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VOL., V. NO. 208.
ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1907.
SCENES AT THE WRECK
FIPUBLIC
Farmers Open Fight
For Two-Cent
Rate.
FILE PETITION
AT CAPITOL
National and State Officers
of Fanners’ Union Sign
Paper.
The light in Georgia for reduction of
passenger rates on all railroada has
opened.
A formal puper was filed with the
railroad commission Monday morning
by Charles 8. Harrell, president of the
National Farmers' Union, and signed
by State President Duckworth and
other state officers
Notice waa served some time ago
that the Farmers' Union would Inau
gural*. the tight, but this Is the first
tangible move In the matter. Judge J.
K. Hines, of Atlanta, has been employed
to argue the case before the commls
slon when a date Is set for a hearing.
Heuttary Montgomery, of the com
will notify all the railroads of
the filing of the paper, and acknowl
edgment will be mailed to President
Barrett. The ne«t meeting of the com
mission will be held March 14, and it Is
prolatble that the paper will be taken
up then and a decision reached
what direction the matter will be given.
The petition of President Barrett
and others In full Is as follows:
Tba Formal Petition.
Barneavlle, Go., March l, 1W7.
To the Railroad Commlaaoln of Geor
gia, Atlanta, Gs.
Gentlemen:— Believing that the pros,
ant passenger rate of 1 cents a mile In
this state Is too high, and that there
ought" to be A reduction thereof, we
write to ask you to consider thts mat
ter. reduce the present passenger rate,
and make such a rate as will be rea
sonable and lust both to the railroads
and to the public. We believe that the
present passenger rate can be reduced
end ought to be reduced. We believe
that this should be done In Justice to
the public and would suggest that you
take Into consideration the adnplon of
the J-cent rale so generally fixed by
various states during the past few
months.
We do not wish to lie unfair and un
just to the railroads. It Is In this
spirit that w —
Big orane and wracking craw rsp lacing wracksd engine en track.
B(1 „„ ... ask you. In behalf of
the farmers of Georgia, to consider the
present rate and to reduce the same to
such n point ns will be both reasonable
and lust to all parties at Interest. Yours
* rU,y ’ C. 8. BARRETT.
President National Union.
J. G. EUBANKS.
Press Agent Georgia State Union;
J. U LEE.
organiser Georgia 8tste Union:
R. I.. Duckworth,
President Georgia State Union;
J. L. BARRON.
Sc, retary and Treasurer Georgia State
Union.
Enter Cortelyou;
Exit Leslie Shaw
Washington, March 4.—George
Cortelyou left the ofilce of postmaster
general this afternoon to become secre
tary of the treasury.
l.cslle M. Shaw, who has managed
tlic monetary affairs of the government
for five years, retires to private life.
Mr Shaw will be found at his desk to
morrow ns president of the Carnegie
Trust Company In New York.
Ilia,Is of the bureaus presented Mr.
Shun With a magnificent solid silver
dinner service. Prior to the swearing
,.f Cortelyou Into office, George Von I-
Meyer look the oath ns postmaster
general. ’
Took Laudanum.
•/. N Morris, or BO Weyman street,
nas tHltett to Grady hospltul Monday
afternoon at 5 o'clock unconscious from
an overdose of laudanum!! Ills lit
tle son saw him swallow the medicine
and re|M,ried It. Moris' condition Is se
rious. _____
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o ninn who would kick on tills klnd O
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O SiiiYtTUy wan iim rare ns one of O
O April's best product*, nnd parks O
O ..ml woods were * filled with Allan- O
O tun* out for n day** recreation. t»
O Forecast: 2
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O dnv: warmer Monday night.” O
O .Monday’s temperatures
TIE DEFENSE
FIFTY-NINTH CONGRESS ADJOURNS;
SPENDS OVER A BILLION DOLLARS;
LABOR BILL IS LAST ONE PASSI
price: miasms
A RECORD BREAKER
Dr. Wagner Agrees
With Expert
Evans.
freight train.
SOUTHERN’S 43
IN COLLISION
Mail
Jacob Blodgett,
Clerk, Is Badly
Injured.
TRAINS COLLIDE
neaStI&Well’s
Were Running Slow and
Only This Saved Passen
gers of Fast Train.
The Southern railway's flyer from
Washington, due In Atlanta at 4:50
o'clock Monday morning, was wrecked
shortly after 5 o'clock by colliding with
a freight train Just leaving Atlanta for
Birmingham. And as a result two per
sons were Injured and two ponderous
engines -were smashed up and made
candidate! for the repair shops.
The Injured are Jacob I*. Blodgett,
a mall clerk, and brother of Postmas
ter E. F. Blodgett, and W. E. Mitchell,
another mall clerk, of 165 McDaniel
street. Mr. Blodgett I* now at his home,
12 ^Ice street, under the cate of Dr.
Monroe Bmlth. and It will be several
days before his able to resume his du
ties. He was Injured In ithe hip and
arm, and his nerves shattered.
heavy mall case fell upon Mr.
Mitchell's foot, and while his Injuries
are painful, there Is nothing serious.
The pAtsenger train was In charge of
Conductor C. 8. Marshall and Engineer
R J. Blackburn was. at the throttle.
The train Is a fast one and Is known as
No. 43, due to arrive In Atlanta at 4:50
o'clock. It was shortly after 5 o'clock
that the train passed the Howell Sta
tion block tower, and between that
point and the Marietta street bridge
over the tracks engine 405, pulling
freight train No. 82 for Birmingham,
got In the way.
A Glancing Blow.
The freight engine hit the big pas
senger engine a glancing blow on the
right aide and carried away the massive
cylinder and smashed the front of the
engine. While not as badly torn up as
the passenger engine, the freight en-
Cine was stripped of its right-hand cyl
inder, but a wrecking crew was able
to pull It from the scene shortly after
wards.
It was different with the passenger
engine. The monster was kntw'ked front
the rails nnd Its huge wheels were
burled in the cinders along the tracks.
JACOB P. BLODGETT.
Mail clerk who was injured in col
lision Monday morning.
The cylinder, Itself a massive affair,
was knocked from the engine and land,
ed at a point under the cAb. while the
4 1-2-Inch piston roil was bent - and
broken off with as much ease as If It
had been n piece of wire.
According to those who investigated
shortly after the wreck occurred. En
gineer Davis of the freight train stop
ped his train before entering the block
beyond Howell’s Htntlon and went to
the tower to see If he hod a clear track.
In the meantime. It was said, the pas
senger train pulled by engine No. 1232
came along.
Rolling Freight Train.
The freight train began to move to
ward the main line on which the flyer
i running, hut before It got the
track the two trains collided. The col
lision occurred Just before the truck on
which the freight was running and the
main line Joined, and as n result, both
engines hit each other glancing blow;
on the side.
was said by one railroad man pres
ent at fhe wreck that the freight train
started out onto the main line by
the negro fireman, hut this was denied
by niters, who said the train rolled out
and hit the passenger before It could be
topped.
The liter was n»i running fast at the
time, and to this alone I* attributed the
fact that the wreck wmh not more se
rious. The p:f4.Hciigcr corn were not de
railed. and besides a severe jolting up,
the passenger* suffered no harm.
A w reeking crew b now at work on
the wrecked passenger engine, and It
will probably take all day Monday to
get It back i»n the rails and to the re
pair shops.
THREE OFFICERS SHOT
ATTEMPTING TO ARREST
NEGRO IN MOUNTAINS
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WONT SEPARATE THAW O
_ , FROM HIS PRETTY WIFE. O
O &aw York. Mart'll 4.—Emphatic O
O dltltal waa matlr by lrgal repre- O
O aentatlves of the Thaw family that 0
the Thaw, were planning to aepa- O
»te legally Harry Thaw and titi
wife otter the runrluidon of th< .
trial. It waa Inelatcd that the 0
Kory waa mallclouely Incorrect In O
O every detail, and that Mm. WII- O
— Ham Thaw If ,he would conaent to O
an Interview would lead In de- O
notinring It aa aucli. O
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New York, March 4.—It la learned
that even If Dlatrtct Attorney Jerome
doea not compel Dr. Rrltton D. Evant.
the Naw Jeraey alienist. to admit that
Harry K. Thaw, on trial for the killing
of Stanford White, In Innane at the
preagnL he will aak for the appoint-
ment'Of a commission In lunacy before
the and of the week.
—Dr. Allan Hamilton, one of the ex
pert! engaged by the prosecution, haa
declared that Thaw', fundamental de-
rangemant haa exlated for aeveral
year*, and hla condition la auch now
that It would be unjunt to convict him
for the crime.
Hamilton Won't Taatify,
Although Dr. Hamilton baa compiled
many worka on Innanlty and has been
cttlled upon for hie opinion In numerous
caaes. In a lecture delivered before the
New York Academy of Medicine he at
tacked the medical experts In legal
cues. saying that the methods of ex
amining lunatics was antiquated and
unfair. The fact that the expert haa
sees fit to make hlx opinion, public at
the present time la conclusive proof
that he will not be called to the stand,
notwithstanding he haa been In dally
consultation with Mr. Jerome and tuu
aided him in the questioning of Dr,
^Should -lie diffibaa hr any chance
succeed In carrying out Its plana It will
he three week, before the case 11 aent
to the Jury. It will require all of today
for Mr. Jerome to finish the croea-ei-
amlnailon of Dr. Evans and when this
la done three of the Thaw family phy
sicians will be called. Next will como
Mm. William Thaw, who will testify
that Harry showed evidence, of Insan
ity shortly before hie marriage to Eve
lyn Nesblt nnd that he had not fully re
covered hie mental equilibrium when
he shot Stanford White.
Should Jerome fall to have the luna
cy commission appointed he will create
a sensation when he calls his witnesses
In rebuttal to the stand. Besides the
half dozen young women whom he
hopes to prove that Evelyn Neablt
Thnw confided the story of White's III
treatment of her. he ha. half a aeora
more who will .wear that Thaw knew
the architect was on the roof garden
on the night of the murder nnd he went
there expressly to shoot him down.
There are witnesses who will contra
diet Evelyn that Thaw was In the habit
of carrying a revolver while In New
York, hill purchased one for this spe-
rlal urt. They will swear that he had
mode threats to murder nnd Instead of
hating White from the tlmn his wife I
alleged to have related her narrative,
he was on good terms with him and
had sought Ills advice In several mut
ters.
Evans Concludts Testimony.
Today marked the forty-second day
since the beginning of the Thaw trial.
During that time there has been S4 1-4
actual court days and the time used In
hearing the ruse thus far Is set at 113
hours. The state opened and present
ed Its case In 3 1-3 hours, henring eight
witnesses, while the defense has put
on as many, but has by no means com
pleted Its euse.
Dr. Britton D. Evans resumed the
witness chair nt the resumption of the
trial of the Thaw rase today, and was
cross-examined by .Mr. Jerome. The
cross-examination of Dr. Evans was
concluded about noon.
Brain Storm Vanished.
Dr. Evans stated that Thaw's delib
erate action In shooting White and hl.i
appearance of Indifference Immediately
afterwards tended to show that the
defendant was Insane when he commit
ted the deed and did not regard hts act
os wrong.
"So that If lie hail the brain storm nt
the time of the shooting he had so re
organized Ills mental faculties he was
entirely In a different state when It"
made the statement to the ff'rinan?"
asked Jerome.
Yes. that it l» a very truthful ex
the International
A FE W 0? THE THINGS
CONGRESS RE ALT DID
Washington. March 4.—Among the things accomplished by the con
gress which adjourned today are the following:
It ratified the Santo Domingo treaty.
Passed a billion dollars’ worth of appropriation hills.
ordered an Investigation of the lumber trust:
Harvester Trust and of cotton exchanges.
Passed an Immigration act. coupled with exclusion of Japanese coo
lies.
Knocked out the canteens at soldiers' homes.
Gave the railway employees a sixteen-hour law.
Established an agricultural bank In the Philippines.
Passed a rather tome currency reform measure.
Provided for a new battleship.
Passed a modified act prohibiting corporations from making cam
paign assessments.
Ratified the Algedraa treaty.
Adopted a resolution providing fhr
vUie. Tax, riot. —
an investigation of the Browne-
Decided that Senator Smoot, of Utah, was entitled to his wat.
Passed a general eervloe pension act.
Passed a rtrer and hawker Mil.
It raised salaries of vice president, speaker, cabinet members, mem
bers of congress and postal employees and provided an appropriation for
pneutnatlc postal tubes In several large rltlee.
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O VAN DYKE MAY QUIT a
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O Princeton. N. J, March 4.—It Is O
O reported here on good authority O
O that Dr. Henry- Van Dyke Intende 0
O resigning his professorship In O
O Princeton University. March 16 O
O Dr. Van I>ykr leaves for a tour of O
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Phinizy Thinks Won’t
Be Thorough In
spection.
Through hfs attorney. Austin Branch,
Hon. Bowdro I'hlnlsy. of Augusta, de
clines the Invitation of the Georgia
railroad commission to Join with It In
Inspecting the Georgia railroad, be
ginning Wednesday.
tin the ground that tt Is evidently
the Intention of the commission to make
inly a limited Investigation nnd the
statontent that the commission has nt
funds to employ an expert. Mr. Phltllzy
declines to Join with them.
He says that the Invitation of the
tnmlsslon evidently clnlude* theGeov-
gla Railroad anti Hanking t'ompany
and the lessees of that company, nnd
that SO far there Is only one "party" to
tlie complaint and ttiat Is Mr. Pblnlzy,
Not Thorough Inspection.
One pari of the communication says:
"You do mit state with anything
approaching definiteness what kind
an Inniiedlon you propi
where you expect to go. nr now lung
you expect to he gone. For this reason
it Is extremely difficult for us to form
any estimate of the range, character .0
purpose of your Inspection. Wo rather
Infer that you expect to he away on
the trill only a comparatively short
lime. There l« nothing onminly
Ine that the railroad commlaalonera are
going to be able to examine and report
on the true facts as to the condition of
the road."
Attention 1s railed to the offer of the
Georgia Railroad and Hanking fom-
linny lo employ an expert nnd stand all
expenses of the Investigation.
Mr. I’hlulzy asks for a special hear
ing before the commission on March IS.
Extend, invitation.
A telegram wag received at the office
of the railroad commission Monday
morning from Jacob Phlnlxy. of Au
gusta, president of the Georgia Rail-
load and BankingCompany, and chair
man of the Inspection committee. Invit
ing the commission to Join In the an-
w«k ln " p ‘‘ r "' >n " r ,lle properties this | t ,„ r , u pervlslon of
Mr. Phltllzy says the committee Is
willing to .tart from Atlanta on Wed
nesday, the date ffxed hy the commis
sion to begin the Inspection by that nr.
gnnlzatlon. unit will lie pleased to place
the faculties thus ufTorded at the com
mand of the three members.
lie says that they will have an expert
with them, nml that the commission
may use him ns they see proper In the
work of Inspection. None of the com
missioners will be here until Tuesday,
so Just what action will lie taken In the
mutter I* nm known.
Hands of Clocks
Turned Back ijn Both
the Houses.
| SHIP SUBSIDY BILL
IS TALKED TO:
President Signs Hours
Labor Measure Before
Congress Passes Into
Historw
Washington. March 4—The
ninth congress, celebrated bectu
the fact that Its appropriations
exceeded the blllton-dollar
passed Into history today.
The senate adjourned at II: IS p.
and the house live minutes later. c .
hands of the clocks In both houses
to be turned back to show the r
hour at adjournment, according to I
Delay wits caused by the ii
the hour at whleh the senate [
hours of labor bill. It was signed
the president before the expiration
the fifty-ninth congress.
The house gave Itself up to song
mirth, singing "For He's a Jolly
Fellow," which always Is a port at
set program for adJournmenL '
waa a reception at the
Hpeaker Joe Cannon
Leader John Sharp Williams, of If
slppl. Informally received the ms
The senate waa more dip
dent Roosevelt presided at the
session of that body.
Ship Subsidy Bill Daad.
The ship subsidy bill Is dead,
bustertng against It, which began I
senate Saturday afternoon and cor
ued with brief Intermissions until
day night, came lo an end without
further contest.
After the senate reassembled t*
Mr. Carmack, of Tennessee, In
of the filibustering plana,
recognition to continue hla
when. Mr. GalUnger. of N
charge of the shipping Ml
the measure.
'It haa been only about I
Since, the first billion doll
Into v tsar—when Uia
tlona for two sessions of a <
a billion dollars.'
servntlve minded men rail
the government was running to
travagance. but now the country
witnessed a billion doltar
billion dollar congress, for It la
safe to predict that now the billion
lar stage haa been reached for a
session, succeeding sessions will l
necessary to appropriate aa much
has been appropriated at any p~
Ing session.
What Congrats Didn’t Oe.
Here are a few things which
fffty-nlnth congress failed to do:
Failed lo consider a new trade
venilon with Germany.
Did not ratify the Isle of Pints tr
with Cuba.
Did not modify the Chlneaa excl
art.
Did not eodlfy the revised statu
Did not reduce the Philippine
duties
Passed no anti-injunction acL
Failed to strengthen the eight-"
law.
Did not pass n child labor law.'
Did not revise the tariff.
Did nothing for the conservatloa
public oil nnd oal lands.
Did not provide eltlienshtp for !
Ilk-ana or Japanese.
Passed no copyright act.
Did nm put ait on the free list.
Did not pasn the Payne bill to '
solldnte customs In districts. ■■
Did nothing toward licensing or
-poratMMfiT
tTn
Did nothing 1" cheek swollen
tunes and passed no Inheritance tax.
Defeated the Littlefield pilot
Failed to provide that eoet
Inspection shall fall on packers.
Passed no bill lo allow appeals
fraud orders of poatolfice depart:,
no convict labor act: no regulation
Interstate traffic In alcoholic bevan
Lively Sunday Session*.
The senate and house held day
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on Blind Tiger When
Battle Opened.
K|HM'lnl t<» Tin* Georgian.
I'hnrlotte, S’. March 4.—The entire
Matt* was *hocked yesterday l>y the
news of another tragedy In Fayette
ville, In eastern Carolina, resembling
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three* polh-riiu'ii bring the vlillm* In
eiu h Instance. Turn Walker, a des
perate n^gr >. \\n* *u*plcioned of oper
ating a hlimi tiger and his place raided,
when hr shot otfl
probably fatally woum
anil Officer liu* klngham. Today
Walker .safe in the state prison at
Ilulclgh. where he will probably be kept
for safety until the trial. The excite-
ment In Fayetteville, wlilrh uun at fe
ver hcut, ha* in u measure nuhftldcd.
The negro. Walker, will not admit hi*
aullt. Tin* plM.%: with whirl* the mur
der was commit let! hu* been secured.
The critical point In the condition of
the two Injured men will likely be
planatlon of what occurred." replied y our p.m-i to warrant u presumption I
Kvon*. "When he suffered this brain K hnl vmjr p,*,*., ti«m will be either
Mono—brain storm* are not all alike— {i,,„ rm Jgh, exhaustive or » onelu*lve.
wa* unbalanced nml not re.-ponslbl«* "obvbuiHlv the Munition demand* and
hi* ad. 1 am hot In n position to; t | l# , people expci t an Investigation that
mv JuM 1C hat he was thinking about u ,„ vrrv r*H>t of the matt'—
nt the time He hail been overwhelmed
by the thing* he had been told and
when he Huddenly came face to face
Locality iloail and! with the man whom he believed t» be
i,,,.,t ' responsible there i-atne an explosion,
i.led t met t h train T(j » man ,* rest rained by logical
This matter Is by far the most Impor
tant that line ever 'Suin' up before your
honorable body, and It will not tie fair
either to eompliilnailt or to the com
pany against whom the complaint ra
tiled for any conclusion t" !>•• reached
reasoning from doing nt times what he j ,, xi . rpt afu ,,. s . : , r . lung and « f
would like t" do: the Insane Is furred < ,| r(l . n , inquiry Into the matters at I
power urged or by
illogical reasoning."
Or. Wagner is Cattail.
Dr. tiiarlea Wagner, of Blnghnmp-
tott, N. V.. an alienist, was net' called
to the stand.
(He testimony strengthened thr de-
lense s rase materially, lie said hr had
heard Dr. Evans' testimony and what
he (Kvana) said coincided with hla view
of the case.
firl'-ht Inquiry Into the matte
or except upon Die admissions of th- i
company itself.
"He Must Decline."
"Until complainant lura heen fully
assured that such an Investigation Is!
to be made he must respectfully decline
to participate In the proceedings,"
The letter to the inmmlsaior. says I
Dint the statement that there was no|
fund to employ an expert, that "it seems
"hUdlah oral wotaa than futlla to tmag-
Growth and Progress of the New South
Thr Grorclnn rrconla her* etch Unjr *«»tne
economic f*<t In reference lo the uonnrtl
march of the Kouth.
lit ImltiMrlal prosperity in the H »uth Texa* la the banner Mate, all
mo tion* pnrtlcipAtlng at record*breaking Mrttie*. (lalveeton. In matter* of
commerce, ha* been breaking past record* for a period of live years, but all
previous record* are *o small in cotuparlMin with the record* made thue
far thl* flnrnl year that even thorn* whose business it I* to keep an gccu-
rate MaitMIra! account of commercial affair* ere nMonlshed at the pr
ic** made. During the fiscal year »>f ly05-0t» the value of foreign exp
amounted t«> $146,000,000. Thl* waa an Increaae over all previous rec*
ord* «»f I40.ooo.omt in round number*. During the culendar year I
export value* amounted to $lS6.ooo.ooo, placing the port of Galveatbn i
••»id tt» the port of New York in export rank, by a- large margin, ixirtag
the tir*t *e\en month* of the present fiscal year the value of foreign es*
port* amount* to 9l57.000.ooo uu.l there le but little question that the flecat
>ear 1*06.07 will pa*« the $200,000,000 market In thle>reepect.
tlnlveston ha* gone mo far ahead of competing ports In the handling
of mtton that the comparison make* a story like a fairy- tale, having noer
punned the 3.000,000-hale mark in cotton receipts since September 1. 19n
expstrtlng port la the world ever came within a million bales aa much hi
no short a time, an«l no exporting port In the world ever received aa miMfc
totton during a full neason of twelve months. Very conservative ee
matm place (htlveMon'a cotton receipt* for the season of 1606-67
3.750.000 bale*, while several wager* have been laid that receipts foe the
nestnoti will pan* the 4.ooo.ooo-b«le mark. At the present time receNd
average 2o.ooo bale* per day. Com paring GAJveeton'a cotton receipts tba
far thl* season with the closem competing porta and we hava Oalrests*
3.101.282 bales: New Orleans. 1,819.108 bale*, or 1,389.174 less than i
vest on. Savannah. 1,257.183 bale*, or 1J44.09I teas than Galveston;
.nnnah nnd New Orleans combine*^ 3,071391 bales, aa compared
3,101,282 bale* for Galveston.