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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, SERGEANT RUMMELL DROWHEOIN^THE SURF CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW WHILE IN BATHING AND PERI8HEO. Spevlsl to The Georgtan. Wilmington, N. C.. June 25.—'While In the surf yeeterday afternoon near Fort Car well Quartermaeter Sergeant Archie Rummell, roaat artillery, was caught In the undertow and drowned before aid could reach him. Rummell wag from Ohio and nbout twenty-four yeara of ag« ' Th# body was recovered l«it nlfht, ha Vi riff been wasted ashor* one mile fr m the scene of the accident. PERSIA IS ANGRY AT TURKISH TROOPS By Titrate Leased Wire. Constantinople, June 25.—The Per sian frontier question Is arrumlng alarming proportions, and that govern ment protests vigorously the sWttloning of Turkish troops along her territory. Both Great Britain and Russia have become alarmed, SLATER OF "PROPHET" IS PLACED ON TRIAL UNCONQUERED BY DEATH YAARAB REIGNS SUPREME As the Greatest Will Attend takers’ of Departed Goats the Georgia Under- Convention. He By l’rlrsto {.eased Wire. Seattle, Wash., June 25.—The ease of George Mitchell, the youthful alayer of Edmund Crelfleld, and the avenger of Knt wrongs done his two sisters by the "holy roller" prophet, was called for trial today. No criminal case In many years has attracted ao much attention throughout thla section as that of young Mitchell, and the trial will be followed with Intense Interset. The m oused youth has hosts of sympa thizers In Portland, Corvallis and other Oregon points, where the people were a. qualnted with the odious practices ami teachings of Crelfleld, and a sub normal fund has been raised for Mitchell's defense. The killing of "Apostle Joshua," Crelfleld called himself, occurred on the streets of Seattle some two months ago. •'l'Os got my man. Am In Jail/' was the unique telegram the young mur derer sent to hie father at Corvallis. "I came here frum Portland for the purpose of killing Creftteld," Mitchell explained after his arrest. "I saw him and his wlfb on First avanue and shot the man. That's all there Is to It. He ruined my two slaters, and I took hts life." WATER CONSUMPTION BREAKS All RECORDS All previous records were swept a n ay by the flood of water used In At lanta Hundny. Twelve million gallons n ere drawn from the reservoir by the p. jple In the attempt to keep cool. The reservoir sunk 14 Inches when the • average sink for Hundny when Ihe pumps are turned oft Is from | to I inches. To see If It would be practicable to rut off the pumps at the river, there by giving them a rest. Manager Park Woodward Saturday made the experi ment. In twenty-four hours the reser voir sank 14 Inrhea Thla would be startling with the old condition of things, but from the gain already made the reservoir will be again full and overflowing by Wednesday. FOURTH NATIONAL OPENS SAVINGS DEPT, For the purpose of Introducing to the cltlxena of Atlanta the many advant ages of the C, O. Burns' saving system, ivhlcti on Monday morning was Intro duced for the drat- time through tha agency of Ihe Fourth National Bank, fifteen young men from New Haven, I .inn., students of Yale University, are i unvasslng all sections of Ihe city and piecing among the working people and those who desire to acquire the savings habit,' neat little pocket banks for the purimse of assisting them In their de sires. These little banks which art being I laced are marvels of simple Ingenu ity, being of just the right slse for the \ < »t pocket and yet being of sufficient slxe to hold n surprisingly large amount of smalt change. The Idea of the - heme ts to encourage holders of the l. inks to place therein Ihrlr small . hange each day and at the en4.qt.tht x\eek or the month take them to the Fourth' National Bank and have the contents deposited to their credit. As n .body but the bank omrtala have the key to the little banks, the spending of the money after once being put In Is impossible. The savings department of the l mrih National Bank ts In the way of an Innovation, having never before boan In use at that institution. Presl- E dent English Is a firm believer In the systematic saving of money and hts t interest In the working classes and in. young people In Ihe suvlng end t anking of money Is shown In the new d.-liartment added to the bank. l'ur the accommodation of the de positors In the savings department a window has been opened near the an- £ trance to the bank and her# all busi ness of this department will be trane- n ted. Interest at the rate of J per rent, compounded semi-annually, will ts. paid on all deposits, and the fart ttt Is a national Institution makes | ..nsolutely no dangerous risks for the KS depositor to take. It ts expected that the savings de- J • partment of the Fourth National Bank mill soon become one of the most Im portant branches of the big business dune by the corporation. ENORMOUS DEMANDS FOR GEORGIA ROPE otumbus. Us., June 25.—During three .lays nf tha past wsek the Eagle and The nix mills of this placa have sold h..ir a million pounds of rope. i -..ally the rope season does not or»n tin September, but this season the on .« have sold the entire output up to tux first of next AorlL Unconquered by death, Yaarab still reigns paramount over all other capra. Mascot supreme during his four years of residence on this earth, no less a sponsor for good luck Is he In the whereafter of Boatload, and aa the greatest of departed goats, he has ac cepted the title of official mascot of the undertakers of Atlanta and as such his head will accompany the Atlanta delegation to the coming convention In Macon. With tnutn ceremony Yaarab was buried Sunday morning at 10 o’clock at the No. 7 engine house In West End. Even though his head had been de prived of him, Yaarab was given more honor In the last rites over hts body than even the two-headed goats that contributed to the fame of P. T. Bar- num: There were fifteen members of the fire department present at the fu neral, as well as fifty or more rank outsiders, who seemed to think them selves privileges to butt In Just bee cause It was a goat’s funeral. At 10:10 o'clock taps was sounded over the grave of headless Ysarab. Yaarab's head was delivered to Bar clay * Brandon, who prepared It for preservation, and who will act as keeper for the head when It attends the coming convention of undertakers. Is fitting that thla should be Ihe first act nf mascotlng after hts death. If might be said, too,' that It was thor. .Highly consistent that Yaarab, If I was necessary for him to leave the en glne house for s land of never-ending fire hose and baseballs, to depart on the day of the month known as "21." Yaarab II ts now looming In sight. He Is residing with Ernest Gilbert Bentley at 112 Hill street. Chief Joy ner received a letter Monday morning from Ernest, who ofTers to donate his pet to the fire department. Yaarab, as all aristocratic goats are, was boro on the Atlanta dumping ground. John Jentsen, of the sanitary department of Atlanta, haa asaured Chief Joyner that the fire department should have another goat from that Mune stock. Several other goats have been of. fared to the fire department, but none has been accepted as yet. In this con nection It might be mentioned that applicants for the position of official billy gnat to tht Atlanta firs depart ment, the Atlanta baseball team, the Shriners and grand parade leader must also lack tha falling of most goats, ts Yaarab did. LOCAL NEWS CONDENSED 8moktr and Banquet. At the home of the society on Can tral avenue on next Friday evening at 8 o'clock, the Oglethorpe Association qt Stationary Engineers will give a smoker and banquet, to which several prominent guests have been Invited. As the annual election of officers and dele gates to tht annual convention In Philadelphia In September will come i after the banquet. It Is expected that I members will be present Voluntary Bankrupt Abner C. Stamps, a local broker, haa filed a voluntary petition In bankruptcy with the clerk nf the United States court. His liabilities are given as 1405.45 and hla assets as 2200. "And Her Name Wee Maud.” Cooper H. Throwman. a negro youth who has been employed at the Brady stock yards, was the victim of a mule's wrath Saturday night, and as the re sult of a well-placed kick Is confined to his home on Bradley street with two broken ribs and numerous bruises and scratches. The boy was unloading a car load nf the animals when he In curred tho displeasure nf Miss Maud nnd was klcksd against tha side of the car. ' Leoture Monday Night, t I o'clock Monday night. In the lecture room of ths Second Baptlet church, before the members nf the Young Men’s Society, Will be given an address by Professor A., C. Briscoe, president of the Southern Shorthand and Business University. All young men are Invited to attend. Tent Masting. Dr. Rolfs Hunt, pastor nf the Con gregational Methodist.church, will be gin a lent meeting Tuesday night on Pryor street, near llawson. He will be assisted by K. Y. Clarke, Jr. The first sermon will he preached by Dr, G. K. Woodward. Mr. Clarke will do most of the preaching the rest of this Week. There have been accessions to several churches from the meeting which haa Just closd at Brlsblne park, nnd Dr. Hunt Invites ths co-operation of all evangelical Chrlstlons In the meeting on Pryor '»tt*«t. 'j/ ' Civil Service Exams. George S. Donnell, secretary of the civil service commission for this dis trict, announces a special examina tion on July 18, for a farmer with a knowledge of Irrigation for the Indian service, and on July 25 for a poultry- man for the Indian service and n Inning mill foreman for the United Hates penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kara, Case Against Mrs. Winslow. Roundeman Sergeant Poole and Po liceman Payne made a cose Sunday night against Mrs. J. E. Winslow, of 138 Sotith Pryor strset, charging her with keeping a disorderly houee. The house was raided as ths result of com plaint made to the police by neighbors. Ths trial was scheduled for Monday morning In pollde court, but Mrs. Win' slow was reported to III to be pres' ent. New Officers In Irwin. At a special election held In Irwin county on June 20, 1L Hopkins wui elected to succeed D. A. Me Innas, de ceased. and J. E. Howell was namod treasurer to succeed M. W. Howell, de- ceased. Increase Capital. Secretary of State Phil Cook Monday morning granted an amendment to the charter of Athene Electric railway, lie creasing Its capital stock from j!25, 000 to )275,000. Ittus $400,000 In Bondi. Authority to Issue 8400,000 In 6 per cent bonds was granted the Atlanta Steel Hoop Company Monday morning by Secretary of Btate Phil Cook. 8outh Carolina Dinner. The South Carolina Society banquet, which was to have been held on June 28, haa been postponed until October In order that there may be present a number of distinguished South Caro- llnans who otherwise would be obliged to tnlas the function. Negro Confesses to Murder. Jerry Williams, a negro, was arrest-' ed by Officers Cooglar and Rowan on Paters street Monday afternoon. To the officers, Williams confessed that he murdered another negro In Birming ham some time ago. He Is now bel held awaiting the arrival of an offli from the Alabama city to take him back to the scene of his crime. National Bottling Company. The National Bottling Company, cap. llallsed at 28,000, applied Monday morning for a charter; filing a petition In the superior court. The company proposal to carry on a general bottling business, and the Incorporators are W. B. Nethery. J. F. Holley and S. B. Moncrlef. More Wreck Suits Filed. Two more suits growing out of the collision between trains on the Cen tral of Georgia and the Atlanta and West Point railroads ware filed tn the superior court Monday afternoon. Each of these was for personal Injuries and each complainant asks 25,000 damages. Mrs. Berts McDuffie and Mrs. G. O. Earnheart each filed suits again.*, the two railroads for the amount named CAB DIDN'T COME; MANAGER IS TRIED When n rsh ordered by Colonel Frank Cnllnwsy. the well knows attorney, failed to arrive Saturday at hla home. M Knit Fourteenth street, ennalng hla slater to rales a'train, he hid a earn made agalnal A. N. Cook, malinger of the Atlanta Bag gage nnd Cab Company. The matter sraa Investigated Monday niornlug liefore Recorder ltroylra ami the earn* dlautieaed. Cook captaining that a mis take of oue of the entployeet was reeponal- tde for the failure nf tho rnh to put In no nppenrsnre. Colonel Callaway Mated that he had watered cabs on aorerat dlfferenl raalone and had encountered aluillar t . Ide. He enld he had grown tired of this kind ot dlaappolntmont and decided to tiring the matter to the. attention of the rouria BULLOOW Off 1,400 R.F.D. CARRIERS One of the hardest worked men Just at thla time In Atlanta Is V. V. Bul lock, assistant postmaster. Mr. Bullock has to sign the pay checks tor all the rural carriers In the state, and as tlufre are some fourteen hundred of these the else of his teak may he Imagined, espe cially as all chocks must be sent out promptly after the first of the month. The average carrier gets 2(4 per month, and this Is the sum that most ot the,checks are made out for, though some are for less. Sixty Is ths maxi mum salary which the government TS. annual pay roll of the rural car riers In Georgia amounts to nenrly a million dollars. MISS HELEN FHANKLIN II Will Complst* Elk* Horn*, fptrlai to The lio-orglan. Huntsville, Ala., June 25.—The 175.- 000 Elks* home, opera house and office building being erected In this city will now be ruehed to rapid completion, the Elk* having met and removed all ob stacle* in the wav of Its progress. Ml** Helen M. Franklin, daughter of Mrs. Kuffcnls Franklin. dl«*l at 315 West Peachtree atreet at 8 o’clock Monday morning. She leave# s slater. Mrs. W llshr, anil two brothera. William J. and Henry Franklin. Hbv bad been ill about live weeka with typhoid fever. Khe was teacher of the seventh grads of the (Mate street school. The flittersi services will be conducted sf the residence by Kev. t\ II. Wllmcr Tues tlsy morning at 10 o'clock, and the Inter went will l» at Westvlew. LESTER'S SUCCESSOR SOON TO BE DECIDID Governor Terrell announced Monday that he would not Issue the proclama tion for a special election In the First Congressional district, to name a suc cessor to the late Congressman Lester, until he had consulted with the mem bers of the legislature from ‘he c un ties forming the district. Aa the general assembly lonvence Wednesday morning, a conference of the members will be held 1.1 the gov ernor's office, probutsy during the lat ter part of the week. As the governor has heard nothing from anybody In tho district in ref erence to culling the electl in, lie thinks thla Is Ihe best way to arrive *.t the wishes of the people down there. DISTILLERY COMPANY SUES CITY OF ASHEVILLE Special to The Georgias. Asheville, N. ©. June 25.—Aa a result of the action of the board of aldermen In first granting and then later refusing a license for the erection of a distillery by the Mount Mitchell Distilling Com pany, an action for damages will be In- atltuted against tha city of Asheville and ths members of tbs board Individu ally for the amount of 125,894. ONE MAN IS KILLED BY FALL OFJLEVATQR TWO OTHER PERSONS SERIOUSLY HURT WHEN LIFT DROP8 FIVE STORIE8. liy Private Leased Wlra * New York, June 26.—One man was killed and two other* were seriously hurt os the result of the fall of an elevator today in the eighteen-story building In course of construction for the Engineers' Club • of America, the gift of Andrew Carnegie, at No. 25 to 33 West Thirty-ninth street. Thomas McGagh. of 419 West Eigh tieth street, was the man killed. The other men were badly hurt, having fallen five stories. FRATERNAL ONION TO MEET TUESDAY DISTRICT CONVENTION OF ORDER WILL BE HELD IN PIED- MONT HOTEL. The district convention of the Fraternal Union of America will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock In the assembly room of the Piedmont hotel. expected that at least fifty* dele gates will he present, representing several Bonthern states. The address of welcome will l»c delivered by Hon. James L. May- son. The convention will lie presided ovsr by Newman laiaer, district president. Among the del#r“'~ *' — *' was Usrtr Floyd, i * the supra ul ncut ot the MRS, A, 0, TURNER HAG PASSED AWAY JIra A. Q. Turner, wife of the chief of the county police, died nt her home on Ureensferry road at 2 o’clock Sunday morn Ing of consumption. Tho funeral service* will be held from the residence Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock and■ wilt he conducted by Iter. C, L. Pet- tlllo. The follAxring gentlemen will act ee psll-hearere: J. E. Babb, SI. M. Turner, A. Wilson, Jr., Paul Tnland. W. M. 'oole, and G. E. UeLertn. The Interment wlU be at Weitrlew. OOOOMOOOOOOOOOOODO o A LABOR EXPOSITION PROPOSED BY GOMPER8. By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, June 25.—A new Idea In world's expositions was made public today by delegates un der the direction of Bsmuel Gompert, president of Ameri can Federation of Labor, who are here to begin work on an "exposition." It will show the growth and extant ot union la bor and will be hold probably In Minneapolis. aoooooooaoooooooooo o R008EVELT TO VISIT I8THMU8 OF PANAMA. By Private Leased Wire. Washington, June 25.—For the sole purpose of learning at first hand Just what the situation Is In the canal tone. President Roosevelt proposes to visit ths Isthmus of Panama In Novem- bar. , This will be the first time a president ot the United States will hsvt gons to a foreign country. As the canal sone Is American property, tt will prob ably be taken that the chief ex ecutive Is still on United States soil and that no precedent for foreign visits has been estab lished. Before going to the Isthmus, the president will make a short trip West. He has received In vitations from a number of cities to pay them a visit, but he will not find U possible to visit them alt. TROLLEY CARSSTONEO AS RESULTJF STRIK POLICE SIDE WITH MEN AND RE FU8E TO AID THE COM PANY. By Private Leased Wire. Allentown. Pa., June 25.—The mayor ordered every saloon In the city closed today and the state constabulary and special deputies sworn In by Sheriff Krause are now on guard to prevent further rioting that followed the strike of tho employee* of the Losing Alley Transit Company. The striker* were not responsible tor the dl.sbrder< and tht- h-utp-rs <<f tin- workmen are assisting the authorities In putting a stop to violence When the company attempted operate cars with non-union men the disorder became so great that tin* po lice Were unable to cope with the situ ation and the state constabulary was sent for. Manager Warren S. Hall called upon tho city authorities for protection and officers were ordered out, but they were unable to handle the crowds. Many the policemen refused to assist t company and sided with the strikers, who took no part In the demonstration. Tho few cars which managed to get away were stoned, and passengers left them. The traction officials say they will not give In. The union leaders sent a message to Manhger Hal I, say ing they are willing to submit to arbl t ration. NOTHING GIVEN OUT ABOUT ArB, SESSIO ANOTHER MEETING TO BE HELD THI8 WEEK WILL DETERMINE THE.COURSE OF ACTION. From 10 o'clock In the morning un til 7 o'clock Saturday evening the dl- rectors and officers ot the Atlanta' Birmingham Fire Insurance Company were In eeaelon at the Pledmoht Hotel and at the conclusion of the meeting President J. T. Dargan gave out no Information in regard to the business done during the long meeting. It Is learned on good authority, how ever, that the directors practically de elded not to dissolve the present com pany and form a new one, but to In create the capital stock and retain the services of the preaent officers. Ths company will then be fn a position to meet all claims arising from the San Francisco disaster. An adjourned meeting of the board of directors of the company will be held some day this week at a time to be decided upon later and definite an nouncement of the future of the com pany will then be made. An erron' sous report concerning the Insolvency of the company has been In clrcula tfon for so me time, but the meed of the directors on Saturday show the company to be perfectly solid and well able to t>ay all clalma which may arise. 'Twos Yaarab. The first thing < he did when he landed In the C stratum of clouds devoted -to < departed goats was to Inform C the official rain-maker to turn C on the Atlanta faucet. < While wires In the distant C West are down and the fore- C caster cannot tell what sort of c weather la prevailing on the t Pacific coast. It Is rosily In ths C local brand that the most In- C terest la centered. Sunday was 0 rather warm, even to 80 de- 0 greet, and Monday morning f*l- 0 lowed eull. but the "pressure 0 element" which Is becoming O broken aver the country means O that thare are to be showers In 0 all probability In these parte. O There has been clear weather 0 over most of the South, though O the considerable rain that haa O fallen In the Mississippi valley O In the last 24 hours betokens a O cooled atmosphere for Atlanta. O Forecast. O Partly, cloudy Monday night O and Tuesday. Probably showers O Tuesday. • O Temperatures. O 7 a. ra. 1* degree* O 8 a. m. 84 degrees O 9 a. (5 degrees O 10 a. 87 degrees O Mem... .. .. ..88 degrees O 13 noon 92 degrees O 1p.m. 92 degrees O O 2 p. m. 99 degree* O 9090090990990900080 DR, GEDDING IS DEAD AT AN ADVANCED AGE Special to The Georgian. , Augusta, On., Jane 28.—At the age of 74 yeara, Ur. Kdmnl Geddlof, one of the beat known physicians In llie state and for many yeara connected with the medical de- K rtmeat of tho University ot Georgia, died re yesterday morolng. Up to the tloie of bis. retirement he served as dean at the been firing at a country home s few miles from the city since Ms retire- meat. Ur. Gadding carried with him the die- Unction of being the first American to tie B -adnsted from the Unlreralty nf nerlln, ermany, at the age of 21. He was a scholarly men aod will be mined by the profession throughout the state. DYING WOMAN TOLD E OF NER SLAVER By Trieste leased Wire. New York, Juno 25.—While she lay dying In an ambulance which carried her from tho Stenton "house of mys tery" to.Fordham hospital, It If now said Mrs. Alice C. Klnan named her slayer. The end was nssr, but she could talk and was able to think. The detectives have bad their own reasons for circu lating the report that she was uncon scious from the moment the assassin failed her. Perhaps they have hesitated to dll' does their most Important evidence until corroborative circumstances should have Insured conviction of the guilty. Doubtless they will be called on be fore nightfall to repeat before Coroner MacDonald Ihe exact words of the dy Ing woman. Coroner MacDonald planned to make today's resumption of his Inquest i sensational one. It was freely predict ed that testimony would be adduced which would make Imperative the tak ing of at least one person Into custody. The police admitted that If the devel opments for which they were hoping did not materialise the line-up on which they had been working almost from the beginning would fall. Captain Price and hie detectives have been working to complete a chain ot evidence against one person who thsy ore certain Is the guilty one. The program for today Included the bringing of Mrs. Stenton and Lawyer Burton W. Olbson face to facie at the coroner'* Inquest. One part ot Mrs. Stenton's testimony upon which the coroner desires Yurther enlightenment relates to her anaweritu a question about the visitors the fam ily were In the habit of receiving at night. She sold: "Mr. Olbson was In ths habit of coming to see us at night. Afire expected him and thought It was him who rang the bell when she went to the door to answer lb" Startling new evidence, brought to tht today, caused Coroner MacDon- d and Captain Price to put over the continuation ot the preliminary hear ing until tomorrow. It Is the purpose of the officials to thoroughly Investi gate these newly ascertained facts In order that they may be used In the further examination of the old woman. CHINESE BANDITS ROD AMERICANJ CANTON FAMILY THREATENED BY YEL LOW THIEVE8 WHO IN VADE HOMES. By Private Leased Wire. San Francisco, Cal, June 25.—Him self, wife; children and servantx bound and gagged while thirty bandits robbed hlK house fn the heart of the Chinese city of Canton, Is the story of an American missionary. Dr. A. Beatty, who has Just reached this city. He aay* they awoke one night to And themselves threatened with death by the knives of natives over their bed sides, although the native police pa trolled the streets regularly and two blocks from his houso the United States monitor Monodnock lay at anchor. No reparation has yet been made tor the outrage, although the Chinese govern ment has made many promises. BRITONS ARE ALARMED OVER RULEITS HEALTH KING EDWARD GOE8 TO SLEEP AT LUNCHEON TO THE LONGWORTH8. ET AL, ARE NOW INDICTED Indictments were returned by the Fulton county grand Jury Monday morning against Homer Bradley, Ellis Allle and O. Upchurch, charging them with larceny from the house of George W. Moore. L T pchurch was arrested s ' ’ " ' ' niirht T-.v I ><'tf-t t ivi* Sergeant Lanford, im-l Bra-lb-v and Allle, who were previously arrested, had already been bound over to the state courts by Recorder Broyles. The men were Indicted on charges of robbing the Fulton Hotel, In West Hunter street, last week. Cash to the amount of |160, the property of S. D. Harsh, was stolen from the hotel safe while the clerk was not watching the office. Private Lon sod Wire. London, June 25.—Alarm Is felt to day over King Edward's health, or ganic troubles having come with th* Increase In flesh. Drowsiness Is his greatest enemy, and It is whispered that during the luncheon to Mrs. Longworth he was several times asleep and also dosed in his box at the Ascot races. ' DEAD NEGRO'S BODY FELL IN 9 COUNTIES Sp,.,'lnl to The Georgian. Winder, Ga.. June 25.—With three bullet holes through his body. Inflicted there by Hsriind Ramsey, another ne gro, Floyd Smith fell dead In three counties here. The tragedy occurred on the point where Walton, Gwinnett and Jackson counties Join. Smith and Ramney were quarreling about n negro girl named Leila Moore, Smith threw a brick at Ramaey, strlk- Ing him In the face, and was then ad vancing on Ramsey when allot. Ram aey has been arrested and placed la JalL DIO WOMAN WRITE THREATENING LETTERS? By Private Leased Wire. • New York, June 257—Did or did not Airs. Grace Lovett print the two threat' enlng letters which hire. Inex Courtney says she received? This la the question about which the Lovett divorce suit centered today when the trial of the esse of the wealthy Brooklyn real estate man, George M. Lovett, against his wife, was resumed In Justice Maddox’s court, Brooklyn. The attorneys on both sides entered upon a desperate endeavor to sustain and defeat the contention made by William J. Kinsley, a hsndwritlifg ex pert, last week that Mrs. Lovett wrote letters to Mrs. Courtney with Gie de sign of frightening her from testifying for Lovett. Mrs. Lovett was trapped Into fur' ntshtng the plaintiff's lawyer with spec imens of her handwriting and prim' Photographs of these, together ■ S holographic copies of the letters that Irs. Courtney got, were given each Ju ror today. During the cross-examination of Kinsley. Mrs. Lovett’s lawyer an nounced that he would produce evl dence to show that hire. Courtney wrote the menacing missives herself. Mrs. Lovett, looking exceedingly pale and ill, came Into court today, accom panied by her mother, Mrs. Webb, and nurse. - BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT IS FILED HERE Mattie Cronlc, a 17-year-old girl of DeKalb county, filed suit Monday In the superior court sgslnst Clifford Miller, charging a breach of marriage contract. Miss Cronlc asks damages to ths amount ot 22,000. The petition reettee that the d fendant. Miller, called orten at her horns and obtained her full trust and confidence. The petitioner avers that solemn contract of marriage was en tered Into In November, 1906, and the two agreed to marry in February. 1908, and that the defendant failed to appear and carry out the contracL The peti tioner Is represented by J. L. Cobb. G. C. BLICKEN8DERFER IS CRITICALLY ILL. By Private Leased Wire. Stamford, Conn., June 25.—George C. Bllckensderfer, the typewriter Inventor and manufacturer, Is critically III from pneumonia and blood poisoning. UNIVERSITY REPORT READY FOR ASSEMBLY Governor Henry D. McDaniel, chair man of the board of trustees of ths University of Georgia, presented ths report of. tile board to Governor Ter rell Monday morolng. The report will be printed at once and presented to the general assembly Wednesday. Governor McDaniel stat ed that tho report had appeared In substance In the papers already, and that no new Issues were contained In IL Aa regards football at the univer sity. Ihe report will not recommend Its abolishment, but advocates certain re forms In order to take the rough plays out of the game. Deaths and Funerals. Mist Lizzls Shields. Miss Llzsle Shields died of consump tion at her home. No. 267 Woodward avenue, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning. The funeral services were held from the residence nt 10 o’clock Monday morning, and the Interment wot at Went view. Joseph T. Mayhugh. Joseph T. Mayhugh, son of W. T. Mnyhugh, of No. 177 Grifin street, died Saturday- night at 10 o'dyock after an Illness of Home time. Funeral ser vices were held Monday afternoon In Poole's chapel, and the Interment was at Westvlew. Wall-Known Resident Deed. Special to Tile Georgian. Griffin. Go.. June 25.—J. T. Z. Smith, a well-known resident of this city, died ay night after an illness of several ths. Mr, Smith was 62 yenrs of age and httd resided here for twenty- seven yenrs. HIk wife survives him. The Interment took place at Oak Hill cemetery, William"Ellis. William Bills, 27 years old. died at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Emms E. Balley, 442 Courtland street, at 8 o'clock Monday morning, after en linens of two weeks. Tho funeral will be held at the residence at 10:2* Tues day morning. Rev. C. P. Bridewell of ficiating. The Interment will he *t Westvlew. IMAGINED BONE DUST SHOWERED UPON HOUSE Rpoclnl to The tleorglnn. . . . Augusta, Us., June 25.—^Crssed by the l*e- lief tlmt deadly dust from crushed and powdered human I tones wss beta* show ered ns s curse upon the roof of his house. Joshua, s maniac negro ot this county. dragged hla little rhlklren from hi* home and core red th«lr heads with dirt end sharp cinders, which he ground Into their .fleah and eyen ss « charm or "conjure” to pn>- ' them from the Impending evil. At mine time, wlth'riolent *ml l»ru«J gesture, he threateneol to murder the mother of the children. Kcreanm brought neighbors and the demented man ROUND TRIP Summer and Convention Rates. Round trip Summer Excursions from all points East.to Pacific Coast and Northwest from June 1 to Sept. 15, with special stop-over privileges, good returning to Oct. 31,1906. N. E. A. Meeting at Los Angeles, July 9-13. Elks Meeting at Denver, Colo.. July 16-21. Summer rates to Colorado, June 1 to Sept. 30. Hotel Men’s Convention, Portland, Ore., June 25-29. Use the splerVid through service of theSOUTH- ERN PACIFIC from New Orleans; UNIO^ PA CIFIC from Kansas City to Chicago. Through Pullman Tourist care rrom Washing ton, Atlanta, Montgomery, etc., and from SLLouis and Chicago to California. Write me for literature and information., J. F. VAN RENSSELAER, General Agent. 124 Peachtree St., Atlanta, Ga. R. O. BEAN. T. P. A. G. W. ELY, T. P. A.