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THE weather Forecast Atlanta and Georgia: Rain today and probably tomorrow. "vol XI- NQ- 106 - SB KGIIS l« FROM af-Fiffl BULLET Secretary to John E. Murphy, Weary of Life, Shoots Self in Abdomen. SAYS HE ONLY REGRETS HE DIDN’T KILL SELF OUTRIGHT Employer. Certain Accounts Are Straight. Is Unable to Account for Act. Wea ■ "f life, S. W. Higgins, private, o John E. Murphy, Atlanta capitalist, put a bullet in his abdomen in his roan ■ in the Tallulah apartments „n Washington street this morning, and as he lay dying in Grady hospital ut g etful sigh that he hafi not sent the fatal lead through his head, so that ae might have expired imme diately. Higgins i.- about 40 years old and has lived in Atlanta for the last eighteen years. H< is known to hundreds as ■■Scab.'' He was a jovial, likeable sort nf man and appeared to have few cares. M: Murphy hurried to the hospital 'as soon as he heard of the shooting and spoke a few comforting words to the apparently dying man. “Tired of Life” His Only Reason. "Higgins told me,” said Mr. Murphy, "that I, ‘ had tried to commit suicide becaus he was tired of life. He would not git. any other reason.” Mt. Murphy said that Higgins always had been a cheerful, competent em ployee and he could think of no reason fur him to be so despondent as to desire to end hi, life. Higgins had been work ing for the Atlanta, capitalist for the last twelve years. As far as Mr. Murphy knows, the would-be suicide has but one relative, a sister living in Savannah. She will be notified nf the shooting. Mr. Murphy added that ho was certain Higgins' ac • •■tints all were straight and that it was nothing in his work that led him to his act, I’.it.y. ians at the Grady hospital said - little hope for the wounded ' 1 xpected him to die before i -iit'Aii. The bullet entered the abdo- " and s.werad vital organs. T-T-T-TH-THROW U-P-P-UP HANDS. STUTTERS ROBBER s I l.itl’is Dec. —The highway ;'i w|m attacked Frank Hoffman may I” "• ■ iititi.■<] by his halting speech. "T-t-t-t-th-th-throw up-p-p-p y-y ---)"-y<i-yo-ur hands," the man stam tn<n.| Hoffman did. "G-g-g-g-give ni-tn-ni-ine y-y-y-your m-ni-tn —" Aw, si,-,- interrupted Hoffman. "Cut out t'vtng to talk and get the money. I <l"n't want that gun pointing at me so long.” 1 "" robber kept still for the rest of i'" ■• •dm •• and managed to extract front Hoffman. DIES OF BROKEN HEART WHERE WIFE TOOK LIFE 'HO, Dee. s.—An inquest was a the case of Louis Larson. ■ 1 >und dead on the floor of his - Grand avenue. He had sing four days. The police de had been dead three or four 1,1 months ago Larson's wife suicide by inhaling gas in in which Larson was found -on received s.’>oo as a bene "K to N. a. Anderson, of North avenue, his brother ' 'son sqid Larson probably ” 1 broken heart. LT; TO AVOID BALDNESS: EAI THAT IS ALL- -EAT! .J . 1 >r< - •' -Kat lightly and ‘I the Polish Medical SOcie ' Hotel La Salle listening the address of Dr. Henry 11 "’■! passed their hands over, "f their heads where hair st of them looked doubt bermin spoke on the gen of baldness and told his ' '“"- h somewhat hairless <ll baldness had its origin '"'Oiaeh, • AUTO. 1 ' Several Rome ’ ' lu ’'r arms broken while l ut ontoliiies Sproull 111 Hi< t'itisens National 'h’tiin. . ||,. was erank "' "l.wi the ro ( | tlew back u Klj dislocation The Atlanta Georgian Fead For Profit—GEORGIAN WANT ADS—Use For Results. Stock Brokers Shiver Over Prospect of Probe Into Exchange Secrets Pujo Money Trust Committee to Air Operations of Wall Street Board. NEW YORK, Dei's s.—stock ex change brokers here today experienced a series if chills when it became known that when the Pujo money trust com mittee meets in Washington Monday it will consider the matter of the secret operations of the New York stock ex change. Samuel Untertneyer has re peatedly declared the Pujo committee would give the stock exchange “an air ing.” Revelations made today of an in vestigation conducted here confirm his prediction. The investigation of this financial institution is looked upon as a serious matter by men thoughtful in finance, and an inkling of what the com mittee intends to bring out was easily guessed when the line of information suggested by its special representatives, who have been here for several days, became know:}. Thus far the data gath ered tends to show that trading in the exchange is mostly speculative. ROME OWLS DEMAND ACCOUNTING OF CASH FROM LOCKER CLUB ROME, GA., Dec. 5. —Sensational al legations as to the conditions in the Owls club, and a demand for an ac counting and a distribution of funds among the members are made in a pe tition filed in the superior court. The suit is an outcome of the recent cru sade closing all the locker clubs in Rome, and has caused quite a stir. Six members are plaintiffs in the proceed ings. The indignant Owls claim that when the club was closed the stock of whis kies and beer was divided equally among 229 members, but that there should now be in the hands of the treasurer $2,000. belonging equally to its members in good standing, which should be distributed upon demand of the members. It is claimed that the $2,000 is being frittered away in pay ing idle people salaries and that the money is spent without due authority and wrongfully misapplied. Gross mis management is charged also. Judge Maddox will hear the petition Decem ber 11. HAYNE WINNER OVER LITTLETON IN RACE FOR AUGUSTA MAYOR AUGUSTA, GA., Dec. s.—By a ma jority of 79 votes, L. C. Hayne was elected mayor of Augusta over Dr. Lit tleton in yesterday’s regular city elec tion. Dr. Littleton was the A. P. A. candidate. The Hayne ticket for coun cilmen won in four of six wards. In the First and Fifth wards there were no candidates representing that fac tion. Last summer the Littleton faction re fused to go into a primary, claiming that the Hayne crowd controlled the primary election machinery. The cam paign from that time was bitter. Littleton carried the First. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards by majorities aggregating 340, of which 287 was se cured in the Fifth. 40 in the Fourth. 18 in the Sixth, and sin the First. Hayne carried the Second and Third wards by 419 majority, getting 234 in the Sec ond and 185 in the Third. HEIRS OF VICTIMS IN DOUBLE TRAGEDY FIGHT OVER ESTATE COLUMBUS, GA.. Dec. s.—One of the hardest fought legal battles ever waged in Muscogee county has been in progress for the past two days, in which Mrs. Loula D. Barlow is seeking to set up a will to the property of her sister, Mrs. Blanche Robarts. who was shot and killed on August 27 last by her husband. Mrs. Barlow claims that just before her sister died she willed all of her property to her. The heirs of A. M. Robarts. the husband, who also killed himself, claim that inasmuch as Mrs. Robarts died before her husband, he became her heir, and that consequently the property revet ted to his heirs at his death shortly after that of his wife. The hearing of the. contest was before Ordinary William Redd, of Muscogee county, who has not handed down In decision. CONGRESS ATTACKED* FOR PANAMA BILL IN CANUCK PARLIAMENT OTTAWA. ONT.. Dec. 5. —The United States congress was hotly denounced in parliament yesterday by Sir Geo. Ross, a Liberal, in an attack on the Ameri can Panama canal administration bill. Sir George demanded that Canada "take drastic action" through the Brit ish embassy at Washington. The Canadian Pacific ralway is al leged to have inspired political activity against the Panama canal bill because of the clause relating to railroad owned ships. JAP CABINET RESIGNS. TOKIO, Dm. 5. The expected ■ Isis in the Japanese ministry caused by difflt ult.v in tilling the vacant portfolio of minister of war came toilai when Hie cabinet resigned in a body, led by Premier Marquis Saiottji. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1912. GIRL POISONS HLRSELFHS EX-SUITOR LEAHS Miss Katherine Fleeman Takes Strychnine When Arthur Fol- som Quits Her “Forever.” LAYS LOVE TRAGEDY TO BEAUTY-MARRING FIRE Man in Case Boards Train Ob- livious of Deed of For- mer Sweetheart. While pretty Katherine Fleeman lies close to death today m a white ward at the Georgian hospital, stricken by a dose of powerful poison she took to kill herself, her erstwhile sweetheart, Arthur H. Folsom, a young automobile dealer, is believed to be speeding to New York apparently unmindful of her fate. v Leaving her standing on the curb in front of a boarding house at 101 Capi tol avenue last night, after informing her that all was oveff between them, young Folsom, without a backward glance, speeded up his machine and proceeded downtown. While several women, occupants of the boarding house, watched her from the porch, Miss Fleeman stood for a moment in indecision. Then, taking a small box of strychnine tablets from her bag, she swallowed them all, then went to her room and fell in to convul sions. Called Sweetheart To Come Back. "Arthur, come back to me," she called, as the tail lights of Folsom’s big machine turned into Mitchell street. Apparently ignoring the girl’s pre dicament, Folsom drive his machine to James street and spent some time in the company of friends. According to the information given at the house of his father, Henry L. Folsom, 794 Pied mont avenue, the youth left for New York at 12 o’clock last night. When Miss Fleeman’s condition was realized, her fellow boarders, who had watched the closing scene of the little drama, rushed to her assistance. "Let me alone." she screamed, strug gling with her friends: "I want to die. 1 have nothing to live for now. He has left me forever, because I was burned and have lost my beauty.” It was after 9 o’clock before Miss Fleeman. still in spasms from the ef fects of the drug, was taken to the Georgian hospital, in Capitol avenue, and treated with antidotes. Physicians at the institution said today that they had hopes for her recovery, but that her condiion was serious. Miss Fleeman’s split with young Fol som, according to the girl's friends, had been coming on for some time. Their acquaintance had lasted five years, al though Henry L. Folsom, the boy's fa ther, denied strenuously that the pail ever had been engaged. Mrs. Lambert, who keeps the board ing house at I<H Capitol avenue, and before whose door the near-tragedy was enacted, is authority for the state ment that Miss Fleeman has been de spondent for weeks over the turn her affair with Folsom had taken. "She bought a bottle of chloroform several weeks ago, and I took it away from her." said Msr. Lambert. “I did not know she had the strychnine last night.” Beauty Marred by Accidental Burning. Last spring Miss Fleeman, who is said to have been a handsome young woman, was severely burned at a house in West End, where her clothes caught fire from an open grate. Since that time her health has been bad. Her friends say that during the last two weeks Folsom's visits have been ir regular. and he had told her that they had besj, call it off. His coldness, coupled with iter de pleted physical condition, is given by Iler friends as the motive for her action. Miss Fleeman was admitted to the Georgian hospital as a private patient, and it was said she was doing well and would recover, Siu w is not permitted to talk of the case. Mrs. I ,;iinliert declared that the girl appeared despondent on many occa sions, and Mrs. Lambert thought this was due to the death of her father, the girl's illness following her burns, and her inability to do well in her business course. "Tuesday night." said Mrs. Lambert, "Mr. Folsom came to the house, and Hie two sat a while in the parlor. Then they went out for an automobile ride, and when she got back she said to me, 'lt's all off.' She said they had quar reled again and could not agree. Last night she called him up on the phone and asked him around. He did not come inside, so Miss Fleeman put on a wrap and went out and sat in the auto mobile at the curb. Presently she < ante in and went to her bed. She lay down and told me she had taken poison She did not swoon on tin sidewalk. Dr. Buford came in. and we did what we eould to restore her. "Mr. Folsom hid been to set Miss Fieeman ■-> veral times of Into He oe < asioimlit took lier io the theater, but tint had mu attendcd*for some time." THE SITUATION IN THE BALKANS Hou, ON. 1” ISURREHDER/ . _ TIT on These ierms M > Z. Ajjr-' J/ WAITTitL T WRITE f ~ wsWZ' a There You are/) f wait till i read £\ LET US have j j Teraas J I nixuJ PEACE / X y ' 'A „ \ ( allies V ’ - “ ' U oik | / Jf/ I] y’ /z D - W'v- I / ACaztM v, ~i / I i —/// \- - / j \ ><3/ 1 1 ** ! C Cornell Student Gains Weight on Reduced Food LIVES ON 85c PER WEEK ITHACA, Dec. s.—Raymond Prior Sanford, of Ithaca, a freshman in the Cornell College of Agriculture, upon his own initiative, has undertaken an ex periment in the study of the actual cost of sufficient food to keep the body in a normal, healthy condition. He is mak ing the experiment upon himself, hav ing begun on July 4, 1912. when he entered the summer school here. The average cost of his food since that time has been 85 cents a week. "Two years ago,” said Sanford, “I read of an undergraduate at Harvard who, while working his way through the university, lived on a dollar a week. When I came here this summer my funds were small and waiting on table took so much time that I thought I would try to see just how cheaply a fellow eould live without giving up anything essential to good health and comfort. The first week I lived on but ter, eggs and milk, with a little vegeta ble stuff added. That week $1.50 in cluded my gas bill. "The second week I substituted pea nut butter for regular butter, believing ft contained all of the fat that butter contains. I cut out eggs; they were too expensive. I wont out on the lawns and dug dock and dandelions and ate that for my green stuff. During the last five weeks of summer school my board bill was $4.25. “From October 1 to 28 1 had a chance to experiment more with different foods WARM MUNICIPAL RACE IN PROGRESS AT BAXLEY BAXLEY, GA., Dec. s.—The warmest campaign that has been waged for years in Baxley for municipal offices is now on. The primary Is to be held on Friday, with two live tickets in the field. The administration faction has offered Dr. J. E. Overstreet, one of Baxley's most prominent physicians and a former may or, to head their ticket for mayor, with G N. Weatherly. B W Taylor and H. J. Jenkins as eouncilmen. The opposition is running Dave M Parker, a young attor ney, for mayor, and’)' W. Melton. W F Brigman and it L. Chambers for cuun eilinen Copyright, 1912, International News Service. and their weekly cost varied from 80 cents to sl. One week it was just 63 cents. In those twenty-eight days I gained three and two-thirds pounds in weight. “My present diet consists of skimmed milk, which I buy at two cents a quart; buttermilk, three cents a quart; stale bread, three cents a loaf; peanut but ter, ten pounds for $1.50, ordinarily 20 cents a pound; raisins, three pounds for 25 cents; lentils, 10 cents a pound; raw cabbages, onions, peppers, rice, oatmeal and what apples I can forage from the agricultural farms. "I have consulted the professors of the home economies department of the agricultural college, and they tell me that my diet contains all that is neces sary for sustenance and much more. My present plans are to continue this ex periment until 1 leave college, gathering data as 1 go along." Miss Martha Vanßensst laei. profes sor of home economies, to whom San ford has applied for information re garding his diet, said of him: "He is a strong, healthy, good-looking young man. and certainly displays great self-control to deny himself food which would taste better, although that food which he does eat has the same con stituents as those of substances which go to make up the average meal. His food is just as nourishing as the meats w hich richer men cat " THIS IS “COLUMBUS DAY” AT GEORGIA-ALABAMA FAIR COLUMBUS, GA„ Dec. s.—Today is being observed at the Georgia-Alabama fair as Columbus day. A special pro gram was prepared for the occasion consisting of horse races, airshir flights, balloon ascensions, fireworks displays and minor attractions. The day was opened with a patade, in which the mayor and aldermanic body, members of the police and tire de partments and other representatives of different departments of tin city gov ernment participated. Two bantls fur nished music POSTMS OF GEORGIAFDRLORN ■ / Commissions of Three in First Class Offices Will Expire Before March 1. The attitude of the Democratic sen ators toward the appointments of President Taft, to be made between this time and the adjournment of the pres ent congress, has brought scant joy to those postmasters in Georgia whose commissions expire within the next 90 days. It assures them a short lease of offi cial life over and beyond their allotted time, but it shuts the door of hope for them so far as further full terms are concerned. The commissions of at least three first class ami highly important Geor gia postmasters expire between now and March 1. Postmaster Edwards, of Macon, will lie commission!' ss in January; Post master Barclay, of Rome, will be in the same fix in February, and Post master Longstreet, of Gainesville, on Saturday of this week. If President Taft recommissions them, the senate will not confirm the appointments; if he does not recom mission them, they merely will hold un til their successors can be named by President Wilson, which will not be long after March 4. Anyway the present Georgia post masters look at the problem, they do not see how they can win. If they are reappointed, they fail to land the Jobs; if they are not reappointed, they fail ot land them, of course—and the only thing they can hope for. in either event, is a continuance in office until Just so soon after March 4 as President Wilson can have blue-ribboned com missions made out for their Democratic successors in office. EXTRA 2 CENTS EVERYWHERE p^ c STROKE OF 12 MARKS END OF CAMINO EVIL Police See That Slot Machines. Are Banished Promptly at Noon Today. CHIEF BEAVERS iS NOT ANTICIPATING TROUBLE Proprietors of Places Operating Frauds Now Reconciled to Decree of Council. The clock striking 12 for the hour of noon today sounds the knell of the slot: gambling,machines that h&ve cost At lanta between $200,000 and $500,00.) % year. Within little more than a week after The Georgian started its campaign to rid the city of these fraudulent devices that have robbed hundreds of the fool ish of money they could ill spare, coun cil has enacted an ordinance banishing them and a vigilant chief of police stood ready today to enforce the law. The city has cut the Gordian knot of technicalities and virtually all of the proprietors of places operating the ma chines have reconciled themselves to the new statute. Chief Reavers notified Captain Mayo to have his men inspect every locker club, neat-beer saloon and pool room as the clock strikes 12 today to see it the machines have been removed. Many Machines Already Removed. The chief has learned that many ot the machines already have been re moved and said this morning that he anticipated no trouble. He instructed Captain Mayo that the devices must not only be out of operation, but out ot the places where they have been stand ing these many months stolidly raking in the dollars from gullible players. Captain Mayo's men have been in structed to make cases against any pool room, locker club or near-beer sa loons in which one of the slot gambling machines is found after the noon hour. Offenders will he brought before Re corder Broyles, who has announced hia ( entire sympathy with the ordinaneu which prescribes penalties of $l9O tims or 30 days in the stockade, or both. ILLINOIS LAWMAKER WOULD STOP BLACKS AND WHITES WEDDING BELLEVILLE, ILL., Dec. s.—En raged by tile marriage of Jack Johnson, the negro and Lucille Cameron, white, Charles A. Karch a member of the Il linois state legislature, stated today hd would Introduce a bill at the coming session to prohibit the intermarriage ol whites and blacks. “The marriage of that negro to a white girl in Chicago Is a blemish on the name of the state," said Karch. "Il linois is one of the few states of thd Union which allow miscegenation, amt it is time to put a stop to it. If this girl’s mother was powerless to prevent a rash and terrible act. It is high tiind the law should intervene. 1 believe tha white race should be kept free from taint.” A DAY CHANGES GIRL FROM WARD TO SOLE OWNER OF $20,000,000 L.\ PORTE, INI’. Dec 5 Yesterday Miss Catherine Barker was a ward. To day she Is in sole possession of the $20.” 000.000 estate left by her father. John H, Barker, who was head of the Haskell- Barker Car Company, of Michigan City, the largest manufacturers of freight cars in-the world. Until Miss Barker became of age. tho estate 'was in rare of James B. Forgan, president of th< First National bank, o£ Chicago. Mr. Barker, died in 1910 When it became known the young woman was the sole heir of $20,000,000, fortune hunters from al over the world sought her band. She received thousands of letters asking alms and proposing va rious ways to spend her money. The let ters never went further than the trustee. Miss Barker is a devotee of outdooff sports. THIS BURGLAR TRIPS UP ON PAIR OF SUSPENDERS CHICAGO, Dec. 5.—A burglar wh®. got tangled up in a pair of suspenderg caused excitement in the household of Gustave Struckure. at 811 West Huron street early today. Struckure tired several shots at the robber, who leaped through a kitchen window and escaiied. He carried away a pocketbook con taining $9. w hich lb found in the trotis., ers to which tin suspenders were at taelied