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2 GANOIER NAMED DELEGATE 81 FLIPOFCDIN foss Decides Contest Between Judge and McCullough in District Meet. The to. i. of a ''Oil: tlecb.'ii the selec tion of the fourth delegate from the Fifth district of Georgia to the Demo .atic national convention this after noon. Three delegates had been chosen, hut the counties tied on the choice o' the fourth, between Nym M't'ullough. ol Fulton, aim Judge John S r andier, of DeKalb. Then were count.'. <au < uses and repeated consultations. The deadlock continued, in spite of an im iassionc<i address by Judge Candler Then Mi. McCullough suggested that they loss for it. J li meet you half-way." <1 Judge Candler. The rival' advanced to the .■enter aisle, and 1 'halrman Frederic .1. Paxon was umpire of the game. Cail Hutcheson tossed a half-dollar high in the air. It fell, and the chairman bent over it. '•Heads!" he cried. "Judge Candler is nhosen." The caucus of the delegates from the five counties making up the Fifth dis trict named the following, after an hour’s session behind closed doors, in which the contest between Candler and McCullough and the entire elimination of Toni Watson's name were the only features of interest. The caucus named the following Delegates from the Fifth District-- Hollins X. Randolph. I’ulton; John S. Candler. DeKalb: Joe S. James Doug las; Frank C. Davis. DeKalb. Oelegate-at-Darge from Georgia Thomas B. Felder. For Elector from the Fifth District Nym McCullough. The name of Fred Lewis was placed before the convention to be indorsed for presidential elector, and Nym Mc- Cullough and Joe S. James were also nominated and then withdrawn. Mr Lewis seemed the unanimous choice of the caucus, but Judge Candler raised an Objection, lie -aid it was not in the nrovitto of the district convention to indorse an elector. The matter was tabled, but after other elections were over and adjournment about to be taken, it was brought up again, and X'ym McCullough indorsed as an elec tor. this to be ratified by the state con vention next week The. counties making tit' the distric’ split over the election of the fourth delegate, tiring their unit tote Here is how they stood. For M'l’ullough Fulton. *1 jo'cs: Campbell. 2 votes total. 8. For Candler DeKalb. 4 vob-s. Rock dale 2 votes: Douglas. 2 votes total S It was only after it seemed the dead lock could not be broken that the coin was tossed and Candler declared the v. inner, and it was after this that Mr MM'ullotigh was given the indorsement for elector. A. forecast in earlier editions of The Georgian, Frederic J. Paxon was mad ‘ chairman of the caucus, which opened at the Kimball house at 12:30 o'clock Brooks Brown, of DeKalb county wa« chosen secretary, and the convention got down to business' Not half of the delegates were present. Fulton was well repres nted and DeKalb sent half a do7.cn. but Rockdale had only two delegates, and Campbell ami Douglas were but slightly represented. Delegates from the five counties of the FICh congressional district over flowed the Kimball house corridors to day foi the district caucus, which opened at ’2 o'clock, and which will in dorse four district candidates to the Baltimore convention of the Democrat!' party, indorse t. rlelegale-at-latge rep resenting the Fifth dhtrict, and an elector and alternate, om. of whom wil! aid in casting Georgia's official vote for the presidential candidate chosen by the party. James 1.. Anderson ; sid nt of the Fulton County T'nd“rwood club. w JJI preside nt the opening, and Fredern 1. Paxon. vice president, will be chosen chairman of the district caucus or con ference. Thomas B. I eld': will be, giver the district's indorsem r i for d '■legato-at • arge to the Balttmo - e convention and this action will be i ..titled by F .- state onvention rw v -’i-’, a* a •>-.ttt< of course. Foyr district delegates to tl .- r..-, on >•. onventior will be indo ->-d. h■» ■■'ill also be ratified by the *:.r vebtion The four w ill b>- oi iicse five men; II N. Ramioipi and D. N. McCullough, of Fulton. Judge John S. Candler, of DeKalb. Jo- S James, of Douglas. and Judge \ G McAlla, of Rockdale. It is Said that Fred Lewis. -if w an ta. will be chosen elector of the ci triet. No candidate for alternate ele< ;or has come forward. Tht Tom Watson question. wh-■ h< t the caucus shall go on record fin or against his selection as delegate-at large to the national convention, will b( avoided if possible, though some mem ber may introduce a motion which will stir up excitement. The Fulton mem bers do not believe the Watson matter has any logical place in this caucus, and seem anxious to "sidestep" any reference to the McDuffie aspirant Five counties make up the Fifth dis trict, the boundaries having been ■ hanged by the last legislature. They are Fulton. DeKalb, Douglas Rockdale and Campbell. More than 100 delegates are expected at the convention Calhoun Not Judge's Son. ‘ndrew Calhoun, of 21 l-'Je'entl- street, wno was arraigned before Recorder Broyles on the charge of ’ inning Js auto Clise ' 'al”. ■■ • ' ’ ■ ■ . - been ■■ n > a. ■■ ' t i»c •Ambulance Bearing Patient Runs Down Woman at Five Points Hurrying across the corners at Five I Points today with ■ woman patient. ! the Grady hospital auto ambulance. ' driven by F. M. Trammell, -an full tilt ; into aged Mis. J. 11. Northcutt and • hurled her to the pavement in sight of j several hundred pedestrians Mrs. Northcutt, who lives at Ac | worth and was in this city on a visit to i Mrs. G. S. Hull at 26j Simpson street, i wa.e walking with her hostess and her I eight-.'ear-old granddaughter, Virginia Stewart, down Peachtree street toward the lower town Trammell, at the ambulance v. led, vas hurrying from the station io reach the hospital jrith his patient in time, but he had slack ened speed nt the crowded Fire Points just as M; Northcutt and the child, hand in 'land, started out from the pavement. Mrs. Hull plucked frantic ally at the other woman's arm, bu' could not draw her back before the hood of the ambulance hit he- and three both Mrs. Northcutt, and the lit tle girl to the pavement. The child arose. screaming but unhurt. Mrs. Northcutt !a\ -tunned where she had fallen. Dr. Schwartz leaped from the rear of the ambulance, picked up the semi conscious woman, lifted her into the imbalance beside the other woman and told Trammell to make all speed to the hospital. MOTHER OF SLAIN GIRL IS J MESS Mrs. Hawkins Repeats Conver sation With Myrtle on Day Before She Disappeared. HENDERSONVILLE, N. May 25. Myrtle Hawkins' mother, who was on the witness stand today, was the cen ter of attraction in the trial of seven alleged principals and accesso'ies in the girl's death, when she told of her last hours with Iter daughter before she disappeared, Mrs. Hawkins said she took a drive with Iter daughter the day before she disappeared and for the first, time asked her if she was not in trouble. Myrtle, she said, denied that she was. tin cross-examination. Mrs. Hawkins said her married son had committed suicide seven years ago. Dr. t'uinford, a Hendersonville phy sician. told of going to the home of A. it. Mel'all, one of jhe defendants, the week Myrtle's body was found, accom panying three newspaper men. He said he detected a peculiar odor when about 50 feet from McCall’s barn and also at I the barn door, but he did not go in to I investigate. He .-aid be detected the I same kind of odor in tile morgue where the girl's body was prepared for burial. He denied that lie was drinking when the defense attempted to impeach his testimony. Robert Waddell, a former witness, was recalled for cross-examination, but I little new testimony was brought out. Hi -aid he was interested in the case because lie thought he might get into trouble. ~ _ Make-Believe Suicide Theory of Police in Pistol Shot Mystery J When police forced the door of the bed room of Mrs. Walter F. Knight. 47 Mark ham street, today, to investigate a pistol shot, thee found Mrs Knight lying on her beil '-tying. A revolver la; nearby. It was at first thought Mrs. Knight bad shot herself, liqf an investigation showed her to be unharmed The mystery was increased r. hen Mrs. Knight denied to Policeman As-kev t* e first to ; -e:.. h her. hat she flreo d.e pis tol or knew anyth' -e about the <hot. The barrel of the weapon, however. r»‘- found to be warm and :bi officer extracted an ernpt) shell . The police at . m lined '. the c.cef '..at . it was m -tel; a ' n.iko-belieia suicide.' to frighten Mrs Knight's daughter, with whom the mottle ”. said to have bad a quarrel. she ilaughie: t -?aii; va- t-rostrated rhen th- poltc- r , ’ched he see ,e. f»r she firrnli boueveo 1 e: ;.-.other had taken her life SOUTH SIDE COUNTRY TOWNS VOTE AGAINST COMING Or CEMETERY V lueeurg <.f • il’ee* Co’ler* I • East Point an<l Hapeville was held ;3‘ P;e council chamber at East Point last | iiigi t t,, take some action un Atlanta's I plan** !•» establish a cemetery between (East Point and Hapeville. It was the sense .1 the meeting that a cemetery at any place adjacent to these towns would in.ujre present and future development. It was argued that there are cemeteries a< difier. nt points around Atlanta and that sufficient land van be obtained where torn- would probabl> be no objections made. C J wi.*j had offered one of the : ~ imder consideration, was present and stated that while he did not see any reason for the objections, he would not <n> anything that his neighbors felt would I be an injur., to them, and said he would j vuhorav. Ids tracts that had been ottered | thr it us Atlanta for cemetery pur- Iwn-: :■ oi were passe*! and will be wi’ ernetery commission ' < * n.i due -was appointed for the pur pose ..f organiz.ing a civic league to in < hide ■ tizeiiM o f ! , ». three touns and the south Os t Vlf I ;ov.ht) ! REQUISITION FOf ALLEGED SLRGLAR THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY. MAY 25, 1912. BOARD PLANS TO BANISH ‘GHOST’ Plowing Up of Park and Sow ! ing With Salt Urged to Discourage Spook. ■ So rnani witches and ghosts flit and moan about anil generally haunt Spring vale paik tha t T. L. Bond, of the Atlanta park commission, has today seriously I advised his colleagues lo drain the lake, i plow- qp that stretch of land and sow lit ith salt io drive away the evil splr ■ its. while W. L. Percy and J. H. Por- I ter head petitioners who want the lake made over into a sunken garden. Perhaps th', board will adopt Mr. Bond's suggestion. Anyway, its inem b< rs are investigating his emphatic claim that hobgoblins can’t abide a salted field and if their probe shows that ghosts do really cavort o’ nights about that park, as many folk there abouts avow, nobody need wonder at seeing a plowman plodding his way • through one of the fairest strips of land in all Atlanta, nor marvel if, sud denly, the saline trust increases its prices. Girl s Suicide J Brought Goblins. Up to that time some years ago when a. very good looking young w oman hung herself to a tree that overhung its mir roring lake Springvale park was one of the most loved recreation spots in Georgia. Nestling in the heart of In man Park, it smiled up at the lording terraces at its sides and flowers laughed out from the grass that mantled its bosom. Down in the vale a clear, cool lakelet rippled in the sunbeams between the weeping willows that fringe its banks, and it was all so beautiful that bevies of Tittle children played there all day along with squirrels and the birds of many brilliant hues. By daS'light Springvale park seemed veritably th« haunt of all the good fairies. Then the girl came there, de spondent, and killed herself above the lake, and after her came the ghosts and ghouls. It is still quite well remembered that she was a poor girl who had journeyed to Atlanta from some outlying town In a desperate hope that she would And work here and a chance to earn the honorable living that she craved. She found no work, and after many days when the last of her money was gone she made her way one evening to the dark pond of water in the heart of Springvale and took the life that she thought hopeless Children See ' Phantom Shapes. Next day, when they found her swinging from the tree limb, quite dead, frightened children who hovered fear fully about cried out that they saw her phantom floating in the lakelet be neath the tree, of course, that was the .shadow of the girl's body cast upon the water, but it was terrible enough for little ones, and for weeks after that no children went to play in tlie park. Then residents of the Inman Park district caught the morbid infection. Many said they heard the whippoorwill singing in the.park at dusk and that its cry sounded like the wail of a spirit damned. One or two, more timorous, began to tell about that those cries were not the whippoorwill’s calls at all, but the plaints of ghosts that might be seen flitting dimly about above the shrubbery through the late hours on all dark nights. The more practical residents there abouts laughed these tales to scorn, but they also had their complaint, and they took it to the park commission with a demand that the Springvale lake be drained to rid it of its suddenly ac quired pest of frogs. The park board didn't drain it. They took the word of Joel Hurt, who built Inman Park, that there weren't enough frogs to speak of. When Hurt, backed by Major Guinn, offered $1 for every a iggl-tai! found in the lake the com missioner; declined to Investigate fur ther any claim that Springvale reeks with pests. The board also accepted Mr. Hurt's denial of another c : aim that mosquitoes had appeared. The sanitary commission did take action. It put oil on the lake surface to drive away the frogs and for a time thing., were a bit more quiet. But a little later Inman Park residents began to see strange men lurking ip the shad ows. A burglary epidemic happened around there about that time, and those who weren’t superstitious joined the police in the belief that that park had • become a rendezvous for tramps Even Children Desert the Park. But the ghost stories would not down. They have gained such credence among certain folk in that vicinity that chil dren do not play as much in Springvale, even by day, as they used to before tlie despondent girl hanged herself to the tree there. The residents disagree about the visitations, but complaints re cur. and they have forced the matter up to the park board again, with the re newed demand that something str-nu ous be done to rid the place of its nui sances--whether they are ghostly or things in nature. Sorely puzzled, the commissioners have been casting about for a solu’ion of the problem for weeks. While they consider Mr. Bond’s plan for a salt sowing they are also giving heed to a petition headed by W. L. Percy and J H. Porter urging that the lake be drained and made over into a sunken garden. But Mr. Bond insists that the com plaints of tl e superstitious will never be stopped until the saline sesame is employed, and more than one of the ■ ommis"•loff." think th" scheme, ho* - ■ » ii' nig! • not be » bad plan by " < ' ini'tns toe board some peace Human Skeleton Dug Up by Graders Hints At Unknown Tragedy With skull fractured and the body apparently buried without either a cof fin or a box, a skeleton, supposed to be that of a white man, was unearthed in front of Tech High school on Marietta street today by convicts who are grad ing at that point to widen the street. Police and county officers believe that the And brings to light an unsolved tragedy. Convicts were digging away the em bankment of the school yard w hen one of them shoveled upe. human skull. As they continued to dig the entire-skele ton was found intact. C. F. Collier, foreman in charge of the convict squad, yva.3 called to the spot when the negroes first discovered the bleached bones. He took charge of the grewsome find and notified police and county officers. Close examination of tlie bones indi cated they were those of a white man. The skeleton will be turned over to Captain T. J. Donaldson, superintend ent of the Fulton county chaingang, who will have it buried. The police are trying to recall any disappearance mystery that could be connected with today's discoverv. FES/Mi! MERCURY AT 87 Breeze Shields Atlanta From Withering Sun-The Records Show Worse May Days. Today is the hottest day of the year. At noon the thermometer registered 87 degrees and the city streets gave forth a sweltering heat that had been missing during the cool days of the late spring. Hot as it is today, a giance over weather records gives some comfort. A year ago today the thermometer regis tered 90 degrees. On May 26, 1911, a year tomorrow, the mercury peeped dow n at humanity from 98 degrees. Tomorrow, according to all predic tions. should be about as hot as today— certainly no hotter. The pleasant breeze which today made life bearable and the heat less stifling is due to continue through Sunday, bringing rain with it by Monday. The normal temperature for .May. further Investigation of the books of Forecaster Vonllerrmann reveals, is 72 degrees; "o this weather is somewhat above the average. The hottest day of the year before today was May 6, when the thermometer registered 81. "Parks and woodland groves, oi may be the lake at Piedmont for me tomorrow,” said Mr. Cityman when asked for an*interview on what he would do Sunday afternoon. The weather man promises an ideal day— no rain and enough heat! to make the breeze feel good when strained through leafy trees. Free Rheumatism Cure For Police Offer of Indian for Court 0* K> "Doctor'' G. L. Gray, the Osage In dian specialist from Oklahoma City, who has been in the limelight of late, told Recorder Broyles today lie would guarantee to cure every policeman on the force who has rheumatism, if the recorder would only agree to give him a recommendation boosting his medi cine. The court, referring to Gray as a quack, said lie wasn't on the bench to test the efficacy of medicines, and turned down the proposition. He then ordered the Indian medicine man held for trial in the state courts on the charge of practicing "medicine illegally, fixing his bond at 81.000. J. H. Miles, proprietor of the Ivy ho tel. and John R. Crawford, formerly of Dawson county, appeared in court and declared Gray had swindled them in an Oklahoma land deal. Judge Broyles took no action in this case advising the complainants to go before the grand jury or take out warrants. Tro of Gray's "patients” tcld of his treatments. Gray denied that he had practiced medicine as a physician, but admitted that, he has an Indian iheu matism medicine which he is trying to get on the market. It was this medi cine witii which he agreed to cure the police free of charge. AUGUSTA TO HAVE WARM MUNICIPAL CAMPAIGN AVGUSTA, GA., May 25.—When U C. Hayne announced that he was to run for mayor, a spirited contest was made cer tain Dr. J. R. Littleton has been a candidate for some time. The campaign will continue until the middle of July, when the election takes place. Mr. Ilasme is a prominent banker and Dr. Littleton is a prominent physician. The later Is an A P A. ar.d the former is ar. anti-A. I*. A. The attitude of the | liquor intersts in this campaign will be watched with interest The liquor men, with the aid of the A P. A. element, killed commission government, and ro doubt the cause which tl.e liquor men es | pauses in this election will be the one which triumphs REV. A. C. WARD RETURNS Re . A 1 Ward paetor of Oak and i'ity Baptist church, who ’’as hoen at ■•i ding :he ■ o *ntion of t » Hou:' em Baptist church in <>ki«hotn» <’lt>, ha" returned «iu ill "I! !’■• pulp'' at »h* . hourr romorrou CITY PLANT PLAN DOE FOR MORE JUGGLING Health Board's Recommenda tion Again Will Go to Council Finance Committee. .Members of the board of health said today they expected to make the same recommendation to the city council for a garbage disposal plant they made before. The council again will refer it to the finance committee, where it was argued at three long meetings and finally referred back to the board of health. I don'-t see how we can improve on ouv former recommendation, said <■ H, Brandon, a tnpmber of the board. “ who lias supervised the building of two crematories. "It is false economy not to proceed at once to build a modern incinera tor,” said Dr. J. H. Bradfield. ‘1 he people of Atlanta are demanding it. Dr. Gilbert said tlie board would g> over tlie propositions for garbage dis posal once more and that the board then would "stand pat” on its recom mendation. To Consider Forsyth, Bid. The instructions of the finance com mittee are that the board cut out every possible item from the disposal Plant bid. By leaving, off the water pump and the electric plant, the mem bers of the board expect to reduce the cost of the plant they want from $440,- 000 to about $230,000. They also will consider the $50,000 bid of the I'orsyth Crematory Company. Another grave danger arising from the garbage heaps in tlie city has been cited to the board of health by parents whose children cluster about the un healthy piles searching in the filthy refuse for coins or leather scraps .iom which they make "slings. At the corner of Greensferrv avenue and Ashby street more than two dozen Jjoys were using the vicinity of the dump heaps as playgrounds. These boys said other.- m ' arious sections of the city gather about the unsanitary spots several hours each day. Chief Jentzen. of the sanitary de partment. and the other health officers are alarmed at the increasing com plaints of the dump piles where tho garbage and refuse matter now is de posited. It now is dumped into heaps at eighteen places around the city. The decaying matter gives off sickening odors, and files, mosquitoes and rats swarm around the neaps. They are a constant menace to the liestith of the city. The garbage dump at the end oi North Jackson street 1s on city proper ty, in Piedmont park. A ditch leading down to what is known as "Clear Creek.” the little stream which flows almost under the bleachers at Ponce DeLeon ball park, has been nearly filled by ref'ise hauled in the city carts The ditch into which the garbage is dumped receives the garbage and drains it into the creek which flows north past the fashionable district of Ansley park, carrying with it a thousand impuri ties. Refuse Dumps Imperil Many. Just across the stream, and not 100 yards away, is a baseball diamond, where each afternoon a score of the neighborhood boys play baseball and breathe into their lungs the fetid air from the refuse heap. "Homer Bartlett, a little boy living near here, had typhoid fever last sum mer." said Mrs. A. C. Walters, whose home is at North Boulevard and Tenth street, "and many of the children in the neighborhood have fever. "Does that dump inconvenience us? That is not the word: it is simply aw ful. We can't sit on our porch at night, and you se* how f'-r we are from it.” The Walters home is at least a block from the pile. "We don’t notice the odor during the day—at least, not very piuch: but at night it is almost unbearable." Mrs W. B. Cox, whose husbanu and brother run a general store on the op posite corner from the M alters home. I said: "It makes it almost impossible for us Ito staj- in this store. On damp days |it is particularly bad. I don't see why 1 the city should treat us this way. Haven’t they started to build a crema tory several times? I don’t see whs in the world they don’t do something. W» i folks out here are all going to have I fever this summer.” Taft Victory in Ohio Convention CLEVELAND. OHIO. Maj 25. The Taft men won out in the county conven | tion here todaj’ and had complete control despite the fact that Roosevelt national delegates swept the county Tuesday. Maurice Maschke. the Taft leader, dom inated the proceedings and his commit tee dictated the fifty-three delegates to the state convention, where the delegates at large to Chieagy will be made The Taft crowd only allowed the Roosevelt ' faction ten of the fifty-three delegates. . The others are all tried and true Taft ! workers. Senator Theodore E. Burton i heads the list. The victory of the Taft men nere gives them good chance to con trol the selection of Ohio’s delegates at large Mrs. W. T. Chastain. I Mrs W. T. Chastain, 53 years oil. ! who died a' Kennesaw, Ga.. yesterday ' bur’e-i there f-i'lov ing funeral services at the fantllj residence Mrs <’ astain Is -ur-. Ij cd b- her huabsmd i three (jaugute s and four sons. Mr I Mollie M. <ut •wot- M, - Annie Haas a' ' V. . R 1 ‘ 1 -ti. of A tLi.ta are • -r ' I'- 1 " nti, also -T t trig e;'. is 3 brother. Miss Edmonds in Wests Incognito, Hasn't Read Os Richeson Execution DES MOINES, iOWA, May 25.—With her father, who is attending the Na : tional Baptist convention here, Violet | Edmands, former fiancee of Clarence T. Richeson, is in Des Moines in- I cognito at a family hotel, where -she I has refused to see all reporters. She came here with her father from the East in a private .compartment, starting the day before the execution, and all newspaper accounts of Riche son's death have been kept from her. TO HONOR DEAD UNION SOLDIERS •Jut at the National cemetety in Ma rietta, where many Union soldiers have been sleeping since they fell upon the battlefields about there wil! be paid a tribute of flowers next Thurs day. O. M. Mitchell post No. 1, Atlanta; Tallapoosa post No. 4, G. A. R.. and the Women’s Relief corps will lay the blos soms upon the soldiers’ graves, and since no soldier's grave can ever be too deeply covered with the emblenls of love and reverence, the posts and the relief corps ask for contributions of baskets of flowers and evergreens. They will be glad to receive these gifts at the Atlanta Northern railroad depot on Walton stree* at Fairlie, near the postoffice building, Thursday morning. Bearing the blossoms, [he members of the posts and relief corps will 'de part for Marietta by trolley, the first car starting at 9 o’clock, with more following every half hour. The procession will march to the cemeteij' from Marietta under Com mander L. P. Hills, of the Mitchell post. With the veterans will go a bat talion of the Seventh United States in fantry with its band; Companv F, Third battalion, Georgia militia, and other military organizations. L. P. Hills will address the assembly at the graves, the band will play old martial airs, F. A. Jones will read Lin coln's Gettysburg address and Rev. E. S. Doane, of Marietta, will speak. Memorial services will be conducted Sunday at the Universalist church on East Harris street by Rev. E. D Ellen wood. DRUG LAW VIOLATIONS CHARGED AT SAVANNAH SAVANNAH. GA.. May 25.—0 n charges of violating the state laws by alleged illegal sale of drugs, R. E. Buikholder, proprietor of Burkholder’s drug store, and S. H. Oppenheim, a clerk in his store, have been placed un der arrest. J. S. Eady, a hack driver, and Gladys Ray. one of Eady's passen gers, have identified Oppenheim as the man who gave Eady a package said to contain morphine, to be delivered to Rosa Fowler. Both Oppenheim ami Burkholder deny any know ledge of the affair. They have been released under SI,OOO bonds. Eady and the Ray and Fowler women have been placed under bond as witnesses. RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE WIFE'S REPLY TO SUIT Mrs. Ara Oppenheim is of the opinion that a woman is perfectly competent to defend herself against slaps directed at her by her husband. She told this to su perior court today in an answer filed to her husband's divorce suit. What Leo Oppenheim recites was cruel ty on her part in his original suit. Mrs. OppenliMm maintains was merely self-de fense. She said that her husband was a drinking man and often, when in liis cups, tried his best to slap her. She success fully restrained hint by holding his hands and laughing at. his efforts. SUIT FOR $5,000 CHARGES CHARACTER DEFAMATION ■ • Defamation of character was the ground for a $5,000 damage suit brought today against the F. W. King Candy Company by R. B. Strange, a former agent. Strange, in asking the court for damages, alleges that the officials of the candy company charged him with dishonesty, causing the charges to be circulated in print. WOULD-BE SUICIDE AT AUGUSTA MAY LIVE ALGt STA. GA.. May 25.—Harrj John son. who-made an attempt: to end his own life with a revolver on Wednesday night, is still alive, and if the meningitis is conquered by the anti-toxin that has I been administered there is a chpnce fo> I his recovery. It is thought, however, that : should Johnson recover he will be blind ; in both eyes, as one has already been ; taken out and the sight in the other was ■ probably destroyed. The young man has I expressed regret for his deed," and Is I anxious to recover. SUSPECT TRAIN BANDIT IS ARRESTED AT MOBILE MOBILE, ALA.. May 25.—0. L. Hol ! berg. 40 years of was arrested here ! today on suspicion of being one of the : men who robbed the New Orleans and I Northeastern train at Hattiesburg. Miss , I of more than $200,000 recently. YOUR NERVES NEED Horsford * Acid Phosphate Especially recommended foi phvsi (i( i and mental exhaustion, nervousness and insomnia ««, FUNERAL NOTICE DOR". The frienus and «< .luaH-’.-nee-' of Mr. .lamer W Dorr, Mr and Mr« '■,'ewfcm St John. Mr. ami Mr- R Johnaton and Mbs Melina Dorr and M Ldward t Dorr are Invited to a' ■ end the funeral ~r Mr ‘ller | Tooi Ute --hapel ' Greet-.1,0r:- 4 Bono turida' afterno-m *i i o'clo i h q, tiepl at . LINCOLN SEEN 85 « TAFT DARK HORSE Sherman ‘Gumshoeing’ in Chi cago, ’Tis Said, to Ask for. Lorimer's Resignation. CHICAGO, .May 25, —Vice President James S. Sherman arrived in Chicago today upon a secret mission that may prove of tremendous significance tn the contest for the Republican presidential nomination. The report has spread persistently that he has conic- as an emissary of Taft to offer Robert Tudd Lincoln tlie support of the president’s faction at the national convention. The rumor in effect has it that Taft vir tually has concluded his own nojnina nation is next to impossible, and thal he can best revenge himself upon Colo nel Roosevelt by putting up as a third candidate the son of the president w hose name and fame Theodore’Hoose-’ velt is constantly using in his own be half. The report adds, however, that the Taft-Sherman influence will not b\ swerved to Lincoln until a Taft nomi nation is manifestly impossible. The vice president alighted front a train at a suburb station and was whirled away in a waiting automobile in an obvious effort to elude reporters. But from Washington the report rtf the Lincoln movement had preceded it and coupled with it came a second ru mor that the real purpose of liis visit was to ask Senator Willianr Lorimer to step down and out by resignation and not embarrass the administration fur ther by permitting’ his fight to ft lain his seat .in the senate to coinn to a vote. It was said (he vice pvesidert; would tell Lorimer it wotild be better for himself and all concerned If hr would resign while the indorsement o,'f the senate investigating committee's majority in his favor remained as the latest official action. At the Lorimer home it was said th vice president had not been there and would not call. Mr. Sherman’s secre tary said “Sunny Jim is iir Chicago or purely private • business.” • ■ • RECORD CHURCH FEST HERE 1813 This wnbk has seen tire culininatioi of a movement lo bring to Atlanta ir 1913 the joint conference of the Hirer great branches of the Presbyterian church in the United States. The Northern church meeting at Louisville, the Southern church at Bris tol. Tenn., and lastly, tlip United cliuvi b d which just has closed its ineetjrig m**’**'*’ Seattle, have accepted invitations,, to mcet'in Atlanta next year. > This nie-an. this city will see one of the largest gatherings of Presbyterians the world has ever seen. It will be a gathering which will rival the Westminster as sembly. TWO PAINTERS BADLY HURT WHEN A SCAFFOLD FALLS M. D. Doyal, of 315 Cooper street, ami T. T. Fair, of 206 Chapel street, painters were injured today in the collapse of <i scaffold at Chestnut and Kennedy street*' The two men were at work painting a new residence. They were takon to Gradt hospital. The injuries arc not considered serious. NEGRO BOY LOSES LEG. John Jones, a negro youth, was streyk by a Vest Peachtree street car at Hun nicutt streets toda.v ■ and had a leg crushed. He was rushed to Fairhaven Infirmary, where the injured limb was amputated "SaHEI Find Out If You Need Glasses It's a big satisfaction to know that your eyes are all right and that you do not need glasses. However, if they bother you in the least —if they give out easily on close work, cause head aches, etc., it's a wise plan to have a careful examina tion made and the correct glasses fitted. 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