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Three Called to Break Down Negro’s Stories
Hatred Against Americans in Cap
ital Stirred by President—Lind
Warned Not to Come.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—
The administration to-day
decided to ignore entirely
the note sent by President
Huerta to the American gov
ernment and to direct Spe
cial Envoy Lind to proceed
to Mexico City without de
lay on his arrival at Vera
Cruz to-night, unless he be
held back by armed force.
‘ The President declines
to be bluffed,” stated a
prominent government offi
cial to-day.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8.—With the
Approval of Provisional President
Huerta, arms were issued to-day to
the students of the National Military
Academy, who yesterday drafted a
resolution praising Huerta for de
claring John Eind, the special Amer
ican envoy, persona non grata to the
Mexican Government.
A number of residents in the Amer
ican colony, who have fortunes in
vested in Mexico, are planning to
make a demonstration Sunday when
protests will be lodged against the
action of President Wilson in sending
a personal representative to Mexico
City and urging that the Mexican
Government be upheld.
Foreign Minister Aldape and other
members of the Cabinet are doing all
in their power to arouse the patriot
ism and enthusiasm of the people
Meetings of young hot bloods, who
are standing up for President Huerta
in his defiance of the Stars and
Stripes, are being encouraged.
Mexican secret service agents have
been detailed to watch every move
ment that Mr. Lind makes here and
the envoy will be under constant sur
veillance.
The newspapers to-day carried
flaming stories of “Yankee interfer
ence," and warned the State Depart
ment to recall Mr, Lind from Vera
Cruz and not allow him to come to
Mexico City.
Direful consequences are, promised
if President Wilson and Secretary
Bryan continue their present course
of trying to nettle the internal af
fairs of Mexico while withholding of
ficial recognition of the Huerta ad
ministration.
All the papers carry warm words of
praise for Huerta and promise that
he will stand line a rock in behalf of
his policy of "Mexicans for Mexican
affairs.” v
United States warships in the har
bor at Vera Cruz were ir. wireless
communication* with the New Hamp
shire. upon which Mr. Lind, is com
ing. and it is expected that the New
Hampshire will reach Vera Cruz about
9 o'clock to-night.
Some Would Ignore Lind.
There was a gathevingvof Cabinet
Ministers and Huerta a Hit-rents n
Congress at the National Palace to
day, at which the existing American-
Mexican .situation was thoroughly
discussed Some are for completely
Ignoring Mr. Lind, while the radicals
in-ist that he shall be expelled un-
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United States Senator Victim of
Pneumonia After Nine Days’
Illness at Capital.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—Senator
Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, died
at 9 o’clock this morning at his apart
ment in the Brighton.
Senator Johnston had been ill for
eight days, suffering from pneumonia.
Senators to Attend Funeral.
As a mark of respect to the memory
of Senator Johnston, the Senate ad
journed almost immediately after as
sembling at noon.
Senator Overman offered a resolu
tion for the appointment of a com
mittee of Senators to take part in
the funeral ceremonies and to accom
pany the body to Birmingham, where
burial is to be made.
The Vice President appointed the
following committee: Senators Bank-
head, of Alabama: Bacon. Overman.
Chamberlain. Hitchcock. Clarke, of
Arkansas; Vardaman. Johnson, Swan
son, Smith, of South Carolina; Thorn
ton, Warren, Bristow, Gal linger, Ca
tron, Bradley and Kenyon.
The funeral party will leave here
to-night, and is expected to reach
Birmingham tO-morrow night. The
funeral will take place Sunday morn
ing.
Senator Joseph Forney Johnston,
of Birmingham, was born in North
Carolina in 1843. He served in the
Confederate army from the begin
ning of the war to its conclusion, and
was wounded four times. He rose
from a private to the rank of captain,
and was frequently mentioned hon
orably for gallant conduct.
Senator Johnston served four years
as Governor of Alabama, before his
election to the Senate in 1907. His
first election to the Senate was to the
unexpired term of Senator E. W.
Pettus, deceased. He was re-elected
in 1909 to his present term.
Senator Johnston’s death at this
time undoubtedly will 1 ring about an
acute potitical crisis in Alabama. His
seat was being contested at the time
of his death by Congressman R. P.
Hobson, and the fight between them
had grown very bitter. It is practi
cally certain that Hobson will not be
permitted, now that Johnston is dead,
to have the succession uncontested.
There has been talk of Congress
man Underwood as a candidate
against Mr. Hobson, and the death of
Senator Johnston likely will revive
that.
His immediate successor will be
named by Governor O’Neal, which
means that Mr. Hobson will not get
the immediate appointment.
He had been in poor health for sev
eral weeks.
Mrs. Johnston was with her hus
band when he died, as well as Forney
Johnston, his son. who arrived from
his home in Birmingham yesterdayr-
Mobile Offers Stevens
To Fill Vacancy.
MOBILE. Aug. 8.—Mobile will ask
Governor O'Neal to appoint State
Senator T. M. Stevens to the vacant
place in the United States Senate,
caused by the death of Senator
Joseph F. Johnston.
Stevens was the O'Neal adminis
tration leader at the last session of
the Alabama Legislature. The man
who will be appointed wil] not be a
candidate for the place at the next
election.
Immediate Election
May Be Necessary.
MONTGOMERY. Aug. 8.—Govern
or O’Neal may be compelled to call
an^xtra session of the Alabama Leg
islature to order an election at once
to fill the vacancy in the United
States Senate, as it Is generally be
lieved at the Capitol here to-day that
under the Seventeenth Amendment to
the Federal Constitution the Gov
ernor has not the power to appoint a
successor to the late Senator J. E.
Johnston, who died in Washington to
day.
B! GAR CREW AS ID
.Model shows basement where body was found; ground floor, where .Jim Conley sat, and second floor, Frank’s office in front,
and in rear machine room, where State says she was killed.
Suffragette, Denied
Liquor and Cigars,
Says U. S. Is Horrid
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 8.—Mrs. Ruth
Grayson, socialist, suffragette ar.d
writer, is angry at the United States
and scoffs at the idea that it is a
free country. In detailing her griev
ance to-day, she said:
“I have just returned from the
United States and intend to unmask
the ridiculous idea that It is a land
of freedom. Ii is a terrible place.
Why, they refused to let me smok?
cigarettes in the hotels and when I
tried to get into the smoking com
partment of a train to smoke a cigar
I was refused.
"But that was not the worst. When
I went ipto a saloon they refused o
serve me at the bar. At a beach re
sort I was reprimanded for not wear
ing stockings. 1 think the United
States with its so-called freedom is
a horrid place.”
Mrs, Gould Against
The High Slit Skirt
CHICAGO, Aug. 8.—Mrs. Edwin
Gould to-day severely criticized pres
ent street attire and one-piece bath
ing suits for women.
“I am not in favor of freak or
suggestive modes,” said Mrs. Gould.
"The extreme slit skirt to which ob
jection has been taken in various
parts of the couiKry is not worn in
New York by any of my friends. Nor
do I know of any one who appears at
bathing beaches in one-piece suits
such as Chicago has forbidden.’
Kansas' Heat Record
108; Missouri's 109
KANSAS CITY. Aug. 8.—Records
for heat were threatened to-day fol
lowing yesterday’s high temperatures,
which exceeded all previous marks in
parts of Kansas.
At Leavenworth the highest mark
reported to-day was 108. At Empo
ria and Ottawa the temperature
reached 107.
Temperatures of 109 were recorded
at Mexico, Mo., and Chickasha, Okla.
Paris Gown Saves
Life of Vanderbilt
LONG BEACH. N. Y., Aug 8.—That
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., had a nar.
row escape from death in the automo
bile accident that claimed the life of
1 S. Osgood Pell and William Laimbeer
because of the fact that he wished to
protect a Parisian gown worn by Mrs.
Pell, became known when he testified
at the inquest.
He would have been in the machine
had he not stopped to secure a linen
duster with which to cover*Mrs. Pell’s
gown.
The rest of the party went on with
out waiting for the couple, who took
another car and followed.
‘Side-Door Pullman'
Improvement Urged
CINCINNATI, Aug. 8.—At the first
day’s session of the annual convention
6f the Intinerant Workers’ Associa
tion to-day a request was formulated
to be presented to the Interstate
Commerce Commission to compel rail
roads to put some modern improve
ments on freight cars.
They say ocean steamships now are
provided with gymnasiums, sun par
lors and golf links; that Pullman cars
have sanitary cups which the porter
provides on request, but that freight
car roads are still as “hard as the
heart of the railroad detective.”
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional showers
Friday and Saturday.
Offers $200 For Old
War Engine's Whistle
DALTON, Aug. 8.—An offer of $200
for the whistle taken from the engine
‘‘General” when it was captured by
Andrews’ Raiders has been made to
James Barry, of Dalton, who dwns
the whistle. He announced recently
that he intended to sell it and give
the money to the orphans’ home at
Decatur.
The offer comes from H. T. Thom
ason, of Clyde, Ohio, who says in his
letter that one of his uncles was a
member of the Federal band that un
dertook to escape u'ith the famous en
gine.
Record Auto Trip Is
Made in Alaska
VALDEZ, Aug. 8.—The first auto
mobile trip from Fairbanks to the
coast was completed to-day when
Robert Sheldon drove his five-pas
senger car into Valdez, having cov
ered the 363 miles in 54 hours, actual
running time.
England Rapidly Is
Besting Demon Rum,
King's Doctor Avers
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON. Aug. 8. In addressing
the International Medical Congress
to-day Sir Thomas Barlow. M. D.,
personal physician to King George
and president of the congress, de
clared that England is rapidly be
coming the most temperate nation In
the world. He declared that the use
of alcohol in the army and navy is
diminishing at a fast rate.
Dr. Beale, of Texas, one of the
American delegates, in speaking of
pellagra, said it cost 3,000 lives in
America in 1912, and that there were
fully 50,000 persons afflicted with the
disease.
Professor Pasteur told the congress
that the use of radium as a cure for
cancer has proven successful and
probably will come into general use.
Farmer's Beans Are
Cooked by Lightning
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—William
Williams, a truck farmer, went out to
gather some string beans for the
family table the other day. Much to
his surprise, he discovered that they
were deliciously cooked.
He thought for a time that he had
out-Burbanked Burbanks, but a little
reflection divulged the reason. In
planting he had placed wires between
the poles, and during a recent storm
lightning struck the wires and cooked
the beans.
Embezzling Governor
Now Is a Swineherd
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
ST. PETERSBURG.' Aug. 8.—An
extraordinary story of the downfall
of a high official in Russia Is told
here to-day. Some time ago the Gov
ernor of the Province of the Don Cos
sacks hired a swineherd for his farm
at Miatopolsk Shortly after the
servants told him ♦hat the new em
ployee made the most extraordinary
statements when he was In a drunken
condition, and used to say that h*
was really Governor of the Don Cos
sacks province.
Investigation showed the guardian
of the pigs eight years ago was Gov
ernor, but had been recalled and senr
to prison for embezzlement.
Ostend Bathing Suits
In U.S.? Goodness, No!
NARRAGANSETT PIER, Aug 8 —
“Any woman who takes surf baths
may for a trifling amount of money
appear to advantage on the beach—an
accomplishment not to be held lightly,
an all women know,’’ says Mrs. Henry
Hutt, former wife of the artist.
“At Ostend. where women go to
the beach in coats, one-piece bathing
suits may be all right, but in Amer
ica, where we lounge so much upon
the beach, they would cause riots.”
Sues Wire Company
For ‘Pert' Telegram
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 8.—II. C. Fur-
s»t«nberg, manager of a business con
cern, is plaintiff in an action in which
he seeks $2,000 damages from the
Western Union Telegraph Company
for the following message, purporting
to be from his landlord, Robert Moser:
“Unless you call at once at our
flat, pay arrears rent, make arrange
ments to take care of damage caused
by your dog, yourself and wife, will
swear out criminal warrant to-mor
row charging you with malicious de
struction of property.”
The company admits transmitting
the message, but denies responsibility.
GOT FLAT FEET? GIT OUT!
NEW YORK, Aug. 8—-Santo Pu-
tarro and his son were ordered de
ported by immigration officials here
because they had flat feet.
PORTUGAL BANISHES ASSASSIN.
LISBON, Aug. 8.—Cunha Neves,
who attempted to assassinate the
Portuguese Premier, to-day was ban
ished for ten years from Portugal.
Shower Routs Heat;
Cool Spell Promised
The heavy downpour of rain late
Thursday afternoon broke up the hot
wave that for the past week has been
causing Atlantans to wish, they were
Polar explorers. Thursday night was
cool, and at 7 o’clock Friday morning
the Government thermometer registered
71 degrees. At 1 o’clock it had climbed
to only 84. about five degrees lower than
at the same time the past several days.
Plenty of cool breezes ami occasional
showers will keep Friday night and Sat
urday comfortable, according to the of
ficial forecast.
Weyler Uses Wailed
Fist in Strike Riots
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian
BARCELONIA. Aug. 8.—Martial j
law was proclaimed here to-day on |
account of violence in the general j
strike.
General Weyler. commander in
Cuba at the time of the Spanish war.
was responsible for the declaration of
martial law.
The attorneys for Leo Frank vigorously assailed
Friday the stories of two of the State’s negro witnesses,
Jim Conley, the accuser of Frank, and Albert McKnight,
who said he saw Frank at the Selig home Saturday aft
ernoon, April 26.
The motorman and conductor of the street car on
which Mary Phagan is believed to have come to town the
day of her death both testified that they knew the girl
and that she was on their car which arrived at Broad
and Hunter streets not before 12 07 o’clock. She
stayed on the car, they said, until the car reached Broad
and Hunter streets, which was about 12:10 o’clock. Con
sequently, it would have been impossible for her to
reach the factory before 12:11 or 12:12 o’clock.
If the testimony of the two street car employees is accurate,
it completely upsets Jim Conley’s story that he saw Mary Phagan
enter the factory before Monteen Stover came in. By the Stover
girl’s own testimony she entered the factory at 12:05 o’clock and
left at 12:10 o'clock. Thus, she had gone by the time the Phagan
girl arrived.
It also serves to destroy the significance of the Stover girl’s
testimony that Frank was absent from his office when she ar
rived there. As Mary Phagan had not yet arrived, according to
the testimony of the street car men, it could hardly be regarded
as a suspicious circumstance that Frank was not in his office, iff
it develops that he really was not. The defense also contends that
Miss Stover, who admits she did not enter the inner office, could,
hav looked through the doorway without seeing Frank.
Witness Refutes McKnight’s Story.
Soon after court reconvened in the afternoon, H. J. Hinchey,
of 391 Peachtree street, manager of the South Atlanta Blowpipe
Company, appeared at the court house under subpena of the de
fense to discredit the story of Albert McKnight. McKnight tes
tified that he was at Frank's home the afternoon of the murder/
and that he saw Frank board a Georgia Avenue car to return to
the factory.
Hinchey stated before he went on the stand that he was rid-
ing in his automobile on Washington street Memorial day and at
2:15 o’clock he saw Frank get off a Washington street car at Wash
ington and Hunter streets when the car was stalled by the parade.
Frank then was on his way to the factory.
Earlier in the day the defense introduced other evidence to
discredit McKnight. Photographs and blue prints of the Selig
home were displayed to show that it would have been practically
impossible for McKnight to see Frank at the sideboard, as the ne
gro testified when he was on the stand.
Photos, Blueprints and Model Introduced.
Photographs and blue prints of the pencil factory also were
put in evidence and in the afternoon a large sized model of the
pencil factory, constructed on a scale of three .eighths of an inch
to the foot was brought into the court room. It was made by T.
H. Willett, a patternmaker, of 100 Highland avenue, and John
Cox, an attache of Reuben Arnold’s office.
The model and blue prints were submitted in an effort to dem
onstrate that the State’s theory of the crime is unreasonable and
preposterous, and to illustrate the theory that the defense holds.
Attorney Arnold, who was conducting the examination during
the forenoon, sought also to throw a deep shadow of suspicion!
upon the story of young George Epps, who testified that he rode
uptown with Mary Phagan the day she was killed.
Matthews said that another girl was seated with Mary the lat
ter part of the ride to town. He did not recollect that Epps was
on the car at all. The motorman said that he was relieved at Broad
and Marietta streets and that he sat behind Mary and her com
panion all the way to Hunter street. He said the two alighted at
Hunter street and proceeded toward Forsyth, on which the factory
is located.
This is in direct contradiction to the story of Epps, who tes-