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i IJERTA LY FLEES TO COAST FOR SAFETY anything to sell? The SUhDA Y AMERICAN Can Do It for You CIRCULATION OVER 100,000 The Atlanta Georgian Read for Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use for Results VOL. XII. NO. 110. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1913. rty Copyright. Ikon, o (’1,'YTV PAT NO r The Georgian Cft. — ' 1 1 o. MORE. NIGHT EDITION $139,373,480 FROM GEORGIA COTTON | 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 ^