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THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia— Probably showers to-day and to-mor row; colder to-morrow. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit GEORGIAN W'ANT ADS—Use For Results RA VOL. XI. NO. 225. ATLANTA. GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 25. 191: CENTS EVERYWHERE p M or£° State Secretary, Wilson Approv ing, Proposes an International Agreement to Delay War. SEEKS TO AID ARBITRATION Scheme Intended to Supplement Treaties and Close Gaps That May Lead to Hostilities, WASHINGTON. April 24.—'To an udienve composed of the diplomatic representatives of the nations of the ,rth Secretary of State Bryan, with M„. approval of President Wilson, ■ submitted his proposal for in- i mational agreements to delay war. it-garding his proposal, Mr. Bryan '-a' 3 '- • The following statement embodies r„e principal points of an agreement. w-iiicl» the President of the United states is Willing to enter into, with -hf- consent of the Senate, with all Trier nations. It does not attempt to go into details, but is only intended t0 ,. et forth the main proposition namely, that the President desires to , ater into an agreement with each nation severally for the investigation of all questions whatever. "This agreement is intended to supplement any arbitration treaty now in existence or any made here after. Arbitration treaties always except seme question from arbitra tion. The proposal by the President s intended to close the gap and leave no dispute that can become a cause of war. Hoped to Prevent War. The form in which the report is to be made is left to be agreed upon, and it may be that the time will differ in different eases, but any time, how ever short, furnishes an opportunity to investigate and deliberate, and it hoped the time for investigation and deliberation will be sufficient to Sf-eure a -ettlement without a resort to war. It will be noticed that each party .•tains the right to act independ* ently after the report is submitted t it is not likely a nation will de an war after it has had oppor tunity during investigation to confer with the opposing nation. But whether this proposed agreement ac complished as much as it is hoped for, It is at least a step in the direction of universal peace.” The text of the memorandum given the diplomats for transmission to their several governments follows: Arbitrate All Disputes. ‘The parties hereto agree that a! questions of whatever character and nature, in dispute between them shall, when diplomatic efforts fail, be submitted for investigation and re wit to an international commission composed (the composition to oe agreed upon), and the contracting parties agree not to declare war or begin hostilities until such investi nation « made and report submitted. The investigation shall be con ducted a.- a matter of course without the formality of a request of either party: the report shall be submitted within (time to be agreed upon) from th' date of the^submission of 'iisputi, and neither party shall utilize ihe period of investigation to augment its military or naval pro gram, but the parties hereto reserve tile right to act independently on the subject matter in dispute after the report is submitted.” Atlanta Is After City Plan Congress Delegates to Chicago From Improve ment Association Will Extend Invitation. Hoke Smith Doesn't Think $20,000 Too High for Ty Cobb Pores Over Star’s Contract and Big League Laws to See if ‘Trust’ Exists. WASHINGTON, April B4.—“I an for Ty Cobb,” was the platform an nounced by Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia, when asked where he stood on the baseball trust. “I want to do anything I caiisfor my distinguished fellow citizen. The peo ple of Georgia, as well as the rest of the country, like Ty Cobb, and they want to see him get all he earns. “It may seem romantic to talk of a salary of $20,000 for a baseball star, but that salary is an established fact with stars of the theater. If a man draws the crowds that bring great sums into the box office, he should be entitled to a salary in proportion. T have received Cobb's contract and I am reading the laws of the organization by which he has been employed. I don’t know just yet whether we shall have an inquiry into the workings of the baseball trust.” Mob Tries to Duck Militant Speakers Women, Who Narrowly Escaped Be ing Thrown Into Trafalga Foun tain, Are Fined. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. April 24.—Mrs. Despard, president of the mildly militant Wom en’s* Freedom League, who, with two other suffragettes, was arrested in Trafalgar Square last night for creat ing a disturbance, was sentenced to day to pay a fine of $25 or serve two weeks in jail. The other two were given smaller fines. Several members of the league mounted the Nelson column at Trafal gar Square and began ringing bells and screaming. ‘‘Votes for women.*' Soon a hostile crowd gathered. “Duck them in the fountain,’’ shout ed some one in the crowd, and a rush was made for the suffragettes. Po licemen rescued the women. 'Pie Cutting’ Delay Nettles Georgians Congressman Edwards, Home Under Doctors’ Orders, Says Stovall Will Get Switzerland Post. SAVANNAH. GA.. April 24.—All Republican postmasters and Govern ment officials in Georgia should be put out of office at once and Demo crats put in their places, according to Congressman Charles G. Edwards, who, with other members of the Georgia delegation in Congress, vis ited President Wilson several days ago and expressed dissatisfJltion at the slow distribution of patronage. Congressman Edwards has re turned home under order of his phy sicians. Mr. Edwards said the President told the Georgians that it was his intention to appoint Colonel Pleas ant A. Stovall as United States Min ister to Switzerland. An effort will be made to land the ity Pan Conference for Atlanta in '■L4 To further plan', a meeting of executive committee of the At- Anta Improvement Association will he held in the Chamber of Commerce rooms Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Alec W. Smith is chairman °f the committee. The call for the fo-eting.was issued this morning. The City Plan Conference has de- e) oped into one of the strongest and organizations in the country, 'r uid Atlanta succeed in landing year’s convention it would bring 'nousandp of visitors and delegates. rv .-gates will be named to repre- • fcm Atlanta at this year's conference T| ''hicago. STftiKfc PiCKET SLAIN. KOPEDALE, MASS.. April 24.— •nhlio Dacchiocchia. srtike picket, ,s shot and killed to-day during ” ''.'Mie between the police and strlk- ”'■* The strikers say 1 >acchiocehia •t hy a policeman. $6,000 Fund Raised By ‘Atlanta Spirit' Pledge of $1,000 Brings Other $5,000 for State Sunday School Work. ELBERTON. Ga., April 24.—That famous “Atlanta spirit” was in evi dence here last night in the Georgia Sunday School convention when Dr. Joseph Broughton, C. V. Lecraw and C. D. Montgomery, of Atlanta, pledged a contribution of $1,000 from the Sun day Schools of that city and Fulton county, in response to the executive committee’s appeal for $G,000 to carry on the convention work in Georgia. Quickly the other counties caught the spirit and the entire $6,000 was pledged. Macon, Waycross and Milledgeville ape asking for the Convention next year. Milledgeville will probably be chosen. J. Ham Lewis ‘Totes' Washwoman’s Pack Senator Carries Basket of Clothes Up to Mansion of Illinois Governor. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., April 24. In stead of walking up to Governor Dunne's executive mansion with a basket of Federal jobs for the hun gry and patriotic, United States Sen ator J. Ham Lewis surprised the Gov ernor by approaching the Governor’s domicile balancing on his shoulders a basket of clothes which he carried to relieve the burden of a washer woman. At the gate to the mansion grounds he put the basket down, whistled to a group of schoolboys, banded half a dollar each to three of them and cau tioned them to be careful not to spill out the clean clothes. Then lie en tered the Governor's house i«» confer about j«»bs. High Death Toll in Pennsylvania Shaft Laid to Owne'rs Refus ing Federal Aid. HELP ARRIVES TOO LATE Gas-Filled Passages Are Strewn With Bodies, Declare Surviv ors—Investigation Begun. F1NLEYVILLE. PA„ April 24.— That the Monongahela River Consol idated Coal and Coke Company’s ef forts to minimize the extent of the Cincinnati mine disaster here, which resulted in the loss of at least 100 lives, probably caused a heavier death toll than there would have been oth erwise was the report being investi gated by Coroner James Heffran to day. T. M. Johnston, attorney for the mine company, after talking with company officials, to-day issued a statement declaring that 35 bodi-s have been recovered and 85 men are yet in the mine. The company re fused to admit that the men yet ip the mine are (lead, but place the num ber of possible dead at 120. Declined Federal Aid. According to tile reports current to day, the company was notified of the disaster about 1 o’clock yesterday. The officials of tile Bureau of Mines at Pittsburg offered their services about 3 o'clock, ai d, according to ’ha officials, could have had a mine res cue ear on the scene an hour later. The company's officials, however, declared they had heard no details t;f the explosion and refused the prof fered aid. saying thpy twd a first-aid crew which could handle the situa- 1 tion. Federal aid was not summoned un til late in the afternoon, and as u result the Government experts did n k reach the mine ntil 6:35 p. m. No blame is attached to the Federal authorities, hut many declared to-day that had the Government experts been called earlier some of the men might have been taken out alive. Rescuers in Peril. Rescuers worked frantically all night endeavoring to break through the walls of debris so that the bodies could be reached. Outside at the various entrances stood hundreds of relatives and friends of the entombed miners, wait ing patiently for some word regard ing their loved ones inside. According to the mine foremen. 178 ( men were in the mine at the time of the explosion. An unconfirmed report to-day de clared that several members of a gov ernment rescue crew had been over come by the fatal gases and that one was dead. According to the report, the men entered the mine equipped with oxygen helmets, hut after going some distance something went wrong with their apparatus. General Manager George J. Schleu- derberg, of the company, refused to discuss the explosion or estimate tne number of dead. Despite efforts of Government res cuers, the seat of the explosion has not been definitely determined. Nei ther has the cause been ascertained. Miners declared the Cincinnati mine always had been gaseous. It was one of the oldest in the Monongahela val ley. It was opened 80 years ago. Princess and 4 Men Dying in Air Mishaps Fifth Aviator Is Killed Outright in Series of Accidents in Germany. Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. BERLIN. April 24.—Three aeropalne accidents, in which one flyer was killed, three others were fatally hurt and a titled woman was perhaps mortally injured, occurred to-day in Germany. While maneuvering over Johannis- tliat Aerodrome, Aviator Dumnitz lost control of his machine while It was 1,000 feet In the air. The aeroplane careened and fell u> the ground, Dum nitz being crushed to death. Herr Abramovitch, an aviator, and Princess Szarkowski, a passenger, were perhaps mortally Injured when the motor of their Wright biplane slopped and the machine clashed to the ground. Two German army nflieeis. both members of the aviation corps of the Bavarian Infantry, were mortally in jured while making a flight at the S- hi*-H-lie Aerodrome, Munich. Appeal Will Delay Wilburn-King Trial Counsel to Fight Decision Denying Change of Venue for Con fessed Slayer. MACON, GA., April 24. —Neither Nick Wilburn nor Mrs. King will go to trial next week l’or the murder of the latter’s husband. James King, tile Jones County farmer. Attorney JJbhn It. Cooper announced to-day that he would appeal from the decision of Judge Park, of Jones Superior Court, in denying a change of venue. Mrs. King, who is closely confined in the little jail at Grays, is destined to be a mother again. She already has .six children, none over IS years old. In the hearing before Judge Park on i the motion for a change of venue, Frank Wilburn, the defendant's broth er, swore he had heard residents of Jones County say they would lynch Nick Wilburn if the court did not sentence him to be hanged. R. L. Bradley, a grand juror, swore that his mind was made up before he signed the indictment. Wilburn’s presence at the hearing was waived, his counsel stating in open court that he was afraid for Wilburn to return to Jones County unless under military protection. Plot, Girl’s Plea to Bigamy Charge ■;.«v •!•••!* Asserrs She Was Forced to Wed v«v -;•••> •;•»•;• Arrested Here With Husband No. 2 DI IS DRUGGED APPELBAUM IT R Might Unknowingly Have Fired W hile Under Its Hypnotic Induence, Declares J. S. Liebman, M.D., Wit- uess for Defen.se. The Prosecution Charges: That Appelbaum could not have died by his own hand by the nature of his wounds. Physicians subpenaed by the state testified that the wounds made suicide physically impossible. That Mrs. Appelbaum and her husband quarreled all night before the shooting and he had threatened her life. That she was perturbed over his affairs" with other women. That the ‘ Daisie” letters substantiate the motive of ‘jealousy.’’ That her incoherent statements to police officers after the shooting were damaging. The Defense Replies: McClelland Will Not Reply to Accusations Attorney for Maddox Says He Will Force Alderman to Prove Graft Charges. Alderman John E. McClelland, ac cuser of Aldermen J. W. Maddox, F. J. Bpratling and I. N. Ragsdale, was out of the city to-day. It was said at his office that he would make no reply at present to tile counter charges of Alderman J. W. Maddox. Alderman McClelland's refusal to respond to a. suhpena and appear at the meeting of the Council investi gating committee has given a new twist to the graft scandal. He in formed the committee that because of his health he did not intend to be present during the investigation, but Aldine Chambers, attorney for Aider- man Maddox, said he would endeavor to force him. Because Alderman McClelland re fused to attend the meeting or give the list of witnesses to prove his charges the committee complied with his request and postponed the hear ing until next week, when his attor ney, Charles T. Hopkins, will have returned to the city. 4,592 Voters Plead For Charter Reform Citizen-Committee, Cards Counted, Will Renew Fight for Sub mission to People. Mrs. Jack Mashburn, 17, formerly Miss Gussie Harmon, of La- Grange, Ga., held here as a bigamist. She declares she was forced to wed a man 47 years old. Young Woman Accuses Her Grand father of Coercing Her. MRS. MASHBURN’S MARRIAGE PHILOSOPHY. “I’ll go to the penitentiary bfore I live with him (her first husband). I love Jack (her second). And I won't live with a;, man I don't love. ‘ Marriage without love is hell, and I don't propose to live in hell. “I said no' to the questions whether I would love and cherish him to the so-called marriage and I won’t." Declaring that she was forced by Paul Reese, secretary of the citl- zens * charter reform committee, to day received a certified statement from the American Audit company that 4,592 registered voters of At lanta had sent in post cards urging Council to submit two proposed new charters to a vote of the people. There were 891 cards signed by per sons whose names were not given on the registration list. With this indorsement the citizens’ committee will renew its fight be fore Council. Council killed what is generally known as the “genuine reform charier ’ of the committee of 2;». but provided for the revamped charter to o,, 10 th - Li-gi-l-iture and then to Hie her wealthy grandfather to marry a man thirty years her senior, pretty Mrs. Jack Mashburn, 17 years old, formerly Miss Gussle Harmon, of LaGrange, Ga., a bride of a week, to-day is a prisoner in the matron’s ward at police headquarters, accused of bigamy. Husband No. _. Jack Mashburn. a young machinist with whom she eloped fiom the Doll's Hospital on Luckie Street last Saturday after noon, is also undei arrest. Mashburn and his bride were ar rested at a hotel on Broad Street this morning by Detective J. B. Howell, on information Com LaGrc'nge, Ga.. where it is alleged the girl was mar ried on January 23 to Charles \\ • Smith, 47 years old. Both will be held to await the arrival of an officer from LaGrange. Denies He Knew She Was Wed. The girl and young Mashburn v i re married by Justice of the Peace Girardeau last Saturday afternoon, and Mashburn •!«■•« lares that he did not know she had ever been married before. He has known her for a year, he says. Last Friday afternoon she came to Atlanta and obtained board at the Doll's Hospital on Luckie Street. She disappeared Sat urday 'horning, nr.d when she faile i to return Saturday night the police were notified and a search begun for her. The search \a« abandoned when it was le.irned that sin and Mash burn w- murri. . This morning the gi ! tod a r markable st<*r\ to the po :< e .$ >!*»r\ which, if true, may cause wholesale prosecution of prominent citizens of West Point and LaGrange, including her grandfather, J. K. P. Harmon. “I was forced to marry Smith,” the girl cried. “I never loved him, and I never will live with him. I hate the sight of the green old thing. I'll go to the penitentiary for life before I’ll live with him. If f get a chance I’m going to shoot him. “Tne green old countryman Is try ing to break up my romance. I love Jack, and I won’t live with a man I d n't love. Marriage with out love is hell, and I don’t propose to live in bell. And it makes me think of hell tg even look at Smith.” Father Is Rich, She Says. 'Hie girl is the daughter of J. W. | hypnotic tr February 2 hanee her coolly watching ■ as if to find th- Cory was having Defense. Die ground- theory that Y a\ room fig the pi*;;,| first bullet pier.-. «rm and continuing on second entering- the Harmon, of LaGrange. She says her father is worth more than $100,000, but that he never had much use for her. At the time of her marriage to Smith, she says, she was living with her parents on a farm near La- Gnuige. Smith is a farmer, living about 11 miles from LaGrange, re puted to be very'wealthy. “He began paying me attentions in December.” she said this morning. "On December 4 I accidentally shot myself in the shoulder while clean ing a gun. and was in bed for more than two weeks. “It was while I was sick that the old pest began hanging around me. My grandfather encouraged him and wanted me t<* marry him. I told u i.. iidf^t hi-r I h' ed imn. and every Continued on Page 2, Column 4. That, Appelbaum's wounds could have been and were self- inflicted. Witnesses for the defense told how Appelbaum could have stretched full length on bathroom floor and fired all three shots. That Mrs. Appelbaum was under the influence of a hyp notic drug taken the night before and moved in a trance. That Mrs. Appelbaum loved her husband and had made great sacrifices for him. That Appelbaum was in financial straits, had been harassed by creditors, was at his rope's end and dsperate. — Mrs. Callio Scott Appelbaum, on trial lor her life hi criminal I division of Superior Court, accused of the slaying of her husband, i Jerome A. Appelbaum, in the Dakota Hotel, February 2.1. was ; under the influence of varinol, a powerful hypnotic drug, on the i morning of the shooling. I liar was the starting testimony given jio the jury this afternoon by Dr. J. S. Liebman, a witness for the ; defense. I’nder its potent influence--an influence that brings about sub consciousness and a beys the ac tion of ihe voluntary nervous stem—the " Woman of Mys tery night have walked in her sleep and even fired a pistol with out being cognizant of her ac tions. Dr Llebmans sensational testl- mony, which indicated that attorneys for the defense might seek a line of procedure not wholly in the direction of the suicide theory, came shortly after the prosecution had closed, con tent with the chain of circumstances forged about Mrs. Appelbaum by the testimony of police officers. Tells of Giving Her Varinol. • I gave Mrs. Appelbaum five grains of varinol on the night of February 24," said Dr. Liebman. “It was ad ministered because of her highly ner vous condition, and the fact that she was unable to sleep. She took five more grains with her to take during the night if the original doBe proved insufficient." The physician's statement came in answer to Attorney Moore's question as to Mrs. Appelbnum's physical con dition on the day prior to the shooting. Leaping to this as a possible new lead, Solicitor Dorsey put the witness through a rigid cross-examination, di recting at him a .--cries of hypothetical questions. “Could a person take varinol late in the afternoon or at night and even sleep through the night, get up in the morning apparently without waking ir. the sleep take a revolver and, w-ithout being conscious of it, shoot a person, run down a stairway and fa ini and know nothing about it at ail when she came out of the faint?" asked the prosecutor. Call Action Highly Probable. Dr. Liebman said that such an ac tion under the influence of varinol was possible, even highly probable. His testlinon ywas supplemented by Dr. E. H. Waggoner, an expert, put up by the defense. Dr W. B. I .ingle also testified that he had given varinol to a young wom an at a sanitarium recently and two days after its administration she was found walking in the hallways, ap parently under a hypnotic spell. With its early witness the defense clung to the suicide theory. Evidence was given to the jury by G. Cohen, Harry Silverman and several doctors to refute the State's case. In the stir created iti the court room by •the injection of the ideu that Mrs. Appelbaum j -> have niute-i in Dr. Liebman baum was yv to the no bruises a; m»ch as would ice on ihe morning tile prisoner did change her demeanor. She continued taking notes an the jurymen closel effect tiie unusual on their minds. I ndertaker Ed Bond, the first wr- ness to take the stand fur the defense told the jury the,-.- had been pow.iur bums on Appelbaum's undershirt an In the wound In his right arm. Lay Grounds to Bond’s statement laid uork for tile deefnse's Appelbaum. disrobed, deliberately down on the floor of the bath and shot himself, holdin in his loft hand, the ing the right ino the side, the thorax and the third the veiling testified that Ap pe - met h t , eiU ' er amb *dexterous , r Oft-handed, and took up considerable tune in the discussion of blood fl 0 following gunshot wounds Some testimony was given effect that there were Appelbaum’s body have resulted In a fall, and that tbe-e was no blood on the bath room floo- Attorneys for the deefnse asserted at o clock, when court recessed, that evidence would not be concluded be- fore 5 o'clock. Mrs Appelbaum 1* scheduled t.. take the stand to make a voluntary statement after all her testimony- A in. Another “Dearie" letter. Uie sixth hi the case, was Introduced in this morning and came as This is the letter which wa been introduced at the Coroner's in quest and which was not admitted, as <hty Detective Waggoner was uqablu at ioat time to swear that he had *u ten the letter out of Mrs. Appelbaum . effects. He yvas placed on the stand this morning by the prosecution and snore to the identity of the letter and the fact that he had gotten It out of Mrs. Appelbaum's apartments along with others. Attempt to Establish Motive. The State's last witness, sent up jji an effort to substantiate the theory that Mrs. Appelbaum killed hot- hus band in a fit of jealousy, was W. I, Brown, a roomer at the hotel at tho time -T the ehootlag. -Broyvn testified he had seen Airs. Appelbaum on thu day before the killing, February 21, and that she had asked him if he had cy - r seen any other women go to Ap pelbaum's room and told him that she "was going (o have the room watched." or “was having Ihe room yvavched." James t B an- h, ending counsel evidence eurpris _-. nas to have