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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN A NT) NEWS. MONDAY. 2SAT *>. WKeh It Rains or When the Sun Sh 13 ines You'll Remember These Specials Tuesday After Nihe O Clock Umbrellas with paragon frame’covered with silk and Worsted mixture, sterl ing silver and gold handles. 26-inch; 4.00, 4.50 and 5.00 Umbrellas, Colored Umbrellas, covered in silk and worsted. 26-inch paragon frames and natural wood handles. Dark red, dark blue, dark green and purple. Some with white bordered edges. 2.00,2.25 and 2.50, At 2.98 At 1.25 Hand-painted white,' Parasols covered in gros-grain silk, pai’agon frames with natural Wood handles; worth 4.50, Colored Umbrellas with natural wood handles and 26-incli paragon frame. Dark red, dark green, navy blue, light red and light green silk. 3.50, 4.00 and 4.50 Umbrellas, At 3.00 At 2.49 Silk Covered Parasols White Parasols, covered with linen; plain with nat ural wood handles, White linen Parasols with colored polka dots, with tuckvor hand-embroidering, Paragon frame covered in dark brown, dark blue, green, champagne, checked in several combinations, and black and white, Parasols in plain light blue, pink, grav, red and grern, At 1.00 At 2.00 Plain hemstitched, 2.50 to 5.00 At 1.50 Hand embroidered White Parasols with handsome natural wood handles. 5.00 parasols, At 3.00 10 TRY ATLANTAN IN PEONAGE CAGE Considerable Interest Is being inanl In the trial scheduled In the Cnlted Slates court before Judge New- ni»n this week In Rome, of George F Hun, u well-known Atlanta man charged with conspiracy to commit rc"niiKe. Together with Mr. Hurt, J. W. Tierce, former superintendent of tho Georgia J osl and Iron Company, and H. K. ‘•and, the walking boss, were Indicted «n December 15 of last year. •' Is charged by tho government that "uri. Tierce and Land securad about Vjenty-flve negroes from the recorder’s ,' u , r ! *? Atlanta by paying their lines, •nd had them taken handcuffed to Bar- tmv county and worked them under suar.l at the Iron mines until they had J? w ,lut ihelr fine. It Is also chnrged jmtt alien some of these negroes left >ney were run down with dogs and re captured. Hr .Hurt is a son of Joel Hurt, and at ■he time of the alleged peonage the o argia Iron and Coal Company was 2«ned largely by the elder Hurt The laKi. f^htge continued from July I...*, *° October of the same year. It Is charged. The Indications are that the case will ki.. ll . b b’ , m | y fought by both sides. As- isiant District Attorney John Henley ... "’?'*• * thorough study of the case •"■! will prosecute It to a finish. On 2? hand the defendants will he "presented by a large array of legal ■«i.nt and will make a strenuous de NATIONAL MANUFACTURERS MEET MONDAY IN NEW YORK CITY York, May 20.—Tho annual con- Wednesday, announces that hla topic fchse. Ragan Caught In Denver, Colo. ®P*cltl to The Georgian. Anniston. Ala. May JO.—J. Mat Ra- «*n was captured yesterday at Pueblo. • according to Information receive.! “re today. *** P°«tmaater here and ali- ■rnnded about April 1 with about $4,000 ltlrt '~ n, r ot Unde Bam. It Is al- ventlon of the National Association of Manufacturers will assemble today at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Difference of opinion on the tariff question, which became manifest a year ago, and which will recelvk greater attention at the meeting this year, Is expected to add greatly to the Interest In the conven tion. Senator Dolllver, of Iowa, who Is to make the chief address at the banquet will be the suggestive one, "the Revolt of the Unincorporated.” The represen tative of the administration at the ban quet will be the new secretary of the commerce and labor, the Hon. Oscar Straus, and It Is believed that aome- thlng of the plans of the depsrtinent which the nations! association helped to secure from congress and which Is of •treat Importance to the Industrial In terests generally, will be revealed by his address. MRS. EDDY'S CASE RUEFS STORY EXPECTED TO BRING OTHER CONFESSIONS San Francisco, May 20.—Abs Ruefa confession regarding the bribe-giving operations of tho San Francisco Gas and Electric Company will be used by Assistant District Attorney Francis J. Heney today when the examination of tbe officials of the gas trust Is resumed before the grand Jury. With the knowl edge and details of the bribery in his possession, the graft prosecutor will cross-examine the witnesses. Confes sions from those guilty of bribe-giving are expected. Ruers Sunday was not a happy one. He was far from well physically and did not go out during the day, but sat In his room writing letters. He dictat ed answers to several hundred letters had received from all parts of the state congratulating him on the de termination to tell everything he knows about the'admlnistratlon's debauchery. He was asked If he was going to the grand Jury room today. “I do not know, but If I am sub- penaed 1 wilt go. I have not changed from my determination to tell every thing I know about the cases under In vestigation.” Charges Against Judge. District Attomsy Langdon was ssrved by Mayor Schmlta's attorneys, Metson, Campbell & Drew and John J. Barrett and C. H. Fairnll, Saturday night with notices of a motion for substitution of trial Judge on the ground that Judge Frank H. Dunne Is disqualified by bias and prejudice. Accompanying and sup. porting this motion Is a lengthy affida vit by Schmlts. In which charges of an extremely sensational nature are made against Rudolph Sprecksls, his asso ciates In the bribery graff prosecution, and Judge Dunne himself.. Concord, N. H„ May 20.—Because of the Illness of Judge Chamberlain, of the Merrlmac county superior court today, the. Eddy esse was postponed until tomorrow, when It was called In that court today. Judge Chamberlain, who has been suffering from acute Indigestion for a week, reached Con cord last night from his home In Ber lln, N. II. He thought he would be able to go to court, but found today that his condition was such that he would not be able to work. More spectators than had ever be fore been gathered In a court room In this county wers In attendance. Most of them were women. More than 100 Christian Scientists from various parts of the country are In Concord to at tend the hearing. Others are expect ed to arrive tonight and tomorrow, TRAINMEN CLOSE BEST CONVENTION ORDER EVER HELD O'Desta Yates. O'Dessa Yates, ths 2-year-old daugh ter of A. E. Yates, died Monday morn ing at the family residence, 750 East Fair street. The body syaa sent to Chattanooga, Tenn., for burial. UNCLE A NAD VER TISEMENTS ARE BEING PROBED BY U S. Fr l. Tlla * b »concUng registry rterk. Roberts, Is now under arrest In Jt* Angeles Cal. The arrest was made service man sent front “‘Ingham. Washington. May 20.—Postmaster General Meyer today declared unmaita ble over twenty advertisements from Chicago parties. The matter bad been Investigated and It Is alleged that the parties producing the advertisements weri engaged In criminal operations and seiUng'IU*C*l medicines for use by women. Criminal proceedings havs Buffalo. been Instituted against three persons alleged to be guilty of these practices. Two have already pleaded guilty aud were fined heavily. One of the parties Indicted was also charged with the death of a young woman upon whom It Is alleged he performed an operation. The department has taken similar ac tion against this class of advertisers In New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Do not forget the day and the hour, call at our office or telephone for plats. We want you to go with us to the Sale of 32 West End lots Tuesday (tomor row). Remember, we leave our office, corner of Broad and Alabama Sts., at 2:30. Sale begins at 3 p. in. This is only fifteen minutes’ ride on the ear from the center of the city. Terms 1-4 cash, balance 6, 12 and 18 months, at 6 per cent interest. S. B. TURMAN & CO. Praise and More Money for Grand Master Mor rissey. The convention of ths Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will com* to close Monday afternoon after one of the most successful sessions In ths history of the organisation. But little business remains to be act. sd upon, and the delegates and their families will begin leaving Atlanta for home on the afternoon and night trains. At ths morning seaaloft on Monday candidates for the newly created board of Insurance were balloted upon, but the vote had not been counted when the morning session adjourned shortly oft. er noon. And the same was true with the se lection of the next meeting place two years from now. Dos Moines, Colum bus, Ohio, Chicago and Detroit were placed In nomination for the honor, but the vote will not be counted until the afternoon session. motion was made and carried to select the city receiving the greatest number of votes on the first ballot In stead of selecting ihe city receiving the majority of votes. This wss a blow to the chances of Dos Moines, for nearly all the delegates from Chicago and De troit had promised to vote for Des Moines on the second ballot. It means the loss of something like 75 or 100 votes. Exscutivs Board. The grand excutlvs board of the or ganization was voted on early In ths sesstoo and the balloting resulted In the election of the following: J. W. Rhodes, chairman, Toledo, Ohio; R. J. Powers, secretary, San Leandro, Cal.; Arthur W. Evans, Corning, N. Y.; O. C. Cash; Roanoke, Va, and F. C. Lock- wood, Chicago, There were twenty-five candidates for the seven positions to be filled on the board of Insurance, and It will re quire soma time to count these voles and ascertain the seven receiving the highest number. Considerable interest was manifested by the delegates In the selection of the next meeting place and there were MINISTER LEAVES LONG TRAIL DEBTS New York, May 20.—In a remarkable statement exonerating his brother, H. Allen Tupper, from any connection with his oxtenslvo borrowing, tho Rev. Kerr Boyce Tupper, the former pastor of the Madison Avenus Baptist church, who has left the etty with a trail of debts behind him, practically makts a con fession to the charges against hJm. The letter confirms stories to the ef fects that the pastor borrowed .large sums of money from his parlahonen. HI* scheme was to borrow from one to pay the other, and, Incidentally, to carry himself on paper by drawing from one account to the othsr. And all the time he fully expected that the day would come when he might make good, but It did not. Instead, the church became disgusted and disgrun tled, and than came the crash. Dr. Tupper Is supposed to be In Pittsburg. Car Service Is Tied Up Special to Ths Georgian. Birmingham, Ala., May 20.—By noon today not a car was running over the 125 miles of city and suburban tracks of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power Company, owing to a lockout against the union Inaugurated by the company. Th- mn-nr has ordered saloons closed, and extra policemen and depu ty sneruts have been placed on duty. No disorder has occurred. Mrs. Jesia Catss. Mrs. Jesse Cates, aged 20 years, died Sunday night at 68 Hendrix avenue, after a long Illness. The funeral serv ices wers conducted Monday at noon In the chapel of Harry O. Poole. The body was sent ta Rockmart, Ga., for Inter ment. rooters for the various cities entered In the race. The convention was address', ed by the representatives In Atlanta from Des Moines, la., and Columbus, Ohio. All or these representatives as sured the delegates of a cordial wel come. . Closet on Monday. At the afternoon session the report of the committee on resolutions was taken up, and this together with the Installation of the newly elected offi cers will finish ths work of the conven. tlon. On all sides was heard praise for Grand Master 5forrisssy Monday as the delegates wore making preparations to leave Atlanta. Dozens of delegates ex. pressed themselves regarding him and the way In which he has managed the organisation during the twelve years he has been grand master. ■‘And yet,” said one prominent dele gate. "when the convention decided to raise his salary $1,000 a year, he got out on the floor of the convention and objected most strenuously to It. He 32 WEST END LOTS AT AUCTION TUESDAY 8. B. Turman A Co. w(U hold another large auction sale of lots Tuesday at 2: SO p. m. At this salt thirty-two Went ‘End lots on Luclle avenue. Oak and Dar- gan streets and Luclla Puace, between Gordon street, Luclle avenue. Lawton and Holderness streets. Inside the city limits, will be sold to the highest bld- dernes. 8. B. Turman A Co. have held several large auction sales this season, all of which have attracted large crowd*. The E. P. Howell city park now be ing beautified by the city le within three blocks ot this property. Luclle avenue Is charted, has sidewalks and sewer and water and gas are easily ac. cesalble. S. B. Turman A Co. extend a cordial Invitation to all Interested to rail at their office, corner Broail and Alabama streets, and go out with them to the sale. They also announce that one lot will be given away. J. \V. Fkrguson. the popular auctioneer, will haw charge. fought It hard and said he was getting n could enough and that the organisation not afford to pay him any more. Bui for once his advice and request* did not go. We knew he wsq worth ten time* more Hum we are paying him and we raised his salary a thousand In spite of himself. He has brains, bos that man.” COREYS SEASICK ON • HONEYMOON VOYAGE Plymouth, England. May I*.—The honeymoon voyage of Mr. and Mrs William E. Corey, who were married In New York last week, was hardly a pleasure -rip. sa both were sick dur ing practically the whole trip. Tnls fact became known today, w hen Kaiser Wlihelr.l II urrivcii. Mrs. Corey was confined most of the trip and neither •he nor Corey left their apartment dur ing the voyage. The couple continued with the uKIscr to Cherbourg. t . . J.