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VOL. XH. NO. 106.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER, 3, 1913. 2 CENTS.
FAT NO
M < * R K
UFFRAGISTS TAKE PLEA TO WILSON
Minority Leader Urges Prepara
tion for War, Despite Fact
Strife Is Not Likely Now.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—What was
Irons'r ed by Minority Leader Mann
others as significant action in
of the Mexican situation, was
f* ken by the House late to-day when
passed on a viva voce vote the
|Hay t il! to provide for the raising
\{ volunteer forces of the United
Hates In time of actual or threaten
ed war.
Although Chairman Hay of the
dilitary Affairs Committee would not
ladmit any special reason for hasty
■action, Representative Mann said he
[regarded it as significant that the bill
I was put through at this time.
Mann said he feared conditions to-
|day were much the same as those pre-
I vailing just before the war with
I Fpain, and that he could “see no end
| to the road.”
‘It seems to me that is conditions
| do not improve In Mexico soon, some-
I thing will have to be done. This may
| mean intervention or war for this
I country" said Mr. Mann in the dis-
I mission of the Mexican situation and
I the possibility of Intervention.
Mr. Mann scored the Wilson policy
| of watchful -waiting."
LATEST NEWS ffl PERISH IN
■Rebels Sweeping
North Mexico.
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 3.—Rebels under
Eufomio Zapata to-day attacked the
Interoceanic Railway near Cuautla,
dynamiting the station and water
tanks and burning a bridge.
Zapatistas have looted Mucio
Martinez, State of Puebla, killing the
Mayor and seventeen citizens. Near
Chletla a band of 26 Federate was
ambuscaded and a lieutenant and fif
teen soldiers killed.
27 Executed by
Victorious Rebels.
; Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 3.—Twenty-
seven federal soldiers and civilians
were executed to-day at Jalpam,
State of Queretaro, after rebels cap
tured the place. The garrison of nine-
shot.
teen soldiers and eight citizens were
‘‘General’’ Figueroa, former bandit
and rebel chief, who has been ne
gotiating with the Government, has
joined the Constitutionalists.
H S, Kidder, an American employ
ed by the Waters-Pierce Oil Com
pany, who was arrested at San Luis
Potosi, charged with being a rebel
R py. was released to-day.
Villa To Protect
Aliens at Chihuahua.
EL PASO, TEXAS, Dec. 3.—Gen-
p nU Francisco Villa has postponed his
departure for Chihuahua City until
to-morrow morning, in the meantime
sending assurances to the foreign
Consuls in that city that the Consti
tutionalists will respect lives and
property.
L is certain, however, that Villa
w.ll force ‘‘rebel currency” issued by
tbe Constitutionalists provisional gov
ernment upon merchants there as he
k fl!d in Juarez.
PARIS, Dec. 3.—Francisco de la
Barra, Mexican Minister to France
and formerly provisional Prosident of
the Republic of Mexfco. left here to
day for Japan. Hie departure was
unexpected by attaches of the Mexi
can legation. It was said that he re
ceived orders to leave for Tokio from
President Huerta.
SYDNEY, NEBR., Dec. 3.—Four
inches of snow fell here to-day. Re
ports from Alliance, Nebr., this after
noon said that a heavy snow was
falling there.
DALLAS, TEXAS. Dec. 3.—Heavy
rain9 in this section for the past two
days have done a vast amount of
property damage. Water wa6 stand
ing ten feet deep in the streets of
Waco. The Brazos River which over
flowed yesterday, had reached a 38-
foot stage to-day, the highest ever
known. The Fort Worth and Den
ver Railroad was forced to abandon
train schedules on account of num
erous washouts on its lino. There
was no interurban service to-day
from Dallas to Waco, Cleburne and
Fort Worth.
TULSA, OKLA., Dec. 3.—Mrs. Al
bert T. Patrick, wife of the central
figure in one of the most remarkable
murder cases in American h-i story,
is dyina of an incurable malady in
the Tuisa Hospital. Attending phy
sicians say she has but a few days
to live. Mrs. Patrick is unconscious
most of the time.
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 3.—Eigh
teen strikers and sympathizers were
arrested and two dozen rifles and re
volvers were seized to-day by depu
ties who stormed a boarding house
near the Champion mine. Th® strike
ors had barricaded themselves in the
house and refused to admit deputies
who wished to search the premises.
Several of the men arrested to-day
are believed to have been guilty of
nightly shooting in Raineedale which
has terrorized the residents of the
town.
MEXICO CITY. Dec. 3.—Newspa
pers supporting the Huerta adminis
tration directed resentful critioism to
day toward Prosident Wilson's mes
sage. El Imparcial declared that it
had private Information to the effect
that the message also displeased cer
tain foreign diplomats at Washington.
El Pais said President Wilson’s words
were “injurious.”
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3.--John P.
Densmore, solicitor of tne Department
of Labor, to-day was appointed a
mediator in the teamsters ana chauf
feurs’ strike in Indianapolis by Acting
Secretary of Labor Post. Mr. Dens
more has gone to Indianapolis.
FALL RIVER, MASS., Dec. 3.—
Members of the State Board of Ar
bitration to-day unavailingly urged
the textile union officials to defer
strike action. More than 35,000 tex
tile operatives will vote to-night on
the question of an increase in wages.
WASHINGTON, Doc. 3.—Represen-
I tative Whaley, of the First South
' Carolina District, entered a general
denial before the House Elections
Committee to-da^ of* charges that he
bought his nomination and election.
The charges were filed during the ex
tra session by John R. Grace, Mayor
of Charleston, who alleged that Wha
ley and his friends spent $60,000 to
obtain Whaley’s election.
WINNIPEG, MAN., Dec. 3.—Word ;
reached here this afternoon that the !
Plum Coulee in southern Manitoba !
had been heid up by robbers to-day
and the manager killed. The robbers j
got $10,000.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—A Federal
up the Mississippi levees and prevent
floods was urged on the House Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors to-day
at a special meetina by delegates tq j
the rivers and harbors congress from
the States tributary to the Mississippi. ;
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Miss Mar
garet Wilson, President Wilson’s eld
est daughter, to-day was elected
chairman of the local branoh of the
society for the prevention of useless
giving. Miss Wilson, who is an en
thusiastic “spug,” attended the meet
ing. Motto buttons will be sold under
Miss Wilson’s direction.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3,—Competition
of the parcels post system and the
coming reduction in express rates to
day forced directors of the American
Express Company to reduce their
cent dividend basis. A quarterly divi
dend of 2 per cent was declared.
LONDON, Dec. 3.—King Alfonso
arrived here to-day to visit King
George.
MEMPHIS, TENN., Dec. 3.—Rev.
Dr. Hugh Spencer Williams, widely
known in the South as a Presbyterian
minister, died suddenly to-day of
heart disease.
NEW YORK, Dec. 3.—Former Pres
ident Zelaya, of Nicaragua, who has
been held in the Tombs, was brought
before United States Commissioner
Shields to-day and discharged. The
condition of his release is that the
former President will return to Bar
celona, Spain, as soon as he finishes
his business in this country and not
set foot in Nicaragua.
SANTA BARBARA, CAL., Dec. 3.
Miss Christian Holmberg was yester
day elected City Clerk by a good ma
jority. She carried practically every
precinct in the oity.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 3.—Arthur T.
Bagley, special reoresentative of the
Department of Justice, received in
structions from Washington to-day to
begin an investigation of the egg
combine.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Dec. 3.—
H. B. Norwood, a lumber merchant of
this city, committed suicide to-day.
The suicide is attributed to despond
ency. He was 62 years of age.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 3.—President
Wilson's recommendation for a na
tional primary was freely discussed in
th* Senate to-day. Progressive Re
publicans congratulated themselves on
the President’s “conversion;” con
servative Republicans warned the
Democrats that they were in a “run
away," and the Democratic majority
sat silent.
GALVESTON, TEXAS, Dec. 3.—
Governor C. B. Colquitt has ordered
three companies of State militia to
Waco with 1,200 rounds of ammuni
tion to be used in the prevention of
looting in the flooded district there.
East Waoo is under water and the
Brazos River continues to rise.
BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 3.—Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt to-day arrived at
Bahia Blanca on the Argentine coast,
after an uneventful trip through the
territory of Neuquen.
A HOTEL
RACING RESULTS
% Employe Held
For Stockade Attack
of P ' 7<5e E. Jackson formerly foreman
nf- city public works department.
held under $1,000 bond Wedne.i-
for assault with intent to kill in
^nnectior with his alleged attac*
,, J ^ Leftwich, an aged man. at
th * »tocka<]
Jack
jthoui
several weeks ago.
waived bail. Leftwich
f ^ imp
£ still in a serious condition.
Mttrt.
Proved aiuJiclently to appear in
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Ann Tilly,
104 (MeTaggart), 1-3, 1-8, out, won;
Chartier 111 (Obert), 6, 4-6, 1-3. sec
ond Pikes Peak, 104 (Randolph), 60,
10 o-2, third. Time, 1:16 1-5. Also
ran. Golden Treaure, Monkey, Earl
of Savoy.
SECOND—Six furlongs: Lace, 109
(Nathan). 3-2 1-2, out, won: Right
Kasv, 109 (Deronde), 8-5, 2-5, out, sec
ond ' Dick Deadwood, 112 (Martin),
“n 9 2 third. Time, 1:15 3-5. Also
7a'll ’ Ancon, York Lad. Maina John-
son.
THIRD—Six and half furlongs:
Doctor Kendall. 103 (Buxton), 2, 3-5,
mil von. Ruisseau, 129 (J. Hanover)
no in 3 second; Harcourt, 129 jBur-
ltn’eame , 5-2, 7-10, out, third. Time
i*2L Also ran: John Hancock, Ella
Curry, Ptein Ann.
FOURTH—Five and half furlongs:
Winning Witch, 116 (Keogh), 8-5, out,
won Lady Lightning. 110 (Deronde),
3-4. out, second: Marshon, 112 tMar-
,(„) 50 10, even, third. Time, 1.09.
Also ran: Jack Kellogg.
PtFTH—Six and half furlongs: Be-
h „ u . q<j (Ml Taggart), 7-2, even, 1-2,
^ Camel. 132 (SWrvin), 10,
"r second; ('has. Canne 11 , »6
nvard) 2. 4-5, 2-5, third. Time, 1.24.
( ,.. in No manager, Ben Prior,
I ady Innocence. Yankee Pooh.
j VTH—Mile: Dr. Waldo Briggs,
(Turner), even, 2-5, 1-4, won; Lin-
- K 102 (Ward). 13-5. 7-10. 1-3. sec-
; , V r Denrah, 109 (J. MeTaggart),
40 12 5. third. Time, 1:43. Also ran:
Napier, Master Jim, Frog, Schuri,
Cliff Top.
AT JUAREZ.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Colonel
Marchmont, 112 (Lostus), 4-6, 1-3, out,
won; Stanley S., 112 (Vandusen), 10,
4, 8-6, second; Belle of Bryn Mawr,
102 (Woods). 10, 4, 2, third. Time,
1:12 2-5. Also ran: Army Maid,
Amity. Alivla, San Bernito, Top Note,
Orbicular.
SECOND—Five and half furlongs:
Dynamo, 100 (Neylon), 7-6, 3-6, 1-3,
won; Cordle F, 104 (Dlshmon), 30, 12,
6, second; Baron DeKalb, 106
(Woods), 3, even, 1-2, third. Time,
1:06 1-5. Also ran: Little Birdie, Kid
Nelson, AniM Reed, Black Eyed Su
san, Nifty Carter.
THIRD—Six furlongs: Emerald
Isle, 108 (Grath), 6, 6-2, 6-5, won;
Zulu, 108 (Hoffman), 8. 3, 3-2, second;
Sigurd, 106 (McDonald), 3, even, 1-2,
third. Time. 1:13. Also ran: Rock
dale, Ormande, Cunningham, Masalo,
Zinkand, Lee Harrison, Christmas
Daisy, Con Came, Sadie Shapiro.
Rroe Entries on Page 10.
May Be Wifeless, but
He Has the Cook Stove
PATERSON, N. J.. Dec. 3.—Andrew
Koelin ran away with the family cook
stove and sewing machine in revenge
for his wife’s act in suing for divorce.
Men Cut Off From Outside by
Lack of Fire Escapes—Bos
ton's Biggest Holocaust.
BOSTON. Dec. 3.—Twenty-five men
were burned to death early to-day in
a fire which destroyed the Arcadia
Lodging House, at No. 1202 Washing
ton street. This was the heaviest
death toll ever recorded in a fire in
Boston.
Two persons were fatally injured,
with more than a score slightly hurt
or overcome by smoko.
There were 179 asleep in the lodg
ing house when the fire broke out.
The flames spread swiftly through
the flimsy building and a number
of men caught on the upper floors
leaped from windows.
All of the victims were poverty-
stricken men, the lodging house being
a 15-cent night affair, catering to the
poor. Many of them were homeless
wanderers, and for this reason the
authorities believe that the names of
all the victims will never be known.
Many Jump Into Nets.
The conflagration was attended by
many thrilling escapes. Firemen
spread nets and into these many of
the panic-stricken lodgers leaped.
One man wrapped a mattress around
his body and Jumped from the fifth
floor, the mattress saving his life.
Policemen from the East Dedham
street station lined along the fire es
cape were forced to beat the fugi
tives with their clubs to start them
on their way to the street and clear
the Are escape to make room for oth
ers fleeing from the building.
The meager fire escapes on the
rear of the building offered escape to
only a few. Those occupying rooms
in the front of the building were cut
off by a wall of flame which soared
up the stairways and drove them to
the windows to escape suffocation.
There was no Are escape on the front
or side of the building, and most of
the dead were found near the win
dows.
Night Clerk Disappears.
Night Clerk Walsh had just fin
ished up his books when the fire was
discovered. He escaped and disap
peared.
Medical Examiner Leary, after an
examination at the scene of the Are,
declared:
“I am going at this matter witli an
ax. This is one of the greatest crimes
ever committed in this city. An in
quest will be started to-day. Bos
ton has nearly a dozen such fire traps.
This building looked like a slaughter
house. There is no good excuse for
such a condition of affairs.”
Candidates Tremble
As They Alone Vote
In Regular Election
Wednesday is the annual city elec
tion day, and though there has been
no campaigning there is more than
one candidate nervous over the re
sult. The nominees of the white pri
mary fear that some one may surrep
titiously oppose them and possibly be
elected on account of the extremely
small vote that will be cast.
City Clerk Walter Taylor is holding
the election to-day on all city offices
for which candidates were nominated
at the recent primary and few besides
the candidates will vote.
“I don’t like this small vote,’’ said
W. Z. Smith, nominated to succeed to
himself as general manager of the
city waterworks. “Someone is liable
to slip to the polls with a few hun
dred votes the last hour of the day
and carry the election. 1 wish my
friends would go to the polls.”
The other candidates Join Air.
Smith in this request.
GEORGIA FANCIERS WIN
POULTRY SHOW PRIZES
Patterson Quits as
General Head of
Panama Railroad
Dispatches from Washington Wed
nesday brought the information that
John D. Patterson, of this city, has
resigned his position as superinten
dent of the Panama Railroad. He
was appointed to the place In March,
following the Inauguration of Presi
dent Wilson.
Youthful chicken fancier with aristocratic bird. The young
man is Charles Lynch, 295 E. Hunter street, and his companion is
the 16-ounce Buff Cochin Bantam hen owned by John L. Ryan, of
Atlanta.
Workman's Toes Are
Cut Off When Shaft
Of Lift Collapses
In a collapse of a portion of eleva
tor shaft in the building occupied by
the McCori-Stewart wholesale gro
cery company, No. 211 Decatur street,
late Wednesday, B. H. Dunn, 43 years
old, a repairman, was seriously in
jured by falling timber.
One of Dunn's toes was amputated;
his left hand was lascerated, and he
suffered scalp wounds. He was rush
ed to the Grady Hospital.
Dunn was repairing the top of the
elevator cage when the accident oc
curred. It is believed the hammering
jarred the framework of the shaft and
loosened a portion of it, which fell on
him.
Boy Slayer Given
To Mother's Care
Frank Barton, 13 years old, is back
with his mother, Mrs. M. J. Taylor,
of No. 24 Mildred avenue, Wednes
day, after spending five months locked
up in the juvenile detention home on
Central avenue, where he was taken
after being arrested for the killing of
his young playmate, Johnnie Edgar,
last July.
Attorney <’arl N. Guess appeared
before Judge Benjamin Hill, of the
, criminal divis'on of the Superior
Court, late Tuesday afternoon and se
cured the release of the boy. He will
be placed in the custody of his mother
until he is tried on the murder
charge.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia Generally cloudy
to-night and Thursday.
Prizes were awarded Wednesday at
the annua! show of the Southern In
ternational Poultry Association in the
Auditorium. It was the unanimous
statement of the judges that they
never had viewed a better class of
birds at any show in the South.
The lion’s share of the awards went
to Georgia fanciers, who are improv
ing everv year in the class of poultry
shown. Other States, however, were
largely represented.
Here is the list of awards:
Single-comb Buff Orpingtons.
G. Y. Clark, Louisville, Ga., first
cockerel, second cock, third cock;
Mrs. L, L. Upson, Athens, Ga., fourth
pen, fourth cock, second hen, fifth
cockerel, second pullet; William Cook
& Sons, Scratch Plains, N. J., first
cock, third hen, second cockerel,
fourth pullet, third pen; L. T. Boguss,
Oxford, Ga., first hen, fifth hen; W.
J. McDonald, Monroe, Ga., third cock
erel, first pullet, second pen; A. V.
Clifton, Atlanta, fourth cockerel; M.
G. Turner, Covington, Ga., fourth
hen; Morris & Bass, Atlanta, fourth
pullet; Jordan Poultry' Farm, Royston,
Ga., fifth pullet; College View Farm,
College Park, fifth pen; Mrs. J. M.
Hart, College Park, first pen, fifth
cock.
Single Comb White Orpingtons.
E. L. Allison, Columbia, S. C., fourth
cock; Frank Riddle, Birmingham,
Ala., fifth nen, fifth cockerel; William
Cook & Sons, Scratch Plains, N. J.,
first cock, first cockerel, fifth pullet,
third pen; Mrs. L. P. Eberhart, Ki-
berton, Ga., first hen, second pulldt,
third puliet, first pen, second pen,
Aldrich Poultry Farm. Columbus,
I Ohio, second cock, fourth hen. third
hen, fourth cockerel, third cockerel,
first pullet. H. A. Black, Cartersville,
Ga., third cock, fifth cock, second
cockerel, second hen, fourth pen, fifth
pen.
M. L, Babb, Dallas, Ga.. third cock
erel; Southern Htates Duck and Poul-
I try Farm, College Park, Ga., e* cond
hen; College View Farm, College
Park, fourth pullet, fifth pullet; W. P.
McElroy, Newnan, Ga., second cock-
‘ Continued on Pago 12, Column 6.
Schoolboys See
Their Playmate Run
Down by Automobile
As scores of his school chums
looked on, Jack Turner, 6 years old,
son of Mrs. Lela Turner, No. 139
Nelson street, was run over by an
automobile in front of his home
shortly after* 1 o’clock Wednesday
afternoon and had one leg broken.
The Nelson home is right in the
back of the Walker Street School,
which Jack attends as a pupil In the
first grade. According to eyewit
nesses, the youngster ran directly in
front of a Ford machine driven by M.
M. Mashburn, a collector for the
Southern Bell Telephone Company.
The car is said to have been going at
about ten miles an hour.
Maahbum picked the little fellow
up, carried him into his home, called
a doctor, and reported the case him
self to the police.
Clarence Collins
Found Not Guilty
Clarence Collins was found not
guilty of thre urder of Calvin Maddox,
a negor, after the Jury was out an
hour Wednesday' afternoon. The case
went to the Jury at 1 o’clock, after
a two-hour address by Solicitor Gen
eral Dorsey In the final argument be
fore Judge Hill.
The case wrs the outgrowth of an
alleged quarrel between Collins and
the negro during the construction of
the Healy Building, on which the two
men were employed.
Ask County Police
To Protect Game
A plea for the assistance of the
county police in the enforcement of
game laws, and asking permission to
appoint the members of the county
force as deputy' game wardens, was
made before the Board of County
Commissioners Wednesday by Com
missioner Charles L. Davis,
Hardwick, of Goergia, Quoted by
Jane Addams in Speech Before
House Committee.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The suf
fragist convention late to-day unani
mously decided to carry Its fight for
an amendment to the Constitution,
enfranchising women, direct to the
White House and demand of Presi
dent Wilson that he make the ques
tion a party measure and give is
precedence over other legislation.
A resolution presented by Mrs.
Medlll McCormick, of Chicago, askc
the President to send a special mes
sage to Congress at this session urg
ing Congress to get immediate action
on the proposed amendment.
Mrs. Medlll McCormick and Mrs.
Desha Breckinridge, of Lexington
Ky., were designated a committee to
Immediately present the resolution to
President Wilson. As the two women
left the auditorium with the resolu
tion the cry was raised:
“4,000.000 Make Plea”
“The President must heed the de
mand of 4,000,000 women voters.”
Nearly 2,000 suffragists and antl-
suffragirts crowded into the great
caucus room in the House office
building to-day and massed 1n the
corridors primed for their flght before
the House Rules Committee for and
against a House Committee on Wom
an Suffrage. Two hours were allot
ted the suffragists to present their
claims, and two hours to the “antis"
to answer the arguments of their op
ponents.
As soon as Chairman Henry had
called the meeting to order Represen
tative Clyde Kelly, a Pennsylvania
Progressive, offered a resolution that
all meetings of the committee on the
question of woman suffrage be pub
lic and that all records be published.
Cites Suffrage Parade.
Representative Lenroot, of Wiscon
sin, offered an amendment, which was
accepted, giving the committee right
to hold executive sessions when it
saw fit, but making the record votes
of the committee public at all times.
Representative Kelly’s original mo
tion was lost by a vote of 6 to 1.
When Mr. Kelly voted a number of
women tried to vote with him, and
this called forth a reprimand from
Chairman Henry.
“If there is any disorder, I will or
der the room cleared,” he said.
Chairman Henry then turned the
session over to Dr. Anna Howard
Shaw, who Introduced the various
speakers, and cautioning her women
friends to restrain their enthusiasm.
Indians Treated Better.
Dr. Shaw told how unsuccessful the
suffragettes have been in procuring
recognition at the hands of Congres
sional committees, and then intro
duced Mrs. Helen Gardiner, of Wash
ington, as the first speaker.
Mrs. Gardiner argued that Congress
had treated the Indians better than
the women of the country’.
“At one time," she said, “there was
no Indian Committee in this House.
One was created and since then the
Indians have been geting schools
and other things they deserved. Are
these Indians anv more important to
you legislators than your wives, sis
ters and mothers? We want a com
mittee of our own to which we can
go at any time with absolute free
dom ” She concluded by saying:
“Patrick Henry once said: ‘Give me
liberty or give* me death,’ and he
meant what he said. The women of
this country mean the same thing
to-day.”
For Closed Sessions.
Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, of New
York, pleaded earnestly with tb©
committee for a favorable report on
the suffrage committee resolution.
"You have not forgotten the woman
suffrage parade in Washington last
spring," she said, “when troops from
Fort Myer had to be summoned to
protect the women from the mob
whch closed in on them. If you could
have been in that procession and
could have looked into the faces of
that Jeering, insulting, half drunken
line of men. you would have reaJlsed
what the mothers, daughters and
wives of this country are subjected