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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. ’ ARTIST’S WIFE WHO IS )i SUING FOR DIVORCE 1 _ Ah 7 / / tun -. \nan Jr i ■ ** T Lu jl. ® '' V? wtL IL ' / ’CT*'. ‘A. w \ i Ja ■vt ¥ w ' Ifc 1 WkJL* Jr M , 4 A ' kWW, W X Tk. WK. W &T w k Wk, ' V: XA Wo < 4 “A w M Jr X A W1 a w Mrs. Henry Hutt, wife of the well known artist, from a draw 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.