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the weather Forecast fcr Atlanta and Georgia: Probably fair today and tomorrow. VOL. XL NO. 13. OIL LETOS Mlllffll TOIMPEHCH PEffl E 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 •••••••••••••••••••••••••a • • • 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. • • •••••• •••••••••••••••«•,, 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. jsgSNBKSSSp - Wh W. *** \ WwßraaSffiir 'Si 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. ■"'E’ KnHI I B s k PT _ ° a j 'J- x fesl uA I w. Wk Wife N<>. 3 .Maxine Elliott. U AX •< < v '■ J <■s<» A / ■ \® V \w& 4 ;4s£yu Wife No. 2—Nel la Pease. 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, ■ —" ■■■—— „ 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'.