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DETROIT, MICH,, Deo. 26.—Eire
.rteii in the old Michigan Central
iepot at 1:4a tills afternoon and in a
abort time flames enveloped the en-
ire structure. The police believed
tat one man and two scrub women
vere trapped in the building The two
xomen were reported to have been
- en Standing at a window on the
second floor directly over the space
cupied hy the waiting room and the
can was thought to be on the third
floor where the fire started.
Many women were in the ladies’
siting room of the station when
he alarm -was given but it is thought
ley ell escaped.
Tower Falls With Crash,
tt -: 30 p. in. the immense tower
’ h* c h topped off the station building
11 with a crash Into the street,
- ottering debris for half a block.
The police had anticipated its fall
od had cleared the streets all around
ind no one was hurt. Fire Chief
Broderick said then it would be al
most impossible to save any of the
meture. The third floor was used
; * store records and flies and thev
cade fine fuel for the flames, none
of them being saved.
The Detroit and Cleveland Line
Fteamship Company, whose docks
are within half a block of the sta-
inn site, had several large vessels
tied up there and at 3:30 p. m. be
gan to move them up the river. Other
vessel owners also began moving
their craft.
Firemen directed their main ef
forts to keeping the flames from
spreading to the manufacturing dis
trict.
Passengers in Panic.
A train from New" York came in
while the fire was at Us height. The
passengers were wildly excited but
ail of them were let off the train in
the freight sheds in safety.
William Kane, fireman, fell from
' ladder and was seriously injured.
H. L. Thomas, porter, while re
moving records immediately after the
ire started, suffered severe burns to
his hands when they came in con-
tacl with live wires.
There were 500 persons employed
in the building and 30 clerks in the
inditing office had narrow escapes
from suffocation, being trapped in a
stairway.
Girls Stick to Posts.
Ella Gagen, telephone operator on
I lie main floor and Miss May Degens.
w telegraph operator, were the last
o leave the building. Miss Gagen
stayed at her switchboard, ringing
Barms to every department of the
station until the flames had gotten
within 20 feet of her and Miss Degens
refused to leave as long as Miss
Gagen remained.
There was a crowd of immigrants
waiting to train out and they were
in a panic and had to be practically
driven from the building.
Atlantans in Tampa
Enroute to Havana
TAMPA, Dec. 26.—On their way to
Havana to see the sights, a party of At
lantans passed through Tampa, taking
the Olivette for the Cuban city.
The party includes J. B. Beck and
wife, X. R. Duncan and wife. Miss Sims.
Miss A. Torres. Miss Nolan. Mrs. Nolan,
Mrs. M. L. Pitts. Miss Burson, Miss
t.lara Perry. W <\ Harter, Mrs. W. A.
^ herry, Price Charter. W. u. Elliott.
Miss Eouise Wall, Miss Li. Hinson and
John T. North.
Father Shoots Son
Who Defends Mother
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 26.—Wil
liam Paige, at his home on Enterprise
street, declared that he was going to
kill his wife, and cut loose with a re
peating rifle. His son, Loton Paige,
grabbed another gun to defend his
mother.
Paige shot the boy down. He is at
St. Luke’s Hospital in a dangerous
condition.
HEART WIFE'TELLS OF
HER WEIRD ROMANCE
Miss Adelaide
Branch, the
"heart wife’’ of
a former dis
trict attorney at
Monticello,
N. Y., who lived
a hermit in a
secret room in
his offices for
years.
PUCE IN STRIKE HOW ASSOCIATED CHARITIES HEAD
KILL f[|[in||j| LOOKS ON EMPTY STOCKING FUND
DEATH OF 11
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Florida Osteopaths
Open Annual Session
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 26—The
Florida Osteopathic Assoefation con
vened in annual session here to-day
at the Windsor Hotel auditorium.
Mayor Swearingen delivered the ad
dress of welcome.
Following this convention, the Gulf
States Osteopathic Society will also
meet at the Windsor. Addresses will
be delivered to the Florida associa
tion by President Sarah E. Wheeler
and Drs. Perkins, Kemp, Bush, Mose
ley and others. The Gulf States So
ciety will be addressed by Drs. Wood-
all, Blackman, Berry and others.
Fewer Saloons for
Mobile Next Year
MOBILE. Dec. 26.—Mobile will prob
ably have less than 52 retail liquor
stores in 1914, according to members of
the city excise commission, who state
that applications so far received indicat
ed that a number of those holding li
censes this year will not seek new li
censes.
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MONTICELLO, N. V., Dec. 26.—
Adelaide M. Branch, “heart mate” of
Attorney Melvin H. Couch, whose
tragic death revealed the fact that she
lived as the slave of the lawyer for
years in a box-like den off his office,
will hide herself in the West. She
soon will leave the jail where she had
found a refuge and go to some little
town where she can fight her grief.
Despite the predicament in which
she finds herself, Miss Branch assert
ed calmly to-day that she had no re
gret for her past life.
“In spite of all that has happened,
in spite of all I have suffered, in
spite of all this scandal and noto
riety, 1 have not one regret for what
I have done,” she said. “I would do
it all over again to-morrow if 1 could.
“I have been rich in love. 1 have
had full measure, pressed down and
running over, of a perfect love and
I companionship, and it was worth the
| price I paid.” I
Miss Branch to-day told for the
first time with what secrecy she had
to move to conceal her presence In
the little room. Every time that the
lawyer received a client she had to
take special care to hide the fact that
she was near by.
“I wore rubber-heeled shoes, so that
I could move about without making
any noise.” she said, “but mostly I
sat very still, listening to the snatches
of conversation that floated over the
wall, which did not extend to the
ceiling, learning to know by their
voices people that I never saw Clients
came and went, politicians and, occa
sionally, I heard the voice of a wom
an—Mr. Couch's wife.
“I made his life happy, but l suf
fered. Oh. yes, 1 suffered. 1 paid
the price. T suffered when l thought
of his wife. J did not want to hurt
her, but I could not help it. I don’t
believe two women can love the same
man and not have their hearts torn
with miserable jealousy and envy of
each other. I knew Mr. Couch loved
me as few women have ever been
loved in the world—and yet I was
jealous of the woman who bore his
name and was his wife In the eyes of
society.
“And 1 will tell you a strange thing.
Awake, my mind was filled with hard
and bitter thoughts of her. hut in my
sleep I loved her better than any one
woman on earth. J dreamed of her
constantly, and always in my dreams
1 was going to see her, and she was
meeting me with outstretched arms
of welcome and with affection in her
eyes and smiles.
“What does that mean? What can
it mean except that we do not really
hate each other at all in our hearts,
and that as soon as we strip off this
little fleshly veil we are all love for
every human soul?”
CALUMET, MICH., Dec. 26.—While
four separa.e investigations of Calu
met’s Christmas tree disa-ster, in
which 72 persons, most of them chil
dren, were killed, were being made
to-day and a dispute was being waged
as to whom should bury tin* dead,
peacemakers were at work in a su
preme effort to bring an end to the
copper mine strike in this region.
Over the bodies of the little ones the
leaders of the peace movement hoped
to see an end to the labor strife whi *h
has torn the Calumet copper district
for several month?
United in grief over the snulfing
out of so many young lives, the war
ring factions—mine operators, guards
and strikebreakers, and the stricken
union miners and their friends—gave
no thought to the big labor battle
that indirectly is blamed for the most
grewuome horror in the history of
Calumet.
Hostility Less Marked.
There was still a dispute over
whether the offer of the Citizens' Al
liance, an organization that has been
considered hostile to the strikers, to
defray all the burial expenses should
be accepted. Officials of the Western
Federation of Miners declared that
the offer should he spurned
“We will care for our own dead."
was the defiant response to the al
liance.
The feeling of hostility was not so
marked to-day when it was seen that
the citizens of Calumet and other
cities in the mine district were in
earnest in their efforts to raise funds
for the stricken families. Almost
unlimited amounts of money were
pledged by mine owners and mer
chants who have been opposing the
strikers. The committees represent
ing the operators went from house to
house to-day comforting the surviv
ing membors of families whose dear
ones were taken from them in the
unnecessary panic.
Following these committees went
others, and suggestions that peace be
declared between the forces repre
senting capital and labor were diplo
matically expressed.
Peace Suggestions Please.
It was suggested that tlie man who
thrust his head into the door of
Italian Hall while the Christmas tree
celebration was at its height and
shouted fire was inspired to the
malicious deed by some things that
the miners have done to promote
their strike. The peace suggestions
were apparently well received. The
miners seemed not to blame the minp
operators, hut they felt that the dis
aster would not have occurred had
there not been a strike and it appear
ed that they JeR more remorse than
resentment.
After the funeral of all the victims,
which will be arranged for later to
day. it is expected that the spirit of
fight will have been interred with the
bodies of the innocent little children
and wives of the strikers and that
peace will prevail where, had not the
disaster occurred. a labor w#r
have continued indefinitely.
Here is what Joseph C. Logan,’ Secretary of the Associated Charities, and an expert in the
proper administration of charitable funds, thinks of The Georgian's Empty Stocking Fund :
” Again The Georgian Empty Stocking Fund has gladdened the hearts of hundreds of chil
dren. It has shod their little feet, and warmed (heir precious little bodies. The Associated Char
ities knows 673 of them by name and age and home. You may know others. But The Georgian
does not publish these facts, because that would humiliate, and add a sting to the pleasure of both
mother and child.
“ In this, and in other respects, the Empty Stocking Fund deserves high praise. It is dis
tinctive in taking unusual trouble to suit gifts to the sex and age of the children; and in preserv
ing the spirit of Santa Claus, by delivering the gifts through a parent of guardian.
‘ It treats these children with as much consideration as if some day any one of them might
become editor of the paper, Governor of the State, or other great servant of mankind; and why
not—since a Babe that was born in a manger, became the Light of the World.”
Wild Bullet Badly
Wounds Young Girl
FLORA, MISS., Dec. 26— Miss
Grace Noble, 16-year-old daughter of
YV. B. Noble, was the innocent victim
of a shooting affray when Hugh
Thompson fired several bullets at
James Abernathy. The two men had
an argument while walking down
Main street together, when Thompson
drew a revolver and commenced fil
ing.
Miss Noble, who was also walking
on Main street, was struck by one
bullet. Her condition is critical.
Thompson was arrested. Abernathy
was not wounded.
Congressman Near
Death Hopping Train
LOUISVILLE, KY., Dec 26. Clinging
to the rear coften of a train as it sped
along, Congressman Finis J. Garrett, of
Tennessee, had a narrow' escape from
death at Winchester, Ky.
He was on his way to ids bom* at
Dresden, Tenn., for Christmas, and left
the train to mail some letters. When
the train started again. Garrett managed
to grasp the rear coach rail, but could
not get aboard Me finally managed to
Jump into a soft spot of earth and es
caped with only slight bruises.
OLD MAN DIES FAR FROM HOME.
MOBILE. Dec. 26. Cornelius
Laforge, aged 7S years, at one tim«
one of tlie most prominent residents
of Rockford, ill., died at Grand Bay,
Mobile County, where lie had been
for a month. The body was sent to
Rockford to-day for interment.
HUNTER SHOT IN FOOT.
GADSDEN, ALA.. Dec. 26.-Arthur
Snyder, while hunting near here, was
accidentally shot through the fno:.
Amputation may be necessary.
Jacksonville Police
Shoot Two Negroes
JACKSONVILLE, Dec. 26— Po
liceman I. J. Tucker shot Julian Roth-
muller, a negro, when he attacked the
officer with a knife. The negro is not
expected to live.
Ramsey Cuthbert, a negro, shot by
Policeman W. 1>. Smith, died at the
county hospital. The negro was at
tacking another officer when Police
man Smith came to his aid
girls crowded the shopping district of
ferlng the finest candies for sale. Fif
ty per cent of the money thus raised al
so was appropriated to the cause.
Fate’s Hand Shown
In Mother’s Death
EUFAULA. ALA., Dec. 26—Mrs. T.
B. Gibson, wife of a railroad man
of thin city, died of heart failure to
day, leaving a child two weeks old.
Mrs. Gibson’s own mother died at
Hawkinsville, Ga., her old home, when
she was only fourteen days old.
The little Gibson child will be cared
for by an aunt, who reared Mis. Gib
son.
$150,000 Skyscraper
Will Rise From Fire
GIRL “SANTA" DIES OF BURNS.
KNOXVILLE. Dec. 26. Mifjs Sophia
Preston, aged 15, is dead from burns
received while essaying the role of
Santa Claus. Her clothes caught fire
from a sparker in the hands of a boy.
SAVANNAH, Dec. 26 Construction
will start before January 15 on a new
building to lake the place of the one
destroyed by Are last week. W. C.
Brinckman. the owner, stated to-day
that he was considering the advisa
bility of erecting a flue office building
coating $150,000 with stores in the
lower floors.
He will start at oiks clearing the 1
debris from the old site.
Xmas Seal Sale in
Savannah Doubled
SAVANNAH, T>c. 36.—Th* sal. of
Red Cross Christmas seals in Savannah
this year doubled that of any previous
year with a sale of 75,000.
Added to the sum thus raised pretty
T HE lesson of “Good
Teeth-Good Health"
is being taught in
thousands of schools all
over the country—if is
to be hoped that children
of your family have re
ceived instructions in the
care of the teeth.
In many homes parents
are teaching their children
that care of the teeth
means relief from pain,
besides better health for
work and play. Help your
children form this habit
by setting them an ex
ample. twice-a-day.
Bu, choose your dentifrice
carefully—it is important. You
want one that is Baft, without
harmful grit—one that is anti-
septic, to check decay-germs
—one that is deliciout, eo that
its use is a pleasure instead of
a task.
Every memfcer of your lamliy ,
should have a tube of
C0CC6TC
RIBBON —»
Dental cream
Consult your dentist about it —
ask him to give you a copy of
tha "Oral Hygiene” booklet,
published by Colgate C& Co.
Essig Bros. Co
“Correct Dress for Men
December Reduction Sale
331-3 Per Cent Discount—For Cash
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On Our Entire Stock of Men’s and Young Men’s
SUITS and OVERCOATS
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All Suits and Overcoats That Were
15.00 Reduced
to
$10.00
$27 50 Reduced
to
$18.35
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23.35
25.00
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26.65
This sale includes all Black.
Blue and Fancy
Suits,
all
Light,
25 per cent Discount
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All Odd Trousers
$5.00 T rousers $3.75
$6.00
$7.00
$8.00
$9.00
$4.50
$5.25
$6.00
$6.75
in the newest patterns and latest models. Our clothing is manufactured for us by America’s best
tailors and we use only the best foreign and domestic woolens in all our Suits and Overcoats.
This is Positively a
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This is Positively a
Cash Sale
“Correct Dress for Men ’’
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