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■ Bull IS REFUSED WIDOW'S SLAYER Mrs. Jones Declines to Divulge Motive for Killing Mrs. Cave at Nashville. Tenn. ———- NASHVILLE, TENN., Aug. 16. Mrs. Leola Jones, who is charged with slaying Mrs. Alva Frances Cave, the young Nashville widow, by shooting her twice through the heart, has been de- | nied bail by Acting Judge Levine in the city court. She was committed to jail, where she will await the action of the grand jury in September. She still re fuses to make any statement regarding the killing, except to assert that she was justified. It has developed that while on her way to the Cave home she is said to have announced that the wagon had better be called, as she was going to kill a woman. Relatives of Mrs. Cave claim that James J. Jones, husband of the slayer, « was not attentive in any degree to the dead woman, and there was nothing in the acquaintance or association that would have justified the killing. Mrs. Cave Is Buried. The funeral of Mrs. Cave took place today. Counsel for the accused today took their first steps in preparation for the | prisoner’s defense. It is believed that the commonwealth will have considerable difficulty in con victing Mrs. Jones, because no one save the two-year-old son of the dead woman saw the shooting. Garbed in spotless white, the pris • oner sat in her cell today, showing neither fear nor excitement. Her only perturbation of mind arose over the j grim-barred room which soiled her i snowy garments. Jealousy caused by neighborhood I gossip is the motive which the prosecu- I tion will tty,to establish. Charges made | by Mrs. Jones in a suit for divorce last ! year, in which Mrs. Cave was named as co-respondent, will be introduced to show the mental attitude of the prison er toward the victim. Mother in Precarious Condition. The shooting of Mi s. Cave may result j in a double tragedy, owing to the pre- | carious stati of health of Mrs Sophia i Leinhous, aiothi r of Mrs. Cave, who collapstd \ hen told of the killing. She | is at pre-' under ilte constant care of ] physicians. Owing to the. prominence, of the fam- I ily of the slain woman, the case has I aroii; • i i;.,i interest throughout the , state. Mt;-, Cave was the daughter-in- ! law of Dr. R. Lin Cave, pastor of the j Woodland Street Christian church of] t this e r , :■ .plain general of the United . C<o Veterans and former pas- tor of ti.e West End Christian church j in A’l.ii ii, He has a brother in the i mini-i in St. Louis. For a number of year.- he was engaged in educational work in Lexington, Ky. Mrs. Cave was 30 years old. Pa thetic circumstances connected with the case are that the dead woman leaves two small children, a son aged two and a daughter aged five. 2 MORE VICTIMS OF OIL EXPLOSIONS SUE THE TEXAS COMPANY The amount asked from the Texas Com pany, oil refiners, in various suits brought as the result of deaths in recent kerosene explosions was raised to SIBI,OOO today when John Mayhue and his wife asked in superior court for $16,000 damages. Nora Mayhue. 12 years old, was burned to death’and Mrs. Mayhue, who bravely attempted to extinguish the flames on her daughter’s clothing, was severely burned August 11, following an oil ex plosion. Three suits originated from the accident. Mr Mayhue asked SIO,OOO for the death of his daughter and $3,000 for injuries to his wife, and Mrs. Mayhue asked $3,000 for persona! injuries. ACCUSED MAN DENIES PLOT TO KILL WILLIS YIELDING BIRMINGHAM. ALA., Aug. 16.—While Miss Willis Yielding, a pretty young woman of good family, who resides in a cheap hotel on Second avenue, declares that she was intentionally shot lost night, R. L. Couch, a barber, who was arrested j with a friend, John Deverage, charged with the shooting, denies positively that he is of kin to the woman or that the shooting was intentionally done. The girl has a flesh wound and will be • out in a few days. She is at the Hill man hospital. She claims that Couch is her brother-in-law and that he and Dev erage plotted to kill her. -EVERYBODY’S DOIN' IT” BY BAND IS PROTESTED OSHKOSH. WIS., Aug. 16.—Promi nent citizens who patronize band con certs in the city parks today delivered an ultimatum to the park board in the form of a threatened boycott unless the selection, "Everybody’s Doin' It" is eliminated from the programs. They say the bands play it continuously. MAN IN GOOD HEALTH SAYS HE'LL DIE: DOES KENOSHA, WIS., Aug. 16. —Samuel Spinney, in the best of health, told members of his family he was going to "Jie down and die." They thought he was joking until an hour later his wife found him dead in bed from heart disease. SUNBURN BLISTER FATAL. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—A blister caused by sunburn proved fatal to Win throp Jordan, a summer resident at Bay Shore. Blood poison developed. MAN. 62. WEDS WOMAN 28. NEW YORK. Aug. 16. Frederick Horn-I by. aged 62, of Philadelphia, has been j married in Long Island City to Miss Emllie Fleming, who is only 28. Mt. Gilead Now More Than Ever a Retreat of Young for Wooing CUPID IS WORKING OVERTIME AT CAMP MEETING ||| / j z ' £ J® Agr W/j // Jfr ■Bn Mml B WmPW W " '■ I'L N \\ • Upmw a ■ ! p 7/ \\ 1/ A a•! / f I v \\ z KUX. _ /A iBL* /. A .a / SOI a \ \ V t MHL VHRk J* yr / \ J Miss Mnry McGee, of Atlanta, one of the many girls at the Mt. Gilead camp meeting whose voices help swell the volume when the revival hymns are sung. ILL BILLS AIDING MILITIA PASSED State Guardsmen Exception ally Fortunate in Getting What They Asked For. Out of the crowd of dejected lobby ists who saw measures killed or “dan gerous”- legislation passed during the closing hours of the legislature. Adju tant General Obear stands today the single happy exception. Eleven military bills, advocated by j the head of the National Guard, went |to successful passage. Not a single military provision was defeated. The $7,500 delfly extracted from the mili tary fund last summer by Joe Hill Hall was returned this year with $2,500 more for a contingent riot fund. The bills passed for the militia are: An amendment to the riot laws so as to prevent sheriffs, mayors and judges from calling ont troops, placing this authority solely with the governor. The office of quartermaster general has been consolidated with that of ad jutant general, and adjutant general made ex-officio head of all staff de partments. All clerks in the military department are hereafter to hold their positions i under civil service rules. To permit the operation of military trains on Sunday. Retirement Age Is 64. The governor has been authorized to appoint his private secretary as one of his aids (with the rank of lieutenant colonel) without regard to his previous military service. All officers and enlisted men must be retired from the active list upon reach ing the age of 64 years, and placed on the retired list in a manner similar to that required in the United States army. Al! military records are hereafter to be deposited in the adjutant general’s office for preservation. All brigade staff officers shall hold office on the same terms as staff officers of, regiments and battalions. fn time of riot or danger thereof all military communications shall have right of way over telephone and tele graph lines. Any officer or enlisted man of this state who has served in other states may count such service toward retire ment or service medals In the National Guard of this state, provided he shall have served five years in the militia of this state. It has been provided that the Geor gia flags used in the Spanish-Ameri can war shall be displayed in the cor ridors of the capitol. SIDNEY EDWARDS GETS CHOICE OF 15 YEARS IN PRISON OR JURY TRIAL RICHMOND, '• A., Aug. 16.—Sidney Edwards. one of (he CarYoll county out laws. has been given bis choice of fifteen years in the penitentiary or a trial by a jury from Grayson county. He has until late today to make known his decision. If he asks a jury trial it will begin next Monday Friel Allen, the youngest of the out laws, pleaded guilty to second degree murder ami was given eighteen years in the penitentiary. MOVING PICTURE TRUST SUED BY GOVERNMENT PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 16.—At the di rection of Attorney General Wickersham, i Federal District Attorney John C. Swart- I ley, of the Eastern district of Pennsyl vania. today ftled suit against 'he Motion Picture Patents Company and the General Film Company, known as the Moving Picture Trust, charging a combination in restraint of trade. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN ANT) NEWS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912. MHUI ’ —"V ’’l /// ”‘9%// ' D§ZL“ *«L *U) £2ZrX\\- Ww i^iWWS:^^s*<li^^ ? ; > <i W' JKjz /" Little Marion Cook, of 210 Hill street, Atlanta, is a happy camper at the Mt. Gilead meetin <rs for she h'as her doll with her. $1,500,000 in l\few Money Coming BIG LOANS FOR BUILDINGS Tliere will be put in circulation in Atlanta in the next two weeks $1,500,- 0110'. Deals have been closed by which 1 the actual cash will be distributed in that period to the wage earning class. For the erection of the W. T. Healy skyscraper in Forsyth street SBOO,OOO has been negotiated through the North western Mutual Life Insurance Compa ny, while a $700,000 loan was mad’e through the Metropolitan Insurance Company to the Atlanta Realty Com pany for the construction of a fifteen story apartment ■ house In Edgewood avenue. All of the money will be used in actual building operations. The $700,000 loan was negotiated by Joel Hurt. As the loan begins drawing interest at six per cent immediately, the Atlanta Realty Company will have work start ed on the building at once. Mr. Hurt today said the foundation would be started within a week. The loan was secured by a warranty deed on four parcels of property on Ergewood avenue, filed in the superior court yesterday afternoon. NEGRO ROBBER WHO TRIED TO BLIND HIS VICTIM BOUND OVER Alex Bradley, a negro accused of throw ing red pepper in the eyes of Jim Simos, a soda water vender at Butler and Ellis streets, and attempting to rob him. today was held by Recorder Broyles for trial in the state courts. In default of SI,OOO bond, the negro went to the Tower. Temporarily blinded by the pepper, Simos chased the negro out of his place with a pistol and prevented a robbery. Bradley was identified by Simos and also by a merchant who sold him red pepper HOW TO KEEP A WIFE: 7 KISSES. 6 HOGS A DAY KEOTA, C'OLO V Aug. 16.—1 n a ser mon on "How to Keep a Wife,” Rev. T. W. Winkler recommended at least seven kisses a day with half a dozen hugs. RABUN LAWYERS FOR POTTLE. ('LAYTON, GA., Aug. 16. —At a meet ing of the lawyers of Rabun county the candidacy of Judge J. R. Pottle for elec tion to the position he now' fills in the court of appeals was indorsed. Those present were: J. T. Davis, W. G. Par ker, W. S. Parris, T. L. Bynum and R. E. A. Hamby. GETS EIGHT YEARS' SENTENCE. COLUMBUS, GA.. Aug. 16.—Will Mitchell, a negro convicted in the Mus cogee county superior court on a charge of assault with intent to kill, wasgfven a sentence of eight years in the peni tentiary. Mitchell is wanted in Florida on a killing charge. j | ARMY ORDERS | WASHINGTON, Aug 16 Major Early Carnahan. paymaster. San Antonio, Texas, to St Paul, Minn First Lieutenant Ernest (’. McCulloch, medical reserve corps, to Columbus. Ohio. First Lieutenant Edward Kremers, medical, from presidio of San Francisco, to Honolulu. Brigadier General George S Xnderson 1 S A . retired from active service after 40 years’ service. Lot B, so named in the deed, the lot upon which the building tyill be erect i ed, is bounded by Edgewood avenue, i Equitable place. Exchange place and . Ivy street. The other three lots are adjacent to this. According to the provisions of file deed, the note, which was made out simultaneously with the filing of the deed, will mature August 15, 1917. For the first two,.years it will draw inter est at six per cent, and for the next three years at five and one-half per cent. If extensions are made after file date of maturity, such amounts as are carried over w ill draw interest at eight per cent. The deed further provides that upon the completion of the skyscraper the liens upon the other three lots will be released upon payment of. $50,000 apiece, with accrued interest, for two lots, and $75,000 for the third. Though no official statement has yet been made, it is understood that the $700,000 will constitute only about half the expense necessary to the completion of the building. FUNERAL OF HAWES, DROWNED IN SURF, IS TO OCCUR SATURDAY Walter Hawes, who died in the surf off St. Simons Island while trying to save a young woman companion, will be buried tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in Westview cemetery. The remains reached Atlanta today and were taken to Bloomfield’s chapel, afte' which they were removed to the family residence, 155 Crumley street The funeral will be held at Brough tons Tabernacle, the Rev. A. T. Spauld ing officiating, (’harles H. Lehman, <’ D. Holly, J. T. Kirkpatrick, Jr.. R. M Mitchell. J. H. Latimer and Joe Stan field will act as pallbearers. SALOONIST HELD TO STATE COURTS ON 2 MINORS’ TESTIMONY On the testimony of two boys, Ben Srnitli and Carl Smith, 408 Decatur street. E. Markowitz, a saloonist at 402 Deca tur street, today was bound over to tiie state courts by Recorder Broyles on the charge of selling beer to minors Bond was fixed at SSOO. The ease was made at the instigation of O. S. Smith, an elder brother of the two boys, with whom they live Attorney John Y. Smith, counsel for Markowitz, sought to show tliat the prosecution was based on bad feeling. TO CUT MACON’S LIGHT BILL. MACON, GA. Aug. Hi Regardless of which company gets the new five year lighting contract next Tuesday night. Macon is going to save about $15,000 a year for five yea s. The prts ent rate is s6t> per year each for 500 lights. W J. Masses lias guaranteed a hid below S4O and it is certain that the winning bid will be even lower. RECOVERING FROM POISON. VALDOSTA. GA, Aug. 16. Reports from Hahira are to the effect that Mrs. T. S. Passmore, who took carbolic acid on Tuesday, is recovering from the ef fects of tlie poison. Her son, who is a medical student, was at home wlien his mother swallowed the acid, and his ap plication of medical knowledge prob ably saved his mother's life. ISHELLS IMPERIL |YANKEE 1 Rebels Continue Fire on Man agua, With U. S. Marines Powerless to Interfere. ri , ' MANAGUA, NICARAGUA, Aug 16 . This city is still besieged by the rebels t whn have moved to a more advantage . ous position end are dropping shot and i- shell within a hundred yards of the . American legation. t The American marines are doing r their best to protect the ministerial , residence, but as they are unequipped , with field guns they are unable to hurt t the revolutionists with their fire. How ever, American sharp-shooters are pos'- , ed all along the walls with orders to , open fire on any suspicious characters. , Hundreds of persons are leaving Ma ( nagua for the south and the city is ( practically deserted. Women and Children Killed. t A large number of women and chil dren have been killed and wounded and I, the government has Informed Ameri cans and other foreigners that they must be prepared to protect them selves. Accordingly, Minister Weitzel has ordered all Americans inside the lega tion. where they can be protected by the marines. The arrival of the Den r ver, carrying 300 bluejackets, will dou ble the force at Managua and it Is thought the American troops will be able to drive back the rebels should ' the latter attack the foreign quarter. The revolutionists have cut all wires leading into the interior. No word has been received from Matagalpa and Leon, where the rebels ’ are strongest. HALF DOZEN GEORGIA PATENTS. WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. Davis & Davis, patent attorneys, report the grant this week to citizens of Georgia -of the following patents: M. X. Cor bin. Savannah, disappearing crib; C. Corley, Atlanta, stub catcher and ten sion device; W. J. Dunlap, Atlanta, lace cabinet; J. R. Farthing, Garfield, seed f planter; S. E. and L. C. O'Quinn, Jesup, turpentine gatherer; W. 11. Williams. Statesboro, revolving track Lind car. > DEATHS AND FUNERALS J. P. Ragsdale. The body of .1. I’. Ragsdale, one of the oldest citizens of East Atlanta, who died i yesterday, was carried nom Burkett’s , chapel io Rex, Ga . today for funeral services. Mr. Ragsdale resided at No. 64 Metropolitan avenue, East Atlanta. He ■ is survived by his wodw. several children 4 and a number of great-great grandchil dren. He was the father of .1. T. Rags dale. (’. M. Ragsdale, of Atlanta; <>. L. Ragsdale, of Forrest Park; Mrs. J. M. Keen, Rex, Ga.; Mrs. W. B. Owens. Mrs I J. Simmons, Mrs. John (,’rumlv ami Miss Dora Ragsdale, of Atlanta. Nathan Savaqe. Nathan Savage, the lit.lt son of VV M Savage, of 301 West North avenue, lies dead at Greenberg & Bond’s chapel await- I ing being carried to Courtnex, S. (’, i where the funeral will be held. The child. bur two years old, died at the fa mi I.x home late yesterday. Elma Holland. 'The funeral of Elma Holland, who died yesterday at 269 Glenn street, will be held ’ there tomorrow morning. He is survived by his widow and two small children J. G. Owen. The body of .1 G. Owen. 53 years old. who died al 191 South Humphries street yrsterdax afternoon, will he buried at Grepnxvood cemetery tomorrow Mr. Owen whs a <ar inspector for the Central of Georgia railroad He leaves a widow and four children. Miss Lucy Mathews, of Ben Hill, and Clyde Duncan, of Stone wall, “courting” at Mt. Gilead camp meeting. But It’s Not the Marriage Mart It Was in “Them Good Old Days” of Long Ago. Not even in the halcyon days that the patriarchs speak of with so much feeling has courtship been so striking and pleasant a feature of a camp meet ing as is now the order at Mt. Gilead camp meeting, which is just closing. At least, that is what S. H. Wallace, of Ben Hill, Ga., says, and he should know, for he has been an attendanl upon camp meetings for the last 77 years. Mr. Wallace was the oldest of the patriarchs at Mt. Gilead. “1 am glad to see that," he said, smil ingly. as couples went strolling by. "When a man's with a woman he hasn't much chance to get into devil . ment. She ll generally keep him pretty busy. "There’s more of that going on now adays, too,'' he continued, with a chuckle. “Back when I was a boy, we were a little bit afraid of ’em until they got us and then we were still afraid of them. But now boys and girls get used to each other mighty quick. I remember the first camp meeting I ever went to—a boy and a girl, when caught talking to each other by them selves, would always blush up to theii eyebrows. Marriage Mart in Olden Days. In "ye olden da.vs," said Mr. Wal lace, the camp meeting was more or less of a marriage mart. Every tors male who couldn't find himself a mate anywhere else would go,to a meeting. Usually he found her, and a marriage occurred forthwith. In the present day courtship is not considered so seriously. Swains and swainettes now consider it perfectly proper to bill and coo just for the sheer love of it. And at parting, if no agreement has been made, there is no heartache fur either, for both will be at it again before the close of an other day. Spoonoids are considered matters of course at the present day camp meet ing. The Mount Gilead camp meeting just concluding has been called successful in every sense of the word by those most vitally interested. Beginning last Sunday, when there were 2.500 people on the grounds, all of Its meetirfes have been wA attend ed, and a high interest has been mani fested. Everybody at Meetings. The meetings have been in charge of three preachers—Rev. George D. Stone, of Payne Memorial church, At lanta: Rev. F S. Hudson, of East Point, and Rev. W. P. Lovejoy, presiding elder of the Atlanta district. Four services were held every day—at eight, eleven, three and seven o’clock In the congregations were represent ed men and women of every age and distinction. Generation upon genera tion of the same family were there— graybeards whose attendance at camp meetings in the past had gone beyond their calculation; young men who were just beginning to shoulder the burdens of religious life; little children there for the first time, who as yet did not appreciate the significance of the meet ings. Close to nature, next the sighing of the woods and the singing of the birds they sat and listened to powerfully put words listened the more solemnly, it seemed, for being in a church created almost by nature itself. CLAUSE FOR ABOLITION OF COMMERCE COURT STICKS WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—As a re sult of the failure of the house to pass the legislative, executive and judicial bill over the president’s veto, a majority of the members of the sub-committee of the house appropriations committee voted today to retain that clause of the bill abolishing the commerce court, but to strike out that limiting the tenure of government clerks to seven years. WEB ME NACES POLICE STM Mysterious Stream Flows Into Basement at Headquarters. Pump Prevents Flood. The police department today mad» futile appeal to city authorities to save the police station and nearby stores' from being flooded by a mysterious! stream of water which is constantly! pouring into the basement of the sta-' tion. "Lack of appropriation for such I work" is the answer given as to why nothing can be done. In the meantime, hundreds of gal lons of water are pouring into the sta-I tion basement, while a big pump is I being worked overtime in an effort to I prevent the whole prison and adjacent! streets from being flooded. The water ' is rising at the rate of four inches every twelve hours. It was found necessary today to re move the wooden floors in two stores' next door to the police station and sub stitute concrete flooring to prevent water from coming into the stores. Chief Beavers today with Captain Clayton, chief of construe-t tion, and requested that a force of men I be sent to the station to dig into the prison alleyway to ascertain the cause) of the flow. Captain Clayton informed' the chief he could not do this, as hai had no appropriation for such work. An appeal previously had been made by Custodian J. C. Carlisle to Aidermani J. W. Maddox, chairman of the council I committee on public buildings, but like wise this was faultless. No appropria tion was available. Chief Beavers says he will appeal to the city council. The origin of the stream is a mys- ' tery. It is thought it may come from a bursted water main BEAE VALJEAN IN PHILS. COUNCIL Reformer Confesses Former Life of Crime When Driven Desperate by Blackmailer. / PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 16—A Jean Valjean in real life was disclosed here today when William Burke, a reform city councilman, resigned his seat and 1 told how. under the name of Benjamin H. Tripp, he had served a. long term in tile Massachusetts state prison after living a life <>f crime in many cities, including Boston, New York, Chicago, Kansas City and San Francisco. Without reserve, Burke admitted that he led the life of a pickpocket apd yegg before a term in the Massachu setts prison at Charlestown cured him of hfs vicious ways. The author of this remarkable con fession came to Philadelphia in 1907. He had learned wood carving in pris on and was determined to settle down here and earn an honest living, for getting the past and his old-time friends. He succeeded and got into . politics. He ran for council on the re form ticket headed by Mayor Blanken burg last fall and was elected. After hfs election Burke was recog nized on the street one day by a man who,had been a fellow convict. This man made threats of exposure and Burke was compelled to pay him black mail. At last, driven to desperation by the growing demands of the threatened informer, Burke decided to make a clean breast of his affairs and resign his office. Burke said he started in life as a waif in New York and was compelled to support himself almost from infancy. From the street life he graduated into thugdom. * Almost Parallel to Stripling Case The confession of the double life o 4 William Burke, the Philadelphia coun cilman, is practicallj- identical with tho story of Thomas Stripling, the man now serving a life sentence in the Geor gia penitentiary. Stripling was con victed of murder in Muscogee county, hut escaped jail. He moved to Dan ville Va., where he entered business, subsequently politics, and was finally chosen chief of police. It was while ha was servingfin this capacity that he was recognized as the Georgia convict and brought back to serve his term. MERCHANT HURT BADLY IN RUNAWAY ACCIDENT J. Levy, a merchant In Piedmont avenue, was hurt badly today when his horse ran away in East Atlanta. Levy was hurled from his wagon and run over. Several ribs were fractured and he was injured otherwise. He was taken to Grady hospital. COULDN'T LAND WITH DOG IN ENGLAND: BACK TO U. S. BOSTON, Aug. 16. Because they would nut let iter land with her dog owing to a technicality of the British law. Miss Cota Chamberlain has returned to Boston with out leaving the ship. ALASKAN STORM WRECKS SHIP SEATTLE. Aug. 16.—A report from Nome. Alaska, today says the steam schooner F L. Dwyer has been wreck ed near Teller. A severe storm is rag ing there, according to the report, and a number of vessels have been driven on tile beach. 5