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the weather. F„r e ea»t for Atlanta and Georgia oel l showers today and tomorrow. VOL. X NO. 247. IS. SENATE TOUNSEIT IMIMER W — \ Famous Case Against Illinois’ Solon Comes to a Vote for Second Time. OBTAINED OFFICE BY CORRUPTION. CHARGE Accused Was Whitewashed at Former Probe—Adverse Vote Expected This Time. WASHINGTON. July 12. —The sen ate is expected to reach a vote some time today on the committee report recommending the unseating of Sen ator William Lorimer, of Illinois, who. for nearly two years, has been under fie. it being alleged that his seat in the senate was obtained by fraud and corruption. Several former members of the Illinois legislature confessed that they had been paid sums of money to vole for Lorimer. Senator Lorimer addressed the sen ate in his own defense yesterday. It is generally predicted that the sen ate will vote to oust Lorimer. He was whitewashed at a former inquiry by the senate. Senator Lorimer resumed speaking this morning, scoring Taft, Roosevelt, Bryan and the Chicago “newspaper trust." LIGHTNING KILLS TWO AND WOUNDS 16 IN CAMP AT ANNISTON ANNISTON, ALA., July 12.—Two soldiers were killed and sixteen bad !v injured when lightning struck the mess tent of Company B, Second Ala bama infantry, of Birmingham, while the militiamen were at supper last night at Camp Pettus. The dead: Charles Kirby and H. Rape. The injured: M C. Sullivan, Carl O. Jackson. E. Y. Lockhart. Herbert Moore. H. I. Leonard. James Jameson, F. Jefferson. " T. Evans, Leopold Speigler, Samuel "alters, R. R. Parsons. Earl Holcolmb, Travis Downing. J. R Robison and two negro cooks. Sullivan is not expected to live. The injured were rushed to the army hospitals and are. under treatment by ■regular army surgeons. The catastrophe created consterna tion in the camp. CRACKERS SELL DESSAU TO KANSAS CITY CLUB frank Dessau the Cracker pitcher, was sold this noon, io the Kansas CitJ' club, of the American association. Dessau has been having a heap of trouble with his arm all season, and as the Crackers are fighting hard to get a berth in the first division. Manager Hemphill figured thar he could no lon ger keep an uncertainty. BRUNSWICK WANTS POSTMASTER. BRI NSWh K ? GA.. July 12.—This r| t.’ will make an effort to secure the ~|l - convention of the Georgia. State Association of Presidential Postma 5 1- , ' hich meets in Savannah July 19- - Postmaster Elliott will present the n "tation from the board of trade. THE SCORE CARD FOR TODAY’S BASEBALL GAME AT PONCEY PARK ATLANTA— WW^I’TI'TIT I ATLANTA Callahan, ~£ "j “V*" PFORPIfiN’S Johnston, lb. Y> <>- -<> Y> Y> Z/> Jt Y> Alperman, 2b K > IT SOUTHERN H-nphin. ZZZZYYYY league YyyyyyYyaaaa - Y"Y ■ • • • ’ ■ score card L y v v y \/ v y —v'Y* — < y y > ~v > ~ < v Clancy, 2b. ... 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A dozer jugs of mountain dew in the wagon bed told the story of old Lafe's last running of the revenue blockade. He had been caught by the flood on the way from his still to market. Lase Larmon was 75 years old. but his blue eyes were just as keen as when he followed the flag In the 60 s. and in his hands the six-foot squirrel rifle held just as steady a bead. The, revenue officers were never anxious to trail the old man into his den, and though his stills had been broken up again and again old Lase retained his freedom and kept on turning corn into white liquor. He had the stern re ligion of the Georgia mountaineer, de scendents of the Roundheads, and was a regular attendant at the church his father had helped to build. But he maintained the right of a free-born citizen to use his own com for meal or whisky as he saw fit. and he refused to admit that the government had any right to interfere. He had been “moonshining" for 50 years. Daves creek was swollen by the heavy rains and old Lase must have misjudged the depth at the ford, for he drove his mule into water six feet deep. Caught In the harness, the mule was swept down stream and drowned, and the old man evidently made no at tempt to leave the wagon and swim out. Friends found him and the mule dead together, washed against the bank, with jugs of moonshine, tightly corked with corncobs, floating by the old man's side. WOMAN OF MYSTERY, KINGS’ ENTERTAINER, LIES IN GEORGIA JAIL MACON. GA.. July 12.—Mrs. Dixie Jarrett, possessor of a gold bracelet given in person by the late King Ed ward, of England, upon the completion of one of her before-royalty perform ances. is in Bibb county jail charged with lunacy, as the result of a warrant sworn out by a young man named Fred Haygood, who claims to be her son. Asserting her sanity in rational terms. Mrs. Jarrett declares that Hay good is only an adopted son, and that he is persecuting her because when she made her will recently she omitted him. For fifteen years Mrs. Jarrett has toured the world, giving exhibitions of her strange magnetic power, which she has even demonstrated in jail since her confinement for the benefit of fellow prisoners. Her mere touch invests pins, iron and steel with the power of mag netism. Mrs. Jarrett must remain in jail ten days pending a hearing for lunacy in compliance with the law’. She be lieves that the jury will declare her sane, and if acquitted she intends to prosecute, a warrant now pending against her alleged son for assault and battery. She is quite wealthy, owning property in Philadelphia, Ma con and Milledgeville, besides valuable jewejs. PLAGUE QUARANTINE IN CUBA HOLDS MANY BOUND FOR AMERICA HAVANA, July 12.—Hundreds of Americans bound for Florida are held up here by the rigid quarantine estab lished against bubonic plague. Cere melo Hegluera. who has been under treatment for two days as a plague patient, died today, but it can not be determined definitely whether he was a victim of the plague or not until a bac teriological examination has been com pleted. CONTEMPT BILL PASSES. WASHINGTON. July 12.—The house has passed the Clayton contempt bill by a vole of 233 to 18. The Repub lican substitute offered for the Demo cratic bill was defeated on a viva voce HORSEWHIPS HER FOE IN DIVORCE TRIAL Mrs. Pettitt Uses Cowhide on Man Who Testified Against Her in Court. VICTIM’S ARMS PINNED WHILE SHE PLIES LASH Arraigned in Court. She De clares She s Proud of It. Says He tid’d. Mrs. Lillian Petitt. of 42 Doane street, is today under bond of SIOO be cause she cowhided C. B. Reeves before a score of spectators in broad daylight at the corner of Marietta and Spring streets. Reeves had testified against her tn a divorce suit won by her husband, A. P. Petitt. manager of the Joel C. Roper # Cigar Company of Ivy street. Her brother-in-la.w, Edward Hurst, who held Reeves’ hands behind him while the infuriated woman literally wore out a whip across his head and shoulders, has thus far eluded the police, but her brother. Vernon Hines, who stood by and applauded the thrashing. Is also under SIOO bond in Justice D. K. John ston's court. His Evidence Helped Husband Get Divorce. A week ago Petitt won his first ver dict in the divorce suit before a jury in the superior court. His principal wit ness and the one who gave the most damaging testimony against Mrs. Petitt was Reeves, an employee of Petltt’s in the cigar factory. Just after the verdict Mrs. Petitt was informed that it was Reeves’ evi dence that hadl won her husband the suit, and she set out promptly from her Doane street home to get revenge. Hurst and Hines, her brother, joined her and, after searching the city a day, she spied Reeves entering the store of Steve Glass near the corner of Mariet ta and Spring.. Mrs. Petitt did not follow him at once. She stepped to the curbing, where a negro's dray was standing, and borrowed his long, heavy whip. At the same moment Reeves, all unsuspi cious of his emerged from the shop door and started leisurely up the street. Pinned Him While Woman Used Whip. Hurst rushed at him, according to his account, and pinioned his two hands behind his back. Then he faced the man toward the enraged woman. The crowd at the corner looked on wonder ingly. “You'll lie about me, will you?" cried Mrs. Petitt. raising the heavy whip above her head. “Well, take that for it. you coward." The whip descended again and again upon the head of the helpless Reeves. Great welts rose wher the thong struck him. Mrs. Petitt rushed around him plying the whip with all the strength of her arms, while Hurst still held him in a vicelike grip, so that he could neither run nor resist. Amidst the swirl of the woman’s blows the horsewhipped man cried to the spectators for help, hut he got no aid. Hines stood by, it is declared, either expressing his approval or advising his sister how to reach a particularly tender spot. Mrs. Petitt had given the agonized Reeves a severe lashing when the whip, worn out by the strenuous thonging, snapped near the butt. ATLANTA. GA„ FRIDAY. JULY 12. 1912. Accident Imperils 1.000 Passengers and 860 Sailors GIANT BATTLESHIP IS RAMMED IN FOG x; 1' ... , —rx r / \v > AS • - l Stern of the Dreadnought New Hampshire, showing damage inflicted by passenger steamer. TO PASS ACT FOR KINDERGARTENS Women Leaders in Educational Work Have Assured Success for Anderson Measure. • The free kindergarten bill, sponsored by Randolph Anderson, of Chatham, and urged upon the legislature by wom en prominent in educational work in Georgia, has received the sanction of the educational committee and will go to the house with a report which will assure its passage. Kindergarten workers, club women and school teachers appeared before the committee yesterday afternoon and convinced the legislators of the abso lute necessity of free kindergartens in Georgia cities. Among those who availed themselves of the opportunity of voicing thsir approval of the bill were Mrs. E. B. Smith, of the Federa tion of Women’s Clubs: Mrs. Mary Mc- Lendon. of the W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Ed ward T. Brown, of Atlanta; Miss Carol P. Oppenheimer, director of the kin dergarten training school at Athens; Miss Edwina Wood, superintendent of the Columbus kindergartens; Gunoy Jordan and George A. Baldwin, of Co lumbus. and ex-Governor Norther. The members of the local committee who have been urging the bill are Miss Gertrude Cohen, Mrs. J. S. Lacy, Miss D. Laudauer, Miss Mary Barnwell. Mrs William V. Kriegshaber, Mrs. Carl Kaiser and Mrs. R. C. Little. The kindergarten bill is general in its nature and provides that money from the common school fund of the state may be used by county or municipal boards of education for kindergartens, if deemed advisable. The adherents of the measure believe they will have won a real battle if the state places the right to establish kindergartens in the hands of local'school authorities. BEWARE OF BROKERS, THIS GIRL’S ADVICE CHICAGO, July 12.—Miss May Mc- Gowan, who lost everything after run ning SI,OOO up to $350,000 in stock spec ulation. says "don't allow any man friend to introduce you to brokers." Will Require Two Months and Sum of $30,000 to Repair Dreadnought. NEWPORT, R. 1.. July 12.—The Unit ed States battleship New Hampshire was badly damaged in a collision here when she was rammed nearly head-on during a dense fog by the steamer Com monwealth. with 1.000 passengers on board. The passenger boat collided with the stern of the battler. The acci dent occurred at 4:25 a. m. The 856 officers and men Immediately sprang to the lifeboats to rescue the passengers on the other vessel, but no rescue work was needed. The tremendous Impact crushed In the New Hampshire’s armor plate, which at the stern is eight feet wide and four inches thick. It will cost $30,000 to repair her. The work will require two months. AUTO AND OIL WAGON CATCH FIRE AND BURN WHEN THEY COLLIDE MACON. GA.. July 12. Four people had narrow escapes last night when the automobile bearing Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hancock crashed into a kerosene oil delivery wagon, smashing noth ve hicles and setting fire to the oil. Mrs. Hancock was badly bruised, and so was her grand-baby whom she held in her arms, even when thrown from the ma chine. They had just moved to a place of safety when the kerosene ignited and made a big blaze, burning the wagon and the auto. The accident oc curred on the Houston road, two miles from the city. 9,000 COCOANUTS LEFT FROM ‘VETS’ REUNION FLOAT DOWN RIVER MACON, GA., July 12.—Nine thou sand cocoanuts are bobbing their way to the sea upon the tawny breast of the Ocmulgee river. They were dumped in by the food inspector as spoiled goods left over from the Confederate reunion, in anticipation of thousands of coeoanut pies for reunion visitors, a Macon merchant last .' ear purchased in advance the entire output of a cocoa nut dealer in South America, but sold less than a dozen. BRIBED SENATOR TO PENITENTIffi Isaac Huffman, of Ohio, Is Given Sentence of Three Years in Federal Prison. COLUMBIA OHIO. July 12. —Sena tor Isaac Huffman, Os Butler county, was sentenced to serve three years in the penitentiary for accepting a bribe in the legislature,.by Judge Rathmell today. The motion filed by Huffman for a new trial was overruled. Senator Huffman stated he would ap peal his case at once to the circuit court on error. Judge RathmeP. j n overruling the motion for a new trial, made an ex haustive review of the case, denying the defendant’s contentions on all points. The court declared that Huff man had had a fair trial. When asked what he had to say be fore sentence was pronounced. Sena tor Huffman protested his innocence. "I care more for the good opinion of my wife and mother, who believe in my innocence.” said Huffman, “than I do for the opinion of the entire population of the state of Ohio." Huffman declared he had spent ev ery dollar he had in fighting the Charges against him, and said his wife would be forced to work while he was in the penitentiary. Senator George K. Celone, of Dayton, another alleged bribetaker, who was to be tried in September, has been re ported sick and his trial may be post poned. WEST POINT.' NEWNAN AND LA GRANGE TO GET POWER COLUMBUS, GA.. July 12.—The transmission line of the Columbus Power Company, between Columbus and Newnan, has been completed, with the exception of installing the insula tors. The wires are strung on steel towers 60 feet high. The line will car ry current from the Goat Rock plant of the Columbus Power Company to West Point. Newnan and LaGrange. The $2,000,000 dam that is being built by th,- company at Goat Rock will be completed by September 1. and will furnish sufficient current to generate 30,000 horsepower. tXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE J£> Y R8 Na YANKEE SETS NEWREGORD INBROAD JUMP A. L. Gutterson, of Vermont, Wins First Place in the Final at Stockholm, Sweden. FINN BREAKS OLD MARK • FOR THROWING DISCUS Eight Americans Qualify in the Trial Heats of the Four Hun dred-Meter Event. STOCKHOLM, July 12.—Another tri umph for the Star Spangled Banner was scored in the running broad jump final, which was won by A. L. Gutter son, of the University of Vermont. Gut. terson not only won, but broke the old Olympic record. His distance was 8 meters and 60 centimeters, or 26.41 feet. The discus event gave the United States three more points. bringing America's point total for track and field events up to 53. America did well In the 400-meter run trial heats. The Yankees who qualified for the semi-finals in this event were James Rosenberger. Mel vin Sheppard. James E. Meredith. D. B. Young, Harold B. Haff. Clarence S. Edmundson. Charles R. Reidpath and Ira N. Davenport. Lieutenant George F. Patton, of the Fifteenth cavalry, IL S. A„ a member of the American team, collapsed at the end of the 4.000-metr cross country race. This event was the climax of the modern pentathlon, in which Pat ton was entered. The American was quickly revived, but was very weak. U. S. Men Sweep Opponents Off Feet. Determined to make it another "Amer ican day," the Yankee athletes compet ing In the Olympic games dashed into the seventh session of the contest with a vim that nearly took their opponents' breath away. The program opened with victory for the United States, for James Rosenberger, the fast Irish- American Athletic 'dub runner, breezed home in front in the first heat of the 400-metr run. Mel Sheppard, another ’member of the Irish-American club, took the second heat, while James E. Meredith, of the Mercersberg (Pa.) club, the most talked of school boy ath lete in the world today, qualified for the semi-finals by running second in the third heat. This heat was won by a German runner. v The American athletes and the American spectators were alike ncour aged over the successful assault upon the point column yesterday. Weather conditions continued ideal today, and another vast crowd saw the opening contests. The gayly decked stadium roared with applause when the Americans continued their victorious course. Japan showed up for the first time today in the track and field con tests. Mishimi, of Japan, tan second in the fourth preliminary heat of the 400-meter event. Mishimi was given a cheer by all the cosmopolitan throng in the stadium for his plucky run. When James E. Meredith, the phe nomenal Pennsylvania school boy, came to the scratch in the third trial heat of the 400-meter event, a roar went up from the spectators from the United States. Meredith waved his hand to the grandstand and the spectators ac knowledged by shouting "What's the