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MINISTER'S IE FREED GT BULLET Rev. C. 0. Bennett Slain by Cousin on Eve of Divorce Suit She Had Brought. WAYCROSS, GA., May 20.—Mrs. C. O. Bennett, of Millwood, who was suing her husband for divorce, has been freed from her’ domestic bonds, but Carrey Bennett, a cousin of C. O. Bennett, and not the law. is responsible. In front of a large crowd at the railroad station in- Millwood Carrey Bennett shot hand. Sunday morning. The trouble between the cousins had been standing for a long time. The preacher Bennett was 38 years old and Carrey was only 20, but the young man was said to he unusually attentive to his cousin s wife, a short while ago Mrs. Bennett, with her four children, departed from Millw ood. Her last let ter from her husband told her never to come back. Death Stops Lawsuit. Not long after she left, divorce pro ceedings against Rev. .Mr. Bennett wore filed. Although the latter showed no desire to resume marital relations with his wife, he contested the suit and was going to fight it in the courts. Until yesterday Mrs. C. O. Bennett had not visited Millwood. Shortly after she came Carrey Bennett arrived from Kirkland and before the train had left the station the pistol duel had begun. C. O. Bennett is said to have fired the first shot. When the smoke cleared. Rev. C. O. Bennett was lying dead and Carrey Bennett had wounds in his left hand and breast. Stray bullets went into the crowd. J. W. Murray, the station agent, was struck in the foot and Sam Murray, an eight-year-old boy, received one in his leg. Relatives to Fight Widow. Carrey Bennett has completely recov ered from the shock of his wounds and is resting easily in the Ware county jail In this city. Counsel has been em ployed by his relatives. It is under stood that he will claim that he killed iiis preacher kinsman in self-defense. The other victims of the duel, J. W. Murray and Sam Murray, are nut se riously wounded. The relatives of the deceased intend to fight any effort the widow of the minister may make for a share of the estate and may endeavor to take from her the four children. In his last letter to Mrs. Bennett the minister stated that he would send soon for the children and would arrange fm. her to see them occasionally. A state ment of his in this letter indicated that their separation might cause further trouble, the nature of which he did not disclose.* The differences between the minister and Carrey Bennett regarding the lat ter’s alleged relations with the former’s wife are given as the cause of the shooting Carrey Bennett had been em ployed at his cousin’s farm, and it is alleged that In the minister’s absence from home the young man and Mrs. Bennett were much in each other s so ciety. COMMENCEMENT SERMON. Rev. E. D. Ellenwood returned today from Loganville. Ga., where he deliv ered t lie commencement sermon to the graduates of* the Loganville High school. “Correct Press for Men” HEADS IP Nestle your head in a straw hat that comforta bly tits. Our straw hats are built and blocked in such away that they are bound to conform to any known head. At last —a straw hat which neither wiggles nor wabbles on the top of your head.* We have straw hats ga lore. a size for every head, a shape for every face. Split Straws. Sennits and Milan?. $2.00 to $4.00 Straight from Siam: Bangkok Straws, finely woven, light as a feather. Cool. Smart. Rakish. $5.00 Essig Bros. Co. “Correct Dress for Men” 26 Whitehall Street i| HOW CITY SCATTERS GERMS | I - - I -_ - t iMwrWl - 1 MF c I » f bIBI Hhl ' ■ * ' igg ~ . Here is the new automobile>garbnge truck used for up-town garbage collection by the city of .Atlanta. It is red and speedy and holds a tremendous load of refuse, but it is open to the winds, ami when piled high with loose papers and trash its contents are blown away-as fast as the truck is loaded, scattering disease-laden refuse into the air and causing eases of fever. Body Sunk With Iron Looks Like Man Last Seen Flashing a Roll LOS ANGELES, May 2ft. —The body of a man with a piece of iron tied to his arm floated to the surface in San Pedro harbor and was recovered by a fisherman. Today the police are seek ing to solve the second murder mystery of the last few weeks, while the first is still a puzzle. That the man had been murdered is evident. The hands were tied together with a rope, attached to which was a heavy piece of iron. One arm was broken, the skull fractured ami the limbs were bruised, indicating a terrific death struggle with his assailants. The body is thought to have been in the water three weeks or a month. The only mark of identification was a gold ring. On the inside of this ring an in scription has almost been entirely worn away, but the police were able to de cipher initials which they claim to be "E. R." The proprietor of the American hotel at San Pedro declared last night that Bernard Rein, who came here from De troit. Mi, It., after declaring he was go ing to San Francisco. and after having displayed a large roll of money, disap peared from his hotel on May 1 and has not been seen since. Rein's bag gage is still at the hotel. The proprie tor declares Rein's description in many particulars tits that of the body found. MEYER BROTHERS GO ON TRIAL AT MACON FOR WOMAN’S DEATH | MACON. GA.. May 20.--Lep and Al bert Meyer, brothers, were put on trial for their lives in the Bibb superior court today on account of the recent shooting of Mary a young woman of the restricted district, with whoso death they are jointly charged. Eight law yers are in the case, five representing the defendants. The women of the re stricted section have raised SI,OOO to prosecute the Meyers, and have en gaged two of Macon's best criminal lawyers. Several score of these women were present in court when the trial began. Lep Meyer shot Mary Moore, and his brother was present. He claims that he killed her in self-defense. The Meyers went to the .Moore woman s house in search of/a man who, they claimed, had insulted their sister. Miss Ray Meyer, over the telephone. JUDGMENT? W» ask judgment r>n the following of physicians and patients who believe 1 Bright's Disease incurable The Vice President of an lowa corpora tion had to abandon his business due to I Bright's Disease. He declined until Feb ruary. when he was in bed twelve weeks He heard that H. AV. .Smith, a wholesale optician of Mason City. lowa, had recov ered from Bright’s and wrote him <>n getting Smith s reply ho adopted the same treatment. As to the results obtained patient sends reports from the Department of Ahammv. Histologj ant’ Embryology of the State University of lowa, from the last of which we miote: Colornormal, slightly cloudv Reaction acid Specific gravitylol7 Albumen negative Sugar negative Pathological. .sediment negative patient adds: ’My heart is in good condition I -deep well ami look the pic ture of health. My friends tell me how well I look anti I surely feel as good as I look." We ask physicians and patients to com pare this October report with the bedrid- | ilon condition in February The constant ' reiteration by medical works of the in- I j ‘inability of chronic Bright's ami kidney I me . o ting thousands of liy< Ful | ton's Renal I'cmpoimd mu Im bad al : Franl ‘’Mn’omlson A Bio. 14 South Broad I I street ..ml m«. x-r’h Pryor street. I Ask for pamphlet. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: MONDAY. MAA* 20. 1912. UNKNOWN GIRL'S SLAYER J SUICIDE Blood in Satchel Establishes Guilt. But Identity of Vic tim Still Puzzles Police. CHICAGO, May, 20.—Although the po lice today are confident that Caiphas Co lumbus Dillon, who killed himself by jumping in front of a Chicago and North western train, is the slayer of the woman found murdered in a. bungalow in Los Angeles, they have as yet been unable to identify -the slain girl. The police be lieved that the mystery had been solved and that the dead woman was Bessie Jones, known also as Bessie Howard, who had been a companion of Dillon In Chi cago. Later they were informed lhai the woman was alive and in Norfolk, Va. The police are convinced that Dillon was the slayer. They have traced his movements and have found that he had just returned from Los Angeles. He car ried a small yellow handbag and on the inner lining, stains, believed to be blood, were found. Had Tried to Remove Stains. The police believe Dillon. after the mur der. wiped his hand on a handkerchief, put the handkerchief in the handbag, and did not discover the stains until he reached Chicago. The man had evidently tried to remove the strains with carbolic I acid. A new clow has been furnished by Dr. J. F. Presnell, of Evanston, who says Dillon came to him with a woman, who he represented as his wife, and desired medical attention for her.- The woman afterwards admitted that she was not Dillon s wife. She fitted the description of the murdered woman, the doctor says, and other matters connected with the case convince him that she Is the same woman. Los Angeles police have been notified. ATLANTA LAWYERS TO BE HEARD BY BAR OF STATE MACON. GA., May 20. —The program for the annual convention of the Geor gia Bar association, announced bv Sec retary Orville A. Park, of Macon, shows that Atlanta attorneys will take a lead ing part. Alexander W. Smith is presi. deni and will make the opening ad dress. Judge W. R. Hammond will dis cuss the "EviLand Cure of Monopolis tic Business Tendency." Robert C. Al ston will have as his theme "A State Within a State in Georgia." K. R. Black will be one of the speakers on the question of "Shall Women Be. Admitted to the Bar in Georgia?" Helps a Judge in Bad Fix. Justice Eli Cherry, of Gillis Mills. Tenn., was plainly worried. A bad sore on his leg had baffled several doctors and long resisted all remedies. "I thought it was a cancer." lie wrote. "At last 1 used Bucklen's Arnica Salve, and was completely cured.” Cures burns boils, ulcers, cuts, bruises and piles. 25 cents at all druggists. •** Now Is tne time to get rid of your rheumatism. You can do it by applying Chamberlain's Liniment and massag ing the parts freely at each application. For sale by all dealers. Every citizen interested in civic improvement and how to interest our boys [should attend Atlanta Thea ter tonight 8:15. Free. Fast Train Ditched: Drummer Escapes From Car With Ax i MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., May 20. The first section of the Pioneer Limited, crack train of the Chicago, Milwaukee , and St. Paul railroad, went into I lie 1 ditch near LaCrosse. Wis., todaj. Three cars left the rails. None of the passen gers were reported seriously hurt. William West, a traveling salesman, caught in a wash room of one of the cars, chopped his way out. The train had been warned of washouts and was running slowly. FOREIGN COMMERCE MAKES APRIL RECORD WASHINGTON. May *2o.—The for eign commerce of the United States in April was larger, both as to imports and exports, than in April of an\ pre vious year. Imports were $162,734,359; exports, $179,068,714. April imports exceeded by $29,000,000 the highest totai in any earlier April, that 1910. and exports exceeded by $21.000,000 th< highest earlier April, that of 1911. BEAUTIFUL HAIR AT SMALL COST _. A Simple Remedy Beautifies the Hair. Cures Dandruff. Stops Falling Hair. . ■- What a pity it is to see so many people with thin, wispy hair, faded, or streaked with gray, and realize that most of these people might have soft, glossy, abundant hair of beautiful color and iustre if they would but use the proper treatment. There is no neces sity for gray hair under sixty-five years of age, and there is no excuse for any one, young or old, having thin, strag gling hair, .either full of dandruff or heavy and rank smelling with ex cessive oil. You i an bring back the natural color of your hair in a few days and forever rid yourself of any dandruff and loose hairs, and make your hair grow strong and beautiful by using Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy For gener ations common garden Sage has been used for restoring and preserving the color of the hair, and Sulphur is recog nized by Scalp Specialists as being excellent for treatment of hair and scalp troubles. If you are troubled with dandruff or itching scalp, or if your hair is losing its color or coming out, get a fifty-cent bottle of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur from your druggist. an<l notice the im provement in the appearance of your hair after a few lays’ treatment. A POLICEMAN RESCUED FROM A LIFE OF MISERY Mr. C. M. Mitchell, who reside,' at 30« Eormwalt street and has been a mem ber of the force in Atlanta for the past ten years and for some time past has been a member of the Broadway squad, a position which requires ■■■. man to be alert for the lives of thousands of little children, axed and unprotected pedes trians parsing to and fro who would he trampled to death or run over by cars or autos on these busy .street corners only for the timely and ever gallant at tention of the policeman, is a very modest man. who doc not > ire for much pimp of displa . tnd has al <a; rn foved fairli good health t)|i until about one year ago, when he com menced to have a frill of stomach !fn|||||®||E3 Hfi I are lots of “ Iw® reasons why lIKSt -sj , young men should be par ticular about the style of ■ fly / / iH their clothes; and to be sure CWfJ I/ / IVS °F getting good quality along IM V kill with the style; for if you I et > le style I/O )| I I w iM sta y them. You’ll find smart, nifty, If i/i I J I reez y styles in these rM™/ \ I Hart Schaffner & Marx 71 i ! suits, together with that su s / Jr perb quality of cloth and iH' —T P er fect tailoring that makes flj I them stay “good” all the ■ ••I j O’ M -g time, i I /\ ' \ Extra values at $lB, S2O and $25. \ \ Our shoe service means marei / v . than just selling you the l\ ' We study each customer’s foot condi-4 / \ \ ti° n an d give a fitting service to reduces W / / I any possible discomfort. We follow this* / 7/ II 'A with quality and value. Shoes $4, [ .J S 6 and $7. . DANIEL BROS. CO. Copyright Hart Schaffner fc Marx • '■■■ 11 —■ - - ' .gill H" ■■B'.l? ■■■■■■■■■ iii n_i i ii_ ■■!■ ■■■■■_'■■_■■ ii —'ll. . 1 !> J " llrl ’ -.■! <■ J I ■ 1 J.M.HWfi COffIANI. At 8:30 Tomorrow—Tuesday / SILK DRESS SALE At 5r.95 Jr Values $12.50 to $17.50 The residue of our Silk Dresses that were reduced to $9.75 and $8.95 will be grouped in this lot to close at $5.95. / Including Bordered Foulard Dresses and hair line stripe messalines in black and white, navy and white brown and white effects. All new one-piece models ztta BBBBf $ C 3 .SJS You could positively not buy the materials in those dresses at the price we quote for tomor- W row. As there are only 56 of these dresses i left, you must come early to get your choice, ■, - - Sale Begins at 8:30 7MSHOTWY I J.MJBCTGmfIY| mHE WANT AD WAY IS THE MODERN * way; by no better method can Real Estate be bought, sold, rented or exchanged, than through the Real Estate columns of THE 111 II ATLANTA GEORGIAN. /. /. /. trouble nothing to cause alarm, bat a soreness. ,i nauseated feeling, especially after eating. At times he had a raven ous appetite: again the sight of food would make him nick. At night, when he lay down, he would have a smoth ering spell and many times would have to get up. Eor months he has had more or less a headache, sometimes over the eyes; again it would be in the back of the head, very annoying and causing him to be nervous; but that choking he had at night caused him more harm than anything ‘ Is. He did nut feel at» though lp“ could afford to lai off. :in*l as ue would have a vacation. h< decided Io ‘tick it out until Ilan and have hia family imi.-m inn loot aft< r hie health. But he wa recommended to go .'tin see the Health Teacher who had been at Cdursey & Munn's drug store and get a bottle of Quaker Extract that was cur ing so many people of stomach trouble. Some were caused from catarrh; some expelled monster parasites and today are enjoying good health. So he decid ed he would give it a trial, procured one bottle, commenced taking according to directions on bottle, and behold! on the following night he expelled a monster 73-foot tapeworm head and all com plete. alive. Til's is what the wonder ful Quaker Extract had done for this man. The case is a \--ii remarkable one. It simply S'“> >■’ s'imv you can not toll who is infested with iMia.sites. In general appearance. Mr. Mitchell would be one of the last persons tn the world to be picked out as a victim of tapeworm, and the Health Teacher says there are many persons who will never see a healthy day until they get rid of those worms that are eating away the lining in the intestinal tract. Now, it you are a sufferer from stomach trou ble, catarrh, indigestion, constipation, kidney, liver, bladder or rheumatism— no matter wiiat treatment you have tried and failed to get benefited Cour sey w Munn want you to give Quaker Extract and Oil of Balm one trial. fall today for Quakei Extract. SI.OO, 3 for s2.or tl for Sa.nil * til of Balm, <>r for ,s|.nn \i foursey & Munn » drug store, _'H Marietta Preet, \\e prepay expn r iharges on all or ders of id.tW or oi i f. 7