The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, June 13, 1906, Image 9

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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. - family on long tramp TO FLEE FROM HUSBAND Mrs. Lizzie Maley, Two Little Children Her Mother,. Come to Atlanta From Palmetto. anc Quitting her home and husband be cause of alleged mlitreatment, Mri. Lizzie Maley, a young woman of Pal- metto, accompanied by her two little children, a girl aged 1 year and a boy 4 yeara of age, and her mother, Mra. Victoria Copeland, walked all the way Monday afternoon from East Point to Atlanta, a distance of I miles. In search of employment. The quartet, worn out by the tlre- aome tramp, arrived in the city last night and sought a night's lodging at the ppllce station. The two women were without money or \ friends here and they thought of the city prison as their only refuge. They were accom modated and spent the night under the care of Miss Sanderson, police matron. The little family had only money enough to pay their railroad fare from Palmetto to East Point, and, on ar rival there, were compelled to alight from the train. They did not even have money enough to pay street car fare Into the city, and the two women hud to trudge along the chert road with the two little tots the entire « miles. The mother and daughter, carrying the children with them, left the police station early Tueeday morning and went out Into the city In search of some means of livelihood. So far, noth ing more has been heard of them, and It Is not known whether they were successful. • To Miss Sanderson. Sirs. Maley de dared her husband had been abusing and mistreating her to such an extent she Anally decided to leave him. Thinking she could get some kind of employment here, she determined to come to Atlanta, bringing her mother and two little children with her. Mrs. Maley said she had a friend In East Point, and. after leaving the train, tried to And her. The friend, how ever, had moved, and all efforts to And her were futile. There was nothing for the little party to do but walk to Atlanta, and they walked. COMMANDER TUCKER WILL WED LASSIE IN IRELAND By Private Leased Wire. Minneapolis, Minn., June J*.—'The engagement of Commander Booth Tucker, of London, International secretary of the Salvation Army, to Col onel Emma Reid, at present In charge of the Salvation Army forces In Ire land, Is announced. The wedding will take place In London. I'M LEAVING FOR GOD’S COUNTRY,” WIRED PREMIER JUST BEFORE DEATH By Private Leased Wire. Melbourne. June 12.—"I am leaving for God's own country. I hope Aus tralia will become a similar paradise,” was the late Premier Sedden's fare well telegram to Premier Bent, of Victoria, sent a few hours before the former's sudden death yesterday eve ning on the steamer Owestry Orange, on which he sailed the same morning from Sydney for New Zealand. i Personal Mention Among the newly married couples who sailed yesterday tor England were Mr. and Mrs. George Arthur Gordon. They will be the guests there of Mr. Gordon's sister, Mrs. Rowland Leigh, .since their wedding on Thursday, In St. Paul's Episcopal church, Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon have been In town. The Right Rev. Robert A. Gib son, bishop of Richmond, the bride’s uncle, performed the ceremony and was assisted by the rector. The bridegroom Is a son of General and Mrs. William A. Gordon, of Savannah, Os., and the bride Is a daughter of Dr. Hunter Mc Guire of Richmond.—New York Herald. Hon. John E. Donaldson and Miss Linda Gordon, of Balnbrldge, passed through the city Monday en route to Atlantic City, where they go td visit Mrs. Walter Thompson, who has taken a cottage there for the summer. Mr. and Mra. Osslan Daniel Gorman hare gone to Talbotton to visit rela tives. They will be absent until Sun day. Upon their return to Atlanta they will go to housekeeping In their home on Juniper street. Miss Rebecca Cohen and her two nieces, Miss Frances Irene Meeks and Miss Louise Tolleson,' have gone to Marietta to spend the summer at the home of Miss Tolleson. The friends of Mias Sallle Eugenia Brown will be gratlAed to learn that she Is steadily Improving In health, un der the treatment of Dr, Weir Mitch ell. at Philadelphia. Mrs. Robert Zahner, retiring presi dent of the Atlanta Woman's Club, Is attending the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's flubs at St. Paul. Miss Louise Todd will leave Mon day for Chicago, to be the guest dur ing the summer of Mrs. A. J. Smith •t the Elms Hotel, Hyde Park. Tuesday for her home at GrlfAn. Mrs. Alfred Truitt will leave In a few days for Anniston, Ala., to spend a short time with friends In that city. Mies Grace Landrum will leave Tuesday night for a visit to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Watkins, of Virginia. Mr. J. M. Young, of Brunswick, spent Sunday and Monday In Atlanta with his daughter, Mrs. Owen Phelan. Mr. and Mrs. Walkenburg and chil dren are spending several weeks among the North Carolina mountains. Mrs. Thompson, of Newnan, Is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. J. Smith, No. 145 West Peachtree street. Mra John Miller and Miss Relnette Miller will leave Saturday for the Highlands, North Carolina Mr. and Mra G. E. Paine left Mon day night for a visit to Washington city and New York. Mr. Matthews, of Thomsston, Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mat. thews, on North avenue. Mr. J. S. Gladney, who has been at tending the bankers' convention, has returned terSylvanla. Mrs. E. H. Thornton and Miss Ella Mae Thornton will spend the month of July In Asheville. Miss Maude Keller, of Nashville, Tenn., Is the guest of her sister, Mrs. George Mack. Misses Gladys and Louise Catchlngs left Tuesday for a visit to relatives at Vicksburg. Mrs. A. J. Smith snd daughters will leave Friday for Chicago to spend the summer. Miss Louise Price 1s the guest of her aunt, Mrs. Alfred Truitt, on Center street. Mrs. J. H. Gilbert Is In Grimn. the guest of her sister, Mrs. David J. Bailey. Mize Louise Lamar, Who 1s the guest , M „. otls McDonald and children of Mlzs Caro Hutchins, will leave Wed- are |„ orlffln, the guests of relatives. Mziiay for GrlfAn to visit Miss Flo Reno Watts. Mr. Charles H. Trent and Miss Mabel Trent, who have ueen the guests of Col "b-l ,in.l Mrs. Lowry, left Tuesday for w Point Comfort. Mrs. Julia O'Keefe Kelson Is spend- “f the summer with her sister. Mrs. Drewry Powers, at her suburban home, Oakland, near Decatur, Oa. Mlzz Sallle Cowles Is enjoying an wt-nded visit to New York, Boston and other Eastern cities with her grandmother, Mrs. W. P. Pattlllo. Mr*. Fanny Wlltcox, of Charlotte. N. t . arrived Monday to spend several Jerk* With her niece, Mrs. J. Glascock May*, on Spring street. Th- friends In Atlanta of Miss Luclle Thompson, of Newnan, will regret to know that her visit to Mrs. A. J. Smith “** been postponed. hr. and Mrs. J. O. Earnest returned Sunday from Boston, where Dr. Eam- , ' *ent to attend the medical con- 'antion. , Mr Whlteford 8. Mays left Monday ■nr a visit to his aunt. Mra. Paul Flts- •Immonz. a t the navy yard, Waehlng- ■on, D. C. J*". C. B. BeeksT”Mrs. H. H. Bass S? Ml»» Mary Bass were among the Mcn-'ayP*°P** who were ln Atlu>t * 00 Mr and Mrs. Norwood Mitchell are J: Mot Springs, Va, where the former fiddly recovering from hts recent ifi 11 -? f |, ° McLaughlin, who has been . tb * week with Mrs. W. ~ ki, Ilham, has returned to her home In John 8. Spalding and her little JBJghter are at Asheville, N. C. They * return the latter part of the week. K»*-herine Cooney Abbott will *m t lh * euntmer at Chicago. She “I be at the Elms Hotel, Hyde Park. an* 11 ’? Rene Watts, after a pleas - 1 Tww to Miss Caro Hutchins, left Mr. Charles Preston Is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Preston. Mr. and Mrs. Algood Holmes have returned to Reading. Pa. Mra. C. C. Hanson has returned from a visit to Memphis. Mra. M. Sage Is spending several weeks In Nacoochee Valley. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Korthen are visiting In Hartford, Conn. Mr. Leroy Mandevllle, Jr, has re turned to Carrollton. Mra. Livingston Mims Is the guest o* Mrs. Mack, In Boston. Miss Nan duBIgnon has returned from New York City. Mrs. Warner Martin Is visiting rela tives at Greenville, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Van Vleck, of Toledo, are at the Piedmont. Miss Edith Russell leaves for New York this week. Dr. Frances Bradley spent Sunday at Marietta. Miss May duBIgnon Is visiting In 8h- Mr. Perry Hill, of Columbus, Is In the city. THROUGH SLEEPING CAR LINE TO Wrightsville Beach, N .0, Commencing Saturday, June the »th, and continuing each Saturday during the months of June, July sad Au gust, through sleeping cars will be op erated, delivering passengers at tba hotels at Wrightsville Beach, leaving Atlanta at 1:15 p. m.: returning, leave Wrightsville etch Thursday, arriving Atlanta the following morning at 4:30 a. m. Season tickets *18.55; week end tickets, good for Ave days, *1.25. SEABOARD. VASSAR GIRLS EXPELLED BECAUSEOFAUTO RIDE A THIRD ESCAPES PUNISHMENT AS- SHE IS JUST ABOUT TO GRADUATE. By Private hoard Wire. New York, June It.—Two Vaaiar atudenta, a sophomore and a fresh man, have been expelled from college as punishment for their participation In a night automobile ride In which a young mau participated. A third stu dent, a senior, has escaped a similar sentence only because she la about to graduate. It Is asserted that the automobile In which they were • riding smashed a farmer's wagon. The farmer, when he learned the Identity of the chauffeur, gallantly doelsted from prosecution and presented no bill for damages. ACCUSED OF MURDER NEGRO IS LYNCHED By Private Leased wire. Hattleiburg, Mist., June 12.—Wood Ambrose, a young negro, was lynched at Prentln, forty-live mllee east of Hattiesburg, yesterday. Ambrose had been arrested and ac- cuaed of the shootlfag of a white, man. FUGITIVE FOR 40 YEARS GIVEN AWAY BY WIFE By Private Leased Wire. Muskogee, I. T„ Juno 12.—Newton Bohannon was arrested Monday night at Okmulgee, I. T„ on a chargo of murdering Moses Echolds, pear Bon ham, Texas, In 18(7, and placed in the federal jail here yesterday. Bohannon haa been a fugitive from justice for forty .years. He was lo cated on Information given by hla wife. Bohannon waived extradition and will be taken to Bonham today. WOMAN SWALLOWS PIN AND GETS APPENDICITIS By Private Leased Wire. Darlington, Ind., Jane 12.—Last night Drs. Hlpp, of Chicago, and Pea cock, of this place, performed an op eration on Mr*. Quincy Peterson, living at Kirkpatrick. The operation was for appendicitis and was very difficult owing to the abnormal dla- placement of the appendix, which had slipped up under the liver In a ver tical position and was about twice Its normal slse In length. In the appendix was found a common brass pin which had caused a perforation. Another Case of this kind. Is not known In medical statistics, It Is said. It la not known how long since Mrs. Peterson swallowed the pin, but It Is thought to have been several yeara. SWATTED AT NEGRO BUT LANDED ON COP POLICEMAN ROSSER DEALS OF FICER GLOER TERRIFIC BLOW ON ARM. ONLY ONE IS LEFT OF VALIANT BAND Arthur C. I’rltclisnl, of No. M5 Courtlsnd street, Is the sole survivor of his coupssy mess of Company It. Heeond l«ttslkxi, Georgia volunteers, T,'right's brigade, An denoa's division, A. I*. Hill's corps. O ' the mass of ten sit but two bnd pssset over the elver when April. 1S06. esme around, forty years after the surrender at Appomattox, soil In February. ISOS, Henry If. Hughey died st Cascade Hprlngs, Knf- Ion county, Georgia, leaving only Mr. Pritchard of the original ten. They were James Prntho, Pinckney Trotho, Henry Hnghey, Hubbard Ilurbey, George Pdnion- aon, Jack Heldcn. Ullfle imrcnport, \V. H. I'rtlchard, Arthur C. Pritchard ami Tom BIO KIUK IS MADE AGAINST THE I0E MAN Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Juno 12.—Thera la a threatened Ice famine on here, not so much because of a- scarcity of let, but because the Ice concerns cannot deliver the Ice as fast ss It Is wanted. The people charge that the warring Ice concerns here have advertised Ice at half the usual price, but Instead of delivering this Ice after having sold the tickets at a low price, they fall down on the delivery and the people are rals< Ing a big kick. WIDE OPEN TOWN IS HOT 8PRINOS NOW Special to The Georgian. Little Rock, Ark., June 12.—Elated over the Indorsement he received from the Arkansas Democratic state conven tion for the United States senatorshlp, Governor Davis has taken the lid off In Hot Springs, which Is agal.i a wide open town. The governor Is also anx ious to make friends with the business men of Little Rock, some of whom have not recognised him socially alnce ha lias been In offlee. In his campaign speeches for the last eight years he frequently referred to the buslneee men of Little Rock as "high collared roost ers," and to the newspaper men of the city as “squirrel headed editors.” AT THE THEATERS At the Casino. ‘‘Gforlana," an English musical com edy, opened at the Ponce DeLeon Ca sino Monday night with Mary Marble and Utile Chip playing the leading roles, while the other members of the tVells-Dunne-Harlan company that recently took themselves on a tour In "Nancy Brown” ware there, too, look ing sa good as ever, and gtad to be back In Atlanta. Of course, Little Chip and Mary Marble were the hits of the show—it Is a habit they have. But Robert Harty, Dan Marble, and the others, outdid themselves In pleasing an au dience that taxed the capacity of the Casino. The Musical Maidens, though they have only kicking parts, added much to the performance, and the ap plause they received attested well to their gracefulness. There are fee- chorusee as good looking that come to Atlanta. "Gloriana" la a piece of foolishness that affords Little Chip a great oppor tunity to burlesque a London swell, and hla work In the part could hardly have been Improved. There will be matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with a per formance every night, and 8. II. a bids fair to be the order of the week. While clutching at the throat of escaping negro prisoner from the police court room Tuesday morning. Probe, tlon Offlcer Gloer was accidentally dealt a terrific blow on the arm and painfully hurt by Policeman Rosser, who was striking at the negro with heavy walking stick. • Nltwlthstandlng hla Injury, Offlcer Gloer caught the negro and held onto him. The capture was effected In front of the probation offlee In the lobby, just outside of the court room. The negro, Artis KnlghL escaped from the police In March and had been at large until Monday afternoon, when he was arrested by Call Officer Cooper for another offense. When hla name \v;i* called M.m,lay meriting l'V i'IciI. Preston and he was released from the prisoners' room by Court Officer Bon nalL tbs negro, Instead of halting be fore the recorder’s desk, made a break for liberty, running at break-neck speed toward the open court room door. Instantly the court room waa pre clpttated Into a scene of Intense ex cltement. Catch that man. Catch him!" yelled Clerk Preston and several others. A number of officers were seated In the court roniii ami then made a dash for the fugitive, being Joined by nu merous spectators. Officer Gloer, who was seated In hla "til.... heard the commotion In the court room and ran out In the lobby, just In tim.' t" niiikn a grab for the fleeing negro. Offlcer Rosser was Just behind the negro and made a swipe at hla head with hla walking stick, the blow missing Its mark and landing on Officer Gloer’a arm, near the wrist. Al though tills blow went wild, another one, backed by equal fores, found a resting place on Knight's head, raising a knot that resembled a goose egg. While Offlcer Gloer’a arm waa pain fully hurt, tha bone wae not broken. Knight was escorted back Into tha court room and arraigned for trial. 1 developed that at the time of hla ar rest Monday he tried to cut Offlcer Cooper with a knife, the offlcer saving himself by covering hie assailant with his pistol. For this offense the negro waa lined 825.75. For his offense of escaping ' March he was fined another 125.75. new case wsa entered for his disorder In the court room and for this he was fined still another 225.76. In addition, he has another line of 216.76 against him. Imposed In the original case at the time of his flrst escape. Unless the fines are paid Knight must serve four months In the stockade. He was asked by Judge Broyles why he tried to escape and answered: ‘it Is my buslnoss to get away If can, and your business to hold me you can." After the trial the negro declared ho would never wqrk In the stockade. RAIN BREAKS UP TARGET PRACTIC Twenty-live members of Company K. Fifth Infantry, National Guard of Georgia, spent Monday night In camp at Lakewood and Tuesday morning arose at the sound of an early reveille to participate In target practice. The encampment will, however, probably break up today, as Captain Claud C. Smith said he would call the rifle prac tice off unleia weather conditions changed. The rifle practice Monday waa axcel lent. If the camp Is struck It will be raised later when the work of prepara tion for the Atlanta trophy cup, which tha company la determined to win again this year, will be continued. 08 GRANDCHILDREN ~ SURVIVE “AUNT’’ FANNIE By Private Leased Wire. Richmond, Va., June 12.—"Aunt' Fannie Lomax, an ex-alsve, Is dead In Roaelyn, Va., aged 101. She leaves flfty-elght grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Nearly the whole town of Roselyn turned out to visit her when ehe celebrated her 105th birthday with a public reception. HIGH DEGREE MASON DIES AT CHARLOTTE Special to The Georgian. Charlotte, N. C„ June 12.--’8qulre D. O. Maxwell, one of the leading citizens of this place, and a thirty-third de gree Mason, died at hla horns hers Monday, after a long Illness, 'Squire Maxwell had been a United States commissioner and a Justice of the peace for many years, and waa a landmark In the community. He leaves a family. The deceased at one time traveled Georgia and other states for the Singer and Hows sewing machine companies. STORK HasT NO CHANCE IN THE0B0PHI0AL SOCIETY By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, June 12.—Not a birth haa been recorded among the members of the Chicago chapter of the Theoeoph- Ical Society within three years. Mrs. J. M. Henderson has been a member of the local organisation for mors than three years. "As a society, we etand for purity flrat, last and all tha time," were the opening words whsn a reporter railed. Just then there came the wall of an Infant. Mra. Henderson did not turn and rush to the crying child. "Isn’t It yours7" was asksd. “No. That's my sister's child. You see she le not a Theosophlst." "Meaning?" "Why. there hasn't been n child born to a member of the Theoeophlet Ho clety for three years," aba answered. SECRETS OF’uTsTaRMY LIFE TC BE SOUGHT BY GERMAN By MALCOLM CLARK. By Private Leased Wire. Berlin, June It—American army of ficers had better Be on the lookout Lieutenant Bllte. author of "In a Small Oarrlson Town," the book which created such n sensation In German army circles and which led to Llentenant BHse’a expulsion from the army, announces hla Intention of going to the United States In cognlto for the purpose of gathering material for a book on American army llfo. Plain Talks On Atlanta Real Estate As a Profita ble Investment. By EDWIN P. ANSLEY. REAL ESTATE VALUES INCREASE. More money I* being Invested In Atlanta real estate by more people than ever before. More proflta have been made In Atlanta dirt the past year than ever before. Even the real estate men are Investing their money In Atlanta property. All tbls mesne that this form of Investment Is the sur est, safest and most profitable. Another thing, the biggest profits and ths greatest appreciation In values haa been In North Side property. All Atlanta Is moving to tha northward and has been for several years. Everybody wants to Uva ths re. What Is ths result? Almost alt of the North aide property, the beet and most valuable por tion, haa been secured and homsa built. Except for here and there a va- 1 present pnrchai homeseekers In Atlanta, property on this side. Physical comltl tha available ATLANTA JU8T BEGINNING TO GROW. But Atlanta la Just beginning to grow, servatlve to say by 1S10, this will b- Only a very few years, eon* i be a city of 800,0(0 population. It la the - metropolis of the South, and Is growing even more rapidly than the South. Every Northern, Eastern and Western conosrn Is now dstsrmlnlng upon • Southern representative snd sending him Dlxltward. Almost every Southern representative la coming to the railroad and commercial center or the South—Atlanta. Healdes these, home Industries and Roulhsm manufactories are enlarg ing at a marvelous rate. New Industrie! and factories are starting up dally, ATLANTA'S FUTURE HOMESEEKERS. Where are all Iheas future successful Atlantans going lo live? Having money, they are going to live In the social, driving and aulomoblllng center of Atlanta. They are to demand tha very best snd also property properly protected by uniform provisions and agreements such as will prevent all Imposters or objectionable partlee from coming In and depreciating high class real estate values. Just such rules and boulevard driveways, plszss. shaded avenues, gardens and landscape engineering have gtfgo. MW residential parks In ths North and Hast tho most valuable real estate and most profitable form of Investment In the country. Atlanta Is now a metropolitan center and on the eve of unprecedented growth. These same modern conditions apply to Atlanta os to othtr cities. This confidence In Atlanta led to the purchase and developni. ni >r An*i*.v Park. Public auctions were hsld. They proved pmfltable to all concerned. Every single purchaeer has been offered mope than ho paid. Many have sold, but moot have refused to part with their lota because there are scarcely any more left on the North Bide. They eee the tremendous demand that U coming. CITY AND COUNTRY ADVANTAGES. -~r~- Thanks to the passing up of ths paving of the Prado from Peachtree Circle to Piedmont avenue by the county MoplMMHn last eMt.wn city water nnd sewer privileges owners of three lots enjoy all of. the down town advantages with those of the country found only In the very foothills of ths Blue Itldge, where lies Aneley Park. Directly opposite, Ansley Pnrk faces Hist portion of Plsdmont Park which has been preserved by the city for lie natural beauties. Similarly 1 nested properly In all American cities, European, too, fur that matter, Is the most valuable to be found anywhere. This Is the assured "Central Park West" of Atlanta. No one can ever build In this portion. It remains a park and natural forest alwaya. LOCATION 18 ALL IMPORTANT. All wise real estate Investor* consider location flrst In making their In vestment*. Peachtree divides this property. West Peachtree bounds It on the west. Piedmont avenue on ths east, and connecting these three most famous avenues of Atlanta, are beautiful boulevards and driveways. One more point (although there are thousands moral. Ansley Park Is mads aarred by the blood baptism spilled In the bnttlee among the moat famous In history. Here*:: "M i.i ,-h-i m . .i u •• itmi imiikr.i tim position of Hardee's corps and the defensive lino of tho Confederate ermy. These historic positions aa well oa the graceful contour of tho lend and Its natural beauty have been carefully preserved by Landscape Engineer Ruff. Over tan mile* of 80, 75 and 80-foot drtvawaya have been opened in Ansley Park during ths past alx months. This ha* required a commercial artillery corps of ona hundred learns, wagons, scoop shovels, road scrap ers, etc., and an army of aa many laborers. Now, these driveways both lead directly to tha new bom* of the Piedmont .Driving club and through the.moat beautiful section of Piedmont Park, connect with those boulevard*, Jackson street boulevard and others, which very soon must mark tha chain of driveways uniting all of the baltlrflclds In and around Atlanta. Federal appropriations are sure lo both bring about this chain of bat- Ueflsld driveways and perpetuate these tutored fighting fields with battle parks, monument*, etc. Ths government I* doing this In ntbsr cities. At lanta’s turn must come next. The result Is that this will be on* of the most historic drives to be found In nny American dly. It will also become Hie certain driving renter of Atlanta of necessity and the moat convenient possible to all members of tha Piedmont Driving Club. ALL DRIVEWAYS NOW OPEN. “ But all of these driveways ar* now open. Drive or motor out to Ana. ley Perk and see for yourself the conditions. These conditions and a hun dred teams and an army of workmen will show you more of the Greater Atlanta of the Immediate future than you have realised. One single trip will also suggest more reasons for aelsctlng a lot for either a home or prof itable Investment than a thousand columns of rending matter. Tet bear this fact In mind. It la vary rarely that you ran secure such North Hide property at any sale and more rarely still, at your own price. Remember, too, that this waa only made possible by development and also that these are the very last lota and the vary last chanots, and that every lot will go to the highest bidder AT THE— PUBLIC AUCTION SALE -TO BE HELD AT- ANSLEY PARK Next Friday, June 15, AT 1.30 P. M. All parties Interested In either the sal* or Atlanta real estate, are In vited to attend a barbecue luncheon at 12:80 o’clock on the shaded lot.-, wblcb will be sold flrst. Tbs term* for all lota sold ar* one-third cash and balance In on* ant two years at 5 per cent. For further particulars apply to l ORREST S GEORGE ADAIR, CHARLES M. ROBERTS, ANSLEY BROS. ,