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VOL. XII. NO. 28. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. By C -?bTo%,i"'c* 2 CENTS.
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STATE FIGHTS M’NAUGHTON LIFE PLEA
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MACON HEIRESS WHO
BREAKS ENGAGEMENT
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THAW PLEADS AGAINST DEPORTATION
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Jacksonville Mayor Starts Probe of Prison
MISS VIOLA JOHNSTON.
Convict Rearrested;
Fugitive Forty Years
ASHEVILLE, Sept. 4.—After being
awav from the State Penitentiary at
Ra'leigh for 40 years, John Chandler
lias been rearrested as an escaped
convict and will be carried back. Dur
ing the 40 years he served two years
on the chaingang of this county un
der an assumed name on a criminal
assault charge.
Chandler was sent to the State Pen
itentiary from Mitchell County 41
years ago to serve ten years for arson.
He escaped aft^r being there just one
year. Chandler admits his identity
and saysj that he $oes not mind going
back.
Child Is Reported
Killed in a Storm
GADSDEN, Sept. 4.—A cyclone
struck Warrenton, a small town In
Marshall Countv, late yesterday even
ing, blowing / 'wn buildings and
causing much damage in the town
and surrounding country.
A report that a child was killed can
not he confirmed, because telephone
communication is still cut off.
At Manchester, ten miles below
Guntersville, large trees were uproot,
ed and blown into the Tennessee
Kiver in such numbers as to Impair
navigation until they drift away.
FourBarrels of Liquor
Found Buried in Field
DURHAM, Sept. 4.—United States
revenue officers while searching tha
iwler farm, three miles from this
found four barrels of liquor
i.urled in a corn field,'containing more
■ Imn 150 gallons.
v . wner could he found and the
iquo■ 1 was seized and poured out on
Me ground. A rumor is abroad that
he owner will claim the liquor and
make ;he State refund the money for
ihe entire amount.
applicants for pensions.
GAINESVILLE, FLA., Sept. -L—
The United States Board of Examin-
;ig Physicians, composed of Doctors
I F. McKinstry, J. M. Dell and J. H.
Tolson, held a meeting here, at which
applicants for pensions from various
.axts'of the State were examined and
passed upon.
Stockade Sentence
For ‘Blind Tigers’
GREENVILLE, Sept. 4.—Circuit
Judge I. W. Bowman, presiding here
in criminal court, threw a bomb in
the ranks of the blind tigers this
morning when he announced from the
bench:
“I wish to put all interested on no
tice that wherever defendants are con
victed, after a fair trial, on the charge
of violating the dispensary law, I will
not impose the alternative sentence
of a fine, but will sentence only to
imprisonment.”
Charleston to Get
Federal Crop Fund
CHARLESTON, Sept. 4.—Charles
ton will soon receive several hundred
thousand d liars of crop fund money
from the Government, the local clear
ing housj committee having passed
i upon collateral submitted by national
| banks here which will handle crop
; money.
Exact figures as to the amount al
lotted Charleston were not made pub-
t lie, but $450,000 is the total unofli-
j dally stated.
Runaway Girl Found;
White Slavery Seen
EUFAULA. Sept. 4.—Esther Ken-
sey, 15, a runaway girl from Colum
bus, was arrested here yesterday and
sent back home to-day in charge of
her brother.
It is« claimed by the police that she
was sent here by a Columbus man,
; whose identity is not revealed. The
girl was .ocated at the home of Claud
Bailey, whose brother is said to be a
| foreman in a Columbus cotton mill
where she worked.
Hobson to Stump
Calhoun County
ANNISTON, Sept. 4.—Captain R.
P. Hobson, candidate for the United
States Senate, will spend Saturday
and Sunday in Calhoun County,
speaking at Anniston, Jacksonville
and Piedmont on Saturday and An
niston Sunday.
He comes here from Talladega.
Next week he will be joined in his
district by members of the Federal
Department of Agr.culture in a dem
onstration tour of the district
Miss Viola Johnston Not To Wed
William H. Felton, Jr.—He
Seeks Solace Abroad.
MACON, Sept. 4.—Miss Viola
Johnston, the 20-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. William Mi'Ewen
Johnston, millionaire leaders of Ma
con society, reputed to be the wealth
iest family in this city, will not mar
ry William H. Felton, Jr., 23-year-
old son of the millionaire president
of the Macon Railway and Light
Company and former Superior Court
judge.
Formal announcement that the en
gagement of the young society leaders
had been broken was made to-day by
their families following the departure
for New York yesterday of young
Felton on a twelve months’ tour of
Europe in search of solace for a shat
tered heart.
This announcement lias set Macon
society aflutter with excitement. Ac
cording to the gossips, young Felton,
just before leaving Macon, confided
to intimate friends that Miss John
ston, who is spending the summer . t
Toxaway, there met a rich New
Yorker, who won her affections and
caused her to tell Felton she did not
love him enough to marry him.
She Breaks the News.
While Miss Johnston was at Tox-
away Felton made two trips there, th^
second one last week, when she broke
the news to him that the engagement
must end. He returned to Macon and
told his father, Judge Felton who
communicated the tidings to mem
bers of the Johnston family. To
day’s announcement was the result of
their conferences.
The engagement of Miss Johnston
to Mr. Felton was announced last
April. The wedding date had been
fixed for October 23. The w'eddlng
plans Included a six months’ honey
moon tour of Europe, for which res
ervations had been made. When
Judge Felton learned that the en
gagement was off, he advised his son
not to abandon his trip to Europe,
but instead to go at once and stay
twice as long as he had planned. Fel
ton immediately went to New York,
sailing yesterday for Europe
Wealthy and Pretty.
Miss .Johnston is a recent debu
tante, and is one of the prettiest and
most attractive members of the
younger society set. She is the only
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William
McEwen Johnston. Mr. Felton is a
Harvard graduate. He is the on ; y
child of Judge W. H. Felton, and,
therefore, the heir to the Felton for
tune, estimated at a million or more
It is generally stated that this was
young Felton’s first Jove affair.
Government Plans
To Set Clocks of
Nation by Wireless
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Jewelers,
railroad officers and others who de
sire to have the correct time to a
fraction of a second may have it
flashed to them by wireless from Ar
lington, Va., providing the city they
live in has a wireless station of any
kind.
The wireless waves from the Gov
ernment station at Arlington are
powerful enough to reach Chicago and
even farther West. Twice a day from
the Arlington station the correct tim
is sent broadcast. It may be caught
with even the simplest amateur wire
less outfit if the machine is tuned to
2,500 meter wave lengths.
As the waves travel at the rate of
about 280,000 miles a second, one need
not worry much about the length of
time it takes the waves to get from
Arlington to him.
Jewelers' National
Organization To Be
Sued as a Trust
FLEEING TO
Pope Pius Again Ill,
Ignores Physicians’
Orders to Take Rest
Special Cable.
ROME, Sept. 4.—Pope Pius X is ill
again. His Holiness is suffering from
a cold accompanied by hoarseness.
Although advised by physicians to
take an absolute rest to-day he in
sisted upon carrying out his engage-
m e n ts, w hi cl) J n c; 1 . t h& reyejjt lug
of a "number of pttgriths at the Vati
can.
Escaped Matteawan Patient Makes
Good Impression on Board
Testing His Sanity.
Prisoner's Charges Lead Mayor to
Launch Investigation of Farm
Management.
Clarke Snaps Fingers
In Face of Tillman
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—Setiato-
■ rial nerves, on the “ragged edge” by
j reasons* of the long tariff debate, al-
j most caused a fight among the Ser.-
I ate Democrats.
| “Pitchfork” Ben Tillman innocent
ly unfolded a letter and began to read
| it as Senator Clarke, of Arizona,
started a tariff address.
Clarke, annoyed at the crackling of
Tillman’s letter, walked over to the
South Carolinian and loudly snapped
his Angers beneath his nose.
Tillman and Clarke glared at each
other for a time, and then Tillman
retire! to the cloak room to finish
perusing his epistle.
Wilson Sends Cheer
To U. S. School Boys
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—A mes
sage from President Wilson ro 9,009,-
000 school boys in the United States,
who will soon take up their fall
studies, was given out at the White
Hoduse.
“My warmest greetings to the bov*»
on their return to school,” wrote the
President. “May the year bring them
every good thing and strengthen them
in all the ideals of their service.”
11th Cavalry Flyer
Dies in 300-ft. Fall
SAN DIEGO, CAL., Sept. 4—Lieu
tenant Ross L. Love, of the army
aviation camp on North Island, was
killed to-day when he lost control of
hi» aeroplane In a glide to earth an I
fell 300 feet.
He had been in the air about 4t
minutes when he started to glide from
a height of 2,000 feet.
Lieutenant Love was member of
i th|* Eleventh Cavalry, Fort Ogle-
I t£r>rpe, Ga. *
U.S. Women to Wear
Trousers of Harem
NEW YORK Sept. 4.—The well-
dressed woman this winter will wear
a skirt that is i jrigned to look pre
cisely like the Turkish trousers of
the women of the harem. Miss
Marian C. Foltz, fashion seput for
one of the city's biggest department
stores, who arrived to-day from Paris,
says it’s all the fault of he Balkan
war.
“No lingerie will be x.orn,” said
Miss Foltz, “tights being the rule. In
fact, it looks as though the petticoat
and fluffy under-things have been
banished forever.”
Travis and Evans
Meet in Golf Play
GARDEN CITY, N. Y., Sept. 4.—
When Walter J. Travis, of New York,
and Chick Evans, of Chicago, teed
up this morning in the third round of
the amateur national golf champion
ship at the Garden City Club, the
crowd was the largest so far this
week.
The other matches. were Thomas
M. Sherman, Utica, vs. J. G. Ander
son, Boston; Archie Reid, St. An
drews, vs. Jerome D. Travers, Upper
Montclair, and Fred Herreshoff, Gar
den City, vs. Parker Whittemore, Bos
ton.
Man, 96, Dies After
Fasting for 55 Days
HARRISBURG, PA., Sept. 4.—Wil
liam Beidleman. aged 96. died to-day
after starving himself for 55 days an<l
18 hours. A tray of delicacies was
beside his bed when he died.
Beidleman was in excellent health
when he suddenly refu»?d to eat. Phy-
.{ siciaris could find mo reason for his
j action.
C^mTICOOK, QUEBEC, Sept. 4 —
Raising the point that he 1? merely a
traveler passing through Canada.
Harry K. Thaw, fugitive from Mattea-
| wan, who Ih fighting deportation, took
the stand before the Immigration De-
! partment board of inquiry to-day and
I promised the Canadian government
j that he would go straight to Detroit,
j Mich., and take his chances of extra-
| dition in the United States it turned
j 'oose here.
I Thaw testified he was en route for
Pittsburg by a roundabout course
| when arrested. He made an excel -
i lent impression as a witness.
W. L. Shurtleff, attorney of record
1 for Tflha h , w«.s peasiin la Ur, saving
believed that' the DoitfirUon gov*?
ment at Ottawa had given orders for
Thaw to be railroaded, and he could
not save him. At noon the inquiry
adjourned until 2 o’clock.
Called “Travesty of Justice.”
Attorneys for Thaw branded the
morning proceedings before the t/bard
as a “travesty on Justice.”
Although Thaw had been warned
by Attorney W. K. McKeown that the
decision of the board probably would
be against him. he was more cheerful
than he had been several hours ear
lier.
Thaw raged in his quarters in the
immigration building, declaring that
representatives of the Immigration
Department and William T. Jerome,
former District Attorney of New
York, were in league to “railroad”
him back to Matteawan.
Shortly before 7 o’clock Thaw re
ceived a message from his mother,
Mrs. William Thaw, which read:
“Keep a brave heart. I am coming to
help you.’’
Thaw is only nine miles from the
United States border. An official ap
proved order for his deportation
would probably find him on Untied
States soil in less than twenty min
utes.
Thaw Fears Kidnaping Plot.
The program of the immigration
authorities is to rush Thaw over the I
line as quickly as a touring cor can
carry him. He will be delivi rofi up
to the Sheriff of the county in which
he finds himself. In the meantime,
Former District Attorney Jerome and
Captain John Layton, a private de
tective who carries a warrant for
Thaw’s arrest on a charge of conspir
acy, together with half a dozen other
private detectives and representatives
of New York State, will keep pace
with the automobile in which Thaw
is deported.
Thaw fears that Jerome’s men will
kidnap him.
Evelyn Now Hopes
Thaw Will Go Free
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-—“If ever a
man deserved freedom, it is Harry
K. Thaw. I have heartfelt sorrow for
him. After all, he is my husband.”
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw made this
statement to-day.
“It is true I have suffered a change
of heart,” she went no. "Two weeks
ago I was praying that Harry might j
be deported and turned over to the j
New York authorities. Now I want
him free. Harry would be a free man
to-day, safe In his home in Pittsburg,
or on hi* way to Europe, if it were
not for his bitterest enemy—alcohol—
and the advice of high-priced lawyers.
No one in the world wishes Harry
better luck than I do. I was afraid
j 1 ut l am not now’. WJiy should I he?
Those who have followed the proceed
ings since Harry got out of Mattea
wan must be convinced he is harm
less. If I could help him I would noi
hesitate a minute In rushing to his
aide.’’ 1 I
JACKSONVILLE. Sept. 4—Rela-
tions between Mayor Van C. Swear
ingen and members of the Board of
Bond Trustees, which have been
strained for many months, have be
come more acute as the result of al
legations contained in a communica
tion sent by the Mayor to the City
Council, together with an affidavit of
W. E. Tippins. of Waycross, telling of
the alleged beating to death of a
negro at the city prison farm. A
probe of the charges of alleged bru
tality of guards has smarted.
“With other members of the com
mittee on officers and police of th.^
City Council, I shall make a thorough
Investigation of the charges of al-
4*nr|«ittr pnetiper* brirm*rds a*L
the city prison farm,” declared Coun
cilman J B. Lucy, chairman of the
committee, today. "We will report
our findings back to the City Council
and if the charges contained In the
affidavit of Tippins be correct there
is no doubt that the Council will take
immediate action.
To Find Tippins First.
“Before proceeding in the matter
it will be necesnary for us to locate
Tippins, which may be a difficult
matter. If he is fn town, however
we will find him. If he has returned
to Wayeross, full facts will be ob
tained from there.
“In taking up this matter I desire
it to be distinctly understood that I
do so in my official capacity and
without prejudice to any interested
parties. I shall call a meeting of
NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—A suit In
equity charging violation of the Sher.
man anti-trust law against the Na
tional Wholesale Jewelers’ Associa
tion, with head offices in Philadel
phia, and comprising 172 of the lead-*
ing jobbing firms of the country, and
the National Association of Manu
facturing ’Jew’elers, with main offices
in Providence, R. I., will be filed hern
to-day by United States District At
torney Snowden Marshall on orders
of Attorney General McReynolds at
Washington.
The charges are that the manufac
turers and jobbers, comprising both
these associations, entered into a se
cret agreement by which the manu
facturers agreed not to sell direct to
the retailer, but to giv«i all business to
the jobbers.
This procedure, it is alleged, has
created a middleman’s profit, which is »
'adfed to the retailing cost of the j
product.
Jim Conley’s Case
To Be Taken Up by
Grand Jury Friday
One of the first cases to face th*'
new Fulton County Grand Jury when
it meets for the second time Friday
will be the charge against Jim Contey.
negro sweeper at -the National Pencil
Factory, as accessory after the fact
In the murder of Mary Phagan.
While nothing has been given out
In this connection by the Solicitor
General's office, it is understood that
Conley’s case will be practically one
of the first to be taken up.
The Grand Jury will meet twice a
week until it disposes of the work be
fore it, which consists to a great ex
tent of misdemeanors and light felon*
cases.
Vice Foes Stage Film
Play in ‘Tenderloin’
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4.—A oom-
puny of twenty “movie” actors said
to he financed by John D. Rockefeller,
the committee »s a*' pow'lbleI Jr - a,ul ,h ** National Vice Commie
Commissioner of Public Works P.
A. Dlgnan, who has charge** of the
prison farm, said in regard to the
alleged brutality to the prisoners that
he had never heard of anything of
the kind at the farm, but would stare
the fullest investigation.
Tippins’ Charges.
Tippins, In his dt ositlon, says he
Is a white man, aged 32; that he wai j
arrested on August 12 for drunken- |
ness while asleep at the Union Depot; (
that he was sent to the farm from
Police Court the next day and was j
compelled to work on the rock pile
and to pull stumps and carry hesvv
stones, despite the fact he was weak
from illness. He was made to re- |
move his clothes at night, he sa /«•, .
and given a dirty blanket, being then !
sion, arrived here to-day to stage a
big moving picture play in New Or
leans tenderloin. The purpose of the
play will be to show the life, of a
white slave from the time she leaves
high school and enters a department
store until she becomes a part of the
underworld.
The first exhibition of the completed
film will be held at Columbia Uni
versity, New York
Pensacola, Hopeful in
Fight for Navy Yard
PENSACOLA, Sept. 4.—Replying
to a telegram from Pensacola in ref
erence to a favorable report of the
naval board of the Pensacola Navy
compelled to sleep on the floor, which I yard, Secretary Josephus Daniels to-
was covered with vermin. On the i day sent the following:
second day, he says, he fainted from j “Report of shore board is under j
exertion and was cursed by a guard, consideration by Senate and House
Hp was also struck on the back with / Naval Committees and by this d«-
a piece of wood, he declares.
Tippins says that a negro, cruelly
beaten by a guar fell to the floo»*
and died shortly thereafter. The body
was carried away, he alleges, and, al
though he will not swear that the ne
gro was murdered, he says that the !
guard disappeared from the camp and i
did not return until after the bun.il [
of the negro.
partment. Department has not yet
determined what recommendations it-
will offer and no definite plans have
yet matured.”
This is considered favorable In view
of the attitude of the Secretary on hfa
visit here and since.
Wreck Brings Many
General John Tench ! Suits ^ Damages
Hurt at Gainesville
GAINESVILLE, FLA., Sept. 4.—
While visiting the municipal plant, in
course of erection here, General John
Tench, a noted Confederate veteran,
was badly injured when a negro
workman threw a scantling from the
tower. It struck General Tench >n
the head, knocking him into a pile of
brick.
Several physicians cared for him at
his residence.
CHESTER, Sept. 4.—A large num
ber of suits for injureJs are being filed
here to-day against the Lancaster
and Chester Railway on account of
the Hooper’s <’re»*k wreck, a few mile3
from here, July 30. when a mixed pas
senger train fell through a 55-foot
trestle, killing four and injuring 58.
ALLEGED ROBBERS ARRESTED.
SUMTER. Sept. 4. S. V. Jaudon
and J. F. Parris, two alleged train
robbers, were arrested here to-day
charged with breaking into cars at
Lanes last night.
Rock Hurled by a
Blast Kills Man
« HESTER, Sept. 4.—A two-pound
rock was hurled 150 yards by a charge
of dynamite at Lenoir, N. (\, yester
day evening and fell upon the head of
Joe Presell, fracturing his skull and
killing him. \
The dynamite had been«r used in
USER, HE
SWEARS
Business Partner of Dead Man
Refutes the Testimony of Two
Thomcsville Citizens.
Impeachment of the testimony of
two citizens of Thomasvtlle, Ga.. giv
en before the Prison Commission
Tuesday in behalf of Dr. W. J. Me-
Naughton, the Emanuel County phy
sician, who is battling for a reprieve
of the death sentence imposed upon
him for the poisoning of Fred Fland
ers. was sought by Attorney A. fc>.
Bradley, of Bwainsboro, Ga., in behalf
of the State Thursday when J. E.
Thompson, a business partner of the
dead man appeared as a witness.
Thompson’s testimony was in di
rect contradiction of that of W. .1
Taylor, a clothier, and A. J Htana-
land, county surveyor of Thomas
County, both of Thomasville, who
swore that Flanders while in them
city took great quantities of drugs
and declared while stirring a glass
of liquid: "This is going to kill m*
some day.”
Thompson declared that he and
his brother, R. N. Thompson, were in
Thomasville at that time with Fland
ers. find that he took medicine but
twice, once for indigestion and again
for a slight headache.
With Him All the Time.
“My brother and 1 were with Fland
ers looking over some timber land,
said Thompson. “We were with him
almost hourly during the three days
that he was there.
“At no time did he complain of
serious illness. Once he said he had
a slight headache and took some
eapudlne, I think. Another time he
had indigestion, and secured some
medicine from a drug store for that
which he took.
“Flanders was always in a good
humor, and seemed to be further from
death than any of us. If he feared
anything of the kind, I am certain
that he would have mentioned It to
me. This was about a month be
fore his death.”
Corroborating Thompson’s state
ment was an aifidavU from his broth
er, which was read in court.
The affidavit sworn to by R. N
Thompson, which was read to the
Prison Commission by Attorney
Bradley, follows in part:
“That Fred Flanders and affim.
and J. E. Thompson formed a co
partnership for purpose of operating
a lumber business near Thomasville
That they went to Thomasville about
April 10, arriving there Saturday
morning, after leaving Covena to
gether.
Appeared in Good Health.
“That Fred Flanders appeared to Or
in good health and made no com
plaint until o nthe evening of the da>
they arrived In Thomasville. That
affiant and Flandeyrs had both lost
some sleep, owing to being up late
about business' affairs on the prevlou.
night. On Saturday evening Flanders
stated he was tired and on Runda.v
morning when they all arose Flanders
stated he was not feeling well, com
plaining of indigestion, and stated n>
would go to a drug store and get sonii-
medicine. When he did that/Flander-
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