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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Chief Declares Pinkertons Made No Report of Alleged Fine i to Him. f Continued From Page 1. might throw light on the mystery, end yet no club was found. “There’s absolutely nothing to it “In Frank's private office we found a small piece of broomstick, hang ing by a cord beside his desk There were no blood stain* on it, and it showed no evidence of having been used ae a weapon. In the first place, It was too light to serve as a weapon This wajf the only olub found in the factory at the time any possible weap ons should have been found and would have been found." Date Still in Doubt. Reuben Arnold said Wednesday that the defense would ask for no continuance of the Frank case except for such imperative reasons as the absence of material witnesses or the illness of counsel. Luther Rosser, chief of counsel, also has indicated that no move will be made by the de fense for further delay in the trial unless an emergency arises of the sort described by Attorney Arnold. Informal conferences between the counsel in the Crawford will case and those in the Frank case, in both of which Rosser and Arnold appear as attorneys, have resulted in the announcement that the persons In- i tereated in the Crawford hearing are willing to waive the priority of their case and permit the Frank trial to go on Monday. of Feudist Gets Life Sentence LEXINGTON, July 23.—Andrew Johnson, charged with being one of the men who assassinated Ed Calla han, former noted feudist of the Breathitt County mountains, has I been found guilty at Winchester, Ky., | and given a life sentence. Court immediately began the trial j of Fletcher Deaton, charged wjth conspiracy In the assassination plot. | Eighteen more will be tried for the | Actual murder, and twelve others for perjury. Thejw* cases are expected to consume five weeks. The feature evi dence In each case Is that of the wom an who traced the murder plots or who heard the conspirators plan th^ murder. Slayer I YOU MAY SAY WHAT YOU LIKE- Cof*rri*ht. International Naaa finrrto*. _A \ Co ’ ~Poc BRVAM MAY BE GE’T'TimO THE STATE PEPARTMEMT AU. TANGLEP UP.— -AMD HE MAY' NEGLECT HlG JOB,- 'AH,m FRIEAPS*. LET oS- 5TF<.vt^-— 'FoR PEACE AMt> PROSPERITY! WHAT | IS PEACE* MYFPlENPS> PEACE IS.WHEN] You get A wallop oh The Jaw from A JAP AHJ> You DON'T RESENT IT- ThaT.N MTFRiEMJ>S,^ PEACE 1 WHAT IS prosperity? MY FRiErJPS I SHOULD SAY THAT Si* LECTURES A WEEK AT #,25° A LEcTUftE COMES PRETTY, 1JHEAR &EIH0> PROSPERITY! I THANK M~-—-T\Tou FOR YouR KmP ATTehTioN. j m |ryaH r^M'A* 1 * 0 o«. Accumulate. 4 no .ooo IN TEH fEARfrl . THAT*. A FlNl /i w FS 5oitnct ’ IHt BOI5T ^OT ELOQUENCE >4 fo \ -BUT Hts> A FlHE MOMEY MAKER*. WIFE TD ACGUSE ANSLEY FIK TO Gainesville Bride to Refudiate Confession When Taken Be fore Grand Jury. Two Hustlers in Shetland Contest Residents Will Demand Reason for Delay—Quest Vain De clares Mayor. 7 DAYS LEFT AND LAST FOIfVOTE Widow, 94, Sues for 46 Years' Alimony LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y., July 23.—Mrs. Deborah VanNess, of Gar den City, 94 years old. has begun suit In the Supreme Court here to collect 46 years’ alimony from the estate of her husband. Cornelius VanNess. who died three years ago. She was granted a divorce from her husband in 1867, and discovered recently that she was allowed $600 a yeAr alimony. TO DAY’S MARKET OPENINGS. NEW ORLEANS COTTON. Cotton quotations: |First| Prev. (Open!High!Low ! Call.I Close. July . .hi. 30- •31 Aug . .|ii. .95; 11 95 11. 95 11. 95 11 , 91- ■96 Sept. . • • • • • 11 .55- -57 Oct . .in .51 11 51 11. 51 111. . 61 111. 50- ■ol Nov. . . ... . .Ill .47- -49 Dec . . . ii .48 ; ii .49 ii .48 ii .49 11. .48- ■49 Jan. . n .51 ii 51 in .51 ii. 51 11 .50 •51 Feb . . . 11 .40 -49 Mch L . . .ill .59- -61 May . . .ill t,;. -69 NEW YORK COTTON. Cotton quotations: IFiratl Prev. K)p>n|Hith|Low 1 CaJl.l Cloee- July 12 16 12 16 12 14 12 14 12 15 16 Aug. . il2 00 12 01 12 00 12 01 12 01 02 Sept . .Ill 6h 11 68 11 68 11 68 11 67 69 Oct. . 11 45 11 46 11 45 11 46 11 45 46 Nov 11 38 40 Dec 11 3S 11 40 11 37 11 39 11 39 40 Jan ill 34 11 34 11 34 11 34 11 S3 34 Feb. . 11 34 36 Mch. . . . ii 43 11 43 ii 43 11 43 11 41 42 May -in 46 11 46 ii 46 11 46 11 43 45 JIMUGHTS on GEORGIA POLITICS JAMES B.NEVTN LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Futures opened quiet. Opening Prev. Range 2PM Close July . «.{'> -b 44 6 43 1 * 6.47 July-Aug. . . 42^ 6.43*•*> 6.46Vfc Aug.-dept . . .6.364-6.354 6 36 6.394 Sept -Oct . . 6.22 -6.2 6.214 6.25 “ Oct.-Nov . 6 18 -6.164 6.174 6 204 Nov.-Deo. . . 6.13 -6 12 6.16 Dec.-Jan. . . .6.154 6.164 Jan.- T eb . . .6.13 -6.12 6.124 6.154 VVt> rMch. . . .6.14 -6.134 . 6.17 Mch\.\pril . . .6.054-6 15 6.154 6.18 Apr -May 6.19 Ma»June . . .6.18 6 20 r* ji *« . . i * Air-Float Talcum Powder—bora- T ted, perfumed—guaranteed pure, f j TALCUM PUFF COMPANY f |Um And l»a»ffertar*r*, »ueh TmAul Bl*f. BROOKLYN, NIW YORK The Committee on Constitutional Amendments Ip the hardest worked committee at present in the House, but when it has cleared away the new county propositions, which it is try ing manfully to do, It will get a much needed and deserved breathing spell. Mr. Myrlck. of Chatham, the chair, man of the committee, is one of the Legislature’s really tireless workers, and sits patiently through the most exhaustive hearings, without express ing the slightest desire to cut any body off or shut up the noise. He seems determined to give every new county proposition coming up a "square deal" and a full committee hearing, no matter what happens thereafter in the House. After the new counties are disposed of, however, the work of the Con stitutional Amendments Committee w ill be by no means at an end. There yet is to come up Mr. Edmondson’s bill calling for a Constitutional con vention, and while the Impression is that no such bill likely will pass the HoQse at this session, that would by no means stop the 'Constitutional Amendments Committee from consid ering, and recommending it, one way or the other, to the House. Besides this, there are half dozen other proposed amendments to the Constitution, some of which will have aggressive and most influential back ing. All of these Chairman Myrlck | intends giving a hearing, if time holds out. The only thing that can head off the chairman of Constitutional Amendments Committee in the mat ter of hard work is adjournment— and that will not come for twenty-odd days yet. Phil Cook. Secretary of State, Is happy! He think? he is going to get a new Great Seal of State soon, and that is what he has been looking for—thesq many days. For long, long years, Secretary Cook’s pet grievance—he hasn’t many grievances of any sort—has been that worn-out Great Seal of State, which, despite his best efforts, can hardly be made out on legal documents Secretary Cook Isn't at all foolish about great seals of state, either. He figures that he could have wabbled ! along without them, had they never been invented, and he would be. per haps quite as happy, had he never 1 heard tell of one. Still, if Georgia must have a great j seal of state, he opines that it should j be one that might be differentiated from other and less important seals, and that without the aid of a 40- ! horsepower microscope. "Look at this thing, now," said the i Secretary, exhibiting a specimen of ; the present great seal's most deadly work. "Could you tell whether that is the great seal of Georgia or the great seal of Kamchatka? I couldn't, if j I didn't know. What’s the use hav- I ing such a great seal?" Nobod^could answer that, and so ^LveoUxi. 11* tenia* agreed tli*u iho EDITORS READYTO SELECT OFFICERS Final Business Session of Geor gia Weekly Press Association Convenes at LaGrange. Legislature should, and probably will, pass the present bill of Mr. Nunnally. providing for a new great seal. "The best office in Bibb County” will not be the best office after the first of January if a bill proposed by Representative Wallace Miller Is passed by the present Legislature. This is the office of Clerk of the City Court, now held by Charles H. Smith, 23 years of age, who draws an income of $8,000, collected in fees. Mr. Miller’s bill puts the clerk on a salary basis and provides Tot a salary of $2,400. The clerk is appointed by the Judge, who now receives a salary of $3,300, but for whose benefit there ha?; already been a bill introduced, raising the pay to $6,000. The duties of this Clerk of Court are very light, and as he has a well- paid assistant, the office is really a delightful one. It has long been con sidered the choicest office of the county. * Professor J. -W. Boyd, of Fair- mount, Gordon County, whose elo quent plea for Tate County was suc cessful before the House Committee on Constitiutional Amendments Tues day, is one of the most picturesque men that ever served in the Georgia Legislature. When a member of the State Senate in 1908, he introduced the famous bill abolishing the convict lease system In Georgia, and no man fought for the passage of that measure through both Houses and both committees more aggressively and more effect ively than Boyd. He is an orator of the old school, with a "halleluiah lick" that reminds one instantly of that- other eloquent North Georgian, the late Congress man William H. Felton Undoubtedly, it was Boyd’s great effort before the cpmmittee on Tuesday that carried the day for Tate. The argument winning the great est favor, perhaps, was that wherein Boyd assured the committee that the creation of Tate would result, by reason of the amalgamation therein of the Republican end of Pickens, in the abolition of one rock-ribbed Republi can county—Pickens—and the crea tion of a new rock-ribbed Democratic county of Tate. It has been years since Pickena sent a Democrat to the Legislature, all because of the Republican end of the county that Boyd proposes to whack off. The Republicans of Pickens, needless to say, are bitterly opposed to Tate and are fighting it tooth and nail. The pressing of this partisan point before the committee, however, was effective. v Of course. Senator Boyd urged oth er points, such as earnest desire upon the part of the population effected, necessity of location, wealth and Tate’s ability to take care of itself, but the big card undoubtedly seems to have been the anti-Republican ar gument before a Democratic commit tee. Tate will go before the House when it does go with considerable favor be hind it. As "exclusively predicted”—ahem' —In this column of uplift, the bill to compel the reading of the Bible in the common schools of the State was 1U coup .grace Tuesday alu LAGRANGE. July 23.—When the Georgia Weekly Press Association convened for its second day’s session this morning at 9:30 o’clock chief in terest centered in the election of offi cers for the ensuing year and the se lection of the place for the 19J4 meet ing. A number of papers will bt> read at this session. Thia afternoon Fuller E. Callaway will tender the party a barbecue. A ball game, automobile drives and other things for the pleasure of the guests are on the program. A ban quet to-night by the citizens of La-? Grange will be the closing, event. The members of the association re turned to LaGrange from West Point late Tuesday afternoon, after a re ception at the home of W. Trox Bankston, editor of The West Point Lanett-News, and old old-fashioned Georgia barbecue served on the banks of the Chattahoochee River by the citizens of that city. A Session of the conversion w r as held in the courthouse Tuesday night. Besides routine matters there were interesting papers from a number of the leading members of the associa tion on subjects of live interest to the weekly press of the State. GAINESVILLE. July 22.—Repu diating her confession as to the shoot ing of her ball player husband, Tom Wood, and charging a man with fir- j ing the bullet will be the sensational testimony of Mrs. Pearl Thomas Wood before the Hall County Grand Jury , this afternoon. This man comes from a prominent family and his arrest is expected. This man was an old friend of Mrs. Wood’s, and when she was told by her husband that he was going to de sert her, it is said, she appealed to him. He came to the Wood home on Athens street, where a quarrel began, ending in the probably fatal wounding of Wood. Gainesville is greatly excited over the shooting. The statement this morning that Mrs. Wood would com pletely repudiate her confession and charge the man with firing the shot aroused intense interest. The Grand Jury is in session, and the Solicitor announced this morning that an Im mediate investigation would be held. At a local hospital Tom Wood lies in a dying condition, a bullet hole in one of his lungs and with but two days at the most in which he can pos sibly live. At the county jail is his bride of a few months, completely prostrated Tuesday night ?he con fessed to the killing, declaring that she had determined to kill her hus band rather than have him desert her. She declared that he had decided upon a separation and was preparing to leave Gainesville. Quarrel Precedes Shooting. According to the account of the shooting, which, it is said, Mrs. Wood will make to the Grand Jury, ner hus band, another man and herself were in the Wood home when a quarrel en sued, during which the other man dfew a pistol. Wood ran from the house and as he darted out me front door the other man shot. Wood falling fatally wounded upon the porch. Neighbors rushed in and found Mrs. Wood weeping over the body of her youthful husband. An automo bile was obtained and the wounded man placed in it. Mrs. Wood accom panied him to the hospital, holding his head tenderly in her lap, while her cries drew the tears from others in the machine. In contrast to her piteous condition the husband charged her time and again with shooting him. His protestations that "She shot me!” "She shot me!” con tinued after he had been placed upon the operating table. Bride Goes to Jail. A few moments after the wounded man was t^ken to the hospital Sher iff Spencer arrived there. Mrs. Wood surrendered to him and admitted that she had done the shooting. She begged to be allowed to remain with her husband, but owing to his con dition and his continual charges that she had done the shooting, it was thought best to remove her. She was taken to the county jail, where she spent the night weeping and pit eously declaring her love for her hus band. "He was preparing to desert me, and was going away at midnight,” she told the Sheriff. "He came to the house to tell me good-bye. I made up my mind I would rather kill him than have him desert me.” Mrs. Wood is a bride of but a few months. Wood has played with the Gainesville hall club for a long while. The courtship began a few' months ago. when he was introduced to her at the ball park. She was Miss eParl Thomas, and comes from a highly re spected family, which has been living in Gainesyille for ten years. She was extremely popular and a host of her friends called at the county jail this morning. Wood’s home Is in Nashville and his parents are expected to arrive to-day. Doctors state there is no chance for his recovery. A delegation of Ansley Park citi zens will go before the Streets Com mittee of Council at its meeting a week from Friday to protest against the lack of work in Ansley Park and to insist that Peachtree Circle and South Prado, for which money has been appropriated, be paved at once. These citizens declare they will de mand to know who is responsible for R. C. Overstreet, Svlvania, Ga. ■ I > ' J i , ■ / 1ft; Vivian Broom, 493 Woodward avenue. Gets $7,692 Year to Let Tobacco Alone MORRISTOWN, PA.. July 23.— Leonard Thomas, of Haverford, will receives $100,000 on his twenty-first birthday if he can swear on that day that he has never used tobacco in any form during his life, according to the will of his grandmother, Elizabeth Van Horsen Nicholson, probated here. Leonard is 8 years old and has not used tobacco yet. Divers’ Heads Crash; 1 Dying, Other Hurt OONNERSVILLE. IND., July 23.— Edward Voltz was fatally hurt and Frank Davis may die of injuries re ceived in diving at a beach here. Davis dived from a high spring board and was followed immediately by Voltz. Just as Voltz reached the water Davis bobbed up and the** heads met with a crack. Davis was under water two minutes. the delay. The money was appro priated January' 1 The property own ers are to pay a greater proportion than the city. Yet not a pick has been stuck in the park during the seven months of the year, with the exception of one short block on Lom bardy street. Mayor Woodward declared Wed nesday that little relief from such conditions could be expected so long as our present system of government was in effect. He said he had been trying to tell the people all the year that they could not trace responsi bility in matters of such gross incom petency and negligence. "This new' charter of Council’s the Legislature is about to submit to the people is far worse,” he said. “It provides for a board to supervise the construction department, which will be about as satisfactory as the re mainder of our boards. "The Ansley Park citizens will have to frighten the whole city government Into action to get any real results.” Realty Men Invited To Meet in Atlanta An Invitation to hold its 1916 con vention in Atlanta will be extended to the Association of Real Estate Ex changes, which soon will hold its 1913 gathering. The Atlanta invitation will be drawn up by Mayor Wood ward and presented to the convention by President Harry White, of the lo cal branch of the organization. Alderman I. N. Ragsdale, of the Tenth Ward, is back of the movement to bring the real estate men to the Gate City. HE SAVED 89 LIVES. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., July 23.— Captain Patrick Grace, 76. who had a record of having saved 89 persons from drowning, is dead at his home in Montgomery. Judge, Not Coroner, Gets Daring Joker YONKERS. N. Y.. July 23.—Pas sengers on a street acr here dove from every available exit w'hen Stanzianno Nazzano. a laborer who sat on a rear seat, absently-mindedly knocked the ashes from his cigar with a stick of dynamite. He was arrested and fined $30. NOMINATION BLANK I hereby nominate as the most beautiful girl in Atlanta: Name Address Only one of these blank* will be credited to any one contestant. Student Dedicates Chinese Restaurant "If people would look about them and learn from others, the. world would bs better,” declared Timothy Tingfang Lew. a young Chinese stu dent of the University of Georgia, in an address at the opening of a new Chinese restaurant at 86 1-2 North Broad street Tuesday night. "Everybody can learn something from those about him," he continued. "And every nation can learn some thing from the study of the customs of other nations. If people would study other people they would know more.” WHY, CHARLES ROBBINS! THOMSON. CONN.. July 23.—Nine days after he had been presented with a baby carriage as a premium for getting married, Charles S. Rob bins, 60, sued for a divorce. Sharpest Competition Due in Home Stretch—Extra Ballots Only on American. Just one week from Thursday The Georgian and American pony contest closes! Think what this means to the contestants. Just seven days in which to hustle in votes! Nothing counts now save subscrip tions to The Georgian and Sunday American, and there are no bonus votes except for subscriptions to The Sunday American. On The Sunday American, there- ' fore, the contestants should concen trate their efforts. The "Red Letter Ballots” may save the day for any boy or girl. Red letter ballots are good for 4,500 votes, in addition to the regular schedule, when accom panied by a two-year paid-ln-ad- vance subscription to The Sunday ' American; 2,000 votes when accom panied by a year’s subscription and 800 votes when accompanied by a six months’ subscription. No matter what newspaper, or how many newspapers, the resident of Atlanta or the South reads during the week, every one wants The Sun day American. Therefore, while this bonus offer is not as liberal as those which have gone before, it should be of great assistance in piling up votes. And how the votes will roll up dur ing the week! The standings will be published every day, for a time. Watch them, and see how keen is the race for the ponies. It is a safe prediction that every day will see startling changes in the standings. This last week of the contest is not going to be pleasant for the over-confident, for the easy going. or for the faint-hearted. It will be a cruel pace set by the leaders, with every one guessing, and every one in the dark. There is not a boy or a girl in any district who can be sure of success, not a one but needs every possible vote that can be solicited, entreated, or cajoled from relatives, friends, or strangers. It is the home stretch which the contestants are entering now, and the going will be swift. “TIGER” GETS NEW TRIAL. COLUMBUS.—W. A. Waters, a former member of the Columbus po lice force, convicted of violating the prohibition law and sentenced to six months on the Estate farm, nas been granted a new trial. Why is the soda cracker today such a universal food? People ate soda crackers in the old days, it is true—hut they bought them from a barrel or box and took them home in a paper bag, their crispness and flavor all gone. Uneeda Biscuit—soda crackers better than any ever made before —made in the greatest bakeries in the world—baked to perfection —packed to perfection—kept to perfection until you take them, oven-fresh and crisp, from their protecting package. Five cents. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY emoon. when the Senate Committee on Education declined to recommend it for passage. The bill succeeded in stirring up a lot of hard feeling and a lot of talk, but outside of that amounted to verv little. It now hath gone where the wood bine twineth, and there will be few regrets, in the Legislature, at least. The membership generally was op posed to it. but rather hated to be forced on record against it. If it had gone to the floor of the Senate it likely would have been slaughtered, and had it gone to the floor of the House, it certainly would have been. The average disposition in the Gen eral Assembly is to keep religion and politics unmixed as fpuch possi bly VOTING COUPON For any regularly nominated Candidate in the BEAUTY CONTEST Name of Candidate. Address .' Fill out this Coupon and send it to "Booster Button” Editor of The Georgian and American. BANKRUPT SALE WHOLESALE MILLINERY STOCK AND FIXTURES 0‘ Myers MiUinery Company, Bankrupt In pursuance of an order passed by Hon. F. H. Adam*, Rafferoe In Bankruptcy, I will receive sealed bids on the stock of millinery, con sisting of items invoicing approximately as foHossag Ribbons, |5,300; wtae, *194; Bat Ptna, *0Bt Ttoaead. e*!V «2S9t Mourning Veils, *100; Hat Band*, eta, *3TO; Braid, *800; Ve*aateest sits; Velvet, $1,285; English Crepe, *155 ; Fait, *87; Furs, *47; Mallue, $,'167; Chiffon, Scarfs. *188; VeUlng. *708; Lace, $812; MtSL *124; Silk, *1,000; FI nines, $3,3»; Aigrettes and Fancy Feathers, $2,800; Flowers, $8,282; GhUdreofa Headwear, $845; Ladle* Hat* aad Frames, $1,750. Total $28,000. Also office and store fixture* tnvolcto* $1,825. Also bankrupt's leasehold Internet In a fleo story btkTfffng erprtpped Alabama Street. Tenting at with elevator located at No. 88 Bast $200 a mouth, lease expiring Jane 80, 1016. I will accept said bids op and tmCS 1} O*t4or4 A. BV «Cj4 July 25, next, at which time said Udh Wfll he opened, at Hoom,* l*ant Building, Atlanta. Ga Bide any be mbmUte\ as at^«ottMt*r or separately on the stock or fixture* or loose and are subject to the con firmation of the ooort. For further information and aaapeettea at stock and Inventory apply to H. A. FERRIS, Trustee 402 Rhodes Building, Atlanta. Ga. Mayaou k Jotmasa.