The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-03
TOO MANY D|VORCES
 OVER IN GEORGIA Judge PendIeton Draws Line in
 -. . Atlanta ......., ALABAMA MAN IS KILLED Clark Howell Is Foreman of Fulton county Grand Jury-GrI ouarrels
 With Sweetheart and Tries
 to Commit Suicide.
ALABAMA MAN IS KILLED

l Atlanta, July Z.-tSpeclal.J--JudRe Pen dleton of the Fulton county superior court has come down good and hard on the effort of petitioners to use his court 1 for North Dakota -get-divorce-qulck mill of justice by issuing an order that here after two terms of court must eapse be- tween the first and second decrees for divorce may be granted. Since January 1, when the six terms-a-year court was instituted in this county, to relieve the l congested docket. he has done little else but try divorce suits. Under this calendar | 1t has been possible to get divorce in sixty days but with the new order 1t will take at least six months and maybe much longer. The new order becomes effective at once.
 Alabama Man Fatally Injured
 John M. Coby of Hehin, Ala. died in great agony at the Grady hospital as a result of an injury received at a saw mill in that city on Saturday. He was attempting to run scantling through the mill when 1t struck a knot, re- bounded, striking him in the head infilct- ing fatal wound.
 School Tax Law Deficient.
 By decision of the supreme court of Georgia written out today by As- sociate Justice Evans 1t was decreed that the McMichael law providing for the levyng of taxes in school districts of the state for the support of local schools must be amended before 1t will be con- stitutional and operative in full. The | decision states that county can levy a tax for the maintenance of the schools within its borders but a school district cannot do so. The counties can make this levy under the general school law. Senator McMichael states that he will soon offer the required amendment.
 Clark Howell on Jury.
 Clark Howell, candidate for governor will in all probability be the foreman of the next Fulton county grand jury as his name was the first drawn from the box by Judge Pendleton today. This list of grand jurors contains the names of more prominent Atlantans than any other ever drawn. Joseph Thompson, Will mer Moore. w H. Riser Roby Robinson, among Atlanta's richest men, are among the names drawn.
 Cotton Crop In Bad Shape.'
 Commissioner of Agriculture T. C. Hud- 1 son who has just returned from a trip through middle Georgia, declares that the cotton crop of Georgia Is in a worse con- dtion now than he has ever known it. Tt Is suffering greatly from excessive rains and the grass is simply choking the crops The farmers, too, are having a hard time getting hands to work out the crops l hear similar reports from all sections of the state and this will have a tendency to reduce the cotton crop in Georgia"
 Nuisance Is Not FinabIe.
 In decision handed down today in the supreme court of Georgia and written out by Associate Justice Beverly D. Evans it Is held that the recorder of the police court in Atlanta has the right to abate a public nuisance but not to impose a fine for the maintenance of the same. This decision Is applicable to similar or- dnances in other cities. The suit grew out of the fact that w. T. Healey erect ed fence across an alley which he claimed was private and his neighbors, public He was fined for maintaining this fence which was termed nuisance He appealed the case and fought it through the lower courts to the highest where he won victory today.
 New Man Hater.
 My sweetheart and I quarreled. l have not heard from him for two weeks, l so 1 wanted to die.' This statement was made by pretty, vivacious 19-year-old l Corinne Earnest of 20 King street, in ex- l ott ma V at her fiome to put an end to her short life with laudanum. Her sweetheart Is John Franklin, and his home is in Green l vile, s. c.
 So determined was the young girl to end her life that when the Grady hospital | ambulance summoned hastily, arrived, she broke from the restraining arms of l relatives and led them a long chase through the city streets on the quiet Sun day afternoon before she could be forced | into the ambulance. Her effort was use less. however. and after her experiences at the hospital the following sage com ment on mankind in general issued from the pretty lips of the, ,would-be suicide:
 Tries to Kill Herself.
 q don't think much of men. think they cheat the clothes they wear and ought to wear dresses. Oh, of course. I still love John Franklin, but I don't ] care whether he writes 10 me or not. Men are a sorry lot, anyhow
 This remark results from the expert ences which lead up to and followed the | act of Miss Earnest in drinking several ounces of laudanum yesterday afternoon. | The quick action of her married sister, Mrs Joseph Ray. and of her brother-in- law, alone saved her life.
 Can Collect Outside Debts. | Debts made outside of Georgia can be enforced through garnshment within the l boundaries of the state. unless special | clauses in particular contracts are to the | contrary was the judgment made this morning by Judge Pendleton of the su- | perior court in test case brought by | a South Carolina firm against an em- | ploye of the Seaboard Air Line, as 1 garnishee and one of it's employees. 1 At this time there are pending in the | justices courts about 2000 such suits, be- | ing about equally among the Seaboard | and the Southern railways. respectively | Judge Pendletons decision will apply to | all cases wherein the conditions are the | same.
 | Bearden & Luther of South Carolina sued F.. F. Camp. and securing judgment | made his employer the Seaboard, defend l ant as garnshee.
 Judge Pendleton rules that according to l an act of 1904 the situs of debt is where | the garnishee lives. and as in the case in | question there-fs no contract to pay the | debt only in South Carolina. he holds 1t l is therefore a legal debt and coilectable | fin this state.
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 New York Ice Men In Trouble.