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LUKE LEA'S MAN
NOMINEE. FOR
GOVERNOR
Tennessee Democrats Name Sen
ator’s Choice After Bitter
Fight From Opposition.
NASHVILLE, May 28.—Thomas C.
Rye, of Paris, prosecuting attorney
for Henry County and choice of Unit
ed States Senator Luke Lea, was tins
afternoon nominated as the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Ten
nessee to o6ppose Governor Ben W.
Hooper, the neminee of the Independ
ent Democrats and Republicans for a
third term. Rye defeated Thomas R.
Preston, a Chattanooga banker; Chan
cery Judge A. H, Roberts, of Cooke
ville; Circuit Judge S. J. Everitt, of
Jackson; State Committee Chairman
J. D. G. Morton; George L. Hardwick,
a Cleveland merchant, and George
Berry, of Rogersville, international
president of the Printing Pressmen
and Assistants’ Unlon. The fight was
Rye against the field, Rye finally se
curing enough of the uninstructed
vote on the tenth ballot to give him
a majority. The opposition had cen
tered on Everett, the vote on the
ninth being Rye 646 and Everett 626.
This convention to-day was the
most bitter and spectacular since the
famous Patterson-Cox convention in
1906. The chief i\sue was whether
Senator Lea, who but recently re
turned to the regular Democracy,
after several years’ affiliatlon with the
Independents, should become the par
ty dictator. In the preliminaries the
anti-Lea forces were successful by
organizing the conventlon, seating
anti-LLea contcsting delegates and
nominating Judge Robert Burrow,
anti-Lea candidate for the Supreme
bench. However, l.ea succeeded ‘n
turning the tables when the big fight
came on and rut Rye over for Gov
ernor.
Convict Asks $l,OOO
For Severe Flogging
An echo of the recent convict flog
ging scandal, which aroused the res
jidents of Fulton County, was heard
Friday in a petition for $l,OOO dam
ages filed with the Bozrd of County
Cimmissioners b® Richard Simms, 4
negro ex-convict, who : wears that he
was brutally kicked by Foreman Neal
and thrown to the ground by guards
and beaten across the head and face
with the butt of the flogging strap.
Simms was sentenced to twelve
months in the chaingang and was s -
leased February i 2 of last year, get
ting time off for good behavior. He
claims to be unable to work as a re
sult of the brutal treatment,
Harvard Graduate
Makes Model Farm
DULUTH, May 28.—1. 1. Florsheim,
Harvard graduate, son of a million
aire shoe manufacturer, has trans
formed several hundred acres of cut
over land north of Bemidji into a
model farm.
Mr. Florsheim, Harvard 1898
trained for the law, but broke down
shortly after leaving college. While
at a hospital he fell in love with his
nurse, Miss Clara Priebe, and they
vere married. They are now living
on the farm, which lies on the shores
of Clearwater Lake.
The homesteaders laughed at his
new methods. The second vear the
homesteaders dropped into ask ques
tions, and now they are getting their
swine, their cattle and their horses
for breeding from Mr. Florsheim.
Becker Sentenced to
Die Week of July 6th
NEW YORK, May 29 —Ex-Lieuten
ant Charies Becker to-day was sen
tenced to death for the murder of
Herman Rosenthal, the gambler, who
was shot to death on July 16, 1912,
The execution was set by the court
to take place in the week beginning
July 6.
The appea! in Becker's testimony
will act as a stay of execution’ for
several months, however. While
awaiting the decision Becker will be
confined for the second time in the
deathhouse at Sing Sing Prison.
Rockefeller Wealth
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Fixed at $313,000,000
CLEVELAND, OHIO, May 29.-—Be
tween $312.000,000 and $313,000,000 is
the sam which will he placed opposite
John D. Rockefeller’s name on Cuya
hoga County's personal tax duplicate
within a few days.
Mr. Rockefeller failed to make a
return as ordered and the County Tax
Commissioners immediately began a
compilatign of a list of his personal
property
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§ CORDELE, May 28.—Because
they introduced the “Jack Johnson
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| were practicing the new dance on
%n street in the negro section, a
negro couple were arrested by po
lice officers and taken to the city
barracks.
While they danced for tips in the
corrider of the jail a large crowd
of men gathered about the win
dows to watch the performance.
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Off Carolina Coast
CHARLESTON, S. C,, May 29.—A
tug was dispatched from here to-day
to search for the steamer F. J. Luck
enbach, of New York, which is be
lieved to have been sunk in a gale off
the coast with a loss of 29 lives. The
Luckenbach was en route from Tam
pa, Fla., to New York when she ran
into a gale. She is a week overdue
in. New York.
The revenue cuttzr Seminole left
Beau'ort, 8. C., on the same errand.
Wireless stations all along the At
lantic coast are signaling in an at
tempt to get a trace of the Lucken
bach or some of her crew. The miss
ing ship did not carry any wireless
equipment.
Zion City Battle
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Low-Necked Gowns
CHICAGO, May 29.—Overseer Vol
iva has declared war on low-necked
gowns in Zion City. The overseer to
day ordered 50 shawls for Shiloh Tab
ernacle and announced that any wom
an who “appears there on Sunday
improperly clad will be given the
choice of putting a shawl on or get
ting out.”
““Ihe covering of the body does not
mean putting mosquito net on,” de
ciared Voliva in a speech. It means
vou shall cover your arms and your
neck and your body so your body is
covered.”
$l,OOO Fine Penalty
For Theft of $11,500
MACON, May 29.—W. F. Holmes,
who stole $11,560 from the city of
Macon while Marshal and who plead
ed guilty to the charge of embezzle
ment in the Superior Court this week,
was allowed to pay a fine of $l,OOO.
Petitions requesting extreme mercy
for the defendant were signed by
more than 1.500 citizens, and these
moved Judge Mathews to exercise the
leniency permited him by law, re
ducing the offense to a misdemeanor
and imposing the fine.
Caruso Tries to Sing
While in Biplane
LONDON, May 28 —Enrico Caru
go, the Metropolitan tenor, made his
first flight at Hendon in a biplane
with Grahame-White.
He sad he had tried a note or two
while in the air. but that conditions
were not favorable for singing
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An order directing Mrs. Wyllemette
Gale Williams, divorced wife of M. J.
Williams, of the Southeastern De
murrage Bureau, to appear before the
court and show cause why she should
lot be adjudged in contempt for tak
ing her 3-year-old son out of the ju
riediction of the court and violating
the court's order that Williams be al
lowed to see the child at stated inter
vals, has been signed by Superior
Judge George L. Bell. The order has
been placed in the hands of Sheriff
Mangum, and 3 search is being made
for Mrs. Williams.
At the same time he petitioned the
court to adjudge Mrs. Williams in
contempt, Williams asked that the
court rescind its action ordering him
to pay his wife alimony, This fea
ture of the case has not been acted
upon, and probably will not be until
Mrs. Williams is located and the
hearing set in the contempt case,
Willlams charges that his wife hps
attempted several times to prevent
h'm seeing their son. He declares
that seven or eight weeks ago he
went to her home on Capitol place on
cne of his visits to the child that are
rermitted by the court, and found she
was preparing to leave Georgia, He
immediately petitioned Judge Belifor
a temporary injunction to prevent her
departure, which was granted. He
now claims that she has violated this
injunction by leaving with the child,
Williams c¢laims he has been un
able to find any trace of his wife
since March 16, when he went to her
Lome to see his gon and found they
were gons 4
Gives Up Alimony to
Get Child’s Control
ST. LOUIS, May 28.—A stipulation
filed to-day in Circuit Judge Ras
sieur's court by Mrs. Katherine R.
McMillan, of New York, daughter of
Gilbert D, Raine, editor of The Mem
phis News-Scimitar, and her divorced
husband, Ross H. McMillan, regard
ing the custody of their 8-year-old
daughter, Katherine, Mrs. McMillan
may take the girl to any part of the
United - States on giving the father
rotice, For this privilege she will
relinquish $75 a month alimony and
McMillan will pay instead $35 a
month for the support of the child.
Mrs. McMillan got a divorce with
custody of the child. She asked leave
of the court to take the girl to New
York where she is studying music,
McMillan opposed- it. -
Stage Coach Skids
off Bridge; 4 Dead
SEATTLE, WASH., May 28.—Four
persons were dead here to-day, the
result of an automobile stage skidding
off the approach to a bridge across
the Snohomish River, near Everett.
The dead were Mrs. Lewis Larson,
@G. M. Johnson, C. C. Prestlen and 8.
C. Claussen, all of Sylvian. Three
persons were perhaps fatally injured.
CHIEF'S HOME BLOWN UP..
ASHEVILLE, N.C, May 28—
Dynamite, exploded by unknown par
ties in the basement of the home of
J. H. Gattis, chief of the Black Moun
tain (N, C.) police, early to-day blew
out one whole side of the rock wall
foundation, while the policeman and
his family were asleep. No one was
hurt.
WIFE OF VIGTIN
PLINNED GAIE,
1S SINER
The hearing of the application (or a
commutation to life imprisonment of
the death seritence of Nick Wilburn,
confessed slayer of James King, the
Jones County planter who was stain
on his farm about a year ago, began
Monday before the State Prisdsn Com
mission in the Capitol.
A dramatic feature of the hearing
was the reading of a statement, writ
ten by the condemned farm hand in
his own behalf, the first statement he
has made since his arrest, in which
he charged that Mrs. King, wife of
the slain man, instigated and plotted
the slaying and held him under her
influence,
Wanted Insurance, He Says.
He pleaded that he should not he
torced to suffer the extreme penaily,
in view of the fact that Mrs. King
has been freed. His statement re
cites his alleged relations with Mrs.
King, and tells of repealed efforts
made by her to induce him to kill her
husband, so she and Wilburn might
continue, and obtain the $2,000 insur
ance on the hushand’s life.
He said that in March, when ithe
affair between he and Mrs. King be
gan, he was seated on a woodpile at
the King home; that Mrs. King called
to him, and that she threw her arms
about his neck and kiseed him.
Met Her in Woods.
He said she did this again and
again afterward, and one day “took
him by the hand and pulled him into
her room.” Afterward, he said, he
met her in the woods, at which place
she wanted him to meet her every
day. -
Wilburn said Mrs. King toid him
“he would not have to worky” and
gave him King's money. Later she
suggested that he kill the husband,
and he refused. She kept making
this plea, he said, and finally, on the
day of the murder, threatened to kill
Wilburn and herself if he did not do
as she desired. She insisted on him
drinking whisky, he said, and he was
soon under her influence and the in
filuence of drink.
Baldwins Complete
Largest Locomotive
CHESTER, PA., May 30 —"Matt
Shay,” the largest locomotive ever
built, which was manufactured at the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, passed
through this city on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, bound for Krie.
The locomotive weighs 415 tons.
The “Matt Shay,” named after the
oldest engineer of the Erie Railroad,
nas a set of driving wheels under the
tender, the idea being to utilize the
traction force of the tender, which
heretofore has been a waste. ‘When
runting at full speed the “Maftt Shay”
will make a sveed of approximaiely
120 miles an hour.
Ex-Official Tells of
Naval Stores Trick
SAVANNAH, May 29.—George M.
Boardman, of Brooklyn, former treas
urer of the American Naval Stores
Company, was a witness for the Gov
ernment to-day in the trial of the
officials of the company under the
Sherman anti-trust law.
Boardman testified concerning the
alleged illegal practice of regrading
and robbing barrels of naval stores of
a certain quantity of spirits, whereby
a substantial profit was realized on
each barrel.
Wants to Pay Reward
To His Own Captors
FORT WORTH, May 28.—John Key,
an escaped convict, held 1n the city jail
for officers to take him back to Hunts
ville prison to finish a two years’' sen
teyce for bigamy, will insist on being
allowed to pay the reward of $25 for
his own capture.
Key has $52 due him from the city
waterworks department for a month’'s
work. He asked Commissioner Grant to
transfer the momney to the prison au
thorities with which to pay the $25 re
ward.
HARHY«—Many.rlch,>c»o>n-¢enlnl and nnx:
jous for companions. Interesting pare
ticulars and photo free. The Messenger,
Jackwonville, ¥ls. =, .
MARRY RICH--Matrimonial gaper of
highest character, containing hundreds
of photos and descriptions of marriage
ableufcoge with means. Malled frea
Sealed. ither sex. Writa to-day. One
may be your jdeal. Address Standard
Cor. Club, Box 607, Graysiake. 111.
SALESMEN WANTED.
SELL TREES--Fruit trees, Pecan
trees, Shade trees, Ornamentals and
Roses. E.sy to sell. Big profits. Write
to-day. SMITH BROS., Dept. 39, Con
cord, Ga,
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