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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 » 3 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 THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS -BRTETFS 4. . ; +Jailed for Dancing ! ¥ : ) i ‘JackJohnson Fling ; ik § CORDELE, May 28.—Because they introduced the “Jack Johnson % fling” among Cordele negroes and | 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. o l T % Lo a % - Three-year-old g e e N , son of Mr. and | g T e P . S S A T R liams. The boy’s | 4 msag s ¢T!L g e e e ; cited for con- ¢ . o T ) g o M NN, RS N TR | tempt for leav- | e 7 x 5 . { ing city with : S 8 N Y ey S R, ey \6 y), e ; S Tl SR e T BNy .' S F SB S O ‘;e N 0 3 B - s R S % . Steamer With 29 on . Board Believed Lost . 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 ¥ S 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 Little Boy Center % Of Contest in Court { By Divorced Pair i e B S B M e T RT L e g OO R SRR o T e e A o R o B R Rl R 4 pg : oA sty T "’M S ]" b RS P e o N 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, 9