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RUSSELL HOPKINS
NOW BEING SOLD
Mother of Wife of Well Known
Young Atlantan Goes Into
Court.
Continued From Page One.
«and s <■ tain and herself fool up to
about J 275.000,
The suit indicates that Uussr-11 Hop
kins' marriage to Vera Seagrist. grand
daughtei of D and Mrs Jo.-epri J
Lawrence, which was bitterly opposed
by the old couple, has been followed by
unusual demands on the fortune of his
wife’s guardians Dr. Lawrence died on
March 14. 1909. leaving an estate of
more than 52.000.000. and it was report
ed at the time that the whole fortune
would i evert to young Mrs, Hopkins
and hei bab\ daughter upon the death
of her grandmother, who brings ll>«-
suit against the former Atlantan
Mrs. Lawrence lives at the Plaza, one
of the most fashionable and expensive
of New York hotels, while Mr. and .M s
Hopkins have a home in F ifth avenui
a veritable castle on the Hudson,
where Mr. Hopkins has established, a
menagerie for his own amusement anti
that of his baby daughter
The elopement of Russell Hopkins,
then a young Atlantan, whose only oc
cupation was playing consul from Pan
ama to Atlanta and floating the Pana
ma flag from an office in the Fourth
National bank building, was the sensa
tion of two cities. Vera Seagrist, one
of the most beautiful young women who
ever visited Atlanta in the tourist sea
son. was spending the winter at the
Piedmont hotel when young Hopkins
met het.
Eloped in Yacht
And Built a Castle.
He is the son of D .1 R Hopkins,
whose home at Peachtree and Baker
streets is one of the handsomest in the
1 ity. and his spending money was prac
tically unlimited. The courtship was
rapid, and shortly after the young
heiress' return to New York Mr Hop
kins met her on the street, drove in an
automobile to the Hudson, win- ,■ his
steam yacht lay at anchor, and they
sped up. the Hudson together. Miss
Seagrist's grandparents gave chase in a
tug. but the yacht was the faster and
the couple landed at a village up the
Hudson and were married.
Reconciliation followed, and with
their two fortunes joined the young
couple built a castle up the Hudson
which made even New York sit up and
take notice. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins paid
a visit to Atlanta a few months later,
where the beauty of the bride and the
marvelous gowns she wore attracted
unusual attention.
Since then the doings of Russell Hop
kins have occupied a fair share of space
in the New York papers. He trained a
pair of zebras to harness and drove
them down I ifth avenue one sunny
afternoon. He bought a young lion
from a zoo and left it overnight in a
oom in a fashionable hotel, and when
it climbed over the transom and prome
naded through the corridors it drove
the guests into a panic. Then the baby
was jaorn. and the adVent of the "$2.-
000,000 heiress" was the signal for more
pictures in the Sunday supplements and
full page stories of the daily life of the
voung’st Hopkins.
AGE 98, HE REFUSES
BEFORE OPERATION
TO TAKE PAIN KILLER
SEATTLE, WASH., May 22. Thom
as A. Wardall. 98 years old. refused to
he placed under an anesthetic at the
Providence hospital when the doctors
were ready to proceed with an opera
tion for internal trouble
“I don't need any drug to lessen the
pain, and I'm young enough to stand
this operation." Mr. Wardall told the
surgeons
Mr. Wardall is recovering from the
operation and declares he is going to
live to be at least 120 years old
TEACHERS "AUCTION” TO
HELP CHURCH FUND
BELLEFONTAINE, OHIO. J|;t> 22 -
Teaching auction bridge is the novel
plan adopted by Mrs. Let W Bott to
raise money tor the purpose of wiping
oat the church debt An advertisement
was inserted in the newspapers by Mrs
Bort, in which she told of her plan,
and stated that all money would go
into the < hutch treasury It is likely
that she will soon have a largr ass.
as she is an excellent play* l
REALTY AUCTION OFF ON
ACCOUNT OF WEATHER
Announcement was made this morn
ing by th- Holmes a Vein.-; Realty
Company that the auction sale of lots,
which was to have been held today at
t'onway Station on th* M;>’*et;,< <a
iitte, has been postponed. The « - .it. *-
s given a- the cause
RED SHIRT MIGHT WRECK
TRAIN. SO R. R. BARS IT
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Gieat Weste n Railroad I’ompant has
ordered its employees not to vc.-i r***i
nothing because they might "1 >-i.*by
cause the wrc*-k of a tram
TEMPERAMENTAL WAITER
TAKES TALL TOUR ON TIPS
NEW YORK. May 22.—Manuel Al
varez. a waitei, i. about io ma>. a
trip around the world, having; saved
moner from !rs tips to m;,k< .*■ -rip.
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NEWS ITEM—The chemistry department of Cornell University is supplying a scientific monthly
with a list of seven up-to-date wonders. This is the list in the order of their importance: Wireless,
Synthetic chemistry, radium, antitoxins, aeroplanes, Panama canal and chemistry. The publication of
the list has caused considerable discussion, and the question is again being asked: “What are the
seven modern wonders of the world!”
BUT NELSON HERO
IN EIRE RESCUES
Lightweight Carries Out Wom
en and Children and Heads
Bucket Brigade.
CHICAGO. May 22. Bat" Nelson,
former lightweight champion, hung
the "K. O." sign on a tire at Burnham,
adjoining his native town of Hcge
wisclt. today, after iirst rescuing a
number of persons whose homes rvere
blazing The battler Was returning to
Hegewisch anil‘was in Burnham when
the alarm was given He rushed to the
scene.
A nuntbet of dwelling houses had
caught Are from a burning school house
which was being moved and stood on
rollers in the center of the street. Nel
son assisted women and children from
the blazing buildings, then he headed
a bucket brigade that fought the fire
until the lire department apparatus
from Chicago arrived.
The flames threatened the big plant
of the Western Steel Car and Foundry
Company Six dwellings and the school
were destroyed.
GOVERNMENT BEGINS
TAKING TESTIMONY IN
LUMBER TRUST CASE]
CHICAGO, May 22 - Taking of tes
timony against the Northwestern As
sociation of Retail Lumber Dealers,
known as the lumber trust, is under
« *y hi government s civil prostecu- [
'.**!* *>f the concern for violation of the i
Sherman law. Attorneys for the gov- I
- 1 nment are examining various docu- I
cents, most of them communications
between t se* retai ics of various re- I
'.it lum *•■ ,*■ gHmzations belonging to I
tin- larger cone* n. Those considered
significant will be read into evidence.
LEP MEYER MUST SERVE
12 YEARS FOR KILLING
M vox <; A.Mn*■ 2 ' Prison stripe ,
nd Im'd ibor is t - penalty i.ep
Meyct. , -. ludcvi’.i. singer, must pay
-for kl i.g Mary Moore, a young woman
iof th* .si • icted dii trict.
The in * which tiled him last night
■■ -"-mtied .*. verdict of guilty of volun
imliniglit* lie was today sen- I
’< n ■ "' si rv* tv. s-*y e years in the peti-
■ cicx ATLANTA GEORGIAN AXD NEWS: WEDNESDAY, MzVY 22, 1912.
Irma Kilgallon Scorns
Title and Rejoices in
Freedom From Count
CHICAGO, May* 22.—Countess Irma
Kilgallon Deßeaufort today is stripped
of her title and is once more Miss Kil
gallon. following the granting of a de
cree of divorce from her husband,
Count Jacques Alexander VonMourik
Deßeaufort.
The decree was granted after the
countess told how her husband had
struck her on various occasions during
quarrels usually caused when she re
fused to intercede with her father. Mi
chael Kilgallon, for money to pay the
count's gambling debts.
The count was represented by coun
sel. but made no defense and offered
no objection to the decree.
ENGLISH MINERS SAY
MINIMUM FIXED IS
NOT A LIVING WAGE
LONDON. May 22.—The conference
called by the Miners union to discuss
the minimum wage awards today pass
ed a resolution declaring the amount
fixed in certain districts to be below a
living wage, and instructing the head
of tlie union to interview Premier As
quith and endeavor to have the law
amended to fix the minimum rate at
a “living wage."'
TRAIN BANDITS PILE
TIES ON TRACKS TO
DITCH FRISCO FLYER
■MYRTLE MISS.. May 22. Train
bandits, believed to be the same men
who committed the daring holdup near
Hattiesburg last week, attempted to
wreck the Frisco Limited near here |
early today. The train was late and <
! almost ran into the ties piled on the I
! track. A posse is pursuing the wreck- I
| ers
THIEF STOLE DOG SET ON
HIM WITH A MEAT BRIBE
NEW YORK. May .22.—With u piece
of roast beef he had stolen from the
I pantry of Mrs. Catherine Blake, of
I Yo.ktown. a thief bribed a bulldog the
woman had sent after him and stole
the animal.
FRED LEWIS COLLIDES
WITH HORSE: DEAD HORSE
NEW YORK. May 22.—Fred Lewis
I of Greenville, was flung from his bike
■ against a horse yesterday Lewis was
• not injured while the hors, was killed.
WATSON SURE TD
SIT AS DELEGATE
Continued From Page One.
by the G. O. P.?
WATSON —I do not. I think it
means a dark horse. The Repub
lican party has too much sense to
nominate Roosevelt. It does want
to get rid of Taft, however; and it
used Roosevelt as the instrument
to put that over.
REPORTER—If Roosevelt should
be nominated, nevertheless, can
the Democrats beat him?
WATSON—To an everlasting
frazzle.
REPORTER - What will be the
big issue in the campaign?
WATSON —The tariff will be one
big issue, but not the only one.
The other issues will develop in
good time.
REPORTER —Do you think that
Wilson delegates will be seated in
the state convention, from coun
ties that went for Wilson in the
primary?
WATSON- -I think they should:
but I do not undertake to say they
will be. I favor seating them be
cause 1 believe, with all my heart,
in the theory and the practice of
the county unit plan in state poli
tics.
REPORTER—WiII you ’ nead"
I the delegation to Baltimore"?
WATSON—The chairman of the
delegation will be named by the
delegation, after it is elected. I
may be named that chairman. Even
if I am not, however. I still might
"'head'’ the delegation. Get the
point".’
REPORTER —Has anything said
by anybody of late scared or rat
tled you particularly'.’
WATSON —Invite everybody to
my- Kimball house meeting on May
-28, at 8 p. tn., and let’s see it any
body has yet scared or tattled
Thomas E. Good-bye’
WARM MAYORALTY FIGHT
IS PROMISED AT AUGUSTA
AVGUSTA. GA., May 22.—L. C.
Hay no, it is Mated, will oppose Dr J.
R Littleton for mayor and the race
promises to be the warmest Augusta
lias had since the days of the Kerr-
Walsh mayoralty campaign and the
Black-Watson congressional race. The
Irish and the conservative elements are
expected to vote for Hay re. while the
A P. A faction will vote solidly f<*
1 .ittleton.
ROOSEVELT WINS
IN OHIO PHIiOI
Continued From Page One.
the cities, while Harmon swept the
rural districts. Harmon managed to
carry Cincinnati by only a small mar
gin. Wilson captured Cleveland and
Toledo. When the city' returns, the
first to be reported, came in the Wilson
people were jubilant, but when the
rural districts came along the victory of
Harmon was soon made clear.
The ballots showed that William Jen
nings Bryan has numerous adherents in
Ohio, his name being written th by ad
miring voters in all parts of the state.
LaFollette Vote
Very Small.
The vote cast for Senator LaFollette
was a negligible quantity in the state,
though his strength in the Twentieth
and Twenty-first districts, comprising
Cleveland, was one of the surprises of
the primaries. In the former he forced
Taft into third place, and in the latter
he ran a close third. Roosevelt’s vote
in Cleveland more than doubled that of
Taft.
The victory of the ex-president in the
.districts which he carried was over
whelming and his popularity was shown
particularly in the rural districts, ih
numerous places the vote recorded in
his favor being as high as 8 to 1 and
10 to 1.
Taft was victor in his home city, Cin
cinnati, winning both the First and Sec
ond districts (Hamilton county).
The vote was close in the Third and
Thirteenth districts, but both went to
Taft. It will take the official count to
determine the result in the Seventh dis
trict.
Indications are that Taft had cap
tured the Seventh district by a nar
row margin, although this has not been
conceded by the Roosevelt managers.
The Fifth and Fifteenth districts gave
one each to Taft and Roosevelt. This
was undoubtedly due to . confusion
among the Republican voters over the
form of the ballot. The names of the
delegates w’ere printed in alphabetical
order with no indication of whom they
represented.
Root, Tweed’s
Lawyer, Mentioned
CHICAGO, May 22. —Gossip suggest
ing the name of Elihu Root, senator
from New York and temporary - chair
man of the coming Republican nation
al convention, as a possible '‘dark
horse" candidate for the presidential
nomination emanated from the head
quarters of the Republican national
committee today. The gossip was
50 Persons
Will Make $20.00 Each
Writing Jingles
In May, 1912, we will buy 50 good Jingles, suitable for a Post
Toasties Jingle Book.
You may get $20.00 for writing an original Jingle or for filling
in the missing line of the incomplete Jingle in the coupon. A fine
way to have some fun.
A COMPLETE JINGLE I FINISH THIS JINGLE
(AS AN EXAMPLE ONLY.) Little orphan Annie from far, far away
Picnic days are coming, goodness what a treat, Came to make a visit, and she's going to stay.
Fill up all the baskets: lots of stuff to ®at. Roses now are blooming, on her cheeks so pale.
Never mind the cake and jam, never mind the tea,
Plenty of Post Toasties—that's good enough for me. 1 V hl >n this line, mentioning ’I oasties, and write plainly)
Sign Here---
Name Date
Street and No., .
City. S ta te
Use of above form of answer is suggested, but not required.
Address and mail your Jingles to
Jingle Dept. 135, POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD., BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
Jingles accepted for our book, will be i Fill in the missing line of the incomplet
bought and paid for at $20.00 each. Jingle printed above, making the last lin>
Only the Jingles we pay for will be used. include the name of "Toasties." with correct
There will be 50 Jingles purchased and a u’d metre.
the names and addresses ot the writers will be
printed and mailed to evert enquirer who Q r , wr H e an original Post Toasties
sends us a 1c stamped and addressed envelope i r . , - . ,
for return. Jingle ot not less than 4 lines, any one
.... . . niii ,i of which must contain “Post
lhe Jmgles will be juged honestly upon , . ~ t . ~
merit, so if you are a sensitive person and not I oasties or 1 oasties.
a good sportsman, don't try. for we have no
time to "pet up" those whose Jingles are not ‘^ s luan .' Jingles mat be oibmitted as de
accepted. I sired.
'I bis is an opportunity to make some extra money, and. in addition, become
acquainted with
Post Toasties
—the delicious bits of toasted Indian Corn
Try some of this crisp food with cream and sugar. It is not easily forgotten.
“Male of the Species
Is More Bow-Legged:
Hobble Skirt Is 0-K”
LOS ANGELES, May 22. —"There are
far more bow-legged and knock-kneed
men than women, despite all the at
tempts to tear the hobble skirt to
pieces metaphorically - as a garment
causing knock-knees'’ declares Dr.
William A. Weldon. U. S. quarantine
officer here.
"The hobble skirt—that is to say.
the moderate hobble skirt —is the great
est limb-straightener that I know of.
“Pooh! A hobble skirt is a pretty
garment and withal a healthy mode of
dress. Knock-knee’! Pooh! What
man can make such a charge when the
greater part of his kind has legs that
either look like a pair of calipers or
an animated letter X?”
seized upon by politicians gathered at
the committee headquarters and
spread as the results from Ohio indi
cated that Taft had been hopelessly
beaten in his own state. It was in
tended that the Taft managers, finding
his losses greater than they had ex
pected, had turned to Root as the most
available man to combat the candida
cy of Colonel Roosevelt.
President Prepares
To Continue Fight
WASHINGTON. May 22.—Unde
terred by Ohio’s repudiation of his pol
icies, President Taft, upon his return
to Washington at 8:55 today, com
menced the preparation of his New
Jersey campaign, which will begin to
morrow and until Tuesday
next.
The president is devoting the day - to
a consideration of the fnerits of the
candidates for the three vacancies in
the upper ranks of the army. The
presidential party will leave Washing
ton at 7:30 o’clock tomorrow morning,
arriving in New Jersey about noon.
“Ohio Settles
Contest,” Says T. R.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y.. May 22.—" The
victory in Ohio settles the contest,”
declared Theodore Roosevelt today. “I
believe we could have won without
Ohio, but our opponents needed a sub
stantially - solid vote in order to give
them a chance to make a contest at
the Chicago convention.”
The colonel was jubilant over the
outcome of the latest state to register
its belief that he should be nominated
to succeed President Taft. He took
the opportunity - to poke a little fun at
President Taft’s declaration that he
would not trust the impulsive judg
ment of the people by saying:
“I am very much pleased with the
impulsive judgment’ of Ohio. '
FORGED TO EJECT
WOMAN, HE SAYS
Purchaser of Property Where
Mrs. Yancey Lived Denies
Responsibility for Ouster.
J.. H. Ewing, of the Edwin P. Ans
ley Realty Company, issued a -state
ment today- in regard to the disposses
sion of Mrs. Mary Yancey from her
home at 287 Decatur street, in which
he said that he was forced by the
courts to take the property.
Mrs. Yancey was evicted yesterday
and created quite a scene by refusing
to leave the premises.
Mr. Ewing said:
"rfome months since a commission
was appointed by the court to sell cer
tain property belonging to Mary .1.
Y'ancey. Other gentlemen and myself
became the purchasers of one of these
several properties, but when I went
down to notify - the negro tenant who
occupied the house that I was the own.
er and thereafter the rents were pay
able to me, I was notified by the negro
that her husband had a five-year lease
on the place, and that Mrs. Yancey had
been paid the rents in advance for the
full term; whereupon I demanded on
the commissioners that they put me *
and my Associates in possession of the
property.
"The commissioners, therefore, asked
and obtained an order from Judge
George L. Bell of the superior court
directing the sheriff to put us in pos
session.
"Neither I nor any of my associates
were responsible for Mrs. Yancey's liv
ing in the house with these negroes
nor for her dispossession.
“No doubt, you will recall that Sirs
Y’ancey is the same party- who recently
remained in a house on Edgewood ave
nue until it was torn from over hei
head, and is also the same party who
has figured in quite a few other law
suits With which the public is already
familiar.
"We employed attorneys to keep from
being forced to take the property re
ferred to in your article, and when we.
were advised that we could be com
pelled to take it, there was no other
course for us to pursue except to tak
possession of the property for which
our money had been paid.”
THUGS HOLD UP POLICEMEN
SENT OUT TO ARREST THEM
BERNARDSVILLE, N. J., May 22.-
Policeman Ammerman and his brotlu
were held up by four men last night
and their revolvers were taken away
from them. They had gone to arrest
the men on suspicion of trying to rob
the home of Attorney R. Y - . Lindaberry.
