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THJi GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
NEWS OF FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1913
MRS. PANKHURST RELEASED.
LONDON, May 30.—Mrs. Emmeline
Pankhurst was this afternoon released
from Holloway jail. She had gone on
a hunger strike since she was re
arrested.
The suffragette leader w r as removed
to the home of a friend in an ambu
lance.
MAIL CARRIERS HEAR EDWARDS.
SAVANNAH, GA., May 30.—Rural
free delivery mail carriers of the First
Congressional District, in annual
convention here to-day, were addressed
by Congressman Charles G. Edwards.
President George DeBrossi made an
address on organization of postoffloe
inspectors; W. D. Kahn answered a
number of questions regarding the
service, and M. S. Appleton spoke on
the parcel post system.
FEAR OF OFFENDING JAPAN
DELAYS PUNS FOR DEFENSE
DR. FRIEDMANN BARRED.
NEW YORK, May 30?—Dr. Fred
erick F. Friedmann, the German dis
coverer of turtle vaccine for tubercu
losis, has been barred from inoculat
ing persons' in this city, by a resolu
tion of the Board of Health.
In addition, the board amended the
sanitary code to make turtle vaccine
come within its prohibitory scope. The
board holds that use of the vaccine is
dangerous.
SAYS BILL WILL PASS.
WASHINGTON, May 30.—Senator
Gallinger, of New Hampshire, minor
ity leader of the Senate, to-day vir
tually admitted that the Underwood
bill vrill pass. He sees but little hope
of breaking the solid phalanx of Sen
ate Democrats.
Senators Reed Smoot of Utah, La-
Follette of Wisconsin and William
Alden Smith of Michigan are inclined
to fight spiritedly against Democratic
odds, and have indicated that two
months will be consumed in Republi
can argument.
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WASHINGTON, May 30.—Orders
apparently from the men higher up
have delayed the plans of the War
Department to place at once the four
teen-inch guns for the defenses of
Hawaii, the Philippines and the Canal
Zone. The fact seem? clear, the rea
son is unknown.
Three weeks ago officials of the
Ordnance Bureau of the War Depart
ment informed the Hearst papers that
two fourteen-inch guns with their
carriages were ready for Hawaii and
two for the Philippines, and that work
was being rushed on the eight four
teen-inch guns that were intended to
make the East and West terminals
of the canal impergnable.
The War Department counted on
the shipment of the guns some
months ago. No official about the
department has any explanation to
offer about the delay. It is broadly
hinted that the policy of giving no
offense to Japan may be the reason
for the apparent lack of energy in
the War Department.
In this connection a statement giv
en out at the State Department to
day is interesting. The American
charge d’affaires at Tokio was in
structed by this Government to bell
Japan that no reinforcements were be
ing sent to the Philippines and that
only a few artillerymen had been or
dered to Hawaii.
Furthermore, it was explained to
Japan, with a touching excess of pre
caution, that even the few artillery
men were going to Hawaii according
to a plan of the War Department for
mulated a long time ago.
As a matter of fact, the defense of
Hawaii, Manila and the Canal Zone
were also all determined upon in the
same scheme of defense “formulated
a long time ago.” to which Mr. Bryan
so thoughtfully refers.
Meanwhile Japan proceeds with
open activity and without apology or
explanation to perfect its naval equip
ment, to add mighty cruisers bo its
fleet in foreign ports and to purchase
fUerchant vessels and auxiliaries.
GEORGIA LOSES ITS FIGHT
TO HOLD TALLULAH FALLS
CLAYTON, GA., May 30.—The
State of Georgia has no claim to the
lands in the gorge at Tallulah Falls,
where the Georgia Railway and Pow-
er Company is constructing its dam,
power plant and reservoir, according
to a verdict of a jury in Rabun Supe
rior Court. But the State will ask a
new trial, and eventually appeal to
the State Supreme Court. The liti
gation will not end until the higher
tribunal hands down a decision.
The jury’s verdict in the suit that
had been on trial here since Monday
to determine the State’s right to claim
title to the gorge land was returned
shortly after 6 o’clock last night, after
the case had been in the jurors’ hands
two hours. The Georgia Railway and
Power Company w’as declared to have
legal titles to the lands it had pur
chased for the power plant.
Judge J. B. Jones, in his charge to
the jury declared that a verdict must
be rendered on law and justice and
not on sentiment or emotion. The
jury was composed of eleven farmers
and a country school teacher. Daniel
M. Kell, a farmer more than 60 years
of age, was foreman.
In the argument for the power
company, before the case reached the
jury, H. H. Dean, of Gainesville,
charged Mrs. Helen D. Longstreet,
w r ho has been the chief spirit behind
the litigation, w’ith “malicious hound
ing’’ of the power company. Com
menting on her failure to be present
at the trial, he said:
“She’s deserted at the very crisis
of the suit. She doesn’t want this
case tried. She wants it postponed
and dragged out so that it might be
held as a terror over the head of the
power company.”
The attorneys from Atlanta who
participated in the trial return there
to-day.
GOVERNOR TO MOVE JUNE 15.
Speculation as to whether Govern
or-elect Slaton would occupy the Gov
ernor’s Mansion was ended by the an
nouncement of Governor Brown Fri
day that he would move from the
executive residence June 15 to make
way for the new Governor.
WOMAN LEAPS TO DEATH.
CHICAGO, May 30.—Relatives of
Mrs. Bruno R. Belz, of Hinsdale, Ill.,
are trying to-day to find the reason
for her suicide last night.
The woman jumped from the tenth
story of the Masonic Temple, struck
w r tih terrific force in the alley beloW
and was picked up a few minutes
later dead. Her neck, arms and legs
w’ere broken.
CZAR’S HEIR ILL AGAIN.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 30.^
Alarming reports about the condition
of the health of Grand Duke Alexis,
the young Czarevitch, reported criti
cally ill last October, again w’ere cir
culated here to-day.
Physicians attending the youth have
ordered him to Euphatoria, Crimea, to
take a course of treatment at the fa
mous Crimean mud baths. Because
of his Hines's, the proposed visit of
King George and Queen Mary of Eng
land has been abandoned.
Czar Nicholas, the Czarina and
their only son probably will leave
within a few days for Crimea upon
the imperial bomb-proof train.
Conflicting reports have been cur
rent as to the cause of the Czare
vitch’s illness.
Some stated he had fallen and in
jured his spleen. One rumor said he
had been attacked by a Nihilist on
board the imperial yacht Standart.
OTHER OFFICERS INVOLVED.
VIENNA, May 30.—While the Aus
trian Government investigated the
alleged sale of army secrets to the
Russian government by a clique of
officers, headed by Colonel Redl, of
the military secret police, who com
mitted suicide following his expo
sure, it was reported to-day In army
circles that two other officers in
volved in the scandal had taken their
lives.
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NEW YORK, May 30—While a
dozen mighty sea fighters of the
American navy thundered a salute of
252 guns, bands played the national
air and a phantom floral ship fash
ioned after the United States steam
ship Maine was set adrift in the Hud
son, Master George Hearst this after
noon pulled the silken cords that un
veiled the monument erected at the
Columbus circle entrance to Central
Park in honor of the men who died in
Havana Harbor February 15, 1898,
w’hen the Maine was blown up by a
foreign foe.
Former President William Howard
Taft, Secretary of the. Navy Josephus
Daniels, Governor William Sulzer of
New York, Governor William T.
Haines of Maine, Mayor William J.
Gaynor of New York, a distinguished
delegation of Cuban notables and
many persons prominent in the mili
tary, naval and civil life of the nation
had part in the interesting and im
pressive events of the day.
The monument is largely the result
of the work of William Randolph
Hearst and his newspapers. Mr.
Hearst suggested the shaft as a fit
ting tribute to the martyrs of the
Maine and raised the fund through
the influence of his papers.
The sailors and marines from the
13 battleships of the North Atlantic
Fleet lying in the Hudson River, and
the sailors and soldiers from the
Cuban worship Cuba, landed at
noon to-day and assembled in Forty-
fifth Street near Fifth Avenue in
preparation for the big land parade.
Rear Admiral Cameron McRea
Winslow. U. S. N., was grand mar
shal of the parade, with Rear Ad
miral Fletcher in command. The
United Spanish war veterans oc
cupied a prominent part in the march
ing column under the command of
State Commander Chauncey W. Her
rick. The New York National Guard
was represented by the Sixty-
ninth Regiment, the First Regiment
Cavalry arid the Naval Militia.
Troops of the United States army
from nearby army posts also partici
pated in the parade which proceeded
up Fifth Avenue to Fifty-ninth Street,
thence west to Columbus Circle,
around the westerly side of the Co
lumbus monument and up Broad
way to Sixty-sixth Street, where
it broke up into the various
divisions, each division marching
back to the monument at the Fifty-
ninth Street and Broadway entrance
to Central Park, where they as
sembled in a fanlike formation about
the monument.
PAGE CALLS ON KING.
LONDON, May 30.—Walter Hines
Page, the new American Ambassador
to the Court of St. James, to-day
called upon King George at Bucking
ham Palace and presented his cre
dentials.
Mr. Page was accompanied by at
taches of the Embassy. He previous
ly had paid his formal call upon Sir
Edward Grey, the Foreign Minister.
SPANISH CABINET QUITS.
MADRID, May 30.—The Spanish
Cabinet, headed by Premier Count Al-
vardo DeMomanones, to-day resigned.
The Count has been Premier since
November 14, 1912.
The resignation was due to the hos
tility of the Conservative leaders.
BOY’S OWN STORY CLEARS
HIM OF ALL SUSPICION
As a result of his straightforward
story and the proof he has brought
forward to sustain it, the police vir
tually have eliminated Wade Stevens
as a suspect in the murder of his
mother, Mrs. Sarah C. Stevens, and
his sister, Miss Nellie Stevens, and
the burning of their home on the
McDonough road.
The activities of the police and
Sheriff McCurdy are now being di
rected toward Walter Wilkes, and
Ernest Maynard, former employees
of Mrs. Stevens. A country-wide
search has been instituted for them.
Descriptions of the negro and the
half-breed have been sent out to all
parts of the South by telegraph, and
the officers are confident that it is
only a matter of hours before they are
arrested.
The theory that Wilkes and May
nard committed the crime, formulated
by statements made by neighbors of
the Stevens family, and statements
made by William Stevens, has been
strengthened, the police say, by the
statements of Wade Stevens.
Young Stevens, brought to Atlanta
from Chattanooga by Detective John
Black at 2 o’clock Friday morning,
told tiie police that twice within the
past week he has seen Wilkes, the
last time being only a few hours be
fore the murder.
“1 met Wilkes in town Tuesday
night shortly before 8 o’clock,” said
young Stevens. “He stopped me and
asked me where I was going. I told
him that I was going to Chattanooga.
He asked me if father had not already
gone, and I told him yes. Then he
remarked that he supposed mother
and sister would be alone at the house
during the night, and I told him I
supposed so. Then he asked me if
w T e needed a hired man, and said
he guessed he would go out and ask
mother if he could get another job.”
Young Stevens said he also saw
Wilkes within a mile of his home
last Sunday morning.
“I was driving to town,” the boy
declared. “And I met Wilkes just
beyond the bridge over the South
ern railroad. He asked me where I
was going, and I told him to town.
Then he wanted to know if mother
wanted any work done, and I told
him I didn’t know. He then asked
me if father was at home, arid when
I told him he was, he asked if he
could go back to town with me. He
got in the buggy then and we came
to town. He said he was going down
on Decatur Street, and that was the
last time I saw him until Tuesday
night, just before I left wr Chatta
nooga.”
Young Stevens is positive that
Wilkes and Maynard committed the
crime, and declares that both the
men have several times insulted his
mother and sister and tried to get
them to give them money.
WATERBURY IS DIVORCED.
PORTLAND, MAINE, May 30.—
Lawrence J. Waterbury, noted as the
crack polo player of the American
team that took the cup from England
and will defend it next month, was
divorced after a secret hearing of a
suit brought by his pretty young wife.
“Cruel and abusive treatment” was
the technical charge on which the
suit was based. This is the custom
ary charge brought in Maine in cases
not based on what are called statutory
causes elsewhere.
W ADE STEVENS, youth who was arrested following 1 the dis
covery of the bodies of his mother and sister in the fire
ruins of the family home on the McDonough Road. He was ex
onerated of all suspicion as soon as he had told his own story.