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E. H. GRACE WILL NEVER RECOVER
THE WEATHER
Forecast: Fair today. Tempera
tures: 8 a. m., 77; 10 a. m., 82; 12
noon, 85; 2 p. m., 86.
VOL. XL NO. 8.
UIKOM
ELDPESJND
ISOUICKLY
DESERTED
$40,000 Offer and Lightning
Courtship Won Heart of Sus
ceptible “Country Girl.”
FOOLED HER PARENTS AND
CAME HERE TO BE WED
After Brief Honeymoon, Letter
From Husband Opens the
Bride’s Eyes.
Lured by an advertisement offering
to share $40,000 with the cotfntry girl
who would become his wife, wooed
ana won and deserted after eloping,
Mary McEachin, nineteen-year-old
daughter of J. P. McEachin, a re
tired farmer of Denton, Ga., appeared
at police station today and asked Chief
Beavers to begin a hunt for her dash
ing husband of a few days.
Miss McEachin told the chief a story
that had all the elements of romance in
It. Some weeks ago she read in a daily
newspaper an advertisement in which
the writer announced that he wanted a
country girl for a wife and had $40,000
to share with her. She answered and
was delighted to get a quick response.
A Dashing Wooer
Was Hutcheson.
Her correspondent, who gave his
name as Conway Hutcheson, of Bat
tenberg, Va., proved a lightning wooer.
He announced that he’d run down to
Denton at once and before Miss Mc-
Eachln could draw a long breath he
was on his way.
He arrived July 31. Although Hutch
eson had said he was from Battenberg,
he had all the dash country girls usual
ly associate with the big cities, and
Miss McEachin lost her heart in less
time than it takes to shuck corn.
When her parents got an inkling of the
romance they put in strenuous objec
tions and the pair pretended to be re
signed to their verdict.
The actual wooing, the parental ob
jection and the pretended resignation
all came in one day. Hutcheson said
he’d be on his way home, heartbroken
and discouraged. Miss McEachin said
she’d see him off. and went to the sta
tion with him, while her parents flat
tered themselves on her implicit obe
dience.
They Elope and
Are Married Here.
But instead of seeing her advertis
ing sweetheart off. she got on the train
with him and thev came to Atlanta.
On August 1 they were married by Jus
tice of the Peace Orr, and spent the
first days of their honeymoon at a ho
tel in this city. Then they decided to
go back to Denton and brave the pa
rental wrath.
They got there Sunday morning, arid
Hutcheson announced that he had a
pressing business engagement many,
many miles away. He left S2O with his
bride, and a score of kisses, and de
parted.
On August 8 the young bride, dream
ing of the far away husband, got a
letter —a letter that sent her romance
crashing. It was full of assumed trag
edy. It ran wet with tears.
The Letter That
Opened Her Eyes.
’’You don't love me any more," the
dazed bride read. "Therefore I am
going away. You will see me no more.
I can not bear the thought of your love
having turned cold. God forgive me
■ for leaving you like this, but I could
not look upon you again in the reallza
tion that you lovf me no more.”
That was the gist of ft. Today the
sadder and wiser little bride appeared
at the police station with her sister-in
law. Mrs. Herman McEachin, of 97
Lovejoy street, Atlanta, wife a
Southern railway conductor. Chief
Beavers promised her to start a search
for the vanished husband, but the pros
pects of locating him are none too
bright.
The Atlanta Georgian
BIG REFORMS
NEEDED BY
CITY, SAYS
CANDLER
“Atlanta Is at Parting of
Ways,” Declares Chairman
of Municipal Finances.
“ALL DEPARTMENTS OF "
GOVERNMENT FAULTY”
Aiderman Believes Even the
Moral Reputation of Gate
City Hang; in Balance.
John S. Candler, ex-supreme court
judge and city aiderman, made these
striking statements today:
"Atlanta Is at the parting of the
ways.
"The city is in the hole and the state
is In the hole.
“There is a great opportunity to pull
the city out. It is a much more dif
ficult proposition with the state.
"The biggest job in the state for the
next two years will be mayor of At
lanta.
Even City’s Moral
Reputation Is in Danger.
“We have the reputation of being a
clean, moral city. That record today
is in the balance.
“We are confronted with attaining
the lawless, immoral reputations of
New York and the other cities of this
country which dominate their respec
tive sections.
"We are face to face with the ques
tion of whether we shall continue to
enforce the state laws or become a
community with its own laws, as many
other American cities are.
“We have been too little attentive to
the remainder of Georgia. We are in
danger of getting away from our Geor
gian ideals.
“Our city departments are out of
whack.
Reforms Needed
Everywhere, He Says.
"Reforms are needed everywhere.
“M e need the best city engineer in
America to plan for the great building
opportunity that is today open to us.
"The next mayor of Atlanta will be
the man on whose shoulders the great
er part of these tremendous responsi
bilities will fall. There could be no
bigger opportunity to a man who would
serve unselfishly, bravely and patriot
ically."
These statements were made in an
interview with a reporter for The
Georgian. Judge Candler made them
after reiterating the statement recently
published that he would not be a can
didate for mayor.
”1 have told my friends and support
ers finally that I will not be a candi
date,” he said. “The job will require
more time and effort than I could pos
sibly give it.”
“City Offices Too Much
Affected by Politics.’’
But Judge Candler has two more
years to serve as aiderman. He is
chairman of the council finance com
mittee and one of the most active city
officials.
, “I intend to continue to give my best
services as aiderman,” he continued.
“I realize the great crisis we face to
day. I see a wonderful opportunity.
The greatest ambition of my life is to
help leave for my children and the
generations to come the greatest city
on earth."
Judge Candler did not go much into
details of tlie present city’s problem, as
he sees them. He touched upon the
tendency to break away from moral
lines. He said that city offices were
too much affected by politics. He said
the most imperative need was a more
efficient street and sewer system and
that city developments should be made
on more scientific lines.
"The irregularities of our tax sys
tem demands a complete revision,” he
said. "These will show the way for
reforms elsewhere."
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST
Farmer, 70 Years Old,
Wins Third Bride, 25,
By Letter Courtship
North Carolinan Proposes and Is
Accepted Before He Sees
Alabama Woman.
• STATESVILLE. N. C., Aug. 13.
Through the aid of a mutual friend, H.
T. Johnson, a prosperous farmer -of
Chambersburg township, near this
place, became acquainted by corre
spondence several months ago with
Miss Sarah Jones, proofreader on a
newspaper at Cullman. Ala. The ac
quaintance soon ripened into love and
as both were inclined toward matri
money, proposal and acceptance were
quickly made by letter.
A few days ago, by agreement. Miss
Jones camo on to Chambersburg. The
_cpuple met at the home of a .friend for
the first time and after a day's personal
acquaintance they called in Magistrate
Turner, who readily performed the cer
emony.
This is Johnson’s third matrimonial
venture, lie is 70 years old and a Con
federate veteran. His bride is 25 and
pretty.
SEARCHERS HUNT FOR
MAROONED ATLANTAN
AND TWO COMPANIONS
SAVANNAH, GA.. Aug. 13.—Ma
rooned somewhere on Warsaw sound,
probably Piney island, are three young
men—Walter M. Collins and T. W. Hal
loway, of Savannah, and Minahan
Eadson. of Atlanta. Searching partici
are scouring the sound in the hope of
picking them up.
Considerable apprehension is felt for
the safety of the young men The party
is now 36 hours overdue. The young
men left Saturday afternoon in a mo
tor boat, which developed engine trou
ble at the start. This is supposed to
be the cause of their predicament.
COMES TO VISIT HER
HUSBAND: FINDS HE
OBTAINED DIVORCE
When Mrs. Fannie Gwinn, of Spar
tanburg, S. <’., came to Atlanta to visit
hep husband, J. J. A. Gwinn, No. 6
Luckic street, she found she had no
husband at all—he had obtained a di
vorce. Today she filed a petition ask
ing superior court to et aside the de
cree.
Mrs. Gwinn asserts that her husband
came to Atlanta nearly seven years ago.
leaving her in the South Carolina town.
In 1910 Gwinn asked the courts for a
divorce from her, though he did not
notify her that he had done so. Mrs.
Gwinn’s petition will be heard Septem
ber 2.
CHILD DROWNS SELF
IN A WELL BECAUSE
ACID SCARRED FACE
COOKEVILLE, TENN., Aug. 13.
Ruby Slagle, six-year-old daughter of
Filinore Slagle, of Double Springs, end
ed her life at her home by jumping into
a well.
Recently the child while handling a
bottle of acid was burned about the
face and hands, the burns leaving uglj
scars?
The child, brooding over the scars,
jumped into the well. Her parents
were attracted by her screams as she
struck the water, but reached her too
late.
WOMEN IN COURT TO
PROSECUTE ‘SEER’ WHO
INVADED THEIR HOMES
John Venable, who represented himself
as a fortune teller, is sorry today that
he Invaded the sedate little suburb of
Howell Station yesterday and sought to
disclose the futures of women of that
community.
Several of the women residents appear
ed before Recorder Broyles and told of
Venable’s conduct, explaining that he
acted rudely, invading different homes,
a Flouncing himself as a fortune teller, and
demanding a. fee of $1 before beginning
his reading of the future.
.Judge Broyles imposed a fine of $25.75.
RAIDED BLACKS LEAP
TO TIN AWNING; FALL
THROUGH TO STREET
Five negroes leaped headlong from a
second story window and crashed through
a heavy tin awning shortly before noon
today when policemen raided a negro
rooming house at Decatur street, in
the same block as the police station.
The sidewalk was thronged at the time,
and several pedestrians had a narrow es
cape from being crushed by the negroes
as they plunged through the awning
Four of the negroes were captured, one of
them being chased and caught by Captain I
Poole, but the fifth man escaped in the
crowded street.
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE.
COLUMBUS. OHIO, Aug 13.—Two
unidentified convicts escaped over the
south wall of the state penitentiary
here this afternoon amid a fusillade
of rille shots from the guardsmen. A
third man who attempted to escape was
recaptured.
PLDTONGZAR
UNCOVERED;
17 POTTO
DEATH
Russia in Turmoil Over Daring
Plans to Overthrow Abso
lute Monarchy.
WARSHIP OFFICERS
PLANNED TO MUTINY
Scheme Included Seizing Royal
Family on Imperial Yacht
and Reorganizing Country.
ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 13.—Hun
dreds of secret police are at work to
day throughout the empire investigat
ing the scope of the most daring plot
ever aimed at the czar and the Russian
government. So far as the details have
been learned, the conspiracy not only
included plans for the seizure of Czar
Nicholas, the czarina and the royal
family, but a reorganization of the
government into a constitutional mon
archy.
Arrests of naval officers on board the
Russian battleship Ivan Zlatoust at
Odessa gave the public the first inti
mation of the cabal. Further arrests
in St. Petersburg, Yalta anad Sebasto
pol gave an idea of its widespread ram.
locations. Many army and navy offi
cers are involved. The whole empire is
stirred over the plot.
While the government is making rig
id efforts to keep the details of the
conspiracy secret, nevertheless it was
learned today that the plotters con
spired to seize the czar and imperial I
family while they were en route from
Yalta. Crimea, to Sebastopol on board
the yacht Standart.
Fleet Planned
To Mutiny.
At the same time the Baltic fleet was
to have mutinied and made simultane
ous attacks upon Cronstadt and St.
Petersburg, the fleet being spilt up in
two squadrons.
M. Chtehegiovitoff. ‘the minister of
justice, and » inier Kokovsoff, who are
personally directing the investigation,
have learned that the commanders of
nearly every important garrison in the
empire were approached. The conspira
tors seemed to have an unlimited sup
ply of money and, in addition to offer
ing bribes, promised‘political prefer
ment after the government was "reor
ganized.”
One petty officer and sixteen seamen
on the Ivan Zlatoust have already been
arrested, condemned and put to death
for their part in the conspiracy.
SENATE VOTES NOT TO
BAR POSTAL CLERKS
FROM LABOR UNIONS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—The pro
vision of the postoffice bill dealing with
the right of postal employees to organ
ize and to petition congress was the
storm center in the senate today.
An amendment offered by Senator
Jones, of Washington, that any organi
zation of the employees must not be
affiliated with any outside labor organ- |
ization was rejected by a vote of 31 I
to 20.
Senator Bourne offered an amend
ment providing that no organization of
employees shall be of a secret nature.
Tin right of Federal employees to
strike was freely discussed by the sen
ators. Senator Smith, of South Caro
lina, defended the right of government
employees to organize ami affiliate
with other labor organizations. Sena
tor Root took issue with him, declaring
this might lead to a strike of govern
ment employees and that the right to
strike is possessed only by workers
upon private enterprises.
Senator Smith, of Georgia, said:
"For government employees to organ
ize to strike is for them to organize to
overthrow law, Inasmuch as their
status Is fixed by law. We do not
question their right to petition con
gress, but any effort to change eondi
, tions imposed by law except by chang
j Ing the law is revolution.”
GIRL, 10. IS ARRESTED
FOR SETTING 38 FIRES
SPRINGFIELD, MO., Aug. 13.—Edna
James, aged ten, has been arrested here
as a fireburg She is suspected of
starting 38 fires within the past six
weeks '
14. 1912.
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ing by her husband. Mrs. Hutt is suing for divorce.
BOy.IO,PURSUES
FLEEING BORGLJ.iI
Negro Pushed Mrs. E. B. Mc-
Daniel Back in Bed and Left
When She Screamed.
Lying awake until 3 o'clock this
morning with a sick six-weeks-old baby
boy, one of twins, Mrs. E. B. McDan
iel, of IX West Georgia avenue, the
wife of a Southern railway engineer
who was away on a trip, heard a bur
glar entering her loom window. Help,
less in her fright, she, remained silent
until the man, a negro, was in the room.
Then she screamed with all her might.
The negro rushed at her and shoved
her back in the bed, then flgd through
the window' he had entered,
Charles McDaniel, a ten-year-old son,
was aroused and he pursued the bur
glar with his father’s pistol.
Policemen David and Camp were
standing only a block away. They saw
a man running and overtook him.
The negro gave his name as Ed Mur
phy. They took him before Mrs. Mc-
Daniel, but she was unable positively
to identify him. Because of the weak
ness of the evidence Recorder Broyles
did not bind the negro over to the state
court, but sentenced him to the stock
ade for 30 days.
DISTRICT PYHSICIANS
KICK ON OSTEOPATHS
USING ‘DOCTOR’ TITLE
SAVANNAH GA., Aug. 13.—At the
annual convention of the First Dis
trict Medical society here a telegram
was sent to Joe Hill Hall urging the
passage by the legislature of a bill to
prohibit osteopaths from using (he title
of "doctor" in Georgia.
Preceding the banquet at Tyhee last
night the society elected officers for the
ensuing year. Dr. J. L. Jaekson, of
Savannah, was chosen president, to
succeed Dr. E. T. Coleman, of Gray
mont; Dr. J. L. Kirkendall, of Millen,
first vice president, ami Dr. B. B. Jones,
of Millen, second vice president. The
secretary-treasurer and councilor were
elected at the last meeing. They are
Dr. Charles I’sher and Dr. .1. Lawton
Heirs, both of Savannah.
MASSENETT. COMPOSER
OF OPERA_“THAIS” DIES
PARIS, Aug. 13. —Professor Jules
Emile Frederick Massenet, the famous
French composer, died today, aged 70.
Among Professor Massenet’s best
known operas are "Thais," "Don Cae
sar de Bazan" and “Herodiade.”
MOL BILL WINS
OVER TIFT VETOI
Ten House Members Failing To
Vote Gives Victory to
Tariff Measure.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.—The house
this afternoon passed the wool bill over
President Taft’s veto.
One hundred and seventy-four mem
bers voted aye, So voted nay ami 10
"present."
Nineteen Republicans voted with the
Democrats to pass the bill over the
veto.
It was at first thought the motion
had been lost by two votes, but Speak
er Clark set the Democrats wild by rul
ing that the ten members who voted
"present" were not to be counted in
the final vote and that the Democrats
therefore had carried the wool bill over
the president’s head.
By eliminating ten members who
voted "present.” the total number on
the floor was reduced from 264 to 254.
and 174 yeas constituted a two-thirds
majority.
FIVE ARRESTED FOR
POISONING MILK OF
RICH CHICAGO FOLK
CHICAGO Aug. 13. Four men and a
woman were arrested today in Evans
ton on suspicion of complicity in recent
attempts to poison milk left at the
homes of wealthy patrons of the A. F.
Johnson Dairy Company. The poison
plot is alleged to be the result of the
dairy's refusal to employ union help.
The five persons arrested were rid
ing in an automobile. They first fought
Chief of Police Johnson, but finally sub
mitted to arrest. On the floor of the
tonm au of the car two revolvers, one a
magazine automatic weapon, were
found.
VICE SQUAD RAIDS 30
HOUSES AND ARRESTS
150 IN PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 13.—The most
spectacular tenderloin raid ever made in ■
this city resulted in the closing of 30
houses today and 150 arrests.
A vice squad under Henry Jacobs, of
the department of public safety, began Its
work at dawn and continued until after
10 o’clock. Many patrol wagons filled
with women were driven to the lock-up.
Thousands of persons watched the police
at work.
The raid was the first move in a big
campaign to clean up the city.
PHYSICIANS
NOW BELIEVE
EXTRA
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE "V 0
NIKE »
KNIFE FOUR
HUURS.ALL
Il fill
Wounded Man Cheerful as the
Operation Begins and His
Physicians Hopeful.
FACED THE ODEAL WITH
APPARENT PLEASURE
Paralyzed Man Never Mentions
Name of Wife He Accused
of Shooting Him.
Eugene Grace was operated upon
today for four and one-half hours in
a vain effort to find the bullet which
he charges his wife, Daisy Opie Grace,
sent into his spine last March 5.
In the opinion of his physicians, Dr.
B. S. Moore and Dr. J. S. Clifford, he
lie will be paralyzed for the rest of his
life.
Dr. Moore, expressing admiration and
pity for the wounded man, gave it as
bls opinion that he has not more than
four months to live. From three to
nine months Is the usual time for such
cases to run. It is five months since
Grace was shot.
Gamest of Men,
Says Physician.
Everything that could be done ta
save Grace from being a helpless par
alytic for the remainder of his days
I has now been done. Stretched on a
| cot. as lie faced his wife in court, or
| helped to an invalid’s chair, he must
spend his days and nights.
The surgeons cut three inches up and
down the spine, and, guided by X-ray
photographs, hunted the bullet. Their
search was vain. The bullet was not
in the spinal canal.
Dr. More said Grace's limbs went
absolutely paralyzed. He declared the
wounded man was one of the gamest
men he had ever seen.
Grace stood the ordeal well and ral
lied from the operation quickly. He
will remain at the Georgian hospital
until further plans are decided upon.
No loose bone, w hich, it was feared
might be resting against the spinal
< "I'd. was found. The physicians kept
working cautiously down toward ths
vertebrae, and as Grace’s circulation
and respiration were both fine, the
prospects were that they would be able
to keep up the probe for some hours.
The wounded man needed very lit
tle anaesthetic. One of the physicians
stated that if his strength continued
satisfactory the probe could be kept
up for seven hours.
Faced Operation
With Pleasure.
Previous to going on the table at ths
Georgian hospital he declared that hs
looked forward to the operation, not
only with confidence, but with pleasure.
His physical condition tended to justify
his confidence. His physicians declared
just previous to the scheduled time oi
operation that he could not be tn bet
ter shape to withstand the shock.
His mother, Mrs. S. L. Hill, was with
him throughout the morning. Other
relatives were present. They seemed
in a measure to share his confidence,
*but according to physicians present,
the man whose life was at stake seemed
least to realize the danger of the sur
geon's knife.
Mind Did Not
Rest on Death.
His mind did not rest on the clanger
of death. His thoughts were only that
he was about to undergo an ordeal that
would mean a restoration to the health
ho had enjoyed before he was wounded
by the shot which he accused his wife
of firing.
If that wife was in his thoughts be
fore tlie operation no Indication of it
was given in the hospital ward, where
he rested. No word was received from
her. Her name was not mentioned to
those in the room.
Appeared in
High Spirits.
Grace slept well last night. He
awoke early and appeared in high
spirits. So excellent was his condition
that both doctors and members of the
family agreed that the proper time tor
the operation had arrived.
