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the weather
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VOL. XL NO. 12<>.
DYNAMITERS
DEMO
TO PRISON
WARDEN
'i Thirty-three Labor Leaders
Start the New Year Behind
Walls at Leavenworth.
EACH MAN “MUGGED.’ HIS
HAIR CUT. AND SHAVED
Prisoners All Hold Up Well and
Make Resolutions for
the Year 1913.
I LEAVENWORTH. KANS., .Jan. L—
p, t.. Warden R. W. MeClough-
I ry at i: 1 a. in. today after a mysteri
ous flight from Indianapolis, the 33
dynamic conspirators who were con
victed in the Indianapolis capital were
photographed. given a shave, hair cut,
bath, suit of underwear, socks; their
Bertiilon measurements taken, after
which they were each presented with
the prison rules to memorize.
There was a general craning of necks
as the "dynamite special” approached
the dreary prison walls and hut few of
th’ men weakened. The special was
. run Into the prison yard and set back
on a siding after the prisoners left it,
to await th' return of the guards at
i noon today.
Manx of the men sent New Year’s
message- to their families and friends
when they arrived at the Leavenworth
union depot. Edward Smythe wired N.
Woodruff, mayor of Peoria, wishing him
7 the benefits of the New Year and as-
Tveitmoe Largest
Prisoner in Years.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe proved to be the
largest prisoner in Leavenworth in
many years, while George t Nipper) An
derson proved to be one of the shortest.
It is believed Tveitmoe will be assigned
a clerkship.
Marshal Schmidt and Warden Mc-
Cloughrey held a short conference in
the latter’s private office.
It was still dark when the special
arrived, all of which added to the gloom
of tile men. They were neither chained
nor cowed during the entire trip. The
big searchlights of the penitentiary
were still at work when the train
reached Leavenworth.
Olaf A. Tveitmoe this morning re
vived the following telegram from P.
> 11. Jtci ’arthy, former mayor of San
/ Prancisco:
* “M f at e with you more decidedly
than ever Wire instructions and bail
necessary.”
rveitmoe received many more mes
friends. Tveitmoe made
he statement today that he believed
I he had argued his own case “it would
have been spectacular, but I would not
■tave been here today.”
Men Resolve
To Be Good.
a few of the sentiments and
' - ’.tu.ii- expressed by tile condemned
men:
I ■'•itmoe- "To do the best I can."
Ryan—"To do unto others as I would
f .ax <• their, do unto me."
f 1-incy “To treat every one the best
1 Know how and hope they’ll do the
same toward me."
Butler—“To start new year with mat
ice toward none.”
Hockin—"To be just as good a union
I man as t-v. r.”
I '* s< v<? i to w rite another
f • tter.
uirL ' '" " I ' <t * le I’J’ison
1111 I " Keep good hours."
'bb Never to talk to a newspa
per man.”
Siuytlie— 1 o 8o t 0 church every
• unday for three years."
1 'O' M Ryan's only statement was
<>f the boys are victims of
*id ■"“ I associations. He
“ 'h>- wh.n told Bernhardt had re-
never to write .another letter.
LUN J™ SUSPECTED OF
MYSTERIOUS SHOOTINGS
insane'' " RLEAN * Jan. 1.-An
rtav r "’7’ 1S s " ugllt hy the police to
■ r *** second mysterious shoot
here N 'x l '!' lli<jnal)lt apartment house
|,.. * rfls "'•k -Mrs. Joseph Rie-
nue ’’ 629 Elyt "“ n Fiel < lß ave-
Ker worn iS th<? Victim.
Two mi.nil "! ,h ' is ,lOt serl ous.
chant m.t ' .* K " 1 Hall, a mer
nient "rodent of the same apart
tne victims \" ” S Shot ' **ch case
bench) < "" :,l " n " >« »><i seated on
• ■ • big palm tree. No
tl . the * t n '". d ° the sh " otll ’g. hut it
ttv w ..... . of ~ h p police that one of
<l'-d lunatics is responsible.
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i • PRINCETON, N. J., Jan. 1 At •
i • four minutes after 12 o’clock this •
• morning. President-elect Woodrow •
• Wilson received a package oi ap- •
i • pies by parcels post. The package •
• weighed eight pounds and eight •
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• tinction of having been th first •
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JUDGE W. A. LITTLE
PASSES BAD NIGHT; I
GROWING WEAKER!
i The condition of Judge William A. Lit- j
tie, of Columbus, who was brought to |
the IClkwi-Goldsmith sanitarium, in At- !
lama, critically ill. is no better today, i
He spent a restless night and is said to <
be growing weaker gradually.
Judge Little is the father of Hon. John ;
D. Little, and came here for treatment j
‘to be near his son. He is 74 years old, I
* and his condition is due to the infirmi
' ties of advanced years. Also he is suf- j
) sering from infection resulting from a
slight wound on the hand, received about
two months ago.
One of Georgia’s history-makers and
I formerly assistant attorney general of
the United Slates, Judge Little has fig
ured prominently In state affairs. He
was identified actively with the early
growth of Georgia, served as a captain !
of cavalry in the <?ivll war, and lent his I
efforts toward reconstruction in the period
following the war. He successively was
a member of the constitutional con ven
- tlon of 1877, solicitor general of the Chat
tahoochee circuit, attorney general of
Georgia, assistant United States attorney
general in 1896. and finally justice of the
; supreme court of the state, which latter
place he held until 1903.
For several years Judge Little has lived
; quietly, in retirement, at his home in Co
, lumbus.
CHICAGO WAKES WITH
> SPLITTING HEADACHE;
$1,000,000 FOR DRINKS
* CHICAGO, Jan. I.—Katzenjammer
t leered from the headboard of ('hicago's
i bed today. Oh, such a New Year's! The
bumping wheels of the ice wagon re
sounded through the streets as the ve
. hide answered calls of fevered enthu
siasts.
. ; According to the statistician—there j
j i were a few in the crowd that jammed
, the loop district until 4 o'clock this
morning—loo,ooo people joined in in-
, serting the happy in New Year's.
Their method was simple, direct and
elemental. It cost about $1,000,000 —
more work of the statistician—to se
cure sufficient quantities of champagne
and minor invigorators to furnish a
> sufficiently elaborate welcome to the
i little stranger. In addition, the crowds
on the streets were so moved with the
. "carnival spirit” that it took a squad
I of Chief McWeeny's very wisest cops
to determine just where the rowdyism
. line was drawn. Some say that some
i of the cops weren't quite discerning
enough.
i PARK BOARD MOVES
TO OUST YOUNG; TO
RE-ELECT DAN CAREY
i
When the city park commission meets
this afternoon in the session at which
' Commissioner M. B. Young planned to
1 defeat Dan Carey for general manager,
an effoit w ill be made to oust Mr. Young
, a.- the representative of the Ninth ward
because he has been absent from two
meetings without an excuse.
Members of the board have obtained
a ruling from the city attorney that
, they can declare Mr. Young's seat va
cant, and that Mr. Young will be ineli
gible for re-election by council.
Manager Carey will be re-elected. J.
O. Cochran again will be named presi
dent.
I Commissioners Frank Wilby and R. A.
I Burnett, who conspired with Commis
sioner Young to abolish the general
manager’s office, are expected to vote
I for Mr. Carey.
GIRL FIGHTS OFF TWO
NEGROES TRYING TO
SNATCH HER PURSE
1 Her ability to scream long and loud
and a few stiff punches of her right arm
’ i contributed to prevent the robbery of
Miss Jessie Stanfield by two young
1 I negroes at West Peachtree and Sitnp-
I son streets last night.
Miss Stanfield was walking alone to
the Capital City club, where she has
charge of tlie domestic service. Ono
negro grabbed her arm, while the other |
snatched at her purse. The purse con
: tained a diamond ring valued at $l5O
and some money. She also had a gold
‘ l xvateh.
Miss Stanfield screamed, then struck
I one negro in tiie face several times with
i her fist. Her screams attracted the at-
I tention of two men. Her blows on the
negro's face hurt, and the two young
i would-be highwaymen ran.
J. BRUCE ISMAY, OF
TITANIC PROMINENCE,
QUITS HIS POSITION
LONDON, Jan. I.—The long-expected
resignation of J. Bruce Ismay from his
. position as chairman and managing di
rector of the White Star line was an
nounced last night. It will take effect
■ June 30.
Harold C. Sanderson, first vice ptesi.
> dent of the International Mercantile
Marine Company, and a director of ’he)
White Star line, will succeed Mr. Is 1
may.
ATLANTA. GA.. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 1. 1913.
uo ieih
FOsIHEIS
IIIPEHIL
Money Not Being Available,
Madero Is Unable to Give
Protection Demanded.
EFFORTS TO MARKET
BOND ISSUE FAILURES
•
Troops To Be Concentrated at
Capital, Leaving Rest of
Country to Rebels.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. I.—No far
reaching policy of protection of Amer
ican life and property in Mexico can be
given by the Madero administration
during the coming year, it was learned
on high authority here today.
Further information indicates that
even the little provision for safeguard
ing foreigners made before the recent
demand of the United States for the
protection of Americans will be aban
doned in the near future through the
centralization of government troops at
the capital. Such a policy will leave
the outlying districts at the mercy of
the marauding bands.
Every attempt to comply with Presi
dent Taft's demand has been frustrated
by the lack of government funds with
which to raise a large and well disci
plined army.
Attempt to Negotiate
New York Loan Fails.
Minister Pedro Lascurain is rumored
to have tailed in his attempt to negoti
ate a further loan from New York
bankers, while a similar attempt tn
Paris is also said to have come to a
like fate.
in government circles it was admit
ted today that such a failure would
i entail upon the government the most
rigid economy, extending even to the
reduction of the present army. It also
is rumored on high authority that the
financial reserves of the government
have been exhausted and that Mexico
is perilously close to bankruptcy.
In a last effort to secure the neces
sary funds with which to carry on the
affairs of the government, Gustave
Madero, brother of President Madero,
is said to have been appointed the
financial agent of the Madero admin
istration. with Instructions to combine
his office of special ambassador to Ja
pan with that of raising funds in
Europe. Gustave Madero’s mission is
ostensibly to thank the Japanese gov
ernment for taking part in the Mexican
centennial under Porfirio Diaz.
Bankers Fail to
Float Bonds.
It is said tn financial circles here
that for Mexico to pay the interest on
her bonds, to take up the bonds given
for her war loans and to keep up what
is left of her army, she must have a
sum of money estimated in the millions.
To supply this sum it was proposed at
the extraordinary session of the Mexi
can congress recently convened to is
sue bonds covering all liabilities. A
quietus was given to this plan, how
ever. by the difficulty of finding a rep
utable banking house to float the issue.
Reports from the interior indicate
that the activities of the revolutionists
have in no way abated and that a
strong offensive policy is immediately
necessary to restore a semblance of or
der to the outlying districts.
6,000 LONDON TAXI
DRIVERS START NEW
YEAR WITH STRIKE
LONDON, Jan. I.—The new year was I
ushered in here today with a taxicab
strike involving 6,000 men, which caused
great inconvenience.
The ordinary hardships of such a strike
were doubled by the fact that the weather
is wet and cold and the demand for cabs
unusual. Tram cars and horse cabs could
not begin to accommodate the demand.
Thousands of tourists who came here to
sprn<l the holidays were thus inconven
ienced. The taxi drivers threatened to
use violence if the companies attempted
to introduce strikebreakers
The mm struck because of the high
prices they are compelled to pay for pe
trot
A BOTTLE OF AMMONIA
ROUTS MOUNTAIN LION
L\RNin>. KANS.. Jan 1. G. 11. Rorer,
a rancher, had purchased a wagon load
of provisions at Lakin. On his return
journey home a mountain lion chased him
several miles, finally succeeding in climb
ing into the wagon.
Pouring a large quantity of household
ammonia he had purchased for bis wife
in his ha*. Rorer slapped the hat over
the beast’s face, anti all danger vanished
With cries of rage, the lion raced for the
r ! v< r, disappearing in the brush along the
bank.
WEO Dll DARE
lILEBELLS
fIIWB
YEO
Romantic Marriage Results
From Banter of Friends
at Watch Party.
PREACHER IS AWAKENED
TO PERFORM CEREMONY
!; License. First Issued Under
New Scale of Fees Costs
Challenging Swain $2.25.
When their friends at a New Year’s
party last night teasingly dared them
' to marry. Jack Wingate, 275 East Fair
street, said to Miss Charity Davis, of
I 72 Cameron street:
"I never took a dare in my life.”
"Nor did I," said Miss Davis.
"Well, are you game?” Wingate
asked.
"I—I—1—” the young woman stam
mered.
■ | "All right, accept," Wingate inter-
■ | posed, and the guests applauded.
Whereupon the couple, accompanied
■ by Charles Likes. 343 Ormond street, at
whose home th party was bing held,
entered an automobile and sped to the
I home of Ordinary Wilkinson, where
1 they got the first marriage license of
the new year. Incidentally, they had to
pay the new price, $2.25.
They then hurried to the home of
the Rev. B. F. Fraser, pastor of St.
I Pauls Mtehodist church, 330 Grant
stret. roused him from bed and
. brought him to Mr, Likes' residence.
! There, before the beEsl and whistles
t that marked the passing of the old
year had ceased their discord, the wed
ding service was performed.
I Wingate is connected with the signal
. department at the police station, and
, the bride is the daughter of Policeman
( Gib Davis.
MRS. b7l. LILIENTHAL.
GRANDMOTHERS CLUB
PRESIDENT, IS DEAD
Mis. B. L. Lilienthal, 59 years old,
widow of the late B. L. Lilienthal
’ keeper of a crockery store in Peach
tre estreet, died today at the resi
dence of her daughter, Mrs. Gus Hoff
man, 229 Washington street, after a
long illness.
The funeral will be held from the
residence of Mrs. Hoffman at 10:30
o'clock tomorrow morning and the In
terment will be in Oakland cemetery.
Rabbi David Marx will conduct the
services.
Mrs. Lilienthal was well known in
Atlanta as the president for the past
three years of the Grandmothers club
and as a member of other organiza
tions. She is survived by two daugh
ters, Mrs. Hoffman and Miss Fannie
Lilienthal: a son, L. B. Lilienthal; a
sister, Mrs. S. N. Glogauer, of Bruns
wick, and a brother. Simon Straus, of
New York.
The pallbearers will be Eugene Obei -
dorfer. Henry Hirsch, Marcus Loeb,
Fred Kauffman, Ben Wiseberg, J. M.
Barnard, M. D. Blum and Morris Eise
man.
W. B. KENT, FATHER
OF WHEELER COUNTY,
ITS FIRST ORDINARY
ALAMO, GA., Jan. 1. —Tn the primary
of the new county of Wheeler yester
day the following candidates for coun
ty offices were nominated:
William B. Kent, ordinary; J. D
Brown, clerk; J. F. Wright, sheriff;
W. T. Hadden, tax receiver; J. A. Mar
tin. tax collector; Daniel Pope, treas
urer; E. Miller, surveyor: J. J Brant
ley. coroner; T. F. Williams. Sumner
and Thomas Kent, county commission
ers.
The ordinary-elect xvas the last rep
resentative of Montgomery county and
was the author of the bill creating the
county of Wheeler. He received a ma
jority of 111 votes. The tax collector
elect lives in Alamo.
YOUTH ILL, TWIN SISTER
SUFFERS, MILES AWAY
BALTIMORE, Jan. 1 Medical scien
tists are interested deeply in the re
markable sympathetic sensitiveness of
Clarence Marsh and his twin sister,
Clara, eighteen years old. The ease was
called, to the physicians' attention by
an operation on the brother in the
Maryland university hospital.
Though hundreds of miles may sep
arate the twins, any mental or physical
ailment that attacks one is felt imme
diately by the other. They have expe
rienced those sensations since they
were siuwll chilxlrvn,
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GRIFFIN STIRRED
BF NULL TRAGEDY
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Whole City Discusses Mystery
of Dead Treasurer Revealed
by The Georgian.
GRIFFIN, GA., Jan I.—All Griffin
today is for the first time openly dis- ;
fussing the mysterious tragedy re- i
vealed yesterday by The Georgian in ,
the suicide of Thomas Nail, 74 years of .
age and for 38 years city treasurer of (
Griffin, and the disappearance of the
city tax books and other records.
For a fortnight the tragi, incidents
were known to a limited number of city
officials and business mon, but they dis 1
cussed the matter in whispers and be- 1
hind closed doors. Now that the facts
have become known to the general ‘
public it is the one topi • of conversa- !
tior. in this city.
The Atlanta auditors encaged in in- *
vestlgating what is left of the dead
treasurer’s records and ■ vising a new '
business system or the city will not 1
complete their work so several days 1
and ft will probably he next week be- '
fore they make their report to Mayor
J Henry Smith. In the meantime E. 1
P. Bridges, the new to isurer. ~- await
ing this report befor, assuming the of
fice and taking cha ge of the city’s
finances.
When several hundred copies of Th
Georgian reached (biffin late yesterday
afternoon and the newsboys began to I
cry the papers on the streets and to de
liver them to subscribers, there was a (
ush to get hold of the papers and r< ad ]
the full stoiv of th. Griffin my.-tr,;..
The papers were passed from on, to '
another and many sat up late into tiw I
night pouring over the print, while t
awaiting the coming of the new year.
When tin auditors complete their s
work and make -their report the new 1
mayor and city council will launch a I
new business system designed to pro- ,
teet the city against tile possibility of a
repetition of what has taken place, by I
providing for pei iodical audits and re- <
ports on the financial affair- and clucks <
on thos. officials bundling tiiv city’s i
Uuunces. i
NEGROES IN FIRST
TRIM OF 1813
Black Calls Woman From Her
1
Home. Slashes Her Throat
1
and Kills Himself.
j
The fits, fatal tragedy of the new
year occurred early today, when' Wai- .
ter Rogers, a negro, went to the corner •
of Spring and Hunnicutt streets, en
gaged in an altercation with Minnie
Crutchfield, a negro woman, cut her
throat with a razor and then slashed
his own throat.
Police Captain Terry, wiio invest!« ;
gated the case, could find no cause for (
the tragedy.
Rogers died in a vacant lot near by, ■
and the woman was taken to the Grady ]
hospital. She is not expected to live, j
His throat was cut from ear to ear, •
and hers was badly gashed. ,
The Crutchfield woman Ilves at the <
corner of Hunnicutt and Spring streets. ]
It is alleged Rogers went to her house
looking for trouble and called her out <
into the street. ,
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PLAN THEATER OR
HOTEL ON VALUABLE '
LOTS ON SOUTH SIDE
Real - State again Is picking up. fol
lowing the Christmas festivities.
George Bonnell, of the Charles P.
Glover agency, has sold for C. S, Camp
bell to J. R. Ellis the house and lot at I
:»:»M Piedmont avenue, Ansley Park, for
$7,001). This is in lot 15. block 16, of
the park subdivision.
The Glover agency also reports the
sale of .10 acres on th)- Decatur road
to Irving S. Thomas for the Lumpkin
Investment Company for $6,000. This
will be held for enhancement.
There are a number of interesting
building announcements in prospect,
one of these concerns a valuable lot
on Whitehall street, where it is pro
posed to erect cither a south side the
ater, a hotel or an office building.
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R , J O
FITE LIKELY
TDESCAPE
CONTEMPT
CHARGE
Judges of Appeals Court Have
Nothing to Say in Reply to
Cherokee Jurist.
LATEST CRITICISM IS
WORDED CAREFULLY
Attacked Tribunal Not to En
gage in Controversy—Will
Rely Only on Record.
Notwithstanding the defiant tone of
Judge Augustus W. Fite's latest public
criticism of the Georgia court of ap
peals. and despite the open challenge
of it. it does not seem likely that he
xvill be cited again to appear at the bar
of the court to answer a rule for<con
tempt.
Chief Judge Benjamin Hill, at whom
the last Fite promulgation was more
directly aimed, does not seem disturbed
particularly by the new turn of affairs,
and stated very' plainly that he wifi
have nothing to say byway of reply to
the Cherokee judge.
The other judges of the court —Rich-
ard B. Russell and Robert N. Pottle —-
decline to talk about the matter at all.
Card More Carefully
Worded Than First One.
There is considerable doubt among
lawyers, as a matter of fact, whether
Judge Fite can be arraigned success
fully again on a contempt charge. baj«d
upon his last criticism of the court of
appeals.
While it is rasping in tone and
harshly critical, it is a more carefully
written card than the one upon which
he was cited before, and probably falls
well within the rule of criticism that
may not be adjudged as contempt.
The court of appeals, rather than in
dulge in an unseemly controversy with
Judge Fite, will rely upon the record in
the former contempt case. The court
prepared the record carefully, and con->
t<-nds that everything is in it that may
throw any possible light on ths pro
ceedings.
Attack on Hill
Os Personal Nature.
Those interested, so the court thinks,
will trouble themselves to look to the
record for the facts and the decision.
Those not willing to do that probably
are not sufficiently Interested to caro
much about it one way or the other.
A number of lawyers hold that Judge
Fite’s references to Judge Hill’s verac
ity and his lack of sympathy with the
Fite ideals of judgship, are more per
sonal in their nature than applicable to
the court of appeals as a court, and,
therefore, are not necessarily within
the rule of contempt.
The suggestion that Judge Hill re
sign. advanced vehemently by Judge
Fite, is not considered seriously in any
quarter.
NO EPIDEMIC FROM
MENINGITIS FEARED
BY ALBANY DOCTOR
ALBANY, GA., Jan. I.—According
to the city physician. Dr. Agnew H.
Hillsman. only two cases of meningitis
have developed here. A third suspected
ease proved not to be meningitis.
One case developed Monday in a
railroad construction camp car. The
patient, a negro, was taken to thacoun
ty pest house, and died there that night.
The other case is that of Robert Oree, a
negro who lives on North Washington
street near the city limits. He is still
living.
The authorities have taken every pre
caution to prevent a spread of the dis
ease. A quarantine has been estab
lished in each instance and an ample
supply of serum has been obtained from
the state board of health to cope with
the situation if more cases appear. The
authorities are not apprehensive of the
disease becoming epidemic.
ENDS HER LIFE WITH
HUSBAND’S NECKTIE
CHICAGO, Jan. I.—Mrs. Frank Ketay.
living at 1315 West Fourteenth street,
committed suicide by strangling herself
with one of her husband's neckties. Is
rael Ketay, the husband, found her dead
in bed when he returned home. Ketay
told the police that his wife had suffered
a nervous collapse two months ago and
that she had never recovered.
MARRIAGES DECREASED
IN GREAT BRITAIN IN 1912
LONDON, Jan. 1. Statistics show tha l
there, were 0.5' per thousand less mar
' riages m 1«1S than la 1911 in Great
Britain.
