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VOL. X. NO. 238.
IBADLY HURT
IN STRANGE
NIGHT GUN
BATTLE
R. Z. Upchurch, chief clerk of the
Georgia Fruit exchange, and living at
91 Summit avenue, was shot and badly
wounded In a mysterious fight on the
eighth floor of the Walton building at
3 o’clock this morning.
Emmett Hight, a prominent real es
tate man. of 90 Peachtree circle, and
a member of the Transportation club, is
socked up at the police station charged
with the shooting. The bullet was fired
into Upchurch’s body at such close
/ range that his coat was burned by the
powder flash, entered his side just be
low the heart and passed out at the
back.
The surgeons at Grady hospital will
perform an operation upon him today.
Fight to Get
1 Possession of Pistol.
Neither Hight nor Upchurch have
talked freely of the strange shooting,
but, according to the account given the
police by Night Watchman L. M. John
son of the Walton building, who was
locked up six hours before he would
talk, the fight came simply because
Hight refused to take another drink.
The two men were drinking in the
offices of the Georgia Erult exchange
with Johnson and one other man.
Johnson had introduced them and Up
fl church was urging his new acquaint
| ance to sample the rye again. Hight
I refused. A wordy quarrel arose, during
* which Hight says that Upchurch made
a rpsh at him and hit him in the face.
He says he fell to the floor and that
while IW> lay there Upchurch kicked him
in the face. He staggered to his f, et.
, drew a pistol from his pocket and both
men grappled in a struggle for its pos
session. Johnson says they fought des
perately and silently in the dimly light
ed offices for five minutes. Then sud
denly the pistol went off and Upchurch
dropped to the floor with blood stream
ing from the gaping wound in his side.
Wounded Man
Hides the Truth.
The other men summoned an ambu
lance and he was taken to Grady hos
pital. The police were notified, but
when Officers McWilliams and Ander
son questioned the wounded man he
M gave them the false name of R. R.
Jones, aril declared that h- had been
shot, by a pistol which dropped from
his desk and exploded as it fell upon
thi’ifloo:-. When the policemen showed
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BIG DIRIGIBLE
EXPLODES
IN AID; 5
KILLED
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July
2.—Plunged 1,999 feet to earth
when the dirigible balloon, the
Akron, blew up in mid-air, Alel
vin Vaniman, the famous aerial
navigator, and the four men of
his crew were dashed to death
today. The Akron had been con
structed for a trip across the At
lantic ocean, and was the last
word in balloon construction. The
flight over the meadows began
at 7 o’clock, and it was just a
short time later that the accident
occurred.
Eike a blazing meteor, the blazing
balloon dashed earthward. emitting
clouds of black smoke. It fell upon
Brigantine beach, and rescuers who
dashed two miles across the inlet were
unable to give any help.
Besides Melvin Vaniman. who was
personally in charge, those on the
Akron were Calvin Vaniman. brother
of the aeronaut; Fred Elmer, George
Boultin and Walter Gest.
Mrs. Vaniman Sees
Disaster and Collapses.
Mrs. Melvin Vaniman saw the disas
ter from the porch of her home. She
collapsed and is In a serious condi
tion.
An hour after the accident and after
the rescuers had given up all hope of
finding any of the bodies, the corpse of
Calvin Vaniman was recovered.
After making a search of the beach
about the point where the balloon had
plunged to earth, rescuers took to boats
and began searching the bay in the
hope of finding some of the aerial sail
ors with the breath of life still in them.
Calvin Vaniman's body was recog
nized by a party in a launch belonging
to Councilman Harry Cook. The body
was floating in Absecon bay. Although
bruised, it was not burned.
Thousands Watch
Craft’s Evolutions.
News that “Vaniman has gone up”
spread rapidly and, despite the early
hour, thousands were soon gathered
upon the beaches and the street watch
ing the huge cigar-shaped craft out
lined against the morning skj
After attaining an altitude of about
1,000 feet, the aerial pilot began put
ting his craft through fancy motions.
There was no wind, the air was clear
and conditions were Ideal for balloon
ing. Taking advantage of this, Vani
man decided to show the people on the
beaches some fancy stunts. It was dur
ing these evolutions that the explosion
occurred.
Victims Cling
Desperately to Craft.
Vaniman had made his third long
circle, sailing through the air with the
grace of a swallow. Suddenly the spec
tators saw a spurt of black smoke is
sue from the rear end of the bag. A
moment later the after end of the craft
shot upward as though propelled from
a blast underneath. The smoke became
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BRYAN MEN IN REVOLT
BALTIMORE, July 2—A re
volt against the methods of W.
J. Bryan has broken out. Bryan
was today renounced by Albert
Chappelle, delegate from Cali
fornia, who has been a life-long
friend of the Nebraskan. Mr
Chappelle asserted that Bryan
has “driven reputable men of
the party,’’ and now Stands
ready to grasp the nomination
WOMAN FLYER DIES IN FALL
On right, Miss Harriet Quimby, first woman aviator in
America, carried on shoulders of admiring friends as she
finished her flight across the English Channel. On left, Miss
Quimby just after landing from her cross-channel flight. Miss
Quimby, fell 1.000 feel to instant death at Boston last night.
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automobile kills child
A child playing in the street with one companion was killed
by an automobile on Peachtree street near Merritts avenue today.
The car. a big limousine, owned by Wilns E. Ragan, the
merchant, was driven by John Hill, the only negro who has ever
received a Carnegie hero medal.
Hill, who was put under arrest, told the police that he was
driving along at a very medium speed when suddenly two chil
dren ran out from behind a sandpile. One of them, a little girl,
dashed directly in fiont of the automobile and was crushed to
death before the chauffeur could stop his car. Hill put the little
girl into his car. but a crowd had collected, and a policeman took
the child in charge.
The policeman rushed the child to the Davis-Fisher sanita
rium in East Linden street. All this time no one had learned the
identity of the child, and Mr. Ragan, when he learned of the acci
dent. began a frantic search to locate the parents.
ATLANTA, GA.. TUESDAY, JULY 2, 1912.
ILLINOIS QUITS CLARK!
WILSON HAS MAJORITY
By
Monument to Women
Os South in Danger
| Os Seizure for Debt
MACON, GA.. July 2.—The beautiful
monument to the women of the Con
federacy, which was recently unveiled
in Macon, is in danger of being re
moved from the park in front of the
city hall by court deputies or sold as
mere stone to satisfy the creditors of
the bankrupt National Granite and
Marble Company, of Marietta, which
designed and erected it. The monu
ment was purchased by the women's
monument committee, but there is an 1
unpaid balance of $2,200, which the
referee in bankruptcy of the United
States court for the Northern district
of Georgia has demanded.
Attorneys today notified the officers
of the committee that failure to pay '
this balance in an appropriate time ■
would result in the monument being
dismantled or sold. Members of the
committee are alarmed over the situa
tion, but state that they will make a '
desperate effort to raise tire money by
popular subscription and save the good
name of Macon
CONVENTION SALL. BALTIMORE, July 2.—When the
Democratic national convention was called to order at noon
there was an unmistakable desire on the part of many of the del
egates who have thus far stood unshakable fpr their favorite can\
didates, to bring an end to the ddeadlock that has already nearly
approached the deadlock record for the party, going 42 ballots
without a nomination, and there were many predictions that the
day would bring forth a nomination. The most probable choice
it seemed, was Woodrow Wilson, who on the last ballot last
night still held the lead which he took yesterday, and, from early
reports, was scheduled to receive a majority vote of the conven
tion on an early ballot today.
It is reported that the New York delegation will abrogate
the unit rule today and throw 27 of her votes to Wilson.
The delegates were tired from 1
the long sessions and monotonous
balloting, and were desirous of
making a ribmination, eve if they
had to sacrifice their favorite and
choose another for standard bear
er. Many took this view in the
face of the prospect of adjourn
ment without a nomination and
the callin gos a new convention
next moth. Such a eotingency
would delay the party fall cam
paign by mank weeks, which are
valuable in perfecting the organ
ization and getting the fight for
the November contest well under
way.
Roger C. Sullivan has been author
ized by 47 of Illinois’ 53 delegates to
cast that state’s vote for Wilson on
the forty-third ballot today. At a cau
cus held early this morning Sullivan
was directed to switch Illinois’ vote
from Clark to Wilson on the next bal
lot, but before this could be done the
convention had adjourned.
Eleven \of the delegates fought
against a desertion of Speaker Clark,
but a majority of the others declared
that support of Wilson was the only
manner of breaking the deadlock. The
time for making the switch was left
entirely in Sullivan’s hands, the dele
gates directing that the change should
be made when, “in the best judgment
of the chairman (Sullivan), It should
be deemed advisable.”
The big vote of Illinois was held in
line for 42 ballots without difficulty.
Just before adjournment, shortly after
midnight, a meeting was held. By
vote the Illinois delegates decided that
Clark had no chance for nomination
and the next choice should be Wilson.
Adjournment w’as taken before ft was
generally known among the Wilson
men that Sullivan and his men from
Illinois had decided to change.
Illinois Expected to
Start Things for Wilson.
The Illinois vote today was expecte*
to have a big moral effect upon the
rest of the convention. Like New York's
90 votes,/which have remained in the
Clark column steadily, there is always
a silence just before it is announced.
The effect it is expected to have will be
more beneficial, the Wilson men de
clare, than the actual changing of the
votes.
That West Virginia would switch
from Clark to Wilson was the predic-
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tion of National Committeeman John ■
T. McGraw, of that state," today. a
’’lf Illinois .switches to Wilson. ’
McGraw, "the West Virginia votes thcwE
have been cast for Clark will probablJH
be cast for Wilson.”
It had been freely nredicted that Illi- I
nols would take this step soon. Suili- I
van has always been a Wilson sup- I
porter, but the voters of Illinois took a ]
different view In the primaries. Suili
van used persuasive arguments rather
than threats and it finally won. The
Illinois men took the vote change ac
tion only when they became convinced j
that there was no chance of their ■
choice winning. ■
The Wilson men figured today that I
with Illinois will go Michigan’s ten I
votes Clark got on the first ballot Mon- ■
day night, lowa’s twelve and some B
scattering votes. If this occurs Gov-®
ernor Wilson will have 574 or 28
than a majdM'ty. 1
Situation Shows "
Small Progress.
In r. situation marked by more in
tense bitterness than has ever been
shown in a previous Democratic con
vention, the striking fact stood out
today that while the conservative
force# had steadily disintegrated from
the very opening day, the opposing •'
radical constituencies had not made
any striking progress toward the as
cendancy of either of the two leading
factions.
Following closely the figures and
taking a perfectly obvious result that
seems to have been generally over
looked, It was apparent at the begin
ning of today's work that no faction in
the convention was in any better posi
tion to assert its dominance than was
the case on the morning of June 25,
when the delegates came first to state
their preferences.
It is like a tug />f war, with two
teams pulling onmhc rope and neither
able to budge the other over the tape.
To properly understand the facts ,'gnc
must throw tout the- great mass of .fig
ures and get the few digits that .show
the real change since the start—not
the hourly fluctuations, but the actual
net result of the struggle.
In other words, it is the general bal
ance sheet of the convention and not
the daily trading that makes the prop
er showing of the present conditions.
And, like any ot>her balance sheet, it
must start with the assets at the open
ing of business and show what is left
at the last transaction. This table
showing what each of the candidates
had when he started In the convention
and what he had left at the close of the