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jpE weather Forecast: Fair tonight and tomor row. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 60; 10 65- 12 noon, 71; 2 p. m., 72. a. m.» u ? ‘"vol. XI. Miminw J CUMMING ISSUERS ME IM Governor Orders Four Compa nies of Fifth Regiment, At lanta, to Guard Prisoners. 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 ficio: proclamation declaring martial lav. in effect at the town of Cumming, Forsyth county, Thursday, and in structed the adjutant general to pro vide troops to guard negro prisoners to bo tried in Cumming on that day. The governor’s act was performed un der a law passed by the last legisla ture, giving him power to declare mar tial law when circumstances render It advisable. The governor acted on the advice of Judge Newt Morris, who will preside at the trial. Adjutant General Obear Issued or ders at once, commanding Major I. N. Catron, of Atlanta, to take four com panies 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 an order from the governor, and will take a train for Buford, thirteen miles from Cumming. The troops and their prisoners will march from Buford to Cumming. The party will leave At lanta at 2 o’clock tomorrow afternoon and arrive in Cumming by sunset. The prisoners will be guarded all night and throughout the trial. 150 Men in the Four Companies. The four companies will have a total es about 150 men and will be com manded by Captain Harrison Jones, Captain Oscar Palmour, Captain W. A. Leahy and Captain Asa W. Candler. The orders provide full marching equipment and a plentiful supply of ball cartridges for the soldiers. The officers are ordered to discard the usual revolver and equip themselves with the now army derringer pistol, which au tomatically discharges eleven heavy bullets and can be reloaded in a. sec ond. The town of Cumming is reported to be preparing for trouble. The moun taineers for miles around have been gathering weapons, and there have been threats that the accused negroes vould not be permitted to reach the Jail. The death of two white women a tne hands of negroes resulted In the i>r " s t of six . suspected men and a •oman accused of being an accom- I ■ <>ne negro was taken from the omming jail and lynched a few weeks ■ ana the others were saved only by ’• m to Atlanta before the bad time to form and storm the Proclaims State Insurrection. T proclamation, after citing the lor Its Issuance, says among 'h f r things: ■’•'soph M. Brown, governor of ' ' ite of Georgia, do hereby pro state of insurrection In Forsyth county, Georgia. Tl military authorities will es- 'he prisoners referred to to f '"' from their trial, obtaining them and returning them to proper ■ orities for this purpose. arrival, the military com -0 ' r will assume charge of the ' "ion. reporting directly to me " 'instructions. P'-rsons who may heretofore - ' <ll aid to or otherwise sup- I ' l > ’’ ’be lawlessness hitherto ex- th ‘ S cnunt - v wh ° shall re- P'acefu! occupation, hold h , ' ’"nmuni. ation of any kind less-’ person, or persons, ' mot be disturbed. -bts of property of what an<| * b*' held inviolate . ' be disturbed, except ~, v n -of the public welfare ■ ’ and OV direct com ’he commanding officer of n district, . 11 an d places of business. . , otherwise ordered by the •ommamlg-. will be kept h!; •„ r 1 of peace, and r , t ' ir e enjoined to continue t., , "inary peaceful occupa w:..r. I,s herein provided, or existence of martial law V nt, nuod on Page Two. NO. 50. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For ResuHs. DIES 111 [«n ; BILLS BB TOATHim STUDENTS 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 if 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 College 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 Sam Hyde will in time adorn the college museum and serve to prove or disprove the theories of criminologists. His finger 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 seerrted 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 to 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 three Anderson students, learning of this, made a formal request that they be given the body Here is a copy of the contract signed by Hyde and returned to the young medical students: State of South Carolina —County of Anderson. Contract between S. N. Hyde, of the first part, and J. C. Milford, J. N. Webb and C. 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 party of the first part does hereby donate and give to the second party his body, and said first party orders his 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) SAMUEL N. HYDE. This 26th day of March, 1912. TO PLAN FOR PROHIBITION. BIRMINGHAM, ALA, Oct. L—A 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 ta, sitting in criminal court, decided to be merciful and under that provision of the law whtich allows the court to send prisoners under sixteen to the re formatory, withheld a prison sentence from Ratteree. BRUCE-BROWN. 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 field. Both were unconscious when assist ance reached them and both were 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-out? of the course over which the Vanderbilt, Grand Prix and other automobile classics are to be run tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday. TetzlatT in a Fiat car covered the course, which is 8.215 miles, in six min utes and sixteen seconds, a little better than SO 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 90 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 WRITTEN 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. I 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 tile last judgment I must stand alone, and I can, if I must, stand alone on election day. BOYS FIRST AID 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 W. L. Scruggs, former minister to Venezuela. POWER MAN JAILED IN BLACKMAIL PLOT ON WEALTHY WIDOW SPARTANBURG, S. C., Oct. I. Frank L. Zemp. assistant superintend ent of the Southern Power Company, is In jail charged with attempting to ob tain money from Mrs. E. G. Cash, a wealthy widow of this city, through a threatened letter. Mrs. 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. Plain clothes men went to the seen". When Zemp and his little child passed along, he picked up the box and stuck it in his pocket., The officers placed him undei arrest,*' ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1912. GEORGIA R.R. STRIKE BEGINS TONIGHT; BIG TIE-UP IN SIGHT DICE MR BRINGS GRIHIME Court Records Show Greatly Improved Condition Since Closing of Tenderloin. . Offering the court records of the last 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 that 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 of much other clime In Atlanta. A re markable reduction already is appar ent and a greater slump is certain.”— 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 160 acceptances have been received already by the Chamber of Commerce in answer to its invitation to the membership meeting which will be held next Tuesday evening in the Au ditorium. The meeting promises to be one 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 engineer, has been appointed chairman of the committee on engineering by President Moore. HIS DISCHARGE CAUSES R. R. WAR <■lll \ MkL a&t / / f P -1 jfir Jr /& W ■ 1 Mr /JmBH? CONDUCTOR JOHN T. PASCHAL. FORECASTS LATE AND MILO 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, he said, will stave off incipient frosts and much cold weather until the earth is all cooled. "Winter will be at least three weeks later than usual,” said he this after noon, "and even then I 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 in temperature, while the winter before was 5 degrees, and that just preced ing 4 degrees below. It usually evens up in two or three years, so I ex pect it will be mild this winter. “I expect the first frost will come about November 1, as the average frost arrives October 17. but I 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 behind, and if the forecaster is correct the salvation of much of the crop will be effected. Every farmer in the state is vastly worried jpst now, and his forecast will be welcomed by them all. NEW BANK CHARTERED. The secretary of state today received an application for charter from the Bank of Reidsville, to be capitalized at $25,000, X 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. AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. I.—At 6:30 o’clock. Eastern time, tonight, 300 conductors and trainmen, 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 James 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 early today. Superintendent W. S. Brand, of the Georgia road, this afternoon admitted that the strike may tie up the entire Georgia system. 23 ON TRIAL FOR STRIKE KILLINGS Courtmartial of Two Captains and 27 Militiamen Begun at Augusta. AUGUSTA, GA., Oct. L—The court martial to try Captains Henderson and Jowitt and 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 bad 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’MAN~IGAL PLEADS GUILTY IN DYNAMITING CASES INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 1— Ortie E. McManigal pleaded guilty on every count, Olaf A. Tveitmoe 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 cases 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 prossed. 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 cases began at 10:25 o'clock. The court struck out 45 of the 100 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 to be a busy one. The entertainment feature will be looked after by Way cross and the visit of ths physicians made an enjoyable one. IXTRAI 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 Scott by officials of the union, efforts had been made to bring about peace. A conference, called yesterday 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: “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, of the Order of Railway Conductors, and Vice President James 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 her husband will be vindicated in the end. In whatever action ensues she believes her husband and his fellow trainmen will be returned victors. “I don't know about all the details of the trouble,” said Mrs. Paschal today, “but I am sure Mr, Paschal will win. He is fighting for 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 111, 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 right to be turned off as he was after twenty years of service. “Some of the men are saying that the railroad company discharged Mr. Pas ctial 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 limit. “I don’t know about that, but I do know that Jack expects to win this fight and I expect him to win it, too.” Mrs. 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 he is right in this fight," was her parting shot. R. R.Head Here Refuses to Talk Major T. K. Scott, president and gen. eral manager of the Georgia railroad, is in Atlanta at the Piedmont hotel. He has been in the hotel for a week, confining himself to his room most of the time. In response to requests for interviews today, he sent word that he was ill and would not see any callers. His private car, the Augusta, is on the siding near the Union station, where it has stood for several days. JUDGE MADDOX FINES SIX ABSENT JURORS S4O EACH ROME, GA., Oct. I.—Judge Maddox has no patience with the juror who, duly summoned, will not appear when his name is called in court. He showed his disgust for the absent juror he fined six of them S4O each,