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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
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NEWS OF MONDAY. JUNE 2, 1913
ATTEMPT MADE BY FARMERS
TO LYNCH NEGRO SUSPECTS
A lynching horror, in which Walter
Wilkes and Ernest Maynard, the two
negro suspects in the Stevens murders
near Constitution, were to be the vic
tims, was averted by the narrowest of
margins Monday afternoon.
Ropes had been noosed about the
necks of the terror-stricken blacks
and a score of enraged farmers were
in the act of pulling them into the air,
when Chief of Detectives Lanford, of
Atlanta, dashed upon the scene in a
Georgian automobile and at the point
of the gun cowed the would-be lynch
ers.
The negroes, their faces already
distorted by the brief period that
their bodies had been swinging in the
air, were taken in charge for the mo
ment by Deputy Sheriff Livsey, of De-
Kalb County.
An instant later Sheriff McCurdy, of
DeKalb county and Detective Rosser,
of Atlanta, rushed up with drawn
weapons and while Lanford and Liv
sey held the mob at bay, they whisked
the two suspects away.
The near-lynching was the result of
a plan to confront the two suspects
with the scenes about the Stevens
homestead which was burned down
last Tuesday night after the skulls
of Mrs. Stevens and her young foster
daughter had been crushed in with an
axe.
Sheriff McCurdy and Detective Ros
ser started from Atlanta in an auto
mobile at 2:45 Monday afternoon
with the two negroes. In the Geor
gian automobile 15 minutes later
Chief of Detectives Lanford, Deputy
Sheriff Livsey and a Georgian repor r
ter started for the scene.
The automobile with the negroes
arrived at the Stevens home first.
Rosser and McCurdy tied the two ne
groes to a tree while they scoured t'ne
burned ruins of the house for clews.
It was only a moment before the
news spread about the community.
Before Rosser and McCurdy hardly
were out of sight an excited group of
18 or 20 farmers had formed. As the
two officers disappeared back of the
ruins, the farmers rushed for the ter
rorized negroes.
They quickly slashed the ropes that
bound the negroes to the trees and
rushed them toward the large barn
in the rear of the farm house. It was
this scene that caught the eyo of the
occupants of Chief Lanford’s automo
bile as it sped toward the scene of
the tragedy.
As soon as the intention of the mob
was divined, the chief’s car shot ahead
at full speed. The farmers threw ropes
over the rafters of the old building
and were pulling with might and main
when the automobile dashed up.
Chief Lanford leaped out and ran
to the rescue of the negroes. With
one hand he grasped the rope that
was slowly strangling Maynard to
death and with the other leveled his
revolver at the angry facss before
him.
NEWLYWEDS ARE HAZED.
PITTSBURG, June 2.—-When Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Hogan returned from
honeymoon trip, they were met at
the depot by a dozen pretty young
nurse girls, each pushing a baby car
riage. The nurse girl§ with their
baby carriages insisted on acting as
an escort for the newlyweds, much to
their discomfort. An immense crowd
also accompanied the young couple
and “their nursing outfit” to their
home.
WON’T KILL BOLL WEEVIL.
WAYNESBORO, MISS., June 2.— j
Negroes hereabouts are superstitious j
as regards the boll weevil, refusing
to destroy the insect when they find j
it on the cotton stalks.
One old black who died here some j
time ago said in a sort of ante-mor
tem statement that “the only thing
between him and his God was that !
he killed too many boll weevils.”
BUTTERMILK FOR RYAN.
NEW YORK. June 2.—Before
Thomas F. Ryan sailed for Europe,
a reporter discovered thirty-five cases
of buttermilk in his stateroom. When
Mr. Ryan was/asked for an explana
tion, he said: “Colonel Roosevelt
prescribed the buttermilk diet for me.
I expect to drink all of it during the
trip.”
HOUSE PLUMS FOR SOUTH;
THREE GO TO GEORGIANS
WASHINGTON, June 2.—The Dem
ocratic leaders of the House made
their long-awaited distribution of
committee “plums” and “lemons” to
day. The great bulk of the chairman
ships went to Southern Congressmen,
the Northerners and Westerners only
getting an occasional chairmanship.
The full list was made public when
the Democratic caucus met to-day to
ratify the selections made by the
Democratic members of the Ways and
Means Committee.
The personnel of the Ways and
Means Committee, Accounts, Mileage
and Enrolled Bills Committees already
had been selected and approved. The
following members received these
chairmanships:
Appropriations. Fitzgerald. New
York; Judiciary. Clayton. Alabama;
Banking and Currency, Glass, Vir
ginia; Coinage, Hardwick, Georgia;
Interstate Commerce, Adamson, Geor
gia; Rivers and Harbors, Sparkman,
Florida; Merchant Marine, Alexan
der, Missouri; Agriculture, Lever,
South Carolina; Foreign Affairs,
Flood, Virginia; Military, Hay, Vir
ginia; Naval, Padgett, Tennessee;
Postoffice, Moon, Tennessee; Public
Lands, Ferris, Oklahoma.
Indian Affairs, Stephens, Texas;
Territories, Houston, Tennessee; In
sular Affairs, Jones, Virginia; Rail
ways and Canals, Dies, Texas; Mines,
Foster, Illinois; Public Buildings.
Clark, Florida; Education, Hughes.
Georgia; Labor, Lewis, Maryland;
Patents, Oldfield, Arkansas: Invalid
Pensions, Sherwood, Ohio; Pensions,
Richardson, Alabama; Claims. Pou
North Carolina; War Claims, Gregg.
Texas.
District of Columbia, Johnson, Ken
tucky; Revision of Laws, Watkins.
Louisiana; Reform in Civil Service,
Godwin. North Carolina; Election of
President, Rucker, Missouri; Alcohol
ic Liquor Traffic. Sabath, Illinois; Ir
rigation of Arid Lands, Smith Texas;
Immigration, Burnett, Alabama; Cen
sus. Helm, Kentucky; Roads, Shackle
ford Missouri; Industrial Arts, Un
derhill, New York.
Other minor chairmanships were
assigned to the following members:
Post of Ohio, Hamill of New Jer
sey, Goldfogle of New York. Hawley
of Missouri, Lobeck of Nebraska.
Adair of Indiana. Hardy of Texas.
Pepper of Iowa, Graham of Illinois
Broussard of Louisiana, Doughton of
North Carolina, Rotherrnel of Penn
sylvania, Mayer of New York, Konop
of Wisconsin, Slayden of Texas. Barn
hart of Indiana and Ashbrook of Ohio.
CHARGED WITH BIGAMY.
DANVILLE. VA., June 2.—John
V\ illiam Waddleton at the next term
of court must answer to a charge of
bigamy. On May 11 he married Mrs.
Mamie Copeland, of Swainsboro. Ga„
whom he first met in that place 16
years ago. They had just returned
from their honeymoon when a woman,
calling herself Mrs. Martha Earts, of
Spray, N. C., appeared here, claiming
that Waddleton was her husband.
Waddleton denies the charge.
GETS BIG VERDICT.
NEW YORK, June 2.—F. Augustus
Heinze, the copper millionaire, to
day was awarded $149,825 by Justice
Clarke in the Brooklyn Supreme
Court in the Union Bank’s suit to re
cover $200,000.
Heinze borrowed the money from
the bank, putting up securities as col
lateral. He instructed the bank to
sell the securities but this was not
done until the stock depreciated be
low the amount of the loan.
PAGE AT DERBY LEVEE.
LONDON. June 2.—W. H. Page,
new United States Ambassador to
England, accompanied by his private
secretary, Harold Fowler, and I. B.
Laughlin, secretary of the United
States Embassy, to-day attended
King George’s derby levee at Buck
ingham Palace.
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EATS 10 POUNDS OF EELS.
NEW YORK June 2.—Simon Stein-
gut, “Mayor of Second Avenue,” bet j
a friend $25 that he could eat ten j
pounds of eels in one hour.
At the end of an hour the “Mayor”
had eaten ten pounds of eels, two j
pounds of bread and a quantity of
beer.
EMPIRE GIVEN AWAY.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—Declaring
that a mighty empire, consisting of
millions of acres of land, has been
given to the railroads for practically
no consideration by the Forest Serv
ice, in the name of “conservation,”
Representative Humphrey of Wash
ington in the House to-dav demand
ed a special Congressional investiga
tion of the service.
Humphrey declared that the rail
roads had acquired great tracts of the
public lands through the “lieu land
system.”
J kM.ES HAMILTON LEWIS,
former Georgian, has start
led Washington by the decla
ration that when the weather
gets settled he will shave off
his celebrated perik whiskers.
$70,000,009 COTTON LOSS
RESULT OF CARELESSNESS
WASHINGTON. June 2.—The pres
ent. slipshod and wasteful method of
handling cotton costs the Southern
growers $25,000,000 to $70,000,000 a
year, and upon the correct solution of
the problem of efficient and economi
cal marketing of this and other prod
ucts of the farm uepenas, to a great
extent, the reduction of the high cost
of living.
This is the statement of Charles J.
Brand, physiologist in charge of farm
ers’ co-operative cotton handling and
marketing, Bureau of Plant Industry,
in the year book of the Department
of Agriculture.
“It so happens that cotton, the pur
est known form <sf cellulose, will bear
more abuse than any other crop ma
terial and still retain a large propor
tion of its value,” says Mr. Brand. It
is so stable and enduring that it de
mands little care and gets h"-s. Corn,
because of its perishable nature, de
mands better treatment and gets it.
“If our $1,500,000,000 corn crop were
treated half as oadly it would, no
doubt, shrink in value fully $500,000,-
000 annually. There are corn cribs on
the farm and elevators and ware
houses at the railroad stations and
primary and secondary market- tor
the protection of our corn crop. Still
ten bushels of corn, worth usually at
primary markets only from $5 to $6,
require as much space for storage as
a bale of cotton, worth from $50 to
$60.
“Permanent and necessary improve
ment can be brought about only when
communities handle and market their
product as a whole. The same is
true as to fundamentally improved
conditions in cotton production. The
individual farmer can rarely sell a
few bales of cotton as advantageously
as a community organization ‘could
sell uniform lots of 50 or more bales.
The individual can not afford to con
struct the necessary warehouses, nor
can he as readily secure needed credit
and many other things which orga
nization would bring within his
reach.”
PRESIDENT WILSON READY
TO ASSAIL TARIFF LOBBY
WASHINGTON, June 2.—President
Wilson will not, according to his
present plans, appear before the spe
cial Senate committee which to-day
began its investigation of the lobby
ists in Washington.
The President conferred with Sen
ator Overman, chairman of the Lobby
Committee, and turned over to the
Senator a list of names of men who,
he thinks, should be asked to testify,
made a number of suggestions rela
tive to the conduct of the investiga
tion, anJ promised that any aid the
White House can give will be fur
nished.
At the semi-weekly newspaper con
ference that followed Senator Over
man’s visit the President stated that
he does not intend to testify before
the Overman committee, because he
has not been asked to do so.
Should the committee issue a formal
request that the President give it, first
hand, the information it needs, it is
understood that the Chief Executive
will tell what he knows of lobbyists
and their activities.
Senator Ashurst, of Arizona, first
witness in the lobby inquiry, said he
had not kept a record of the men who
had approached him on the subject of
the tariff, but would give as full a list
of names as possible.
He charged J. F. Mc-Murray, of
South McAlester, Okla., with attempt
ing to coerce Senators sitting in the
Indian Committee into favoring a con
tract which would net McMurrav $3-
500,000.
This contract calls for the disposi
tion of lands belonging to the Chicka
saw and Choctaw Indians at a com
mission of about 10 per cent. Senator
Ashurst stated that the work had al
ready been performed by the Govern
ment and that the contract, if signed
by the President, would permit Mc-
Murray to pocket his $3,500,000 with- j
cut turning a hand to earn it.
OHIO NEWSPAPER BURNS.
CANTON, OHIO, June 2.—The plant
of The Canton Daily News here was
destroyed by fire early to-day with
a loss of $75,000.
MAFIA BUSY AGAIN.
NAPLES, June 2.—The dangerous
| Mafia Society, after remaining sub-
i dued since the Viterbo trial, when
the Government tried to wipe out the
criminal organization, is active again.
Three men were to-day found stab-
j bed to death in Alcamo. Indications
i pointed to the guilt of members of
the Mafia.
DR. FURR IS DEAD.
DALTON, GA, June 2.—Dr. L. C.
Furr, fatally wounded in a pistol dm 1
with “Whack” Riorden at Crandall,.
Murray County, Saturday, died Sun
day.
Riorden continues to improve,
though he has five wounds. Both
arms were broken, one of the shoul
der blades was smashed and slight
wounds were received In the head ami
stomach.
Every shot fired by the two men
found its mark. Riorden's pistol failed
to work after he fired one shot
FACE BRIBERY TRIAL.
WEBSTER SPRINGS, W. VA.,
June 2.—The trials of seven members
of the Legislature charged with ac
cepting bribes in connection with the
effort to elect William Seymour Ed
wards to the United States Senate
were begun here to-day.
The accused Legislators charge Ed
wards caused their arrests to save
himself. They charge. Edwards and
his hirelings, the Burns detectives,
created the crime and when caught
themselves entrapped the defendants.
Want Ads
INSPECTS NAVAL STATION.
NEW PORT. R. I., June 2.—Secre
tary of the Navy Daniels inspected
the naval station at Narragansett
Bay to-day. He was welcomed with
a salute of 19 guns and his flag was
flown from the ship Constellation.
Rear Admiral William Capertown.
of New York, received the Secretary
and showed him over the station. One
thousand apprentices were put
through drills and exhibitions of sem
aphore, and wireless tests were made.
POPE IS 78.
ROME, June 2,-—Innumerable mes
sages of congratulations and good
cheer poured into the Vatican to-day
on the occasion of the seventy-eighth
birthday of Pope Pius X. Many of
them came from the United States.
His Holiness spent the day quietly.
He expressed profound thanks that
he had recovered from his recent ill
ness, and said that he felt that he
had many more years to live.
GRAPE JUICE GALORE.
WASHINGTON, June 2.—For more |
than an hour this morning messen- J
gers were busy storing cases of sub- ;
stantial appearance in the “wine cel
lar” of the State Department.
Following Mr. Bryan’s declaration
in favor of grapejuice as a beverage
practically every manufacturer of
grapejuice in the country sent a case
of his product to the Secretary.
BEGGAR WORTH $50,000.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 2.—
E. L. Jones, a beggar arrested here,
told the police that he estimaree hi«
wealth at $50,000.
BIRD'S-EYE VIEWS.
LONDON, June 2.—The first aerial
Baedeker giving a birdseye view of
the district around Frankfort has
been published in that city.
Other volumes are in course of
preparation. They will give similar
descriptions of the territory around
Berlin, Leipsic, Baden-Baden. Ham
burg and Dusseldorf for the benefit
of aeroplanists and balloonists .
WESTON TRAMPS AT 75.
NEW YORK, June 2.—Cheered by a
large crowd of enthusiastic admirers,
Edward Pavson W r eston. the veteran
pedestrian, to-day started on his
1,500-mile walk to Minneapolis from
New York.
Westpn wishes to demonstrate that,
although 75 years old, he still is in fit
condition. He will make about 26 1-2
miles a dav.
HELD AS HOTEL THIEF.
CINCINNATI. June 2.—Nick Mo
ran, of Cincinnati, a notorious hotel
thief, said to have been the man who
robbed Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt in a
New York hotel of $65,000 some time
ago, is under arrest in Chattanooga,
Tenn.
After his arrest he said he had
robbed guests at four hotels in Chat
tanooga.
STORM SWEEPS KENTUCKY.
LOUISVILLE. KY„ June 2.—Heavy
property damage was reported to-day
from over Kentucky, which was
swept by a storm yesterday. The
$50,000 home of Lawrence Jones, dis
tiller and horseman, near Louisville
was destroyed by lightning.
Lightning struck the city power
house in Louisville and put the city-
street car service out of commission
for several hours.
HELP WANTED—MALE.
BE A DETECTIVE—Earn from $L5fl
to $300 per month, travel over the
world. Write C. T. LUDWIG, 167 West-
over Building. KANSAS CITY, MO.
WANTED—SALESMEN.
SELL TREES—Fruit trees, pecan trees,
shade trees, roses, ornamentals, etc.
Easy to sell. Big profits. Write to-day.
SMITH BROS., Dept. 39, Concord, Ga
AGENTS WANTED.
AGENTS — Portraits 35c, frames 15c,
sheet pictures lc, stereoscopes 25c,
views lc; thirty days’ credit. Samples
and catalog free. Consolidated Portrait
Company. Dept. 5126. 1027 West Adam6
Street, Chicago.
POET LAUREATE IS DEAD.
LONDON, June 2.—Alfred Austin,
poet laureate of England, died at his
home, Swinford Old Manor, in Ash
ford, Kent, to-dav.
Mr. Austin, who succeeded Lord Al
fred Tennyson as poet laureate of
England, was 78 years of age on May
30, just two days before his death.
BUILDING FALLS KILLS SCORE.
SARGOSSA, SPAIN, June 2—A
Score or more workmen were buried :
here to-day in the collapse of a build - |
ing that had been struck by light - j
ning. A number of bodies were re
covered.
FARMS WANTED.
FARMS WANTED—We have direct
buyers. Don’t pay commission. Write
describing property, naming lowest price.
We help buyers locate desirable property
free. American Investment Association,
92 Palace Building. Minneapolis, Minn.
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