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THE ATLANTA GJSOJKGlAN AMD MEWS.
TUESDAY. MAT T. W.
AX GAXG CGIS SWATH
THROUGH CONEY ISLAND
New York, May 7.—A gang of men
directed by Assistant Commleloner of
rnbllc Work Van Vleck, of Brooklyn,
descended upon Surf avenu6, the main
thoroughfare of Coney Island, yester
day and guarded by police lopped off
every part of any kind of building,
stand or sign which extended beyond
the property line. Although the Indig
nant owners protested, soda fountains
were chopped In two. frankfurter
stands were torn apart, overhanging
signs were pulled down, and the dosens
of catch-penny devices which line the
avenue from end to end were piled into
the trucks and carted away.
After the raid the avenue looked
though a cyclone had swept through It,
tearing away everything nearer than
twenty feet to the curb line. At least
twenty truck loads of material ware
hauled off.
Six Hundred Truhkstts Wednesda
STAKES LIFE AND $1,500,000
TO SYNDICATE FOR $80,000
Santo Monica, Cal., May A stake
Of <80,000 played against a fortune of
nearly <1,800,000 with a human life as
the Anal determining factor are fea
tures of an unusual transaction hem
between Henry C. Keating on one aldo
and a syndicate of four men on the
other.
Keating Is one of the heirs to ( the
Keating estate, worth about <0,000,000.
Ills share hi about <1,500,000, but he can
not get It for two and one-half years.
In order to convert his prospective
<1,500,000 Into actual cash Keating his
signed over to the syndicate all his
rights In thc'lnheritar.ce for <10,000, the
syndicate carrying the risk that he may
die, In which case all his Interest In the
Keating fortune will pass over to the
other heirs.
BELIEVE RECTOR AND WARD
HAVE FLED TO CANADA
Nsw York, May 7.—The first definite
clew to the whereabouts of ths Hev.
Jen K Cooke, former rector of 8t.
Georges church, Hempstead, L. 1., and
Miss Floretta Whaley, the 17-year-old
heiress with whom he eloped, was fur
nished today by Samuel Green, verger
of Dr. Cooks's church, and It has con
vinced the authorities that the pair
havo fled to Canada. -
District Attorney Coles, of Nassau
county, declares the fleeing rector and
,girl would be pursued to Canada or any
other place, no matter how distant, and
that as soon as they nro apprehended
proceedings for extradition will be be
gun.
Mfs. Cooke has denied positively that
she Intended to sue for a divorce.
"That," she said, "would make It too
easy for him. It Is undoubtedly the
very thing he would like to have tpe
do.*'
Mrs. Cooke was severely criticised
today by Mrs. Kaxlel Whaley, the aged
grandmother of Floretta. "If Mrs.
Cooke knew of *the Infatuation of her
husband for poor little Floretta,” said
the aged woman, "she should have
come and warned me.
"If that wicked minister thought he
was earning off an heiress he Is great
ly mistaken. Floretta will come Into a
considerable fortune somfi day, but the
money Is held In trust By me and win
not revert to her until my death."
4,000 BRICKLAYERS
OUT IN CHICAGO
Chicago, May 7.—Building operations
all over the city and In the suburbs are
badly crlpplsd by a strike of 4,000 brick
layers, allied trades and laborers, who
walked out yesterday to enforce a Sat
urday pay-day.
Mrs. Augustine Costello de Domero
Bublo, the mother of Mrs. Dial, wife
of the president, Is dead.
Two thousand operatives of the Wo
Blanco textile mills and 1,000 from the
mills at Nogales are on strike.
BERRY SHIPPERS
ENTER COMPLAINTS
Washington, May 7.—The Interstate
commerce commission has received a
complaint against the Cincinnati, New
Orleans and Texas Pacific, Southern,
Central and Chattanooga Southern,
from the American Fruit Union, In be
half of Its members who are straw
berry shippers at points along these
roads.
Notice has been served on all the ele
vated roads except the South Side line.
In Chicago, that the employees will de
mand an Increase In wages within thir
ty days.
Jacobs’ Pharmacy.
Jacobs’ Pharmacy. 1
Soap dish, for bath tub,
made of heavy wire with
quarter-inch wire frame
all heavily nickeled and
polished as shown *
in cut
98c
Bath room. or wash
stand glass holder.
Made in the design
shown in cut, heavily
nickel-plated and pol
ished. Can be easily put
up with nickel-plated
screws. Price with o
out glass OjL
Fitting the Bath Room
“Useful as well as ornamental” things for the
bath room.
For washstand and bath tub.
Polished nickel and glass things whose very na
ture makes them sanitary.
All of these things you can put up in your bath
room yourself.
Nickel-plated w li i s k
broom holders
98c.
Bevel, plated bath room
mirrors in nickel fromes
3.00.
Glass shelves with nick
el brackets
5.00.
Nickel - plated soap
dishes for wash stands
1.98.
Tooth brush racks
1.98.
Combination sponge
and soap rack
1.98.
Nickel and ebony toilet
paper holders
38c.
Towel bars, glass with
nickel trimmings at
4.48.
Nickel - plated double
bars
1.72.
Nickel-plated extension
arm, swinging towel
racks 75c
Nickel - plated towel
rings. 2 rings at
98c.
Bath room hooks, sin
gle 23c
With four hooks ... .1.72
Combination tooth
brush, soap dish and
drinkiug glass holder,
3.98.
*
Jacobs’ Pharmacy,
6-8-10 Marietta St.
23 Whitehall St.
At Oh? Dollar Each
*7
After Nins O Clock.
Positively N one Sold
Before That Hour
Wednesday.
Nene Ssnt C. 0. D.
Ne Telephens Ordsrs Taken.
Non? Exchanged. None Taken
Back. Delivered at Our
Own Convenience.
Covered in pretty designs of cretonne, in a great variety of patterns, and in light,
dark and medium shades. IS inches deep, 14 inches wide and 25 inches long,
with upholstered top.
A Regular 2.25 Box
Six hundred of these shirt-waist boxes in this sale, so that there will be no
disappointments. Six hundred may seem like a great many, but last year when
we sold two hundred in two hours at 1.25 each, many customers were disap
pointed. So this year we’ve provided more liberally.
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Wednesday at Nins 0 Clock
COUNCIL PUSSES.
New members were elected by coun
cil Monday to the Carnegie library
board, the Orady hoapltal board and the
board of education.
Frank Orme waa choien a member
of th. board of education, to .ucceed
Dr. L. P. Stephen*, realgned. W. D.
Dl.bro waa elected a member of the
Carnegie library board, to eucceed A. A.
Meyer and D. o. Jonee. whose terms
have expired. The membership of the
board was recently cut down, and ac
cordingly only one successor to both
was elected.
Dr. W. S. Elkin was elected a trustee
of the Grady hospital, Forreat Adair
having notified council that he would
not have the necessary time to devote
to the dutlee of the position.
After a warm dlecusslon. It was de
cided by council to relieve the W. J.
Oliver Contracting Company from any
forfeiture for the failure to complete
the Washington street viaduct within
the time limit. The matter goea to the
aldermantc board.
Engage Water Expert.
The reeolutlon by the Joint commit
tee on water bonds, composed of mem.
be re of council and the water board,
asking for an appropriation of <1,004
for the purpose of engaging an expert
to smooth out the klnke In the water
pump question, was adopted.
The Md of Scott Bros, to construct a
clear water and a coagulating baaln
was accepted by resolution.
Councilman Taylor offered a resotu
tton providing for a committee to be
composed of the mayor, two councilman
expenses of the firemen's drum corps
to the Confederate reunion at Rich
mond. It was adopted.
The bid of dude & Walker for the
construction of the Pryor ftreet under
pass was accepted. The bid wae <7,780,
An ordinance regulating the opera
tion and construction of electric thea
ters was reported by the special com
mittee on electric theaters and was
adopted,
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and two aldermen, to be appointed by
the mayor, to go to the Jamestown Ex
position, and requesting the finance
committee to make a sufficient appro
priation. was adopted.
The communication from the T. J.
Eady Investment Company, proposing
tha transfer of the Hollywood cemetery
to the city for the consideration that
the city assume the payment of <160.-
000 of 10-year 4 per cent bonds, was
referred to the cemetery committee.
Assistant Police Chief.
The ordinance creating the office of
assistant chief of police waa adopted
unanimously by council, The alder-
manlv board will concur Thursday.
Council voted to continue to give the
Carrie Steele Orphan Home <100 a
month, tha appropriation having re
cently been cut down to 180.
A resolution by the ft native commit
tee celling for an appropriation of <1.-
000 for tha purchase of a sliver candel
abra for ths battleship Georgia was
adopted.
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NEGRO IS LYNCHED
S. C. A. OFFICIALS
MEET SATURDAY
All the state presidents of tha South
am Cotton Association will meet in
Birmingham next Saturday for tha pur
pose of discussing the new cotton ex
change formed by the association.
President Harvte Jordan will be pres
ent and after the meeting he and Pres
ident Clark of the Mississippi division
of the organisation will leava at once
’'for New York to sail, for Europe to be
present at the International congress of
spinners In Vienna.
MANILA MERCHANTS.KICK
ON CONVICT LABOR.
Washington. May 7.—Advices from
Manila say 100 merchants In that city
have organised to protest to the gov
ernment against the maintenance of
.government penal Institutions at Blll-
Alderman Holland Introduced a reso- * bio, aliasing the products of the prisons
iutlon appropriating <<<0 to defray tha demoralise local trad*
8peclnl to The Georglaa.
Columbia, S. C„ May 7.—There was
another attempt at criminal assault
near Mullins, Marlon county, yesterday,
the assailant being caught and lynched
and his body riddled with bullets. The
attempt was upon Tlncey Sawyer, the
l!-year-old daughter of John Sawyer, a
farmer, and a sister of Contractor Wil
liam Sawyer, of Mullins. The negro,
Lambhold, sprang upon the child from
a clump of bushes at the pasture gate
as the'chlld waa leading a cow to the
pasture. Her screams brought her fa
ther to her assistance. He gave chase
and got close enough to recognise the
criminal. A mob quickly gathered.
Lambhold shot at one of his pursuers
at close range, but he was captured.
3,000 JOIN STRIKE
. OF LONGSHOREMEN
New York. May 7.—The longshore
men's strike In Brooklyn and Man
hattan was suddenly extended yester
day, when a number of men employed
on the docks on the Hudson, both In
New York and Hoboken, left their
places. It ls_estlmated that about 1000
went out
BELCHER ELECTED
CHIEF GOBBLER
At the meeting of the Atlanta Lodge
of the Ancient Order of Gobblers, held
Monday night In the Knights of Co.
iumbus hall, the organisation of the
lodge was completed and officers were
elected for the ensuing year. James E.
Belcher was elected chief Gobbler; Dr.
W. D. Roper, vice chief; W. J. Mur
phy, conductor; R. M. Harwell, treas
urer: S. J./Wommack, secretary; J. E.
Freeman, collector.
SEVENTEENTH DIST. FARMERS
TO HOLD AN INSTITUTE.
PRODIGAL RETURNED
TO HOME OF FATHER
Homesick and conscience-stricken
because he had played the part of tho
prodigal, Orie Dowdy, the 15-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Dowdy, of
178 McDaniel street, gladdened the
hearts of his parents Monday afternoon
because- he decided to cut short his
career of wandering and return at once
to tho parental roof.
Young Dowdy, who disappeared mys
teriously Saturday morning, Informed
hla parents upon his return thst he had
run away to Chattanooga, but that ths
voice of conscience, aided and abetted
by the exhortations of a street preach
er, convinced him that he had acted
unwisely and prevailed upon him to re-'
turn.
Special to The Georgian.
Statesboro, Ga., May 7.—The Farm
ers' Institute for the Seventeenth sen
atorial district will meet here May 10,
under the direction of the following
officers: T. B. Thorne, president, Stll-
eon, Oa.; P. It. McElveen, Areola, Ua„
secretary. ,
Speakers of ability have been ob
tained and the following program out
lined:
"General Features of Intensive Farm
ing and Inducements," Hon. J. S. Stew
art, University of Georgia.
"Women Bnd Touth on the Farm and
In the Rural Home,” Mrs. J. H. L. Ger-
dlne, editor home department of The
Cotton Journal. Decatur, Ua.
"The Importance of Heed Selection as
_ Factor in Improving Farm Cropa.”
Professor R. J. H. DeLoach, of ex
perimental station of Georgia.
WILL ADD TWO CARRIERS
TO FITZGERALD FORCE.
Bpecial to The Georgian. ,
Fitzgerald, May 7.—Four days of city
free delivery last week demonetrated
the fact that two foot and one mounted
carriers wore Inadequate to .the neede,
so In response to a request by Poet-
master Marston, the department has
ordered another examination of appli
cants, two of whom will at once be
added to the force.
IN THE DISCUSSION
The conflict between the city en*t-
neer and tho commissioner of publlo
works at a recent meeting of the street
committee was the direct cause of a
special communication to council from
tho mayor Monday.
Mayor Joyner pointed out the city
laws, which brought on these conflict!
of authority and opinion, and then
called upon council to refer' ths rostter
to some committee. In order that the
laws may be straightened out and
harmonised.
The mayor also suggested that. Inas
much ns neither the city engineer nor
the commissioner of public works
could do any work without the super
vision of the mayor and council, they
should be elected by the mayor and
council.
Tho communication was referred t»
the etreets committee.
EDITOR MERCER SECRETARY
OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
8pedal to The 'Georgian.
Fitzgerald, Ga, May 7.—The Flts-
gernld chamber of commerce elected
new officers at Its annual meeting Fri
day. J. E. Mercer, editor of The En
terprise, was elected secretary and will
give careful attention to matters affect.
Ing ths commercial Intereeta of Fltx-
gerald.
Ceremony of Foot-wsehlng.
Special to Tne Georgian.
Loganvllle, Ga.. May 7.—Sunday was
the annual gathering of the Primitive
Baptists at Haynes Creek church for
the administration of the Lord’s supper
and the observance of foot-washing.
The church Is located about four miles
from Loganvllle. People by the hun
dreds attended the services, crowding
the church building to tie capacity.
Three br four ministers were present—
Rev. Webb, of Atlanta; Rev. Adams,
of Monroe, and Rev. Webb, of Gwin
nett county.
Mrs. Shinholser Dead.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon. Oa, May 7.—After an Illness
of only a week. Mrs. S. B. Shinholser
died at the city hospital.
Mrs. Shinholser Is survived by her
husband, one slater, Mrs. Clifford 8hln-
holser. of Wesleyan College, and a lit
tle daughter. The Interment was made
In -Riverside cemetery.
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A fine vacation trip, a tour
abroad, a college education, •
share or interest in a prosperous
business, or to build your own
home—a savings account makes
them all possible.
We pay on savings deposits
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