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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. OOOOOOOjWVVVMVVtVVVVMVVVWp ’ o ® O 82,50q t 0CO_DI AM ON D ^ 0 —— —» GIVEN TO KINO EDWARD. C 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 0 In the world, weighing 1 37 pounds li 0 and valued at 12,500,000. C 0 < ooooo000oo0ooooo0oooaoss<* The Atlanta Georgian AND NEWS