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THE ATLANTA 0FORCJTAN AND NEWS.
SEI JOHNSTON
IS DEAD
United States Senator Victim of
Pneumonia After Nine Days’
Illness at Capital.
WASHINGTON. Auk. 8 Senator
Joseph F. Johnston, of Alabama, died
at 8 o'clock this morning at his apart
ment in the Brighton.
Senator Johnston had been Hi for
eight days, suffering from pneumonia.
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 Hank-
head, of Alabama: Bacon. Overman.
Chamberlain, Hitchcock, t’iarke, of
Arkansas; Vardaman, Johnson, Swan
son, Smith, of South Carolina; Thnrn ;
ton, Warren, Bristow, Galllnger, 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, ami
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 190c His
first election to the Senate was to the
unexpired term of Senator K. W.
Pettus, deceased. He was re-elected
in 1909 to his present teem.
Senator Johnston's death at this
time undoubtedly will ring about an
acute political crisis in Alabama. His
seat was being contested at the time
of ills death by Congressman R. F.
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 uneontested.
There has been taof Congress
man t'nderwood as a candidate
against Mr. Hobson, and the death of
Senator Johnston likely will revive
that.
His Immediate successor will he
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, hts son, who arrived from
his home In Birmingham yesterday.
Mobile Offers Stevens
To Fill Vacancy.
MOBILE, Aug. 8.—‘Mobile will asl:
Governor O’Neal to appoint Stat<
Senator T M. Stevens to the vacant
place In the t inted 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 nun
who will be appointed wtl] not be a
candidate for the place at the next
election.
Immediate Election
May Be Necessary.
MONTGOMERY. Auk. 8.—Govern
or O’Neal may be compelled to call
an extra 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 n«>t the power to appoint a
•uceessor to the late Senator .1. E.
Johnston, who died in Washington to
day.
THE PLAY
THIS WEEK
At the Grand.
Pictures at the Grand are becoming
more and more popular every day. Com
mencing next Monday, the policy will
be to present pictures daily from 2:30
until 10:30, with complete new programs
each day. at 10 cents admission for
the best seats, and children at half
price.
Forsyth Bill Pleasei.
Every performance this week at the
Forsyth has at tract ed almost the hold
ing capacity in the busy theater. While
it is a fact that the show is without a
headliner or a feature that may have
been advertised, it is nevertheless a
combination of pleasing talent that has
wen applause from every gathering
Next week’s star will be Ralph Herz,
the musical comedy character coined an.
who has been a late star with "Dr 1 »u
luth," and wh<» was on** of the bin tea
tuns with ’Madame Sherry** and "The
Charity Girl.”
At the Bijou.
“Along the Pike" is drawing the big
gest audiences of the season to the
Bijou this week The attraction has
made good beyond the expectations of
the management.
The Bijou will close its doors on Sat
urday f<>r two weeks, during which time
the i aimers will overhaul the little
thcut« r, preparatory to the opening of
the fail season on August 25.
Freddy Film
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CUE. REBUKED,
Dan Carey, General Manager of
Parks, declared Friday that factional
ism in the Park Board had reached
such a degree that the exploitation or
nny new ideas absolutely was pre
vented and that he was serving hlf
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
on 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 Ft. 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.
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 Presl
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 Jje 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.
Commissioners Frank Reynolds,
William Van Houten and Councilman
Sam Shepard stoutly defended Man
ager Carey, but they were outvoted.
What the Charges Are.
Here are the specific charges
brought by President Cochran against
Manager Carey:
That the board appropriated $200
to remove the Ersklne fountain to
Grant Park and that Manager Carey
spent $600 on it.
That negligence resulted in $22 de
murrage collected on cars of stone
one time and $17 another.
That he has given contracts for
$800 for underground wiring of Pied
mont Park, and that all of these ex
penditures were contracted for with
out the knowledge or consent of the
board.
Manager Carey explained that the
wiring contracts w*ere made as a re
sult of a misunderstanding between
himself and City Electrician R. C.
Turner. •
MEDICAL HE IS
PASSED
E
After a bitter fight in which Rep
resentative Wohlwender, of Musco
gee, charged under influence by ad
vocates of the measure, the House
of Represcnatives Friday morning
passed the Garlington medical bill,
known as the medical practices act,
by a vote of 121 to 3, amended so as
t prevent the members of the allo
pathic school of medicine having a
majority or the proposed State Board
of Medical Examiners. The original
bill provided for a board o; five
allopaths, two eclectics and one
homeopath.
The original bill, it was alleged by
its opponents, was drawn by repre
sentatives of the American jV^edtcal
Association, referred to on the floor
of the House as the "medical trust."
It was favorably reported by the
committee, and a minority report
condemning the bill was offered ny
R % J. Arnold, of Hcmry County, a
member of the Hygiene and Sanita
tion Committee.
Chairman Breaks Tie.
Representative Hardeman, of Jef
ferson, who occupyed the Speaker's
chair during the early part of the
consideration of the bill, broke a fie
vote on the amendment of Conner of
Spalding to add two more members
to the eight provided by the original
bill. The chairman's vote carried the
amendment.
The bill as amended and passed
provides for a State board to con
sist of five allopaths, three eclectics
and two homeopaths, thus prevent
ing any arbitrary ruling based on dis
like of any school of medicine, save
through a combination that It is
thought impossible to effect. The
amended bill was approved by both
factions.
The bill will raise the standard of
physicians In Georgia.
40 per cent. It provides that appli
cants for licenses as practicing phy
sicians must have attended a recog
nized school of medicine for four
terms of eight months each, whereas
the old laws required only three terms
of seven months each.
Christian Scientists Not Barred.
Prior to the discussion of the bill
the impression was that it would bar
Christian Scientists and mental heal
ers. An amendment was Introduced
by McCarthy, of Chatham, providing
for this school of healing, but it
was lost. The bill, however, takes
ca roof them In the following language:
"The provisions of this bill shall not
be construed as to interfere with the
practices and beliefs of any religious
sect, nor with the practice of osteo
paths."
Garlington, of Richmond, the author
of the Mu, asserted that the minority
report submitted by Arnold, of Henry,
was drawn by physicians opposed to
the passage of the bill.
Wohlwender, of Muscogee, declared
the methods of the advocates of the
bill were the worst he ever had seen
in his experience as a member of the
Legislature. He declared thej had
endeavored to reach him through the
medium of his own family physician.
Girl Accuses Rich
Fiance of Slaying
CLINTON. KY, Aug 8.—May
Copeland, held here at the confessed
slayer of her brother-in-law, Hugh
Atkinson, at Bard well, to-day startled
the Jail authorities by making an
other confession, saying the killing
was done by Lucien Turk, the w ealthy
fiance of the Copeland girl. Turk is
being held at Paducah as an acces
sory.
In her statement to the police here
the girl said that Turk killed her
brother-in-law because Atkinson, ac
cording to May Copeland’s admission
to him. had wronged her. J. W. Turk,
her flance’fc father, the girl said,
promised to give her $20,000 if she
would confess the killing herself, and
pay attorneys who would obtain her
freedom under an unwritten law pleft.
Anti-Drug Bill Is
Defeated in House
The drug bill introduced in the
House by Mr. Shuptrine of Chatham
County, designed to regulate the s;’le
of cocaine, morphine and other nar
cotics, was deefated by a vote of 85
to 71.
The bill provided that no druggist
shall sell any of the drugs named in
the act without a physician’s pre
scription. and that each druggist pay
$10 a year license. The biil also cre
ated the office of State Drug Com
missioner, and provided for drug in
spectors.
Mr. Shuptrine declared that the use
of cocaine and morphine is greatly
increasing In Georgia and should ae
regulated.
Accounting by Phone
Companies Ordered
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—To com
plete Its investigation of the tele
phone situation throughout the
United States, the Interstate Com
merce Commission to-day ordered
telephone concerns doing an Inter
state business to furnish the Com
mission with a history of their busi
ness affairs.
The total number of shares of
stock, par value of each share, divi
dends paid, ownership of one com
pany bv another, capital and surplus
is called for in a circular which will
be sent to each company by the
Commission.
Jails Husband for
False Teeth Theft
FORSYTH, Aug. 8.—The limit in
stealing has been reached in Monroe.
A negro woman of this county has
had a warrant sworn out for her hus
band charging him with stealing her
false teeth.
Alabama Double of
Croker Not Boasting
ANNISTON. Aug. 8.—Anniston,
which has bflcome famous for its
doubles, having a man who looks like
Roosevelt, one who looks like Wilson
and a double of Napoleon In the per
son of State Senator T. E. Kilby, has
•till another in Dr. J. Q. Dixon, who
admitted that he had frequently been
taken for Andrew Carnegie, the late
King Edward of England and Richard
Croker.
He said he was willing to plead
guijty to the likeness of all except
Croker.
Lady Sackville's
Daughter to Wed
LONDON. Aug 8. The Honorable
Victoria Mary Sackville-West, whose
engagement to Harold Nicholson, an
attache of the British embassy at
Constantinople. ha* been announced,
is the daughter of Lady Sackville,
who recently won a clear title to the
vast fortune of Sir John Murray
Scott.
Miss Sackville-West Is the only
child of Lord and Lady Sackville and
she will succeed to the Scott fortune.
FAIR DODD
General Agent
Bonds and Liability Insurance
328-9 GRANT BUILDING
SEMI-ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the six months ending June 30, 1913, of the condition of the
Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Co.
OF BOSTON, MASS.
Organized under the laws of the State of Massachusetts, made to the
Governor of the State of Georgia, in pursuance of the laws of said State.
Principal office—77-85 State street.
I. CAPITAL STOCK.
Whole amount of capital stock $1,000,000.00
II. ASSETS.
Total assets of the company, actual cash market value .. $3,353,300.95
III. LIABILITIES.
Total liabilities $3,353,300.95
IV. INCOME DURING THE FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE YEAR 1913.
Total income actually received during the first six months
in cash $1,291,982.00
V. EXPENDITURES DURING TH E FIRST SIX MONTHS OF THE
YEAR 1913.
Total expenditures during the first six months of the year
in cash $1,135,049.31
A copy of the act of incorporation, duly certified, is of file lfi the
office of the Insurance Commissioner.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS—County of Suffolk.
Personally appeared before the undersigned C. W. Fletcher, who, be
ing duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the comptroller and as
sistant treasurer of the Massachusetts Bonding and Insurance Company,
and that the foregoing statement is correct and true.
C. W. FLETCHER. Comptroller and Asst. Treas.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of July, 1913.
MARTIN J. COCHRANE, Notary Public.
Name of State Agent FAIR DODD.
Name of Agent at Atlanta FAIR DODD.
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Noted Alabama Editor Stricken
Suddenly at Country Home
Near Montgomery.
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Aug 8.—
From an attack of acute Indigestion,
Major William Wallace Screws, the
veteran editor of The Montgomery
Advertiser, died suddenly Thursday
night at his country home in Coosada,
fourteen miles from Montgomery.
Major Screws was 74 years old, and
while his health had not been very
good for several months, his death
was unexpected. With him at the
time of his death were his two sons,
Benjamin Screws and Holt Screws,
and his wife.
“The most beloved man in Ala
bama.” was a title often given Major
Screws, who despite the many bitter
political fights he entered, alw r ays
held the highest respect of both sides.
He became connected with The Ad
vertiser shortly after the war, and in
a short while became sole owner of
the paper. A few years later he sold
half interest in the paper to Frank
P. Glass, and under their combined
directorship The Advertiser pro
gressed to one of the foremost morn
ing papers in the South.
Major Screws was born February
25, 1839, in Barbour County, Alabama
and attended school at Glennville. In
1859 he took up the study of law
with the famous law firm of Watts,
Judge and Jackson in Montgomery
and was admitted to the bar in 1850
at the age of 20 years.
Though opposed to secession, Major
Screws fought for his State, and went
with the first troops to Pensacola.
There he participated in the capture
of Fort Barancas. He fought
throughout the entire war, being
captured in Virginia during the last
few weeks of the struggle. He acted
as correspondent for The Advertiser
for the four years of the great strug
gle.
He held many offices of honor and
was a prominent Mason, being grand
high priest, Grand Chapter Royal
Arch Mpsons of Alabama. He was
Secretary of State for Alabama from
1878 to 1882, postmaster at Montgom
ery from 1893 to 1897, served a term
as president of the National Editorial
Association, and was connected In
an official capacity with many other
large associations.
Despite his years, Major Screws had
retained a perfect control of his facul
ties, and until recently his physical
condition was of the best.
Funeral arrangements have not
been made yet.
$9 FIFTEEN-DAY
TICKETS
Wrightsville Beach, Saturday,
August 16th. Make reservations
early. Seaboard.
Fowls Socialistic;
3 Kinds Share Nest
FORSYTH, Aug 8.—A guinea nest
is supposed to be hard to find, but a
resident of Dlllars, this bounty, while
walking through a patch of woods
found a nest which is shared in true
communistic style by a guinea, a
hen and a partridge. At the time
the discovery was made there were
three partridge, two guinea and six
hen eggs in the nest.
What hours had been agreed upon
by the sharers of the nest during
which they are to keep house is un
known.
Nine Ears to Stalk
In Forsyth Cornfield
FORSYTH, Aug. 8.—Nine ears of
corn to a stalk Is most unusual, but
Jesse Childs, of near Rogers Church,
in this county, is exhibiting around
Forsyth a stalk on which there ure
nine well-matured ears
He planted a prolific variety of
corn, and claims that whll he has
discovered no other stalk on which
there are nine ears, six ears, and even
seven, to the stalk are not unusual in
his field. This corn was raised on
thin upland soil.
FIRE LADDIES ON VACATION,
DALTON, Aug. x.—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.
75 Canning Clubs to
Feature State Fair
MACON, Aug. 8.—Tile first annual
assembly of the girls und boys of
the 75 County Canning Clubs of the
State will be held here on October 27
and 28 as one of the special features
of the Georgia State Fair. Not only
will exhibits be made of the fruits
and vegetables canned during the sea
son, but actual demonstrations will be
given by each of the clubs, under the
direction of Miss Mary Oesweli. of
the Sta r College of Agriculture. Over
700 boys and girls are expected to at
tend.
The State fair has announced a lib
eral award of prizes.
Stage Ambitions of
2 Youths Shattered
Recorder Pro Tern. Preston Friday
morning wrecked the stage ambi
tions of Joe Welch, of Center Hill,
and Garland Hensley, of Fort Me-
Pherson, when he .'.dvised them iO
give up their ideas of' show life and
“go on and work for a living.
The two boys were found early
Friday asleep in a box car in th*
Southern Railway yards. They ex
plained they were out Thursday
night at a rehearsal for a show and
staved too late to catch a car home.
Judge Preston dismissed the cases.
Railroad Travel’s Greatest Peri}
Is the Open Switch
The toll of lives taken each year by this ever-present danger has
been enormous.
For years the Inventive genius at the command of every great
railroad system has been devoted to solving this question.
The question has been solved. The danger has been removed.
The open switch is closed. The Shepherd Automatic Switch Com
pany has answered the problem. Its safety device has removed the
peril from the open switch as thoroughly as the removal of a ser
pent’s fangs destroys his sting.
By a non-electrical mechanical device the main line is closed as
soon as the last truck of a car has crossed the switch. It can be
opened when the engineer throws a lever on entering the siding.
The danger of open and split switches is absolutely eliminated.
As a time-saver this device will remove from a third to a half of the
number of stops and operations of switchmen in taking and leaving
siding.
The value of the Shepherd Automatic Switch will be shown by a
special demonstration to-morrow (Saturday), August 9, at 3 p. m., on
a spur track of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, at the Atlanta
Manufacturing Supply Company’s shop in Oakland City, on the East
Point car line.
The public is urged to view the practical demonstration of this
wonderful invention.
Detailed information as to the Shepherd Automatic Switch will
be gladly furnished by W. R. Green, at the Aragon Hotel, oi W. C.
Warfield, 706 Fourth National Bank Building.
Remember, the demonstration begins promptly at 3 p. m. to
morrow at Oakland City.
Take East Point car.
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