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.» the weather. For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Tuesday; not so AND NEWS ATLANTA, C.A., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25,1907, PLANNING GREAT CRUSADE TO OUST LIQUOR FROM N. Y. New York, Nov. 25.—Cheered on by the success of the prohibition party in the South, especially In Georgia and Alabama, the anti-whisky people in New York are planning a gigantic fight that Is expected to put the Empire State on the ••dry" side. It Is believed It will develop into * n 8r r ea t te 5 1 cn,8a<ie for ousting liquor the-country has ever known. The *2 ? 8 * a * tate prohibition ticket for the next campaign when ah hlblti l a *° be made t0 e,ec t & general assembly that will pasa a pro- "if N.Y. Institutions Be gin Releasing,Cash on JLoans. TOTAL "WILL REACH SEVERAL MILLIONS Impression Is That Country Will Resume Cash Rasis In a Few Days. 00000000000000000000000000 U. 8. EXCHANGE BANK REOPENS FOR BUSINESS. New York. Nov. 26.—The United States Exchange bank, at 26 West One hundred and twen ty-fifth street, which closed about a month ago, reopened (or business at 10 o'clock this morn ing. A majority of the deposi tors have signed an agreement with the bank not to withdraw more than .ascertain percentage of their money for six months. O0000000000000000O00O0000O New York, Nov.,26.—.New York banks In the flnanclal district began, releasing caih for loans today, and It Is believed the total will . reach several million dollars by the closing hour. The general Impressslon la that the banks throughout the country will re sume currency payments within a few days. Financiers agree that this will mark the termination of the most as rlous phase of the crisis. LACK OF CIRCULATION. SAY8 ROAD PRE8IDENT. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 25.—In a state ment, Issued today, President A. B. Stlckney, of the Chicago Great West ern railroad, scores the present banking system' of the Country and denounces the theory that the present money stringency Is due to lack of circulation. President Stlckney declares that while the government Is urging the people to have ■ confidence In the national banks, It doesn’t regard them as good enough to hold government deposits. ROOSEVELT'S LETTER RE8TORED CONFIDENCE. Washington. Nov. 26.—The events of the past week In the financial situation have centered around the offer by the xnvemment to receive bids for 150,000,. 000 In 2 per cent bonds for Panama canal construction and offers at par for 1100,000,000 In treasury certificates run- nlng one year at 2 per cent. The an nouncement of this project by Presi dent Roosevelt, In his letter to Secre tary Cortelyou, .publlahed on Monday, hoe done much to reatore normal con dition to the money market. $1,200,000 IN GOLD ON WAY TO SEATTLE. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25.—One million two hundred thousand dollars worth of fold la now lying at Summit, on Thompson Pass, Just back of Valdez, on its way from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Beattie. Several armed guards are watching the gold in Its cache day and night, of this amount $460,000 Is In dust and ths rest In bricks. It Is the largest shipment ever made over tho trail from Fairbanks to Valdes. ■PPTPT?. fa Atlanta..TWO CENTS. A JAAvj-Lj. On Trains..FIVE CENTS. Edwin P. Ansley Writes to Roosevelt of Plan. Make cultivated lands a basis of credit. That Is the suggestion of an Atlanta man, made to the president Edwin P. Ansley, one of the leading real estate men of the South, has ad dressed to President Roosevelt a let* ter suggesting, os a means of prevent ing n recurrence of a flnanclal strin gency, the making of cultivated lands'a basis of credit with'the natlorial banks, up to at least 40 or 50 per cent of (he actual market value of such lands, and thus provide a currency or basis of credit that could hot be controlled by manipulators, and which would afford certain means for producing and marketing crops. The letter was submitted tt> tf.e president through Representative Lon F. Livingston, of the Fifth district of Georgia, who Is now In Washington. In a letter to Mr. Livingston Mr. Ansley calls attehtlon to a bill Introduced sev eral years ago by Representative Lew is, of Georgia, providing for the ac ceptance of real-(state as security for national bank loans, and which tailed of passage. Mr. Ansley presents a plan which, he believes, would go far toward tak Portion of Fund Will Go to South Georgia Conference. in# out of the hands of manipulator* f yeara.” 0 PA8TORS IN ATLANTA 0 MAY NOT BE CHANGED, O O Special td The Georgian. O .Cartersvllle, ,Ga., Nov. 26. 0 0 While no definite Information O O can be had, It Is believed that 0 0 there will be not more than one 0 0 or two changes In the Atlanta 0 0 churches. All of the pastors of 0 the most prominent churches. It 0 la thought, will remain In their 0 present pulpits. Bishop Ward 0 has shown wonderful executive 0 ability, and nothing In the way 0 of news regarding appointments 0 has escaped from the cabinet. 0O000000000000000000000000 By SAM P. JONES, JR. Cartersvllle, Go., Nov. 25.—Shortly after the opening of the Methodlet conference here Monday morning, Blehop Ward arose and In connection with temperance, said: 'Sam Jones, whose name Is so ap propriately given to this beautiful edl flee, did more for prohibition than any man that has lived In the last fifty BEFORE HORRIFIED THRONG, BOY IS STRUCK AND KILLED UNDER CAR IN WHITEHALL tra Session Proba- TEXT OF DECISION HKACLIES GOVERNOR Enabling Act May Bo Nec essaiy to Collect Back Railroad Tax Duo. GA, POSTMASTERS MEET IN MACON FOR ^CONVENTION first Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock Orator of Day. Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga, Nov. 25.—Nothing polltl tally developed at the morning session 0( the convention of postmasters. The "taming was given over to the election °‘ officers, addresses of welcome and the adoption of the constitution and by-taws. First Assistant Poet mgs ter general Hitchcock did not arrive this "tornlng, but will get In some time this •ttornoon. Henry Blum, of Bavannah, was elect- President. It was decided that the •’"elation should be known es the p, '. r * | a Association of Presidential V'xtmaater*. Walter Akerman. of eytereylfl*, delivered the response to >»e address of welcome. Mrs. James Longstreet, of Osinea- ' "betted the convention and stated •he object of the meeting. There are * D "ut iso postmasters In attendance. JJjM' of whom belong to the fourth [.Jhe "theb officers chosen were C. W. "ithoft. of Fort Velley. first vice pres. inu t: -jailer Aj/rman, of Cnrters- in Wall street the power to bring about a financial depression, and one which Is worthy of deep consideration. His letter to President Roosevelt follows: Mr. Anslsy’s Suggestion. To the President: In this day of un natural financial conditions, "the har vest Indeed Is plenty, but the laborers are few,” because a few bankers or financiers In New York, who are not producers, decreed a year ago that gen eral business conditions were too pros perous and should be curbed. Acting on this Idea, these financiers have not only refused to lend to the South and West a part of tho money they have made by manipulating the prices of their crops and handling the|r Insur ance money, but actually refuse to allow these two sections to withdraw their own money from their banks, to enable them to market their crops, which Is the only way that gold can be forced from the rest of the world. By withholding these balances, and the loans that these sections are entitled to. by reason of these balances, these financiers are thereby depressing the jrices of our products and are forcing lundreds of our manufacturers, with orders for months ahead, to either sus pend operations or else run on short hours, which Is forcing thousands of willing labored, out of employment and thus causing The very people who pro duce the food and clothing of the world, figuratively speaking, to go hungry and naked. In looking for a means to remedy Continued on Pags Seven. peoplIm ITH T LISBiSINEETS Many Reported Killed and Wounded in Great Uprising. Paris. Nov. *5.—Fighting Is progress In the streets of Lisbon, ac cording to apparently reliable reports. The censorship Is so strict all news has to be smuggled .across the frontier., Clashes between the military and the oeople are said to have begun yester day and continued Intermittently ever since. The extent of the loss of life Is ^Dispatches received contain the In formation only that "many have been killed and wounded." The premier of France Is pressing King Canos to de bars martial law. Trials were begun udav and several hundred men. many of whom are prominent, were arrested end charged with conspiracy against the government. Brimbsrry, third vice president: J. A. Crawford, treasurer. H F. Pierce, of Savannah, was ap pointed secretary by President Blun. There Is a hot fight on between Ma con and Gainesville for the meeting of the next convention. The statement of She bishop was ap. plauded. The report of Wesleyan Christian Advocate, which was read by Rev. Ford McRee, said that If the preachers would secure additional subscribers to raise the circulation to 16,000 the pa per would be operated without adver Using. The name of Rev. W. D. Upshaw, #d. Itor of The Golden Age, was called and It was humorously announced that there was nothing against him. The bishop- passed his character and Mr. Upshaw made an address. Rev. M. J. Cofer made an appeal for Wesleyan Advocate. Read Appointments at Night. A gift of $6,000 from A. K. Hawkes, the Atlanta optician, to be used for the benefit of wornout preachers, was announced In conference today. Gen eral Evans was appointed to receive the money and pay half of It for the support of superannuated ministers of the South Georgia Conference. Bishop Ward announced at noon that the conference would not finish Its business at the afternoon session and that the appointments will not be read until tonight. A special train will be asked for to convey the preachers to Atlanta tonight. Divids Conference. A resolution will be introduced this afternoon by J. B. Allen, H. L. Ed mondson and W. D. Butler, seeking to divide the North Georgia Conference Continued on Page Four. IF WE MAKE ASSES Of OURSELVES,LEI REPORTERS TELL IT - —REV. JOHN D. JORDAN Baptist Ministers Discuss Publicity and Its Effect on Meetings. “If we preachers make asses of our selves the public should be told." said Dr. John D. Jordan, pastor of Jack- son Hill Baptist church and presiding officer of the Atlanta Baptist ministers’ meeting, at the Monday morning ses sion of the ministers meeting, when the question of _ excluding reporters from the deliberations arose for the third or fourth time this year. ’Some of the brethren have com plained that they came up here end said ridlculbus things,” continued Dr. Jordan, “and the reporters quoted them. Well, whst If they did? If we make asses of ourselves, as some say, there Is nothing wrong In Its being printed. Really I think the presence of representatives of the press tends to curls the utterance* of the ministers, which Is a good thing. However, It we have any Important business of a nature that requires secrecy for a while we can go Into executive session." A motion to exclude ths report era was made but withdrawn. . That Governor Smith will call an ex. tra session of the Georgia general as sembly for early In January, seems more than probable from developments Monday. Monday morning Attorney aeneral Hart received the full text of the’”back tax" decisions of the United States *u preme court, and was In consultation with Governor Smith. Comptroller Wright and others during the morning. Neither* Governor Smith por Judgo Hart would make any statement ot this time, other than that they were carefully considering the case, with the view of arriving at an opinion. Judge Hart said he had not definitely determined whether It was a Judicial or legislative a ueston, and would hold the matter un- er further advisement. Judge Hart admitted that the decision was sub stantlally as printed In the pri patches some time ago. Upon tho (sets as then given waa predicated tho Idea of an extra session. When Governor Smith was asked about the possibility of an extra see slon. Just sRer the decision was • n ;fbe»ween"'*ia"'yVad l ict , “ and'"Alabama bounced In Washington, he stated that If the full text demonstrated that the whole process of collecting such taxes was at fault or unconstitutional, that the necessity far an extra scuslon'wohld be Imperative. To Pass Enabling Aot. An enabling act, giving full process of law; to be passed before the rev enues of the state were placed In Jeop ardy. would be the primal object of an extra session. In the event Governor Smith and Judge Hart conclude that the error In thls| particular case can not be corrected In the courts. An extra session would give the gov. emor on opportunity to secure other Continued on Page Seven. tfs IN BOILING WATER Death Ends Suffering of Lit tie Catherine Petty, 2 Years Old. LITTLE CATHERINE PETTY. The baby was trying to "help mother”'and was fatally burned. Little Catherine Petty, the .2-year- old daughter of Mr. and hire. W. O. Petty, was scalded Saturday afternoon at 4:20 o'cloqk, and after thirteen hours of suffering died at the residence of Its parents. 219-F) East Fair street, Sunday afternoon ^t 6:20 o'clock. Saturday afternoon Mrs. Petty left a pan of hot water on the back porch of their home. Little Catherine came around and baby-ltke wanted to assist her mother. The mother told the child to gt> out In the yard and play and then left the porch for a few minutes. In turning to go the ctitld stumbled and fell In the tun of boiling water. •£ At hearing the little one's screams Mrs. Petty went running to Its assist ance and lifted It out of the water. Dr. W. B. Sharpe was called In Immediate, ly and did everything In his power to relieve the little one's suffering but to no avail. The mother of the child Is prostrated with grief. The funeral eeremtinles were held from McHand'* chapel Monday after noon at.2 o'clock. The Interment was In the cemetery at Powder Springs, Ga. THE FAMILY GROUP SUDDENLY BROKEN. The picture shows Mrs. M. A. Beiley, her daughter, Ruth, and hfr only son, Buford, who was killed by a trolley car Sunday afternoon. Buford Bailey, 12 Years Old, Dodges One Car and Is Crushed Under : Another. 28PERSONS PERISH IN FLAMES ’Three Bodies Recover ed From Doomed Cincinnati Store. THIRTEEN DEAD IN NEW YORK FIRE Italians Penned Up in Ten ement and Choked by Smoke. While trying to avoid a northbound car in Whitehall street near, the via duct Sunday afternoon about 2:40 o'clock, Ruford Bailey, the 12-year-old eon of Mrs. M- A. Ballsy, of 116 South Pryor street, was struck by car No. 315 of the Bouth Pryor and Federal Prison Hoe and killed. The car was one of the new double truck variety and the wheels of the for. ward truck crushed the lad's leg and body before It could be stopped. When taken from under the wheels he was dead' ■The lad hsd spent the night at the home of Mrs. L. C. -McDonald with her son. Robert, and In the afternoon he was returning home with him. The boys were playing, nnd when halfway street, Buford fan across from the west side of. the street dtagnoally toward the Century building. At this time a car was going north, and the car which caused, the lad's death was coming south after having crossed the viaduct. Some one called to the boy to avoid the northbound car nnd he darted back, only to be struck by the southbound car. Too Lets to Stop. Motorman C. L. Goss was at the con troller and hsd his car slowed down for the Alabama street crossing. So quickly did the boy dart back that the car was upon him before Motorman Goss could realize It. Instantly he threw on tho emergency air brake, but It was too late. The big cat knocked down thq lad. tit* e.neels passed over his left leg and on his body and he was dragged several feet. It was necessary to Jack up the car to remove the body, but even before this was done it was found life was ex. tlnct. Robert McDonald, the stricken lad's companion, told who the little fel- low was, and while word wss sent to his mother the body was carried to ths undertaking parlors of Harry G. Poole. Mother Was Away. Mrs. Bailey wag out railing When the accident occurred, and It was not until she returned to her home that she learned of the accident. The news waa broken to her aa she reached homo and now she Is prostrated under the care ot physicians. Buford Vos her only son. She 1ms a daughter, Ruth. 14 years old. The fa ther fins been dead for some time. .Mrs, Bailey could not realize what had hap pened to her boy. She would leave her room and visit the parlor where a pic ture of the lad hung upon the wall. Then her grief would become greater. At the time of the accident Whitehall street was crowded with Sunday after noon pedestrians sad the accident caused a large crowd to gather. Will ing hands there were In plenty to ren der aid, hot after the wheels of the car Stopped tho lad waa beyond all earthly relief. Was Not s Newsboy. Ho was a bright boy and was'a fa-' vorlte with all who know him. Ho at tended the Loretta Convent, on South Pryor street, and was one of the brightest pupils In the Institution. He was Industrious as well as studious, and for some time past had been work ing after school hours at the store of the Orr Stationery Company, In White hall street. Neighbors who knew him were al most as shocked as his mother, and there was many a tear-stained face In the neighborhood ot ths Ballsy home when he was discussed. The funeral will take place Tuesday afternoon at an hour to be announced later. While It Is not admitted that tho street car company waa In any way to blame. It Is understood that Vice President T. K. Glenn la willing to as sume the burden of the funeral ex- B nses. providing this Is satisfactory to rs. Bailey. BITS OF PAPER BRING TEARS TO MRS. BRADLEY’S EYES; ALIENISTS GIVE TESTIMONY Torn Letters Found in • 0 Her Room Day of Tragedy. •By THEODORE H. TILLER, Washington, Nov. 26.—When court opened In the Bradley case today, scraps of paper found In Mrs. Bradley's room, at the Raleigh hotel, after the tragedy were first reat| to tbs Jury. One read: ‘These are letters from Annie Adams, Maude Adams' mother; please preserve them." Another read: 00000OO00000O00000OO0000O0 O O O ALL ENJOY SUNSHINE O O AFTER WEEK OF RAIN, p 0 —r O 0 Everybody who could get about 0 O was out Sunday to enjoy the beau- O C tlfu! sunshine after a week of tie- 0 0 pressing rain. Going to continue O 0 fair awhile, says the weather man. O O Forecast: 0 Fair Monday night and Tues- 0 O day; not so cold." C 7 o'clock a. nu 29 degrees. 0 8 o’clock a. m.. .. ..40 degrees. 0 9 o’clock a. m 42 degrees. (I 10 o'clock a. m 44 degrees. 0 11 o’clock n.*m 47 degrees. 0 If o'clock noon 60 degree* 0 1 o'clock p. m.. .. ..62 degrees. 0 2 o'clock p. m 56 degree*. 00000000000000000000000300 been picked up In her room at the I( there Is need In defense, eh*w any Rnlelgh and spoke of a possible need of defense In case of “my rashness.” Mrs. Bradley did not look at the torn scraps of paper while they, were being shown the witnesses. j Dr. Barton on 8tand. Dr. Wilfred M. Barton, professor of gynecology at Georgetown University and for fifteen years a practicing phy sician and specialist on nervous dis eases, was the first expert put on the staml by the defense. He qualified as to his medical experience, stating that for eight or ten years he had devoted special attention to the subject of neq, rology and gynecology.* “In cases where there was heredita ry Insanity, not In the parents, but In sisters or brother* of either parent would you consider the fact of value In determining whether « person was sane Or Insane?” Yea, sir. It Is not lateral whether the Insanity or collateral" '•What two agencies are mainly re sponsible for Insanity T" “Strain of Mind.” Heredity and stress or strain of mind.” “Would a blow upon the head in early childhood have any effect In de- tcrmlnlqg whether Insanity .does or does not 'exist and doe* o physician take this Into consideration?" “Yes: always." "What effect would criminal opera tion* have upon the nervous system and mind of a woman?” I should think that it would hava a bad affect upon the mental condition. In my own experience It bsis rashness. They were placed In evidence by the government, Indicating the woman’s In tention to do* the shouting. Dr. W. M. Burton, or Washington, the first alienist, was-called by the defense. Judge Powers, for the defense, then began reading the 16,000 word hypo- thetical question, whp-h wa* a full summary of all the events narrated In the testimony of the many witnesses. The body of the question had to do with the narration of the woman com ing under Brown’s Influence, their re lations, performance of operations by Brown, her progress from delight to despair aa she began to reallxe Brown's deception: her erratic behavior, and coming to Washington: description of Mrs. Bradley’s actions after the shoot ing. and her daxed mental condition. The question concluded: "Assuming these fact* to be true, what do you say aa to whether at th« time the fatal shot was fired. th<; pa tient understood the nature of the act, was able to choose or distl^gplsh' right from wrong; was able to control her self to choose right and avoid wrong? "What do you .soy as to whether, when the sliot was fired, the patient was mentally responsible for what she did? "What do you say as to whether, when the shot was fired, the patient was sane or Insane?" An Incident that brought tear* to Mrs. Bradley’s eyes and a shudder to her frail form was the reading of the torn bit* of s letter she hsd written some one a short while after she found and slew Senator Brown. These bad Insanity,' Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. 25.—Three bodies ha,ve been taken out and five are supposed to be In ono room of the Wlndorst Brothers' store, which Is be ing swept by fire. A high wind Is blowing and the building will be a total loss. * he death list will reach at Ienst fif teen, possibly ten more, according to the firemen. thirteen"killed IN GOTHAM FIRE New \y>rk, Nov. 26.—Thirteen per sons are dead and seven Injured In a fire that swept through a five-story tenement today. The fire started In tho liquor store on the ground floor, shot through the air shaft and stairways and trapped all tho famines In the upper part of the building. Despite all the firemen could do, they were Unable to reach the vic tims who were apparently overcome by smoke and burned to death. The persons who were killed In the fire were members of families who liv ed on the fourth nnd fifth Hoors. Tfle nnrrow stairways, filled with smoke, prevented them going down with the speed necessary, and, crowded together, ■non. women ami children sank to the floor, choked with smoke and were un conscious when the flames reached them. The combustible nnture of the ma terial In the basement of the liquor es tablishment made the flames spread with triplo rapidity and by the time the firemen arrived every floor was a blase. A call wss sent for ambulances. The firemen climbed to the roofs of ad joining buildings from which the ten ants hsd been driven by fear of the blaze and from these vantage points thsy poured streams of water into ths tenements. During the fire the tenants In their frenzy fired off revolvers to awaken those who were asleep In the building. Vltto Vortlto was among the first to escape down the stairway. He remem bered when he reached the street that he had left his family asleep on the fourth floor. He made tits way up the fire escape, broke u pane of glass In a window opening Into his apartment*. P climbed In through the smoke and flames and dragged out one of his boys who was unconscious. Ths thfrtsen bodies were found In one room on the top floor of the ru,-- story house. They were huddled to gether near a window overlooking the fire escape, and had evidently fallen In their attempts to reach the ladders and climb to safety. The bodies lay heaped one uppn the other, and were all so badly burned tHey could scsrcsly be recognized. When the bodies were brought down, It was found that seven were children, nnd the other six wer# adults. All the dead are Italians. QUITS WHISKY; TAKES UP "DOPE." W. G. Jordan, who was given a seat on Irobation Officer Cooglcr’a water wagon a few ilnjra a go by Itecorder Ilmyles, waa ar rest**! Hun<lity afternoon by I’ollconian Ivjr for soliciting money with which to hare a cocaine prescription filled. The matter Is now' being Investigated aiul fttr this rctfon the trial was postponed until Tut-Htliijr morning. It is said that Jor- dan has not drank any whisky nine* being placed on probation. Judge Jtroyles states be mast also uot use cocaine. TROOPS KILL THIRTY MOORS Orta, Algeria, Nor. 25.—French troops have killed thirty Moors and wounded ns many more ami are shelling Arab villages In the vicinity of Port Kald, In punishment for the ambushing of a reconnoltering party In n corge some distance from the town yesterday. The Inhabitants are fleeing to the mountains. CHICAGOANS WAGE DRY SUNDAY FIGHT Chicago, Xor. S.—Two hundred volunteer detective, from the Imw and Order Lengu* visited Mloous In Chicago Kundsy In so ef fort to abuts evidence tkst ths Sunday dieting law of llllsol. wss being violated. The action la In furtherance of s ctmpnlgn Inaugurated by the league. The evidence reflected will be presented to the grand Jnry of Cook county todzy or Tueidsy. Race Results. BENNING. First Race—Yaddo, IS to I. won: Listless, $ to I. second: Dolly Spanker, t to.2. third. 'Tims 1:26. Second Race—Economy, ( to S. won; Monkey Pussle, * to 1. second; Jim McGill, even, third. Time 4:25. NEW ORLEANS. First Race—Florence N, IS to I, won; L* Soeuer, 6 to 6. second; Geor gia Girl II to 5. third. TUne 1:06. The Atlanta Georgian SPOT COTTON.