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the weather Forecast for Atlanta and Georgia: Fair and colder today: fair tomer- rW- VOL. XI. NO- 88- Mill WAR « W isss past TERMS Moslems. Completely Beaten, Appeal Direct to Bulgarians, Their Conquerors. POWERS PREPARE FOR ENVOYS’ CONFERENCE Conflict Believed To Be at an End—Agent of the Sultan Goes to Sofia. LONDON. Nov. 14.—Peace in the r.uikans is at last in sight and danger of a European clash seems to have be,-ii averted. A private message re- iv,,l here from Constantinople states as the Turkish government has al ;il v opened negotiations direct with i lie Balkan allies. Turkey, through Nazim Pasha, the ottoman minister of waa - , has appealed General Savoff, the Bulgarian “com mander at Chatalja, for an eight-day :i rmistice. General Savoff notified Czar !'■ huanc of Turkey’s petition and’it s vid that the armistice will be .. u< .«1 at once. Looks Like War Is At An Er.cl. I . ,i >. that the war is at y li..s been hopelessly ■ . could not have con ..gglt many more days, -... is =:,y. Actual peace ne . obably be. commenced pi’Xt week. I, -;.in • .in the Balkan and other t that the allies are in ac- urn the continent telegrams in eying that a more optimistic ' ooh .. >-valis everywhere. The S»er g.ivt-, ament has given Austria -11;:!...i , guarantees that she shall re "tli.- most favored treatment” in > tt ritorial negotiations following ’.he war. A report from the Turkish capital by vay of Vienna said that pourparlers ad already been begun at the Sublime Porte with M. Popoff, first secretary of 'he Bulgarian legation, and M. Nena jevitch, Bulgarian minister to Turkey, acting for the Bulgarian government. from all accounts, Czar Ferdinand has given up his determination of crowing h|e victorious Bulgar army into the Ottoman capital. However, the city may be occupied later by an army made up of Bulgarian, Servian, Montenegrin and Greek troops as sig natory of the joint victory over the Crescent. Turkish Envoy On Way to Bulgaria. It is now learned that Musurus Bey, I>n kish minister of posts and tele uaphs, who was reported yesterday to he en route for Paris, is really on his ‘-'ay to Sofia as special peace envoy. Gu Sublime Porte is said to be pre pared to make humiliating sacrifices. One of these is the withdrawal of the Turkish soldiers from the Chatalja hues, leaving the city exposed to the al lies. 1 ghting is still going on in western Albania, and it may be several days be- r "ie new s of the armistice can be tele -raphed to the remote centers. Paris Likely to Get Peace Conference st Petersburg, Nov, 14.—Prep ’ 111,1 ■ ar.- being made in official cir ' \ ,,ir a conference of the powers to following the declaration of " tween Turkey and the Balkan 1 is believed here that the negotla- • 'Gil be opened, probably in Paris, ’ a fortnight. „ "Un: \\ itte, who negotiated the peace convention for m. , **' America, will probably repre- '■ St. Petersburg government, peace is b’olleved near, nea’er- R 1 >l.i lg not overlooking the of diplomatic complications , ' ay threaten another rupture in i , i' 1 ' llK,| atcheH indicate now that "ill become an autonomous ' under the nominal mize li"' Turkish sultan Instead of , ' 1 ' Id. d up among the allies. ' ""I probiihly be Inteina- -iiid Roumanln will'get a slice . ‘ territory for remaining 'UMrla and Hervla will prob- \ Hand- in n,, construction of " Idanub. railway and Ber 4iv< n ft'-e commercial p»e , „ 1 > 1. I«irt» iif Imrnxxu and ’"'■‘'ini dl Aludurs. I The Atlanta Georgian Read For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Wedding Garments of 70 Years Ago Become Aged Woman's Shroud Body of Mrs. Betsy Patterson Buried in Casket She Had Made 30 Years. MOULTRIE, GA., Nov. 14.—Shroud ed in her wedding trousseau of 70 years ago, and incased in a casket for which she had the lumber sawed from a cypress tree growing on her farm 30 years ago, the body- of Mrs. Betsy Pat terson has just been buried at Sandy Bluff cemetery, near Nashville, in Ber rien county. Mrs. Patterson died at her old home ; stead near Sparks, where she had re sided continuously for 50 years. She was nearly 90 years old, and was well known throughout Berrien county. Her more intimate acquaintances reverently called her ‘‘Aunt Betsy.” For three score and ten years—the allotted span of life—Mrs. Patterson had carefully preserved the garments i she wore when a happy- young bride in her teens. It was her often expressed wish that upon her death these gar ments should constitute her shroud, and relatives and friends in charge of her funeral acceded to this desire. QUIT LOCKER CLUB IF YOU’D QUIT DRINK. RECORDER ADVISES If you are a drinker and want to quit drinking, first quit your locker club. This is the advice of Recorder Broyles. When Hunter Widgeon, a carpenter, appeared in police court today charged with being drunk, he asked Judge Broyles to place him on probation and give him another chance, declaring he was ready to quit liquor forever. The recorder asked him where he obtained the liquor that made him drunk. “At a locker club, your honor.” sqid Widgeon. The court imposed a fine of $5.75. “Quit your club first, and then talk to me about putting you on probation,” he said. “No man can quit drinking liquor as long as he belongs to one of these locker clubs,” NO MORE COURTING IN THIS VILLAGE; LAST GIRL IS WON! PANTHER, W. VA„ Nov. 14.—With a population of 800, this town now is without a marriageable woman between the ages of 13 and 40. The last one that remained, Lottie. Hinrichson, who has seen eighteen summers, annouhees that she is engaged. The favored mar is somewhat older than she. • A year ago there were twenty girls above sixteen years who were willing to receive proposals, but the marriage able list rapidly dwindled until only Miss Hinrichson was left. Os eligible young men the town has a-plenty-. Many of the young beaux are in a quandary, and the result is that they go out of town on Saturday and Sunday nights. BEST EGGS SELLING FOR 72 CTS. DOZEN IN NEW YORK MART NEW YORK. Nov. 14.—The price of eggs this: winter threatens to break the record set last year. Yesterday whole sale prices advanced ten cents a dozen, an Increase of 36 cents a dozen since September 10. The best eggs are now 72 cents a dozen. Dealers say- the increase is due to light receipts and heavy demand. They say white eggs do not keep well in cold storage. Brown and Western eggs are quoted from 10 to 15 cents lower than “strictly fresh,” while stor age eggs go begging at 24 cents. wife is thrownlFwith BOX OF STOGIES HE BUYS FINDLAY, OHIO, Nov. 14—Writing a tender little love missive and placing it in a perfumed envelope in a box of Pittsburg "stogies,” Miss Mamie Dus ky-, a Pittsburg cigarmaker, has found a husband in Hancock county in the person of Roy- Launders, a well known young farmer residing at Arlington. Launders bought the box of "stogies” at one of the village stores, saw the note, wrote to its author and now they are “one.” HUSBAND’S LOST GOLD CAUSES HER SUICIDE COUNCIL GROVE, KANS., Nov. 14. Worry over her inability to find 43.000 In gold, which she knew to ba buried in an iron pot on her farm, is believed to have caused the fit of despondency * which caused Mrs. Joseph Rutledge to shoot herself through the head. Rutledge, a farmer, hail concealed his savings in his own way, promising to re veal tho cache to his wife before he died. His death came suddenly last Feb ruary, before he could reveal the hiding place TRIES TO HANG SELF IN SCHOOL, BUT FAILS CHICAGO, Nov 14. Charles R. Bowen, engineer at th« Coudy school, Winthrop and Foster avenues, attempted to kill himself In the basement of the school by hanging himself from a steam pipe He fastened a rope around hh> neck and Jumped from the top of the boiler. The rope was longer than he thought, and h«> fell to the floor Before ho could repeat bls at tempt hr was stopped by a •ehool teacher ATLANTA, GA.. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14. 1912 WLEADERS FLOCK TO TRIAL OF GUNMEN Women Storm Doors of Court Room to Hear the Accused Men Testify. VICTIMS OF PLOT BY ROSE IS PLEA OF DEFENDANTS Name Webber, Vallon, and an Unknown Man as the Actual Rosenthal Slayers. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Braving fog and a threatened downpour, society women stormed the doors of the crimi nal branch of the supreme court today to hear the four gunmen accused of assassinating Herman Rosenthal tell their stories upon the witness stand. Among the representatives of society women who have been constant specta tors are Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, Mrs. John R. Drexel, of Philadelphia; Miss Inez Milholland and Mrs. Charles S. Whitman, wife of the district attorney. As Attorney Wahle, for the defense, had closed his opening speech at last night’s session, all was in readiness at the opening of today's session to begin the story by which the accused quartet hope to prove that bald Jack Rose plot ted and carried out the murder of Ro senthal and that the actual slayers were Louis Webber, Harry- Vallon and an unknown man referred to as “Ifsky.” The gunmen allege that thjy were de coyed to the scene of the crime, that the crime might be fastened on them. Opening of court was delayed while Justice Goff went to the office of the commissioner of jurors, to attend the selection of a special panel of 250 talesmen, who will be called at the bribery trial next Wednesday of for mer City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde. DAVANT PLANS TOi SEEK SAVANNAH MAYORALTY SAVANNAH, GA., Nov. 14.—Captain Richard J. Davant, defeated candidate for mayor in the last election, has de termined to make the race again, pro vided the board of aldermen on the ticket is satisfactory to him and to the business men of the community. The | decision of Captain Davant was made known following the result of the elec tion, in which the commission govern ment charter was defeated. Captain Davant will be the anti-ad ministration candidate. In all prob ability- he will be opposed again by Mayor Tiedeman, but there has been no announcement on the part of the mayor. CUTS OFF HAND RATHER THAN LABOR IN PRISON SOUTH BEND, IND.. Nov. 14. —Al- bert Peverett, after fourteen years In prison on a charge of robbing a bank, has returned here, his old home. He is different now from the debonair, | self-confident young man the police I once knew. His hair is white. One | hand is gone. He looks twenty years older. There are lines on his face that are not from age. He cut his hand off because he could not make the number of overalls a day required by the prison authorities. HIS LAST BULLET SLEW BEAR ABOUT TO STRIKE COLORADO SPRINGS. Nov. 14. Firing the last bullet in his revolver into the open mouth of a ferocious she bear that was so close to him that her j breath fanned his face, Albert Mac ' Kenzie, formerly a resident of this city, who is now in business with his broth er in Washington, recently, almost by a miracle, escaped being torn to pieces by the "infuriated animal. As it was, he escaped without a scratch, but the claws of the beast tore his coat sleeve. WOMAN SLAYS COUGAR: SHOOTS TRUE AFTER DARK BOUNDARY, WASH,, Nov. 14—With only a pair of shining eye* showing in the black darkness to guide her, Mrs. Alvin Thurston, a rancher’s wife, shot and killed a gigantic cougar. She was not sure she had killed the animal or what kind of u beast It was until her husband cam* home and lighted the lamps. CENSOR FOR WOMEN’S CLOTHES ADVOCATED CINCINNATI. OHIO. Nov. if Th* ■ stabllshinent of a great bureau to act as censor of women's clothes ino ad mi in an gtldi ens by .Mrw John C H"-"h i. of Lh i utur, 111 JOY AND GLOOM Copyright, 1912, by International News Service. WILL You SURELi PEj 7 You BET I “ HELLO BcrtS V4HEH it HELU) ML A i Home for dinner dear, home J mbYgu getimTowm cylinder car ih Wof _ DINNER, /IaT7SHARF\ DIO J OU THE CLUB CO/AE AMD <—X—A- <4 /, ' — 7 At 'it A ' 'T 'YS T « », 111 it i’ ® (qREAT SCOTT ITS 10, f AH.'QET UP SOME L|EY ILL QIME You AV To TAKE ME? NO ONE SEEMS ] I J : f HERE'S THE KEI IoANSWEr/J (fid YOUREAN.CE s —f TI J?*? I TELL W WIFI I ONE, RA AND W 1 M CALLED I - -kl-a Aho I went To / S O ©1 -THE THEATRE 1 W/ TLi WITH Th£A\ w; i V / TOESA W i \ 7/;J SAMDVJtetriM ■Hi OW THINK PBETiy GIBLFOISONED Sudden Death Leads to Issu ance of Warrant for Young Man, Who Disappears. ASHBURN, GA.. Nov. 14.—Prepara tions for the Iturlal of Miss Minnie Marchman, a beautiful young girl who resided with her widowed mother about six miles east of Ashburn, were sud denly brought to a stop when the fam ily phj-sician. with friends and rela tives of the dead gill, whose suspicion liar] been aroused by the strange ami sudden death, decided that an inquest should be held over the body. The girl became seriously ill, and, after two hours of terrible suffering, dead. Evidence was submitted to the cor oner’s Jury that'the girl’s death was not from natural causes. The girl and n young man had visited Ashburn about ten days ago, since which time the girl had constantly complained of being ill. The young man has not been seen in the community since four days prior tq the girl’s death. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the young man and the stom ach of the girl has been sent to Atlanta to be analyzed. The possibility of the girl’s having been given a deadly drug has aroused the citizens of the community and the outcome of the examination is being awaited with unusual Interest. HUSBAND MINDS BABIES, WIFE PILOTS RIVER BOAT HT IXiUIB, Nov. 14.—Unable to ae curs a pllot’a license because of color blindness. W. A. Hulett minds the ba bies and does chores on th* ateamboat while hl» wife, who recently passed an esanilmitlon, guides the craft. Rich Woman Starves To Death Fasting to Cure Stomach Ills Abstaining From Food 37 Days Too Much for St. Louis Invalid. LOS ANGELES. Nov. 14.-After fasting for thirty-seven days in an effort to cure chronic stomach troubk. Mrs. Elsie Crewe, a wealthy woman, is dead here today of starvation. She came to Long Bench with her two daughters from St. Louis some months ago. She decided to try the fast cure. Monday she became ven weak and ate n light lunch. She was taken ill shortly afterward. HEN ROBS PLOWMAN OF HIS WORLD HONORS CHICAGO, Nov 14.—A lively little Plymouth Rock lien, angry at having her luncheon disturbed, prevented Wal do Thomas, of Big Rock, 111., from win ning honors as the world’s champion plowman at the annual Wheatland plowing match the other day. Thomas drew his furrow straight and true until the hen interfered. She was picking up a succulent dessert from the freshly turned sod when’ Thomas drove his sulky plow along. Then she flew Into the air beneath the noses of the horses with an angry clatter that mad* the team swerve. Thomas’ fur row was crooked and lie knew he had lost. •ASPHALT KING’S’ ESTATE SUED F0R_550,350 RENT WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 Executors of the estate of the late Amzl L. Baker, the "asphalt king." are confronted with a bill of 150,350 for ’hree years’ rent of the Har ber laimlon town house. Through his at torneys here. William Henry Colbran, of London, lias brought ault for that amount, claiming that Mr Barber had contracted tor a tw*nty-one-year lease of the house, had occupied and paid rent for It for three years and had then failed either to iii’cupv it or complv with the terms of the le«se FARM EXPERTS HDLOAJUBILEE Celebrate Fiftieth Anniversary of a National Agricultural Department. More than JSO representatives of the administrative departments of state ag ricultural colleges and experiment sta tions are holding a jubilee in Atlanta today. The celebration is commemo rative of the establishment of the Fed eral department of agriculture and the pussage of the Morrill land grunt acts of 1862. which virtually made ever? state agricultural school in the United States. It was just fifty years ago that scien tific agricultural development in Amer ica received its greatest impetus, when the Federal government offered the states liberal appropriations for the es tablishment of -tate schools. Twenty five years later congress passed the Hatch act. which made possible the es tablishment of the state experiment stations. It is the anniversary of the two—■ the fiftieth anniversary of one and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the other— that the members of the Association of American .Agricultural Colleges and Kxperinient Stations gathered to cele brate at the Piedmont hotel at 9 o'clock this morning. Sixty-seven representa tives of state and dependency colleges, 50 representatives of experiment sta tions are in attendance at a two days convention. Today’s program was featured by Dr A. C. True. Federal head of the state experiment stations; W. O. Thompson, president of the Ohio State university, representing the < >hto Agricultural col lege. and Dr II U. White. of G<‘or gin EXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE WOODWARD’S ARRIVAL IN RIH GAPS FIGHT “Evidence” Dug Up by Mayor* alty Nominee Is Eagerly Awaited as Tour Ends. , • r i PLAN TO RUSH WORK IN , SPITE OF OPPOSITION Primary Victor Home Today Preparations Are Being Made I to Begin Crematory. i A climax in the crematory fight Htl expected today when James G. Wood-el ward, mayoralty nominee, returns t<A the city and announces his program oti opposition to the destruction of th« old plant. He will reach Atlanta from New Yor<, today, but he has not made known to® train on which he will arrive. Scant information received by the aJ-« lies of Mr. Woodward since he left ot® his mysterious trip indicates that h« will have some sensational facts to dis close. One of the first places he vis-, ited was Milwaukee, where the De structor Company, which has the con tract to build Atlanta’s $276,000 plant, erected a similar plant. To Rush Work in Spite of Woodward. Mr. Woodward clearly showed that he was not pleased with the Milwaukee plant when he wired Aiderman Van- Dyke that Atlanta’s contract with the company would never be carried out. Unless Mr. Woodward can develop some very important new facts on this contract, the construction of the new plant will be well under way before he takes his seat as mayor. The members of the board of health declare that Mr. Woodward would not dare repudiate the city’s moral obli gation and refuse to sign a check for the payment on the plant next year, after work on it was under way. Excavation Work Begins Tomorrow. Chief Jentzen, of the sanitary depart ment, will begin the excavation work around the old plant tomorrow. The aldermanic board is expected to ordev its razing next Thursday. The Destructor Company is very anxious to get to work, and before two, weeks the building of the $276,000 gar bage plant will be progressing rapidly —unless Mr. Woodward is able to up-; - set all the present plans with infor mation he has collected in the East. CO N SECR ATeTh ERL IFE TO MEMORY OF SOM ST. LOUIS, Nov. 14. —In spite of dls couragments by a coroner’s verdict and police theories that her son, J. Hazelton White, aged 22. ended his own life. Mrs. Dora B. White announced she had con secrated herself to the task of proving he was murdered. An accident Insurance company has told her It would not pay a. S7OO policy unless she can establish that he did not die by his own hand. Her motive, she declares, however, is not to get the money but to wipe a stain from her son’s memory. K A N SAS"GO~V ER NORSK IP IS WON BY ONLY 53 VOTES TOPEKA. KANS., Nov. 14.—Report ed complete returns for the entire state of Kansas give Arthur Capper, a Re publican, a plurality of 53 over Hodges, Democrat, for the governorship. Hodges claims a plurality of 50. and will con test the election. 20-yeaTbrTdgelvar IS BROUGHT TO END BLOOMINGTON, HA... Nov. 14.—Agita tion lasting twenty years among Illinois river captains demanding that the Bur lington bridge In county he equipped with a draw has at last been successful. The road will immedlately make a change which will enable steam ers to proceed as far north as Ottawa, and Marseilles. P. M. CANDIDATES NUMEROUS. ANNISTON. ALA., Nov. 14.—New interest has been added to the race for postmaster tn this city by the entrance of Judge J. C. Wilson, a prominent business man. and S. P. Kennedy, now secretary of the Alabama railroad com mission. <>. M. Reynolds and J. M. Williamson already tire circulating pe titions, while Colonel E. I>. Willett and J. M. Slattery are mentioned as prob able candidate*. BUCKHEAD BAPTISTS CELEBRATE The tlrsi anniversary of the Buck head Baptist church will be held Sun day, There will be a Sunday sehoo’ service at 9:30 o’clock, an afternoon service at 3 o’clock and a night service at 7:30 o’clock Di. Roliert Stuart Mac- Arthur will deliver tin uddrees at th<» afternoon eervlce