The Atlanta Georgian. (Atlanta, GA.) 1906-1907, June 20, 1906, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text4 THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY. JfXR «fl. ir- A “TEST SALE” FOR WEDNESDAY AT BASS’S NURSES’ ROCKERS. Nurse’s or Sewing Rockers of select solid oak, varnished nnd polished; cane seat; Test Sy priM : 88c WILLOW ROCKERS Large, heavy Willow Rock ers, full roll arms; Would be good value at lL“..$1.98 LEATHER ROCKERS Lino of regular $4 and $5 Leather Upholstered and Cobbler Seat Rockers will go in the Test d* | • Sale at ^7 1 »VO SPIRAL SPRINGS Full size, all steel spiral coil Bed Springs; regular $2.00 i grade; Test d? i Sale price l.... 4? ■ WOVEN SPRINGS Full double size woven wire Bed Springs with spiral swinging support ; Test Sale Price ... $3.75 Most Extraordinary Bargains Ever Offered in Furniture, Etc. We want to make a thorough test of a certain style NEW mattings Including the BEDROOM SUITS __ $75.00 Quartered Oak Bed- 0 f advertising and to this end have planned a great Test ^ ine of real 40 and 50-eent rooni Suit—large^roll Joot f or to d a y that will be one of the grandest bargain handsomest patterns; ^Test $35 00 even ^ s ever h^din s t° re - This is the only announce- Sale bed, large washstand; Sale Price events ever held in this store ment of the sale that will be made, so, if you are a reader center tables of this paper you are in luck. Look over the bargains Polished Quartered - Oak, noted here; come and see them in the store. Yqu’11 agree, double-deck Center Tables that they are extraordinary and- you’ll be sure to share in Test Sale Price .’. 98c the rare buying opportunity. Furniture, Rugs, Mattings, Etc., are offered at prices that the manufacturers would not duplicate in carload lots. Come! DINING TABLES Quarter-sawed piano polish ed Dining Tables, 6 foot ex tension; worth fullv $18.00; Ec S “ lc .. $7.90 OAK SIDEBOARDS Regular $40 quarter-sawed and, piano- polished . Oak Sideboards; very large; Test Sale Price ... Bring This Advertisement With You. Cut this ad. out and bring it with you to the sale,and on every purchase you.make in our Furniture and Carpet Department in the base ment, today, we.will give you Double Number Green Trading Stamps. $18.50 OAK SIDEBOARDS $25 Oak Sideboards, extra large; French plate mirror; new design; Sale Price $10.90 Side of Art Squares. Big line of good, heavy Union Wool Art Squares in very best patterns nnd colorings shown this season will be included in this Test Sale at prices lower than they can be duplicated at the factory: Greatest Furniture Values Ever Offered on the Local •-Retail Market. Sale of Ice Boxes. One of the great attraction! of the 4ale will be the offering of a line cf.hlghly polished solid oak Ice Boxes, strongly built and full xinfc ' lined, equipped with shelves,-etc., at- the following less-than factory prices: • .... $3.98 50-pound ice capacity ... J50-pound ice<{»0 QQ capacity . . . .'*P0.i70 SMYRNA RUGS . . 30 by 60-inch reversible Smyrna Kiqjs _ in bright floral and animal patterns; $2.50 value;; Test Sale : Price 98c 100-pound ice d» 1 QO capacity / .5/0 200-pound ice 1 | QO capacity 1 1 s5/0 NEW PORTIERES New.Summer. Portieres of good, durable materials in' bright patterns; worth $1. Test Sale price, each . This Sale is for ONE DAY ONLY Be Sure to Attend. Price ... 18c C. & E. MATTRESSES Full Double Bed .Size 40- pound C. & E/ Cotton Top Mattress; $2.50 value; Test Sale 4 Off Price 1 COTTON MATTRESSES Full double bed size, all Cot ton Mattresses; full thirty- pounds in weight; Test Sale dJO ff Price J u FELTED MATTRESSES Full size rolled edge Cotton Felted Mattress in fine sat een ticks; $12 value; Test & ...$4.95 FEATHER PILLOWS Full Size 3tpound ‘Feather Pillows covered with fine sateen ticking; 75c value; Test Sale 'HC%r r Price OVC- 9 by 9 feet 2.95 S&50 ‘53.95 Sale Began • 7 his Morning. BASS’ BARGAIN PALACE. 49c 18 IV. Mitchell Near Whitehall. IRON BEDS Full double or 3-4 size Iron Beds in white, blue or green enamel; $3.50 value; Test Sale Price ... $1.50 IRON BEDS. Full double size Brass Trim med Iron-Beds in new . de signs; $6.00 value; Test Sale Price ... $2.98 BRASS BEDS Extra large Bed with heavy brass rails at head and foot; real $8.50 value Test Sale Price! $3.98 WINDOW SHADES Full size Window Shades of good opaque; mounted on spring rollers, with fixtures; Test Sale | Price .. 1 VC- FLOOR OILCLOTHS Good, heavy Floor Oilcloth in handsome patterns; regu lar 50-cent quality; Test Sale ^ ff ~ Price ............ Sale of Hall Runners. About 100 very handsome reversible Smyrna Hall Runners in Oriental and cohventional designs will go in this Test Sale at about 331-3 per ceut less than equal qualities arc sold elsewhere. % by 4 QE II 3 i b 2 y feet LimfOi II feet 2.951 £ 3.95 ir «5 NEGROES SENTENCED t BY JUDGE_ PURNELL WILL BE HANGED IN HANOVER JAIL FOR CONSPIR ACY. Hi- -Ini to The Georgian. Wilmington. N. C-, June 20—At 11:15 ofrlook yeeterdsy In the United Himes district court. Judge Purnell •rnienced Robert Sawyer snd Arthur A-IIImi to die on August IT. The two men. both negroes, were i -1... I here last November for murder ing the crew of the schooner Harry H- - w ind off the North Carolina t oast, on t he 10th of October. They appealed i - i i, supreme court, but the Judgment i f "re lower court was sustained; Itsnry Scott, tha third nsgro mur- III rt r. waa the arch conspirator and u i:: bs hung on July (- Tha three m-n will be hanged In the New Han ot er Jail. I 'while aentlment Indorses tht ver dict. SAMUEL SWEETMaIT ON A SORRY SPREE When Samuel Sweetman'a name waa ......id out In police court Tueeday morning to answer the charge of be- I- « drunk, Samuel, who halls from N r proas, begged to be let off In or-1 der to meet hie wife at the Terminal nation at 10 o'clock. Judge Broyles relented and turnad him looae. Ton o'clock and Mrs. Sweettnan i a me, but Samuel failed to show up at ih.- terminal. Ula wlfs wandered hi- uul a while and then quite III, went I- the police elation where she waa pin red under the care of the matron. Ah ’it : o'clock Tuesday afternoon 8" ret man waa found drunk on the utretos and waa again arrested. So K and hie wife are In the eame build- InK again, but neither knows It BOOM IS NOTICED IN REGISTRATION > ■ m present outlook the voting il year will be about the same aa her rt .fora," aa Id Tax Collector Andy !’ •‘ ••wart Tuesday when asked about i e coming election. “A medium num ber of voters have registered, but now i ngi are picking up and from this i e a until tha'books ara closed will be the rush.” git will be welt for the voters to re member the books dose August 2, both f r ths stats and tha city, primaries. All parsons registering on or after January j of this year are eligible ii \ote in all primaries and elections until the last day of tha year. After living In the state twelve months and the county six months a i - raon la tllglble. HOD CARRIERS' STRIKE, TIEING UP WORK £y Private Leased Wire. Dallas, Texas, Juns *0.—As a re sult of a strike of 1,004 more hod car riers in this city, all building opera- tsowa are tied up. The strike was gsdeved because the contractors rs- Pb—d to grant an Increase of from * ‘ • I and t: per day to (1 and $1.40 per Neuehty Children In Court, For throwing rocks and making In decent remarks to the Inhabitants of Armstrong street Sunday night, saven little Russian Jews were summoned to appear before the recorder Monday aft ernoon. After being given a sharp rep rimand and upon their promise not to continue their bad behavior, the boys were allowed lo go. Champion Chicken Thief Still Buoy. A 115 line and coals was assessed Charlie Dealer, known as tha champion chicken thief of Atlanta, when he waa arraigned before Judge Broyles Monday afternoon, charged with the larceny of three more fowls. Lester pleaded to be bound over, but to no avail. Negro “Detectives" Under Arrest. On ths chargs of being suapldous persona. Walter Foster and Frank Bal- lard, claiming to be employees of ths American Detective Association, wars arrested Monday afternoon and locked up at the police elation. Both men are negroea and had suit cases equipped with revolvers and a complete outnt for the rapture of criminate. The de tective badges which adorned their breasts had Itttls weight with the police officers who mads the arrest. Latter of Appreciation. Chief of Police Jennings has received a letter from the chief of police In Ban Francisco thanking the Atlanta police fores for their generous contri butions sent lo the California city dur ing the recent period of distress. Runaways Caught. While calmly sitting on a curbatona eating a lunch they had begged from people residing on Whitehall street and Trinity avenue, Cbarlle and Webb Tor- built were arrested Monday afternoon by Officers Hulsey and Dorcctt on the charge of being runaways from thalr home In East Point. Their father waa notified and later came to the'elation and took tha buys home. Called Heme by Telegram. Dr. Champion Adamson was callsd to Meridian. Mies., by a telegram Monday afternoon telling of the eerloue Illness of hi* aged father. Dr. Jenkins Adam- con, one ut the leading physician* of that city.. Tb* elder Dr. Adamson la a veteran of ths civil war, during which he figured prominently In all of the most Important battles. Leg Cruehed in Accident Edgar Kyaer. of West Baker street, a train hand on the Southern railway, baa been removed to his horn* from Toccoa. where on last Friday h* re ceived a bad accident to hie right leg. In which that member was badly crushed. Strong hope* are entertained that tb* leg may b* saved. Revival Servicaa On. At the Eggleeton Memorial church, corner Washington and Fulton etreett, Evangelist W. D. Mitchell la conduct ing a spirited revival, being assisted by Rev. I. H. Miller. Servlets are be ing held dallt at 1 o’clock and • o'clock and are being largely attended. G. C. Driver Visiting Here. Q. C. Driver and family, of New York, are vlaltlns Mr. Driver’s father, J. L Driver, at No. 1ST Glenn street. Mr. Driver la a former Atlanta boy, who want to Gotham and by hard wont and capacity woo a high position there Ils baa charge of.tha credit department of Slmpson-i'rawford Company. Tent Moating Continual. Dr. Hunt announces that the' tint meeting at corner of Windsor and Crumley streets will continue through this week. He will be'assisted tonight by Mr. E. Y. Clark*. Jr. The servtee* begin at 1 p. m. and 7:10 p. m. From converts already made, there will be accessions lo half dnien Atlanta churches. Dr. Hunt will preach Tues day night, Mr.i Clarke again later in the week. Returns From Buslnsae Trip. Dabney H. Hcovllle, proprietor of the Marlon hotel, returned Monday night from an extended trip to his many summer resort* In south Georgia and Tennessee. He reports business as un usually good at all resorts In tlteiocall Ilea visited. , A Walking Blind Tiger. Ed Hcoti, a negro, So year* old, was arrested Sunday afternoon In East Point for selling whisky. 8cott car ried his boose on hie person and was distributing Hunday school literature as will aa selling blind tiger whisky. Tried For Bigamy. The trial of John F. Sullivan, a whit* inan, charged with bigamy, was taken up In the superior court Tuesday morning. . Caught Crap Shcotsra. A crowd of negro crap shootnra were surprised al a Sunday school picnic In Reevaa Park Monday afternoon by Of ficer* Pool* and Heard, who arrested seven out of the nine engaged In the game. Suing tht City. Alleging that un September is, 1105, he fell In a ditch on Peters street and waa severely Injured, M. W. McGouJrk has tiled suit against tht city of At lanta for 114,000. ; . Key Cc«s to Wed. At noon Tuesday, James U Key, al derman from the sixth ward, and on* of Atlanta's moat popular attorneys, ltft the city for Quitman, Gn.. where he will marry Mis* Ella Tillman W*d t nrsday evening at CIO o'clock. After a two weeks' trip East, Mr. and Mrs. Key will return to Atlanta .where they will make their horn*. First Payment on Viaduct. City Comptroller Goldsmith Tuesday morning made Ih* Bret payment to the Oliver Contracting Company for the work on the Washington street viaduct, which la progressing rapidly. The pay ment was for the amount of $8,021.15. The check for cleansing the water main from the river to the reservoir wa* also mad* oqt Tuesday, and turned over to the Hudson Contracting Company. The amount was for 17.240, Mrs. Blanch* Lawrence. Mrs. Blanche Lawrence died Monday night at her residence on Jonesboro road. South Atlanta. She leaves her husband. W. J. Lawrence, and two small children- The. body will be laken lo Harlem, Ga, Tuesday night for funeral ahd Interment. Give Benefit Concert. Special tb The Georgian. Decatur. 'Ala, Jun* 20.—On Friday night. June II. the- ladle# of the. Cen tral Methodist church, of . New Deca tur. will present the ."Deestrick Skule? RIDDLED .WITH SHOT TWO NEGROES DIE Special to The Georgian. Dallas, Texas, June -20.—In' a light which occurred Monday '.afternoon at Waco; Tennessee Thompson and John Culberson, two negroes, wefte riddled with buckshot anil Instantly killed. E. W. Huddleson and Jacob Thomp son, also negroes,’ are In Jhll charged with their murder. ■ t , - A quarrel as to where the Emanci pation day celebration should b* held wa* what led up to the killing. At the time of the shooting Thomp son was seated In a buggy with his wife, but she escaped .Injury. HEAVY EMIGRATION INTO STATE OF ALABAMA Special to The Georgian. Decatur, Ala.,- Jun* 20.—Some inter esting figures, showing.the rapid Indus trial and agricultural development' of Alabama, .are given by the emigra tion and Industrial department of tha, Louisville and Nashville railroad. Among other things, the report show* that during Ihe past year thta depart ment . ha* .located In Alabama along ■hotlines of the Louisville and Nashville railroad 726 faiullleg consisting .of 2,- 564 people. These people moved.upon and. purchased 4 2.42 L acre* of farming lands. Over 76 per cent of these people are from the state* of phlo, Indiana, Illinois. Michigan and Wisconsin. They are all well-to-do farmers.. Of these persons who have located In Alabama during, tha past , year there were 1,277 Americans, 546 German*, 472 Scandi navians and-the remainder being mod* up of Ihe various nationalities. CHARLOTTE YOUNG WOMAN MEMBER VASSAR FACULTY Special to The Georgian. Charlotte, N. C„ June 24.—Mies Con nie Gulon, a prominent yqung society woman of this city, has been appoint ed assistant profeasor of) chemistry In Vassar College, this month. Miss Gulon was a student at Welles ley and only graduated there this spring, “The Vashaf fhculty, having learned of her splendid ability In. tb* chemical laboratory,' soon mode her. an offer, which she'has accepted, and will- assume her new duties at the opening of Vassar College next autumn. MANUFACTURERS KICK ON WORK OF LABOR AGENTS gpecUHtn Tb* Georgian; Chattanooga. Tenn.. June It.—Tkc manu facturers of fhfttcacoga are making a kick" been esc - labor ageata are skipping laborcra out of Chatlaotmga by tkc‘carload. They claim that other elite* bar* ordi nances whereby It Is, a misdemeanor for Kansas city. I. ... I eror. that such laborer* who eas he ship ped about In this manner do set mirk and consequently no damage-is done to the city. at the Payne theater, tor the- benefit of Ihe church. The entertainment will be given under the direction of Mlta H, C. Battalia, of Nashville, who has glvdh'.'a. dumber of.,these entertain ments In the large cities.,- , , RIGLEY SAYS ACTION AVERTED A PANIC By Private Leased wire. Washington, D., C, June 20—The sen ate finance committee considering the Tillman resolution proposing ah Inves tigation Into the Walsh bank failures and the action of the Chicago Clearing House Association on-winding up their affairs, today made’public the letter from the, comptroller of the currency, to whom that subject was referred for report. He strongly commends the. action of the Chicago Clearing House Associa tion. declaring that It not only result ed in paying all the depositors but probably averted a panic. The ques tion whether Walsh and hla associates were guilty of criminal practices la now under Investigation. RAILROAD EMPLOYEE IS SEVERELY HURT Sam Gabrell. a switchman of the Georgia ' Railroad, waa Injured Tues day morning at the Pearl street cross ing by being caught between two freight car*. Gabrell was In the act of making a coupling at the time of the accident. In some manner he wae caught be tween the eare and severely hurt. He was taken to the Grady hospital. Hla condition Is not Considered serious. JESSE B. COOPER SHOT AT A WOMAN Jess# B. Cooper, of Athens, Ga.. being soukht by the police fur going to a house at ;4 Collins atreet about 2 o'clock Tuesday, afternoon and (hoot ing at a woman named Nellie Wil liam*. , Cooper had a row with her last night and waa arrested, blit released on put ting up 125.7$ forfeit. PLEDGE ELIMINATES THE NEGRO VOTE Special to Ths Georgian. Dallas. Texas, June 20.—At a meet ing of the county Democratic execu tive committee held Monday it w/u decided to eliminate negroes from the prlikvry election to be held on July 22 and the following pledge was agreed 'I am a white man, a Democrat and agree to vote for all the Democratic nominees at the November election. JUDGE R. B. RUSSELL SPEAKS AT ELLUAY Special to The Georgian. EUiJay. Ga., June 20.—Judge R. R Russell spoke her* In the Interest or hla candidacy for the nomination for gov ernor yesterday afternoon. The speak ing begun In the court house at 1:20 o clock. About 150 people were In at tendance. WOMAN FALLS DEAD WHILE EATING DINNER While eating dinner with her hus band at the Kimball House dining rooms Monday night, Mrs. Hugh Por ter, of Brunswick, Ga., Ihe wife of one of the most prominent hotel .men In the state, - dropped dead at her hueband'a feet. Although medical assistance was Immediately summoned, life waa ex tinct. The funeral Is to be held In At lanta at a time to be decided upon later after hearing from relatives. Although Mr*. Porter had been suf faring from heart trouble for some time, her death was entirely unexpect ed, aa It wa* thought ahe had nearly recovered. Mr*. Porter had been In Atlanta for treatment for several weeks nnd,was preparing to return to Brunswick with her husband on the very night of her sudden death. She was a native a; Mobile, Ala, and quite prominent In social circlet of Bruns wick. Hugh Porter, husband of the dectaa. ed, waa formerly manager of the Kim- ball House, where his wife died on Monday night and has been connected with several of the most prominent ho tel! In Georgia. At present he Is man ager of the Oglethorpe Hotel of Brunswick. OHIO MINE STRIKE MAY BE SETTLED By Private Leased Wire. Columbus Ohio, Juhe 20.—The Ohio mine strike may be declared off. This wa* predicted by some persons familiar with the situation after a conference lasting until nearly mid night between J. H. Winder, repre senting the operators and several of ficers of the United Mine Workers. Neither eld*; however, would give out an announcement, except that some agreement might be reached. 8everel of the miners' officials declared that they were hopeful of the outcome. U was rumored that both aides came close together during the con ference last night. Should the compromise looked for this morning fall lo materialise. It. la not believed by either aid* that tha negotiations will be off for good. YOUNG WOMAN DIE4 ' IN WATERS CF CREEK By Private Leased Wire. Buffalo, N. Y., June 20.—Anna Sen- chal, 11 years old, drowned Monday night In AUlcott creek. Mias SenchaL In company with William Olaetham, 11 year* old. went out for a row on the creek. The boat capsized. AND MANJRRESTED HAND SAYS WIFE RAN AWAY ON MONDAY—TOOK CHILD WITH HER. Accused of running away from her. husband Monday afternoon in com pany with her lltie 2-year-uld hoy. Mra. Catherine Hand, 24 years of axe. was taken Into custody Tuesday morn ing by Policemen O, F. Jones and Call Officers Dunton and Gallagher. I. C. Williams, a young man. who la accused by the husband of being with Mrs. Hand, was also arrested. The arrests were made at the Insti gation of the husband, Hilliard Hand, a switchman, of the Seaboard Air Lin*. Railway. Hand statea that he and his wife and child moved several days ago <o the Plant Hotel In Decatur street, lie says he waa out shopping Monday af ternoon and when he returned hums found his wife and child gone. When they failed to return Monday night, the husband became uneasy nnd re ported the matter to the police. Hand aided In the: search and early Tuesday morning, he says, - sew hla wife and Wllllama together with the child, walking along Decatur street near the police statlop. He then had the man and woman arrested. The cases have been set for trial Wednes day morning In ppllce court. SAVANNAH ON VERGE OF GREAT MORAL WAVE. Making Active Canvas*. Special to The Georgian. Decatur. Ala., June 24.—Mayor Hen ry A.' Skeggs Is In south Alabama In the Interest of hla candidacy for asso ciate railroad commissioner. A tele phone message from him says that he will return to Decatur about Wednes day. He stated that ha was meeting with much encouragement In all 'the towns and cites-which h* has visited no this trip. Special to The Georgian. Savannah, Ga, June ’ 24.—Gambler* are having a hard row In Savannah under the fines and Iniprlsontnent given the convicted members of the craft by Judge Cann. The gentry are thorough ly alarmed. The city la apparently on the verge of a moral wave, which will clean out the gamblers and Illegal whisky dealers. - Buys Leas* on Hotel. Special to Tha Georgian. Decatur. Ala, Julie 20.—H. M. Har rison, manager of the. Payne theater of New Decatur, has leased the Tav ern hotel, and will take Charge at a™ early date. John C. Evans, the well- known hotel man, who had the Tavern In charge for some time, sold hi* lease to Mr. Harrison,.and Mr. Evan* has taken charge of the hotel at 1 ln*- mont, a noted summer resort on tn» Louisville and Naehvllle rellcpad. mile* south of. this city. LEAGUE TO CELEBRATE VICTORY WON AT POLLS Special to The Georgian. - Savannah, Ga, • June 10.—Following their recent jdctory at tha poll*, th* People’s Democratic League wML cele brate Thursday night. There will he a parade by the district clubs, the re nders traveling <m foot, -n horseback and In automobiles. In the park ea- tenrion a stand will be erected and the various .club* will assemble there Bf the speech-making.