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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS 5 NEWS OF WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1913 REPUDIATES CONFESSION THAT SHE SHOT HUSBAND GAINESVILLE, July 22.—Repu- diating her confession as to the shoot ing of her ball player husband, Tom Wood, and charging a man with fir ing the bullet will be the sensational testimony of Mrs. Pearl Thomas Wood before the Hall County Grand Jury this afternoon. This man comes from a prominent family arid his arrest is ending in the probably fatal wounding of Wood. Gainesville Is greatly excited over the shooting. The statement this morning that Mrs. Wood would com pletely repudiate her confession and charge the man with firing the shot aroused intense interest. The Grand expected. This man was an old friend of Mrs. Wood’s, and when she was told by her husband that he was going to de sert her, it is said, she appealed to him. He came to the Wood home on Athens street, where a quarrel began, Jury is in session, and the Solicitor announced this morning that an im mediate investigation would be held. At a local hospital Tom Wood lies in a dying condition, a bullet hole in one of his lungs and with but two days at the most in which he can pos sibly live. At the county jail is his bride of a few months, completely prostrated. Tuesday night ehe con fessed to the killing, declaring that she had determined to kill her hus band rather thdn have him desert her. She declared that he had decided upon a separation and was preparing to leave Gainesville. According to the account of the shooting, which, it is said, Mrs. Wood will make to the Grand Jury, her hus band, another man and herself were in the Wood home when a quarrel en sued, during which the other man drew a pistol. Wood ran from the house and as he darted out tne front door the other man shot. Wood falling fatally wounded upon the porch. Neighbors rushed in and found Mrs. Wood weeping over the body of her youthful husband. An automo bile was obtained and the wounded man placed in it. Mrs. Wood accom panied him to the hospital, holding his head tenderly in her lap, while her cries -drew the tears from others in the machine. In contrast to her piteous condition the husband charged her time and again with shooting him. His protestations that “She shot me!” “She shot me!” con tinued after he had been placed upon the operating table. A few moments after the wounded man was taken to the hospital Sher iff Spencer arrived there. Mrs. Wood surrendered to him and admitted that she had done the shooting. She begged to be allowed to remain with her husband, but owing to his con dition and his continual charges that she had done the shooting, it was thought best to remove her. She was taken to the county jail, where she spent the night weeping and pit eously declaring her love for her hus band. “He was preparing to desert me, and was going away at midnight,” she told the Sheriff. “He capie to the house to tell me good-bye. I made up my mind I would rather kill him than have him desert me.” Mrs. Wood is a bride of but a few months. Wood has played with the Gainesville ball club for a long while. The courtship began a few months ago, when he was introduced to her at the ball park. She was Miss Pearl Thomas, and comes from a highly re spected family, which has been living In Gainesville for ten years. She was extremely popular and a host of her friends called at the county jail this morning. GIVEN LIFE SENTENCE. LEXINGTON, July 23—Andrew Johnson, charged with being one of the men who assassinated Ed Calla han, former noted feudist of the Breathitt County mountains, has been found guilty at Winchester, Ky.. and given a life sentence. Court immediately began the trial of Fletcher Deaton, charged with conspiracy in the assassination plot. Eighteen more will be tried for the actual murder, and twelve others for perjury. These cases are expected to consume five weeks. The feature evi dence in each case is that of the wom an who traced the murder plots or who heard the conspirators plan the murder. WANTS INVESTIGATION. Representative Connor, of Spald ing County, Introduced a resolution in the House to-day calling for a legis lative investigation of the State Ag ricultural College at Athens, particu larly with respect to Dr. Andrew M. Soule’s connection therewith. Mr. Connor’s resolution recites the fact that Dr. Sbule has been publicly accused in The Southern Fancier- Farmer, a poultry and agricultural magazine, with having obtained a re cent raise in salary upon false repre sentations, and calls upon the Legis lature to investigate the charge and summon Dr. Soule before the Com mittee on Appropriations to answer the same. BILL ON SEED COTTON. A bill requiring all purchasers of seed cotton to keep a complete rec ord of the same has been introduced in the House by Representatives Hines and Moon, of Troup County. In the last few weeks many com plaints have been filed with the Com missioner of Agriculture by farmers who stated that seed cotton which they had purchased under the highest recommendations had proved to be either of inferior quality or absolutely worthless. NURSE IS ARRESTED. JOHNSTOWN. PA.. July 23.—Miss Ella P. Behe, 23, a nurse, is in the coun ty jail at Kbensburg. charged with horsestealing. She was arrested near Portage riding a horse taken from a liv ery stable. SUFFRAGE CAUSE HERE BOOSTED BY BIG MEET Spurred to enthusiasm by Mrs. er of the opposition, and even he de- Mrs. M. C. Hardin, a prominent worker for suffrage in Georgia. William Peel, presiding officer, sev- clared he had little faith in many of eral hundred suffragists and a suf fragette or two at Taft Hall Tuesday participated in a monster meeting, in many respects unequaled before in Atlanta. Round after round of ap plause marked th e efforts of every speaker. The meeting was an all-suffrage affair, for although a debate was ad vertised not a single out-and-out anti-suffragist speech was made. Er nest Neal, member of the House of Representatives, was the only speak- the stock arguments of the antis and that he wished Mrs. Peel godspeed in the present movement. Among the other speakers were Dr. A. M. Hughlett, w'ho declared he was a suffragist first, last and all the time, for the reason that women are as in telligent as men; Mrs. S. E. Cunning ham, who paid high tribute to the cause; Mrs. Frances Whitesides, a ieader in the Civic League; Mrs. Mary McLendon, “the original suffragette,” president of the Georgia League, Mrs. M. C. Hardin and Dr. John E. White. U. S. PREPARED TO ACT ON SHORT NOTICE IN MEXICO WASHINGTON, July 23—Dispatch of a gunboat to Mexican waters, in addition* to the four battleships al ready there, the presence of Secretary of War Garrison and General Leonard Wood on the Texas border and the summoning of Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Washington are taken to indicate the intention of official circles here that the Mexican situa tion will no longer be allowed by President Wilson to drift. Reports from Chihuahua and Coa- huila indicate the centralization of the Federalist forces in those prov inces and the opening of railroad communication from the capital to the border within a week. SENATE PASSES MEASURE TO ENFORCE LIQUOR BILL By a vote of 36 to 3 the Senate Wednesday afternoon passed the Hix- on-Searcy prohibition bill providing for the enforcement of the Webb bill in Georgia. The bill makes it unlawful for any firm or corporation to transport liq uor into the State for illegal purposes and places the burden of proof of such legality upon the shipper when quantities in excess of three gallons are shipped. It was around the three-gallon pro vision as recommended in the Tem perance Committee substitute that the fight centered Wednesday morn ing. .« 58 PERSONS LOSE LIVES IN GREAT FACTORY FIRE BINGHAMTON. N. Y.. July 23 — Searching parties to-day worked in the ruins of the building of the Bing hamton Clothing Company seeking bodies believed to be buried there. Streams of water were played on the building all night to cool them enough to allow the rescue work to begin. Workmen at daylight began digging at the tons of charred timber, brick and mortar, in an effort to reach the bodies still known to be buried in the debris. At noon on Wednesday twenty-one bodies had been recovered. The death list will reach 58, it way estimated. Ten injured are in a hospital. Of the 111 persons in the building at the time the fire broke out only 38 es- cajied. iTttirty-seven are missing. Belief Qoat the alarm was sounded only as a fire drill, caused the great loss of life. When the girls and wom en working in the factory realized that the building was burning the main avenue of escape had already been cut off. Instantly the other ex its were choked with panic-stricken girls. Many reached the windows but the firemen and others bent on rescuing inmates were powerless to aid them, owing to the rapidity with which the flames licked up the inflammable mill material. Eighteen minutes elapsed from the time the fire broke out until the walls fell and the building was in ruins. Reed B. Freeman, president of the company, attributes the fire to the carelessness of an employee in throw ing a cigarette butt under a stair way, where inflammable material was stored. Smoking was prohibited in the building, but many employees were addicted to the habit, according to Freeman, and often went to th e alley near the building to smoke. Rigid investigation of the fire will be made by the authorities. They will investigate the charges made that gasoline was stored in the build ing, dangerously near the stairway from the upper floors and that the fire escapes were so exposed that many victims were burned while try ing to descend. CONFER ON MEXICO. WASHINGTON, July 23.—President Wilson to-day summoned Represen tative Flood, chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Senator Bacon, chairman of the Sen ate Foreign Relations Committee, to the White House to confer on condi tions in Mexico. The delicacy of the present situa tion enforced a policy of secrecy at the White House, but It was asserted that the purpose of to-day’s confer ence was to discuss the advisability of removing the ban from shipments of arms and ammunition to the con stitutionalists in Northern Mexico. General Carranza and other revolu tionists have been pleading for weeks for the removal of this prohibition, claiming that they are entitled to the same privileges accorded to the Ma- derists by President Taft. it is doubtful if any decisive move will be made until after the removal of Ambassador Wilson, but it is prac tically certain that this Government will favor the removal of the prohi bition relative to the shipment of arms to the rebels and then will await developments in the hope of estab lishing a stable government in Mex ico. DR. FRIEDMANN SCORED. Bitter arraignment of Dr. Franz Friedrich Friedmann, the German scientist and discoverer of a serum hailed as a curative of tuberculoses, followed the death of Austell Thorn ton, one of the best-known young bankers in Atlanta, near Asheville, N. C., early Wednesday morning. Thornton’s death was the result of tuberculosis, which set in following an attack of pneumonia eighteen months ago. When Dr. Friedmann came to this country last winter with his serum, heralded as a cure for con sumptives, Thornton went . to New York and underwent the treatment. While Dr. Friedmann used tho Bellevue Hospital there in demon strating his cures, he also did a great deal of work in hotels among patients who flocked to Manhattan from all over the United States. Thornton received his injections at the hotel where he was stopping, and it is said that Dr. Friedmann himself administered them. It is also declared that the German physician charged young Thornton a fabulous price for the treatment, one person Wednesday morning placing the sum at $3,500. BALKAN STATES AGREE. SOFIA, July 23.—It was stated of ficially to-day that Servia and Greece have agreed to Roumania’s proposal to discuss an armistice with Bulga ria. The preliminary discussion will be held at Nish. In an official note to Sofia to-day Roumanla Insists that she be allowed to retain strategetic position on the frontier; that specified privileges shall be extended to the Roumanian population in Macedonia and that the peace negotiations shall be opened in Roumanian territory after an armi stice has been .signed. HOME FOR SPINSTERS. YORK. PA., July 23.—The will of Miss Anna L. Gardner, which was probated here, sets aside $400,000 for the erection and maintenance of a home in this city for aged unmarried women of Pennsylvania. dropsy; Treated 10 days free. Short breatMny relter- ed In few hour*— swell in* and uric arid removed In few day*— regu lates Urer. kidneys, bowels, stomach, dictation and heart. Wonderful sureww Write for testimonial* at curca and aymptom blank for free home treatment, COLLL'M DROl’3Y HKMLDY CO.. Atlanta. Ga.