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Atlanta Georgian AtlonU and VIHaUy. Halo *trjrijrfct a*d ’ to- morrow ^ alight 1/ coMut ATLANTA, OA., TUESDAY, MAROH 12,1907. la Afloat*: TWO CC )o T rat at: riVf o; 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. oooooooooooooaooooooooaooD 8 GOOD LUCK HORSESHOE SENT TO HARRY THAW IOL 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 00000000000000000000000000 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. OOOO0O0OOOOOOO00OOO0O0OO0O O O a MORE RAIN IS DUE. O 0 COLDER ON WEDNESDAY. 0 O O O Rack to rubber shoes and rein- 0 coats. Coming a bunch of mole- O 0 extending over Wednesday. 0 O Coollsh, too Wednesday, but not O o enough i<> warrant another O 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: . .41 degrees. O ..41 degrees. O ..II degrees.'o «>M degree*. O ..12 degrees O ..54 decrees o .lit degree., o . 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, EM ■ V —' —“ we.toe. mmmim