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VOL. XII. NO. 110.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913.
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| OeLa Barra Reported on Personal
Mission for General—Rebels
26 Miles From Capital.
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 8.—Consti-
tutionalist troops led by General
Jose De La Lux Blanco to-day
invested Tampico and demanded
its surrender. General ilabago,
the Federal commander, has only
a small force. A fight at Tam
pico would probably result in the
landing of American marines.
MEXICO CITY, Dee. 8.—Gen-
leral TTnerta’s family have fled
[from the capital. They are on
[their way to Manzanillo, a port
Ion the Pacific Coast. They left
I last niffht on a special, but their
Idepart.ure did not become known
limn! noon to-day. All traveled
I in a single car and the blinds at
the windows were drawn down
| lightly.
Though Huerta, has declared h*
I will fight the revolutionists “to tke
nnd.” It Is believed that he will soon
[follow his family. From Manzanillo
11' will be possible to sail for some
I foreign land, probably Japan
Huerta Still at Palace.
General Huerta was still in the
[palace this afternoon. It is said
I that his wife pleaded with him to
[go with her but that he refused. The
[train on which Senora Huerta de-
| parted went via Guadalajara, which
|caused the report In the early morn-
I :ng that Huerta had himself gone to
I that city.
Francis De La Barra, who was ap-
I pointed envoy to France, soon after
I Huerta took office, was recently sent
I on a mysterious mission to Japan.
It is believed now that he was order-
I pd there to make arrangements f >r
I ’he reception of the Huerta family
I "hen driven Into exile.
A military train was blown up by
I rebels north of Iguala, State of
I Guerrero, to-day. All the train crew
I were killed and it is believed that a
• a rge number of soldiers also met
| death.
Fighting Near Capital.
General Castro’s Federal troops
I ar e engaged In a battle with a large
I f orce of Zapatistas 26 miles from
here, between Contreras and Adjusco.
lighting is going on near Tres
| Marias.
Zapata’s soldiers began a general
I 2(1 vai -' e on the capital at dawn, and
| had made good progress when they
, Wer e met ky Federals dispatched
from here and from Cuernavaca. As
le rebels advanced they destroyed
| fhe railroad.
Reinforcements Joined Zapata's
I *oen to-day, coming from Puebla and
| Guerrero.
Government refused to give
I an y information as to the suc-
I * or failure of its troops. This
has
caused reports that the Federate
I e ‘^ing driven back.
Th
[that a
ki
er < is a growing fear in the city
-°w hours will see looting and
, in the streets. Every avail-
* federal soldier was dispatched
° uernavaca to-day by Minister of
r ar fila -nquet to swell the forces of
J *neral Castro, who is opposing
6a Pata' s advance.
CONGRESSMAN'S WIFE DEAD.
I JGTON, KY., Dec. 8-Mrs.
| ' '’npbell Cantrill, wife of the
tack* r *" Srnan from tb® Seventh Ken-
■ V died at Georgetown, near
| _ .. 1a v She was well known in
1 v. t and throughout the South,
i “sis " 2, 9u ffered a year from tubercu-
one was 40 years old.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The Mlchi-
Ban Railroad Commieaion won its
fight to compel Michigan railroad* to
conform to it* switching and terminal
regulations as a result of a decision
of the Supreme Court to-day. The
oommiaeion waa acting undar a State
publio utility law, the constitution
ality of which wa* attacked by the
Grand Trunk Railroad.
DENVER, Dao. 8.—Normal condi
tions will not be restored in Denver
and Colorado for a week or ten days.
Snow which oam# with last week’s
blizzard atill blocked many Denver
streets, and some part* of the State
were out of communication. No ore
will bo hauled from any mine in Col
orado for aeveral days. The coal
shortage in Denver wat relieved when
traffic was made possible by the
clearing of ths principal streets of ths
City.
BAYONNE, N. J„ Dec. 8.—Anxious
depositors besieged the First National
Bank to-day while a placard posted
on the door gave notice that it waa
in the hands of the Government. The
bank directors had offered to raise
$700,000 to keep it open, but Bank Ex
aminer C. H. Chapman rejeoted the
plan. From the attitude of the de
positors it was apparant that a run
would have started if the bank had
been opened.
GIBBSTOWN, N. J, Dec. 8^-Four
men are believed to bo dead and sev
eral injured following an explosion in
the powder works here to-day.
NEW YORK, Doc. 8.—Joaeph J.
Lannin, a hotel owner of Garden City,
N. Y., this afternoon purchased a half
interest in the Boston American
League baseball club. Lannin said
that ha had paid "in th* neighbor
hood of $260,000” for the interest for
merly controlled by President James
A. McAleer and Secretary Robert Mc-
Roy. Both these men will retire and
Lannin will be elected president in a
few days.
CHICAGO, Deo. 8.—Managers of 8
cold storage warehouse* were eubpe-
naed to-day to testify before the Fed
eral Grand Jury in Its investigation
into the high cost of eggs. Attempts
will be made to learn who le respon
sible for the high prices and whether
price# are high because large quanti-
tie. of aggs are kept off the market
through an agreement between deal-
era.
SHELBYVILLE, IND., Dec. 8.—
State rested its case in the Craig
murder trial this afternoon at 1:45.
The defense stated it wished to make
a motion. The jury was taken from
the court room. Attorn*-' Spaan at
once moved on behalf of the defend
ant that the jury be instructed to
return a verdict of acquittal, and be
gan a lengthy argument in support
of his motion. Argument on the mo
tion is expected to take up the en-
tire afternoon.
GIBBSTOWN, N. J., Dec. 8.—Six
men were killed and several were In
jured by the explosion of 700 pounds
of gunpowder in the gelatine mixing
house at the Dupont Powder Works
here this afternoon.
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 8.—Two
were killed and five injured on the
Southern Pacific to-day at Schrlever,
30 miles from New Orleans, when a
freight train broke in three pieces.
The dead are Andrew Collins and
Fred Lanford, of the train crew. The
airbrake was applied too suddenly.
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—At the end of
the sixteenth hour, at 4 o’clock, the
teams in the six-day bicycle race
were one lap behind the record, hav-
ing covered 362 mile# 3 lap#- Tn#y
were stilt tied.
ALBANY, N. Y„ Dec. 8.—Miss Nora
McCall, niece of Judr-- Edward E
McCall defeated Tammany candidate
in the New York Mayoralty race, to-
day gave up world’y pleasure and
donned the white veil and black habit
of the Sisters of the 8acred Heart.
Crooks Are Looting
State Postoffices;
Register, Ga.,Latest
If the "yegg” migration through
Georgia doesn’t atop, R. E. Barry,
postoffice inspector. Is likely to have
the family telephone taken out.
"At 3 o’clock this morning, Mr.
Barry said Monday, "I was hauled out
of bed to learn that the postofflce at
Register, Ga., had been blown all to
bits. The postmaster was too excited
to mention his name and he didn’t
know the exact amount of the rob
bery. I guess It wasn’t any great
loss.” .
Mr. Barry suggests to postmasters
In small towns that they keep eyes
open during the southward journey of
tramps and "yeggs” for the winter.
"Crooks will pick up a little cnange
as they go along,” he said, ' and the
descriptions are always meager. A
couple of 'yeggs' will hang around a
town a week and after they blow the
postofflce safe and get away, all we
can And out Is that one of them was
a tall, slender man, wearing a slourh
hat and the other a short, heavy-set
man, which description fits practi
cally all the cases of safe-blowing
burglary or highway robbery X ever
heard of." . _
191 DIVORCE CITY SHIRS
CASES UP AT 8 BELOW
MRS, HOUSTON LEADS
CABINET WAR ON EGGS
Crawford Letter
Defending Widow
Produced at Trial
E
Judge Hill Rushes Hearing, Sur
prising Lawyers Expecting
Usual “Placing Method.”
On# hundred and ninety-one matri
monial craft, derelict on the sea of
suppositious wedded bliss. came to
port Monday morning In Judge Hill’s
court. It la the largest divorce docket
in the history of Fulton County.
And Judge Hill, new to the work,
began it In a manner that upset a lot
of staid and solemn lawyers, accus
tomed to have hearings arranged for
their own convenience.
Judge'# Views on Divorce Cases.
Judge Hill hold# that a Judge's or
Juror's personal opinion does not en
ter into the trying of a divorce case*,
that certain statutes have been laid
down by the legislature, and that it
Is simply the Jury’s business to de
termine whether the charges agree
with those named in the statutea
“So far as handling the work of
the court,” he said, “I do not think It
is necessary for me to give long
charges to the Jury In divorce cases,
or to enter into long statements on
the evidence, unless it is shown that
the parties have been guilty of col
lusion to obtain a divorce. I think
the Jury can determine very readily
as to whether the complaining party
ts deserving of freedom.”
That both parties should be re
lieved of their disabilities unless the
evidence showed one or both to be
of such character that they should
not be allowed to remarry was the
opinion expressed by the judge In one
case.
All Records Broken.
All records for divorce hearings in
Fulton County were broken at Mon
day’s session. It was the first time
Judge Hill pad ever officiated in a
divorce hearing, but his work was
rapid. From 9:30 o’clock until 1:30 a
total of 65 divorces had been granted,
most of them being second verdicts.
The calendar presented almost ev
ery variation of marital rebellion and
desertion and grief and abuse and in
fidelity and non-support, and all the
rest of it
Petitioner# Mostly Women.
There were sad-eyed women, hesi
tating, and even hoping for some
thing at the eleventh hour; some
thing that was not mentioned in
their petitions. And there were wom
en who looked forward to a release
as if from prison; who looked for
ward right Joyously to another start
in life; perchance another embarka
tion on the same kind of voyage that
had come to grief, but with another
pilot. 0
It was the usual courtroom ^rowd
of divorce petitioners, mostly women.
The unusual feature was the atti
tude of the lawyers.
When It was discovered that Judge
Hill, In the effort to clear up the
clogged docket, would not “place” the
cases, the lawyers suddenly and un
expectedly were confronted with the
job of sticking around court all week,
being prepared at any moment fof
the calling of their cases.
Record Time Made.
There was a flurry and a hasty use
of telephones, and hurried journeys
to offices, to arrange for the care of
other business, so that the week of
December 8 might be devoted to the
divorce calendar and cleaned up
without delay.
The first case on the list was that
of a negro woman asking divorce, and
it was disposed of in record time. The
attorneys announced “Ready,” and in
less than a minute the case was on.
In four more minutes the Judge had
Instructed the jury to bring in a ver
dict granting the divorce.
A little later came the case of Mrs.
M. A. Sockwell.
“How many children did your hus
band have when you married him?”
she was asked.
“Well, he had five children with
him and four grown children else
where,” she said, and added that i
promptly after their marriage in May, |
1911. her husband had turned from
an apparently energetic and able per
son to the “laziest white man’ she
ever had »een She got the verdict.
FREEZING
Atlanta Experiences Real Touch of
Winter When the Mercury
Goes to 24 Degrees,
MINISTER ADDRESSES LODGE.
CHATTANOOGA, Dec. 8 —The Rev. C.
H Rogers, of Harriman, Tenn., deliv
ered the annual memorial address at the
lodge of sorrow of the local Elks yes
terday The scheduled orator, General
Harvey H Hannah was unable to at
tend because of Illness,
Official figure# on wind and
temperature for Sunday night
are as follow#:
Highest wind velocity, 42 mile#
an hour at 1 o'clock Monday
morning.
Wind velocity at 9 o'clock Mon
day morning, 28 miles an hour.
Lowest temperature, 24 degree#
above zero, at 7 o’clock Monday
morning.
Temperature at 10 o'clock, 27
degree#.
Forecast—Clear and odd Tues
day.
A large red sun crept slowly up in
a steel blue sky Monday morning.
Old Sol got up at the usual time, but
he didn’t cheer up very much. He
looked shivery, and his rays failed to
hit the earth with much of a wal
lop, for the thermometer at 9:30
o’clock registered four degrees below
freezing.
The late attack of Indian summer
was over all at once, and winter had
touched Atlanta with an icy hand.
The temperature in the early morn
ing was five or six degrees under the
freezing mark, and the sharp wind
lent point to the chill and poked it
around through the crevices of over
coats and tugged at hats and caused
exposed ears and noses to blush vig
orously.
Wind 40 Mile# an Hour.
The switch in the weather ar
rangements was presaged Sunday
night when a 40-mile-an-hour wind
began to sweep bare the streets of
Atlanta and whoop Joyously around
the skyscrapers.
Pedestrians’ hats came to grief, and
there was even a smash of plate !
glass along Peachtree and Whitehall i
streets.
The wind came up as the sun went
down, and whooped about under the
stars, which looked a good deal less
like "forget-me-nots of the angels”
when set in a sky that looked like the
roof of a frozen lake.
And all night long the snugly
housed citizens of Atlanta burrowed
deeper and deeper under the cover
lets, and heard at waking Intervals
the dull thunder of the wind, and
regretted, dozily, the approaching
time for getting up.
Winter Fire# Started.
In the morning there were furnace
fires to build, which is a peculiarly
unhappy task to be performed in
slippers and pajamas, even with an
unfeeling overcoat to boot.
The blaze eddied and swirled In
open grates, and the stoves roared
again, with a doleful sound of good
heat flying up the chimney.
Then breakfast—and it was a prop
er Juncture for the good old warming
sausage-and-buckwhtat type of food,
while the vegetarians and the anti-
caffein warriors must have suffered
a qualm or two at the prospect.
Downtown in the early morning
you oould tell it was chilly, even if
you didn’t feel it. The town looked
chilly.
Make Atlanta “Get a Move On.’’
Chunks of ice that a few days ago
had spread water abroad on the side
walks while waiting to be shaved
up for the soda fountains now stood
in the solemn majesty of conserva
tion, without the fa.nlest suspicion of
a wasteful trickle.
There waa no loitering on the street
corners. Everybody seemed to have
somewhere to go and not very much
time to get there.
It was not a dreary scene. Rather,
it sparkled with a brisk life and ac
tivity, as if Atlantans, far from de
clining to take the proffered hand of
winter, had grasped the chill glove
heartily and were squeezing tome
warmth and life Into the old boy who
drops In for a visit when the last
football gamfe-a are over and Christ
mas is drawing near.
A letter written by Joshua B.
Crawford to Mrs. Mary Belle Craw
ford (at that time Mrs. Savage) urg
ing Mrs. Crawford to hasten to At
lanta, was Introduced by the attor
neys for Mrs. Crawford Monday
morning. It was filed as a counter to
the charge that Mr. Crawford wrote
her telling her not to come to At
lanta. The letter reads:
“Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 22, 1909.
“Mrs. Savage: I received my
trunks. I was so glad to get them.
And you say my house is vacant?
Before coming up to Mr. Barens
and have him to rent It for me. Come
up as soon as you can, for I need
you. We want to get our house fixed
up, so I can live once again. You
promised to come soon. Don’t make
It too long. I will close for this time.
"Hoping to see you soon,
“Your Intended,
“J. B. CRAWFORD.”
The/ attorneys for the 48 heirs ob
jected to the introduction of the let
ter, charging It was not genuine.
Mrs. M. J. Johnson, of Tucker, Ga,
a friend of Mr. Crawford, testified as
to his marriage and illness. Khe told
of seeing the trained nurse give him
a cough syrup under the doctor’s In
structions.
Dr. W. A. Jamigan and Dr. Marlon
Hull corroborated the testimony of
Dr. J. W. Hurt and others that the
amount of poison In Crawford’s stom
ach was not enough to cause death.
THE WEATHER.
Forecast for Atlanta and
Georgia—Fair and much cold
er Monday; fair Tuesday.
MRS. DAVID F. HOUSTON.
Mrs. Houston proposed the boycott against the high price of eggs
which was Inaugurated by the women of the Cabinet last week, and the
other wives of the Cabinet fell In. Mrs. Harrison was at first quite certain
that the Secretary of War could no t do without his eggs at breakfast.
She, too, finally agreed to help the housewives’ movement, which is now
nation-wide, and the embaj-go on the hen product at the Cabinet tables
Is complete.
RACING
RESULTS
Convict in Federal
Prison Here Falls
Heir to Rich Estate
James K. Porter, Who Is serving a
term in the Federal Penitentiary
here for selling liquor In violation of
the Government laws. has. through
the death of a relative at Batesville,
Ark. where Porter was convicted,
fallen heir to $20,000.
The news of.Porter’s good fortune
was received by The Georgian Mon
day morning. At the penitentiary of
ficials said that Porter had not as
yet been notified of the legacy.
The county judge at Batesville has
ruled that Porter's wife shall have
the income from the fortune until the
man Is released.
College Girls War
On Women’s Hats
WELLEBT.EY, MASS., Dec. 8— A
movement has been started here to
compel the removal of hats worn by
women. The “ostrich farms” and
"flower gardens” were denounced at
a mass meeting of Wellesley College
girls. -
Baptist Pastors in
Men and Religion
Crusade on Liquor
Plana to support the Men and Re
ligion Forward Movement in Its cru
sade against liquor were formulated
at the weekly meeting of the Baptist
Ministers’ Association Monday.
Several pastors declared their in
tention to be present at the next
meeting of the Police Commission,
when near-beer licenses will be con
sidered. They will join in the fight
then to be started.
Pastors also were urged to do
everything In their power to make
"Go-to-Church Day” a success.
Boy Burglars Rob
Alverson Bros. Store
Another depredation by boy bur
glars was discovered Monday morn
ing when clerks opened the store of
Alverson Brothers, at No. 88 South
Forsyth street. The burglars got In
through the transom over the back
door.
They took $3 from the cash reg
ister.
Race Entries on Pag-e 11.
Boarding House Fire
Is Quickly Subdued
Fire, originating from a defective
flue, did slight damage to Mr#. Ida
Forrester's boarding house, No. 227
Whitehall street, Monday afternoon.
The fire was discovered in the roof.
It was extinguished by chemicals.
Grade This Year Is Much Highei
Than From Any Other Sec
tion of Dixie.
AT CHARLESTON.
FIRST—Six furlongs: Coreopsis,
111 (Davenport), 15-6, 6, 3, won; Ca
mellia, 106 (Ward), 9-5, 4-5, 2-6. sec
ond; Harcourt, 111 (Hanover), 15, 6.
3, third. Time, 1:15 4-6. Eaton Perk-
ley, Pluviua Troyweight, Cllfftop,
Sungulde. Sherlock Holme# also ran.
SECOND—Six furlongs: Coy, 109
(Goose), 4, 2, 1, won; Dick Dead-
wood, 110 (Martin), 18-5, 7-5. 7-10,
second; Loan Shark, 110 (Frasch),
7-2„ 7-5, 7-10 third. Time 1:16 4-5.
Chemulpo, KJva, Semiquaver, s*-r
vestriK, Camel, Sir Marion also ran.
THIRD—Mile: Kallnka, 109 (Right-
mler), 7-2, 1, 1-3, won; T. H. Adair,
107 (Martin), 10, 4, 6-5, second; Har
ry Lauder, 107 (Deronde). 4, 1, 2-5,
third. Time, 1:42. Llnbrook, Gros-
venor also ran.
FOURTH Six furlongs Ella Bry
son, 108 (Rightmler). 7, 8-5, out, won;
Sir John Johnson, 128 (Glass), 3-2,
2-5, out, second; Wilhite, 112 (Calla
han), 7-5, 2-5, out, third. Time
1:14 4-5. Samuel R. Mayer, Sher
wood also ran.
FIFTH—Six and one-half furlongs:
Ford Mai, 101 (J. McTaggart), 13-10,
1-2, out, won; Pike’s Peak, 98 (Ran
dolph), S-2 8-5, 3-5, second; Berna-
dotte, 109 (Callahan), 8, 5, 1, third.
Time 1:24. Hearthstone, Mad River,
Plain Ann. Capt. Jinks, Lady Orimar
also ran.
Georgia has collected from a
world which must be clothed
$139,373,4(50 this season.
This is $33,750,000 more than
came into Georgia last fall.
The Government glriners’ report
issued Monday shows that 2,064,792
bales of cotton have been ginned in
Georgia since the cotton crop began
to move. Bales ginned, as a general
proposition, may be regarded as bale#
sold. Particularly Is this true for the
present season. Few farmers are
holding their crop, for prices have
been thoroughly (satisfactory.
Georgia, then, has sold more than
2,000,01)0 bales of cotton. The price
lias ranged from 13 cents upward for
middling, with an unusual premium
for white, fine grades. The Georgia,
crop has classed much higher than
usual, better than the crop of Texae
or any of the river States. It is con
servative to say that an average of
13 1-2 cents was paid for the Georgia
crop
This makes $139,373,460 received for
the crop to date.
Last year only 1,564.428 bales had
been ginned to this date. The In
crease this year is 600,000 bale#.
Girl, 8, Urges U. S. to
Name Younger Santa
WASHINGTON, Deo. 8—"Fleas*
appoint a younger Santa Claus.”
This plea waa made by letter to
Postmaster General Burleson by Mia*
Lodenia I* Hlle, 8 years old, of Al
bion, Ind., who saya:
"Santa Claua used to call on *rand-
pa when grandpa was a little boy.
Santa Claus must be too old now
get around to see all the children.”
Chief Tells Toccoa
Of Vice War Here
A clean-up movement of some kind le
not unlikely In Toccoa following an
address on the reform movement In At
lanta by Chief of Police Beaver# Sun
day.
The chief said time had proved that
there was no fanaticism in the anti-
tenderloin war here which doomed rec
ognized evil. He said it also demon
strated that the man who cailed him “a
Miss Nancy” waa mistaken.
School Children to
Sell Xmas Stamps
The Red Cros# Christmas seals wttl
be 9old this year through Atlanta’#
thousand# of school children, the
same as teat year, for the benefit of
the open-air school fund.
l>ast year through the sale of the
Red Cross seals school children raised
over $1,090 for the purpose of estab-
ltehlng an open-air school In AtUuit^
Judges He Appointed
Kept Taft From Law
I CINCINNATI, Dec. 8.—Kx-Preak.
dent Taft told for the first time whr
he was prompted to give up Cincin
nati as his home and accept a
fessorshlp at Yale.
He said It was because he
have been compelled to practice law
before judges be had appointed, a ^