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2 GEORGIAN'S POLL SHOWS SLATDN eamnner Atlantan Expected to Sweep the State in Primary Tomorrow. Alexander Slated Second. Continued From Page One. on the court of appeals ar, the most spectacular and interesting, with the race for solicitor general of the Atlanta circuit a close third as a thtillei Tlie general trend of opinion In Ful ton seems to be 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 tight between Blackburn. W M Smith. McElreath. W. V Smith and Cochran as to which wo shall be left at the post is extremely Interesting Blackburn Expected To Win. It is generally agreed that 'Hob" Blackburn is to win Beyond that leg islative speculation is varied and widely divergent. As pretty a race as ever was seen in Fulton Is the one between Judge "Bob" Pottle and Recordei Nash Broyles for the succession to Judge Pottle on the bench of the court of appeals Judge Pot th was named by foimei Governor Slaton a few months ago. to succeed Judge Arthur Powell on the ap peals court bench He aspires to the remainder of the unexpired term to which he was named Judge Broyles ha been for many years recordei of the Atlanta police court, and has been actively campaign ing for Judge Pottles seat for the pnsl three months It is agreed that the count) is Io he close between these two Other Races of Interest. The race between Solicitor Hugh Dorsey and .Madison Hell. 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 rind developing some measure of interesting form, but. com pared with lhe otliei coittesis they seemingly ate 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 EOR SOIL COMMISSION Reports from Floyd. Clarke. Baldwin and Lowndes counties, representing the four corners of the state. Indicate that James 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. Ims made him many friends. While Blalock and Brown are accusing one another of belonging to the fertilizer tru.-t and being "tools" of mercenary , olitic lans. "Old Jim" Price has been talking - to the farmers, face to sac e . in the fields and along the by ways and hedges, explaining to them w hat he propose.- 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 Castellow and Busb. 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 foi 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 In the Federal court. His debts amount . st. .62,16, of i which $4,800 is seemed by mortgages j on a 43-acre farm in Cobb county His | assets are returned as $4.::". LEGLESS LAD IS EXPERT SWIMMER AND WRESTLER PHILADELPHIA. PA. Vug " A though legless. Tyson Dolwer ag- >14.! has become an “Xpert sa imine; ano ’ wrestler GAIN IN BANK STOCKS LEXINGTON. GA. Aug '.'J E .1 Btay. tax receive: of Oglethorpe coun ty. has completed his consolidated port of the taxes of the aunty, which shows that values have increased $39,275. This gain is most y in bank stock, and not due to real tv o person alty'. The Atlanta Georgic Thi» coupon w ii be accepted at ou • t partial payment for any of the beautl See Premiun Parlor Annoi OftYLIGHTBANDIT ESCAPES IN AUTO Street Workmen See Burglar Force Front Door of West End Drug Store. VV lii>e a gang of street sweepers watched him use his "jimmy" with ski' , a burglar, whose only shield was an automobile in which he drove to the scene, entered the West End Pharma cy and was only prevented from loot ing the store by the unexpected and purely accidental arrival of policemen walking their patrol. The attempted robbery occurred early today The street cleaners, under Sanitary Inspector Butler, were al work at Lee and Gordon streets when they saw a big car drive up to the pharmacy and stop Its lone occupant was well dressed and entirely disregarded then presence as he approached the drug store door He Hied lhe front entrance but failed to get In. He then walked around the cornet and tiled a side en trance It was locked. He again n pprom bed the front door, this time with a "jimmy.” The pres ence of the puffing auto still protected him The street force thought itltn the proprietor of the stare Hr had Just fotced an entrance when two patrol men strolled leisurely along. The automobilist saw them. With out apparent hurry, he entered the co. and drove off Investigation proved that no one connected with the pharmacy had made this early rooming call. One hundred dollars in the cash register, though, was saved GILCHRIST CALLS SPECIAL SESSION Florida Legislature to Consider Jacksonville's Plan for Docks Costing $1,500,000. TALLAHASSEE. FLA. Aug 20 Governor Gilchrist ha o issued his proc lamation calling a special session of th, legislature io convene October I This action Is in response to a petition of Jacksonville citizens to pass a Dill giving lite c ity of Jacksonville the pow er to own and operate municipal ducks and terminals. The petition presented I to the governor had attached 3.000 sig natures of Jacksonville citizens. Ap pearing as a committee to present this Petition to the governot were Frank E ('base. <M. Cooper, Het belt B. Race and Captain John R. Slattery. When the special session convenes lite 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. w hich fund shall be used for the purpose of buy - ing owning and operating municipal docks and terminals The regular session of the legislature convenes April I, 1913. only 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 tecum ntend a large appropriation for the im provement of the St. Johns river chan nel. PIRATES LOOT ISLAND IN HANKOW. AND FLEE AFTER KILLING POLICE HUNG KONG. Aug 20. —Chinese pi rates loo'ed tin island "f Cheung Chow, part of the British colony of Hanhovv. early today after killing an Italian po lice sergeant and two privates. The island is used chiefly as a missionary sanitarium. After taking all Hie firearms and ammunition from the police the pirates looted the sanitarium and a pawn shop, where they got SIO,OOO. The govern ment collector of taxes and several offi cials were captured and had to ransom themselves. The pirates fled at daybreak with their loot Five of them had been wounded in the battle with the police. 18 ALDERMEN ACCUSED OF BRIBERY ARRAIGNED DETROIT tug 20 Preliminary hear- ' r.gs oi the eighteen aldermen accused of ! ■ a<-ff|)ting bribes from the Wabash rail- j road were commenced before Justice Stein toda\ Councilman T G. King. ; who last night repudiated three confes- e wa.f \ • :r;i f, w.i- at.-: arraigned The entire morning ses ; sion was taken up with quibbling bj I counsel over technicalities WARM RACE IN COLQUITT. .Ii >I’I.TRIE. Aug 20 Tile i.ieej . : i representative in Colquitt county is I ■ n warm one. There are three candl- i date-. Car. - tut.: circular letters have I bet n is-u. d daily The candidates are ' H I. Shipp. J A Carlton and J 11 j I Hiri - who is the present rept.»ntn- i I five The ..suit tomorrow is uncertain ’ an—Premium Coupon ir Premium P».-lor. 20 Bait AUtom» »t., > it premuim aoode d'tp ayed there ttncrmi’nf on AnotJu’r Page THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- TI’ESDAY. AUGLfS l 20. 1912. FLORA ZABELLE WILL I DIVORCE HITCHCOCK ! ■ ""■4 •• At ■ '■ %jg| w 'SHggi 1 jßll i r ;• w.. ■ | I'loi’ii Zabollt’. tin 1 actress, and' her linsbaml. Raynmml llitelicm-k. matinee idol, whom she infends i soon Io sue lor divorce. They have been married seven years. TUSSLE LEADS ED CUTTING; 1 DYING Boy Becomes Angry When His; Friend Hits Him and Plunges Knife Into Abdomen. Johnnie Odom, eighteen years of age. todaj lies on a col in Grady hospital, probably mortally wounded, and Walter Ratteree, sixteen years of age. occu pies a cell in tlie 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 sai his condition Is precarious and that he likely will die. Ratteree says he became angered be cause Odom struck him over the eye with llis fist and tiiat he then used his knife. He says he already bad the open knife in* his hand. The trouble occurred in the Atlanta woolen mills, at Qi mulgee and Wells Streets, where both boys were em ployed. -We began playing." says Ratteree, "and neither of ns got mad until John nie struck me over the eye. He sttuck me a hard Heli, and this made me mail I had my knife in my hand, and almost » before I knew what I was doing I baa stabbed him." FOUR TRILLION GERMS ARE SLAIN IN TEXAS I SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS. Aug. 20 in a fly-swatting contest which has just closed here, this < its «ot rid of I 3 157.996 flies and 4.000,000.000.000 die- ' ease germs, all killed by children. This I only m counts tor about 1,000.000 germs | a fly. according to the doctors I Douglas Daflin. fourteen xeirs old. j I won the first prize of $lO by bringing in i 1443.772 dead flies Douglas wotks in a ' i restaurant and trapped every one of; | the flies where he works. The count- : ing was done by a committee from th< | It’hamber of <'otnineree. headed by 1.. J Hart, capitalist and general secretary I . h n tM r TRAIN STRIKES BUGGY. VALDOSTA. GA.. Aug. -Geergt h e den and S. L Mlllhous -. ot U narrowly escaped being killed when the buggv in wliieh they were driving wa>] struck i southbound Georgia and Foi Ida passing, train Harden's leg! or hip w.i> oroken. Millhouse being only | ghtli Irnrt w Actress Returns to America Both to Play and Get Rid of Husband. NEW YORK. Am; 20.—Flora Z.ibajle. the actress, who in private life is Mrs. Raymond Hitch, ■ ok. returned on the steamer France to star for the Shu berts and ln< identally to get a divorce from iter actor-husband. On iter arrival tlie actress discussed the proposed legal separation in a live ly. care-free way. confessing that she feared she had violated the best theat rical tenets by staying married to Ray mond as long as she had. "We’ve been married seven years— don’t you think it's time 1 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 was very much in ear nest about divorcing Hitchcock. "We don't agree about anything—| about financial matters or theatrical matters —or anything. So what's the | use of being married?" With the actress were her father, M. .Mangasariaii; her pretty sister. Chris tine. .seventeen years old. and also "Cousin Charlie. ' who was down on the passenger list as Charles Kondazian. it | was over "Cousin Charlie" that lliteh -1 cock was said to have quarreled with Illis wife on board Hie steamer Moltke. I Just before she sailed on July 7. ' Fassengeis on the Fiance said that ion tlie last voyag' the actress and i "Cousin Charlie" had a peppery w rangle | wliieh ended with her telling "Charlie" | that she was "through with him." | I BOND ELECTION IN OGLETHORPE.' LEXINGTON, <;a., Aug. 20.—Thej I road commission, rs of Oglethorpe I I county have called an election forth“ I j voters to decide whether or not an is ; sounce of bonds to the amount of, ; $40,000 for road pit: poses should be i made, the election to be held tomorrow I JAIL BREAKERS CAUGHT HAWKINSVILLE, GA Aug 20. j jSix of the len prisoners who broke Jai ist week !• C ag.iin in custody , two I slayers and two hous. burners being, tmong p> ie -, p; >i d John Donaltl |-en. on,- rn' tn.' negroe- 'M totiav being' I t ied on u killing that s. INSURANGE BILL i BECOMES fl LAIN 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, has been approved by Governor Joseph 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 apd 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 rhe 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-, syrani e. SENATE HEAD TO APPOINT PAGES 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 -ession of the general assembly Hie last two years, was terminated today by Governor Brown. The chief executive vetoed the "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 lhe lower house of the legislature and a defeat tor Flynn Hargett, messenger of the senate, who has been accused of ! having caused the "rider" to be in i serted in the appropriation bill to pre ! serve his patronage. At the close of the 1911 session Har | gett lost out on the appointments at the passage of an amendment giving I the president power to name tne pages. | At tlie close of the 1912 session the ap 'propriatlons bill bobbed up in the house with the Hargett "rider" very much in evidence. The house and the senate promptly yyent to the mat. It took three confer ence committees *o 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 of appointment for the other 25 days. The question raised by the house was sustained by the governot. The house had held that the matter was entirely foreign to an appropriation bill and did not belong there The governor said today that the "rider" was not germane to an appro priations bill, and he would not sta«d for it being insetted. 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 tlie 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. ArehbaM. 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 bis 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. FOI'ND -If you lose anything and will advertise it here, you will surely recover Il if found by an honest person A three s time ad seldom fails. Remarkable recov -1 cries are brought about every day j through this column. 1 Do you want to change jobs? Perhaps the one you have doesn't suit your 'aste. lor surroundings are disagreeable. Or 1 salary isn't large enough, ot there's no chance for advancement If so. your • hance to change is offered today tn The I Go' i gian s Classified Pages BERTH SEARCHED; SUE FDR SGO.DOO Man Charges Wife, in Night Clothes. Was Humiliated by Pullman Conductor. Charging that his wife, clad only in her night robes, was subjected to the gaze of her fellow passengers of a Pull mam 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, asking for like 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 claim?, 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. Up and Down Peachtree i 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 character named Whittaker has Ills being Milledgeville is the place where the state sanitarium for the weak-minded is located, and also' the place where 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 bath 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. 1 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," hutted in Frank Liebman. "and. believe me. it was some conversation! I never before saw a man keep so ‘respectfully distant' a 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, nek 'Bill'—and 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' 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 gets mad at anything Frank Liebman says, "Old ’Bill’ Minor is a fine old scout, if he does rob trains and shoot up the place when he isn't in the penitentiary— . and he knows all about the bull moose' party, and what it is dofn"' and where it is going!” And Liebman didn't dispute that. MAN IN HIS HOME IS BEATEN UP AND ROBBED BY THUGS 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 he was considerably bruised, he 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 in the night and secreted themselves, awaiting his arrival. One of the bandits hid behind the door of Prysock's bed room, while the other waited just inside of the room. As Prysock entered the room and struck a match, the hidden ma rauders pounced on him. extinguishing ' lhe lights 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- ■ ness. When Prysock regained his senses, the 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.—F C Mor gan and D. L. Henderson, Jr., of Vi enna; W. O. Folks, of Montezuma, and Ray Slade, of Byromville, composing an party from Vienna to Albany, were held up by a drink-crazec negro about four miles from this city The negro, who was driving a mule hitched to a buggy, turned across the toad in such a manner that the auto ists could not pass and pointing a pis tol at them cursed and threatened them until by a dextrous move the men were enabled to escape. Sheriff Barbe was notified and arrested Wl'ev Dixon, who wa» identified as the Itul i ttp neg'o GIRL WIFE JESTS OF SUICIDE AND ENDS HER LIFE : Marriage a Disappointment, Mrs. Nona Wynne Gaily Pre pares to Kill Herself. Joking of death as she planned her own, Mrs. Nona Wynne. 23-year-old wife of Ernest L. Wynne, a painter, of 110 Walton street, sought advice from her employer as to the best way of committing suicide. Her husband de termined her identity today immediate ly after he had read how she drank poi son and died last night in a soda water parlor, while a dozen pleasure seekers sipped their cooling drinks at the ta bles surrounding the one where the tragedy was enacted. Disappointment in her married life is the sole explanation of her act. Hes husband, a painter and paperhanger, protests that there was no trouble be tween them "If she had any troubles, they were of her own.” was his laconic answer when asked for explanation of her deed. Her entile action, though, previous to the tragedy indicated that, trouble had weighed heavily on her mind and that the decision to commit suicide was not the result of sudden impulse, but had been reached after careful, al most uncanny consideration. She left a note, appealing to the husband for forgiveness. She left a request as to the future care of he; baby boy. The exact spot in the cem etery. where she wished her remains to rest, was indicated. Prayers for het soul were pleaded for; She had con sidered her hereafter as a result of her act. She • had chosen poison as her method after others had been con sidered. Her married life had not been one of ( ease and pleasure. Five years ago at Pell City, Ala., where she was born and : reared, she was united to Wynne. A i boy, James T. Wynne, was born. De spite the mother n sponsibilities. Mis. Wynne went to work to aid in tlie sup- ' port of herself and her baby. Gay Questions About Suicide. She was employed as a clerk tn the retail grocery establishment of S. Glass. 133 Marietta street. Her hours were long. Still she was regarded as a cheerful, willing worker and was pop ular with her associates in the store and its patrons. It was to the proprietor of the s'ore that she first gave intimation that she intended to end her life, but so cheer ily wete the questions in reference to sui cide asked him that he had no thought that his questioner actually intended to profit by his advice. There was no apparent change in the girl’s good humor yesterday in the store. She waited on het customers blithely and laughed and joked with her co workers. It was during an afternoon lull that she broached the subject of suicide to her employer. "What do you think would become of a girl who committed suicide?” she asked There was a smile on het lips as she spoke. Her eyes twinkled. She seemed unusually merry. "1 hardly think she’d go to heaven.” Mr. Glass replied. The answer did not ( affect her demeanor. "Well, if a girl did. what would be the best way?" she next asked. Plainly the clerk was jesting, the employer rea soned as he returned her laugh. "Why, I think I'd ride out to Lake- , wood and jump in,” he said. "Oh. that wouldn't do.” she bantered back. "Somebody might pull you out.' and you would have had all your trou ble for nothing.” The conversation drifted to othet subjects. Later in the afternoon .Mrs Wynns asked to be excused from duty in the store for a brief time. It was then that she purchased the poison. She bought 25 tents worth of strychnine in a drug store, telling the preset iptionist that she wished to use it in killing rats. She then returned to the store and resumed her work. Later she wrote a letter and showed the envelope to Mr Glass. "I m not going to snow you 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 iter husband and with him went to Pink Cherry market. She seemed in unusually high spit its. At the mar ket they separated, he going home and she back to the city. Where she spent tlie remaining hours between then and the time she had chosen for her tragic deed is not known. STATE TO ASSIST IN CHECKING SCARLET FEVER AT MOULTRIE State aid will be given Moultrie, Col quitt county, in its fight to stamp out a scarlet fever epidemic which threatens the town. Ten cases have been reported in th« last few days, and citizens sent re quests for the co-operation of the state board of health that the epidemic be cheeked before it gains more serious proportions. It is believed systematic work can stop the advance ot the epi demic In a ft w days. Secretary Hart ls announced the board is ready to act with the Colquitt au thorities at any time. REFRESHING SLEEP Horsford s Acid Phosphate Halt > teaspoonful in a glass of '-old Rater before retiring induces restful sleet’ •••