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VOL.Y. NO. 258.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1,1907.
PRICE:
MINERS FEARED THEY
MIGHT TURN CANNIBALS
‘HELL NO GREATER TERROR,”
SAYS ENTOMBED MINER
Jolmstown, Pa., May 1.—"Hell Itself can offer no greater terror and
torment than we endured In that heading. A tomb would be a paradise
beelde It. Looking back over our experience, I do not eee how any of ua
oacapad without our minds being affected,” said Mike Bolya, the foreman
of the ganr of seven miners who were entombed in the Foustwell mine
slnco last Friday noon and rescued today.
Continuing, he explained that It was a worse experience even than
that of Hick*, the California miner who wa* burled 16 days. Bolva said
the fear of haring to turn cannibals was in every man’s mind, but not
one breathed a word of It to his companions.
at
Fire Breaks Out
Noon in Young Wo
man’s Lunch Club.
Chicago, May 1.—Two girls were
killed, three more are dying and eleven
others are seriously Injured as a result
of a.Are which broke out at noon here
in the Lotus Lunch Club, the largest
institution of the sort In the city.
Tho flames swept the building when
the crowd was greatest and the girls,
waiting for. nothing, crashed through
the glass windows of the third noor In
a mad rush to escape the flames. With
their dresses ablase they piled In a
heap on the pavement, and In the
crush many were badly hurt.
Within a few moments physicians ar
rived on the scene and the victims were
rushed to an emergency hospital.
ATLANTAN IS HELD
BY NORFOLK POLICE
Suffered Untold Ag
onies While Buried
Alive.
Johnstown, Pa, May 1.—Surrounded
by scores of loved ones rejoicing at
their deliverance from a horrible death,
seven coal miners who were brought
from the mine at Foustwell early this
morning after more than 100 hours' Im
prlsonment. are today resting easier
and the recovery of each Is now cer
tain.
’’Clive us food,” cry the emaciated
men at times, but the physicians know
ing only too well the danger of solid
food in their condition at this time give
them morsels of prepared food.
Throughout the night normal salt
solutions were Injected Into the blood
to sustain their vitality and peptonolds
were frequently administered.
Miners Take Holiday.
The little mining village of Seanor
Is practically deserted today. There Is
no work at the Berwlnd-Whtte mines
at Seanor, and all the miner folks have
gpne to the Wlndber hospital.
When the men reached Wlndber this
morning It was found that some would
not recover. Bolya managed to keep
up a happy spirit, though he too plain
ly showed the effect of starvation find
other sufferings.
Bolya’e Graphlo Story.
Two priests In charge of foreign
parishes at Wlndber were By the men
all night, ready at any time to admin
later the last rites of the church. Bolya
told a graphic story of the four days in
the mine. It was he who did the tap
ping on the air pipe and kept the relief
parties Informed.
"When they Interpreted my message
of seven taps to mean that we were
all alive," said Bolya, "they guessed
right. Had I known down In that mine
that my code of telegraphy was work
ing so well, you can bet It would have
reassured.mo much more."
N. P. Tutwller, of ISO Haynesetrect,
a bookkeeper, who disappeared from At-
lantu several days ago. Is under arrest
In Norfolk, and, it Is expected, will bo
brought back to this city at once.
News of Tutwller’s arrest was re
ceived Wednesday, In a telegram to
Chief Jennings from the Virginia city.
Tutwller's arrest was requested by
his wife, who accuses him of abandon
ing her and her three girl children.
Tutwller was employed In the office
of a well-known Arm In South For
syth street. The books of this Arm are
now being examined by experts to as
certain whether any irregularities exist.
Tutwller Is about 18 years of age and
Is well connected. His disappearance
end the news of his arrest have occa
sloned much surprise among hit
friends.
Harrisburg, Pa., May 1.—Testimony
Involving prominent Pennsylvania pol
iticians developed yesterday afternoon,
during the examination by the Inves
tigating commission of ex-Representa-
live 8. Marshall Williams, of Pittsburg,
alleged to have accepted 810,000 hush
money from John H. Sanderson, gen
eral contractor for tho capitol furnish
ings, a share of the 82,000,000 award
for electrical flxtures for the capitol.
In no way could the commission get
Williams to admit that Congressman
Cassell was the party In question, but
he said It was a national official.
LOST FIFTY POUNDS
SAYS MRS, SAKE
Sues for Divorce From Hus
band-Charges Cruel
Treatment.
Charging that he beat and otherwise
cruelly treated her within one month
after they were married, Mrs. Anna
Saxe flled suit for divorce Wednesday
against her husband, Hemy Saxe.
Mrs. Saxe alleges that she and her
husband were married In Atlanta In
1006 and that they left Immediately
for New York. Shortly after they ar
rived there, she alleges, her husband
began to neglect her and refused to pay
her board. She saye that he frequently
abused her and that on one occasion
he drew a rasor and threatened to take
her life. She charges further that her
husband's treatment caused her to lose
nearly flfty pounds of flesh and mods of
her a physical wreck.
She aska that her maiden name, Anna
Wasser, be restored and that her hus
band be enjoined from sending her let
ters and otherwise annoying her.
WHEN DEATH CAME
took employers advice
AN DRETURNED TO WORK
Special to The Georgian.
Gulfport, Miss., May 1.—Twelve n*'
Kro laborers went out on a strike here
because they objected to working with
white men. They are In the employ of
the Foote Bobter Wholesale Grocery
Company, and when a petition waa pre
sented to the manager, he told them to
cither make themaelves scarce, or to
resume their work. They took the 1st.
ter course.
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2 BUT RAIN FAILS TO COME. O
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2 , Out old friend "partly cloudy” O
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2 E al spring and summer will be 0
X a ong in due season. Forecast: O
2 "Partly cloudy Wednesday night O
2 and Thursday; cooler Wednesday O
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night." O
’ Wednesday ttmperatures: O
X • »■ m 88 degrees O
O I m 67 degrees O
X ,• *. m. 68 degrees O
X rn 70 degrees O
X f ‘ a. m 71 degrees O
X *- noon 74 degrees Cl
X * P- m 78 degrees O
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Mrs. Elisabeth A. Blaslngsme, aged
83 years, dropped dead Wedneiday
morning In tho front yard of the resi
dence of her son, N. W. Blaalngame,
302 Grant streat. She waa In the yard
picking flowers at the time, and heart
failure was assigned as the cause of
her death.
Mrs, Blaalngame was the widow of
the late William E. Blaalngame, and la
survived by one eon. N. W. Blaalngame,
who Is connected with the Continental
Gin Company. The funeral arrange
ments will be announced later.
Five Arretted on Raid.
Special to The Oeorglan.
Macon. Ga., May l.—Officer* Williams
and Brannan broke In a door of a negro
house on Ashe street and caught flvs
negroes who are charged with gaming.
Judge Cabanlss after hearing tha
statement of the officers and thosa of
the negroes bound ell flve over to tha
city court, each under bond of 8100.
t *3OOOO30Or H joOOOO90CIOPOH»O 1:18 1-6.
RACE RESULTS.
JAMAICA.
FIRST RACE—Robin Hood. 6 to 5,
won: Chief Mayes. 6 to 1, second;
Sllckaway, out, third. Time, 1:14.
Second Race.—Sussex. 10 To 1.
won: Helen B„ 2 to 1. second: Sempro,
12 to 1, third. Time, 1:02 8-5.
PIMLICO.
Flret Race.—Ida Rock. 10 to 1,
won; OoId Castle, out aacond; Queen
ot Knight, third. Time, 1:15 1-4.
• LEXINGTON.
First Race.—Fleming, 0 to 2, won:
8 to 2, won: Bamesdsle, 2 to 6, second:
Autumn King. 1 to 1, third. Time,
“Final Word” Regarding Mr. J. R. Gray,
Who lias a “Brain Storm.”
"While a controversy of this character does not interest the public at large,
and may pro'vc obnoxious to some of our friends, it is, nevertheless, an import
ant business matter, and one that concerns very greatly those of our citizens who
advertise. We only expect those interested in this branch of business to pay any
attention to it.
Newspapers cost approximately 10 cents apiece—the reader pays 2 cents;
the advertiser the other 8 cents. The advertiser pays a paper according to the
number of readers it has. Apagdinan Atlanta paper, for instance, can be had at
$100, while The New York Herald would Charge $1,200 to $1,500. because The Her
ald goes to half a million people. 1
The Atlanta Journal represented and took pay on the basis that it had thou
sands more readers tlip.n it really had. It advertised in various papers, as weft as
its own, that it had nearly 53,000 circulation each day. By its own admission,
subsequently printed, this was not true.
It is a newspaper’s business to attack fraud even if it is in another newspaper.
The Jomnal, in a heated moment, accepted a challenge to show that they had
12,000 less tHan they had been receiving pay for, or nearly one-third less than its
toatal claim.
Mr, Gray, who furnishes the heat for The Journal’s heated moments, slept over
what he had done, and evidently learned from some of his able assistants that he
had made a mistake. He tried two ways of getting out of the hole, and neither
worked. First, he tried to bulldoze me—but, after twenty-five years, from a $3-a-
week boy in New York city, to the high and honorable position of publisher of The
Georgian, bulldozers don’t scare me a bit.
Mr. Gray, with his “brain storm” methods, had the late Ralph Brown (then The
Journal's auditor) at my office by 9 the next morning. He was in an awful hur
ry, the public having been in possession of thousands of copies of the American
Audit Company’s report on The Georgian for nearly fpur months (the same com
pany with which he fell so much in love on February 11). I notified him to keep
cool and only let the matter proceed in accordance with the agreement.
When, Mr. Gray (not “Gray”) found that I was immovable, as the complete
correspondence shows, he tried the audit company.
He first asked them if there was any reason why they could not conduct tho
audit for him at the same time they did for The Georgian. (Of course this was only a
kindness—he probably thought it would be hard on me to pay for it all alone.)
A few days *more of anxiety made the strain’ so strong for him that
he cut completely loose and closed negotiations with the.audit company, and
officially notified them that they could not examine The Journal except, for The
Journal. Will the public study the significance of this action?
Read it for yourself,
Atlanta, Ga., February 13, 1907.
Mr. F. L. Seely, Care The Georgian, Atlanta, Ga.
Dear Sir: We beg to notify you that Mr. J. R.
Gray has advised us that inasmuch as he had decided
that the examination of the circulation of The Journal
AS PER OUR ORIGINAL AGREEMENT SHOULD
NOT BE MADE, we have made arrangement with
him to make such examination for The Journal.
Very truly yours,
THE AMERICAN AUDIT COMPANY,
Per C. 3. Bidwell.
Now, Mr. Gray, you are tangled up. Your little story disclosing your “reas
on” for employing the audit company yourself in Tuesday’s Journal is as crook
ed as your circulation methods. You "began negotiations with the audit company
nearly a week before February 13, and you dare not deny it, and if this were a
case in court, action onc-half so reprehensible as yours would have sent you to jail.
The Georgian does not play games with men who would “load” the dice, and
upon receipt of the proof that you were trying it, notified you that we would have
nothing more to do with you. Biit for my shame that a fellow publisher would
stoop to such methods, I would have printed the facts at the time. Your manu
factured examination from manufactured statistics after you had ungracefully
backed out of a bad job. mean nothing to the public.
The public will judge your paper and its proclamation by such acts as these.
The Journal is not yours"for a personal organ—it is the people’s. They sup-
E ort it and make it possible. You are too old to lose your temper as you do. You
ave done it so often. Your threat of recent memory to unseat five congressmen
because they differed with you in polities; your attack on as grand an old man as
ex-Goveruor Northen, whether he be right or not, could not have been more un
dignified—he is older than you;, your vicious attack on the Chamber of Com
merce because it invited the president of one of our railroads, when your own paper
so recently emerged from corporate control; your undignified fist fight on the
Capital City Club lawn with Henry Revill—they are beneath a man in your posi
tion.
Ypu can not get into a fight with me. I do not fear you nor anything you may
say. Many years of hard, honest work with the hammer, the chisel and the wrench
have given me too much knowledge of the heart of the people, and put too big a
muscle in my arm to fear physical harm from you of gentler calling.
There are probably more millions behind The Georgian than your own good
paper, so these, with an abiding faith in the future of the South, "keep “bugger
man” explosions from throwing us into fits.
Come down, Mr. Gray; times have changed.
You are probably a college graduate—a lawyer by education. I am neither,
but I will stake my education in the “school of hard knocks,” my travels and life in
countries and cities that you will never see, and my admiration for plain, every-day
honesty against all bluster and bravado, and I warn you that the newspaper we are
building, and its progress, which is really at the seat of your bitterness, will never
take a backward step while the blood travels through my veins and the big family
of boys at The Georgian continue to make the paper what it is.
Good day, Mr. Gray.
F. L. SEELY.
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which
that route.
USE PISTOLS
ON U. S. TARS
Ensign and Nine En
listed Men Badly
Injured.
SAILORS WERE
NOT ARMED
Commander Wood, of Dixie,
1 Is Making a Thorough
Investigation.
Washington, May 1.—Confirmation
was received both at the navy and state
departments today of the reposted at
tack by the police of Santiago, Cuba,
upon n party of sailors from tho United
States cruiser Tacoma, who had been
tlven liberty and were returning ro
their ship early yesterday morning.
A full Investigation Is In progress,
the results of which are awaited with
Interest. Of the nine enlisted men In
jured, tho following three are said to
have sustained serious wounds, being
either shot, beaten by clubs or cut
with knives:
Henry Lee, second-class fireman,
skull fracture and gunshot wound In
left lung: Joseph Chandler Peinber,
electrician, wound In left arm: Leslie
Baldwin, seaman, compound fracture of
left arm.
Six other seamen were Injured, but
their wounds are said to be not serious.
They are:
Charles Shackleton, machinist’s
mate; Elmer Andres, apprentice sea
man; Glen Vail, seaman; Louis Kline,
onllnnry seaman; Frank Leghorn, elec
trician, and Harry Sturtevant, clectrl
dan, Ensign A, T. Brlsblne.
FELL TO FEET
TO DEATH AT
English Brickmason
Killed in Marietta
Street.
LOST BALANCE
BEFORE PLUNGE
Di«s at Grady Hospital an
Hour After tho
Accident.
CUBAN GOVERNOR ORDERS
THOROUGH INVESTIGATION.
Ilavnnn. May 1.—uoyornor lfagoon hns or-
derwl n thorough Investigation of tho re
ported nttnrk of Bnottago police on the rail-
or* from Tnfted gfitfra crtilMr Taconm.
BOLT OF LIGHTNING
DISCHARGES A GUN,
KILLING SMALL CHILD
Special to Tho Georgian.
Anniston, Ala., May 1.—A very pecu.
liar accident occurred at the home of
Tom Phurrough. who lives on the Cook
place, near Sycamore.
During a storm a bolt of lightning
struck the wall of the house. A shot
gun was hanging In a rack on the wall.
The weapon wa* loaded and the bolt
Jostled the gun from the rack and fired
t while In midair. The entire contents
of the gun lodged In the body of an In
fant child of Phurrough, which was
playing around the room, killing It lu-
etantly. The electricity exploded tho
powder as the gun fell.
HUGHES LOST OUT
TO KELSEY’S GANG
the Judiciary committee. The Issue wss the
question of permitting former Judge Hatch,
Kelsey’s rounstl, to sppear before the sen-
*~i nr trim file mefter 0 f KcISCj't TS*
Albert J. Slovens, an Englishman,
was killed and three other workmen
narrowly escaped being hurled to death
Wednesday morning at 10:30 o’clock by
the fall of a section of coping on the
new Andrews building. In course of
construction at Marietta and Magnolia
streets.
Stevens fell a distance of about 70
feet end was horribly crushed. He was
picked up In an unconscious condition
and taken to the Grady Hospital, where
he died an hour later.
The three other workmen who were
on top of the building with Stevens
saved themselves by leaping backward
when the coping gave way. Stevens,
who Is an ornamental brick mason, was
working on the coping, giving It the
finishing touches, when he lost his bal
ance and fell. He caught at the
freshly laid brickwork, which gave way
at his weight. Ho plunged through
space with the mass of brick and mor
tar and struck on some heavy timbers
on the ground below.
Coping Collapsed.
The building extends from Marietta
to Walton street, being four stories
high on Marietta street and five stories
In height on Walton street. Stevens
fell from the Walton street end. the
.highest point of tho structure.
The exact cause of the accident Is
not known, although It Is supposed tho
workmen I'mh.'iI too heavily against the
coping, causing It to tumble off.
Stevens was 24 years of sge. He Is
a native Englishman and had been In
Atlanta but two months. His home Is
Iq Kent. -England,- a ho- he has n »Ife
and two children. Ho was expecting
to remain Jn this country two years
and then return home.
Had One Friend Hers.
Stevens had only one closo friend In
Atlanta. Archibald Christopher, an
Englishman, who came here with him.
Christopher was at work on the build
ing at the time of tho neetdent and was
one of tha trio who narrowly escaped
the same fate aa Stevens. Tho dead
man has a brother In British Colum
bia. who has been wired of the acci
dent
The body was turned over to Green
berg, Bond A Bloomfield, undertakers,
to be prepared for burial.
GOVERNOR TERRELL
AT ROME TO ADDRESS.
MASONIC CONVENTION
1
Special to Tho Georgian.
Rome, Ga.. May 1.—The Seventh dis
trict Masonic convention opened this
morning In the Masonic Temple and
about two hundred members of the or
der have already arrived and the night
tralne will bring many others. Slxty-
threo lodges will be represented.
Governor Terrell arrived this morn
ing and will make an address.
Growth and Progress of the New South
The Georgian records hero each day some
econoale fact In roforeuco to the onward
march of the South.
JOSEPH B. LIVELY.
It I* announced at New Orleans, La., that the Ostrlca Planting, Can
ning and Manufacturing Company, which has extensive business In oys
ters and shrimp on the lower coast. Is considering plans for the eatab-i
Ilshlng of a large canning factory which will be made use of In canning
oysters, shrimp and Incidentally fruit and vegetables.
At the annual meeting of the company, held In New Orleans, April IS,
the capital was Increased from 850,000 to 8100,000 to make provision:: for
the changes that are to be made. At present.the company has vahiub
beds In Little Soqultle I
It has never built a factory, but has been
engaged In shipping oysters In large quantities during the past tflater.
The company will ala
alao make a specialty of canning figs.
A manufacturing concern which will do a general buslneta In the
manufacture of machines for the harvesting of corn and other crops lias
been organised at New Orleans, La., with an authorlied capital of 8300,-
don im tliA fV.olreall ITo pvaalAw f’/imnanv t&rlth If* f’nrtkwalt . 11..
000. It Is the Cockrell Harvester Company, with F. M. Cockrell at Its
head. The corporation will manufacture, operate, rent and lease machines
for harvesting corn and other crops and will do a general business along
these lines throughout the state.
Another charter flled In New Orleans recently Is that of the Southern
Laundry Company, which Is building the new steam laundry on North
Rampart etreet. The company has been at wqrk some time and has al
most completed Its 8100,000 plant, which will"very soon be ready to begin
operations. Its authorised capital Is <125.000.
The Trenton Buggy and Manufacturing Company has been chartered
at Trenton, N. C., for the purpose of manufacturing and dealing In
buggies, carriages, wagon*, etc. The authorised capital Is S50.00O.
At Charlotte. N. C„ the' Charlotte Lumber and Land Company recent
ly received a charter. The capital la 8125,000.
The Interstate Oil and Townelte Company, of Guthrie, Okla.. has
been chartered with 81,000,000 capital to do an oil development business.
At Frederick the Kiowa Cotton Oil Company, capital 850,000, has filed
articles of Incorporation.
Industrial growth la especially active at Charleeton, W. Va. The
latest manufacturing enterprise for that city Is a plant for building chem
ical engines for fire protection, chemicals and fire-proofing materials,
high-pressure air compreesers, etc. It wfTl be built by the Kanawha
Chemical Engine Manufacturing Company, just Inc..iporated with a cap
ital stock of $100,000 to Introduce the Inventions of Dr. J. O. B inning, of
Hartford, Conn. Six buildings will be erect) i font of them to b. 4>xl20
feet each, for foundry, machine shop, assembling house, etc., to be con
structed of concrete blocks.