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ATLAMTAi 130.000 pepnlatlo*. nomN. 11,000 telephone*. fierea main llnea of railroad*. 150 mi loo of atreet railway. t22.000.000 of banking capital. The Atlanta Georgian. ocokoiai w popnl o.rtoo col cotton crop In IMS. VOL. I. NO. 88. Morning Edition. ATLANTA, GAI, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1906. Morning Edition. pPTpl?. !n Atlanta TWO CENTS, riUGL<. on Train* FIVE CENTS. 40 V. S. ARMY OFFICERS MIXED UP IN SCANDAL Major General Corbin . Included in the List. GOVERNMENT PAYS ' FOR HOME REPAIRS Many Thousands of Dollars Due Uncle Sam Buried Under Red Tape. Special Cable—Copyright. Manila, Aug. 7.—Aa a result of the Investigation of the army constructions shops being conducted by Colonel Wood, inspector general of the division. Major General Wood Is rendering bills for government articles to forty officers of the army and civil government In cluding Major General Henry C. Cor bin. General Wood's predecessor as commander-ln-chlef. Tens of thousands of dollars due the government have been burled beneath a mass of official red tape for more than two years. Officials who are concerned will be compelled to pay a monthly sum from their wages which will be held put by the auditor In the case of civil employees and by the paymasters of the army In case of army officers. It is said that the Indebtedness of General Corbin exceeds $5,000. The money la due for repairs to his resi dence while he lived In Manila, and the house Is not government property. The house had extensive repairs by carpenters and other artisans em ployed by the government. These of ficers owe sums running Into the thousands. It is said that after the government has been reimbursed by the indebted officers there will be court-martials In the army and suspensions In the civil circles. The discoveries being made by Colonel Wood have cheated a furor in local society and every day the number of persons Involved In the scandal grows. It Is reported here that the most sensational discoveries are being suppressed. JULIAN THOMAS, ATLANTAN, BREAKS SKY TRIP RECORD AND NEARLY MEETS DEATH Here Is a picture of Dr. Julian P. Thomns, the former Atlanta man. who on Monday made a successful trip of 240 miles In tils largo balloon, the Nirvana. INVITED 10 CAMP OF THE GEORGIA MILITIA Soldier Bovs Give Big Drill Near Historic Snod grass Hill. Rpeelsl to The Ocorginn. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 7.—The Georgia officers have sent an Invlta tlon to Governor .Terrell, of Georgia, to be present at Chlckamauga Thurs day when Governor Heyward, o South Carolina, will visit the South Carolina troops at the park. Reviews will be held and salutes will be tired In honor of tho governors of the two states. Full details will be arranged as soon as Governor Terrell accepts the Invitation. Notwithstanding the rain, rain, rain and the hot weather, the Georgia sob dlers are quenching their thirst with soda pop and today they dispensed with 4.800 bottles. The health and sanitation of the camp Is excellent. The Seventy-flrst Virginia gives a S o'clock concert at their camp every afternoon. Today the Georgia regiments gave a big drill near Snodgrass Hill. Paid Own Expenses. This Is known as "Cracker week' at Chtckhmauga, for the Georgia troops have taken possession of the arm? maneuvers, when It Is not raining. Ths Fifth Georgia regiment would not be outdone and so It paid Its own ex* penses In coming to Chlckamauga. It la In charge of the following of ficers: Major Walter K. Coney, Savannah. Major M. J. O’Leary. Savannah. Major W. M. Wilder, Albany. Major John K. Train, surgeon. Sa vannah. First Lieutenant and Acting Adju tant Victor D. Darbot, Augusta, from the Third regiment. Captain and Quartermaster J. J. Gaudry, Savannah. Captain and Acting Commissary Thomas J. Hunter, Savannah. Captain and Surgeon Martin J. Coo ley. Savannah. Companies from the First regiment: Company’ D, Emmett Rides, Savan nah. Captain E. A. Leonard. Company’ I, Oglethorpe Light Infan try, Savannah, Captain C. W. Saussy. Company H, German Volunteer*, Sa vannah, Captain J. D. Helmkin. Company F, a composite company from Waycross and neighbors. Captain C. Mcllreath. “IT’S WORTH $10 TO HIT UMPIRE.” By Private Learned Wire. New York, Aug. 7.—"It's worth $10 any day to hit an umpire who made a decision like his.” So spoke William Krauss when ar raigned before Magistrate Whitman In the Harlem police court today oii a charge of assaulting Umpire Johnstone, at the polo grounds yesterday. Physician and Toledo Aeronaut Fly in Air From New York City to Plymouth, Mass., in Quick Time. By Prirate Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 7.—Dr. Julian P. Thomas, formerly a physician of At lanta, who, with Roy Knabenshue, as cended in his balloon, Nirvana, from the foot of East One Hundred and Thirty-eighth street, and after spend ing all night In the air, landed at Brant Rock, near Boston, today relat ed his experience: "Ascending from the gas house, we rose gradually Into a dense fog, and within ten minutes o{ rising from the ground had lost sight of land," he said. "The night was intensely black: the dark seemingly Impenetrable. There was not even the glimmer of the world ly lights beneath, nor the twinkle of the stars above. We could not even see the great gas bag over us, and I had to grope from the string that led to the exhaust valve to be sure that It was still there." In telling of the landing at Brant Rock, Dr. Thomaa said: "It w’as rather a tough one, the an chor falling to catch properly and the balloon In some Inexplicable way sud denly turning over and over again. Both of us were thrown out of the basket, but we clung to the rigging and there, wound up in the complex network, we rolled over and over with the bag. In the sorlmmnge I found the emergency cord, I nulled it fiercely and rent the balloon from top to bottom, causing It to fall limply to the ground. Knabenshue - in his wrist and was slightly shaken up, but not seriously hurt. I was uninjured." The trip made was one of the long est and most successful (n tho history of ballooning In this country. The voj - age covered 225 miles and was from New York to Plymouth, Mass. Only one stop was made during the voyage. This was *at Noank, Conn., .where the aeronauts breakfasted, after which lli' • • -I and • "Tlf IU til** trip, landing within 300 yards of the open water* of Massachusetts bay. The start was made at 8:40 o'clock Sunday night by moonlight. Dr. Thomas modo a test of a water anchor which he haa Invented, and found it to work admir ably. THE ATLANTA NEWS FOR ITHTTACKS Declares Reflections on the Members Totally Un warranted. 3,000 ANGR Y CITIZENS STORM COUNTY JAIL; 3 NE GR OES L YNCHED VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN ITS M EMBERS Resolutions Unanimously Adopted Censuring Au thor of Attacks. ROOMFOR SUBTREASURY IN NEW U. S. BUILDING Provision Will Be Made For Future Needs of Government. ARCHITECT FAVORS GEORGIA MARBLE Knox Taylor Talks Inter estingly Concerning Plans for Structure. Supervising Architect James Knox Taylor, of the treasury department, was do*et*d with the various officials of the government at the postoffice build ing all of Tuesday morning, going over with each the preliminary plans for the new building which Uncle Sam ex pects to erect In Atlanta In the near future. He was accompanied by Congress man Legntyas F. Livingston, who more than any t other man has been in strumental ( in getting the appropria tion of a million dollars for Atlanta's building. "The reason we got only $200,000 at the last session of congress was be cause we only wanted enough to carry the work over until congress meets again in the winter, when an appro priation for another year's work will be made.” said Colonel Livingston. . "It will be several months probably before the working plans are drawn, and then It will be necessary to ask for bids, which will take more time, and then the contract will have to be let, so that it will probably be December or January before actual work Is com menced,” was Mr. Knox’s response to a query as to when ground would be broken. Room for Subtrestury. "So far the only plans drawn are of a tentative nature, and If Mr. Living ston gets through his subtressury measure, aa he confidently expects to O00000O0O00O0000000O0000OO O O O 8AVANNAH DEMOCRATS 0 O ADOPT ELECTION RULES O O FOR COMING PRIMARY. O 0 Special to The Georgian. O 0 Savannah, Go., Aug. 7.—At a O O meeting of the Chatham county O 0 Democratic executive commlCtM/O 0 held yesterday afternoon, rules for O 0 the coming primary on August 22. O O were adopted. The chairman was O O authorised to find the cost and 0 0 assess the congressional candl- 0 0 dates. There will be five boxes, 0 O two managers and two clerks to O O each box. The* candidates will O 0 submit their names Saturday and 0 O the selection of officer* will be O 0 made. The polls will be open O 0 from 7 to 7 o’clock. n O O O 00000000000O00000000000O00 do, we shall have no trouble In pro viding quarters for that The fact Is that, as the building Is now planned, we shall have one entire floor for which there will be no present use, but which will be there' for growth of any de partment which finds that it cannot-be accommodated In the quarters allot ted it,” said Mr. Taylor. "The building will be of the classical a pe, and will have a colonnade along most the entire Forsyth street front The lot on which the building Is to be erected Is 200 feet square and the plans drawn call for the building to be 190x190, so that you can see we are wasting no space. The main entrance, with *tej« leading Into the general de livery lobby, will be on Forsyth street with other entrances on Poplar and Walton streets. Tho public lobby will run clear around these three sides, and back of them will be the great square work room of the, postoffice. Here there will be 20,000 square feet and the room will be covered with a sky light, thus giving ample accommoda tion and light for the postoffice force. "On the second floor will be located all of the offices of the internal reve nue department, and the court rooms will be on the third. The upper sto ries will have the shape of three sides ■■ rectangle, the space over the work a of the postoffice being left as a court. The fourth floor Is the one which will be held for emergencies." Mr. Taylor Is a graduate of the class '79 of the Boston Tech and has been connected with the treasury depart ment for eleven years, nine of which he has been In complete charge of all public buildings constructed by the government. He Is a plea«ant-faceJ, Near the close of the session In the senate Tuesday afternoon the privi leged resolution printed below was In troduced, and Senator IJennet said amid profound silence: *% for one, cannot sit calmly by and see the honesty and Integrity of this body Impugned In Intemperate lan guage without protest. The editorial comments of other Georgia papers have been dignified in their utteranc* The Atlanta News has charged this body w 1th being i .till > id j* 111* s and Ignorant of the people’s welfare, want to condemn It with all the earn estness possible. The resolution Is as follow*, and was adopted unanimously: Whereas. The Atlanta News, on August 8. 1306, luul mi editorial under the follow lug bending. **To Anns. Georgians! A Foe Grapples nt lour Throat!” and In the ipenrs: lies In the mouft vftfue of this property or their crim inal disregard of the rights Slid welfare of a sovereign state nnd Its people." Whereas, The above charges the members of the senate who voted for said lense ns being allien of the railroads nnd being In profound Ignorance of the measure for wliirh they voted; therefore, 1n» It Itegolved, Thnt from persons! contort sml association with them, while many of us differed with them nnd voted ngulnst the dll, we are sure thnt the senators who .oted for this bill were actuated by pnre and patriotic motives, and were unin llueneed except by their best Judgment as to what would nt for the best Interest f the people of this stnte. nnd thnt they re able nud faithful public servants. Signed: Seuntors Hen net. ltose. Slrmnns, Flfggernld. Steed. Bond, Held. Alan brook, A. C. IHnlnek. Candler. Miller, A. O. Ilia lock, Wilcox. HALtifl CANDLER BILLS KILLEDJN SENATE Death of Hall Bill Came as A Great Surprise to Many. After some two hours of debate the senate Tuesday first killed ths Candler substitute to the Hall tax assessor bill by a vote of 25 to 18, and then killed the Hall bill Itself by a vote of 22 to 19. Fenatpr Candler's substitute provid ed for county boards of assessor# In addition to the state board of three members. A flood of amendments were sent up to the substitute and killed. Then began a running debate In which Senators, Held, Rennet, Steed, Hogan, McHenry, King, Candler and others took part. It was evident long before n vote was reached on the sub stitute that It would meet with defeat. The slaying of the Hall bill, how ever, came as a sort of surnrlse, as the fight was apparently only on the Candler measure. As the call proceed ed, however, nnd the votee were re corded against the Hall bill, surprise was depicted on scores of fores. In his speech Senator Reid took oc casion to pay high tribute to the abil ity and Integrity of Comptroller Gen eral Wright. He said that he was a man and an official above reproach. The matter of assessing corporations remains vested In the comptroller gen eral, as has been the custom for years past Senate Bills Passed. By Senator Bunn: To amend act establishing the city court of Polk county, so as to provide for a solicitor of city court. By Senator Adams: To amend the charter of the city of Madison. By Senator Adams: To amend act authorzlng the mayor and council of Madison lo maintain a system of waterworks. By Senator Carswell: To amend act Incorporating Toombsboro, In the coun ty of Wilkinson. At 1:30 o'clock the senate adjourned until 10 o’clock Wednesday. Mob Wreaks Ven geance on Alleged Murderers. INVESTIGATION IS TO BE ORDERED Court in Session to Try Al leged Murderers of Lyerly Family. Special to The Georgian. Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 7.—Taken from Rowan county Jail by 3,000 de termined citizens, shortly before 11 o'clock last night, three of the negroes held on the charge of murdering the Lyerly family at Barber Junction, July 13, were marched to Henderson’s ball ground and after a fruitless endeavor to get them to confess the crime, were strung up to a limb on a tree and their bodies riddled with bullets. Three Are Not Molested. Nease and John Gillespie and Jack Dillingham, supposed to be the princi pals to the crime, were the victims of mob vengeance. The remaining ne groes, Henry I,ee, George Ervin and dells Dillingham, were not molested* and later Tonight officers hurried them off to Greensboro. Saloons Ordered Closed. The mob began gathering at sup. • down, and Mayor Hoyden ordered the saloons closed and, with other promi nent citizens, United States Senator Overman, Judge Long, who was holding the special term of court to try the Continued on Page Two. LOOTERS BEING SOUGHT BY JETECTIVES Chicago Depositors Lose Hope of Recovering $4,200,000. FIGHTS COP, Hr Print, L»m4 Win. Chicago, Au*. 7.—President P»ul O. Sten.lxnd, of the Milwaukee Avenue State Dank, prntmbly will be arreited a, ,oon „ he enter, Chicago or ran be found. Bank Examiner C. Jones, who rloied the bank yesterday, •aid Mr. StenaUnd aurely bed guilty knowledge of the looting of hie bank. The 21,000 depositor. In tho brink ■re gradually loetng hope of recover ing the J»,200.(>00 they Intruded t< Stenrdnnd'e rare. Detective, are now ■reeking I'anhler Hhnery W. Bering, al legeil embenler. E. A. Potter, prealdent of the Amort can Truat and Savings Bank, through which Institution tho closed bank cleared, la said today to have neeerted the loss will be at least 11,000,000. Aa early aa 1:10 o'clock this morning 200 men and' women, moat of them Polee, gathere In front of the bonk. Six [rollceman on duty triad to per auade the vlaltnra that It was uaeteas for them to stand around In the mud dy atreet, ha they would not be per inltted to enter tha hank during the day. This Information was not entlafac tory and there was much bitter talk. In which the name of Pity Attorney John F. Smuleky was frequently men tioned. lie formorlv wne Interested In the Stenelanri Institution, but now haa a bank of hta own. CZAR CHANGES PLAN FOR A NEW CABINET Gives Up Scheme Re garding Bureaucratic Members. STRIKE IN CAPITAL NOW CALLED OFF To Be Kept Alive in Prov inces, However—Papers Issued by Lot. LEADER OF DOUMA WHO WAS MURDERED youngish looking man, with an ex tremely cordial air to everyone. "What will be done In reference to constructing the building of Georgia materialr Mr. Taylor was asked. Prefers Georgia Marble. •Well, that depends upon how much {hey make It cost us. We always pre fer to use local material wherever pos sible, and I shall ask for bids In both’ marble and granite, and if the prices of the Georgia manufacturers are low enough shall certainly be very glad to build It of stone: otherwise the build ing will be of brick, but In any event it will be absolutely fireproof.” It Is a fact not generally known that Uncle Sam does not Insure anything that he owns, and the laws of the United Staten say that every public building shall be placed at least forty feet from the nearest building line, thus giving good fire protection. By Private leased Wire. London, Aug. 7.—A dispatch from St. Petersburg says that the work men's council has decided to call the local strike off, but that the movement will be continued In the provinces. The order will be promulgated either to night or tomorrow. By Private Leaeed Wire. St. Petersburg, Aug. 7.—According to The Gazette, the emperor has decided to form a reform ministry with Prince Lvoff os premier. Count Heyden, min Ister of the Interior, and M. Stokho vltch was minister of finance. Princ# Lvoff nnd Count Heyden are Liberals >>f i’<iMH#Tvatl\« tendencies. They were members of tho douum hlch met at Vlborg after the disso lution, but refused to sign the appeal to the nation Issued by that body. If this statement is true. It Indicates a complete change of front by the czar. RUSS PEASANTS FEEL THE 8PIRIT OF UNREST. By Private Leased Wire. Ft. Petersburg, Aug. 7.—From gov ernment sources the announcement Is made today that the great general strike has been broken. All working- men who quit woik when the call was Issued have Im-.'H u .n im •! to t • ruin t . their places under penalty of arrest. Strike leaders, or those supposed to be leaders, are being put In Jail when ever they can be located, and «w. gen eral campaign of Intimidation has be gun. The reports hardly bear out the govemment'e statements that the workingmen’s movement for a popular assembly. land and liberty, have failed. Prepare for Disorders. Reports from all over the empire In dicate a state of great unrest among the peasant class who are preparing for widespread disorders so soon as the harvest snail have been gathered. At Odessa the situation is critical. The sailors of ths Baltic fleet are in an ugly frame of mind, and the troop* In the fortifications make open threats of revolt. Residents of the better class are flee ing from Fevaetbpol by the thousands. Already 20,000 persons hare left the town and the exodus has not ceased. Admiral Bkrydloff Is said to be on the war from Sevastopol to Odessa by tor pedo boat Issued by Ballot. The announcement made yesterday from government source* that print ers who had Joined the strike were again at their work proves to be un true. The fact la, the printers' committee offered the newspapers the opportunity to avail themselves of the serrlcee of enough printers to get out one publica tion each day. This offer was accepted and the newspapers lire being Issued In rota tion, the sequence of dally publication having been decided by lot. Photograph of If. Herzens tain, tho leader of tho constitutional democrats in tho douma, who was murdered by assassin* hired by the Black Hundred organization, near his country place, at Terlokl, Finland. JABBED IN THE NECK IN DECATUR ST, BUR J. D. Coulon and H. C. Dunran, white man, engaged In a light Tuesday short ly after noon In tha Star saloon In Da- rntur atraat and Dunran waa Jabbed In the n«ck with a kntfr. Dunran waa taken to the Orady Ho»- pltnl, whera tha wound waa draud, after which ha waa locked In th« police station. Coulon ran from tha saloon, but waa aprpahandad by Bailiff J. T. NVImbl.h, of Justice of tha Peace Landrum's court, ami turned over to Policeman Green, who sent him to the police ela tion. Both men are charged with dla- orderly conduct and will be tried In po lice court Wednesday morning. FATHER TAKES CHARGE OF KNIGHT8 REMAINS. Rpeelsl to Th. tJrarglaa. Gainesville. Oo_ Aug. 7.—Tho Nxly of W. B. Knight, who ybsterdsy com mitted suicide at New Holland by hanging himself, was .hipped to Da- cula for Interment. Knight's father and father-in-law came to the city last night and took charge of the body, ac companying It to Dacula. Big Crowd of Blacks Gather, Muttering Threats. TAKES EIGHT 3IEN TO HANDLE NEGRO Men From Southern Depot Help Officer to Subdue Dallas. After attacking Elijah Jones, a negro* and beating him with a shovel Mon day afternoon near the Peters atreet valduct, Will Dallas, another negro, desperately fought Policeman J. B. Wilson and several citizens, the oora- hlin'd effort of eight men being re quired to handcuff him. The negro resisted and fought the officer nlong Peters street for a dis tance of two blocks, the jiffalr ere cting i* of intense excitement and attracting a largo crowd of people. Officer Wilson hnd to use his club vig orously to protect himself and subdue the unruly prisoner. A big crowd of negroes quickly gath ered on tho scene and It looked for A time mm though there might |>e more serious trouble. Home of the negroes collected in groups and muttered threats against the officer could be plainly heard. It seemed that these negroes were bent on giving trouble, but the appear ance of a number of armed white men ♦in the Hcemi probably prevented an up rising. Although DaIIab fought viciously nnd did his best to free himself, Officer Wilson bravely held onto him, and, with the assistance of several citizens, finally landed him In the patrol wagon at Peters and Fair streets. The negro resisted all the way from the point of his arrest to the wagon. ff per Ini Officer Dwyer, of the South ern railway, was near by, and hurried to the assistance of the policeman. A number of other white men from the Kouthern freight depot took part and >n hnd the situation well In hand. 7 haven’t killed anybody yet. but I will, all right.” Dallas Is regarded ns a desperate character. It has been reported to the pcdlce that the negro some time ago killed a deputy sheriff In Alabama anil le hl« escape. He Is also said to ' served a term of five years In the penitentiary. The police are Investi gating the Alabama charge nnd If It proves true the prisoner will be trans ferred to thnt state to stand trial for murder. According to the evidence in j>oHce court, he attacked Elijah Jones Mon day afternoon without provocation, se verely beating him. IN THE HANDS OFJJECEIVER Warrants Are Issued For President and Cashier. lij Private Leaned Wire. Chicago, August 7.—The Milwaukee Avenue State Rank was placed In the hands of John F. Fetrher as receiver today by .Judjo Brentano, at the seme time warrants for the arrest of the president end founder, Paul O. Htens- fand, were issued at the order of the state bank Inspector, C. C. Jones. EX-GOY RECOVERS SIGHT! TALKSOFPOLITICS Says He Can Now See Well. “Russell Will Be Elected.” •'x-Governor Allen D. Candler, who s in the city Tuesday morning, has recovered the sight of his eve and now believes he will escape the total blind ness whbh recently threatened him. He says Ills sight Is now Just as good as It was one year ago. When asked his views on tin- politi cal situation, he said: "I Intend to vote for Plain Dick* Russell because he Is advocating pure principles and Is essentially o man of the people. Resides, as Judge ,.f tha western circuit, which 1> the largest