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Generally fair today and tomorrow.
VOL. XI. NO. 10
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New York Grand Jury Finishes
Investigation of Rosenthal’s
Assassination.
SPEEDY TRIALS PLANNED
BY. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
Threats for Confessors if They
Reveal Men “Higher Up”
A. q Reported.
NEW YORK, Au.s. 15. —The grand
Jure today completed its work in the
Investigation of the assassination of
Gambler Herman Rosenthal. A blan
ket indictment was drawn up for pres
entation to court containing the names
es seven men charged with the murder
of the Rambler.
District Attorn-y Whitman will try
his trongest < is first and hopes for
the moral .support of a conviction in the
first cas to work in his favor in the
others that follow. The eases will be
rushed to a speedy trial.
/ . It ■ « expected that "Lefty Louie"
and Harry Horowitz, known as "Gyp
tht Blood,” the two gunmen still at
l.i g, would be indicted by the present
grand jury.
Heads of Graft
Threaten Confessors.
thri ■ mon who are alleged to he
t o mil hont of the graft syndi-
i or .■ • ! stood to be making every
> < o-<.. up every (avenue which
• • i c.uir dealings. "Raid
... . Ha Vallon and "Brid-
A \' prisoners in the West
S tisoii. arc said to have been
tin ’ o. with deatli if they allow
':)• ■ f < ■ s-’otis io go higher than
F. ■ .
i. words, the men higher up
1 • i ■ ided to make Becker the goat,
just as Becker earlier decided to sacri
fice Hose in order to save himself.
Schepps on Way
Back to Gotham
HOT SPRINGS. ARK.. Aug. 15.—As
sistant District Attorney J. R. Rubin
and Detective Stewart, of New York,
left hi t' today with Samuel Schepps.
who i“ w anted in Gotham in connection
with the Rosenthal murder case.
TWO IIFE TERM CONVICTS
ESCAPE IN MONROE CO.
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FORSYTH, GA., Aug. 15.—Sheriff T.
S. Holland has just returned from an
unsuccessful hunt for two white con
verts wiving life sentences, who made
their gctawa.x from the guards at the
Monroe count' convict .camp.
t" loosing time when th* superin
tendent was at home sick, one of the
guards wa - having a good time at In
dian Springs and a third guard was ab
sent with another body of convicts, ,11m
Harrison and J< ft Turner, sent up from
Si-aiding county, asked permission to
t -t in ti e shad, of some bushes by the
roadside and escaped in/to the woods.
I'nable to leave the large band of con
victs, it was impossible for the guards
to give immediate chase. Although the
sheriff and tin commissioners, with the
aid of th' county s dogs, have been
snoring th -it rounding country, no
tin' ,' <>f t : • escapes has been found.
MARIETTA LAD RUN DOWN
AMD HURT BY AUTOMOBILE
MARIETTA, GA.. Aug. 15.—The lit
t,. six-'' ar- >ld son of Mr. Woodruff,
in.i eager of the Singer sewing machine
office here, wns run down by N. M.
Mayes’ automobile near Sams' drug
store while Mr. Mayes was driving out
Atlanta -I! ■ .. Tr.c little fellow started
across th" street, but suddenly changed
his course, and before Mr. Mayes could
stoo. the machine knocked him down,
c utting h - forehead and* one hand.
Whib his injuriessii i not serious, they
are painful.
GRAND PUTS SUNDAY
LID GN TIGHT IN GRIFFIN
GRIFFIN GA., kug. 15.—The grand'
ju r ' of Si.elding superior court, which]
ha. ,■n in s --rm during the past two
weeks. has called the druggists and
soft drink deal' s before it and given
e tiling that no Sunday selling will be
to;, i it, i. S" the Sunday lid goes on
in G itliic. Th' drug -tores and soft
■ I-, -■ in 's l ava sold cigars, tobacco
a, . old drinks on Sunday, just as any
o' day. Many of the citizens ap
pt wi of the < tion of th, grand jury in
slot ping the Sunday sales.
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The Atlanta Georgian
z Read Far Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Result*
: Butchers 61a‘me •
: Government For
: High Meat Prices •
• •
I • DETROIT. MICH.. Aug. 15. •
• The high cost of meat was put •
i • square!} up to thi g< n< ral govt rn- •
i • ment in a report submitted today •
I • by the legislative committee of tht •
• Master Butchers A-sociation of •
• America, now in annual conven- •
• tion here. e
• Chaiirrihn Haley, of th< commit- "
• ,tee, explaining its report, says the ®
• master butchers nearly ten y< ars •
• ago began pleading sot the re- •>
I • moval of tite tariff on animals used •
• for food, and that they have pr •
• dieted time and time again that ®
• the prices would go up to the e
• present high figure unless the pro- •
> * hibitive tariff of two cents a pound ®
• was removed. *
• •
SEABROOKE’S FAT EEL
WAS A WATER SNAKE;
GUESTS FEEL WIGGLY
"NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Thomas Q.
i Seabrooke, actor, is a fine chef, but a
I bad judge of eels. Any one of the four
I persons who dined with the actor-chef
.yesterday will go on record as to the
correctness of this statement.
Mr. Seabrooke is the possessor of a
bungalow at South Beach, S. 1. While
fishing he caught what he supposed
was an eei. Being particularly fond of
eels, the actor took it home, skinned
• and fried it. Then he called in his
’ neighbors and Mrs. Seabrooke to par
take. They ate liberally and remarked
that the actor was a gieat cook as well
i as an excellent fisherman.
All were smacking their lips when
Dr. Hall, a friend, called. He listened
■ to the story and examined the head of
■ the supposed eel.
• "Thomas, you have eaten a water I
snake—a regular water snake. [ don't I
. I know what you will do," said the doc-
■ tor.
' I Every one felt Wiggly and turned
, ' pale.
“I prescribe whisky," announced the
physician, and the fried snake received
a libera! bath in the alcoholic beverage. |
FURORE TRANSITORIA
PLEA OF WOMAN WHO
KILLED HER HUSBAND
■—
i CHICAGO, Aug. 15.—Furore transi
i toria made its appearance in a Chicago
.‘court today. That is the defense that
I has been mapped out by attorneys
| conducting the case of Mrs. Florence
| Bernstein, charged with having shot j
her husband, .George Bernstein, to
• death. The widowed slayer was ex
j peeted to take the stand some time
■ before night and tell her story of the
: tragedy.
I According to Attorney Charles E.
■ Erbsteln. who is chief counsel for the
defense, furore transitoria is a technical
I term meaning a state of mind super
! induced by the condition of the parties
I concerned. The woman’s testimony is
expected to tell of troubles with her
husband, of his desertion and her vis- '
its to him and to his relatives to in- l
duce him to return.
LAD WANTED TO SEE
i TRAIN WRECK, SO HE >
THREW SWITCH OPEN
I .
j AURORA, ILL.. Aug. 15.-—Lawrence |
Gilman, aged eleven, had lived beside '
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad i
for nearly a year and did not see an i
accident. He read about them and was j
curious. So he threw a switch, then |
sat in his mother’s bed room window I
land watched a passenger train crash;
| into a string of freight ears.
I That is the lad's story as it was told
to the officials of the railroad today.'
The boy confessed to the police after a i
vain effort on the part of the author!- ;
ties to discover the cause of the acci- !
dent, in which a number of people were
shaken and jolted and a fireman was
severely hurt.
SOME REAL CROOKS IN
j MINNEAPOLIS; 8-R£OM
HOUSE THIEF’S LOOT
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. police!
and detective forces of the twin cities I
today have been asked to keep a sharp ]
look out for an eight-room house that
has been stolen. The house was the
propertv of Mrs. Erank N. Edmonds.
It stood at Fourth avenue, North, and '
j Fourth street.
Oqe day Mrs. Edmonds got notice
] from the health department to clean ■
;up the property. She sent her hus- '
! band, a real estate dealer, to investi- ,
| gate. The lot needed cleaning. The '
house had been moved away and a lit
ter of materials was left on the ‘
grounds.
The police admit the case has them 1
puzzled.
SAYS LIGHT COMPETITION
IN ROME HAS BEEN KILLED
ROME. GA., Aug 15.—Tht R<nn<
Railway and Light Company has stifleii
all competition and is endeavoring to
hold up the city and tie its hands and
feet, Councilman F. \\ . <'ope
land. The accusations were made while
city council was considering the advis
ability of accepting a contract from th<
Rome Railway and Light t 'ompanv for
lights. The contract was not accepted.
ATLANTA. GA., THURSDAY. AUGUST 15, 1912
iCANAL TOLLS
FREE ONLY
TO COAST
TBAOE
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Conference Committee of Con
gress Reaches Agreement
on Panama Bill.
I
MATERIAL FOR BUILDING
| SHIPS WILL PAY NO DUTY
Commerce Commission to Say
i I
I Whether Railroad-Owned
Ships May Use Ditch.
' WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. —Free pass
age is denied to American owned ships
j engaged in foreign trade, foreign ship
building materials are admitted free of
I tariff to the United States, and the in
! terstate commerce commission is'given
power to break up any combinations
‘ of competing rail and w ater lines which
j it finds are not for "the public good" in
| the Panama canal bill agreed upon by |
the conference committee of the house |
and senate.
Two of the six members of the com
mittee, Senator Brandegee and Repre
sentative Frederick C. Stevens, of Min
| nesota. declined to sign the report.
As perfected in the conference com-
I mittee, the canal bill now provides in
brief:
Coastwise
Ships Free.
. passage for American coastwise
j ships.
i American registry for American
I owned foreign built ships engaged ex-,
! clusively In foreign trade.
I No tai iff on foreign shipbuilding ma I
terials for use in this country.
Trust owned ships prohibited from
using the canal.
Railroads prohibited from owning
competing waterway lines operating'
"through the canal or elsewhere,” when
such ow nership is detrimental to the I
public welfare.
Interstate commerce commission au
thoiized to investigate control of water
lines by railroads and sanction it where
it is beneficial.
One-man government for Panama
j canal and zone.
In dropping out the senate amend
ment giving free passage to American
i ships engaged in foreign trade, the con
i ference committee met the opposition
of those who considered this a direct
i violation of the treaty with Great
i Britain.
Ship Material
i Duty Free.
The senate amendment admitting
j foreign built ships to American regis
;f:y, when owned hv Americans, was
i supnleim nted w ith the provision admit
ting shipbuilding material free of tariff.
I to meet the opposition of house rnem-
I bets who claimed the American ship-
I building industry would otherwise suf
i fer.
Practically all of the force of the
; Bourne railroad amendment attached
i to the bill In the senate was retained
Iby the conferees. It was rewritten to
l give the interstate commerce commis
| sion the right to determine whether
| railroads should be allowed to hold
I w ater lines, and to sanction such own
jership when it was tn the public inter-
The railroad section of the bill is
(drastic in its terms, and broad In the
| powers it cons rs on the interstat'’
| commerce commission. It prohibits
i railroads after July 1. 1914. from own-
I ing or controlling competing steamer
lines, "operating thruugh the Panama
canal or elsewhere;” and gives to th"
interstate commerce commission tlu
| power to determine whether the rail
road and steamship lines are competing
carriers, within the meaning of tile law
VETERANS MEET ON SPOT
WHERE THEY WENT TO WAR
i ROME, GA.. Aug 15.—0 n the same
| spot where they gathered 52 years ago I
jto fight for the Stars and Bars, the
I survlv ing members of Company <l.
Twenty-second infantry, met today for
, a feast and speechmaking.
There are 25 members of Company G
' left. One of them is Policeman Jo
seph Sharp, of Rome. He i s the chief
spirit of the annual reunions.
The survivors of this old company
meet each year at Silver Creek, on the
sjKit where they organized. August 15.
,1861. and talk of war times and eat
barbecue. The spot where Company G
was organized is marked. The chief
addresses today were made by Colonel
W. S .McHenry and Judge \V. H.
Henry.
Far Away From Hotels m Beautiful Dells
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’Tis Wonderful, ’Tis Nice, This
Floridian Paradise- Pastor-
Poet and Bride Say So.
Rev. William Lee Popham. poet and
lover, who recently was detained in du
rance vile by the unsympathetic police
force of Atlanta because of certain dis
crepancies in signing his and his bride's
names to a-hotel register, and who,
therefore, was forced to bare the ro
mance of his life to the world, the flesh
and the devil, has at last found the
proper environment for his untram
meled "sou!” with al! its ramifications.
Rev. Popham married a Kentucky
girl, hut It was not until their arrest
in Atlanta that the fact of their mar
riage, together with several of his
choicest poems, came to light.
In a lengthy communication, received
today by The Georgian, he tells of
having found a perfect place for the
"making of a lovers' paradise." This
new Eden is on the Alflre river, just
ten miles from Tampa, Fla., Here will
he live with his wife.
Pretty Alfired Nice.
'The building site," he -ays, "is by a
mammoth spring of crystal water,
which flows undisturbed from the bos
om of Motlur Earth and gently slopes
its round banks' into a beautiful flower
bedecked brook, and this brook winds
its timid way through clusters of dog
wood and magnolias to the Alflre river.”
Going further, he tells of the many
delights of the woodland bower—of its
many advantages, celestial, floral, I'au
nal, exotic, neurotic and tommyrotic.
In phrases laden with the honey dew
of poesy, he tells of his future plans.
Rev. Popham is at present on a lec
ture tour through Georgia, but shortly
will abandon this and give his time ex
clusively to romance.
Yes, Yes, Go On!
"My wife is a mermaid," he confided
in Ills letter -and then, speaking for
himself. "And we like the water, for all
the world loves a lover, and a lover
loves all the world, and three-fourths
of the earth is water. Then why should
we not have chosen such environments
here in this dream-kissed spot among
the birds and Howers?
Indeed, why not?
"Away from the smoke of the city,
but easily in boating distance, we have
chosen to build our nightingale nest for
two; and in the beautiful solitude of
the woodland and Jieneath the spread
ing shade of magnolias we will glide
Continued on Pafle Two.
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\\ illiam Lee Pophani and his
bride who have found “Para
dise” on the banks of the Alfire
river in Florida.
INVALID WHO SHOT
HIMSELF TO RID HIS
WIFE OF CARE DIES
McGhee Ferguson, former Southern
railway conductor, who shot himself at
his home, 165 West Pine street, Mon
day morning because he felt that he
was a burden to his family, died today.
His body is at Bloomfield’s chapel
awaiting funeral arrangements
Monday morning, when alone in a
room, seated In an invalid's roller
chair. Ferguson wheeled himself to a
dresser, took out his revolver and fired
a bullet through his head. He had been
despondent because of two years of
confinement by a broken hack. He was
injured by a fall from a ear when pn
duty in the Atlanta yards.
Four children, the oldest thirteen, the
youngest two years old, and a widow
survive him. The Atlanta lodge of Ma
sons No. 59 is arranging for his burial.
He also was a member of the B. of
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JUDGE POTTLE INDORSED.
I,A GRANGE, GA. Aug. 15. —Judge
J. R. Pottle, of the court of appeal', has
been Indorsed by members of the Trouf
County Bar association The indorse
ment is signed by Attorneys E. A
Jones, R. M. Young. M. F. McLendon.
R. L. Lee, E. R Bradfield. Jr., M. V
Mooty, Henry Reeve-. Benjamin H
Hill, F. M Longley, W R. Campbell
Hatton Lovejoy and Arthur Greer.
ASTOR BABY HUSKY
INFANT; COURT TO
APPOINT GUARDIAN
NEW YORK. Aug. 15.—". Mrs. Astor
and little John Jacob Astor are doing
finely."
This was the announcement made by
Hr. Edwin R. t’ragln. the Astor family
physician, today, after he had paid his
first visit to the Astor mansion, where
a $3,000,000 baby boy was born yes
terday.
Dr. t'ragin added that the posthu
mous heir of the millionaire who lost
his life on the Titanic was unusually
healthy and strong, and that the moth
er shows remarkable strength.
, Steps have already been taken in the
’ legal proceedings that naturally, follow
the birth of an heir to such a great for-
> tune. There devolves upon Surrogate
Cohalon the duty of naming a special
guardian for young John Jacob Astor.
• He is the fourth Infant, in the eyes of
the law, to be one of the beneficiaries of
the Astor estate. His mother was such
an infant, being under 21 until June 19,
. ns are also Vincent Astor, now head of
1 the American branch of the family, and
tiis sister, Muriel.
After the naming of the guardfan, a
definite announcement is expected as to
whether the will of the baby's father is
• to be contested.
TWO BOYS DRIFTED ALL
NIGHT IN LEAKING BOAT
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 15.—After
drifting helplessly all night in a leak
ing boat on the Delaware river, in con
stant danger of being run down by
larger craft, Charles Biown, eleven
years old, and Alfred Baten. thirteen
years old, were picked up yesterday by
the crew of the police launch Mar
garet. The boys were suffering from
■exposure and exhaustion and in mo
mentary danger of drowning. They
were rescued off Greenwich pier after
having floated down stream from Port
Richmond.
LA GRANGE BUSINESS MAN DIES.
LA GRANGE, GA.. Aug. 15.—James
'l'. Gay died at hls home, 92 Harwell
avenue after an illness of several
months. He came here from Fredonia,
Ala., about nine years ago and has
been active since in the political and
business life of this city. Besides the
widow, two sons, J. D. and T. T. Gay,
and one daughter, Mrs. Minnie Tom
linson. of Texas, survive.
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE P^ R N E °
LEGISUTURE
KILLS VITAL
BILLS: HIES
HOME
Woman Lawyer, Banking, and
Lieutenant Governor Meas
ures Left to Die.
GETAWAY SESSION MADE
NIGHT OF LEVITY AND WIT
Fight Over Appointment of Sen
ate Pages Breaks Monotony
of Saying Farewells.
The Georgia legislature adjourned
sine die at 1:13 o’clock this morning.
Officially, it adjourned exactly at mid
night, but the clock was set back, after
the manner of an old-fashioned fiction,
and the hands were not permitted to
indicate the midnight hour until a few'
seconds after the speaker’s gavel had
fallen for the last time.
\\ hen Hie house met there was a mass
of business on hand to be disposed of
before adjournment. The members
were more in a mood to play than to
work, and throughout the night's pro
ceedings a spirit of levity and hilarity,
with an occasional dash'of hysteria,
prevailed.
The one big fight of the night session
came over a relatively inconsequential
matter—the appointment of senate,
pages for the first session of the next
legislature. The biggest matter coming
to the house's attention on its final day
was disposed of with a mere wave of
the hand —the banking bill.
Tlie house and senate were in dis
agreement about few items, compared
with tlie usual situation on the closing
day. There was some difference of
opinion with respect to the insurance
bill and several items of the appropria
tion bills.
Fight Over Pages
In Senate.
None of these differences was partic
ularly violent, however, and they were
quickly adjusted and the bills passed.
The fiercest conflict of the entire
night was (lie fight to take the appoint
ment of the senate pages out of the
hands of Messenger Hargett and place
them directly in the hands of the pres
ident of the senate, just as they are
In the hands of the speaker of the
house.
Mr. Hargett had rallied the senate
strongly to his cause—largely, jt was
charged, through distribution of pat
ronage to relatives of senators —and all
efforts to reconcile the two houses on a
non-Hargett platform were unavailing.
Finally tlie matter was straighten'd
out by dividing the appointiWfnts br -
tween the president of the senate and
the messenger—a solution far from sat
isfactory to a majority of the member
ship. but apparently the best that might
be achieved at the moment.
Woman Lawyer
Bill Dies.
Among the bills that went to their
death last night were the lieutenant
governor bill, tite general banking bill
and the woman lawyer bill.
The appropriation bills, properly ad
justed. were crowded through at the
last minute, and while the members
chorused "The Old Time Religion,” the
house adjourned.
Early in last night’s session the two
houses had a love feast over the gen
eral insurance bill, forced into confer
ence because of the mass of amend
ments submitted. Tlie real fight came
over the appropriations bill.
The senate was determined to do
nothing except squabble over the ap
pointment of its pages. Its rules com
mittee refused twice to fix the child
labor bill as a special order and twice
the vote sustained tlie committee's de
cision. The child labor bill never
reached a hearing, although its adher
ents claimed to have pledged a major
ity in the upper house.
The surprise of the session came late
yesterday afternoon when the senate in
a 30-minute executive session con
firmed Hoke Smith's appointments to
the state board of education over which
subterranean politics has been playing
the entire session.
Senate Sets
a Precedent.
The situation furnished by the sen
ate's action is unique in Georgia's leg
islative annals. The senators, in face,
have announced with satisfaction that
they have set a precedent.
The Smith apopintments on the board
—Dr. Jere M. Pound, T. J. Wooster, J.
C. Langston and the late Judge E G.
Lawson—were made September 8. 1911,
and have never been sent to the sen
ate. Governor Brown sent in appoint
ments this session, superseding Pound