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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* OtMXKKlOatMKlOOOOOOPOaOOOIKW 0 O WARM AND CLOUDY O O WEATHER TO CONTINUE. O O Q ’’Oee, It’s warm,” said the msn O O from 8t. Paul, as he threw open O O his coat and wiped the persplra- O O tlon from his brow. "Have It 0 0 like this here all the timer' He O O was assured that such balmy days — O In midwinter were quite common 0 0 here, altho It could do stunts In 0 0 weather here on occasions. Fore- O w cast: 0 0 "Partly cloudy Friday night and O 0 Saturday; warmer Friday •night." 0 Friday temperatures: O 6 7 o’clock 0 6 o'clock a. m. O 9 o’clock a. m. 0 10 o'clock a. m. 11 o’clock a. m. 12 o’clock noon 1 o'clock p. m. 2 o’clock p. m. . .47 degrees 0 ....47 degrees 0 ....48 degrees 0 ... .49 degrees O ....51 degrees 0 ....62 degrees,O ....56 degrees 0 .-...66 degrees O 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*