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THE GEORGIAN’S NEWS BRIEFS
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DEAN OF. COLLEGE ARRAIGNED AS SLAYER OF WOMAN
CRAIG OFFERS PLEA
OF "NOT GUILT!”
THE DEADLY ‘FLYING SHOT GUN’
General R. K. Evans is'shown exhibiting the newest artil
lery missile of modern warfare. Two hundred and fifty balls
are discharged by it after it reaches the enemy as a solid shell.
NOW AT MEXICO
SHHLBYVILLE, IND.. Nov 28.—
Dr \V illiam B. Craig, head of the In
dianapolis Veterinary College, under
indictment charged with the murder
of Dr. Helen Knabe. who was found
dead in her apartments in the Dela
ware Flats. Indianapolis, October 24.
1911. entered a formal plea of not
guilty when arraigned in the Shelby
County Court at 9:30 o’clock this
forenoon.
Dr. Craig, who was accompanied by j
his 15-year-old daughter, was appar
ently cool and unconcerned. During
the half hour's delay before court
opened he chatted cheerfully with his
friends and counsel and posed for the
newspaper photographers.
A motion by his attorneys to quash
the indictment was immediately over
ruled, and members of the regular
panel of veniremen were called into j
court.
Spiritualist evidence, spiritualist j
arts and their weight with the jurors
were the pet questions asked by Hen
ry M. Spaan, head counsel for the de
fense.
Craig and Dr. Knabe were sup
posed to have been engaged and were
known to have quarreled shortly be
fore the time of the doctor's death.
Detectives asserted that on the night
of the crime Dr. Craig came home
after 11 o’clock, changed his clothing !
and went out again.
In the apartment of Alonzo M.
Ragsdale., an undertaker, who lived in
the same apartment house with Dr.
Knabe and who attended to her burial
and was the administrator of her es
tate, was found the doctor’s missing
kimono and other wearing apparel.
On December 31, 1912, Ragsdale and
Craig were arrested. Dr. Craig being
charged with the murder of Dr J
Knabe, and Ragsdale being held as an
accomplice.
Dr. Craig is a widower, about 40 |
years of age.
GEORGIANS ARE NAMED.
Delegates from Georgia to the one j
hundredth anniversary of peace l
among the English-speaking nations,
which will be celebrated in Rich
mond. Vu. ( December 3 and 4, were
announced Saturday by Governor
Slaton.
The list includes: Dr. J. J. Hall,
Atlanta; Wilmer L. Moore, Atlanta;
Rev. Dr. John E. White, Atlanta;
Rev. Dr. C. B. Wilmer, Atlanta; Rev. 1
Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden, Atlanta; Col- :
onel Walter P. Andrews, Atlanta; ;
the Rev. Howard T. Cree. Augusta; i
Charlton E. Battle, Columbus; Gen- I
eral Peter W. Meldrim, Savannah;
Judge Walter G. Charlton, Savan
nah; Rev. Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, Ma
con: J. Lindsay Johnston, Rome; Pro
fessor H. C. White, Athens; J. S.
Shingler Ashburn, and Dr. George
Brown. Atlanta.
engine of
destruction is
fired by a time
fuse at any
desired
distance.
TO HANG HER PICTURE.
ITHACA. N. Y.. Nov. 26.—A full-
iength portrait of Mrs. Russell Sage,
for which the Cornell trustees have i
appropriated $1,000, will be hung in
Prudence Risley Hall, the new dor
mitory for women students, built
through a fund of $300,000 given by
Mrs. Sage.
Dr. Andrew D. White, who sug
gested this testimonial, is in New
York making arrangements for the I
picture.
TO FLY ACROSS ATLANTIC.
PARIS, Nov. 28.—Preparations are
being made in New York and London
for an aeroplane flight across the At
lantic Ocean, to take place next Au- j
gust, it was learned here today.
Glenn H. Curtiss, John Dale Cooper,
an assistant and an Englishman said to
be the leading British aviator, are I
named as the flyers The plane calls for
a flight from Newfoundland to the
Irish coast in the largest hydro-aero-
plane ever built.
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Sir L. Smith-Gordon
Gets License to Wed
WASHINGTON. Nov. 28 Sir Lionel
Smith-Gordon, of Dublin, Ireland, has
procured a license for his marriage with
Miss Ellen A. Fletcher, daughter of
Senator Fletcher, of Florida.
“This is my first venture of the kind,’’
he informed the clerk, as he stumbled
in reply to the first question.
OVERCHARGES CHARGED.
Washington. Nov. 28.—charges
that private manufacturers have over
charged the Government “outrageously - *
for munitions of war, and that $979,840.90
was saved on a single contract of about
$2,000,000 given to the Frankford arsen
al. Philadelphia, are made in a state
ment Issued to-day by Representative C.
H. Tavenner, of Illinois.
He advocates the extension of the ar
senals and the manufacture by thetp of
all Government ammunition.
LYNCHINGS ON DECREASE.
TUSK EG EE. ALA., Nov 28.—Up to
the first of November there had been
forty-four lynchings of negroes this year,
according to records kept dv Booker T.
Washington.
These records show a decrease of four
lynchings from last year.
1,000 Pardons Aim of
Blease by Christmas
SPARTANBURG, S. C.. Nov. 28.—
Among the list of 100 prisoners grant
ed Thanksgiving paroles by Governor
Cole L. Blease are four men convicted
of murder In Spartanburg courts and
given life terms. Since taking the
oath of office in 1911 Blease has par
doned 56 convicts sentenced from this
city, nine of whom were serving life
terms.
The Governor is said to have boast
ed that he would increase his pardon
list, which is now 882. to 1.000 by
Christmas.
GETS BRIDE EACH TRIP.
NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Nov. 27.
Hermann Popp, who came to the
United States from Germany when a
boy. has since made three trips to the
old country, each time returning with
a bride.
RETURNS LOST WATCH.
EAST ORANGE, N. J , Nov. 26 —
“Please return this watch to your
daughter. My soul has found its own—
conscience.” says a note accompanying
a timepiece lost three years ago by
Mrs. Albert G. Ackerman.
DCn-WETTING Jig/S
ULU Box of Pen.ne, FREE. Address.
MISSOURI Bfr MKDY CO., OSes 16 SL Lovlt, Mo.
REALTY FIRM FAILS.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.—The New
York Real Estate Security Company
which, with the exception of the As
tor estate, is the biggest holder of
real estate in New York City, has
failed.
An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed in the United States
District Court to-day against the
company. The New York Real Es
tate Security Company owns $25,000,-
000 worth of property in Manhattan
and the Bronx.
CORONER TO PROBE.
CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—Tlie Coroner
to-day was called upon to investi
gate the death of John Bowes, 15,
who died during a football game yes
terday afternoon. Bowes fell to his
knees suddenly, and died before his
companions could reach him.
That he had been injured in the
game was denied. The statement of
the father that he found lumps on
the dead boy's body has not been
sustained.
FIGHT OVER CURRENCY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 1 .—To-day s
fight in the confere-ce of Democratic
j Senators on the currency bill cen
tered upon the section providing f jr
the insurance of deposits in the re
gional reserve banka. Senator John
Sharp William I served notice that he
would try to force this provision
through.
DRESSED AS BOY TO WORK.
MEMPHIS, Nov. 28.—Claiming site
became a boy in appearance because
it was hard for a girl to make an
honest living, a girl giving her name
as May Harris and Murfreesboro,
Tenn., as her home, is held by the
police pending further investigation.
The girl admits “Harris” is an as
sumed name, but refuses to make pub
lic the identity of her parents.
nasmiV.iUN, Nov. 28 -The
battleships Connecticut. Kansas and
Ohio, of the fourth division of the
Atlantic fleet, now on a cruise in the
Medlterrajcan, to-day were ordered
by Secretary of Navy Daniels to the
r.ast coast of Mexico ostensibly to
relieve the Louisiana, Michigan and
New Hampshire, now there The
fourth division will sail for Mexi an
waters on December 1.
Should the Mexican situation pre
sent serious complications in the near
future. Secretary Daniels slated that
he would rescind his -rder for the
relief of the battleships Louisiana,
Michigan and New Hampshire and
keep these three vessels in Mexican
waters.
At present there are 9,512 sailors
and marines aboard American vessels
in Mexican waters. When the three
battleships arrive this fleet will be
augmented by 2,300 sailors and ma
rines.
Officials received with satisfaction
the indorsement of the Monroe Doc
trine given by Viscount Haldan *.
Lord High Chancellor of Great Brit
ain. at the Thanksgiving Day dinner
of the American Society in London.
This speech is interpreted by the Ad
ministration as a full approval of the
President's attitude in the Mexican
situation.
PLEDGE AID TO HUERTA.
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28. - Mexiin
banking interests have Pledged their
support to General Huerta and Senor
De La Lama, Minister of Finance,
and announced to-day that all too
government's obligations, falling due
December 1. and including the pay
ment of interest on bonds of tiie
National Railway, will be paid.
This announcement, which was
made following a long night confer
ence at the National Palace between
General Huerta and a number of
leading bankers, caused great sur
prise, as there is much foreign cap
ital invested in Mexican banks.
Tiie conference is the first one
which General Huerta has held di
rectly with the Mexican bankers. He
has heretofore acted through some
member of his Cabinet in dealing
with the financiers
SAYRES ON JOURNEY,
WASHINGTON, Ncv. 28. —Mr. an I
Mrs Francis B. Sayre set out upon
their real wedding journey to-dav.
They accompanied President Wilson
to New York and will rail for Europe
to-morrow. President Wilson will
attend the Army aid Navy football
game in • New Y rk. returning to
Washington Sunday.
In the Wilson party also were Mi**
Eleanor Wilson, Joseph Tumulty, ’he
President’s secretary, and Dr. C. r.
Grayson
HEADS GATES' CONCERN.
HOUSTON, TEXAS. Nov 2* The
Texas Oil Company, the $30,000,000 con
cern founded by John \V. Gates, under
went a full change In management when
the stockholders favoring executive
committee control, dominated the an
nual meeting and elected 11 C. Lufkin,
of New York, president in succession to
J. S. Cullman, of Houston.
ASKS $10,000 FOR KISS.
JACKSON. MISS., Nov. 28.—Dam
ages of $10,000 for a kiss bestowed
upon his daugnter by a station agent
of the railroad is asked by J. J. I,ec t
father of 16-year-old Nancy Lee, ir.
a suit against the Gulf and Ship
land Railroad Company, on trial in
Forrest County Circuit Court.
“CLOSE” DANCES BARRED.
CHICAGO, Nov. 28. — “Close'' or tango
dances have been barred from the public
schools through a written order issued
to the principals by Ella Flagg Young,
superintendent.
The order is aimed at the social cen
ters, and especially at the Saturday
night dances.
TO MAKE UNIFORMS.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 26 —Secretary
Daniels is planning to establish at the
Charleston navy yard a manufacturing
plant for the production of such parts
of marine and naval rnilKia uniforms as
can be economically made there.
, Fortify
Your Fertilizer
Did you see your fertilizer dealer and
arrange to buy fertilizer containing at least
as much
POTASH
as Phosphoric Acid ? That is the real kind that pays you and the
dealer. If you did not, you should at once ask your dealer to carry
Potash Saits so that you may increase the Potash in the ordinary
brands. To increase the Potash I percent, add 40 pounds Muriate
or Sulphate of Potash to a ton of goods. A 200-pound bag will
increase the Potash of a ton 5 percent.
Try it once and see how Potash Pays.
If your dealer null not carry Potash Salts. write us for Prices. We -anil sell any <juant*ty
from one 200 found bag up
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Chicago. McCormick Block New Orleaa*. Whitney Central Bank Bid* Atlanta. Empire
San Francisco, 25 California Street Saranaah. Bank A Treat BMf
Motion to Quash Indictment in
the Knabe Case Is Over
ruled by Judge.
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This terrible
Three New Battleships Are Or
dered to Southern Waters by
Secretary of Navy,