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The Weather: Tt« follewtu* «re In- alcuUout for .Wisnta lod rtdmtjr: Fsrtlj Atlanta Georgian (and news) ■ spot Cotton!’ Liverpool, firm; *.6M. York, Steady; Ll.S6<fc >rlrans, Arm; lU4c. usta, steady; ll%c. 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. o&SOOCMJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o ’’PARTLY CLOUDY” PREVAILSi O 2 BUT RAIN FAILS TO COME. O O 2 , Out old friend "partly cloudy” O 2 hangs around quite a spell, but C “ the moisture doesn’t materialise. O 2 May seems to have Inherited a O 2 'light "hang-over” from April, but O 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 w nleht.” O 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 X ■ m 77 degrees U 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. the 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.