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NEGRO TROOPS GUILTY ^
OF SHOOTING UP CITY,
SAYS COURTMARTIAL
Senate Committee
Gets News of the
Findings.
Washington. March >1.—That the
saurtmartiaJ. sitting at Ban Antonio.
Taxes. which exonerated Major Pen-
reee. found (hat the "shooting up” of
Brownsville, Texas, waa done by mem
ber* of the Twenty-fifth Infantry, waa
the new* conveyed la a telegram re
ceived toiMT by the eenata committee
on military affair*.
The telegram waa cent by Brigadier
» neral McCaakey, commanding the
partment of Texas. to the war de
partment. and a copy of It waa turned
over to the committee by the acting
ear ret ary of war.
The meeaaga announced the exoner
atlon of Major Penroee, who had been
charged with neglect of duty aa a re-
cult of the BmwnevlUe affair, and
Hated that It waa the dedalen of the
ceurtmartlal that the riot at Browns-
vllle on the night of Augtut li la*t waa
the reault of the work of the negro
aoldler* *tatloned there at that time.
ORDERED TO LEAVE,
STUDENT STAYS AT
U
Told on Hazers and Was
Waited Upon by Com
mittee. '
FOR PAUL E. WILKES
Paul E. Wilke*, a young Atlantan
well known In local newspaper cir
cle* and n member of The Georgian
Mar, hn* Ju*l been notified of hi* ellgl-
Milt y for the possession of a Weat
Indian campaign medal now being lo
aned to officer* and crew* of ree*el*
of the Bpanlah-Amerlcan war.
Mr. Wilkes we* a member of tbe
crew of the cruiser Reeolute and waa
In two engagements, one at Santiago
de Cuba oa July 1, and another at
Manxanlllo. Cuba, August It. A com
plete list of vessels and engagement*
he* been posted at the custom bouse,
and will be of Interest to thuse having
relatives In the navy.
Ilpeelal lo The Oeergtae.
Columbia, H. C., Match 8L—It. Ii
charged that becauae ha told an a par
ty of students, causing two to be ex
polled and six others to be suspended
for hexing him, young C. M. Lae, Jr, of
Tlmmonsvllle, waa waited upon by
committee representing the student
body of the South Carolina University
gnd given until hie first train home to
leave. He shot at the party. It !* atat
ed, when It forced Its way Into hie
mom. Lee left tha university campus,
but remained In the city. Today hie
father le here to carry the matter be
fore the faculty thla afternoon through
hie attorney, Representative C. T. Ker
shaw.
President Bloan gave the atudent* a
talk thla morning, condemning the ac
tion of tha commlttea, aaytng ha would
deal with It If he could find out their
name*. He says Lae ha* a good legal
standing before tbe faculty a* any one.
An aggregation of atudenta painted
the campus monument pink a abort
time ago.
Dr. Ward Returns.
Dr. A. C. Ward, for many years
pastor of the Temple Baptist church,
who has been spending several weeks
In Florida for hie health, will return to
the etty tonight. Although Dr. Ward
ha* tfot entirely gained hie strengt!
Is hie purpose to resume his duflei
at early date as possible.
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LEGISLATURE BALKS,
* PROHIBITIONISTS TO FIGHT
Minister Says Hoke
Smith Will Fix
Negro Vote.
If tba legislature at Ita coming •«»-
•Ion take* no favorable action on pro
hibition legislation, than a fight win ba
made afterward* tor a local opUon
election In Atlanta.
Thla waa the declaration mad* Mon
day morning at the meeting of Baptlet
mlnlitere by Rev. J. L. D. Hlllyer. He
said, In making a report of what had
been accompllahed by hla committee
along prohibition line*, that Ooveranr-
elect Hoke Smith had aaaured him
name dlipoeltlon would be made of the
negro vote during the coming aeulon
and he pointed out that with thl* elim
inated. prohibition would have a better
chance of carrying.
Mr. Hlllytr al*o *ald he had framed
an antl-J«g trade bill, which would not
be turned down by the eupreme court.
He aald that, for ihe time being, local
option had been abandoned, but the
fight again*l the manufacture, eale or
Importation of atrong drink In Georgia
would be continued before the leglsls-
ture. He aiked the support of the min
latera In going before the legislature.
The following visiting mlnlitere were
K revent at the meeting on Monday:
ev. A. D. Kendrick, of Douglaa; Rev,
J. D. Taylor, the oatlor evangelist: Rev.
Jeff D. Newton, of Thomaavllte. N. C„
id Rev. J. E. Spruell. of South Caro-
The meeting ndjourned early that
those present could hear Gypsy Smith
preach.
PUB TO SPEW
ill « HERE
Peachtree Will Be ‘‘The
Rialto” This
Week.
Atlanta will hava a little army of the
atrical people thl* week.
In addition to the “At Cripple Creek"
company, which will b* at tha Bijou all
the week, and the dlftervnt theatrical
troupe* which will be at the Orand,
there will be several campanlas taking
real her* during holy woek.
The Kiltie* band will b* hare, and
will probably gtv* another concert on
Easter Sunday. "The Messenger From
gar*" company, which held the board*
at the Bijou last week, and James
O'Nelli and hla company. It la stated,
will also be In Atlanta.
Many manager* say that the busi
ness during holy waek doe* not Justify
giving performance*, and so tha actors
and actresses are given n rest.
At the Bijou. th»r* will be no per
formance on Good Friday. Manager
Jake Well* has observed thl* day In all
hi* houses since tb* inauguration of the
circuit.
TRYING TO SELL JEWELRY
A NEGRO IS CAPTURED
kperlal to Tbe (irorglaii.
Chattanooga, Teat*. March 15—
While trying to dl*po*e of stolen Jew
elry thl* morning. Charles Simmon*, a
negro,waa arrested. It la believed Sim
mons secured Jewelry amounting to
•everml hundred dollar* from the More
Of W. I. Hina*, at Decker*. Vows. Hat
olahL , \ — —
OH RITE LAW
Special to Tb* Georgian.
Birmingham, Ala., March IS—Before
leaving for Montgomery today Gov
ernor R. B. Comer showed by his man
ner and speech that he I* not uneasy
about the Injunctions which the rsll-
ruhda propose to seek against recent
legislative enactments concerning the
freight and passenger rate*. It le un
derstood that the bill* for Injunction*
will be filed today In tbe federal court
at Montgomery.
Governor Comer said: "Recalling
my speeches of one year ago, I said
that I would advise the legislature to
make the rates on articles of common
production, consumption and use, that
wa would escape on* Injunction and
that Injunction stopping the railroad
commission from action on the claim
thut the legislature could not delegate
It* authority to make rates. In my
■ame campaign speeches I sold that U
would be safe for the legislature to es
tablish these present rates as a maxi
mum rate, as that would prevent the
changing of that rate to a higher one
at the pleasure of the railroads.”
The legislature carried out Governor
Comer's suggestions. He foresaw the
Injunctions now threatened.
Will Fight New Law.
The railroads acting are the Louis
ville and Nashville, which Includes the
South and North, the Southern Rail
way. the Frisco system, the Central of
Georgia Rahway, the Seaboard or the
Atlanta and Birmingham Air Line, the
Atlantic Conet Ltn*. tho Alabi
Great Southern, the Mobile and Ohio,
and the other roads operating In th*
state, probably Including the Mobile,
Jackson and Kansas City.
Each of the railroads will make a
separate petition for an Injunction to
keep each of the separate bills from
becoming effective.
The railroads will aver. It la aald,
that under the new law they would not
be able to operate and pay their ex
penses. They will present a mass of
figures carefully and accurately com
piled to show that with the greatly In
creased cost of operating and coat of
material and the reduction of their
revenues which would result from theoe
laws, they could not make enough
money to pay thetr actual expenses
They will aver that th* reduction of
the passenger far* from * cent* per
mile to J 1-3 cents will decrease, their
passenger earning* by actually one-
sixth and more than on* railroad wUI
allege that It actually lo#*# money In
Alabama by operating passenger trains
at 1 cent* per mile.
Corner Critic!*** Finlay.
Governor B. B. Comer gave out an
Interview In reply her* Saturday to tha
speeches mad* her# by President Fin
ley and General Counael Thom, of th*
Southern railway. In which he crltl-
rtses the attitude of Colonel T. B.
Hush In the same connection. Th*
governor, after paying a peraoaal trib
ute to Mr. Finley, oay* that his tour
through Ihe South 'Is Ul-advD*d and
Ill-timed.”
Governor Comer take* sharp lasua
with the#* gentlemen on their views
regarding railroad legislation In this
•tat*. *nd say* men with thalr convic
tions "would make very good members
of court of Caar Nicholas, but hardly
good leaders of the rre* Anglo-Saxon
of tb* twentieth century.*
THAW WANTS A TRIAL,
NOT A MADMAN’S CELL
By CHARLES SOMERVILLE.
New York, March IS—Backed by hla
family and hla lawyers and himself
most Insistent of all, Harry Thaw
seems to stand squarely today for ex
oneration or disgrace, for freedom or
for death, as the reault of hla killing
of Stanford White.
The Thaw affidavits on which Judge
Fltageraid waa ready to tender a de
cision today are as torches by which
Thaw deliberately attempts to burn all
bridge* behind him so that he cannot
retreat to the protecting walla of an
asylum for the Insane, but must march
boldly forward to meet whatever Ilea
at the end of hla trial for murder—ac
quittal or death.
-Mad Thaws” Are Fictitious
Down deep there has always been a
feeling with the public that Thaw
would never go to the electric chair.
If thla Jury should convict him. there
has been the belief that then the Thaw
family pride would crumble, and before
the higher court*. In all humility, would
come hla mother, brother* and sisters,
laying bare a wad, horrible story of a
mad aneeetry.'exposing all secret* os a
last resort for the saving of on un
fortunate son and brother's life, and
that by virtu* of these appeals, th*
asylum doors would finally close for
ever upon Harry Thaw, but saving him
from death.
But a proud old mother, burning with
Indignation under these rumor*, has
made a strong, convincing and solemn
statement that alt of them are lies—
that even with htr eon's life In the
balance atllL the truth Is that all these
rumors of Harry Thaw springing from
a tainted stock are scandal mongers'
morbid tales. The “mad Thaws" are
fictitious.
Wants No Half Way House.
So Thaw must stand to. be Judged be
fore the world without the excuse of
congenital predispositions to madness
which he would have been mercifully
held helpless to combat.
Mother and son stand together plead
ing tor no half way house of escape,
such a* Mattsawan offers. If Thaw
were to accept Matteawan and In a
few years be pronounced cured, he
would be brought back and again
placed i.i trial for his act of June IS,
1*««.
It must he clearly understood that
the present lunacy commission pro
ceedlngs have nothing to do with
whether Thaw was Insane or not when
he killed Stanford White. They are
only to decide If That/ Is Insane now,
for an Insane man may not be legally
tried for any offense.
HEAD OF HOLY SYNOD
DIES IN ST, PETERSBURG
M. Pobledonostseff. who held for
many years the high ogles of procura
tor of th* holy synod, died Baturday
evening In 8L Petersburg. H* wa*
bom In Moscow In 1117.
His death means th* removal of th*
greatest enemy of anything approach
ing representative government In Rus
sia.
_
THAW SAYS HE
WOULD AID EXPERTS
Centinuad from Pag* Qua.
appointed t* laqalre Into his sanity.
Early Decision Espsctad.
Jerome's brief embodying all th*
polata of tba staia'a roetentlon It waa
esported would be rontalnad In th|p
Th* brief of th* defen**
vita they had prepared.
Justice Fltsgerald had stattd that If
he deemed the proof! submitted on
either aide not sufficient, he would call
on the side In question for further In
formation nr argument, but It waa ex
pected thl* would not be necessary and
that It would be a matter of only a day
or two until Tbaw would know hi*
fate.
The Jury ha* been dismissed until
Wednesday, and Justice Fitzgerald's
derision as to appointing a commission
may come at any time before them.
None of the lawyers thinks he will de
fer longer than Wednesday In giving
his ruling.
Wouldn't Thwart Board.
It has been learned that If a com
mission In lunacy le appointed Thaw
has planned to discount th* sensation
of halting the trial. It Is stated that a
R Manner charged with a capital crime
as It within hi* power to Impede the
work of a commission to a greater or
less exteat. Thaw Is confident, how
ever, of convincing a commission of hla
complete sanity. In case he Is sum
moned before a commission he will not
take advantage of legal devices to
thwart the examination.
Thaw Is credited with stating terse
ly the position he will take, should the
contingency arise, as follows:
“I will submit to all phases of an
examination which Is rational and rea
sonable. I should refuse to obey, for
Indtancs, If I were asked to stand on
my head, but aa for manta I and physi
cal testa propounded In good fslth, I
am competent to undergo them.”
Through Lawyer Peabody, Thaw Is-
sued a statement denying the rumors
of dissension among hla counael.
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DUNN MACHINERY CO*
64 Marietta Street.
Atlanta, Ga.
FROM HIS HOME IK
N0RTJJ10L1
Lost Seen in Raleigh and
Family Fear Foul
Play.
Special to The Georgian.
Raleigh. N. C* March IS.—Samuel
W. Harris, who conducts s large hard
ware store at Wakefield, about 10 miles
from this city, ha* mysteriously dlsapr,
peered and nothing has been seen of
him since the lith of the month, on
that day he cam* to Raleigh and late In
tbn afternoon had hla mustache shoved
off.
He has not been seen since that nlsht
and a short time before his dleai*-
pearance he spoke to a friend of hnrlnx
4350 on hla person. His family foot
he has mot with foul play. Harris wo*
formerly general agent here for the
Metropolitan Life Insurance t'ompnny.
He has a wife and several chlldirn.
Walter Hartridgs Hare.
Walter C. Hartridge. of Savannah. »
cousin of Clifford Hartridge. an nrro.
elate attorney In the Thaw trial, ar
rived In Atlanta Monday morning, ac
companied by Mr*. Hartridge.
Mr. Hartridge made two tripe l" J ,
Caroline I*le* In the Pacific two years
ago to straighten up the affaire or
"King O'Keefe.” an American sailor,
who became king of one of Ihe lelandi ■
and died, leaving quite an estate lo
relatives In Georgia. Mr. Hsrtrldsr
was also a lieutenant o< Company B.
Second Georgia regiment. Infanto.
United States Volunteers, during the
Bpanlsh-Amertcan war.
Atlanta. Oa., March M. 1*»7.
Received of A. E. Shulhafer. tress
urer. Yon ah Council. One Thousand
Dollars In full payment of the Insu
rance In the Royal Arcanum on the life
of my husband, Samuel Oscar Owe-
lend, deceased. , „.
(Signed) Polite Ann Glllcland.
w,ti wguw
•sasjsrsrsa.M—1—
or Anas) today notldad the } l,orn t n .
for Tom Harris that he would n 't 1 "
terfer* with the execution of th> " n
tence, next Friday, by
lunacy commission, granting * r l t
or otherwise. This *#*ls the
Harris, end he mutt hang.
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