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2 GEORGIAN’S POLL snows sum EISW Ulantan Expected to Sweep the State in Primary Tomorrow. Alexander Slated Second. Continued From Page One. / ——— on the court of appeals are the most I spectacular and interesting, with the race for solicitor general of the Atlanta circuit a close third as a thriller. The'general trend of opinion In Ful ton seems to he that Slaton is to win over Alexander in the county by a com fortable but no tremendous majority. Hall likely will receive a light vote here. The legislative race is badly mixed, and the fight between Blackburn. W. M. Smith, McElreath, W. V Smith and Cochran as to which two shall be left it the post is extremely Intercslng Blackburn Expected To Win. It is generally agreed that 'Rob" 31ackburn is to win Beyond that leg slative speculation is varied and widely livergent. As pretty a race as ever was seen In ■"ulton is the one between Judge "Bob" Pottle and Recorder Nash Broyles for he succession to Judge Pottle on the tench of the court of appeals. Judge Pottle was named by format Jovernor Slaton a few months ago. to tucceed Judge Arthur Powell on the ap peals court bomb He aspires to the •emainder of the unexpired term to which he was named. Judge Broyles has been for many rears recorder of the Atlanta police ?Ourt, and has been actively cnmpaign ing for Judge Pottle's seat for the past three months. It is agreed that the county is to be | close between these two. Other Race* of Interest. The race between Solicitor Hugh Dorsey and Madison Bell, the present solicitor’s only opponent, is close Friends of both men are hard at work in their behalf, and will be until the last ballot is deposited tomorrow after noon. The races for attorney general, rail road commissioners and commissioner of agriculture are attracting consider able attention and developing some measure of Interesting form, but, com pared with the other contests, they seemingly are looked upon In Fulton as relatively side Issues. The various contests have been car ried on, as a rule, so far as Fulton coun ty is concerned, good-naturedly and with a minimum of bitterness and mud slinging. JAMES D. PRICE LOOKS LIKE WINNER IN RACE FOR SOIL COMMISSION Reports from Floyd, Clarke, Baldwin and Lowndes counties, representing the four corners of the state, indicate that lames D. Price is waging a winning fight for commissioner of agriculture. The dignified campaign Mr. Price Is making, contrasted with the contest of his competitors, has made him many friends. While Blalock and Brown are accusing one another of belonging to the fertilizer trust and being “tools" of mercenary politicians, “Old Jim" Price has been talking to the farmers, face to face, in the fields and along the by ways and hedges, explaining to them what he proposes to do for their benefit when he gets elected to the agriculture department. CRISP LEADS OPPONENTS FOR VOTE IN RANDOLPH CUTHBERT, GA.. Aug. 20.—The hot race in this immediate section Is that for solicitor between Castellon and Bush. It is generally agreed that Cas tellow will carry Randolph, his home county, but it Is freely predicted that the race throughout the circuit will be very close Great interest is also being taken in the race for congress between Crisp, Mercer and Shaw Crisp seems to be well in the lead in this county. MARKET PROPRIETOR SAYS HE IS BANKRUPT W. D. Scott, proprietor of Scott's City Market. 14 Houston street, tiled a petition in bankruptcy today tn the Federal court. His debts amount to $6,562.16, of which S4.SO" is s< cured by mortgages on a 43-acre farm in Cobb county. His assets are returned as $4,325. LEGLESS LAD IS EXPERT SWIMMER AND WRESTLER PHILADELPHIA. PA. Aug 2" -Al though legless. Tyson Dolw.-r ig>d 14 has become an expert swimmer and wrestle r GAIN IN BANK STOCKS. LEXINGTON. GA , Aug. 2" E J Bray, tax receiver of Oglethorp. . oun ty, has completed his con.-o!idat. i n port of the taxes of the < untv. whict shows that values have inereasee $39,275. This gain is mostly in ban! stock, and not due to realty <<• person alty. The Atlanta Georgian—Premium Coupon ' This coupon will be accepted at our Premium Parlor, 20 East Alabama at., as partial payment for any of the beaut fill premium goods displayed there. See Premiun Parlor Announcement on Another Page MIGHTBW: ESCAPES IN AUTO Street Workmen See Burglar Force Front Door of West End Drug Store. While a gang of street sweepers watched him use his "Jimmy" with skill, a burglar, whose only shield was an automobile in which he drove to the scene, entered the West Eml Pharma cy and was only prevented from loot ing the store by the unexpected and purely accidental arrival of polhemen walking their patrol. The attempted robbery occurred early today. The street cleaners, under Sanitary Inspector Butler, wore at w qrk at Lee and Gordon streets when they saw a big car drive tin to the pharmacy and stop. Its lone occupant was well dressed arpl entirely disregarded their presence as he approached the drug • tore door. He tried the front entrance but failed to got In. He then walked around the corner and tried a side en trance. It was locked. He again approached the front door, this time with a "jimmy." The pres ence of the puffing auto still protected him. The street force thought him the proprietor of the Store He had Just foteed an entrance when two patrol men strolled leisurely along The automobllist saw them. With out apparent hurry, he entered the car and drove off Investigation proved that no one connected with the pharmacy had made this early morning call. One hundred dollars In the cash register, though, was saved. GILCHRIST GALLS ■ SPECIAL SESSION Florida Legislature to Consider Jacksonville’s Plan for Docks Costing $1,500,000. TALLAHASSEE, FLA.. Aug. 20. Governor Gilchrlat ha„ Issued his proc. Initiation calling a special session of the legislature to convene October 1. This action is In response to a petition of Jacksonville citizens to pass a bill giving the city of Jacksonville the pow er to own and operate municipal docks and terminals. The petition presented to the governor had attached 3,000 sig natures of Jacksonville citizens. Ap pearing as a committee to present this petition to the governor were Frank E. chase, C. M. Cooper, Herbert B. Race and Captain John R. Slattery. When the special session convenes the act, which will be presented for passage, provides that the citizens of Jacksonville be allowed to vote upon a bond issue of $1,500,000. which fund shall bo used for the purpose of buy ing. owning and operating municipal docks and terminals The regular session of the legislature convenes April 1, 1913, onlv six months later than the special session, but the. city of Jacksonville wants the special session because it is desired to get the bond issue through in time to allow the United States engineers to recom mend a. large appropriation for the im provement of the St. Johns river chan, nel. PIRATES LOOT ISLAND I IN HANKOW, AND FLEE AFTER KILLING POLICE t . i HUNG KONG, Aug:. 20.—Chinese pi rates looted the island nf Cheung Chow, part of the British colony of Hanhow, ( early today after killing an Italian po » Hee sergeant and two privates. The island Is used chiefly as a missionary sanitarium. After taking all the firearms and > ammunition from*the police the piratts looted the sanitarium and a pawn shop, where they got SIU.OOO. The govern ment collector of taxes and several offl r rials were captured and had to ransom ' themselves. The pirates fled at daybreak with 3 their loot. Five of them had been ‘ wounded In the battle with the police. • 18 ALDERMEN ACCUSED OF BRIBERY ARRAIGNED DETROIT, Aug 20 Preliminary hear ings ot the eighteen aldermen accused of accepting bribes from the Wabash rali j road were commenced before Justice I | Stein today Councilman T. G King, who last night repudiated three confes sions he was said to have made, was the I first arraigned. The entire morning sis ,j sion was taken up with quibbling by counsel over technicalities WARM RACE IN COLQUITT. Mi >I'I,TRIE. GA.. Aug 20.—The race | for representative in Colquitt county is a warm uni. There are three eandi h , dates. Cards and circular letters have ■ Ibon issued daily. The candidates are k| R. L. Shipp, J. A Carlton and J H i Hires, who is the present repr.wnta- Itlvi The result tomorrow is uncertain TEE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- TUESDAY. AUGUST 20, 1912. FLORA ZABELLE WILL DIVORCE HITCHCOCK „ Jfcfe, * JM' ~ Mter yMMF MnuiimF r ■ r *«•, Flora Zabelle. tin 1 actress, and her husband. Raymond Hitchcock, matinee idol, whom she intends soon to sng foi' divorce. They i have been married seven years. TUSSLE LEADS TO GUTTING; I MG Boy Becomes Angry When His Friend Hits Him and Plunges Knife Into Abdomen. Johnnie Odom, eighteen years of age, today lies on a cot in Grady liospit il. probably mortally wounded, and Walter Katteree, sixteen years of age, occu pies a cell tn the police station as the result of the tragic ending of a row that started in a playful tussle between the two boys. Odom -was stabbed in the abdomen. Hospital physicians say his condition is precarious and that he likely will die. Ratteree says he became angered be cause Odom struck him ever the eye wjth his fist and that he then used his knife. He says he already had the open knife in his hand. The trouble occurred in the Atlanta woolen mills, at Oemulgee and Wells streets, where both boys were em ployed. "We began plaj ing,” says Rgtteree, “and neither of us got mad until John nie struck me over the eye He struck me a hard lick, and this made me mad. 1 had my knife in my hand, and almost before 1 knew what I was doing 1 han stabbed him." FOUR TRILLION GERMS ARE SLAiN IN TEXAS ! SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, Aug. 20. |ln a fly-swatting contest which has just dost d here, this city got rid of [3,157,996 flies and 4,000.000,000.000 dis i ~a se germs, all killed by children. This | only accounts for about 1.000,000 germs la fly. according to the deetors. i Douglas Baffin, fourtn n years slid. I won tin first prizi of $lO by bringing in 443.772 dead fibs Douglas works in a restaurant and trapped Iv. r> one of the flies where he works. The count ing was done by a committee from tin Chamber of Commerce, headed by L. J. Hart, capitalist and general secretary of the chambec. TRAIN STRIKES BUGGY VALDOSTA. GA. Aug :g. Hard, n and S I. Millhou .of this city . narrowly escaped being killed when the bugge in which they wi re driving was ■ lick by h outhbound Georgia and F’otida pas--iiK<r ttiiin Harden's leg or hip was i.roki n. Mill >U" l>. mg only Actress Returns to America Both to Play and Get Rid of Husband. NEW YORK. Aug. 20.—Flora Zabelle. ■ the actress, who in private life is Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock, returned on the steamer France to star for the Shu berts and incidentally to get a divorce ftom her actor-husband. On her arrival the actress discussed the proposed legal separation in a live, ly. care-free wav, confessing that she feared she had violated the best theat rical tenets by stay ing married to Ray mond' as long as she had. . "We’ve been married seven ybars— , don’t you think it’s time I got a di vorce?" she asked the reporters, "isn't that long enough for any theatrical marriage'.' It surely is longer than most of them.'' She said she yeas very much in ear nest about divorcing Hitchcock. "We don't agree about anything— about financial matters or theatrical mutters -or anything. So what's the use of being mari'ied?” Witli the actress were her father. M Mangasarian; iter pretty sister, Chris tine, seventeen years old, and also "Cousin Charlie," yvho was down on the , puss nyi' i list as Charles Kond tzian. It > was ovi t "Cousin Charlie" that Hitch cock was said to have quarreled with his wife on b6nrd the steamer Moltke. just before she sailed on July 7. Pass', ngers on the France said that on the lust voyag" the actress and ’ ; "Cousin Charlie" had a peppery w rangle ■ w hich ended with her telling “Charlie'' that she was "through with him." . J BOND ELECTION IN OGLETHORPE. , LEXINGTON, GA., Aug 20.—The I : oad c mimis.-i mi 1- of (tglethorpe ' ■ ounty have e.Lled an election for the 1 y oti : s to decide w hether or not an is ' suunce of bonds to the amount ot , $4".000 for road purposes should be I made, the election to be held tomorrow. JAIL BREAKERS CAUGHT. HAWKINSVILLE GA. Aug 20.- Slx of tin ten prisoners who broke jail '.lst yveek .ire again in custody, twe > sl.iyv.- and iwo house burners being 4 among the ie-eaptu cd John Dmald -1 son on> of th. negro. -, is today being Died on u killing charge. INSURANCE BILL I BECOMES ILAW Long Campaign to Systematize and Strengthen Regulation of Risk Firms Won. The general insurance bill, consid ered the most important work of the 1912 session of the Georgia legislature, |, opposed desperately by a certain class ■ of insurance companies in both houses, I has been approved by Governor Joseph I M. Brown. The governor’s approval of the bill means that the long campaign to sys tematize and strengthen Georgia's in surance laws has been brought to a successful end. To Comptroller Gen eral Wright, who for years has urged a change in the state’s antiquated sys tem of regulating insurance compa nies; is due great credit. The law, while drawn by inter-session commis sion appointed for that purpose, is lit erally the comptroller's suggestions. A rigid supervision of co-operative, assessment and fraternal companies, as is now' provided for stock companies, after formation, is perhaps the most striking feature of the new law. Un der the ancient statutes, assessment and fraternal companies were amenable to nobody. These concerns have run wild in the Georgia field. The new measure creates a depart ment of insurance, separate and dis tinct from the comptroller general's office, but W. A. Wright will be at the head of the new department. By the terms of the new measure the insur ance commissioner will be given power to investigate the formation of all Georgia companies, stock companies as well, before Issuing a license to sell in surance. SENATE HEM TO i APPOINT PACES \ Governor Kills “Rider” in Ap propriations Bill, Over Which Legislature Squabbled. The squabble over the appointment of senate pages, which furnished the fea ture of the dying hours of the annual session of the general assembly the last two years, was terminated today by Govertior Brown. The chief executive vetoed tjte “rider" to the deficiency appropriation bill, pro viding the manner in which senate pages shall be appointed. He put the appointment back in the hands of the president of the senate, where it for merly reposed. All other sections of the bill were approved. The governor’s action is a victory for the lower house of the legislature and a defeat for Flynn Hargett, messenger of the senate, who has been accused of having caused the "rider” to be in serted in the appropriation bill to pre serve his patronage. At the Qlose of the 1911 session Har gett lost out on the appointment’s at the passage of an amendment giving the president power to name the pages. At close of the 1912 session the ap propriations bill bobbed up in the house with the Hargett “rider" very much in evidence. The house and the senate promptly went to the mat. It took three confer ence committees to straighten out the tangle. The straightening at the best was little more than a compromise which allowed Hargett 25 days of pat ronage and gave the senate the right to select the manner o£ appointment for the. other 25 days. Tile question raised by the house was sustained by the governor. The house had held that the matter was entirely foreign to an appropriation bill and did not belong there. The governor said today >»»t the "rider" was not germane to an appro priations bill, and he would not stand for it being inserted. PENROSE WILL TELL ABOUT OIL LETTERS IN SENATE TOMORROW WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Senator Pen rose. of Pennsylvania, today notified the senate that he will discuss the corre spondence between John D. Archbald, of the Standard Oil company, and himself relative to the $25,000 check immediately after the reading of the Journal tomor row. Pending this statement the Penn sylvanian declined to discuss the matter. It became known today that John D. Archbald, whose $25,000 check has stirred up the Penrose matter, was invited by Senator Clapp to appear before the sen ate subcommittee investigating campaign expenses Archbald’s secretary replied to the in vitation that his employer now is in Eu rope and is expected back in September. The secretary expressed his belief that Archbald will not object to appearing be fore the senate investigators. FOUND—If you lose anything, and will advertise It here, you will surely recover It if found by an honest person. A three time ad seldom falls. Remarkable recov eries are brought about every daj through this column Do you want to change Jobs? Perhaps the one you have doesn’t suit your taste 'Or surroundings are disagreeable Or ’ salary isn't large enough Or there’s no chance for advancement If so. your i I chance to change Is offered today in The 1 Georgian’s Classified Pages. BERTH SEARCHED; SUE FOR SBO.OOO I Man Charges Wife, in Night Clothes, Was Humiliated by Pullman Conductor. Charging that his wife, clad only in i her night robes, was subjected to the I gaze of her fellow passengers of a Pull- I man car when the conductor searched ( his compartment with the idea that he had slipped a woman other than his wife’ into the berth. Oliver B. Bur roughs filed suit for $30,000 today in su perior court. His wife filed a similar bill, askihg' for ttke damages. Both the Pullman Company and the Central of Georgia railroad are made defendants in the action. Burroughs avers in his complaint that he bought railroad passage and Pullman accommodation for himself and wife to Jacksonville, Fla., on the Dixie Flyer. They had retired, he claims, when, to his great humiliation, the Pullman con ductor entered the privacy and seclu sion of his berth, forcibly tearing aside the curtains, subjecting his wife to the gaze of the curious passengers. For this alleged humiliation he asks damages. L/p an d Do Peachtree “Old Bill’ Minor | Is a Bull Mooser. Ira Damon Steiner and Frank Pythias | Liebman, two Atlantans known of every body locally, journeyed recently to Mil ledgeville, where Clayt Robson lives, and "Joe” Pottle breathes, and a notorious I character named Whittaker has his being Milledgeville is the place where the state sanitarium for -the. weak-minded is located, and alsd the flace whfere the state reformatory is operated, and the place where—but Ira and Frank didn't go there to see any of those things. They went to attend a barbecue, and to inspect some "sure things" in real estate, for which the Liebman end of the friendship firm hath a keen eye. "The most interesting sight in or around Milledgeville,” said Mr. Steiner today, "is old ’Bill' Minor, the erstwhile train rob ber and general all-around cut-up and bad man. "They keep old 'Bill' chained to a post in the state penitentiary, and they per mit visitors to see him and converse with him now and then, at respectful dis tances. I talked to him quite a while, and I found him most engaging. He reads everything he can get his hands on,, and he is remarkably well informed on cur rent affairs. I was not surprised to find that he is a full-fledged 'bull moose' and an ardent champion of Colonel Roosevelt. He thinks the colonel is the greatest man ' the world has produced since Napoleon, and if only he ('Bill') could get away from that post to which he is chained, he would be a Rough Rider 'rooter' from away back, I am sure!” "I was a witness to that conversation ’ between Ira and ‘Bill’ Minor,” butted in Frank Liebman, “and. believe me. it was some conversation! I never before saw a man keep so 'respectfully distant’ as Ira kept from old 'Bill.' He gave the for mer train robber a 25-cent cigar, which : is the only kind he smokes —the only kind , Ira smokes, not 'Bill'—arid he poked it at him on a long stick. As for the conver sation. it should have been conducted, really, by long distance phone. Ira talks ’ mighty big about what he said to 'Bill' i and what 'Bill' said to him, but it was almost a street car journey between • them when the conversation took place. 1 think Ira was afraid old 'Bill' would bite him!” “Well, anyway,” said Ira, who never t gets mad at anything Frank Liebman ■ says, "Old 'Bill' Minor is a fine old scout, - if he does rob trains and shoot up the t place when he isn't in the penitentiary— r and he knows all about the -'bull moose' party, and what it is doing and where It is going!” 3 And Liebman didn't dispute that. ; MAN IN HIS HOME IS BEATEN UP AND ROBBED BY THUGS i J. Prysock, 49 Vernon street, last hight was waylaid in his own home by two masked robbers, brutally beaten and kicked into insensibility, and then robbed. Although Prysock's injuries are pain ful and lie was considerably bruised, he r is not thought to be seriously hurt. Prysock lives alone in the Vernon street home, and the assailants, evidently aware -of this fact, broke into the house early e in the night and secreted themselves. awaiting his arrival. One of the bandits f hid behind the door of Prysock’s bed room, while the other waited just inside f of the room. As Prysock entered the c room and struck a match, the hidden ma- - rauders pounced . on him. extinguishing . the light, and quickly beat him to the floor Not satisfied with this, both as , sailants then viciously kicked him in the > side and chest until he lost conscious v ness. When Prysock regained his senses, the n robbers were gone and ssl. which he had in his pocket, was missing The'victim was unable to give a de . scription of his assailants. DRUNKEN NEGRO. ALBANY. GA.. Aug. 20. —C. C. Mor gan and D. L. Henderson. Jr., of Vi enna. W O. Folks, of Montezuma, ffnd II Ray Slade, of Byromville, composing r an automobile party from Vienna to ■ Albany, were held up by a drink-crazei: • negro about four miles from this city s The negro, who was driving a mule hitched to a buggy, turned across the road in such a manner that the auto s ists could not pass and pointing a pis , to! at them cursed and threatened r them until by a dextrous move the min were enabled to escape. Sheriff ~ Barber was notified and arrested Wiley e Dixon, who was identified as'the hold- up negto. GIRL WIFE JESTS OF SUICIDE AND ENDS HER LIFE Marriage a Disappointment, Mrs. Nona Wynne Gaily Pre pares to Kill Herself. Continued From Page One. what’s in it,” she said, and still she , laughed. The grocer thinks this was the suicide note. A letter was also written to a school friend in New Hampshire. She had told a teacher of the kindergarten at tended by her son that her entire mar ried,life had been a disappointment Leaving the store at 7 o’clock, she joined her husband and with him went to Pink Cherry market. She seemed in unusually high spirits. At the mar ket they separated, he going home and she back to the city. Where she spent the remaining hours between then and the time she had chosen for her tragic deed is not known. Ends Her Life At Soda Fount. At 10:30 o’clock she entered Cone’s drug store, 58 Whitehall street. There is a soda water parlor in connection, and to one of the tables here she went. A number of others were seated about enjoying cold drinks during the swel tering evening. She was well dressed and her en trance was noticed by the other cus tomers. She ordered a drink. Finish ing this, she went to a telephone booth, where she spent some moments writ ing. When she mefged the paper was grasped in her hand. If she was suf fering from emotion it was not dis played on her face. She summoned a waiter and askec for a glass of water. It was broughf her. No one saw her take, the poison from her handbag, nor did they see her place it in the water. She drank. Before the last drops had been swal lowed, she fell forward. Help hurriec to her. but she was beyond human aid Her Last Note To Husband. The note she had written In the tele phone booth was then examined, I read: - "Dear Ernest: "I have stood this as long as J can. It is alt my fault. Oh, sweetheart, how I have loved you. I know T can neve' be happy again in this world. Ernest don't grieve for me. All I ask you t< do is to let Clara have my precious boy Oh, how my heart aches for him! Ah how I have to live and just pray Got to forgive me. Tell Mrs. Way to pra’ for me that God may have mercy upot my soul. NORA.” "Papa, bury me at Hollywood, ot the left hand side going out." There was no clew to her identity The body was removed to Greenberg & Bond’s chapel, where it rested all night unidentified. Not until the husband had read ot the drug store tragedy was ft known. "That's my wife.” he said. He did not have to visit the chapel to know it. He declared that the “Clara" referred to in the note is his wife’s sister. “Mrs Way,” whose prayers are asked, is the landlady of t!he house in which they have lived in Walton street continu ously since their marriage save for a brief time when they were at 110 Plum street, where it Is said the notorious Dan Shaw was a fellow boarder. The inquest was held today at Green berg & Bond's. Coroner’s Inquest Verdict Is Suicide. At the inquest today Coroner Done hoo decided that Mrs. Wynne had come to her death by her own hand. Ernest L. Wynne, husband of the woman, headed the procession of ju rors, witnesses and spectators as they filed into the little room at Greenberg & Bond's chapel for the inquest. He went to the side of his wife’s body, which had been on a couch at one end of the room, and fell on his knees. Wynne, himself, went on the stand during the inquest. He testified that he left home at 7 o’clock last night with his wife and went to Marietta and For. syth streets with her. She told him that she wanted to go up Whitehall street, he said, and this was the last time he saw her alive. CONFESSES TO AFTER HIS CONVERSION AT BIG CAMP MEETING JACKSON, MISS., Aug. 20.—Within a few hours after he had professed re ligion at a camp meeting and joined the church, Walter Brence. a young Benton county farmer, went to the preacher and confessed that two years ago he killed Lewis Knutt, an aged Confederate veteran, and declared that he was ready and willing to take pun ishment for his crime. No suspicion was attached to Walter Brence, and his voluntary confession, closely following the profession of re ligion. created a profound sensation in the community. Brence insisted that the preacher go with him to the aged widow of his vic tim. and at the midnight hour they entered her home to pray for forgive ness. Brence then su> rendered to the officers, and will be given trial at thr next term of the Benton county circuit court. REFRESHING SLEEP Horsford't Acid Phosphate Half a teaspoonful In a glass of cok water before retiring induces restfu sleep