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BIGAMY
But His Accusations Are Un-'
proved and Police Refuse to
Detain Son-in-Law.
says he will prove
TRUTH OF CHARGES'
I
Trouble Aftermath of Recent
Elopement Which Parent
Almost Frustrated.
,■ in . ■ by the father of Mrs I
■ j c.mr■>,Khaiii. girl-wife of a West
i .ii-t'ir. that the man had an
lixiim wife, in addition to his
-.i'i ini m the detention of Cun-
• veial hours at the po-
> .• .... today Following a long i
n . vith the father, however, |
~f |-’,. av. rs announced that there isi
. \ Monee against Cunning- |
>... . .1 his release from custody was
, . i Th. father declared that he
i>.• : the prosecution drop, but
vou I continue search for evidence.
tenths ago. Cunningham eloped [
s. .'t Mashburn, a 16-year-old
c from the home of her parents, 43
R bins - r. ■ i At that time the fa
ther f the sir! so strenuously opposed
t it u' tli.it lie called the police to
!„• tite • >ny . They arrived just
> t ■ a .■:! the concluding words of
i oicmony. pronounced by
• i tin Walker Street Meth
odist church. x I
Arrested On
Father's Word.
I -ihrn i • did not rest, how
. i.\ he told Chief Beavers
: received information that
in id another wife in Columbia,
S 1 I, . on this information that
C rest ,i< made. Cunningham at
1 ' ■ i ot' -ted innocence.
t >n | "oved that Mashburn's
I- ' ntirely Indefinite and no
u been sworn out. the
In contractor's release.
■' • ningham. who is 33 years
C ■ ■!< girl-wife, he had been liv
-.ime house with the Mash
h \\ there that he lost one
• ii'i died so suddenly that het
- investigated by a coroner's
'inningham was completely
* "I. I 1 jury finding that death had
t <r inc tn .unto Brights disease.
week- afterward, the elope
toiik place, Mashburn suspected
a mid asked police prevention.
It 1 nine too late.
GEORGIA-ALABAMA FAIR
PRIZE WINNERS NAMED
unrs. GA., Dee. 7.—The first
"f the Georgia-Alabama
in will close tonight at
10 o'clock.
; i greatest interest shown
s "f attractions was in the
■ - i'uiiimii exhibits and it was in
t't'ni in that largest prizes were
•I. \l. Crutchfield and sons,
county, Alabama, took first
hile Mrs. W. W. Monk.
Ga., took seeotid prize,
C Motz, of Huntsville, Ala.,
S2OO, and Gid Morris, of
G ... fourth prize, SIOO.
more than 100 prizes
! in the poultry department*,
liieh were very handsome.
UNKNOWN ASSASSIN KILLS
RICH ben hill negro
, - ALD. GA.. Nov. 7.—George
negro, was shot and instantly
p by an unknown person.
"' ll Io do. He ran a wood i
t"r the last two oi three!
'■"niil his own home in the
' ’it i of Hill ebunty.l
Hid There was no •*\e-'
he killing, but a negro man |
m 'inning awa\ from the place
in his hand. He has not
taught.
JUVENILE COURT TO BE
ESTABLISHED IN MACON
Dec. 7. —Plans have
""d for the early establish
uvetille court In Macon,
"iseincnt of two grand
s, '' , med. ;|, j s required
behind the project are
:i ' creation of tile couit
' months. The Woman's
' nee, in annual ses- i
co-operate with th- |
' of taking care of j
bi ought before the
The Atlanta Georgian
* Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results.
Macon Society Folk
Adopt “Turkey Trot**
And “Boston Dip** Fad
Eccentric Steps Now All Rage
at Fashionable Dances in
Central City.
MACON, GA., Dec. 7—" Turkey Trot”
and "Boston Dip” parties have sudden
ly become the rage in the social life of
i Macon. Although tabooed at the exclu
sive Idle Hour Country chib, where a
posted notice prohibits them and "all
other wild animal dances.” these new
eccentric steps are now very popular in
the home entertainments.
I Thursday night Dr. and Mrs. Maury
I Hunnerlyn Stapler entertained a select
coterie of friends at a “Turkey Trot”
party’’ at their home on High street,
and last night Miss Sarah Tinsley was
the hostess at a similar affair at her
I home on College street.
j Three more "Turkey Trot” and “Griz.
I zly Bear" parties have been announced
j for next week.
LAWYER RESCUING HIS
DAUGHTER FROM FIRE
FAINTS; BOTH PERISH
NEW YORK, Dec. 7.—While making
a heroic effort to save his fourteen
! year-old daughter, Lillian, from their
: burning home at Woodside, in Queens
! borough, ea’ly today, Melville Mendell,
a New York lawyer, fainted and both
perished.
Mendell was carrying his daughter to
safety when he was overcome by smoke
and when the bodies were found the
girl had her arms still clasped about
i her father’s neck.
The Mendell family occupied the sec
ond floor of the house. The fit* had
| made much headway when the lawyer
was aroused by the shouts of the fam
ily on the first floor. Seizing his wife,
Mendell carried her to safety, then re
turned for his two children. He found
j liis twelve-year-old son groping in the
I hallway and carried him out. By this
time he was nearly overcome by smoke
and the interior of the house was a
seething furnace. Disregarding the en
treaties of his wife, the brave lawyer
again plunged into the building. Those
i on the street could hear above the roar
of the fire the girl’s voice, crying, "Fa
ther, please save me.”
Soon all sound died away. Mendell
[did not reappear and the firemen knew
[ it was useless. to attempt to save him.
Half an hour later when the flames
were subdued and searchers entered the
building they found the two bodies in
a parlor, off from the girl's bed room,
where they had fallen.
FIRST EXAMINATION
FOR POSTOFFICE JOB
IN GEORGIA AT DUBLIN
The first examination in Georgia for
the newly created civil service job. a
fourth class postmastership, will be
held on December 14 at Dublin, for the
vacancy created in tF,e Chester (Ga )
postoffice.
This is the first of 1.16.7 stlch exami
nations wnich will be held during the
next t.wo years, as there are that num
ber of fourth class offices in the state.
The fourth class offices were placed
under the civil service rules on Novem
ber 25. 1912. A fourth class office is one
which pays less than SI,OOO a year.
At present there are 1,344 postoffices
in Georgia. Os these but 179 are filled
by presidential appointment. So. for
the first time, the filling of the majority
of the offices in the state will not be
purely a matter of political plums given
to the faithful.
JUSTICE CALLS UPON
MEN MARRIED FREE
TO RE-ELECT HIM
MACON. GA., Dei-. 7. —The quadren
nial election of the justices of-the peace
of Bibb county here today is featured
by a lively contest in the East Macon
district between Judge Hugh McKer
vey, the “marrying justice,” and J. W.
Levar. Judge McKervey has married
250 couples in the last four years, and
did not charge any of them a fee. He
■ has called upon those made husbands
• by him, free of cost, to come to his
I support in the election.
In the Godfrey district there is.no
candidate. Judge J. I. Davidson has
declined re-election, and no one else
, has announced for his place.
NEW COMMISSIONERS FOR
WARE COUNTY TO RENAMED
' WAYCROSS. GA.. Dec. 7.—When su.
perior court reconvenes Monday the
grand jury will recommend the follow
ing as members of the new board of
county commissioners: John E, Wad
ley, Dr. G. P. Folks Sind D. J. Miller,
of the Waycross district; Dr. E. P.
Little, of Manor; J. J. Murray, of
Waresboro, and Walter Smith, of Bick
ley. The chairman will be one of the
members from the Waycross district.
PRINCETON STUDENTS SAVE
HISTORIC HALL FROM FIRE
PRINCETON. N. J. Dei-. 7.—A ban.'
lof volunteer firemen made up of stu
dents of Princeton university car lx t >-
I day .prevented the ilwuillnn of his-1
ti> i Wit'ii poon hall, one of the dor- 1
mitotic#. bv tire.
EXPERT FIIDS
POBRHOMES
I 111 Mi
‘■ltf
Lindholm Declares Living Con
ditions of Negroes Are Men
ace to Whole City.
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BAD BUILDINGS CHIEF
FAULT OF THE SCHOOLS
i Investigator Impressed by Fear
Everyone Seems to Have
of Fresh Air.
1
,; Though he was mild in his genera!
i icriitcisms of Atlanta's sanitary and ed
ucational systems, S. G. Lindholm, the
’ municipal expert who hgs been making
an investigation" here under the aus
pices of the Chamber of Commerce, de
clared today that some of Atlanta’s liv
ing conditions were horrible and that
1 they would not be tolerated even in
New York, the city of notorious tene-
i ment houses
"Such conditions as the negro huts
I ;in Lowe's a'ley and similar places a.r«
• I too bad for words,” he said. “I can’t
’ j tell you what to do with the lowest
I class of tenements and shacks. But
the medium class, where many white
people live, is what demands immediate
► attention by the city government.
i “There is no excuse for some of the
[conditions 1 have found."
Urges City to
Enforce Sanitation.
Mr. Lindholm said that new bulldhhg
i regulations and closer sanitary inspec
; tions were the remedies' He said many
i of the houses absolutely lacked venti
, lation, in many the walls are crumbling,
the roofs leak, there is no provision for
baths and the general living conditions
in them are wholly insanitary.
He said it was absolutely - necessary
to use force in dealing with certain
classes of people and that there was
certainly some need of enforced sani
tation in Atlanta. He referred to sec
tions of Peters and Decatur streets as
typical *f this needed regulation.
He said the conditions he found in
. Lowe's alley and some of the poorer
negro sections, where he was informed
washerwomen and servants of«the bet
ter class of white people live, were so
, revolting that when ne went back to
his room at the Capital City b he
asked the servant there who nad dorm
his laundry. He said he did not want
to take any chances by having his
laundry done in such a place.
Whites Endangered
By Servants’ Neglect.
The remedy for these unfortunates,
he pointed put. was not so apparent.
But he said if the landlords were made
to build proper houses, the people
could be trained gradually to live mo.e
cleanly and healthier lives.
"This is especially important.” he
said, "because the negroes are as close
to the white people as the members of
their own families. When the servants
are infected with disease they infect the
i best people in the community.”
As to the schools, he said, the princi
pal trouble was bad buildings. Better
buildings could only be secured by more
money.
He said that all the schools were
without sufficient ventilation, as well as
all other buildings in Atlanta.
Why Do Atlantans
Fear Fresh Ah"?
“Patent ventilating systems are fail
ures.” he said. "The only way to get
plenty of pure air is to keep the win
dows open. One gets accustomed to
living in fresh pure air just as one gets I
accustomed tn bathing regularly.
"I have been impressed with the fear
Atlanta people have of fresh air. de
spite the fine climate. Most of the
people in offices keep their windows
closed."
Mr. Lindholm has practically com
pleted his work. He will leave for
New York today and will send his for
mal report on conditions along with
the report of Herbert R. Sands, the ex
pert who made a general survey of the
whole city government.
LINEMAN SAVED FROM
DEATH BY LIFE BELT
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 7.—A lifebelt saved
Leo Itonhower, a lineman in the em
ploy of the Kinloch Telephone Com
pany, from a plunge to the ground
from the top of a telegraph pole in
Webster Groves, when he was rendered
unconscious by a passage of 2,000 volts
of electricity through his body. When
shocked his body fell away from the
I 'livi" xxire. He was resiued front ths
mde bv follow workuieu.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 7, 1912.
| THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON!
Copyright, 1912, by Internationa) News Service.
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GAS SHOW TO RUN
THROUGH MONDAY
FOR CHARITY FUND
Delegates tp the National Gas con
vention today began their migrations
back home, but they left well stocked
with the good things of life and undy
ing memories of Atlanta hospitality. An
old-time Georgia barbecue was the last
entertainment feature planned.
An early morning downpour of rain
made it likely that the scene would
have to be transferred from Grant park
to Taft hall. The hour set was 12:30
o’clock.
The delegates last night enjoyed a
beafsteak dinner at Taft hall, where
vaudeville and speeches seasoned the
elaborate menu. The show will ren-ain
open until midnight tonight and <>e
held open Monday, when a ten-< nt ad
mission fee will be charged for the ben
efit of the Associated Charities fund.
BRIDE OF A DAY SLAYS
PURVEYOR OF GOSSIP
LOGANSPORT IND., Dec 7.—When
Mrs. Mary Coppie pre.-< nted herself at
the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Lang, a
bride of a day. sb' was met at the
door by the bride, who shot her dead, j
Mrs. Lang told the police she killed
Mrs. Coppie because the latter had said
she “did not see what Joe Lang meant
by marrying that ugly old thing."
WIFE, 15, WITH THREE
CHILDREN, IS DIVORCED
QUINCY. ILL.. Dec. 7.—The Adams
county circuit court granted a decree of
divorce to Mrs. Etfie Harmon, fifteen
years old. She is the mother of three
children.
She was married three years ago.
Desertion was charged.
BLINDED ESCAPING FROM I
WIFE AT COSTUME BALL
SHANGHAI. Dec. 7.—lnviting to
supper a young woman with whom ne
danced at a costume ball. Percy Drum
mond discovered she was his wife. In
running away he fell into a lime bed
and was blinded.
i LOS ANGELES REJECTS
RULE BY COMMISSION
LOS ANGELKS. CAL., Dec. 7—Re
turns from the election indicate that
the proposed new charter, providing a
commission form of government for the
city of Los Angeles. yvas defeated by a
vote of 2 to 1, or more.
BLIND “HELLO GIRL” IS
SUCCESSFUL INNOVATION
BALTIMORE. Dec. 7. Miss Elsie
Sonderinan. the first blind telephone
gnl nas show u marked ability at the
awjuubuurd.
Grand Jury Indicts
Ten Men Who Failed
To Pay Tax on Dogs
i
Prominent Effingham County Citi
zens Charged With Illegal
Voting in Augusta Primary
GUYTON. GA., Dec. 7. —Ten men
have been placed under arrest by Sher
iff Jaudon. of Effingham county, as the
result of as many indictments returned
by the last grand jury, charging illegal
voting In the Democratic primary elec
tion last August, when state officers
were nominated, because they failed to
pay their dog tax. They will await
triai at the April term of superior
court in this county. Judge Walter W.
Shepard, of the Atlantic circuit, will sit
in these < ases.
Among those indicted are five prom
inent citizens of the Guyton district.
The grand jury held that failure to
pay any part of state taxes including
even that assessed on dogs, i nstituted
a violation of the state tax laws and
consequently disqualified the delin
quents as voters. The legislature last
summer repealed the dog tax statute,
but the repeal was not brought about
until after taxes for the year had been
assessed and become payable. These
cases will constitute a test of the con
stitutionality of the tax provision of
the primary election law. A number of
attorneys, including some from Savan
nah and other cities, will appear in the
trials.
STREET RAILWAY AT WAR
WITH COLUMBUS COUNCIL
| CQLUMBI’S, GA.. Dec. 7.—A scrap is
on between the city of Columbus and
the Columbus Railroad Company, which
operates the street car lines in this
city, growing out of the tearing up and
removing of a piece of road four blocks
long.
On Thanksgiving day the street rail
way company, which had asked per
mission to discontinue its service on
these four blocks and which had been
refused by city council, removed the
rails.
AJ the next meeting of council a res
olution was adopted demanding that the
street rail* ay company rebuild the
track within 30 days or the city would
begin action to force its reconstruction
and operation.
It is the street railway company's
move next. General Manager Bleeeker
will not state yvhat he proposes to do.
FOUR KILLED IN WRECK.
BNUEMONT. MD. Dee. 7. Four per.
son« were killed ami two fatally in
jured in a wreck on the Western Mary- ,
land lailivad near here early today.
CONFESSED FORGER
BROUGHT BACK HOME
JUST IN TIME TO DIE
| COLUMBUS. GA,, Dec. 7.—John T.
I Fletcher, Jr., arrested in New Orleans
a week ago, charged with forgery, and
who was taken desperately ill soon aft
erward. died at the home of his father
In Columbus last night.
When first arrested It was thought
Fletcher had appendicitis, but a more
thorough examination showed that he
had ulcer of the stomach. His father,
John T. Fletcher, Sr., brought him back
from New Orhans Thursday night. He
had confessed to the forgery charge and
his father made good the amounts.
The funeral took place this after
noon
FIELDER TO SUCCEED
WILSON AS GOVERNOR
TRENTON. N Dec. 7.—Democrat
ic state senators of the next New Jer
sey legislature, In caucus here, selected
Senator James F Fielder, of Hudson
county, h" ’ majority nominee so"
president of il-. senate. Fielder will
succeed Govert><>>■ Wilson when the lat
ter resigns to go to Washington.
MINISTERS TO COMPETE
WITH BURLESQUE SHOWS
MASSILON, OHIO, Dec. 7.—ln an ef
fort to uplift the drama and compete
with the burlesque shows, six Massllon
ministers have banded together to give
the city first-class entertainments this
winter.
“BLIND TIGER”’ ITqUOR
FOR ZOO INEBRIATES
RICHMOND, IND.. Dec. 7.—Park Su
perintendent Hollarn has asked the po
lice to turn over to the zoo whiskv ob
tained in "blind tiger" raids to be given
to the monkeys which are accustomed
to a "nip" every other May during the
winter.
MADE BLIND BY BLOW.
KNIFE RESTORES SIGHT
PITTSBURG. Dec. 7.—Captain D. C.
Creese, who was stricken blind when
struck by a negro while general fore
man of the Gatun dam on the Panama
canal three years ago, has recovered his
sight as a result of an operation.
SPINSTERS SEEKING MEN
ORGANIZE; BAR WIDOWS
BOSTON. Dec. 7.—Widows are barred
from the Spinsters Association of‘Mas.
sachusetts—organized to go eligible
young men to call on lonely spinsters.
TO ATTEND K. P. ANNIVERSARY.*
WAYCROSS. GA.. Dee. 7. GramT
Chancellor J. W, Austin, of the Knights
of Pythias, will attend the twi-nty-sev
enth anniversary of the Wakefield lodge
No. at Waycross next Tuesday.
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IS HK
MHEI
Governor Will Hear Counsel of
Party Leaders, Then Do
as He Pleases.
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COMPLETELY RESTED.
HE SEEKS DIVERSION
Left Alone by Politicians, He
Goes to Social Functions
He Abhors.
HAMILTON, BERMUDA. Dec. 7.-
(Special Correspondence.)—Those who
expect that William J. Bryan is goins
to select oodrow Wilson's cabinet sot
him arc greatly mistaken. Those who
expect that Mr. Bryan will be a mem
ber of the cabinet are probably also
mistaken, though they will not know of
their mistake until after January 1. and
probably not until March 4. It can be
said that the president-elect has no de
sire to embarrass Mr. Bryan by al
lowing him to be placed in the posi
tion of seeming to advise the next pres
ident. The president-elect will seek
the counsel of all the leaders of the
Democratic party, but it is safe to
predict that in the end he will do as he
pleases.
When Governor Wilson received the
report from New York that Mr. Bryan
would come here to consult with the
president-elect, he wrote a letter tc
Colonel Bryan making an appointment
to meet "him in New York. That had
the effect of forestalling any plan ol
Mr. Bryan of coming to Bermuda.
Didn't Go Near
Bryan's Haunts.
When the report went nut fron
- Princeton a month ago that Governor
Wilson would take a vacation, the an
nouncement was made that he "would
go South,” and no mention was made
. of Bermuda. Bryan read these .reports.
* | assumed that Governor Wilson was go-
Ing to Florida, and wrote him a letter
saying he would be in Miami, and that
t ' if the governor was really going to
I Florida they could arrange to meet fre
. I quently. Governor Wilson went far
■ away from Florida. ,
Mr. Bryan has a good many enemies
in and out of the Democratic parte.
■ Governor \\ ilson has no intention of
■ op'ending these men. The other day
, when he heard a report of expected
: trouble in the Democratic ranks he
■ said:
"li would be downright stupidity to
start trouble in the present harmonious
state of things. I hose who expect it
will be badly fooled."
Those who have been closest to the
governor say that there will he no trou-
J hie unless Governor Wilson himself
starts it. He generally starts whatever
trouble in gets into atrd generally set
tles It t j his own satisfaction. He has
a wav of making people obey his or
ders. Hi- said before leaving New York
that any politician who came to Rer
! muil.i to see him would get the reverse
of xx hat he was after. The result is t
that no politician has appeared, not
even Senator-elect "Billy" Hughes, who
had intended coming here and whom
the governor would be glad to see.
“Billy" is more a personal than politi
cal friend.
“Oh. 'Billy' can come,” said the pres
ident-elect. "I don’t regard him as a
politician.”
Congressman Donohue
Avoids Wilson.
But “Billy” didn't come.
. Not a politician of any stripe has
been seen—yes, there was one. Con
gressman Donohue, of Philadelphia,
happened on the same boat with the
governor < oming here. He apologized,
and during his stay of two weeks here
he remained axvaj from Glen Cove.
When he was about to sail ho dropped
in at the cottage. Mrs. Wilson an
swered the hell, and Congressman Don
ohue explained that he had merely come
to pax his respects and say good-bye.
Mrs Wilson invited him in to see the
governor himself, but Donohue said.
"No. thank you. i'll just ask you to
deliver tile message for me." And Don
ohue departed,
"Nice of him. xvasn’t it?” said th"
governor when he learned of it.
It is entirely possible that Donohue
might i’. 'xe read of the governor's
threat to thrash a photographer for
failing to obey instructions.
Governor Wilson came here to rest,
i hut his health has imptnved to such an
extent that he feels the need of diver
sion. As a conse<|ucni ". h< aci epted u '
number of social iiivilnlions. He has
' attended a dinner given by Govxmoi
General Bullock, another by llamiltun
| Parish, an old Princeton friend; an
1 amateur performance of hit Mutual
i! Friend.' a garden partx uix, u by Ladx
| Bullock al the goverrmu'ii hous". ami a
■ session of ihe house ol assembly, al
within a week;