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'inr, in IjHjVL'A (iKOK(iIAN TWO A TLANTANS DIE IN FEARFUL WRECK; ONE BODY IS MISSING three of wreck victims RESIDENTS OF ATLANTA Three of the victim* of the wreck were Atlantans—Engineer! R. H. Atklnwn, R. A. Hamilton and Fireman Oliver A. Gentry. It H. Atkinson was 4J years old, and had an enviable record of 1# veers' service with the road. He leaves a wife and six children, a son Line grown. Mr. Atkinson lived at 256 Capitol avenue, and was a member of the Odd Fellows and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. His son went to bring back the body, but nothing has been heard from hln V. p. Hamilton, the engineer of the other train, waa 44 years old end lived at 7J Simpson street. He had been with the road for 20 years or more, and also had an excellent record. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, and will alsb probably be burled under the auspices of the order. His wife and sister left for Dalton Sunday to attend to the funeral arrangmenfs. The only one of the trio whose body has been brought home Is Fire man Oliver A. Gentry. His body was brought to Atlanta Monday morn ing and carried to his late residence at 6S Jones avenue. He was IS vear" old, nnd leaves a wife and two sons, 12 and 16 years old, ana a voung daughter. The funeral services will be held from the Georgia Ave nue Baptist church at 9:30 Tuesday morning. Rev. Mr. Goodwin offlclat- ne The following will act as pallbearers: J. D. Pyron. C. E. Pratt, J. A Adams, W. B. Adams, E. .SI. Quinn and James Garsh. The Inter ment will be at Hollywood. Freight Trains Collide Head-on at Early Hour Sunday.. DEAD. OLIVER A. GENTRY, Atlanta, Ga. R. H. ATKINSON, Atlanta, Ga. W. P. HAMILTON, engineer, Dalton, Ga. FIREMAN. PINSON, Ellijay, Ga. Ipednl to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., July 9.—At though a large force of firelighters and rescuers have been at work clearing the wreckage caused by the frightful head-on freight collision on the West ern and Atlantic the past thirty-six hours, the remains of Engineer Atkin son have not yet been recovered and It Is feared the body has been cremated. The remains of the other dead were shipped to the homes of their families for burial this morning. (pedal to The Georgian. Chattnnooga, Tenn., July 9.—One of the worst freight wrecks that ever oc curred on the Western and Atlantic road happened about one mile south of Bovoe station Sunday morning at 2:21 o'clock. Four trainmen were killed Instantly, about fifteen cara were burned, Including a car load of cattle, and the damage will amount to about 1100,00(1. Trainmen Forgot Orders. The southbound train was a few minutes behind time and had received orders at Boyce station to take the siding at Kings Point switch, but, It Is believed, the trainmen forgot their or ders. This train had passed the switch only a short distance when the crash came. Engineer Atkinson jumped, and st a late hour yesterday his remains were still In the burning wreck. The body of Fireman Gentry was pinned between the engine and tender and was badly mutilated. The bodies of Engineer Hamilton and Fireman Pin, son were found wedged between the tender and the englno of the north bound train. Fifteen Cars Burned, About fifteen cars were burned and orders were Issued by Yardmaster Capehart to the fire department •end an engine to the scene of the fire, and this engine and company was taken to the wreck, seven miles away, In eight minutes. Only three head of cattle escaped cremation. One of these was seen grnxlng In a field nearby with a broken leg. Wrsekags Cleared Away. Soon after the collision a wrecking train, in charge of George Pears, was sent to the wreck and the debris was •uftlctcntly cleared away so that trains could be operated at 3 p. m. The wreck occurred on a 1111 and the tender of the southbound train waa thrown down the embankment with the wreckage and was burned. The tender of the northbound train Jammed Into the cab of the engine and Is a total wreck. Both engines were of the heav- leit type elght-wheelers. Both engineers were married, and all the trainmen were among the old est and most reliable In the service of the road. \mm INCREASE MISSISSIPPI ASSESSMENTS ARE RAISED THIRTY-THREE PER CENT. ' The Georgian. cotS’’ 0 ,"' m '"* > Ju »' 7 —The railroad commission this morning Increased the *«es>ment on- all common carriers tomt I "* ln ,he * ta *« ss P« r cent. The •oral Increase will be about *12,000,000. earn,- a 'tlon was based on the net 32®*" of the corporation capital OMd. In business. The rail- end „ of* ra,aln » a storm of protest ml,.if endeavor to Induce the com- ™ n 1,1 reconsider this action. CLASH occurs between UNION AND NON-UNION to The Georgian. el«r?? nah ’ Ga " Jul y »•—The striking em « o"' and ,,nem en of the South- m? s un H T '' lephon * Company had a «*h* *'lth the non- take their".Jjl I**" employed to the re ril f r p ’i c ^^ The light occurred at •tree-, ' LRf Dra yton “ad Broughton PS'sing V T^ h ,“' of People were he-,,!,." ar ,.L rl ?‘ cal1 »“ Sent to police <*ctive. \,J?2 a wa * on load of de- tfc. aad ortiformed men hurried to N '*(dhngef JL’25 ,oan d that E. E. < *.t i * f' trlclan fop the Atlantic «en u ' , h “' 1 l*een stabbed. Four Clarence i ? ne union man, teen. ',[ar»h \| k ' an<1 ,hrfe non-union J ' E- u£k» & " OW ’ J - W ' “0 NEGRO IG ACCUSED SIDNEY BARNES CHARGED WITH TAKING HOLD OF MISS MILLER’S ARM. Accused of Insulting Miss MInhie Miller, daughter of Bailiff John Miller, of 184 Edgewood avenue, Sidney Barnes, a young negro, Is held prisoner In the police station and will be tried Monday afternoon before Recorder Broyles. The negro Is said to have caught Mis* Miller by. the arm Just as she alighted from a trolley car early Saturday night at Edgewood and Piedmont avenues, and to have spoken to her In an Insult ing manner. The negro then ran and Miss Miller reported the matter to the police. Call Officers Norris and Brennan went, to the scene and soon arrested Barnes. The negro denies he caught hold of Miss Miller and protests that he was speaking to a negro woman ln front of the young lady. NEGRO WOMAN AIDS ALICE CAREY WILL HAVE SUPER VISION OVER NEGRO BOYS AND GIRLS. In opder to Increase the efficiency of the probation work In Atlanta, Proba tion Officer Gloer has appointed as an assistant Alice Carey, a well known negro woman, who will have supervis ion over the negro boys and girls on probation. The woman assumed her new duties Monday morning. She will visit the homes of the negro children and keep In close touch with them and their parents as long as they are on proba tion. With this assistant, Officer Gloer, who has his hands full with the rapidly increasing work of the probation of fice, will be able to give more time to the welfare of the white children. This new move la sanctioned by ti leading negroes of the city, and tl Carey woman will be paid for her work by popular subscription among her class. Alice Carey waa formerly principal of the Mitchell Street public school, and Is regarded as one of the most li telllgent negro women of the city. COURT QUASHES BILL AGAINST JCEJOMBINE AMENDED BILL FILED AND 8UIT WILL PROCEED AT JACK- 80NVILLE. Special to Tbe Georgian. Jacksonville, Fla., July 9.—The decis ion df, Judge Samuel T. Shaylor In the court here this morning waa to the ef fect that information against the local Ice dealers, or alleged trust, be quashed on account of certain defects therein. Judge Shaylor, however, practically sustained County Solicitor Bryan on the merits of the case, and gave him an opportunity to file an amended In formation, which he did at once, and which, he claims, covers the defects In the first. A. W. Cockrell, Jr., one of the at torneys for the Ice men, asked that a week be given the defense to meet the new Information, which was strenu ously opposed by Solicitor Bryan. Judge Shaylor decided that the case was Important, and there should be no delay. He consequently set the case for trial on next Wednesday. The case against the alleged Ice trust was first taken up a week ago last Tuesday, when Solicitor Bryan filed information against local Ice dealers. The defendants at once secured able counsel to fight the case, and rarely. Indeed, have such distinguished law yers figured m a case In DuVfcl county. Those engaged In the case are Francis P. Fleming and hi* aon: ex-CIrcult Judge W. B. Young: W. H. Baker, president of city coucll; A. W. C 0C *"U' Jr- 1 a member of the board of the bund trustees; Duncan U. Fletcher, ex-may or and chairman of the Democratic executive committee, and Robert A. Baker. The defense made was a strong one. Arguments were made Jest week to quash Information, which, the lawyers alleged, to be defective. The case has been for several days generally discussed and the people have been much Interested. Mr. Bryan today said that even a conviction of the Ice men might not stop the high pi Ice of Ice that now prevails, and that the best remedy was for the city to engage In the Ice busl- LSON IN PERSON | I LMWCHCO pissiir MEG INSPECTION 1 li .SHOES . OF PACKING PLANTS To Appoint Inspectors at Once to Enforce New Law. By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, July 9.—Secretary of Agri culture Wilson today began his in spection of the stock yards In an ag gressive form to make the packing concerns put sweeping reforms In ef fect and abolish completely the unsani tary and filthy conditions at the yards. This action followed the giving out of an Interview, evidently a warning to the packers, saying that unless the law was complied with, the government would refuse permission to use the United States Inspection label. The secretary made a fast trip to the stock yards from the Auditorium hotel, with lerta accompanying him. II x men went separately from the Auditorium and the annex by a pre arranged plan to elude those who might wish to follow them, - and met on a down-town comer, where an automo bile met them. They entered and were driven rapidly to the yards. There Secretary Wilson nnd hlB were met by Dr. F. E. Bennett, chief of the local animal inspection bureau, nnd Mr. Wilson at once went to work In specting the plants and the conditions. UT-1-n In- n-lurns from t|„. yards In- Is expected to take the first step toward appointing five hundred new Inspectors to put the new meat Inspection bill Into effect. ■ WILSON WILL APPOINT ACTIVE MEAT INSPECTORS By Private Leased Wire. Chicago, July 9.—Secretary of Agri culture Wilson Is expected today to take preliminary steps toward the ap pointment of from 309 to 600 new gov ernment Inspectors who are to be em ployed In the stock yards to enforce the new national meat Inspection meas ure. The appointments must be made within the next SO days, as the In spection bill goes Into effect within that time. Meanwhile, representatives of 30 American packing and slaughter ing houses have been notified to meet the secretary at his quarters ln the au ditorium. The secretary says that before he is through the new law will be enforced to the letter and the packers will be al lowed to ship nothing but "clean meat from killing block to con and sausage casing." Chicago, according to Mr. Wilson, will have to look out for Itself. The government will not, and cannot, under the law, prevent the packers from un loading their Impure products upon the local public. It can only make It Im possible to ship a pound of unclean stuff over the railways. Enforced vigilance upon the part of the city Inspectors should bo the result, according to the secretary. Examinations -for 100 veterinarians and helpers to be sent Into Chicago's packlngtown will be held within - a month. Similar examinations will be Insti tuted In every town that boasts a packing house. The secretary will lay down more stringent rules of examination for lo cally Infected beet It Is possible that before he leaves the city government Inspectors will be ordered to condemn all "downers" and lumpy Jaws. Mr. Wilson will confer with many experts regarding the question of permitting the passage of any beef betraying In dications of lumpy Jaw or tuberculosis. His new rules will be governed to a great extent, he says, by the opinions of these experts. Before he has finished, he says, the packers will be forced to give the United States the reputation of mark eting the best and the cleanest meat In the world. * Mr. Wilson Is not yet sure whether he will make a personal Investigation of the stock yards or whether he will accept the report of the Chicago Com mercial Association and the Illinois manufacturers. J. M. HIGH CO. CARPETS, RUGS, MATTINGS GREATLY REDUCED. Atlanta Buyers: Here's Your Chance! Extra quality, high pile Axmin- sters and Velvet Carpets in un usually attractive patterns nnd color schemes, retailing regular ly at $1.00 and $1.25 yard, OFFERED FOR A FEW DAYS ONLY. Made and Laid on Your Floor for 90c YD. MAKE SELECTION QUICK Rugs res, been si $6.00 $1.25 Axminsters and Velvet Carpets 90c Yard. 9x12 Empire Granite Art Squares, been selling at *7.50 each, this sale 9x12 All-Wool Art Squares, In handsomo pat terns and color schemes, *18.50 (If) flf) value, now 9 ■ WallU 7.6x10.6 All-Wool Smyrna Ruga, worth regu- £,«*. $12.00 27x54 Axmlnster Rugs, *3.00 Vltlue, this < snlo $2.00 Rugs 9x13 Tapestry Brussel Rugs, In medallion nnd small figured designs, $13.50 9x12 Brussel* Rugs, In Oriental effects, exqui site color schemes, $18.50 value, $15.00 9x12-All-Wool Smyrna Rugs, same grade that tells for *20.00 everywhere, this $16.00 Lace Curtains 110 pairs handsome I.ace Curtain., In beauti ful Novelty effect., full wide, rich floral put- torn., etc., worth regular *2.00, to cloao 49 pair, fine Whlto and Cream Ruffled Bob- blnet Curtains, with Battenberg Insertion nnd lace edge, were priced *2.50 pair Special Ono lot about 40 pairs beautiful Irish Point Curtains, In extremely rich patterns^ regular *5.00 valuo, special $1.25 flufflod Bob- isortTon and $1.50 Irish Point $3.75 50c and 60c Mattings At 35c Yard MATTIN FUND TOjE URGED MEETING OF COMMITTEE FROM ASSOCIATION MONDAY AFTERNOON, President W. L. Calhoun, of th# John Gordon Monument Association, has appointed a commlttea from the or ganisation, and called a meeting of the same for Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock In the office of State Treasurer Park. Thla committee Is composed of W. M. Crumley, chairman, R. E. Park, W. H. irrison 8. W. Harris, General C. A. •ans, R. M. Clayton, D. O. Dougherty, .. J. West, E. Y. Clarke, F. M. Myers, Joseph T. Derry, E. H. Thornton, L. P. Thomas, H. L. Schleslnxer, W. V. Gor don. Savannah, and John W. Clark, of Augusta. The meeting Monday afternoon Is for the purpose of urglhg the passage of the hill Introduced In SEN. PETTUS AT HOME WELL DESPITE REPORTS Special to Tbs Georgian. Selma, Ala, July t.—Senator Pettus at home after a few days’ stay at Tate Springs since the adjournment of congress. He is Aale and hearty and an Interview denies all the report* sent out from Washington of his III health. '1 slipped a little on the Ice In Wasb- rton last winter" said the senator, id I was heralded abroad as being a severe strait. A little later I had slight attack, and the world was In formed that I had an apoplectic stroke, few days before congress adjourned bad a regular old Canaba chill, and was desperately ill, but you boys 25c FOR 35c MATTING. Hero’s an after invento ry bargain that will bring a crowd of buyers. To morrow we’ll place on sale while they last 49 rolls finest Jap and China Mat tings, in. exquisite em broidered effects—selling regularly at 50c and 60c yard. FOR A QUICK CLEAN UP FOR CHOICE Q AT %JOC Eighty-six rolls extra quality China and Japan ese Mattings, in beautiful carpet patterns and de signs, selling regularly at 35c and 40c yard by the ROLL ONLY, WHILE LASTS ... 25c Iron Beds Reduced. CERTAIN PATTERNS OF ENAMELED BEDS To be discontinued ARE OFFERED AT NEW YORK COST. Here’s certainly a glorious opportunity for'thrifty buy ers. Some $3.00 Beds .$2.00 Some $3.50 Beds.... $2.50 Some $4.50 Beds ..... .$3.00 Some $5.98 Beds $4.00 Some $6.50 Beds $5.00 Some $8.50 Beds $6.00 And so on. im I lip j . V Jjl i ill . 1 •: ! ynjiri -O.llJ 1 Feather Pillows, hygie nic and odorless, $1.50 pair, each 75c. Mattresses, well made, cotton filled, covered with best ticking, $3.00 and Up. J.M.HIGHCO. J. M. HIGH CO. BODYGUARD OF ROOSEVELT PLEADS GUILTY TO ASSA ULT Ay Private Leased Wire. Oyster Bay, July . your honor,” said James erst service man, and President Roose velt’s body guard, when his case Wae called before Justice Franklin today, Sloan was charged with assaulting Clarence Legendre, a newspaper pho- of the preeldent at the time of his home-coming. Justice Franklin Imposed - a fine of *10, which Included costs, which was promptly paid by Sloan, and he left the court room. There was a big crowd present. CROWDS FLOCK TO HEAR BIG JOINT DEBATE Continued from Page One. Club, Is here and predicts a Smith vic tory In southwest Georgia. Campaign circulars are being freely distribute! both sides, one the famous "negro polntment document," and the other an answer. Hoke Smith was expected on the Monday morning train and a delegation from his club went to the depot only to be turned back by the news that he had arrived Sunday. Mr. Howell wu met by a representative delegation. Chairman Forces Order. Mr. Howell spoke for forty minutes on disfranchisement. He was twice Interrupted by calls of "Hoke Smith" from tne latter’s friends on the plat form, and Chairman Mclntoah hod to enforce order with the gavel. Cheers from the Howell side added to the confusion. Mr. Howell atood until the Interruption was over. Hoke Smith Speaks. Mr. Smith began by saying that a year ago h* demanded a square deal between the railroad companies and the people. He declared he had not sought to do Injustice to railroad companies, but had demanded that they cease to tax th* Industries of the people of Georgia with excessive charges. He said that those who support the corporation aide do not favor prevent ing excessive bond and stock Issues and feel no hostility to dividends on watered stocks and bond*. They qui etly permit high freight and passen ger charges on the part-of the rail road companies to pay dividends and Interests on the watered stocks and bonds, he asserted. Centrols Freight Rates. Your railroad commission has con trol of the freight rate from here to see” me,'"an!rT don't "think" I # ev*r"feit I Savannah,” said he. "A study of the better." 'freight rate* on cotton In Georgia will show that a reduction of from >0 to 60 cents per bale can be made and yet leave the railroad earning a fair profit. This would save tha farmers of Georgia over *600,000 a year.” He said the Southern, Central and Atlantic Coast Line "have millions of dollars of watered stock, nnd bonds, and ara proceeding to make these stocks and bonds valuable by the taxes they levy upon the people for carrying passengers and freight. "If you wish to place tha Democratic parly where It can permanently stand for the right of the masses of the people In this state, you must drive the use of money by corporations out of politics In Georgia. You must cn- man or men employed to look after the Interests of the corporations In connec tion with legislative matters. You must put sn end to convention nomi nations, and require that all nomina tions be made at th* ballot box by the people. "Where Does He Stand?” "Now, where doe. my opponent, Mr. Clark Howell, aland upon IheM sub ject.? Where doee all four of my op- ponents stand upon then)? Not one word of criticism has come from either of the four about the conditions which I criticise. Neither of the four ha. one word to help me In thla strug gle. Colonel Estlll, Colonel James M. Smith have not claimed to desire that tha people be freed from taxation to meet Interests and dividends on water ed stocks and bonds. "Judge-Russell has openly proclaim ed that he stands by the vote he cast In the legislature In 11*5 to taka away from the railroad commission the right to fix freight rates. In the present campaign Mr. Howall -has, therefore, put himself In the position of Indors- ng the course of the present railroad commission, and of Indorsing existing freight rates now being paid by the people of the slate. four opponents are defending condi tions os they exist: "If my position that the taxes which the railroad companies or* now plac ing upon tha people of Georgia are ex cessive and unjust, then my four op ponents are defending the right of the railroad companies to 'unjustly and ex cessively tax the people of the slat*. ( "Who Ara Baoking ’Em?” "Who ara backing my opponents In this race? Tho leading attorneys and officers of tne big railroad systems of Georgia are supporting them. "Wherever one of the four candl dates Is selected as the candidate In a particular county to oppose me, you find the leading representatives of the railroad companies backing that par ticular candidate. “I call your attention to two matters which came up while he (Howall) ws. In the legislature. Ona wu the ef fort to put Patrick Calhoun, a railroad lawyer and vice president of th* i inond and Danville Railroad, In tha United States senate. Mr. Howell haa said that he voted for Hon. N. J. Ham mond, his fellow cltlsen. I ask Mr. Howell If hs did not go Into the cau cus of friends of various candidates who were opposing General Gordon and there urge the caucus to select Patrick Calhoun as the caucus’ nominee, and I ask him further If he was r< Hon. N. J. Hammond, why he urge the caucus lo Indorse Hammond Instead of Calhoun? "I call his attention to franchise legislation, by which the franchises of the railroads have been attacked. There wu a conflict In the legislature u to whether th* bill called th* Cand ler bill should be pused, or whether another bill, which In the senate wu termed the Skelton bill, should b* passed. Aesptsbls t. Roads. "The Skelton bill was acceptable to the railroads. The friends of franchise taxation Insisted that the Skelton bill provided no machinery for enforcing the taxation, and would have been use less. The Candler bill wu the bill finally passed. "I call hi. attention to the fact that he moved to recommit the Candler hill, and that when he did so, the effort In the committee wu to substitute th* Skelton bill for the Candler bill. "If the appointment of commission er* remains with the governor, I will name as commissioners men with views upon this subject tn harmony with the platform which I am urging, and I would not put upon the commission Mr. Joseph M. Brown or Mr. Warner Hill. If the legislature passes a bill to people, then It le of tho utmost Import- ance that th* party ninrhliu-ry should t ho taken out of control of railroad lawyers, nnd that an entire change of 1 our present plan of nominating *tat# house officers should he made. "I would urge the railroad commis sion tn bring the Southern Rallrou-i, the Atlantic Coast Line, the Georgia, Southern and Florida and the Central Ilallroada down to the standard tariff of rates As lo Disfranchisement. “I come now to tho proposition of puslng legislation which will protect the people of Georgia from the presence at the ballot of Ignorant and purchan- ’ able negroes. Stx southern states hnve passed legislation upon this line. Mis sissippi acted first, then South Caro lina, then Louisiana, then North Caro lina, then Alabama and then Virginia What has been the result In the.ia slates? ■FI hold In my hand letters from tha ' oth t he from other distinguished and pro rltaens, who declare that the result --f lion upon thla subject haa proved to be an unmixed bl< -King to the peoplo of that state, that no white men have been disfranchised, an-l that not five per cent of the negroes have been able to register and vote.” O00O00000000OO0OOOOO00O0OO o 0 MOTHER GIVES LIFE O IN VAIN FOR BABES. O He said in the prwent campaign his elect the railroad commissioner* by the cago, Tribune. By Private Leased Wire 0 Buffalo, N. Y., July 9.—Mary O and Flora McKinnon, for whom o their mother, Mr*. Christine Me- O KInnon, gave her life In ail cn- o deavor to save them from the O fire which consumed their home O yesterday, died during the O morning at different hospital*. O but within a half hour of each o other. O o 00000000000000000000000000 "Is our new cook clean, dear?" "I'm afraid not. When i a«k---i h-r what kind of soap she used to wa«h the vegetables she said she didn't u-o any."—Detroit tree. Press. Phroogle—If you want to get why don’t you cut down your p expenses? Wrounder—Because anybody that. I’m trying to get ahead i efittlng down my personal ex and let me tell you, old fellow, that's) something that requires genius —C1U-