Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-05

peated failures to get work, and recent
! Illness that left him in Strengthened cir
| cumstances, Campbell +. Tidwell, aged
q years. a barber by trade, drank the
1 contents of a bottle containing two ia
blespoonsful of carbolic acid, at his res
idence, 475 Whitehall street, shortly after
IL o'clock Tuesday morning and was
/ dead before medical assistance arrived.
Without a word that would cause the
! people in the house to suspect his pur-
| pose Tidwell went to the back porch,
/ for the supposed purpose of procuring
! a drink of water. While there he found
I a small bottle hanging against the WALL
| with about two tablespoonsful of car
| bolic acid that had been left from clean
! ing furniture.
Returning to his wife's room, he kissed
J her, and she instantly detected the odor
OF the acid. Almost at the same mo-
I ment Tidwell became unconscious.
physician was hurriedly summoned, and
I the Grady hospital ambulance responded
/ speedily to an emergency call, but when
help arrived the young man was dead.
( CONFER, Ga, Nov. 2.-Greene Nix, a
prominent farmer. was shot through the
+ head and killed by an unknown party
a this home near here, last night. The
motive was robbery. The house was
pillaged.
, Governor Brown went through a trying
; ordeal Monday when he was called on
by Mrs. L. F. Elliott. the mother of
DR.. ]. W. Elliott, who is condemned to
! be hanged next Friday. Mrs. Elliott was
accompanied by Mrs. NJ. I. Harden. rel
alive They plead with the governor
| in the most heart-rending fashion to
commute Elliotts sentence to life i'm
prisonment, but Governor Brown could
not see his way to interfere with the
verdict Of the jury and the sentence Of
the judge.
Mrs. Elliott, wife of The condemned
man, also called. Her grief was uncon-
trollable. The scene was one of the
most tragic ever enacted in the execu-
tive office and Governor Brown was
visibly affected. H was compelled, how
ever, to deny the appeal.
Eluotts respite expires November 5.
and he will be executed on that day.
AUGUSTA, Ga, Nov. 2.-Edward Jack
son, switch engineer for the Georgia rail-
road last night shot in the right eye and
killed John d. Hudson, switch freight
conductor for the Charleston and West
ern Carolina railroad. The killing occur
red in the freight yards of the Charleston
and Western Carolina railway and re-
suited from a dispute between the men
over track rights.
NJ AUGUSTA, Ca, Nov. 2.-Conductor
Leck Montgomery, of the Augusta
Southern railroad. last night at Keys
VILE 26 miles below here, shot and killed
John Williams, a negro passenger on the
train. The conductor and the passen-
Der had an alteration and the conduc-
tor received a flesh wound in the side.
before the negro jumped from the train
and ran. The conductors aim was good,
! however, and the negro was dropped. This
is the second shooting on this road dur
ing the past two years, in which the con-
ductor and a negro passenger had fights.
the last time being when Conductor
James Mason was killed by negro who
was never apprehended. Conductor
MONTGOMERY last night was not incapac-'
ttated for duty, as the flesh wound was
not very deep.
The prison commission Tuesday norm
ing elected Hugh H. Price, Of High
Shoals. to the Office OF prison inspector
TO succeed Capt. George Deadwiler., who
died some time ago.
The appointment is effective December
Ii Mr. Price Is the nephew of Senator
]. d. Price, of the 9th district and is one
of the most popular young men in his
section of the state. -r
mo, I won't let you pay me out. I'd
rather spend the night in cell than go
i back home with you"
Such was the declaration made Monday
night by Mrs. Mamie Kelsey, wife OF
w. ]. kelsey, when the latter offered to
! nut I'D collateral after they had both been
arrested by Call officer Maddox on a
, charge of disorderly conduct, following
\ domestic infelicity.
\ Mrs Kelsey's lower lip was bleeding,
| and she looked otherwise considerably
worse for wear. but she stuck to her res
olution not to allow her husband to pay
her out She claimed that he struck her
| on the lip with his fist.
ROME. Ca, Nov. s-During the past summer
| three miles OF macadamized road nave Deen
built by the Floyd county chaingsng. and one
! old mecadamized road the pike leading to sum-
merville, has been resurfaced for IL miles. Ihers
( are now 1856 miles Of inc macadam road within
/ commissioners to continue the work. There are
! Is ccnvlcts on the chaingsng, and the work IS
being done by traction engines and cars, which
! haul as much rock 40 mule teams per day.
| ROME. Ca, Nov. s.-Atlanta and Chattanooga
I Officers OF the Salvation Army are here engaged
/ in an effort tn raise $4,000 for the payment or
| alterations and improvements to a hall recently
! purchased by the Rome corps OF the army. In
4 one day the officers raised 1888, and expect TO
| secure the entire amount before they leave.
ON Thursday night Hon. seaborn Wright win
| deliver his famous Salvation Army lecture. "Ihc
I Little Woman in Blue" for the benefit OF the
| army.
Vince T. Sanford. of Rome, Ga. we'll
remembered as the defendant in the IA
nous Floyd county murder trial in 1906,
when he was tried for the killing OF Will
liam Wright was arrested In the Kimball
pool parlor Tuesday night, and lodged IN
the police station. A case of disorderly
conduct was placed opposite his name on
the desk sergeant's books.
| An alteration between Sanford and
Harry Matthews. the manager of the pool
room, caused cases to be entered against