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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, MONDAY. JUNE 28, 1** SERGEANT RUMMELL DROWNED£THESURF CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW WHILE IN BATHING AND PERI8HED. •r~-fl.il to Tlf Georgian. Wilmington, X. C.. June 25.—'While In the eurf yesterday afternoon near Fort Ca-well Quartermaster Sergeant Archie RumraelL coaat artillery, waa caught In the undertow and drowned before aid could reach him. Rummell waa from Ohio and about twenty-four ytara of AC*'. The body waa recovered laat night, having been waabed aahore one mile from the acene of the accident. PERSIA IS ANG?. AT TURKISH TROOPS UNCONQUERED BY DEATH ONE AAAN IS KILLED YAARAB REIGNS SUPREME gy jjp [[[^JOR As the Greatest of Departed Goats He Will Attend the Georgia Under takers’ Convention. By Printi* Leased Wire. Conetantlnople, June 26.—The Per- fIan frontier question la arrumlng alarming proportions, and that govern inent protests vigorously the stationing of Turkish troops along her territory. Roth Great Britain and Russia have become alarmed. SLAYER OPPROPHET" IS PLACED ON TRIAL By Private Leased Wire. ■Seattle, Wash., June 26.—The case of O- jrge Mitchell, the youthful alaxer of Edmund t.'relfleld, and the avertger of th> wrongs done his two slaters by the "holy roller” prophet, was called for trlul today. No criminal case In many years has attracted so much attention throughout this section us that of young Mitchell, nnd the trial will be followed with Intense Interest. The a< used youth has hosts of sympa thizers In Portland, Corvallis and other Oregon points, where the people were acquainted with the odious practices uml teachings of Creffleld, and a sub stantial fund has been raised for Mitchell's defense. The killing of "Apostle Joshua," as Creffleld called himself, occurred on the streets of Seattle some two months ago. "I’ve got my man. Am In Jail,” was the unique telegram the young mur derer sent to his father at Corvallis. "X came here from Portland for the purpnso of killing Creffleld," Mitchell explained after his arrest "I saw hint Bial Ills wife on First avenue and shot the mnn. That's all there la to It He ruined my two sisters, and I took hla life." WATER CONSUMPTION BREAKS ALL RECORDS Ml previous records were swept away by the flood of water used In At lanta Sunday. Twelve million gnllons w ere drawn front the reservoir by the pie In the attempt to keep cool. The reservoir sunk 14 Inches when the a\‘-rage sink for Sunday when the putnps are turned off Is from I to I Inches. To see If It would be practicable to t ut off the pumps at the river, there in- giving them a rest, Manager Park Woodward Saturday made the experi ment. In twenty-four hourn the reeer \ ntr eank 14 lnchee. Thle would be startling with the old condition of tilings, but from the gain already made the reservoir will be again full and overflowing by Wednesday. Unconquered by death, Taarab still reigns paramount over all otber rapra. Mascot supreme during his four years of residence on this earth, no leas a sponsor for good luck Is he In the whereafter of Ooatland, and as the greatest of departed goats, he baa ac cepted the title of official mascot of the undertakers'of Atlanta add as such hla head will accompany the Atlanta delegation to the coming convention In Macon. With mtich ceremony Taarab was I burled Sunday morning at 10 o'clock at the No.. 7 engine bouse In West End. Even though hla head had been de prived of him, Taarab waa given more honor In the last rites over his body than even the two-headed goate that contributed to the fame of p. T. Bar- num. There were fifteen members of the Are department present at the fu neral, as well as fifty or more rank outsiders, who seemed to think them selves privileges to butt In just be cause It was a goat's funeral. At 10:10 o'clqpk taps was sounded over the grave of headless Taarab. Taarab'a head was delivered to Bar clay ft Brandon, who prepared It for preservation, nnd who will act as keeper for the head when It attends the coming convention of undertakers. It la fitting that thla should be the first act of mascotlng after hla death. It might be said, too, that It was thor oughly consistent that Taarab, If It waa necessary for him to leave the en gine house for a land of never-ending Are hose and baseballs, to depart on the day of the month known aa “22." Taarab II Is now looming InwtlghL He le residing with Ernest Gilbert Bentley at 111 HIM street. Chief Joy ner received a letter Monday morning from Ernest, who olTers to donate his pet to the fire detriment. Taarab, aa all aristocratic goats are, waa bora on the Atlanta dumping ground. John Jentxen, of the sanitary department of Atlanta, has assured Chief Joyner that the Are department should liavfe another goat from that same stock. Several other goats have been of fered to the Are department, but none has been accepted aa yet In thla con nection it might be mentioned that applicants for the position of official billy goat to the Atlanta Are depart ment, the Atlanta baseball team, the Shrinera and grand parade leader must also lack the falling of most goats/aa Taarab did. TROLLEY CARS STONER AS RESULT OF STRIKE CHINESE BANDITS ROB AMERICAN IN CANTON TWO OTHER PER80N3 8ERIOU8LY POLICE 8IDE WITH MEN AND RE- FAMILY THREATENED BY YEL- HURT WHEN LIFT DR0P8 FU8E TO AID THE COM- LOW THIEVE8 WHO IN- FIVE 8TORIE8. PANY. VADE HOMES. By Prim to Leased Wire. New York, June 26.—One man waa killed and two others were seriously hurt as the result of the fall of an elevator today In the eighteen-story building In course of construction for the Engineers' Club of America, the gift of Andrew Carnegie, at No. 25 33 West Thirty-ninth street. Thomas McGagh, of 419 West Elgh tl**th street, was the man killed. The other men were badly hurt, having fallen five stories. TO MEET TUESDAY DISTRICT CONVENTION OF ORDER WILL BE HELD IN PIED MONT HOTEL. LOCAL NEWS CONDENSED OPENS SAVINGS DEPT, For the purpose of Introducing to the citizens of Atlanta .tho many ndvant- agesmf the C. O. Burns' saving system, «Melt on Monday morning was Intro- ,im-rd for the flret time through the agency of the Fourth National Bank, nfteen young men from New Haven, I uni., students of Yale University, are i .invssslng all sections of the city and . placing among the working people and tl,n»e who desire to acquire the savings haML neat little ppeket banks for the p u pose of assisting them In their de sires. These little banks which are being placed are marvels of simple Ingenu ity, being nf just the right else for the xe*t pocket nnd yet being of sufficient nzo to hold a surprisingly large amount of small- change. The Idea of the scheme la to encourage holders of the I.anks to pi arc therein their email change each day. and. at. the *P<J Pt the. m cck or the month take them to the Fourth National Rank and have the r* intents deposited to their credit. As n ihodj- but the bsnk officiate have the k~y to the tittle banks, the spending of the money after once being put In Is Impoeelble. , The savings deparimmt of the Fourth National Bank la In the way of an Innovation, having never before ,., -n In use at that Institution. Presl- ,1. nt English Is a Arm believer In the ► >. -tomatlc snvlpg of money and his Interest In the working classes and the young people In the saving and honking of money Is shown In the new i rlment added to the bank, r r the accommodation of the fie ri..Iton In the savings department a HWov has been opened near the en trance to the bank and here all busi ness of this department will be Irons- a. ted. Interest at the rate of 2 per rent, compounded semi-annually, will t~- raid on all deposits, and the fact that It Is a national Institution makes al.olutely no dangerous risks for the depositor to take. It te expected that the savings de- l lament of the Fourth National Bank w ill soon become one of the most Im portant branches of the big business d ne by the corporation. ENORMOUS DEMANDS FOR GEORGIA ROPE ■ Special to The Oeonflan. i • Columbus, Oa., June 25.—During three K days of the past week the Eagle and Phenla mills of this place have sold h" it a million pounds of rope. . Usually the rope season does not I open till September, but this season the mills have sold the entire output up the first of next April. 8moker and Banquet. At the home of the society on Cen tral avenue on next Friday evening at g o’clock, the Oglethorpe Association of Stationary Engineers will give ■moker and banquet, to which several prominent gueate have been Invited. As the annual election of officers and dele gatee to the annual oonventlon In Philadelphia In September will come up after the banquet, It Is expected that ail members will be present. Voluntary Bankrupt. Abner C. Stamps, a local broker, has filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy with the clerk of tho United States court. Hla liabilities are given 2406.46 and hla assets aa 2100. “And Her Name Waa Maud.’ Cooper H. Tbrowman, a negro youth who has been employed at the Brady stock yards, was the victim of a mule's wrath Saturday night, and aa the re sult of a well-placed kick Is ronflned to his horns on Bradley atreet with two broken ribs and numerous bruises and scratches. The boy was unloading a car load of the animals when he In curred the displeasure of Miss Maud and was kicked against the aide of the car. Lasture Monday Night. At 2 o'clock 6!onday night, In the lecture room of the Second Baptist church, before the members of the Young Men's Society, will be given an address by Professor A. C. Briscoe, president of the Southern Shorthand and Business University. All young men are Invited to attend. Tent Meeting. Dr. Bolfe Hunt, pastor of the Con gregational Methodist church, will be gin a tent meeting Tuesday night on Pryor street, near Bawson. Ho will be assisted by K. Y. Clarke, Jr. The first sermon will he preached by Dr. O. K. Woodward. Mr. Clarke will do most of the preaching the rest of thle week. There have been accessions to several churches from the meeting .which hue just closd at Brlsblne park, and Dr. Hunt tnvltaa the co-operation of all evangelical Chrlstlons In tho meeting on Pryor street. t Civil Service Exams. George S. Donnell, secretary of the civil service cemmlsslon for this dis trict, announces a special examina tion on July It, for a farmer with a knowledge of Irrigation for the Indian service, and on July 25 for n poultry- man for the Indian service and a planing mill foreman for the United mates penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kana Cate Against Mrs. Winslow. Boundsman Sergeant Poole and Po- CAD DIDN'T COME; MANAGER IS TRIED When a eat) ordered by Colonel Frank Cnllnwty. the well known attorney, failed to arrive Hstunlay St his home, 44 East Fourteenth street, eaualng his sister to miss n train, he had n ease made against A. N. Cook, manager of tho Atlanta Bag gage nml Cab Company. The matter was Invsatlgsted Monday morning liefore Recorder Ilroytes and the rase dismissed, Cook explalnlug that a mis take of one of the employees was responsi ble for the failure of the cab to put In an n ones ranee. Colonel Callaway ataled that ho had ordered rails on several different oe- melons and had enrountered similar troo- hle. He aatd he had grown tired of thla kind of disappointment and decided to bring the matter to the attention of tho courts BULLOCK PAYING OFF 1,400 R.F.D. CARRIERS One of the hardeet worked men juet at this time In Atlanta Is V. V. Bul lock, assistant postmaster. Mr. Bullock has to sign the pay checks for all the rural carriers In the state, and as there arii some fourteen hundred 'of these the else of hla task may be Imagined, espe cially aa all checks-must be sent out promptly after the flret of the month. The average carrier gets 220 par month, and thla la the sum that moat of the checks are made out for, though some are for lees. Sixty Is the maxi mum salary which tha government pays. The annual pay roll of the rural car riers In Georgia amounts to nearly a million dollars. Will Cemplatt Elks Home. Vpectel to The Georgian. Huntsville, Ala, June 25—The 275.- 000 Elks’ home, opera house and office building being erected In this city will now be rushed to rapid completion, the Elks having met and removed all ob stacle* In the way of Its progress. llccmun Payne made a case Sunday night against Mrs. J. E. Winslow, of 120 South Pryor atreet, charging her with keeping a disorderly house. The house woe raided aa the result of com plaint made to the police by neighbors. The trial was ncheduled for Monday morning In police court, but hire. Win slow we* reported to 111 to be pres ant. Naw Officers in Irwin. At a apeclal election held In Irwin county on June 20, H. Hopkins woe elected to succeed D. A. Mclnnee, de ceased, and J. E. Howell wo* named treasurer to succeed M. W. Howell, de ceased. Increase Capital. Secretary of State Phil Cook Monday morning granted an amendnront to the charter of Athena Electric railway, lie creasing Its capital stock from }I25, 000 to 2275,000. Issue *400,000 In Bonds. Authority to Issue' 2400,000 In 0 per cent bonds was granted the Atlanta Steel Hoop Company Monday morning by Secretary of State Phil Cook. South Carolina Dinner. The South Carolina Society banquet, which waa to have been held on June 22, has been postponed until October In order that there may he present a number of distinguished South Caro- llnans who otherwise would be obliged to Atlas the function. Negro Confesses to Murder. Jerry William*, a negro, was arrest-' ed by Officers Coogler and Rowan on Peter* »treet Monday afternoon. To the officers, Williams confessed that he murdered another negro In Birming ham some time ago. He Is now being held awaiting the arrival of an officer from the Alabama city to take him back to the. scene of his crime. National Bottling Company. The National Bottling Company, cap italised at 26,000, applied Monday morning for a charter, filing a petition In the superior court. The company g roposes to carry on a general bottling uslnese, and the Incorporators are W. B. Nethery, J. F. Holley and 8. B. Moncrlef. \ • More Wreckluits Filed. Two more suits growing out of the collision between trains on the Cen tral of Georgia and tha Atlanta ami We*t Point railroad* ware filed In the su]>erior court Monday aftarnoon. Each of these waa for personal Injuries and each complainant aska 26,000 damages. Mrs. Berta McDuffie and Mrs. O. O. Earnheart each filed suite again*, the two railroads for the amount named. MISS HELEN FRANKLIN MIm !IH*n M. Franklin, daughter of Mr*. Kngenfa Franklin, died at 946 Weal lYnchtrcc utreet at 8 o'clock Monday morning. She leaven a slater, Mra. W. II. llahr, and two brothera, William J. and Henry Franklin. She bad been 111 about flve weeks with typhoid fever. Hhe waa teacher of the seventh grade of the State atreet school. The funeral aervleee will be. conducted nf the resilience by Rev. C. tl. Wltmer Tues day morning at 10 oVlock, and tbe Inter ment will l>e at Weatvlew. LESTER'S SUCCESSOR SOON TO BE DECIDID Governor Terrelt announced Monday that he would not Issue the proclama tion for a apeclal election In the First Congressional district, to name a suc cessor to the late Congressman Lester, until he had consulted with the mem bers of the legislature from 'he c-.un- tie* forming the district As the general aeaembly convenes Wednesday morning, a conference of the members will be held l.o the gov ernor's office, probably during tne lat ter part of the week. As the governor has heart! nothing from anybody In tho district In ref erence to calling the election, he thinks thle Is the beet way to arrive -,t tho wishes of the people down there. DISTILLERY COMPANY SUES CITY OF ASHEVILLE Spectsl to The Georgian. Asheville. N. C, June 26.—As s result of the setton of the board of aldermen In first granting end then later refusing a license for the erection of a distillery by tbe Mount Mitchell Distilling Com pany, an action tor damages will he In stituted agntnst the city of Asheville and the members of the board Individu ally tor the amount of 222.609 The district ronrentlon of the Fraternal Union of America trill be held Tuesday afternoon at t o'cloak 1* the eegemMjy eeem Of tin- hot.-I. It I. tod Unit n! loll.t llfly dido gstes will he present, representing several ••■'■■III -Into-. Tito mldr.-x of weleoms wilt be. dellvtjri-dliy 11 nn. James. L. May- most prominent of the Southern members . A. 0, HAS PASSED AWA Mrs. A. Q. Turner, wife of the chief of tbe county police, died at her home on tlreensferry road at 3 o'clock Sunday morn ing of consumption. The funeral services will be held front the residence Monday afternoon st 2 o'clock and will be conducted liy Ilev. C. L. Pat- tillo. The following gentlemen will act ns pnll-bearers: J. E. Babb, M. 21. Turner, . A. Wilson, Jr.. Paul Tolaod, W. oole, and G. E. McLsrln. The Interment will be at Westricw. 000000000 09 00000000 0 D A LABOR EXPOSITION 0 PROPOSED BY GOMPERS. O By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, June 26.—A new Idea In world’s expositions was made public today by delegates un der the direction of Samuel Gompers, president of Ameri can Federation of Labor, who are here to begin work on an "exposition.” It will show the growth and extent of union la bor and will be hold probably In Minneapolis. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ 0 0 0 ROOSEVELT TO VISIT 0 ISTHMU8 OF PANAMA. O 0 By Private Leased Wire. O Washington, June 26.—For the O sole purpose of learning at first O hand just what tha situation la O In the canal gone. President 0 Roosevelt proposes to visit the O Isthmus of Panama In Novem- O her. 0 This will ba ths first time a 0 president of the United States 0 will have gone to a foreign 0 country. Ae the canal zone la O American property, It will prob- 0 ably be taken that the chief ex- O ecutlve Is still on United States 0 soil and that no precedent for rorelgn visits has been estab- 0. llshed. 0 Before going to the Isthmus, the president will make a short trip West. He hs> received In vitations from a number of cities to pay them a visit, byt he wilt not find it possible to vlelt them all. 0000000000O00000000 0 YAARAB’8 SPIRIT 0 TURNS FAUCET ON. O • 0 •Twae Taarab. The first thing O he did when he landed In thrf 0 stratum of clouds devoted to departed goate was to Inform the official rain-maker to turn on the Atlanta faucet. While wires In the distant West are down and the fore caster Cannot tell what sort of weather te prevailing on tbe Pacific coast. It Is really In the local brand that the most In terest I* centered. Sunday waa rather warm, even to 90 de grees, and Monday morning fol lowed suit, but the "pressure element” which 1* becoming broken over the country means that there are to be showers In all probability In these parts' Then has been clear weather over most of the South, though the conalderabte rain that has fallen In the Mississippi valley In the lest 24 hours betokens a cooled atmosphere .for Atlanta. Forecast. Partly cloudy Monday night and Tuesday. Probably shower* Tuesday. o Tamperatura*. 0 O 7 ft. m. 7« degress a O 8 ft. m. 20 degree* 0 O 9 ft. m. o o io ft. m. 17 degTeaa o o 11 ft. m. 31 degress o O 12 noon 92 degress o O 1 P- m. o O 2 P- m. .. .. ..99 degrees o By Private Leased Wire. Allentown. Pa., June 25.—The mayor ordered every saloon In the city closed today and the state constabulary and special deputies sworn In by Sheriff Krause are now on guard to prevent further rioting that followed the strike of'the employees of the Losing Alley Transit Company. The strikers were not responsible for the disorders and the lenders of the workmen are assisting the authorities In putting a stop to violence. When the company attempted operate cars with non-union men the disorder became so great that the po lice were unable Co cope with the situ, utlon and the state constabulary wai sent for. Mnnnger Warren 8. Hall called upon the city authorities for protection and officers were ordered out, but they were unable to handle the crowds. Many of the. policemen refused to assist the company nnd sided with the strikers, who took no part In the demonstration. The few cars which mnnngcd to get away were stoned, and. passengers left them. The traction officials say they will not give In. The union leaders sent a message to Manager HAIL say ing they are willing to submit to arbl tratlon. NOTHING GIVEN OUT ABOUT ArB, SESSION ANOTHER MEETING TO BE HELD TH18'WEEK WILL DETERMINE THE COURSE OF ACTION. From 10 o’clock In the morning un til 7 o'clock Saturday evening the di rectors and officers of. the Atlanta- Birmingham Fire Insurance Company were In session at the Piedmont Hotel and at the conclusion of the meeting President J. T. Dargan gavo out no Information In regard to the business done during the long meeting. It Is learned on good authority, how ever, that the directors practically de cided not to dissolve the present com pany and form a new one, but to In crease the capital stock and retain the services of the present officers. The company will then be In a position to meet all claims arising from the San Francisco disaster. An adjourned meeting of the board of directors of the company will be held some day thle week at a time to be decided upon later and definite an nouncement of the future of the com pany will then be made. An erron eous report concerning the Insolvency -if tin- company has been In Circula tion for some time, but the meeting of the directors on Saturday showed the company to be perfectly solid and well able to pay all claims which may arise. DR. GEDDING IS DEAD AT AN ADVANCED AGE 8p*clal to Tbe Georclen. Augusta, «■., June 8,—At the Age of 74 yeera. Dr. Kdward Gliding, one of the best known phyildene In the state and for many yearn connected with the medical de- K rtment of the Unhreraity of Georgia, died re yeeterday morning, up to the time of hta retirement be eerred aa dean at the university. He had been living at a country home a few miles from the city since hla retire ment. Dr. (tedding carried with him the dis tinction of dicing the first American to lx? S aiinatcd from the University of Berlin, •rmany, at tnp oge of 2L He was a scholarly man nml will be missed by tbe profession throughout the state. 4 DYING WOMAN TOLD NAME OE HER SLAYER 0OO0OOO00O000000000 By Prlrsts !.rased Wire. New York, June 26.—While ah* lay dying In an ambulance which carried her from the Stenton "house of mya- ter}-" to Fordham hospital, It Is now said Mrs. Alice C. Kinan named her alayer. The end was near, but aha could talk and was able to think. The detectives have had their own reasons for circu lating the report that ahe was uncon uclous from tho moment the assassin felled her. Perhaps they have hesitated to die- does their most Important evidence until corroborative circumstance! should have Insured conviction of the guilty. Doubtless they will he called on be fore nightfall to repeat before Coroner MacDonald the exact words of the dy ing woman. Coroner MacDonald planned to make today’s resumption of his Inquest i sensational one. It was freely predict ed that testimony would be adduced .which would make Imperative tbe tak ing of at least on* person Into custody. The police admitted that If the devel opments for Which they were hoping d d not materialise the line-up on which they had been working almost from the beginning would fall. Captain Price and his detective have been working to complete a chain of evidence against one person who they art certain is the guilty one. The program for today Included the bringing of Mrs. 8t*nton and Lawyer Burton W. Gibson face to face at the coroner's Inquest. One part of Mrs. Stanton’s testimony upon which the coroner desires further enlightenment relates to her answer to a question about the visitors the fam ily were In the habit of receiving at night. She said: ."Mr. Gibson was In tbs habit of coming to see us at night. Alice expected him and thought It was him who nag the bell when she went to the door to answer IL” Startling new evidence, brought to light today, caused Coroner MacDon ald and Captain Price to put over the continuation of tha preliminary hear ing until tomorrow. It is the purpose of the officials to thoroughly Investi gate these newly ascertained facte In order that thay may ha used In the further examination of tha old w~mnu. BRITONS ARE ALARMED OVER RULERS HEALTH KING EDWARD GOE8 TO 8LEEP AT LUNCHEON TO THE LONGWORTH8. By Private Leased Wire. San Francisco, CaL, June 25.—Him self, wife, children and servants bound and gagged while thirty bandits robbed hla house In the heart of the Chinese city of Canton, is the story of an American missionary. Dr. A. Beatty, who has Just reachfil this rlty. He aays they awoke one night to find themselves threatened with death by the knives of native? over their bed- aides, although the native police pa- tr<»ll***l tho mroots regularly and two blocks from his house the United States monitor Monadnock lay at anchor. No reparation has yet been made for the outrage, although the Chinese govern ment has made many promises. ETAL, ARE NOYY INDICTED Indictments were returned by the Fulton county grand Jury Monday morplng against Homer Bradley, Ellis Allle and Q. Upchurch, charging them with larceny from the house of George W. Moore. Upchurch waa arrested Saturday night by Detective Sergeant Lanford, nnd Bradley and Allle, who were previously arrested, had already been bound over to the state courts by Recorder Broyles. The men were Indicted on charges of robbing tho Fulton Hotel, In West Hunt'-i .street, last week, t'aah to the amount of 8160, the property of S. D. Harsh, waa stolen from the hotel safe while the clerk waa not watching the office. By Private Leaned Wire. London, June 25.— Alarm It fait te- day over King Edwnrd's health, or ganic troubles having come with tha Increase In flesh. Drowsiness la hi* greatest enemy and It la whispered that during the luncheon to Mrs. Longworth he was several times asleep nnd also dosed la hla box at the Ascot races. OEAD NEGRO'S BODY TELL IN 3 DID WOMAN WRITE THREATENING LETTERS? By Private Leased Wire. New York, June 25.—Did or did not Mr*. Grace Lovett print the two threat ening letters which Sirs. Inex Courtney says she received? This Is the question about which the Lovett divorce suit centered today when the trial of the case of the wealthy Brooklyn real estate man, George M. Lovett, against Ills wife, was resumed In Justice Maddox's court, Brooklyn. The attorneys on both sides entered upon a desperate endeavor to sustain and dt-f.-iit the contention made by Wlltiam J. Kinsley, a handwriting ex pert, last week'that Mrs. Lovett wrote letters to Mra. Courtney with the de sign of frightening her from testifying for Lovett. Mr,. Lovett was trapped Into fur. nlshlng the plaintiff’s lawyer with spec imens of her hnndwrltlng and printing. Photographs of these, together with Photographic copies of the lettero that Mrs. Courtney got, were given each Ju ror today. During the cross-examination of Kinsley, Mra. Lovett's lawyer an nounced that ho would produce evl dence to show that Mrs. Courtney wrote the menacing missives herself. Mrs. Lovett,, looking exceedingly pale and 111, came Into court today, accom panied by her mother, Mrs. Webb, nmf nurse. BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT IS FILED HERE Mattie Cronlc, a 17-year-old girl of DeKalb county, filed suit Monday In the superior court against Clifford Miller, charging a breach of marriage contract. Miss Cronlc asks damages to the amount of 32,090. The petition recites that the fendant, Miller, called often at her home and obtained her full trust and confidence. The petitioner avers that a solemn contract of marriage was en tered Into In November, 1905, and the two agreed to marry In February, 1902, and that the defendant failed to appear and carry out the contract. The peti tioner la represented by J. L. Cobb. C. BLICKEN8DERFER IS CRITICALLY ILL. By Private Leased Wire. Stamford, Conn., June 25.—George C. Bllckensderfer, ttje typewriter Inventor and manufacturer, Is critically III from pneumonia and blood poisoning. Special to Tho Georgina. Winder, Ga., June 25.—With three bullet holes through his body, Indicted there by Harland Ramsey, another ne gro, Floyd Smith fell dead In three counties here. The tragedy occurred on the point where Walton. Gwinnett and Jackson counties Join. Smith nnd Ramsey were quarreling about a negro girl named Leila Moor? Smith threw a brick nt Ramsey, strik ing him in-the face, and was then ad vancing on Ramsey when shot. Ram sey has been arrested and placed la Jail. UNIVERSITY REPORT READY FOR ASSEMBLY Governor Henry D. McDaniel, chair man of-the board of trustees of the University of Georgia, presented the report of the board to Governor Ter rell Monday morning. The report will be printed at once and presented to the general assembly Wednesday. Governor McDaniel stat ed that the report had appeared In substance In the papers already, and that no new Issues were contained In IL As regards football nt the univer sity, the report will not recommend Its abolishment, but advocates certain re forms In order to take the rough plays out of the game. Miss Lixxie Shields. Miss Lizzie Shields died of consump tion at her home, No. 267 Woodward avenue, at 1 o’clock Sunday morning. The funeral services were held from the residence nt 10 o'clock Monday morning, and the Interment was at Westvlew. Joseph T. Mayhugh. Joseph T. Mayhugh, son of V/. T. Mayhugh, of No. 177 Grllln street died Saturdny night nt 10 o'rlyoek after an lllnesa of some time. Funeral aer- vices were held Monday nfternnon In Poole's chnpel, and the Interment waa at Weatvlew. Well-Known Reaident Dead. . Special to The Georgian. Griffin, Ga., June 25.—J. T. Z. Smith, a well-known resident of this city, died Friday night after nn Illness of several months. Mr. Smith wn« 62 years of age nnd had resided here for twenty- seven years. Ills wife survives him. The Interment took place at Oak Hill cemetery. Williarn”Ellis. William Ellis, 87 years old. died at the resilience of Ills daughter, Mrs. Emma E. Halley, 442 Courtland street, at 6 o’clock Monday morning, sfter an illnesH of two weeks. The funeral will be held nt the residence at 10:29 Tues day morning. Rev. C. P. Bridewell of ficiating. The Interment will be at Westvlew. IMAGINED BONE DUST SHOWERED UPON HOUSE Rptclal to Tho Georgian. Augusta, Ga.. Juno 26.—Ura**d by tb** lief that deadly duit from crushed «nd powdered human (MM waa helm •b° w ’ ered aa a curae upon the roof of hla bouae. Joabua, a maniac ne«ro of thla i-ounty, draff red hla little children from hla homa and corered their heada with dirt and aharp rlndera, which he ffroond Into their flrra and eyea aa a charm or •‘ronjure” to pro tect* them from the Imnendlnff erU. At the Mine time, with violent and brutal ffeature, he threatened to murder tu* mother of the children, wteama broufflt neighbors nnd the demented mau ieo. ROUND TRIP Summer and Convention Rates. Round trip Summer Excursions from all points East to Pacific Coast and Northwest from June 1 to Sept. 15, with special stop-over privileges, good returning to Oet. 31,1906. N. E. A. Meeting at Los Angeles, July 9-13. Elks Meeting at Denver, Colo., July 16-21. Summer rates to Colorado, June 1 to Sept. 30. 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