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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS.
EST YEAR FOR GEORGIA
SEEN BY BRADSTREET’S
HEAVY TRADE
lie new year will he the
i in the history of the South
confident prediction made
,, by ,|. E. C. Pedder, division
tendent for Bradstreet's and
: , ri on business conditions in
section.
redder declares that with the
ind currency bills disposed of
:•> banks full of money, nothing
in the way of 1914 breaking
all records.
The year 1913. Just closing, has
, n e of the most complex that
s utheastern States have experi-
; ; n years." said Mr. Pedder,
c i although crop conditions and
pr „ s in this territory have been
eo nd. owing to the disturbing factors
ie tariff bugaboo and the cur
rency bill, general conditions during
p past summer were not entirely
, H . sfactory, although there was no
reasonable explanation.
Free From Load of Debt.
The marketing of the cotton crop
c, s fall brought the farmers, who
',,] planted, worked and harvested
pm selves at a minimum cost,
practically free from the load of
that had accumulated the past
■n 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
1NCINNATI, Dec. 29. -‘‘I killed
r because 1 saw the devil in her
f.ypThe baby would also have the
»■-, ;n her eyes* so I killed it, too.”
This was the explanation given by
man registering in the Hotel Wa
i n as D. R. Willard, but who later
<id lie was Robert Munroe Maroney,
u.d JO, of San Antonio, Texas, for
murder of his wife and 3-year-ol‘l
ue;hter tills morning. The mother
ami child were riddled with bullets as
they slept in a room.
After the shooting, Maroney* flour-
■ ling a revolver, ran, halfcald, from
the hotel and was pursued by a crowd
to ihe river, where he was caught on
e bridge, He told the police he was
magician, a son of James Willard,
and was known as ‘‘Willard, the Wiz
ard " Coroner Foertmeyer pronounced
■ he 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,
: ie schooner Griffin and the barks
> rdar and Mihva are missing.
The Sirdar’s crew has been landed
h\ Pensacola, but the fate of the oth
ers is unknown. A schooner bound
for Mobile this morning had aboard
ihe 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
ell 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
repressed, and
filling in than
the result that
been restricted and
more in the line of
normal buying, with
merchandise stocks
Another Eruption of
Vesuvius Imminent
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
•NAPLES, Dec. 29.—Another great
eruption of Vesuvius is believed to
i>e imminent.
Professor Mercalli, director of the
■ -ervatory on the mountain, declares
'tat the specimens of lava and other
'lata obtained by Frederick Burling-
”am, in his descent to the bottom of
'He crater, indicates that the-volcano
ls reawakening.
600 of U. S. Warship
Crew Quarantined
LEWES, DEL., Dec. 29.—Six hun-
1 ; members of the crew of the bat-
°*hip Ohio are confined in the ma
ne hospital here, while 250 of their
fellows are fumigating the vessel.
Die fumigation . was ordered be-
b i- e of several cases of smallpox
a: developed after the Mediterra
nean trip. The men will be in quar-
an?:ne for two weeks.
Tang
oing Forbidden
By French Bishop
Special Cable to The Atlanta Georgian.
PARIS, Dec. 29.’—A decree forbid-
ng the dancing of tjie tango in his
( -e was issued to-day by the
of Besancbn.
‘ '■ Prelate denounces the dance as
jmmoral and calls upon all Christians
flO bar it.
Wedding Rush On to
Beat Eugenic Law
MH.WAUitEE. Dec. 29.—Anticipating
°rforcement of the new’ eugenic law
- scons in, a rush is on in every
In the State to obtain marriage
thJs month and evade the ex-
^ ation provided in the measure,
• n becomes effective January 1.
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 Ibis 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 you 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.”
ELOPEMENT10 YEARS
AGOCELEBRATEDNOW
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Federals to Attempt Recapture of
City—Border Guard Prepares
to Avert Casualties.
Negro Cabman Arrested Denies
Knowledge of Robbery—Police
After Alleged Accomplices.
WASHINGTON, Dec 29. Antic.-
pating a battle near Juarez, Major
General Leonard Wood, Chief of
Staff of the army, to-day sent worJ
to Brigadier General Bliss, com
manding the American forces in El
Paso, Texas, to make every effort to
prevent firing across the border by
^he 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, a« the rebels will travel
slowly through La Mula Pass.
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
dead, detectives Monday morning be
gan a search for two other negroes, I
who also are under suspicion.
The clews connecting the two ne- j
groes with the assault were unearthed
by a brother of the injured man. who
told the police late Saturday night his
reasons for suspecting them. He went
with two detectives on a search for
the negroes, but was unable to find
them. The theory connecting the ne
groes and tlie negro Bowman with the
crime is that Bowman.paving 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 jf
Rosier. He declares that he never
had a white man in his cab Friday
night, and that threughout Friday and
Saturday he 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
tjie 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, Va. He was well 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
trolihle, hut 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 it/i defects, according to
Engineer Canham, who has had
charge of the work since it began.
However, Councilman Claude L. Ash
ley, chairman of the Sanitary Com
mittee of the Board of Health, de
clares that when he visited the plant
Saturday he fouqd 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 Yori-
Destfuctor 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 new*
1 papers have had a great deal to say
lately concerning Kingston, Mo., be-
i cause the town marshal resigned his
i position and the calaboose wa.s 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
i away for an ice house.
Furthermore, Gentry has no pool-
; room, billiard ball or bowling alley,
j Even games ‘of marbles and horso-
I shoes, so common in most small
I towns, are not played here
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 jail here who is abstaining
from food
“Let him alone.” advises Professor
Schleich. “Do not attempt forcible
feeding. When he has starved him
self sufficiently he will go into a
frenzy and devour any food given to
him.”
Cripple Runs Amuck
And Terrorizes Town
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, Dec. 29.—Effort to
discredit Dr. Howard A. Kelly 1n his
activity in the field of radio-therapy
met with indignant bursts of disap
proval to-day from his friends. The
physician himself declared there is no
basis for the charge, that he is “ad
vertising the merits of radium solely
for his own financial gain.”
“I have never refused to give a
cancer sufferer treatment with ra
dium,” said Dr. Kelly, “and my in
terest .in conserving the 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, Dfee. 29. A Wayne County
posse with bloodhounds to-day Is
pursuing a negro who last night at
tempted 'to smack an aged white
woman at Hortense. near here.
The negro barricaded himself in a
shanty, and batled with the Sheriff's
posse, escaping in the darkness.
Later he shot the Seaboard Air Line
bridge watchman near Everett City,
| when tlie watchman attempted to ar-
I rest hmi.
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.
Clubhouse Engaged to Accommo
date Hundreds of Guests at
■‘Tin” Anniversary.
Ten years ago when David W.
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 >f 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'- Clubhouse out at Olarkston.’
Each of the elopers was 20 years old
when, without saying a word to any
one, they met by appointment and
went to the hoem of the Rev. Julian
S. Rogers, then the assistant of the
Rev. Len G. Broughton, 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, wdth the ordinary man’s not
overly enthusiastic liking for social
functions, he was not in ajiy haste to
remind her.
But she remembered. Their home
in Clarkston, to which they moved
several years ago, would be too small
for the concourse of friends and rela
tive 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 S. 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 world only four
mbnths ago. They have been prom
ised that they shall attend the next
decennial celebration of the Webb
elopement, but they are too young
just now to go out to parties and cel
ebrations
Mr. Webb ls 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 ”
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
the 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.
ELFAULA, ALA , Aec. 29.—-Eluding
their parents in the dead of night,
Miss Ro*;» Goodson and « lem Stevens
drove from White Oak, this county, j
to Georgetown, Ga ,across the Chat
tahoochee River and were married aL 1
1::dj o’clock this morning by Ordinary
J. E. Dozier
Of the hundreds Mr. Dozier hast
married these were the earliest.” |
A Sure-Enough
Kidney Remedy
Stuarts Buchu and Juniper
Compound Acts Like Magic
on Liver, Kidteys and
Bladder
No more bone pains, aching back,
headache, puffy eyes, swollen legs, of
Tensive urinous odor, diabetes, cloudy
urine or frequent desire. Try Stuart’s
Buchu and Juniper Compound, the new
and wonderful kidney and bladder rem
edy. We could talk till doomsday
about how good this remedy is, but the
only sure way 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 sirk
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 away
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
tle.—Advt.
Treat Children’s
Colds Externally
Don't dose ihe delicate little stom
ach with harmful Internal medi
cines. Vick’s “Vap-O-Hub” Croup
arid Pneumonia Salve is applied ex
ternally over the throat and chest.
The body heat releases soothing an
tiseptic vapors that are inhaled all
night long, loosening the tough
phlegm and i opening up the air
passages. For ali inflammations of
the air passages from head colds
and catarrh, down to bronchitis and
incipient pneumonia. Vick's is
quicker than Internal medicines,
('an be used freely with perfect
safety on the smallest child. At
druggists—45c» 50c and $1
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
CRICHTON-SHUMAKER
Cor. S. Pryor and Hunter Sts., Atlanta
MONTHLY FOR TUITION
Places Both TEACHER and PUPIL
ABSOLUTELY ON THEIR MERIT Sch t ? ,a p r r % h f , e p r red P,an
E. C. CRICHTON
Shorthand Department.
D. E. SHUMAKER
Business Department.
INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION
By the PROPRIETORS In Person Places the
CRICHTON-SHUMAKER BUSINESS COLLEGE
In a Class by Itself.
SPRING TERM BEGINS MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1914
Umbreil
and
XMAS RATES
Reduced over N., C. & St.
L. Ry. and W. & A. R. R.
Apply any Agent.
Raincoats
Special
We are unusually well prepared to supply
your wants in Umbrellas and Raincoats at most
unusual prices. The stocks are large, the size
scale practically unbroken and owing to our
Reorganization Sale we are offering values
which mean a large saving as compared to the
prices you will pay elsewhere.
Extraordinary values in Raincoats from
the best makers in the land, at
$3.95, $5.50, $6.50, $7.50, $8.50
$1.00 Umbrellas 85c
$1.75 Umbrellas $1.35
$1.50 Umbrellas $1.15
$2.00 Umbrellas $1.65
Better Grades at Proportionate Prices
Cloud-Stanford Co.