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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS,
Salas Builds Wall
Across Railroad in
A Battle for Land
Naval Stores Man Also Defies City.
Fear of Mine Leaves Him
Victorious.
flood List of Dead Now Numbers
75 and Scores More Afe Still
in Peril From Rushing Waters
and Cling to the House Tops.
Railroads Are Heaviest Losers
Hundreds of Bridges Damaged
and Long Stretches of Track
Have Been Carried Away.
AUSTIN", TEXAS, Dec. 6.—Fear-
Ing that an epidemic of typhoid will
follow (he floods that arc sweeping
Central and Southern Texas, the
State Health Department to-day be
gan the preparation of large quanti
ties of vaccine to be distributed
among the cities and towns In the
flood-swept district.
Authorities of the State penal
farms near Sugarland to-day report
ed that 2,500 prisoners had been re
moved to higher ground and were
under guard. The farm* are flooded
and the State suffered a heavy cron
loss.
The railroads of Texas have been
the heaviest losers on account of the
flood. Hundreds of bridges have beer,
damaged and hundreds of miles of
track have been washed out.
Total Dead Now 75.
DALLAS, TEXAS, Dec. Reports
of additional deaths in the flooded
region of Central Texas. to-day
brought the total to 75. Ten persons
to-day were reported drowned at
Hearne, eight at Bryan and six at
High Bank. A score or more persons
are missing.
The additional deaths reported to
day were discovered by rescuers in
motor boats who have been explor
ing the flooded districts.
Many farmers who sent members
of their families to places of safety,
but refused to leave their live stock
to the mercy of the rising waters,
have not been heard from for several
days. |
The motor boat crews durine the
night picked ur> more than 150 per
sons who had been marooned. Most
of them were suffering from hunger
and exposure.
Scores In Peril.
Soores of persons* in a dozen com
munities are still in peril, clinging to
roofs of houses and tree tops. Res
cuers were powerless to aid them, oe-
rause trains could not carry consign
ments of boats to all the inundated
towns.
Among the dead reported was
Henry Martin, vice president and
general manager of the International
and Great Northern Railroad, who
was drowned attemntlng to rescue a
marooned family at Valley Junction.
His body was not recovered.
All but 1,00(1 persons marooned by
the flood waters along the Brazos had
been taken to safety to-day. T ie
weather was cold and many of the
marooned victims suffered from ex
posure during the night.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 6.—R. S. Salas,
wealthy naval stores and fertilizer
man, Is becoming famous in Savan
nah In a three-cornered row with the
city and the Central of Georgia Rail
way.
Salae recently purchased extensive
water frontage. In doing so he got
a sidetrack belonging to the Central
of Georgia Railway and a lane be
longing to the city. He Immediately
started closing the lane and tearing
up the cobble stones, but an injunc
tion stopped him. He then tore up
the Central of Georgia tracks, and
built a thick wall across the open
ing. The company sent a switch en
gine and knocked the wall down. He
has now erected across the opening a
sign the size of a large billboard
warning the railroad not to again
trespass on his property.
Just what plans he has made he
would not say, but so sure are the
company employees that he has
planted a mine, that no one will take
an engine in.
Tinsley Accused of
$60,500 Bank Theft
SAVANNAH, Dec. 8—Fleming D.
Tinsley, member of one of the most
-prominent families In the State, re
cently acquitted by a Superior Court
jury of a charge of larceny after trust
in connection with the failure of his
cotton Arm. has now been Indicted by
a Federal Grand Jury In a like case.
Tinsley is charged with taking $60,-
500 from the Merchants National
Bank, of which he* was a director,
through the representation that there
was enough cotton in the warehouse
to protect the loan.
Joseph Hull, father of Tinsley’s
partner, Dan Hull, who Is one of the
wealthiest citizens In the State, made
the money good with the bank.
Rube' Marquard Is
Sued ou $1,000 Note
CHICAGO, Dec. 6.—“Rube” Mar
quard, pitcher for the New York
Giants, and felossom Seeley Mar
quard, his wife, with whom he is
playing in a vaudeville sketch in the
Palace Music Hall, are defendants In
a $1,000 suit, filed in the Municipal
Court by Joseph Kane, Mrs. Mar-
quard's former husband, for aliena
tion of his wife’s affections.
"Kane recovered a Judgment of $4,-
000," said Attorney Lowenthal. “Mar
quard paid him $3,000 and gave his
note for the remainder." He has fail
ed to pay the note.”
Rockefeller to Buy
Second-Hand Brick
CLEVELAND, Dec. 6.—John D.
Rockefeller wants to buy some sec
ond-hand brick. Those who supposed
the Forest Hill estate is a complete
model of Its kind are wrong. It seems.
The two-acre court about the barn
must be paved. So Mr. Rockefeller Is
looking for second-hand brick.
His secretary. F. E. Sims, was busy-
to-day calling up contractors who
might have slightly worn brick, a,-
most as good as new, for sale.
Postoffice Robbed;
Dogs Trail Thieves
COLUMBIA, 9. C., Dec. 6.—Bur
glar*; entered the postoffioe at Blyth v
wood, a small town near Columbia,
• -day and rifled a quantity of regis-
•red mail. The home of the post
master and a dry goods store wer*3
so robbed.
The robbers made their escape and
ire being trailed by bloodhounds from
the State penitentiary. They filled
a buggy full of shoes and other arti
cles from the dry goods store.
Miss Shenk, Noted
Beauty, Near Death
NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—Miss Flor
ence Schenk, of Baltimore, whose
beauty and daring as an equestrienne
captivated the horse show set of
several seasons ago, and who came
into the more garish light of publici
ty when she sued Charles H. Wilson,
trainer of Alfred G. Vanderbilt's
horses, for breach of promise, is re
ported to be dying, following an op
eration for tumor, In a private hos
pital.
Triplets for Pastor,
Ladies' Aid Is Busy
Macon Elks to Give
Poor Children Tree
MACON, Dec. ' 6.—Two hundred
noor children of the mill settlements
will be made happy Christmas by
the Macon Elks, who will have a
Christmas tree in ‘heir lodgeroom
Christmas afternoon.
This is in, furtherance of the "Big
Brother Movement" of the Elks
throughout the country. The Sal
vation Army will co-operate with the
Elkg in the affair.
EVANSVILLE, IND., Dec. 6.—The
Ladies' Aid. Society of the Simpson
M. E. Church was hastily called In
special session to-day when word was
received that the wife of Rev. Henry
triplets, two boys.and a girl.
Simmons had presented him with
Preparations had been made for but
one child, and a hurry-up order for
clothing resulted.
Builds Extra Strong
Home for Big Family
SABILLASVILLE, MT>„ Dec. 6 —
Neighbors of Theodore Colvin Wills are
congratulating him on the completion
of a new home built to withstand tile
tremendous weight of his family.
The Wills family, with seventeen ac
tive members, weighs more than a ton
l and a half.
Tale Is Fiction, She Says, and
Preseton Arnot Is a “Fool,”
Not Paul.
NEITHER IS SHETHE HEROINE
Scottish Adonis, All Innocence
Seen in Fireplace Glow, In
spired Fervid Romance.
Special Cable to The American.
HARI8, Dee 6.—Elinor Glyn, grace
fully reclining on an eighteenth cen
tury couch in the loveliest boudoir of
which a woman can conceive, smiled
when The American’s correspondent
showed her the report that John Prese
ton Arnot, who recently remarried his
former wife, Countess Marietta, of
Spain and Pittsburg, claims he Is the
hero of "Three Weeks.”
"He can only be a crank ot a fool!”
she exclaimed. "Therefore, whv
should I proceed against him? I
would do so only if he had the Im
pudence to hint that he Is the hero
and I the heroine,”
The mere possibility of such a sug
gestion stirred the author, who, leap
ing to her feet and her hand clenched,
her eyes blazing, said:
"In such a case my snu.Il, smooth
hands will prove tipped with claws. I
will tear the man to pieces.”
Makes Dramatic Figure.
She made a dramatic figure against
the background of purple silk. She
was dressed In a simple, tlght-flttlng,
low-cut black velvet gown, her mass
of Titian hair supplying the only
touch of color. Her anger quickly
evaporated.
"I had intended to keep secret how
I came to write 'Three Weeks’ until
my death, but I see now to relate It
will be the best way to kill this leg
end about its hero.
"It was the assassination of Queen
Draga of Servla that first gave me the
Idea. The fact that a beautiful wom
an could he slain In cold blood
awakened my sense of the dramatic.
Later on, at Christmas time, after a
hard day’s shooting, I was sitting by
a monumental fireplace In a historic
Scottish castle. Opposite me was a
youth of perfect beauty, with tho
features of Adonis. His blue eyes re
flected utter Innocence of feminine
wiles. I asked myself, 'What would
you he If your soul were suddenly
kindled by love?’
"This psychological problem long
haunted me. Finally I worked H out
In ‘Three Weeks,’ I decided the her
oine should be a queen and a Russian,
because there Is no doubt the psy
chology of the Slav women is the
most complex and most Interesting.
Lake Lucerne on a summer night ap
pealed to me as the most Idealistic for
the tale of the unsophisticated Eng
lishman’s lovemaktng. I went there
and worked rapidly for a fortnight,
the chapters flowed from my pen
without effort. Then, jaded, I went
to Venice to recuperate, and the mys
tic city of historic Intrigues suggest
ed to me a fine setting for the last
stage of Paul’s romance.”
Alabama Cotton Crop
Good and Price Right
BIRMINGHAM, Dec. J. B. Be
thea, one of the most prominent Ma
sons of Birmingham who Is not In
Grand Lodge official position, just
hack from the Grand Lodge annual
meeting, where he met representative
citizens from all parts of the State,
says that from the Information he
received there can be no doubt that
farmers In Alabama, and especially
those who raised cotton this year,
have had the most prosperous year
in their lives.
All farmers appear to have ready
money, the crops being good and the
prices brought for the product being
most satisfactory.
Burns 30 Buildings
To Hear Fire Bells
WINONA, MINN., Dec. 6.—"The
thought of the wild clanging of the
fire bells, the rising smoke and the
reddening heavens was too much for
me. I burned over 80 buildings be
cause the excitement was Irresisti
ble,” said Frank Norton to the Wi
nona police.
Two-Mile Walk Is
Favored for Pupils
WOODBURY, N. J., Dec. 8.—"Two
miles Is not an excessive distance for
a good, healthy child to walk to
school.” according to J. Brugnard
Betts, Assistant State Commissioner
of Education.
Jacksonville Girl Called'Coming Nordica
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ENGLAND BEGIN Voice Excelled Farrar s Before She Studied
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Miss Ri^jy Lehman Leyser, of Jacksonville, whose voice is declared marvelous.
Exhibition Hall in South Man
chester Is Destroyed Entail
ing a Loss of $60,000.
NOTE TO ASQUITH IS FOUND
Police Prevent Militants From
Burning Stand at Race Course.
Mrs. Pankhurst Weaker.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, Dec. 6.—The suffragettes
began in earnest to-day to carry out
their threat of nation-wide incendia
rism in revenge for the arrest of Em
meline Pankhurst.
Rusholmee Exhibition Hall, in
South Manchester, was destroyed,
with a loss of $60,00. Near the
scene of the fire was an abusive let
ter addressed to Premier Asquith.
At Liverpool “arsonettes" set fire to
the scenic railway in the Liverpool
Exposition Grounds, partly destroy
ing it. There also was a letter abus
ing the Premier left by the incen
diaries.
Militants tried to bum the grand
stand Of the famous Alntree race
course near Liverpool, but were pre
vented by the police. Several women,
who fled at the approach of the police,
were detected setting fire to a portion
of the stand, which had been soaked
with oil. A large quantity of litera
ture reviling the Government was
found.
Large property owners, fearing the
widespread activity of the arson
squads, are hiring private watchmen
to protect their buildings. Members
of the Cabinet have been advised to
keep an especially strict watch about
their homes, and Premier Asquith
probably will be attended by a body
guard on account of the hostility
aroused by Mrs. Pankhurst’s arrest.
Mrs. Pankhurst Too Ill
For Forced Feeding.
Special Cable to The American.
EXELTER, ENG., Dec. G.—The
condition of Mrs. Emmeline Pank
hurst, who was brought here and
lodged in jail after her arrest under
the "cat and mouse” act, was serious
to-day, owing to her continued hun
ger and thirst strike.
Her heart was weak and the jail
doctor said the prisoner’s condition
was too low for forcible feeding.
It is probable that the Government
will have to order Mrs. Pankhurst’s
release within the next 48 hours.
I Shot Him to Save
My Life,’ Cries Wife
NEWCASTLE, WTO., Dec. 6.—"I
killed Jim because he Intended to kill
me. There was nothing else for me
to do," said Sarah Scudder, justify
ing the shooting ot her husband,
James Scudder, at a sawmill camp
near Upton.
Mrs. Scudder sent a bullet through
Scudder’s head. He died nine hours
later without regaining consciousness.
Mrs, Scudder Is held In the county
jail without ball and will be tried for
murder In the first degree. She Is
said to have killed another husband
and a woman in Texas.
After Prayers, Man,
Long Invalid, Walks
CENTRALIA, ILL.. Dec. 6.—A
case of "divine healing” Is attracting
a great deal of interest here.
Revival meetings have been in
progress. Charles Tate, an invalid
for four years, was carried to the
service in his chair. He asked for
the prayers of the congregation.
Before morning Mrs. Tate was able
to walk, according to his friends.
When Mr. Tate appeared at the
services the next evening and walked
down the aisle, the congregation was
elated.
Minister Arrested
On Bigamy Charge
Undraped Posing
Causes Stir in Paris
(Cabinet Minister’s ex-Wife Seen In
Artistic “Studies” by Lead
ers of Art World.
PARIS, Dec. 6.—A social sensation has
been caused here by the undraped plas
tic poses by Madam Valentine DeSaint
Point, the divorced wife of a French
cabinet minister, granddaughter of the
Marquis DesGlans DeCeselat, and a de
scendant of the poet and historian, I .La
martine.
The spectacle wan given in her huge
studio, No. 19 Avenue DeTourvllle, in
the Champs DeMars quarter. Rome
three hundred invitations were sent out
to leading men and women In the liter
ary and artistic world. There was not
a single refusal.
Madame DeSaint Point, who In known
as Madame Valentine, has a petite fig
ure, pale blue eyes and a mass of chest
nut hair. She Is also a writer of books
and plays, as well as a talented painter.
Cousin of Lillie Lehman Plans to Invade
European Music Centers.
Town Puts Its Ban
On All Sunday Work
AURORA, ILL., Dec. No .resi
dent of this city will he allowed to
work on Sunday or keep open his
place of business on Sunday, except
those who conscientiously obserre
sornp other day of each week as the
Sabbath, or in case of necessity, under
an ordinance passed by the City
Council.
The ordinance was passed to ap
pease the barbers, most of whom fa
vor Sunday closing.
Genevieve Clark
To Be Housekeeper
WASHINGTON, Deo. 8.—Speaker
and Mrs. Champ Clark h. ve taken a
house on Massachusetts avenue
which will prove one of the centers
of official society this winter.
The household presiding genius is
to be Miss Genevieve Champ Clark,
their attractive debutante daughter,
who will apply the principles of mod
ern domestic science t the servant
and housekeeping problems
One of the first entertainments to
be given in the house will be on Ne»
Year’s Day, when Miss Clark will be
presented to society.
CHAMBERSBURG, PA., Dec. 6.—
Just as he was stepping into a church |
at Greensprlnga, Cumberland County, ,
the Rev. Thomas J. Hilton, a Mennon-
ite clergyman of Plattsburg, Mo., was
arrested by Sheriff George Walker,
of Franklin County, on a charge of
bigamy.
After Hilton was on his way to jail
here he remarked, the police say, that
"trigamy" might as well be the name
of his offense, for he had three wives,
rather than two.
Wed 20 Years and
Divorced 20, Remarry
BINGHAMTON, Dec. 6.—The mar
riage of Mrs. Laura Perkins, of Ox
ford, and Andrew Keyes, of this city,
in Oxford, revealed a romance.
Forty years ago they were married
and lived together twenty years, after
which tjje wife obtained a divorce.
Recently they met accidentally and*
decided to remarry.
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 6.—Miss
Ruby Lehman Leyser, of this city,
has won fame as a singer and Is de
scribed by noted music masters as
the “coming Nordica of America.” It
is declared she has a voice, which,
even at the beginning of its culture,
was superior to that of Geraldine
Farrar.
Miss I^eyser is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. leyser and was heard
under *the auspices of the Friday
Morning Musicale two years ago. She
possesses a wonderful soprano voice
and it is her hope to Invade Parts.
Berlin. London and other musical
centers of Europe after another win
ter of study under the leading mas
ters of New York.
Not only does she possess a voice
of birdlike quality, but Miss I>eyser
is gifted with rare charm and word-
anly beauty, characteristic of the
State in which she was born—Ken
tucky. With her beauty this belle of
the Blue Grass State is winsome and
affable, and her friends here believe
that the future holds gTeat promise
for her.
Mins Leyser has been undergoing
rigid training in Chicago, New York
and Canada for the last seven years.
Her studies have been pursued under
such master as Buzzi Peccla and W.
S. Brady. She Is & cousin of Lillie
Lehman, the gTeat German artist,
and Blanche I^ehman, leader in mu
sical circles of Louisville.
Young Belmont May
Have to Tell Income
NEW YORK. Dec. 6.—Raymond
Belmont, son of August Belmont, will
have to appear in the Supreme Court
and tell from what sources he de
rives his income, if Justice Gleberich
decides in favor of an application
made to-day by Edith I/orraine Bel
mont. She is the actress wife of Ray
mond, having married him a year
ago.
Mrs. Belmont is suing her husband
for separation. Her attorneys want
to know who gives Raymond money
and how much he is receiving. The
young husband is said to be in Eng
land at present. The trial of the sep
aration action was adjourned for two
weeks, to permit the court to pass on
the new application.
Real Bird Christmas
On J. W. Kern Estate
Husband Replies to
’Perfect Foot' Wife
OMAHA, NEBR., Dec. That
Mrs. Clara fl. Houston, the Chicago
woman of "perfect foot” fame suing
Nat C. Houston, of Omaha, vice
president of the Great Western Com
mission Company, for divorce and
$10,000 alimony, induced her husband
to marry while he was in a weaken
ed state of health owing to the sud
den death of his first wife is the al
legation filed by him in the District
Court.
He also alleges Mrs. Houston con
stantly demanded money, but told
him he must not touch or come near
her, she demanding $160 a month
"pin” money.
Art Works Demanded
Of Millionaire Clark
WASHINGTON. P*e fl — Senator and
Mrs. John W. Kern will give a unique
party pn Christmas Day for the birds
that live in and around Kern Cliffe,
their Virginia country home.
Mrs. Kern has purchased a number
of tiny baskets to fill with goodies dear
to the bird heart. These will be sus
pended from tree branches. Bird houses
will be placed on the grounds for a holi
day shelter.
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—In a suit on
file to-day the United States District
Court Is requested to summon Eli P.
Clark, a millionaire land holder of Lo«
Angeles, upon a date yet to be set, and
require him tp show cause why he
should not deliver twelve paintings to
Frank McKay, trustee for the bankrupt
art concern of Tomllnson-Humes, Inc.,
of Chicago.
The paintings are said to be the work
of William Hogarth, and comprise the
“Industry and Idleness" series^
Militant Suffragists Take the
Secretary by Surprise and Ha
Beats “Hasty Retreat” Whe«
Pressed Too Hard for Views,
Senator Owen, in Chair, Ignores
Ircident, Which Is First Such
Outbreak Against an Official
of the American Government.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 6.—The first
militant suffragist outbreak against
an official of the American Govern
ment was staged to-day when Secre
tary of State Bryan was challenged at
the convention of the National Popu
lar Government League with the cry,
“How'about Justice for women?”
The Secretary had Just concluded a
fervent address on behalf of popular
rule. A tall, slender woman arose in
a seat near the front of the dark hall
where the meeting is being held, and
called out, “How about women, Mr.
Bryan? Are not women people?”
The suffragist champion was Miss
Helen Todd, now head of the Cali
fornia Civic League for Women. Her
act “floored” the Secretary for a mo
ment, as other women joined In.
Leaves by 8ide Door.
Mr. Bryan turned to the audience^
and, struggling to control his voice,
said:
“Madame, I have no doubt that in
a’l your work you have followed your
conscience and your Judgment. In
my work I have tried to follow mine.”
With that he left the platform. Bryan
left the hall by a side entrance.
Senator Owen, in the chair, Ignored
the outburst.
Nine new lawn to establish “tha
sovereign right of the people to rule
themselves” were demanded by Sena
tor Owen in his speech. They followi
Self Rule Remedy.
The Gateway amendment, by
which the people may more eas
ily amend the Federal Constitu
tion.
The initiative and referendum
In easily workable form.
The recall by which to dismiss
public officials who are unfit.
The commission form of gov
ernment for cities, with the ini
tiative, referendum and recall.
The short ballot.
The mandatory direct primary.
A drastic, workable, thorough
going corrupt practices act.
The nomination and election of
President and Vice President of
the United States by direct vote
of the people of the States, giv
ing each State its proportionate
eleotora-1 vote.
The democratization of our in
stitutions from top to bottom,
through these agencies, and the
prevention of the putting of "Jok
ers” in popular government bills
by “organized plutocracy.”
Favors Right to Rule.
Bryan's address dealt with the righv
and capability of the people to rule.
He declared that the universal trend
throughout the world is toward "those
methods of government that permit a
larger and larger participation in the
government on the part of the peo
ple.”
He stanchly defended the right of
the Filipinos to self-government with
out mentioning that people by name;
urged that President Wilson’s plana
of direct nomination of candidates for
President be supported, and advocat
ed the immediate amendment of th#
Federal Constitution to that end.
Chairman Owen named as a com
mittee on organization Carl Vroman*
of Illinois; Milton T. U'Ren, of Cali
fornia, and Heroert Quick, of We®t
Virginia. The committee on resolu
tions consists of Delos F. Wilcox, of
New York; Campbell Russell, of Okla
homa.: Professor Lewis Johnson, of
Harvard University; George H. Dun
can, of New Hampshire, and Dr. A. X
McKelway, of the Distriot of Colum
bia, «*L j
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