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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19. IW. Rain Coats and Umbrellas are in most demand just now. You can defy the rain and keep dry and comfortable in one of our Aqua Proof Cravenette Coats $12.50 to $27.50. In black and dark grey, full length, and guarantee on every garment. We would like to have you see one of these garments—try it on; you.will find them the best rain coats ever brought to Atlanta for the money. Umbrellas $1.00 and Up. ESSIG BROTHERS, “CORRECT CLOTHES FOR MEN." 26 WHITEHALL STREET. MODERN GALLEON WITH 3,000 PASSENGERS BUFFETED BY GALE N>\v York, Sept. 19.—Rearing $10,- week and arrived here today. It w 000.000 In Hpecie and nearly 3,000 paw-1 the enme hurrlcnne that buffeted no ■en*erw. the biff turbine steamship <’n-1 many trans-Atlantic liners, and the Ca mania, of the t’unard line, fought her j mania, with her precious burden, way through the great hurricane of Inst caught In the thick of It. MISS ANNIE M'COLGAN AGAIN BEHIND BANS Miss Annie McCoIgnn, the young woman who engaged in a fight last Sat urday with her sister, Miss Dona Mr- Colgan, at 76 Walton street, and who w*a* later arrested on the statement that she was Insane, is again being held in the police station. Miss Mct’olgnn was Incarcerated the second time at the Instigation of her •later, who insists that her mind is unbalanced. Mias Annie Mc(*ulgan was releused from the police station Monday after being examined as to her sanity by Dr. John O. Wilkins, Hlxth ward city phy- •Iclah, Dr. Wlllkns declaring her sane. After securing her freedom, the young woman returned to the boarding house of her sitter. In Walton street, and Is said to have raised a row. Finally, the sister again called in the police and had Miss Annie returned t«» the po lice station. 8he is being held Jn charge of Miss Sanderson, the matron. His Wish it Gratified. Special to The Georgian. Columbus. Ha.. Sept. 19— Dr. A. P. Gordy, ot this city, Is In Atlanta attending the meeting of the National Dental Association. He was a warm advocate for holding the convention in Atlanta when the matter was brought up at the last meeting of the assocla lion. AMUSEMENTS GRAND TONIGHT AND THUR8DAY, SEP SEPT, 10 and 20. Matinee Thuraday, 25c and 50c. THE FAMOUS ORIGINALS MURRAY and MACK, In Thair Successful Farce “AROUND THE TOWN.” New Dances! New Features. HI* fieautv Chorus. Night prices 23c to $1.00. Matinee 25c and 50c. FRIDAY and SAT.—MAT. 8AT. THE AL G. FIELD GREATER MINSTRELS. 65— PEOPLE 65 • The Great Army of Funmakere headed by PRESS ELDRIOGE. Night, 25c to $1.00. Matinee 25c to 76c. Sale now open. BIJOU TONIGHT—MATINEE THURSDAY. SPENCER & ABORN’S GREAT EMOTIONAL DRAMA, “A WIFE’S SECRET.” Next Week: ‘‘HOW BAXTER BUTTED IN.” WOMAN SAID 10 HAVE ACTED JISOODEHLY Mary Charlotte Alston, who says she Is the daughter of the late Colonel Bob Alston, who was shot and killed In the old capltol In 1870, by Cox, Is being held prisoner In the matron’s ward In the police station. Miss Alston, who has been residing In Rome for some time, and who returned to Atlanta a week ago to secure em ployment, was taken Into custody Tues day night at the Belmont hotel, li Marietta street, on the charge of being disorderly. She was unable to make cash bond and was placed in charge of Miss Sanderson. The young woman denies she was •ting In any way disorderly. The late Colonel Alston jvas a promi nent cltlxen of Georgia and. figured considerably In public matters. In a dispute over a certain Interest In state convicts he was shot and killed in the old capltol in 1870. POLICE MAKE SEARCH FOB MISSING The police have been asked to And Welbotn Hataway, 18 years of age, of 31. Gilmer street, who Is mysteriously missing from his home. The young man’s mother la distressed over tho disappearance and reported the matter to the police. Hataway left his home early Monday morning with the apparent intention of going to his work In the Seaboard Air Line railway •hops, but failed to arrive there. Since he left home hl» people have not seen nor heard anything from him. THROWN FROM HORSE. YOUNG FARMER DIES. Hperlnl to The Georgian. Chester, 8. C., Hept. 19.—A distress ing and fatal accident occurred six miles south of Chester Saturday after noon. John Jeffares, a young farmer of Halsellvtlle, was returning to his home when the animal he was driving took fright, dnshed off and threw Mr. Jef- fares violently to the ground. He lin gered until yesterday morning, when he •lied. He was about 28 years old. DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE. Special to The Georgian. Anniston, Ala., 8ept. 19.—Because Grace Watson attempted to commit suicide last night in the heart of the tenderloin when the sheriff and police officers called to arrest a friend of hers, the officers were obliged to ar rest her for her own protection. When threatened with arrest the woman be came erased with fear and rushed to her room for a revolver. This was wrested from her. The woman was ta ken to a front room, where she sud denly seised an ink bottle lying upon a table and endeavored to beat her brains out. ATLANTANS TO PAY $22,50 ON $1,000 FOB 1096 TAKES Jones County’s Rate $16.20, While Terrell Has None at All. Property owner, In Atlanta will pay tfixes of $22.50 on the thousand dollar, thla year. The city tax rate la 112.60, the county rate $5 and the state rate $4.80. Reports from countlee and munici palities on the tax rates flxed for I904 are coming Into the comptroller gen eral’s office rapidly now, and the rate, vary widely. For Instance Jones county Is paying for a new court house and has fixed a county rate of $16.20 on the thousand. In Terrell county, where four dispensa ries flourish, no county tax is levied at all and none has been for years. Bron- wood, a small town In that county, with a dispensary, has no taxes to pay. It Is noticeable that the counties hav ing dispensaries have a low rate of taxation. Floyd, which split* the prof its on the tank between the county and city of Rome, has a rate of only 24.20 for the county. While the city rate has not been reported, It will probably be correspondingly low. In the municipalities reported to date Brunswick leads In the slxe of Its levy with $14, while Hnschton levies only $2.50 on the thousand to keep things running. College Park assesses prop erty owners only $3, and East point $7.60. Columbus has a rate of $18, Ath ens, where a dispensary flourishes, $10, Albany $11 and Cedartown $12.50. Fifty-four counties have reported the tax rate for 1906. These rates run the scale from $2.70 In counties like Clinch and Chattahoochee, to $16.20 In Jones, $12.20 In Twiggs, $9.70 In Pickbns and so on down the list. Quitman has the lowest rate reported yet, $2.20, while Stewnrt comes a close second with $2.50. The average runs about $5. A study of the various returns ore very Interesting. Crisp 1, the only one of the new counties to report Its tax rote up to the present, the tax payers being assessed $7 on the thousand. FALLS f AND DEATH^ RESULTS Special to The Georgian. Shreveport, La., Sept. 19.—A. A Wells, New Orleans, representing Brad street's, fell from a second-story win dow at the Caddo hotel at 4 o'clock this morning, suffering Injuries from which he died two hours later In a hos pital. No one witnessed the accident. docto¥1lTmake THEIR OWN MIXTURES At a meeting held In the Century building Tuesday night there was or ganized the Physicians' Co-operative Company, which has for Its purpose the manufacture and sale to ethical physicians and the general public of many of the pharmaceutical prepara tions now manufactured by Northern concerns. The following nfllcers were elected: Dr. I. H. Ooss, Athens, president: Dr. (leorge Hrown, vice president; Dr. H. B. Shultz, treasurer; Dr. J. A. McLeay. secretary; Mr. J. S. Jarvis, general manager. Board of Directors—Dr. J. B. S. Holmes. Dr. Bak, Dr. J. W. Johnson, Dr. O. Y. Pierre, Dr. C. J. Vaughan. The leading physicians In the city are stockholders and It Is expected that the profession will take hold of this movement and make It a great success. Is organized for the benettt of all physicians In the South. 2 FEE ACTS By an not of December 6, 1894, the fee for chartering a navigation com pany In Georgia wan fixed at $50. December 17, eleven days later, that act an re|»ealed and the fee flxed at $100. The act of December 6 appears In olume 2, civil code, page 72; the act December 17 (the fee bill) appears In volume 1, political code, page 38. As a consequence considerable confusion and delay often occurs In securing: the harter for such concerns from the secretary of state’s office. Usually Interested parties send a check for $50, and It becomes necessary for the secretary to write explaining the act of eleven days later Axing the at $100. A case In point reached the capltol Wednesday In application charter from Balnbridge. This simply stresses the necessity for re-codlflcatlon of the laws of Georgia. Sale of Gowns And you know what Chamberlin-Jonhson-DuBose un derwear is. You know how carefully it is made. Made ac cording to our own directions with trimmings of our own se lecting. Made in the most sanitary factories just outside of New York. And these gowns in this Thursday Sale are no departure from our strict underwear rules. Proven values. We’ve examined the Nainsook and the Embroidery. 80c is the lowest we could possibly set upon the mate rial alone. And you know what trouble you’d be put to in making hemstitched tucks and yokes of alternating rows of embroidery and tucking. 79 8:30 A. M. Thursday, Sscend Floor Front Four styles—“V” necks, surplice square yokes, bands of embroidery, hemstitched tucks, and yokes entirely of tucks, or the two combined. They are of an excellent quality of En glish Nainsook, And most important of all—they’re made with plenty of material -no skimp ing to save material. Thr?e Underskirt Specials One of the finest values at regular price that Three styles in these two lots. Cambric tops ever passed over a counter. Cambric top with an 18-inch flounce of dainty with deep flounces of embroidery headed by group embroidery headed with group of tucks. An extra full cut skirt with a fluffy sweeping ruffle. _ of plain or hemstitched tucks. 2.00 Underskirts 1.23 1.S0 Skirls 95c 1.00 Skirts 79c Black and Colored Petticoats Silk Petticoats in black and a few in colors. Made with deep knife plaited flounce, finished at bottom with small ruffles. Regular $5.00 Silk Skirts at Black Petticoats in Heatherbloom, made with knife plaited flounce, with strapped and stitched ruffles. Regular $3.50 Black Petticoats. 3.50 2.39 Chamberlin-JohnsQn-DuB ose Co.