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THE WEATHER Forecast: Showers tonight or- to. morrow. Temperatures, 8 a. m., 76 degrees; 10 a. m., 82 degrees; 12 noon, 84 degrees; 2 p. m„ 85 degrees. VOL. X. NO. 266. ALEXANDER’S CHALLENGE) IGNORED BY SLATON President of the Senate Says His Legislative Duties Oc cupy All His Time. “DRY” CANDIDATE HOPES DEFI WILL BE ACCEPTED Declares He Will Cancel His Speaking Dates at Any Time to Debate. John M. Slaton will not accept Hoop- j er Alexander’s challenge to a joint de bate in Atlanta. Up to 3 o’clock this afternoon the Fulton county man had made no formal reply to his DeKalb county antago nist, but it was evident he will stick to his announced intention to let noth ing interfere with his legislative duties, and that he has not been able to con vince himself that the candidacy of Mr. Alexander is particularly dangerous to his ambitions. He will reply formally to Mr. Alex ander’s challenge as a matter of cour tesy, probably late this afternoon or tomorrow. Mr. Alexander's Aimmunication to Mr. Slaton, delivered Friday afternoon, is brief, and reads as follows: Challenge to To Debat in Atlanta. "As you are doubtless aware, I have entered the race as a candi date for governor in the approach ing primary. I should be pleased to meet you in debate before the people of Atlanta at an early date in order that we may discuss before the voters our respective views on the public questions of the day. "If stfch an arrangement would be agreeable to you, I will thank you to let me have your reply at once, if possible, for the reason that I have other arrangements In view and can not determine about them until I know what will be your pleasure in this matter.” Mr. Slaton said, discussing Mr. Alex ander’s challenge informally today, that his mind had been absorbed of late with his legislative duties, and that he had given himself little or no con cern about Mr. Alexander's entry into the governorship fight. , Commenting upon his formal reply to Mr. Alexander, Mr. Slaton said: "If I could convince' myself that the man seriously is running for governor, I might view his challenge in the light of a more or less important incident. So far, however, I have not convinced myself of that. lam very busy with my legislative duties, and I long ago de termined to stick to them, to the ex clusion of my campaigning, and so an nounced. It would require serious pres sure to swerve me from that purpose.” Fears Deft Will Be Ignored. Mr. Alexander this afternoon said he had yet received no reply to his chal lenge, and feared he would not—at least, he feared it would net be ac cepted. "I thought I would have had a reply, even an unfavorable reply, by this time,” he said at 2 o’clock. “I pointedly requested a reply ‘as soon as possible,' and set forth my reasons for asking that. I think it should be a simple mat ter for Mr. Slaton to decide Immediately whether he desires to meet me, righht here in Atlanta, where it would not in terfere in the slightest with his legisla tive duties, to which he professes great attachment. I take his fardiness in replying to mean that he is disinclined to meet me, and with that idea in view I have proceeded to the making of other speaking dates, all subject to change or cancellation, however, upon his decision to meet me, as challenged.” To Speak At Ringgold. Pending Mr. Slaton’s reply, Mr. Alex- ) ander is arranging to open his cam- j palgn with an address in Ringgold, Ca- I toosa county, on Monday next, at noon, I In the county court house. In this i speech, the gentleman from DeKalb for mally will outline his platform for the ! g" j'ernorship. Early in his campaign for- the govern orship Mr, Slaton said he would take) no time whatever from his legislative ! duties to prosecute his fight for the | governorship. The legislature will not adjourn until August 16. and it will be necessary for the president of the sen ate to be in Atlanta for five days there after. attending the governor's final dis position of legislative matters. That would carry Mr. Slaton’s legis lative duties up to and including Au gust 19, or within one month of the primary. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • Taft Attend Million- • • Dollar Garden Party? • • Well Certainly Not! • • • • WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.—The • • white house today announced that • • not only would President Taft not • • attend the "million-dollar garden • • party” to be given by Henry C. • • Frick at his summer home on the • • north shore of Massachusetts, but • • that the president had never in- • • tended to be present there. It is • • probable President Taft will be in • • Washington August 16, the date of • • the affair. • • • ••••••••••••••••••••••••«• WITNESS FOR BROTHER ACCUSED OF SLAYING IS KILLED; FEUD IS FEARED EUPORA. MISS., Aug. 3.—Governor Brewer may call out the state national guard of Mississippi to quell what is believed to be the beginning of a se rious feud between the Permenter and Sharp families. The climax occurred late last night when William Permenter was shot and killed by an unidentified assassin while sitting on the front porch of his home. The dead man is a brother of Swinton Permenter, who is charged with the murder of Janie Sharp on July 22, 1910. William Permenter was to have gone to Winona, Miss., Monday as chief witness for his brother, who was grant ed a new trial after being sentenced to hang. Bloodhounds have been sent for and placed on the trail of the mur derer. Trouble is feared between the families and Governor Brewer has been appealed to by the county officers. CAN NOT SELL NOR TRADE YOUR WIFE FOR REAL ESTATE CLEVELAND, WASH., Aug. 3.—A man can not sell his wife or even trade her. This dictum was established by the courts here which set aside a deal whereby James M. Davis disposed of his wife, Ida, for two lots in Tacoma. Going a step further, the court de cided that a man who regarded his wife as a chattel wasn't entitled to have one, so Mrs. Davis was granted a divorce. In her bill she alleged she had suffer ed great mental anguish because her husband had traded her to "Doc” Far row and the whole town knew about it. Mrs. Davis said she didn’t think much of Farrow. She blocked the deal, even though her husband had received a deed for the lots, having agreed to part with his wife in lieu of cash. UNITED STATES ASKS COURT TO DISSOLVE BILL POSTERS’ TRUST CHICAGO, Aug. 3.—Suit for the dis solution of the Associated Bill Posters and Distributors of the United States and Canada, on the ground that it is a trust in violation of the Sherman law, was filed in the United States court here. In addition to the officers and di rectors of the association, twelve well known advertising agents, delegated as agents of the association, are made de fendants. The bill asks for a perma nent Injunction restraining the asso ciation from doing business. SURGEONS TURN BLOOD FROM ARTERY INTO VEIN NEW YORK, Aug. 3. —It was an nounced at Beth Israel hall that a sur gical operation of more than usual im portance had been performed there re cently. By it the joining of an artery and a vein, permitting arterial blood to flow permanently through the vein just as if the vein itself were an artery, saved from amputation the left teg of a carpenter whose right leg was ampu tated three years ago. This is said to be the first successful accomplishment of such a feat. SPURNED LOVER SHOOTS HIMSELF THROUGH HEART GADSDEN, ALA., Aug. 3. —Because the girl had loved had spurned him, George Bynum, aged 19, son of T. M. Bynum, a prominent farmer of Walnut Grove, left the girl at her home at 9 o’clock last night, walked a short dis tance away, and fired two bullets through ihs heart. He left a note say ing he had decided to end it all and that no one is to be blamed. LODGE MEMBER'S SLAYER UNDER BOND FOR TRIAL ANDERSON, S. C„ Aug. 3, —Furman Bagwell, who shot and killed S. Milton Taylor while being initiated into the Woodmen of the World lodge near here, is out under bond of SSOO. He asked for an investigation of his case. No inquest was held and this will cause a legal fight -when the case is called in court. ROOSTER DOWNS A BOY AND NEARLY KILLS HIM DULUTH, MINN., Aug. 3.—Lloyd Burley, aged two years, was nearly killed by a rooster. The child was so seriously injured that it is feared that he will lose his eyesight. The rooster had the little fellow on his back and was furiously attacking him with its spurs when discovered. ILS. TROOPS FIRED UPON BYARMED Mexicans Soldiers on Guard at Border Mark for Bullets From Across Line. SHOTS OF UNKNOWN ASSAILANTS RETURNED Believed To Be Deliberate Rebel Scheme to Bring About Intervention. EL PASO. TEXAS, Aug. 3.—Half a hundred or more shots were exchanged between armed men in Mexico and United States and soldiers on border guard duty early today. I The firing was opened from the Mex | ican side and is declared by American army officers to be a deliberate attempt to emb/01l the United States in the Mexican revolution. A number of shots were fired at a guard of American troops on the American side of the line, and three of the bullets struck the home of C. H. Cole. Later the home of A. D. Martihe was also hit. The American soldiers replied to the fire and sent a score or more shots over the international bor der. The night before last night at i Nogales, Ariz., Mexican federals fired over the border into the United States. | Refugees Leave Mexico in Fear. Trouble on the Mexican border has been feared for several days. A week ago the rebel forces in northern Mexi co began a campaign of pillage of for eigners' property, and disarming of for eigners. with the avowed purpose of forcing American intervention, which General Orozco, rebel leader, considered would aid the rebel cause. More than 2,000 American citizens, mostly women and children, have flocked across the border to El Paso, fearing for their lives if they remained in Mexilco. Most of them were from the Mormon colo nies at Madera and the nearby country in Chihuahua. Most of the men re mained to protect their property as best they could. A few days ago two Amer icans were found hanged to a tree. Their murder was attributed to the reb els and assigned as a further attempt to cause the United States to intervene in Mexico. ENTIRE MILITIA OF WEST VIRGINIA SENT TO COAL STRIKE ZONE CHARLESTON, W. VA., Aug. 3. Governor Glasscock today ordered all of the state militia not the road to proceed immediately to the Paint Creek district, and announced that upon their arrival he will declare martial law throughout the strike dis trict. This move followed a second at tack on the militia by the striking coal miners at Mucklow last night. The Martinsburg, Spencer, Burton, Smithburg, Weston and Parkersburg companies of the National guard ar rived at Paint Creek early today. As soon as the troops detrained they were instructed to begin disarming the 10,000 strikers. TAFT CHILDREN OFF FOR TRIP THROUGH MONTANA BEVERLY, MASS.. Aug. 3. —Helen and Robert Taft, daughter and son of the president, are en route to Minne apolis to join a party of young people for a three weeks horseback trip through Montana. They left here this morning, accompanied by Lloyd Bowers and Miss Martha Bowers, son and daughter of the late solicitor of the United States. At Minneapolis the party will be the guests of Miss Isabel Vincent, the class mate of Helen Taft at Bryn Mawr. ANDERSON FOLK TO SEE BLEASE MOTION PICTURES ANDERSON, S. C., Aug. 3.—This city, -because of Anderson county being a Blease stronghold, will first secure the Pathe Weekly motion picture film, showing Governor Blease’s Columbia Saturday night speech of two weeks ago. On that occasion 7.500 people stood in front of the capitol steps and heard the governor deliver an address that since has caused so much comment. WHO’S GUILTY?~ WHO PUT HOLES IN SWISS CHEESE? WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. —Government sciestists are working on the problem as to what causes the holes in Swiss cheese and how they can be produced f.rtificially ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1912. Father of Child-Wife Asks Court to Enjoin Hubby From Speaking Judge Maddox to Settle Matrimo nial Taaigle of Rome Boy and Girl. ROME, GA., Aug. 3.—Although he has a wife and passes her a number of times every day, Will Carroll will not even be allowed to speak to her If Judge Maddox grants an Injunction when asked by Virgil Williamson, fath er of Mrs Carroll. Just one month ago Carroll married Williamson's pretty school-girl daugh ter. Their married bliss was short and I sweet and one hour after the nuptial knot had been tied Mrs. Carroll was stolen away from her husband by her irate parents. Carroll brought habeas corpus proceedings before Ordinary Davis to recover his wife. The judge cast his eyes at the girl in short dress es, shook his head and awarded the child-bride to her parents. Since that time Williamson alleges that Carroll is doing everything in his power to induce the girl to live with him. The parents are angry, and in his petition Williamson asks that Car roll be not allowed to speak to the ob ject of his love and in anyway ap proach her. Judge Williamson will de cide on August 5. DESERTED BY BRIDE, HUSBAND SHOOTS 3 IN SEEKING REVENGE DENVER. COLO., Aug. 3.—Sheriff Dennis and a posse today are seeking George Ballew, aged 40. owner of a stage line operating between South Platte and Deckers, 30 miles in the mountains, who last night shot and fa tally wounded Mrs. Charles Wallbrecht and seriously wounded her husband and James McWhorton, of Kansas City. After the shooting, Ballew went to the telegraph office and for three hours prevented the operator from sending for help. Then he took to the hills. Family troubles were responsible for the shooting. Ballew believed that Mrs. Wallbrecht was responsible for trouble that caused his seventeen-year-old bride to leave him a few weeks ago. He had threatened to shoot Wallbrecht and his wife, He f to carry out the threat while the guests at the hotel conducted by Wallbrecht were at dinner last night. He rushed into the dining room and began firing. Wallbrecht was wounded. He fled and hid in a canyon. Mrs. Wallbrecht ran from the hotel and was later found in a barn. She was unconscious. CONFEDERATE VETS ASK NEW COUNTY BE NAMED JOE WHEELER Camp \ . Wheeler’s Confederate Cavalry, composed of the remaining members of General Joe Wheeler's fa mous horsemen, have petitioned the legislature asking that the name of the new county be “Joe Wheeler,” and not merely "Wheeler.” In their petition they thank the sen ate for its action in deciding to honor Georgia’s famous cavalry leader, and request that the lower house do like wise. The resolution was passed unani mously* by the members of the camp, many of them deeply touched as they learned of the honor which the senate has proposed to bestow upon their former leader. NEARLY FIVE SCORE DIRECT DESCENDANTSATHISGRAVE TOLEDO, OHIO, Aug. 3—Ninety three direct descendants —6 children, 37 grandchildren and 50 great-grandchil dren—were left by Isidore Cousino, aged 92, whose funeral took place at Erie, Mich. Cousino was dean of the Cousino family, wealthy land holders, whose ancestors were French pioneers in this section of the country. Cousino lived all his life within elev en miles of this city. Until a year ago he rode a horse and personally super- I vised his farming. Six of his close kin were killed and three injured the other day when a team struck an auto mobile in which they were riding. BLACKBEARD ISLAND TO BECOME GAME PRESERVE SAVANNAH, GA., Aug. 3.—Black beard island, off the coast of Georgia at the entrance to Sopels sound, will be leased by the government for five years as a game preserve. Bids will be received until August 24 by the treasury department for this privilege. The island, together with the buildings there, will be leased with hunting and fishing privileges. The is land is now the site of the South At lantic quarantine station. ATHENS SUMMER SCHOOL STUDENTS SEE TALLULAH ATHENS, GA., Aug. 3.—More than 200 summer school students and a large number of citizens of Athens went to Tallulah Falls on the annual excursion of the University Summer school in charge of Superintendent T. J. Wooster. Many of the teachers of the summer school accompanied the excursionists and acted as guides, showing the falls and other places of interest to those who were making th-i- «r S t trip, Governor Favors Annual Exposition CHILDREN SEE BIG SHOW /(/ \\ // X\ A\l /I '• * cX. J / \\ • \y / \\ mW n ' i H Il I • •' " w J i WF lOftaß ’ i >■ . S Wij ■ \ // V ll ww i I I / Governor Brown invstigating things at the big Exposition. Executive Says Fair Is a Success and Means Much to Atlanta. Governor Joseph M. Brown thinks that the Atlanta Manufacturers expo sition should be an annual event. In speaking of the success which has at tended the present show, he said: "If Atlanta is to be a manufacturing city, it must insist upon the superior quality of ’made in Atlanta’ goods. Such an exposition as this will do more for Atlanta manufactories than any one thing. ”1 consider the exposition a success in every respect and I am frank to admit that it was a revelation to me. I had no idea that Atlanta was the manufacturing city it is, and I am sure many other public men who attended were astonished at the progress the city has already made in this direc tion.” Children’s Day. Today is play day at the Atlanta Manufacturers exposition being held in the Auditorium, for the building has been turned over to the children of the city. The doors were opened at 1 o'clock to a big crowd. Souvenirs greeted them at the very entrance and many fasci nating sights—stick candy, boxed crackers and whatnot—lured them on every side. Although "grown folks” were admitted, the hand of cordial wel come was extended to the small people. Saturday of next week is Merchants day. which will be the largest day per haps of the exposition. Many prepa rations were made for today's celebra tion. and those responsible had reason for feeling proud of their accomplish ments. N SENATE RETAINS RECIPROCITY ACT By Vote of 33 to 28 Recedes From Amendment to Tariff Bill Killing Canadian Pact. WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The senate today receded from its amendment for repealing Canadian reciprocity which was added to the conferees report on the metal schedule of the tariff by a vote of 33 to 28. Senator Penrose presented the conferees report, announcing a dis agreement on the senate amendment re pealing Canadian reciprocity and put ting a duty of $2 a ton on print paper. Otherwise the bill as reported carries about a 24 per cent duty as against a 34 1-2 duty of the Payne-Aldrich bill. When the report was made. Senator Simmons moved the senate recede from the reciprocity amendment and Senator Penrose asked for a vote. In answer to a question. Senator Sim mons assured Senator Gronna the Dem ocrats of the senate would join him in an attempt to put through a separate repeal measure and then Senator Root said: "As it stands now the Canadian reci procity act amounts to a continuing au thority to Canada to make a tariff law for the United States and I believe that authority ought not to continue and our statutes should be made to show that it does not continue. "But the law is a revenue measure and the only way it can be repealed is to originate an independent bill in the house or to put through an amendment to this bill.” Following a long discussion, the sen ate receded from the amendment. HOHL IPITION 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE :* Y R1 NO is. GRACE ILL; fflBN MOTHER PRAYS Freed Woman Suffers From Shock, But Confers With Her Lawyers. MRS. ULRICH CERTAIN PRAYER LIBERATED HER Grace, at Newnan, Plans to Enter Sanitarium and De vote Life to Sick, He Says. Following a night and morning of illness nearly bordering upon collapse Mrs. Daisy E. Grace managed this afternoon to reach her lawyers’ office to make final arrangements for quitting the scene of her trial for Philadelphia tomorrow. Mrs. Grace suffered seriously from the nerve strain and the physical ordeal she passed through during the week, but she had sworn that she would not leave Atlanta, even for her sick son’s side, until she could go cleared of every legal complication, and It was neces sary that matters connected with the injunction against her In the settle ment of the Grace-Lawrence Company be cleared away before she could meet the blind son absolutely free of the law. It was learned today also that the jury which acquitted Mrs. Grace yes terday voted on the first ballot nine for acquittal, one for guilty and two “not ready.” A discussion followed the bal lot, during which the jurors considered the alibi letters introduced by the pros ecution and the X-ray plates which had been put in evidence. Verdict Reached On Third Ballot. The second ballot followed, and on this vote eleven jurors voted for ac quittal and one “not ready.” Before the third ballot was taken the arguments were all gone over in the effort to help the undecided juror to make up his mind. The third and last ballot showed all agreed upon "not guilty.” It also was learned today that after the defense had rested its case a neigh bor of the Graces on Eleventh street came forward and offered to swear that upon the day of the shooting he had gone into the Grace home and come upon Eugene Grace wounded. He is said to have been prepared to swear that Grace refused his offer to summer medical aid. "Mum’s the word,” Grace warned the neighbor. “Don’t say a word of this.” The neighbor is said to have gone away and kept silent. Mrs. Grace spent most of the daj following her acquittal under the care of a nurse and her aged mother at their temporary home upon Ashby street The strain and the physical reaction brought her to the point of collapse last night and early this morning, but with the aid of'stimulants given hypo dermically she was able to go down town to the office of her lawyers this afternoon to wind up her legal affairs before departing. At the same time her aged mother. Mrs. Martha Ulrich, almost constantly was engaged with her pastor, Rev. G. Nussman, in private prayer meetings of thanks for her daughter’s deliver ance from a threatened prison. “While I am grateful to the judge and jury and the lawyers who helped Daisy gain her freedom,” said Mrs. Ulrich, “I believe that the constant prayers to God which Dr. Nussman and I offered daily from the outset of the trial were directly answered in the verdict of ac quittal. We had prayer meetings for Daisy at the house here every morning before court would open and often at night when things looked dark. “When my daughter was acquitted and they told me here over the tele phone, I nearly gave way to joy and thanksgiving, and over the same tele phone, with my spiritual adviser at the other end of the wire, I offered a prayer of gratitude. God is going to answer all my other prayers now and Dalsj will be protected by Him in happiness all the rest of her life.” Mrs. Ulrich declared that she had prayed also that Eugene Grace, in Newnan, be forgiven for his declaration that her acquittal yesterday was a "rot ten miscarriage of justice,” and for his