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THE NEXT FIRST LADY OF GEORGIA—MRS, JOHN M, SLATOJN
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$13,630,029,001
TAX INCREASE IJi
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 foi-1912,
just reported. Comptroller General
Wright's original estimate of a $25,000,-
000 increase for this year will be made
good, despite the fact that several la>ge
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 bi' 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 county's increase for 1911. The
total value of taxable property in At
lanta and outlying districts is slll,-
375.035.
Tom Armistead. Fulton county tax
receiver announced today that proper
ty tallies showed an increase of $13,-
630.825 for 1912.
The value of automobiles has in
creased from $311,940 to $501,070.
The value of manufactories has in
creased from $4,046,450 to $4,30i,<95.
Rank stock increased from $6,083,875
to $6,8<0i.650
The imreasi over 1911 is $2,886,205
more than the increase of 1911 over
1910.
HOUSE GIVES UP FIGHT TO
OUST GEN.LEONARD WOOD
WASHINGTON Aug 22 Without
the provi-ion !• •-tix'.i ns Ma jo Gem .ai
Leonard W nd out of otllce as chief of
Flit’!' and th' clause reducing the reg
ula a’nt) bs liv< etitalrj i giments.
11 . , > 11,| o| i t ion bill wa- adopt -
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t< ay.
70DU.S.MAHINE5
FOR JVICARAGUII
Ten Days Will See 2,100 Jack
ies in Little Republic to Pro
tect Americans.
ASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—Prepara
tions were rushed at the League Island
navy yard at Philadelphia today for
the departure of 700 United States
bluejackets and marines for Nicaragua,
where American lives and interests are
threatened 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 nlted 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 mad
revolutionists, are crowded Into the
United 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 Justin and the gunboat. Annap
olis at Corinto 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 Buron, the federal
leader, was murdeted in cold blood and
two of his men, said to be Americans,
named Phillips and Harvey Dodd, 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., Aug 22.—Pri
vate cablegrams from Blueflelds say
that General Luis Mena, leader of the
Nicaraguan revolution, has been cap
tured by the Liberal party ami is being
held a prisoner. The details of the
i itpuie are not given, but Mena, is said
to In- held In Leon. A Liberal uprising
in Nicaragua has be* n expected for
some time, although the acknowledged
I" J of tin party . General Irlas, la now
in Costa Rica.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS- THURSDAY. AUGUST 22. 1912.
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PRICE THANKS~THE GEORGIAN FOR hTs”vICTORY~
I thank my friends for helping me in I
my race for commissioner of agriculture, and 11
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. I wished to win on
my own merits, not upon the demerits of my
adversaries, real or imaginary.
NEW YORK SUICIDE I
IDENTIFIED AS RICH
MOBILE RESIDENT
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 —"A. W. Rog
' ers.” who committed suicide early yes
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. Yerger, a wealthy resident of Mo
bile, Ala.
The identification was made by
Frank V. Kelley, of the Columbia and
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Knickerbocker Trust Company, who
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read the accounts of the suicide. Yer
ger was known personally to Kelley
and he recognized the desscription as
that of his friend.
Yerger killed himself after telling his
companion. Frances Wellington, an ac
tress, "to beat it," as he was going to '
shoot himself.
Yerger disappeared from Biloxi,
Miss., on August 1, after drawing s7oo*
from the bank. He had been suffering
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 former governor of Mississippi.
SPENSE REASSIGNED
R E. 1. Spen.se, of Newton. I’nit'-d
States army, retired, and incidentally
state senator from the Ninth distrl< t. i
has been reassigned tn duty by the
war department as inspector instructor I
of th'- National Hoard of Georgia, with
headuuarters In Albany.
I shall endeavor Io make a faithful, sincere
and efficient commissioner of agriculture, and
to that end 1 invite the cordial co-operation of
all my fellow-citizens, regardless of late cam
paign alignments.
To The Atlanta Georgian's voluntary in
dorsement and emphasis of my attitude in the
campaign. 1 attribute a large share of m.y ap
parently fine victory. James D. Price said today.
CYCLIST HURT IN
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Paul Wiginton. a young boy of 67
.King street, was thrown from a bicycle
today in front of the 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.
Both Wiginton and Bell-Isle were go
ing north. Wiginton was carrying a
message for the Multigraph Company
and was in a hurry. He attempted to
pass the machine and in some manner
struck it. As he fell to the ground his
leg struck the brass rod on the front of
the machine and was broken
INSURANCE AGENT SUES,
ALLEGING BROKEN PACT
Charging the American Life and An
nuity Company informed him that re
cently enacted Insurance laws forbid it
from keeping a eontiact with him.
Frank W. Leonard has asked superior
court to order his contract to continue.
Leonard says he signed an agree
ment with the insurance company to
get polic.v holders for It. He says no
tice ha been given him that It can not
bo compiled with by the eompanv, on
tn count of one of th* new insurim. >
laws. I
ARTIST HUTT’S WIFE
IN RENO COURT TO
PLEAD FOR DIVORCE
RENO, NEV., 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 New York in 1910.
Property settlements are reported to
have been made in advance.
In Hill Mrs. Hutt brought suit
against her husband in New York for
separation. It was later dismissed. In
the separation suit Mrs. Hutt charged
that her husband used physical vio
lence toward her and that he indulged
excessively In Intoxicants. In answer,
Hutt alleged his wife was intemperate,
had a violent temper and had twice,
deserted his home.
SIOO Reward. SIOO
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Hall's Catarrh Cure Is the only positive
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Catarrh being a constitutional disease, re
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rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying the foun
dation of the disease. and giving the patient
strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura
tive powers fh.nl they offer On»» Hundred
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sVii'l for list of testimonials.
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I .1 (TIENEY A < ’(> . Toledo. O
j Told by all druggists, 75c
’bUi- Hall's Family I’IIIh fur constipation
FREE DOCTORS ARE
URGED IN ENGLAND
LONDON. Aug. 22.- Free doctors for
men, women and children is the object
of a new scheme which Professor Benja
min Moore, of the 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 other state serv
ices.
I. SHOES
REPAIRED
FREE!
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Friday and Saturday, the Shoe Renury, 78 N-Lh
Broad St., will repair every tenth pair of Shoes
free of charge, brought to us for half-soling and
heeling. We make this livelv bid for vour Shoe I
I
Repair work in order to demonstrate the fact I
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 take a throw at the Free Repair game.
- The Shoe Renury -J
78 N. Broad St. Bell Phone, Ivy 2310.
Next Door 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 stajte
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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