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VOL. V. NO. 199.
ATLANTA, <JA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1907.
PRICE:
MRS. THAW FAINTS
AFTER HER ORDEAL
Gruelling Cross Ex
amination Too Much
For Her.
SENATOR REED SMOOT HOLDS HIS SEAT
(Prom the Washington Star.)
HARRY THAW WEEPS
DURING HER STORY
At Morning Session She Re
peats in Detail Story of
Her Past Life.
New York, Feb. 'll.—Evelyn Thaw
■ ollapaed as the left the wltneaa Hand
a< the noon recast. She almost fell to
the Itoor In a faint, but Dan O'Reilly,
of her counael, crabbed her by the arm
and supported her until she had reach
ed the room near the Judge's chamber,
where the wltnesse for the defense are
kept.
There May MacKensle was In watt
ing. She aided the lawyer In escort-
Inc the younc woman to a sofa on
which she stretched at full lencth. At
first she moaned audibly add her eye.
opened and closed softly as If ehe were
Just recovering from a faint. Mlea Mac.
Kcnsio secured a bottle of tmclllm;
salts and succeeded In reviving tin
vounc woman, althouch she was so ex
hausted thsl she did not data to rile
from her recllnlnc position.
Exsmination Merciless.
From 11 o'clock In the momlnc. she
had not even partaken of as much as a
mouthful of water.
The cross-examination, which was
conducted by District Attorney Jerome,
was merciless. Mrs. Thaw was made
In tell of each of her visits to Stan
ford White's studio In Madison Square
Garden tower.
The story of White's treatment of
her made her cob violently. She was
almost choked nu she answered Je
rome's questions. The sight of her
mode Thaw -ahake.JEllh_rmntliin and
before , she left the stand he was sob
bing also. . . , .
Senlajtlon By Jerome.
Site "of the sensations of the session
was the exclamation of Lawyer Delnms,
■ htef counsel for-tlta defense, who de
clared that District Attorney Jerome
hnd once threatened to Indict younc
Mrs. Thaw. — j
The threat, he vatdr wim -made ln_JB_l
met room: Th* exclamation camel
ihlle Mr. Jerome wu* trying to get]—madcJiy Mr. Bartlett
FRUIT TIE
AT A CRISIS,
E
Growers of Five States
Meet in Atlanta
to Act.
CHEAPER RATES;
, BETTER SERVICE
Movement to Secure Fair
Deal From RailroadB Is
Begun in Convention.
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O GOOD FRUIT CROP IN 1807: O
O BUT DANGER NOT OVER. 0
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O 'The Indications are that -we-*
O will have a good fruit crop for V
O 1»07." said John J. Cunningham, O
O of Cincinnati, president of the O
O American Fruit Union, who Is at- O
O tending the Georgia Fruit Grow- O
O ere' Association, In session In At- O
O lento. O
HOKE SMITH IS BOOMED
FOR U. S. PRESIDENCY
Georgia Delegation in Congress Start Ball
Rolling at a Dinner to the Governor-Elect
on Wednesday Evening.
O / "It Is Impossible at this time to O
O estimate what. If any. damage hae O
O been sustained In the different O
O states. 1 understand there Is a 0
6 to per cent (BUMSgt 111 ueslein 0|
0 Arkansas and a alight damage to O
O fruit In Texas, but this Is Indefl- O
0 nlte. O
O ‘There are two more months of O
O danger yet, you know, and some- Q
0 thing may happen before the crop O
O Is past danger. What we want la O
O better distribution and Iranipor- D
O tatlon facilities.” O
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Washington, Feb. >1,—Hoke Smith, governor-elect of Georgia, was last
evening placed In the Held as an alternative candidate for the preeldency
at the hands of the next Democratic convention. The occasion was • ban
quet given In honor of tha former secretary of the Interior at the Shore-
ham by Representatives Bartlett. Lee and Hardwick, of Georgia, af which
all of the Georgia delegation In congress and a company of distinguished
Georgians wane present
the eeavsntlon bail or tha Kimball elrcumstanoea surrounding tha
House Thursday morning. tragedy, has iiirsctsd much'attention.
This little town Is crowded today by
friends of the two families, and curlosl-
Th? speech nominating-Govern w-elact Smith for the presidency
irttett. The nomination had a string tied tOlUUiWSf Bl. foe
'mm Hartrldge of the defense a let- Mr. Bartlett Buld that If Mr. Bryan was Trot~a candidate tt-ehould be uo-
written to Evelyn Nesblt Thaw. I flerstood henceforth that the Empire Slate of the Bouth had a candidate
Mr Hartrldge has becn subpenaed to for the honor, and that his name was Hoke Smith.
„rndu« the fourteen White letters to I Mr. Bartlett paid a high tribute to the governor-elect, and the sug-
K.vclyn Thaw. He claims he has not | gestlon that Mr. 8mlth be made next year's national standard-bearer was
them and does not know where
received with great enthusiasm.
they are.
It Is uuthnrltatlvely announced that
there will be a session of the Thaw
trial on Friday and Saturday.
Are Pitted Agsinet Her.
I: was the plan of District Attorney
■leromc to pit the mother and brothe:
of Mrs. Thaw against her In a final
‘ (fort to break down the testimony of
■lie witness and Impeach her dramatic
Mory. He was armed with lengthy
-tutements by Mrs. Holman and Him .
ird Nesblt.
In the first the mother had told of
Hie life-led by the former chorus
"•■.tuty from the time she reached New
Vurk until the night her husband shot
and killed Stanford White on the roof
if Madison Square Garden.
Howard Nesblt's statement does not
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NOTHING BUT WRECKS
DURING PAST MONTH,
SAYS BOWDRE PHINIZY
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O TO CLOSE POSTOFFICE
O AT NOON ON FRIDAY
O The iMmtofflce will be elowed on O
O Friday <Washington'n birthday) O
tf from noon to 6:30 o'clock. The O
O usual morning deliveries will be O
O made. The nub-atatlonn will clone O
O at noon and will not be opened O
O again during the day.
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Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian records here each dsy some
ernnnmU fact In reference to the uoward
march of the South.
BY
JOSEPH B. LIVELY.
The rapidity with which the South Is moving toward commercial su
premacy over all other portions of this nntlon Is Indeed one of the marvels
of the age. for few there are who experienced the vicissitudes of the
period Immediately after the Civil war and witnessed the lnipoverlohed
condition of the South at that time ever dreamed that they.wouldllhre
to see Ha rehabilitation, much less to behold It In the leadlnthe com.
merclal affairs of the country at large, and yel this Is practically what
has come to pane.—The Tradesman, Fhattanoogn.
GOLD IN THE SOUTH.
Gold waa mined In paying quantities In the South many* Y**™
It waa discovered In the West. Practically all the gold mined ipi the t nlt-
ed States before the discovery of tile precious metal In t allfornla In 1*4*
was mined In Southern states, the total value of the output between 1801
and 1(18 having been (11,243.475. Production In the South n»cllned ln
Importance with the rush to California, but there hns hnrdly been a year
In the past sixty years that, some gold has
_ mt been mined In the South.
andTha*^Ju"e“o‘f the produritonTn The' Southern Apimla.-hlsns has been
about $300,000 Annually for fteveral year*. Authorlllee reckon that the
output will continue for many more yearn The value of the South a
output by state:
*00; Maryland,
'00; Tennessee SI(T GEORGIA LAND DEAL.
A special lo The Osorglan from Wayrroas. Ga.. says. The niggest
land deal ever consummated In tills section of the "tale was closed In
ihls city last night. The deal Includes the purchase of 200,000.000 feet
of timber, between Waycross and Live Oak, Kin.. Ibe Prlce being (. per
thousand feet, and the total transaction Involving Jioo.ooo.
The Enslan Com nan v Intends to const ruct In wayrroas one of the
•ontlnue for many more years The value or the south«
itea In 1905 waa aa follows: Alabama. (41.500, Georgia, (((,-
id. (14,(00; North Carolina. (122.900; Rout*' <^ arotlnm- »»S.-
e (1(00; Texas. (1.900: Virginia. 15.000—a total of ((*..400.
The Ensign Company Intends
....gegt saw-mllls In the South, to
and also to cut up large bodiea of timber they already
elty. A railroad will also he constructed from V ''
_ cross to a point near
Live Oak'^Lnd’w'lirrun"throuxli the timbered land of the company. A char
ter foVth“4lT^d w« granted several month, ago under the name of
the Georgia and Florida"'mIUlSb'cMART&.
A charter ha. hern Issued for the Granite Cord Company of Granite
Pall. CaU&rtl N ™ l ,0, " ,n lnclu '" n| '
rope cord*and ffi’ The^ capital •*
lors are O. A. Robbins. Charlotte; A. A. Shuford, HUkory. anil J. M.
Alfred, Oranltc Falls. . _ . .
TO BUILD COTTON MILLS.
T L.„ . . ,„ prr , t a Cotton mill In Lampasas. Tex,
Thcr® Is a movement on i , n t u ... • iinn hiimtM with h
nt the cost of $136,000. which would employ about !•*» «'» ni«no«. wnn 11
pay roll of about $I.S0n a week
Amendment to Peti
tion Hotter Than
Original.
GEORGIA ROAD
GIVEN A ROAST
‘Financier’s Swag’ Blamed
For Neglect of Old
Railway.
"And naw comes Rowdre Phlnlsy"
Thai Is the antiquated language of
the amendment filed before the rail
road commission In re “Bowdre Phln
lsy vs. Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company."
And this time Phtnliy cornea faster
and hotter than before. He says many
things about the Georgia railroad and
some of them are positively cruel.
Several weeks ago, It will be remem
bered. Mr. Phlnlsy. wbo Is proprietor of
The Atlguata Herald, filed a complaint
to the effect that the Oeorgla railroad's
track was so rotten that It waa likely
to fall apart, going even further and
saying that It waa dangerous to llfo
and limb.
The railroad objected to Mr. Phin-
Isy’e criticism of Its track. The track
was laid many years ago and waa con
sidered a good one. It was the same
track, and no change had been made
In It. therefore It ought to be good now
The road offered Mr. Phlnlsy a private
car. It was reported, that he might
make a trip of Inspection and see for
himself. Mr. Phlnlsy steles, however.
Cheaper rates and better service from
the transportation llres!
This was the slogan of the Initial
session of tbe convention of the Geor
gia Fruit Growers'-Atootatlon. held at
"We have reached a crisis In the
fruit growing and fruit' ahlpplhg busi-
nett, and unless some radical changes
are effected soon the fruit growing In
dustry In the Bouth to doomed. There
should be better distribution, tranapor.
tatlon and refrigeration facilities and
more consideration at the hands of the
railroad*, or there will be little develop
mtht and progw m this Industry In
the 8outh."
Tbte note of warning came from H.
. Matthews, of Fort Valley, Ga- pres
ident of the Oeorgla Fruit Growers'
Association, at the opening of the fif
teenth annual session of the associa
tion In the assembly room of the Kim
ball House Thursday morning, attend
ed by 150 fruit growers representing
between 5,000,000 and (.000,000 fruit
trees In the 8oulh.
Bituatisn Is Grave.
The situation In the South having
become so grave and tho future of the
fruit growing Industry so uncertain,
general Invitation was extended
to fruit growers from other states In
the South to participate In the Atlanta
convention, as the Iptereata were com-
MANY ARE DROWNED
BY SINKING STEAMER
IS
TO SAVE TWO
Brothers Do Not Deny
They Killed By
waters.
SISTER’S STORY
LEADS TO TRAGEDY
English Ship Wrecked Off the
Coast of Holland in
Great Gale.
LIFE SA VERS SEEKING
SURVIVORS OF WRECK
Young Man Is Forced to
Wed and Meets Death
Trying to Escape.
Culpepper, Va.. Feb. 21.—No defense
«ave the "unwritten law." as It hae been
Invoked for generations to protect the
honor of wife, eleler of daughters wBT
used In the defense of Philip and
James Strother, who went on trial to
day for their Uvea Their killing of
William Bywaters Is not denied. They
fired eleven shots Into him as he was
attempting to escape from Strother
home after they had compelled him to
marry their sister, Viola, whom he had
wronged.
The prominence socially and politi
cally of the families of the prisoners
and victim, 'together with the aensa-
tlonal circumstances surrounding the
tlon was necessary.
Looking to the consummation of
these great ends, two Important things
were done at this Initial session.
First, a motion was adopted unani
mously authorising the transportation
committee to collect from each mem
ber nt Hie association and from others
who wished to contribute, as much as
25 rents on each thousand trees or
more. If necessary, up to 50 cents, for
the purpose of securing through the
courts, or wherever necessary, lower
tales and better service from the trans.
portatlon companies
ty seeks to witness what promises to
be one of the most notable trials ever
held In this section.
When the brothers -heard the con
fusion of their stater they Induced
By waters to marry the girl. Accord
ing to their story By waters professed
repentance, promising to mike Viola
a good husband. Tha brothers procured
a license, compelling a marriage. By-
waters made an excuse to leave the
Strother home, but the falmly refused
to llaten. As Bywaters attempted to
escape from the porch roof the Stroth
er brothers opened fire.
The defendants claim Bywaters In
tended absolutely to desert their sister.
Under the Virginia law Bywatere would
have been able to secure a divorce on
the ground of duress, and on the fact
that he had not lived with his wife aft.
er the ceremony.
Twenty-Seven Dead Bodies Come Ashore
Near the City of Rotterdam.
King’s Messenger Is Among
the Victims.'
Hook of Holland, Feb. 21.—Life savers report aigna of life
on floating wreckage from the Berlin disaster. A gale is blow
ing and there is a heavy mist. Efforts are being made to reach
the wreckage in the hope of saving possible survivors.
London, Fob. 21.—The steamship Berlin, of the Great Eastern
Railway Company, bound from Harwich to Rotterdam, waa
wrecked on the Hook, off Holland, at 6 o’clock this morning,
and sank almost immediately^ ~ ——i
Terrible scenes of panic followed the first shock.
The Berlin carried 91 paassengers from Harwick and a crew .
of 50. A terrific northeast gale waa blowing at the time. ’
There is a life aaving station only a few hundred yards from
the spot where the Berlin went ashore, but before a life boat
or a tug, which was anchored near the station, conld reach the {
doomed vessel, she had disappeared beneath thi icy waters, car-1
rying with her every person on board.
Among the passengers on the Berlin were nineteen members *
of a German opera company which have been appearing in Lon- ^
don and were on their way home. Captain Arthur Herbert, a
messenger in the royal service, attached to the staff of King
Edward, is among the drowned.
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ft CZAR or RUSSIA ft
ft REPORTED SHOT ft
• . *
ft London, Feb. 21.—A ru- ft
ft mor which cannot be ft
ft traced to any authentic ft
ft source, says that the czar ft
ft of Russia has been shot. ft
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OVER PHONE CAME YELLS,
THEN SOUND OF BLOWS;
POLICEMEN ANSWER CALL
The motion was amended so as to
authorise the committee to appoint an
agent to collect this money. A. L
Dean, of Rome, spoke on the matter.
ThJ motion was made by F. C. Free
man. of Menlo. Oo.
tatlon committee: R. C. Berckman*.
Augusta, chairman; IV. F. Bummerour,
Dalton; Felton Halchor. Macon; M. A.
Kitchens. Baldwin: A. L. Dean, Rome;
\V. Wlthoft. Fort Valley: F. \V.
Hnxlchurst, Macon.
Thermometers in Cere.
Husband Was Forced
Ring For Re
inforcements.
to
When Police Call Officer Doyal on
Tuesday night answered the telephone
at the police station, a male voice asked
for Immediate police assistance and o
the officer could plainly hear over the O
’phone blows and the nolae of a lively °
row between a man and woman. 12
Before call officers could gel to the
ene, however. Patrolmen Randall and
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O WEATHER MAN PLAYS
O JjJPE PLUVE TO WIN. O
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O Home Jupe Pluve doings eched- O
O uled. A bunch of moisture Is due. O
O according to the Man-on-Top-of- O
O the-Emplre, but he has been so O
O good to us recently that It O
O wouldn't be right to make a kick. O
O besides It wouldn’t help any. O
O Forecast; Q
O "Partly cloudy Thursday night O
O and Friday, probably rain Frl- O
Thursday's temperatures:
7 o'cjock a. m IS degrees.
The other Important matter was flay had arrived at the home of Lewis
offering of a resolution by W. H. Har- ; ,, * nder ' ,n r h “ > * 1 "'rest, and arrested
r|s. of Fort Valley, providing that the i Hinder and hla bride of only two
fruit growers of Georgia and neighbor
In* slates secure from tha Interstate
commerce commission, or. If necessary,
by act of congreaa. a las- requiring that
all refrigerator cars used In Interstate
commerce be equipped by recording
thermometers.
These thermometers to be so con
structed that thpy will show the tem
perature of the care from the beginning
rill
that be never received the offer.
The Amendment. V
But In Ids amendment, which goes
Into particulars. Mr. Phlnlsy writes
cruelty of the road of other days.
Among other things he remarks:
"All railroads of similar class and
Csntinucd en Page Three.
make duplicate: .copies, one of which
nlll be sent back to the shipper and
tha yther kept by the company.
The resolution also asks that the law
fix a maximum standard of tempera-
turn for these thermometers to regis
ter. a penalty being attached to the
refrigerator car lines when the tern-
pernture goes above this maximum
The resolution waa referred to the
transportation committee.
• How Best and Quickest to Pirsent
Our t'lalms to the Interstate Commerce j
Commission" was a discussion led by | Hpeclnl to The Georgian.
• A. Der.n. of Rome, Qa. ! Norfolk. Va.. Feb 21.—Mrs
months, on the charge of disorderly
conduct.
The huhby and his bride were ar
raigned Wednesday afternoon In police
court, Bender appearing with a black
eye and apparently having got the
worst of the encounter The evidence
showed that the cos pie had "fallen
out" and that a fight followed. It waa
also brought out that Hender was ac
cidentally ahot In the hip a short time
ago In a scuffle with his wife over a
pistol.
Judge Broyles lined Bender (19.75
and the. bride (5.75. Hender Is em
ployed In tha establishment of Marcus
l^>eb * Co.
S o'clock a. in..
9 o'clock a. nt..
O in o'clock a. m..
0 11 o'clock a. nt..
O 12 o’clock noon..
O 1 o'clock p. m.
41 degrees
. .45 degrees. O
. .45 degrees. O
.. 49 degrees. O
.55 degrees. O
..51 degrees. O
0 2 o'clock p. m 50 degrees. O
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BRYCE IS GREETED
AT GOTHAM PIER
Specie I tn The Georgies.
New York, Feb. 81.—England’s new
ambassador, James Bryce, accompa
nied by Mrs. Bryce, arrived today. The
crowd at the pier lifted their hela to
the newly arrived diplomat.
Life Beal Is
The greatest number of passengers -
were still tn their berths when the Ber
lin struck and thee* rushed on deck tn
their night clothes. - Tbe wseHwv sns a
bitterly cold and It is doubtful whether j
any of these would have lived to get i
ashore, even had they succeeded la ■
launching a life boat
A rush was made for the boats and
life .rafts, and the first boat to strike
the water was Immediately capslsed.
The crew wax werktng hard at tbe da
vits In nn attempt to get the other
boats clear of their fastening when Um '
Berlin slid off Into deep water aatl^l
with her bow high In the air. gave
mighty plunge and disappeared, leav
In* I
gllng
Ing her passengers and 'crew xtrug-
In the North eea.
Down, Down to Death.
downward by tbe suction cm Used by tha
Berlin's last plunge, and tbe few who
had managed to reach bite of wreckage
and overturned boats were go thor
oughly chilled In a few moments that
they were compelled to loosen theta B
hold.
Every kind of craft within halting
distance was soon on the spot but ftSft
Mhlner to nl
the present there was nothing to do »
except cruise around In the hope of
picking up the bodies when they should
come to the surface.
The Berlin was a British steamer, 2at
feet long and of 1.776 tons burden. Tbe
ship waa commanded by Captain Ablett
and was built In lt(4.
Bodies Pleat to there.
A message from Rotterdam says that
27 bodies have been washed ashore near
the point where the Rerlln went ashore> ■
The members of the German Opens
Company lost In the disaster were
members of the chorus and their names
cannot be ascertained at present.
The Berlin was due at Rotterdam at
o'clock this morning, having left
England at to o'clock latt night
MANY WRECKS FEARED
AS RESULT OP STORM.
London, Mb. 21.—Tbe great gaW of
yeaterday continues unabated over 1
western Europe. At Essen, In (tor-
■ ausciBI MVIUIHW lto«U
roofed and a number of workmen In
jured. At Jena tbe railway worlmaop
was Mown down. Tbe Rhine la la
flood, and the lower parts of cities from
Cologne to the eea are threatened. At
Cologne the river Is seven feet above
normal. A number of email Vresets are- -
reported In diet rare over the North son
coast. Further news of wrecks aad i
loos of llfcf la feared.
MRS. ( RAVEN TO WEI)
A BALTIMORE MAN;
MEET AT NORFOLK
Pretest Against Reedt.
"We arc In a itosltlon to shun." said
lie. "that the refrigerator lines and the
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Continued en Page Three.
Craven, oT-Havannnh, Ga., and L.
Hubbard, of Baltimore, leave here this I
evening for Baltimore, whnre they will |
be married tomorrow. Mrs. Craven j
Spot Cotton-
Tile Weather
—will lie shown each tlav before And after the nai
of tho paper at the head of thia page. -
A tcreat many of our frienda have initiated on our ahowii
them' in aome certain place each dsy, and from now on yon
find the weather forecast at top.of page; the local weatkgy
temperature at the bottom of thin page, and the U. S.
Bureau'a full report on the market page—
If you don't ace what you want, ask for it.