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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair today and tomorrow, VOL. XI. NO. 9 1 '■— —1 1 " "■ ■■ ' n c. Well, Just Look Who's Coming In! :: :: :: By George McManus MM ATLANTA [ 1 ~ f r M<o ,w B® °” E ml Xr\ i' j XmL - <« ■'> < -...?1 z—-> Ma Sv AA — ; A A -he 15 \i\\\ \ OA! zKT\ jS .. xn./? \ ] for* \vL\l C Vt / rf/T I c “~' z ’ \ JJk _ ' i r\n o \ /EQflcHßNus I . ;. | _ V'Mfik V’ -'■ ■ I - *- - DOOM HIDDEN FROMGiUGE IS MOTHER WEEPS Wounded Man Is Too Weak Today To Be Told His For lorn Hope Is Crushed. X-RAY PHOTOGRAPHS MISLED PHYSICIANS Surgeon Waits Till Patient Gains Strength to Tell Him He's Paralyzed tor Life. Eugene H. Grace. at the Georgian hospital, does no; know that his for lorn hope has failed. He will not know until he is strong enough to stand the shock of being told that he is doomed to fee a helpless invalid for life, and that his life is to be of short duration. I >r. Baxter S. Moore found (trace badly nauseated after his operation, and decided tiiat it would not be well to tell him today that the operation had failed. In the meantime, Mrs, S. 1,. Hill. Grace’s mother, is with him. She, under the doctor's orders, has given no intimation that an early end to his helplessness is probable. Weeping be cause qf the operation's failure, she re mained away from her son's room to prevent his seeing her emotion. Doctors Loath to Tell Him of Fate. His doctors are more than loath to tell Grace of his fate. He was so su premely confident of the success of the operation that they fear the shock of news of its failure will imperil the brief life that is in him. The doctors, too, shared his hopes. From tlie time they began the opera tion at 11 o'clock yesterday morning until they abandoned hope four hours and :i half later, they had believed that the next few minutes would enable them to tind lite bullet and that its ex traction would make their . patient whole. Their disappointment was keen when (!"■ patient's condition finally told them that further moiling was Impossible. The operation had been conducted and planned by X-ray landmarks. These landmarks, tlie physicians say, were misleading, and the operation was never really possible of success. Frit nds of Grace and his family called by tlie score at tile hospital or over tlie telephone during the day to find out Hie progress of the patient, while tlie entire hospital corps evinced great interest in Idm. Will Await His Thorough Recovery. When lie will lie moved from tlie Georgian hospital to his home in New nan is problematical. Dr. Moore pre fers that tlie patient thoroughly recov er from his shock before he attempts tlie trip "The paralysis is caused not by the presence of the bullet in the canal." said Dr. Moore. "It is from tlie shock given when Mr. Grace was first shot that he is now paralyzed. We can do nothing to cure that, and 1 don't think h< Ims many months longer to live, poor fellow. He's the gamest man I ever operated on." Dr. .1 S. Clifford, who assisted in tlie operation, stated that in his experience tlie patient, when paralyzed like Grace is, usually lived from three to nine months aftei tlie Injury, That would givi Eugene Grace scarcely four more months to live. The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results ! Woman Kept Waiting ; Three Hours for Cab ? Now Sues for sß*ooo Seriously 111, She Says, When She Sent in Call for Vehicle From Home. Miss Annie L. Chambers, of 272 Formwait street, says it is worth SB,OOO to wait three and a half hours for a cab. In two suits filed by herself and Tier husband. O. G. Chambers, she asks that amount of the Atlanta Baggage and Cab Company for the company's delay in sending a call for her on ; July 16. Mrs. Chambers says she was serious ly ill and called for tlie vehicle to carry her one and a half blocks from No. 100 Crumley street to 272 Formwait street. She asserts that she called the cab at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and it did not arrive until 8:30. The suit was filed in city court today. POPULISTS DEMAND CHINESE REPUBLIC’S RECOGNITION BY U.S. I ST LOUIS. Aug 14.—Official recog | nition of the new Chinese republic has become a live issue in the 1912 national campaign. It is one of the planks in the platform of the Populist party,which ended its fifth nation'll convention here last night. Other planks provide for a graduated income and inheritance tax. commission form of government for cities, old age pensions, manual train ing in free schools and granting of f'anchises to public service utilities by' vote of the people. No ticket was nominated and no party was indorsed. Following officers were elected: S W. Williams. Vincennes. Ind., chairman; F. .1 Robinson. <'loverland, Ind., sec retary; J. A. Parker. Parma, Mo., vice chairman No treasurer was needed. WIFE SHOOTS HIM ON DARE; HUSBAND GETS 6 BULLETS CINCINNATI, OHIO, Aug. 14.—Frank Licher, of Aurora, Thd.i was shot six times in the abdomen by his wife at the home of Dr. Ralph Tilley, of Pe tersburg. Ky.. as the result of a dare. Li, her and his wife’ have been sepa rated for some time, and, according to Licher. he went to the home of Dr. Tilley to beg his wife to return to him. She told the physician that the man was annoying her, and he handed her a revolver. "1 dare you to shoot me," said her husband, and she shot. NONE WILL KILL SLAYER: WARDEN IN A QUANDARY RENO, NEV.. Aug. 14. Warden Georg' W Cowing of the Nevada state penitentiary faces a startling situa tion. He must secure five men between now and August 23 who will agree to shoot down a man in cold blood. An drlja Mirkovich murdered a man In southern Nevada. He was duly con victed and sentenced to death. Under the new law, he had his choice of hanging or shooting. He chose the lat ter. Warden Cowing has attempted to secure the men who will fire the fatal shots and every man he has approached has refused. BLOW RESTORES MEMORY: CHOP AX DOES THE TRICK ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Aug. 14. Edward Clarke, nineteen years old, who became a victim of aphasia four months ago as a result of a fall, has had his memory restored in a peculiar manner. He was chopping wood when his ax struck a clothesline and hit him on the head near the scar made by his former accident. When he recovered consciousness this time his memory had been restored. GIRL WEIGHS 400 POUNDS: SHE GETS FEVER REDUCING TERRE HAUTE. IND.. Aug. 14. Miss Hazel Henning, who lived near Paris. 111., is dead of typhoid fever. She weighed 400 pounds. The family sent her to a St. Louis hospital to be treated ior heart trouble, which in cluded reduction of flesh. After the treatment had proceeded some tinie she was stricken with typhoid and was brought home. ATLANTA. GA., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14, 1912 GRAND JURY HL PROBE LYNCHING OF BOY Law-Abiding Citizens of Mus cogee County Demand Im mediate Investigation. MOB TAKES PRISONER FROM OFFICERS IN COURT HOUSE Hold Up Columbus Street Car and Rush Negro to Outskirts, Where He's Shot to Death. COLUMBUS, GA.. Aug 14. -Law abiding citizens of Columbus and Mus cogee county today are making de mands for an immediate and thorough investigation by tlie grand jury of th< lynching here late yesterday afternoon, when a sixteen-year-old negro youth was taken from officers In tlie court house, hurried to the outskirts of the city and there shot to death. The grand jury meets tomorrow, when the probe is expected to begin. Tile negro. Tom Cotton, alias T Z McElhenny. had just been convicted and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary for killing Cedron Land, h white boy. six miles north of the city, on Sunday, June 30. McElhenny, who had confessed, had been in jail since the day following the killing, until lie was taken to the court house yesterday for the trial. At the time of his arrest there was talk of mob violence on the part of persons residing in the north end of the county, near the home of W. L Land, father of Cedron Land. At that time Sheriff Jesse A. Beard main tained a special guard over the pris oner, but the lynching threats died down and it was thought the law would be allowed to take Its course. Court, Crowded With Friends of Victim. Yesterday, however, the court room was crowded with relatives and friends of the Land family when the negro was arraigned for trial in superioi court. All went well until after the jury had returned a verdict of guilty, Judge. Price Gilbert had pronounced the three years sentence, court had been ad journed and officers had started to re turn the prisoner to jail As Bailiffs R. L. Willis and .1 T. Darby started out of the court room, relatives and friends of the Land fam ily crowded around the officers, with drawn revolvers, and demanded the custody of the prisoner. The officers refused. Then the mob forcibly took the negro from them, as" r one man had smashed Bailiff Willis in the face and another had struck him over the head. Bailiff Darby was unable to cope with the crowd single-handed. Deputy Sheriff Gibson rushed to his as sistance, but a well-aimed kick in the stomach disabled him. Reaching the street with the pris oner, eighteen members of the mob held lip a passing street car. put the negro aboard and forced the motorman to speed to the outskirts of the city. At Wynton switch the negro was taken from the ear to a nearby field, where he was riddled with bullets. His body was left lying In a ditch. TO RUN MODEL DAIRY. VIDALIA. GA, Aug. It. Professor J. H. Breedlove, formerly of the Eighth District Agricultural school at Madi son. has purchased land near here on which he will operate a model d.ai v farm. The land brought S9O per acre. Char McDaniel Gets Now BOY, 10, HERO IN THIEF CHASE ______ _ ‘ 'AAA' ' ' ' B’wr I 11L "JH : i < harlie Me|);mie). 10 y<-;ir-*yd burglar catcher, ami his little twin brothers. LINER THAT HIT BERG MAY BE BADLY HURT; RELIEF SHIP NEAR BY MONTREAL. Aug. It -Ft ar that the Allan line steamship Corsican, which rammed an Iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland Monday, is more seri ously damaged than was first reported was caused here today by receipt of a radio-telegram from Captain Cook of that vessel, which stated that she was practically in the same position as when she struck and that the steamer Lake Champlain is standing by. The wire less Stated that the fog is very thick. The Corsican is in latitu* .-.2.24 north and longitude .’,2.1.', west, or 1211 miles east of Belle Isle. The message did not sax whether or not the 500 per. sons on hoard the Corsican had been transferred. DIVES AND SAVES—COW: JOKE ON HEROIC "COP” NEW CASTLE. PA.. Aug. l|. After plunging headlong from a bridge into the Neshannoek river. Policeman Thomas Thomas discovered that in stead of saving the life of a woman he had rescued a cow. While crossing the bridge the policeman saw a shadowy form in the water, evidently struggling. He discarded his helmet and club, jumped into the cold water ami threw his arms around the body. Then h< discovered that h< had his arms around a cow’s neck. The cow had wantiered to the stream for a drink. 2 BURNED AT SUMMER RESORT. HONESDALE. PA, Aug. It Two persons were burned to death In a ti • that caused heavy damage at Beach Lake, a summer l.sort in W ayne coon ty. early today. Even His Little Twin Brothers Gurgle With Joy as Daring Is Exploited. Charlie McDaniel captured a real live burglar. West Georgia avenue, in which street he abides, today pays tribute. It is a real reward for heroism that ten-year-old .Mr. McDaniel receives. The boys of the district, his playmates, acclaim him Caesar -only they just let him have first hat in the corner lot ball games. He has been accorded all the honors that are coming to a hero in his neighborhood, with the single exception that he has not been given a house and lot to give his wife, for the simple reason that he has no wife nor have bis companions any houses and lots. Rut since, with a regular pistol, load ed for bear or burglars or any other pestiferous varmint, he drove a real robber from the home of M Danioi pore at IS West Georgia avenue into the arms of the police, he has been lifted to youthful height'- unattained by any adult Roman who ever rode behind the band witli his face painted crimson and with no clown to share the glories of the processing. Sharing in his honors are his twin brothers-. They don’t know it yet. They’re too young to know they have a brother. But the subconscious being the psychologists talk about is work ing. They beam when the neighbor hood boys request him to pitch. They arc possessed of serene satisfaction when he is made “police" in “police and robber." His glory is reflected in them. Tin y reason "it's tine to he a brother of i hole, |i - better to be twin-"—or at h ast they look as if they do. MACON TO AWARD ITS NEW LIGHT CONTRACT BY VOTE OF PEOPLE MACON. GA.. Aug. 14.—The citizens of Macon will determine by their vote early In November whether the city shall enter into a five-year contract for lights with either the present company or W'. .1. Massee's new company. The city now pays s«<l per year for each arc light. Mr. Massee has guar anteed a bid as low as S4O. The bids from the two companies will be opened next Tuesday night, and the lowest bld will be submitted to the people for ratification. No matter w hich company gets the bid. the city will save at least SIO,OOO per year Council last night decided to break Its present contract with the Macon Railway add Light Company, which was made last December for a period of five years. Council took the posi tion that ft had no authority to make a contract for more than one year. Its decision was a victory for Mr. Massee. FOUR GUARDS KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED BY MEXICAN CONVICT ' ANANEA. MEXICO, Aug. 14.-—Foul guards at the Cananea penitentiary are dead and three others are dying today as the result of a furious encounter with Francisco Galeana. a convict who was trying to escape. Galeana was armed with only a knife. During the fray all the other prisoners escaped, but were later rounded up by soldiers. Galeana cut the telephone wires lead ing into the prison and attacked the guards lust as the prisoners were be ing locked in their cells last night. The murderer w ill be executed. EXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p *^ e ° S 3 000.00 I) HEIIISH TO ISIOB WIDOW It's a Boy, and Will Bear the Name of His Dead Father, John Jacob Astor. ——- MAY BRING CONTEST OF $150,000,000 WILL New Arrival and Mother Are in Excellent Health —Parent Died on Titanic. NEW YORK, Aug 14.—A $3,000,000 baby was born at the Astor mansion. 840 Fifth avenue, today at 8:15 a. m. It is a boy and wit] bear the name of its fathet. John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic in the greatest marine disaster of modern times. The birth of the child was announced by Dr. Edwin B Cragin in the follow ing statement: "A. child was born to Mrs. John Ja coby Astor at 8 15 o’clock this morning. It is a boy and its name is John Jacob Astor. The mother is in good condi tion " Dr Cragin later announced that John Jacob Astor the fifth weighed 7 3-4 pounds By the will of the late Colonel John Jacob Astor this posthumous heir was left $3,000,000. There had been rumors circulated that If the posthumous heir were a boy a contest would he instituted by Colo nel Astor’s widow, Mrs. Madeline Force Astor, to secure greater wealth for her son. This matter will be determined la ter Preparations, for the arrival of the millionaire baby were made early yes terday afternoon when Mr. and Mrs Force, parents of Mrs. Actor, were summoned to the Fifth avenue man sion. but the accouchement was delayed for many hours. Millionaire Baby In Excellent Health. Dr Cragin has been in constant at tendance upon Mrs. Astor since the week before last. In making official announcement of the birth Dr. Cragin said that ths baby, as well as Mrs. Astor, was in excellent condition. At the same time Dr. Cragin said that he did not look for any complica tions. but that he expected the young mothe; and her baby to continue doing well. There had been considerable fear among the relatives of Mrs. Astor as to the outcome of the accouchement be cause of her physical sufferings and mental stress resulting from the disas ter to the Titanic, on which she was a nassenger with her husband May Mean Contest Os Colonel’s Will. Unusual interest from the social, financial and legal viewpoints attaches to the status of the new child. There is a possibility that the birtltof the boy may mean a legal contest for the re distribution of the $150,000,000 Astor es tate. Under the terms of the Astpr will, the sum of $3,000,000 was set asid, for each child born, other than th< children, Vincent and Muriel, of whon Mrs. Ava Willing Astor was the moth er. The legal question involved it whether or not the language of thl provision of the will is to be construct as a provision for the new heir—that i to say. a specific provision. Lawyer, differ as tn the answer to the question