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Lerally < air today and tomorrow -
NI. NO- 11°-
IWT CLAY
■ILL BHK
■SILENCEOII
I aims
Kl Officials Look for Wife
H Slayer to Collapse at the
Last Moment.
■jCES CELL BY HOUR AS
■ day OF EXECUTION NEARS
■-wn-nor Brown Probably Will
■ co Fmal Appeal of the
B ’.Lin's Family Today.
i'lay. the wife slayer
■E Fri'lriy. December 13.
_ insanity, he. in the
break the silence he
since he shot his wife
■■. ..i
nt’y mount the in-
eth and die without a
|H . ill belb ve that he died
■H grows short.-r and
-
insane and how he
nr■■ ■' a.an. as he slowly
with bowed head, ilown-
M lightly closed lips, has
ria- flight of time and
that he is within the
ge'loas. he has given
.in slightest sign to in-
No Sign
MOi Breakdown.
M e . e,,.ij ;his morning, and
• . .• hi.«- sat on the side of his
H ' is ~.. . buried in his hands.
i, . Lie uas not shown tile
~l a breakdown.
Mg • iim.i'.y removed his face
M' tnis morning and awoke
'.paieat teverie. he arose
'i . .. hi i began his measured
H| a.ird cell floor, pacing to
'...’i in its narrow cage,
■■ ~,i around him.
fl| ised his head and peered
B| r.iirky morning—just the
M| ai would be expected to
i f a man in such a
■ or .-merit was not no
fl 'o.’ay appears' the same
first day he was placed
H ■ 'l’. \.-. r bars to await bis trial
M His long, shaggy, un-
and a sparse growth of
fl *'i<- only noticeable changes
ranee.
■2 :C r -i H?S
A/.uitite.
fl m.st remarkable things
5 i. ills appetite. He devours
eitl. a g’eat relish, but iiis
fl is m ver evidenced by a smile
fl is' brightening of facial ex
fl • ats anything taken to
fl . ''"o'.iiDr Brown acts favor
fl appeal of Clay's family for
fl nutation of sentence or a res
fl 'loomed man will be removed
fl morning from his cell on the
fl "or oi tiie Tower and placed in
fl,],’. 1 ’” “mni-d.‘rers’ row" on the top
fl . ' !lb adjoining the death
fl V. eT '., At th ** s 'ame time, the death
■ H be placed on him, and, tin-
■ 'u ’ n t 0 tlle kmllows, he will be
■ 'Dr watch of this guard.
■ ’sivn of the governot. with
E 1 ‘ay’s final and only hope,
■ led si>me time today.
I ALL ge»ms in library
books will be baked
E’’ |l ‘’ X 'in.!'f l,: ' X ' Dec - Ue-Boi.k-
I lr ‘ neu i >a<l ? ria W ‘H find no welcome
■ IS.- lii, r . (1 . v of the .Montclair pub-
fl Ir.sruiici •> ' H ', t of ,l "‘ equipment being
■ * hif, h all J' re S “ sleriliz *nK device by
■ “rs O s p IB r,l ? s l°'lKed between the cov
fl the ' ’" oas are to lie destroyed. All
■“' fr.-., ,! ,’ e K|ielv,;a wdll lie subjected
B'ven ~t n ervals to treatment In the
■ tin e ,) . “ ,na chine. where a long con
fl **- U<gre2i Per m Ure ’•ai'Klng from 150 to
■ ‘tri* " ' s " ul l" 1 ’ an end to all bac-
| Po ISONED CANDY SENT
I 0 DIVORCEE: MAN HELD
I K»na, Dec. 11.—Erank Mc-
I ' 'ins I. a, ' M ’ Ha . Kan., is in Jail here,
I ‘ i,; tne ni '■‘ l ™l"d on a Federal in-
I l " 1< "* I’-.is, arK ' n * ! Hln> with sending a
I Mrs " ne 'l candy thrmigii ttie mails
■ ' ; »'.rg.. '' oon ". divorced wife of
■ '•>«, a lumber dealer of Osku-
I ci """iai ( .s Ir r C,,011N received a box of
| m r several
I lu *P* ,, l-ihx ir,< ? nrouMed her
■ a. n’*’ 1 Mn by the
■ Ol Hhor,ti ®» l«d tu the dhivovery
The Atlanta Georgian
• Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
REillfE MOVE
10 J.BOLISH
SMOKE
BOARD
Smith Frames Ordinance Fol
lowing Dissension and Res
ignation of McMichael.
INSPECTOR TELLS OF
BRIBES OFFERED HIM
Near-Physical Clash With Com
missioner Renfroe at the
Stormy Session.
With the smoke and gas commission
i hopelessly rent by discord, and Inspee
| tor McMichael's resignation handed in,
I the movement to abolish the board was
' revived today with added vigor.
Councilman Charles W. Smith said
■ he would renew a consideration of his
i ordinance abolishing the commission,
I and that it probably would be intro
i dttced at the meeting of council Mon
day.
"1 think tho great majority of the
members of council are tired of the
bickerings of the smoke commission,"
|he said. “I know the people are.
“What we want is to get rid of the
i smoke nuisance."
: Inspector Tells
Os Bribe Offer.
Resigning his office, Smoke Inspector
j McMichael declared that he had been
I offered a total of $7,800 in bribes by
I agents of smoke consumers to recom
mend their patents. He said that these
; agents were insisting that cases be
1 made against all violators oTthe STfTOke
t ordinance, and that they were “holding
up” the owners of steam plants with
. excessive charges.
. “I have yet to know of a single one of
i these agents who would put up a surety
bond that his patent would do wiiat he
, claimed It would do.” said the inspec
, tor.
His resignation and startling revela
tions Immediately followed a clash be
' tween him and Commissioner J. N. Ren-
I froe. Commissioner Renfroe insisted
i that cases should be made immediately
I against all violators of the smoke law.
: Cases Ordered Three
Owners After 15 Days.
"There is the McMillan smokeless
! furnace and many other appliances that
i will reduce the smoke. Let the owners
| of these plants look around the city
■ and see what others have done to re
i duce the smoke,” said Renfroe.
1 The commission then ordered cases
i made against the Candler building, Du-
■ raid's restaurant, on Edgewood ave
‘nue, and the Kimball house, if they
I have not complied with the law within
fifteen days.
I Inspector McMichael made some crit
icism of the McMillan and other patent
I processes.
i “You are prejudiced against the
I.Tames McMillan furnace. You had a
row with Mr. McMillan didn’t you?”
'asked Commissioner Renfroe.
. Physical Clash
. Nearly Results.
“Yes, I had a row with him,” said
I Inspector McMichael. "He tried to slip
|me SSO in bills to recommend his plant
and I felt like kicking him out of my
office.”
“Why didn’t you report ft?” retorted
Commissioner Renfroe.
"1 want to inform this commission
further.” continued Inspector McMich
|ael, "that I saw a contract drawn up
between the McMillan company and
Mr. Renfroe’s business partner, ready
|to be signed, to install McMillan fur-
I naces.”
| "That contract never was signed an I
never will be." cried Commissioner
Renfroe.
A physical clash was imminent, but
Chairman R. M. Harwell demanded or
| der.
PARTED BY A QUARREL.
WED FIFTY YEARS LATER
JOPLIN. MO.. Dec. 11.—Sweethearts
50 years ago and si-parated because of
a. trivial quarrel, Isom White, aged "2.
and Mrs. Lydia Ann Jenkins, 60 years
old. renewed their courtship here re
cently, and were married.
During their long estrangement both
had married and reared large families.
White's wife died ten years ago and
i Mrs Jenkins was i widow when she
. and White resumed their acquaintance.
SMOTHERED TO DEATH.
COLCMBI'S. (JA . Dec. 11. Hen Ham-
I monds. a 16-year-old negro, was smoth
ered to death a' Swift mills hi this city
1 when he was caught beneath a bale of
I cotton, from which he had removed the
Illes to run It through a hopper to the
dyeing depart ment-
ATLANTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1912.
Yale Wants Taft For
Law Professor When
His Term Expires!
Negotiations Now Under Way
With President, Head of Uni
versity Admits.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., Dec. 11.—Ne
gotiations are now going on between
President Taft and the Yale law school
that are likely to result in President
Taft becoming the Kent professor of
law after he retires from the white
house. Rumors that he had already ac
cepted the proffer received the follow
ing statement issued by President Had
ley, of Yale, today:
“President Hadley denied the report
that President Taft had accepted the
Kent professorship of law at Yale. He
did not deny that there had been an in
formal conference on tlje subject; but
he said explicitly that the matter had
not been formally acted upon in any
way, and that he did not know whether
anything would come of it.”
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Thomas Flanagan, another of
the noted union men at the big
labor conference.
3 MESTEO FOR
ISOjlTfflT
Mountaineers Held on Charge
of Sending Blackmail Let
ters to President-Elect.
NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 11. —Three
mountaineers who are being held here
today charged with being authors of
several letters threatening President
elect Woodrow Wilson with death un
less he paid them $5,000 will be ar
raigned Monday before United States
Commissioner Stockton. The men are
Jacob Dunn, alias “Nig.” aged 37; bis
brother Warren, alias “Pete," 33. and
Seeley Davenport, alias “Snake.” 35.
The men were captured by a ruse,
after a hunt of nearly three weeks in
one of the wildest and mostinaccessible
places in the mountains of New Jersey,
by Secret Service officers Lrabee and
Butler and Deputy United States Mar
shal Beekman. All theri letters were
sent to Governor Wilson at Trenton
and were signed "P. J. Shadunk, R. F.
D. 2, box 43. Wharton, N. J.”
The governor’s secretary forwarded
the letters to Chief Postal Inspector
Cortelyou, at Philadelphia. a«d the gov
ernment machinery at once was put in
motion. The officers lay in hiding near
the rural box. Suspicion was directed
to Davenport and the Dunn brothers,
who lived near by. and the officers, un
der the disguise of pension agents, en
gaged Davenport in conversation. They
found that he was in desperate need of
money. Then they rounded up the
Dunn brothers; who submitted to arrest
only after being subdued at the point
of revolvers. The letters threatened
to shoot Mr. Wilson "like MeKlnnie
(meaning McKinley) and "Teddy.” The
men wanted the $5,000 to he placed in
the mall box by November 24. The trio
under arrest insist they are innocent.
Rail Unions Fight Federal Employers 9 Liability Act
CONTINUE WARON L.& N. ROAD
Milton A. Smith Regime Is
Blamed for Strike on the
Georgia System.
The railway unions of the Southeast
have pledged themselves to do ceaseless
battle against tw'o things. One is the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and
the other is the proposed Federal em
ployers' liability act. pending in con
gress.
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unions are satisfied with all other
things. They recently have gone on
record as favoring drastic amendments
to the Sherman anti-trust law. With
other unions they will not be satisfied
until what they term “unjust injunction
statutes” are repealed.
But. at present, they are busy plan
ning their eighteenth yearly campaign
against the Louisville and Nashville
railroad and seeing that Washington
puts complete disapproval on Senator
Sutherland’s "employers’ liability bill.”
Attacks L. & N. Methods.
“I could talk to you ail night about
the Louisville and Nashville railroad
and its unfairness to union labor,” said
Harvey O. Teat, ehairman of the board
of directors of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Engineers.
“It is an old story in this section and
railroad employees of the Southeast al
ways will be in a fighting attitude while
the present methods obtain and the
present management remains.
"We called the L. & N. a soulless cor
poration in the resolution we adopted
yesterday condemning its policies. As
a matter of fact, it reminds me of the
Russian government in its matters >f
administration. Do you know that half
the employees of that railroad are de
tectives? It is a gj'stem of spies, whos"
employees are watched continually.
"There isn’t a doubt in my mind but
the Milton A. Smith regime caused the
Georgia railroad strike. All unionists,
well informed on the L. & N. and Its
methods, know that the Georgia offi
cials took their cue directly from Smith
when Paschal was discharged.
Use Boycott as Weapon.
"This action merely was a part of the
L. At N. policy to sm.ksh a labor union
wherever it Is found. As lessee of the
Georgia with the Atlantic ('oast Line, it
is only natural for the L. & N. officials
to try and break the unions on the
Georgia system.
“Our methods of fighting the Louis
ville and Nashville will be much as
usual. We will use the only weapon
available, the boycott. We art having
marked success with it now.
"It would be surprising to you to
know the number of reliable business
firms, not overly sympathetic with the
Continued on Page Two.
A. B. Lowe, of St. Louis, president of the International
Brotherhood of Maintftnanee-of-Way Employees.
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James O’Connell, prominent union official.
LITTLE CZAREVITCH
NEAR DEATH;COUSIN
PICKED FOR THRONE
PARIS, Dee. 11.—Indications that
Grand Duke Alexis, the eight-year-old
heir to the Russian throne, Is failing
fast in health are contained in a St.
Petersburg telegram to The Matin to
day, which stated that Grand Duke
Pavlitch, a cousin of Czar Nicholas,
would probably be appointed heir des
ignate within a short time.
As the little czarewitch is the only
son of the czar, it would be necessary
to go outside his immediate family for
an heir to the throne in the event of
Alexis' death.
MACON MINISTERS MEET
TO START VICE WARFARE
MACON. GA., Dec. 11. —The ministers
of Macon are going to ask city council
again next week to appoint a vice com
mission, and if again denied, they are
going to conduct an anti-vice crusade
here under the auspices of the Men and
Religion Forward Movement. They are
determined that the wide-open restrict
ed district of Macon shall be abolished,
ami that there shall bo an improvement
in prohibition conditions. All of the
Protestant clergymen are united on this
proposition.
12,000 CHILDREN IM MACON
TO MARCH CHRISTMAS EVE
MACON, GA., Dec. 11.—All plans
have lieen perfecteil for the parade ot
the public and Sunday school children |
on Christinas eve night, when it is
expected that , fully 12.000 will tie in
line, singing carols as they nit rch to
the city auditorium. The details were
arranged at a conference of all of the
committees this morning. As the chil
dren assemble at tile various points.and
march through th< streets singing, alii
of the churen Ix lls and chimes of the I
city will also ring. I
SIX SCRUB WOMEN .
BELIEVED BURNED
IN CINCINNATI FIRE
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Dec. 11.—Fire
men and police today searched the Un
ion Trust's building for the bodies of
six scrubwomen, believed to have per
ished when tne upper floors of the
building were gutted late yesterday by
flames. The fire threatened to destroy
a large part of the business section of
the city.
It started in the rear of the Gibson
house. After it was once believed the
fire was under control It broke out
again, destroying the Gibson house.
Foucar’s case, adjoining; the Renbigs-
Lothman building, the Missouri Pacific
building, the building occupied by the
W. L. Douglas Shoe Company, an aban
doned building and swept through the
Union Trust buXding. The top ten
floors of the sixteen-story building were
gutted.
LEADING ODD FELLOWS OF
STATE TO SPEAK IN MACON
MACON, GA„ Dec. 11.—Judge R. T.
Daniel, of Griffin, deputy grand sire of
tile Odd Fellows, of the world, and
Grand Master W. G. Coleman, of At
lanta. will deliver addresses here to
morrow night at a public meeting held
in the interests of the order. The Ma
con Bar association, the mayor and
council and other public bodies have
been Invited to, attend the meeting,
which will be held in the city audito
rium.
AUTO FIRE ENGINE FOR MACON.
MACON, GA.. Dee. 11.—With the ar
rival here next week of a new auto
mobile tire engine, costing $8,500, Ma
con's tire department will be equipped
altogether with auto apparatus. The
Inew machine will be formally Installed
In the South Macon station on t'hrlst
mas day.
IXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^Re c
BRYAN’S PLOT
TO “KNIFE”
WILSON
OAOED
"■
Frank P. Glass Says Nebraskan
Planned to Eliminate Jersey
Governor as He Did Clark.
SCHEMED TO HAVE SELF
NAMED FOR PRESIDENCY
Alabama Editor Declares Com
moner Isn’t Powerful Enough
to Boss President-Elect.
Frank P. Gla°s, for thiee years Wood
row Wilson's housemate at Princeton
university, editor of The Birmingham
News, general manager of The Mont
gomery Advertiser. Alabama’s foremost
newspaper man. today revealed star
tling facts in reference to Governor
Wilson’s pre-convention campaign, in
which he declared that William J.
Bryan attempted to knife the New
Jersey governor just as he knifed
Champ Clark, with the end in view of
having himself nominated for presi
'dent.
"Bryan will never be offered a place
in the Wilson cabinet, unless Mr. Wil
son decides that by this means he can
preserve Democratic harmony by si
lencing the Nebraskan.” declared Mr.
Glass. "Mr. Wilson has no debt to pay
Mr. Bryan.
“Mr. Bryan schemed to defeat Gov
ernor Wilson at Baltimore just as he
schemed to defeat Champ Clark. It was
only because the New York delegation
refused to cast its vote for Mayor Gay
nor on the final ballot, at Bryan’s sug
gestion. that the Nebraska man's
scheme to make himself for the fourth
time Democracy’s candidate failed.”
Glass Long a
Friend of Wilson.
Mr. Glass played an Important part
in Wllssn’s nomination. He was a soph
omore when Wilson entered Princeton.
The fires of the Civil war had not died
out in those days, and at the great
Eastern university the Southerners
kept largely to themselves. Practically
all the Southern students were quar
tered in the same house. Among them
was Mr. Glass. Wilson came a year
later.
Naturally their association was close,
and when Wilson loomed as a presi
dential possibility. Mr. Glass took the
lead to have the Alabama delegation
instructed for him.
Then Oscar Underwood entered the
list, and Mr. Glass, refusing to fight his
fellow Alabaman, even for his college
chum, centered his endeavor on having
an Alabama delegation favorable to
Wilson as a second choice. In this he
was successful, and when Senator
Bankhead withdrew Underwood's name
at Baltimore, Glass was able to vote
Alabama for Wilson and start the
stampede for the New Jersey man.
On account of these signal services
and his close personal relationship with
the president-elect, the Alabama editor
has been prominently spoken of for a
cabinet post.
Editor Not Looking
For Cabinet Place.
“1 have never considered my cabinet
boom seriously," said Mr. Glass. “Os
course, I am grateful to my friends for
having inaugurated it. but Governor
Wilson has political obligations to pay
and plenty of material to Select from
before he could possibly look my way.
And, anyway, 1 am pretty well satisfied
as things are running now."
“Well, it’s pretty certain Bryan will
get any cabinet job he wants?" he was
asked.
Mr. Glass’ eyes flashed with the fight
ing spirit that has made him a power.
"Mr. Bryan will get no cabinet po
sition. If he does, I will be surprised.
The only condition under which I can
see that Governor Wilson will name
him is for the governor to wish to
silence him and preserve harmony in
the party.
Bryan Can’t Boss
Wilson, He Says.
“Bryan undoubtedly has a powerful
following. He has a powerful person
ality, but he is not powerful enough to
boss Woodrow Wilson. I know both
men.
"Wilson has no debt of gratitude to
Bryan. It is true that Bryan started
the movement away from Clark, but he
didn’t do it for Wilson. He did it for
himself. Two hours before Wilson was
nominated, he made every endeavor to
have New York cast its vote for Mayor
Gaynor, tried to make us keep Under
wood in the race, so that there would
be a deadlock so hopeless that he could
stampede the convention with a speech
and be nominated himself
"Wilson knows this I have not seen
him since the election, but 1 know him
so well that I am sure he will not hur
ry to honor Bryan unless the •ollillly
of the parly demands it.”
