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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.
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•* 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. •»
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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.
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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.
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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
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(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.
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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.