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BULL MOOSE IN
GEORGIA SPLIT
OVER NEGRO
Yates Says Dewar Wants to
Change Color Scheme of the
Coloners Party in South.
There is war among the Georgia Bull
tMoose. There are two convention calls,
two herds of moose, two color schemes
to be considered.
J. St. Julien Yates, president of the
Georgia Roosevelt White league, a
BtricMy blond organization. declares
that the call issued yesterday by "that
fellow Dewar’’ is calculated to round up
the antl-Taft negroes for the Bull
Moose,; or Mooses, as the case may be,
and that Dewar is inspired not so much
t>y patriotism as a desire to annex the
Atlanta postmastership when the Colo
nel resumes his s- the white house
next March.
Mr. Yates issued a card to the public
today, of which the following is the
most calorie portion:
Sees “Heap of Trouble.”
There appears to be a heap of
trouble ahead of the "Bull Moose”
party in Georgia. It seems to be
a question of whether Colonel
Roosevelt’s new National Progres
sive party is to' be white or black.
The color scheme has not yet been
worked out. and the trouble, having
been precipitated, will be finished
along about convention time in Chi
cago. There is every reason to
believe there will he two delega
tions from Georgia to the national
convention to he held in Chicago on
August 5. The real fight comes on
July 25, and it will be over the
chairman of the state committee.
Yesterday, Mr. Roger Dewar, who
claims to be sole living personal
representative of Colonel Roosevelt
h? Georgia, sent out from what he
Is pleased to term the National
Progressive headquarters a call for
a convention to be held in Atlanta
on the 25th of the month, although
his call forgets to state where the
meeting is to be held. Today the
Roosevelt Georgia White league, as
a result of a meeting held some
days ago, issued a formal call for a
meeting of white men to be held
at the Kimball house on next Fri
day night.
POLICE ATTACKED
BY WOMAN I. W. W.
IN BIG MILL STRIKE
NEW REDFORD, MASS., July 17-
One thousand members of the 14,000
striking, men and women textile work
ers made a hostile demonstration at the
Butler mill gates today in an attempt
to intimidate the non-striking opera
tives. When the police came up and
began to disperse the strikers a -wom
an member of the Industrial Workers of
the World attacked Policeman James
i Sullivan so fiercely that she had to be
overpowered anl placed under arrest.
More than 20,000 textile mill operatives
and over one million spindles are now
idle throughout the state. In all 25
separate strikes are on.
PATIENT IN HOSPITAL
TURNING HARD AS STONE
ST. PAUL., MINN., July 17.—Nine
years ago this September Charles J.
Murphy, of Northfield, a student,
limped into St. Lukes hospital on
crutches and was put to bed. He has
been there ever since, slowly dying of a
disease as ancle.nt as the earliest relics
of Egypt, as mysterious as the pre
historic period, and as certain as the
pyramids. He is slowly turning to
bone —the deposits in® the joints be
coming solid and stiffening his entire
body.
When the chill mhes his heart he
will die. It may ■ a year. It may
not be for a nu’i» of years. But
there is no escape. The technical name
of the disease is osteo-arthritis. Its
cause is unknown. No method of stop
ping it has been revealed.
HOUSEKEEPER’S SAVINGS
TIED UP FOR THIRTY YEARS
TRENTON, N. J., July 17.—An effort is
being made by Mrs. Katharine Logue, of
this city, to recover $1 100 from the es
tate of the late Rev. Father Missle, of
Basking Ridge. Mrs. Logue was the
housekeeper for the priest and intrusted
her savings to him 30 years ago. She
was suddenly called to Ireland and be
fore she returned the priest died - .
The money passed into the hands of the
executors and for years Mrs. Logue has
been trying to get possession of it, hut
she has no evidence that she. gave It to
the priest. Monsignor John H. Fox has
now taken up the woman’s case and will
make an effort to get the mofley.
SHOP TALK
L. E. Bissel. Atlanta branch manager of
the Stearns Automobile company, re
turned Monday from the factory at Cleve
land. where a convention i f dealers and
managers wn held last week
Accompanying Mr Bissel to Atlanta is
Johnnv Toole, formerly of Atlanta and
one of the most, popular and well-liked
automobile men In the South. Mr. Toole
is now in charge of the Sun Francisco
branch of the Stearns and will return to
the coast in a few days
A. P. Morris, manager of the Askin &
Marine company, Atlanta store, is in New
York this week on a business and pleas
ure trip.
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A beautiful and interesting folder has
just been Issued fr.r the Hotel Del Prado
Chicago. Ibebe • n five attrmtivi
colors and was de-:gn rf . and executed by
the Wagetatfb of AUauyh
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BOMB OUTRAGE AND
MYSTERIOUS SLAYING
PUZZLE N. Y. POLICE
NEW YORK. July 17.—-A murder and
a bomb outrage took place early today
in »Harlem. Shortly before 2 o’clock
the police found the body of a well
dressed man —evidently an Italian —ly.
ing upon the sidewalk at 108th street
and Second avenue, with bullet holes
in it. Eight of them had been fired into
his back, evidently after he had fallen
from a shot in the head.
About the same time an explosion
was heard in 109th street, where an in
fernal machine had been set off on the
first floor of the tenement at No. 308
East 100th street, shattering the front
of the building.
A short time after the shooting a
wounded man walked into the East
Seventy-sixth street police station. He
said he had been hurt in a bomb ex
plosion and asked medical aid. After
being treated, he disappeared.
The authorities began an investiga
tion along the line that the shooting
and the bomb outrage were in some
way connected.
SPALDING COUNTY BABIES
TO OWN GRIFFIN JULY 25
GRIFFIN. GA., July 17. —The mer
chants of Griffin have arranged to hold
a babv show het'e July 25. There will
be many prizes offered for all kinds and
classes of babies under three years old.
The photographers will take pictures of
everv babv brought to the studios dur
ing that day. The moving picture shows
will admit free every mother with a
rnby Manv of the merchants will give
souvenirs to all babies that visit their
P = ~f business. Refreshments will
i 9l . f vcd during the day. It is planned
t.> make this gala day for the babies
of Spalding county.
SHOCK SENDS BOY TO
HIS DEATH IN A POOL
PIHT.YDELI’HIA, July 17 -Shocked by
electricity, which hurled him inlo four feet
of water in a bathing pool, Abraham
Slltzsky. 14 years old, wa drowned in the
i Model Bath house, on Third street.
The ceiling of the bath house Is low and
about live feet from the floor is an electric
! switch box. protected by a glass door.
Eor some ce.dson Slltzsky began plat mg
I with this, and as a mistaken precaution
i against being shocked he obtained a wet
' owel with .which be turned on the switch.
I Saturated with water, the towel proved a
I deadly conductor.
CHUMS OF FATHERLAND
MEET AFTER 30 YEARS
BRISTOL.. FA. July t7 -Philip Winter,
a merchant here, and f’hatles Berg, of
Camden. N. .1 today met for the first
time since thr ■ fame to America from
Germany. They were schoolmates at
I hut 'r.id lc r t Fi>.-‘-t of each other
I ,ip.u- settling T. too n< cc.firry, until
I - jar.ee revealed Winters whereabouts to
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THE ATLANT A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912.
Girl One of Daring Swimmers
Who Has Made the ‘Stunt’
Popular.
Another sport has been added to the
various delights in the waters of Pied
mont park lake, and, according to par
ticipants who have been to Coney
Island and other famous resorts, there
is nothing as thrilling- as Piedmont's
own sport.
The new game is called “riding the
barrel” and one attempt at it can cause
more thrills and screams of laughter
than a day spent on the "shoot-the
chutes,” "the Hawaiian water wheel.”
"the slide for life,” or any other of the
more complicated “thrillers” for which
you have to pay out good money at
some resorts. One particular feature,
too. is the safety of the new game.
Women and girls and the ever pres
ent small boy go in for the fascinating
game more than me do, though tiie
male element at the lake is not above
participating in the sport.
Like Riding a Broncho.
The sport was started when a large
water-tight keg. about half t*he size of
an ordinary flour barrel, was placed in
the swimming pool. On the surface of
the pool the barrel bobs serenely up
and down and shows little of the tricks
which It really has. The least motion
will cause it to bounce off the surface
of the water like a thing of life.
The game is for the swimmer to
mount the barrel and stay astride It.
No one has yet done it. but thousands
have made the attempt and had t,he
fun of their lives in the game, while
those on the banks, shouted encourage
ment and laughed at the ludicrous
poses which resulted.
Riding a barrel on the water Is some
what akin to the Western art of riding
a bucking broncho, the only difference
being that the broncho is limited in
what he does, while the barrel ap
parently is not.
A ways the Unexpected.
The pretty girl who takes a firm hold
hold of the ends of the wooden keg and
attempts to leap astride It can tell
nothing of what will happen, except
that she is going to tumble into th<*
water in a few seconds and in some
way. Right there Is where the wizard
of the brainless things gets in Its work.
According to several theories over
which scientists have labored long, the
barrel should sink beneath the weight
of its rider. It may do that; some
times it does. But the barrel Is cylin
drical In shape and tapers slightly to
ward Its ends. It does not do what it
Is expected to do. One time it may
break ali natural laws and rise higher
in the water/ another time it will go to
one side or the other and these move
ments are executed with lightning rap
idity and accompanied by a rolling
movement, the result of revolving or
Its own axis. Tnen again it keeps its
position in the water and merely re
volves on its axis Whatever happens
the rider goes plunging, head or feet
foremost, into the water.
“There are just about l.rtoo other
things this barrel can do, and it never
does the same thing in succession."
says MBs Bessie Walty, a pretty girl
of eighteen, who leaves her home at
t>4 Hill street every day and comes to
the lake f a s,< iim. Miss Walty is
one of the most daring of the girls who
have made the sport popular.
MN TO KEEP
GOVERNORSHIP
Friends Believe, at Least. That
He Will Not Resign for
Campaign.
SEAGIRT, N. J., July 17.—The public
of New Jersey is soon to be informed of
the full intentions of Governor Woodrow
Wilson concerning his Incumbency of the
state’s chief executive office. A state
ment is to be issued within a short time
in which he will express a final intention
of retaining the chair until next March
or set a precedent and resign at once. It
is the confident belief of all his closest
friends that he will not send in his resig
nation.
Unless his admiring friends leave the
governor more time to himself he will
find It necessary to "disappear again” in
order to compose the address which he is
to deliver in acceptance to the official no
tification made here on August 7.
William F. McCombs and the members
of the new national committee executive
council will meet here tomorrow. The
men whom Governor Wilson has picked
as his close advisers in the coming cam
paign were invited for today, but the de
lay in the arrival of Mr. McCombs and
the others from the Chicago meeting ne
cessitated a. postponement.
Wilson Great Leader 4
Says Underwood
TRENTON, N. J.. July 17.—Repre
sentative Oscar W. Underwood, of Ala
bama, is greatly impressed with Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson as a result of
his visit to the governor here yester
day. the first time the two great Dem
oi rats had ever met. Following their
visit, Mr. Underwood said:
“I think Governor Wilson is a great
leader of men. Ido not have any doubt
in my mind that he if going to be elect
ed president of the United States. 1
believe that his admin: ’ration Will live
up to every promise of the party. I
don’t think I ev®r saw the Democratic
party more united and in better condi
tion to win a victory than it is today,
(.in the other hand. I never saw the Re
publican party more demoralized, and I
think that our opponents even feel
themselves that they aie on losing
ground.
"Fight Will Win Itself.”
"I think that the governor's'plan for
managing the campaign as adopted at
Chicago is a very good one. Os course,
I do not know enough about the de
tails to give an expression of opinion as
to what is the best plan or what is not.
That would require a great deal of
study. The fight is mighty near th
condition to win itself.
"The main question in the collection
of campaign contributions is publicity,
in my opinion. I think if the public-is
taken into the confidence of the com
mittee and it knows of the sources from
which contributions come, there can be
no eritcism, because they will be all
known in advance, and the people can
determine for themselves. I think that
will solve the whole proposition. It is
not a question as to how much each
individual contributes, because what
may be a large contribution from one
man may be a very small one from an
other, but if the public knows the
source I do not see that there can be
any trouble.”
Underwood said he was asked what
he thought of the platform of the Dem
ocratic party.
“I think it is a clear, forceful and
strong expression of Democratic prin
ciples,” he said. "I think the principal
issue in the campaign is bound to be
the tariff. Os course, there are other
issues of more or less importance, but
the leading issue before the people is
the question as to whether they want
to maintain the tariff, the present sys
tem of tariff taxation, or whether they
want to revise the tariff downward. I
believe most of the evils that exist in
the country today that are being com
plained of grow ot.it of the protective
tariff system and that the prohibitive
duties must be removed before we can
get any real relief, both real relief from
the high cost of living and from many
other evils that are complained of to
day.”
W'l! Offer His Services.
"And now as to your personal plans
in this campaign ?”
"I am, of course, compelled to stay in
the house until it adjourns. After that
I want a couple of weeks rest; then I
expect to offer my services to the Dem
ocratic national committee and go
where they want me to go.”
Concerning his own candidacy for the
Democratic nomination, Mr. Under
wood said:
“When we pulled down our banners
there were no sore spots left. We fight
for a flag. An individual is simply an
insta nee.”
FIRE IN EXCHANGE,
PHONE GIRLS STICK
TO SWITCHBOARDS
A shout, followed by a flash of flame,
went through the operators’ room in the
Atlanta Telephone exchange early to
rfciy, hut not a girl stirred. As if noth
ing had happened, the operators con
tinued to pull plugs.
The fire started from cable friction
and was over in a few moments, but the
young women didn't know this. For a
long time after the blaze had been ex
tinguished smoke continued to pour
into the exchange room, but the work
of making connections never stopped.
The damage will not be heavy. More
than 200 phones were put out of com
mission temporarily.
When the smoke was thickest. Miss
Myrta Gay, chief operator, ordered the
girls from the switchboard so that they
might ge' fresh a! They continued to
run back to the board and make con
nections, even then.
Wagers Wheelbarrow Ride on T. R.
BETTING FUED REOPENED
I? Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Is
elected president of the United States
this year, Major John Brown Scarratt
win treat Colonel Edward Constitution
Bruffy to such a wheelbarrow ride
around and about the streets of Atlan
ta as never has been seen in these
parts.
Major Scarratt and Colonel Bruffy
are ancient enemies in the election bet
ting business.
Once upon a time —this is no fairy
tale—the major won a hat from the
colonel. That was when Harrison was
elected president—not Tippecanoe Har
rison (the ideal—this thing happened
when John and Ed were 21. 'and not
before the Mexican war) 1
Anyway, the major is a snorting,
hurrahing, boosting Roosevelt man this
year; the while the colonel thinks the
Rough Rider will have not even a
small-caliber look in on the electoral
college. .
Duly Drawn and Signed.
Wherefore, this agreement between
the major and the colonel has been
STORES ARE ASKED TO
SHOW ATLANTA MADE
GOODS DURING FAIR
Only Atlanta-made goods will be ex
hibited in the show windows of At
lanta merchants, if the request of the
committee in charge of the Atlanta-
Made show is complied with
The show will be held during the
first ten days in August while the
Southern merchants convention is in
session and thousands of persons will
be. drawn to Atlanta from all over the
South. *
The exhibits in the armory will con
sist only of products of Atlanta's fac
tories and plants, and the members of
the committee believe that if local
merchants fill their windows with At
lanta-made goods so that visitors may
see them while on the streets double
attention will be called to this city as
a manufacturing center.
The work of installing exhibits will
begin next Monday.
U. S. SECRET SERVICE
MEN SEARCH JUAREZ
FOR J. WYLIE SMITH
EL PASO, Texas, July 17.—Secret
agents of the United States state de
partment are today searching Ciudad
Juarez, the rebel-occupied town across
the Rio Grande river from El Paso, for
J. Wylie Smith,
American Consul T. D. Edwards be
lieved that the former Atlanta loan
agent disappeared across the river into
El Paso ten days ago when he reached
Juarez from his prison cell in Chihua
hua with the retreating rebels, who had
opened the penitentiary before leaving,
but Mr. Edwards was informed last
night that Smith has been seen in
Juarez yesterday. The consul’s inform
ant was not seeking a reward and
claimed to know Smith; hence the con
sul believes that Smith was seen in
Juarez as late as yesterday, and that he
is still in Juarez in hiding.
The consul asked and obtained per
mission of the rebel officials to take
secret service operatives into Juarez to
search for the man.
FLORIDAN BROUGHT
FOR BURIAL TO CITY
HE AIMED TO VISIT
The body of Joseph N. Whitner, of St.
Petersburg. Fla., who had expected to
visit Atlanta soon, will be brought here
tomorrow for burial.
A letter telling of the contemplated
visit was received by Mr. Whitner’s sis
ter, Miss Elizabeth Whitner, 386 White
hall street, yesterday. It was followed by
a telegram early today announcing his
sudden death. Mr. Whitner had arranged,
to bring his wife and their little child
here with him They will come tomorrow
with the corpse.
A brother, J. H Whitner, also of At
lanta, will meet the party at the Termi
nal station and arrange for the funeral.
COURT VALIDATES $95,000
BOND ISSUE FOR CORDELE
CORDELE, GA., July 17. —Judge W.
F. George, of the Cordele judicial cir
cuit, has passed an order validating the
$95,000 bond Issue recently voted by the
city of Cordele. These bonds are for
public improvements and the work will
likely begin in the early fall. Os this
amount $40,000 will be spent on street
paving, $40,000 on extending the water
works system. SIO,OOO on bonding a
school house in the Third ward, and
$5,000 on extending the sewerage.
It is understood that another bond
election will be held to issue $50,000 of
bonds for buying the electric light plant
owned by private \individuals.
WURTS BOWIE’S BROTHER
HEADS CHEROKEE LIFE
ROME, GA., July 17.—Hal G. Bowie
was elected president of the Cherokee
Life Insurance Company at a meeting
of the directors today. He succeeds the
late Wurts Bowie, who died last week.
He Is the ;ame age his brother was
when he chartered the company two
years ago.
The Miles injunction suit against the
Rome Insurance Company has been
modified so as to allow the Cherokee
company to administer business turned
over to it in the merger deal.
POSTCARD ASTRAY FOUR
YEARS IS DELIVERED
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PHILADELPHIA. July 17 —A postal
card which was mailed in this city four
years ago has just reached its destina
tion. It was sent at that time to Ed
ward St. George Joyce, a stenographer
in the city solicitor's office, and after the
long lapse of years it turned up in the
first mail and tvas delivered to Joyce at
his home
The card was a message of cnngratula
'inn from Joyce's sister Mrs. Mae Mc-
Goldrick. upon his birthday It Is be
lieved that it got lost in the mails.
duly drawn, signed and solemnly er
tered into:
I hereby agree, if Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt is not elected next
president of the United States and
Woodrow Wilson or W. H. Taft is
elected to buy you a new hat and a
bandana handkerchief, deliver same
to you in your office, decorate the
hat with the bandana handkerchief,
place the hat on your venerable
cranium, place you on my back and
tote you to a decorated wheelbar
row that I will have in waiting out
side in Alabama street, and roll you
in the wheelbarrow from there to
the state capitol, provided, how
ever, if Colonel Roosevelt is elected
you agree to buy me a new hat and
a bandana handkerchief and roll
me in a wheelbarrow (furnished by
yourself) past the postofflee to the
Piedmont hotel.
JOHN BROWN SCARRATT.
I accept the foregoing proposi
tion and conditions.
ED C. BRUFFY.
COMMERCE CHAMBER
TO HEAR BUREAU PLAN
AT TAFT HALL DINNER
Plans for the reorganization of the
Chamber of Commerce and the forma
tion of various bureaus to specialize
on individual work will be laid before
300 members tomorrow night at the
dinner which is to lie given in Taft
hall. President Wilmer L. Moore is to
make, the address outlining the new
plan.
At present the chamber has a •i
--reau of agriculture under the direction
of J. K. Giles and the formation of an
industrial 4>ureau and a convention bu
reau will be urged. Other bureaus will
be added later, if President Moore's
suggestions are approved.
The annual fair which the chamber
proposes to hold at Lakewood will be
outlined by Aldine Chambers, who vis
ited the fair grounds in Toronto, Can
ada, where such a fair has been held
for 28 consecutive years. Mr. Cham
bers brought back with him a number
of views of the fair grounds and these
will be shown on stereopt icon slides.
Frederic J Paxon, former president
of the chamber, will make an address
on municipal research.
The .dinner, to be informal, will be
gin promptly at 7 o’clock.
CHARLES M. WHITE IS
DEAD; HE HAD LIVED
IN ATLANTA 20 YEARS
Charles M White. 40 years old. promi
nent real estate and business man. died
last night at a private sanitarium. The
body Is at Patterson & Son's chapel, pend
ing funeral arrangements
Mr. White had been a resident of At
lanta more than twenty years. He was
for a time a member of the firm of White
& Bros., wholesale merchants, but later
entered the real estate business. He was
with the E. Rivers Company at the time of
his fatal illness. ,
Four brothers and one sister survive.
They are Warren B. White and J. W.
White, of Atlanta; Mrs. J. C. Clay, of East
Point; T. A. White, of DeKalb county, and
J. M. White, of Whites Mill. Ga.
SAVANNAH RANKS FOURTH
AMONG AMERICAN PORTS
SAVANNAH. GA., July 17.—With the
exception of the port of New York, Sa
vannah stands first on the Atlantic
seaboard tn the list of exports, out
ranking Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nor
folk and Charleston. In addition to
this, the port shows a gain of more
than 300 per cent in imports since
1909. Figures show this port to be
gaining steadily over all other ports,
including that of New York. Savan
nah now ranks fourth in the list of
ports in the United States. New Or
leans and Galveston rank second and
third, respectively.
NEWTON CANDIDATES A PLENTY.
COVINGTON, GA , July 17—A. H
Loyd has entered the race for repre
sentative from Newton county, making
four aspirants for the place. They are
J. C. .Morgan, L. L. Flowers, E. E.
Parker and A. H. Loyd. There are
three announced candidates for state
senate, as this is Newton’s time to
elect. They are A. H. Foster, the pres
ent representative from this county;
J. W. King and F. D. Ballard.
CARLTON’S
WOMEN’S
Fine Shoes!
OXFORDS and STRAPS
Positive $4, $5 and $6 Values
For Wednesday and Thursday Selling Only at
These are mainly in the zTN psf
smaller sizes and are AB
splendid values for those K.J "'Jr
who can he fitted. Leath-
ers—tan, gun metal, pat-
ent, novelties, suede, silk. | I A I I*
Quick response to this ad. •*- all.lv
necessary
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Carlton Shoe Co.
36 WHITEHALL
HOUSE FOR NEW
SEAT IN CABINET
Pass Bill Dividing Department
of Commerce and Labor and
Creating Labor Secretary.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—The house
today unanimously passed the Sulzer
bill creating a department of labor.
This bill creates the tenth seat in
the president’s cabinet. It establishes
the department of labor and changes
the present department of commerce
and labor to the department of com
merce. A secretary of labor, three as
sistant secretaries, a solicitor, a chief
clerk, a disbursing clerk and other
minor employees are provided. The
commissioner general of immigration,
the commissioner of labor and several
other high officials now in the depart
ment of commerce and labor are shift
ed over to the new department. The
bill gives the department of labor the
right to collect and publish all statis
tics relative to labor and authorizes the
secretary to call on any government de
partment. for information.
It also authorizes the secretary of la
bor to act as a mediator in questions
of industrial dispute and to appoint
commissioners of conciliation in labor
disputes, thereby giving the influence of
the government toward industrial
peace,
MRS. MORROW DENIES
- ON WITNESS STAND
SHE KILLED HUSBAND
CHICAGO, July 17.—Mrs Rene B.
Morrow today faced a further ordeal
in the witness chair in Judge Kersten's
court, where she is on trial for the
murder of her husband, Charles B. Mor
row.
Mrs. Morrow began her story of
events that led up to the death of her
husband late yesterday afternoon. It
was expected that it would require the
entire day to complete the cross-ex
amination.
"Did you kill your husband?” asked
Attorney Erbstein.
"I did not,” Mrs. Morrow replied.
"Did you ever pull the trigger of a
revolver in your life?”
"Never.”
This denial is the foundation of the
evidence the state's attorney will at
tempt to overthrow on cross-examina
tion.
FATHER AND UNCLE
AT LAW TO DECIDE
CUSTODY OF A BOY
ROME, GA., July 17.—R. W. McCol
lum and Will Weems married sisters.
McCollum and his wife separated. Mrs.
McCollum later died. A six-year-old
son was left in the care of Mrs. Weems.
Weems claims this was requested by
Mrs. McCollum. Now McCollum claims
this was prejudicial to the interests of
the other members of the family and
wants the custody of the boy decided
before attachments become so strong
that a breaking of the ties would cause
hard feelings. He has brought habeas
corpus proceedings and an interesting
fight is to be waged in the city court
for the custody of the child.
CONVICT ESCAPES TWICE
BY JUMPING FROM TRAIN
MONTGOMERY. ALA., July 17.
Henry East, serving eighteen years for
burglary committed at Florence, Ala.,
escaped from a southbound local
Louisville and Nashville train today at
Cooper station while he was being car
ried by a state transfer agent from the
mines to the Henderson Lumber Com
pany at Sanford. He jumped from a
train three months ago while being
taken from Birmingham to Wetumpka,
hut was recaptured. Dogs have been
sent in pursuit of him.
FALLS IN LIME VAT.
DALTON, GA July 17. —John Wil
liams, a local contractor, had a narrow'
escape from death here when he fell
into a vat filled with slaked lime. He
managed to keep his head out of the
mixture, but was badly burned about
the hands and back. His Injuries are
not of a serious nature.