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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 ■ 1 * * « ▼▼▼▼▼▼ 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.