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[THE weather L.C.* for Atlanta and Georg ' a: 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.” /J """" 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. This doesn't mean that the railroad | V' ■ i I, \ I ; <- •i- - y ■ I ■ I / WEflwaF jES&fc- ’ > f > <*>■ S E. a a ® \\. “? Mmb ' ro ' //a \ \ wN*. - W w** i ■ jBBK- JBL..- flpflßfw 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. wWn ? x 'S'' A— —*” "A \ - \ W- x 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.”