when circumstances render It B advisable. The governor acted on the ■ advice of Judge Newt Morris, who will at the trial. ■ Adjutant General Obear issued or- ■ decs at once, commanding Major 1. N. ■ Catron, of Atlanta, to take four com- ■ panics of the Fifth regiment to Cum- ■ ming tomorrow. Four companies were ■ picked from the regiment, men of age ■ and experience being chosen, and they ■ have been ordered to be in readiness. ■ The military will take the six negroes ■ from the Fulton jail tomorrow, upon Ban order from the governor, and will ■ take a train for Ruford, thirteen miles from Cumming. The troops and their will march from Buford to ■ Cumming. The party will leave At- ■ lanta at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon B and arrive in Cumming by sunset. The ■ prisoners will be guarded all night and H throughout the trial. ■ 150 Men in the ■ Four Companies. ■fl The four companies will have a total B of about 150 men and will be com- B manded by Captain Harrison Jones, ■ Captain Oscar Palmour, Captain W. A. I Leahy and Captain Asa W. Candler. I The orders provide full marching I equipment and a plentiful supply of I ball cartridges for the soldiers. The I officers are ordered tn discard the usual 1 revolver and equip themselves with the I new army derringer pistol, which au- I omatically discharges eleven heavy I .millets and can be reloaded in a sec fl And. S The town of Cumming is reported to I he preparing for trouble. The raouti- Braineers for miles around have been ■■fathering weapons, and there have ■ been threats that the accused negroes ■ would not be permitted tn reach the ■ jail. The death of two white women V-it the hands of negroes resulted tn the ■ arrest of six suspected men and a woman accused of being an accom- ■ plice. One negro was taken from the ■ Cumming jail and lynched a few weeks ago. and the others were saved only by ■ bringing them to Atlanta before the ■ mob had time to form and storm the ■ jail. ■ Proclaims State ■Of Insurrection. The proclamation, after citing the ■ reasons for its issuance, says among ■ other things: ■ I, Joseph Al. Brown, governor of ■ the state of Georgia, do hereby pro- ■ claim a state of insurrection In ■ Forsyth county. Georgia. The military authorities will es- ■ cort the prisoners referred to to and from their trial, obtaining them ■ from and returning them to proper ■ authorities for this purpose. Upon arrival, the military com fl mander will assume charge of the fl situation, reporting directly to me ■ for instructions. B All persons who may heretofore ■ have given aid to or otherwise sup fl ported the lawlessness hitherto ex fl isting in tins county who shall re fl turn to peaceful occupation, hold fl Ing no communication of any kind I with lawless person, or persons, H will not be disturbed. B All rights of property of wliat- ■ ever kind will be held inviolate B and will not be disturbed, except | as exigencies of the public welfare ■ may necessitate and by direct com- ■ mand of the commanding officer of B the district. I All shops and places of business, except as otherwise ordered by the ■ military commander, will be kept ■ open as usual in time of peace, and I all persons are enjoined to continue i ■ t|»ir ustoman peaceful 0.-.upa- ■ 'J'"’ ■ "e.xceptmg as herein provided. o r ■ th * ‘ i f martial lat? ■ Continued on Page Two. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. DIESINCMIR: BILLS fOOf TDHTLINTA STRBEHTS Sam Hyde, Electrocuted at Co lumbia Today. Makes Queer Bequest in Death Cell. PROMISES MEDICS FROM HOMETOWN HIS REMAINS ■ Slayer of Wife and Father Confesses Crime as Hour of Execution Nears. The body of Samuel Hyde, taken from the electric death chair at Co lumbia. S. C., today, is on its way to Atlanta. •It is the property of three medical students who knew Hyde be fore he committed the crime which was expiated today. The condemned man bequeathed his body to the young men, that they might use it for anatomical studies. The three students. J. N. Webb, J. C. Milford and C. C. Horton, are from An derson. S. C., former home of Sam Hyde, and all are attending the At lanta Col'ege of Physicians and Sur geons. They will meet the body at the train, bear it to the dissecting rooms of the college, and use it throughout the remainder of the term for studies in anatomy. Perhaps the skull of Sant Hyde will in time adorn the college museum and serve to prove or disprove the theories of criminologists. His linger bones may become highly prized souvenirs among the students, for medicos have grewsome ideas some times. Hyde murdered his wife and her fa ther early last year, and his case fur nished one of the most noted legal bat tles in Carolina history. His trial was a dramatic one and resulted in convic tion. Later the officials of the state penitentiary began to doubt Hyde’s sanity and a commission of alienists was appointed to Investigate. After a long examination the experts reported that Hyde was sane and should be ex ecuted in expiation of his crime. Wasn't First to Die in Chair. Hyde was the first Carolinan sen tenced to death in the electric chair, which has just displaced the gallows. It was his own desire that he be given this grewsome distinction. But the examination into his sanity delayed matters; he was given a long respite, and in this time four other slayers went to their death in the chair In the state penitentiary at Columbia. To several newspaper men in Co lumbia Hyde confessed his guilt yes terday afternoon and said he deserved to die, and did not desire further res pite. He said he’ hoped to meet his wife in heaven, and had been praying that both his victims were there. He seemed to have no doubt of his own salvation. He had talked much with ministers recently, and said he knew his sins had been wiped out by re pentance. The bequest of his body Io the medi cal students was drawn-up in strict legal form. Some time ago Hyde ex pressed a desire to leave his body to some scientific institution and the thre Anderson students, learning of this, made a formal request that they be given the body Here is a copy of the ■ onbacl signed by Hyde and returned to the young medical students: • State of South Carolina t'ounty of Anderson. Contract between S. N Hyde, of the li -t part, and .1. <’ k Milford. .1. N. Webb and C. <'. Horton, for the second part, in regard to the disposition of the body of the former. it is understood and agreed by the party of the first part, who is sane, and who is about to be ex ecuted, that the parry of the first part does hereby donate and give to the second party his body, and said first party brders ills body to be turned over to second party as soon as the execution is over. Said first party gives his body as an aid to said students in their medical work. (Signed l SAMUEL N. HYDE. This 26th day of March, 1912 TO PLAN FOR PROHIBITION. I BIRMINGHAM. ALA. Oct I.—A i meeting of the anti-saloon leaders and 'prohibitionists has been arranged for [early in October to take steps looking to a thorough campaign from now on looking to state-wide prohibition in Alabama just as soon as it can be brought about. Slayer* 16, Escapes Long Prison Term: A Birthday Gift Judge Thomas Sends Ratteree, Found Guilty of Killing to Reformatory. Convicted of the slaying of Joe Odum near the Atlanta Woolen mills. Walter Ratteree, just sixteen years old. today received a unique birthday present from the court. Instead of a long term in prison, he was sent to the reformatory for an indefinite period. ■Young Ratteree was found guilty by the jury after it had been out about one hour, but a recommendation for clemency was handed up with the ver dict. Judge W. E. Thomas, of Valdos- I ta, sitting in criminal court, decided to ibe merciful and under that provision iof the law whtich allows the court to send prisoners under sixteen to the re formatory, withheld a prison sentence ! from Ratteree, brucebrown. rich AUTO RACER, DYING; WRECKED SPEEDING [ MILWAUKEE, WIS., Oct. I.—David Bruce-Brown, the millionaire automo bile driver, was fatally hurt in a trial race over the Wauwatosa Vanderbilt cup course this afternoon. Bruce-Brown’s mechanician. Tony ! Scudelari, was also fatally injured. While tearing around the dangerous country roads that form the course at a speed of 82 miles an hour, Bruce- Brown and his mechanician were thrown many feet into an adjoining fijld. Both were unconscious when assist ance reached them and both we?e in jured about the head and internally. They were hurried to Trinity hos pital in Milwaukee in an ambulance. Sensations and thrills marked the first real try-outs of the course over which the Vanderbilt, Grand Prix and other automobile classics are to be run tomorrow. Thursday and Saturday. Tetzlaff in a Fiat ear covered the course, which is 8.215 miles, in six min utes and sixteen seconds, a little better than 80 miles an hour. The spectators were given a thrill when Caleb Bragg in his big Grand Prix shot down the stretch at a clip somewhere around 99 miles an hour and threw off about two yards of tire, which shot 1.000 feet into the air. George Clark had a narrow escape from death when he skidded on the back stretch. POLITICAL PRINCIPLES W RIT TEN IN SECRET BY A WOMAN JUSTICE EVANSTON. ILL., Oct. I.—Mrs. Catherine Waugh McCulloch, suffrage leader and justice of the peace, wrote a declaration of her political principles as a member of the Progressive party on the fly leaf of her Bible while in her class at the First Congregational church Sunday school. Here is her code: No party owns me. 1 need not choose between evils. I will vote for the best man. Personal profit or personal re sentment shall not control my vote. I have only one vote, and I should use it as though my one vote de cided each, question. At the last judgment I must stand alone, and I can, if I must, stand alone on election day. BOYS FIRSTAID TO LAD BITTEN BY DOG; QUICK TREATMENT The fast work of a dozen first-aid to-the-injured youngsters in West End is responsible for the prompt attention received by Anderson Scruggs, young son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Scruggs, of 47 Culberson street, who was bitten se verely by a dog late yesterday after noon. The boy attempted to separate two dogs which were fighting in Culberson street, and one of the animals turned on him and tore his hand badly. One of his companions took the youngster into his home while the others, a dozen of them, scattered for a doctor. They posted sentries at every street corner in the neighborhood to hail the first physician passing. In a minute or two a motor car with a red cross on the radiator came flying out Gordon street and the scouts stopped it. Young Scruggs’ hand was dressed and band aged in five minutes after the acci dent. He is a grandson of the late Colonel \V. L. Scruggs, former minister to Venezuela. POWER MAN JAILED IN BLACKMAIL PLOT ON WEALTHY WIDOW SPARTANBURG, S. (’.. Oct. I, Frank L. Zetnp. assistant superintend ent of the Southern Power Company, is in jail charged with attempting to ob tain money from Mrs. E. G. ('ash, a wealthy widow of this city, through a threatened letter. Air.-. Cash received a letter, written In printed letters, demanding that she place $l5O in a cigarette box at Main street and Oakland avenue. Mrs. Cash complied with the request in every particular, except she placed bogus money in the box. In the mean time she notified the police department. Pain clothes men went to the scene. When Zemp and bis little child parsed 'along, he picked up the box and stuck l it in his pocket. The officers placed him under arrest. ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 1, 1912. GEORGIA R.R. STRIKE BEGINS TONIGHT; BIG TIE-UP IN SIGHT Q HIS DISCHARGE CAUSES R. R. WAR A \ / ?■ « ' ■'WF i CONDUCTOR JOHN T. PASCHAL. VICE fflß BRINGS GRIME DECREASE Court Records Show Greatly Improved Condition Since Closing of Tenderloin. Offering the court records of the last i 24 hours as an Indication of improving conditions, Chief of Police Beavers to day predicted a big drop in criminal cases in Atlanta as a result of his ex termination of the tenderloin. The records showed Ithat from mid night until 8:30 today there was not a case made in police court, a very un usual condition. For the eight hours preceding that only four cases were made —one of those by the sanitary of ficer. “The vice we have wiped out." said Chief Beavers today, “was the source iof much other crime in Atlanta. A re markable reduction already is appar ent and a greater slump is certain.” I The restricted district was dark [again last night. Few of its former tenants remain. The police kept close watch and there is little probability that any attempt to violate the ban will ’ be made. 160 READILY ACCEPT COMMERCE CHAMBER MEETING INVITATION More than 16 r » acceptances have been received already by the Chamber of Commerce in answer to its invitation to the membership meeting w hich will be I held next Tuesday evening in the Au- Iditorium. The meeting promises to be lone of the best ever held by the organi zation. The proposed increase in city tax from 1 1-4 to 1 1-2 per cent will be the chief subject of discussion following the dinner. It also was announced that .j M. Hazelhurst, a well known civil engin-' i. has been appointed chairman of the committee on engineering by President Moore. FORECASTS LATE IND MILD WINTER Killing Frost Not Due Until Late in November—Good News for Planters. A late and moderately mild winter — that is the prediction of Weather Man Von Herrmann, and if his prediction comes true the farmers of Georgia will be more than $1,000,000 better off. for on a late winter depends the salvation of a great part of the cotton crop of the state. The weather man bases his predic tion on the fact that the earth in the South is unusually- warm just now. be cause of the abnormal warm spell ex perienced during the early days of September, and this condition, lie said, will stave off incipient frosts and much cold weather until the earth Is all cooled. "Winter will be at least three weeks later titan usual.” said lie this after noon, "and even then 1 do not think that it will be severe. We have had an unusually long period of severe win ters. and, according to the laws of av erage this will be moderate. Last win ter was 12 degrees below the average tn temperature, while the winter before was 5 degrees, and that Just preced ing 4 degrees below. It usually tvens up in two or three years, so I ex pect it will be mild this winter. “I expect tlie first frost will come about November 1. as the average frost arrives October 17. but 1 don’t believe any killing frost will arrive until about the latter part of November.” The cotton crop of the state, owing to the rainy spring, is more than two weeks belfind. and if tile forecaster is correct the salvation of much of the crop will be. effected. Kver\ farmer in the state is vastly worried just now. and his foiecast will be welcomed by them all. NEW BANK CHARTERED. The secretary of state today received an application for charter from the Bank ol Reidsville, to be capitalized at $25,0011. Order Is Issued by O. R. C. and B. R. T. Heads for 300 Conductors and Trainmen to Walk Out at That Hour.’ Superintendent Brand Admits Entire System May Be Tied Up—Dismissal of Conductor J. T. Paschal, of Atlanta, Cause of Trouble Be tween Road and Employees. Al Gl >STA. GA.. Oct. I.—At 6:30 o’clock. Eastern time, tonight, 3UO conductors and traimnent. including baggagemasters, flagmen and yard crews, of the Georgia railroad will go on strike. The strike order was issued shortly before noon today by Vice President T. A. Gregg, of the Order of Railway,Conductors, and Vice President -fames Murdock, of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, who are in charge of the situation on the Georgia road for their respective or ganizations. They are working in concert. Efforts to bring about an adjustment of differences.failed earlv today. t Superintendent W. S. Brand, of the Georgia road, this afternoon admitted that the strike may tie up the entire Georgia system. 2S ON TRIAL FDR STRIKE KILLINGS Courtmartial of Two Captains and 27 Militiamen Begun at Augusta. AUGCSTA, GA., Oct. I.—The court martla.l to fry Captnirts Henderson and Jowitt find 27 militiamen charged with being responsible for the death of three citizens of Augusta who were shot by soldiers last Friday, convened at 10:50 o’clock today, Colonel George M. Na pier, retired, former judge advocate general, being president. A call of the roll of officers assigned showed that all were present except General Clifford L. Anderson, president, and Major W. C. Thomas, of the brigade staff. Colonel Napier inquired of the judge advocate,. Major Claude Smith, If he had any matters to present, and he said that he did not at that time, as he had not finished preparing the neces sary papers. He said he would be ready at 2 o’clock. The court was adjourned until that hour. This afternoon there is no further hope of compromising the street, rail way at present. Mayor Thomas Barrett late last night telegraphed to Judson Clements, of the interstate commerce com mission, asking that the Erdman act be invoked in order to bring about a settlement of the street railway strike. The Augusta-Aiken Railway and Elec tric Corporation is an interstate road and hauls both freight and passengers, making the Erdman act applicable, in the opinion of the mayor. ORTIE.M’MANIGAL PLEADS GUILTY IN DYNAMITING CASES INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. I.—Orlie E. McManigal pleaded guilty on every count, Olaf A. Tveitinoe and Eugene Clancy pleaded not guilty, and Judge Anderson reversed his ruling, made at the time of the arraignment of the prisoners in March, and granted separate trials to the defendants in the nation-wide dynamite conspiracy when the famous trial opened in his court room this morning. After granting separate trials, bas ing his action on a technicality, Judge Anderson again consolidated the hear ings on the further motion of District Attorney Miller. The eases will be tried together, that of Daniel J. Brophy, who is unable to be in court, alone being excepted. The indictments against Patrick Ryan, of Chicago; J. W. Irwin, of Peoria* 111., and A. J. Kavanaugh, of Springfield. 111., were nolle pressed. Two men, the McNamara brothers, now serving sentence in California, were marked on the records “not found.” John J. McCray, of Wheeling, indict ed with the others, has never been ap prehended, Daniel J. Brophy, of Brook lyn, is in a hospital with a broken leg. This left 46 men to go to trial. Work of selecting the jury to hear the eases began at 10:25 o’clock. The court struck out 45 of the 190 counts in the 34 indictments. DOCTORS TO MEET AT WAYCROSS. WAYCROSS, GA., Oct. I.—Doctors of the Eleventh district will hold their final convention of 1912 at Waycross November 19. The meeting promises l<> be a busy one. The entertainment feature will be looked after by Way- | cross and the visit of the physicians made an enjoyable one. HOHL EDlflOri 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE The strike is directly the result of the dismissal of Conductor J. T. Paschal, of Atlanta, for viola tion of the sixteen-hour continu ous service law. When officials of the road had refused to reinstate him, a strike ballot was ordered and the employees voted by an overwhelming majority to walk out. Since the counting of the strike bal lot was ended yesterday and the result made known to General Manager ‘ e oU hy officials of the union, efforts had been made to bring about peace A conference, callee] yesterdav after noon between officials of the road and the unions, ended at 1 o’clock this morning without accomplishing any thing. After this conference the rail road officials issued this statement: ”H is probable that the conductors flagmen, baggage masters and yard trainmen may withdraw from our serv ice.” This is taken as an admission on ths part of the railroad officials that they walkout'*’ ' f any> h ° Pe ° f avprtiY,s a It is probable that the conductors, flagmen, baggage masters and yard trainmen may Withdraw from our serv ice.” This is taken as an admission on the part of the railroad officials that they had little, if any, hope of averting a walkout. Vice President T. A. Gregg, o f the ( rder of Railway Conductors, and Vice President Janies Murdock of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, are handling the situation here for their re spective organizations. Wife Sure Ousted Husband Will Win Mrs, John T. Paschal, of 84 East avenue, wife of the Georgia railroad conductor whose discharge over a tech nicality may cause a strike of 300 train men. is more than confident that hw husband will be vindicated tn the end In whatever action ensues she believes her husband and hie fellow trainmen will be returned victors. 1 don't know about all the details of the trouble," sajd Mrs. Paschal todav "but I am sure Mr. Paschal will w -j n . He is fighting tor a principle and the railroad officials know that he and the men are right. "My husband did not tell me about his discharge until a month after he had been turned off, because I was ill, but he said before he left for Augusta that he intended to fight the thing out to the end. He did not believe it was light to be turned off as he was after twenty years of service. "Some of the men are saying thdt the railroad company discharged Mr. Pas cnai because he had always been prom inent in the affairs of the union and not because he worked his train several minutes over the time limn. , “I don't know about that, but 1 do know that Jack expects to win this fight and I expect him to win it, too." .Mis Paschal said that because of her recent illness she would not be able to go to Augusta, where the con test between the men and the railroad company will be waged if a strike is called. "But I will help him to win in every' way I can. because lie is right in th’s fight.'' was her parting shot. R. R. Head Here Refuses to Thlk Major T. K. Scott, president and gen. eral manager of tlie Georgia railroad, u u ' t ] a ” ta at the Piedmont hotel, has been in the hotel for a week, confining himself to his room most of the time, in response to requests fol interviews today, he sent word that h was ill and would not see any calle'< His private cal. tlie Augusta, in on t't. ! I siding near tAe Union station, whet it has stood CoW several days.