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Georgian. GA., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1906 FIVE CENTS. HPT. DREYFUS WINSAT LAST His Honor is Restorec by the French Court. he is to command COMPANY IN ARMY After Being Under Cloud for Yean, Victim of Conspiracy Comes to His Own. By Private Leased Wire. Paris, July 12.—The verdict of the Rennes courtmartlal of Captain Alfred Dreyfus has been annulled by the court of cassation by which the case was reviewed. As a result of today's verdict Captain Drevfui will .re-enter the French army with the stain upon his honor wiped out. It Is understood he will at once be mad* a major and assigned to command. • Sent to Devil’s Island. Dreyfus-was a captain of the gen eral staff of Paris. In the 'spring of 1S9I he was arrested on the charge of having sold secrets of the national de fenses of the country to Germany and Italy. Ho was courtmartlaled, publicly stripped of the Insignia of his rank, his swprd was broken In the presence of a Jeering crowd and he was sen tenced to life Imprisonment on Devil's Island. There, beneath the broiling tropical sun, he spent four years In a stone hut. guarded day ant! night by sol diers, who had Instructions not to ex change a single word with him and to shoot him down If he made the least move that might be construed Into an attempt to escape. Viotim of Conspiracy. yielding to the universal clamor for Justice, Franco accorded him a new courtmartlal, held at Rennes, and which again resulted In condemnation, “with extenuating circumstances." This time he was sentenced to ten years' Imprisonment, but almost Im mediately pardoned by tha president. Dreyfus was not aatlslled with this. What ha wanted , was vindication and restoration to the rank from Which he had been degraded. Died in a Call. Colonel Henry and Colonel Ester- hazy, who had sworn that certain doc uments had been written by Dreyfus, now confessed . that they themselves had forged them. Colonel Henry, short ly after his recantation and arrest, was found dead In his cell, and It has not been quite settled whether be commit ted suicide or was murdered. That the latter Is the more probable theory was Indicated by the fact that Lemer- clcr- Picard, one of the few who dared testify fnvorably for Dreyfus at the courtmartlal, was afterwards found strangled to death. BACON SAYS TIFT WILL BE NOMINEE THOS. W. ALEXANDER LEA VES BIG SHOR TA GE IN FIRM AT A UGUSTA Prominent Society Man and Member of Big Cotton Firm of Alexanders Alexam der, a Defaulter. BANKS INVOLVED MEET AND ISSC/E STATEMENT Claim Liabilities Will Not Exceed $14^,000, WitK' $80,000 Good Securities, and $30,000 Doubtful—Talk Is Total Shortage Will Reach $200,0.00. Special to The Georgian. Augusta, Ga., July It.—Mr. Thomas W. Alexander, a member of the Arm of Alexander & Alexander, mysterious ly left Augusta last Saturday, and It developed this morning that ha deeply Insolvent, and an otltclal state ment says, that his Indebtedness Is In the neighborhood of 2 US,000. Mr. Alexander Is one of the leading society men of the city, and his family has been one of high standing for a half century. Left Saturday Morning. 1^ appears that Mr. Alexander left the city Saturday morning, but his whereabouts did not create any suspl don until yesterday, when the banka began turning down his checks. An In vestigation woe Instituted by the banks Involved, and It was found that their claims were no good. A meeting was held at tha Georgia Railroad Bank today at noon anil the following official statement was given out for the public by Judge J. R. La mar, the attorney for the firm: •‘Rumors In the street hove greatly exaggerated the amount of the Arm’s Indebtednaaa. The total liabilities do not exceed $146,000, and assets good and available amount to about $80,000, besides $$0,000 of doubtful claims. To Settle Preferred Claims, ■There was held a meeting today of the local creditors with a view of ar ranging to settle such claim It Is learned that the Georgia Rail road bank Is a sufferer to the amount of $115,000, the Nutlonal Rank of Au gusta $10,000, and the National Ex change bank $2,000. , Resides the above claims, It Is also learned, though not officially, that Mr. Alexander had borrowed sums amount ing to $20,000 from two of his friends at different times, and the general be lief here Is that the amount of the In debtedness will reach $200,000, or prob ably more before It Is stopped. The firm was supposed to have had more than 100 0' > bales of cotton In their warehouse, and there Is only about 60 bales on hand. There will be farmers who will lose as well ns the bankers, ns the money secured from the banks was on a cotton collateral. Left Two Letters. Mr. Alexander left two letters when he left Saturday, one to his partner, J. Bishop Alexander, telling him that he would never return to Augusta alive. The othdr was to a friend that he had borrowed money from. Tho defraud ing has caused one of the greatest sen sations In Augusta that lias been here In some time. It Is said that the money that the National Bank Is the loser of, was drawn by Alexander Snturday, a few hours before he left. It Is claimed by some of his friends thnt he has gone to Now York, but no ono ran say posi tively where he Is. Thereavttl Iw another meeting of the hank officials nnd creditors tomorrow preferred by law anil to realize on the at noon In the Georgia Hnllrond Rank assets as speedily as possible, and and the accounts will be further inves- avold expanse." - [ligated. TO KILL M Admiral Chouknin Dies From His Wounds. PARKER TAKES FALL OUT OF BILL TAFT Octopii Curbed By Old Laws and Not By • . Any New Legislation, Declares Alton B. OF William H. Taft will be the Republi can presidential nominee In 1*0$, be- lines Senator A. O. Bacon. ".Senator, will Roosevelt be a candi date or allot? the use of his name In liios?" was the direct question asked him. "I believe not I am bf the opinion that President Roosevelt Is absolutely sincere In his assertions that he la not a candidate for a third term, and will n..t allow hla name to be used." "Who looms up aa the strongest pos sibility tor the Republican nomination now?” . • William H. Taft," was the Instant reply. "He la the president's choice, and In my Judgment one of the finest fellows In the country. He Is a big man In more ways than physically. Ha Is a fine mixer, and Is popular with nearly everybody within his party.” Senator Bacon 'was asked as to the current stories concerning the health of Senator Pettus, of Alabama. "Senator Pettus had a bad fall on the Ice in «the winter, and owing to hla age—86—was laid up for aom* time, nut I’m sure he has entirely recovered xml Is now as hale and hearty aa aver. A Remarkable Pair. "Did you ever think what a remark able pair represent Alabama In the senate, and how the people of their state reverence them? In the face of the tremendous pressure from the peo ple of the country for a railroad rata bill, both of the Alabama members '"ted against It on conviction that It "as not the right thing. Yet not one "ord of censure have you heard from their people! I do not believe you "’uld llnd another state In the Union " here such Implicit confidence would he evidenced In the Integrity of Us Public officials.” Senator Bacon la looking remarkably " ell. Hla step Is springy, his aye clear and his complexion smooth and un wrinkled with marks of care or Illness. He aay* ht* health la robust now. Colonel Chariton to Spook. The general assembly of Georgia, "imposed of members of the house of representatives and the senate, will “f addressed Thursday evening by Hon. "alter o. Charlton, of Savannah, " hose theme will be "The Life and Ser vices of General James Oglethorpe." The public Is Invited to hear Colonel , harlion, who will spaak In tha hall of •he house of' representatives at I • clock. By Private Leased Wire. New York, July 12.—Secretary Taft's speech, delivered at Greensboro, N. C., has called forth a spirited reply from former Judge Alton B. Parker, who takes exceptions to Mr. Taft's slate menta regarding anti-trust prosecution. Judge Parker declares that the sec re tary In hla speech sought to have the public draw tha Inference that tha re cent prosecutions of alleged Illegal combinations are due to new statutes. Parker Takee Exception. To this Judge Parker takes excep tion and to support hla contention he quotea from Ms letter of acceptance and speech delivered during the last presidential campaign. In both the speech and the letter Judge Parker la quoted aa saying that the laws then on the statute books were entirely ade quate If enforced. Judge Parker In hla statement saya: "The inference that Secretary Taft would have tha public draw from his utterances, la that these things a to new statutes: and the vlndl which the law la now receiving la due to congressional action, since 1204, But It Is not so. Laws in Fores Then. Not one of the successful prosecu tions for which the existing adminis tration la now entitled to credit, la baaed on any new statute. Every sin gle one of them, down to data, rests aoleiy on the law aa It stood In 1*04, and it should not be lost sight of by the discriminating public that the law could have been enforced In 1604 and In 1601 and In 1(02, just as well aa today. Had It been, the wrongs from which the people have suffered would have not so multiplied. "Secretary Taft's speech at Greens boro, N. C.," aaya Judge Parker, "was Interesting throughout, but It cannot be aald that It was accurate throughout.' NOT MUCH ENTHUSIASM GREETS SECRETARY TAFT. Ry Private Leased Wire. Put-In-Bay, Ohio, July 12.—Tha State Bar Association has heard Sec retary Toft apeak on the Panama ca nal. There was nothing resembling In the least a presidential boom, and tha lawyers received his effort with little manifestation of enthusiasm. The address of the secretary was a defense of the Panama route as against tha Nicaraguan and a plea for the American people to be patient and let the government have Its own time In beginning to "make the dirt fly." . Secretary Taft waa cordially re calved and began his address by say ing: "The American people want everything the next morning, and If they do not get It they are dli to be rather unreasonable.” It was then pointed out that while no K at amount of excavation has yet n done, the direct work of con structing tha canal had been steadily going on. It waa ahown that tha first and moat Important question to be dealt with waa tha question of preserv ing the health jot the employees. A comparison of the sea level and lock system of canals was then made and tha reasons for the adaption of a lock system set for tha work. KILLS HIS WIFE WITH IRON BAR BECAUSE SHE PULLED BED-COVER OFF OF HIM AND KICKED HIM Bertha Hardeman, a' young negro woman, died Thursday morning at the Grady hospital as the result of having been struck several terrlflc blows on tha head Monday night with a big Iron bar in the band* of her husband, who was enraged became she had pulled the bed cover off him. Joe Hardeman, the slayer, la behind tha bare of tha police station and will now have to face a charge of murder. Hardeman was arrested by Mounted Policemen Cowan and Evans and waa arraigned before Recorder Broyles on Wednesday morning for preliminary examination. His wife waa still alive at that time, however, and tha hear ing waa postponed, pending the out come of her wounds. She died a few minutes lawr. According to statements, the crime waa exceedingly brutal. Hardeman’s t,.'ly defense Is that he acted while In a mad passion. He aaya ha attacked hla wife because she pulled the cover off of him, kicked him. cursed him and told him to "get out." Taking her at her word, the hnsband leaped from the bed. end, seising an Iron bar, dealt bis wife several power ful blows as sba lay In tha bed, fright fully crushing her skulL The woman was taken to the Grady Hospital but aba waa so badly Injured that medical octane# proved of no avsIL She lingered In e comatose state until Wednesday morning when she died. Her slayer will [>robably be rear- reigned In police court for preliminary examination Friday morning. THREATENING LIVES ' 0P200 MSSENGERS Babe is Washed Out of Mother’s Arms to Death. By Private -Leased Wire. Lacresse, WIs., July 12.—‘Two hun dred passengers on tha steamer Quincy at 10:10 o’clock laat night nirrowly es caped death when the big packet steamer, Quincy, struck a bank In the darkness near Trenpeleau, WIs., turn ad half over and then caught Are. It la believed that tha majority of the paaaangers were saved aryl only one drowning la definitely known, that of an Infant which waa washed from Its mother's arms. Fsw Dsaths Expsctsd. At 1:10 o'clock this morning a be lated train brought sixty passengers, who ware on the boat, to this city. Ac counts given by them of tha disaster do not Include positive statement as to drewnlngs, but It Is bellaved compara tively fsw met death, All communication with the village of Trenpeleau It cut off and Inform#' tlon relative to tha accident to tha steamer Is obtainable only through tha stories told by passengers and meagre reports received at the railroad offices. Babe Washed Overboard. At tha time the steamer struck. It la said It carried no searchlight. One passenger says ha saw a babe washed overboard from Its mother's arms. Tbs boat was sinking, though not In deep water. The steamer chtight flre Im mediately after the collision with tha bank. Amid a crashing of timbers, with tha boat on Ita side, tha lift boats were launched and the paaaangers, 200 In number, were taken off before the flames gained any considerable head way. BOAT LEAVE8 ST. LOUI8 WITH MANY PA8SENGER8 By Private Leased Wirt. SL Louis, Mo., July II.—The steamer Quincy left Sunday afternoon with a full list of passengers. Among them was Captain John E. Luebbsn and family, of 8t. Louts. Captain Maurice Klllen, of tha steamer Sidney, was a passenger on the Quincy, as ware also the members of his crew. he rnnun BRAINED WITH 11II KILLED IN SHOT AT WIFE, RAN 7 MILLS Jealousy Leads Tragedy Near Griffin. to TRAILER BY BOGS AND ARMED MEN| Freight Sent Into Ditch and Three Lives Lost. Special to The Georgian. Griffin, Go., July 12.—Because of Jealousy of his wife, Bud Touchstone shot and fatally wouhded Joe Barfield, a single man, 12 years of age, on tha plantation of C. M. Patterson, near Sunnyslde, this morning, and after firing several shots at his wife, ii*u to Griffin, seven miles, where ha aurrend- end to Policeman Archer at noon and waa lodged’ In Jail. Whan he reached here Touchstone, who Is 41 years of age, was almost exhausted, frothing at tha mouth and In a seml-daxed con dition. In his call ha refuses to dis cuss lha matter. The excitement when the shooting occurred drew • crowd of neighbors to the scene, who formed a posse and pursued the man In hla flight. It Is thought that Touchstone Intended to flee to Atlanta and In hla fright want the wrong way, He has a wife and one child. Tha wounded man cannot recover. By l’rlrate Leased Wire. Petersburg, Ind., July 12.—The wreck of a westbound freight train on the Southern railroad, eight miles west of hire, at ( o'clock Inin morning, has resulted In the death of three persons. The freight was making thirty miles an hour when the engine ran Into a spilt switch. The entire train left the track, demolishing many cars and to- '■'II'. >' >• ' i'l'iK III" n i,III Both firemen nnd an engineer ware so badly scalded that they died a few minutes later. I.uther Capeheart, a brakeman, eon of Rev. Mr. Capehrarl. of Winslow, lost his right arm and left leg and died a few hours later. Two other members of tbs train crew ware fatally Injured and are expected to die. Hundreds are hurrying to the scene of the wreck, and tho sheriff's deputies and Ihs coroner are working together m gathering evident# mm bring tha train wreckers to Justice. Bloodhounds are on the troll of the men. Tha watt and of tha a*it. n wma •• • I " ' T. '• I" g't Hit" I 'll" or westbound train. Mrs. Emms Howlend. The funeral of Mrs. Emma Howland will be held Friday afternoon at 4 (/clock from tha home of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Moors, 212 Gordon street. Interment will be at Waatvlew. CHARGED WITH KILLING GIRL, MARRIED MAN ENDS LIFE IN CELL OF CITY PRISON CITIES OF RUSSIA PREPARE FOR REVOLT Jews, Fearing a Massacre, Art Fleeing in Great Numbers From Warsaw, Poland. Ily l’rlreto Leased Wire. 81. Petersburg, July 12.—Dispatches from Warsaw say that sensational ru mors are current In that city that an other Jewish massacre might be ex pected today. Thousands of Jews Ileetng from the city In panic. Similar scenes are reported at Lode. Vice Admiral Chouknin Is dead nt Sebastopol. The commander of the Black Sea fleet succumbed to the shot tired at him yesterday at 1 o'clock thla morning. II* did not recover conscious-' ness after he waa ahot. Swora to Kill Admiral. The admiral's assailant la thought Id be one of the sailors of the battle-hip Otchakoff, and his act Is supposed to have been In revenge for the execu tion of Lieutenant Schmidt, tha revo lutionary leader. Admiral Chouknin was unlv# hatetl by his sailors, and at the of tho execution of Schmidt the ... unionists condemned him to death, l of their number pledging tfeemsolve to carry out the sentence. This in the second attempt since Schmidt's ext • u- tlon March 16 of this year. Preparing tor Rsvolt. The war office has been making great' preparations at all the principal clth , to meet an armed revolutionary move ment Tha plana for tha Helenas at Riga have failen Into the hands of tho revolutionary paper, Mists, which thla morning publishes them In full As given, the garrison Is divided Into three divisions of two battslloos of in fantry, half a company of Co '-," k< and *1" 'Inc S'"". "" *1 t.i p’ event xslon of the city front Its throe "t on I lo '. 11.111" l.. II"' ' iiii.il, til" diiin and the river Dunn. Two battalions of Infantry, twenty Cossack* and four machine guns constitute the reserve. Field Qunt Are Reedy. Klinllnr plans. It la understod, line I"'•■n dmwii ii11 in every I'omuiander of a garrison or city. Special trains, equipped with ma chine ami Held guns, are in eonst.iut readiness at St. Petersburg, .Moscow, KlefT, Warsaw and other point The thirty volunteer sailors at Vladivostok, who wire .lit- > from the Ituaelnn cruiser Terek Virgo, nre threatening trouble til They say they have bean treated I tally, and that they would rnthet si, tho Japanese. Demand Transportation. They demand traneportatlon lo i cify, hut the Terek's cm fuses to send them on. have appealed to tho Ru VI'S- •. Where Ml'' mill main until another crew arrives from tbla clty.e Hevernl armed robbers nttackoil As sistant Caahter OasperOTltch ns he w as leaving the navy paymaxter'* ofitca yesterday. With him was a elerk nndl n porter, earrylng a ling < ontntnlng 112,600 The robbers shot C'.nnprrovltrh in ' I e bend I II. p"i lei, vv "iiniled In the Inw. dropped the money hag, with which tho robbers esenped. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODOOOOOOO t> 'PLEA8ANT TEMPERATURE#"O ■ Q It Is seldom Indeed that the O ■1 .'/it),* I 11, in *" f." f Tg'd - to fit tie strictly nnd sternly - lenimc 0 III l.l. phraseology n- be Thursday morning, when, f the fourteenth floor of the I plre, he sent forth the eti tnent that "pleasant tempt lures" might be expected. Pleasant, Indeed! What loose language! Sr, Ing can be stated os pleas; lore! uTr" Special to The Georgian. Waltarboro, 8. C., July II.—J. W. Imogen, a well-to-do while farmer of Colleton county, yesterday killed hla wife and four children, braining them with an ax at their home about twenty miles from Waltarboro. He then went to a neighbor's house and told him of his dsed. Neighbors brought him to the Waltarboro Jail. Iraegan says he killed his family, but does not know why. He le a native of Sweden. Some years ago ha tried to cut his throat and Is bellaved lo he insane. By Private I-eased Wire. Minneapolis, Minn, July It.—Nathan M. Riggs, a conductor on the North western road, who waa arrested at El roy, Wla, Wednesday, charged with lha murder bf Miss Millie Ellison In the National hotel In Cincinnati, committed suicide in the Jail last night at Elroy. How ha managed to secrete tha weapon with which ha shot himself Is a mystery. Denied Seeing Women. Riggs, when he was arrested at El roy, WIs., strenuously denied' having He la known, bow. dad with her seen the woman. ever, to have been acquaint! for a number of years Relatives of tha woman declared to lha pollea that R/gge Induced the gtrt to sell out her millinery, come to Minneapolis and Inveat tha money In Washington land, after which they were to have been married. Had Wife in Town. According to hor family, Miss El- lleon believed Riggs to be unmarried. The police learned today ha le mar ried and lived with hla wife and daurh- tar at 2106 Pittsburg avenue, this city. JOHN D. TO HURRY HOME TO FACE COURT CHARGES By WILLIAM H08TER. Special Cable-Copyright. Campaigns, France, July 12.—Al though John D. Rockefeller refuses to comment on the Ohio Indictments he saya hb has secured passage for Athsr- Ica on a steamer which will sail on July 20. Ills extradition therefore wilt be unnecessary* Those clow to Mr. Rockefeller aa- rt that tha Indictment cannot stand. They quota hla statement that he had no official connection with tha Stand ard Oil for tha past twelve years. Al though ha le the president of the Standard oil Company of New Jer sey. It la pointed nut that this Is only a holding corporation and Mr. Rocke feller's position Is honorary. That ha actually la tha presiding genius of the concern is, however, not denied. Mr. Rockefeller Is not so well as t.l pi for there are some folk world who can never be with what delights other was once a chronic g who died and went to He looked o long time f" thing to kick about. nn< went to 8i. Peter < big beef that his I loose and didn't flt ht- he Forecast: t'nssttled weather and sh era Thursday and Friday, t pleasant temperatures. Thursday temperatures: 7 o'clock a. ra 68 deg I o’clock a. m 71 deg it o’clock a. m 72 tleg 10 o'clock a. m 76 deg It o'clock a. 77 deg 11 o'clock noon 73 d>-g 1 o’clock p. m $1 tleg I I o'clock p. m........81 d<gi Th< OOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOQOOOODOO By Private Leased Wire. New Haven, Conn., July 12 — Bit on the wrist by an In-on.- patient. In Sprlngslde 11'H.e, Joseph Goebel, 76 years old. wardmaater of tha home, Is dead of blood poison. OOOOOOOO00OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ usual. He Is worried concei health of Mrs. strong and M ties, who harp been ordered t at Carlsbad a fsw weeks k treatment. When Informed t Strong waa not well enough the voyage to New York he ■ery gloomy. To a French newepopei wrote several question- mm. i Findlay Indictment- Mi It. sent this reply: The whole atr.hi is a matte tics."