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" ■■■■ Atlanta Georgian. OCO«tO<A: iim ooo.iyJTm I $fiQ mil*** of ntton crop tn Iff Fl***tr1c utrosit VOL. I. NO. 94. Morning Edition. ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1906. Morning Edition. Pr?rr>F. »n AfiMM two rKm I IVAAyri. Qu Train* KIVK CENTAL WITH THE BABY CZAREVITCH IN HIS ARMS, CZAR WILL REVIEW MANEUVERS OF HIS ARMY With Czarevitch in Arms, He’ll Review Army. royal family LEAVES PALACE Members Are Safeguarded on Their Trip From Peterhof. 60<HJ0WOOO1W<HJOO<HW0O<HMHW 0 20,000 RUSSIANS O 0 ARE NOW CATHOLICS. O o o 0 Special Cable—Copyright. 0 0 London, Aug. 14.—A dispatch 0 tn a news agency from Mohlle, 0 Russia, says that there have been 0 jo,ooo converts to the Catholic 0 tulth from the mefnbers of the or- 0 th"dox church of ttussla since the O 0 publication of the decree granting O 0 freedom of conscience In that O 0 bishopric. W000000<HW<HW<HWW<HWO000 Special (’able—CopjrrigHt. St. Petersburg, Aug. 14.—Czar Nich olas and his entire family left Peter hof today. They have gone to Krta- noye-Selo, where the summer maneu vers are being conducted. It Is said that It Is the czar’s intention to review the guard having by his side his In- ’ fant »<>n the czarevitch. This action is considered extraor- rary in view of the attempt made upon the life of Grand Duke Nicholas Nlch- otavltch last week, but the statement 1? made that the czgr desires to show Jtli confidence In the loyalty of the guard by an open demonstration of this kind. , The utmost precaution is being taken to safeguard the person of the czar. The St. Petersburg railway station is under heavy guard and nobody is al lowed to take pnsasge for Kraanoye* Pel** until he has satisfied the authori ties that he is not. a dangerous charac ter. Two announcements are made con cerning the czqr’s plans after the re view. one says the family will go to T*ar:<k"e-8elo. Others that he will take ids family to Llvadla in the Crimen for the rest of the autumn. BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT CO. MAY LOSE CHARTER AS RESULT OF BRUTAL ACTION OF EMPLOYES POVERTY AND DEATH SEIZE LARGE FAMILY; RAILR OAD HEAR TLESS STOLYPIN’S OFFICIAL HEAD SOON TO BE CUT OFF By Private LuiimmI Wire. London, Aug. 14.—The Times prints today a dispatch from Its St. Peters burg < orrespondent in which the state ment Is made that the position of the Russian premier is becoming less se cure dally. There is some ground for rumors that Prince VassUtlcnkoff, who b Jn high favor with the court, will be M. Stolypln’s successor. He is known to be reactionary in his tendencies. RAILROADS AlDEtl ICE TRUST Hr Private Leai«t wire. Toledo, August 14.—The testimony taken In the hearing before Commla- rloner Clements showed that the Ann Arbor railroad had discriminated In lavor n[ the Toledo Ice and Coal Com pany which made possible the forma tion „r the local Ice trust. evidence showed that the Ann Ar bor for years furnished free transpor tation to and from the Ice flelds for we harvesting supplies and men of the loi'ilo be and Coal Company, most "« whose stockholders were Ann Arbor nilr.m.i officials, and that the other ■ . ire companies were not so fa vored. \ldence also showed that one '"nr the Ann Arbor made the Toledo ire Company an allowance of 60 cents a car on Ice shipped to Toledo, which allowance was not made the other Jontpanies, .One witness complained that his company had been discrim inated against In the furnishing of tars tn which to ship the ice. NEGRO MAIL CLERK , BOUND TO COURT •P- ial to The Georgian. Ausasta,Ga.,Aub'uat 14—Will Lump- 212;, colored, of Atlanta, was given a Pte.iminary hearing before United e'ate* ('ommlaaloner Lane this after- charged with breaking open a . " r while employed as a clerk and * Kiiiimt One Victim Calls on Attorney General to Act. POLICE NOW AIDING CAR MEN IN RIOTING Girl Is Found Dead in Creek and Many Persons Are Huit By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 14.—A petition has been presented to Attorney General Meyer calling upon him to begin pro ceedings under the law fitting the case for the annulment of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's charter and demanding that he apply to the su preme court for an Inquisition re straining the corporation from further attempting to collect an extra fare of 5 cents for a continuous ride to Coney Island. The petition is signed by WUllam J. Foley, one of the victims of Sunday's lawlessness. It demands, that In con sequence of the B. R. T.'s defiance of Justice Gaynor’s mandate against 10 cents fares, the attorney general be gin Immediate action looking to the forfeiture of the company's franchise. The attorney general has full power to cope with the present situation and he is the only official who has. To Insure action, it is proylded by law, that the supreme court may issue an injunction restraining a corpora tion from committing the illegal acta complained of. All of the officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, if such an injunction was granted, would be lia ble to arrest for contempt of court if further efforts were made to collect the extra fare. bound over. MCH0LA8 LONGWORTH R , , GOES TO NEW YORK rival, I.wwq Win.. Oyster Bay, Auguit 14.—Congresa- ™ n - Vll 'k Longworth left Oyster Bay 2S! ""'riling for New York, where he 2J2 "pend the day vlaitlng personal b. fMenda. While In the city *IU have a conference with Chalr- 1, " •‘’herman, of the Republican con- v’ l ' , n«l committee. »r and Mrs. Longworth were dln- RrL*' 1 *? 1 * yesterday of Mr. Emlen S*2? r *J* and In the afternoon board- ' the Sylph with a party who were "** n out to th« sound. POLICE AID IN WORK OF BEATING PASSENGER8 Ily Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 14.—With one vic tim of Brooklyn Rapid'transit brutal Ity dead, a number In hospitals-a«d hundreds at' their homes suffering from cute and bruises, the police to day had practically gone over bodily tn assist the Rapid Transit Company In Its plan to compel the public to pay i Illegal 10-cont fare to Coney Island. All night and this morning police men were on every train and trolley car coming from Coney. Island, and they aided In Intimidating passengers and forcing them to pay the tare. The city police actually took the place of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, whose licenses had been revoked by Deputy Commissioner Waldo and help, ed In the work of extortion. Made Brutal Attacks. With the exception of the two hours during which orders from Captain Harkins, of the Coney Island precinct that assaults and that throwing of peo- pie from care must cease, were obeyed, the police were active In aiding the In spectors and other Brooklyn Rapid Transit employees In their brutal at tacks on men, women and children. During the lunch hours, the city po. llcemen were fed with sandwiches and lunches provided by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Today all pretense of Impartiality had disappeared and they were openly on the side of the Rapid Transit Company. 1,000 Thrown Off Cars. This action by the police followed another day of rioting and brutality during which more than 1.000 perions were thrown from cars, and women as well ns men Insulted and beaten, and more than 600 persona were sidetrack ed In cars because they had refused to pay the second fare. With these hun dreds suffered those who had paid the fare, but were held because a few In the same car had refused to pay. Another Incident of the day w “ **• finding of the body of Mias Fannie Sabrlnsky In a creek, Sbe had paid a second fare, but had been ejected ft the car when It wns stalled, and when walking to Coney Inland was nm down by a car on a bridge over the creek and hurled to death. It has developed that when reported to the police that the girl probably had been killed by a car they refused to act and that no efforts had been made to And the motorman who ran down the Slrl ' Police Guard Cara. At Neck road, where the second fare Is collected on the trip to Coney, from 60 to 75 policemen under-Captain Gal- Ingher were on duty today. At Ken- nlngton. where the se.ond f.re ls de manded on the return trip, $• more po- llcemen were stationed. Non# of these ”an effort to check the brutality of the Rapid Transit inspectors and enn- nird S Coler, Durban \ an v leek, oner S Flaherty, of Kings county, and Stephen C.'Baldwin went to Neck road »id P 5aw Borough Police Inspector Ad- 2m r£aaIn Ms role of menacing the A few minutes after they ar- publlc. At j and the In- IpoVwWS by Jumped * fc * rd - Sheriff Tak.. a Hand. "Are you going to pay your fare or Cross was demanding of a scared ”«,en*er when Sheriff Flaherty forced h” way down the aisle to the pollee- m “Look. here. Cross." said the sheriff, -vou get out of thU. You hare no bust- on this car, and no authority to do'what you are doing and have been rfolnff. A supreme court Judge has df- that a 5-cent fare la the legal f.rTon thi» Une and everybody who refuses’ to oav any more la doing what NEGRO IMPS SHOOTING UP ATEXASIOWN 1NG1H IS ASSAULTED; THROAT CUT State Adjutant Gen eral Appealed to By the Citizens. E n raged Greenwooc Mob Pursuing Black Fiend. By Private Leased Wire. Austin, Tex., August 14,—Ad jutant General Hulen has receiv ed a dispatch from the mayor and citizens of Brownsville, Tex., stat ing that the negro troops recent ly sent there from Nebraska, have broken out and killed one man and wounded several others, and are now shooting up the town. General Hulen is asked to send state rangeni nnd troops. The greatest excitement prevails. Special to The Georgian. Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 14.— A, dispatch from Greenwood says a negro mnde a criminal and mur derous nssuult on Miss Brook, of that county, cutting her throat from ear U> ear. The young wo man is still alive, though is in a serious condition. In trying to protect her throat her hands were cut to pieces. An armed posse, with bloodhounds, are in pursuit of the negro. Great excitement prevails. CONTRACTORS ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF PEONAGE ON CONSTRUCTION WORKS Special to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga., Aug. 14.—A. Q. Camp bell, superintendent; A. L. Bradshaw, general foreman; W. A. Matthews, commissary, and J. A. Eason and J. D. McElroy, foremen, of the Atlanta- Blrmlngham Construction Company, contractors for the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic railroad, were arrest ed by Deputy Marshal Roberts and brought here this morning, charged with peonage. The charge wav preferred by A. J. Hoyt, special agent lor the United States, on complaint of a number of laborers brought from New York two months ago, who claim they were un lawfully ilctiricied hy threats. An Investigation la going on before Commissioner Brown, the government representative, and Hon. Carter Tate. The defsnde Is conducted by J. J. Bull, of Talbntton, and Walter T. Colquitt, o' Atlanta. The case will occupy all this after noon. SWITCH ENGINE HITS CHI CAR; 25 PERSONS HURT By Private Leased Wire. Sedaita, Mw, Aug. f4.—It la reported that 26 pasengers were Injffred at Fqrt Scott Junction, Kana., today In a col lision between a Missouri, Kansas, and Texas train and a Frlaco switch en gine. The Injured passengers were In a chair car. The train had stopepd at the Katy and 'Frisco crossing when a Frisco switch engine crashed Into the chair car. < The most seriously Injured are Jo seph Halllck, of Buaquehana, Pa., en gineer on the Erie railway; Mrs. Jo seph Halllck and A. W. Truland. South McAleater. FAMOUS BANDIT TO KILL A PRINCE By Private Leesed Wire. London, August 14.—A Vienna dispatch says that Yanno Sandus ky, the bandit who captured Miss Helen Stone, has surrounded Prince Ferdinand’s villa with the object of killing the prince. RUSS TOWN AFIRE; CITZENS BURNED By Private Leased Wire. London, Aug. 14.—A dispatch from Nlahl Novgorod, Russia, says the sub urb of Oordlevka la In flames and a number of j>er#ons are believed to be dead In the lire. One body has been recovered. the law entitles him to do. It's not a matter for police settlement and you'd better understand that. Now get o«' Cross made no reply, and tett the train. May Cut Off Care. The Broklyn Rapid Transit Compa ny, through Vice President and Gener al Manager Calderwood, today declar ed that aurfaca cars at Coney Island would ba cut off If It ware found lip- possible to collect the 10-cant fare or to eject passengers for not payjng It. We have abandoned the regular Id vice ,ned summer schedule already, . President Calderwood. ‘We land and they are being run on a half-hour headway which Is the regu lar winter schedule. If wa get to the point where wa cannot collect fares and cannot eject passengers for non-pay ment of fares, we will suspend traffic on tbs surface cars altogether.” TO FIGHT PENNSY By Private Leased Wire. Pittsburg, Po., Aug. 14.—Joseph Ramsey, Jr., former president of the Wabash system, has made the. an nouncement from New York that plana are about completed and a deal con summated with foreign capitalists for the ronatructlon of a trunk line rail road between New York and Chicago via Pittsburg, which will cost 1160,000, 000, The proposed line will be a direct competitor of the Pennsylvania and New York Central systama and have the advantage of a route more than 100 miles shorter than either of the two great trunk lines. Papers of consolidation, which will merge three railroads In Pennsylvania will be tiled In Harrisburg this week, marking the first step toward the con struction of a new railroad. The line will be known as the New York, Pitts burg and Chicago Air Line and will be 66 miles shorter than the Pennsylvania between Pittsburg and Chicago and 166 shorter than the Pennsylvania between New York and Chicago, DAME FORTUNE' and Mlsg Fortune aro pretty closely related, but the smile of the mother Is preferable to the .frown of tho daughter. Which will you provoke? You’ve an opportunity. to meet the smiling face of tho Dame. Just look over the want col umns of The Georgian. Worry along alone and you wilt for years pursue the saucy, frowning face of the tickle Miss. Don't do IL We’ve had her for a companion In our time, but wo have learned better now. Read those lit tle want ads, and when you would boom your business try them now and then. Every body knows THEY DO THE WORK Two Are Dead; Six Hungry Mouths To Be Fed. GEORGIA R. R. DENIES THE CHARITY RATE Family of A. T. Evans at 400 Highland Avenue in Do- plorablo Condition. With an empty larder and an empty purse, six hungry mouths to be tilled and a child to be burled, A. T. Evens, an engineer for DeLoach Mill Man ufacturing ^Company, 400 Highland av enue, awoke Tuesday morning at his meager home, 26 McBoland afreet, to And that Ills wife had also succumbed to death during the night. Norman, the 2-weeka-old baby, died early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Evans died, presumably of rheumatism and heart trotible os well aa the shock caused by the death of her child. The alx remaining children, the old- ■t of w'hom fa 14 years, are unabla to realise the extremity of the situation. The father la stunned by the calamity. Tho rase was brought to the atten tion of City Warden Evans and the city warden did all In Ills powerito help the family. It was the wish of the father to bury his dead at Washington, On., their former home. Mr. Evans called up J. A. Thomas, agtnt for the rgla railroad, and Mr. Thomas, acf- In his official capacity,, declared that there was being too much traf fic of a charitable nature hauled by the road he represents and suggested that the alx children be left at the home in Atlanta and that the father alone ac company the body to Washington. The totai fare for the father, children and the two bodies amounts to (HI.66, If regular fare la paid and with the char ity reduction amounts to $14.41. The amount of charity the Georgia railroad has done In the way of helping Atlanta's poor out of the city In the last few years ts not startling, says Wsrdrn Evans The total reduction of farts since Jonuary. 19(13. nggragataa 1136.73, or an average of $45.75 per vi- OOO0O<HJOOOO<HJOO<HJOOOO<HJOOO O MAY A8K GOV. TERRELL O TO HEAD A MOVEMENT O FOR SILVER SERVICE. O Special to The Georgian. O O Savannah, Ga„ Aug. 14.—Mayor O O Myers will take up the matter of O O a stiver service for the battleship O O Georgia. If nothing has been (lone O O In the way of securing the service O O the governor will probably he O O asked to undertake the movement, O 0 though It will be desirable to have O O all parts of the state Interested O O In tlta service. Savananh wilt O O gladly entertain the officers and O § visitor# If the presentation la held — here. O O O <HJOO<HJO<HJO<IOOO<HJO<HJOOOOOOO num. In the year 1(0$ tt$.$4 was ax- pended by the city with the Georgia railroad for charity fares. In 1(04 8106.28 was expended. In 1(06 $111.84 was expended. When a representative of The Geor gian vlated the home, matters were In a deplorable state. The alx children were sitting on the ground, uround the three-room cottage, mil poorly clad and flour. The father was silling rear room, his eyea swollen and red. while the undertaken had charge of the two bodies tn the front room. Aside from 4he kitchen stove and cupboard, several beds, a few bottomless chairs and a table comprised the total fur nishings of the home. When asked whether ho had any money, Evans seemed so stupefied by the rapid succession of dlsaatera over shadowing his home, that he could give no coherent reply. It was found, how ever, that the employees of the mill had taken up a collection and by "chipping In” (piartera and dtinea had raised nearly (8 to help bear the expenses of the burials. City Warden Evany told the man to buy food with this sum and that tho city would soe to the rest. It was also learned that tha deaths wore only the ultimate climax to n ae ries of misfortunes. The children had helped to bear the family expenses by working In the Atlanta Hosiery Mills, on Oakland avenue. But several weak# ago they, too, became III and had to cease work. Whon Evens sent hla little boy tn the DeLoach Mills Tuesday the foreman Stated It was against the rules to give ■•time" until a certain dnte, but that ho would visit the house Tuesday evening. Ulty Warden Evans, nfter cnnnultlng ths mayor decided to take up the ques tion of reduced fares with other mil- flh'litlM nnd hopes to get the Off for Washington on the 3:U train Tuesday afternoon. L F E Suicide’s Diary Blames Stensland and Hering. TELLER KOWALSKI LEARNED OF DEAL Fugitive President Seen in Wisconsin knd Police aro Hunting for Him. tty Prlrsts Leased Wire. Chicago, Aug. 14.—Late this after noon tha police declared they have lo cated Paul Stensland, fugitive presi dent (ff the wrecked Milwaukee Avenue State Bank, and that hid arra-t «jn soon ba made. ny Private leased Wire. Chicago, Aug. 14.—An organised man hunt la In progress today In tha vlrin- Ity of Madison, Rarabop, Mendota and other Wisconsin towns,'directed by the Oh lca< INVESTJGA TION RESOLUTION NOT TAKEN UP BY HOUSE (■ago police, who believe that at last y are on tht Stensland, the they are on the right trait of I Stensland, the fuglt The reward of 16,000, offered lllve bank Chicago clearing house, has stirred the police of tha continent to action In the search. 8tsnsland Is 8esn. Shorn of hla beard, hla moustache trimmed, hla head shaved far up In the forehead, Stensland nevertheless was recognised at Mendota by two former depositors of the Milwaukee Avefluo stale bonk. The authorities place such credence In this Identlllrntlon. and on tho theory Hint the fugitive would be found somewhere In easy communi cation wilb Miss Leone I.angdnn, (bey allng efforts to CONFEDERATE 80L0IER6' HOME. Tha resolution calling for an Investigation of conditions at the Con federate Soldiers’ home was not taken up at the session of the house on Tuesday, and It la probable that It will not be acted upon. Mr. Williams, of Laurens, Introduced at the Monday morning aeaslon a resolution calling for the appointment of an Investigating committee from the house. Under the rules, this was laid upon the table for a day, and It was expected that It would be acted upon Tuesday morning. WOMAN FIGHTS TO SLEEP IN SAME OLD PRISON CELL Seeking to sleep In the same celt at the police barracks In which she slept two months ago, Mrs. Lucy Johnson, who was arrested late Monday night, grabbed Minnie Dunn, woman who was occupying the room, by the hair, and pulling her out of the bed, and striking her several blows she ejected her from the room. Then Mrs. Johnson propped a chair against the door and sat down In the chair. Minnie Dunn, who was aroused from her slumbers end excited In so rude manner, called Mlse Henderson, ma tron of the police station, and sought to have her wrongs alighted. Miss Sanderson look In the situation and knocked on the door of the room which the woman had taken poeesslon of. Un able to aaln entrance by means of po liteness and gentleness Miss Sander son gave the door a wrench and a push, the combination of which sent Mrs. Johnson, chair and all flying Into the center of the room. It took the matron but a few minutes to restore order where a few minutes before miniature riot seemed Imminent Two months ago, Mrs. Lucy John son was brought to the station house charged with tlrunkenneea end she was allotted the middle room on the right hnnd side of the women's ward. Mon day night officers Butler and Haney arrested her again on the charge of stealing u wutch. The woman wns put In the corridor of the women's ward and directed to a room, but when she was left alone look charge of her old bed room In the manner related. OOOOOOOO OOOOOOO<HJOOO<HJO<HJO o o a BATHERS MENACED O O . BY MANY SHARKS O S By Private Leased Wire. O. O New York, Aug. 14.—The larg O eat school of man-eating sharks O O seen there In years, gathered yea- O o terday In the Fire Mend Inlet. O O Warnings were sent to neighbor- O O Inc resorts, and bathers quit the o 0 water for several hours. After O O scores of the sharks had ben her- O O pooned by fishermen the school Cl O cut away for the rpen see. O OOOOOOOOOOOIJIJ<HMHJOO<HJOOOO<I Accused by the Deed. While the w»nrcli for Ht<*n*lnn<l I* In program, both ho and Hering me nc- . MM -I ||\ MiiK<‘i * «»f III*- (lend, In a re markable diary kept by Paying Telling Kowalski, who committed auJcIfle as a remilt of the failure. The tragedy of a life In revealed In tho entrfea. In March the young man learned *f the rotten condition of the bank. He did not falter. He had the welfare and the Interest., of hla people at heart. II* 1 "||.| pi ..!••( I It" o prot of loalng hla poaltlon. the private office of the hank pre and told him what he knew. Expoatulatad With Both. Here art aotpa of hla entriet: "March !!.—Ei pot tula tad wlpi Ident fitennland and Caahler Her "April 27.—Expoatulnted again ftaahJer lJerlng. Told him I had offered poaltlon with new bank.*' 'June 21.—Turned down poaltlor new hank. I think pretty n* though." "July 11.—Wrote latter to brotl lludaon Lake. Told him thought waa getting pretty rotten. Thlr __ to new bank. Oulllcka and I l to fttenuland and Hering. They i> ua and told ua to atlck. »de«J ilde HAS BEEN F Rprol*! '» The Georgian. Chattanooga. Tonn., Aug. 14.—With her skull crushed, Ihe lifeless body „f Mrs. Ed Bcott wns found In n distil lery of the husbnnd, at Woirs Mouth. Ky. It Is believed the murder was commuted several days ago. Hcott boa disappeared. DAUGHTER ELOPES; LATHER PURSUES ON SPECIAL TRAIN Hpeolil to The tieo«lab. Albany, f«a., August 14. Mina Corinnc Mims, the 15-year-old (IfltiBhter of L. W. Mims, of Phil- ptna, eloped yesterday afternoon with-Alva Johnson, a news Imteh- or on the Albany nnd Northern railway. Tho irate father, after inissini; his daughter, chartered a special train in order to overtake ehem, hut the couple were mar ried at a small station nix. mile* this Bide of Cordele. As yet Mr. Mims cannot find his daughter, tho couple haviius completely disappeared. Praachad Kparial }•> Tb*- u,»-nt Columbus, (la. onrrl. f. pr*f ciipleJ lii** pulpit Church Sunday.