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VOL. XI. NO. 304.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913.
Copyright. 1906,
By Ths Georgian Co.
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uirl fatally burned; Heroic Mother Injured in grate fire mishap
GIRLS HURT
Miss Theo Prioleau Seriously In
jured and Sister Bruised in
Accident.
MONROE, LA., July 26.—Victor C.
Smith is dead, Miss Theo Priolieu, of
Atlanta, and R. L.- Prophet, Jr., are
seriously injured, and Miss Ruth Wil
liams bruised as the result of an au
tomobile accident on the Desiard
road, two miles from Monroe, Just
before midnight.
Young Smith is the son of A. L.
Smith, who, with his family, resides
at Stearlington, fifteen miles from
Monroe. Miss Theo Priolieu and her
sister, Miss Dollie, of Atlanta, were
visitors at the Smith home. Miss Wil
liams lives in Monroe. H. P. Decker,
of Newburg. N. G., and Miss Dollie
Priolieu both escaped with a few
slight bruises.
Said To Be Racing.
The Smith car was being driven by
the man who was killed, and with
Morgan George and a party of friends,
was returned from Horseshoe Lake,
a pleasure resort above Monroe.
George says the two cars were rac
ing and were going at least 45 miles
an hour. He said he was about half
mile ahead of the Smith car and did
not see the accident. Prom reliable
reports, it is learned that when about
two miles from town the Smith car.
striking a sharp curve in the road,
turned a double somersault, going
over a ditch.
Victor Smith was crushed to death
almost instantly. Miss Prioleau’s right
leg was broken in two places. Prophet,
Jr., was injured in the back.
Autoists Find Victims.
The car was uninjured and was
driven to Monroe this morning by
autoists who found the dead and in
jured on the side of the road and ren
dered all the aid possible.
The George party reached town and
after waiting some time for the Smith
party decided to go back, they found
them on the roadside. The Prioleau
girls were taken to the residence of
W. L. Smith, in Monroe, and Miss
Williams was taken to the home of
her grandfather. Prophet was taken
to a sanitarium.
The Misses Prioleau have been hon
ored at many special functions.
Cadet's Very Last
Kiss Holds Up Big
Liner 3 Minutes
NEW YORK, July 25.—"A last ktes,
my darling!”
He got it
• Miss Eva Mountrey, of Louisville,
Ky,. was sailing on the Kaiser Wil
helm II. and her fiance, Augustus Dil
lon. a West Point cadet, was bidding
her good-bye.
"All visitors ashore!” shouted a
petty ofTlcer near the sweethearts.
“A very last kips, beloved!” ex
claimed Dillon.
“All visitors ashore!” howled a
chorus of petty officers and stew
ards.
“A very, very last kiss, mine own!”
begged the cadet.
Chief Officer Moeller interrupted
the clinging embrace.
“Young man,” said Moeller, “you
have held the ship three minutes. Go
ashore!”
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Local thundershow
ers Friday and Saturday.
Grand Jury Head
Shoots Three Men
AIKEN. S. C., July 25.—In the pres
ence of nine negroes and three white
men, on a public highway six miles
from town. Jason Spires, foreman of
the present Aiken County grand jury,
shot two white men and an old ne
gro to-day.
The men wounded are Moseley
Randall, shot in right lung and up
per part of right arm; Jenke Ran
dall, ?»hot in left groin, and John
Lattimer, negro, flesh wound.
The Randall brothers, with another
white man, were in charge of a gang
of nine negroes working the Silver
Bluff Road 'When the gang reached
Spire’s place. It is said, he demanded
that no work be done in front of his
residence. The shooting resulted.
Dr. O'Kelley Choice
For Head of Mercer
Macon. July 25— Dr. T. W. O’Kel
ley, pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Raleigh, N. C., likely will be the
next president of Mercer University.
He was selected by a special commit
tee of the trustees from a list of six
teen, and the offer has been tendered
him.
Dr. W. W. Landrum, of Louisville,
formerly of Atlanta, is favored in the
event Dr. O'Kelley declines. A defi
nite answer from the latter is expect
ed in a few days.
Must Raise Alimony
Or Remain in Jail
MACON, July 25.—J. C. Brooks, a
Central of Georgia Railroad con
ductor, has been sentenced by Judge
Mathews to stay in jail until he can
procure a bondsman whose bail will
insure the payment of monthly ali
mony to his wife.
Brooks has already spent ten days
in jail, owing to his failure to obtain
bond. He and his mother swore in
court that they could not get a
bondsman.
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If the general appropriations bill is
permitted by the Senate to stand
practically ae it comeg from the
House of Representatives, it will go
to the Governor with no threat of
veto hanging over it, nor will it be
the occasion in any degree of an ex
traordinary session of the Legisla
ture.
The appropriations bill, within it
self, will be satisfactory to the Exec
utive, in that it will not carry more
appropriations than can be met, if the
general and special tax acts are made
what they should be.
The fact that the House added
$100,000 to the common school fun-1,
thereby increasing the total appro
priations some $50,000 over those of
last year, is not necessarily alarm
ing.
The tax of $5 on automobiles alone
will more than make that up. It is
proposed to tax all machines a flat $5
per annum hereafter.
Will Get Only a Receipt.
Heretofore automobiles Lave been
taxed $2 merely, when registered.
Once that was paid, no further
charges were assessed against them.
And the bulk of that $2 has gone to
pay for the emblazoned number fur
nished the owner of the machine free
of cost.
A fiat tax of $5 per annum on all
machines, however, with nothing to
be furnished the owner of the car but
a written receipt, will add over $100,-
000 to the State's income yearly, thus
offsetting the Legislature's increase
in the school fund.
As the legislative situation shape*
up to-day, therefore, the appropria
tions bill will have plain and easy
sailing and is sure to meet the Gov
ernor’s approval, if not greatly In
creased in the Senate.
The two acts that can upset all tne
administration’s plans now are the
general tax and the tax equalization
measureg.
Teachers Still Unpaid.
There Is a deficit in the Stale
Treasury, and the school teachers still
are unpaid.
The State institutions Lave been
cut to the very marrow of their bones
and can not get alon~ with less money
than the geenral appropriations bill
carries.
The Governor and the chairman
of the Appropriations Committee
understand each other on that point.
What the Governor insists must be
done is to find a way to wipe out the
deficit and pay the teachers, and this
way must be found through the tax
acts.
Naturally, therefore, the one thing
that is disturbing the Governor to
day is the prospective bitter wrangle
in the House over the tax equaliza
tion.
If a tax equalization act is passed
which makes no provision for a State
board to equalize the counties, it,
generally is agreed that it will be
useless.
At the same time, it likely will be
impossible to create a State board
of far-reaching powers.
Tax Reform Problem Now.
The problem now is to get a com
promise measure through that will
start tax reform on the right road
if it takes another and different Leg
islature to perfect the work
The Governor Is dead set against
a bond issue to take up the deficit
or to pay the teachers He thinks it
would be a dangerous precedent. He
is advocating a constitutional In
crease In the tax rate, temporarily, as
the shortest way out of the woods,
even if it is not a plan he particular
ly relishes.
He argues that the State is up
against a condition that it must get
around, and that the State's debts
must be paid, even if a distasteful
thing has to be done In effecting their
payment.
Mrs. Pankhurst Near
Death From Hunger
Strike; Under Knife
.
LONDON July 25.—The condition
of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, who
was released from Holloway jail yes- j
terday, is reported to-day to be
grave.
The “hunger strike” which she in
augurated when in jail has greatly
undermined Mrs. Pankhurst’s const!- j
tution. So weakened was her condi
tion to-day that she was subjected to
a transfusion of blood operation. The
physicians decided that an operation
was necessary in order to save the
militant leader’s life.
Declaring that they will servo
their imprisonment rather than
pay fines. Mrs. Pethick Law
rence, Lady Sybil Smith and Miss
Evelyn Sharpe, who were arrested
yesterday when they tried to hold
suffrage meeting at the entrance to
the House of Commons, were taken to
jail to-day. The women were fined
$200 or the option of spending four
teen days in jail.
U. S. Net Star Loses
In Play for Davis Cup
WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND. July 25.
McLoughlin, the American tennis
star, was defeated by Parke, of Eng
land, three sets in five, in the open
ing play for the Davis Cur to-day.
The American tennis team was the
betting choice. All records for at
tendance were broken. The American
colony to a man backed their coun
trymen.
The courts were in excellent condi
tion.
The doubles will be played to-mor
row and the other two singles Mon
day.
Suffragettes Rally
To Ella Flagg Young
CHICAGO, July 25.—The govern
ing bodies of the Illinois Equal Suf
frage Association, Chicago Political
Equality League and two men’s par
ties of Cook County, met to-day in
a determined campaign to prevent
the retirement of Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young as superintendent of Chicago
public schools.
Mrs. Young, who has been in the
schools of the city since 1868, said
her resignation was presented be
cause she was "tired of fighting.”
Mrs. Young is 68 years of age.
South Africa Faces
Nation-Wide Strike
8pecial Cable to The Georgian.
JOHANNESBURG. July 25.—A
general strike is threatened in South
Africa. The populace to-day is anx
iously awaiting the Government’s
reply to the demands of the railroad
employees and miners. Unless the
demands are met the men say they
will walk out.
The strike would tie up all Indus
try and work great hardship through
out the country.
Cause of Mulhall's
Discharge Sought
WASHINGTON, JULY 25—Why-
Colonel M. M. Mulhall was discharged
by the National Association was in
quired into today by the Overman
lobby inquiry committee.
The subpoena for John Mitchell and
other officials of the American Feder
ation of Labor were returnable today
but Chairman Overman did not wish
to examine them until the remainder
of the Mulhall letters had been read.
Aged Doctor Dies as
He Asks for Blessing
DAWSON, July 25.—When Dr. W.
C. Kendrick said “let’s have the
blessing now.” as he sat down at the
breakfast table this morning, his head
fell back and he died immediately.
Dr. Kendrick was 83 years old. He
retired from decila practice last week,
after 58 years’ service. He had held
many positions of honor, having rep
resented Webster and Terrell Coun
ties In the Legislature.
grate in which she was burning some
trash at her home. No. 349 Capitol
avenue, Miss Bessie Lyon, 19 years
old. died Thursday night at the
Georgian Hospital. She was the
daughter of R. L. Lyon, superintend
ent of the Austell Building.
In the room next to the one in
which the girl succumbed, her heroic
mother Friday lay, suffering from se
rious burns received while trying to
extinguish the flames which envel
oped the daughter.
The accident occurred Wednesday
afternoon. Miss Lyon had swept
some light trash into the grate in the
front room on the second floor, and,
after applying a match to it, turned
to leave. A tongue of flame leaped up
to the hem of her skire as it swished
over the fire, and immediately the
filmy cloth blazed.
Girl Flees in Terror.
When the girl discovered her plight,
all presence of mind left her. Scream
ing, she burst open the door and leap
ed down the stairway. Her body by
this time was enveloped in flames.
Mrs. Lyon, emerging from a back
room, saw her daughter as she bound
ed down the stairs. Grabbing a Ifian-
ket, she ran after her, catching the
terrified girl las she reached the first
floor of the building, where Mr and
Mrs. B. Clein live.
A struggle between the two women
ensued before the blanket was placed
about the younger one. In her ef
forts to sav her daughter, Mrs. Lyon
let the flames catch in the sleeves of
her own dress, and for a time it
looked as though both women would
be burned to death.
Pedestrians from the street rushed
in. Mrs. Clein had picked up a rug
from the floor and was endeavoring to
throw it over the mother and daugh
ter.
Mrs. Lyon was separated from the
burning girl and the flames in her
drests quickly extinguished.
Despite Judge's Statement All Is
in Readiness, Move for Post-
ment Is Expected.
BIRMINGHAM, July 25.—In the
presence of 125 members of the secret
fraternal order of Moose. in
Moose Hall last night, Donald A.
Kenny, president of the local Chauf
feurs’ Union, and Christopher Gus-
tin, an iron molder, met almost in
stantaneous death from an overshock
of electricity received while being
initiated into the organization.
Both were young and strong men.
Other candidates going through the
same initiation before them were not
injured.
After Kenny was seen to be sink
ing and before John P. Abbott, pre
siding officer, couid stop the proceed
ings. Gusrtin also had been fatally in
jured’.
Dead in Five Minutes.
Both men died within five minutes,
although the lodge physician. Dr. L.
V. Neill, was present and lent Imme
diate attention.
The ceremony that proved fatal is
the branding one. The candidate
stands upon a tilting board with his
chest bared. A magneto is connected
with his leg by a metal band and
chain.
A horseshoe metal Moose emblem
is heated red hot before his eyes and
a man advances toward him holding
the heated iron as if to brand him on
l the Sneet,
Passenger train No. 17 on the Sea
board Air Line, due in Atlanta from
Abbeville, S. C., at 8:40 a. m., was
wrecked Friday morning when Just
abreast the National Furniture Com
pany plant at 844 Marietta street, by
plunging into an interlocking switch
set against it.
The negro fireman, Albert Wallace,
of No. 44 Rock street, Atlanta, was
thrown across the tracks when the
engine toppled, and was carried to
Grady Hospital unconscious. He is
not expected to live. Engineer C. A.
Tennant, of Abbeville, S. C.. was bad
ly shaken up and bruised, but was not
seriously injured.
The front trucks of the first coach,
a combination passenger and baggage
car, left the tracks, and the occu
pants. all negroes, were given a se^
vere jolting. None of the other four
cars was derailed.
Inquiry Begun by Road.
Officials of the Seaboard, in an
effort to fix the responsibility for the
wreck, are investigating the report
that the signal board indicated “all
clear” until the train was almost upon
the switch and that at this instant
the operator in the tow-er pulled the
signal and derailed the train.
T. L. Brook, of No. 66 Currier
street, long in the employ of the
Western and Atlantic Railroad. Is the
towerman. He denied the signal had
been set against the incoming train
just ns the interlocking switch was
reached, resulting in the derailment.
Despite the tact that Superior
.Tudpe L. S. Roan stated every
thing was in readiness for the
trial' of Leo M. Frank next Mon
day, that State’s Attorney Hugh
M. Dorsey has announced he will
fight a delay, and that the de
fense actually commenced sum
moning witnesses, the impression
still prevailed Friday that a mo
tion for continuance wonld be
made by the defense when the
case is opened.
Attorneys Luther Rosser and Reu
ben R. Arnold declined flatly to say
whether they would permit the trial
1 to proceed without introducing 6ome
motion for a postponement, and the
report was that witnesses had been
summoned to be on the safe side in
the event a request to put off the trial
is refused.
The accused man was In the best of
health and spirits, according to an
announcement from the Tower Fri
day, find was anxious that the case go
to trial. His illness would be the best
ground upon which to secure a de
lay, but the inability of any one of
the more material witnesses to come
into court would more than likely be
considered a sufficient legal reason.
Judge Roan considered it highly im
probable that the case would be put
off on account of his indisposition. He
said that he was in the best of health,
and that if any continuance were se
cured it would be at the request of
the State’s attorney or the counsel for
the accused man.
“I had a slight attack of Indiges
tion Wednesday night,” he said, “but
I was all right Thursday morning and
opened court at Covington. I dis
posed of three murder trials before
noon, and left for Atlanta at 12:30 in
the afternoon.
Judge to Require Good Reason.
“To the best of my knowledge the
trial of Leo M. Frank will begin next
Monday. The only possibility of post
ponement would be some very good
and sufficient legal reason for a con
tinuance advanced by the State or the
defense. During the eleven years I
have been on the bench I have never
postponed a trial on account of being
ill. and I will not consider any per
sonal Inconvenience next Monday.
“The reason In not drawing the jury
earlier was to guard against several
of the veniremen leaving the city
rather t£an to serve.
“The date set was in the nature of
an agreement, and I would imagine
both sides were ready and willing for
the trial to go on.”
Defense's Attitude a Puzzle.
Despite the assurance of Judge
Roan that the case would go on and
the announcement of the State’s at
torney, Hugh M. Dorsey, that all his
witnesses had been summoned and na
would insist on going to trial, the re
fusal of the attornevs for Frank *a
moke any statement whatever and the
report that no witnesses for the de
fense had been *subpenaed indicated
strongly that a postponement would
be sought on some ground that tha
attorneys were confident would ba
sufficient.
The weather will not play any part
in securing a postponement unle*6
the mercury registers 99 degrees o<
higher. Judge Roan said that he
laughingly remarked last Saturday
that if the temperature was as high
next Monday as it was then he would
be glad to continue the case. He said
that he had not considered such a
proposition seriously, but if it got s<j
hot as to be extremely uncomfortably
he might consider a postponement.
Special deputies were sworn in FrL
day morning to begin serving the Hi