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the weather Forecast: Fair: no change in tem perature, Temperatures: 8 a. m., 82; 10 a. m., 88: 12 noon, 90; 2 p. m.> 91. VOL. XL NO. 27. DHIK MED 01 HL TSE 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 i I 1 ( J so / & I - : : . II 1 I / i 't .r' atev-Lv \ \ 1 1 -A (- "■ \■■ \\ L \ wbk- \ ! Mb. SR < ‘ 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 ! •••••••••••••••••••••••••a , • 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