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THE
GEORGIAN
Being the News of Each Day of the Week in Condensed Form Specially For the Busy Man and the Farmer
VOL. V. NO. 52.
Sc A MONTH, 56c A YEA*
NEGROES SAVED BY
RUSE DF SHERIFFS
Slayers of Mrs. Irby, Near Wrens,
Spirited to Augusta From
Waynesboro.
W AYNE8\BORO, Dec. 16. — George and
William Hart and Robert Pascliall, the
three negroes held for the murder of
Mrs Seth Irby, near Wrens yesterday
afternoon, escaped mob violence last
night by a ruse worked by the Sheriffs
of Jefferson and Burke Counties.
The negroes first were carried from
Louisville to Waynesboro, where a mob
quickly formed, and the militia was
called out to avert a lynching. The
Sheriffs then hid the negroes in the
woods and spirited them to Augusta
early this morning.
Mob Surrounds Jail.
It was thought the negroes woulct be
safe in the Burke County jail here, but
stories of the unusually brutal nature
of the crime with which they are
charged, brought in after the arrival of
the Sheriff and his prisoners, led to
threats of violence, which caused the
local officers to spirit the negroes to
Augusta in an automobile.
The locai company got to the jail in
record time after a message from the
Governor’s office ordered the militia on
duty. The building was already sur
rounded by an angry crowd, composed
largely of men from Jefferson County,
where the crime was committed.
Woman Brutally Slain.
The crime with which the negroes are
charged was committed yesterday aft
ernoon above Wrens, near the Glascock
County line, where three negroes went
to the house of Seth Irby, a white man,
attacked his wife, cut her head from
her shoulders and beat it into a pulp.
When Irby returned home from a
visit he had made to a neighbor near
by, he found his family of small chil
dren covered up in bed, badly fright
ened, and the headless body of his wife
lying on the floor
Sheriff Smith and Deputy Sheriff Mel
ton were notified, and the County dogs
led them to where the three negroes
were hiding.
One story of the murder is that the
negroes went to the home of Mr. Irby,
and, in his absence, demanded of his
wife payment for some potatoes they
claimed to Jiave sold Mr. Irby. She
refused to pay them and they killed
her. .
Girl Kills Herself
With Carbolic Acid
ZEBUJjON, Dec. 16.—Miss Jessie Rog
ers, about 18 years old, committed sui
cide at the home of her father, about 3
miles from Zebulon.
While her mother was preparing a
meal, she went to her room, took car
bolic acid and was dead in a few min
utes. No cause is known for the deed.
U. S. RADIUM WASTED.
WASHINGTON, Dec 16.—Deposits of
radium-bearing minerals m the United
States are being rapidly depleted by
wasteful exploitation, chiefly for the
benefit of foreign markets, says a re
port issued by the Bureau of Mines.
From Colorado and Utah, said to pos
sess the most important radium-bear
ing deposits in the world, the report
said, there was shipped to Europe in
1912 carnotite ores values commercially
at $792,000.
M'DERMOTT TO QUIT.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Representa
tive James T. McDermott, of Chicago,
recommended for “censure” by the
House lobby committee which investi
gated the Mulhall charges, has an
nounced he will not be a candidate for
re-election.
This solves the question of disposing
of his case, and as a result the Demo
crats will probably defeat any plan to
expel him.
$50,000,000 FOR POST ROADS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—A Federal
appropritaiou of $25,000.900 to be spent
for good post roads, with an equal ap
propriation by the several States, is
proposed In a MU mtredoced m the Sen
ate by Senator Swanson, of \ lrgima.
ATLANTA, GA„ WEEK ENDING DEO. 16,1913.
Entered at the Atlanta. Ga., Postoffice as Second Class Mali Matter.
Published Weekly By
THE GEORGIAN COMPANY
20 E. Alabama-at., Atlanta, Ga-
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
RETURNS TO ATLANTA
COLONEL JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
IS TOLD OF
Dorothy MacVane Is Daughter of
Harvard Professor and Is a
Professional Singer.
ROME, Dec. 16.—Dorothy MacVan ■,
daughter of Professor MacVane, of
Harvard University, has been arrest
ed at Taranto, Italy, charged with
espionage upon the Italian naval base
situated there. United Stales Am
bassador Thomas Nelson Page was
notified to-dav- bv the Italian Gov-
ernment of the arrest.
Miss MacVane, who made a suc
cessful debut here as a singer in “La
Boherae" three years ago, had gone to
Southern Italy to sing with a small
opera company.
Her familiarity with Italian naval
officers at Brindisi gave rise to sus
picions among the authorities in I
she was watched by secret service
agents.
In addition to Miss MacVane's
friendship with Italian naval officers,
her French maid was also seen often
walking with officer's at Brindisi.
When Miss MacVane went to Ta
ranto from Brindisi, she was kept
under strict surveillance. Her maid
was intercepted and the authorities
claim to have found evidence against
her.
Immediately a her arrest Miss
MacVane attempted to send word to
Ambassador Page, but the authorities
refuse,, to accept her letter. Later
f ir. Page was officially notified. Miss
MacVane asked that her father, Pro
fessor Silas M. MacVane, be notified
of her plight.
Miss MacVane went upon the stage
against her parents’ wishes, and has
been making her home in Europe dur
ing the past four years.
Will Be Permanently Associated With The
Atlanta Georgian and Hearst’s Sunday
American.
Colonel John Temple Graves, for
the past six years editor of The New
York American and special writer '’or
the various Hearst publications, Iras
returned to Atlanta to be permanent
ly associated with Mr. Hearst's At
lanta newspapers as that publisher’s
direct personal representative.
Colonel Graves’ work in Atlanta and
the South will be wide in scope and
far-reaching in consequence. He will
stand for Mr. Hearst and his- aspira
tions and ambition in Southern jour
nalism. He will project his personal
ity sharply into the Hearst publica
tions in the South, and his work will
be Mr, Hearst’s work.
Needles to say, Colonel Graves is
being cordially welcomed on all sides.
He numbers his friends in Dixie by
the thousands. He is attached to the
South by ties of blood and long as
sociation and acquaintance. The en
tire period of his young manhood was
spent in Dixie, as an editor in Georgia
and Florida, and, although he has had
high honors conferred upon him
abroad, his heart still is, and ever
has been, most at home among Geor
gians.
Colonel Graves has been intimately
associated with Mr. Hearst in New
York and Washington, and has been
sent to Georgia because Mr. Hearst
believes him pre-eminently the man
to bring the Hearst publications close
to The hearts and firesides of the
Southern peopLe.
Of course, Colonel Graves is glad to
be “back home.” As he expresses it,
“Old Brer Rabbit was no more de
lighted when thrown into the briar-
patch than I am delighted to be in the
South again permanently, and where
I may serve the people of my native
section to the full and final limit of
my ability.
“Mr. Hearst has great ambitions
for The Georgian and The Sunday
American. I shall strive to help him
realize them completely.”
Mrs. Graves and the children will
not return to Georgia until later in
the winter, and perhaps not until
spring.
New Trial Denied
To “Nick” Wilburn
MADISON, Dec. 16.—Nick Wilburn's
motion for a new trial, now under sen
tence of death for killing James King,
in Jqnes County, was overruled hera
by Judge James B. Park.
In his argument, John R. Cooper, at
torney for Wilburn, stated that the only
evidence brought forth in the trial was
the confession of the prisoner himself
while in duress, and that it seemed
forced upon him. He also referred to
the fact’ that Mrs. King was given hec
liberty, when, he declared, she was the
more guilty of the two.
Solicitor Joseph E. Pottle, represent
ing the State, said no man ever got a
fairer trial than Nick Wilburn; that his
confession was made voluntarily and
free from any kind of intimidation.
ON LEAVE OF ABSENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., Dec. 16.—Si-
'’s MacVane, professor of history at
Harvard College, whose daught t,
Miss Dorothy MacVane, is under ar
rest in Italy, left this city about a
year ago on an indefinite leave of
absence. He took his daughters, Dor
othy, Edith and Emily, with him.
Friends of the family from time to
time have received letters from Rome
telling of Miss Dorothy's success in
grand opera.
MARSHALL TO EXPOSE ‘TRUANTS.’
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Absentee
ism in the*"Senate hereafter will be ex
posed in The Congressional Record,
under a ruling by Vice President Mar
shall.
When a Senator Is late for a session
or when he “plays hooky at roll call
the fact will be published.
VOLCANO OVERWHELMS ISLE.
NOUMEA, NEW CALEDONIA, Dec.
]6 _The liner France arrived here to
day with 500 refugees from Ambrim is
land. which has been overwhelmed by
a volcanic eruption.
A number of villages were destroyed
with heavy loss of life
According to the refugees the erup
tions continued several days.