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MARSHAL’S WIFE DIESTOSAVEHIM ■ Throws Herself Before Him as Slayer Fires in Doubly Fatal Street Battle. JELLICO, KT., May 13. —While en deavoring to save the life of her hus band, Thomas Bowlin, town marshal, Mrs. Bowlin was shot and instantly' killed yesterday afternoon .in the prin cipal street of this little mining town. Crazed by the realization that his wife had sacrificed her life for his. Bowlin attempted to kill himself,, when a friend knocked his pjstol from his hand, Wiley Parton, with whom Bowlin was engaged in a pistol battle when his wife interfered, was killed and Wes ley Parton, father of the dead man. was seriously wounded. Al Butcher an(l Al Bowlin, the latter a brother of the marshal, were both seriously wounded. They were supporting the marshal in his fight with the Partons The trouble started when Marshal Bowlin attempted to arrest Wiley Par ton for promiscuous shooting in the streets, Mrs. Bowlin heard the shoot ing, and rushed-to the scene just, in time to see a weapon aimed at her husband. She threw herself in front of him and two shots penetrated her body, causing instant death. OAKLAND CITY GETS FIRST READING ROOM OF MANY PLANNED A reading room as a branch of the Carnegie library will be opened Wed nesday afternoon at Oakland City in a. room fitted up by Councilman I. N. Ragsdale This reading robm will be the first of a number that the trustees of the library hope to establish in various neighborhoods. For the present, the Oakland City branch will be open on three afternoons in the week, and will • be in charge of an assistant librarian of the Carnegie library. A number of reference books for school children will be placed in the room. Mayor Courtland S. Winn. W P. Disbro, chairman of the board of trus tees of the library, and Councilmen W. M. Everett and I. N. Ragsdale will speak at the opening exercises. FATALLY SLASHED IN CHURCH ROW, SHOOTS HIS FOES;BOTH DYING DALLAS, GA., May 13.—. After his throat bad been cut by Grady and Grover Cooper at Bethany church, six miles south of Dallas, yesterday aft ernoon. W. I?. McCard drew his pis tol and shot the Coopers, both of whom are expected, to die from th'eir wounds. McCard blad tir death a few minutes after he was cut. the. jugular vein being severed. The killing was the result of an old feud between the Coopers and McCard. The three were attending an all day singing at Bethany church when the old trouble was renewed with fatal effect. M. RICH & BROS CO. IM. RICH & BROS. CO. M. RICH &*BROS. CO. M. RICH <t BROS. CO. S< _ —I «t ! J* %IJr Greatest Event of All! Twelve Cent - | Sale in Rich’s Economy Basement J__ I ■ ■ ——— - g ■ ■ls Bigger values tomorrow than have marked any of our previous sales—bargains on «r the very things you want NOW! The most seasonable merchandise goes in this sale JJ - tomorrow at the smallest price ever quoted-—in fact, you. the people of Atlanta, can buy merchandise in this Economy Basement tomorrow for less than the price whole- JJ salers are asking for the self-same goods It’s just another of those big one-day bar- gain carnivals for which you have learned to watch. Come tomorrow expecting ; C** gigantic values-—you’ll not be disappointed. JU REMEMBER, prices are for tomorrow, Tuesday, the one day only, and you JJ must shop in person. No telephone or mail orders filled. <*• 3 yds. Shirting Prints, many styles, 12c Women’s Ribbed Hose, 3 pairs tor 12c -JJ Bleached Cotton Toweling, 3 yards 12c Children’s 39c Pink or Blue Dresses, 12c re? 19c Genuine Serpentine Crepe, 12c yd 3 rolls Crepe Paper, all colors, 12c ]B C Pine soft finished Cambric, 12c 6 dozen Pearl Buttons, all sizes, 12c 18c All-Linen Huck Towels, 12c 25c Table Oil Cloth tor 12c yard 5 18c Big, Hemmed Turkish Bath Towels, 12c Brown Domestic, 3 yards Tuesday, 12c ■ C. T. N. Curtain Swiss, two yards for 12c Men’s 25c Four-in-hand Silk Ties, 12c Men’s 25c “Shawknit” Half Hose, 12c 19c All-Pure Silk Persian Ribbons, 12c -JJ 29c Embroideries, 18 in. wide, 12c yd Women’s 25c Shirt Waists for 12c "JW Cluny or Vai Laces, 10 yds. 12c 3 Sponge Dish Cloths for 12c 19c to 25c White Goods, 12c yd 18c Shirting Madras for 12c yard 3.T 3 bars of Fels Naptha Soap, 12c 50c Voile Bands, Tuesday, 12c yd --•JJ 4 Individual Hemmed Towels, 12c 15c All Pure Linen Toweling, 12c yd JJ 2 cans of Old Dutch Cleanser, 12c Women’s 39c Union Suits, 12c each 3 bars Swift’s Pride Soap for 12c Women’s 19c Mercerized Gauze Hose, 12cpr Pair 42x36-inch Pillow Cases for 12c 25c Persian Lawn, 45 in. wide, 12c yd •■JJ 25c Bleached Table Damask for 12c yd 18c Manchester Galatea Cloth for 12c yd 11 M. Rich & Bros. Co. ■ “ Hoodoo of 13 Mice His Gift on May 13, 23 Years Old Today J. Embert Brown, city ticket agent of the Seaboard Air Line, had a birthday to day and received thirteen mice as one of his birthday presents. This is the <3th of the month, too. Mr. Brown has been worried by mice eating tickets, documents and other things mice delight in, and Saturday afternoon he set a trap for them. When he opened the affice today he found thir teen mice scampering about. Brown is exactly 23 years old. “I am going to keep these mice as a birthday present, and I think to have • them quit destroying papers around the office would be the best gift I could re ceive,” he toljl a friend. BETTER SCHOOLS FOR DECATUR IS PLAN OF THE BOARD OF TRADE A public school for Decatur, to open next September, is one of the matters to be discussed at a meeting of the Decatur Board of Trade at the court house at 3 o'clock tomorrow night. Professor Stewart of the University of Georgia has been advising with the educational board of the Decatur Board of Trade, Professor G. S. t'andler, chairman, and with the board of edu cation of Decatur for some time, and plans for furthering this matter are now being discussed with a great deal of interest by the citizens of Decatur. The cleaning-up campaign in Deca tur is still going on with renewed vigor, and several matters in connection with this campaign will also be considered Tuesday night. Another very important matter is that of the employment of a secretary for the Board of Trade to give his entire time to the work of the board. A full meeting of the board is urged, and several interesting speeches along these various lines are expected. CHURCHES HELP FUND FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS Many of the church congregations of Atlanta subscribed liberally yesterday to tht j fund for the relief of the sufferers from the floods in the Mississippi valley. Several hundred dollars was added to the fund Atlanta is raising. At the Second Baptist church $250 was raised by collection, and $35 was raised at the First Christian church. St. Luke and a number of other churches had special collections for the purpose. PRAYS FOR 36 HOURS. THEN TAKES JUDGESHIP MAt’ON, GA.. May 13. Nat E. Harris, chairman of the board of trustees of the Georgia School of Technology, and for forty years a member of the Macon bar. was today sworn in as judge of the su perior court of the Macon circuit, suc ceeding Judge William H. Felton, who resigned after seventeen years service to become president of the Central Geor gia Power Company and allied corpora tions. In his remarks from the bench. Judge Harris said be first declined the I office, but after praying over the matter for thirty-six hours, decided to accept it. He said it was relinquishing a law prac tice payThg $7,000 a year for an office with a salary of $3,000. Judge Harris’ appointment was an nounced late Saturday by Governor Brown. . THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY, MAY 13, 1912. REUNION LOSS TO MACDN 525D.D00 Thousands of Cots Never Used by Veterans and Provisions Are Dumped Into River. MACON. GA.. May 13. —Careful es timates place the financial loss sus tained bv Macon people on the 1 reunion, at not less than $250,000. The greater part of this was invested In thousands of cots which were never used. There are numerous insfances where the loss falls up, n those least able to bear it. In one case an aged school teacher mortgaged her home, spending SBOO for cots, and failed to rent even one. A Russian barber, who had saved SSOO to bring his parents from the old country, likewise bought cots, and did not have a single roomer. The trouble was that the people of Macon were over enthusiastic about the reunion. They confidently expected and prepared for 150,000 visitors. Less than 40,000 came. Os the 200 lunch stands, only four made any profit, and one is said to have lost SII,OOO. In the last two days more than 50,- 000 buns, loaves of bread and sand wiches have been dumped into the river. Souvenir dealers were afso hard hit. TWO OFFICERS SLAIN RAIDING NEGRO GAME; LYNCHING IS FEARED GAINESVILLE, FLA., May 13— Cain Perry, a negro, and his three sons are in jail under heavy guard for killing C. H. Slaughter. town marshal, and Charles White, deputy sheriff, at Arch er. Fla . near here. Violence is feared, as feeling against the negroes is in tense. The two officers were shot down by a volley fired ns they broke in upon a gambling game at the Perry house iu the outskirts of.the town. The four ne groes were Arrested by J. A. Manning, another deputy who accompanied Slaughter and White. Manning, with a wound in his abdomen, feigned death until he had the drop on Cain Perry, when he shot him and then covered the three sons. TWO GREAT FLEETS WILL GUARD EAST AND WEST COASTS WASHINGTON. May 13. -Reorgani-I zation of the battleship f!°e*. with the | building up of two powerful reserv< i fleets for the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, will be made effective by Sec retary Meyer before the end of the year. A program made public today brings the main fleet up to twenty of the most powerful battleships in the navy, besides the n>'« super-dread nought Wyoming. The Atlantic reserve fleet will consist of nineteen ships, of which fourteen are to be battleships or | armored cruisers. There will be ready for service on the | Pacific fourteen cruisers, besides the old battleship Oregon Royston Man, Shot by Father Accidentally, Dies at Hospital Here Mahlon Pruitt, who was accidental-' ly shot at his home in Royston, Ga., ■ last Friday, died in a private sanita- I Hum here today. Pruitt, the son of J. M. Pruitt, a prominent citizen of Royston, was i helping his father clean a shotgun. The | gun had not been used for some time and was not supposed to be loaded. ' Rust caused one of the hammers to : stick, so that when the elder Pruitt at- ; tempted to force it back it slipped from ■ his grasp and exploded a shell. The j full charge of shot struck young Pruitt j in the legs and right thigh. He was rushed to Atlanta for medical atten tion, but the shock and loss of blood caused his death today. The body was removed to the under taking parlors of Barclay & Brandon, and will be taken to Royston tonight, where the funeral and interment will take place. ATLANTANS TO TAKE BIG PART IN MEETING OF PYTHIAN KNIGHTS When the Knights of Pythias grand lodge meets in Augusta next Wednesday many Atlantans will be in attendance. A ! special train will leave Atlanta tomorrow; night carrying the Uniform Rank of the 1 second regiment, Colonel Ed L. Hum- ■ phreys. commanding. The following com- . panics will be aboard this train: Gate City company No. 5, Atlanta company No. 2, Colonial company No. 18 and Dixie company No. 21. all from Atlanta; West Point company No. 14, Barnesville com pany. No. 22. Colonel James W. Austin, vice chan cellor, will be exalted to the chair of j grand chancellor. He will go down on the Atlanta special, and with him will be the following. Hamilton Douglas, Rev. Russell K. Smith. 1 ‘avid B. Bailey, \\ . H. Brannan and <*aptain A L. Cruik shank Two .Atlanta companies. Colonial and ! Dixie, which won secondhand third prizes.; respectively, at the drill last \<-ar, will; both be warm contestants with ■ thers tori the first prize. The lodge* will be in ses j sion for two days, and one of th<* features will be the ceremonial by Khorassans from Macon. Mary Helen Coleman. The remains of Marx Helen Coleman, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. J. H Coleman, who died yesterday at their residence, JOS Hemphill ave nue, were taken today to Gadsden. Ala., where the funeral and int-iinent will take place. You cannot afford to do without it you will tone up your whole system by taking, in the morning, Hunyadi g ; Janos A] Water B|j Natural Laxative frME I Quickly Relieves CONSTIPATION I ymawiiiigr 1 1— ■«! ■ I, mill Mi m ; Jf I i L rA / | ifi™c / y| ||i ‘t k f / , i/ ill U® Jo I I 1 1 / IL V I j Copyriglv Hart Schaffner & Marx W«r-v» '• ’T-s-'-v - I JHIHIL—IIHHW.. UJ I ..I—l LUM—IW ■UfH—l lIIB—IBWIIIIBJBIMM—HMBB—BIUIBWW W—TBI—Bi IJ.—»MBMM MJ——MM—■BU_ll_J_J, A SPECIAL DEMONSTRATION ALL THIS WEEK ON ALL I ELECTRIC APPLIANCES FM i ® ) Toasters, Percolators )pi j • Electric i ! Electric Demonstration at Our Peachtree Street Store Alt This Week. A r y tiling You Would Like to Know of the Electric Appliances? Come toSee Us i SHurdwariTWany • 53 PEACHTREE STREET ' G ! whhusti ”l owy. s •*£! -.' vw—iMßVJUwiLr^raißiuMi—KMHSUMM——aßW IMm—i i —“ ■ - ■—— i Mimi j. -JBWT-- ■ wr-T n=-WTST --a». w, mwjwer-nry - —irj mr-itiiifi wi,» i ■■■■ «n r■ in nn» m in—~ i .1. .juh iiiii —nil, !■ l - mih iibiH inu 1 iitiiai>—t Jlui.iL.mLUu>mm— M—B®®—Tl!ES3ffiSil.:, •< MB—■—■—■■a— LIEBERMAN'S | I ANNUAL TItUNK SALE THUNKS, TRftVELIMG BAGS, SUIT CASES AND ALL SMALL LEATHER GO2OS, without eserve or restriction are marked OWN’ I DOWN, DOWN, for this one big sale. Wardrobe Trunks. Traveling Trunks. Steamer Trunks. $4.).00 values $35.00 $22.50 value $16.50 $17.50 value $12.50 25.00 values 27.50 11.50 value 10.00 12.50 value 9.50 30.00 values 25.00 10.00 value 7.50 7.50 value 5.00 Hat Trunks. Leather Suit Cases, Leather Traveling Bags. | $35.00 value $27.50 $30.00 value $23.75 $16.50 value $12.50 ■ 20.00 value 15.00 15.50 value 13.50 10.00 value 7.00 I 11.00 value 7.85 10.00 value 6.75 6.75 value 4.50 LIEBERMAN’S I The Trmk Store 92 Whitehall St. JHiCii’h iTS PILLS W XUii IMA V«XF> BRINK A A*’- y«".r f >r /jX £, <( U-Swl •' ! i-< p*h i>’ mn»dliran«tA >k\ ! - Ay *4 Take na taller. Uvv of rear *' / rtf’ WroMlM. A . : r< U|.< ’ll >.TEKH I U .” P’A.MOXB H«<\» MIAS tr S& VV- , f 3 •;< ■■■' Rd I' a •<_ ~-WHERE ECZEMA HAS-NcFtEßr6rs“ FOR THIS YOUNG LADY SHE HAS ECU ND TETTERINE. >T have used your Tetterine and re ceived great benefit from the use of same The eczema on my face usual!' appears in the spring and your salve always helps ft. 1 use no other preparation but Tet terine and find it superior to any on the market." Respectfully. EbSiE M JVDERINE. Edgar Spring, Mo., July 15, 1908. ••• "\TO matter where La you go you’ll find yourself in good com pany if you’re wearing Hart Schaffner & Marx fine clothes. There are mil lions of the best dressed ; men in this country wear s ing them and you can’t get in a better “club” than to become a “member.” It’s the handsomest and best stock we’ve ever had; highest in quality and best in value; but the beauty and variety of fabrics, of new color treatments, of select patterns are such that you can only know about by coming in and looking at them. We’ll try to make your look ing pleasant; try to serve you, not just to make a sale. Suits $lB, S2O, $25 and up. Daniel Bros. Co. Ifor sale |ii Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, IMMEDIATE S eos ,°!> Road Binder> Metal Preservative Paints, DELIVERY Roofing Paint and Shingle Stain. i Atlanta Gas Light Co. V—— —— lll . - —-■■■ ——J.""— —.i qM Vj 3