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THE WEATHER Forecast for Atlanta ard Georgia Generally fair today and tomorrow. VOL. XI. NO. 10 ■B’m SLfflf IF r ‘muni L'thJ ! GAMBLER t 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. » 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. i" 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 I I 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 POPHAMS FIND REAL “EDEN” /UH L " yus- A. ■gag'• V ' » t " • ' • 1 m t srv .s/vr l zvz .•; fi f >r* \ ; t £ . / \ v F * s ' « <* * «. <' 1. p t ■ C • * V- if Ix | 5> . ■<; ; a ' > ?S’VV. y j-l - x -A'-.x v i w! v\ W aA\ • -AA?. Aion/f' ’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. I Yc-:-'.- I E? \\ 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 R. T 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. a 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