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Atlanta Georgian
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ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, MAROH 12,1907.
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Brother - in - Law of
Stanford White
Testifies.
Nothing Cold About
Latest Visitors
To City.
Mapgled Bodies j
Hurled Into the
Harbor.
HE TALKED TO THAW
~ NIGHT OF TRAGEDY
WashingtonManFinds
Former Wife In
Atlanta.
MEET AT KIMBALL
FOB CONVENTION
SHOCK EXPLODES
POWDER MAGAZINE
Slayer Thinks It Strange
That Jerolne Talks
To Jurors.
Disaster Occurs Wliile Offi
cers Are Making Inspec
tion—Watchers Are
Hurt by Shell.
'Paris, March 12. —An official
dispatch to the ministry of marine
confirms the explosion. It states
that the battleship probably will
be a total loss. ' It adds that the
vessel was being repaired and the
fact that the casualties were not
greater is due to the fact that
many men were on shore or leave.
The Jene had a crew of 500
men, including officers. According
to official dispatcher only about
400 men were on board. Scarcely
one escaped death or Injury, most
of them being killed outright «
Toulon, France, March 12.—
■While .scores of persona on the
docks were watching the
J<
of the battleship Jean this af
ternoon, a shell on board the ves
sel exploded and many of the
watchers were injured by flying
fragments of steel.
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8 GOOD LUCK HORSESHOE
SENT TO HARRY THAW
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BY CAROLINA 8RHTHY. O
Special to The Georgian. O
Charlotte. N. C„ March IS.—A O
O great home..hoe, IS by 17 Inches.
O tied with blue ribbon, hae been
O cent to Harry Thaw, by Key O
a Rltch, a Laurlnburg blacksmith. O
O Repressive of his wish for Thaw's 6
o success In belns cleared. } o
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New York, March 11.- While Attor
ney Delmae was arguing against tha
admtsablllty of the evidence of James
Clinch Smith, brother-in-law of Stan
ford Whitt, District Attorney Jeroraa
chatted with Jurors Noe. 1 and S. Ha
evidently telling one of hie funny
atorles. Thaw called the attention of
several reporters to the Incident.
"Do you see what he la doing?"
asked Thaw. "Is that rights
was assured that the district at
torney was alraply chatting with the
Jurors and ha smiled and re
1L I think that very
"WaS., __ . . ..
Thaw tmndfdthls statement
reporters:
“Mr. Thaw mads
renting the groundless
thst any relative
Paris, March 12.—As a result of
an explosion on board the French
armored battleship Jene was
sunk at her moorings at Toulon
this morning. A report received
here says that one of the vessel’s
torpedoes blew up, and. as she
sank, her powder magazine ex
ploded.
Two hundred officers, seamen
and marines are kiioiyu to be dead
and 100 injured.
The Jene was a battleship of
the first class of 12,052 tons dis
placement. She carried a crew ol
700 officers and men, and had a
battery of 58 guns.
She waR built in 1898 of iron and
steel throughout, not a bit of wood
being used in her construction.
The Jene was lying at the ar
Renal dock withia the harbor. An
inspection had been ordered of
her machinery and magazine. Be
tween 11 and 12 o’clock, while of
ficer* were making the rounds
there came frightful reports, fol
lowed by others in rapid auccea
sion.
Mangled human bodies were
hurled high in the air. Terror and
panic followed shock after shock.
Scores of men jumped into the wa
ter and it is believed many were
drowned.
The ahock of the explosion was
felt all over the city.
Air Oauies Blaat.
The disaster was due to au ex
plosion of compressed air while a
torpedo boat was being adjuated
in the magazine.
The Jene was scheduled to sail
in forty-eight hour? -VlLher fires
were out. The explosion hurled
armor plate, superstructure,
small boats and bodiee into the
BCR.
Volunteers from among work
men in the arsenal rushed aboard
the Jene to help the injured, and
drag away the dead. They eould
accomplish little, as flames from
the rapidly burning ship*dtove
them back. Scores who were se
riously injured but eould not drag
themselves away were roasted
alive, their moans and cries being
heard above crackling flames.
Early Roach Crop Daitrsyod.
Special to Tha Georgian.
Jackson, Mist. March It.—Tha early
poach crop In Mlsolaolppl. according io
lb# boat authorities, baa boon dootroyod
ual there vrttl be few, U any, early
peacbee be UUa atata
_ _ of hta
orated from hla wife. Such
demands the animus behln
false reports."
New York, March It—District At-
torney Jerome today planned a sensa
lion to break down the defense of
Harry K. Thaw. He was In confer'
ence until after midnight with oeven
alienists.
The conference was held secretly at
the roome of the Bar Aaaoclatlon. but
It waa understood that a plan waa de
elded upon In case Justice Fllagtrold
continues to rule out the line of re
buttal attempted by the prooecutloa
yesterday. '
At the conference were Dr. Allan
McLane Hamilton, Dr. McDonald and
five other allenlata. who have been en
gaged by-the state.
Smith Is Rocallod.
Jamas Clinch 8mlth. brother-liMaw
of Stanford White, was called as the
first witness today.
Jerome was provided with authorities
to show that Smith should bo allowed
to testify aa a new witness. Instead of
being confined merely to rebuttal.
Smith was In Europe at the time the
prosecution presented Its case.
It was learned when the Thaw trial
resumed that the great point at which
District Attorney Jerome Is aiming la
an alibi for Btanford White.
To Attack Her Story.
Realising that the strongest part of
Thaw’s defense la the dramatic story
told by tha girl wife of tha prisoner
on tha witness stand, and that he must
batter that story to pieces before he
can possibly hope to obtain a verdict
against Thaw, Jerome Is now strain.
Ing every effort to get In evidence
which will discredit Evelyn Thaw's
truthfulnesfc.
His case In chief, once reopened,. It
was assarted, he then would be In a
m other witnesses which would aim
directly at discrediting the story of
Evelyn Thaw.
Hapaa to Prove Alibi..
The main part of thli. It Is alleged,
la evidence that on the night Evelyn
Thaw testified that she was drugged
by Stanford Whits he was giving a
•tag party In hla Madison Square Gar.
lowing on this line waa tha tsstli
' sought today to obtain from
which ha _ _
Smith os to a conversation alleged to
have taken place at the roof , garden
the shooting of Whits.
Just before
By this alleged conversation ha hoped
to show that Thaw waa rational and
that Jealousy was the motive that octu.
It was not the
bad developed aa the retult of the
story of her who at the hands of While
hsd suffered, as she claimed.
Delmas Makes PelnL
Before Stanford White's brother-in-
law took bis seat In the witness chair,
Ur. Delmas addressed the court on the
Subject of Its discretion In regard to
receiving Mr. Smith's testimony.
"We should like to know," began
Mr. Delmas, "Just to what eatent this
witness Is to be examined In rebut-
Jnotice Fllsgeratd said:
"The district attorney has a witness
who was not available when the peo-
.pWanto Sit Page Thirteen,
After, a systematic search In various
cities of the country, Mrs. Joseph H.
Scobell. 26 years of age, the pretty wife
of a well-known young business man
of Washington, D. C„ was found on
Monday night In Atlanta by her hut-
band and two city detectives. The
meeting between the husband and wife
was Intensely dramatic.
The young woman was found In a
boarding house In the business district,
where she hod been since lost Thurs
day. Mrs. Scobell. who la sold to be
prominently connected In Philadelphia,
Is reported to have come to Atlanta In
company with the well-known minstrel
man and dancing comedian, Warren
Tucker, formerly a star member of the
Al Q. Field minstrel aggregation. The
woman Is said to have been deserted
by her companion last week, two days
after their arrival I* the city, at which
time they occupied apartments In one
of the leading down-town hotels.
Tategraphetf to Husband.
Lost Thursday Mrs. Scobell left the
hotel and secured a room lit tha board
ing houee In question. She than for
warded a telegram to her husband In.
forming hbn. It la sold, that aha waa Ul
and dasMtwte and asking Mm for as
sistance. This miwitila said irfhrrl
brought a monetary response, follow-
toto — ‘ h br
ing which the distressed husband
rlod to Atlanta. Mn. Scobell did not
give bar address, and the husband
sought the pMIce. asking Chief Jen.
nines to aid him In the ecarch for his
Two detectives were detailed on the
case, and Monday night. In company
with Scobell. found the missing young
woman. The greeting le sold to have
precipitated a rather stormy and dra
Manufacturers From All
Over the South Will
Attend Meeting.
The Ice man Is here.
If each one of the delegates to tha
annual convention of the Southern lee
Exchange brought with- him the
padty of his plant Atlanta would be
such a cool place that the weather man
on top bf the Empire building would be
run out of town.
Ice men from all over tbe South are
here, and they will be here until Thurs
day or Utter.
The first session of the convention
was held In tha convention hall of the
Kimball House Tuesday morning at 11
o'clock, and after the visitors had been
welcomed to the metropolis of the
South and assured that they could have
the floor. After beln
agreed to return to Washington with
her husband, but just before
leaving
the house Is sold to have slipped
‘ ‘ * a book eoi
bottle of carbolic add from
In tie room. This act woe noticed,
however, by one of the boarders, who
Informed the officers. The poison was
then taken from the woman.
Scobell, It Is stated, declared his In'
tentlon of taking his wife back to bar
people and then procuring a divorce.
At the boarding house Mrs. Scobell
Is said to have given her name as “Mfa
Tucker." She Is said to have cried a
great deal and to have Informed other
said to have left her
husband about two weeks ago.
RELIEF ASKED
BY ME
Washington. March 1!.—F. M. Crump,
president of the Memphis Cotton Ex
change. presented to the Intermtato
commerce commission today facts re
garding the congestion of cotton at
Memphis * “ *
and asked for relief.
The commission said that It would
take the question of remedying the sit
uation under consideration, and, It
deemed advisable, would make an In
vesllgatlon on Its own account In Mem
phis.
There are at present ever 11,060 bales
of cotton In the hands of the carriers
at Memphis awaiting cars In which to
load. From the statements made and
the evidence produced before the cam.
mission the situation ' "
In Memphis with
respset to cotton was shown to be as
strlous as that respecting wheat In
some of the northwestern states.
NOT RE-ORGANIZE
POLICE BOARD
lire ronuMeo will taret Tuesday
night Ri*rexulsr seadcHi. bat srronling to
Chairman Terry there will be no reorxsnl-
■sties. •• bis bees forecasted far severe!
Ckslrraso Terry declares that hla
does net expire satll April L end elm holds
that the newly elected eaeuaMaesr, How
ard Pattlllo, trill Ml take kla seat os tbs
eomsitsslon ostll thst date.
With s smile, the ebalnoas
JV “ “
"My term as <• ha Irmas does not expire
until Audi L and I don’t propose to give
on my Job until that time.
Thera baa been mnrb speculation at to
who would be elected chairman Toeaday
Terry bolds sood. the gwenwurk will have
lo be matleeed for sum,' llate fat. Tbe
rbatrmaa states that sady. routine buati
wtfi be tansllerel Tseeder sight.
down to bug!
"I've often heard of the Ice man,”
■old Mayor W. R. Joyner, who wel
comed the visitors, "and often thought
Fd like to be the Ice man, but when 1
saw this crowd I wanted to be one
f#"vs thrown away
a If yoa ees nny-
. it take ft. And If there
le gomethlnfe you want and don't see,
ask for It. We're glad to have you.''
New Skyscrapers.
Mayor Joyner’s welcoming addrt
was responded to by W. J. Rushton,
of Birmingham, who paid a high trib
ute to Atlanta's hospitality. And In
cidentally he remarked that every time
he came to Atlanta ha was able to see
a new skyscraper shoving Its way Into
the clouds.
Reports from the various officers
and committees were called tor and
thst of Secretary and Treasurer W. W.
Thompson, of Greensboro, N. C, show-
dltlon. The meeting waa presided over
by President William EL .Worth, and
In opening the convention he, too,
boosted Atlanta and sold It was an
Ideal place for such a convention.
The closing part of the morning ses
sion waa devoted to an Interesting dla.
cusalon of the difficulties encountered
by Ice manufacturers In their business
and many of those present told tbelr
troubles and sought the advice of
others.
The delegates began arriving In At
lanta on Monday and at present there
are about lit registered at the Kimball,
while the Piedmont and the Aragon
have their quota. It la expected that
by Tuesday afternoon or night at least
110 will be preMnt In the city to par
ticipate In the business session! and
the social features provided by the
Atlanta members of tbe organisation.
Soms of the Visitors.
Prominent among those already here
are: President William E. Worth, Wil
mington. N. C.: Vice President Leon
Berton, Helena, Ark.: Secretary and
Treasurer W. W. Thompson. Greens
boro, N. C.i F. Sltterdlng. Richmond,
Vo.; William E. Wood, Arlington,
Moat.: Bruce Dodson, Kansas City,
Mo.; W. S. Allison, Indianapolis: C. E.
Bsrnell. Chicago; W. H. Rosa, New
York; M. L Rea, London. Ohio; for
mer President C, D. Wingfield, Rich
mond. and W. J. Ruahton, Birming
ham. Ala.
There are many ladlee ■present and
■peclal provision has been made for
them In —" “ - - -
the program of'entertainment
by the Atlanta members. The officers
of the Atlanta exchange, which will en
tertain the visitor*, are: L. G. Neal, of
the Atlanta Oil and Fertiliser Com-
K ny, president; T. R. Hawtell. of the
wtell Meat and tee Company, vice
president: Ernest Woodruff, of the At
lanta Ice and Coal Company, treasur
er, and C. S. Campbell, of the Fred W.
Wolf Company, secretary.
LAWSON CLEARS UP
Millions in panic
OF STOCK MARKET
New York. March 11—Wild panic
held sway on the curb market at the
opening of the stock market as the re
sult of Thomas W. Lawson's announce
ment that he could not commend the
purchase of Nevada-Utah stock/
All Wall attest was loaded with tbe
stuff from tl to II a shore. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars were lost In the
flrat five mlnutee of trading and Law-
son and his associates are said to have
cleared more than It.000.040 as a result
of his manipulation of the etock.
Woman Are Heavy Losers.
This loss folia chltfly on women and
small tradesmen who have followed
Lawson blindly Into this speculation.
Wall street as a class was short of the
stock, and several traders mods from
110.000 to 110.000 on the break. Mott
of the bGr brokerage houses, expecting
such a crash, had sold out thslr cus
tomers' stock as fast as It was pur
chased and replaced It this morning
at the opening, thereby making tre
mendous profits. .
Lawson and his New York broksre
have been selling the stock freely for
have been selling the stock freely for
the last two weeks. Tha exact amount
of their profits Voithot ba ascertained.
but they must be enormous.
Lawson Warned Puglia.
While Lawson has all the time pub-
Ilcly- warned the public not to buy this
etock, his broken have been privately
urging Its purchase tor a big rise. The
written evidence It all In t favor of
Lawson, as he bos never in print ad
vised the public to bur Nevada-Utah
stock.
The stock sold down to 11.10 ashore
In the first break. There were half a
dosen different markets for It at the
same time. Nevada-Utah was selling
at IS a share when Lawson began his
manipulations. He advanced It to II.
The break to II.SO was made without
a rally, and the stock waa still being
wildly traded In and drafting down
long after the panic hod worn Itself
out. The only buying was on the part
of the stock exchange houses which
had been short of II.
JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
STRUCK FROM BEHIND
BY J. H. CRUTCHFIELD
reception In the parlors of the Kimball
House.
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0 extending over Wednesday. 0
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slaughter of the fruit
cost: O
“Rain Tueeday night and Wed- O
O needny. warmer Tuesday night O
O and slightly coldsr Wednesday." O
Turvtn
John Temple Graves, editor of The
Georgian, was assaulted Tuesday
shortly after t o'clock by J. H. Crutch
field, who recently was turned loose by
a Fulton county Jury after shooting
his wife.
In company with Mr. Walter P. An
draws, Mr. araves was walking along
Whitehall street In front of Hrown A
Allen's drug store, when Crutchfleld
walked up from behind and struck Mr.
Graves a blow on the back of the head
with hla fist.
Both Mr. Graves and Mr. Andrews
were taken completely by surprise. Mr.
Graves staggered from the blow and
sank to his knees. Mr. Andrews
turned quickly and seeing the asss!
ant. snatched Mr. Graves' walking
stick, and struck Crutchfleld once over
the head, and then on the hands when
he tried to shield his head.
Then Crutchfleld backed aerms the
street with his right hand In hla hip
pocket, daring Mr. Andrews to strike
him sgaln. About a block farther on
he stood at bay and throwing his band
Into hla pocket, defied any one to touch
Policeman Terry appeared on the
scene at thle Juncture, arrested Crutch-
field and then very promptly turned
him loose with a copy of charges, not
stopping to enquire the nature of the
assault or make any Investigation
whatever.
CrutehfleM Arrested.
Captain Mayo, at police headquarters,
learned of the affair at once, and tin-
mediately uidsiir Crutchfield's arrest,
notifying all the patrolmen on the up
town beats. Crutchfleld was located
near'the poetnfflce at 2 o'clock and was
plaint about an allegsd misstatement
in an Interview published while he
STREETS
HELD UP
BY MOB
Police Forced to Fight
Two Hundred
Persons.
THREE ARRESTS-
MADEASRESl
Eight Trolleys Sent
From Barns in Louis
ville Tuesday. •
Louisville. Ky., March 13.—C
the eight cars sent out by tbe
vllle Street Railway Company
the strike today waa held up a.
enteenth and. Chestnut street*
mob of about ion persons,
light with the police on t‘
arrests were mode. The (
ceeded down town with
doom
Suburban service has not
aumed.
Louisville. Ky./ March
yesterday, few cars were op
the lines of the Loulavllh
Company as a result of the
about M0 union employees «
company.
• every cor which left the bar
guarded by policemen.
The sympathy of the public
to be, with tbe striker* ar l“
doted bottp tnJVry If they i
to (Ids, for nooe of th*
rontssd to oar oM
ajM tortr t
c*M
yesterday
turbane** which brok* out I
lag In the outskirts were i
•r the c*nur at town
belt a down osrs wsre.4
of th* Hum. Each was L
Itcemsn on both platforms i
i guordad.j
INVESTIGATION
- IS POSTPI
At the request of A. C.
tbe ex-aldermtn who I* apt
saloon license, the Investigation 1
character, which was to have I
applying I
Tuesday afternoon by the police I
poned.
mitts*, has been poet
It wlll.be remembered that
application of Mlnhlnnett A
for a saloon license on Decatur
came up at the last session of
Alderman Key asked that the
life* I
mlttee, elating that he cou
Mlnhlnnett was not a proper per
have a license.
Alderman Key was to give to
police committee Tuesday often
the information which he said he
relative to Mr. Mlnhlnnett'* charnr
Mr. Mlnhlnnett, It to understood.
Councilman RoberU, chairman of tE
committee, that hla attorney we* sot
of th* city, and asked for a poet poop-
ment.
Councilman Roberts ssksd Aid*
Key If tho postponement was
was confined In the Tower, many I able to him, ana !
Continued en Page Thirteen.
be consented'
granting of the request ot Mr.
hlnnetl.
I a. jn..
It nion.
1 p. m
t>. m..
day temperatures:
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..II degrees.'o
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. 40 degree..
tnilmen Hill —
to the police station and locked up In
default of a cash collateral of 1100.
Crutchfleld had 150 In cash, which
he offered aa collatsral. but this waa
refused.
Cause of Assault.
Crutchfleld appeared In the local de
partment of Th* Georgian about two
weeks ago and began to make a cvm
Growth and Progress of the New Soldi
march of the
iU
reference to tbs
•Y
JOSEPH B. LIVELY.
The annual report of Secretary of Stats Phil Cook shows an onormoaa
sum of money Invested In business enterprises In Atlanta and Fulton
county. |n th* matter of home corporations Fulton county Is the ban
ner county of the state, In that In number and capitalisation It leads all
other counties In Georgia. The total amount of capitalisation of FUltoa
ouhty.
against the taxable value of rial estate and personal property of
I TO,000,000.
BANKS CHARTERED BY STATE.
The state bank* chartered so far thla year, the capitalisation of each
being 125,000 In all cosse where figures are not given, are os follows:
Farmers' Bank of Monroe, 115,000; Farmers' and Cltlxens' Bank of
Wstklnsvllle: Exchange Hank of Savannah, 1100,000; Farmers' and Mer
chants* Bank of Toccoa; Lake Park Bank: Bank of Tahirs; Bonk el
Berwick; Bank of Parrott: Cltlsens' Rank of Carrollton. 150,000; Drake-
town Banking Company: Bank of Vldalta; People's Bank or Gordon; Baak
of Fayetteville. 550,000; Scott Banking Company; Farmers' *nd Mer
chant*' Bank of Fayetteville: Bank of East Point: The Hank ot Frsskttn
County: Bank ot Harrison; Cltlten*' Bank of McRae, 150.000: Bank
Norman Park; Farmers' and Merchants' flank or Loganvlllo; Bonk at ‘
tonfleld; Hibernia Bank of Savannah, 1200.000: Valdosta Bank and Trust
Compsny, !200,000; Bank of Girard; Cltlsens’' Trust Company of Savon-
asb, $100,000: Exchange Rank of Waycroaa, $75,000; Merchants’ sag
Farmer*' llank of Wlllacoortte*. fM.WO: -"Cltlxens' Hanking Com para
ltaxley, 150.000: Pitt* Hanking Compsny: Farmers' and Merchants'
of Butler: Bank of Ball Ground; Bank of Uurkhead; Bank of Gray
People'* llank of Oliver. IJO.udO; llank of Boperton: t.'ltlsen*' Bank ;
chelle; Cltlsens' Hank of Octlla, $50,000: Bank of Talbotton. $
People'* Bank of Franklin; The McDuffie Hank: Merchants' and
era, Hank of Rutledge; Hank of Decatur; Hank of Htockbrtdge; Cl
Hunk of Kite; Pear*on Hanking Company. 110,000: Hank of Spread:
er.' ami Merchants' llank of CartsrSVIlle. $50,000; Home 8arln
Carteravllle; Hank of Flnvllla; The Rank of Rhine: Bank of I
Hank of Ochlochncc; People's Saving* Bank of Thomaavllts;
Irelnvlllr: Hank of Prciton: Farmer*' Hank ot Montlcallo.
Farmers' Hank of (Jlenwood; Glynn I'oonty Hank, of Brunswick, I
■ City Hank. Halo City, Mitchell county: Baak of Cobbtown, 1
y; Hank of Milan. Telfair county. 130.000; UtGranga BnvtMM
offer county, SI A, SOI;
Merchants' and Farmers' Bank, of t
leus Trust and Saving* Bank
vlllt. Hart county: Amsrlcus
Rome/ $100,000: The
Cltlsenr' Bank, Macon conaiy,
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