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ex: FRA The Atlanta Georgian Iced for Profit---GEORGlAll WANT ADS---Usc for Hesult3 ALABAMA EXTRA r r * VOL. XII. NO. 28. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1913. By C -?bTo%,i"'c* 2 CENTS. 1 ■ - STATE FIGHTS M’NAUGHTON LIFE PLEA *** +•+ +•+ MACON HEIRESS WHO BREAKS ENGAGEMENT +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ *•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ -I.#* +•+ +#+ +,4. 4-«4. THAW PLEADS AGAINST DEPORTATION +••!• +•+ +•+ 4-*4- 4-«+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•■{• +•+ 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- Continued on Page Z, •>