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THE WEATHER. ■Fair tonight and tomorrow; warm er. Temperatures: 8 a. m., 55 de grees; 10 a. m., 60 degrees; 12 noon, 67 degrees; 2 o. m,. 69 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 245. HUE DIDITT IM HIE, slues PLEADS I Mrs. Robert L. Clay Is Shot; Three Times by Husband Following Quarrel. TRAGEDY IS REALIZATION , OF DEAD WOMAN'S DREAM Couple Spent Stormy Wedded Life-Hearing of Divorce - Plans. Man Arms Self. Tn exactly the manner of her dream of four nights before. Mrs. Robert L. Clay was shot three times by her hus band last night, about 10 o’clock, in the hallway of her sister’s home at 201 Lee street, West End. She died an hour later at Grady hospital. Words between the two over a dam-] age suit Mrs. Clay was bringing against | th e Georgia Power Company is said to have been the direct cause of the shoot ing. Mrs. Clay said, just before she died, that her husband was angry when he shot, and had no reason at all Friday morning Mrs. Clay told her sister Mrs Smith at whose home she was staying, that sh* had dreamed of being shot three times by her husband. Ciav. non in jail at the Tower, will say r.o’hlne All day he has been sitting n a corner of his cell with his face in hts hands. A cellmate says. hoMVffi that earl:- In the night he claimed to have shot hl-, wife because she dldn t love him. Clay was separated from his wife at the time of the shooting. Divorce Intention Angers Husband. The marital relatione of the Clays had bc--n verv unhappy, according to common information. They had been married five years During that time the’ were separated five times, and their trouble-- frequently crept into po- Growing tired of this. Mrs. Clay is reported to have told a friend that she was going 'to sue for a divorce. This got to the ears of Clay. With pistol in pocket, he went to the Smith home and asked for his wif. She had been staying there for a long time. Mrs. Smith’met him and to her he appeared tn a good humor. Finally Mrs. Clay came in and he asked her where she had been She told him that she had rarrie d their Httle two-year-old child to the physician for ear treatment. He then asked to have a few words in pri vate with her. They were interrupted only once, when W W Smith asked them if they would go to church. Th- Smiths were later awakened b> three pistol shots and -»me down into the hall where the < l? s had been talking and found Mrs < lav lying across a chair with the husband standing over her ' nv-> policemen were hurried to the house and Clay was arrested in front of a drug store at Le° and Gordon streets, where h» had gone after the shooting. Child PleaxJs With Father to Leave. From a few broken sentences mum bled by Mrs Clay at the Grady hospital before she died, it was learned that the two had been quarreling about things tn genera! At 930 o’clock she asked him to go to hit home tn Murphy street and he refused Rhe Insisted. Their little child, before going to sleep, had pleaded with its father to gn home and leave mother alon®. Finally he agreed to go if she would talk to him a few moments longer. She declined, and he began to shoot Clay is 27 years old. and has several brothers. He is said to have been in jured me.ntflllv by a blow on the head. To a cellmate he stated that he shot his wife because she didn't love him. Clay was undei probation for non support of his chi’d Saturday he was arrested by Probation Officer Coogler and asked to make a showing as to what he was doing for the boy. Al though Clay was not able to do this, he was finally released when he promised that he would mike an effort to go hack to his w ife. Mrs. Clav was formerly Miss Kate Hughes, of t'olumbus, Ga. She told her sister. Mrs. Smith, of a dream she had Thursday night She said she had • d-eamed of being shot three times by her hustand. According to her state ment before dying, the shooting was an exact realization of the dream The bod: of Mrs. rla cats re moved to Poole’; undertaking parlors. No funeral arrangements hare yet been made The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results Woman Slain by Her Husband, and Slayer y/ \ \ \v A, -X // \\ '* ■// Imp 1 * Wiß ,w / ■ hex \ ; vWbI ***" UK w Mrs. Kate Hughes Clay, who was shot and killed last night by her husband, following a quarrel, and Robert L. Clay, the-husband, who is now under arrest in the Tower. HEARST PRESSMEN IN LOS ANGELES REFUSE TO JOIN IN WALK OUT LOS ANGELES. CAL.. May 18.— Pressmen on The Examiner and The Herald. th- two Hearst newspapers in this city, have refused to walk out in obedience to telegraphic orders to do so, issued by President Berry, of the In ternational Web Pressmen’s Union. The two newspapers are issuing their editions as usual, and in view of the flat refusal of their pressmen to obey instructions from President Berry, no trouble is anticipated here The decision of the men to stick by their contracts with the Hearst news papers was reached after full consider ation of the situation. Chicago Printers Refuse to Walk Out. CHICAGO, May 13. —Newspaper pub lishers today predicted a speedy end of the strike of the pressmen, stereotypers and wagon drivers, following the action of the 'Typographical Union is voting not to rescind any of tb«ir present con tracts and join the strikers. The ac tion, taken in a formal meeting of the local union, followed a similar vote taken informally some days ago. The pressmen made a desperate effort to get the printers to join the walkout. The pressmen today admit that the failure to secure a sympathetic walk out by the printers haw made their fight desperate Newspapers today were printed and distributed under almost normal con ditions. Other Unions Refuse to Strike. H N Kellogg, of Indianapolis, sec retary of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, has wired to Atlanta an expression of his astonish ment at the sympathetic strike called in The Georgian’s pressroom. Mr Kellogg’s telegram contained the names of the following cities, whose pressmen’s unions have declined to take part in the sympathetic strike: Albany. Bloomington, Boston. Cin cinnati, Detroit, Fort Worth. Indian apolis. Kansas City. Lynn. Milwaukee. New Haven. New York. Providence. St. Joseph, St. Louis Salt Lake City, Springfield, Mass,. Syracuse. Tacoma. Toronto. Troy and Washington, D. C. $440, n OO PLANT IS UP FOR AUCTION AGAIN Council was expected tn approve the $440,0011 bid of the Destructor Company of New York this afternoon unless W. H. Saw yer &• Sons Co. make a definite proposition to dispose of the city’s gar bage in a private plant and back up such an offer with a certified check. Alderman A. .1. Johnson renewed his fight on the acceptance of the $440,0’00 bid at the meeting of the finance com mittee this afternoon L E. Greer and John Eberson. of the Manitowoc Engi neering Works of Wisconsin, which ’he Sawyer company represents, were pres ent to submit propositions for a re duction plant. The finance committee has decided to eolve the garbage problem and final action will be taken if the Manltowdc people do not present a definite proposal for a private reduc tion system. F. L. Sawyer said today that they were ready to build a private plant and dispose of the city s garbage ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 13, 1912. GUARDS KILL TO PROTEST I WEAKENED. LEVEES Negro Uprising Adds a New Peril to the Situation in Louisiana. CONVICT SEEKING TO AVOID WORK SHOT DEAD Millions More Damage Certain as Crisis Nears —Additional Drownings Reported. NEW ORLEANS, May 13.—Addi tional peri! has been added to the flood situation in Louisiana by an outbreak of negroes. The blacks have looted the ’owns of Bachelor, Fordoche and Grosse. State troops may have to be. sent to subdue them. From New Roads. La., came ’he re port that a convict laborer, who was pressed into service* with other con victs to help strengthen the Mississippi levee at Morgansea. was shot bv his guard while trying to escape today, ac cording to a telephone message re ceived by the chief of police there A second convict who tried to escape was captured The climax of the flood situation is expected within the next 48 hours, as the flood crest is expected to be reached some time Tuesday night. United States government engineers say that if the levees hold out until Wednesday all danger will have been passed. Millions of Dollars Damage Is Certain. Nevertheless, damage th the extent of additional millions is anticipated from the waters pouring through the crevasse into the plantation and sugar cane belt, which will not go down prob ably for a week. Back water from the Terras crevasse has reached Irwinsville and a fleet of boats was sent there today to rescue 150 persons marooned in the town. The situation in-Morgansea is also critical, due to the weakness of the levee at that point. Three additional deaths are reported. At Gilbert Mrs. S. N. Dorsett, wife of a lawyer, was drowned when a canoe in which she and her husband were escap ing capsized. Mr. Dorsett was saved. At Etherwood E. S. Upton and wife were drowned while rowing to the res cue of several negroes marooned in a tree. Their boat upset in the swift cur rent: Waters in Sight From State Capitol. Baton Rouge reports today said wa ter from the Torras crevasse is in sight from the state capilol and rich sugar plantations across the river in West Baton Rouge parish are partially inun dated. The water appeared suddenly in the rear of the plantations around Cham berlain and worked rapidly down until it was near the town of Port Allen just across the river. Tlie planters in the Baton Rouge sec tion did not believe that the water from the Torras crevasse would reach their lands and had made no defensive prep arations. The loss to the sugar planters across the river will be heavy. BOARD IS DIVIDED ON SUNDAY PARK BATHING Though President J. O. Cochran de clared today that the park board la prac tically sure to vote to allow swimming in Piedmont park lake on Sunday, Com missioner M B Young asserted that yys board will stop the practice. Since the board revoked the rules of last year which permitted Sunday swim ming. Commissioners Cochran and W. C Puckett have been hard at work to have the action rescinded, and they claim to have won seven of the twelve votes But now Commissioner Young has taken up the fight He called a conference of board members tn his office Saturday af ternoon and afterward declared that the serenity of the Sabbath would not be disturbed by swimmers He did »ot say how many votes he had lined up. Voting a’ the cigar store at the cor ner of Peachtree and Decatur streets con tinued today. More than 500 votes were cast today, many women voting The ma jority is said to be overwhelmingly in favor of the Sunday plunge FATALLY HURT JUMPING TO LIFE NET FROM FIRE NEW BEDFORD MASS , May 13- One man was burned to death and another probably fatally injured when he jumped from- the third story to a life net in the street in a fire at a lodging house at 6 Pear! street ear!'- today The dead amn is Jar Werlyzek, 60 years cld. Confessed Robber in $25,000 Diamond Case To Arrive Late Today George Kaul, the former hotel steward who has confessed his part In the rob bery of J 25.000 worth of diamonds, is expected to arrive in Atlanta from New York this afternoon at 5 o’clock, in cus tody of Detective John N. Starnes Kaul already has been indicted by the (rand jury and will be held in the Tower pending his trial in the criminal branch of the superior court George Wren. Hie first man to be arrested in connection with the robbery, is also under indict ment. Carl Roddy, who was brought back from New Orleans, has not been indicted, but his case will be taken up by the grand jury at its next session It is announced today that Roddy's attorneys will make no demand for a pre liminary hearing, agreeing to let the case go before the grand jur: This means that there will be no preliminary trial for either of the trio Paster Richeson, His Death Near, Collapses in Cell BOSTON. May 13.—Rev. Clarence V. T. Richeson, who began probably the last week of his.life today, unless. Gov ernor Foss and his council grant a res pite or commute his death sentence to life imprisonment, collapsed tn the Charles street jail today. The jail physician declared this was due to the long ordeal of examination | as to his sanity by three of the experts selected by Governor Foss to examine I Richeson. He did not take his cloth ing off last night and was unable to sleep at all. Warning that the incessant exam ination of alienists might drive Riche , son. slayer of Xvis Linnell, to insan i tty was sounded by Dr. C. V, Cilley. i thy jail physician, Warmer Days Coming: I Frost Not on Program, Weather Man Assures Normal warnath and clear weather are soon to return after the nipping weather of last night and early today. The coldest point of the sudden drop in temperature was reached at s o’clock today, when the official thermometer of the weather bureau registered 49" de grees. Last night It seemed much cold er and people on porches sought extra wraps or hastened into th* parlor with a chilly feeling ’hat seemed unnaltiral in May. For those on sleeping porches a few more blankets than usual were needed to make their airy beds com fortable. Snow and freezing temperature ap peared today in Denver, Colo,, and Du luth, Minn. The sudden cold was caused by an area nf low presrure throughout this section and a conse quent inrush of the cold air of the north. No further cold Is expected, and there is no fear on the part of the weather man that frost will appear to injure th* peach crops or vegetables. SEVEN ARE ON TRIAL ’ FOR THE DEATH OF GIRL HENDERSONVILLE. N. C.. May 13. Seven persons went on trial here today to answer charges connecting them with the mysterious death of Myrtle Haw kins. whose body was found In Osceola last September. They are A. B. McCall, Beatrice McCall, his wife: George Bradley, Dan McCall, "Boney" Bradley. Mrs. Nora Britt and Mrs Liczle Shaft. The first three are charged with the kill ing and the other four with being acces sories. J F. Spainhour, of Morganton, for four teen years solicitor of the Hendersonville circuit, is assisting Solicitor Johnson in the prosecution. Whether the girl died from an operation or from an overdose of chloroform Is problematical. The body found in the | lake was identified by the clothing, which relatives aitd friends claimed was the same worn by the Hawkins girl when she left her home shortly before her disap pearance The report from Atlanta that W O. Shellnutt, a traveling man. claimed to have seen Myrtle Hawkins in Jackson ville. after the body had been found In the lake, is no’ given credence, bj’ many who have followed the case closely. READY FOR ARGUMENTS IN TRIAL OF FLOYD ALLEN j WYTHEVILLE. VA.. May 13.—Counsel I for the prosecution and defense were en i gaged today In preparing Instructions in the case of Floyd Alien Each side sub mitted a long list w-hich Judge Staples considered It is believed that the argu ments will begin this afternoon About eight lawyers will speak and they will not be limited In time 40 PASSENGERS SEE MAN DROWN FROM A LAUNCH SAVANNAH, GA , May 13 —Falling into the water from a gasoline launch when the railing gate, on which he was sit ting. opened, Paul Rakoske was drowned in the Savannah river yesterday after noon Two score people on board the City of St Louis witnessed the accident, but were unable to help the victim The body has not been recovered. Rakoske leaves a wife and family SALMON SALAD MAKES ARTILLERYMEN ALL ILL NEWPORT. R I . May 13—Salmen made into a vinegar salad has caused the illness of a!! the members cf company A, coast artillery, at Fort Adams. A Futile Strike Os Misguided Men The effort nf the International Printing Press men's union, at the direction of President Berry, to tie up The Georgian has miserably failed. And an aet of had faith that any honest workman ought td be ashamed of is in a fairway to meet its just reward. Taken absolutely unawares, and on short no tice. 'Hie Georgian was delayed for xn hour or more in getting out Saturday evening. But today a full press-room crew has been recruited, and The Geor gian is bcirig printed about as usual. The noon edition appeared on time. The unwisdom of the action of the Atlanta pressmen's union in agreeing to this absurd, base less. unfair and unreasonable strike, is illustrated by the fact that their own union confreres in New York. Boston, Cincinnati. Indianapolis, Los An geles. Kansas City. Syracuse, Albany, and many other cities, refused to agree to violate their sol emn contracts with publishers in order to help President Berry make one last desperate stab at Air. Hearst and the other newspaper publishers in Chicago. The outcome in Atlanta will be addition al evidence that the Atlanta web pressmen have followed bad advice. Any individual or organization which can not be relied upon to keep its word, especially when that he written in black and white so clearly as to leave no ground for disagreement as to terms and meaning, can not expert success* to attend its en terprises. The union pressmen in Atlanta have shown that a contrail with them is worthless. The Geor gian. therefore, will not depend upon them in fu ture. bu’t will undertake to show that it (‘an and will be published on its own resources. The ac tion of the web pressmen in Atlanta and San Francisco. where a sipiilar sympathetic, strike was called, shows that these men do not realize the necessity of repairing the prestige and reputation of organized labor from the damage it sustained in recent records of violence. For they are adding exploded contracts to physical destruction as a bur den for organized labor to carry. The Georgian and Mr. Hearst have always been fair, even liberal, to organized labor. This newspaper has kept every jot and iillle of its con tracts with the unions with which it deals. Mr. Hearst has always done so. I’he only criticism of Mr. Hearst's relations with union labor has been from other publishers on the ground that he was too liberal with them, paid too high wages, and employed 100 many men. It *eems almost ironical that a Hearst newspaper, without refusing a single demand of its men. and in the face of a sol emn. undisputed contract with its employees, should be involved in a strike. Those who are re sponsible for it will have to bear the burden of its conseqtiences. To them this will be the loss of good positions with a generous employer, and a prompt, liberal paymaster. The Georgian will continue to be published daily, and will have the svmpathy and support of all people who believe in the faithful keeping of promises and the unvarying performance of ivritten contracts. History of Pressmen’s Strike On Newspapers of Chicago Here is a statement from The Uhl cago Examiner giving a record of the events leading up to the strike of th pressmen on the newspapers of that city: i. In view of the only partial circula tion of the Chicago newspapers during the newspaper pressmen's, drivers' and stereotvpers’ strikes, republication is here made of the earlier announcements giving the essential facts in the situ ation. On May 2 the publishers made the following announcement: On Anri! 30. at 12 o’clock midnight, the management of The Chicago Exam iner and The Chicago American posted in its press room the announcement that the contract between those papers and the Chicago Newspaper Web Pressmen's union No. 7 having expired, the management elected to come under the provisions of the contract between the Chicago local of the American Newspaper Publisher' association, of which The Chicago Examiner and The Chicago American are members, and the pressmen's union, and would as sume ail the obligations and exercise all the rights of the other members of the. Chicago local under the contract, adding that the management would re fer to arbitration, as pi’ovi’led in the contract, anv differences that might arise After the announcement had been read, the men. acting under the order of the president of the union resumed work without protest and thus ac knowledged their acceptance of th contract. On Vay 1 the management announced that it tvould exercise its right under the contract tn determine the number nf men to be emplo ed on each press, and ordered each r: f s to be injured with the same number cf men as other members of the Chicago local employ on presses of similar size and product. The members of the union refused to work under this order. The manage ment then offered (■’ permit the men thus proposed to he laid off to report as usual for work daily, but not to work on the presses, and to submit the question at issue tn arbitration, and in the event of a decision sustaining the position of the union to pay these men full wages from the time they were laid off up to tlie date of the decision of the arbitrator. The members of th union refused to work under this offer. The management then notified the men that their continued refusal to work -would constitute a strike, and that in so striking the union would be breaking the contract between the pub. Ushers association and the union The members of the union continued to re fuse to work and walked out of the office. Under the circumstances, the Chicago local of the American Newspaper Pub lishers association now declares the contract between ft and Chii.rgo N'ew« paper Web Pressmen's union No 7 broken by the union and. therefore, ter minated. The press rooms of all tlie members of Chicago local of the Amer ican Newspaper Publishers association will, th-refore. hereafter be eondiv ted without recognition of the Jurisdiction of Chicago Newspaper Web Pressmen's union No 7. It is the purpose not to disturb the working condition and wages of the former contract, and to this end the continued co-operation of all emiilm ees without discrimination Is Invited Bv order of the 3E -n loral nf the jmeriean Nc-wspape- P'iblishe r s a'?o ciatlon. VICTOR c LAWSOX P’-eeldent. henry N t 4RY, Feere’arv. Chicago, May 2, 1912. j HOME EDITION PPTf I !’’ On Trains. FIVE CENTS. * AXLV.U. !n Atlanta. TWO CENTS WIN OHIO TO DEFEAT COLONEL OR DIE Loss of Home State Meant End of the President’s Political Hopes. ROOSEVELT TO FOLLOW RIGHT UPON HIS HEELS Cabinet Chiefs in Spectacular Battle—Rough Rider De pends on Big Cities. COLITMBVS, OHIO. May 13.—Prw iflen’ Taft b*«an hig final fight to cap ture Ohio tn the Republican presiden tial primary a week from tomorrow. The president’s fight in his home state this week is expected to be one of the most spectacular of the campaign, for he will cross verbal swords with Colo-* nel Theodore Roosevelt at every turn. The former president is expected to b"gin his campaign in Ohio tomorrow, and the trails nf the present national executive and his predecessor will cross in many Instances. Because of the loss of prestige which even a split delegation to the Chicago convention would give him. the presi dent has come into Ohio to do or die. It is his supreme effort of the cam paign. While he Is confident, his man agrrs are not so optimistic. Cabinet Chiefs to Fight for Taft. The president was scheduled to de liver his first speech today at Marietta, with other stops scheduled at Waldo, Cambridge, Newcomerstown. Dennison. Urichs ville. St. Clainsvllle, Bellaire, Bridgeport and Steubenville. After leaving the Ohio valley at. Marietta, Mr. Taft's Itinerary took him back to the Ohio river at Bellaire. Leaders of the Taft wring of the Re publican party claim Toledo, despita the fact that it is the home town of Walter Brown, the Republican state chairman, who is avowedly for Roose velt. The Taft men are not so sanguine, however, ar regards Cleveland and this city. They are confident that Mr. Taft will carry Cincinnati, his native city. Mr. Taft will he assisted on his cam paign throughout Ohio by a number of other speakers of national reputation. According to the program. United States Senator Elihu Root, Secretary Knox and others will go into the state before the primarr- election and help out their chief The first round was fought In Marietta at 8 a. m., and then the president whirled away to other Ohio towns. At each stop Mr. Taft delivered new blows in support of his plea for rehomination. In his speeches today he laid particular stress upon the legislative record of his ad ministration. At Caldwell President Taft branded Theodore Roosevelt as “an unsafe man” in his speech today. Th» president be gan the assault on his predecessor at Marietta and kept it up along his route. Declares Roosevelt To Be “An Unsafe Man.” Speaking in the train shed at Mariet ta, he said: "If I believed that mere audacity of statement would carry this election I would despair of the future of this re public.” He drew the first part of his talk from the record of his administra tion and was cheered when h- declared the part' In the past four years has turned a deficit of J 50.000.000 into a surplus of $40,000,000. He scored Roosevelt for misquoting him. and said: "He should be visited with the pun ishment of defeat. It is unsafe to put a man like him into the white house for a third time. When the people approve an administration it has been the cus tom of th- Republican party to renom inate the president again, but only once.” The same sort of drizzling, cold rain v hi< h marked Taft’s first two days in Ohio, last week was falling when he be gan his tour today. Soon after the spe cial reached thi.-s town local politicians and committeemen began to climb on the president’s car. Clark Leading In Tennessee NASHVILLE. TENN.. May 13. * 'h imp <’lark will go Into the Tennes see Democratic state convention on Wednesday with 130 1-2 instructed votes, being only 45 behind the com bined instructed vote of the other three < andidates forth- presidency. He will lead Harmon bv 87 votes. Underwood, b. 127. and Wilson, by J 22 The total Instructed vote is 426. Clark having 45