Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-20
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The move to bring the basis of
salaries for city firemen up to
that of city policemen received a
blow in Council Monday afternoon
when the matter was referred to
the salaries committee for recon-
sideration. The vote of Mayor
Pro Tenn Warren, cast after tie
vote had been recorded, decided
the matter.
An ordinance to regulate the
heat, sanitation and ventilation in
factories where women and chill
dren are employed was passed by
Council. Councilman Claude |.
Ashley introduced the measure
after il had been recommended by
the Board of Health. Enforce
nnent of this ordinance will be left
with the health board.
UTICA, N. ", Oct. 2o.-Frank
Holmes, aged "a, an Adirondack
guide, was accidentally shot
and killed to-day in front of the
Adirondack League Club when
one of it's members, a wealthy
New Yorker, was "fixing' his gun
preparatory to going deer hunt
ing with Holmes. :;
NEW YORK, Oct. 2o.-"GuiIty,"
cried Father Hans Schmidt when
srraisned before Judge Malone
day to plead to an Indictment
charging him with the murder of
Anna AumulIer.
Attorney koelbIe, lawyer for
Schmidt, quickly interposed an
objection, stating: This defend
ant pleads not guilty on the
ground that he was insane at the
time Of the commission of the
crime"
Schmidt protested, but was
overcome by deputy sheriff and
the court accepted the plea Of not
guilty made bY his attorney.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.-
President Wilson to- day made
public a letter he sent to Repre-
sentative Underwood in which he
declared he felt confident that a
report on the currency bill would
be made not later than the first
week in November, and that "ac-
ton of the Senate upon tho bill
will follow within two or three
weeks after the report is made"
KIEFF, RUSSIA, Oct. zo.-The
defense to o-day attacked tho tes-
timony of Vera Tchiberiak, one
Of the principal witnesses in the
prosecution for the ritual muir
der" trial of Mendel Beiliss. While
the trial was going on a dispatch
from st. Petersburg stated that
the Minister of Justice probably
will intervene and order that the
case be thrown out of court by
Judge Bodirief. A woman named
DaVesky, a former servant in the
Tchiberiak household, took the
stand and Unexpectedly confront
ed her mistress. She declared
that disguised men visited Vera
and that the Tchiberiak woman
had incriminated herself by con-
Versations with these men. While
the former servant was detailing
some of the things she had over
heard, Vera Ieaped to her feet and
vehemently denied the accusa
tons. This was the first scene
of disorder since the trial started.
GRIFFIN, Oct. 2o.-While his
grandmother, Mrs. Findley Kin
caid, Sr., was trying to get from
him a supposedly empty revolver,
John A. Powell, 16 years old, was
shot and probably fatally wound
ed. The bullet entered and sew
cred the backbone, causing COM
pIete paralysis of the lower limbs.
remove the bullet. Mrs. kincaid
is FRUSTRATED.
WHEATON,, Ill, Oct. 20
That he had planned to attack
and rob Mrs. Potter Palmer, the
society leader, and had followed
her to New York once, was the
declaration Of Henry Spencer,
confessed slayer, this afternoon to
a number of county officials. 81
wanted to get her because she
wore a lot of swell jewelry," he
declared.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.-Mi-
nority Leader Mann of the
House to day declared that Presi-
dent Wilson had been nisled as to
the prospects of the Senate pass
ing .the currency bill by NoVem-
Der IS. After a conference to day
with Republican Senators, Mr..
Mann stated that the bill could
not possibly pass before the regu-
lar session.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.-Sec-
retary of State Bryan announced
to-day that he would make sew
era speeches in the State elec-
tions of New Jersey and Mary
land.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-Rsth-
bone Gardner, serving as a dep
uty from the Rhode Island do
cese, to day introduced a resoIu-
ton at the Episcopal convention
approving a soeial order "in which
there shall be a more equitable
distribution Of wealth and in
which every worker should have a
fair return for what he produces"
Because of it's socialis stic nature,
the resolution created considera
bic stir. II was referred to the
committee on social service.
LONDON, Oct. 2o.-U. S. Am