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THE WEATHER.
For Atlanta and Vicinity—Part
ly cloudy Friday night and Satur
day; warmer Friday night.
The Atlanta Georgian
AND NEWS
SPOT COTTON.
Mrerpfiol. steady, 6.M; Atlanta, steady,
11; New York, stead/,' 11.80; New Or
leans. quiet, 11«4; Savannah. dull, 10 9-16;
Augusta, quiet, 11 1-16; Mobile, quiet,
10%; Baltimore, nominal, 10 13-16.
VOL. VI NO. 124.
ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1907.
PRTPT?. In Atlanta..TWO CENTS.
A J\JXr-C4. on Trains..FIVE CENTS.
L
BESIDE CAIN
City and State Won’t
Miss the Liquor
Revenue.
LICENSES BROUGHT
BUT $135,612
Figures Show Increase in
Revenues Overbalance
Loss of Liquor Tax.
That the city of Atlanta and the state
at Georgia will be better off financial
ly next year without the Income from
whlaky licenses than either was In 1906
with this Income, or better oft than
either was In 1907, Is conclusively
proven by figures obtained from the
bonks of the comptroller general of the
state and of the city comptroller.
Despite the fact that the licenses bn
retail whisky houses was doubled this
rear and on wholesale whisky houses
was quintupled, the city received only
113S.612.60 from these sources this year,
as against 9131,112.60 last year.
For the first six months of the year,
the old license was paid, and for the
past six months the increased license
was paid. The small increase of rev
enue. despite the great Increase In II
rense, si dyo to the cutting down of
the number uf saloons.
Lust year, the retail license was 31.-
mil, and the wholesale license 1200.
This year the retail license Is 92,000,
and the wholesale 31,000.
The 3135,612.60 In whisky licenses
was collected from eighty-six whisky
saloons, twenty-three . beer saloons,
twenty-one wholesale whisky houses,
and two wholesale beer houses, all of
which will go out of business on Jan
uary 1,
Increase In Values.
In the one Item of ad valorem taxes
alone, the Increase In revenue this year
has been greater than all the whisky li
cense money collected.
The Increase In taxable values In At-
tanta, real and personal and on corpo
rations and their franchises, Is 311.-
764,137, on which the city received
3151,944.65 ipore In taxes than was re
MILLS TO HUM INJANUAR Y
WITH 40,000 MEN AT WORK
In MfK; • H**’ 27 ~ I, y January 6.1908. It la averted that moat of 1 the mills
Hlassport. Duqaesne and up the Moiiongnliela valley ns far ns
wh. Tinw* ?2L d SS rn s° will bo In operation and more than 40,000 wen
l Vn?* Ve ,KPn 1 1,,le for several weeks will have returned to work.
nre . re P ortH Hmt every mill In the Pittsburg district will be In full
IT! i? ni.s. tin I n fe r *“ e neu L . v ‘‘ flr * Offletal* of the following mills have stated
. nt ? 4? . r S?. u “?* u«d that the 1907 standard of wages will be umlutnlued:
n.,rC., , iL.. ,u y* T . »»d constituents In McKeesport, employing 10.000 men;
? W » . ** H Vi eI Work »- 8.000 men; Broddodock Mills 8.000 men; Homestead Mills
“ffll Monessen BM.L'bar lent Mills. 4.000; Clnlrton Mills. 2.000 men; Dob ora
ru.If Mills. 1.000 men; Mckees|h>rt Tin Plate Company, 600; GIrss-
Flrth-Htlrllug Projectile Works. 600 men; Pittsburg Steel
bwsport. 325 men; Glnssport Coke Works. 250 men, and Severn Bros.*
works, Glnssport, 100 men.
T,n Mate Works will resume In full January 1. Some of the
..♦£?« e8 s£ Ul ... 0,1 t,IP first, and others a week later until all are In oper-
SS22H- T!l r Works will start December 30. The Pittsburg Steel
roundry at Glnssport Is so rushed that the mills could Ite stopped only for Christ-
g**?** TJ ,P American Ax and Tool Works starts January 6. and the mills at
and J *’ IfMiestead and other place wljl be In operation between December 30
GIRL’S 180-HOUR SLEEP
IS ENDED B Y DEA TH
Sew York, Dec. 27.—The long, strange
sleep of Miss Edith Wardrop, heiress and
wnrd of W. 8. Kcllnm, ended In death at 6
o’clock this morning In the Lincoln Hos
pital. To the Inst the coma which remain
ed unbroken for more than 180 hours bnf-
f et! the ablest alienists and scientists In
New York.
Miss Wardrop was 16 rears old, and sn
unusually pretty and Intelligent girl. Thurs
day afternoon of Inst week, while watching
n Arc engine go hr, she was Htrtrkvn nt
the home of her friend. Miss Adrienne La-
Itoche, a girl about her own age. The two
girls were seated In the parlor when tin
fire bells sounded. Miss Imltoche rushed t<
the window and called her companion.
“Coins quick. Edith, and look nt the On
horses,” she exclaimed.
She looked around and found Miss War-
drop motionless In a chair. They thought
nt first she was in a swoon, hut she could
not he revived. The family physician could
not arouse her and finally advised removing
her to the hospital. Mil* was taken there
and placed In n private ward, where all
the prominent physicians and specialists In
New York, with few exceptions, had been
to see her during the week of her strange
trance. There was no sign of pain. Miss
Wardrop was given nourishment thru *
tube and had not lost weight.
Her color was good and her breathing as
cirulnr ns If she were asleep.
It was learned today that Miss Wnrdrojp
i short time ngo fell from a sleigh and It
regarded as possibly the only cxplnna-
E
THEIH LAST MASK
BEFflREJLOSING
Fifteen Licensed Stills Shut
Up Shop Next
Week.
TUT PEELS EDIT
23
AIN
Express Crashes Into
Rear End of Local on
Pennsylvania.
PITIFUL CRIES
FROM VICTIMS
Women Scream and Faint at
Grewsome Scenes of
Carnage.
celved last year. It will be seen that In
this, the city receives about $15,000
more than aJl the revenues from whis
ky licenses.
In addition to thlf, the city Will re
ceive in revenues from the water works
this year approximately $30,000 more
than was received lost year. The to-
Continued on Pago Two,
KILLS HUSBAND
IISBJ
A South Georgia Farmer
While Drunk Is Shot
By Wife.
Special to The Georgian.
Valdosta, Ga., Dec. 27.—News reached
thlM city today of a terrible tragedy In
Clinch county on Tueaday night. John
S. Moore, a farmer, living eight miles
north of Stockton, was shot and in
stantly killed by his wife. It Ih claimed
that the act was committed In self-
defense. Moore was drinking, It Is
•dated, and threatened hla wife’s life.
He wag considered a man of splendid
character when sober, but was danger
ous when drunk. Only a few’ years ago
he killed a man In the same house while
drinking,
NOOSE ADJUSTED
WHEN GOVERNOR’S
REPRIEVE CAME
Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 27,-IIenry Thnx-
t»». colored, was about to be hanged In the
Joii yard at 11 o’clock this morning when n
reprieve from the governor giving hli
******* days more of life arrived. Thaxton
on the scaffold and the deputy was fit
ting the noose to his neck. The black enp
«nd been adjusted when suddenly a me*-
“fr arrived with a telegram saying:
. "I reprieve Ilenry Thaxton for fifteen
days.
• Signed) ”B. B. COMKR, Governor.”
Friday la the beginning of the eifil for
registered distilleries In Georgia. The Inst
crop of liquor they will turn out before the
prohibition law goes Into effect was started
on Friday and before tbo law goes Into ef
fect ft will bare t>een transformed Into
whisky and, ready to be shipped on Its way
out of the state.
There were fifteen registered distilleries
In Georgia, but some of these censed opera
tions some time ago. In fact, the largest In
the state—the Swift Greek distillery, near
Macon—stopped operations on December 21,
and Collector of Internal Revenue Itucker
has been receiving notices for,some time
of Its Intention to phut up shop.
Those which have, not yet closed am!
which Intend to run until December 31 nre
few lu number, and In order to get out the
liquor by the end of the year It was neces
sary to take the first steps In Its ninnu-,
fucture Friday. Some stills which take a
longer time In the distillation commenced
the making of the last crop on Thursday.*
One of the largest stills lu this section
of the state Is that helouglng to the It. M.
Rose C’o„ located nt GUuiore, near At
lanta. Collector Rucker Js in close touch
with all of those still In business and «
distiller will notify hint when business will
cense.
The shutting down of the registered dis
tilleries In Georgia will mean the loss to
the government from this state of some
thing between $476,000 and $600,000 a year.
Twenty years ngo there were 100 registered
distilleries In Georgia, but this number has
been diminished to fifteen. But the fifteen
paid lhe government more In Internal rev
enue than did the hundred.
Mob Raids
Chink Joints
Opens in Boston Dec. 30, on
Railroad, Finance and
Tariff.
Lethbridge, Alberta, N. W. T.. Dec. 27.—
Stirred by nn unfounded rumor that Harry
Smith, a wealthy cattle rancher, bad been
murdered in a Chinese restaurant, a mob of
1,600 persons stormed the Oriental quarter
of the city, smashed glass and wrecked the
entire fronts of buildings. The Orientals
fled. A brigade of mounted police finally
quelled the disorder. Smith bad not been
hurt nor was anyone else.
Washington, Dec. 27.—Secretary of War
William II. Toft Is showing strong symp
toms of abandoning the role he has hitherto
occupied of a rather passive candidate for
the Republican nomination for president
and of jumping Into the political ring In
deadly earnest. Speeches are promised from
the secretary. In which be will handle the
political Issues of the day without gloves.
It Is iio secret that for a good while Sec
retary Taft did not look with any great
degree of gratification upon the movement
to nominate lilm for president.
But things have reached a point where
Secretary Taft has become In'earnest about
getting ttfc* nomination. There Is nothing
left for him hut to take off his coat and
ill In. This Is just what he plans to do.
First in Boston.
Secretary Taft will he heard first nt Bos
ton December 30 In a speech to be delivered
before the Merchants’ Association of that
city. He will discuss the lending Issues,
Including the financial situation and rail
road ami corporation matters. He has pro-
uounred views on these subjects sud on
tariff revision. It Is not unlikely he will
touch on revision In his Boston address.
The address nt Boston will !*> folio wed by
a number of others. There la nothing left
for Secretary Taft but to make a square-
out contest ngnlnst the Fornker forces, and
leave It to the voters of Ohio to decide
whether they nre prepared to Indorse Fora-
ker’s nntl-ndinlnlstration policies or to sup
port those policies for which the president
has stood.
Five Perish in
Burning Home
Watertown, Man,.. Dec. 27.—John
Clark, hla wife and three children
perished today In a fire that destroyed
their home. A fireman found evidence
that the father mode a desperate at
tempt to carry hlB family to eafety.
Camden, N. J„ Dec. 27.—Three killed,
five fatally Injured and IS badly In
jured In a rear-end collision between
the Camden accommodation and the
Atlantic City ■ expre«B train, on the
Pennsylvania railroad at this place this
morning.
Several of the Injured are still pin
ioned In the wreck and rescuers are
making frantic efforts to liberate them.
The cars took fire after the wreck and,
as the biaxe crept near the Imprisoned
passengers, they cried piteously to be
liberated.
The fire department was summoned
to the scene and played streams of
water on the burning cars.
In this manner the flames were pre
vented from reaching the passengers
caught beneath twisted Iron, shattered
timbers and wrecked car seats. Am
bulances were soon on the scene with
surgeons from all the hospitals.
Cries Were Pitiful.
Many of the passengers, In a panic,
ran through the crowds, crying the
names of friends and relstlvea One
woman sought her brother, and her
cries were pitiful. It was later learned
he was among the Injured.
Several of the-bodies taken from the
wreck were terribly mutilated, and thru
having been bathed .In escaping steam
from the demolished locomotive, were
beyond recognition.
Cries of fright and pain could
heard for several blocks. Those who
escaped Injury fought to get out of the
wreck, but when liberated they turned
their attention to helping the less for
tunate paseengers.
Tore Skirts for Bandages.
Women tore their skirts for bnndr
ages. A heavy fog which hung over
Jersey i, partly responsible for the
wreck. The engineer of the express
could not see very far ahead, and when
the train In front loomed Into view It
was too late to stop.
The great engine leaped into the rear
car, threw It Into the air, crushed the
timbers like match etlcks and plowed
on through to the next car.
The only one of the dead thus far
Identified Is Theodore A. Webster, of
Merchantsvllle, N. J. He Is the senior
member of the firm of Webster Bros.,
of Camden.
The dead In the wreck are:
C. T. SONTOEN, Stsnnlek, N. J.
II AO A NIRO. Mt. Holly, N. J.
THOMAS L. WEBSTER, Merchant-
vllle, N. J. -
Evans ’ Fleet
Sails Saturday
Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec. 37.—
The tender Yankton, auxiliary to Ad
miral Evans’ armada, sailed for Rio
DeJaneiro today ahead of the main
fleet.
The fleet la to steam southward to
morrow. Many dinners will be given
In honor of the Americans tonight, after
which goodbye will be said In antici
pation of tomorrow’s departure.
AUTO WAS LOADED
WITH REAL MONEY
H wn* n peculiar ami rather mysterious
Incident that wns witnessed by certain pe-
•lestriant on Broad-st. In the neighborhood
,,f tlie Meal Bank late Thursday afternoon
ftri d some of them are still rocking their
l»rnlns trying to figure It out.
Ai» automobile stops In front of the bank.
• hi* tide door of tlu* iwnk opens quickly,
nnd men rush out with large sack* In tbe.r
uniKlft sud deposit them In the hlg. tbrob-
J'lng machine. Asa G. Candler Jumps Into
me machine and away the auto wbUxes
northward.
This automobile carried n treasure of
►nuethliig more than $230,090 In actual cash
nnd notes a ml bonda aud papers, whose
'aiue U nrouud the two-million mark.
These sacks contained the money ami the
most valuable papers of the Neal book
‘V l,, w*rw being removed ti> the Central
;* an * mul Trust Corporation, which has
ratu appointed receiver.
Tomorrow is the Day—
—When The Georgian will begin taking your want ads. free of charge. We will
run them as often as is necessary to fill the want.
If you want to buy, sell or exchange anything from a pair of shoes to a
piano—if you want to find a good boarding house or to rent a, room—if you want
a position or want to employ help of any kind, the thing desired can be advertised
in the want columns of The Georgian until the want is supplied.
The offer of this free advertising in The Georgian is made for the help and
convenience of the public, and we want you to feel you are not imposing on us in
taking full advantage of it. On the contrary, the more freely you use it the better
we will like it. We can afford if in our desire to accommodate and interest the
people. It makes no difference whether you are a subscriber to The Georgian or
not—bring your want ads. along and run them absolutely free of charge.
The offer goes into effect tomorrow and holds good on any day of the week
The Georgian is published. Remember, any advertisement of a personal nature
under any of the headings given above will be printed free of charge and as often
as necessary. TOMORROW IS THE DAYl
HD BUCKLE
N. J. Police Think It Ex
cellent Clew in Mys
terious Murder.
TWO MEN HELD'
WITHOUT BAII i
Theory That She "Was Lured
to Place by Trusted
Friend.
MISS FLORETTA WHALEY.
She it the heiress who eloped with Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, pastor
of the fashionable St, Georges Episcopal church, Hompstoad, L.l^ and has
come into $5,377, her share of her father's estate. Her friends are wonder
ing whether she will return to claim the money. Nothing has been heard
of the young girl einco she eloped with her pastor and guardian, who left
hie wife. Miss* Whaley is also the aole helreta of her grandmother, who
it very wealthy.
MODERNISM IS DEALT -
BLOW BY POPE PIUS
Milan, Dec. 27.—The pope on Christ
mas eve launched the severest blow he
has yet dealt modernism. It being noth
ing leas than the pronunciation ot the
greater excommunication against all
concerned In the production ot the
monthly review, II Rlnnovamento,
which I, published here. The greater
excommunication I, a penalty which
has been rarely Imposed In modern
times.
Even Victor Emmanuel, when he de
spoiled the papal states, was saved Its
severities. Among other thlrigs, It de
prives those ngnlnst whom It 1, di
rected of Christian, burial and relieves
the faithful of all duties respecting the
bodies and souls of those denounced,
whether they are alive or dead.
II Rlnnovamento Is a high-class sci
entific periodical. It Is not antagonis
tic to tho religion, but It opposse the
policy of the Vatican to the same ex
tent Vis Inquiring modernists do here
and elsewhere.
The decree explicitly strikes not only
at the proprietors and editors, but at
the whole staff, printers and others em
ployed In the production of the review,
as well as at every contributor and sub
scrlber.
Several aristocratic families In Milan,
who are pronounced In their devotion
to the Catholic faith, are effected, as
well a* Innumerable humble 'readers
and supporters,
The directors have replied to the pa'
pal fulmlnatlon by an announcement ot
their Intention to continue firm, but re
spectful, resistance to the Vatican's pot
Icy, which, they declare. Is crushing lib
erty of research which their review
embodies.
VAULT INSANITARY
SAYS CITY REPORT
The Cemetery Commission
Recommends Use of
Lakewood.
BATTLE
Many Innlles Imre lieen In the reoelvlug
vanlt nt Oakland cemetery for year*, bring
ing nlmnt very Insanitary condition*. I*
■tated in the annual report of the cemetery
commission, of which \V. 8. Thomson I*
chairman.
The commission baa established regula
tion* regarding the future, but preseut con
dition* are proving very perplexing. The
report state* that when the cointidiudoii
n«*umed charge of the 85 acre* of Oukhiud
cemetery "It wn* In a disreputable condi
tion, especially that part of It where pau
per u and negroc* were hurled.”
By moving the negro pati|M<rx to another
port of the cemetery nt a cost of $160, lot*
ot $6,000 were neeured. Many repair* am! a
vast deal of work on the ground* has been
done, but inneb yet remain* heeding atten
tion.
The cnrami**loii recommends the com
plete Inchihiire of the cemetery by a stone
wall, which can lie done for about $2,500.
Two public comfort building* are also rec
ommended.
lu cloning the report the commission say*;
“We call your special attention to the Ines
timable importance of b entlng a new cem
etery as soon us possible.”
The commission has recommended a
change in the charter, lessening the four-
mile limit, and permitting a part of Lake-
wood as « cemetery.
The commission states that It can not get
the cemetery book* kept as desired, and
that “It will l>e Impossible to kecompllsb
what should be done without absolute eon-
trot by the commission of n^jiolutiiient*
N TRAIN HOLD-UP
One Robber Shot Five Times
and Marshal Shot
Thru Body.
levs sml cm-
Veteran Editor Dies,
ixton. Ve., Her, 27.—Joules Krotl
s former newstisprr limn a III I a rim
e solillrr. illnl nt hie home la Lex-
jest winy, aged 63 year,.
ftmltbtioro. III., Per. 27,—A wrstlmuuil
fin Monger tniln on the Ysmlnlln line of tbs
l’enimylrenlu nyeteui was belli np here at
1:30 ii. ui. today. City Mnrnhnl Kumry J.
Ilrown, of kurruto, III., reelsted anil was
■hot by s robber. One of the robtiers Algo
woe shot lu tho fight, both robtiers were
raptured, both woundmi men were taken
to t.reenvllle on the hebbup train.
One bullet panned thru City Mnrnhnl
brnwn'a body. The bandit wns abet five
ttinea In the pistol battle, both bandit,
were nineked.
A later refairt has It thpt the lamb- took
S lnre after the robbery of the Hmlttihoro
rpot and was a doable robbery Tbe bnn-
lltn opened Ore when ordered to throw up
their haude. Sixteen nhota . were ex*
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0 10 o'clock a. m.
11 o’clock a. m.
12 o’clock noon
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Harrison, N. J„ Dec.. 27.—A gold
garter clasp may clear the murder
mystery surrounding the nude body of
a woman found In the Passaic river
swamp yesterday.
The garter-face Is Indented with pe
culiar hieroglyphics, and was pur
chased In a Brooklyn store. The police
believe It nn excellent clew. ’*
Frederick Klrkmsn and Arthur
Thompson, arrested after finding ths
body, are held without ball by Magis
trate Brannigan.
Two Men Held.
Both were remanded to the custody
of the police and locked In the
examination of Klrkmnn an ndmlsslnn
was extorted from him that he had
once lived in Brooklyn and which he
denied yesterday when questioned by
the police.
That the girl fought desperately to
save her life on the dread darkness of
Christmas night wns mode further evi
dent today by the finding of the skirt
of the rod broadcloth tailored suit,
which she wore before her death.
An autopsy in the morgue nn ths
body of the ypung woman victim con-
tlrmod the of the police that ehe
was the victim of a poisoner or stran
gler, and thin she was dead when her
body was thrown Into the pond.
County Physician James Convera
performed tho autopsy, assisted by Or.
Allers. They found no external Indi
cations of serious Injuries and hnve ar
ranged for chemical tests of Internal
organs.
That the girl was lured by a trusted
friend to ths place where she met death
Is the theory of the police.
Watchman Sew Pair.
She wns a woman of more than
ordinary good looks. Her teeth were
white and oven. Her hands are not
those of one accustomed to work, and
her dress not the sort a working wom
an could buy.
Peter Coogan, a night watchman, In
formed the police that he saw the wom
an, accompanied by a well dressed man,
whose description he furnished. She
appeared to be overcome either by
drink nr drug,. Tho pair were headed
toward a yacht club house.
Dropped Bundle Into River.
It looks as If the man seen by Coo
gan had the murdered woman’s cloth
ing In the bundle he carried and drop
ped It off the Center-st, bridge," nald
Chief Rogers.
The tide was out and tho missing
garments should have reached the
place at exactly the time when the
parts were picked up by Albert
Thompson. He found on tho Harrison
side of the Passaic river the coat, set
of furs, garters and one stocking, and
now the chemise Is found. I believe
we will find the rest of her clothing In
the Passaic river today. Tho coat was
In two pieces. It had been ripped up
the back violently. The clothing Is of
good quality, the furs alone being esti
mated to have cost $100. Persons have
come forward who rlalm to have heard
screams and mysterious noises ths
night before."
PUMP CONTRACT
SIGNER AT LAST
Hard-Fought Battle Ended
Before Council
Goes Out.
TIn> pump question as for ns the puniinso
of the new pump Is roocernwi bos been s«*t-
tle«I. ninl settled finally.
The water Imard met Friday morning nt
16 o'clock, voted unanimously for a resolu
tion by Commissioner \V. 8. Dunci
pr.-stl
the contract, and Frank l\ Rice, the
dent, affixed his slxuuture In the present •
of the board.
Only one contract wss returneil by the
WIkcoiisIii Hujclue Company, nnd this one
was signed by President Rice. C. T. My
ers. representing tbe company, thought tho
contract should l*e held ny him. and Mr.
Rice Insisted that It should be held by tho
city. If ws* finally ngreet) to give Mr. My
ers a certified copy.
TENANT STRIKE
BECOMES SERIOUS
IN NEW YORK CITY
•*'* *1I* |N r> 1?0|N e* ^
New York, Dec. 2
general committee •
in New York tener
day that their agents
dredn of recruits
G y rent until t
mcflordM are dot
atlon ia becoming
who
[embers of the
rlklng tenants
* reported to-
securlng hun-
wlll refuse to
it I* reduced.
1 ami the situ*