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VOL. XII. NO. 107. ATLANTA. GA.. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1913. 2 CENTS. p more°
LYNCH 40 NEGROES
PRESIDENT WILSON CONSENTS TO
RECEIVE SUFFRAGISTS OF NATION
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lanta Suburb.
Nearly Strip Corpse
SHAMOKIN, *PA . Dei 4 —When
the body of Frederick Hye, 20, who
was hanged at Sunbury Tuesday fur
murder, was sent to the home of his
mother here to-day for burial it was
found that morbid souvenir hunters
had nearly stripped the corpse while
it lay in the morgue yesterday.
Pieces had been cut off the deal
youth’s clothing, his cuff links were
missing and buttons had been torn
from the coat and trousers. Even
bits of the silk lining of the coffin
had been taken. «
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MISS ESTHER ABELSON.
i s- Abelson and Mrs. Laidlaw. t wo active <
!- of delegates attending the National < V >nv<-
’ in the convention spends her tiine on the ch
an of the national association.
MRS. JAMES L. LAIDLAW.
; ni>aigners It; behalf of woman suffrage, are among the hun-
ltion at Washington. Miss Abelson. .hen-not taking an active
iof streets of the Capital selling The WomanVJournal, the chief
Senator Clapp Regrets Failure of
Executive to Mention Ballot
in Message.
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Washington, Dec. 4.—president
> to-day consented to receive a
tion of suffragettes, w'ho will
with the nation's Chief Execu-
i"-rson for his support In the
ign for a constitutional provi-
* n Stving women the right to vote.
^ the suffrage convention to-day
s Medill McCormick, of Chicago,
|“ad the following message from
‘resident Wilson:
i receive any visitors, or if i
“ ,n sufficiently recovered from my
“ness to leave my room for five or
>n minutes, 1 will be glad to receive
delegates of your convention and
‘ lr what they want to say to me. 1
dlTl 80rr >' that my illness prevents me
" ,,rn ,se,-i ng them to-day.’’
Sees Constitution Change.
—•-riator Clapp, of Minnesota, stirred
women’s convention when he
■'twined the Federal Constitution
A ^ oe amended in the near future
£t ’ no State shall deprive a per-
11 a vote because of sex.
rilf Senator, who is a member of
Senate Committee on Woman
e - said:
n assure you that before this
>n of Congress is over the com-
’* will report to the Senate the
elution providing for the consti-
• ai amendment, and I confidently
‘hat when the resolution gets
"e Senate it will be passed,
to say without political bias
v, -r vmuch regret the failure of
>t Wilson to mention woman
• ° and the need of suffrage leg
islation in'his last message to Con
gress."
WASHINGTON, Dec 4.—Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the Na
tional Woman Suffrage Association,
who has served nine terms as head of
the organization. was assured of re-
election when the returns of prima
ries were announced to-day.
Dr. Shaw received 326 votes, against
four votes for her nearest competitor,
Harriet T. Upton, of Ohio.
First Vice President—Jane Addams,
of Chicago, had no opposition, receiv
ing ’>49 votes. Caroline Rutz Rees,
of Hartford, Coqn.. received 141 votes
against 116 for Mrs. Desha Breckin
ridge, of Lexington. Ky., for second
vice president. Other results of the
primaries follow:
Recording Secretary—Susan Fitz
gerald, of Boston. 210; Edith W.
Hooker, of Baltimore, 66.
Corresponding Secretary Mary-
Ware Dennett. New York, 208; Ida
Porter Boyer, Pennsylvania, 64.
Treasurer—Katherine D. McCor
mick, New York, 339; Mrs. Medill
McCormick, Chicago, 3,
First Auditor—Harriet B. Laidlaw.
New York, 166; Patty K. Jacobs, Bir- |
mingham, Ala., 117.
Second Auditor—Louise I). K. Bow
en, Chicago, 238.
Mrs. Ricketts Dies:
End Is Hastened by
. Grief for Husband
Mrs. Hannah Ricke: 72 years old,
died early Thursd • mining at her
home. No. 275 S«».ita Humphries
street. Grief for h e husband, Y. L.
Ricketts, 76 y-ars old. who died Son-
Jay, is believed to have hastened toe
aged woman’s end.
She is survived by seven children;
The Rev. F. P., John B . \\ F... J. M.
and L. G. Ricketts, and Mrs. W. P.
Edmonson and Mrs Joseph Bentley.
Mr. Ricketts was a Confederate vet
eran. having been a member of the
Fifty-second Georgia Regiment. He
was a pioneer, of Atlanta.
The couple will be buried in a sin
gle grave at Westview Cemetery Fri
day afternoon following funeral ser
vices to be held at the residence at 2
o’clock.
Drivers' Strike in
Indianapolis Broken
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 4 —That the
strike of 3.000 Indianapolis union
teamsters had been broken was indi
cated by the hundreds of hauling ve
hicles that appeared on the streets
to-day. Each vehicle serried "spe
cial” policemen with authority to
shoot in case life or vehicle were mo- ;
lesied.
The first collections of garbage and
ashes since.last Saturday were made
to-day.
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Anti Suffragist
Women Oppose Votes.
WASHINGTON’ Dec. 4.—Declaring
that "our aim is to conservr the fam
ily and the home." the anti-stiffra-
„ jstg before the House Rules Cora-
lni tee to-day made vigorous protests
against the demand of the suffragists
that tiie House create a special com
mittee on woman suffrage.
Mr- Arthur J. I lodge, of New
York president of the National As-
j ttiori. opposed lo woman's
declared that the suffragist*
haw numerous hearings before t'on-
‘ • j,jd that their complaint of un-
, :ii>at.ment was unfounded.
Briand Refuses To
Be French Premier
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 4.- Aristide Briand,
one of the best known statesmen m
France, to-day declined President
Poincare’s offer of the premiership to
succeed M. Barthou. The post was
then tendered to M. Caillaux, whose
friends predicted that he too would
refuse to accept.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta ^ITid
Georgia—Fair Thursday; un
settled Friday.
ROME, Dec. 4.—Rome church cir-
j cles have bee’h deeply stirred by the
arrest of the Rev. J. A. Thacker, a
Congregational preacher, and pretty
Miss Emma Hughes, a member of his
congregation, on warrants sworn out
bj' Harper Wright, a deacon, after he
and other members of his church had
watched Miss Hughes' home In East
Rome for several nights.
At the preliminary-trial Judge T. R
Broach's courtroom was crowded with
ministers and church members Th<?
minister was bound over under a $10(1
bond to the City Court. The girl
waived preliminary trial. Both stout
ly assert their innocence and charge
a plot,
G. W. Day, 27 y^ars old. of Carters- I —
' ■ ■ La., a patient in the sanitariuin 0 i TfPYl 1Y* T-T11 Y' f"PT*0
of Dr. James N. Brawner, at Smyrna, OULlVUlliI XTllilUGI o
Ga., was burned to death Thursday
morning at 2:30 o’clock in a fire which
destroyed the cottage in which he was
confined. Four other patients who
were in the cottage were rescued by
Dr. Brawner and *the attendants of
the sanitarium just In time to save
their lives. The building was burn:d
to the ground, causing a loss which
Dr. Brawner estimates at about $3,500.
The origin of the fire which caused
the death of Day is shrouded in mys
tery. Twenty minutes before It was
discovered the night watchman of the
\ sanitJ^ium had passed the door of
J Day’s room and noticed nothing
I amiss. At 2:30 o’clock the fire was
} discovered by an attendant who
chanced to be awake in the building,
j and at about the sarpe time Dr.
( Brawner. aroused by the glare of the
flames, looked from his window in 'he
main building 200 yards distant and
saw the fire.
Dr. Brawner immediately turned in
an alarm, and the patients, virtual-
i ly all of whom were violent, were got
out of the building and taken to the
main building of the institution. Ef
forts were made to get into Day’s
room and rescue him, but the smoke
was so dense and the room so filled
with flames that it was fjund im
possible.
Unable to Account for Fire. \
One of the attendants penetrated a
few feet into the room, but was una
ble to locate Day’s body Realizing
that Day could not be got out of
the cottage in time to save his life,
Dr. Brawner and his assistants turned
their attention to rescuing the 'Other
patients, who were huddled in their
rooms screaming with fright.
Over the long -distance telephone
Thursday morning Dr. Brawner de
clared he is unable to account for the
fire. The only plausible theory, he
declared, is that Day set fire to his
ropm with suicidal intent. The man
had been an Inmate of the sanitarium
for but four days and was one of
the most violent of the patients. He
was not allowed out of his room with
out a guard, which makes the mys
tery of the fire all the greater. In
his room Day was so violent that no
furniture other than the bed and bed
clothing and a small washstand could
be kept there. These were fastened j
to the floor.
From the position in which Day's
charred body was found Thursday
after the destruction of the cottage, -r-, ■*■*■>. T1 * 1
Dr. Brawner thinks the man set fire £ TGIlCil l/OCuOT JL 1I1CIS
to his, room and then wrapped him
self in the bed clothing. The body
was lying about where the bed had
been and remains of the bed clothing I
could be seen. apparently drawn
closely about his body.
"I see no other way to aceoiftit for
the fire, save the theory that Day
must have got hold of a match some
where,’’ said Dr. Brawner. “We are
very careful about letting the pa
tients, particularly the violent ones,
have matches, but it is very difficult
to prevent it.
Main Building Not Touched.
"The first we knew of the fire Day's
room was in flames. For a while we
didn't know whether he had gotten
out or not, as no sound came from
the roorA. We tried to get Day out.
but after we realized we could not
we turned our attention to saving the
other patients who were in the cot
tage.”
None of the other .patients was
injured, though most erf them were
badly frightened and were forced to
flee in their night clothing. The main
building of the sanitarium, 200 Yards
from the cottage, was not touched by
the flames, and many of the 25 pa
tients housed in the larger house slept
through the turmoil.
Day's body probably will be shipped
to his home in Cartersville for bur
ial. |
OFRIVERS
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Railways Paralyzed, Towns
lated and Millions in Property
Destroyed in Texas.
‘Chicken Inspector
Badge Halts Traffic
CHICAGO. Dec. 4. Joseph Feld. 17
years old, was/arrested for blocking
traffic In the business section of the
city He was selling badges bearing
the inscription. “Chicken lnspector-
23.”
The crowd of buyers became mo
large the police were forced to clear
a path for vehicles.
Train Coach Burns:
Passengers Injured
ROME. Dec. 4 The second class
coach of a Central of Georgia local
train running from Chattanooga to Ce-
dartown was burned last night, 40 miles
north of here, at Martindale, when a
lamp exploded
Several negroes were injury by fly
ing glass A paralytic negro was bare
ly rescued from the flames
New Typhoid Cure
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 4 A successful new
method of curing typhoid fever was
announced by Dr. Josue Bellar.
It is called auto vaccination, the
vaccine used being a culture of
Eberth bacilli made of the patient’s
own blood.
Pope Clears Wine
Cellars of Vatican
Special Cable to The Atlanta Qeoraian.
ROME, Dec. 4.—One of the most
famous wine cellars in the world —
that of the Vatican—has. at the or
ders of Pope Pius X, been cleared of
its accumulated vintages
15.000 MADE IDLE
CARDIFF. WALKS. • Dec 4. — Fifteen
thousand eon I miners In Southern
Wales were thrown out of work to
day bv the strike of engine drivers
and stokers on the Great Western Rall-
w a >\
GALVESTON, Dec. 4.—A report
reached here this morning that
the principal streets of San An
tonio are covered to a depth of
six feet by the water from the
San Antonio River.
The flood is coming south rap
idly and numerous other cities
will be affected before nightfall.
The country now flooded is
about the size of the State of
Maine apd the area is being add
ed to rapidly.
Dallas. TEXAS. Dec 4.—Twenty
persons are know n to be dead and 18.-
000 are homeless to-day es the result
of disastrous floods which still are
raging In Central Texas Property
damage will exceed $6,000,000. accord
ing to the most conservative esti
mates.
Practically all the railroads in the
affected regions are out of commis
sion and those operating trains are In
a crippled condition. Many towns are
submerged and residents have fled to
the higher ground.
Rate reports from the flood-swept
section of the State have Increased
the number of missing. The total
number of dead likely will not be
known for several days.
All Rivers Out of Banks.
Every river In the central part of
the State is out of 4ts banks. The
Brazos River Is 5 miles wide in sev
eral places. The Leon RiVer, a small
stream, has spread to a width **of
more than a mile and has cut off the
water supply of Temple.
Five hundred bales of cotton were
washed away at Waxahatchie. Big
losses in cotton were repeorted from
other towns in that neighborhood.
Boats manned by farmers to-day
readied the marooned International
and Great Northern passinger train
near Marlin, on which 150 persons
were beginning to feel the pangs of
hunger. The wafer had risen to the
second step of the cars.
Railroads Paralyzed.
No schedules were being observed
to-day on the International and Great
Northern, Missouri. Kansas and Tex
as. Fort Worth and Denver, Rant a Fa,
Rock Island and Houston and Texas
Central railroads.
Fear was expressed that the Brazos
River levee at Brvan might break and
flood three counties—Burleson.'Bra
zos and Washington.
Refugees from about 1,000 homes
in South and Eavt Waco, submerged
to the eaves by the flood waters of
the Brazos River, to-day are huddled
in churches, a cotton compress, neigh- I
boring houses and woolen mill, manv j
of them ignorant of the fate of other
members of their families
Waco Carpenters
Hurrying Life Rafts.
WACO, TEXAS, Dec. 4 —The flood
ed area here is growing rapidly and
people in Increasing numbers are be
ing driven from their homes. Mayor
Mackey has just Issued an appeal ro
all carpenters in the city to build
rafts as rapidly as possible for rescue
work. Practically all business in ihe
city has been suspended since yester
day afternoon.
L. Armado, a city prisoner, was re
leased to-day on his own plea that he
be allowed to aid in the rescue of
hundreds of families marooned in
trees and on house tops. Armado
is an expert swimmer. His first ac
complishment after being released
was to risk his life and save five per
sons ;vho had been swept into the
flood waters from the roof of a shed.
The prisoner was cheered and show
ers of small coin were hurled to him.
He refused to pick up the money, and
after all the families who were in
danger had been taken to places «»f
safety, walked back to jail. Plans
have been started to secure his re-
lcaee,
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Formation of Corn
Parade and Route
Assemble at Armory at. 2:30
o'clock
Parade moves by divisions at 3
o’clock.
First Division—Military, com
manded by General lY >r v. Evans.
Second Division • ppjighty-five
Corn Club boys who made the
"honor roll,” 1,000 Corn Club boys;
3,000 Atlanta schoolboys. 40 mem
bers Girls’ Canning Club in Belle
Isle auto truck, W. M. Slaton, su
perintendent of schools, command
ing
Third Division—Motor cars, con
taining Mayor, General Council,
Board of Education, Statehouse of
ficers, Chamber of Commerce offi
cers and Corn Show' committee.
Line of March — Washington
street to Mitchell, thence to* White
hall, up Peachtree to Houston and
return by wav of Ivy, Gilmer and
Washington streets to State Capi
tol, disbanding at 4 o'clock.
Adjutant General J. Van Holt
Nash, grand marshal.
GUARDING
Aldermanic Board
To Hear Protests
On New Traffic Law
The considerat ion of the *new| traffic
ordinance by the Aldermanic Board,
acting as a committee of Council,
Thursday afternoon will be marked by a
long public hearing Both advocates
aixl opponents of the measure will pre
sent their arguments.
While doctors and business men who
are accustomed to leaving their ma
chines In front of their places of busi
Hess and socleiy women who drive their
own cars on shopping tours are opposed
to any curbing of their rights to park
machines in the streets, the joliH com
rnittee of Council and the Chamber of
Commerce and many public-spirited cit
izens declare that the promiscuous park
ing of automobiles In the streets must
be stopped to relieve congestion.
Wilson, With Cold,
Keeps to His Room
WASHINGTON, Dec. ,4.—President
Wilson, because of his cold, remained
in bis room to-day and cancelled all
his engagements
He has not been feeling well since
his return from New York last Sun
day. and hie advisers were Insistent
that he forestall all possibility of aw*
rlous illness.
New York Girl to
Swim Panama Canal
NEW YORK. Dec 4.—Miss Elaine
Golding, of Bath Beach, who holds
several long-distance swimming rec
ords, ha* sailed for the Panama Ca
nal. where she will attempt to swim
from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
in 50 hours
With a
Telegram’s
Brevity
Georgian "Want Ads” in
variably “turn the trick.”
FOR RENT—Three neatly fur
niched apartment rooms, very
reasonable; South Side. Owner,
Main 3699- J
Atlanta. Ga.. Nov. 1, 1913.
The Atlanta Georgian :
I called up yesterday
morning and asked you to
discontinue my ad, as I had
rented my apartment Tues
day. QUICK WORK
MRS. LULA MENSING,
147 Little Street.
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Governor Blease Orders Militia to
Aid Barnwell Sheriff—Mer
chant Slain.
BARNWELL, S. C., Dec. 4.—
With a mob assembling here to
lynch 40 negro suspects in jail
for 1 he murder of E. Peyton
Best, a leading Barnwell mer
chant, Governor Cole L. Blease
has ordered out militia to guard
the jail and save the blacks from
the infuriated crowd.
The roundup of the negroes began
shortly after Best was shot down
within 50 feet of the courthouse about
9 o’clock last night. He had gone
from his store to a restaurant and
was on his way home when several
negroes attacked him.
In Scott Mattison, Mitchell Storr
and Gilbert Miller, arrested at day
break, the officers believe they have
those responsible for the murder. It
Is charged that Mattison shot Best,
and the others were the chief acces
sories.
Jury Blames Mattison.
A Coroner’s inquest was held, this
morning over the body of Best and
the Jury reached a verdict that he
came to his death from a gunshot
wound at the hands of Mattison and
that Story and Miller were accesso
ries.
According to the evidence brought
out to-day, Best was going out of the
front door of his store to supper and
a soda water bottle was thrown at
his head, narrowly missing him. He
asked Mattison. who was standing
near, who threw the bottle. Mattison
said "That negro going down the
street," indicating a retreating fig
ure. Best walked towards the ne
gro whom Mattison said threw the
bottle, and as he did so was fired
upon by Mattison, the bullet strik
ing him in the back and going through
the chest.
All Night Man'Tunt.
Sheriff Morris searched all night
before finding t Mattlson and arrested
him about daybreak.
The negroes fled immediately after
Best was shot, but soon a pursuing
party with bloodhounds had taken up
the man hunt. The dogs could not
pick up the scent and were sent back,
but a crowd scoured the negro sec
tion and the woods near town
throughout the night. All suspicious
blacks were taken in tow and hur
ried to jail, where the Sheriff placed
a strong guard on duty.
As daylight came the mob began to
assemble and it grew throughout the
morning until it numbered several
hundred by noon. The Sheriff, fearing
for the safety of the horde of negro
prisoners, asked Governor Blease to
send aid, and the Barnwell military
company was accordingly called out.
Philadelphia Broker
Concern Suspends
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4.—William
L. Bear & Company, members of the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, tem
porarily suspended to-day. The. sus
pension followed the filing of a volun
tary petition to have William L. Pear
individually and trading as the Arm,
adjudged a bankrupt
Bear is a member of the Chicago
Board of Trade and other exchanges.