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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.