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Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
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VOL XL NO. 91.
TROOPS LID
in capital
US FIGHT
HAGES
Great International Army of
Marines in Constantinople
to Guard Foreigners.
FALL OF CITY AND ITS
OCCUPATION IMMINENT
Turks Make Last Stand Under
Fierce Fire of Cannon in
Hands of Bulgarians.
i'OXST> .NTINOPLE, Nov. 18.—The
of Constantinople is being decided
>y a terrific battle which is raging
>v-.r ; battle line along the Chatalja
>rtifi- lions, while foreign marines
being placed about the embassies
„sd consulates in this city for the pro
•eition of the lives of foreigners. A
gr at army of marines and bluejackets
“ring spread over the quarter where
» foreigners are expected to take
refuge. v
\ heavy artillery duel was kept up all
~ight north of the city, under the glare
of torchlights. While searchlights
from the heights held by the Bulga
ians played upon the Turkish works,
other searchlights in the forts flung
00-ir shafts; against the flaming moun
tains a here the Bulgarian cannon
thundered.
General Savoff’s Bulgarian infantry,
;ih li had behaved so gallantly, though
ineffectually, in the face of the galling
Turkish fire, Sunday slept upon its arms
behind the artillery, snatching what
• it could amidst the thunder of
guns. There was little sleep in the
orthern part of this city, for buildings
. ere locked by the canilonade and the
s. fell with the tremendous rever
-1 ui.ns of the caution. It was esti-
. ec flat 500 heavy guns were in ac-
J air oi City Is
Beliet rid at Hand.
’. aat the fall of Constantinople and
>• cupation by Bulgarians is at hand
i; indicated by the methods taken to
i .otect foreigners. An army of nia
. hi - and bluejackets was formed today
j tlie policing of the streets, while
. 1 foreign fleet in the Golden Horn
i: keep the city under its guns, ready
mr any emergency. The powers fear
HUtrag.'s by the Turkish rabble fully as
• -'■ciily, if not mere so. .han they do the
of invasion by a foreign foe.
is an army of hungry, ill clad,
stricken i-olcmrs at the gates of
■ty, between t: Chatalja lines and
• •Ity proper, rod - mould it be al
to enter, tkei -is danger.
■’l tvjdet , great bat-j
■ .a. . Chi.talj; defenses is rag-j
'i. furiously as ii did throughout
I’hc- ro:.r of the heavj artil
ia audible in the northern ami
'•■■ii suburbs, and the reverbera-1
times reach the Para quarter
Is city.
r li. r t-. buoy up the mme of the i
mm.- populace, the government
i '■mu proclamation saying!
i,i. Pasha, the cotnmander-in
had reported a great
r " . <uir t’n Jd't wing of General
■ "i- Bulgari; . army, wjiicli had
io turn the 'astern flank of the
t arks Fighting
n Last Ditch.
oreigii residents doubted the reports
iht Turkish minister of war that he
I'.ken 8,001) Bulgarians prisoners
mid captured twelve heavy bore
I ii'-ri is little doubt that the Bulga
' found the Chatalja lines stronger
if they anticipated. The Turks are
■b l ting in the last ditch, and are mak
ing the supreme effort to retain their
'otholfl in Europe.
Furkey’ domestic situation is critl-
T> .' sh soldiers, who are receiv
es doul , H ;.- fr on) the government in
"dei o nsure their loyalty, are po
'i- ing the city for the government. They
" making political arrests, and the
prisoners have been spirited across the
Bosphorus. Their ultimate fate is un-
■ rtain. Among them is said to be
■lahoud Sheftek Pasha, former nilnis
“r of war.
' holera and dysentery are Increasing
1 i ‘ number of cases is estimated at not
‘■ss than 20,000 in the native quarter
1 this city. Hundreds of disease
■stricken refugees are lying uncared for
a the streets.
man mysteriously disappears.
BRUNSWICK, GA., Nov. 18.—Word has
cached this city of the mysterious dis
c earaiife of .James Butler, a stevedore,
Oarien, who Las been missing since
*'•’ Wednesday. Friends believe he was
rowned while on his way from Meridian,
Wntvsh county, tu the Saptlo dock*.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
.....
Clark and Bryan, Once
Cronies, Do Not Speak
As Convention Result
I
Speaker Holds Nebraskan Re
sponsible for His Defeat;
Squabble Is Feared.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—William
J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and Champ
Clark, of Missouri, no longer speak as
they pass by. For the first time in
many months, Mr. Bryan and the
speaker of the house find themselves in
I the same town.
I Mr. Clark h.ap arrived here for the
1 session. Mr. Bryan is in Washington
| filling a number of lecture dates.
I In the old days Clark and Bryan
: ; were cronies. This was before the Bal-
| tirnore convention. Men close to
Speaker Clark say he holds the Ne
i braskan responsible for his defeat.
| Friends' of the speaker are inclined
i to be resentful over a statement made
Iby Bryan that Mr. Clark should be re
-elected presiding officer of the house.
: They say Mr, Clark was assured of an
other teun before Mr. Bryan had any
thing to say on the subject.
Leader Underwood fell out with Bry
-lan a year or so ago, and Democrats
• predict that if Mr. Bryan attempts to
; meddle in house affairs Mess’rs. Clark
land Underwood will fight him hard.
Just how President Wilson will be able
to steer clear of the controversy is a
i matter of lively concern among Demo-
I erats.
WILSON ESCAPES SEA
SICKNESS, BUT WIFE
TAKES TO STATEROOM
HAMILTON, BERMUDA, Nov. 18.—
President-elect Wilson and his family
, arrived here shortly before 9 o’clock
today on the liner Bermudian. The par
ty went directly to the cottage which
had been engaged at Salt Kettle, across
the bay from Hamilton.
ON BOARD THE STEAMSHIP BER
MUDIAN AT SEA, Nov. 18.—(By Wire
less Via Seagate. N. Y.) —President-elect
Wilson has thus faf escaped sea. sickness
en route to the Bermudas, for a vaca
tion, but Mrs. Wilson has not been so
fortunate. She- was confined to her state,
room yesterday. The sea is now very
rough.
Although Governor Wilson announced
he would dodge politics on his trip, it was
learned today that William Hughes,
United States senator-elect from New Jer
sey. will arrive in Bermuda within the
. month to confer with the president-elect.
Governor Wilson brought with him on
this trip a number of communications
urging the appointment to a cabinet post
of Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago.
SENATOR BOURNE TO
ADDRESS SOUTHERN
GOOD ROADS MEET
Plans for co-operation of the good road
I forces of the South will be made in At
lanta Wednesday when delegates from
every Southern state will gather for the
Appalachian Good Roads association
meeting.
Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon,
author of the parcels post bill and an en
thusiastic supporter of the measure for
Federal aid in road building, will be the
principal speaker. He will discuss rural
free delivery and parcels post in their re
lation to the necessity for uniformity in
improved highways.
Dr. J. Hyde I’ratt, state geologist of
North Carolina, will preside. A feature
of tlie meeting will be an automobile trip
over the roads of Fulton county, which
will end with a luncheon at the Piedmont
Driving club Thursday.
ICALVE’S VOICE HURT '
BY CHICAGO SMOKE;
SINGING DATES OFF
ST. LOUIS, No*’. 18. -Mme. Emma
: Calve, prime donna, is confined to her
! room here today with a congestion of the
. I throat which physicians fear may per
| manently injure her voice. Mme. Calve
came here from Chicago. She caught
I cold there and it affected her throat,
j After her arrival here- she took a long
evening drive, which accentuated the mal
i ady. Her engagement here was cancelled.
I Mme. Calve can not speak above a whis
j per today.
“There is something in the air in Chi
s eago that hurts our voices,” said M.
j Renaud, a tenor with the Calve party.
■ “It is the smoke and something else.
■ | St. Louis smoke is bad enough, but it is
i I worse in Chicago. Mme. Calve com
, plained all the time she was there.”
BAILEY WILL FLAY
PROGRESSIVES IN
SENATE. THEN QUIT
£_ •
AUSTIN, TEXAS. Nov. 18.—Word
comes from Senator Joseph W. Bailey
that his resignation will not go into
effect until after the coming opening
of congress. He plans to make one
speech in the senate on one of the early
days of the session.
He has confided to political friends in
Texas that the proposed speech will be
the greatest effort of his, public life. It
will deal largely with progressivism, he
says.
POET OF SIERRAS IS
RECOVERING HEALTH
SAN FRANCISCO, Not. 18.—Joaquin
Miller, the Poet of the Sierras, who has
been supposed for several months to be
near death, following u paralytic stroke,
is now walking about again and re
gaining his old-time vigor. He ascribes
his recoverj largely to a diet of hon
; eyed hominy prepared daily by his
daughter. He eats hominy with honey
three times a day
ATLANTA. GA.. MONDAY. NOVEMBER IS. I!H2.
SEN. TERRELL
DEAD AFTER
LINGERING
ILLNESS
End Comes to Distinguished
Georgian at His Home in
Juniper Street.
FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE
HELD IN ATLANTA TODAY
Burial Will Be at Statesman’s
Boyhood Home. Greenville,
Tuesday Morning.
Joseph Meriwether Terrell, former
governor of Georgia and United States
senator, died at his home in Juniper
street Sunday morning at 7:10 o’clock
The passing of the distinguished
Georgian was not unexpected, as he had
been critically ill for several days, and
as far back as last Friday it was known
that dissolution was near.
Senator Terrell had been in bad
health for eighteen months. In Feb
ruary of 1911, he sustained a stroke of
paralysis in Washington city, and al
though he made a brave and heroic bat
tle to recover from this, and seemingly
did improve for a time, it early was
evident that death had marked him and
that his strength was not sufficient for
the winning of the fight.
Senator Terrell was one of the most
popular men in Georgia, and his grad
ual decline has been watched in sym
pathetic distress by thousands. While
an executive and citizen of firmness and
thorn ugliness always, his disposition
was particularly kind and gentle, and
he held his friends very close to 'his
heart.
Hundreds Call to
Condone With Widow.
Hundreds of sorrowing Georgians
called at the Terrell home yesterday
afternoon and this morning to express
their deep grief and respectful sympa
thy with Mrs. Terrell and the sena
tor’s brothers, who were at his bedside
when he passed away.
Immediately upon learning that Sen
ator Terrell was dead, Governor Brown
issued a proclamation and executive or
der officially deploring the senator’s
death, and providing that alj flags on
the state buildings fly at half-mast to
day, as an evidence of official mourning.
Funeral services will be conducted ai
the Second Baptist church at 2 o’clock
this afternoon by Rev. John E. White,
the senator’s pastor and friend for
many years.
After the services, the body will be
carried to the Terminal station, whence,
at 4 o'clock, via the Central, it will be
taken to Greenville, Ga., the senator's
old Iwmie, for interment at 10 a. m.
Tuesday in the family cemetery.
Ballbearers will be four of the sena
tor's brothers and two brothers-in-law:
Dr. E. B. Terrell, W. A. Terrell, J. R.
Terrell, H. W. Terrell, Hines Holt, of
Columbus, and R. Spivey, of Green
ville.
Senator Terrell is survived by his
widow, who before her marriage was
Miss Jessie Spivey, of Greenville, Ga.,
and four brothers —Dr. E. B. Terrell and
Render Terrell, both of Greenville; Dr.
Henry Terrell, of LaGrange, and W. A.
Terrell, of Decatur.
Joseph Meriwether Terrell was bom
in Meriwether county, Georgia, on June
6, 1861. His boyhood days were spent
on a farm. Early in life he moved to
Greenville, in Meriwether county, and
there he was educated in the public
school, later studying law and becom
ing a member of the Greenville bar.
His political career began in 1884, at
which time he became a member of the
legislature of Georgia—being the
youngest member of the house when
sworn in. He was re-elected to the
house in 1886, and in 1888 was sent to
the state senate. In 1892 he became at
torney general, winning a victory of
two to one over his opponent in the
convention that year.
Named U. S. Senator
To Succeed Clay.
He served exactly ten years as attor
ney general, and then was named gov
ernor by an overwhelming vote. He was
re-elected to the governorship in 1902,
and served until June, 1907. By reason
of a change in the date of assembling
the legislature, his second term was ex
tended eiaht months, making him gov
ernor for a longer period of time than
any other man ever had been.
Mr. Terrell retired to the practice of
law after his term in the governorship
expired, and was called back into pub
lic life again in November, 1910, when
Governor Brown appointed him United
States senator, to fill the vacancy caus
ed by the death of Senator Clay. It
was while serving as senator that he
was stricken in Washington with the
paralysis which finally ended his ca
reer. When the legislature at its june
session in 1911 named a successor to
Mr. Clay. Senator Terrell once more re
tired to private life.
Atlanta Expert Urges Further Tests for Poison
PLAN TO EXHUME GIRL'S BODY
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MISS MINNIE MARCHMAN. BY ARiiST CARTER.
CITY WILL ADOPT
HEMIBILI
The bid of tlie Georgia Railway an 1
Power Company for a five-year con
tract to light Atlanta's streets will b<
recommended to council for adoption by
the electric lights committee this aft
ernoon. despite the protest by City
Electrician Turner that the bid is to#
high.
The bid will reduce the city's lighting
bill, now based on a contract signed
five years ago. by about $20,000 annual
ly. The gross cost to the city for street
lighting will be about SIIO,OOO a year.
City Electrician Turner charged that
the figures, except for the White Way
lighting, were 50 per cent too high in
comparison with the rates some other
cities are getting.
Council will adopt the bid, It is ex
pected. In the absence of competition,
the committee decided that the only
way to reduce the cost of electric cur
rent was to build an electric power
plant.
Councilman Claude C. Mason will urge
that the arc lights in the White "Way
district be cut out until 12 o’clock al
night, when the White Way lights are
turned off. The contract will contain a
provision that the cltj '-an tak' over
the Whjte Way system if it decides to
furnish its own current by the proposed
crematory power plant.
WOULD HAVE U.S. BUREAU
REGULATE DRESS STYLES
CINCINNATI. Nov. 18. Mrs. John C.
Hessler, Decatur, 111., wants a Federal
bureau to regulate fashions.
“It is time we called a halt on the
wearing of boudoir garments on the
street,' said she.
Brother-in-Law Firm for Fur
ther Probe—Preacher De
nounces Cleghorn.
ASHBURN. GA.. Nov. 18.—Minnie
I Marchman’s body will be exhumed and
j the search for the poison believed re
| sponsible for her death continued, if the
i family of the dead girl acts on the sug
gestion of Dr. John Funke, the Atlanta
chemist, who conducted the original
examintion.
| Dr. Funke has so far failed to find
trace of poison in the contents of the
■stomach, but declared that it was alto
gether possible that if poison had been
introduced it would have be-en absorbed
by the time he received the organ for
examination.
Whether the girl was drugged or not,
he declares, can not be determined until
the brain and the liver are examined.
He states that both of these organs will
retain the poison trace much longer
than the stomach, lie, therefore, of
fered to go to Ashburn if the relatives
agreed to exhuming the body and re
quested the further examination.
Sister’s Husband
For Further Probe.
W. J. Cochran, brother-in-law of the
girl and chief mover in the investiga
tion, declared today that he was hearti
ly in favor of continuing the quest. “I
won’t be satisfied,” he declared, “until
this mystery Is cleared. If the girl was
poisoned, we ought to know It." No
definite word has been sent Dr, Funke,
though, and In the meantime he has
discontinued his examination.
Dr. W. J. Dixon, of Rebecca, at whose
instigation the poison search was first
made, announced today that he woufil
I imnn diately confer with the family and
county authorities in reference to ex-
Continuecl on Page Two.
FIIHS FLOCK
TO GIBSON TRIAL
I
GOSHEN. N. Y , Nov. 18.—This little
j town took on a holiday appearance to
day and over every country road in every
sort and kind of conveyance fai-mers and
their families poured In for the trial of
1 Burton Gibson, the New York lawyer, ac
cused of the murder of Countess Rosa
I Menschlk Szabo Buggies, spring wag
, ons, automobiles and even hay wagons
were pressed into service to carry the
throngs that gathered around the Orange
; county court house long before the trial
was to begin.
Gibson arose early In his cell and
dressed carefully for ids trial.
“I am feeling fine and have every con
fidence in the outcome of my case," he
said to Deputy Sheriff Decker.
Immediately after breakfast, Gibson
conferred with his lawyers, Robert H. El
der, former district attorney of Kings
county, and Attorney Golsier. Mrs. Gib
son was present at the conference. She
will take a leading part In the direction
of her husband’s fight for his life.
When court opened before Supreme
Court Justice Tompkins, 190 talesmen
summoned for Jury service were jammed
into the little room. The prosecution is
in charge of Assistant District Attorney
, Wasesrvogel, of New York county.
SHERIFF OF DES MOINES
AND POLICE QUARREL
' DES MOINES, IOWA, Nov. 18.—Sa
loons remained closed today by order of
. Mayor Hanna, while the police and
sheriff quarreled over what action to
, take to prevent further rioting in the
transfer drivers’ strike. Meanwhile,
I Governor B. F. Carroll stands ready to
I order out the state troops, and prom
ises four full regiments of 4.000 men.
If nee. ■■. ary, to preserve order and keep
the peace,
IXTRAI
L I
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE I
MOTHER ANB
CHILD DIE
IN AUTO
CRASH
J
Street Car Wrecks Motor iff
Which Family Is Leaving for
Pleasure Trip.
WOMAN AND BABY CRUSHEO
TO DEATH UNDER TROLLEY
Husband and Another Daugh-j
ter, in Front Seat. Escape
Without Injury. '
The bodies of Mrs. Bessie Lyle an®
her baby daughter, Margaret, lie at a
local undertaker’s today, awaiting a
double funerdl tomorrow
Mother and daughter were hurled frona
an automobile in Luckie street yester<*
day afternoon and crushed to death be<
neath the wheels of a trolley car whicit
had struck their motor from behind.
W. Richard Lyle, a railroad conduca
tor, who lives at 279 Luckie street,
was driving the car, with his five-year-.,
old daughter in the front seat
him. and neither was injured.
Lyle and the baby were In the rea*
seat and received the full force of th<t
Impact when the street car struck. th<
-tonneau. The accident occurred at X
o’clock, and mother and child died ai
the same moment in the Atlanta hos»
pltal three hours later. .
The accident was one of the most
peculiar that has occurred In Atlanta,
and appeared to be one of those bits o(
circumstance which apparently are Ln«
avoidable. Lyle ran Ids auto back*
wards down the alley from his hom«
into the street, reversed his lever and
prepared to go ahead and turn toward
the city. An incoming East Hunter caß
came over the hili at Alexander street
and bore down on the auto. Lyle at*
tempted to drive across to the right
side of the street to avoid the trolley*
when the rear of the auto jammed
against a tree. Lyle worked furiously
to send the car ahead of the trolley to
safety, but the auto would not mov%
and the crash followed. The autorno*
bile was jammed into the curbing and
against a post, badly smashed by th<
Impact.
“Brakes Applied Too
Late,’’ Says Lyle.
"If the motorman had put on hlsj
brakes sooner he could have stopped
his car,” said Lyle today. “The top of
the hill is about 150 feet way, with a».
down grade to the point where the col*,
lision occurred. He didn’t throw on hls»
q
brakes until he was within two car*,’
lengths of my auto. His car was run*;
nlng slowly when it struck.
“I tried to back out of the way of the
trolley, but the rear of my auto struck
a tree. Then I tried to go ahead and
cross over, but my wheels spun and
wouldn’t take hold."
Mrs. Lyle and little Margaret were
hurled Into the air, over the side of
the auto, and directly in front of the
trolley car, which was still grinding its
way through the wreckage of the mo
tor. Baby Margaret fell in the track,
and both her legs were severed near the
hips. Mrs. Lyle was wedged under the
trucks and fatally crushed.
Lyle sprang from his seat, seized a
small automobile jack from his tool
box. and worked in a frenzy to raise the
heavy street car from his wife’s man
gled body. At last he succeeded, an<X
fainting from shock and exhaustion,
was lifted into the amublance beside hla
wife and rushed to the hospital, where
Baby Margaret had been sent several
minutes before.
Mother and Child
Die at Same Moment.
Mrs. Lyle did not lose consciousness,
but it was clear from the first that she
could not live. Lyle was forced to
leave her for a while and return to his
home, but shortly afterward received a
telephone message that she was dying.
He reached her bedside just before sho
passed away. The baby, who had been
unconscious all the time, died at tha
same moment.
The Lyles were starting for a trip to
Athens, where they Intended spending
several days. Their car was loaded
down with suitcases and bags, and a
dozen neighbors had assembled on tha
sidewalk to see them off. They wit
nessed the collision, and several women
fainted at the sight.
The trolley was driven by Motorman
R. W. Brewer, with Conductor S. E.
Cox on the rear platform. Brewet
jammed on his brakes when he saw a
collision was likely, and his hands were
blistered by his exertions. The trolley
wheels were sliding under the grip off
the brake when it crashed Into the mo
tor Brewer said he was within fif
teen feet of the alley when the auto
backed into the street. No arrest was
made, as no blame was attached to
any person involved in the tragedy.
The funeral of the two victims will be
conducted tomorrow morning at Mrs,
Lyle's former home, in Maysville. Ga.
The bodies are at the undertaking es
-1 Üblishment of P. J, Bloomfield today.