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THE ATLANTA dEORGTAX AND NEWS.FRIDAV, APRIL 18. 19H
S B. MARKS, of Atlanta,
• Who was re-elected
president of the State Federsu
tion of Labor at the meeting
now on at Augusta.
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Papal Physicians Assured Pon
tiff's Strength Will Carry Him
Through Recent Relapse.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ROME, April 18—Pope Piue X
Held Hi* own throughout the
greater part of to-day, although
late thi* afternoon reports were
circulated that he was fast losing
strength.
Inability of the Pontiff to re
tain nouriehment on hi* etomach
and an acceleration of hie cough
were the principal contributing
factor* to thi# weakness. A drop
sical condition is said to be devel
oping in the left leg.
On account of the condition of
his stomach it may become nec
essary to make food injections, a*
was done in the case of J. P. Mor
gan.
ROME. April 18. -Tilt* condition of
Pope Plus X way to-day subject to
conflicting reports. According to the
morning bulletin of the doctors, His
Holiness showed improvement and
rove indication that his strong con
stitution would ultimately be able to
overcome immediate danger.
Information from another source,
however, is that the Pontiff still Is in
a precarious condition, being ex
tremely weak from lack of nourish
ment and from the cough which ac
companies .attacks of bronchitis.
In support of the latter report It is
significant that Cardinal Oregliu has
been notified to keep in readiness day
mid night to respond to a call from
i the Vatican.
At 10 30 o'clock this morning (4:30
Atlanta timet the following bulletin
was issued from Drs. Marchiafava and
A mid:
Improvement is shown in the
Pope's catarrhal affection. His
general condition le satisfactory.
The temperature is 98.
The moderation of the Pope’s tem
perature gave cause* for hope at the
Vatican, but His Holiness was again
warned by Dr. Marchiafava not !«>
over-exert himself
Sees Humor in Warnings.
"Your Holiness must not confuse a
temporary rivily for permanent im
provement,” explained Dr. Marrhlu-
IHVA.
Tn spite of his emaciated and weak
ened condition, the Pope sees hinder
in the constantly reposted warnings of
the doctors and smiled as he promised
■ to obey to the best of his Judgment.
It was but 48 hours ago that the
belief was general that the Pope‘s
hours of life were numbered and the
amazing rally that he has made,
chiefly through his determination to
get well, has aroused the wonder of
the world.
The fear has been communicated to
Cardinal Merry Del Val. papal secre
tary of state, that the Pope may die
suddenly. Anxiety on this poYnt has
beset the mind of the ailing Pontiff
rind led to numerous requests that the
last sacrament be administered.
The life of the Pope was compared
by his nephew. Mgr. Parolin, to a
flickering lamp. The flame Is waver
ing now higher and now lower, and
may be snuffed out at any minute.
Nephew Fosrs the Worst.
"We pray fot the best,” Mgr
Parolin* said, but the unmistakable
signs of sorrow in his demeanor pro-
iaimed the forebodings in his mind
The Pope slept for interval? of two
and three hours throughout the night.
Once his heart became so weak that
he was awakened so that oil of
camphor might be injected. As %oon
as he awoke this morning and had
partaken of a cup of weak gruel, he
immediately asked to be allowed to
sit up.
Both Dr. Marchiafava and Amici
protested emphatically against this.
*yhe following bulletin had been is
sued at 12:30 a. m.:
The Pope Is resting more easily
than last night, but hts breathing
is superficial and his pulse is very
weak.
At 4:15 the following bulletin was
forthcoming:
The Pope is sleeping and seems
oaaier. but his prostration is ex-
osrive. Brandy was adminis
tered. but was followed by a fit of
vomiting.
Awoke Nearly Suffocating.
At 5 o’clock this bulletin was i.*-
The Pope awoke suddenly and
seemed to be suffocating This
caused a paroxysm. He after
ward took the yolk of an egg and
some milk. A few minutes later
he fell into a sound sleep and his
nervousness seemed relieved
The Italian Government Is making
daily inquiries on behalf of the King
Victor Emmanuel and Queen Mar-
gherlta.
When Dr. Marchiafava asked the
Pope how he had spent the night, the
latter replied:
I dreamed I was saying mass '
Dr. Marchiafava smiled as he said.
* In a month it will be a reality.”
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FOR LABOR CHIEF
State Federation to Urge Com
pulsory Arbitration and Em
ployers’ Liability Bills.
AUGUSTA. GA., April IS. 'he r<.i-
lowing officers were elected this aft
ernoon by the Georgia Federation of
I.a bor:
S. B. Marks. Atlanta, president; W.
A. Michael, Macon, first vice presi
dent; .1, \V. Enquire, Augusta, sec
ond vice president: W. <Puckett, At
lanta, third vice president, and Rob
ert Fetch ner, Savannah, sec ret ary-
t reaaurer.
Macon will probably be the next
meeting place.
It is expected that the session will
come to an end during the afternoon.
This morning the report of the ieg
islative committee was made. A large
number of resolutions of various char
acters were reported favorably and
pa ssed.
It was decided, on the recommen
dation of the legislative committee,
that a compulsory arbitration bill, an
employers' liability and a working-
men's compensation act and the addi
tion of -two factory inspectors to the
staff of the Commissioner of T^abor
be the three measures on which labor
will concentrate its efforts at the next
session of the legislature.
it was explained that with concen
tration the labor men would have a
better chpnco to get these measures
passed, instead of having many bills
and not bo much force behind each
bill.
Resolutions were passed during the
morning asking that the Legislature
pass a "full Crew" bill; u kindergarten
bill, providing school facilities for
children between 4 and 6 years of
age; a compulsory education bill; a
bill providing that shelters be pro
vided for car repairers; a bill limit
ing the amount of work to be done by
section foremen; a bill providing that
all street cars be vestibuled, and one
providing that women not be required
to work in telephone offices or in
stores over 10 hours a day or 54
hours a week.
Georgia Land Fake
Worked for $20,000
New Mexico Farmer Fleeced on Bo
gus Jonathan Block Titles—At
torney Searches Records Here.
Another victim of Georgia’s hoary
land swindle was discovered Jo-day
through the presence here of Tomlin
son Fort, a former Atlanta attorney,
who came all the way from New
Mexico only to find this morning that
his client had been cheated out of
properts worth in the neighborhood
of $20,000.
MY. Fort said that the "land sharks”
tame to the West with abstracts of
title for many acres of land in Eman
uel County which wore represented
to have been granted to Jonathan
Block May 19. 1794. Mr Fort’s client.
n well-to-do but unsuspicious farmer,
was persuaded to trade about 250
acres of perfectly good and untisually
fertile land in the Pecos Valley of
New Mexico for the worthless ab
stract.
The New Mexico attorney was in
the office of Secretary of State Cook
to-day, poring over the old records.
Hh investigation showed that the ab
stract was entirely bogus. He will
institute criminal proceedings against
the swindlers on his return.
W. it A. R. R. CONDEMNATION
BILL IS DEFEATED, 15 TO 14
NASHVILLE, TENX.. April 18.—
The Bass bill, authorising the ji-y
of Chattanooga to condemn the West
ern aud Atlantic Ttailroad yards in
Chattanooga for the opening of Broad
Street, was defeated by a vote of Li
to 14 ij, the Tennessee Senate to-day.
PLAN HOT FIGHT
ON TARIFF BILL
Entire- Schedule of Underwood
Revision Measure Will Be
Bitterly Fought.
, WASHINGTON, April 18.—In-
tending to strike a blow at the
rubber trust, Representative
Hardwick, of Georgia, offered a
resolution to transfer raw rubber
from the free list to the dutiable
list, with a duty of 10 per cent.
His resolution was lost by a vote
of 53 to 33.
Rspresentative Borland, of Mis
souri, then moved to put all the
manufactures of rubber goods on
the free list. His motion was lost
almost by a unanimous vote.
WASHINGTON. April 18. A bitter
tight will be made on the Democratic
tHiirr revision bill. The forces op
posed to the so-called Underwood
measure are now ready for the battl«
Backed by requests from many In
terests for hearings on certain sec
tions of the t nderwood bill. Republi
can Senator** have made a demand
upon members of the finance commit
tee for hearings, and attack the "se
cret legislation" now going on in the
Democratic caucus of House mem
bers
Democratic Senators, replying to
the attack, have made it clear that
the finance committee does not plan
to grant any public hearings. Sena
tors Williams anti Stone insisted full
hearings had been given t»v the House
committee before the bill was pre
pared. w'hile Republican Senator? de
clared that these heatings had been of
little value because the rates of the
Underwood bill were not then known.
Will Oppose Entire Bili.
With many complaints and objec
tions before them. Republican mem
bers of the Senate are preparing for
a general attack on all schedules of
the bill. Senator Smoot has put two
experts at work to analyze the Un
derwood bill and previous measures to
give ti»e protectionist forces a basis
for their fight. Other Republicans,
v ho claim that important industries
would he wiped out by the Underwood
bill, will again Insist that business
men and laboring men should have an
opportunity to be heard before the
new hill is passed.
The Democratic House caucus
worked over the Underwood bill
throughout yesterday, upholding the
Democratic House leaders and Presi
dent Wilson upon all'contested points
r,, he woolen schedule was under fire
all day. Attempts to put. ready-made
clothing on the free list and to alter
other rates in the bill were defeated.
Late in the day, after the wool
schedule had been approved without
< hange tl4* caucus disposed In
short order of the silk, pulp and paper
unci sundry schedules, voting down
ill proposed amendments. The fret
list was under consideration w hen the
Democrats adjourned.
Certain Mills Doomed.
Representative Underwood address
ed the members on the scope of Up
hill and its effect. He declared that
reductions in wool rates undoubtedly
would Injure some factories, but that
it would benefit the industry as a
whole. Certain factories of old equip
ment and less advanced business
methods, Mr. Underwood said, prob
ably wo did be forced out of business
Such concerns, he argued, were not
economically entitled to live and with
them out of the way the industry as a
whole w ould benefit.
Representative Phelan, of Massa
chusetts. to-day in the tariff caucus
offered an amendment to transfer
bootb and shoes from the free list and
make them dutiable at 5 per cent. The
amendment wa«* lost without a divi
sion being demanded.
The caucus voted down the resolu
tion to put u tax of 10 per cent on raw
silk, which is on the free list In the
Underwood bill. Discussion of the
income tax was then taken up.
’ Six Burned in Oil
Explosion in Hotel
Fire Near City Hall
White Clerk at Fairlie House Injured
as He Tries to Save
Negro Cook.
Free Sugar Would Make
U. S. Target of Producers.
WASHINGTON, April 18.—That the
free sugar provision in the Under
wood bill, if enacted into law, will
make the United States a target for
all the sugar-producing nations in the
world is shown by a report issued by
the Department of Commerce to-day,
in which it is stated that this country
annually consumes one-fifth of all
the sugar produced.
The United States uses an average
of 3,285.771 long tons of sugar a year.
The United Kingdom conies next with
a consumption of 1,707,956.
The average world's production
8,457.178 long tons of cane sugar and
8,982,220 long tons of beet sugar.
Republicans Not to
Offer a Tariff Bill.
WASHINGTON. April 18.—The Re
publican "open” conference of the
house met to-day in a room In the
House office building.
Representative Burke, of North Da
kota, called attention to the fact that
the rules of the Capitol operated
against open or public conferences in
the House chamber. A new meeting
place, therefore, was chosen.
Tariff legis atlon was the program
for discussion, with' this question to
be determined: Shall the minority
offer substitute schedules for those of
the Underwood bill the Republi
cans merely condemn the Democrat!
bill without framing opposition meas
ures?
Professor Patten, University of
Pennsylvania,Predicts Wilson’s
Failure to Solve Problem.
PHILADELPHIA. April. 18 "The
Republican Party, clearmed, strength
en*- d ;tnd made more responsive to
the people, will return to national
power. The Democratic Party, I be
lieve ran not meet the expectation* of
even the minority that voted, it into
control of the National Government.”
These are the* predictions of Dr. Si
mon Nelson Patten, professor of po
litical economy in the University of
Pennsylvania.
"Tariff will prove the undoing of
Democracy,” Dr Patten write*, "it
has before it two alternatives: One
1* a small reduction of tariff and
virtually no change in the costa of
articles that are deemed necessaries
in the American standard of living.
'J'lie other alternative i* a radical re
duction in tariffs and the consequent
rtoppuge of many important Ameri
can industries.
"Viewing the situation wholly as
an economist, it seems to me that,
whichever born of the dilemma is se
lected. President Wilson and his col
league* are certain to disappoint a
large body of the people who have
entrusted them with power. Hun
dreds of thousand* expect to see cost
of living measurably and speedily re
duced.”
Plea for Living Wage.
Dr. Patten sees the restoration of
Republicans on a platform of living
wages, equitably distributed as part
of their protective party.
"Thousands of girls are now pressed
to the edge of moral endurance. The
least pu?h will put them into the
street. Who will t.ike the responsi
bility for this?" Professor Patten
asks.
“There Is one matter upon which 1
may speak with some degree, of em
phasis. That is the inevitable read
justment of wage conditions by cer
tain protected manufacturers. The
day has gone bv when $5 a wVek is
the basis for a working woman’s
wage. When.the Republicans return
to power—as I believe they will in
the next national election—they must
come as a party pledged to definite
reforms, and as a party whose ener
gies will be devoted to keeping the.*
pledges.
“of these promises, the most im
portant will be a readjustment of
tariff benefits, so that the worker
shall receive his fair share of the re
newed prosperity.
"The manufacturer who stuffs into
hie pocket the largest share of pro
tection benefits is the one who can
best afford to meet the changes pro
posed in the tariff laws.
"There is onp fundamental law-
true, both in biology and economics.
Struggle helps the strong and crushes
the weak. With cut throat competi
tion the rich grow richer and the poor
become poorer. When the tariff is re
duced, the low waged workman lose,
not their employer. And of these low
waged ones the working giri will be
the worst sufferer.
Dollars and Virtue.
“In addition to predicting what the
effect of free sugar will be. the Pres
ident should state his doctrine of the
relation of dollars to virtue.
“The Government by granting pro
teotion to certain industries acquires
a right to supervise the operation of
these industries. The protective tar
iff of the future will. I believe, be
based upon some form of Governmen
tal supervision which will assure to
the public honestly and well made
goods, and to the workers a fair divi
sion of tariff benefits.
"The Republican Party of the future
will make this proposed law and will
abide by it.
"There, is no radical difference be
tween the Republican and Progres
sive Parties. Both agree upon the
protective tariff theory. Progressive
ideas will become part’ of the Repub
lican platform of the future, and Pro
gressive leaders will fight shoulder to
shoulder with honest intentioned Re
publicans who are now opposing the
Progressive ideal.
ATLANTA NEGRO TROOPER
COMMENDED FOR BRAVERY
Lionel Lewis, an Atlanta negro
serving in the Ninth Cavalry, U. S.
A., at Naco, Arir.., has been com
mended for braver) by the command
ing officer. Major Head, in orders
published at the camp recently.
Lew is was serving as a member of
a patrol near the boundary line to
the west of Naco and reports say that
during a skirmish, in which a number
of shots were exchanged, lie man
aged to capture and take into the
camp as prisoners two heavily armed
Mexicans. Lewis formerly lived at
262 West Hunter Street.
PITTSBURG SCHOOL HEAD
FREED OF GIRL’S CHARGE
PITTSBURG. April 18-Superin-
tendent S*. 1*. Heeler, of the Pitts
burg public schools, to-day was ac
quitted of charges made against him
by Ethel I Fisher, formerly employed
as a maid in the Heeler home.
After about one hour's deliberation,
the jury late yesterday returned a
sealed verdict, which was presented
when court oonv^nejn to-day.
A while man and five negroes were
burned, one of them perhaps fatally,
in a gasoline explosion in the kitchen
of the Fairlie House, near the city
hall, thin afternoon. The white man
was John Duggan, clerk at the hotel,
whose clothing caught fire when he
attempted to save the life of Grace
Wallace, the negro cook.
Duggan was severely burned about
the legs and body, but it is not
thought his injuries will prove seri-
iou*.
The Wallace woman was probably
fatally burned* When Duggan ran
ino the kitchen she was afire from
head to feet and her hair was blaz
ing. When the flames were exting
uished she had been seriously burned
about the head and body. Both
Duggan and the negro woman were
taken to Grady Hospital.
Four of the negro waiters at the
hotel were slightly burned on the
hands and arms when they tried to
extinguish the flames without call
ing the fire department.
The explosion was the result of a
mistake on the part of one of the
negro waiter*. He saw a can of
gasoline setting on the floor and
started to fill the kettle with it.
The damage to the building was
small.
i I
SPGMffi
Governor Defends Action in Call
ing Out Troops During the
Augusta Car Riots.
Devotion to Mother
Leads Augusta Boy ,
To Brave Jail Term
Psrole Granted Young Man Who i
Wandered Five Years Following
Escape From Gang.
Aide in Row Fatal to
Infant Loses Appeal
Supreme Court Holds Lou Miller
Responsible for Part in Heard
County Slaying.
An echo of a famous Heard County
shooting case came to-day when the
Supreme Court sustained the Heard
County Court in its denial of a new
trial to Lou Miller, convicted of mur
der as the second principal in the
killing of an infant child of D. £.
("Doe’') Bell during a gun fight at
Beil’s home.
It was brought out in the trial that
Daniel, the principal, and had urged
Miller had procured a rifle for John
Daniel on. Miller denied this.
His attorneys asked for a new trial
asserting that additional evidence had
been obtained.
Police Start War
On Wandering Dogs
Ten Are Killed in Various Parts of
the City After Appeals Are
Made by Frantic Women.
Ten dog*—some mad and ’others
exposed to rabies --were killed' to-day
in the police war of extermination
to relieve Atlanta’s maddog peril.
Pryor Street. Central Place, White
hall Terrace. Haygood Street. Fair-
view Avenue, Cooper Street and East
Avenue, where their presence had
created terror Frantic appeals to the
police w’ere made by frightened wo
men and others.
Police Call Officers John West and
Bailey, on duty on the day watch,
have been called on to shoot most of
the dogs, and are. known at the po
lice station as the “official dog kill
ers."
Fulton Salary Law
Remains Undecided
Supreme Court, However, May| Rule
on Issue Before Reconvening
in May Session.
The State Supreme Court adjourn
ed to-day without passing on the va
lidity of the Fulton County salary
law, which is being contested by
three of the county officers, Ordinary
John R. Wilkinson. Tax Receiver T.
A. Armistead and Tax Collector A.
P. Stewart.
If the court observes its usual cus
tom, it wil not hand down further de
cisions until about May 13. but be
cause of the importance of the issue a
ruling may be made in the interim.
Find in Sea Message
Left by Col. Astor
BOSTON, April 18.—Captain J.
Willis, of the British tramp steamer
Lonscar, which arrived here to-day,
reported picking up at sea a small
board bearing a message and signa
ture of John Jacob Astor.
He has wired the contents to Mrs.
Astor. .
U. S. MAY ORDER RECEIVER
FOR S. P. AND U. P. LINES
WASHINGTON. April Is.—It was
learned to-day that the Supreme Court
of the United States probably will order
the appointment of receivers for the
Southern and Union Pacific railroads if
Attorney General McRevnolds fails to
present a dissolution plan to the St.
Paul court by May 10.
Governor Brown replied to-day to
.Judge Emory Speer, to ho, in a speech
this week before the Georgia Federa
tion of 1 >abor in Savannah, bitterly
criticised the Governor’s action in
calling out the troops at the time of
the Augusta street car strike.
"The law's are on the books.” said
the Governor, "and' I am going to
obey them so long as they remain
there. If the people of Georgia do
not wish me to call out the militia
in times of threatened or actual out
break. they had better remove those
laws from among the statutes.”
Governor Brown answered the
charge that the measure had been
“sneaked” onto tlie statute books by
remarking that if six readings, three
before the Senate and three before
the House, and a consideration, of
thirteen months were not sufficient
to get a proposed measure before the
attention of people, then the legis
lative procedure also should be
changed.
Law Passed in 1912.
The bill was read before the Sen
ate three times in the session of 1911,
where*it was passed unanimously by
a vote of 37 to 0. It was read in
the House twice in 191 L and the third
time in 1912. Then it was put upon
its passage in the House by a vote of
116 yeas and 9 nays.
Governor Brown declined to reply
to the attacks made upon him in the
resolutions passed by the Federation
of fj&hor, saying that adequate re
ply was contained in the address
made by him last October on “The
Supremacy of the Law.”
Governor a Tool of People.
1 am a tool,” he said. ”1 am Ute
tool of the people of Georgia. 1 wear
a collar, but it is the collar of the
laws of the State.”
He quoted the measure under which
he acted in calling out the troops,
which reads, in part, as follow-s:
“Whenever any judge of the su
perior court, or a city court, county
court, county sheriff, mayor of any
incorporated city, town, or village, in
this State, whose authority shall rank
in the order named shall have reason
able cause to apprehend the outbreak
of any riot, rout, tumult, insurrec
tion. mob. unlawful assembly. or
combination to oppose the enforce
ment of the law by intimidation,
force, or violence, within the juris
diction of which such officer is by
law a conservator of the peace, which
can not be speedily suppressed or
effectually prevented by the ordinary
posse comltatus and peace officers,
it shall forthwith become the duty of
the judge, sheriff, or mayor to report
the facts and circumstances to the
Governor and to request him to order
out such portion of the militia of the
State as may be necessary to preserve
the peace, and it thereupon shall be
the duty of the Governor, if he deems
such apprehension well founded, to
order out, or direct to be held in
readiness, such portion of the militia
of the State as he may deem ad
visable for the enforcement of the
law; and when the Governor orders
out troops, as herein provided, he
shall thereupon by proclamation de
clare a state of insurrection in the
locality in which the disorder is lo
cated.”
•The story of a boy’s yearning fer |
home and his aged mother, so great |
that he returned to this State after |
five years of wandering and submit -1
ted to being gent back to the chain-
; gang, from which he had escaped, w:us
j told to-day in the granting of a parme
j to W. J. Collier, of Augusta, by Gov
ernor Brown.
Collier, who was i young man of 20
years when he was sentenced to two
years on the chaingang for breaking
into freight cars, was brutally beaten
by the whipping boss. After he had
borne this treatment and suffering for
several months', he made his escape
one night and for five years remained
undiscovered until he walked in upon
the officers in Augusta and gave him
self up.
”1 can not stay away from my
mother and sister any longer,” was all
that lie said in explanation.
An investigation disclosed that aft
er (’oilier escaped from the brutality
of the whipping bocs, he went into
another State and obtained employ
ment. learning the painter’s trade. He
sent money regularly to his mother,
who is old and feeble, and to his un
married sister. Letters from his em
ployers said that he was honest and
straightforward in every respect.
House Views Income
Tax at Many Angles
Many Representatives Think $4,000
Limit Too'High—Insurance
Companies Hard Hit.
WASHINGTON, April 18. -The in
come tax. which is expected to yield the
government $70,000,000 a year and make
up for some loss of revenue caused by
the free list provisions in the Under-,
wood tariff measure, was discussed by
the House Democratic caucus to-day.
The bill levies a tax on incomes of more
than $4,000 a year.
A wide range of views was presented.
Many representatives believe tliaf the
$4,000 limit was too high, while others
believe it too low. A number of com
plaints declared the bill as framed by
Representative Hull, of, Tennessee, im
poses undue hardships on insurance
companies. The provision which makes
the incomes of families where the ag
gregate is more than $4,000 subject to
taxation, also has been criticised.
it is claimed the penalty which would
be imposed on tax-dodgers should be
graduated according to the amount of
i income.
BURNS CLUB GOES TO
LITH0NIA FOR OUTING
Members of the Burns Club, of At
lanta. will leave for Lithonia at 10:30
o'clock to-morrow morning as guests
of the Burns Club of the Scottish
Colony at Lithonia at the annual
"Dogwood Day Outing " There will
toe a barbecue and picnic.
Nobleman Seeking
Riches on U.S. Stage
Grandson of Duke of Argyle Arrives
in New York to Go Into
Vaudeville.
NEW YORK, April 18.—In the
hope that by performing a few stunts
on the vaudeville stage he can fill the
family money bags which just now-
gape at both ends and in the middle,
the MacLaine of Lochbuie, a grand
son of the Duke of Argyle, arrived to
day on the liner Mauretania, from his
castle in Scotland.
The MacLaine declared upon land
ing that he wanted a wife.
“But I don’t want an heiress." he
asserted. “My wife must be a poor
girl, be good and pretty. Wealth is
the ruination of feminine attractive
ness and I wouldn’t have a rich girl
for a wife.”
CORDELE.—W. B. McMlchael, of
Atlanta, a former freight conductor
on the Seaboard Air Line, has brought
suit in the Superior Court of Crisp
County against the road for $25,000
for the loss or a leg in an accident at
Alton, Ala., last October.
Ocilla Firm Fails.
OCILLA.J-The mercantile firm of
Dickerson & Purvis, of this place,
has been closed up by the Sheriff un
der a mortgage foreclosure for $3,500
in favor of the Consolidated Grocery
Company of Fitzgerald.
Seeks 7th Divorce:
3rd From Same Man
Michigan Woman Sues Eugene
Mors. Her First, Third and
Present Husband.
/
KALAMAZOO. MICH., April 18
Mrs. Eliza Morse made application
for her seventh divorce. The woman's
first, third and present husband is
Eugene Morse of this city. She mar
ried him first more than fifteen years
ago. After several years she got her
first decree and married Albert Lat-
son. In two years* he got a divorce.
She remarried Eugene Morse, who
soon divorced her. Then she married
Will Keep, divorced him and married
his brother, Milo Keep, whom she
divorced when he was sent to prison
for life. Next she married and di
vorced William McLaughlin and re
married Morse, and has lived with
him for three months.
Guardian's Priority
Is Denied by Court
Son of Mrs. Hutchinson, Insane,
Made Administrator, Over
E. W. McCranie.
‘He’s Alive and Well,” Ass- 1 ;
American Sleuth—Reward C5
fered by Friend Withdrawn,
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian,
LONDON, April 18.—Detective
William J. Burns tu-day* wiihdrt ..
from the search for Joseph \v Mar
tin, the missing Memphis, Term. ,ot-
ton broker, who di sap pea red on April
g
According to Burns, Martin is alive
and well, and not in London, he says
The detective -nys he has receiver]
information from his New York offi
which satisfies him on this point.
He will not say where Martin is, hut
declares that the missing man is not
in London, and adds:
My information compels me 10
withdraw from the case, which is no
longer a mystery. Martin is not in
any physical danger.”
Some mystery attended the with
drawal of the- famous detective, al
though his action was not entirely
unexpected.
The offer of a reward for Martin
previously issued by J. Lockhart An
derson, the English friend of the
missing American, had already been
withdrawn.
Scout Kidnaping Theory.
Private detectives working on the
case, who intimate that they had “in
side information" of which the pub
lic knew nothing, declared ttiat .Mar
tin is alive and that he was not forci
bly kidnaped.
The latest word received at the pn-
lice headquarters was that Mr. Mar
tin was well known in the fashiona
ble West Side gambling resorts and
that he had lost a big sum of money
before he disappeared
The affairs of tlie Martin Cotton
Brokerage House and of the Arkan.- -
Land Company, which the missing
American came here to promote, are
under investigation.
Georgia Physicians
To Meet Here Next
Speaker Before Savannah Convention
Recommends Vice Commission
to Control Social Evil.
SAVANNAH. GA., April 3s.—The
annual of the president, J)r.
\Y. W. Pilcher, of Warrenton, and the
reading of a paper on the sociai evil
by Dr. J. Ewing Mear.s, of Philadel
phia. occupied most of the morning
session of the convention of the Med
ical Association of Georgia to-day.
Officers will be elected this after
noon. The presidency will go to a
Savannah physician, either Dr. T. J.
Charlton or Dr. Ralston LattimortJ
with the chances favoring the latter.
The Savannah physicians last night
indorsed Dr. Charlton, but he does not
seem to be a favorite with delegates.
Atlanta was selected as the next
place of meeting. The invitation was
extended through Dr. S. R. Roberts.
Dr. Mears recommended establish
ing vice commissions in each State,
with power to correct and control the
social evil.
FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS
ATLANTA FLORAL CO.
\ Both Phones Number 4. 41 Peachtree
That the insanity of an adminis
trator leaves the estate unrepresented,
but does not vest the administration
in the guardian of the insane person’s
property, was the ruling made in a
decision of the Supreme Court to-day.
The case arose on the filing of a.
caveat In -the Berrien County Court
by E. W. McCranie, guardian of Mrs
Sarah Hutchinson, insane, protesting
against the appointment of a son of
his ward as administrator and de
manding the appointment himself.
“As between the guardian and the
son of the intestate, the latter is en
titled to letters of administration,”
said the Supreme Court in affirming
the judgment of the lower tribunal.
Nearly everybody in Atlanta reacts
The Sunday American. YOUR ad
vertisement .in the next issue will sell
foods. Try it!
Revival at Hawkinsville.
HAWKINSVILLE.—Rev. H. C.
Buchholz. the dean of the Georgia
Baptist evangelistic force, is conduct
ing an interesting revival at the Bap- j
tist Church of this place. Consider- j
able interest is being manifested.
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