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BULL MOOSE IN
GEORGIA SPLIT
OVER NEGRO
Yates Says Dewar Wants to
Change Colo r Scheme of the
Colonel's Party in South.
There is war among the Georgia Bull
Moose- 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
strictly blond organization, declares
that the call issued yesterday by "that
fellow Dewar" is calculated to round up
the anti-Taft negroes for the Bull
Moose, or Mooses, as the case may be,
and that Dewar is inspired not so much
by patriotism as a desire to annex the
Atlanta postmastership when the Colo
nel resumes his seat in the white house
next March.
Mr. Yates issued a card to the public
today, of which the following is the
most caloric 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 be two delega
tions from Georgia to the national
convention to be 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, w ho
claims to be sole living personal
representative of Colonel Roosevelt
In Georgia, sent out from what he
is pleased to term t”he 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 BEDFORD, MASS., July 17.
Oiaj thousand members of the 14.000
Wtrfking men and women textile work
era made a hostile demonstration at the
Staffer 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
Sullivan so fiercely that she had to be
overpowered anl placed under arrest
More than 20,000 textile mill operatives
end 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 ancient 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 touches his heart he
will die. It may be in a year. It may
not be for a number of years. But
tm is no escape. The technical name
of the disease is osteo-arthritis. Its
cause, is unknown. No method of stop
ping it has revealed.
HOUSE KE E P ER' SSA VIN G S
TIED UP FOR THIRTY YEARS
TRENTON, X.l j u!y 17._An effort is
bemg made by Mrs. Katharine Logue, of
th:= City, to recaver $l,lOO from the es
of the late Rev. Father Missle, of
-king Ridge. Mrs. Igigne was the
musekeeper for the priest and intrusted
In l savings to him 30 years ago. She
suddenly called to Ireland and be
fore sf. returned the priest died.
The money passed into the hands of the
executors and for years Mrs. Logi le has
been trying to get possession rtf it. hut
she has no evidence that she gave it to
the priest Monsignor John H. Fox has
r ' ■' ! ' li;r m up the woman's case and will
make r, effort to get the money.
SHOP TALK
I-. 1- Risse). Atlanta branch manager of
the Stearns Automobile company, re
turned Monday from the factory at Cleve
land, where, a convention of dealers and
managers wa held last week.
Ac. ompanying Mr Bissel to Atlanta is
J"hnn> Toole. formerly of Atlanta and
one of the m. -t popular and well-liked
a immobile men in the South. Mr. Toole
m now in charge of the San Francisco
branch of the Stearns and will return to
t e coast In a few days.
« ♦ a
' P Morris, manager of the Askin &
Marine company. Atlanta store, is in New
lork this week on a business and pleas
ure trip.
A beautiful and interesting folder has
just been Issued for the Hotel Del Prado.
Chicago The booklet is In five attractive
c i . and «a-. designed and executed by
tee A agstafts ui Atlanta.
Piedmont Bathers Have New Sport
RIDE “BUCKING" BARREL
—— Girl One of Daring Swimmers
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tv Y/ ]Y Popular.
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barrel” at Piedmont lake.
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 tyillet 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 hero July 25. There will
be many prizes offered for all kinds and
classes of babies under three years old.
The photographer will take pictures of
every babv brought to-the studios dur
ing that day. The moving picture shows
will admit free every mother with a
babv. Many of the merchants will giv.-
souvenirs to all babies that visit their
places of business. Refreshments will
be aerved during the day. It is planned
to make this a gala day for the babies
of Spalding county.
SHOCK SENDS BOY TO
HIS DEATH IN A POOL
PHILADELPHIA. Jul.' 1 17. Shocked by
electricity, which hurled him into four feet
of water in a bathing pool. Abraham
Siitzsky. 14 years old, was dr<»une<l in the
Model Bath house, on Third streel.
The ceiling of the bath house is low and
about five feet from the floor is an electric
switch box. protected by a glass doer.
For some reason Siitzsky began pla'U'.g
with this, and as a mistaken precaution
against, being shocked he obtained a wet
towel with which he turned on the switch.
Saturated with water, the towel proved a
deadly conductor.
CHUMS OF FATHERLAND
MEET AFTER 30 YEARS
BRIsyTOL, PA . .inly 17 —Philip Winter,
a merchant here, and Charles Berg, of
Camden. N J . today met for the first
time ojnee they came to AmeHea from
Germane They were schoolmates at
home., but had lost'sight of each other
after settling in the new c< intry, until
I char, e revealed Winters whereabouts to
•Berg.
I IffE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17. 1912.
Island and othc- famous " sorts, there
is nothing as thtilling ,:s 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 the
male element at the lake is not above
participating in the sport.
Like Riding a Bvoncho,
The sport was started when a large
water-tight keg, about half the 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 ii.
No one has yet done it. but thousands
have made 'he attempt and had the
I fun of their lives in the game, while
those on the banks, shouted encourage
ment and laughed at the ludicrous
noses which resulted.
Riding a barrel on the water is some
what nkln tn 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.
Always 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 toll
nothing of what wifi happen, except
that she is going to tumble Into the
water in a few seconds and in some
way. Right there Is whore the wizard
of the bialnless things gets in its work.
According to several theories over
which scientists have labored long, thq,
barrel should sink beneath she 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
btcak all natural laws and rise higher
in the water: another time ft will go (,->
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 on
its own axis. Then 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 1.000 other
things this barrel ran do. and it* never
does the same thing in succession."
s.vs Miss B> si* Walty, a pretty girl
of eighteen, who leaves her home a*
04 HU! street every dav and cnme« to
the lake for a swim. Miss Malte is
one of the most dating of the girls who
have made the sport popular.
WILSON 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 clqpest
triends that he will not send in his resig
nation.
Unless his admiring friends leave the
governor more time to himself be 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 tor today, but the de
lay in the arrival of Mr. McCombs and
the others front the Chicago meeting ne
cessitated a postponement.
Wilson Great Leader*
Says Underwood
TRENTON. N J„ July 17.—Repre
sentative Oscar IV. 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
ocrats had ever met. Following their
visit, Mr. Underwood said:
'I think Governor Wilson is a great
■ leader of men. Ido not have any doubt
i in my mind that he is going to be elect
led president of the United States. I
I believe that his administration will live
lup to every promise of the party. I
don’t think I ever saw the Democratic
party more united and in better condi
tion to win a victory than it is today.
On the other hand. I never saw the Re
publican party more demoralized, and 1
think that our opponents even feel
themselves that they are 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
i study. The fight is mighty near in
I 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 critcism, 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. <if 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 out of the protective
tariff system and that th° 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.” •
Will Offer His Services.
"And now as to your persona! plans
in this campaign?"
"1 am, of course, compelled to stay in
the house until It. adjourns. After that
I want a couple of weeks rest; then 1
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
day. but 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 ditln'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 20fi phones were put out of com
mission temporarily.
When the smoke was thickest. Miss
Myrta Gay. chief operator, ordered th*
girls from, the switchboard so that they
might get fresh air. They continued to
run hack to the board and make con
nections, even then.
Wagers Wheelbarrow Ride on T. R.
BETTING FUEDREOPENED
If Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Is
elected president of the United States
this year. Major John Brown Scarratt
will 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 w’as
elected president—not Tippecanoe Har
rison (the ideal—this thing happened
when John and Ed were 21, and not
before the Mexican war)!
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 FAJR
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 he
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 tn 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. tyhltner. of St.
Petersburg. Fla., w'ho had expected to
visit Atlanta soon, wdll be brought here
tomorrow for burial.
A letter telling of the contemplated
visit was received by Mr. Wbitnej- s sis
ter. Miss Elizabeth Whitner, 386 White
hall street, yesterday. It was followed by
a telegram early today announcing bis
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
citv 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 b* 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 Worts Howie, who died last week.
He Is the same age his brother was
when he chartered the company two
years ago.
The Milea injunction soil against the
Romo Insurance Company has been
modified so as to allow the Cherokee
( iimpany 40 administer business turned
over to It in the merger deal.
POSTCARD ASTRAY FOUR
YEARS IS DELIVERED
PHILADELPHIA. July 17.—A postal
card which was mailed In this city four
years ago has tust 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 was delivered to Joyce at
his home
The card was. a message of congratula
tion from Joyce .- sister. Mrs Mae Mc-
Goldrick. upon his birthday. It is be
lieved it got lost in the mails.
duly drawn, signed and solemnly en
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 postoffice 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 th* reorganization of the
Chamber of Commerce and the forma
tion of various bureaus to specialize
on individual work will be laid before
301) members tomorrow night at the
dinner which is to bo given in Taft
hall. President Wilmer L. Moore is to
make the address outlining the new
plan.
At present the chamber ha= a bu
reau of agriculture under the direction
of J. K. Giles and the formation of an
industrial bureau and a convention bu
reau w ill 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 fail- 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 fail- grounds and these
will !><■ shown on stereoptieon 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 rpal 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 m<»re than twenty years. He was
for a time a member of the flrm 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 .1 (’ (’lay, 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 th*
exception of the port of New York. Sa
vannah stands first on the Atlantic
seaboard in 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.
<’OVINGTON. 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.
_C A RLTON’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 lhe zttfc PMI
smaller sizes and are *lk 'gp? M Ly.
splendid values for those t-.Z H
who can be fitted. Leath- H •
ers—tan, gun metal, pat-
ent, novelties, suede, silk. ga O A T I >
Quick response to this ad. mJMLm ZmAAV.
necessary
Carlton Shoe Co.
36 WHITEHALL
HOUSE FOO NEW
SEITMINET
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 laboi* 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
Ixmisville 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,
but 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.
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