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STATE MITE LISTS' COMPLETE V if FULL LIST OF CANDIDATES FOR THE ELECTION IN GEORGIA - ON AUGUST 21. MftNY HAVE NO OPPOSITION * t* “ Only Twg Seeking Governorship, Ac cording to Announcements for '•« i'a primary. L t • —Atlanta. Indications are that the list of can didates for stafe and national .offices, ' who .wilT’paftlihpate in the state-wide primary on |j?£gust 21, is complete. The candidates* who have announced --are: andT, . .Fojw^^O^ernor —John M. Slaton of Atlaiffa’" i -4rnd' oe Hill Hall of Ma con.- i For United ! States Senator—A. 0. Bacon, jyjfiosjV; H. H. Perry, Gaines ville; S.‘ Guyt McLendon, Atlanta. Mr. Bacon. is* a- candidate for re-election. For Attginey General —Thomas S. Felder of "Macon and W. R. Jones of Greenville. Air. Felder is seeking re election! 9 • For/CommiSsioner of Agriculture— A. of Fayetteville; J. D. FariAiington; J. J. Brown of Bowman^-A. , '’iVl. Deal of Statesboro; W. L. Peek of^Conyers. Superintendent— M.' L. Brittain "of Atlanta and E. H. of Bajney, Mr. Brittain is a candidate ,fqr 're election. . Commissioners (three to be^elected) —Judge George Hiilyer of Atlanta, J. F. Gray of Savannah, Paul B. Trammell of Dalton, W. Trox Bankston of West Point, G. J. Shipp of' CdldelA, J. H. James of Atlanta, J. J. Flynt of Griffin and J. N. Mc- Ghee of Dalton. Messrs. Hiilyer, Gray and Xrammell stand for re-elec tion. Vf ., f , For Prison Commissioners —Judge L. .F. Patterson of Griffin, Dr. S. W. Johnson of J. A. Cromar tie of Sprfhgfield, Hill Tuggle of Stcne.,Mofmtain, A. N. Grovenstein of W. J. Flanders of John ! son. ' JucTge-.'Patterson is a candidate to succeed .himself. For Pension Commissioner —J. W. Lindsay of ; Atlanta and W. H. Lanier of Savannah, .. for re-election and who have, no.'.qpgosition are: Secretary of SUite Philfp"* Cook, Treasurer W. J. Speer, Commissioner of fvnimerce and jj.bpr H. M. StanleV- Supreme * Justices Samuel r , Atkinson •agd/yv'ar ,«,i, ana Appellate Court JfJjidges J;. JR. Pottle and Ben H. Hill. , For confess: "f First District —Charles H. Edwards, Saf&bialM'*. —S. A. Roddenbery, '.' </Tbild District —Charles R. Crisp of Afneriqus; Emmett Shaw of Fort Gaines, John Mercer of Americus. District has no incumbent as a re sult of the reapportionment bill. Fourth District —W. C. Adamson of “W District William Sthley Howard. ; Sixth,, District —Charles L. Bartlett of Ma'ccn, John R. Cooper of Macon, .J. -W. ,Wise of Fayetteville. Mr. Bart lett is,', a candidate for re election. District Gordon Lee, ChickaTiiatiga. Eighth District —Samuel J. Tribble, •EltTbrioTi'.’: Ninth,l)iEtrict —Thomas M. Bell of Gainesville; W. A. Carters, Gaines ..vilie, -and John N. Holder of Jef ferson. Mr. Bell is a candidate for re election. .- /Tenyi District—Thomas W. Hard ..wick, &andersville; Horace H. Mold ‘ eh, Crdwfordville. Mr. Hardwick is a candidate for re-election. "Eleventh District —T. A. Parker of . aycrcss and Randall Walker of Val dosta.'* x Twelfth District —Dudley Hughes of ■faoville. 1:26,678.753 Made by State Farm. W Gjje of the most interesting fea tures of the fifteenth annual report of the Georgia prison commission, which is now complete, is the fact that for the year ending May 31, 1912, the commission turned into the state treamufy the sum of 128,678.73, the amount derived from the sale of prod uisrrt- the state farm. ' This amount is one of the largest the commission has paid into the trsasury since this fund was divert ed, -frjjm the maintenance fund by ■legislative enactment three years a-v>. . The’ report shows that during the there had been a large in crease in the number of negro in mates at the reformatory, making it necessary to double the size of the negro buliding at a cost of about two thousand dollars. New Gkme Law Decision. According to the state court of ap peals, a hunter, under the provision cf the game law of 1911, is not neces sarily' a person dressed in fashiona ble hunting garb and spending lei sure time after game. James Robinson was hauling cotton in a iield in Worth county last sum ,mer and, having a shotgun with him, let fly at a covey of quail. Robinson wak’fc poor shot and missed the birds, but he was fined for violating the game law just the same. Now the court says that Robinson's fine must stick. LITTLE ITEMS FROM CFORGIA CITIES Tiger.—A Spanish coin dated 1740, and in excellent condition, was found buried in the-Subsoil of Rabun county recently by Augustus P. Hunter, a farmer of the region, whose land lies about two miles" from here. He turn ed it up with a plow. The thing is about the siz'd "of a dime, hut is, of course, as the" date might indicate, ‘‘Philip, by the Grace of God, King of Spain and the Indies,” stamped about the edge. On the reverse is the figure of a crown, the date,. 1740, a sign “Mo,” .believed to indicate the Montevideo mint, and a Latin inscrip tion that yidids no reasonable, sense when translated literally—“Untraque unum,” which, according to Caesar, ought to mean, “from eaph. - one.” Possibly the inscription bears the same idiomatic significance as our own “E pluribus unum.” How the coin got there is a mystery. There were no Spaniards in Georgia, except right on the coast, away back in 1740, and the English had only been-in Sa vannah eight years. It may have been dropped there much later by some Indian „ trader, as the Spanish coinage of that day was exceedingly plentiful and was in active circulation among the", Spanish and in ternational’trade, often for more'tharf a Centnry.after the date of its mint age. 'j?, • , - Americus. —Cotton caterpillars or army wqrpis, the identity not being fully determined, have been found in an experimental cotton field owned by William L. English, and are eating the tender foliage. In no other localities have the worms appeared, although farmers here continue apprehensive. The cotton crop is late and in a tender stage where caterpillars would destroy it quickly and effectually. Perry.—E. J. Thompson, whose farm is’ khbut two miles west of Per ry, has. qn it a large cypress pond which he fias fenced in for a pasture. The continuous rains have filled it with watej. In this pasture he has his hogs and cattle. One day one of his neighbors, G. O. Harris, heard bellowings in the pasture. He secured his gun and rode over to the pastnre,- where he found an alligator 5 feet long trying to go under the fence into the pasture. He killed the ’gajor. Harris has lost a good many pifs and small hogs recently and thinks the alligators are eating them. Other bellowings have been heard in the pasture since this ‘gator was killed and Thompson thinks there are others in the pasture. Jonesboro.—The people of this town feel that they are at last to have an electric railway line, connecting thefr community with Atlanta, and they are eagerly awaiting .the conv Hieoceinent srf construction. The At lanta and Macon railway, soon hul»•"! ’ not fjuijj fnrri direct/, fhort route between and but will give frequent service, bringing Jonesboro into as close touch with Atlanta as Marietta now enjoys. Macon. —A negro chauffeur, appa rently-with a. desire to establish a speed record, was the means of giv ing a country-bred mule a bath in the horse trough opposite the county jail. The automobile came up Bridge Row at breakneck speed and fan foul of a spring wagon with a mule hitched to it. There was a and "the mule was knocked completely out of the shafts and harness and landed in the drinking, trough, from which be“ was extrica.tetfi'HWth ho little difficulty. Griffin.— Lightning struck the Kin caid .cotton mill, in this city, during a terrific 1 rain- and and electrical storm and did considerable damage to the roof cf the building. Ohe of the operatives was badLyj gtujuaed. but only ’ slightly hurt. The mill was "put out for repairs. - . . Atlanta. —In. the fifteenth, annual re port which has been submitted to the which, has just been submitted to the general assembly, the Georgia prison commission pays splendid tribute do the memory of General Clement Ev ans, .yhtp died while a member of that body.' The chronicle of his death was written by. Judge T. E. Patterson of the commission, is as fololws: ‘‘lt is with proton ndest sorrow that we chronicle the death of one of our members. General Clement A. Ev ans, who had been a member of this boaTd. since its creation, and whose sickness was mentioned in our last annual report, died. .on.- July 2, 1911. In his death we lost a friend and co laborer who was ever faithful and true to the trust reposed in him, the country a great patriot and soldier, the state a faithful servant and his family a devoted father and relative. His life was full of usefulness and his death cast a shadow over us all, and we can only be comforted by the thought that be hair passed over the and is at rest under the shade of the tfireee that - stand by the river of life that flows from the throne of God. We desfre to extend to his family and relatives this slight tesrimonial of our esteem and love and have same made a" part cf the record cf ‘his department" Waycross.—FYom Alaska conies the report that several more families have joined the colony that will leave that country in August for farms pur chased this spring south of Waycross. The colony from Alaska will be one of the largest that has yet settled in any state from Alaska, and will prove a valuable addition to the rap idly growing agricultural settlements throughout the Waycross district. Direct reports hate also been re ceived from agent# in western and eastern states regarding pros pects for movements from those sec tions this fall. PROCEEDINGS OF TOE LEGISLATURE 1 WHAT THE LAWMAKERS OF GEORGIA ARE ACCOMPLISHING AT THIS SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. ■ EFFECT OF TIPPINS BILL 4 ■ IF IT BECOMES A LAW. 4 ■ ‘ , —. _ 4 ■ If the Tippins-Alexander substi- 4 ■ tute, which was adopted by the 4 ► house by a vote of 129 to 42, is 4 » passed by the senate and sign- 4 h ed by the governor, it will have 4 h;the following effect: 4 h It stops the issuance of "“near 4 h beer’’ licenses immediately. Li- 4 (• censes novj exiptent arg good, 4 Y however, until the time limit 4 Y for which they, are issued ex- 4 h pires. > 4 k It provides that proof that any 4 ► beverage sold or offered for sale 4 Y contains as much as one half of 4 Y one per cent, of alciohol shall be- 4 h considered prima facie evidence 4 h of violation of the law. 4 ► jyt prohibits absolutely the sale * Yof intoxicating beverages by * Y clubs, hut does not affect the 4 p. “locker” club in the strict mean- 11 ► ing of that term. In other words, ■ ► members have the right to keep ■ P liquors ..in lookers, hut the club • ► is barred from supplying them. ■ P It does not affect at all the le- * h gitimate sale of drug preparation ■ ► and tinctures, hut it does affect ■ ► fraudulent liquors sold under the ■ h guise of medicine. Such liquos ■ ► are subject to the same rule of ■ p evidence which applies to other ■ Y beverages. ' A wildly enthusiastic scene was witnessed in the house galelry when the Tippins-Alexander substitute for the famed “near beer” bill was de clared passed by the house of repre sentatives of the general assembly. The vote on the bill was 129, against 42. By a vote of 111 to 10 the house virtually passed the Alexander anti child labor bill, ending peacefully an agitation of many years and much bitterness. •>, Mr. Alexander, in presenting his substitute for his original bill, re viewed the fight for this legislation. Upon motion of Mr. Westmoreland of Fulton, the words “other mercan tile establishments,” in the list of places prohibited, were' eliminated from the substitute as something un necessary and likely -to create confu sion and possible in the. enforcement of the law. The present law: prohibits ■pl'jyment of child laboT unde^^^^’" v ! •years, but by excepting-certain. to a limit of ten years, Its practAC* operation has been to make the lowel limit the rule rather than the except tion. Under the substitute adopted the age limit is set in all cases at twelve years for the year 1913 at thirteen years for the year 1914 and at four teen years for the year 1915 and thereafter. , The places of business specifically prohibited from employing child la bor are mills, factories, workshops, laundries and public service corpora tions, V scH / ~ J Mr. Alexander's substitute was-the ohtc'ffnrc of a series of conferences be tween friends of his original bill and the heads of various mills and facto ries affected by it./ , rJt differs from the original lull only in some particulars touching its con venience of operation gnd its gradual rather than immediate enactment in detail and to its final purpose. .-.lt is the general impression that the passage of this act foreshadowed the adoption of a compulsory educa tion law. McElreath’s proposed constitutional amendment providing machinery whereby justice courts may be abol ished in cities of more than 20 000 population in Georgia, was passed by the house by a vote of 148 to 5. The ultimate object of this consti tutional amendment is to do awjiy with justice courts in the larger cities of the state, if those cities so desire, and to establish in their stead munic ipal courts, such as are now in exist ence in the larger cities, of and West. The house of representatives, by a vote of 135 to 27, passed the McEl reath constitutional amendment, es tablishing in Georgia the office of lieutenant governor. The opposition was neither insist ent nor at-all aggressive. Mr. Payton of Worth introduced a bill aimed at insurance combined, both life and fire, made for the pur pose of advancing rates. The senate confirmed the following nominations made by Governor Brown: Mrs. Maude Barker Cobb of the county of Fulton, to be state librari an for a term of four years from June 26, 1912. P. C. King of the county of Clay, to oe solicitor of the city court of Fort Gaines for a term of two years from August 27, 1911. Roger L. Gamble, of the county of Jefferson, to be judge of the city court of Louisville for a term of two years from November 1, 1911. John B. Phillips of the county of JefTerson, to be solicitor of the city court of Louisville for a term of two years from November 1, 1911. E. C. Elmore of the county of Bry an, to be judge of the city court of Pembroke from September 28, 1911, until January 1, 1913. Thu house declined, by a vote of 119 to 42, to pass the bill by Mr. Al len and Mr. Fullbright providing for the abolition of solicitors general in Georgia and the substitution therefor of county prosecuting attorneys in the several counties of the state, on a salary basis. The defeated bill provided for a sal ary cf not more than $5,000 to any one county attorney, and that the sal ary night be made .as much less as the county authorities determined. It requi'edthat all county prosecuting |attoni iys should bring into the coUn jty tf- asury in fines and forfeitures not less thaji the salary awarded them, or lose such portion as they I failed to bring in. I Mr. White of Screven offered a hill jin the house providing for a codifica | tion of the educational laws of Geor -1 gia. this joint legislative com imittgp of three the attorney general j and superintendent of education will j serve. Mr. Christopher of Hall introduced j a bill to raise the pensions of indi- Igent Mind pensioners from S6O to SIOO I per annum. j Mr Payton of Worth introduced a , bill fxing the fee of justices of the peace in Georgia at $2.50 for issuing j criminal, search, ppeace or possesso iry warrants, unless the party taking the same makes affidavit that he is unable to pay same. Altered so that the constitutional ! objection, which caused former Gov -1 ernor Hoke Smith to veto a similar measure, had been removed the Har ris tesolution providing a standing commission to re-lease .the Western and Atlantic railroad was adopted by the senate without opposition. Tlje resolution stipulates that three seniors and five representatives, ap pointed .from the present legislature, be nimed to constitute a commission 1 which shall hold office until all the leasts of the Western and Atlantic . railnad shall have been consum mated. As the present leases of the West ern end Atlantic do not terminate un til this commission, should it be atitWi tied by the house, will be in j existence for several years. Pfivision of a similar act vetoed : by Governor Sn.ith gave members of jthe commission egislative per diem while in session. Governor Smith | held This to be an action of the legis latorß to create/salaried offices for theiteeives. Jibe present ireasure Kelf'around Whis objection by allow the commission 47 Pa-'day for expenses. After spenmmg two hours and a half on the question of whether or not ex-Governor Hoke Smith’s ap pointpients should be returned to the senate, the senators got down to the •egular work of the day and passed md introduced several bills Representative Lovejoy of Troup ; FuUßlght of Burk; Jones of Meri wethei and Turnipseed of Clay intro duced in the house a bill providing for a lonstitutional amendment abol ishing the Georgia court of appeals. The iil! provides for the usual leg islativt and elective machinery nec essary to the accomplishment of con stitutional amendments and provides fer the abolition of the court imme diately upon ratification of the pro posed amendment. This oill may have no connection with the late special gubernatorial campaign, but it is a faet that during that campaign numerous’Uhreats to start thjs movement against the court of appeals were made. To relieve possible congestion in the supreme court because of the abolition-of the court of appeals, the same gentlemen presented a com panion bill providing for three addi tionai justices of the supreme court A resolution ealiing for an investi gation cf the fee system as it applies to the offices of the secretary of state and the iomptroller general, was in troduced In the house of representa tives. -Mr. Hollis of Taylor, who is the au thor of the resolution, said that there is an understanding throughout the state that the earnings of the secre tary of state amount to $20,000 a year and those--«f the comptroller general to $30,000. For the benefit both of the secreta ry of state and the comptroller gen eral and of the citizens of the state, Mr. Hollis said, he wished to ascer tain just wha tthese officials do earn. “A great deal is being said about the fee system. But we are invest! gating only at the bottom. I think we should go higher up, and partic ularly that we should furnish the pub lic a statement regarjjlhg the fees of the secretary of state and the comp troller general. "Such a statement is due to the of ficials yiemseives, for there is a grow ing opinion that these officers receive excessively large compensation.” The following bills were passed by the house: By Ashley of Lowndes —Charter amendment for Valdosta. By Strickland of Pierce —Creating board of commissioners of roads and revenues for Pierce county. By Foster of Floyd—Amending act creating board of roads and revenues for Floyd county. By Burnett of Quitman —Amending act creating board of roads and reve nues for Quitman. By Ellis of Tift—New charter for town of Omega. BOATS TO SOUTH AMERICA New Steamship Line to Open Fine Market for Southern Products. Washington, D. C. —President Fin ley of the Southern Railway compa ny announced today that he had been advised of the purpose of the Mun son Steamship Line to inaugurate reg ular service between Mobile, Ala., and South American ports. The new ser vice is to begin on September 11, on which date a steamer will leave Mo bile for Montevideo, Uruguay, and Buenos Ayres and Rosario, Argenti na, all of which ports wil lbe regular ports of call for the new line. Sail ings will be made every fourth week. In making this announcement Presi dent Finley said: “The inauguration of this new ser vice will be of great benefit to the merchants and manufacturers of the Southeastern States and of the entire Mississippi valley. The markets of South America are rapidly increasing in Importance with a growing demand for commodities which can profitably be produced in our Southeastern sec tion. Many of our enterprising man ufacturers and merchants' l 'are giving special consideration to the possibil ities cf these markets. Our South Atlantic and gulf ports are adwtage ously located with reference to the South American trade, and I am con vinced that direct and regular steam ship service such is now assured from Mobile will result in the building up of a profitable business. The people of other Southern seaport cities are now moving in the matter and I hope that additional lines may be inaugurated in the near future.” NEWSY SUMMARY. Household cares never worry a wo man when she has an engagement with the dressmaker. No woman is happy who knows her husband too well. Over a hundred feet in the air, while paitning the steeple of St. Ste phen's P. E. church, painters at Bev erly, N. Y., encountered a swarm of busy bees. The men were painting the very top of the church spire, when the bees came out of an opening. As soon as they could get the scaffold working the painters descended, ward ing off the bees with their paint brushes. In the opening the bees have a hive, and they are seen daily flickering around the weather-vane, striking it with such force as to cause the vane to move, giving onlookers the impression that the wind was changing. It is believed the steeple will yield a big crop of honey. Agostino Bassi, a country doctor in the north of Italy, early in the last [ century, the starker o£ the germ theory of \disease. At that time a peculiar disease was killing the silk-, worms, bringing ruin to the whole silk country of Italy. Bassi, by the microscope, discovered the germ which is the cause of the disease. Mrs. M. A. Baldwin was recent!) elected school trustee at Groton, N Y. She is the president of the Politi cal Equality League and more than half the men present at the school meeting are said to have voted for her. Although the only woman on the board she was made a member of its executive committee. Caruso, who is said to derive not less than $50,000 a year from his fees and royalties on musical records of ..his - voice, is only one of many vocalists and instrumentalists t» whom the new invention has brought not only a substantial increment of cash, but a vastly extended area of educational influence, according to the Baltimore American. Benjamin L. Hoyt, said to he the oldest practicing lawyer in the Unit ed State's, died in Penn Yan, N. Y., at the age of 93 years. He practiced his profession up to two months ago. cuse in 1841 to practice in the com cuse in 1841 to pratcice in the com mon pleas court and afterward to the supreme court. With the exception of a term he held the office of justice of the peace of Penn Yan since 1850, be ing elected each time on the Republi can ticket. A dispatch from Burlington, Vt. says Elizabeth Ann Howard, widow cf Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, whose death a few months ago removed that last surviving commander of a Union army in the Civil war, must sell her homestead. Her income is less than SI,OOO a year, not enough to support the place. She is 78 years old. General Botha’s election campaign for control of the first parliament of the unfbn of South Africa, was seri ously hampered by the announcement that his daughter proposed to s'ng the part of Carmen in an amateur opera production at Johannesburg. This levity on the part of a member of the family of their leader and pre mier so offended the straight-laced Boers that General Botha had to for bid and disavow his daughter s in tention. The woman who queens it over a man’s heart is too proud to do culin ary stunts. There will not be as much wine and champagne made at Egg Harbor this year as formerly, owing to the short grape crop. It is estimated that the farmers will not get 40 per cent, of their former crops, while many -will not have 10 per cent., due to the late frosts and wet weather in the spring. Hundreds of tons of granes received frrm New York state annually will this year a'so fall short, as the crop there is but a half one. With what grapes are obtainable, the wineries here are in full blast and thousands of gallons of grape ju>'oe are being 1 converted into wines and champagne. j WILL SHIP COTTON AGREEMENT REACHED BY SHIP PERS AND THE STEAMER LINES. RESOLUTION WAS ADOPTED Steamer Lines Rescind Order Requir* ing Cotton Bales to Be Entire ly Covered. New York. —A compromise was el* fected here between the steamship lines and the cotton shippers in the dispute over the refusal of the steam ship companies to issue ocean bills of lading for cotton shipments after September 1 unless the railroads de livered the cotton thoroughly covered and entirely free from all evidence of damage. By the agreement reached the de cision of the steamship lines is auto matically rescinded, and while the cotton bales need not be entirely cov ered, the steamship lines will assume no responsibility for damage result ing from imperfect covering. The settlement was. brought, about by a report of the special committee of ten appointed at a general confer ence of interests affected. < • The demand of the steamship lines was virtually for better haling of coltm because of damage they were often' forced to pay for cotton which they said was damaged before it was received for "nment. The cotton shippers met this demand with the statement that it wo ’d be impracti cable and unnecessary to cover the sides of hales. It was contended that the method of baling was as good as could be and that they were not responsible for damage caused en route to the sea ports. The subcommittee reported the fol lowing resolution, which was adopt ed at once: “It is mutually understood and agreed that the description of the condition of the cotton does not re late to insufficiency of or the torn condition of covering nor to any dam age resulting therefrom and that no carrier shall be responsible for any damage not caused by its negli gence.” E. J. Glenny, president of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange, who acted as chairman of the conference, said after the adoption of the resolution: “The acjicn "of the conference in adopting the vesoluuon of the sub committee is a step in direc tion towards the better handling ot, c-Ottoh and I believe it is also 15 : men! in the prepay direction"' tp wards tWcuring the perfect methods of bal ing cotton.’'' j .' CRAZY NEGRO RUNS AMUCK Took Refuge in House, But Was Smoked Out and Shot to Death. Tampa, Fla. —Bob Harris, a crazy negro, cn a rampage bore, killed" three persons, wounded two others, one of whom was white, and himself was slain by policemen after a siege in which gasoline was used to bum him out of a house. He was insane from drugs. < He first went to the house of a wom an and killed her and a man he found there. He then went to another house and fired on a woman with a baby. The former was slain. On his way out he shot another negress,- Virginia Simpkins, who is expected to die, and a white policeman named Riggs. He took refuge in the Simpkins woman’s house, where he lived and ban leaded the doors and windows. Being plentifully supplied with car tridges he kept a . large force of po liceman at bay, and was dislodged only after being smoked out of one room. The house was then set afire with gasoline. When he made a dash for liberty he was shot and killed. Six Men Killed by Explosion. Richmond, Va. —Two' white men and four negroes were killed in an explosion in the mines of the Gayton Coal company, 15 miles from here. Three negroes were injured. The men were at work when the explosion oc curred and it is supposed that the premature, setting off a "shot” or charge of blasting powder was the cause. None of the men working near enough to the explosion to know its cause escaped. Gambler Rosenthal Murdered. New York.—Herman Roseitthal, the' proprietor of a New York gambling house, whose sensational charges that the police were guilty of grafting and oppression were to he investigated, was shot down and killed In front of the Hotel Metropolc by live men who escaped in a tig gray automobile. Ro senthal was murdered only a few hours before he was to appear in tha home of District Attorney Whitman in an attempt to substantiate his charge that the police were grafting on gambling houses. Wild Buffalo Kills Aviator. Paris, France. —Hubert Latham, the Anglo-French aviator, was killed last month by a wjld buffalo while hunting in the Frenph Congo. The governor general of French Equatorial Africa, in telegraphing the news to the min ister of the colonies, says Latham was out with a number of natives in the forest when he shot and rind ed a buffalo which charg ed him and gored and tramn’ef) him to death. cocnr-ed on the Chari river near the Bahr Es Sal am&t.