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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. ~i niy , pi 1 of ■ ..h Lil. adopt- i i. h’ us* wn<l >»-n.i‘» tonl* !••■•* II 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 >*> Hi, a !’HE ATLAS FA GEORGIAN AN!) NEWS TIII RSDAY. AUGUST 22. )’»l2. 1.. _ _ 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 !' .! < 111 XI V A <*(>.. 1.de.10 (I ♦old b\ .HI drogg str. 75c. • * M |.. II .I'' I .H. PilU -imO i... I • ■ 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. 3