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10 MUONS RON LOW US RIVER SWELLS Two Hundred Thousand Vic tims Musi Have Aid Shortly. Many Flee New Freshet. NEW ORLEANS. Maj 22.—Relief measures for jon.oon n >r>fi sufferers will be necessar.' m a -hort time It ii Baid that the government rations is ill not last much longer, and when these give out business organizations will lend their aid. The area covered by the flood waters increases daily and there is grave fear that disease will gam a foothold and cause immense loss of life. At Mel ville todaj * wo even fret deep in the streets. Man' houses have been swept away. At Beulah. Miss, a crevasse has flooded an area containing several thousand persons, mostly colored. Residents of Plaucheville abandoned their homes todaj. The famous Bayou Teche is s; ■ riding disaster over the section around Franklin. l.a. Irma Kilgallon Scorns Title and Rejoices in Freedom From Count CHICAGO. Mat 2? -Ceiunte«s Trm ■ Kilgallon Deßeanfort today Is stripped of her title and is once more Miss Kil gallon, following the granting of a de cree of divorce from her husband. 1 Count Ja< quo Alexander VonMourik Deße aufort The decree was granted after the countess told how her hu. band had struck her on various occasions during quarrels usually caused when she !»■- fused to intercede with her father, Mi chael Kilgallon, for money to pay the count's gambling debts. The count was represented by eoun ael. nit m ide 110 defense and offered no o on to the decree. PICTURE DEALERS SOLD IONS OF“OLD MASTERS” LC>DiiN. Max 22.—Jams: Casti glione pi.mm dealer, has been con victed of 1 iury and sentenced to six months imi orunent He was an em ploye" who helped to dispose of ton. of spur 'i old masters Robert Por teous. another picture man, who had been convicted twice previously for perjury and for procuring otfytrs to commit the crime In the picture game was sentenced to twelve months im prisonment The modus operandi for the gang was to auction old masters which had been manufactured for Castiglione as pic tures which had been seized by the | sheriff under an order of court The sales attracted great attention, and the pictures realized big prices The fraud has been going on for a number of years. NEW GERMAN DIPLOMAT GETS A RECORD SALARY BERLIN, May 22 Baron Marschall Vonßieberstein. the new ambassador of Germany at London, will receive .1 salary of $37,50(1 a year, which is a higher salary than is paid to any man by the German government outside of the compensation which the kaiser re ceives. It is more than that which is paid to the imperial chancellor, who heretofore has received a salary next to that of the emperor. The Constantino ple post paid $30,000. Vienna. Rails and Washington each pay $30,000; Rome and Madrid each with $25-,000, and Tokio with $20,000. The ministers at Pekin and Teheran each receive $15,000; those at Bucharest Brussels, Athens and Lisbon, $10,500. THUGS HOLD UP POLICEMEN SENT OUT TO ARREST THEM BERNARDSVILLE. N .1 . May 22. Policeman Ammerman and his brother were held up by four men last niglit and their nxeixo were tilvii away from them They had gone tn arrest the men on suspicion of trying to rob the home of Attorney R. V. Ltndabeiry. tgff spent ||l| of money |jjj i|jl With the doctors” Jgg g “They gave me up and said T would ■ . ■ have to be operated on or di< .write Nh ■ G. S. Raspberry of Jevmson. Ala., who ■ suffered from, what the doctors called ■ "appendicitis”. 1 The real trouble was imput-- ■ Zv’eo/. His constitution was I too weak to throw off the I accumulated poisons. H "I was so weak", he says. "I u-v not ■ ■ able to be operated on. I ,;o: Botany Biood I 1 ■ Bal™ instead. And thank God. tt was iust I ■ the thing I needed! It cured me sound ■ ■ and well || I No matter what name you I 1 give to your disease. No I I matter whether it appears on I I the surface in sores and ulcers. I I or settles inside of you as g I rheumatism or catarrh, the I I trouble is in your blood. And I I this blood-cleansing tonic is I I what you need. a B your money back if if fat Is. ■ I If your druggist hasn’t it insist ■ 1 that he get it for ion. He will. ■ >'<*! ■ MPWrIT *1 Tytf * ffl’MW *j* m Peace Society's Agent To Have Headquarters For South in Atlanta FAYETTEVILLE. N. C.. May 22 —J. J Hail has resigned the pastorate of the First Baptist church, of Fayette ville, to become representative for the Southern states of the American Peace! society, with headquarters In Atlanta. Under the rules of the church, Dr. j Hall's resignation can not become es- I fe.tii' until the lapse of three month- 1 He expects to go to Atlanta early in th« i fall. Dr. Hall came to America from Eng land with his bride in 1870; working first in < .inada and then in the United States. H“ is known as a "church building" pastor. While in charge of a huge church at Norfolk V.i . h« built a handsome church there. From that city he went to Raleigh, where he re modeled the Tabernacle. In Fayette ville he has b. en a great factor in the erection of a splendid new Baptist church He took an active part in carrying North Carolina prohibition several years ago. JUDGE A~ L BARTLETT OUT FOR COMPTROLLER ROME GA. May 22. A L Bart lett. of Dallas. Paulding county, who is here attending Federal court, an nounced today to his friends that, he would be a candidate for comptroller general. He is a former judge of the superior court. Tallapoosa circuit. /<[* t’ss \ \ \ \ aW'W Jjl "A \7 j® HL \\ \ vB rangSSg \ \ \ w \ \ \ \4 0/ - *' ••• , \ \ \ M «.L, i _\ \ I >®l! 31 to Wyc u l ' _ JHr yw - Ilk *~ r -' —liVj \Xx jtLx- Miss Sadye Weinlierg aliove. and Miss Thelma Harrell, are two of tlio Atlanta girls who will dance at the commencement of Miss Hanna's school tomorrow night. The photographs show them in the costumes of the Spanish dance. ENGLISH MINERS SAY MINIMUM FIXED IS NOT A LIVING WAGE LONDON. May 22.- The conference called by the Miners union to discuss the minimum wage awards today pass ed a resolution declaring the amount fixed in certain districts to be below a living w-ig, , and instructing the head of the union to interview Premier As quith and endeavor to have the law amended to fix the minimum rate at a ' living w age " LEP MEYER MUST SERVE 12 YEARS FOR KILLING MACON, G A , Max 22. - Prison stripes ! tnd hard labor is the penalty Lep : Meyer, a vaudeville singer, must pay I for killing Mary Moore, a young woman |.,f the restricted district. The jury which tried him last night ■ .-turned a verdict of guilty of volun tary manslaughter Ho was today sen- t‘ need to serve t weiv- years tn the pen ! i entiary. 50.000 SPANISH RAILWAY MEN READY TO STRIKE MADRID. May 22. -Fifty thousand employees of the Andalusian railroad ■ -oday served notice on tin government ’that they would strike Saturday unless ! the negotiations over the proposed fund tor superannuated workers is satisfac torily settled by that time OVERSTUDY DRIVES BOY OF TWELVE TO SUICIDE NEW Y'»RK. Min Louis Faupi. • Hr. hr V. ar-o!d school boy of Brook- I t n. killed himself hist night with poi n. The box had been anxious tn graduate this June and is believed to have overstudied. NEW SCHOOL FOR COLUMBUS iTijj'M Bl S ''■ ' M.i .... The . (. ijaro of ' - - <-f ftp I'jhli. J.ools of I .’urr’.H-f. ■ 4 v .4 v.i„ ,s Th,-- r.inr<i't < ijf &chu . building to cust $lO,- UUU. THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: M’EDNESDAY, MAY 22. 1912 ATLANTA MAIDS TO DANCE AS SPANISH GIRLS AT GRADUATION /A 7 it/ \ yC fl, J Av // W // /9 il ;L ///A' I-0| IS ■ ~.4W. GOVERNMENT BEGINS TAKING TESTIMONY IN LUMBER TRUST CASE CHICAGO, May 22. Taking of tes timony against the NoTthwesfern As sociation of Retail Lumber Dealers, known as the lumber trust, is under way in the government's civil prosecu tion of th.- concern for violation of the Sherman law. Attorneys for the gov ernment are examining various docu ments, most of them communications between the Secretaries of various re tail lumber organizations belonging to the larger concern. Those considered significant will be read into evidence. TEACHES -AUCTION" TO HELP THE CHURCH FUND BELLEFONTAINE. OHIO. May 22 - Teaching auction bridge is the pqvel plan adopted by Mr Lee W Bort to raise money for the purpose of wiping out the church debt An advertisement was inserted in the newspapers by Mrs. Bort hi which she told of her plan, and stated that all money would go Into the church treasury, it is likely that she will soon have a large class, as she is an excellent player Indorsed by more Pure Food authori ties. expert chemists chefs and house keepers than anx other EXTRACT In the U. S A. ••SAUER'S" It would surprise yot. to know of the great good that is being done by' Cham berlain's Tablets Darius Doxvney, of Newberg Junction. N 8.. writes "Mx wife has been using Chamberlain's Tablets and finds them very effectual and doing her lots of good." If you have any trouble with your stomach or ' bowels, give them a trial. For sale by all dealers Automobile Refrigerators afe superior to all others. They pay for themselves in ice savings in one season. |c H Mason. 6 and 8 West j Mitchell Street. I v / / / . \ eC *«/ / // 'j*- , ' J ' \ r / / Bi) - UL v \\\ Aa 9ES iv // ■k WSK>>~ /W * yr ky/ . y y' Seventeen to Get Diplomas' From Miss Hanna's School Tomorrow. Seventeen young Atlanta girls will receive diplomas from Miss Hanna's school. 368 Peachtree street, tomorrow at the Grand opera house when com mencement exercises will be held. The feature of the program will be a Span ish dance. For several weeks the students have been practicing assiduously for this dance and the net results are said to be such as would make .a born Andalusian grow sick with envy. Costuming and scenery calculated to throw the proper atmosphere around the affair will be in evidence. There will be other unique attractions and several musical numbers. The yoimg girls who will be graduated are fitted in the arts and languages with something of domestic science thrown in for good measure. Miss Hanna looks upon the season now closing as the most successful from every standpoint in the history of the school. ' TRAIN BANDITS PILE TIES ON TRACKS TO DITCH FRISCO FLYER MYRTLE. MISS., May 22.—Train I bandits, believed to be the same men who committed the daring holdup near Hattiesburg last week, attempted to wreck the Frisco Limited near here early today. The train was late and almost ran into the ties piled on the track. A posse is pursuing the wreck ers. UNIVERSITY PLANS FOR ITS MARRIED STUDENTS CHICAGO. Max- 22. Married stu dents at the University of Chicago re joice in the announcement that dormi tory privileges, heretofore enjoyed by the unmarried students, who live in halls on the campus, are to be extended to them in the form of accommodafons in a building of two. three, four ind five-room flats, managed under uni versity direction The announcement, which was made in the program of courses for the sum mer session, is expected especially to benefit s inner students. manx ~f | whom come to Chicago for gradual' work. bringing their wives and fami’i.-s with them. For th 1 ’ benefit of su-h ; students a building has been remodeler! into apartments ATHENS DOCTOR INTERNE IN RICHMOND HOSPITAL! RICHMOND. AV. Max Dr. Ed- ! xvard Bancroft, Jr., of Athens. Gt. who has just been ziaduat'd from the Uni versity Uobg ■ Medicine of thi ; itx has secured an pi .irtm-nt .a ini-rn-l at Sheltering \r> hospital. • 10. all institution. The appointment holds f.<r I a year. Dr Louis Garrard Roberts, an Cher I gradual'. f> m f'lumbi: Gu.. Girt nor; ask for a hospital app.-mtmenf I rvifl probably settle in hi- horn- - it- ' and begin the i .uiue- of his j-iofe.-iion | at an earl.-, date. j BATNELSDNHERO IN FIRE RESCUES Lightweight Carries Out Wom en and Children and Heads Bucket Brigade. CHICAGO, May 22.—" Bat" Nelson, former lightweight champion, hung the “K. O.” sign on a fire at Burnham, adjoining his native town of Hege wisch. today, after first rescuing a number of persons whose homes were blazing. The battler was returning to Hegewisch and was in Burnham when the alarm was given. He rushed to the scene. A number of dwelling houses had caught fire from a burning school house which was being moved and stood on rollers in the center of the street. Nel son assisted women and children from the blazing buildings, then lie headed a bucket Brigade that fought the fire until the fire department apparatus from Chicago arrived. The flames threatened the big plant of the Western Steel Car and Foundry Company. Six dwellings and the school were destroyed. HARVARD UNIVERSITY IS GETTING PROSPEROUS CAMBRIDGE, MASS.. May 22. A-- cording to a statement just issued. Har vard university has stocks and bonds valued at $17,362,797. The total of its productive funds is placed at $25,000.- 000, which gives it an income of $2,500,000 Its holdings in stocks and bonds have increased about $1,250,000 during the last year, and it owns some of the choicest real estate in and around Bos ton. WIFE'S NEW WHITE SHOES START A DIVORCE SUIT ANDERSON. IND. May 22. A pair of white shoes were the eau. e of the disruption of her family, according to a divorce complaint filed by Mrs. Mary Monahan against Martin Monahan Mis Monahan said she purchased a pair of white, shoes in order to appear favorably before her ii.usband. and that he made insulting remarks about the shoes and the wearers in general of white shoes, and that a quarrel en sued. as a result of which they can no longer live together. CIffICURA SOAP SHAVING STICK For Tender Faces Indispensable for those subject to red h d ness. roughness, and other irritations ,, — | oftheskin A shaving luxury No mug. iOt r ßh no-ogg-. soap, no germs, no waste of timber mone. In nickeled box. 25e at iSIAWe stores or by mail. Liberal sample fre» [SUCK Address “Cuticura,” Dept. 2S, Beaton. MLM REBELS FACE ML ML Battle Momentarily Expected to Decide Success or Fail ure of Revolution. JIMINEZ. MEXICO, May 22.—A bat tle that will decide the fate of the Orozco revolt will probably be fought within 24 hours. Fighting between the advance guard of General Huerta's federate and the outposts of General Orozco began late yesterday four miles southeast of Rem lai. the rebel stronghold, and was re sumed at dawn today. Reports from the front stated that the federate were driving the rebels back from their main body, inflicting heavy losses with their artillery. General Orozco assigned General Campa and General Hernandez to hold back the federal advance, while he for tified an eminence held by his main army. Trenches were dug and mines planted during the night to resist the federal advance. American Troops Rushed to Border EL PASO. TEXAS. May 22 Two companies of American cavalry were today ordered to patrol the border to prevent violation of the neutrality laws by Mexican federate and rebels during their fighting. A large force of rebels has been hemmed in by federate in Guadalupe. A battle is imminent. Gasoline Prices Soar: Auto Owners Hunting Cheaper Power Juice The automobile owners of Atlanta are now looking for a machine that will run without oil. the reason being the prodigous jump of gasoline from 12 to 14 cents per gallon retail. On account of the sudden and large demands made for crude oil- by the large steamships. tpe r<? has been a shortage, which has sent gasoline soar, ing. The increase to both wholesaler and retailer has been about one-third. z \ week ago oil could be purchased at 10 and 11 cents and sold for 11 and 12. Now the wholesale price stays flatly at 12. with the retail price at 14. Fur thermore, from present indications, it will continue to go up. The Standard Oil Company and the Gulf Refining Company control the lo cal market. $100,000.00 MAIL THEFT CASES POSTPONED TO NOVEMBER AT ROME ROME. GA., May 22.—1 n Federal court today cases of VV. C. Earle and Jim Carter, a negro, under Indictment for robbing United States mails, were postponed until the November term. Earle, who has been detained in Tower, in Atlanta, will be allowed bond of SIO,OOO. Carter is already out on bond. The robbery took place last March from the Southern railway station here, where mail was left in the baggage room for delayed trains. A sack con taining cash and negotiable securities valued at nearly SIOO,OOO was taken. None of the money has been recovered Earle and Carter assert they are inno cent. They were baggage agent and bus driver for Rome Transfer Com pany. GENERAL BOOTH PLANS TO COME TO AMERICA LONDON. May 22. —Commander Eva Booth, leader of the Salvation Army in America, has arrived here to arrange with her father. General Booth, the American tour he expects to make this year. No definite steps will be taken, however, until after General Booth un dergoes an operation for the removal of a cataract from one of his eyes. The sight of one eye is destroyed, but his physicians say they will be able to re store the sight of the other. LIGHTNING HITS DEAF. FLINT, AIICH.. May 22.—Lightning struck the administration building of the Michigan School for Deaf today and started a fire which destroyed the main building. The loss is estimated at $400,000. Two hundred and ninety chil dren and 60 teachers got out of the building safely. Money-Making Opportunities The man with a little capita'! has more opportunities now to make money than ever before in the history of the world. Thousands of good propositions are crying tor capital and thousands of men without a cent saved are' bemoaning their “111 luck." GET CAPITAL! Save it out of your earnings. Save now then opportunity won't find you with an empty pocketbook. Save here. We pay 4 per cent interest on Saxdngs Accounts. SI.OO starts the account We have been designated United States Depository for Postal Savings Funds. Open Saturday aft ernoons 4 to 6. Georgia Savings Bank & Trost Go, ATLANTA’S OLDEST SAVINGS BANK GOULD BLOG. SUM RESENTS SAP ST SCHOOLS Refutes Dr. Harris’ “Proof” Showing How Few Grade Pupils Enter High School. William M. Slaton, superintendent of schools, today denied the public state ment of Dr. R. E. L. Harris, of Au gusta. that only two per cent of the common school pupils of Atlanta enter high schools. He said that Dr. Harris did not know what he was talking about, and he produced statistics which show that 9.2 per cent of the white grammar school pupils in Atlanta last year are in the four city high schools this year. The negroes are not counted because there are no negro high schools. Last year there were 14,801 white children in the grammar schools. There were 5,346 negroes. There are 670 pu pils in the Girls High school, 197 in the English-Commercial Girls High school, 363 in the Boys High school and 151 in the Boys Technological High school. Many Schoolma'ams to Wed. Mr Slaton is now engaged in pre paring his recommendations to the board of education for teachers for next year. There are 541 teachers in the system. Mr. Slaton says there will be a number to resign on account of marriage and ill health and for other reasons. For the vacancies 250 have already stood examinations. The election of these teachers by the board of education takes place on June 8. Council has pledged itself to give a raise of five per cent in salaries at the beginning of the new term. This will raise the minimum salary paid from $57.75 to more than S6O. THREE-CENT COIN A BLOW AT CHURCHES, SENATOR IS TOLD WASHINGTON, May 22.—Senator Penrose has received a letter protesting against the proposed three-cent coin, on the ground that it is a blow at re ligion. If this view is correct, the number of missionaries In the foreign field may be curtailed and the average salaries of preachers in the United States, which is now only S3OO a year, be further cut if the three-cent coinage bill goes into effect. "The street car companies and tele phone companies may suffer loss under this bill, and existing slot machines max be put out of commission, but have you thought of the latitude this new coin will give to the stingy man when the collection basket is passed?” the letter asks. "Now few persons dare to put copper coins in the collection plate, and drop in a nickel instead. If this new three-cent piece is coined the church collections from these people will decrease greatly. The pastors of churches have an interest in this bill which must not be overlooked." AUGUSTA PUTS ELECTRIC WIRES UNDER GROUND AUGUSTA, GA.. May 22.—Electric light, power, telegraph and telephone wires have been placed underground and the network of overhead wires in the business portions of the city has disappeared. It has required nearly a year to put the wires underground and the cost has been $750,000. J. G. White & Company, operators of the Augusta-Aiken Railway &• Electric Corporation, have spent SLSOO.OOn here during the past year in improvements and will spend $2,000,000 additional in erecting a power plant on the Savan nah river eight miles above Augusta. Shekel IfcuMety! Get the Original and Genuine HORLICK’S MALTED MILK The Food-drink for All Ages. For Infants, Invalids,and Growing children. Pure Nutrition,upbuilding the wholebcdy. Invigorates the nursing mod i er and the aged. Rich milk, malted grain, in powder form. A quick lunch prepared in a minute. Fake no substitute. Ask for HORLICK’S. fiat in Any Milk Trust