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THE WEATHER. Forecast for Atlanta and Geor gia: Fair and cooler today; fair and warmer tomorrow. VOL. X. NO. 245. WIFE mw LOVE ME. SLIVER MS 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. In 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 19 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 the 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 she had dreamed of being %hot three times by her husband. Clay, now in jail at the Tower, will say nothing. All day he has been sitting tn a corner of his cell with his face tn his hands. A cellmate says, however, that early in the night he claimed to have shot his wife because she didn't love him. ’ Clay waii separated from his wife at the time of the shooting. Divorce Intention Angers Husband. The marital relations of the Clays had been very unhappy, according to common Information. They had been married five years. During that time they were separated five times, and their troubles frequently crept into po lice court. Growing tired of this, Mis. 1 is reported to have told a friend that she was going to sue for a divorce. i his got to the ears of < 'lay. \\ ith pistoi in pocket, he went to the •Smith home and asked for his wife. She had been staying there for a long time. Mrs. Smith met him and to her hr appeared in a good humor. Finally Mrs, Clay came in and he asked her where she had been. She told him that she had carried their little 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 IV. W. Smith asked them if they a mild go to church. I’he Smiths were later awakened by three pistol shots and came down into the hall where the Clays had been talking, and found Mrs. C'av lying across a chair with the busband standing over he*. Five policemen were hurried to the house and Olay was arrested in front of a drug store at Lee and Gordon streets, where he had gone after the shooting. Child Pleads With Father to Leave. From a few broken sentences mum bled by Mrs. Clay at the Grady hospital before she died, it was learner! tha the two had been quarreling about things in general M 9:30 o clock she asked him to go to Iris, home in Murphy street and he refused She Insisted. Then little child, before going to sleep, had pleaded,with its father to go home and leave mother alone Finally be 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 mentally by a blow on the head. To a cellmate he stated that he shot his wife because she didn't love him. Clay was under probation for non support of his child Saturday be was arrested by Probation Officer Coogler and asked to make a showing as to what he was dicing for the boy. Al though Clay wad not able to do this he was finally .released when he promise.: that he would make an effort tn go back to his wife Mrs Clay was formerly Miss Kate Hughes, of Columbus. Ga. She told her sister. Mrs. Sritith. of a dream she had Thursday night. She said she., had • reamed of being shot three times by her husband. According to her state ment before dying, the shooting was an exact realization of the dream. Th» body of Mrs. Clay was re- HPwed tn Poole? undertaking parlors. >n funeral arrangement? have yet been mad* » STREBT «ALB. The Atlanta Georgian HEARST PRESSMEN IN LOS ANGELES REFUSE TO JOIN WALKOUT Order From President Berry Is Snubbed- Chicago Printers Vote Down Strike. LOS ANGELES. CAL., May 13. Pressmen on The Examiner and The Herald, the two Hearst newspapers in this city, have refused to walk out in obedience to telegraphic orders to do so, isstfed by’ President Berry, of the In ternational Web Pressmen's I nion. 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 rescond any of their 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 has made their fight desperate. Newspapers today were printed and distributed under almost normal con ditions. 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. Warmer Days Coming; Frost Noton Program, Weather Man Assures Normal warmth and ciear weather ar? 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 6 o'clock today, w hen 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 the parlor with a chilly seemed unnatural 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 of lo.v pressure 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 th® weather man that frost will appear to injure the peach crops or vegetables Special Train Takes Atlant' Baptists to Southern Convention X special train bearing several hun dred delegates to the Southern Baptist convention will leave Atlanta over th- Seaboard Air Line for Oklahoma '"tty this afternoon ' Among the delegates are many prominent Atlantans. The train will leave at t 40 o’clock, going byway of Birmingham and Memphis, thence tn Oklahoma City, where It will arrive early Wednesday morning. Among those j n the party will be Dr. John E. White and Rev. U. I. Masters. M M. Welch, Walker Dun son. Dr. J J. Bennett, Rev. William Russell On en, Ret B P Robertson, Charles E. Smith, lieutenant governor of South Carolina: Mrs. W J Neel, president of the Baptist Women's Mis s'onar* union, and Mist E L. Amos, secretary of that organization. The , party w ill remain tn Oklahoma City four days. Atlanta See\s Convention. OKLAHOMA 'ITY OKI A May 13. Three Southern cith are contesting for the 1913 (fleeting of the Southern Baptists convention, which opens in Oklahoma City May 15. They are At lanta. Ga.. San Antonio. Texas, and Asheville. N C It has been 20 years since Atlanta entertained the Baptists, and in the meantime the organization has doubled numerically and in impor tance in the religious world. Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Results ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY. MAY 13, 1912. Gill HDS KILL TO PROTECT TOKENED 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 peril has been added to the flood situation in Louisiana by an outbreak of negroes. The blacks have looted the towns o.f Bachelor, Fordoche and Grosse. State troops may have to be sent to subdue them. From New Roads. La., came the 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 by his guard w hile 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 to 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 w ateA from the Torras crevasse has reached Irwinsvllle 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* Etherw’ood 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 capitol 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. The 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, a rations. The loss to th® sugar planters across the river will be heavy. TWO OFFICERS SLAIN RAIDING NEGRO GAME; LYNCHING IS FEARED GAINESVILLE. FLA.. May 13. -Cain Ferry, a negro, and his three sons are in jail under heavy guard for killing C. H Slaughter. town marshal, and ' 'hatles White, deputy sheriff, at, Arch er, Fla., near here. Violence Is feared, as feeling against the negroes is in tense. The tw o officers w ere shot down by a volley fired as they broke in upon a gambling game at the Perry house in the outskirts of the town The four ne groes were arrested by J A. Manning, another deputy who accompanied Slaughter and White Manning with a wound in his abdomen, feigned death until he had the drop on Cain Perry, v hen h® shot him and rh®n covered. the three ?ons ITALIANS CUT OFF TURK TROOPS FROM TRIPOLI ROME. May 13.—Announcement that the Aegean sea has been blockaded to Turkish warships, thus cutting off tne transportation of the Turkish soldiers to Tripoli via the Mediterranean, was made in Italy newspapers today . According to the announcement, Italy ha.- occupied the following Turkish is lands in the Grecian archipelago; Kar pathos, Nlsyro, Stampalia, Thodes and MORE THAN THEIR MONEY’S WORTH By TOM POWERS. Copyright. 1912. by International News Sera ice z"— — ~m i- i coi atv Tart 'that straw / | WILL STRIKE CVT Mam SPEECH i ( Will TME'j Discuss \ hiom The shoulder wias not s® <>\ WtE Tariff ? I .Y7 TS Nicu' y . WMRAA C- I Mo. NdT So Xou r aut_o V Noticed / m m • GREAT DE BATE t BETWEEN oRr/7 hTAFTAHcRoosEVEn 1J £ -•7- , ' .' /X 'TF I | ~ L n c*' >y// M ROOSE.VEH MRS. SMGE IN SEARGHOF BOND Signer Must Be Willing to Have Name Printed, and Husband Forbids Mortgage. Some well-to-do Atlanta property owner who is not afraid to have his name printed in connection with the Grace case must sign Mrs. Daisy Grace's bond if she is to be released from the Tower before her trial, which probably will be late in May or some time in June. Such a bondsman is needed because several men who have expressed a wil lingness to sign the bond do not wish their names printed in connection with the case, and the professional bonds men will not sign a bond for $5,000 unless Mrs. Grace can put up security to that amount Mrs. Grace can not place this security because her hus band. who accuses her of shooting him, refuses to attach his name to legal pa pers allow ing her to mortgage her prop erty in Philadelnhia. His signature is made necessary by a technicality in th® laws of Pennsylvania. Eugene H Grace, the wounded hus band. whose illness is keeping him a prisoner in his New nan home. Is nnt willing that hi? wife be released from prison pending her trial He declines to give consent for her to mortgage her Philadelphia home because she refuses to agree not to press certain civil claims whi- h she alleges to hold, against her husbands busine s assets in At lanta. PRAYS for 36 HOURS. THEN TAKES JUDGESHIP 3IACOK. GA . May 13. Nar E Harris, chairman nf the board of trustees of the Georgia of Technology, and for forty years a member of the Maron bar, war, ♦‘ day sworn in an judge of the su perior court of the Macon circuit, suc ceeding Judge William FL Felton, who resigned after seventeen years service to become president nf the Central Geor gia Power Conipan} and allied corpora tions. In his remarks frbm the bench. Judge Harris said he first declined the office, but after praying over the matter for thirty-six hours, decided to accept it He nafd it was relinquishing a lav- prac tice paying $7,000 a year for an office n ith a salary of $3,000. Judge Harris' appointment was an nounced late Saturday by Governor Brown. Wife of Marshal Dies to Save Him In Battle on Street JELLICO. KY.. May 13.—While en deavoring to save the life of her hus band, Thomas Bowlin, town marshal, Mrs. Bowlin was shot and instantly killed yesterday afternoon In the prin cipal street of this little mining town. Crazed by the realization that his wife had sacrificed her life for his, Bowlin attempted to kill himself, w hen a friend knocked his pistol from his hand. Wiley Parton, w ith whom Bowlin was engaged in a pistol battle when his wife interfered, was killed-and Wes ley Parton, father of the dead man. was seriously wounded. Al Butcher and Al Row’lln, th® latter a brother of the marshal, were both seriously wounded. They were supporting the marshal in his fight with the Partons Th® trouble started when Marshal Bowlin attempted to arrest Wiley Par ton for promiscuous shooting in the streets. Mrs Bowlin heard the shoot ing and rushed to the seen® just in tim® to see a weapon aimed at her husband. She threw herself in front of him and two shots penetrated her body, causing instant death. ROBBERS, ENRAGED AT SMALL LOOT. SET FIRE TO SICK WOMAN S BED CHICAGO. May 13- With both her hands bulned, Mrs. W. H, Starr, wife of Dr. Starr, lies today at her home in a precarious condition following an at tack of burglars, who entered her horn®, hound her band and foot, and set fire to thr bed in which she was lying. By rolling over the burning bedding, she was able to put out the fire. Mrs, Starr, who was ill Saturday, re mained in bed. Her husband wras ab sent. A tall man entered through a window, seized Mr=. Starr and bound and gagged her. Then he admitted a shorter man. Removing the gag. they demanded where Mrs. Starr kept her mon®y. She said she had no money. The men searched th® house and found only a few dollars. Enraged, they set fire to th® bed and left. Dr. Starr re turned shortly afterward and found his wife on the floor of the room, still bound and gagged 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 lite net in the street in a fire a' a lodging house at 5 Pearl street earl’ toda- The dead amn is Jan Werlyzek, 60 years old. TESTS DRIVING RICHESON NO Incessant Examinations by Ex perts Sure to Take Away His Reason, Says Physician. BOSTON, May 13.—Warning that the incessant examination of alienists nn'giil drive Rev. Clarence V. T. Riche son. slayer of Avis Linnell, to insan ity was sounded here today. Dr. C. V. < 'illey said: "The prisoner is absolutely sane, hut give th® alienists enough time jnd they will make him insane, just as they would any man. "He stood the tests in an admirable manner, hut too much-of that kind of stuff will surely have Its effect. "No man can stand a continuous pro gram of experts putting him up day after day for this and that kind of an examination.” Dr. Ciller is th® physician at the. Charles street jail, where the former minister is a prisoner Body Pricked With Pin. Here ar® some of the tests to which Rieheson has been put during hie ex amination by three experts, who will give the final opinion upon his sanity: His kneeraps were tapped with sil ver hammei s. He was blindfolded and mad® to jump, first on on® foot md then on the other He was pricked all over his body with a gold pin H® was put through a brisk series of gymnastic "stunts.” He was made to hop about the room half nud®, that the reflex actions of the muscles might b® observed. His Last Week Under Sentence. The last week of life for Rtcheeon. if the sentence of the<court upon him Is to b® fulfilled, has opened. Seven days from today, unless his plea for mercy is granted, he will have paid the legal penalty of death. A further examination of the slayer b> the three alienists, Dr?. Stedman, Frost and Tuttle: the report of Dr. L. Vernon Briggs to the governor, and th® final arrangements for Hie transfer of Richeson to the Charlestown prison were expected today. SALMON SALAD MAKES ARTILLERYMEN ALL ILL NEWPCRT. R. 1.. May 13.—Salmon made into a vinegar salad has caused the illr.e-.s of all the members of company A, coast artillery, at Fort Adams. y— —— EXTRA PRICK- On Trains. FIVE CENTS, r IYIL W. ln Atlanta. TWO CENTS TAFT IN OHIO TO DEFEAT COLONEL OH DIE Loss of Home State Means 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. COLUMBUS. OHIO. May’ 13.—Pres ident Taft b-»ean his final fight to cap ture Ohio in the Republican presiden tial primary a week from tomorrow. The president's fight in his home state tills 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 begin his campaign in Ohio tomorrow, and the trails of the present, national executive and his predecessor will cros? 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 effot t of th® cam paign. While he Is confident, his man, agers 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. Ui ichsville. St. ('lairsville. Bellaire. Bridgeport and Steubenville. After leaving the Ohio valley at Marietta, Mi. Taft's itinerary took him back to the Ohio river at Bellaire. Leaders of the Taft wing of the Re publican parti claim Toledo, despite tile fact that it is the home tow’n o' Walter Brown, the Republican state' ( Imirman. who is avowedly for Roose velt. The Taft men are not so sanguine, however, a, regards Cleveland and this ( ity . They are confident that Mr. Taft will carry Cincinnati, his native city. Mr Taft will be 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 primary election and help out their chief. Clark Leading In Tennessee NASHVILLE. TENN., jfey 13.—Out of the mess of Tennessee politics, made bitter by the factionalism of both par ties. there will come this week some settlement of the presidential races. t\tth the Republican state convention meeting tomorrow and the Democratic convention scheduled for Wednesday. As a result of the Republican fight, it is certain that two delegations will go to Chicago, one representing the or ganized narty of the state instructed for Taft, and th® other delegation, rep resenting the "home rule” coterie in structed for Roosevelt. It will then be up to the national committee to de cide. In the ease of the Democrats, how ever. th® likelihood of two delegations to Baltimore was brushed aside when the regular Democrats and the inde pendeni . through their state commit tee. joined together in the movement to select the national delegates. With 75 per cent of the total conven tion vote of 1.356 uninstructed. a per plexing situation is presented, and no one candidate can claim Tennessee, though it is the general belief that Champ Clark has decidedly the best of it and will in all probability get the majority of the -’4 votes to the national concla' e. Clark Leads All the Rest. nut of the twenty votes in the. ten congressional districts it is figured that Clark will get ten or twelve. leaving one-half of the district votes to be dividod between Underwood, Harmon and Wilson. The placing of this vote will depend on just how strong Wil son shows up with the independents, and two months ago he had them al mosi to a man. They have organiza tions in about three-fourths of the ( outvies and in each county where they have an organization they are entitled to one-half of the vote. This independent vote, corralled for one man. would mean a great deal tn the bargaining for a tavotite, but it ma- not be possible for th® Wilson people to get tn on the trades, for the