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VOL. XXL NO. 107.
ATLANTA, OA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1913.
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PRESIDENT WILSON CONSENTS TO
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MISS ESTHER ABELSON. MRS. JAMES L. LAIDLAW.
Miss Abelson and Mrs. Laidlaw. two active campaigners in behalf of woman suffrage, are among the hun
dreds of delegates attending the National Convention at Washington. Miss Abelson, when not taking an active
part in the convention spends her time on the chief streets of the Capital selling The Woman's Journal, the chief
organ of the national association..
Only 345 Ballots Are
Cast In City Election
The vote in the general city elec
tion Wednesday for the naming of
ten Councilman, four Aldermen and
a General Manager of Waterworks,
consolidated at City Clerk Walter
Taylor’s office Thursday, showed a
total of 345 ball it*.
The fear of primary nominees that
independent candidates might slip in
at the Lust minute on account of the
light vote failed to materialize. The
"nly events of the day were the serv
ice if dinner and supper to the elec-
managers and clerks by Mr. Tay
lor.
Diven Ten Months
For Stolen Joy Ride
For a Joy ride in T. O. Poole’s au
tomobile Henry Hambrick, 17 years
old. Wednesday was sentenced to ten
rampths In the county chaingang, but
later placed on probation by Judge
Calhoun, with the proviso that should
■ e again be brought into court he will
be required tos erve the sentence,
be required to sefve the sentence,
i'oole S30 for damage done to the
machine, at the rate of 52 per month.
Farmer Appears at
Polls a Month Late
Watertown, n. y„ Dec. 4.—one
nlo 11 j after election day a farmer ap
at fbe polling place in Gouvenor
wS inquired where he should vote. He
•/ ls , bewildered when informed he was
10 days late.
16.000 MADE IDLE.
tvE ARDIFF ' WALES, Dec. 4 — Fifteen
n ou sand coal miners In Southern
dsA* 1 w? re thrown out of work to
ani* . , *b e strike of engine drivers
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Consents to Audience for Suffra
gists Now in Session in
Washington.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—President
Wilson to-day consented to receive a
delegation of suffragists, who will
plead with the nation’s Chief Execu
tive in person for hie support in the
campaign for a constitutional provi
sion giving women the right to vote.
At the suffrage convention to-day
Mrs. Medill McCormick, of Chicago,
read the following message from
President Wilson:
“If I receive any visitors, or if I
am sufficiently recovered fpom my
illness to leave my room for five or
ten minutes, I will be glad to receive
the delegates of your convention and
hear what they want to say to me. I
am sorry that my illness prevents me
from seeing them to-day.”
Sees Constitution Change.
Senator Clapp, of Minnesota, stirred
the women's convention when he
predicted the Federal Constitution
will be amended in the near future
so that no State shall deprive a per
son of a vote because of sex.
The Senator, who is a member of
the Senate Committee on Woman
Suffrage, said:
“I can assure you that before this
session of Congress is over the com
mittee will report to the Senate the
resolution providing for the consti-
tional amendment, and I confidently
believe that when the resolution gets
before the Senate it will be passed.
I want to say without political bias
that 1 very much regret the failure of
President Wilson to mention woman
suffrage and the need of suffrage leg-
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600 Bales Burned in
$45,000 Cotton Fire
COLUMBUS, Dec. 4.—According to
a long distance telephone message
this morning from Seale, Ala., Ed
ward Anderson’s warehouse, with 600
bales of cotton and the fixtures of
the Bank of Seale, were destroyed by
fire, believed to have been of incen
diary origin. The fire was first dis
covered in the sample room of the
warehouse, and had made such head
way that it could not be stopped.
The cotton w'as insured, but the
warehouse was not. The loss is esti
mated at 545,000.
Falls From Bridge;
Drowns Near Shore
FORT SMITH, ARK., Dec. 4.—
Charles McIntyre, a bridge carpen
ter. fell 35 feet from a bridge span
ning the Arkansas, River, swam al
most to the shore, but drowned when
rescuers attempted to reach him in a
boat.
A man in a skiff threw' McIntyre
the end of an oar; he grabbed at *t
and missed. Coming to the top of
the water, he said: “Good,bye, fel
low’s; I’m gone.’’
Briand Refuses To
Be French Premier
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 4.—Aristide Briand.
one of t^ie best known statesmen in
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.
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I Mrs. Ricketts Dies;
End Is Hastened by
Grief for Husband
Charred Body of Patient Found in
Ruins of Hospital in At
lanta Suburb.
G. W. Day, 27 years old, of Carters-
ville, Ga., a patient in the sanitarium
of Dr. James N. Braw'ner, at Smyrna,
Ga., was burned to death Thursday
morning at 2:30 o’clock in a fire which
destroyed the cottage in w'hich he waj
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
sanitarium had passed the door of
Dgy’s room |ind noticed nothing
amiss. At 2:30 o’clock the fire w’as
discovered by an attendant who
chanced to be awake in the building,
and at about the same time Dr.
Brawner, aroused by the glare of the
flames, looked from his window in »h«
main building 200 yards distant and
saw the fire.
Dr. Brawner immediately turned in
an alarm, and the patients, virtual
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 smoite
was so dense and the room so filled
with flames that it was found 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 frighi.
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
room 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, w’hich 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
to the floor.
From the position in which Day’s
charred body w’as found Thursday
after the destruction of the cottage,
Dr. Brawner thinks the man set fire
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
could be seen, apparently drawn
closely about his body.
“I see no other way to account 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 w'as in flames. For a while we
didn't know whether he had gotten
out or not, as no sound came from
the room. We tried to get Day out,
but after w-e 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 of 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
Mrs. Hannah Ricketts, 72 years old,
died early Thursday morning at her
home. No. 275 South Humphries
street. Grief for her husband, Y. L
Ricketts, 76 years old, who died Sun
day, is believed to have hastened the
aged woman’s end.
She i9 survived by seven children:
The Rev F. P.. John B., W. E., 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 West view Cemetery Fri
day afternoon following funeral ser
vices to be held at the residence at 2
o’clock.
New Plan Fosters
Trade-at-Home Idea
Plans for thorough co-operation
with merchants and manufacturers of
Georgia to get business originating in
the State are outlined in a “pointer
system’’ suggested to the Georgia
Commercial Secretaries Association
by H. A. Wheeling, of the Floyd
County organization.
Mr. Wheeling, whose idea has found
favor in Atlanta, suggests that the
secretary of every commercial body
in Georgia keep in touch with the
needs and wants of the citizens of
his community, apd if he finds that
the commodity wanted can not he
supplied by that immediate territory,
that he notify other commercial bod
ies in Georgia.
Mine Searched For
Body of Desperado
BINGHAM, UTAH, Dec. 4.—The
smudges w’hich for 78 hours were kept
burning to generate gas to pump
into the Utalf-Apex mine were extin
guished to-day, and seven Sheriffs
and nearly 200 special deputies pre
pared to search the underground pas
sages for the body of Ralph Lopez,
the slayer of six men.
The officers guarding the mine en
trances declared to-day that they
were sure the desperado had per
ished somewhere in the 52 miles of
underground passages.
OVERFLOW
OF RIVERS
Railways Paralyzed, Towns Iso
lated and Millions in Property
Destroyed in Texas.
GALVESTON, Dee. 4.—A report
reached hare 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 and the area is being add
ed to rapidly.
Atlanta Women Urge
Matron for Tower
The appointment of a matron for
the Tower is being agitated by the
different women’s organizations of
Atlanta. At the next meeting of the
County Commissioners a petition ask
ing for the creation of the position
will be filed.
Those in favor of the proposition
include every woman’s organization
in the city, the Evangelical Minis
ters’ Association, Federation of
Trades and the Equal Suffrage As
sociation.
‘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 inspector—
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The crowd of buyers became *o
large the police were forced to clear
a path for vehicles.
Mrs, Carter Harrison
Writes Fairy Story
CHICAGO. Dec. 4 —Mrs. Carter H
Harrison, wife of the Mayor of Chi
cago, has published another book. It
is her sjxth volume in ten years.
And. to the delight of her friends
and ail children whose early years
were brightened by an acquaintance
with “Prince Silver Wings," it is a |
fairy tale. “The Enchanted House”
is its title.
French Doctor Finds
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
Ebertn bacilli made of the patient’s
own blood.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. 4.—Twenty
persons are known to be dead and 18,-
000 are homeless to-day as the result
of disastrous floods which still are
raging In Central Texas. Property
damage will exceed $6,000,000. accord
ing tfwF**nost 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.
Late reports from the flood-swept
section of the State have increased
the number of missing. The total
number of dead likely will not b<*
known for several days.
All Rivers Out of Banks.
Every river in the central part of
the State is out of its 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 Waxahatchle. Big
losses in cotton were repeorted from
other towns in that neighborhood.
Boats manned by farmers to-day
reached the marooned International
and Great Northern passenger train
near Marlin, on which 150 persons
were beginning to feel the pangs of
hunger. The water had risen to the
second step of the cars.
Railroads Paralyzed.
No schedules were being observed
to-day on the Internationa; and Great
Northern, Missouri, Kansas and Tex
as, Fort Worth and Denver, Santa Fe,
Rock Island and Houston and Texas
Central railroads.
Fear was expressed that the Brazos
River levee at Bryan might break and
flood three counties—Burleson. Bra
zos and Washington.
Refugees from about 1,000 homes
in South and Flast V lco, submerged
to the caves by the flood waters of
the Brazos River, to-day are huddled
in churches, a cotton compress, neigh
boring houses and woolen mill, many
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 io
all carpenters in the city to build
rafts as rapidly a* poasible for rescue
work. Practically all business in the
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 who 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 of
safety, walked back to Jail. Plans
have been started to secure his re
lease.
Preacher and Girl
Charge a Plot In
Arrests at Rome
ROME, Dec. 4.—Rome church cir
cles have been 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
by 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. B
Broach’s courtroom was crowded with
ministers and church members. The
minister was bound over under a $100
bond to the City Court. The girl
waived preliminary trial. Both stout
ly assert their innocence and charge
a plot.
BLACKS ARE
n r n ft 11 r n
Sues American For
$2,500,000 Balm
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4.—A breach of
promise suit for 12,600,000 was filed
in tbs Federal District Court here
to-day by Baroness Ursala Barbara
VanKalinowskI, of Wiesbaden, Ger
many, against Michael J. Hurley, of
St. Louis.
The petition says the Baroness met
Hurley in Paris In July, 1912, and
since that time has spent $100,000 in
traveling and in preparation for her
wedding. On July 22, 1912, two days
after she met Hurley, says the Bar-
I oness, he gave a dinner in Paris and
announced his engagement to her.
Souvenir Hunters
Nearly Strip Corpse
SHAMOKIN, PA., Dec. 4.—When
the body of Frederick Hye, 20, who
was hanged at Sunbury Tuesday for
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.
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 carried “spe
cial’’ policemen with authority to
shoot in case Ufa or vehicle were mo
lested.
The first collections of garbage and
ashes since last Saturday were made
to-day.
Corn Club Visitor
Robbed; Negro Held
Police Thursday arrested Sarah
Williams, a negro woman, on suspi
cion of naving robbed J. B. Broad well,
an aged citizen of Alpharetta, Ga., of
$30 in Decatur street Wednesday
night.
Broadwell was returning from the
Corn Show at the Capitol when he
was approached by a negro woman,
who inquired some directions. As she
left, the old man discovered his loss.
The woman escaped.
Slaying Suspect
Sues His Accuser
KNOX, IND., Dec. 4.—Leslie Stef-
fley, awaiting trial on the charge of
murdering Pearl (Hettinger, to-day
authorized his attorney to bring ac
tion for $50,000 damages against J. P.
Gilsinger, of Pulaski County, who, he
charges, is responsible for the action
of the Grand Jury.
The damages will be asked for false
imprisonment.
ELKS NAME ORATORS.
MACON, Dec. 4.—Van A»tor Bach
elor. of Atlanta, will deliver the eulogy
of the memcrial exercises of the Ma-
can lodge oi Elks next Sunday.
Judge Augustin Daly, of Macon, will
be the orator at Milledgeville.
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Barnwell Militia Guards Suspects
When Citizens Seek to Lynch
Jail Full.
BARNWELL, S. C., DfC, 4.—A
threatened lynching wan averted here
to-day when Sheriff Morris, about 3
o'clock this afternoon, started for >he
8tate penitentiary in Columbia In an
automobile with three negro prison
ers securely handcuffed and heavily
guarded.
The negroes are those held respon
sible by the Coroner's Jury for the
murder of E. Payton Best, a leading
merchant of Barnw'ell, who was shot
down within 50 feet of the courthouse
about 9 o’clock.
Before the negroes were taken away
and when the lynching talk was ai
its height, Governor Blease sent a
message from Columbia requesting
the former captain of the old Barn-
•veil mll'tary company, recently dis
banded, to assemble the company and
protect the three negroes, and be
tween 30 and 40 other suspects held
In the Barnwell Jail. He also In
structed Sheriff Morris to swear ih
any number of deputies necessary to
protect the negroes. Benator Patter
son. of Barnwell County asked the
Governor over long-distance tele
phone for aid.
Jury Blames Mattison.
In Scott Mattison, Mitchell Story
and Gilbert Miller, arrested at day
break. the officers believe they have
those responsible for tire murder. It
is charged that Mattison shot Best,
and the others were the chief accee-
sories.
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 Mattison and arrested
him about daybreak.
The negroes fled immediately after
lleet 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
hundrud by noon.
It Is probable that the Grand Jury
will be summoned and an immediate
trial held, as this is probably the only
way to prevent a race war.
The funeral of Mr. Best will be
held this afternoon.
Train Coach Burns;
Passengers Injured
ROME, Pec. 4.—The second class
coach of a Central of Georgia local
train running from Ohatt’anooga to Ce-
dartowrt was burned last night, 40 miles
north of here, at Martindale, when a
lamp exploded.
Several negroes were injured by fly
ing glass. A paralytic negro wu bare
ly rescued from the tlumes.