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ALWAYS FIRST ® ® The SUNDA Y AMERICAN Ord«r ft NOW======= Both Phones Main 100 The Atlanta Georgian. Read for Profit---GEORGIAN WANT ADS---Use for Results South Georgia VOL. XII. NO. 7. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST 11,1913. opyrlght. _ By The Georgian Co. 2 PFVTQ PAY NO MORE Dangles Unconscious in Tree Half Hour Before Being Rescued. Burned, but Will Live. With his mother and hundreds of neighbors looking on and unable to help him, 8-year-old Max Roseberry, son of J. R. Roseberry, of 448 East Georgia avenue, clung to a live wier in the topmost branches of a tree in front of his home for more than a half-hour Monday morning, with thousands of volts of electricity shoot ing through his body. The- child was finally rescued by a street car motorman, who, protected with rubber gloves, climbed the tree and cut. the wire at the risk of en tangling himself. Unconscious the boys was lowered from the tree and placed in the arms of his mother. The little finger of the boy’s right hand was burned completely off. and the third finger was about half gone. He was badly burned on the bottom of the feet, and was so badly shocked that he remained unconscious almost an hour. Dr. W. H. Wright, who amputated two fingers, stated that the boy will live. * The little boy climbed to the top of the tree about 8 o’clock from a small playhouse in the lower branches. The i\ed wires of the Georgia avenue street car line dun through the upper bran hes of the tree, and Max, losing his balance, to save himself, grabbed one of the live wires. He was unable * to let loose. The lad’s screams aroused the neighborhood, and several hundred people gathered. Hordor-stricken at the sight of the child writhing help lessly with his right hand clasping the wire, the men in the crowd tried in even’ conceivable way to get the boy down. Before an electrician could be found or a pair of rubber gloves that would enable someone to rescue him the bey had become unconscious and hung limn and a^oarenth' lifeless. The absence of a pair of rubber gloves prevented the rescue of the child for half an hour, and then a street car came alon? whose motor- man had a pair of rubber gloves. He climbed the tree and cut the wire. Visitors HearSheldon Id Fine Organ Recital More than 2,000 music lovers. In cluding many delegates to the South ern Merchants' Convention, heard Charles A. Sheldon give one of the best organ recitals of the year at the Auditorium Sunday afternoon under the auspices of the Atlanta Music Festival Association. A series of variations on "Old Folks at Home,” with elaborate op eratic and classical selections, formed the feature of the concert. Many con sider Mr. Sheldon at his best in this class of music. His rendition of the old favorite, with the beautiful and difficult variations, was received with acclaim. Isadora Duncan Will Not Quit the Stage Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. PARIS, Aug. 11.—Isadore Duncan has changed her mind about with drawing from the srtage. She will leave soon for South America, where she is under contract. In a letter to a friend she says that for some time she was haunted by the idea of death. At night she saw- visions of three black birds and once she heard the Funeral March of Chopin. She consulted a doctor who told her she was suffering from nerves. He prescribed a tonic. NEVER HAD OWN TEETH. VERSAILLES. KY., Aug. 11.— tieorge Morlev, a farmer, 70 years old, has never had any teeth of his own. When Morley was 3 years old doctors found he would never have natural teeth. Sylvia Pankhurst Captured in Fierce Riot of Militants % LONDON, Aug. 11.—"You women are overstepping the ordinary bounds of lawlessness—you are becoming an archists,’’ said the magistrate in Bow Street Police Court to-day In sentenc ing militant suffragettes who took part in street fighting yesterday when Miss Sylvia Pankhurst led a mob of 10,000 women in an assault upon the residence of Premier Asquith. Sunday’s fighting was the bloodiest of all militant riots. Screaming and struggling with maniacal fury the suf fragettes and their bodyguard of hired dock workers gave the police such a furious contest that more than 50 per sons were hurt. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst had a spe cial bodyguard of men, but her es cort was overpowered and she was taken to Holloway jail. Hope of Early Vote on Tariff Bill Given Up WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—AH pre dictions of an early passage of the Democratic tariff bill by the Senate are going glimmering. Majority lead ers realize that, notwithstanding the fact that they have set a new record In pushing consideration of this meas ure, only a beginning has been made, and the earliest anyone now will promise completion of the task is September 15. Ten days ago. when a member of the Finance Committee Maid he thought the Senate would pass the bill by August 20. there were some who thought it might be possible, but only four schedules have now been con sidered. 36 paragraphs in these hav ing been passed over for future con sideration. Chicago Bakes One Hour, Shivers Next CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Chill winds which brought autumn weather gave Chicago its first real relief from a week of Intense heat to-day. The comparative cold became so severe that much sickness was caused. The temperature standing at 93 at 7 o’clock Saturday evening dropped un til to-day the mercury hovered near 65. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 11.—Cool, clear weather here to-day ended seven days of torturing heat. Crops in Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma still are in danger from the drouth. Temperatures all over Kansas and Missouri were around the 100 mark yesterday. Steeplejack’s Wife Stops a Good Show CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Steeplejack Edmond Von Kaenel lost a $100 wager to-day. He bet with a friend that he could slide head-first down a pair of ropes from the eighth floor of the Reaper Building to the ground. He trid and the ropes failed to work properly. Hundreds of startled per sons In the loop district saw the man high in the air change his position and slide down the ropes feet fore most. Von Kaenel said he would try again for the $100. Mrs. Doris Von Kaenel said he shouldn’t. He didn’t. Diver in Death Battle Kills Giant Devil Fish SEATTLE. Aug. 11.—Walter Mc- Ray, a driver, had a 45-minute fight with a devil fish 85 feet below the surface of the water. McRay every now and then tele phoned the progress of the fight. When he finally gave the signal and was hoisted up the tentacles of the dead fish were around him. He had stabbed it eleven times before he was able to strike It in a vital place. The body of the fish measured nine feet in circumference. Slays Wife While Crazed by Liquor LEXINGTON, Aug. 11.—Report from McGoffin County, Kentucky, to day says Allen Howard, attacked by delirium tremens, after a prolonged spree, shot his wife dead in his frenzy at their home when she tried to quiet him. Howard escaped to the mountains. A posse is in pursuit. FACE NIGHT Hurled Into Store, Explosive Starts Fire Which Destroys Business Section. CASTLEBERRY, ALA., Aug. 11.—A bomb thrown into the Skinner Hard ware Company building here last night demolished that store, and fire which followed destroyed the entire block In which the Skinner store was located. The loss is $50,000, par tially covered by insurance. Early to-day the Sheriff from Greenville and a posse of regular and special deputies arrested a negro, charging him with being the man who placed the bomb in the Skinner building. While the officers claim to have strong evidence against the black man. they have not stated what it is. The feeling against the ac cused is running high, and it Is re ported that the negro has been spir ited away by two deputies to prevent any possibility of a lynching. The buildings destroyed are as fol lows: Skinner Hardware Company, loss $6,000. insurance $3,000; Meach- am & Kirkland drug store, loss $3,000. insurance, $1,500; S. E. Berharn clothing store, loss $3,500. insurance $1 ,000; People’s Bank, all fixtures lost, but vault and valuables saved; House & Balliard barber shop, loss about $500. Mr. Skinner owned all of the build ings destroyed. The offices of the Mayor and «t number of the city offi cials were in the bank building. They lost their office fixtures. Practically all of the residents were attending church when the explosion occurred, and turned out in a body to fieht the fire, their efforts conflnfnr the blaze to the one block. There is no regular fire department In the town. No reason can be assigned for the motive of the person or persons m throwing the bomb into the store, un less it was due to some grudge against some of the occupants. Dancer Slapped by Pavlova Quits Her Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Aug. II.—Novikoff, for merly Pavlova’s cavalier, explaining the Incident Thursday night when Pavlova slapped hls face In view of the audience at the Palace Theater, said: "A few days ago I told Pavlova of the possibility of my being unable to go with her to America owing to the doctor’s advice to take a long rest. Apparently this prospect annoyed her." According to Novikoff. he has de cided to go to Russia and never dance with Pavlova again. Prince Robbed of $25,000 in Jewels Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian. LONDON. Aug. 11.—Jewels valued at more than $25,000 have been stolen from Prince Alexander of Battenberg it was learned to-day. The thieves in some way gained admission to the Prince’s compartment on a train and removed the jewels between Hull and Kensington Palace. Scotland Yard Is conducting a most searching investigation, but thus far no results have been reported. Livery Men Unite to Combat Motor Car ST. LOUIS, Aug. 11—A $280,000 corporation 1b being formed in St. Loula, it is said, to take over practi cally all the undertaking and livery establishments In the city. This amalgamation, it la said, is deemed necessary by the liverymen to avoid further loss to their business from the encroachments of the motor car, which has almost eliminated liv ery rigs as pleasure vehicles, t Assembly Has Only Four Days to Increase Revenue and Re form Tax System. With only four days remaining in which to dispose of many important measures, night sessions of the Leg islature during the coming week not only loom up as a probability, but leaders In the House and Senate re gard them as absolutely Imperative if this session of the General Assembly is to be spared the reputation of hav ing done less real work than any ses sion In the history of the State. Several attempts were made to hold night sessions of the House last week, but each time they were lost in a maze of motions that turned the ef forts into a Joke. It is probable that a motion for a night session of the House last Friday night, made by Slater of Bryan, would have prevailed had not Picquet of Richmond poked fun at the motion and offered as a substitute that the House convene at 12:30 and remain in session until daybreak. Tax Fight in Prospect. A reaumption of the fight for tax reform, defeated In the House by the forces of Sheppard of Sumter and Stovall of Elbert, is expected to en liven the closing days of the session. After a battle that has been more or less in evidence throughout the entire session, and which has had an effect on practically all measures Intro duced, the House passed what Is known as the Sheppard substitute to the original Lipscomb and Ways and Means Committee bill. The substitute Is regarded as ab solutely useless so far as reforming the taxation system of the State is concerned, and it is considered certain that it will be defeated In the Senate. The Senate committee In charge of the bill already has prepared a sub stitute to the Sheppard bill, which provides for a State Tax Commission er instead of only the county boards of the Sheppard bill. Substitute to Crsats Strife. This substitute, when It comes back to the House, is expected to precipi tate a fight as great or even greater than that which developed over the original bill. It is generally under stood that the forces of Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Stovall will fight to the limit any attempt to pass a real tax revi sion measure, and friends of the Sen ate substitute are Just as determined that it shall pass. The House during the closing days of the session also will have an op portunity to pass two administration measures which were defeated last week by the "dry-antl-tax reform combine” Fullbrfrht of Burke secured on Friday a reconsideration of the ac tion of the House in defeating the two bills, which provide for consti tutional amendment* limiting the school levy to 2 1-2 m ! lls and the pen sion levy to 11-2 mills, and it Is tho Intention of the Rules Committee io place them on the calendar for con sideration before the close of the ses sion. Committee to Rush Bills. Akin of Glenn, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and a member of the Rul°s Committee, said Saturday that the committee will en deavor to have them ready for the House either Monday or Tuesday. With the backbone of the combine broken through the efforts of Speak er Burwell, who has been trying throughout the session to put through a program of constructive legislation, indications are that the amendment* will pass and that the people will have an opportunity to vote upon them at the next election. The amendment bills require a two-thirds vote to pass, and lacked only sixteen votes of ob taining the majority when they were defeated. Many of the members of the House have gone to Speaker Bur- well and assured him that they will reverse their vote when the bills are brought up again for consideration. It Is understood that efforts will also be made to obtain a reconstdera tion of the action of the House In de feating Governor Slaton’s bills pro viding for an extra tax levy In 1916 and 1916, and It is thought if the efforts are successful, this bill also will pass. The three bille have been Introduced into the Senate, and it is probable that they will be passed simultaneous ly by both branches of the legisla ture. Whether any more efforts will be made to bring out the Hlxon-Searcy bill, which occasioned one of the most bitter fights of the session in the House last week, is not known. PINKERTON MAN WHO TESTIFIES FOR FRANK . >> - , ■ v : y "T-s*:.••••■’■• . ..: . • •: .: :.*>£.»> N: T: •:• ;■..> v. Indications were strong that the trial of Leo M. Frank, charged with the murder of Mary Phagan, would be in progress from ten days to two weeks longer when the third week began Monday morning. Solicitor Dorsey had not yet completed his cross examination of Herbert O. Schiff, assistant to Frank at the National Pencil factory, when court reconvened. Schiff had made an excellent wit ness for the defense and it had been impossible for the Solicitor’ to make much headway in developing circumstances incriminating to the defendant. Mrs. Jacob Selig, aunt of Leo Frank, was the third woman visitor of his family to the court Monday morning. She had a seat near the prisoner and his mother and wife. Before court convened Frank asked permission to examine the paper model of the National Pencil Company that' ha_ been offered in evidence by the defense. He spent some thirty minutes closely examining this model. Frank was in court early. His wife and mother came in and kissed him, taking seats on either side of him. It was reported around the courtroom that the jury would be taken to visit, the National Pencil Company building. Attor ney Reuben Arnold for the de fense said that he personally | would be very glad for the jury ~ j to make the examination. Solici- South Carolina Governor Sends ^ or j) orsP y 8a j ( j j, e ^id not know whether he would consent. Just before Schiff was recalled to j the stand Mr. Arnold announced that Miss Hattie Hall, stenographer for BLEUSE LAWYERS here nil mm Attorneys to Argue Requisition Before Governor Slaton. L. P. Whitfield, Pinkerton man, who will testify to finding bludgeon and part of a pay envelope behind radiator on first floor of factory. The defense will offer the “finds” to the jury without making any great claims for their importance or genuineness. Abolish City Courts In Butts County JACKSON, Aug 11.—No legislation affecting Butts County has been fol lowed with any greater interest than the bills to abolish the City Courts jf Flovilla and Jackson. From the time the Grand Jury recommended that these courts be abolished there has been a fight made by the friends of the courts. Both of these local ineas* urea have now passed the House an i Senate and are up to Governor Sla ton. Butts is the only county in Georgia with two city courts. Mrs. Oelrichs, Noted Beauty, Under Knife NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 11.—Mrs. Charles DeLoosey Oelrichs. often called the most beautiful woman of Newport, underwent a serious ab dominal operation at the Newport Hospital. Mrs. Oelrichs was stricken sudden ly, and there was alarm in the sum mer colony when the news spread that she was In the hospital. Big Crowds Attend Holiness Meeting JACKSON, Aug. 11—The first Sun day of the ten-day session of the In dian Springs Holiness Camp Meet ing saw one of the largest crowds that has ever attended on this occa sion. It Is estimated that from 500 to 800 automobiles were in line dur ing the oay. By private conveyances and by rail hundreds of others came. Next Sunday, the closing day. an even larger number of people is ex pected. Turner To Be Tried For Life in Butts JACKSON, Aug. U.—On the chary* of being an accomplice in the mur der of Jesse Single)' at Indian Sprint;* two years ago. Alonso Turner will be tried in Butts Superior Court next week. Bill Turner, his father, was executed for this murder in 1911, and his brother is new serving a life sen tence for complicity in It. Refuses Freedom to Go to Wife’s Funeral TERRE HAUTE, IND., Aug. 11 — William Record, who killed Joseph Gilbert, an aged citizen, who had con- ttnued to employ him many years after drinking habits caused separa tion from hls family, refused to leave Jail to attend the funeral of his wife. Hls grown son visited him in Jail. Record said he had not seen'hls wife for five years and did not be lieve he iared to go to her funeral. Given Up to Die at 29, He’s Hale at 101 NEWBURGH, N. Y. Aug. 11.— William T. Osborne, of this city, Just celebrated hls 101st birthday. When Osborne was 29 four doctors told him he was a hopeless consumptive and would not live six months. The four doctors are dead. The centenarian never smoked ot drank and is enjoying perfect health. With attorneys representing the State of South Carolina and attor neys representing the defendant pres ent, Governor John M. Slaton Mon day morning began hearing argument on the requisition papers Issued by Governor Blease for J. J. Zachry, of Augusta, who is charged with kid naping his own child. Georga Rembert, of Columbia, and C. E. Dunbar, of Augusta, represent ing Governor Biease, it is understood, will hold that Judge Gary exceeded his authority in granting to Zachry the custody of the child. Frances, whom he Is charged with kidnaping, and that Zachry violated the law by- taking the child out of South Caro lina. The warrant for non-support is understood to be based on the fact that the custody of the Zachry chil dren rested in Zachry, who, it is al leged. deserted the younger child. Zachry claims that he furnished or tried to furnish funds to Mrs. Zachry for the support of this child. Zachry is represented by C. H. Co hen and Hamilton Phintzy, of Augus ta, and John T. West, of Thompson. The case hae attracted widespread interest, as it involves the first official communication between Governor Slaton and Governor Rlense. Clayton Leads for Senate in Alabama BIRMINGHAM. Auk 11.—Until a late hour last night and starting again at an early hour to-day State poli ticians. Including Governor O’Neul. gathered her** because of the funeral of the late Senator Joseph F. John ston. were in conference as to the mode of procedure in the appoint ment of a successor to the Senator. Early to-day the conclusions were that the Governor has a right to ap point a successor. Congressman Hen ry D. Clayton has the lead. TO OPEN NEW ROAD. JONE8UORO.— The Clayton Coun ty Commissioners have ordered a public road opened at tho Fayette County line, Intersecting with the College Bark road and the road run ning from near Colonel Weavers residence. wide. The road will be 25 feet > Montag Brothers, who was at the factory Saturday. April 26. to take some dictation from Frank, probably would be the next witness. Solicitor Dorsey resumed his cross-examina tion of Schiff. Schiff’t "Darta” Puzzlea Dorsey. Q. Mr. Schiff, of course you don’t know to your personal knowledge that this finance sheet was made up on Saturday?—A. It couldn't hav e been made up before. Q. Why?—A. I had not accumu lated the "darta’’ tdata) Friday, as 1 always did. Q. The what?—A. The data (pro nouncing it as though it were ‘‘darta.’’) Mr. Arnold Interrupted: "He means data." Mr. Dorsey aaid he didn’t know whether Schiff meant data or some sort of sheet he was accustomed to making out. # CJ. Couldn’t you take the data gaih ered by Miss Eula May Flowers and the others and have gotten up this sheet?—A. I think I might have. Frank Not an Expert, He Saye. % <4. You haven’t made up one since Frank left?—A. No: simply because wo have not had time. Q. Don’t you consider him an ex pert?—A. I do not. The defense planned to continue its determined attack against the stor> and accusations of Jim Conley after Schiff left the stand. By some of the State’s witnesses, as well as its own. it had shown that the negro either had withheld or lied about many of the details even after ho had made his third affidavit, in which he ac cused Frank directly and made him self an accessory after the fact. A dozen other witnesses will be called within the next two days to throw the light even more strongly on the probability that the negro even now Is telling a story that is far from the truth. Amnog the witnesses will be newspaper men who talked with Conley after he had made hls third and last affidavit. Said He Didn’t See Girl. To them he Is said to have de nied that he saw Mary Phagan enter the factory ihe day of the crime or that he heard a girl’s scream while he was sitting at hls post near the stairs on the first floor. When he was placed on the stcuui 4 * s' >