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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. oooooooooooooooooooooooooo o o O GOOD FRUIT CROP IN 1807: O O BUT DANGER NOT OVER. 0 o V 0 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 0 *> O Oooooooooooooooooeoooooooo 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 Continued on Page Three. NOTHING BUT WRECKS DURING PAST MONTH, SAYS BOWDRE PHINIZY oooooooooooooooooooooooooo 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. oooooooooonopooooooooooooo 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. « « 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 * 0 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 00000000000000000000000000 O WEATHER MAN PLAYS O JjJPE PLUVE TO WIN. O 2 »— 0 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 OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 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 J. E. | 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.