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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. Waste Space Not Wasted Clothing Chests—not n new thing, but a new place to keep it—under the bed. These are made in the right height to go under any bed. Fitted with six-inch wooden wheels so that thev can be easily rolled out and in. We have them in red cedar. AT 13.00 Matting cov ered Mahoganv finish AT 5.30 ChamberlinJohnson DuBose Company. made in njewyobk filtoltaWMgSS America's Best Dressed Men Wear America's Best Clothes The label of "Alfred Beniamin & Co” made in New York on your suit signifies that your clothes are correct. Right in style, right in pattern, right in material, right in pjice. /When you wear an Alfred Benjamin 0 Co.'s suit you arc conscious of wearing the best clothes in America, made bv America’s foremost tailors. When you are asked “Who makes your clothes?” you are satisfied that the clothes you wear must be correct in every detail or they would not bring forth such favorable comment I There is “no half-way-ism” about the manufacture of this well known make of Men’s Clothes. They are all hand-tailored throughout perfect fitting, shape retaining. No matter how haH the wear, you will get “Clothes Satisfaction.” u 4 Spring Suits— $15.00, $18.50, $20.00 to $55.00. ESSIG BROS., “Correct Clothes for Men.” 26 WHITEHALL ST. 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. 4 DEEP WELL POWER PUMP HEADS 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. AMERICAN DENTAL PARLORS 191-2 Peachtree St, Atlanta, Ca. •OVER SCHAUL fit MAY). 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