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THE NEXT FIRST LADY OF GEORGIA-MRS. JOHN M. SLATON
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513,838,825.00!
TAX INCREASE IN
FULTON
Estimate of $25,000,000 Gain
in Property Values Expected
to Prove Good.
With Fulton county's increase of
$13,630,825 in taxable property for 1912.
lust reported, Comptroller General
Wright's original estimate of a $25,000.-
oilO increase for this year will be made
good, despite the fact that several large
counties have shown great decreases.
The comptroller has not heard from
Floyd or Chatham counties, but sub
stantial gains are expected from the
two Present tax returns. Independent
of Fulton, show taxable valuation for
1912 to be in excess of those for 1911 by
about $7,500,000.
Fulton's 1912 record surpassed any
Increase ever made in the state, topping
this count' s increase for 1911. The
total valu ■ of taxable property in At
lanta find outlying districts is slll,-
Tom Armistead. Fulton county tax
receiver announced today that proper
tv \alues showed an increase of $13.-
925 for 1912.
The value of automobiles lias in
creased from $341,940 to $501,070.
•| io value of manufactories has in
creased from $4.<146.450 to $4,307,795.
Pan!; took increased from $6,083,875
t<> $6 'IW *'■'<<'.
The increase over 1911 is $2,886,205
more than the increase of 1911 over
1910. I
HOUSE GIVES UP FIGHT TO
OUST GEN.LEONARD WOOD
WASHINGTON Aug. 22. -Without
th, provision legis'atlng Majo- Gene' t!
I ecnard Wood out of ofllei as chief of
F - if. and 'h- clause r. du ing the i. g- |
u! mx by fixe eavalrx t ,-gbnents.
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700 U.S. MINES
m Nicaragua
Ten Days Will See 2.100 Jack
ies in Little Republic to Pro
tect Americans.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22.—Prepara
tions were rushed at the League island
navy yard at Philadelphia today for
the departure of 700 I’nited States
bluejackets and marines for Nicaragua,
where American lives and interests are
thieatened by a revolution. The men
were ordered to sail Saturday on board
the Prairie for Panama, whence they
will be conveyed to Corinto.
It is expected that within ten days
the I’nited States will have an army of
2,100 marines and bluejackets in Nica
ragua.
More than 200 Americans, alarmed at
the excesses of the victory of the mail
revolutionists, are croxyded into the
I’nited States legation at .Managua,
Nicaragua, according to dispatches to
the state department today from Min
ister Weitzel.
All Available Men Landed.
Twenty-five American women and
children have been taken aboard the
collier .lustin and the gunboat Annap
olis at t’orinto and every available man
from these vessels has been landed to
protect foreign property in Nicaragua.
Minister Weitzel also confirmed the
press report of the slaughter of 500
federal soldiers in Leon by victorious
rebels. General Huron, the federal
leader, we: murdered in cold blood and
two of his mon. said to be An/erfcans,
named Phillips end Harvey liodd. the
latter a Mississippian, were killed while
taking refuge in a hospital. Fighting
lasted all day and the loss of life is
reported to be large.
Nicaraguan Revolt
Leader Is Captured
NEW ORLEANS. LA., tug. 22. -Pri
vate i bh grains from Rluetields say
thal General Luis Mena, leader of the
Ni'araguan revolution, has been iap-
Ituted by tie Liberal party ami is being
■ held a prisoner The details of th«
eatpurc an not given, but Mena is said
to be iudd In Leon. A Liberal uprising
In Ni, ii igna his been ••xpoeted for
-oim time, althougii the acknoxvlrdged
head of the parts, Gem ral Irins. Is now
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!’HE ATLAS FA GEORGIAN AN!) NEWS TIII RSDAY. AUGUST 22. )’»l2.
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PRICE THANKS W GEORGI
I thank all my friends for helping me in I
my race for commissioner of agriculture, and I |
especially thank The Atlanta Georgian for go.
ing out of its way to emphasize the fact that
I was running a clean- campaign, devoid of
mud-slinging and harsh comment upon or crit
icism of my opponents. 1 wished to win on
my own merits, not upon the demerits of my
adversaries, real or imaginary.
INEW YORK SUICIDE I
IDENTIFIED AS RICH
MOBILE RESIDENT
NEW YORK, Aug. 22.—"A. W. Rog
ers." who committed suicide early ves
i
terday by shooting himself in the right
temple while standing in front of a
hotel at Broadway and Thirty-sixth
street, was identified today as Arthur
W. Verger, a wealthy resident of Mo
bile, Ala.
The ideniilieation wa« made by
Prank V. Kelley, of the Columbia and
Knickerbocker Trust Company, who
read the accounts of the suicide. Yer
ger was known personally to Kelley
and he recognized the desscription as
that of his friend.
Verger killed himself afte telling his
companion. Frances Wellington, an ac
tress. “to beat it," as he was going ter
shoot himself
Yerger disappeared from Biloxi,
Miss., on August 1. after drawing S7OO
from the bank He had been suffering i
from melancholia. Friends traced him
to New Orleans, thence to Chicago, and
finally to New York, where the trail
was lost. Yerger left a wife and two
children In Mobile. He* was a relative
of a formei governor of Mississippi.
SPENSE REASSIGNED
R. E. L. Spense. of Newton. f’nit- d
Stales armc. retired, and incidentally
state scnatoi mnm the Ninth disci, -
has been 'assigned to dut\ by the
war de part nietlt 'is Inspis ',>■ Inst u< io
of che Natl m.il Guaid of G> -ng i, with
I la a I'l'-a I t er- in A I Hint
I shall endeavor to -make a faithful, sincere
I and efficient commissioner of agriculture, anti
to that end I invite the cordial co-operation of
all my fellow-citizens, regardless of late cam
paign alignments.
To The Atlanta Georgian’s voluntary in
! dorseinent and emphasis of my attitude in the
! campaign. I attribute a large share of m\ ap
i parently tine victory. Janies D. Price said today.
CYCLIST HURT IN
CRASHim AUTO
Paul Wiginton, a young boy of 67
King street, was thrown from a bicycle
today in front of file Piedmont hotel
when he collided with an automobile.
His leg was broken Charlie Belle-Isle,
of the Belle-Isle Auto Company, was
driving the machine.
Wiginton was taken to the Wesley
Memorial hospital.
BoCt Wiginton and Bell-Isle w re go
ing north. Wiginton was carrying a
message for the Multigraph Company
and was in a hurry. He attempted to
pass the mac hine and in some manner
struck it. As In fell to the ground his
leg struck the brass rod on the front of
the mac hine- and was broke n.
INSURANCE AGENT SUES,
ALLEGING BROKEN PACT
c'barging the American Life and An
nuity Coinpan.' informed him that re
ccntl.' enacted insurance- laws forbid it
from keeping a contract with him.
Frank W. Leonard has asked superlm
court to order his contract ro continue.
Leonard says he signed an agree
ment with tin- insurance company to
get poli< ' ludd'-rs for it. He -ays no
tice In's bi c-n given him that it c an not
be- compil'd with by th' company, on
a-count of o;,< ( if the in w insurance
la w s.
ARTIST HUTT’S WIFE
IN RENO COURT TO
PLEAD FOR DIVORCE
RENO, NEV v Aug. 22.—The divorce
suit of Mrs. Edna Garfield Belle Torre
Hutt was heard in the courts here to
day. Mrs. Hutt, who was an artist’s
model and the inspiration for most of
her husband's paintings of fair women,
was present in court. Her husband
was represented by counsel. The bill
charges desertion in Ney York in 1910.
Property settlements are reported to
have been made in advance.
In 1911 Mrs. Hutt brought suit
against her husband In New York for I
separation. It was later dismissed, hn I
the separation suit Mis. Hutt charged |
that her husband used physical vlo- ■
; lenee toward her and that he indulged :
excessively in intoxicants. In answer, i
Hutt alleged his wife was intemperate,
had n violent temper ami bad twice
des' rte<| Ids home.
SIOO Reward. SIOO
■ Tlio readers of this paper will be pleased '
to learn that there Is nt least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure
in all Its stag's and that Is Catarrh.
Hall's Catarrh <’ure Is the only positive
cure now known to Hie medical fraternity.
Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re
(iiiircs u constitutional trentineut. Hall’s
Catarrh <’tir» Is taken internally, nctlne <ll
rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby 'lestroving tin* fotin
elation of the diaensf. and giving the patient
strength hy building up the (institution
and assisting nature In doing its work. l’b»
' proprietors have so much faith In its eiirn
th- pov ors that they • •IT< , i (hie Hundred
Ihdl.iis foi anv case that It fails to curt
-nd for Hat of testimonials.
i ' Address
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FREE DOCTORS'ARE
URGED IN ENGLAND
LONDON. Aug. 22. Free doctors for
men. women and children is the object
•>f a new scheme which Professor Benja
min Moore, of tiie Liverpool university,
suggests can be worked in conjunction
with the insurance service, to be admin
istered by a board of health, under a min
ister of public service, with cabinet rank, »
assisted by expert medical advisers. The
whole profession, he suggests, should be
organized on the lines of oilier state serv
ices.
SHOES
REPAIRED
FREE!
Friday and Saturday, the Shoe Renury, 78 N !■
Broad St., will repair every tenth pair of Shoes
free of charge, brought to us for half-soling and
heeling. We make this lively bid for your Shoe
Repair work in order to demonstrate the fact
That We Do BETTER WORK
In Less Time
For a SMALLER Charge
Than any other Shoe Repair Shop in Atlanta. Get
your sporting spirit up to the proper pitch now,
and lake a throw al the Free Repair game.
L The Shoe Renury -
78 N. Broad St. Bell Phone, Ivy 2310.
Ncvt Dnnr To Cable Hall.
CHAMP CLARK TO GO
ON STUMP FOR WILSON
SEAGIRT, N. J., Aug. 22.—Speaker
Clark soon will take the stump In
Maine, according to an announcement
by Governor Woodrow Wilson. The
governor said that Edward F. Goltra,
national committeeman from Missouri,
had so informed him.
It. is understood Speaker Clark will
go to Maine before the gubernatorial
election on September 9. Though Gov
ernor Wilson himself will not go into
Maine until after the September state
elections, indications are that the na
tional campaign committee is directing
its efforts to make a strong early cam
paign in that state.
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