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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS 7 NEWS OF FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1913 -A OF HOUSE OF LAWMAKERS The lie was passed In the House : Friday, Representative Barry Wrighi, of Floyd, using the word in resenting lobbying charges intimated by Rep- | resentative Howard Ennis, of Bald win. Ennis started toward Wright, but several of the other members of M ’S SARAH WIBORG, a beautiful American girl, v, is making a brilliant so ciety success in London. Her mother and two sisters share her popularity. ALLEGED KIDNAPER CAUGHT AFTER A 3,000-MILE CHASE BOSTON, July 25.—Chased for more than 3,000 miles, from Atlanta to Boston, John D. Mattiford, 50 years of age, was arrested here to-day. charged with being a fugitive from justice. Mattiford is charged by the Atlanta police with Kidnaping John the House intervened and the matter was quickly straightened out, Mr. En nis declaring that his words carried no innuendo or intimation, but that tie was simply asking for information. Representative Wright had moved for a reconsideration of sections 4 and 5 of the general appropriations bill, which the House was considering as a committee of the whole. These two sections provide for the appropria tions for schools, colleges and State institutions. Ennis interrupted Wright In * speech and inquired if “he was not in spired by members of the ‘third house’ to ask for a reconsideration." The reply of Wright was that “an/ such a statement was a lie, an abso lute falsehood.” He demanded that if Ennis had such proof or evidence that he at once submit it to the House. Ennis explained that he had no such evidence; that he did not mean to intimate that the Representative from Floyd had been so inspired, but that he simply wanted to find out if such could be the case. Carrying with it an appropriation of $5,795,667, which is $108,900 under last year’s bill, and carrying an addi tional appropriation of $3,679,000 to refund bonds in 1914-15, the general appropriations bill was passed by the House Friday. By the passage of the bill at this time all House records were broken, and everything looks safe for a quick passage through the Senate and to the Governor for approval. The bill, as amended, showed a dif ference in but three of the appropria tions recommended by the committee. This included $2,550,000 for the pub lic school fund for each of the years 1913 and 1914. which was an increase of $50,000 over the committee recom mendation; $30,000 instead of $25,000 for the maintenance of the Soldiers’ Home, and a slight increase in the ap propriation for clerical help in one of the Statehouse departments. Much debate was indulged in on several items. Representative Barry Wright objecting to many on the grounds that it was following in the footsteps of the 1911 Legislature, “which was the most extravagant In the history of Georgia.” The Confederate pensions section, which covered many items, totaling $1,074,800, was an object of special at tack, but no change was made in it. MRS. PANKHURST ILL. LONDON July 25.—The condition of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, who was released from Hollowly jail yes terday, is reported to-day to be grave. The “hunger strike” which she in augurated when in jail has greatly undermined Mrs. Pankhurst’s consti 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 serve their imprisonment rather than pay fines. Mr« Pethick Law rence, Lady Sybil Smith and M'ss Evelyn Sharpe, who were arrested yesterday when they tried to hold a 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. DIVED ONTO MAN. CONNERSVILLE, IND., July 25 — Edward Voltz was fatally hurt and Frank Davis may die of injuries re ceived in diving at a beach here. Davis dived from a high spring board and was followed immediately by Voltz. Just as Voltz reached the water Davis bobbed up and the.*’ heads met with a crack. Davis was under water two minutes. JAPS ARE DISSATISFIED. SAN P'RANCISCO, July 25.—A To- kio dispatch to a local Japenese pa per to-day said that the Japanese Government, dissatisfied with the re ply of Secretary of State Bryan to Its protest against the California alieti land bill, is preparing a third note of protest to the United States. It will be ready for presentation within a few days. LOBBYISTS ARE SCARCE. WASHINGTON, July 2JV.— Doorkeepers of the House declare that President Wilson’s war on the “insidious lobby” has made lobbyists scarcer than ever be fore. They say that whereas lobbyists for merly made dozens of trips during the day to the House chamber with cards of visitors to members, they now make very few such trips. AUTOMOBILE TURNS TURTLE; GEORGIA GIRL IS INJURED MONROE. LA., July 25.—One per- son was killed outright, two others were seriously injured and another bruised when an automobile, occupied by a party of men and women, turned turtle while racing another machine two miles from Monroe just before midnight. The Dead. Victor C, Smith, son of A. L. Smith, a wealthy planter, residing at Stear- lington, La., crushed to death. The injured. Miss Theo Prioieau, daughter of Mrs. Id. L. Prioieau. of Atlanta, Ga. r right leg broken In two places. R. L. Prophet, Jr., back sprained. Miss Ruth Williams, of Monroe, badly bruised. Others in the party Included Miss Dolly Prioieau, sister of Miss Theo, and H. P. Decker, of Newburg, N. C. They were unhurt. 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 W’ere 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. From 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. FINDS PETRIFIED KITTEN. COTTONWOOD FALLS., KANS., July 25.—While repairing the floor of his house John Mann, a farmer living southeast of nere, found a petrified kitten in perfect condition. The cat weighed five pounds and its body was smooth and hard as though the work of a sculptor. Its tail, feet and ears were intact and there were a few’ whiskers projecting from the jaws. PROCLAIMS SELF “MESSIAH." PANAMA, July 2J.—Word has been received from Penonome, a town in the interior of the republic, that Segundo Sanchez, a native, has pro claimed himself the Messiah and has issued a “prophecy” of the destruction of the world by a deluge in a short time. Some of his 80 adherents are build ing ari ark, while others are collect ing pairs of animals of all species found in the region. TRAIN IS WRECKED. Passenger "train No. 17 on tha 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. DESERTERS NOT WANTED. CHICAGO, July 25.—“Men who de sert their wives and refuse to sup port their families are not entitled to become naturalized citizens,” said Judge Petit here when he refused the applications of two men who admitted having left their wives. THIEVES HAD AUTO. LOUISVILLE, KY, July 25.— Thieves who traveled in an auto dy namited the postoffice safe at Cres- wood. Ky.. and fled with $400. DOUBLE SHOOTING. BASS LAKE, IND., July 21.—Martin Strasburger tried to kill his stepmother and then ended his own life, that the way might be cleared for a reconcilia tion between his father and divorced mother. This Is the theory held by many here as the solution of the double shooting at Frank Strasburger’s country home, in which the second Mrs. Strasburger was wounded and Strasburger’s son Martin killed himself. DONS ARE STILL ANGRY MADRID, July 26.—The newspaper Imparcial asserts to-day that the members of the old aristocracy of Ca diz have refused the invitations sent them by the officers of the American training ship Illinois. The refusal, according to the news paper, was due to the ill feeling en gendered during the Spanish-Ameri can War. A. Barwick, Jr., 5 years old, and his sister, Dorothy T., 9, children of John A. Barwick, of Atlanta. Mattiford pleaded not guilty in the police court to-day and was held in $1,000 for the Atlanta police. The police also are looking for Mrs. Barwick, mother of the children, and Mrs. Annie Laurie Jeter, mother of Mrs. Barwick. Mrs. Jeter is also charged with kidnaping the children. For the past three months Inspec tors DorSfcy and O’Neal had been searching for Mattiford. He has been trailed all over New' England, but escaped. For several weeks Mat tiford and Mrs. Barwick were regis tered at the Clarendon Hotel under the name of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Mar tin. Shortly before 10 o’clock to-day they saw Mattiford walking dow'n Co lumbus avenue alone. Inspector Dor sey approached him, spoke his name and Mattiford turned. He was imme diately placed under arrest and taken to police headquarters. He told Chief McCarr that he did not know where the women or the children are, but lie supposed they had gone back to Atlanta. WILSON FAVORS HUERTA. NEW YORK, July 25.—Admitting he had done all I.e could to have the Huerta Government in Mexico recog nized and charging that Mrs. Fran cisco I. Madero, wife of the slain President of that country, is a forge**, Henry Lane Wilson, Ambassador to Mexico, who has been summoned o Washington by President Wilson, ar rived here this afternoon on the liner Mexico. He will leave to-night for the Capital. Mr. Wilson appeared to be in excel lent health and spirits, but he de clined to discuss the proposed visit of Secretary Bryan to Mexico or what might be the outcome of any inter vention in that country on the part of the United States. He said that when he left Mexico everything w r as as quiet as could be expected under the present conditions. MAY ASK POSTPONEMENT. Despite the fact that Superior Judge L. S. Roan stated everything was in readiness for the trial of Leo M. Frank next Monday, that State’s At torney Hugh M. Dorsey has an nounced he will fight a delay, and that the defense actually commenced sum moning witnesses, the impression stif! prevailed Friday that a motion for continuance would 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 to proceed without introducing some 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. HIS SUGGESTION. “Repeal the prohibition law and you won’t have to worry so much about the finances of the State,” was the emphatic statement made in the House Friday morning by Represen tative C. M. Clark, of Dougherty County. The remark came as an interrup tion in a speech by Representative L. R. Akin during the heated discus sion of the general appropriations bilL It was Clark’s first statement to the House this session. NEW REPUBLIC TOTTERING. MADRID, July 25.—The Portuguese Republic is tottering. The country seethes with the revolutionary spiFit to overthrow the Republican Govern ment and re-establish a monarchy. Travelers from Portugal arriving here to-day say the movement is the best organized since King Manuel was de throned. Troops are being rushed to all points in an effort to check the re bellion, which Government officials consider the most serious since the new form of government was estab lished. ORDERS THEM CLOSED. ZION CITY, ILL., July 25.—The young sports and old ones of Zior. City hereafter will go to bed without rolling their accustomed series of games of Keely pool. The other resi dents of the city will retire without having made their nightly excursion to the moving picture theater. The City Council, controlled by the forces of Oversee? Yoliva, ordered the theater and the poolroom closed. TO FIGHT FRUIT FLY. WASHINGTON. July 25—Secreta ry of Agriculture Houston to-day asked Secretary of the Treasury Mc- Adoo for aid In the fight against *he Mediterranean fruit fly. which men aces California fruit interests. He wants Secretary McAdoo to hold in quarantine all passenger vessels entering California ports that officials may examine luggage for fruit bear ing the fly. FROGS ARE MOVING. PORT CLINTON. OHIO. July 25.— Thousands of frogs are migrating overland from the marshes of Lake Erie and the Portage River to San dusky Bay. In the evenings w’hen they lift up their voices their num bers seem to have been multiplied to millions. They fill the roads and streets and hundreds hop into homes. Nervous women have become more afraid of the clammy little frogs than of the proverbial mice. THREE SUICIDES FOLLOW ELOPEMENT OF THIS GIRL NEW YORK, July 25.—The tragedy of suicides which followed the elope ment of Elsa Schroeder with “Baron** Richard Arkovy, a Hungarian adven turer, culminated to-day when Rob ert W. Schroeder, a retired stock broker, ended his life by gas in the same room where his wife, heart broken over their daughter’s mar riage, also committed suicide with the same gas jet. In 1909 the “Baron” captivated Elsa, then a 19-year-old girl. She had in herited $200,000 from her grandfa ther. Jacob Hoffman, a brewer. De spite her parents’ opposition, Elsa eloped. The “Baron” went through the girl’s fortune in a few' months. She left him to return to her par ents, but in the interval, her mother had taken her life. Arkovy continued in the limelight for a time after his wife had sued him for separation. He was heard of in Monte Carlo and other gambling resorts. Then came the news that in April last he had killed himself with morphine in a London hotel. The suicide of the lather came as a climax to the disasters which fol lowed on the heels of the elopement. TWO DIE AT INITIATION. BIRMINGHAM, July 25.—In the presence of 125 members of the secret fraternal order of Moose, m 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 tho same initiation before them were not injured. After Kenny was seen to be sink ing and before John P. Abbott, pre siding officer, could stop the proceei- ings. Gustin also had t)een fatally in jured. Both men died within five minutes, although the lodge physician, Dr. L. V. Neill, was present ar 1 lent imme diate attention. The ceremony that proved fatal ;s 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. SAYS ASYLUM NEEDS FUNDS. “There are wards in the State San itarium which the public is not al lowed to see on account of the terri ble conditions caused by the failure of the State to appropriate sufficient money to properly care for the in mates," said Representative Henry L. Fullbright of Burke in the House Fri day morning. “The unfortunates who are inmates of Georgia’s Insane Asy lum deserve every care possible, and this appropriation is not too much.” The charges were made during an attack on the Appropriation Commit tee’s recommendations for a half mil lion dollars for the institution, includ ed in the general appropriations bill. Representative Barry Wright and others brought objection to it on the grounds that it was an increase of more than $100,000 of the 1909 appro priation, and an increase of $10,000 over last year. The appropriation as recommended was passed. GIRL DIES FROM BURNS. As a result of severe burns received when her skirts caught fire from a 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. SAY HE ATTACKED GIRL. MACON, July 25.—A dark-skinned man. who says he is the Rev. Adolpn- us Sampson, a Hindu, was arrested here this afternoon on a warrant charging him with attacking the daughter of a minister living at Spread, Ga. The Sheriff of Jefferson County has already arrived to take him to Louisville. He says there is high feeling against the man at Spread. The Rev. Adolnhus was arranging with Dr. W. N. Ainsworth to preach a series of sermons in the latter’s church when arrested. TO EXPLAIN NEW RATES. WASHINGTON, July 25.—Postmas ter General Burleson has been re- quested by the Senate Committee on Post offices and Post Roads to appear before the committee Thursday and explain his order reducing parcel post rates and increasing the maximum size packages to be carried by that service from 11 to 20 pounds. This order is to become effective August 15. Certain members of Congress, in cluding members of the Senate com mittee, are opposed to this new order of the Postmaster General. GEORGIA POSTMASTERS. WASHINGTON. July 25.—Tho President to-day nominated the fol lowing Georgia postmasters; Joseph M. McAfee, Canton. Chero kee County; Annie K. Bunn, Cedar- town. Polk County, and George Dans- t^Jftocdunart^^ HARVESTER with Under at tachment, cuts and throws In In pile* on hArvcoter or windrow. Man and horse cut and shook equal to a corn binder. Sold In mrr State. Price only S3A.09 with fodder Under. .1 I) Home, Haaweil. Colo., wrliea. “Ywr oorn harvester la ail you claim tor It; out, tied and shocked 65 acres mHo. earn and eorn last year.” Testimonial* and catalog froe, showing pictures of harvester. Address PROCESS MFG. CO., De»t. 29, Sallna, KMI,