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THE WEATHER
Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia:
Fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. X. NO. 266.
0. S. TROOPS
FIIEDUPOI
BTJRMED
MEXICANS
Soldiiers on Guard at Border
Mark for Whizzing Bullets
From Across Line.
SHOTS OF UNKNOWN
ASSAILANTS RETURNED
Believed To Be Deliberate Rebel
Scheme to Force Intervention
of American Authorities.
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.
The firing was opened from the Mex
ican side and is declared by American
army officers to be a deliberate attempt
to embroil the United States in the
Mexican revolution.
The shooting occurred in the dark,
and, according to the report from the
United States troops, no one on this
side of the border was hit by the bul
lets Whether the return fire of the
soldiers hit any of the attacking party
is not known.
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 Oroeco, rebel leader, considered
would aid the rebel cause. More than
2.000 American citizens, mostly women
and children, have flocked across the
border at 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.
ANY POMOLOGISTS IN
THE HOUSE? HERE IS
A GOOD JOB FOR ONE
Uncle Sam wants a po. tologist and
Is willing to pay from SI,BOO to $2,500
per year for a good one. This an
nouncement came in the form of the
usual orders for civil service examina
tions.
The clerks in the local office thought
an expedition to Okefenokee swamp
would be necessary, as some one looked
up the word in Webster’s and found
that in simple English a "pomologist”
is merely a culturer of fruit, and that
the word came from the old Latin wosd
“pomum,” .meaning an apple. Then
they announced that they would hold
the examination on August 24.
On August 21 and 22 an examination
will be given applicants for the posi
tion of physical geologist, which pays
$1,500 per year.
EASTMAN GIVES BIG ’CUE
FOR FARMERS OF DODGE
EASTMAN. Aug. 3.—The barbecue
given to the Dodge county farmers
and their families by the Eastman
Commercial club was a big success.
There were between 4,000 and 5,000
persons in the city.
E. H. Hyman, secretary of the Macon
Chamber of Commerce, delivered an
address upon the advantages derived
from a county fair, and urged the citi
zens of the county to have one if pos
sible. The 'cue was served at Jes
sup’s warehouse. Joe Hill Hall, can
didate for governor, spoke to about
1.000 at the city park. Eastman and
Baxley teams played ball, Eastman
winning 4 to 0. Music was furnished
by the Eastman band.
9 STITCHES IN HEART TO
SAVE DYING MAN'S LIFE
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.—As the
result of a delicate operation, when
nine stitches were taken to close a
stab wound in his heart, John Thomp
son, 59 years old, may live.
The operation was performed by Dr.
Joseph Mitchel at the Pennsylvania
hospital. Thompson received his in
jury during a quarrel with "British”
Shaw, 33 ye'.rs old. Shaw is alleged
to have drawn a large knife and
plunged It into the breast of Thomp
—penetrating the heart.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit —GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
I Witness for Brother
I Accused of Slaying Is
Killed; Feud Feared
Mississippian Mysteriously Assas-
sinated and Bloodhounds Hunt
For Man Who Fired Shot.
EUPORA. MISS.. Aug. 3. —Governor
Brewer may call out the state national
guard of Mississippi to quell what is
belieyed to be the beginning of a se
rious feud between the Permenter and
Sharp families. The climax occurred
I late last night when William Permenter
I was shot and killed by an unidentified
I assassin while sitting on the front
' porch of his home. The dead man is a
I 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
i derer. Trouble is feared between the
i families and Governor Brewer has been
; appealed to by the county officers.
FALL DOWNSTAIRS OF
OPERA HOUSE CAUSES
DEATH AT BRUNSWICK
BRUNSWICK. GA.. Aug. 3.—G. W
i Wright, one of Glynn county’s leading
citizens, is dead as the result of a fall
down the stairs of Grand Opera house.
He attended the Parker-Walker debate
last night, and while descending the
steps from the balcony to the lower
floor, he slipped and fell to the bottom,
striking his head against a post. He
was immediately rushed to the city
hospital and upon examination physi
cians found the injury sustained was
serious, though not thought fatal.
Death occurred a short time after his
arrival at the hospital and was caused
by concussion of the brain. >
Mr. Wright had been a resident of
Glynn county practically all his life
and lived at his country home, "Dover
Hall,” a short distance from the city.
He is survived by t\jo brothers. James
S. Wright, of this city, and Charlton
Wright, of Sterling, and four sisters.
Mrs. P. W. Fleming and Mrs. J. M.
Burnett, of this city: Mrs. Stillwell, of
Savannah, and Miss Daisy Wright, of
Sterling. Thef uneral will be held in
this city tomorrow morning.
YOUNG AUSTRALIAN
AVIATOR KILLED IN
PLUNGE AT LONDON
LONDON, Aug. 3. —Lindsay Camp
bell, a young birdman. was killed early
this morning while flying near Byfleet
village.
Campbell apparently had his aero
plank- under perfect control and was fly
ing smoothly when his motor went
wrong. He was several hundred feet
in the air and started to volplane to
the earth when a gust of wind over
turned. his craft and he crashed to the
ground.
i He was dead when the thousands who
witnessed tne accident reached him.
Campbell was an Australian, 35 years
old, and came to England to learn flying
in order to return to Australia as an
instructor in aviation.
ATLANTA SALESMAN
KILLED IN RAILWAY
WRECK IN COLORADO
News has just been received by rela
tives in Atlanta that C. C. Harris, a
traveling salesman for the Coca-Cola
Company, was killed in a wreck on the
Rock Island at Pueblo, Colo., last Tues
day. The wreck was caused by the un
dermining of the track by rains, and
while six persons are thought to have
been killed, only the body of Mr. Harris
has been recovered.
Mr. Harris is survived by his mother.
Mrs. L. N. Harris, and a sister. Mrs. H.
Clay Moore, of East Lake, and four
brothers, Robert H. Harris and Lucius
Harris, of Bloomington, Ind.; Henry
Harris, of Louisville, and Neal Harris,
of Oklahoma.
The body will arrive in Atlanta Wed
nesday.
MACON & BIRMINGHAM RY.
INSTALLS PHONE SYSTEM
LA GRANGE, GA., Aug. 3.—Official
notice has been promulgated by the
Macon and Birmingham officials to the
effect that a telephone system has been
installed along its lines from Macon to
Thomaston, and that the system will
be ready for operation between Thom
aston and LaGrange by December 1.
With neither telegraph nor telephone
service, the Macon and Birmingham
road has been operating under diffi
culties.
Another improvement contemplated
i by this line is a double daily passenger
I train service between LaGrange and
! Macon. A gas-electric car is proposed
for the additional service.
MAGAZINE EDITOR WILL
OCCUPY ATLANTA PULPIT
Rev. Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, the edi
tor of the Westminster Magazine, will
occupy the pulpit of the Central Con
gregational church tomorrow morning.
; Special music has been prepared for
i the service.. During Dr. G. L. Hans
. com's absence for the month of August
there will be no evening service.
Belles of Tomorrow Not Worried by Freak Danceßan
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Wrightsville Beach.
Young Folk Give Not a Thought
to Edict That Riles Some
Few at Beach Resort.
The unrelenting Tidewater Power
Company of Wilmington, N. C., soulless
corporation that it Is, refuses to lift the
ban on turkey trotting and bear hug
dances on the pretty public dance floor
at Wrightsville Beach —but who cares?
And if they did care, who'd say it?
For Atlanta society folk set the
standards at the gay little summer re
sort, and they have turned shapely but
cold shoulders on all terpsichorean
stunts of the animal variety.
Mrs, J. Frank Meador, whose beauty
is famous in a city famous for its
beautiful women, is almost a nightly
visitor to the brilliantly lighted pavilion
and she never, never dances any but
the most sedate steps. So that it would
hardly do for any one who pretends to
be anybody at all to do otherwise.
True, occasionally some rash young
man and some convention disdaining
lady fair swing into the lazy motions
of the turkey or the bear, but that’s
probably due to the effect of sea air
and moonlit waters on young blood and
no real defiance of Atlanta society’s
edict. At any rate, the defiance wouldn't
do a bit of good, for what's a turkey
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1912.
trot without music, and it’s just too
embarrassing for anything to have the
orchestra suddenly quit its blare and
have the leader point his bow right at
you and your charming partner and
have a thousand necks erttning for a
100k —it’s too dreadful to describe, but
that’s exactly what will happen if you
try it.
As for the little belles and beaux at
the beach, they do al! the turkey trot
ting they want in the water, where no
soulless corporation reigns and with
out a thought of society. Scores of gay
youngsters can be seen in the surf
every day. There are, for instance,
pretty Charlotte Meador, who queens it
over the younger—very much younger
—set, and attractive Marion Stearns,
who perhaps is beginning to think al
ready of the days when she will be
“finished” and in the social whirl.
Mischievous Alice Stearns and
thoughtful Mary Alice Cooledge and
others whose names are familiar in
Atlanta make up a merry, rollicking
crowd usually accompanied by mothers
who enter as heartily as they do into
the spirit of the surf.
POSTOFFICE TO BE FIREPROOF.
LA GRANGE. GA.. Aug. 3.—This
city’s new postoffice is to be fireproof
ed, the contract having been let to the
Pearson Construction Company for $2,-
700. Some time ago the Chamber of
Commerce asked the treasury depart
ment to look into this. It is expected
that the building will now be finished
by Januai-v 1
HEIRESS BREAKS LAW
TO BECOME A BRIDE
CHEYENNE, WYO., Aug. 3. —Officers
are seeking Robert A. Walsh, Sheridan
banker, and his bride, who was Mrs.
Charlotte Eilsbee Drexel Smith, daugh
ter of Joseph L. Silsbee, of Chicago, a
millionaire, who obtained a license to
wed here. Mrs. Smith was divorced on
July 19 last. Under the Wyoming laws,
it is a criminal offense for a divorcee
to rewed within a year, and every wit
ness signing the license is held equally
guilty. It is charged that the bridal
party swore there had been no di
vorce within a year.
CHINESE NOTE 500 YEARS
OLD AT SUB-TREASURY
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3.—lnclosed
in a glass case, a Chinese banknote, is.
sued more than 500 years ago, attracted
considerable attention at the United
States sub-treasury. The note was
presented to Assistant United States
Treasurer Howard Gibson by George H.
Blake, a numismatist, of Atlantic High
lands, N J.
The certificate is printed in India ink
upon paper manufactured from the
bark of the mulberry tree, and, despite
its age, the Chinese hieroglyphics upon
it are readable. The note was sent to
Mr. Gibson by Mr. Blake several days
ago.
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Grace in Vicious Attack on Georgia
Justice and His Wife’s Lawyers De
clares It Will Be a “Cinch” Now For
Him to Secure a Divorce.
Broken beneath the strain of her trial and the physical reaction
which followed her acquittal, Mrs. Daisy E. Grace arose at her tem
porary home on Ashby street this morning in such ill health that for a
time she Seemed bordering upon collapse.
At the same time her aged mother, Mrs. Martha Tlrich, almost
constantly is engaged with her pastor, Rev. G. Nussinan, in private
prayer meetings of thanks for her (laughter’s deliverance 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. Nussmann 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 ac
quitted and they told me here over
the telephone, I nearly gave way to
joy and thanksgiving, and over
the same telephone, with my spir
itual advisor at the other end of
the wire, 1 offered a prayer of grat
itude. God is going to answer all
my other prayers now and Daisy
will be protected by Him in hap
piness all the rest of her life.’’
Prayed Grace Be
Forgiven for Bitterness.
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
angry threat to get a divorce from Mrs.
Grace as soon as the law will permit.
In spite of Grace’s declaration that
he will sue her for divorce as soon as
he shall have lived in Georgia a year,
Mrs. Grace has made no plans to con
test the expected proceedings or to in
stitute a divorce herself. Her lawyers
said today that she will make no such
attempt for many months at least.
She received word from Philadelphia
this morning that her little blind son,
who was stricken with illness there
yesterday, is slightly improved, but she
said that if her health permits her,
slie will go with her mother to the
Keystone city tomorrow' to remain in
definitely.
All last night she tossed upon her bed
at Ashby street, unable to sleep. Her
physician said that her nerves were
upon the point of giving away and she
could not keep the nightmare of the
trial and of her husband’s angry
charges from her mind.
Mother and Daughter
To Live Quietly in North.
Her mother stayed by her constantly
and the medicine her nurses gave her
liberally finally brought sleep, though
she could hardly rise late today.
Before she goes to Philadelphia to
lease her house there and recoup in
some sort her fundsJ which have been
greatly drained by the trial and the
events leading up to it, Mrs. Grace is
going to visit her lawyers’ offices to
settle up the injunction case that still
exists against her in connection with
the winding up of the Grace-Lawrence
Company. Her lawyers said that a
friendly adjustment of this affair had
been agreed upon and that if she is
able to leave her home to settle that
matter today she will go to Philadel
phia tomorrow unfettered by legal
trouble for the first time since she was
arrested, charged with shooting her
husband in the Eleventh street house
last March.
The mother and daughter will reside
quietly. No plans for Mrs. Grace’s re
turn to Atlanta have been made, but
she will not be seen here again for
months, at least.
Goes Back to Bedside
Os Her Blind Son.
And now, her ordeal over, Daisy Opie
Grace goes back to the city from
whence she came, to the bedside of the
little blind son who has known nothing
of his mother’s plight, who has been
spared the pitiless curiosity of the
mob, who will some day give thanks
that his affliction kept him away from
the scene of his mother’s anguish.
For five months, less three days,
Daisy Grace has been the center of as
brilliant a spotlight as ever cast its
glare upon an idol of the stage. Since
that hour on the afternoon of March 5
when she stepped from the Newnan
train into the arms of waiting police
men she has had hardly a moment of
privacy. From train to hospital, from
hospital to police station, from hotel to
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justice court, she had a pack of curious
at her heels.
Her first hearing in the justice court
brought such a mob of men and women
to the little room that the lawyers
abandoned the proceedings until an
other hour. She planned a secret trip
to Philadelphia with her lawyer, but all
their secrecy could not throw the re
porters off her trail, and they traveled
with her in the same car, kept guard
over her in her hotels, stayed by her
side at every move in the Quaker City
and were with her when she returned
to be met at the station by a greater
crowd than has ever greeted a president
upon his visit to this city.
Finally Gains Rest
And Solitude.
Her room in the Kimball was watched
night and day; not a visitor came or
went without interrogation. Only when
public interest was slowly ebbing away
was she permitted to hide herself in
a private West End home and gain rest
in solitude.
Mrs. Grace was keeping her secret
through all her ordeal, according to the
promise she says she made her hus
band on that fateful day. But from the
offices of her counsel there came forth,
day after day, a mass of accusation
against Eugene Grace, stories of his
college days, his wild dissipation, his
evil associates. There camo forth let
ters to prove that ho had married the
widow of Webster Opie before the first
blades of grass had sprung up on
Ople’s grave. Later there came the
story that she had not married him at
all; that Eugene Grace had deceived
her by a false ceremony in New York,
and that it was not until the following
May that a real ceremony in New Or
leans made them legally man and wife.
The family of Eugene Grace was not
spared in this arraignment of the hus
band. Every fact or theory which
would serve to turn the tide of senti
ment in favor of the wife was given to
the world. And it had its effect.
Kept “Death Watch’’
On Grace, But He Lives.
Most of this time the wounded man
was lying in St. Josephs, with physi
cians at his bedside, reporters waiting
in the corridors. The surgeons had
given Grace but three days of life;
there were announcements every now
and then that the end was approach
ing; that he could hardly live an hour.
Then he was removed to his mother’s
home at New nan, and the reporters fol
lowed. They were keeping the "death
watch” on Eugene Grace.
And still Eugene Grace lives. He
lived to face hts w ife in the court room,
as he swore he would. But he failed to
make her waver under the hypnotism
of his eyes, and could only exclaim
bitterly at the end:
"It’s all a damned lie.”
The public’s curiosity lagged at last,
for the wife had gone into seclusion
and the reporters, tired of waiting for
the end, had abandoned their watch
at the bedside of the husband. New
names, new faces, covered the front
pages of the newspapers. There were
weeks when the Grace case was not
given a mention. Then the date of
the trial was fixed for July 29, and
the announcement gave the sensational
case new life.
And Now The Public
Gets Long-Desired Rest.
The story of the trial is too fresh
in the minds of Atlantans to be re
counted here. The throngs of men and
women clawing and struggling for a
courtroom seat, the pale woman sitting
at her counsel’s table and studying tha
faces of the witnesses; the paralytic
husband smiling cynically from his
white-draped couch beside his counsel,
the array of evidence and the impas
sioned arguments; the charge of the
jury and the verdict which closed ths
