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the weather Eorecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Generally f*ir today and tomorrow; light variable winds. VOL. XL NO. 26. 1.0. IGNORES TAFT;SEEKS HIT WITH WILSON Intends to Make Sharp Reply Today to Jersey Governor's Buffalo Speeecl). DECLARES HE HAS TWO OLD PARTIES ON THE RUN Confidence of Bull Moose Chief Grows as He Swings Into Middle West. MI'NCIE. IND.. Sept. 3. The two '• p.;; tics aii} seared: they are doing .<y can to beat me. I'll give them a ciil flgiit. We'll win out. too." This utterance of Colonel Roosevelt • '■ ■ as his train slopped at this city lurrl the confidence the ex-prem- rlent is beginning to have as to his ■ imatc chance of winning the elec tion While Roosevelt considers that i. li.;s tn< fight of his life on his hands, Apr-i is that, as the campaign goes one. he will be able to swing the ntiincnt his ow.n way. T attitude of the crowds in Con i' rut yesterday, copying on the of the whirlwind campaign In . iiont. impelled the colonel to say t tin Progressive party is gaining in oi . He wants to get Woodrow \V :-on into the open in*an aggressive ' Hi so that he can puncture his ar- • inr. Doesn't Want To Mention Taft. If he can avoid it. Rcuaseyelt w-lU.Jja.ve Tittle to say about President Taft, de siring to give the impression that he regards the president aS out of the race. His allusions to the president up to this time have been brief. He has attacked the Republican party’s platform and the performances of the Taft administration, but has refrained fiom indulging in any severe assult on lite president individually. Roosevelt read on the train this morning of the attack made upon him by Governor Wilson in Buffalo. He observed that he will take up the cud gels against Wilson at once. In his St. Louis speech late today it is ex pected that the colonel will make sharp reply to the governor. Due To Reach St. Louis Late Today. Roosevelt's schedule gets him to St. Louis late this afternoon. He' remains until 7:40 o'clock, when he rushes on i" st. Paul. The colonel was disappointed great ' this morning when he learned that uwd of 5,000 persons had w'aited at 'ue depot at Syracuse in the rain last right in a vain effort to see him. Roosevelt was fast asleep after a Liiguing day when the train pulled 1 ■" Syracuse at 10 o’clock, and his sec >'i:iry declined to awaken him. The ''"'ll stood patiently in the rain until ! ■rain pulled out. Birmingham to Give Bull Moose Dinner Birmingham, ala., sept. 3. —colonel ' icodore Roosevelt. when he cojnes r, "igh Birmingham on September 28 • ill hr accorded a big reception. Several ’ousand people will be at the train or i! 'C place where he is to deliver his ad ' " Pss - The Colonel will arrive in Bir ’"ingham a few minutes after 12 o'clock d will be here until 3:30 o’clock in the or about three hours, going Rom here to Atlanta. He will be given a '•inner during his stay in Birmingham an ' ; indications are that 200 or more will make application for dinner tickets. ENGLAND DENIES STORY OF PLAN TO TAKE CANAL PROTEST TO THE HAGUE London Sept. 3. An official state ment issued by the government today '■•clares that the announcement that ■ ngland will demand reference of the f'anama canal issue to The Hague is baccurate and premature." •t is further stated that the "gov ernment's line of action is now being considered.” Despite thi.. statement, officialdom nerally is oT the belief that Great 1 ttain will demand a decision on the nal treaty by an international court ' arbitration. Whether the United s "'t , s win acquiesce is a matter that ■n th shrewdest diplomats are at •' a upon. President Taft is a disciple of arbi ''ation. but the Hague court would a preponderant 1 of foreigners who l» 1 ounied upon to decide 'n t the United Stat's, heeau-i Unit inicicstt- arr .identical with those 01 England ■■: • t The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• • e : Vermont Votes Today • • How the State Has Forecast No- • • vember Results in Seven • • Other Presidential Years. • i • . * 1 • Year. Democrat. Republican. • ! • 1884* 17.331 22.183 • • 1888 19.527 48,622 • • ’B92* 16,325 37.992 • • 1896 14,855 53.426 •' • 1900 17,129 48.441 • • 1904 16,566 48,115 • • 1908 15.952 45.598 • • ’Democrats elected president in •: • these yea's. • • Democratic victory in 1884 and • in 1892 was foreshadowed by • • smaller Republican vote for gov- • • ernor in those years. • • Today’s election, therefore, is • • attracting national interest. • • Cold-blooded judges expect the • • result wilMie something like this: • • Fletcher (Taft Rep.) 23,000 • Metzgar (Roosevelt P 0g.».. 9.000 • • Howe (Democratic) 19,000 • •••••••••••••••••••••••••a VERMDNT, KEF TO U.S.,VDTESTOMI Fall Election Expected to Go as i Does State Contest—Heavy Balloting. MONTPELIER. VT.. Sept. 3.—Ver mont. the political barometer of the nation, is voting today in the first great contest of ballots since the presiden tial nominations. The result of the state election is expected to be an in dication of the result tn the national election. Victory for their champions is predicted by leaders of the parties. The polls opened at 7 a. m. and the early vote was heavy. Threats of rain brought out many voters early who otherwise would have waited until later in the day. The first hour's bal loting was so heavy that it indicated the casting of a record vote by the time for the closing of the polls at 5 p. m. Five candidates for governor were in the field. They were Allen M. Fletcher, Republican; H. B Howe. Democrat; "Rev. Frazer Metzger, National Progres sive: Clement F. Smith. Prohibitionist; Fred W. Suiter. Socialist. Besides the governor and other state officers, two congressional representa tives and a new legislature, composed of 30 senators and 246 representatives, were on the ballots. The Taft forces have been making sweeping claims, "although since the Progressives centered their attack upon the state, the Republicans dropped their figures to a prediction of 10.000 plurality. Increases in registration showed that the voters are warmed up by the heated campaign that preceded the balloting. Material Rosenthal Witness in Europe LIVERPOOL, Sept. 3.—Thomas Coupe, who is wanted in New York by District Attorney Whitman as a material witness in the Rosenthal case, arrived today on the Cunard liner Lusi tania from New York and immediately was placed under surveillance by the , police. Coupe was night clerk io the Elks club in New York and saw the , actual killing of Rosenthal by gang- ( sters who subsequently escaped in an ( automobile. Recently he disappeared, . but Whitman’s detectives traced him on hoard the ship and Scotland Yard . and other police bureaus throughout England were notified to be on the , watch. When Coupe was taken to the police ( station he was told that District At- ( torney Whitman wanted him to return , to New York. Coupe evaded a direct ( answer, saying that he must consult , with his friends before he could say whether he would go back. , By this action Coupe aroused the suspicion that influence of the most | powerful kind had been brought to I | bear upon him to have him stay away , from New York until after the trial , of the men indicted for Rosenthal's t murder. ( Coupe refused to discuss this phase of the case, but denied that his sudden ( departure from New York had been I , forced or otherwise brought about by Ij outside agencies. I ( SECRET SERVICE MEN p RAID COUNTERFEITING GANG IN OHIO TOWN AKRON. OHIO. Sept 3. After five 1 houses were raided, six men and consld- i • rable counterfeit money were gathered ■ in today by secret service agents and lo cal detectives F’or some time past counterfeit silver dollars have been in circulation in this ( city. Secret service men came here to investigate and discovered that, while ’ the money was not being made here, it I vas being distributed here. Further in ; vestigations led them to suspect foreign ers here were being used to get rid of the 1 ' bad coins. ! All the mm who were found with the i money were locked up and will be ar raigned before the United States commia- | sinner in Cleveland today An agept of the counterfeiting gang was recently in the <ii\ an*' had coins to the 11 foreigners ioi * hundred. ATLANTA. GA., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1912. DEEP TERHOR SPREADS OH on on ESTATE ———— More Letters Cause Rockefeller Home to Be Guarded by Small Army. BLACKMAILER GANG DEMANDS MILLIONS I Grandchildren of Aged Magnate I To Be Kidnaped as Penalty, Threats Say. * - NEW YORK. Sept. 3.—ln fear that a desperate band of blackmailers, w hose letters have thrown John D. Rocke feller and members of his family into a state of terror will attempt to carry out their threats of assassination and kidnaping, elaborate measures are be ing employed today to protect the Standard Oil millionaire's family at his Pocantico Hill estate. Armed guards about the big estate have been doubled until thirty men are now on duty, in cluding several special deputy sheriffs and six special men from the W, J. Bums agency. The seriousness of the threats against the Rockefellers lies in the fact that the blackmailers declare they will dy namite the oil king's magnificent home if are ignored. Some of ftflfic letters have been traced to Palermo, Jtjuy,, »jjer» Detective Petrosino. of the New York police de partment. was murdered. The amount demanded from the millionaire was in the millions. The letters directed him, if he valued his life and property, to open negotiations for the payment of this sum. and told him in what way to open negotiations. He has been given until September 12 to pay the vast sum demanded. Letters Cause No Worry at First. The letters through the mails did not worry the Rockefellers at first. As a matter of fact, it is not believed they saw them, because the mail received from cranks always has been large. It was when, with guards about the house, the letters directed to Mr. Rock efeller or his son, sometimes to the foreman of the estate and sometimes to the negro boss of the laborers, were found placed in prominent parts of the grounds that alarm began to be felt. Then came letters threatening to dy namite the place and to kidnap the children of John D. Jr. Im mediate action was taken to protect every part of the estate, every member of the family and the bosses of labor ers. so that the estate today resembles an armed, camp. Eighteen negro watchmen have been armed with repeating rifles. At the entrance to the estate the guns are resting against the pillars of the gate, hidden from view, but in the pocket of each guard there Is a heavy revolver, of the army pattern. Five savage Great Dane dogs also have been added to the force of guards. Threats to Kidnap John D. Jr.’s Children. The blackmailers have directed their kidnaping threats agatnst the oil king, his son and the latter’s two youngest children, who are now ill of measles at the Kent house, a sort of nursery on the grounds, near their fathers' resi dence. They have threatened to kill Fred erick A. Briggs, the superintendent of the estate, and a negro fireman named Dunson, who oversees the teamsters and other laborers. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., goes now about the estate accompanied by guards, while his home is guarded night and day by armed negroes. ATLANTA ADDS 800 TO ITS POPULATION; CAPITOL VIEW IN CITY Atlanta added 800 to its official pop-, ulation today by the annexation of Capitol View, a town in Blackhall dis- ] diet adjoining the city limits Capitol View's 98 voters wen I to the polls yesterday and settled the annex ation question by voting 59 for join ing Atlanta and 39 for staying out. The election followed an act pa-sed by the last legislature providing for changes in the Atlanta charter, one it'm being the annexation of the su burb ts its citizens wanted to come in. Wife to Help Rich Husband Accused of Attacking Her BEACH RIDICULES CHARGES “ ? '' s wßb JrO F ■ 'J .. ME JK; ’-ii. ■ Mrs. Frederick Beach. Mystery of Cutting of Society Woman Stirred Aiken. S. C., Millionaire Colony. ■ AIKEN. S. Sept. 3.—Frederick G. Beach and Mrs. Beach are expected in Aiken within a few days for the trial, set for the September term of court, in which the millionaire clubman is charged with attacking his wife one moonlight night last February "with intent to WU." Though the Beaches are reconciled and apparently happy agnir, the pros-' ecuting attorney says he is confident of convicting the wealthy member of the winter tourist colony and showing the fashionable set that it can not violate South Carolina's laws with impunity Beach and his wife have been guests at a party on J. Pierpont Morgan's yacht, the Corsair. In Newport harbor, the last week. They left the vacht yes terday and went to Dark Harbor for a short stay before coming to Aiken, where Beach will consult his attor neys. He declares the charge is ab surd. M. S. Baughn, of Atlanta, a special agent who acted as detective in the case, testified at the preliminary hear ing that he had heard Beach make in criminating statements against him self. A small gold-handled knife, which Mrs. Beach said her assailant had used, was afterward found in Beach s possession, covered with blood stains. Beach denied any knowledge of the assault and his wife supported him in his contention. Attack Was Mysterious. The attack on Mrs. Beach was a mysterious affair, whit»h disrupted the colony of millionaires who make Aiken their winter home. The story that first gained circulation was-to thi- ef fect that Mrs. Beach was returning to her home when a strange man, sup posed to have been a negro, "prang at her, knocked her down and then slashed her throat with a sharp knife. The screams of Mrs. Beach when her assailant first sprang al her attracted attention, and he was pursued, but dodged into an alley and escaped. She swooned and was taken Into the housi , where she was attended bj a physi cian. Afterward she declared that It was a negro who attacked her one that she did not know and did not r< - member ever having seen before. In spite of many denials, a rumor soon gained circulation which involved Mr. Beach In the attack on his wife. It was the subject for a great deal of discussion and speculation among the members of the Now York colony and local society folk, and was commented upon in the local press. The gossip became so pronounced that Oliver Iselin sent a letter to Mayor Gyles, in which he offered a reward of SSOO for the apprehension and conviction of the person responsi ble for the assault on Mrs. Beach. Tin Iselin letter openly rebuked the gos sips, but. instead cf allaying the iit mors, it had a tendency to increase them. Tried to Hush It Up. The latter spurred the mayor to make a thorough investigation He did not issue a statement of the disclosures which he succeeded in bringing about, and had allowed the colony to think tire matter had been allowed to die a nat ural death when, without intimation, he caused a warrant to be sworn out for j ''Beauty" Beach, charging him with as sault anrf battery on his w if<. The members of the eoloriy lined up solidly against the Aiken authorities and balked the Investigation as h< -t they could. Everything pus ibb was done to hush up th* affair when it y . found that Maym Gyle- was det't- Continued on Page Two. . ■ wTSjftW Hi aKy-j—F. . ... -MWMWMMW t • z- ■ FATHER ACCUSED OF MG CHILD Mrs. Rudolph Oetler Thinks Husband Took Child Award ed Her by Court. A frantic mother, victorious In her fig’llt for her child in the courts, is hunting a t hi ee-year-old lad today who, she sajs, was kidnaped by his father. The woman is Mrs. Rudolph Oetter.. whsr troubles with her husband have figured in th< courtaat various times. She? lives with her mother. Mrs. Emily Smith, 9 Nesbit street, and there has been taking care of the youngster who was awarded to her after a long fight in court, (letter, the father, has been coining to see the youngster off and on. He visited the house last night, ac 'cording to Mrs. Smith, and took the boy out to. a corner drug store for some ice cream. At the same time he had some summer beverages sent to the house for Mrs. Smith and Ris wife. The two women awaited his. return for an hour and then Mrs. (letter began a hysterical search of the streets for the child. She found no clew and the police have not been able to locate the man. There was some talk of an automobile having figured in tch so-called kidnaping. ADMITS IN A LETTER KILLING 3 WOMEN ; POLICE INFORMED .SPRINGITELJ). ILL, Sept. 3.- Thg police department here today received a letter dated St. Louis. Mo., put port ing to be from Charles Stanhope Cal vert, a wealthy Bind owner, formerly of Baltimore but now claiming St. Louis as Ills home. According to the letter, Calvert murdered* three women, one of them being a Miss Bradley, of Pittsburg. I’a.. whom he threw over board from a boat in a fit of rage. His lettei stated that he was on his way to .kill a nle< • . Mrs. Henry Bowers, of Pittsfield, 111., when he was overpow ered by a suicidal mania and took his own life. Polite of Pittsburg, Baltimore and St. I.ouis have been asked to locate i ith.-r Calvert or Ids body. Mts. Henry Bowgrs, who is the wife of t’ireuit Clerk Henry Bowers of Pike county, with headquarters at Pittsfield, stated this afternoon that Calvert had la "ii appointed administrator of the estate of her grandfather, James Yules, a Seotchman, who had amassed a for tune of $1511,1100 at Baltimore. Her grandfather left iter $50,000. but as yet she has never received a eent of it. GIRL'S SPIRIT TELLS WIFE OF HER HUSBAND'S DEATH (’LEVELAXI •. OHIO. Sept. 3. Twice the “spirit" <»f Margaret Coughenour, who died six years ago. gave warning that her father. Albert L. (’oughenour. faced death The third time the "spirit" brought word to the mother that Couglu - ii" ii w h <;< ;i<|. ,\n Ijour later came nuns i*’ hg: .iph tbai (’ougherinur. Pcnn iM'iu.i tnmm.j, had been killed with three others in a wreck at Cunwav, p a . Frederick G. (Beauty) Beach COURT UPHOLDS I PHONE IEBDICT s Former President of Atlanta Telephone Company Must Pay Big Amount. r Judge Newman today upheld the findings of the special master appoint ed to hear the evidence in the action brought against C. J. Simmons, former 3 president of the Atlanta Telephone arid Telegraph Company. The master's findings, confirmed l>yt l , Judge Newman, required that the notes’ t Involved be known as gold mortgage i Instead of first mortgage notes and • that if Simmons defaulted in tire inter est the whole obligation was to be come due at once. Simmons was ordered to pay $139,- 921.57. wfllt six pel cent interest from February 1. 1908. receiving endit, how ever. for two payments of $13,125. 1 The complainant was also given the right Io immediate fore. Insure with a special lien on tlie amount of the de cree. Tin' Stromberg Carlson Compa ny brought suit May 17, I'.iln, and a long court light followed with compli cated hearings before the special mas ter named by the court. The master’s findings constituted a victorv I'm tlie company suing and are upheld by Judge Newman. » A. B. Conklin, manager’ of the cotn- i pany, said today that thosuft affected Mr. Simmons personally and that it would not change the status of the company inasmuch as the Stromberg Carlson Company Is alnady the larg est stockholder. WEDS YOUTH WHO SAVED HER FROM VICIOUS DOG PITTSBURI:. S< ■ i After telling their families that tin y were going to visit some friends in Barberton Ohio. Miss Rebecca .McLain and Jesse Ed wards, East End. were married in Akron, Ohio Yestm-.T,, th,- families were notified by telegram of the elope ment. After the marriagi tile young couple left on a honeymoon to Cleve land. Their meeting was romantic. Mrs Edwards, then '.Me- McLain. was walking down Sncridan a\>llllo mu- day last year, w hen sudih nly she was at tacked by a vicious dog. Catling for helps, she .ittrieted the attention of young Edwards, who \tas in liis place of business Running lo’her side, Ed wards clubbed and kii ked the dog into unconsciousness. He later took the young girl home in his automobile. ARMY DESERTER ARRESTED Cl MMING, GA.. S< pi -J*olphus . .lames, private of Batten I». Fourth Hehl ' ai tilh-rv . who def • - • | \ ’ Ruasell. Wyo, on Mir 8. was arr* . ted I here today b\ Sheriff W W Reid, of P ot s.Vth county He will b< taken to Atlanta and surrenderod arnix < !fH ui< at I <>» ’ M< I’lwrson .lauo • I *<>i huit lit . n j listing 11 c arrived in town t« da\ and was immediately placed undvr arrest. IXTM 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE KILLSSELF MU HOTEL Financial Difficulties and Ex- cessive Heat Given as Prob- able Causes of Suicide. HORACE ADAMS LEAVES NOTE FOR HIS FATHER ■- ■ I, Dead Man Prominent in Insur ance Business and Socially in Georgia City. / CHICAGO, Sept., 3.—Horace H. H. Adams, of Macon. Ga., killed him self today in his room tn the Planters hotel here. He shot himself through the thfj, temple. A note found In the room asked the police to notify his father to take charge of the body. Krom papers in Adams' possession it , was found that the young man was a member of the firm of M. Adams & Son, insurance brokers of Macon. Adams had been at the hotel since August 26. The reason of his suicide is not known. Since his bill at the hotel was left unpaid, and he apparently had * no money, police are inclined to the theory that financial diffictilties might have been the cause. Attaches of the hotel, however, think that the extreme heat of the past few days may have resulted in temporary mental unbalance. Adams had com plained of the jieat and had acted in a peculiar mariner for some,days. Family Unable to Explain Suicide MAI ON. GA., Sept. 3.—Horact Adams, who killed himself in a down town Chicago hotel today, was one of the best known young men of Macon. He was prominent In both business.and social circles, and a member of all of the clubs. He was engaged with his ffather, C. M. Adatns, and his brother, Albert Adams, in the real estate and insurance business. Members of the family are unable to assign any reason for his suicide, as they say he. was hi excellent health and in splendid condition financially. Ho was 30 years of; agr. The body will be brought t<r Macon for funeral and Interment. JOKES JUDGE, BUT IS FREED OF COURT CONTEMPT CHARGE DENVER. f'01... Sept. 3.—Hany H. Tammcn. one of the owners' of The Denver Post, charged witli eontenjpt of court by District Judge Shattuck for artii les print' d in The Post, was dis. charged, much to everybody’s astonish- •' incut, as Prosecutor <'biles declares the publisher's answer to the charge was far more contemptuous than the alleged original offense. When the court began talking about tlie constitution Tamtnen interrupted and said: "No. judge, don’t kid me about the constitution; this is a man to-man proposition, attd sometimes I think It is a dog fight. I suppose you will give me a penitentiary sentence." After further sallies back and forth. Judge Shattuck discharged Tammen. F t. t he, same offense of which Tammen was acquitted F. G. Boufils, his part ner. was fined $5,00.0 and sentenced to sixty days in jail. The supreme c<lUrt interfered with this sentence. RATS BITE CHILD IN CRIB: RIGHT HAND IS INJURED ST. LOUIS Sept.' 3 —Harold, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam McGarry, who conduct a millinery slurp, is in a serious condition at his hoim- from injuries inflicted during th'- night by rats The child's right arm was bitten in a store of places ami the shock and loss of blood may be n'nrh i < ■!) woi se by infection of the wounds. The rs(rents were awakened by the I'hilil s s'-reams. and after trying tc 'hush it arosi and lighted the gas. They tlu n saw the wounds and. hastily <>r iritook Harold io the Central di .iH-a'v Ph l sicians cauterized 'h' ■■■urtd-. Th- child was In a go-cart a tire idot oi th" phrentn* bed when al lacked. i