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the' <&>FOURTH of & JULY, A DAY OF JOY 2M FOR FO? ALL THE WEATHER Forecast: Showers tonight or to- morrow. VOL. X. NO. 240. FIGHTERSJRE WMC ■ FOR FUJI White Hope Is First to Appear, and Is Given a Rousing Reception. •‘NEW CHAMPION TONIGHT!” FIREMAN SHOUTS TO CROWD Johnson's Superb Physique Is Admiration of All —Shows Him Trained to Minute. By Ed W. Smith. East las vegas. n. m.. July 4. - Johnson aM Flynn ar in the ring wailing for the timekeeper’s bell to send them on ih'ii way in the battle for Hie heavyweight championship of the n o Id. The men have received final instructions from the referee and itb gloves tied and shoes well rosined, they have only to shake t'nei- flimsy bath robes and tear at each other. i i'. nn was the first to climb into the roped arena. He was given a nm.-ing ovation. He. bowed time Anri again in acknowledging the re ception. Finally he went to the casi side of the ropes. h o ld up his hand so. silence and yelled his loudest: "Tuere will be a new champion tonight, boys'.” Again the multitude broke loose ind the noise was deafening. It didn’t let up until Johnson worked hi- way down the isles and climbed Inii' the ring. And then it let up only for a second. Johnson opened his robe and the crowd could not help but. admire his wonderful physique He looked trained to the minute. He. too, was given a big hand, but nothing compared to that ten dered the white challenger. I’here are those, and many of thorn who think because of his present ruggedness and known ganionosy that it will be a race over distance of ground, and that ! yens present, condition will en “bio him i,, tire down his oppo nent and finally win. Rut while Flynn lias been work ing iike a. trojan, Jack Johnson has b-en doing a faithful task in his Continued on Page Fifteen. Boossoms Are Soy But the country is inight with homes that '■an he purchased at bargains and on time aud small payments if seekers for them will "lily consult The Geor gian Real Estate Ads ">i the Want Ad pages, ''here these Howers of investments are each day. •lust over the citv line, or as far away as "u like, you can find 1 "" hou s e of vour "'"ams in The Georgian '"al Estate Ads. Read ''Hill | l( |. ppofil The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS —Use For Result* Ptomaines in Food I Poisons 6at Table: Rushed to Hospital Mother, Daughter and Four Oth ers Suffer Tortures After Eating Sliced Dried BeeJ. Six persons were taken violently 111 with ptomaine poisoning this morning at the home of Mrs. A. E. Alliston, 388 Piedmont avenue, and aTe in the Atlanta hospital this afternoon. The poisoning is laid to sliced dried beef served for breakfast this morning. Be sides Mrs. Allison, her daughter Louise, Mrs. S. E. Morton, ol Eatonton. Ga.. and three boarders. Messrs. Jenkins, of the Southern Bell Telephone Company; No lan. of the Maxwell Auto Company, and a Mr. Parker were affected. Dr. Frank Eskridge was called In and managed to relieve the agony nf thp worst sufferers and rushed them all to the Atlanta hospital where, this afternoon, it was said all would recover.. FELDER’S ANNOUNCEMENT DUE TO COME TOMORROW I MACON. GA.. July t. -Thomas S. I Felder, attorney general, did not an nounce today his decision on entering the race for governor, as his friends expected, but they say he will make a public announcement tomorrow, upon lii' return to Atlanta. Fie held a con ference with a number of friends to day. but it is not yet decided wlrether ot not he will in-come a candidate. A number of Macon rn-.-n have pledged finam i ti sii|iih-> ; to Mr, Felde’ if he will consent to I>' < ome a candi date. and he has tiwnk ■ ,! (hc'lii, .iva m!-\ \ I® m W'Y \\ / / — GEO. ROBERTS’ NAME MENTIONED TO FILL DR. ANDREWS’ SHOES WASHINGTON. July 4 While mem bers of the house committee 0:1 rules con ferred today on the advisability of ap proving the Cox resolution to investigate the treasury department following the startling charge- of that management and incompetency made by Former Assistant Secretary Andrew against Secretary Me Veagh. official Washington speculated as to Andrews successor. The names of George Roberts, of the mine, is one of the most prominently mentioned. Law rence < Murray, comptroller of the cur rency. and Francis W Taylor, private secretary to Secretary Me Veagh are among others suggested. Andrew has gone to his home in < Glou cester. DEMOCRATIC NAVAL PLANK MAY GET U. S. 2-3ATTLESHIP PLAN WASHINGTON. July 4. —As a result of the naval plank put in the Democratic ■ platform at Baltimore in which the party is pledger! to "provide ami maintain a navy strong enough to protect citizens and country and to uphold the .Monroe doctrine," advocates of the "two battle ships" program today asserted the house would reverse its policy and make the appropriation for the warships. The opportunity for a change will be offered when the senate amendment au thorizing the construction of two battle ships reaches the house NEW GOLD DISCOVERY IN ALASKA CAUSES A RUSH FAIRBANKS. ALASKA. July 4 —News has been received here of a gold strike in Fox gulch. In the mining district. Many prospectors are rushing to the new dig gings from idltarod Low water at the latter plae< >m causing delai in th. install ation of the Guggenheim dredge on Flat in carry tnaihlnei'. al the rule offered by to lan machine!' al 'he 'i,t< offered !>• the syndlra'*. asking an increase of s.’> a ton. which the .ompanj ha- refused. ATLANTA. GA.. THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1912. LEGISLATOR'S WIFE SAVES DOOMED NEGRO ' —. < She Makes Successful Protest Against Hanging in Georgia Baseball Park. Because a woman objected to the erection of -i gallows tn the Louisville. Ga.. baseball park. Charles Gibbons, a friendless negro, sentenced to die for' the killing of a mulatto woman, will not hang tomorrow. As scon as Mrs. R. N Hkrdeman. Xat Thornton. Atlan- A fa’s greatest tennis player, seems certain of / winning lhe Southern £ championship now in S J| progress al >East Lake. JR -ry »>7I JW* .< Y ' - "T. /’go whose husband. "Bob" Hardeman, is in Atlanta representing Jefferson coun ts- in the legislature, heard the sound a.f the hammeband saw on the gallows that to accomplish Gibbons' death she wired to Atlanta. "They are going to hang that negro in the ball park within a stone's throw of our house," she excitedly informed her husband. "1 want you to see the govertwir and stop it." Following instructions explicitly. Representative Hardeman called on Governor Brown late yesterday after noon. learning that new evidence had been unearthed favorable to the negro's case. He came away from the execu tive office with a two weeks respite for Gibbons While Hardeman had never repre sented the negro in court, he had of late taken some Flight interest in the case..but It was the urgent telegram from his wife, protesting against the hanging in the ball park, that really influenced him tn plead with the gov ernor for clemency. Hardeman really thinks that Gibbons is not guilty of a capital offense. He asserted that the woman had been killed at a negro picnic, where the -hooting had been more or less general. H e sa id: “Gibbons was represented by a law yer appointed by the court, and his de fense was most perfunctory. All the facts in the case did not go in by any means. I expect to hav'e all the facts here next week," and it was for this reason that the governor granted a reprieve. “1 might not have called on the gov ernor yesterday if 1 hadn't'received the i telegram from Mrs. Hardeman. She wanted that ball park hanging stopped, i and I had to do my best to stop it." AUGUSTA CANDIDATE ASKS INJUNCTION TO BE KEPT OFF BALLOT Al'GI STA *4A , July 4 L <’ Ha.sne. j candidate for mayor, has asked for an injunction to prevent his name being ! ' placed on tn** official ballots of the city primary, to he held July in Judge Ham mond will hen? arguments on the pcH- 'iion Kjtiirdav Boy kin Wright and F H < dlawij represent Hayne and \V H ’ l-Pmlng «nd Bryan ’’uinming represent | the primary committee NEXT TENNIS~CHAMP, AN ATLANTA PLAYER |Br r irV ir il r ZJF J ' % |L -wlßku — p i&'wJ) OLDEST ALUMNUS OF EMORY COLLEGE DIES AT HOME IN MOBLEY Dr. R W. Lovett, 94 years of age. father of Rev. W. C. Lovett, of Atlanta, editor of The Wesleyan Christian Ad vocate, is dead at his home in Mobley, Ga. He died there yesterday after an illness of six weeks. Dr. Mobley, at the time of h'is death, was the oldest living alumnus of Em ory college. He was for many years, a prominent member of the South Geor gia Methodist conference, and had also practiced medicine. He was widely known and loved in south Georgia. R. O. Lovett, of West End. is also a son of Dr. Lovett. • CHINESE WHISKY AND 5 HUSKY “COPS” LAND NEGRESS IN STOCKADE The wrecking of a Chinese laundry at Peachtree and Tenth streets, the routing of the proprietor, Charlie Moy, and a battle with five husky policemen was the net result of a drink—or two — of Chinese whisky, according to a stir ring account of the doings of Pauline Scott, a meek-looking negro shirt iron er, given today to Recorder Broyles. The woman is employed in Charlie Moy’s laundry and yesterday aftei - noon found a bottle of the Oriental whisky. Ignorant of the amount of fire and excitement corked up in a bot tle of Chifiese liquor, the womtSi drank freely. It was then but a few minutes until she was imitating a maniac The other adventures followed. Charlie Moy sought Policeman Dor sett, who rushed to the scene of war and finally subdued the shrieking wom an. It took five policemen to quiet her. She was fined $L">.75 or 30 days in the stockade, and accepted the latter alternative BOY KILLED IN QUARREL OVER FIRING CANNON .MEMPHIS TENN Inly I Quarreling about who should tire a cannon In tislay s Fourth nt Jul' celebration. Cheater Wil liams 17 w i »<abb'd io death today by ,M H Tucker, who escaped. L A / V A- C:~ • BILL IN LEGISLATURE IS AIMED TO PROTECT PLANTERSAND HANDS Negro cotton pickers can not jump their jobs when they please, leaving the fields while with unpicked cotton, nor can planters tire a laborer without due cause. If a bill now before the Georgia legislature becomes a law. Representatives Adams, of Hall, and .Bell, of Milton. have a bill before the .house which is planned to bring more harmony between employe: and em ployee and give both better protection than is now afforded. The bill provides that it shall be un lawful for a landlord to discharge a tenant or a tenant to quit the land lord's employment, without reasonable cause, where there is a written con tract oi a verbal contract with wit nesses. The same law applies to "croppers" and to farm cooks and hirelings. COLUMBUS TAILOR TO SEEK GOVERNORSHIP ON SOCIALIST TICKET MACON". GA.. July 4. -The Sociadst® of Georgia met m convention here to day with about 25 local organizations represented Tills afternoon candidate, for state offices will be nominated A. F. Castleberry, of Columbus, a tailor will he selected to iun fol governor The national Socialist party has sent six organizers here to condui t the cam paign HOWITZER EXPLODES: 3 DEAD HAMBURG, lul' I Three men were killed and five injured today by the ex plosion <if a new pattern Howitzer gun ditrlng raplij-flring practice <H the . emp.it Lock sled i. 35 KILLED WHEN TIIAIN TAKINGCROWDHDffIE FOB P IS WRECKED COUXIXC, X. Y„ .Inly "4. Afore than 35 persons were killed outright today when a west-bound express train on the Lacka wanna railroad dashed past two block signals three miles from here today and crashed into h west-bound passenger train Xo. 9, which was standing on a siding. Sixty persons were injured, some of whom will die. The accident was attributed to the fog which obscured the signals. The accident occurred at 5:30 a., m. Several hours later it was said that the death list might go to forty-five. The passenger train was loaded with persons on their way home to spend the Fourth. 10 YEAR OLD GIRL BEST SWIMMER Jennie Perkerson Does 25 I ; Yards in Piedmont Lake in 40 Seconds—Wins Prize. —,— Little Jennie Perkerson. who, some j folks think, is a coming Annette Kel lermann, showed her older rivals in the Fourth of July events at Piedmont park lake today just how to swim and dive. Although but ten years old. she led all the way in the 25-yard race for girls, swimming the distance with a beautiful rapid stroke, In just 40 sec onds. She got a pretty bathing suit as a prize. The tiny mermaid was equally suc cessful in the diving stunts, judges and spectators alike deciding that she was easily the most graceful and skillful. She executed a few figures that were calculated to make Annette herself vainly envious had she seen them. Lit tle Mabe) Murphy and Dorothy Clem ent also showed remarkable speed in the swimming event, coming in second and third in a large list of entries and in the fancy diving event Mis# Frances Smith won a good share of applause and second honors. A large crowd of holiday merry makers witnessed the contests, among the most interesting ever held at Pied mont park. Swims Mile in 47 Minutes. The program was arranged by Cap tain R. H. Schlomberg, of the United States Volunteer Life Saving corps, and the participants all are members of the corps. The 100-yard swimming event devel oped considerable excitement and T Walthour. who is a relative of the fa mous bicycle • rider, Bobby Walthour, came out the winner, making the dis tance in two minutes fiat. A lieuten ancy in the corps was his reward. R. S. Sims came in second. In the one-mile race—and It takes considerable strength and nerve to swim a mile in fresh water—J. H. Lit tlefield won In 47 minutes, capturing a silver cup and a first lieutenancy. A. C. Cowles was second. Gilbert Fraser won the 25-yard event for boys under seventeen .and got a bathing suit with U. S. V. L C. woven on it. The judges were H V Murphy and M Kaplan. 90-YEAR-OLD LAWSUIT REACHES CONCLUSION NEVA YORK, July 4. A case which has kepi its place on the calendar of the New J’ork courts for 90 years has Just been * rought to a conclusion here. The action which has long been known as the “old est living suit,” was begun in 1822 and was brought to trial in 1826 before Chan cellor Kent. It was instituted to dissolve the I’rdted Insurance Company of New York, and the chancellor directed that the corporation should he wound up, Its as sets were collected and .its debts has mg been liquidated, proceedings were taken to distribute the remainder among the stockholders and creditors of the coin* part} loir tDITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE * A O Y RE NO Thp passengers in the Pullman cars were, protected by the heav ier construction of those coaches. Pullman Conductor F. W. Drake, of Passaic, N. J., said after the wreck that he did not think more than half a dozen of the Pullman passengers have been killed.. A number of them had been hurt by 1 flying wreckage. A train bearing nurses and physi cians was rushed to the scene. A string of undertakers’ wagons was sent from Elmira. The most of the Injured were taken to the Corning hospital. Some <>f the injured were so badly hurt that they could not 'be removed from the scene. Coroner H. R. Smith hurried to the wreck and took charge of the rescue work. He sent a telephone message to this city saying that two of the coaches had been derailed and had plunged down a ten-foot embankment, being smashed to kindling wood. These cars were of wooden construction. A wreck train was sent to the scene and work of removing the debris was begun within two hours after the ac cident. The workers were confronted with a ghastly task. In more than one instance pieces of human flesh, arms and legs torn from the broken bodies of the victims were picked up with the smashed steel and timbers. A temporary morgue was erected near the wreck, where the bodies were taken. Later they were remov'd to the undertaking rooms. An improvised hos pital was established alongside of the wreck. The shrieks of the wounded could be heard a quarter of a mile. The train that was wrecked was No. 11. Among the killed who have been iden tified are Mrs. Reynolds, of 211 Spencer street, Brooklyn: William M. Arm strong, 1200 Park avenue, Hoboken, and Antonia Nova, of Carter, N. J. As soon as the news of the wreck spread hundreds of automobiles dashed to the scene, completely filling the roads .and interferring with the work of car rying away the dead and injured. Chief of Police Robert Seyer sent a detail of Corning police to the scene to clear away the autos and maintain order. There were several babies and little children among those killed, and their little corpses, horribly mangled, pre sented one of the most pathetic scenes of the wreck. One man, lifting a bit of white cloth lying on the ground, uncovered the body of a baby only a few months old. BATTLESHIP GEORGIA TO REMAIN IN CUBA WASHINGTON. July 4.—A1l of the battleships on duty around Cuba, with the exception of the Georgia and New Jersey, have been ordered home to the summer exercises on the conclusion, by the state department, that the bot tom has dropped out of the revolution in Cuba. The marines, who have been landed, will remain on guard. The state de partment also has requested that the gunboats and auxiliaries be retained In the service along the Cuban shores. The Georgia and Nebraska ate at Key West expecting early orders to return North MRS. GRANT RETURNING. NEW YORK Jnl> I Mrs Frederick D Gram end her daughter. Prince i i'an tavtizene. who have been abroad since the funeral of General Grant, are on their wav back to the United State* and will re H < h New York »n Die K i unprltu Wil helm early next week.