The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-02
NEWS OF A DAY IN
GEORGIA'S CAPITAL
TERRELL'S NARROW ESCAPE
WHEN HIS CARRIAGE AND A CAR
COLLIDED.

Governor Was Uninjured and Made
His Way AfoOt 40 the CapitOI-Re-
tOrder BroyIes Gives savannah n
Rap Upon the Question of saloon
CIosiDg-COI. Renfroe Declares is
Was in SeIf-Dcfense That He Shot
His DnuRhter-in-Law.
Atlanta. July 1.-Gov. Terrell had a
narrow escape from a serious accident
this morning as he was driving to the
Capitol. At the junction of Pryor and
Edgewood avenue his carriage was
struck by an Edgewood avenue car,
the horses knocked almost down and
the carriage tongue snapped off. The
Governor saw the collision was inevi-
table and jumped in time, as did also
the driver.
The Governor walked to the Capitol
This is the second accident of the kind
he has had within the last few months.
BrOyIes Raped savannah.
Recorder Nash Broyles raped Sa-
vannah in fining a prisoner to-day.
James McCarty was on trial for keep
ing his saloon open after 10 o'clock
at night. The arresting officer claimed
1t was after midnight McCarty stated
ne had only gone In with two employees
on business, but admitted that they
did take a drink. The Recorder, in
filming him $25 and ordering his license
forfeited, said IF people walking
along the streets should see a thing
like this, men drinking in saloons at
the hour of midnight, they would think
they were either in Birmingham or Sa-
vannah. The law regulating saloons is
strict, and it must be enforced"
Attorney Hill gave notice of an APP
peal to the Superior Court.
Gray Will Entertain Them.
The members of the Georgia delega-
ton to the National Democratic Con-
vention at st. Louis have been invited
to a luncheon Sunday by James r.
Gray of the Atlanta Journal, who goes
as one of the delegates from the state
at large. The delegation will leave
Atlanta at 4:30 o'clock Sunday after
noon, arriving in st. Louis Monday
afternoon. They will stop at the South
ern Hotel
Roberts and Wife Divorced.
News has reached Atlanta that Rev.
J. w. Roberts, a former pastor of
Trinity Church, and for long while
president of Wesleyan College at Ma
con, Ga, who was until recently promi-
nently identified with the North Geor-
gia Conference, has secured a total
divorce from his wife. Mrs. Minnie L.
Roberts, who lives in Atlanta. The
divorce was granted by Judge T. f.
Nash OF the Fourteenth Judicial dis
trict of Texas, Dallas county the de-
Gee being signed, sealed and handed
down on May 30. The minister al
legged cruel treatment as grounds for
the divorce, application for which was
made six months after Dr. Roberts had
established a residence at Dallas. 1t
required one month and eight days
for the preacher to gain his freedom.
The decree signed by Judge Nash re-
leases both the minister and his wife
from their obligations, and they are
free to marry again if they so desire.
THE bonds of matrimony," says the
order of the court, -"are dissolved and
annulled. and they are each restored to
the condition and state of unmarried
persons"
Flower PardOned by Roosevelt.
Samuel Flower Jr., sentenced to
five years in the Atlanta penitentfary
by United States District Judge Par
lange, in New Orleans, for embeZzling
funds amounting to $4,000 of the
Hibernia National Bank Of that city,
of which he was teller, has been par
doned by the President. and early this
morning walked from the prison walls
a free man. Flowers downfall was
brought about, according to his own
statement, by speculation in the stock
market. He was dealing through j.
Overton Paine, stock broker in New
York, and had been losing steadi y.
He needed more money to margin his
holdings and resorted to embezzle-
ment to obtain it.
Says DauGhter-iD-ba~ Fired at Him.
Stephen D. Renfroe, who is said to
be the oldest living lawyer in Georgia,
and a Confederate veteran, is locked
up in the Fulton county jail, where
he was brought this morning, charged
with killing his daughter-in-law, at
his home, near Fayetteville, yester-
day.
Col. Renfroe was brought by Sheriff
Albert Sans, of Fayette county, to