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etni-Wcvfcljj Swwtwl VOL. XI. PRINCIPALS IN SURPRISE WEDDING L I I Bk ( 7 / SShS- a <x* <’ HiwOsL limO * ■> . ■ I - A •/’■“■/ , r “ ‘ •* VG . ‘ ■ Staff Photo by Winn. MB. ASD MBS. BEMJAMIK SULLIVAM, who wore married at Flowery Bran ch, though the bride was engaged to wed Mother May 28. BASEBALL STRIKE. IS CALLED OFF: GAME ON TUESBAY Ty Cobb Urged Detroit Players to Return to Diamond and President Navin Put it Up to Them Fairly (Special Dispatch to The Journal.! PHILADELPHIA May 20.—Detroit plays in Washington tomorrow which means that the strike is over. The de* tails of the settlement have net yet been given the public, but a statement is expected later It is stated that Cobb has appealed to the p'ayers to go back to work without ■ hhn This followed the rumor that a speedy settlement of the trouble was in sight. ; Another story was that President Navin had offered to pay the fines that might J be imposed on the players as a discip- ; Unary measure. Navtn told the Tiger*, it is said, that if they returned without Cobb, the Geor gian's suspension would be fairly inves tigated. The players are quoted as hav ing declared they had taken a position, and that they wou'd stick to It. Manager Jennings asserted the men will haVe to return without Cobb, or other arrangements will be * made. • The players prepared a paper, said to be in the nature of a compromise, whlih Mr. Navin took at once to President Johnson. » The feeling is general that the dispute will be settled and that there will be a I game in Washington tomorrow. President Ban B. Johnson, of the Amer- I lean league, and Frank J. Navin, head of I the eDtroit baseball club, met in a con- ' ference at the Beßevenue-Stratford hotel here this morning to take up the case I of ths striking players on the Detroit I dub. ♦ ♦ ! •* ATLAJTTA ST A ITS FUMD ♦ ♦ FOB DETBOXT PLATERS ♦ ♦ Believing that the Detroit ball ♦ ♦ club is acting entirely right in •* ♦ standing by Ty Cobb and wish- ♦ > ♦ lug to compensate every mem- ♦ ♦ bcr of the team in case the club ♦ is suspended for going on a ♦ ♦ strike. Col. -xarry C. Fisher and ♦ ♦ Hon. Thos. G. Hudson have come ♦ ♦ forth with subscriptions of $lO ♦ ♦ and $5 respectively to be used -a ♦ in the payment of the striking ♦ ♦ players. It is their idea to pay ♦ ♦ every member of tne team his ♦ salary for the time their sus- ♦ ♦ pension laats in case such is or- ♦ ♦ dered by President Ban John- ♦ ♦ sou. ♦ ♦ The team is now on strike ♦ under the rules of baseball ♦ are liable to suspension for re- ♦ ♦ fusing to play the games with ♦ •e- Philadelphia. As yet no step to- ♦ ♦ ward suspension has been taken ♦ ♦ by President Johnson and prob- ♦ ♦ ably will not be until Tuesday ♦ ♦ night, when the leaders of the •* ♦ league meet in Philadelphia. ♦ ♦ There are scores of Georgians ♦ ♦ who stand back of Cobb and ♦ •e the Detroit club in their atti- ♦ ♦ tude and in case the subscrip- ♦ ♦ tion is needed all will gladly ♦ ♦ contribute. •» ifiiEW® THROUGH AN OPEN DRAW Two Women and Three Men Are Drowned in Auto Trag- ■ edy at Chicago fßy Asserts’,ad Press.» CHICAGO. May 30.—Five persons, three men and two women, were drown ed early today when the automobile iu which they were riding piunged into tiie Calumet river at the 92d street bridge. > None of the names of the victims so far have been learned. One of the* women jumped into the river as the embankment aas reached, according to a watchman. Her body was recovered. The woman aas apparently 21 years old. and the initials “A. M." were on her bracelet. The automobile, which wc* going | about 30 miles an hour, turned com- | pletely over as it went into the river. ! The bridge had been swung to allow a boat to pass rhe driver of the ma chine was unable to apply the brakes in time to avert the plunge. CLAIMS OF CLARK ARE PROVEN SILLY BY PLAIN FIGURES Clark Table Credits Wilson With 80 Delegates, Though Pennsylvania and Texas Alone Give Him 116 BY BALFH SMITH. WASHINGTON. D. C.. May 20.—A statement issued from Speaker Clark’s headquarters gives what purports to be the present convention strength of the various candidates. Governor Wil son is accredited with a total of 80 delegates, while Mr. Underwood is given 84 delegates. This statement can be only described as a piece of silly mendacity. Its absolute dishonesty is known to all men from Maine to Texgs. It may probably interest the 273 del egates in favor of Governor Wilson's nomination because it assails the ques tion of their integrity. The only pos sible effect ft cain have will be to dis credit any rsrertion of fact Coming from the same quarter relative to Gov ernor Wilson. The 76 delegates from Pennsylvania and the 40 from Texas alone will give Governor Wilson 116 delegates. This affords a concrete instance of the methods and .imaginary mathematics of the Clark ciaimers. Governor Wilson now has 273 dele gates to the Baltimore convention and this number will be materially aug mented before the convention meets in Baltimore. Many of the tables giving the con vention strength of the delegates that appear in eastern papers are not only incorrect, but unfair <to Governor Wil son. HERALDS TABLE. The New York Herald table publish ed Sunday is far from correct. For Instance, Speaker Clto k is given the en tire delegation frodT Illinois, when, as a matter of fact. Governor Wilson car ried the 16 th congressional district, and the two Wilson delegates chosen by the voters there will vote for the New Jersey executive at Baltimore without being by the unit rule. DRUGGED BY BURGLARS ' Wv '* *' 'WF W £* t s -UM In w V V ‘ w J A ■■ Hr- \ "-scaKilfc Staff Photo by W.uu. MBS. ISABELLA A. REAGAH , and her watchdog. She, liar daughter and the dog, which guarded their home, were chloroformed Sunday night by burglars, who then robbed the hcue. BICHESON WILL DIE IT MIDNIGHT HOUR: SHSHEIS BHDY Condemned Murderer of Avis Linnell Spent Sunday Sing ing Hymns and Expounding the Holy Scriptures (By Auocisted Presi.) BOSTON, May 20.—A desire that the last hour of his earthly existence might come speedily apparently was the domi nating thought in the mind of Clarence V. T. Richeson as he rose from his prison bed today. The young Virgin ian who shortly after midnight to night will probably pay his penalty for the murder of Avis Linnell, has become reconciled to his fate and courageously faces the future. “I will be ready when you vant me, warden," he said to General Bridges late last night when that official paid him a brief visit. And he added: “Do not worry, I shall not break down.” SANG HYMNS SUNDAY. Richeson bore up Kell through his last Sunday on earth. He even was Cheer ful as he sang hymns with Chaplain Stebbins until a late hour last night. Several times repeating his favorite se lection, "Some Time We’ll Understand." Then he would read from the Psalms. His expositions of the lessons were de scribed by the chaplain as eloquent and learned. WANTED TO TALK. It was not until day light this morn ing that Richeson vfell into a fitufl sleep. Realizing that his hours wer»-. sc few in number, the condemned man de clared that he did not want to sleep. “I have so little time to live and have so much to say that I want to talk, talk, talk.” he said. No relative of the former minister will console him in his last hours or pay him a farewell visit. His aged father iu Virginia Is too feeble to stand the journey and the strain. His sister in New York state does not wish to have her last thought of her brother asso ciated with a death cell. His brother, Douglas Richeson, of Chicago, although in the city today, declared last* night that he would not go to the prison today but would remain until after the execution to attend to the disposition of the remains. * WILL HOLD AUTOPSY. After the execution, the medical examiner of the county. Dr. George B. Magrath, will perform an autopsy in ac cordance with law, notwithstanding the 1 t that the family have sent word to counsel for the conaemned man' that they would not permit it. Rev. Herbert S. Johnson, Richeson’s spiritual adviser, and- nis counsel, Will iam A. Morse, probably will accompany the bodv to Virginia, where it will be buried beside that or the young man’s mother at Amherst court house. Artesian Well (Special Dispatch to The Journal.' GREENSBORO, Ga.. May 20,-Greens boro is to have an artesian well, Perry Andrews, of Atlanta, artesian well con tractor and driller, will begin work In two weeks and he says the well should be ready for use in 40 days, provided he does not strike a vast rock forma tion. The cost of the well is estimated at $2,500. This will include an air com presser, which wil ,coSt between S6OO and SI,OOO. Mrs, R, D. M’Neill Dead (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) AMERICUS, Ga., May 20.—The first death here resulting from pellagra oc curred this morning in the demise of Mrs. Robert D. McNeill, following an illness of several months. The deceased was a daughter of William B. Heys. Her husband, two children, parents and several brothers and sisters survive her. / \ ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 21, T 912. \ a t ?' l -assMir©' ‘ i"'- . ■ a. i - a jW' ■ m > WnSk' W f ( ' AN AWFUL BUNKER. TIB HEEL DELEGATES WILL BE FDR WILSON: STATE VOTES MAY 25 Only Seven Counties Held Pri maries Last Saturday—Re mainder of 97 Counties Will Ballot Satuqjtey...... ONLY ONE COUNTY WAS TAKEN BY UNDERWOOD Wilson Is Favorite, and Dele gation Will Strongly Prefer Him, Even if No Instructions Are Given i ————— (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) CHARLOTTE, N. C.. May 20,-Only seven North Carolina counties held pri maries last Saturday and seven others held precinct meetings. Rockingham, Dare, New Hanover and Palk went strong for’Wilson. In other counties holding primaries no effort was made to ascertain presidential nomina tion preferences. Clay is the only county which expressed a preference for Under wood, and Clay only has three votes in the convention. Mecklenburg county, the largest in the state, did not vote, on presidential nom inees, except in one township, and there the vote was 97 for Wilson and 5 for Underwood. Under the new state law all the balance of the 97 counties .will hold conventions next Saturday when delegates will be named to the state convehtlon in June. There is no doubt but that Wilson is the favorite of a great majority of North Carolina voters, but efforts will be made, with prospects of success, to send to Baltimore an unlnstruoted delegation, a delegation, however, which will strongly prefer Wilson. SOLDIER’S BODYSENT HOME FOR BURIAL The remains of Walter H. Frady, who was shot while attempting to es cape from the fort guards Saturday morning, will be sent to the home of his mother in Arden, N. C., for burial Mondas afternoon. The funeral w’as held at the fort at 1:30 p. m. Monday. ILL PRSBTTERW COMINGWIN ISU Northern Presbyterian Church Convention Follows Example of Southern Branch 'By Associated Press.) LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 20.—Atlanta, Ga., was selected as host for the 1913 general assembly of the Northern Pres byterian church today. Rochester and Atlantic City which were contenders, withdrew. Atlanta plans to entertain thousands of numbers of each branch of the Presbyterian church in 1913. HOME OF M’CLATCHEY IS BURNED IN MARIETTA (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) MARIETTA. Ga.. May 20.—The home of D. F. McClktchey, house of repre sentatives reading clerk, on Powder Springs avenue, was almost entirely destroyed by fire Sunday afternoon. An oil atove exploded. WHO PACKED FULTON COUNTY’S DELEGATION? ASKS MR. WATSON Thomas E. Watson, of Thomson, now demands to know who in tarnation named that Fulton county delegation without a Watson man on It. “Who was it that packed the dele gation with irreconciliable foes ot mine,” he asks the readers of his Progressive Democrat, issued Monday. “The city of Atlanta seems to Have hogged it all,” is his tart conclusion of an' editorial headed “The Curious Make-Up of the Fulton County Dele gation.” -- HOW DELEGATES WERE NAMED. The Fulton eounty executive commit tee, of coursg, will issue the delega tion’s credentials, but the committee delegated the task of selecting its per sonnel to James L. Anderson, of the law firm of Anderson. Felder, Rountree and Wilson, and Colonel F. J. Paxon, chief of staff to Governor Brown, both of whom were recognized friends of Congressman Underwood’s candidacy, and one of whom—Mr. Anderson —was president of the Fulton county Under wood organization that went to pieces in the disaster of a 2,500 majority for WOULD CHANGE DATE OF METHODIST CONFERENCE “Undercurrent of Distrust and Unrest Abroad,” Declares Atlanta Minister Resolutions asking Bishop Denny to change the time of the North Georgia Methodist conference from December 11 to a date between November 6 and 20, were adopted Monday morning by the Methodist Ministers’ association, aftef“ a discussion in which it was de clared that an undercurrent of distrust and unrest is to be felt in the confer ence and that if the oishops assume autocratic power a blow will be aimed at the foundations of the Methodist church. "I am sure that nothing has been done with an unfair or unkind inten tion," said Rev. S. A. lHarris, of In man Park church, “but if the time has come when the pastor is to be ignored at the suggestion of two men that are not in 'the pastorate, then great harm will result to the cause of the church. An undercurrent of disfrust and unrest is abroad. If the time comes when bishops exercise autocratic power and exert it to the injury of the pastors, the foundations of the church will be jeopardized. I am sure that nothing has been done by the bishops for the intentional Injury of the ministers." His statement followed an explana tion, in which it was set forth that the time the conference had been changed because of a suggestion to Bishop Denny by Rev. Luke Johnson, formerly pastor of Park Street Meth odist church and now presiding elder of the Gainesville dYstrfqt, and Rev. John S. Jenkins, formerly presiding elder of the Rome district and now conference secretary of missions. NOT AGAINST MINISTERS. Mr. Harris and other speakers said they were sure that tills suggestion had been given in the interest of the preachers, but that the change it brought about would prove very hurt ful. In asking how the change had come to be made, Rev. C. C. Cary said he understood there had been “some fin gering around," and that be would like to know who had been instrumental in having the time of the conference delayed until December 11. Throughout the discussion the min isters’ association was more interested than it has been in any question brought before it for months. The resolutions were introduced’ by Rev. Charles O. Jones, Rev. 3. A. Har ris and Rev. G. M. Eakes and said in part: “All salaries, assessments and other financial operations are based on the fiscal year, which for a long time has commenced December 1 and ended No vember 30. Governor Wilson. It could hardly be charged, however, that they were arbitrary in their selec tions. The delegation was named upon the counsel of several Underwood lead ers in Atlanta. Mr. Watson will not, therefore, find an easy answer to his question. The charge that the Fulton delegation was packed against him will probably not be accepted personally by anybody in particular. “If the Woodrow Wilson men will have the executive committee give cre dentials to a Woodrow Wilson delega tion, the country counties will seat th* Wilson delegates,” promises Mr. Wat son, in this same editorial. Here, In full, is what he has to say about the Fulton delegation: MR. WATSON’S LATEST. “In Richmond county, the executive committee gave us a splendid delega tion. “It includes such well known ex- Populists as James L. Cartledge, J. M. Seago, W- K. Nelson, L. L. Winter and J. B. Chapman. INVITED HIM TO WEDDING DDT MARRIED RIM INSTEAD Miss Clara Louise Parker Weds Benjamin Sullivan, Up setting Announced Plans A marriage invitation with a note scribbled on the bick turned wedding .preparations topsy-turvy at Gainesville Saturday and resulted in the marriage of Miss Clara Louise Parker at Flow ery Branch to Benjamin Sullivan, ot Atlanta, while dressmakers and cater ers were making ready' for the wedding of Miss Parker on May 28 to Edwin Glenn Gilbert, of Marietta. The forgotten bridegroom had pre pared a bungalow in Marietta for his bride, and had sent a touring car to Gainesville for her use. Miss Parker’s trousseau was finished Friday after noon, and everything wax in readiness for the wedding. , Mr. Gilbert said Monday morning that he had no hint that the wedding plans were to be interrupted until he got word that his bride was married to another man. Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan are now at the Majestic hotel. INVITED TO WEDDING In a batch of invitations to her wed ding, Miss Parker suggested last week that one should be included for Mr. Sullivan. Since he had lived in Gaines ville as private secretary to Congress man Thomas M. Bell and had known ! Miss Parker when she was a student ■at Brenau. the two had corresponded until parents decided recently that the letter-writing should stop in view of : the nearness of the marriage on May > 28. But there was no objection to an I invitation. The parental censorship was lifted, and the bride-to-be (was given full permission to have her old friend to dance at her wedding. But ; the parents had forgotten that there Is room to write a long message on the ■ back of a wedding invitation. The note scribbled there directed Mr. ■ Sullivan to send a friend to Gaines i vtlle. and the friend arrived on Friday. The next day. Miss Parker was invited to tea at a chapter house by a sorority mate, who knew the friend from At : lanta. Waiting in front, of the chapter • house after the guests had sipped their tea was a big touring car with the friend on tjie job. He, Miss Parker and the sorority mate bundled them selves into the machine, and a minute later were clipping off the miles to Flowery Branch. Mr. Sullivan had left Atlanta on an afternoon train for the same station. He was there when the touring car whirled in. xmd helped Miss Parker from the machine. The party went to the residence of Rev. J. R. Sullivan, where Miss Parker and Mr. Sullivan were married, and the invalu able friend and the soforlty mate acted as witnesses. The married folks and BURGLAR WITH DRUG BEOS PRAYER FDR : ADREAMLESSSLEEP Two Widows and Their PeJ . j Watchdog Are Chloroformed 1 by' Daring Intruders, Who * Ransacked Cottage “I wish to sleep through this on* night without waking—may God let my mind rest from its troubles this one*," S said Mrs. Isabella A. Reagan, aged 75 ;1 years, to her daughter, as she sank back on the pillows of her bed early Monday night The woman’s prayer was answered, ,j i but it cost her a widow's mite/ Almost immediately after the word* were spoken the aged lady was dozing. i And then as if to answer her prayer that untroubled and dreamless sleep might be hers, a burglar stealthily climbed through an open window in th* bed room, a bottle of chloroform In hi* I hand. z "Rex," a tiny dog, the only guardian y of two widows, Mrs. Reagan and her daughter, Mrs. Roberta L. Herbert, who live on First avenue, which is on the ’ i South Decatur car line about 300 yards ; from East Lake Junction, was sleeping in the room with his mistresses. First the burglar tiptoedMo the place M where Rex was sleeping in a chair close by the bed. A careful hand sprinkled the anaesthetic over the sleeping ca- : nine, and his possible barks were stilled. Then to the sleeping women, mother H and daughter, burglar crept and about them the chloroform wax sprin kled, giving to Mrs. Reagan the sleep for which she had prayed. Then the burglars, there must have been two of them from the way things were scattered about the tiny vine and rose-covered cottage, which is 'the J refuge of the two little widows, raiv sacked the home. Everywhere they searched for money. They seemed to care for nothing else. RANSACKED THE HOUSE. “Why, the vandals," Mrs. Reagan told a Journal reporter. "They actually broke into that trunk over there, which belonged to my daughter’s dead husband, and which I haven’t dared to touch these many year.” I I, They went into every room of the little cottage, which sits on a tall green hill near East Lake, carelessly tossing about the contents of trunks and bureau 1 drawers. Thinking possibly that the hoarded savings of the two women might be 3 hidden in the kitchen, they went so far as to toss on the floor the contents of a bin of meal and another bln of flolr. They went into the sideboard in the dining room, and threw the ancient sil ver, which it contained,'about the room. Very thoroughly the burglars made I their search, and the only money in the house, they finally found. The money consisted of $2 In change, which had been carefully placed in a pocketbook, which lay on a little tkble in the dining room. "It was every cent we had In the world,” said Mrs. Reagan," and I was saving it to buy a special kind of food for’the little chickens, which were hatched just a few days ago, and can-'” • not eat scraps. “I don’t know what I will do about the little chicks now, but of one thing ; I am glad. The btirglars’ loot was s® little that I do not believe they will ever visit us again.” I Sheriff Newt A. Morris, of Dekalb ' 9 county, has been notified of the crime, but the burglary is almost cluelegs, the only trace that was left behind by { 3 the vandals being the empty bottle, which at one time contained the chjpro- 1 form. The bottle bore stamp of Jacobs’ pharmacy, but no date or inscription to 1 tell, when it had been purchased. The I bottle, after its contents had been sprinkled about the room in which the two women and their dog lay sleeping, had been left on the sideboard in the dining room, where it was found by Mrs. Reagan. As the aged lady pointed out the place, where the bottle was found, to a Journal reporter, she said: « ENJOYED HER SLEEP. ’ . “It certainly gave me tlpe sleep, I needed so badly. The sun was peeping through the blinds in my room, when 1 I awoke this morning. "The odor of the chloroform still ■ j filled my room, and had it not been for the open window, I believe that both my fl self and my daughter would not be alive today." Mrs. Reagan and her daughter have been living in the little cottage near East Lake Junction for the past five years. They own the house for which ; they expended their little all. The daughter works in the city and the mother raises chickens and pigeons and., together they make a meagre living. Mrs. *Reagan has been widowed since the civil war, when her husband wax ’ shot down by bushwhackers, while he was standing by her side. She cornea of an old and distinguished family, and M one of her brother-in-laws was John A- * ' Reagan. United States senator soon the war, and lifelong friend and advisor of Jefferson i>avis. Mrs. Reagan has a son, who is mar- ,<i ried, who lives in Washington, and a / J ; grandson, who is in the navy. ‘ "Yes, she sighed,” we two are left alone with only Rex to guard us” ; and she looked at the little dog, who even then was just recovering from ' the effects of the anesthetic adminis- Itered by the burglars. AUTO CRASH DEATHJO THREE MEN (By Asiociated Preu.) LOWELL. ?,lass., May 20.—One man * is dead and two others are dying in a j hospital here, as the result of an auto mobile accident late last night. Thx car, owned and driven by Alphonse Bib- -*1 ault, a local contractor, crashed through a fence and toppled down an embank ment. John B. Morin, of Nashua. N. H., was killed. Bibault and his friend. James Landry, of Lowell, were fatally Injured. The cause of the accident ha* not been determined. ■ ' ■: the two others of the party retdrned 1 to Gainesville, and the parents, who had permitted the wedding invitation h that changed the whole face of things, were told that there wouldn’t be any , marriage on May 28, because one had d already takjen place. > NO. 70.
