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10 rHE OEOR^IAN’S NEWS BRIEFS, NEWS OF MONDAY, JULY 28, 1913 H ERE is Luther Z. Rosser, chief of counsel for the defense in the trial of Leo Frank Mr. Rosser is one of the most noted lawyers in Georgia. TRIAL OF LEO FRANK BEGINS; JURY IS SELECTED QUICKLY Leo M. Frank, superintendent of a pencil factory in Atlanta, was put on trial for his life before Judge L. S. Iioan, in the Fulton Superior Court, Monday morning. He is accused of killing Mary Phagan, aged 14, who was an employee of the factory. Contrary to general belief, a jury was selected quickly. The courtroom was crowded all day, and many per sons, men and women, stood on the sidewalks outside hoping to see and hear something of the trial. When adjournment for the day had been taken in ti e afternoon, three witnesses had been examined. Newt Lee, the night watchman who discovered the dead body of Mary Phagan in the basement of the Na tional Pencil Factory, and who gave the first news of the erim« to the police, was still on the stand, under going a rigid cross-examination by Luther Z. llosser, attorney for Frank. Throughout the grueling cross-ex amination of Mr. Rosser, Lee stuck to his original story in minutest de tail. Questions that would have con fused or befuddled a man of educa tion failed to budge him from the statement he originally made to the police and has repeated from time to time to reporters and court officials. The first day's proceedings proved singularly free of the dramatic ele ment or the unexpected in testimony. There were touches of the pathetic, as, for example, when Mrs. J. W. Coleman, mother of the dead child, broke down and cried bitterly when she viewed the clothing of her little daughter; and there were touches of humor when the little Epps boy, who had ridden to town with Mary Phagan on the day of her murder, explained to Rosser his method of telling the time of day by the sun, and of Newt Lee, who amused the courtroom by his quaint allusions and his negro de scriptions of a tiny light in the base ment of the pencil factory, which he likened to the gleam of a lightning bug, and of his quick retort when Mr. Rosser purposely spoke of this insect as a June bug. “I didn’t say June bug—I said light ning bug,” contradicted Newt. Mrs. Frank sat near her husband and eyed Solicitor Dorsey through out the hearing. Frank appeared cool and collected- A great many witnesses have been called for the trial. SUES FOR $2,000,000. NEW YORK, July 28.—That Clar ence H. Mackay, to keep up the pace of a millionaire s son, borrowed heav ily in Wall Street and failed to pay back after he had inherited $40,000,- 000 from the estate of his father, is charged in a suit brought by W. L. Stow, a broker, for an accounting of more than $2,000,000. The plaintiff was at the head of the firm of W. L. Stow & Co., which failed for $6,000,000 some years ago. He charges that Mr. Mackay is directly responsible for that failure by failing to meet obligations contracted in a pool organized to buy and control stocks and bonds of the Mexican Cen tral Railway. GIFTS FROM ROYALTY. WASHINGTON, July 28.—Despite President Wilson’s attitude in dis couraging the gif* of Baltimore Demo crats to his daughter, Jessie, at her wedding next November to Francis B. Sayre, kings and princes of for eign nations will flood the White House with costly gifts. The marriage of a President’s son or daughter is the only occasion on which foreign governments can get around the American constitution, which forbids the President accept ing personal gifts from rulers of for eign nationa The gifts from foreign potentates, naturally, cannot be discouraged. THREE MEN DROWNED. NEW YORK. July 28.—Three men were drowned when the steamer City of Atlanta, of the Savannah Line, ran down and cut in half the tender of the Government lightship off Cape Lookout. N. C., last Friday. The ac cident was reported when the steamer arrived here to-day. There was some delay in launching a lifeboat after the accident, and the remaining two of the crew on the ten der were rescued in an exhausted condition. CUP COMES TO AMERICA. WIMBLEDON, ENGLAND, July 28. —The Davis trophy, the most sought- for cup in the tennis world, which has been away from the United States since 1903, will come back to America. The United States team, after beat ing the Australians In the preliminary games in New York last June and working their way up to the chal lenge round by defeating the German and Canadian teams In England, to day won the trophy for the United States by defeating the English de fenders. RICH MAN’S SECRET BARED. CHICAGO, July 28.—William Hen ry Lee, wealthy publisher whose $200,000 estate will be taken by the State of Illinois because there were no relatives to claim It, was a negro. For nearly 50 years he kept the se cret. The secret of his being of negro blood was admitted by Fred C. Laird, for ten years his partner. Lee never married, Mr. Laird said, because he feared that in his children the secret of his negro ancestry might be re vealed. COMMITTEE FAVORS DAVIS. WASHINGTON, July 28.—The Sen ate Judiciary Committee to-day or dered a favorable report on the nom ination of Representative John W. Davis, of West Virginia, to be So licitor General of the United States. SITUATION IN MEXICO INVESTIGATED BY WILSON WASHINGTON. July 28.—“Ambas- sador Wilson—2; 30 o’clock.” This simple announcement, placed at the bottom of President Wilson’s official list of callers to-day, was the only indication at the White House that the most momentous conference at the White House scheduled since President Roosevelt maneuvered the Russian-Japanese peace conclave was due to take place. For the past 36 hours the Presi dent has had before him the lengthy report dictated by Ambassador Wil son detailing all the events of im portance which have happened in Mexico from the time the Diaz re gime first began to topple down to the attempted murder of Charles B. Dixon, the American immigration of ficial, at Juarez on Saturday. Secretary Bryan, the first caller at the White House to-day, was closet ed with the President for more than an hour, while he discussed the de tails of the "Wilson report. In discussing the Mexican situation with the newspaper cabinet to-day the President authorized the state ment that nothing has happened within the past ten days to make matters better or worse. The President further said that, as he has not yet conferred with Am bassador Wilson, he can not an nounce any future policy with re spect to President Huerta or Mex ico for the reason that he has not decided upon one. STEAMER GOES ASHORE. NEW YORK. July 28.—The steam er Chalmette from New Orleans for New York went ashore early to-day In a thick fog while a mile and a half South of Barnegat, DEMANDS U. S. CONSUL AT JUAREZ BE REMOVED WASHINGTON. July 28.—The re moval from office of Thomas Ed wards, the American Consul at Jua rez, Met, was requested of the State Department to-day by Representative Smith, of Texas, who charges that Edwards has been negligent in re lieving American refugees at Madera, Representative Smith acted on com plaint of his constituents in the Ei Paso district. The Congressman also urged Secre tary Bryan to stop the shipments of arms and ammunition from this coun try to the Huerta administration. “I informed the Secretary of State,” said Representative Smith, "that so long as we do not recognize the Huer ta Government we should not favor it by allowing it to secure arms from this country. We deny that they have a constitutional government and yet they are allowed to get arms and am munition. We ought to allow both factions to have war supplies or we ought to give the privilege to neither of them." Smith says Bryan did not Indicate what action would be taken regarding his complaints. Smith received telegrams to-day from his constituents saying that 35 Americans are in peril at Madera among them a number of women and children. TO ARRANGE PEACE TERMS. ATHENS, July 28.—The terms of the armistice and peace between the other Balkan States and Bulgaria will be arranged at Bucharest. To-day the delegates left Nish for the Roumanian capitol to begin their deliberations. MICHIGAN SENATOR CHARGES BAD FAITH TO DEMOCRATS WASHINGTON, July 28.—A de fense of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill and a vigorous attack upon the Un derwood-Simmons tariff bill and the manner of the framing were made by Senator Townsend, of Michigan, dur ing the tariff debate to-day. He charged the Democratic party with bad faith to the farmers, and declared President Wilson had been the “most insidious lobbyist of them all" in the interest of the Democratic bill. “It is said that the Payne tariff bill caused the impending measure,” said Senator Townsend. “To a cer tain extent that is true, but it is not because the Payne bill was intrin- heaval occurred, but rather it was partially because politicians said it was bad. Industrial, moral and in- sically a bad bill that a political up- tellectual progress was never so great as under the unhampered operation of the Payne law. “The Democratic party, through a division In the Republican ranks, is now in control of the nation, and aft er months of secret work the Demo cratic Senate has presented the pend ing bill. It Was conceived In hatred of the American policy of protection and- brought forth in the darkness of tjje secret caucus,” Senator Townsend said both Presi dent Wilson and the Democratitaplat- forrn had assured the people “no le gitimate business” would be injured. He asked what Senator would deny that the sugar industry was a legit imate business, yet it was doomed un der the pending bill. MAN AND WOMAN FINED. LONDON, July 28.—Twenty-four men and women to-day were fined or ordered to furnish bonds to keep the peace as the result of the riots of yes terday, when Sylvia Pankhurst, the daughter of the militant leader, led a mob to storm Premier Asquith's house. A huge crowd followed in the wake of the suffragettes as they began the march to the Premier’s house, but the police, aided by motor busses, blocked the way of the on-rushing mob. In the fight that followed, several officers were injured, but the police dispersed the mob, after arresting thj militant leader’s daughter and some of her followers. The police had been searching for Sylvia at hjr release license under tho “cat-and-mouse" act had expired. Sna was removed to Halloway jail to con tinue her sentence for inciting to riot. Before being taken to jail Miss Bank, hurst promised to lead a greater up rising than ever before upon her re lease. Mrs. Pethick Lawrence, Lady Sybil Smith and Miss Evelyn Sharpe, who were sentenced to Halloway jail for rioting during the recent suffragette demonstration were released today. They had gone on a hunger strike im mediately after being taken to jail. HOT WEATHER ADVICE. WASHINGTON, July 28.—Surgeon General Blue, of the public health service, to-day gave 'oue hot weather advice, as follows: Eat plenty of fruits; all the fresh vegetables that agree with you; as little meat as possible, and starchy foods, like potatoes, in modem la quantities. Drink beverages of the soft, non alcoholic variety; plenty of butter milk and pure sweet milk, certified milk preferred; alcoholic drinks in groat moderation, if at all. and cool carbonated or oxygenated drinks. Wear white outer clothes, blue un derwear. soft collars straw hats and easy shoes. MAY REACH AGREEMENT. WASHINGTON. July 28.—Presi dent Wilson having withdrawn his demand that the Glass currency bill be sent immediately to a Democratic caucus of the House, the Democratic members of the House Banking and Currency Committee prepared to con sider the bill late to-day, with the ex pectation that an agreement could ba reached before the end of the week. The committee planned to take up the Ragsdale amendments to the bill providing for an industrial and agri cultural currency. It is expected thesa will be voted down. FASTS, EATS, THEN DIES. ANNISTON. July 28.—After fasting twelve days to reduce his w T eight and then eating with intemperance. L. M. Mills, manager of the Postal Tele graph Company’s Anniston office, died to-day of typhoid fever. Business men are making an effort to have Mrs. Mills, his widow, ap pointed manager to succeed him. HEAT FATAL IN EAST. PHILADELPHIA, July 28.—Phila delphia is experiencing one of the hottest days of the summer to-day. 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