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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
BEST YEAR FOR GEORGIA
SEEN Iff BUSTREET'S
ELOPEMENT10YEARS
AGOCELEBRATEDNOW
That the new year will be the
biggest in the history of the South
is the ronfident prediction made
Monday by J. E. C. Pedder, division
superintendent for Bradstreet's and
an expert on business conditions in
this section.
Mr. Pedder declares that with the
taritf and currency bills disposed of
and the banks full of money, nothing
stands in the way of 1914 breaking
all records.
“The year 1913, just closing, has
been one of the most complex that
the Southeastern States have experi
enced in years,” said Mr. Pedder,
and although crop conditions and
prices in this territory have been
good, owing to the disturbing factors
of the tariff bugaboo and the cur
rency bill, general conditions during
the past summer were not entirely
satisfactory, although there was no
reasonable explanation.
Free From Load of Debt.
The marketing of the cotton crop
this fall brought the farmers, who
had pla.nted, worked and harvested
ii themselves at a minimum cost,
practically free from the load of
debt that had accumulated the past
iwo years, which will give them a
good start for 1914.
“The general trade throughout the
Madman Shoots Wife
And Baby for Having
‘Devil’ in Their Eyes
CINCINNATI, Dec. 29. -“I killed
her because I saw the devil in her
eyes. The baby would also have the
devil in her eyes, so I killed it, too.”
This was the explanation given by
n man registering in the Hotel Wal
ton as D. R. Willard, but who later
said he was Robert Munroe Maroney,
aged 26. of San Antonio, Texas, for
the murder of his wife and 3-year-oid
daughter thi9 morning. The mother
and child were riddled with bullets as
thev slept in a room.
After the shooting. Maroney, flour
ishing a revolver, ran, half eald, from
the hotel and was pursued by a crowd
to the river, where he was caught on
1 iie bridge. He told the police lie was
a magician, a son of James Willard,
and was known as "Willard, the Wiz
ard.” Coroner Foertmeyer pronounced
the man violently insane.
4 Ships Reported
Lost in Gulf Gale
.MOBILE. Dec. 29.—Reports were
received here to-day that at least four
ships foundered in the gale which
swept the Gulf of Mexico Christmas
Day. The British schooner Cheslie,
the schooner Griffin and the barks
Sirdar and Milwa are missing.
The Sirdar's crew has been landed
at Pensacola, but the fate of the oth-
ers is pnknown. A schooner bound
for Mobile this morning had aboard
tile crew of an unidentified vessel.
Auto Bandits Hold Up
New York Pool Hall
NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Six masked
motor bandits early to-day held up
30 patrons ,of “Young” Wagner’s pool-
room. at No. 58 Thompson street
robbed them of $400 in cash and took
all the watches, stickpins, rings and
other jewelry in sight.
Then they dashed out to a high-
powered automobile and escaped. The
robbery took place one block from a
police station.
Southeast has been restricted and
repressed, and more in the line of
filling in than normal buying, with
the result that merchandise stocks
at the present time are depleted.
“This indicates that the early
spring months must show a decided
increase in orders and sales. In fact,
numerous local wholesalers and job
bers have already felt this trade im
petus in largely increased orders for
spring shipment.
1914 To Be Best.
“With the tariff and currency bills
disposed of; with our banks full of
money; with our farmers in better
financial condition than for years;
with the faith in ourselves that we
have gained by the magnificent for
ward strides we have made in the
past few’ years, we can all look for
ward with confidence born of our
past successful achievements that
1914 will be the best year ever known
in the South.
“I might tell yfiu of the wonderful
record we have made here in At
lanta, but the world knows that, and
statistics are dry reading, anyway;
but if we all attend to our own
knitting, each one striving to make
his individual efforts the best, we of
the Southland will lead the nation in
comparative results.”
Another Eruption of
Vesuvius Imminent
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
NAPLES, Dec. 29.—Another gre it
eruption of Vesuvius is believed to
be imminent.
Professor Klercalli, director of the
observatory on the mountain, declares
that the specimens of lava and other
data obtained by Frederick Burling-
ham, in his descent to the bottom of
the crater, indicates that the volcano
is reawakening.
600 of U, S, Warship
Crew Quarantined
LEWES. DEL., Dec. 29.—Six hun
dred members of the crew of the bat-
hip Ohio are confined In the ma
rine hospital here, while 250 of tneir
fellows are fumigating the vessel.
The fumigation was ordered be
cause of several cases of smallpox
that developed after the Mediterra
nean trip. The men will be in quar
antine for two weeks.
Tangoing Forbidden
By French Bishop
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 29.—A decree forbid-
d'ng the dancing of the tango in his
diocese was issued to-day by the
Bishop of Besancon.
The Prelate denounces the dance as
immoral and calls upon all Christians
to bar it.
Wedding Rush On to
Beat Eugenic Law
MILWAUKEE. Dec. 29 —Anticipating
the enforcement of the new eugenic law
in Wisconsin, a rush is on in every
0, inty in the State to obtain marriage
•ic* rises this month and evade the ex
amination provided in the measure,
fc'hich becomes effective January 1.
U. S. GETS REI10Y t HELD.2 S0UGHT! T
Federals to Attempt Recapture of
City—Border Guard Prepares
to Avert Casualties.
WASHINGTON, Deo. 29.—Antic*-
pating a battle near Juarez, Major
General Leonard Wood, Chief of
Staff of the army, to-day sent word
to Brigadier General Bliss, com
manding the American forces in FI
Paso, Texas, to make every effort to
prevent firing across the border by
the Federals or the Constitutionalists.
General Bliss was instructed to or
der his men to take every precaution
to prevent casualties or damage to
the property on the American side of
the line and to warn the respective
commanders that they would be held
personally responsible for any dam
age to lives or property.
Reports from El Paso to-day indi
cated that the Federal forces will at
tack Juarez not later than Thursday,
and that they will try to recapture
the customs port.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels to
day ordered the gunboat Yorktown
from San Diego, Cal., to the west
coast of Mexico to relieve the gun
boat Annapolis. The Annapolis will
return to San Diego for repairs.
Border Town.
Rebels Marching On
PRESIDIO, TEXAS. Dec. 29.—
Scouts of the Mexican Federals in
OJinaga reported to General Orozco
there to-day that they had sighted
the advance guard of the rebel army
marching from Chihuahua. This
news was immediately followed by
the departure of scores of women and
children from the Mexican town of
Presidio.
United States troops are preparing
to enforce their order that no Ameri
cans must be imperilled by the firing
of the two armies.
It is probable, however, that the
battle will not begin before Tuesday
afternoon, as the rebels will travel
slowly through La Mula Pass.
Negro Cabman Arrested Denies
Knowledge of Robbery—Police
After Alleged Accomplices.
With a negro cabman, Tom Bow
man, under arrest on suspicion of
having driven Jason A. Rosier to the
alley off Decatur street where he was
assaulted and robbed and left half
deaxl, detectives Monday morning be
gan a search for two other negro?v,
who also are under suspicion.
The t lews connecting the two ne
groes with the assault were unearthed
by a brother of the injured man, wnc
told i.he police late Saturday night his
reasons for suspecting them. He went
with tw r o detectives on a search for
the negroes, but was unable to find
them. The theory connecting the ne
groes and the negro Bowman with the
crime is that Bowman, having secured
Rosier as a “fare,” drove him to the
alley, where the young man was
pulled from the cab and assaulted and
robbed by the other two, who lay in
wait for their victim. Hosier's broth
er says* a $350 diamond stud and a
gold watch which the injured man
wore are missing.
Bowman denies all knowledge if
Rosier. He declares that he never
had a white man in his cab Friday
night, and that throughout Friday and
Saturday be was not in the vicinity
of the robbery. He probably will be
grilled by detectives Monday In an
effort to induce him to help unravel
the mystery.
The condition of the wounded man
appears to be growing worse. Sun
day he was still unable to talk, and
has not said a word since he was
found.
News has reached Atlanta of the
death of T. H. Ellett, retired mer
chant and prominent citizen of Rich
mond, Vo.. He was w r ell known here,
having frequently visited his daugh
ter, Mrs. Dunbar Roy. Dr. and Mrs.
Roy are on their way to Richmond
to attend the funeral, which prob
ably will be held Tuesday.
While on his last visit to Atlanta,
Mr. Ellett was taken ill with heart
trouble, but had recovered sufficiently
in August to return to Virginia. He
is survived by his wife and Mrs. Roy.
SLAYER S HIDING PLACE FOUND.
CHESTER, S. C., Dec. 29.—Frank
Grant, who killed Sidney J. Fergu
son. a. well-known citizen of this
county, has been arrested. He was
found hid under the gable of the
house of his uncle a few’ miles from
the city.
Builders Call New
Crematory O.K. Now
The new crematory plant now is
free from its defects, according to
Engineer Canham, who has had
charge of the work since it began.
However, Councilman Claude L. Auh-
ley. chairman of the Sanitary Com
mittee of the Board of Health, de
clares that when he visited the plant
Saturday he found it in worse condi
tion than ever before.
The city has assumed the role of
dictator as to when the- test shall be
made and the builders, the New York
Destructor Company, has sent its
sales manager, W. D. Dowd, Jr., to
Atlanta, to agree on a date for the
official test He will arrive Tuesday.
MANUAL TRAINING PROVIDED.
ST. AUGUSTINE. FLA., Dec. 29.—
Through co-operation of public-
spirited citizens with local school of
ficials, a fund has been raised for
a manual training department, and
to-day equipment was ordered.
Marshal Quits; Jail
Now an Ice House
GENTRY, MO., Dec. 29.—The news
papers have had a great deal to say
lately concerning Kingston. Mo., be
cause the town marshal resigned his
position and the calaboose was sold
for a chicken house. Gentry has had
no marshal since the last one re
signed several-.years ago and it is
more than a year ago that the city
jail building was sold and moved
away for an ice house.
Furthermore. Gentry has no pool
room, billiard hall or bowling alley.
Even games of marbles and horse
shoes, so common in most small
towns, are not played here.
Treat Children's
Colds Externally
Don't dose the delicate little stom
ach with harmful internal medi- •
cines. Vick's "Vap-O-Rub” Croup ,
and Pneumonia. Salve is applied ex- (
ternally over the throat and chest.
The body heat releases soothing an- £
tiseptic vapors that are inhaled all t
night long, loosening the tough (
phlegm and opening up the air j
passages. For all Inflammations of ,
the air passages from head colds
and catarrh, down to bronchitis and
incipient pneumonia, Vick’s is /
quicker than internal medicines.
Can be used freely with perfect
safety on the smallest child. At
druggists—25c, 50c and $1.
CRICHTON-SHUMAKER
Cor. S. Pryor and Hunter Sts., Atlanta
MONTHLY FOR TUITION
Places Both TEACHER and PUPIL
ABSOLUTELY ON THEIR MERIT Sch i ? la P r r , c h f i e p rred p,an
E. C. CRICHTON
Shorthand Department.
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Business Department.
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CRICHTON-SHUMAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE
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SPRING TERM BEGINS MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1914
Three of Mr. and Mrs. David Webb’s five children.' Above is David, Jr., on left, from a pho
tograph some time ago, and Mary Lee, aged 6; below, on left, is a recent picture of David, Jr., now
aged 4, and on the right, Howard, aged 8.
Kelly Defends Self
In Radium Dispute
BALTIMORE, Deo. 29.—Efforts to
discredit Dr. Howard A. Kelly in his
activity in the field of radio-therapy
met with indignant bursts of disap
proval to-dav from his friends. The
physician himself declared there is no
basis for the charge that he is “ad
vertising the merits of radium solely
lor his own financial gain.”
"1 have never refused to give a
cancer sufferer treatment with ra
dium,” said Dr. Kelly, "and my in
terest in conserving t lie country's
supply of radium deposits is that the
thousands of cancer patients may be
benefited by such a policy.”
Wayne Posse, With
Dogs, Trails Negro
JESUP. Dec. 29.—A Wayne County-
posse with bloodhounds to-day is
pursuing a negro who last night at
tempted to attack an aged white
woman at Hortense, near here.
The negro barricaded himself in a
shanty, and batled with the Sheriffs
posse, escaping in the darkness.
Later he shot the Seaboard Air Line
bridge watchman near Everett City,
when the watchman attempted to ar
rest him.
Clubhouse Engaged to Accommo
date Hundreds of Guests at
“Tin” Anniversary.
SUFFRAGE LEADER DYING.
ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Dec. 29.—
Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, 78, n
suffrage leader, is not expected to
live until to-night. She had been in
a critical condition since she fell and
broke her hip two weeks ago.
Ten years ago when David \V.
Webb and pretty Miss Annie Elder
secretly planned and gleefully carried
out a runaway marriage—to the
amazement of their own parents, as
well as to the general surprise of
their friends and acquaintances—the
young bride exacted a promise that
they would celebrate the tenth anni
versary of their wedding in a manner
that would make up for the trick they
had played on people by their elope
ment.
So it comes that there will be a
"tin wedding" Tuesday evening in the
Women’s Clubhouse out at Clarkston.
Each of the elopers was 20 years old
when, without saying a word to any
one, they met by appointment and
went to the lioem of the Rev. Julian
S. Rogers, then the assistant of the
Rev. Len G. Broue*hton, and made de
mand that he then and there make
them husband and wife.
With the lapse of years Mr. Webb,
now a sedate and well-established
Atlanta business man. had begun to
imagine that Mrs. Webb had forgot
ten the promise he had made her in
the excitement of their elopement.
And, with the ordinary man’s not
overly enthusiastic liking for social
functions, he was not in any haste to
remind her.
But she remembered. Their home
in Clarkston’, to which they moved
several years ago, would be too small
for tlie concourse of friends and rela
tives. she thought. The Women’s
Clubhouse was just the place. Be
tween three and four hundred invita
tions have been issued to the celebra
tion.
The Rev. and Mrs. Julian B. Rogers
will be among the guests of honor.
And then there will be three of the
younger generation of Webbs—How
ard, aged 8; Mary Lee, aged 6. and
David, Jr., aged 4. But this is not the
entire family of Mr. and Mrs. Webb,
by any means. There still are Rob
ert, aged 2, and William, who was
ushered into the w’orid only four
months ago. They have been prom
ised that they shall attend the next
decennial celebration of tiie Webb
elopement, but they are too young
just now to go out to parties and cel
ebrations.
Mr. Webb is a member of the Webb
& Vary Printing and Publishing firm
at No. 38 1-2 West Alabama street.
D, W. Brown Calls His
$166,000 Gift ‘Trifle’
DENVER, Dec. 29.—A check for
$150,000 and a $16,000 necklace was
the gift of D. W. Brown, Denver
multi-millionaire, to his daughter Ha
zel Bird Brown, who was married in
New York on December 6 to Captain
J. W. Flanagan.
Mr. Brown admitted he had made
the present and called it "a mere
trifle ”
Hunger Strike Can
Never Kill, Says M.D.
Special Cable to The American.
BERLIN. Dec. 29.—Suicide by a
hunger strike is impossible, declares
Professor Karl Ludwig Schleich, an |
expert. This is apropos of an em
bezzler in jai! here who is abstaining
from food.
“Let him alone.“ advises Professor
Schleich. "Do not attempt forcible
feeding. When lie has starved him
self sufficiently he will go into a
frenzy and devour any food given to
him."
Cripple Runs Amuck
And Terrorizes Town
SAN BERNARDINO. CAL., Dec.
29.—Supposedly a helpless cripple,
but in an instant transformed, James
O’Brien, who now occupies a cell in
the County Hospital awaiting ex
amination by a lunacy commission,
tried to kill a dozen persons and kept
tlie little town of Dale in a state of
terror for two days.
He finally was overpowered and
guarded day and night until an au
tomobile could be summoned from
Mecca.
Alabama Elopers
Marry at 1:30 A, M.
El FA FLA. ALA., Aec. 29.—Eluding
their parents in the dead of night.
Miss Rosa Goodson and Clem Stevens
drove from White Oak. this county,
to Georgetown, Ga., across the Chat
tahoochee River and w r ere married at
1:30 o’clock this morning by Ordinary
J. E. Dozier.
Of the hundreds Mr. Dozier has
married these were the ’ earliest.”
A Sure-Enough
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Stuarts Buchu and Juniper
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Bladder.
No more bone pains, aching back,
headache, puffy eyes, swollen legs, of
fensive urinous odor, diabetes, cloudy
urine or frequent desire. Try Stuart’s
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edy. We could talk till doomsday
about how good this remedy is, but the
only sure wav Is for you to try it your
self. Buy a $1 bottle and take as di
rected on bottle. Stuart’s Buchu and
Juniper Compound has cured thousands
of sufferers where all other remedies
have failed. Stuart's Buchu and Juni
per Compound won’t make you feel sick
when you take it. but tones you up.
Stuart’s Buchu and Juniper Compound
acts directly on the urine through the
kidneys. It keeps the blood healthy. It
strengthens the neck of the bladder.
It regulates the kidneys and does awav
with backache and all disagreeable
symptoms. If discouraged with other
medicines, buy a $1 bottle of your drug
gist to-day and take as directed on bot
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