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ATLAMTAi popniaUoo. J€.W> hota**. 1S.WM t*l#pbOQM. Mr^n lln** JW mil** of ... 1^2,000,000 of banking capital. The Atlanta Georgian. OKOMOIA: 0 500 inllaa of <00 rollca t »■» Cotton factorial. 1 tori**, 1 fr-r./o. apltwf • I .nr., t..U I vol: I. NO. 91. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1906. PftTfiR!* fo Atlanta two cp.stb. irlVlvlJ. on TtiJdi five ck.nth. 5 AMERICANS BUTCHERED IN. FIGHT WITH FILIPINOS Three Officers and Two Privates Are Slain. SURVIVORS FLEE TO SAVE LIVES Party of Ten Is Set Upon By ■ an Overwhelming Force of the Pulajanes.. B.T Private Lexeed Wlr*. Manila, Aug. 10.—A detach ment consisting of ten men fought hand-to-hand with a band of I’uln- janes at Jwlita, Leyte, yesterday. Internal Revenue Collector Wil liams, of Illinois, Contract Sur geon Calvin Snyder, First Lieu tenant J. F. James and two pri vates of the Eighth Infantry, were killed. The detachment wns • greatly outnumbered and the survivors were forced to flee after putting up a gallant fight. BOURKE COCKRAN'S FIANCEE] TAKES CHARGE OF LOVER IN HIS SERIOUS ILLNESS] TO PLEAD CAUSE FOR HARRYK. THAW Defense of Prisoner Map ped Out and Ready for Jury. By Print* Lease* Win New Vnrk. Aug. 10.—germer First A.Mutant Dtatrict Attorney James W. Osborne, Was chosen today by Harry K. Thaw, on the advice of his lawyers, to conduct his flgl(t lor hie life on the charge of havlns murdered Stanford White. It was also learned today that Thaw's lawyers have completely rounded out the defenee. All the evi dence npon which Osborne muet de pend to secure an acquittal of the youns millionaire has been sethered. FOOD SENT TO THAW BY MANY CATERER8. By Private I-cascd Wire. New York, Aus. 10.—Because It wae repotted that Harry Kendall Thaw, awaiting trial for. killing Stanford White, had quarreled with the Tombs caterer, and was forced to eat prlBon far., frlende and sympathizers of the 5'oUns man sent enough. food to him yesterday to keep him In rations for some time., Chicken, roast beef, stews, ragouts, soups, fish, ■ vegetables, pies, puddings and coffee figured In the list. Accom panying ell these eatables, were knives snd forks, which prisoners charged with capital offenses are not allowed to use with their meals. The warden had difficulty In stopping the stream of messengers bringing food. OQQ000Q000000000000000000O O MINT JULEP WEATHER 0 IS HERE ALL RIGHT. O MISS ANNE IDE. Her fiance, Congressman Ccrkrsn, it II, and the irnursing him back to health. Miss Ide Nqrsing Sick Congressman on Pacific Coast. Br 1’rlvste Leeeed Wire. Ban Francisco. Aug. 10.—Congress, man Bourke Cockran, of New York, and hie fiance, Miss Annie Ide, are the center figure* In a very pretty roman tic etnry. At Lake Tahoe, Mr. Cock- ran lies seriously III today. In con stant attendance upon him la Miss Ide. If there had ever been any doubt about the match between the pair being one of true love, the present Illness of Mr. Cockran would dispel that dmibt. Miss Ide Insisted on being nurse ami only leaves his bedside when It Is nec, i essary for her to sleep and take h»r | meals. She Is greatly exercised over her fiance's affliction, which Is ex tremely serious. He la suffering with a dangerous affection of Ihe throat. Mr. Cockran, after visiting Mias Ide In Los Angeles, went to Lake Tahoe only a short time ago. A few days after he arrived there the throat trou ble developed. It finally became ao serious that Mlsa Ide wae notified. Hho nt once went to Lake Tahoe and took full command of the sink room. RUSS CZAR APPOINTS THREE NE W LEADERS; ARMY MUTINY FOILED Vasiltchikoff Is Made Director of Agri culture. RAILROAD STATION ROBBED OF $47^000 Brigands in Poland, Mount ed on Bicycles, Plunder Villages. O Mint julep weather, declare! Ar- D tlat Brewerton In hla soul-atlrrlng 2 end pathetic little sketch which 2 appear* above. 2 Friday I* the hntteet day we 0 2 hav*_had ,ln some time, the mer- O 2 rary climbing right up to *0 de- O O greea at 1:41 o'clock. The worst O O was yet to come and It was ex- O O pec ted In the local forecaster’s O 2 sanctum that It would go up to O O »1. O O But It Isn't half as hot In At- O 0 lanta sa It Is elsewhere In Oeor- 0 2 fie. For Instance, Thursday the o 2 following" temperatures were reg- O O Istered: Columbus and Macon, O 2 •*: Montlcello, Newntn and O 0 Rome, >4; Tallapoosa and Orilfin, o O II. O ° Forscsst: O 0 Fair Friday night and Satur- O 5 <i«r. _ .. _ O p 5 Friday Temperatures! 1 o’clock a. m, 74 degrees. I o'clock a. m.. 79 degrees. ■ k n in . degrees II o’clock a. m, 14 degrees. 11 o'clock a. m.. II degrees. 11 o’clock, noon. II degrees. 0O0000000000000000000OOOOO By Trieste Leased Wire. SL Petersburg, Aug. 1#.—The an nouncement Is made that Prince Vasll- tchlkoff has been appointed director of the department of agriculture; M. Isvollsky, brother of the minister of foreign affaire, has been appointed pro curator general of the holy synod. And M. Flloeoff has been appointed minister of commerce. These appointments were forecaeted In these dispatches Wed nesday. A telegram from Moscow saya a band of brirands on bicycles Is robbing villages In that province. A report comes from Verkhoyansk, Siberia, that a band of Circassians rode Into a rail road station and robbed the cashier of 147,500. An Infantry regiment stationed at Ouetlahnra decided to dismiss Its of ficers today and elect chiefs from the renke. The commandant of the regi ment was notified of the propdsed mu tiny. He secretly seised the stacked arms of the would-be mutineers and had the entire regiment put under ar rest snd taken to St. Petersburg, where the ringleaders are now In prison. BLAME GIRL STUDENTS FOR ROW AT CRON8TACT St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.—The Bourse Gssette charge* that much of the rev. nlutlonary agitation conducted among the sailors at Cronetadt was done by girl students of the universities who gathered at the public houses' and brought the sailors under their Influ ence*. ALBERT HOWELL PREPARING REPLY GOVERNOR GLENN WAS SUGPENAED BY HALL OEFE State Shifted Grounds and Indictment Was Changed To Conspiracy, ON TOE 001 Inmates Declare the Management Needs Investigation. NO ACTION TAKEN • BY HOUSE FRIDAY Petition Read to Represent atives by Milikcn Cre ates a Sensation. Albert 'Howell was not In his office Friday morning, but It wa* -stated there that he was preparing a reply to the statement of Hon. Hoke Smith In reference to the Dempsey charges. The Georgian made an effort to se cure a statement from Mr. Howell, but It wa* said It would hardly be flnlehed before late In the afternoon. Special to The Georgian. Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 10.—The elate shifted ground this morning and changed the-lndlrtmfint against George Hall, one of the lyncher*, from murder to conspiracy. A special venire wae summoned to try the case. It ported. Congressman T. F. Kluttx Is appear. Ing for Hall, anil when the Indictment for murder was presented Hall was willing to submit to the charge of con spiracy and storming the Jail. He will fight the case now. Governor Glenn a Witness. Governor Glenn wa* a wltnsss this morning, having been eubpenaed by the defenee on the ground that he wa* out of the etate when the special term of court was ordered. The Judge ruled that he had authority to order It. George Gentle, another alleged lynch er, has been arraigned, but will be tried after Hall. Wltneaaee are now being examined. United States Senator Overman was one of the most Important witnesses called. MEN ARE KILLED IN POISON CELL Third. Occupant Refuses to Talk and Is Held for Murder. By Private Leased Wlr*. Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 10.—Sam Chandler and H. H. Trawlck. confined In the county jail at Lufkin, were found dead In their cell early this morning, which they occupied with John Wilson. Thtlr brains were ooslng out on the floor when (hey ware discovered. An earthen cuspidor had been used as the missile of death. Wilson refused to give an account of the affair, but a charge of murutr has been lodged against him. 6,000 Cars of Food Stuffs for N. Y. Are Held Up by Tug Boatmen Strike By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 10.—Tons of food stuffs, chiefly fruit and vegetables Intended for New York's consumption snd filling 6,000 freight care, were tied up today In the yards of th* six big railroads entering the city be cause of the continuance of the striae of tug boatmen. The situation grew worse hour by hour, the city's food supply becom ing endangered. When It became apparent that the railroads would short ly be reduced to desperate straits, one of them, the Erie, granted Ihe de mands of the men for 55 a month Increase In wages asked, and agreed to submit to arbitration the demand for a 110 Increase for th* mate* of the tugs. The other line* hold out. EIGHT "EXCHANGES" IMANYARE HURT CAUSES HOT EIGHT Branch Had Given Bottle to One—Other Wanted a Drink. For fighting over a half pint of whisky, which Is said to have belonged to Guy Branch, the young white men who committed suicide Wednesday by taking morphine, Arthur Harris and Max Flemlster, two young negroes, aa* alstant Janitors at the Grady hospital, were each fined 110.75 by Acting-Re corder James L. Key. Both th* ne groes were cut slightly during the fight. Arthur Harris, the younger of the two negroes, state* that Guy Branch made him a present of the whisky be fore he died, end that Flemlster, the other negro, wanted a drink. Harris says that he refused Flemlster the drink, whereupon the two fell to fight Ing. 00000000000000000000000000 O O 0 IT COST CITY *5 0 TO PAY FIVE CENTS. O O 0 By Private I.eased Wire. 0 New York, Aug, 10.—Comptroll- O —.— er Met* forwarded a city warrant 0 O to E. O. Soltmann, of 115 East 0 O Forty-second street, for five cents, o O To pay this bill of one-twentieth O O part of a dollar the city wea re- O O quired to spend more than 55 In O O official paper, In faatenera and th# O O time of the eighteen men required O O to pass upon all bills. In all the o O eighteen men required fifteen days O O In which to verify the account*. O 0 O 000O00000O0000000O000000OO ARE PUT OUT HERE BY BOYKIN BILL ‘Wc Haven’t Had Time to Think It Over,” Say Managers. By the terms of th* Boykin bill, which he* passed both branches of th* legislature snd which will doubt less re Salve the signature of the gov ernor, eight brokerage houses In At lanta, employing altogether about 100 men, will b* put out of business abso lutely. In the entire etate, at least 100 of th* concerns will be abolished. Whether or not the brokerage con cerns will qitletir fold their tents and go away or. whether . some effort to evade or break down th* Boykin bill will be made, could not be learned Fri day from any of the local concerns sf reeled. , ■“It's too soon tor us to ssy anything. We haven't had time to think It over," was th* tenor of what th* manager* had to say. Th* terms of th* Boykin bill appear to make It sweeping. Those firms In Atlanta which are abolished by th* art are the exchange* of War* A Leland, Glbeft A Clay. Hubbard Bros. Co., Chaa. A Edmund Randolph, L. J. Anderson A Co, Pied mont Brokerage Co, Praemsn A Co, and Joseph Thompson. LOEB IS SERVED IN $50,000 SUIT BY A WOMAN IN TRAIN WRECK ON TEXAS ROAD was A petition of the Inmates of th* Con federate Soldiers' Home prot« -ting against their treatment by the of'i . i* of ihe Institution and complaining about the food and clothing piwlded there, created a storm In th* l o r house Friday morning. The pattUon was a bitter arraignment of the men I the head of the Institution. It was Introduced by Mr. Mlllken, i Wayne, following the resolution of tl committee immcndlm; tl.. ... ti. of a new hospital at the home. The Petition. The petition, which was read h.-r..i* the house, was signed by a numb the old soldiers, and was as follows; To the Senate and House of lt< pie- aentutlve* of the State of Georgia: Gentlemen:—The following petition of Ihe Inmates of the Confi . rote Sol diers' Home of Georgia Is re i - '.fully .resented to the general assembly, «*k- ng that a committee of bit. ttgotion be at once appointed by yotti h - body before which 0*n he shown In detull the want! and grlevancee or thu old aoldlera now living at the Home. 1. That the Inetltutlon la overloaded with useless officers and ampler ee, taking away a large amount ..( in appropriation that ahould go to Hi maintenance and support of tin in mat**, 2. Tina the liberal appropriatm made by the state la nnt well exp-nd u nil .in .-11• i• i ..pi i.i - i ’n ..r <i r.r.i.o per annum to support and maintain leas than 100 men, the Inmate# have not been well fed or properly doth. .1. With fully 60 oents per day per capita. 120 acre# of land, the Inmatea havi been clothed or fed aa well ae tboi similar Institutions having much Two Doctors in Car Work to Aid the Many Wounded. By Private leased Wire. Fori Worth, Texas, Aug. 10.—North bound Fort Worth and Denver passen ger train was wrecked at 11:10 o'clock thla morning at midland, a small sta tion a few mllf* out of Bowie. The aleeper and two parlor cars left the track and'turned completely over. The train waa a heavy one and wae being drawn by two engine*, and In going around, a long curve. *t a speed of about 16 miles an hour, the three coaches left th* track. The cause of th* wreck was th* spreading of a de fectlv* rail. Thera were two physicians on Ihe train, and they at once began the work of relieving the eufferlifg of th* In jured. A special train waa made up " this city at 1:10 o’clock and rushed the lean* of the disaster, carrying th* officials of th* road and six additional physician*. Several Fort Worth people wen In the wreck and are among those reported seriously Injured. Later reports from Frultland say that savtral of the moat seriously In jured will die. Th* exact number of Injured I* not yet known here, but la reported to be large. By Privet* Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 10.—Subpoe na gervcin succeeded in serving a subpoena on Secretary Loeb to day in the caae of Nadagie D’Oree, who i* suing for $50,000 for being ejected* from St. John church, Waahington. 00000000000000000000000000 O MR8. HARTJE TO QUIT ■ PITTSBURG, PA, FOREVER. O O O By Private Leased Wire. o O Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 10.—Mr*, a O Augustus Hertje end her two O 0 children, her father and mother, O O Mr. and Mrs. John Hcott, and their O O two unmarried daughter# Helen O O and Ida, will leave Pittsburg for- o o ever, as soon as th* decision Is 0 O rendered In the Hertje dtforc* o O suit. O 0 The change I* made chiefly for O 0 the benefit of Mr*. Hartje'a little O 0 ones, Mary Louise and Scott, who 0 O have been the victims of the per- o O aeration of young and thought- O 0 leae school playmate*. O O O OOO00000OOO000000O0000O0O0 ACCOUNTS SHORT, LODGE TREASURER CUT HIS THROAT Rjr Print* f*MMHl Win*. Allentown, Pa, Aug. 10.—Al derman Fatzinger, who disappear ed two weeks ago when it waa dis covered that he waa $4,000 abort aa treaaurer of the local Red Men and Haymakera, made a dcaperate attempt at suicide with a razor today and inflicted wounds that may terminate fatally. TWO CHAUFFEURS INSTANTLY KILLED By Private Leased Wlr*. New York. Augnet M.-Wllllam Walker, aged 22, end Harry Woodcock, two chauf. fears, of New York, were killed Iset night when s new recta* car plunged Into a farm' wagon on Thompson avenue, sear the Wingfield eroeelng of Ihe Umg Island mil- raid, In (Jaeenetmrough. Frederick Wreesenbutg and Wllllnm Brown were Injured, and are In a Long leland city hospital. The anfomoldte wee moving at terrific speed when It hit lb* wagon. Wnodeork their unhurt The drlrrr hoe coat 21 centa per rspto. 2. That thorn hna been no pubils report of the Institution since 1 that there la no vleltlng commll from Ihe legislature; that aa a son quence the public haa no Informal aa to the disposition of the large i proprlatlon* that have been made. (. That owing to the fact that board of trueteee are scattered o the state and that they only meet <iu terly, with short sessions, they arc Informed as to the management of Institution. That tho president of board Uvea In n distant town, o making short and hurried vlelte to Inetltutlon; that the vice president resident director give* little or no dentlon to "the home” affairs. 1. That th* treasurer, who Is a the purchasing agent,. exercises i>i Ileal ly the whole power of tho bou and that under the eyetem a* It I existed there la no check on the < pendltures of the fund of th* ■late. 4. That there ha* been no fair i open tribunal to which the Inmates , carry their complaints. The so-c .i Investigating committee of th* t id rarely meets, and It I* not permit'- 1 to tho Inmates to appear by counsel even to remain In person to und cross-examine wltnesaea, 7. That the present building l« ply large enough for all the won the Inmates, hut a Judicious axp< tur* In Improving theB ill ... _ heating house by sleam and adding to the cullnnry department I* advisable. I. That there la no necessity f >i a separate building aa a hospital at the cost of 57,600, for which an appropua- tlon Is now pending passage In Hi" senate. Huch a building would nearly double the expense of maintaining "ihe home” and would not be a benefit. ». That a careful Investigation of the home,” giving the old aoldlera full opportunity to be heard, fm- coercion, will reveal not only bad mi agement of the funds of the ln-.il Hon, but will also show other inntt that do not reflect credit on the »n Your petitioner# pray for an open. I and fair Investigation—they are old, firm and helpless—they aak kind and considerate treatment, which they are not now receiving. J. Bird. H. II. Llggln. Ficocsn! Wood. W. J. Bankston.lt). l>. Ware, Pat rihandley, William M • M J. L. Hendrick, C. E. Loomle. T. J. Milam, W. I. Clarke, C. A. Gable. J A. Hoberts, George W. Pollard, C. A. Bile. T. II. Barber, George A. Keith. T A. Thomason, J. J. Forrester. J. T. Wlld- The signatures of three-fourths of the Inmates would have been append ed, but the above constitute the most Intelligent of the old soldiers. While I do not agrae to all the word ing of this petition, I do approve the spirit and Intention of It. which Is to get a commutes of the present legisla ture to come here and learn from the Individual Inmates their Just griev ance*; whether *> are being treated as tha people of Georgia expert 'heir Confederate veterans to be I (Signed) The bill of Mr AU x and others to build Confederate Soldi.uV to. which brought (.. was taken up in c<>i whole. The bill pr.ivl. tlon of JT.r.OO for bull Mr. Davis, of Itlhb )ROE McRAR, ider, of DeKal