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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia
Fair today; rain tomorrow.
VOL. XI. NO. 76.
MIMLE
REPORTED
IB HAVE
FALLEN
Berlin Hears Bulgarians Cap
tured the Turkish Stronghold
After Hot Bombardment.
DEFEATED ARMY FALLS
BACK TO ESCAPE ROUT
Plans Made for Final Stand to
Protect Capital of Ottoman
Empire.
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• Grecian Queen Joins •
• King at War Front •
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• ATHENS. Oct. 31.—-Queen Olga •
• has left for the front to join King •
• George. •
• ‘‘lf necessary I will shoulder a •
• musket and fight in the ranks for •
• my country,” she declared upon •
• leaving Larissa today. •
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BERLIN, Oct. 31. —Adrianople has
been captured by the Bulgarians, ac
cording to an unconfirmed report tele
graphed today from the theater of war.
The Bulgarians are said to have
made a general attack upon the city,
and after a terrific bombardment »of
two hours the Turks raised the white
flag.
The citadel was defended by a second
Turkish army of 50.000 men under Ab
dullah Pacha, chief of staff.
General Naxim Pasha’s Turkish ar
my. southeast of Adrianople, has been
driven across the Erkene river and to
day is in retreat toward Constantinople,
pursued by Czar Ferdinand’s Bulga
rian forces.
Turks Losses in .
Battle 10,000.
This information was received in
Vienna today in news agency dispatch
es from the front which added that the
Turks withdrew toward Luleburges
along the Orient railway, after losing
10,000 killed and wounded in two days
fighting with the Bulgarian troops.
The left wing of the Bulgar forces
has ben split, one division marching
southward along the mountain range
which skirts the Black sea, while the
other is operating between Eski Baba
and Tcherkeskoi.
While the Turks were compelled to
give way before the onslaught of the
Bulgars their retreat is reported to be
orderly and well covered. It is report
'd from Turkish quarters that the back
ward movement of the Turks can not
be classed properly as a retreat, but
as a strategic movement into a bet
ter position.
Greek Army
Is Suffering Hunger.
Crown Prince Constantine’s Greek
army is now moving upon Salonika
from Vetria, and is short of provisions.
The soldiers are suffering from hun
ger.
Reports from the front today stated
that the Greeks were pushing on at ut
most speed to reach the coast, in order
to obtain supplies by ship.
Three hundred Montenegrins fell in
an unsuccessful night attack upon the
Turkish fortress on the heights of Tar
abosch shortly after midnight.
Turkish sentries gave the alarm of
the Montenegrin approach, and artil
-1 ry fire was opened up as they charged
up the slopes before the ramparts, caus
ing them to retreat with heavy casual
ties. The dead were left upon the field.
Abdul Hamed in
Flight or Taken
PARIS. Oct. 31.—Abdul Hamid, for
mer sultan of Turkey, has disappeared
strangely.
A Salonika dispatch stated that the
former sultan had been taken from that
city and was on his way to Constanti
nople. Hj s removal was caused by
fear that he would be captured by the
Greek army.
A Constantinople telegram stated
that Abdul Hamid could not reach that
city from Salonika because the Bul
garians had cut the railway and a
G-' ek fleet had the port under blockade.
Abdul Hamid’s whereabouts is a
mystery.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For ResuHs.
Held on Insanity Writ,
Man Pleads Own Case
And Obtains Release
Valdosta Lawyer Is Liberated
From Jail on Habeas Corpus
Petition He Prepared.
VALDOSTA. GA., Oct. 31.—Colonel
Charles S, Morgan, a well known attor
ney, who was taken into custody a
week ago and confined in jail awaiting
a hearing on a charge of lunacy, was
given his liberty on a writ of habeas
corpus before Judge J. G. Cranford, of
the city court. He acted as his own
attorney and prepared the writ which
was heard by the judge.
Colonel Morgan alleged numerous
reasons as to why he was illegally de
tained. One of these was that three of
his relatives were not notified of the
action against him, as the law requires;
another that W. A. Rudd, who swore
out the warrant for his detention, is
comparaitvely a stranger to him, and
had no opportunity to kftow whether
or not the defendant is insane; that he
believes Rudd’s action was based on
hearsay, and that he was inspired by
parties prejudiced against the defend
ant, and that the swearing out of the
warrant for his arrest was not volun
tary on Rudd’s part. He also claimed
that the action against him was taken
without his knowledge, and that he was
arrested on the streets while going
about his business in a peaceable way
It is understood that Colonel Mor
gan’s release from custody on the ha
beas corpus will not affect the hearing
in the ordinary’s court as to his mental
condition, which is scheduled for next
Monday. Ordinary Simms is disquali
fied in the case and it is probable that
Judge Cranford will hear it.
BURKE FARMERS ON
TRIAL AT MACON IN
WHITE SLAVE CASES
MACON, GA., Oct. 31.—Clarence A.
Rhodes and Walter E. Rhodes, brother
planters of Burke county, and married
men, and Walter Pound, their farm
overseer, are being given a preliminary
hearing here today before United States
Commissioner Erwin on the charge of
violating the Federal "white slave” law.
It is charged that they transported Su
sie James/ Lulu Addison and Ola Fra
zier from Bath, S. C., through Augusta,
to their plantation.
The government contends, and two
of the young women say, they were
kept on the Rhodes farm for four weeks
and not allowed to communicate with
their relatives. The girls say they met'
the men in Bath, S. C., by appointment
and rode with them in an automobile
to Augusta, and later to Burke county.
The evidence so far adduced shows
that Ola Frazier has lived with one of
the men as his wife, though not mar
ried to him, and that it was not her
first visit to the plantation.
SUIT FOR RIGHT-OF-WAY
AT GROVANIA IS DECIDED
PERRY, GA., Oct. 31.—The suit of
the Hawkinsville and Western Railroad
Company against the Georgia Southern
and Florida Railway Company for the
right of crossing the latter’s track at
Grovania, and damages sought by the
latter, was decided in Houston superior
court, the jury returning a verdict as
sessing the value of the easement at
SSO and the damages at $450.
Counsel for the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad have filed a motion for
new trial, which will be heard on No
vember 30.
$500,000 MORTGAGE PUT ON
COLUMBUS_WATERWORKS
COLUMBUS. GA., Oct. 31.—A mort
gage has been filed in the office of the
superior court of Muscogee county for
$500,000 in favor of a Birmingham, Ala.,
trust company, given by he new own
ers of the Columbus Water Supply
Company.
The mortgage is given in part as
payment for the plant by the new own
ers and the other Is to be used in mak
ing extensive improvements of the sys
tem, which is to be made up to date in
every particular.
ARNOLD SPEAKS AT COLUMBUS
COLUMBUS. GA.. Oct. 31—The
Democratic campaign will be closed in
Muscogee county Saturday night with
a Wilson-Marshall rally, when Reuben
R. Arnold, of Atlanta, will be the prin
cipal speaker, and the address of Gov
ernor Wilson to the voter.*- of the coun
try will be read.
Don’t Fail to See thePoultryShow
At the Auditorium-Armory this week is an exhibition of
poultry which is in many respects the finest ever seen in the
South. Every variety of chicken is represented by splendid
specimens, and in certain breeds the class of the specimens is
far above any ever seen before in Atlanta.
The show is a credit to Atlanta. It is educative, interest
ing, and will do much toward helping the poultry industry in
Georgia—an industry that has been so long neglected that a
million dollars a year is sent out of the state for chickens and
eggs.,
Visit the poultry show. The admission price is only ten
cents. The show is open till 10 o’clock every night this week
CHIEFSTANDS
PATINFIGHT
TO SAVE
CLUBS
Councilmen Plan Spirited Ef
fort to Renew Licenses pf All
Social Organizations.
BEAVERS ASSERTS SOME
PLACES ARE ESSENTIAL
Declares, However, Those Run
for Individual Profit Should
Be Refused Permits.
A strong fight to save every locker
club from the ban of council will be
begun at the meeting of the police com
mittee this afternoon. Chairman W. G.
Humphrey and Chief of Police Beavers
will first make a report on their inspec
tion of all the locker clubs in the city
yesterday.
This fight is being led by Councilmen
Claude C. Mason, Aldine Chambers, Ai
derman John E. McClelland and others.
They are directing their attack on
Chairman Humphrey, of the police
committee, for, it is said, it was prin
cipally through his influence that the
four clubs were recently banned by
council.
Beavers Still
Would Ban Eight.
Declaring frankly that he had found
no evil conditions on his tour of every
club in the city yesterday, Chief of Po
lice Beavers said today that he still
stands by his report against eight of
the organizations. The ban on four of
these was affirmed by the police com
mittee of city council. The chief’s ban
on the other four was ignored and
charges of discrimination were aired in
city council.
Chief Beavers said that while he had
found no offensive conditions, such as
drunkenness or the selling of liquor to
women, on his tour, he would say noth
ing as to the legal status of several of
the clubs. He said he had reported
against the clubs in the first instance
because they had defied the city and
that condition still existed.
Locker Clubs Are
Essential, Says Humphrey.
Following his investigation yester
day, Chairman Humphrey said that the
real social locker clubs were essential
to the city's growth. He said he meant
all’clubs run for mutual benefit and not
for individual profit, and,that he. too,
thought the majority of clubs In At
lanta were that sort.
But Chairman Humphrey has de
clared all along that he would never
consent to license any clubs that are
run illegally, and that he was con
vinced several in Atlanta were run that
way.
Chief Beavers and Recorder Broyles
joined with Chairman Humphrey in de
claring that locker clubs were essential
to Atlanta’s life.
The members of the committee real
ize that their report must show that the
clubs are obeying the law in order to
get the approval of Atting Mayor Can
dl< r. That means that no more Sunday
drinks will be sold in Atlanta as long
as Aiderman Candler remains the city's
chief executive.
Those who are fighting Chairman
Humphrey’s attitude on the locket
clubs deviate that he has no right to
consider the clubs in executive sessions
ol the police committee, barring even
members of council. They point out
that tiic law provides that the general
council shall be put in possession of all
evidence concerning locker clubs.
The chief added that he had not been
asked to appear before the council
manic investigators, but would gladly
do so if called. He said he made the
tour at Councilman Humphrey's re
quest. and was a silent inspector unless
a request for his advice was made.
ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1912.
LBecker/N0<62,768\
Now Merely One of 11
Awaiting Death Chair
Rosenthal Slayer Sleeps Well
First Night in Sing Sing,
and Eats Heartily.
OSSINING, N. Y., Oct. 31.—Charles
Becker, now known as “No. 62.768” in
Sing Sing prison, today slipped into the
and fast routine prescribed for
prisoners in the death house, and be- j
come merely one of the eleven men now
awaiting death in the electric chair.
His sleep during his first night in
the little cell, eight by ten feet, was of
the childish sort. He was awakened
at 6 a. m. and an hour later ate a
hearty breakfast.
Exercise for Becker, who has been
used to plenty of it all his life', will be
permitted him twice a day from 10 a.
m. to 11 a. tn. and from 3 p. m. to
4 p. . The rest of the tie he will spend
in reading various volumes from the
prison library. His visitors must stand
'behind a screen three feet from his cell
door.
WAYCROSS CHIEF OF
POLICE PUTS BAN ON
RED LIGHT DISTRICT
WAYCROSS, GA., Oct. 31.—8 y mid
night of November 7. all inmates of
houses in the restricted district of
Waycross must quit the city or go to
jail. This is the gist of orders Just
issued by Chief of Police J. W. Colley.
The orders came as a distinct surprise
to the residents of the district, who
have only in recent months gotten sat
isfactorily settled after much agitation
in the city as to their location.
The area now given over to the ten
derloin will be carefully inspected on
the night of the 7th, and if any women
are found in the houses contrary to law
they will be jailed. The police will
make no exceptions, i> is said.
ACCUSED SLAYERS
OF SINGER-HEIRESS
ARRESTED IN OHIO
LIMA, OHIO. Oct. 31.—Charles D. Con
way, wanted for the murder of Sophia G.
Singer, Baltimore heiress, and Beatrice
Ryall, known as Conway’s wife, were ar
rested here today.
The couple were arrested by detectives
from Chicago who had traced them from
Chicago to Rochester, Ind., and then east
to Lima, Conway's former home.
They agreed to return to Chicago with
out requisition.
ROME MOTHER PROSECUTES
CHATTANOOGA HOTEL MAN
CHATTANOOGA. TENN., Oct. 31.
H. O. Lane, proprietor of a local hotel,
was bound over to the grand jury under
SI,OOO bond by City Judge Martin A.
Fleming, charged with improper con
duct toward Lillian Hawes, fourteen
year-old girl, who was brought to this
city from Rome, Ga., with her sister
last week by Arthur Jones, an alleged
gambler of the Georgia city. Charged
with complicity in the case, G. L. Frier
son, of this city, was fined SSO and
costs and also bound over to the grand
jury.
The girl is here with her mother, who
came from Rome to prosecute the cases.
Lane is more than 50 years of age.
Jones is at present confined at Rome
on a charge of bootlegging.
MISSIONARY AND BISHOP
TALK ON MISSION WORK
HARLEM, GA., Oct. 31.—The Wom
an's Missionary meeting of the Au
gusta district of the Methodist church
has been in session here this week,
being largely attended by delegates
from all over the district. Matters per
taining to missions were discussed.
Miss Emma Lester, a former mis
sionary to China, was present and told
of what is being done by missions in
that country.
Bishop McCoy, of Alabama, was
present and delivered a sermon on mis
sionary work. Bishop McCoy will pre
side at the next North Georgia confer
ence.
PASTEUR TREATMENT FOR
THREE VICTIMS OF PUPPY
SAVANNAH, GA.. Oct. 31.—Physi
cians have prescribed the Pasteur treat
ment for three of the victims of a rabid
dog's bite, an examination of the dog’s
head by city bacteriologist having
determined the existence of hydropho
bia. They are Miss Madeline Dube,
Richard Young and Edna Long. The
mother of the dog died of rabies sev
eral weeks ago. The puppy later died
in the throes of rabies.
BOY. 4,~RUNS’ AWAY~ TO
BECOME A POLICEMAN
CHICAGO. Oct. 31.—Wearing nothing
but his underclothing. Jerome Briquiet,
four years old. was trudging toward Fif
tieth street police station.
•'l’m going to be a policeman ] know
Mr. O’Neil; he's one,” he said.
NEW PROPHET DUeTsAYS
PASTOR IN PITTSBURG
PITTSBURG, Oct. 31.—Another prophet,
Amos, "a voice of righteousness,” Is due
to rise from the common people, Ilev. Dr.
B. W. Ruehinaon. Methodist Episcopal
pastor, said in a sermon.
VICE PRESIDENT DEAD
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
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Janies Schoolcraft Sherman, twenty-seventh vice president
of the United States, who died last night at his home in Utica.
SHERMAN’S DEATH GIVES
GEORGIAN SENATE GAVEL
In its political aspect, the death of
Vice President James S. Sherman
means, among other things, that Unit
ed States Senator Augustus O. Bacon,
of Georgia, will preside over the de
liberations of the senate as president
pro tempore for the remainder of the
present congress.
Since the death of Senator William
P. Frye, of Maine, the senate, because
of the strained relations between cer
tain regular and progressive Repub
lican senators, has been unable to elect
a president pro tempore for more than
a day or so at a time.
Not enough progressives could be
rallied to the candidacy of Senator Gal
linger, of New- Hampshire, to put him
in for the remainder of the session, nor
could sufficient progressive Republican
strength be added to Senator Bacon’s
Democratic vote to put him in for the
life of the congress.
In these circumstances, the senate,
for months, elected Bacon to preside
COLUMBUS FILES SUIT TO
ENJOIN TELEPHONE RAISE
COLUMBUS. GA., Oct. 31.—The city
of Columbus has instituted injunction
proceedings against the Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company to
prohibit it from increasing Its rates
November 1, accoidlng to an announce
ment made by the telephone company
officials some time ago.
The action on the part of the city is
following the rejection of the request
that had been made by a joint commit
tee from city council and the Board of
Trade, which asked that the proposed
increase in rates be postponed from
November 1 to January 1. The city
w ill ask that the temporary injunction
be extended until such time as the jojnt
committee can make its investigation
of the justness of the proposed raise.
SPECIAL SESSION OF JURY
CALLED TO PROBE KILLINGS
MONTGOMERY, ALA., Oct, 31. An or
der has been issued by Judge Armstead
Brown calling the Montgomery county
grand jury into special session November
6. it is intimated that the killing of J.
A. Bachelor, a constable, at the fair
grounds, last week, by N. E. Rowell, a
Louisville and Nashville engineer, will be
probed. It Is also rumored that further
investigations may be made in the Sloan
Rowan and P. J. Westhofen killings.
KIRKWOOD MOOSERS
TO RALLY TOMORROW
A mass meeting of the citizens of Kirk
wood and surrounding towns will be held
at the Kirkwood auditorium tomorrow
evening The call was issued by J. St. Ju
lien Yates, Progressive presidential elec
tor for the Fifth congressional district.
It is announced that Democrats are in
vited to attend and discuss the platforms.
Women are also invited.
one day and Gallinger the next, at such
times as the vice president could not
be in his place himself.
Shortly before congress adjourned, a
sort of compromise was effected where
by the remainder of the congress was
divided, and it was agreed that Ga.l
linger should serve continuously as
president pro tempore for half the re
maining time, and Bscon for the othet
half.
The New Hampshire senator has
served his allotted half, and the senior
senator from Georgia will, therefore, be
the presiding officer of the United
States senate from the time the con
gress meets in December until It ex
pires by limitation on March 4, 1913.
The presidency pro tempore of the
United States is rated an office of great
distinction and honor, and invariably
is conferred upon some senator of high
standing and long and acceptable serv
ice.
It carries no extraordinary legisla
tive powers, however.
SUFFRAGETTES GET OUT
PAPER IN MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 31.—A feature of
the wind-up campaign for the adoption
of a constitutional amendment tn the
coming election granting votes for women
in Wisconsin, came when prominent suf
fragettes appeared on the streets selling
a special suffrage edition of The leader,
the local Socialist publication. The suf
fragettes edited and "got out” the edi
tion. >
Prominent in the work were Mrs. Rob
ert M. LaFoilette, Mrs. Victor L. Berger,
Miss Flora Gapen and Miss Gwendolyn
Mills.
SEEKS LOST HUSBAND
TO CAPTURE A LEGACY
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 31.—Mrs. Elizabeth
Bauer, of 2648-A Oregon avenue, is
seeking her husband, Alois, an Aus
trian. who disappeared six years ago,
and who has an inheritance awaiting
his claim at Gretna, La. Mrs. Bauer
has traveled all through the South,
working as a and supporting her
self, in a vain’efrort to find Bauer.
ROCKEFELLER'S PASTOR
CALLS MAN OWN IDOL
CLEVELAND, Oct. 31.—Worldly pleas
ures, business pursuits and man's own
self were named as "modern Idols” by
Rev. W. W Bustard, pastor of John D.
Rockefeller’s Euclid Avenue Baptist
church.
ANGRY ~F A R MEJTu M PS
ON FOOTBALL; INJURED
PIERRE S. DAK.. Oct. 31.—" I’ll teach
you to scare horses with that bladder.”
said Henry Greenfield, farmer. 65 years
old, to an amateur gridiron squad. With
a bound he planted both feet on the pig
skin. He has regained consciousness
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P MORE°
SHERMAN IS
DEAD; NAME
TO REMAIN
DN TICKET
Republican Committee to Name
Successor After the Election.
Seven Are Mentioned.
FUNERAL PROBABLY WILL
BE HELD ON SATURDAY
Widow, in 111 Health; Prostrated
by Shock Taft Grieves
Deeply for Mate. ’
UTICA, N. T., Oct. 31.—Although not
definitely decided, it was stated at the
home of the late Vice President Sher
man this morning that the funeral of
Mr. Sherman probably would be held
Saturday afternoon.
The members of the family of the
departed statesman were too overcome
this morning to announce any definite
plans, but Harry E. Devendorf, Mr.
Sherman’s private secretary, said the
arrangements would be made with a
view to the convenience of President
Taft and other notables, who intend
coming here to pay a last tribute to the
memory of the vice president, and that
undoubtedly the funeral services and
interment in the magnificent mauso
leum erected in Forest Hill cemetery
in this city by the Sherman family
would take place Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. Sherman was in a rather more
composed state today following a few
hours’ rest. Her husband’s death
though she realized two days ago It was
Inevitable, was none the less a shock-
Ing blow, and following hfs death las*
night she was inconsolable for min’
hours. Never In rugged physical con
dition, It Is feared the death of Mr.
Sherman will go seriously with her.
Long Hl of
Bright’s Disease.
Vice President Sherman died at 9*4>
o’clock last night, after a long illness
of uraemic poisoning, caused bv
Bright’s disease.
He had been sinking since early yes
terday, and it was realized that death
was only a question of a few hours
Mr. Sherman was unconscious when
th** end came and had been in that con
dition for hours.
All the members of the immediate
family were at the death bed. In addi
tion to Mrs. Sherman there were their
three sons. Sherrill, Richard U. and
Thomas M. Sherman, and their respec
tive wives; R. M . and Sanford Sher
man brothers of Mr. Sherman, and
Mrs. L. B. Moore and Mrs. H. J. Cook
inham, sisters of Mr. Sherman
Vice President Sherman was bom
in Utica on October 24, 1855. He was
married in 1881 to Carrie Babcock at
East Orange. N. J. They have three
sons—Sherrill, Richard U. and Thomas
M., all living, and in business in
Utica. The vice president was an Elk.
a trustee of Hamilton college, a mem
ber of the Dutch Reformed church, a
member of many clubs and a business
man of wide interests.
Nation Knew Him
As “Sunny Jim.”
The twenty-seventh vice president
of the United States, and the only one
renominated, was christened James
Schoolcraft Sherman. But, in nearly
a quarter of a century of public life
Jim Sherman he was to his intimate*’
and probably half the nation referred
to him as “Sunny Jim,” a sobriquet he
earned as one well might imagine by
a never failing, all-year-round sunnv
disposition.
Sherman belonged to the school of
Republicanism nowadays popularly
called "regular” and he fought his
political battles shoulder to shoulder
with men of his faith without com
promise or flinching.
He came to the house of representa
tives of the fiftieth congress in the
winter of 1887, just past his thirty-
I second birthday, with the energy and
j optimism of youth, college bred from
| the halls of Hamilton, which has
I given to public life many other states-
I men and public figures. Like many
! others who came to lead In the na
i tional legislature, he brought with
! him an education 1n law. He was well
; born and well bred. His father, Rich
ard U. Sherman, was an editor and
public figure in New York state.
Two sessions of congress found
Sherman defeated and out of office,
but not for long. Henry W. Bentley,
of Oneida county, beat him by less
I than a thousand votes In the race tor
i the fifty-second congress. In the In
| terlm, Sherman went back to Utica,
built up his law practice and returned
to the fifty-third congress with a sig
nal victory. He remained in the house
without defeat to the sixtieth congress,
