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VOL. XL NO. 13.
OIL LETOS
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TOIMPEHCH
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William Flinn’s Paper Says
Pennsylvania Senator Will
Have to Explain.
TO BE ASKED WHY HE
WAS GIVEN $25,000 FEE
Documents Printed First in
Hearst’s Magazine Cause of
Proposed Charges.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 10.—-The Pittsburg
Leader, the official mouthpiece of Senatot
William Flinn, and the local organ of the
Washington (Roosevelt) party, publishes
the following:
Boies Penrose. senior United
States senator from Pennsylvania,
will have tn face impeachment pro
ceedings.
He knows this and that is why he
is fighting so desperately to elect
assemblymen and state senators who
will obey him and help to keep the
scandal suppressed.
'Fhe charge upon which his col
leagues in the senate will try him
will be that of having accepted
money from a corporation to influ
ence his action as a public official.
The letters alleged to have been
written by John D. Archbold, finan- ■
cial agent of the Standard Gil Trust,
to Penrose will be the basis of the
impeachment charges.
Legislature To Take
Up Oil Letters.
These letters will be presented to
the state assembly when it meets in •
January, for investigation, and, if not
contradicted, the legislature will be
asked to transmit the facts to the
national congress with impeachment
proceedings to follow.
One of the letters referred to is one
of a series published in the current
issue of Hearst's Magazine, all writ
ten to Penrose by John P. Arch
bold and all referring <o legislation,
senate committee work and official
investigations in which the OH trust,
needed -protection. The money let
ter follows:
26 Broadway. New York, Oct.
13. 1904.
My Dear Senator —In fulfilment
of our understanding, it gives me
great pleasure to hand you here
with certificate of deposit to your
favor for $25,000. and with good
wishes, I am
Yours truly.
JOHN D. ARCHBOLD.
Hon. Boies Penrose. 1331 Spruce
street. Philadelphia. Pa.
Penrose To Be
Asked To Explain.
It is this letter, particularly, that
Penrose will be asked tn explain
when the investigation is opened.
He will bp asked to tell what serv- j
Ices he, as a United States senator,
rendered the Standard Oil Trust for
which he received $25,000. if any.
ard why this monopoly, which was
then bitterly fighting against allow
ing the people to curb its power.
sb» ’.'<ld give both money and *good
wishes” tn a United States senator
who was supposed to bp represent
ing the people.
Another of the letters from Arch
bold to Penrose explains something
of the ‘ understanding’, referred to in
the money letter. s
Some ten years ago there was in
existence the United States indus
trial commission, composed chiefly of |
members of the senate and lower
house. In its day it was an import
ant institution, having much the same
character as the committee that has
just finished the investigation of the
Steel corporation.
‘Letter Sounds
Pretty Peremptory.”
The chief business of this old Indus
trial commission was to investigate
the Standard Oil Company. The
chairman of the commission was
Senator Kyle. One of the members
was Penrose Kyle died and Archbold
wrote tn Senator Penrose:
We are very strongly of the
opinion that you should take the
chairmanship.
Lastly, and may we hope not
unfairly, we make It as a strong
personal request.
May I venture to ask for an af
firmative answer by wire?
That sounds pretty peremptory,
but It may be that the Standard Oil
Company had a right to be per
emptory to Penrose, the right that
every master has to give orders to
a servant whom he pays, and pays
well. For In other correspondence it
is recorded that chairman Penrose
sent an advance copy of the commit
tee's report to Mr. Archbold for ap
proval. and that Mr Archbold "O.
K'd" it before It was given to the
country.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results
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• Pope Breaks Law of •
• Vatican; Visits His •
1 • Invalid Sister's Home •
• •
• ROME. Aug. 19.—For the first • i
• time the unwritten law of the vat- •
• Scan that the pope shall not leave •
• that institution was violated early •
• today, according to an article pub- •
• lished in the newspaper Messag- •
• gero. • ’
• The newspaper's informant stat- •
• ed that Pope Pius, dressed as an •
i • ordinary priest, l«| the Vatican •
• shortly after midnight, going to •
• the home of his invalid sister, •
. • where he remained half an hour, •
• It has been a rule of the church •
I • that the wearer of the triple crown •
! • exiles himself from the world when •
• he enters the Vatican. The Mes- •
• saggero’s story caused a great deal •
■ • of comment here. •
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CHICAGO BAR WILL
PROBE MEMBER FOR
BETRAYING DARROW
< Hit AGO, Aug. 19.—An investiga
tion of the connection of John R. Har
tington, Chicago lawyer. with the
bribery case of Clarence S. Darrow will
be undertaken by the Chicago Bar as
sociation. Announcement of this came
I following the verdict which acquitted
Darrow.
Harrington is charged with violating
several canons of the ethics of the as
sociation principally among them that
which forbids an attorney from becom
ing involved in a situation in which
deceit is a necessary feature.
The association will ask the Dos An- I
geles Bar association to forward a :
transcript of Harrington’s evidence in
the Darrow trial. Harrington is al
leged to have acted as a friend of Dar
row and at the same time taken him to
a room and trapped him into making
certain admissions so that they could
be overheard by detectives and by Os
car Lawler, a special government at
torney.
The charges against Harrington have
been lodged in a letter to the associa
tion. The name of the person mak
ing complaint is withheld.
To Live in California.
, SAN JOSE. t'AL., Aug. 19.—Clarence
S. Darrow, counsel in the McNamara,
case, who has just been acquitted of
jury bribing, will make his future home
in San Jose, according to friends of his
here today. Negotiations for the'pur
chase of a home at Los Galos, a nearby
i suburb, are under way, it is asserted,
i Darrow is to enter a law firm here.
SUMMER FICTION:
ICEBERG FORMS IN
STREET IN HOT SUN
Walter Taylor, city clerk, told a
story today of how the residents of
Auburn avenue were recently amazed
by the forming of an iceberg in their
street in the broiling sun.
It happened in front of the Pratt lab
oratory at the corner of Auburn avenue
and Courtland street. A valve on a
carbonic acid gas tank charged with
1,800 pounds pressure accidentally was
knocked loose. The tank shot across
the street like a skyrocket as the gas
escaped. It struck a tree in front of
the Wesley Memorial church and
bounded into an iron fence on the other
side of the street. Then it dived head
i long into the gutter and began to whirl
| around. It had just missed several au-
Itomobiles and persons standing in the
j street.
When the excitement of the spec
tators had subsided sufficiently for
them to determine what had happened,
they found a long cylinderieal body of
ice in the street. The escaping gas had
caused ice to form on the outside of
j l he tank.
UNION STEREOTYPERS,
FOOLED INTO STRIKE,
GIVEN NEW CHARTER
CHICAGO. Aug. 19.—Chicago stereo
typers who obeyed the instructions of
their international officers to return to
work-after having been deceived into a
strike on the daily newspapers, have
organized a. new union. The charter
was received from International Presi
dent James J. Free), after the executive
’board of the Steteotypers and Elec
trotypers International union had unan
imously commended the Chicago mem
bers for their loyalty to the labor
movement.
The formation of the new union
j leaves the members of the defunct
stereotypers union. No. 4 outcasts from
the labor movement.
The new union has 49 members em
ployed on all the daily newspapers. The
new organization refused membership
to President L P. Stiaube and a num
ber of other members of the old union
GROUND IS COVERED
WITH DEAD BIRDS AS
HARD STORM ABATES
PITTSBURG. Aug. 19. Pittsburg wan
swept last night by one of the worst
wind and electrical storms of the year
creating widespread damage in the city
and surrounding towns. The rain came
down in a torrential downpour, accom
panied by a 45-mile wind
At W ashington. Pa., a small cloudburst
caused high damage. A hundred large
shade trees were blown down. The
residence of Samuel Barnard was struck
twice b\ lightning n the same spot on
I th< roof within three minutes
, A feature of the sto’in was the nunlbor
• of birds killed, the streets being literally
covered with dead birds when the storm
abated. **
SLAYERGANG
PAYMASTER )
BEADS OUT
JACKJOSE
In Conference With Whitman
Aboard Train, Sam Schepps
Corroborates Confession.
VITAL POINTS CLEARED UP.
SAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY
I Am Satisfied -It Will Mate
rially Strengthen Our Case,
He Declares.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ EN ROUTE)
FOR NEW YORK CITY WITH )
SCHEPPS PARTY, Aug. 19.—“1 am
j satisfied. Sam Schepps has just told me
I his story. It was enough to clear up
j several vital points."
This statement was made by District
Attorney Whitman today on the train
en route for New York, after he had
held a conference of 30 minutes with
Schepps, the alleged "murder paymas
ter'’ in the Rosenthal murder case.
After Schepps had talked with Mr.)
Whitman the prisoner was taken into
the dining car for his breakfast. In '
his absence Mr. Whitman had an au
dience with the corps of newspaper;
men who came to meet the Schepps i
party.
Mr. Whitman said:
“When Schepps came before me I
said to him: 'Schepps, tell me your
• story in plain language—no frills and
no jokes.’ This he proceeded to do the
best he could.
Corroborates Story
Os Jack Rose.
"I have secured all the corroboration
I expected. This is enough to clear up
several vital points and strengthen the
case.”
Asked if Schepps corroborated “Raid
Jack” Rose's confession, Mr. Whitman
said:
"Yes, Schepps confirmed it. so far as
I have gone with him. He corroborated
the statement that he had gone to
Harry Pollock's home (where Rose was
hidden immediately following the
shooting) for Lieutenant Becker. He
would not admit that he paid the mur
derers for killing -Rosenthal. He de
clared that he was not at the scene of
the murder. He did say, though, that
he had ridden in the "murder automo
bile" used by the assassins to escape
earlier in the evening. He told me he
went to Pollock's home with Rose to
see Becker. Further than that I did not
question him. Schepps is a talker and
loves to tell stories, so I've got to sep
arate the wheat from the chaff.”
Whitman Meets
Party at Albany
* i
ALBANY, N. Y.. Aug. 19.—District
Attorney \\ hitman, who arrived here
shortly after midnight from Manches
ter, Vt., to intercept Sam Schepps. the
murder paymaster” in the Rosenthal
|ease, left here* with Schepps for New
York this morning to take him before
the gland jury. This unexpected move
was made by Whitman to throw off
the track the detectives sent from New
York to meet Schepps, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Rubin and the detectives
who brought the alleged paymaster
from Hot Springs, where he was cap
tured.
i’pon his arrival here, Mr. Whitman
hastily conferred with Rubin, his col
league. and made plans for the de
parture early today, but they refused
to say on what train the party would
■ leave. Whitman planned to question
Schepps on the train between here and
New York and on the arrival at the
metropolis to rush the prisoner to the
. district attorney's office for a formal
confession. .According to the district
attorney. Schepps would be placed in
- the West Side prison in New York.
i Schepps greeted Whitman with a
smile ami if reports that he has been
whimpering like a child all the way
from Hot Springs are true, the prisoner
showed no evidence of it.
Beat Agent ol
New York Police
it had been expected that Whitman
would •meet the Schepps party some- I
where before its arrival in New York |
bur his detei ruination to Intercept i I
at Albany was precipitated by a report
1 that the New York city central police)
office was sending men to Albany to
exert influence on Schepps which might
. result in a refusal on his part to tell
. all he knows.
With the party when It left here |
was a New York lawyer named Ber
nard Sandler, »h" caught up with'
( Schepps in Buffalo after having mad, .
the tiip to Hut Springs to find that
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, AUGUST If). 1912.
'God Never Intended
All Women to Wed/
Pastor Tells His Flock
Famous Spinisters Eulogized in
Sermon That Stirs Chicago
Congregation.
CHICAGO, Aug. 19.—" God Almighty
never Intended that all women should
enter wedlock.”
With that statement as a starter, the
Rev. Frank Brunei- launched upon an
Impassioned eulogy of spinsters in a
sermon that is being discussed with
vigor today by members of his congre
gation.
"Such a scheme,would establish Mor
monism and put the flag of bigamy at
the top of the mast," he said. “Con
aider the beautiful lives of many his
toric spinsters.
"We see Mary Lyons, typical New
England spinster, founding an invalu
able school for girls: Marie Mitchell,
the hunter of stare, devoting her life
ito the study of the firmament: Flor
ence Nightingale, in 'England, and
■Clara Barton, in America, who never
j knew the felicity of love, but were
wedded to the world where suffering
and death were ever with them; Fran
ces E. Willard, angel of womanhood,
who stepped into the blackness of in-
Item pera me. leaving the spotless Hacks
of reform around the world, and Helen
Gould, who is doing ten thousand times
more good than the garrulous critic
who chides her for a single life.
| "Women outnumber men almost three
:to one in this mortal life. The full his
tory of the world will p nve that in the
economy of God it was intended that
there should be many spinsters.”
Wife No. 4-—Edu« Goodrich.
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Wife No. 1 Eliza Woalhersby.
NAT GOODWIN IS STILL
BETTER; WATCHED BY
HIS LEADING WOMAN
SANTA MONICA. CAL.. Aug. 19.
The condition of Nat c. Goodwin, lite
actor, who was so severely injured last
week by being thrown upon the rocks
from a boat by a breaker, showed still
further improvement, and the attend
ing physicians are certain lie will be
able to be up and around within three
weeks. The crisis of his condition will
not be passed until tomorrow, but n'-
untoward symptoms have developed
and everything points tu certain re
covery.
Miss Marjorie Moreland. Goodwin’s
leading woman, who was with him on
the trip when he was hurt, remains
with him almost constantly.
Schepps had already started East.
ISihepps lias alternately denied ami af
firmed that Sandler has authority to
I represent him.
The lawyer claims he was retained
|by Schepps’ brother Mr. Whitman
feared that if the colic got possession
of Schepps and .subjected him to th
- system of mca.-iir, in-mts and
Ito lhe third degree, the pri.-oner would
I be dominated entirely by police Influ
ence and refuse to co-operate with the
'district attorney'.-- ofli< e. S<!iepi>» has
• said all alottg that he tt.iis tu let the
pullet get hold qf him.
INJURED ACTOR AND
HIS FOUR EX-WIVES
Nat Goodwin, who was badly injured when a boat upset with him
in the high surf on the rocky California coast last week.
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SIGNAL LIGHTS TAKEN
I BY LAD TO LIGHT BARN;
RAILROAD NOW TIED UP
JOLIET, 11.1... Aug. 19. Because
John Rossi, a farmer boy. took two
sjgnal lights from the Chicago and Al
ton railroad to light his barn- while he
did the chores, the railroad was tied
up for two hours on Friday and Sat
urday nights. When the lights winked
out lasi night detectives Were waiting
and today Rossi will appear in court Io
explain.
The absence of tile lights, besides
causing serious delay in Ille traffic of
the toad, almost caused a n.ir n>l col
lision betwren a passenger train ami
a freight Olti'-ials say it is surprising
that I fieri was no wreck.
JACKSON TO VOTE ON SEWERS.
JACKSON. GA. Aug. 19. City coun
cil is now eonsidt ring a p< titton signed
by rat of the largest property owners
In town asking lor .<n election for sew
erage. Mayor W. E. Watkins is now
receiving bid.* fora pi ilititina i y survey
and a- .<<>■>!) .c the awertaiin d
tin vlv< Ron will be okp ltd.
SOLDIERS HIKE HOME
FROM ANNISTON, ALA.;
STAND JOURNEY WELL
The Seventeenth infantry, stationed
nt Fort McPherson, is congratulating
Itself on its warlike appearance. It
had proof that it looks formidable.
The Second battalion of the Seven
teenth was near Austell, Ga., on the
last singe of its long hike from Annis
ton, Ala., Saturday* The soldiers were
proceeding in heavy marching orders,
litb s glistening on their shoulders and
bayonets clanking against the tin eups
hung on their haversacks.
Cotton pickers were busy in a
near Austell. They didn’t remain busy
when the soldiers passed. The fact that
the Stars and Stripes were being ear
tied in the rear of the column gave the
harvesters no assuranc.eof safety. They
took one look at the marching war
riors and took to the woods.
CATHOLIC MARCHERS
DROP FROM PARADE;
SEVEN PROSTRATED
LOUISVILLE. KY„ Aug. 19. The ex
treme. heat of Sunday caused seven pros
trations dining the big parade which
marked the opening of the national con
vention of the Federation of Catholic so
cieties.
Hundreds of marchers were compelled
to drop oyt of the lines. So far there
have been no fatalities. Aside from the
hot weather Hie parade was a thorough
• iKM-ess. being the largest pageant ever
v een in l.oui \ ille ’Twenty thousand peo
ple and hundreds of floats were in line.
STIFF FIGHT IN THOMAS
FCR REPRESENTATIVES
THOMASVILLE, GA., .'.tig. IS.-—Th*'
ae. t'm Thomas county i epi es'-nta
tives t<> the legislature promises to be
livelier than was anticipated owing to
lite enttanci of R. It. Chastain, Judgt
II W. Hopkins and B. C Reese are
• undid.ttc. tot re-election. Judge Hop
kins. representing the town element, It
is thought, will have no trouble hi get
ting in, but there will be a stiff light
!• tween the other two candidate tor
the country vote.
EXTRA,
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2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
FIND ELOPING
CHILDREN IN
WOODS AT
NIGHT
Hard-Hearted Police End the
Romance of Boy and Girl,
Invading Retreat.
HUNTED LICENSE TO WED
. ALL OF SUNDAY IN VAIN
——
Forgot Officials Didn’t Work on
Sunday— Mother Rushes Her
Child Back to Natchez.
Awaiting today’s sunlight and an of
ficial w ho might marry them, a fifteen
year-old swain and his lady love, one
year hie junior, playefl babes in the
woods last night, but the hard-hearted
county police found them in their syl
van retreat hiding from the ire of ob
jecting parents, and sent them home.
When the youthful wooer called today
to claim his bride he found that her
mother had placed many miles of un
romantic railroad track between their
happiness.
Six weeks ago pretty Vera Glozier
came to Atlanta, from Natciiez, Miss.,
to visit a man led sister at Ifil Crew
street. With her came her mother.
Henry Thrashdr was an errand boy
for L. W. Rogers’ a grocer of 2345 Capi
tol avenue. Each day he delivered
goods to the Crew street home. After
he had looked Into the eyes of the Mis
sissippi miss for the first time he ran
his errands to this particular house
with quickened step.
| Plan To Elope
On Sunday Fails.
Then began an ardent courtship, even
if the suitor had to be received at the
back door instead of the parlor. The
euit prospered. Vera Glozier began to
believe that all masculine worth was
wrapped up in Henry Thrasher.
The pair realized, however, that their
youthfulness probably would cause ob
jection to their marriage, but they
were unwilling to wait through a weary
waste of time until passing years in
creased their age and gave them op
portunity to make life worth living.
They planned an elopement. Sunday
was the day set, and yesterday they
fared forth to seek a license. They
didn’t know that public officials'do not
work on Sunday and the ordinary’s of
fice was closed. They were grievously
disappointed when this situation con
fronted them.
Still they were determined. They
decided to wait until today, but feared
that their return home would cause a
collapse of their plan. They decided to
stay out all night.
Found On Banks
Os Chattahoochee.
It seemed ideally romantic to await
the day watching the swirling progress
of water to the great sea. They board-*
ed a car and were soon studying the
beauties of nature from the banks of
the Chattahoochee.
There county policemen found them.
The constabulary could see no just rea
son why persons of such tender years
should be camped on a river bank with
nothing to protect them from the night
[ air but the canopy of heaven.
They ordered the lovers to get back
to Atlanta. They obeyed, but planned
to meet early today, and then once
more seek matrimony.
But when the Glozier girl got back
she could give no adequate account ot
where she had been spending the day
and evening. The mother grew suspi
cious. \
Mother Takes
Girl Back Home.
The fii st train for Natchez. Miss.,
leaves Atlanta at 5 o’clock in the morn
ing. When it left today it carried
Veia Glozier and her mother on its
passenger list.
Henry Thrasher raged and tore his
hair in true lover fashion when he
found that for a while at least he will
have to bear up under single blessed
| iwss. lie even consulted the police.
Il'itder their advice, there was a fa
; miliar face at the grocery again today,
but his feet w ere leaden as he delivered
liis packages. He carried num- to 161
t'i'ew street.
WIFE, SHOT BY HUSBAND,
SENDS HIM LOVE NOTE
X'EW YORK. Aug 19.—Matthew
o'i '.illagiian, the wealthy cotton broket
who shot his wife three times at their
home, probably will be released. Mrs
O'< allaghan. who i.t the broker's'second
wifi , is r . overing She wrote a very
t-niliMline letter addle,sed to O'Cai
laehan in his cell. o'Oallaghan is salt
to hav< been Intoxicated when he shot
ai Ills wife untie the impression that
I she was a bui glut'.