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VOL. XL NO. 27.
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SUICIDE
Mrs. Lou Watson, Spurned by
Parents Because of Elope
ment, Inhales Gas.
SECOND MARRIAGE WAS
HAPPY, SAYS HUSBAND
Father and Mother Fought
Hard to Outwit Cupid, But
Efforts Were Futile.
Her first nusband divorced, her 5ec
,,1,,1 for whom she jilted a Tennessee
youth frowned upon by her parents,
nin teen-year-old Mrs. Lou Watson, a
i M de of a few months. tried suicide lo
na' at her home, 29 Walker street, by
and was taken tuncon
s. nus to Grady hospital. Physicians
tin.... said she had a fighting chance for
life.
Young Mis. Watson has had a check
ered matrimonial career, full of sur
prises to her friends and her parents,
and abounding in romance. The trag
.d\ of today is the climax of an ar
dent wooing, an elopement and a hasty
marriage to which Mrs. Watson's par
ents have not been reconciled.
Walter Watson, the husband, a fire
man with Engine Company No. 5,
thought it was probably this determined
attitude that led the young woman to
try to end her life. He said they had
lived happily together, but that she had
brooded constantly over her parents’
coldness. Yesterday Watson called on
the telephone Mrs. Watson's father. C.
B. Brogdon, but he refused to talk to
lion.
First Married
When 16 Years Old.
Mrs. Watson was first married when
she was sixteen years old to a youth
mimed Max Miller. They separated
ifter two years. First evidence of a
row romance caused the Brogdons to
hike quick alarm afid when the friend
ship between the girl and \t atson be
<ame marked the parents took her to
Houston, Texas.
But Cupid is just as active in Texas
as in Georgia, and the girl was wooed
nd von by a Knoxville, Tenn., youth
who happened to be visiting there.
Plans were being made for their mar
riage when the young woman
taken home to Atlanta by her patents.
Two days later she had eloped with
t n- man whom her parents had hoped
s’.ie had forgotten, and when they next
heard of her she was Mrs. Watson.
Weary Os It All.
She Turned on Gas.
The Watsons went to live at 22
Stonewall street, and yesterday moved
029 Walker street. In her new home
Ha.ay. tired of the struggle and the op
position and the complications of her
varied romances, the young bride lay
■ awn after opening the gas jet in her
! >om. Others in the house smelled the
gas and when they reached her she was
unconscious.
The father, who lives at 70 Capitol
avenue, said he knew nothing of his
‘laughter's affairs since her last mar
riage. He .-aid Watson had called him
up on the telephone yesterday, but he
had told the maid that he would not
' 1 k to his son-in-law.
RUNAWAY AMERICUS
GIRL IN RICHMOND IS
URGED TO GO HOME
RICHMOND, VA.. Sspt. 4.—Nellie
B winan. who ran away from her home
’• Americus, Ga.. sat in the office of Po
' •? Chief Werner, in this city, and wept
he pleaded with her to return to her
People. The girl, who says she is only
seventeen, is now at the Young Woman’s
H ristian association, and will probably
’•ave for Americus in a day or two She
has been working in a factory here for
several months.
I he girl has raven black hair and big.
' S 'i’ous eyes of almost the same hue.
' n the opinion of Chief Werner, she is a
u ’le beauty. She says she ran away
r "m home because her people were not
good to her.
SENATOR BOURNE SAYS
HE WILL SUPPORT T. R.
" ASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—Senator
'" n ’ithan Bourne, Jr., of Oregon, a Re
publican, today issued a statement say
tliat he would support Theodore
"sevelt for president. Mr. Bourne
' the originator of the "third elec
- 1'• term" movement for the colonel
the Progressive party was
formed.
The Atlanta Georgian
Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Convicts in Alabama
Prison Organizeto
Reform Themselves
Adept “Covenant and Agree
ment’ to Obey Penitentiary
Rules and Elevate Associates.
, MONTGOMERY, ALA.. Sept. 4. —De-
| daring that they wish to reform and
I redeem themselves from the "low state
.of degradation" to which they have
i fallen, convicts at the slate prison at
| Wetumpka have organized themselves
; into "The Alabama State Prison Re
l form League." Rules have been drawn
: up and officers elfvled.
i A copy of the "covenant and agree
i ment has been received from the
( I league by President James G. Oakley,
I of the state convict board.
The rules adopted by the organiza
tion are:
. I. To obey cheerfully the rules and
i regulations of state officials unde
whose care and charge we have been
I placed.
j 2. To never abuse the confidence and
I trust placed in us by any of the prison
| authorities.
I 3. To start a reformation of our
■present and future lives.
4. To use our uttermost efforts by
> | words and examples to influence our
fellow prisoners to a higher order of
man in every respect.
5. To honor and discharge the du
ties of religious nature imposed uopn
• us by the president cf this order.
i 6. To attend all meetings religiously
i when In our power to do so.
7 To cultivate and cherish a love
for all mankind, especially those of our
• order.
i: The following were selected as offi-
Jeers of the league:
. | President Simon P. Bryant, sent up
I from Geneva county: vice president,
I M illiam Hereford, sent up from Hunts
’tcilJe; chaplain, John Standford, sent
' j up from Mobile; secretary, T. L. Palm
| er. sent tip from Anniston, and assist-
I ant secretary. Henry M. Dell, also from
| Ann is’on.
NEGRO DRIVER LEAPS
FROM BURNING AUTO
TRUCK; IT RUNS WILD
When a negro driver of an automo
bile truck of the L. W. Rogers Compa
ny heard a strange roaring behind him
, yesterday afternoon as he sped over
the chert road a, mile north of East
’ Point he looked around and discovered
that the truck was a mass of flames.
' Without taking time to shut off
power or throw on the brakes, the
1 frightened negro leaped wildly from
• the flying furnace and landed in the
’ road, doing a few spectacular somer
saults before he finally came to a halt.
In the meantime the runaway auto, a
veritable ball of fire, dashed wildly
1 along the road.
, A short distance away the car sud-
stopped of its own accord. The
| flames had burned into the machinery.
The East Point fire department, sum
moned by telephone, was on the scene
with its truck and soon extinguished
the flames. A charred frame and a
wholesale lot of barbecued potatoes,
onions and other vegetables were all
’ that remained. The auto was insured.
RAMSPECK IS CHOSEN
SECRETARY OF BOARD
OF TRADE IN DECATUR
i Robert C. W. Ramspeck has been
named permanent secretary of the De
catur board of trade. The board has a
membership of more than 250 of the
most progressive citizens of Decatur
and vicinity.
I Mr. Ramspeck has been employed to
l devote his entire time as secretary. He
■ now is private secretary to Congress
man William Schley Howard.
The board has rented convenient
’ quarters in the Guess building, on the
’ court house square, where Mr. Rams
‘ peck will be found in charge.
CANDIDATE SPENT
$lO FOR MATCHES IN
BATTLE FOR OFFICE
,
The use of boxes of safety matches,
. bearing the card of a candidate dur
ing the recent election, proved an im
portant expense to R. O. Cochran, nom
inated representative. In his expense
account, sworn to tod&y, he asserts
that he spent $lO for the matches—
the penny-a-box kind.
, Mr. Cochran’s total expense, as
shown by his statement today, was
: $607.50. Congressman William Schley
' Howard, who also turned in his ac
' count, showed that he expended $267.50.
BANDITS PICK WRONG
TRAIN: FLEE IN AUTO
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 4.—Three
masked men held up a Louisville and
Nashville freight train near here to
day. mistaking it for a fast passenger
t train bound for Cincinnati. Ascer-
■ taining their error, the bandits fled in
t a waiting automobile, leaving behind a
quantiy of dynamite and nitroglyc
erin. A special train carrying armed
deputies left In pursuit
$3,200 AWARDED FOR TWO
OIL EXPLOSION DEATHS
Plaintiffs asking $35,000 from the
Texas company for deaths caused by
explosions of kerosene in Atlanta have
' been awarded $3,200 by superior court.
• ' The suits were those of William
Curtis, who asked SIO,OOO for the death
of his wife Mrs. Elizabeth Curtis, and
J. L. Overby, who asked $25,000 for the
; death of his wife. Mrs. Maude S Over
by.
ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1912.
MORRIS WINS
FIRST POINT
IN JUDGE
CONTEST
I
State Committee Not to Accept
Proxies in the Blue Ridge
Election Probe.
100 MOUNTAINEERS AT
HEARING IN CAPITOL
Patterson Scores When Motion
• I
to Refer Battle to Gilmer
Chiefs Is Lost.
The slate Democratic executive com
j mittee assembled promptly al noon in
I the senate chamber todav to hear the
, famous Morris-Patterson judgeship
■contest in ’h? Blue Ridge circuit.
I There was other business before the
I committee, but the interest in it was
. listless.
; The crowd was there to hear the "big
. noise"—the Blue Ridge fight.
, When Chairman Harris called the
committee to order the senate cham
ber was packed and jammed. There
were more than one hundred moun
taineers from Gilmer county alone,
many of them In hickory shirts, minus
I coats and vests.
It was evident from the beginning
that the hearing was to be lengthy
and exhaustive.
| The Morris men won the first point
. by proposing that no proxies be accept
ed in the judgeship hearing. This was
I adopted by the committee, though not
without protest
Thought to Have
■ Aided Judge Morris.
1 This move was thought to have elim-
■ inated several votes primarily against
• Judge Morris.
H H. Dean, counsel for Patterson.
: stated that an initial cause of delay
would be found, in the fact that the per
sons in charge of the election in Gil
mer had refused positively to produce
■ any evidence as to the holding of an
. election in Gilmer, notwithstanding the
fact that he had served upon those
. persons a subpena signed by the
I chairman of the state committee. Mr.
Dean said that it, therefore, would be
necessary to introduce witnesses from
every precinct in Gilmer, to establish
the fact of an election in Gilmer, and
what the results were.
Counsel for Morris, in opening their
case, pleaded that the state commit
tee had no right to hear the case
i that the remedy sought at the hands
of the state committee rests entirely
, in law with the county executive com
mittee of Gilmer county.
Committee Urged
To Dismiss Contest.
The committee was urged to dismiss
the contest upon the technical ground
' of want of jurisdiction, because no
contest was properly filed in Gilmer.
The Patterson attorneys affirmed
that every effort was made to file the
contest in Gilmer, and would have
■ been so filed had it not been for the
deliberate evasion of the Gilmer au
thorities upon whom such notice must
have been served.
The committee refused the plea of
Morris counsel that the case be re
manded to the Gilmer county commit
' tee, and voted to proceed with the
hearing. This was first blood for the
' Patterson side.
A motion was then made to refer the
contest to a subcommittee of the state
committee. This was heavily voted
down, and the allegations of Pattersor
i .
were read.
Fight Squarely
Before Committee.
i This put the tight squarely before
the committee on its merits.
The allegations were lengthy, and set
forth sweeping charges of fraud and
intimidation in registering, receiving,
counting and returning the vote of Gil
mer county, all in such wise that in
the primary Morris was returned a
winner over Patterson by more than
500 votes.
But for the fraudulent manipulation
of Gilmer county, continued the in
dictment against Morris. Patterson
would have won over Morris by 356
votes, at least, and perhaps more, ant
that Gilmer county’s vote, counted in
secret by Morris partisan, “Bart" Cox.
clerk of the court in Gilmer, was not
returned until after Cox had been in
formed by Morris that Morris had been
' defeated in every other county in the
circuit outside of Gilmer, and that only
I a big majority from Gilmer would save
; Morris. Cox, it was alleged, promptly
j returned the necessary majority next
I day.
The Patterson allegations were de-
Inied in toto by counsel for Morris.
’ Continued on Page Four,
Human Torch Sets Fire
To 4 Stores Trying to
Escape From Flames
Bicyclist Fractures Skull in Dodg
ing Macon Electrician, Who
Is Fatally Burned.
MACON. GA.. Sept. .4 —A human
firebrand, who set fire accidentally to
four stores last night, died here todav
I from injuries received when he caught
lon fire from the bursting of a gas
I blowpipe. He was Israel I.essay, an
ele.ctrician.
Le-sev was in his shop on Cotton
I avenue, when his clothes ignited, and
j in his efforts to put out the flames he
J broke through two plate glass windows
I and left a trail of fir. wherever lie went.
'He finally ran into a drug sore and
1 fell unconscious.
I A negro bicyclist, trying to get out
jof the way of the burning man, ran
into a :e! p'mnr pole and fractmed his j
skull. !■ . s likely to die. Tw o fire-
men w e badly cut by glass in fighting
the ti e in oni of the stores.
I This happen d about 10:30 o’clock,
(just as a nearby theater urowd was
I disputing ano a street panic a'inost
I ensued. One ol tiir- stores damaged by
■fire w .H ,fie Women’s Exchange
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One of the children in the mill districts defying Ihe torrid
wave, although the water in which she bathes her tired feet is
none too cool.
MEN ROMANCE
NOT SO RO WIG
Wedding Was Quiet Affair,
With Bride’s Brother as One
of the Witnesses.
NEW YORK. Sept. 4.—When the
facts regarding the marriage of Mrs.
Frances Johnson Hayden, of Atlanta,
to Charles C. Laird, of New York, be
came known today the props were
knocked out of an interesting but in
accurate story of a romantic wedding.
It was by no means such a sudden af
fair as it had appeared at first.
Mrs. Hayden, a beautiful society
woman from the Georgia capital, was
visiting her brother, Joseph H. John
son, tire commissioner of New York,
and she met Laird, a wealthy young
stock broker, at her brother's home,
where he was one of th® guests at a
party. Their meeting was followed by
several calls, and it was not long be
fore they decided to wed. Commis
sioner Johnson was present at the quiet
ceremony and was fully informed of his
sister's engagement and intention of
marrying young Laird
41 BODIES TAKEN FROM
GAS-WRECKED COLLIERY
PARIS, Sept. 4.—Forty-one bodies
have been recovered from the Clarence
colliery near Bethune, where there was
an explosion late yestrday. There were
74 men at work in the pit when the
accident occurred. Only ten escaped
unscathed. The remaining 23 were in
’jured, some of them seriously.
Suffering Increases as Torrid Wave Lingers
NO HEAT RELIEF SIGHTED
1 V J !
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, • Naval Victory for •
: U-S* Without a Shot •
• WASHINGTON, Sept I The •
• first naval engagement between •
• the United States forces and those •
• of a foreign country since the •
• Spanish-American war took place •
' • in th, gulf of Fonseca in northern •
• Nicaragua yesterday, according to •
• dispatches today •
• While the conflict was bloodless •
• and there were no shots exchang- •
• e<l, the American forces captured •
• a gunboat which the rebels had •
• taken and, carried to the gulf of •
• Fonseca to harass the towns in •
• that section - •
ASKS S6~A BIRD~FOR
100 CHICKENS WHICH
DIED IN SHIPMENT
The .Southern railway will find the
chickens of J. E. Cason very expensive
if superior court harkens to the plea
of Mr. Cason.
The court Is considering Cason s suit
against the company for >6OO, which he
says is due him for 100 chickens killed
en route from Spartanburg. S. C., to
Atlanta, in 1910.
Mr. Cason, who resides at 356 Oak
' street, asserts that during that year
he came to Atlanta to conduct a poul
try business, and that in shipping his
most prized chickens, all but 25 of them
died before he could open up his busi
ness.
UPSON TAX RATE TEN MILLS.
THOMASTON, GA„ Sept. 4.—F. M.
Garner. J. A. McEachern and J. A.
, Franklin. Upson county commissioners,
have fixed the tax rate for Upson for
the present year at ten mills, which is
the same as last year They have not
announced what part will be distributed
toward working the roads.
A “little mother” keeping
cool one of the tots upon whom
this kind of weather is hardest.
i Highest Temperature of 1912
Reached Yesterday— It May
Be Exceeded Today.
Atlanta awoke to another torrid
twelve hours today, alter another night
of tossing wakefulness. The few
clouds which floated across the skies
yesterday passed on without giving a
drop of rain.
The official high mark registered this
afternoon at 2 o'clock was 91 degrees,
a trifle cooler than yesterday, owing to
another flock of clouds which cut off
the sun's rays for a while, but did not
give up any moisture, though they ex
cited hopes.
The weather bureau says no relief is
in sight. There is no promise of rain
for several days, no expectation of a
drop in temperature.
The highest point of the summer
was reached yesterday afternoon when
the mercury climbed to 93.3 degrees
just after 3 o'clock. But Atlanta has
. known higher temperatures. It swel
tered under 97 degrees once as late as
1 September 18. It is not the twre tem
i perature which lias brought so much
discomfort.
It is the unusual duration of the
i heated period, and because Atlantans
’ had grown accustomed to the coolness
of the earlier summer and were unpre
pared for such a September as this.
Oh For the Rains
I Os Yestermonth.
Atlanta is paying the debt which sci
ence says nature always exacts. This
section had rain in plenty throughout
the spring and early summer. The
afternoon w hich did not bring a shower
or a thunder storm was a red-letter
day in the calendar. The rainfall
which usually answers for an entire
year had been registered several weeks
ago.
And then the rain stopped falling it
appeared that <rtd Dame Nature, hav
ing spent her fortune extravagantly,
went broke and began a season of
economy. Atlanta would give a small
fortune for somf of that rain it cursed
so vigorously’a month ago
Today started its mad career In much
the same manner as for the past week.
The mercury stood at 87 at 10 o'clock
, and \yas climbing slowly but surely !
I toward the nineties. It was evident
, early in the day that Atlanta was in j
for another round of lassitude and
perspiration
Mill District
Children Suffer.
> Torrid days and breezeless nights
i strike harder on the little children of
■ the mill districts these days than on
any other part of Atlanta's cosmopoli
tan population.
It is mostly the little ones that suf
' fer —the babies who must be left all
day to the care of an older sister or
' brother, and whose tiny bodies have not
yet grown strong enough to withstand
L the continued battering of the great
I enemy of the poor—summer's high
temperature
HOMTi
IMTKSH
2 CENTS EVERYWHERE
MFI HOPE
FMEDBI
VERMDNI
RESULT
Republicans Show Loss of 43
Per Cent of Votes in State
Election Yesterday.
DEMOCRACY REGISTERS
INCREASE OF 27 PER CENT
G. 0. P. Leaders In Consterna
tion Over Poor Showing in
“Barometer” State.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT„
Sept 4 -Vermont's failure to elect a
governor in a state election for ths
first time in a presidential year, and
the resultant throwing of the election
Into the legislature, which will be
strongly Republican, today threw the
Taft leaders throughout the state into
consternation as the latest returns show
a loss of 43 per cent in the party vote
since the G. O. P. elected Prouty in
1908.
The Democrats, on the other hand
were jubilant over their gain of 27 per
» cent over the party vote for governor
in the last presidential year. The Demo
crats made the best showing In 25
years. Their candidate. H.iwe. will run
only some 6.000 votes behind Fletcher.
Republican, when all the returns are in.
Fletchers failure to secure a majority,
although credited with a plurality, au
gurs a big Wilson vote in November
the Democrats claimed today.
Progressives Claim
Moral Victory.
The Progressives hold that their can
didate for governor achieved a "moral
victory.”
The latest returns show: Fletcher,
Republican, 26.200; Howe. Democrat’
20,100: Metzger. Progressive, 15,708.
Fletcher’s plurality, 6400.
Representatives chosen, according to
the latest returns, are 176 Republicans
46 Democrats and 24 Progressives.
The senate will show 26 Republicans
and four fusions of Democrats and Pro.
gresslves.
Returns from the cities show:
f’lt.v. Fletcher. Howe. Metzger.
Barre 307 426 449
Burlington ...1,058 1.360 47R
Montpelier ... 302 571 132
Rutland 686 373 s gg
St. Albans ... 294 417 162
Vergennes . . 166 120 33
Break LaFollette’s
Power in Wisconsin
MILWAUKEE. WIS.. Sept. 4-Judge
John < Karel, former Wisconsin foot
ball star, Is today Democratic nominee
for the governorship of Wisconsin.
Anti-La Follette Republicans aided In
hls nomination, defeating Adolph J.
Schmitz. Republicans were so active
on. both sides of the Democratic quar
rel that It is doubtful whether there
will be a Republican ticket in the field
this fall The state law requires that
a party at a primary must poll at least
ten per cent of its vote at the proceed
ing election to hold Its organization.
Returns today indicate that the Repub
licans may have failed to do this
Less than fifty per cent of the total
vote was (Killed throughout the state.
The fight centered on La Follette, the
antis flocking to the Democrats tn or
der to break the hold of his faction in
state affairs.
Moose Sweep
California
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4.—Returns
today from all parts of rfhe state indi
cate that the Roosevelt Progressives were
successful in yesterday’s primary elec
tion. The Roosevelt men, as a result of
the balloting, will control the state con
vention -to be made up of legislative
1 nominees—that will name the Republican
presidential electors.
This means that Republican electors
pledged to support Theodore Roosevelt for
president and Hiram Johnson for vice
president will go on the official ballot.
The Taft managers will be forced to get
their electors on the ballot by petition
The Tafl nominees for congress seem
to have been successful In at least four
of the eleven districts—possibly five.
This was the struggle on which most
of the interest centered, though the Taft
1 men were never sanguine, even of win
ning in San Francisco. In this city the
