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THE AUGUSTA DAILY HERALD
Forecast for Augusta and Vicinity—Fair tonight, Friday showers.
VOLUME XIII., No. 277.
CHATHAM COUNTY AGAINST
NEGRO DISFRANCHISEMENT
Opposed Amendment To
Constitution By Two-To-
One Vote—Carter Carried
Two Counties Lindsey
Re-elected.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Consolidated re
rums from the state tn general can
not yet be secured, but the vote al
ready shows that Joseph M. Brown,
the democratic nominee, has defeat
ed Yancey Carter by a very large
majority. Carter’s vote will not ex
ceed 20,000 out of the 100,000 votes
cast. Carter carried but two coun
ties—Goruon and Chattooga counties
—losing his home county (Hart) by
approximately 300 votes.
J. W. Lindsey, the incumbent, is in
the lead for pension commissioner.
The vote in the state was surpris
ingly light, barely a third of those
who voted in the white primary in i
June going to the polls yesterday. !
Added to this there were about 18,- 1
000 negro votes cast, this strength J
being engendered by the question of
l-e franchise qualification amendment !
to the constitution, the purpose of!
which is to eliminate most of the!
negro votes.
Returns thus far received indicate
that the amendment has carried by
a safe majority, but at the same time !
it is evident that many white demo
, crate opposed it. For instance Chat
ham county (Savannah) gave 2.274
votes against ratification of the
amendment to 1,003 for ratification.
Later Returns.
Complete, though unofficial returns
front 102 counties- out of 146 give
Brown, for governor, a majority of 1
74,075 votes over Carter. If the ratio
holds up the democratic majority will
reach upward of 100.000.
Returns from 87 counties give the
dißfranchiaement amendment a major
ity of 34,319.
Brown carried Fulton county (At
lanta) by 5,921 votes against Capt.
Carter’s 1,398.
FAMILY SQUABBLE
JER ERB’S BOO!
PHILADELPHIA. What seems
likely to become an undignified
squabble over the body of Capt. J.
Clayton Erb is the situation that has
developed as a result of a dispute
between undertakers representing re
spectively the widow and Erb’s blood
kin. It had been decided to take
the murdered man’s body Thursday
morning to his Philadelphia home at
1 nirteenth and Pine streets for the
funeral, but just which side will get
It is not known.
Col. J. Lewis Good of Philadelphia,
representing the Erb family, had an
assistant a; the Village Green hotel
all day Wednesday waiting to claim
the corpse.
Meanwhile Mrs. Erb and Mrs. Bel
sel have been utterly worn out by the
exciting experiences of Wednesday.
They woke Thursday morning in sep
arate cells somewhat refreshed and
were served with the regular prison
fare, bread, coffee, etc. \. nen the
two women were brought back from
the Inquest, they were so exhausted
that they threw themselves on their
cots and, going to sleep, never awoke
until 7 o'clock Thursday morning.
Warden Fields of the jail said if
their friends wished to order special
meals for them they could be served
to them, 1)111 so far this has not been
done.
LATE NEWS FROM
POLO GROUNDS
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THE WAY NEW YORK 18 BETTING.
Five to four—That the Giants win.
Five to four—That the Giants gel eight hits.
Even—That the Cubs get eight hit*
Even—That Mathewson will strike out more men than Brown.
Three to five—That Donlin gets two hits.
Two to five That Ooniin gets more hits than any one eite in
game.
One to six—That the Giants are shut out.
One to five—That the Cubs are ehut out.
Two to one—That the Giants will not score In the first innings
Five to two—That the Cube will not score in the first inning.
POLO GROUNDS. New York.—Forty thousand roaring fans the
greates- crowd that ever attended a sporting event in this country -surg
ed around the playing field here this afternoon over an hour before the
time set for the beginning of the great battle of the Glams and Cubs
that will decide the pennant race In the National League, the final strug
gle in the greatest of all baseball races.
Outside the grounds fully 15.000 more fought and wrestled ami
ph -led and threatened, struggling with the dozens of policemen and
» He °'her to get to th* little windows where the precious tills or
pm-*7? ird could be had before they were snapped down and Hie gates
closed.
,f was A chance that come* hardly once In a generation. The
t •'«** Mathewson against the mighty Pfelster for . .»* than two bres
lesg hours and the stake—the championship of the league It was no
longer a question of how many baseball fans sre In New York. New
York had become a city of baseball fans. The machinery of the city's
busines- life slopped and halted while the men who ought to have been
ruuning It pushed policemen and {ought attendants at the entrance to
the Pole grounds.
SftS PIPE LEAK
CAUSED DEATH
OF SEVERAL
WATEREDRY, Conn —Five persons
are dead and six others were uncon
scious for hours as a result of a
leak in a gas pipe in an Italian board
ing house on Bank street.
A barber on bis war home about
2 o’clock Thursday heard cries and
groans coming from the house and
got the police. As they entered they
discovered the house was filled with
Illuminating gas. Two men were
found dead in one bed, one dead in
another and a third on the floor, who
had made an effort to get to a win
dow'.
In another place they found other
inmates of the house. Six were un
conscious and four others In a half
conscious state. The living were car
rted down stairs and the doctors who
had been summoned set to work over
them. Four they revived but the
other did not respond to the treat
ment and died an hour later.
The coroner and the medical exam
Iner are making an investigation.
WOMEN FIGHT FOR
THE RIGHTJO VOTE
NEW YORK.—The suffragettes are
going before the supreme court of the
United States and fight for the right
of women to vote. This announce
ment was made today at the head
quarters of the National Progressive
Woman Suffrage Union, 122 East
Twenty-third street.
Just because a lot of mean mere
men would not let them register when
.they. made, the rounds of the polls on
Monday, the valiant band of women
are not going to quit. In fact, they
will make a test case out of their ex
periences, on registration today.
THAW MUST APPEAR
INjmURG
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.— It is now
generally conceded that no matter
whether Supreme Court Justice Mills
after nearing testimony next week
shouid decide that Harry K. Thaw Is
sane or finds him insane and remands
him to Matteawan Asylum for Insane
Criminals, it will be Incumbent on
Sheriff Lane, of Westchester county,
to produce Thaw in Pittsburg In the
bankruptcy proceedings. Sheriff Lane
was served with an order of the Uni
ted States Supreme Court Justice
Archbald, directing him to produce
Thaw' at Pittsburg five days after the
determination of the insanity trial by
Justice Mills and if he fails the Uni
ted Slates court will issue an attach
ment for the sheriff for contempt of
court. It is said by prominent law
yers at White Plains that it will he
obligatory on the part of the sheriff
to obey the order.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 8, 1908.
THE BANKS ARE FOflf THE PEOPLE—NOT THE PEOPLE FOR THE BANKS"
NIGHT AIDERS
IN EASTERN
CAROLINA
WILSON. N. C.—Night riders have
made their appearance in eastern
North Carolinu. Monday night, in
Nor I- county, they posted notice on a
colt . in, notifying the owner If he
jgintu another hale until the price
advanced the barn would be reduced
to ashes.
Tuesday night, in Martin county,
over a radius of eight miles, notice*
were tacked on different barns to the
same effect. In every Instance the
notices were signed "Night Riders,”
with the inevitable bloody hand af
ter the signature.
CHAIRMAN MACK’S
WIFE WAS ANXIOUS
Heard That Her Husband
Was Sick and Found Him
At a Banquet.
CHICAGO.—Mrs. Norman E. Mack,
wife of the chairman of the demo
cratic national committee, who was
reported to have collapsed Tuesday
evening in his room at the Ann/x
"from over work," reached the city
at 9 o’clock last, evening on the l,ake
Shore. She proceeded anxiously to
the Annex to cheer and aid her hus
band.
"Where is Mr. Mack?” Inquired
Mrs. Mack, with some trepidation,
wnen she found his room dark and
vacant.
“At the association of commerce
banquet,” replied an affable clerk.
Col. John I. Murtin, learning of
the arrival of Mrs. Mark, hastened to
inform the chairman. Mr. Mack was
not told of his wife's arrival, though,
being hemmed in and engulfed by the
banqueters and tbeir cigar smoke to
such a degree that Col. Martin's mis
slon was made futile.
Mr. Mack was really 111 Tuesday
evening, but whether his illness was
caused by a delectable dish of Ice
cream or an unusually bluck cigar
given him by a republican friend, he
is unable to decide.
WRIGHT’S CONDITION
IS UNSATISFACTORY
Visitor* Have Seen Denied
Access To Him. Will Be
Confined Fox- At Least
Two Months.
WASHINGTON. Orville Wright,
who was Injured when Lieut. Self
rldge wan killed at Fort Myer, on
j September 17, hy the breaking of hi*
' aeroplane, while In flight, has not
been In a condition satisfactory to his
! physicians the last few days, and via
| :tors have been denied antes* to hint.
The change In Mr. Wright’s rondi
tlon Is tin 1 regarded as serious, but
tie will be confined to his bed for at
I least two months.
SAVED HIS WIFE’S LIFE BY
CUTTING OFF HER SHOE
ZANKHVILLK, 0.-Hy hastily cut*
1 >lng her -hoe ofT her foot, I’rof. Hole
•rt Wall saved the life of hi* wife
Professor inrl Mr- Wall were walking
along tie Wheeling and Lake Krle
traeka when Mr*. Wall's fool became
caught In a switch frog At almost
th- name monisnt a train came In
sight By the use of a pocket knife
Professor Wall managed to extricate
his wif- from her perilous position
Just before the train dashed by.
Committed Suicide To
Learn of the Next Stage
LOS ANGELES, Cal.—Curious to
learn of the other planes of life, which
she believed to exist beyond this
world, Miss Edith Renkln, 26 years
old. cashier In a local restaurant, com
mit (ed suicide with poison.
Miss Renkln was an ardent student
of works on spiritual subjects. Sha
frequently told her friends that site
Austria Hungary Gets
Ready For War’s Outbreak
HOLD CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION
GREENSBOHO. N. C.—Greensboro,
I 'lamed after one of the sturdiest
'American generals in the revolution
ary war, wnl bn the stirring scene
;of a centennial celebration and the
seat of the North Carolina peace anil
arbitration congress next week. The
congress will eonvene properly on
Sunday and will extend through to
the following Saturday
The leading citizens of the town
have banded together and purchased
the Jamestown Centennial Auditorium
which has been erected here and now
1 everything Is in readiness for the In
i flux of delegates and tourists
Recently Senator James It. Mr
j Creary Hald that the North Carolina
peace congress will bo the first in
j America on whoße platform the ad
| vocates of adequate armament and
effective arbitration will be welcomed
I as mutually helpful and necessary co
, workers In the cause of peace and
I justice At this peare congress, for
the first time In the history of the
peace movement, the people will be
privileged to hear, as advocates of
peace, the men who stand ready upon
the nation’s call to go Into the dan
gers of war, and none of the advo
cates of peace will show more seal
for or a more Intelligent understand
ing of tue things that pertain to peace
than these same men of the armed
forces.
The following are the honorary
presidents of the congress: Admiral
George Dewsy, United States Dlstrlel
Judge Jac ->s E Boyd, United States
Circuit Court Judge J C. Pritchard,
Senator F. M. Simmon*. Senator 1,.
H. Overman, Walter Clark, chief jus
tice of North Carolina Home of the
apeakers-to-be are: Mr*. Donald Mc-
Lean. John Sharp William*, Mrs, Liz
zle George Henderson, of Mississippi,
and Dr. John Franklin Crowell.
AN AIMLESS BULLET
KILLED A FIREMAN
Wa« Hit While Riding on
An Engine in the Dark.
CtfK'AGO -While riding on a
freight train at Ninety-first street *nd
Jackson Park avenue, Garrett Kelly,
a locomotive fireman, wn* shot and
killed almost instantly by a shot fired
nlmlessly in the dirk. It 1* believed
At the time of lh< shooting, whleh oc
curred at 830 o'clock last night,
Kelly was with three companions, all
employed by the Chicago and Western
Ildlana rullroiid.
Before his friends could reach the
engineer and notify him of the shoot
ing, tie- train reacned One Hundred
and Twelfth street pfio police of
the Hagwltch station were then noti
fied and they removed the body of
Keilv, who, In the meanwhile, had
died, to an undertaker’s establish
ment The police searched the district
for the alayer, but no one was ar
rested.
would like to advance to the “next
stage." She had a religion in which
reincarnation figured to a certain ex
tent, and on several occasions she
asked her friends to Join her in a sui
cide club, and all commit suicide at
once in order to pass to the other
sphere, and there delve In the mys
teries hidden from mortal oyes.
Four Army Corps Ordered
To Prepare For Mobiliza
-1 tion. Servian Ministry
kns Resigned. Bulgarians
Getting Restive.
BEIjGRADE.— The Servian minis
try, of which M. VellniirovlcH If pro
"tier and minister of foreign affairs,
has resigned. A new ministry for
national defense will consist of the
chiefs of the four political parties.
Austria Prsparas.
LONDON. II Is learned from a
trustworthy quarter that the Austn.
Hungary minister of war has ordered
four army corps to prepare for mob j
lllltuon. Tills is considered precau
tionary.
i lie Bulgarians are beginning to
lake a more sober view of the dun
gers that face their country, and fear
of Turkish reprisals lias created a
feeding of disquietude.
A new personality Is brought on
tbe European *tagsby the Balkan
oriel* Archduke Trjht Ferdinand of
Austria, lltth heretofore known He
is connected with Austria's coup and
with persuading his uncle, Emperor
Franz Josef, to win Germany’s sup
port. Horne of the European papers
are beginning to call him another
Emperor William.
TODAY'S POLITICS
IN CONDENSED FORM
William If. Taft and W. ,1. ftryan
met at the Chicago Chamber of Com
| mere* banquet for the (lr*t time. Mr.
j Hryan extended Ills band as Mr Taft
aproached and there was a brief cpii
veraatlon, while the banquet hall wa*
In a tumult. Later Mr. Hryan leaned
over to Mr Taft and smilingly asked
If ho had enjoyed the day Doth
made short non political speeches.
The chairman of both the repute
llcan and democratic parties after con
ferrlng with their presidential nomi
nees, feclded (o concentrate the cam
palgn on New York, Indiana and lowa
with ull the heavy artillery trained
on New York alate the last week.
President .1 .1 Hill, of the Great
Northern, declared that parly lines
are so closely drawn that It la Im
possible to predict the outcome of
the coming election.
President Roosevelt announced that
he would not take the stump,
Governor Hughes, campaigning In
Hryan's home c|ty and surrounding
• owns, caustlcafP' assailed the demo
'rath nominee's polleles ns chltnerl
cnl and dangi-roii:'
Democrat le National Chairman
Mack recovered front hla Illness and
I was hack al his post.
Thomas L. Illsgeu, the presidential
nominee of the Independence parly,
I with William itandolph Hearst, will
speak tonight at Keno, Nov,
DAILY AND SUNDAY $6.00 PER TEAR.
CRETE’S ACTION
COMPLICATES
SITUATION
LONDON.—IIv docMrlng their In
dependence of Turkey and their
coalition wlili Greco, the people of
the island of Crete have complicated
tlte situation in the Balkans.
Great Britain insists on the Intcu
rity of Turkey, mid urges Austria to
jre-consider her annexation of Bos
nia and Merzegoxlna, while Russia
has mi Intention of quietly allowing
Austria to seize the two provinces
After offices were opened in Bel
grade, Scrvia, for the enlistment of
troops, Hie Jews offered to subscribe
$200,000 to a war fund.
Albania Independents.
VlENNA.—Albania, a liountalmms
country of European Turkey, with a
population of about 2,000 people, bor
dering on the Adriatic, lias declared
her Independence according to a re
port which reached here today. Con
firmation is lacking, but tile event, if
true, is of little Importance further
than the indication of hostility to
wards the mother country.
Austrian Troops Advance.
BELGRADE.- -The Veskn Tunnel on
(lie Austrian frontier was occupied to
day by Austrian troops. Ausfriati sol
diers are bolding up all the Iroops
trains from Scrvia lo prevent an in
vasion. The headquarters of the war
office, foreign office and other state
officers have been removed from Bel
grade into the Interior. This Is done
through fear of invasion.
Turkey lias sent (lie powers a *not
asking what slops they mean to take
relative In Bulgarin, Turkey's Inter
ests In which, ll Is claimed, are
guaranteed by the treaty of Berlin.
Iliily has joined Great Britain,
Franco and Russia In ndvVlng n con
ference of powers to adjust differ
encos.
Montenegrin* Protest.
CETTINJE, Montenegro. A great
(liass meeting of citizens here lias for
nially protested against the atiiicxa-
Man Threw Away Money;
New York I\o Plaec For Him
NEW YOHK. Policeman Kudo was
standing in fiont of St. Marks church
hint nlghl when a citizen pnased him
at a gallop.
"Hold on." said Undo hh lie (lung
a detaining arm about the Hilling one,
"what's the trouble?"
"For the love of Mike, don’t stop I
me,” panted the other. "There’s a
guy down here at Eighth street and
Second avenue throwing away real
money.”
And he Jerked loose and departed
at a gallop. Ratio followed, lie found
a erowd of 500 Last lenders fighting
to get elose to a well dressed gentle
man. who was hurling eurrency and
small bills Into the air. Kudo man
aged to gel Urn philanthropist out In
tact, hnt one late arrival borrowed
that generous stranger's hut and an
EIGHT- YEAR-OLD BOY A
HOPELESS DEGENERATE
NKW HKDPOKH. Mhbm. Meld oh
on the elmiy* of HtouliUK u
horn*», NrlHon King, eight yenrn old,
Ik Hi tli#* pollen Httttlon for drowning
jj boy companion, Uiiichl Huumcu, aged
Mttvon.
The 8ou»< a boy did not conic homo
from Hcliool, and bin unci*, who wan
looking for him, found biH body in
tho Acuahm*! river.
King told hr h*. <!. (Jraveu, 11 wed
leal examiner In the public hclioolx,
that be piiHhcd the Boun<-u boy Into
the river
"lle Maid he could ■wlm, M «ald King
to the doctor, "hut I did not believe
film, mo 1 ptiHhed liliu overboard lo
hoc him try. lb* went under end
came up once. H< pm up Mi- iirtn,
but did not holier for help, and lhen
went down »nd I didn't h« «• him gg iln.
I ran home."
The King hoy Him given hU par
entH and the police trouble for a year.
Getting an “Education in Prices.”
To knew whst "things should rust” an<l what Is a fair price to
pay fur anything that Is mu-fled in a home Is not the lets' Important
part of a woman’s education. Hhe iocs not get It at school. Hho uau
ally begins married life by lining a victim of sharp tradesmen.
Then sin- begins to read ami stud , and remember- the advertise
ments In her home newspaper. Hhe In-glns lo ill'Y at the stores that,
advertise anil to thus be able to elan her purchases at home.
As her education progreit -die develop* the "bargaln-in-
Ibft," which I* merely the ability to Judge values, and to KNOW
when prlee com- amons arc rea 1 ✓id when they are fiction. Hhe corns*
to know high prices, and shun them; slid to know low prices, and
seek them. Hhe learns lo know HIGH finalities and to seek them;
ami tf> know low quail b s and to -him them.
Hhe bei nines "educated about price* And the merchant, for hi*
part, ki.owa that lo- will not attract her liy his advertising, unless he
has tomothlng ACTUALLY DKMIIIAHI Kto offer her Ho the educat
ed shopper the nit reader p-oto, t- a service for all women-In that
she demands anj secures « high .-.imp of service from our Qierchants,
Mud forces those who would succeed to divide their profits bather lib
erally with their customer*.
BARGAINS ADVERTISED IN THE MFRALD ARE REAL BARGAINS
AND A CAREFUL READING SAVES MANY A DOLLAR.
FEDERATION OF
LABOR FIOOT
CANNON
CHICAGO. —Labor is preparing for
a linnl and determined onslaught <ni
the candidacy of Speaker Cannon,
The political action committee of
the Chicago Federation of Labor
Wednesday made plans to send a
number of labor leaders Into “Uncle
Joe’s" district next week.
During tlio last three weeks of the
campaign there will be nearly fifty
labor speakers in Danville, Kanak
kee and the vicinity. Two organiz
ers for American Federation o* La
bor are In tbo district now making
speeches for the democratic candi
date for Cannon’s seat in the house.
lion of Bosnia and Herzogovina, Anti-
Austrian speeches were received with
shouts of “down with Austria-Hun
gary" and “wo want war.”
Resolutions which were adopted
call upon the govornment to Invite
Serlva to act with Montenegro for
the protection of the interacts of file
garbs.
Demonstrations were afterward
made in front of the palace and the
Russian legations.
Prince Nicholas lias issued a proc-
Imiitlon declaring that In view of Aus
tria's regrettable and gross violation
of the treaty of Berlin Montenegro
no longer regards the treaty as bind
ing.
Scrvia Protests.
BELGRADE. — An official proclama
tion was issued today protesting
against tile annexation of Bosnia ahd
Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary as
nu infringement of the treaty of Ber
lin.
The proclamation draws attention
lo the fact that Servla, which did
not participate in the framing of that
treaty, has been obliged to abide by
•It and lias carried out more scrupul
joindy than any other state all olillga-
I lions tin- treaty imposed upon her.
other took away his dress suit case
Just to show that if he could not. gel
any of the money something else will
do almost us well.
Thursday in llio Yorltvllie police
court the benevolent parly told Mug
Istrale Breen that he was Hnlomon
i Frank, a traveling salesman from a
I Baltimore dry goods house, stopping
while In our midst at 1538 Myrtle ave
nue, Brooklyn.
"I can’t rente roller what happened
last nlghl lit all,” said Mr. Frank mo
rosely, 'except, that I had a valise
full of samples and about a hundred
dollars lo money, these are gone."
Have you enough money left to
buy a ticket back to Baltimore?” ask
ed the magistrate.
"I have," said Mr. Frank.
"Go buy II," said Magistrate Breen,
'“you don't belong in Now York."
lie Inis stolen horses seven times. Tho
In it in July, when lie took a horse
from James F, fioye and drove It off
Into tie- country. He was arrested at
Hit* time but Hu- police court Judge
tuned him over lo Ihu cure of bis
parents,
The lt<-v. If. F. Bobbin* took the
boy 111 charge after the last horse
stealing Incident and Hcnt him out
tutu the country on u farm. There he
killed tin- neighbors hens, got u long
chain ami lied ft cow to a stake so
i hat the anlimtl could not move; took
unoth-t horse end tried to run away
with It, hut was captured before he
bail gone far, and before he was sent,
borne finally n* a degenerate youtb,
whom the farmer in whose earn h«
was placid gave up us an Incurable,
tie- lad was caught ramming a crow
bar dowr a hog's throat.
Him-' that time the tioy has been a
w.iiifl- i i lb hua slept In the streets
*Ao«t of the tittle.