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VOL. XU. NO. 5.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1913.
Copyrlrht. 1906,
By The Georgian Co.
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South Georgia
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.
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 bring about an
acute political crisis in Alabama. His
seat was being contested at the time
of his death by Congressman R. Pr
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 yesterday.
Mrs. Susie Wright
Dies While on Visit
FORSYTH, Aug. 8.—News has
reached here of the death of Mrs.
Susie Wright, of Macon, widow
of Dr. W. P. Wright, of Barnes-
ville, which occurred while she was
visiting at the home of her brother,
Mr. Ben Manry at Goggansville, in
this county. Mrs. Wright was ill only
a few hours.
Mrs. Wright is survived by two
sons, W. P. Wright, who is an edito
rial writer on The New York Herald,
and Dupont Wright, night editor of
The Rome Tribune-Herald, and one
daughter.
The funeral was held from the
Manry residence yesterday.
Queen Mary Stops
‘ Gambling at Court
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
LONDON, Aug. 8.—The gambling
lid is on at Buckingham Palace. The
quiet little games with which the
servants were wont to while away
their time and spare farthings are no
more. As a result, grumblings are
loud and frequpent. This is due to
rules issued by Queen Mary, whose
nntt-gambling views are well known
in court circles.
A strike of all the servants at the
palace was narrowly averted a few
days ago when the Queen decided to
permit the servants to draw lota to
see who shall accompany her on the
royal yacht.
Man, 81, Has Kept
Diary For 59 Years
SPOKANE. Aug. 8.—Henry Bal-
nger, an old-time resident of Coeur
d’Alene. Idaho, a man close to eighty-
„one years of age, to-day offers a
Challenge to the world for having
kept a diary continuously for the
longest period of time.
His record reaches- a short while
over fifty-nine years.
Pigs Gorge Candy
As Children Envy
CINCINNATI, Aug:. 8.—The Refuge
Home Farm, a municipal charity for
homeless children, has a fine lot of
thoroughbred pigs, which are to be
gorged daily with chocolates and
other choice confectionery, as a result
of recent raids by the food Inspection
division of the Health Department.
To-day the refuge farm wagon cart
ed to the farm for their delectation,
nearly 1,500 pounds of milk choco
lates. 3,000 pounds of peanuts, 850
pounds of shelled cocoanuts, 15 barrels
of sugar and about 20 barrels of other
odds and ends, including flavoring ex
tracts used in making candy. The 5 *
represented some of the condemna
tions made at several candy factories
last week.
Chicken Frying Race
By Congress Wives
WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. — The
mooted question, “Who is the best
chicken fryer in the Congressional
set?” will be fought out by two ot
the dealers, Mrs. Champ Clark and
Mm William A. Cullop, wife of Rep
resentative Cullop of Indiana.
Mrs. Cullop will celebrate her fif
tieth wedding anniversary with the
contest In her apartment. Each con
testant w ill fry a chicken according to
her pet recipe.
It is understood that Speaker Clark,
Senator Tillman and other Congress
men have applied for the position of
Judges.
‘Side-Door Pullman’
Improvement Urged
CINCINNATI, Aug. 8.—At the first
day's" session of the annual convention
of 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.”
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.
Ostend Bathing Suits
InU.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,
as» all women know,” says Mrs. Henry
Hutt, former wife of the artttft.
“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.”
Town’s Water So Bad
Court Lifts Beer Lid
PITTSBURG, KANS., Aug. 8.—The
water is so bad in Chapman, a mining
camp near here, that beer Is used in
its place, and the people are so gen
erous they give the substitute away.
A Girard man accused of selling
“spiked'’ cider was freed on the theory
that one man's word is as good as
another's. These incidents were
brought out in Crawford County
courts
Record Anto 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.
Park Manager Scores Chief and
Factionalism — Says He Is
Serving Last Term.
Dan Carey, General Manager of
Parks, declared Friday that factional
ism in the Park Board had reached
such a degree that the exploitation or
any new ideas absolutely was pre
vented and that he was serving his
last term under such conditions.
Authentic reports from the faction
opposed to him are that plans are
being made to drop him at the end
of his term. January 1, 1915.
The old-time factionalism reached
an acute stage at a meeting Thursday
afternoon because Manager Carey had
not consulted President J. O. Cochran
about contracts for an underground
conduit for the lighting of Piedmont
Park.
Board Censures Mr. Carey.
President Cochran, with the bal
ance of power in the board, has been
supporting Manager Carey. But when
Manager Carey took action on his
own initiative he switched to the
anti-Carey faction led by M. B.
Young and R. A. Burnett and resolu
tions were adopted by a vote of 9 to
3 reprimanding Mr. Carey for mak
ing contracts without consulting the
board.
Immediately Manager Carey devel
oped the fact that President Cochran
had been making contracts without
the approval of the board. One re
lated to a bill for $26 for automobile
hire from Atlanta to Lithonla.
President Cochran said that C. F.
Blount, a wranlte dealer, has prom
ised to pay for the automobile as soon
as the department gave him contracts
for 2,000 tons of stone.
Tangle Over “Loaned Stone.”
Manager Carey also asked the board
to straighten out an agreement be
tween President Cochran and Engi
neer Nym Hurt, of the City Construc
tion Department, about some crushed
stone. Manager Carey said the min
utes of the board showed that Presi
dent Cochran had represented to the
board that the stone had been given,
while Mr. Hurt claims that It was
only loaned and he wanted It back.
President Cochran said he under
stood that the stone had been loaned,
and if he had represented that it had
been given to the department he had
made a mistake.
“It seems that a member of the
board can do anything, but anything
the General Manager does is wrong,”
said Mr. Carey.
Germany Decides to
Exhibit at Canal Fair
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georglan-
BERLIN, Aug. 8.—Assurances were
given to-day from a source close to
the Government that Germany will not
be biased by England’s action in re
fusing to exhibit at the Panama Ex
position, but will have representation.
A number of German manufactur
ers have agreed to take part on the
ground that It will be a good adver
tisement for German goods.
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.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Occasional showers
Friday and Saturday.
MAN WHO SAYS NEGRO JIM CONLEY
j CONFESSEDSLAYINGOF LITTLE GIRL
Paris Gown Saves
Life of Vanderbilt
MILWAUKEE. Aug. 8.—II. C. Fur-
W. H. Mincey,
the country
school-teacher
on whom the
Frank defense
depends, in a
measure, to
turn the sus
picion of guilt
of the Phagan
slaying to Jim
Conley.
Mincey says
the negro, on
the day of the
slaying, told
him he had
killed a girl.
This sketch
from life of
Mincey is by
P. A. Carter,
Georgiam artist.
Sues Wire Company
For ‘Pert’ Telegram
utenberg, 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.
HOBSON WANTS IT ALL DRY.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—A Consti
tutional amendment prohibiting the
sale of all alcoholic beverages was
proposed in a resolution Introduced
to-day by Representative Richmond
Pearson Hobaon of Alabama.
France Threatens
Trouble With Italy
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Aug. 8.—According to to
day’s ia«ue of the newspaper Temps,
France will reopen the question of
the delimitation of Southern Albania
unless Italy relinquishes the Turkish
Islands seised during the war in
Tripoli.
NEW GOLDFIELD FOUND.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. ,
ANTWERP, Aug. 8.—A goldfield of j
exceptional richness has been discov
ered in the southern part of the
Province of Katanga, in the Belgian
Congo. Samples are declared to yield
fin ounce of gold to the ton. . .
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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
S. Osgood Pell and William Laimbeer
because of the fact that he wished to
protect a Parisian gown worn by Mn>.
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.
BAPTIZE 21 IN PRISON.
KANSAS CITY. Aug 8.—Twenty-
three convicts in the Kansas peniten-
i tiary were baptized in the prison
lawndrv to-day -after professing re-
l ligion at revival services.
Another attack on Jim Conley’s story was contemplated by
Leo Frank’s attorneys when court reopened Friday morning. It
was announced that the defense during the day again would exer
cise the privilege of recalling and cross-examining several of the
State’s witnesses as it had done with Harry Scott Thursday after
noon.
The defense sprang a complete surprise Friday by calling
Miss Daisy Hopkins, the girl mentioned in the stories of Jim Con
ley and C. B. Dalton. Dalton had testified that he visited the fac
tory with Miss Hopkins and Conley had sworn that he saw Dalton
and the girl enter the place and had “watched” for them.
Miss Hopkins is a woman of very small features, with bright,
keen eyes and wore a cotton striped dress that looked a bit tool
short. She wore white shoes and stockings. Mr. Arnold began
the questioning:
Q. Did you ever work for the National Pencil Company?—A.
Yes, I went to work there about October 1, 1911, and quit June 1,
1912.
Q. What department?—A. Packing department.
Q. What floor?—A. Second floor.
Q. How many other girls worked there?—A. Sometimes there
l were as many as ten.
Q. Did you know Leo M. Frank?—A. I knew him when I saw
him. I saw him pass around the factory.
Q. Did he ever speak to you?—A. No, never in my life.
I
Huerta Trying to
RouseS, America
Against Uncle Sam
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 8.—Despite
the optimistic belief in Washington
that Provisional President Huerta Is
posing in his defiance of the United
States, there were developments here
to-day which show that the Mexican
national executive is exerting every
diplomatic agency in a campaign
against the American Government.
Huerta’s envoys in the Central
American States are attempting to
work up the Latin-American Govern
ments with declarations that the
United States has designs on all ter
ritory lying north of the Panama
Canal.
Diplomatic bureaus, aside from the
regularly accredited plenipotentiaries,
have been opened in London and
Pari*.
Embezzling Governor
Now 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 Coa-
sackw hired a swineherd for his farm
at Miatopolsk. Shortly after the
servants told him that the new em
ployee made the most extraordinary
statements when he was In a drunken
condition, and used to say that he
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.
Mrs. Gould Against
The High Slit Skirt
CHICAGO, AUK 8.—Mrs. Edwin
Gould to-day severely criticized pres
ent street attire and one-piece bath-
ins 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 tile country 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.”
FIRE LADDIES ON VACATION.
DALTON, Aug. 8.—Sixteen members
of the Dalton fire department, headed by
Chief W. H. Perry, left here Thursday
afternoon for Tampa, Fla., on their an
nual two weeks’ outing.
Denies Drinking in Frank's Office.
Q. Did you ever go into Frank’s
oflice and drink beer and cold drinks
with other women?—A. No, I never
went into his office and I don’t drink.
Q. Do you know C. B. Dalton?—A.
I know him when I see him.
Q. Did you ever speak to him?—A.
I went to his home once to see his
sister and spoke to him. That is the
only time.
Q. Did you ever go to the pencil
factory with Dalton?—A. No, I never
did.
Q. Did you introduce him to Mr.
Frank?—A. No, I did not.
Q. Did you ever go into the factory
and go into the basement with Dal
ton?—A. No, I don’t even know where
the basement is. I never have been
in it.
Scott’s testimony showed up the
"confessions" of the negro in a pe
culiar light.
The detective, questioned by Luth
er Rosser, told the Jury that Conley,
when he "had told everything,” when
he had accused Frank of the killing
and had made himself an accessory
after the fact by declaring that ha
assisted in the disposal of the body;
when every motive for holding any
thing back had been swept away by
his third affidavit, still denied to
him (Scott) many of the alleged cir
cumstances to which he testified
while he was on the stand the first
three days of the week.
It will be the contention of the
defense that these many additions to
Conley’s tale, inasmuch as all rea
son for concealing them had passed
after Conley had come out with his
accusations against Frank and hts
confession of his own part in the
crime, are pure fabrications of tbo
black man’s imagination, as are the
other details of his tale.
Scott said that he had grilled and
badgered Conley reepatedly about
seeing Mary Phagan enter the fac
tory. Even after the negro had made
all his incriminating statements, ne
steadfastly denied seeing the girl
victim go up the stairs to the sec
ond floor.
Denied He Had Seen Purse.
He denied also to Scott, the dete
tive said, that he ever had seen the
girl’s mesh bag or parasol, or that
he ever had heard a girl’s scream
while he was sitting on the first
floor. He told the detectives that ho
did not see Lemmie Quinn or Mon-
teen Stover enter the factory, al
though he later declared he had seen
them both and so testified on the
stand.
Conley said on the stand when he
was questioned by Rosser that ha
thought he ad told all these things
to Scott and John Black while he,
was making his third and final affi
davit. Scott was caUeu ip testify.
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