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ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1907
In Atlanta..TWO CENTS.
On Trains..FIVE CENTS.
PRICE
SLAYER OP SLOOP
NO ENEMY, MERELY A FRIEND
THE WEATHER.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Cloudy
and poeiblr rain late tonlgbt: Sun
day fair, collar.
SPOT COTTON.
Liverpool, easier; 5 S4. Atlanta, ittidj;
1<> 0-M. >.<•« orlMM. at«*a»lr: 10\. Vow
York Rtondy; lO.g*. Snrnnnah. doll;
105 !*. Augusta. steady. 10 9-16.
Tragedy Enacted
Front of Rome
Hotel.
USE OF BATH
LED TO KILLING
New York Reserve De
ficit Increased Over
$13,000,000.
ROBERT M. MITCHELL.
He shot and killed Joseph M.
Sloop at Rome Friday night.
Mitchell Carried to Atlanta
To Be Placed in Fulton
Jail.
Special to The Georgian.
Rome. Qa., Nov. Robert N. Mitch
•II ehot and killed Joeeph M. Sloop In
front of the Central Hotel at 7 o'clock
tent night. Sloop wae shot four times
In the breaat with a 48-caltber revolver
and died Immediately. The body wa*
carried Into the Central Hotel and
afterward moved to the undertaking
eatabllehment of Harvey & Beet.
Prieoner Taken to Atlanta.
Mitchell was arrested and taken to
Atlanta to be lodged In Fulton county
jail for safe-keeping.
Sloop's wife was In the dining room
of the Central Hotel when the shooting
occurred and started to the front, but
wee prevented and taken back to her
room by friends.
Mitchell Is a musician and wa« leader
of the orchestra all last summer at the
Degoto park, and Is now leader of the
orchestra at the Rome opera house.
Sloop was a cigar-maker in the cigar
factory of Thomas Waters, and was a
quiet, Inoffensive man.
There had been some troubte'between
Mitchell and Sloop, both of whom
boarded at the Central Hotel.
Mitchell, Jt Is clnlmed. hod persisted
in using the ladles' bath room, to which
Sloop objected. Yesterday morning. It
Is alleged, Mitchell attempted to get
Into the ladle,' bath room while Sloop's
wife was In there, and It Is alleged that
Sloop applied a vile epithet to any man
who would do that kind of a thing.
Mitchell Makea Statement.
Mitchell last night waited for Sloop
to come to supper. When he bow Sloop
coming he approached and reminded
Sloop of what he had said In the morn
lug He called him a vile name three
times and then shot him four times.
The friends of Sloop were very Indlg
na.nt over the killing and expressed
themselves quite freely on the subject,
and a good many threats were made
against Mitchell.
At the Jail Mitchell said: "What
Sloop said this morning made me so
mad I have boen studying over It all
day. and aa I waa on the way to the
band room with my cornet In my hand
I met Sloop. I said, 'You take that
back right -now or I will kill you.' and
Sloop repeated the epithet and said, T
■ will take nothing back.’"
MITCHELL, IN TOWER,
TELLS HIS STORY
Robert M. Mitchell, the slayer of Joe
Sloop, wee brought to Atlanta Satur
day morning shortly after midnight by
a deputy sheriff of Floyd county and
locked In a cell In the Tower. The
Floyd county officials thought this
move advisable, owing to the feeling
aroused by the killing.
The prisoner, when seen In the Jail
by a Georgian reporter, talked freely of
the tragedy, expressing regret that It
had occurred, and docla ' ‘
goaded to desperation by
had occurred, and declaring he was
goaded to desperation by vile epithets
that had been applied to him during the
day, Friday, by Stoop. Mitchell's state
ment Is as follows:
“I regret this affair deeply, but I
had stmply been worked up to such a
n *h tension and had been ao goaded by
"loop's conduct that I felt justifiable In
shooting him. The trouble grew out of
the matter of my using the ladles' bath
room on the third floor of the Central
Hotel. It has been a custom for the
men on this floor to use this bath room,
and I had followed the custom, as the
*»th room adjoins my apartments. I
had not been In the bath room for eev-
era| days past, however, as Mr. Perry,
proprietor of the hotel, had Informed
me a certain gueat of the hotel was
a sln, strenuous objection. I knew
this man had a high temper and wae
'“tty aroused, and. fearing I might
“ v * trouble with him, I ceased using
the bath room.
“Called Vile Name*.”
"Friday morning I arose rather late
and started down to the dining room,
■ ,n v wife and baby having already pre-
reded me. On the atain I met Sloop,
who upbraided me for using the ladles'
Ff* h room. I explained to him I had
just arisen and had not been In the bath
At this he applied a vile epithet
5 and Insisted I had been using It.
* offerea t0 ta k« him to the diningroom
Th. ? P0 .'L® b . y my w,,e ‘hat I telling
ns truth. He would not go, however,
arter th U I went dlrect t0 , he „ mce ,
m,. . ,r worried me and I didn’t feel
ms eating breakfast. Sloop followed me
"fjee and again catted me vile
a.™**, after which he left the hotel.
«*• * to the hotel at noon
.''Inner I passed Sloop In front
h. .111? factory, and. In a low tone.
j„**a* n applied the epithets. I paid no
hott?** 0 ? hlm - but kept on to the
over b ® c * m ® nervous and worried
hl " c °nduet, but hail no Idea of
trouble with him. The
». h n ‘"ally feared wa* the other guest,
thu ’!**" complaining. Fearing
Bis? 7’y ra, * hl attack me. I borrowed a
bocki, fro EA frl * nrt *nd put It In my
- *et. Friday night after supper 1
YET ON CROTCHES,
INI WITH PARTY
Mrs. Thomas in Balloon and
Thinks It Is Splen
did.
'Philadelphia, Nov. With cries of
“Aufweldersehn" and waving of hand
kerchiefs, Oscar Erbaloeh and a party
of five left Point Breexe shortly be
fore noon for a flight In the interna
tional prise winning balloon Pom-
mem.
The balloon started slowly toward
the northwest and then, striking an
other air curent, sailed off majestically
In the direction of New York.
In the party with Erbsloeh were Or.
Julian P. Thomas, the new owner of
the balloon: Mrs. Thomas, Captain P.
T. Lovelace, Lieutenant Robert Hen
derson, United Plates navy, and Herr
Erbaloeh, of New York, an uncle of
the pilot and former owner of the bal
loon named Oscar Erbaloeh.-
Dr. Thomes on Crutches.
‘I guess I am the first balloonist to
go up on crutches," remarked Dr.
Thomas. “My leg was actually sev
ered from my body In the accident, but
after a remarkable operation performed
by a New York surgeon, It has been
grafted back In place. It Is now In a
plaster cast. It may trouble me It we
hit the ground with a jar; otherwise
I shall be all right.”
"I am not a bit afraid to make the
trip.” declared Mrs. Thomas, pluckily.
”1 have been up three times before,
once with Lavee and twice with Knaly
enshue. I think It Is splendid.”
Due In New York at 6 p. m.
Captain Lovelace and Lieutenant
Henderson were In the basket as the
representatives of the United States
navy and to learn the German method
of handling a balloon from Erbaloeh.
According to the weather bureau the
balloon ought to land near New York
about 5 o’clock.
KILPATRICiTCLEAR
STOCK MARKET
RATHER DULL
Best Buying Extended to
Steel, Reading and Mor
gan Group.
Acquitted Before Justice
Landrum After Shooting
Man in Yard.
tv. R. Kilpatrick, who was arrested re
cently on a warrant charging him with the
mnrder of W. V. Wood, In the yard of the
former’s home lest Saturday night, was ac
quitted of the charge by Justice of ths
Peace I/ondnim Saturday afternoon.
The warrant for Kilpatrick'. arrest was
.worn out by I). P. Wood, a brother of the
dead man. after the coroner’. Jury hail de
clared that the murder waa Juatlflable homi
cide.
HOTEL ROBBERS
GET $7,000 GEMS
New York. Nov. 9.—A daring Jewel
robbery In the Hotel Endlcott came to
light today when the police began a
search for two burglars who looted the
apartment* of Robert A. Cresple on the
alxth floor. The thieves got away with
17.000 worth of geme.
New York. Nov. 9.—Although gold to
the amount of more than 112.000,000
wa* deposited In the city banks yes
terday, and although enough more Is
on the way from Europe to make the
total more than $49,000,000 for thle
movement, withdrawals from the
banks have been so heavy In the last
week that the clearing house associa
tion decided to withhold publishing of
the weekly bank statement until after
the close of the stock market today.
One result of the shortage of cosh Is
a paralysis of the crop moving busi
ness. Although farmers are eager to
sell, except In localities where there are
organised pools to hold back crops for
higher prices, they are unable to do
so because they are refusing checks In
payment of produce. Railroads end
wholesale dealers are unable to pay In
cash and the produce movement Ii de-
■clinlng rapidly.
Probing Falsa Reports.
United 8tates District Attorney Stlm-
eon and William B. Rldgely, comptrol
ler of the currency, have started the
legal machinery of the government for
a searching Inquiry Into the tranaaC'
tlona of several men who were forced
to retire from high ofllclal positions In
several national banks a few weeks
ago. It was admitted that tile Inquiry
had been under way for more than a
week and wae not yet completed.
Federal bank examiners have been at
work on tho books of three national
banks for a fortnight, and have return
ed to Washington to prepare their re
ports and submit them to Comptroller
Rldgely. It was known that two for
mer bank officials had mode false re
port a to the comptroller of the cur
rency.
*13,000,000 Deficit.
When the statement was made public
It wae found that the reserve deficit had
Increased over 119,000,000 since last
week.
On the whole the stock market today
wae characterised by dullness. The
weakness of the London market, how
ever, was not reflected here to any ex
tent, cave In one or two Instances.
Canadian Pacific was very weak and
sold off on orders from foreign sources.
It was thought this stock was too high
for safety, the result being heavy Lon
don liquidation before the opening here.
Market Supported.
There was good support to market
where needed, the best buying being
extended to steel stocks, Reading and
the Morgan group. Foreign telling of
Steel was thus offset, but the Judg
ment of traders Is that there fs still
some liquidation Ih Steel sinking fund
fives.
The threatened atrlke at the Calumet
and Hecla mines had no effect on Cap
per stocks beyond fractional declines,
probably because It Is well understood
that the miners could hardly choose a
time other than the present that would
be less Injurious to mine owners or that
would harm labor unions more. Any
thing tending to weaken labor organi
sations In Montana Is looked upon as a
Copper stock bull argument. Copper
consumers look upon the situation with
concern, as a shortage of stocks must
follow any shutdown.
T. C. I. Men Retign.
All directors of Tennessee Coal and
Iron resigned today with the exception
of John A. Topping, chairman, and F.
C. Crockland. Steel corporation men
were elected to succeed thoee going out.
It la said In banking circles that New
Haven directors today will probably
abandon the company's contemplated
141,000.000 stock Issue and vote to sell
to stockholders 940.000.000 worth of (
per cent debenture bonds at par.
started out to my music class. On the
sidewalk near the office door I met a
friend and he stopped me.
•'I 8hot Him.
About this time Sloop came up. and,
in hla tantalising low tone, again called
me the vicious names. It Just simply
flew all over me In an Instant and I
told him he- would have to take back
what he said or elee I would shoot him.
He refused and repeated the terms. I
then shot him. He had threatened to
kill me If l didn't stop using the ladles'
bath room and when he continued to
abuse me 1 became wrought up .to a
fr MUche’l ha* a wife and four children.
HI* eldest child Is a daughter H vears
of axe He has a son 11 years old, an
other girl aged II, and a baby aged 3
years. Sloop Is survived by his wife.
Mitchell hBd been in Rome since last
April, having gone there tnmlua home
In Richmond. Ky.. Where j*”*
for a number of year*. ^ **- plaj e-d dur
ing the summer In the band at the
Rome perk, and Is *>»«'«<*"“»*
GEORGETOWN AND
N. C. ON GRIDIRON
Washington, Nov. 9.—Georgetown
and North Carolina will line up for the
first big gam* on the local gridiron of
the season this afternoon. It will be
the first time that a Tar Heel team has
played In the city In a number of years
and the game I* expected to give a good
line on the chapel Hill team.
D0OOOOOO00OOO0OOOOOOOOO000
O ATLANTA WILL ENJOY
O A FAIR SABBATH. O
O O
O While Atlanta slumbers a light O
O rain will probably come along, O
0 and then Sunday It will be fair 0
O again with a bit more coolness In 0
O the olr. Forecast: O
O "Cloudy and possibly light rain 0
O late Saturday night. Sunday fair. 0
0 cooler.” O
0 Saturday temperatures: o
0 7 o'clock a. m 94 degrees 0
0 s o'clock a. m 197 degrees 0
0 9 o’clock a. m. 69 degrees 0
0 10 o'clock a. m 42 degrees O
O II o'clock a. m 97 degrees 0
O 12 o’clock noon 99 degree* O
O I o'clock p. m. ..,,....71 degree* 0
O 2 o'clock p. m 72 degree* O
Burning Brands Were Car
ried Mile by the
Winds.
Superior, Wls.. Nov. 9.—Superior was
swept by a $3,000,000 Are lent night.
The flameB originated In the Qreat
Northern Railroad Company’s elevator,
which was quickly destroyed, the Are*
men being fortunate to save two other
big elevators owned by the Fame com
pany and three of the Peavy system.
A high wind coming up during the
night, burning brands were carried for
a mile.
Fires started In a half dozen places.
The plant of the Great Lakes Dredging
Company wee entirely consumed.
world’s record
ON HYDROPLANE
Paris, Nov. 9.—Timed by Santos Du
mont. AI. Archdeacon and Captain Fer-
ber, M. Leins traveled two kilometers
In a hydroplane «*n the Seine today
In one minute and 94 seconds, a world's
record.
Race Results.
AQUEDUCT.
First Race—Purslane^ 9 to 2. won;
G. S. Davis, 8 to 1, second: Trouble
Maker, 4 to 5, third. Time 1:211-6.
Second Race—Thlstledale, 9 to 10,
won: Jimmy Lane. 3 to 5, second; Bat,
out, third. Time 6:20.
UNCLE SAM—Well, young fellow, it certainly pleases me to have you on my side!
E
DECATUR'S STREETS
DURINGjLECTION
Whisky Interests Give Up
Fight Before the Polls
Open.
E
T TO STEAL,
SAYS HOTEL THIEF
io my room! got to the Rom. opera hoaee. O0O0O00OOOOOO0OO000O0OO00O
Sp.rlnl to Ths Georgian.
Decatur. Ala., Nov. 9.—More than a
Thousand women and children paraded
the streets of Decatur today carrying
flags and banners and singing prohibi
tion songs. Members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union served Hot
lunches at the voting places. The anil-;
prohibitionists In the Decatur* are not,
ntlng and the two cities will go almost;
unanimously for prohibition. The >
county Is almost n unit for prohibition.!
heavy vote I* being east.
The campaign closed Friday with;
several speeches. J. A. Maple*, of'
Texas, .poke In Decatur and Mr*. Nan
nie Curtl*. of Tesa*. spoke In New De.
eatur. The campaign In thl* county
haa been a one-sided affair, the antis
making no effort whatever to conduct
any sort of a campaign.
GIHLTAKESPOISON
;ti
Helen Schwab Crazed by Ill
ness of Mother Kills
Self.
New York, Nov. 9.—While her moth
er, whose conntant attendant and com-
! panton nh»> had been for years, lay dy
ing in their apartment. Helen Schwab,
1 aged 23. a beautiful girl, driven Insane
by the thought of her loss. ran to the
; roof of a alx-story building, drank car-
( bollc acid and then leaped down the
air abaft. She was crushed to death
on the concrete float of the court yard
; below. The mother died as the girl's
• body wae carried Into the house.
F
Engineer Drew Burn
ing Powder Train
Thro’Village.
DOZEN MEXICANS
BLOWN TO ATOMS
Boy Stealing a Ride Did Not
See Train Was
Ablaze.
Douglas, Aria., Nov. 0.—Jesus Oar*
cia, a locomotive engineer, saved Na-
cozarl, Arlz., from destruction yester
day by running a burning powder
train through the town at top speed,
but lost his own life and caused ths
death of a dozen or more Mexican sec
tion hands through the explosion of
two cars of powder Just as the flaming
train was passing a section house.
John. Chisholm, a boy, was also killed
by the explosion.
The train caught fire near Narozari.
on the narrow-gauge railroad of the
Pilares mine. In the train were two
open cars heavily loaded with explo
sives. Realizing that ths concentrator
and a good part of the town would be
destroyed If the powder was exploded
there. Engineer Garcia called to the
rest of the crew to Jump and opened
his throttle.
IIo had taken the tratn about half a
mile when the explosion occurred, as
the enrs were passing a section bouse
full of Mexicans. The terrific explo
sion blew the house, the men and the
engineer to atoms.
Young Chisholm not seeing the firs
in the train, nought to steal a ride on
the rear car.
In Impossible to nay just how
many section men were killed.
Police Believe She Deliber
ately Killed Herself
and Boy. »
New York, Nov. 9.^-A double tragedy
was discovered today by the Jamaica
police ^'htn the bodies of Mrs. Han
Juan Mallen and her 12-year-old son
by a former marriage. Dudley. I>.
Brown, were found on the floor of a
bed room In the home of her slstef.
The wlndawa had been tightly closed
and the chlnka In the doors and w in
dows and the keyholes had been plug
ged with shootings and the unllghted
gaa from two open jets had tilled tho
room and asphyxiated the mother and
•on.
To the police It was apparent that
the mother, who had become despond
ent at family troubles, had deliberately
taken the life of her son and herself.
GOVERNMENT SEIZED
BIG DISTILLERY
Danville, Va., Nov. 9.—The large
plant of the Dry Fork Distilling Com
pany, located about fifteen miles from
this city. U closed as the result of a
second seizure by the United States
revenue officers on the charge of de
frauding the government. After the
first seizure, some weeks ago. T. M.
Angle, the tnannger for the distilling
company, was arraigned before Com
missioner Capers, who required Mm to
give bond for $4,000. Wednesday night
another seizure was made and the dis
tillery will remain Idle until the bond
can be given properly before Judge Mc
Dowell.
SOLICITING SUBSCRIPTIONS
FOR RAILROAD 8T0CK.
ftpertat to The Georgian.
Jackson, MUs, Nov. i—Tha cittsta*’
LAWRENCE H. GRIZZARD.
He has confessed to robbing
rooms In several hotels.
The loas of several hundred dollars worth
of diamonds. Jewelry and other •articles
from various hotels and iHHtrdIng houses
during the past nix weeks was explained
!>!<••* «»f!*»fn*».»M «*h*n lA»r*iir# II (trie-
sard, of 27 MorrlF.m avenue, m well-dressed
young man. spiwrently atioiit 25 years of
sge, confessed to city detectives that he
Grix
Bfered r
explanation
committee appointed to solicit eubecrlp. I »f M * ,2i , V. r ' >f r,l !“ , ‘i ,hn: wll, *0
tlons to the $36,000 fund to be raised P *"| U ^»tva never had tho least Inclination
for the purpose of purchasing right-of-
way along the Commerce street route
for the New' Orleans and Great North
ern road, commenced work this morn
Ing and has made very fair headway
In securing subscriptions to ths fund,
. bad a drink of
stated the prisoner. ••When
ever I would take n drink ! Immediately
want* I to area I something.”
to steal except when
whisky In r— ” -•- , «*« »•
I woi
On l*elng arraigned befor** lawyer <a*b
y Broyles, fTrlzxsnl waived preliminary exam*
I. iustloa and was ordered held for trial in
the criminal branch of the superior court
In five ••uFcs of burglary, ills boud was
Axed at $1,000.
Utixxsrit was arrested Thursday
Detective* Simpson ninl t'niupbel
bad led them a chase through Jark Wilson’s
bowling alley at Peachtree and Walton
street*, lie was Identified by pawn brokers
ns the nutt ‘ ■"
with them.
In hi* con re* _ .
committed n rold*ery at the Majestic
seven years ago, at which time Jewe
viilimtiles to the amount of alwut $1,5)0 were
•tnlxn fr«nu Mr* K I. I».Mijr!a*
lirizsnrd I* accused of haring ••mnmltted
thefts at the Aragon, the Kimball, the
Terminal Hotel, the Fairfax, the Atlanta
Jlonse, atnl the (Wedge House. Nearly
nil of the stolen articles time been recov
ered by the detectives.
Saturday morning the detectives, lit com
pany with llrlxxard, found a h.*ud«ouie ante-
thyst neekhM’e on the roof of the Beck 4c
<Sregg Hardware Co., where It hid been
thrown several days ago by (irlstnnl from
a window In the Austell building. The
iiArklnci* was stolen from the home of Mrs.
A other valuables.
CLEARINGS GAIN
IN LOCAL BANKS
A healthy E*ln In Atlanta bank
clearing* I* «hown In the report of th,
Atlanta Clearing Home Aiioclntlon l«-
■ued Saturday. The bank clearing* did
not foil to climb above tho»e of u.t
year.
The atatement I* »* follows:
Clearing* for Nov. 9. 1907,. I8S5.6TI 2I
Corre*pondlng day last year 848,413.<U
Gnln 11,261.33
Thl* wavk 8,009.1*9.TS
Corresponding week last
v,ar 6,888.001.78
Gain 191.197.99
~*400^000 Fir, Loa,.'
Louisville, Ky.. Nov. 9.—Fire at Cor
bin. Ky.. .yesterday, caused a loss of
140,000 In the business Mellon.
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0 London, Nor. 9.—Today la King C
O Edward’s birthday and he waa <3
O presented by the Transvaal gov- Q
O emment with the largest diamond 0
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