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•In*** of .-nflrrmd*. jr.0Q0.W0 of banking The Atlanta Georgian. GCOKGIAt ?nff?5S52r„ VOL. I. NO. 95. ATLANTA, GA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1906. TM?rPTT. In Atlanta TWO rpiNT*. A lu . o n Train* FIVE CBN TIL CZAR AND HIS BABY GREETED WITH CHEERS FROM TROOPS 1,000 CITIZENS IN MAN HUNT; LYNCHING SURE OVATION GIVEN RUSS EMPEROR AT BIG REVIEW Loyalty of Heartiest Kind Displayed When Nicholas Rides Onto the Field as if to Challenge a Shot From Enemy in Ranks. HEIR TO THE THRONE CRIES WHEN TROOPS RIDE BY By Private Leased Wire. St. Petersburg. Aug. 15.—Cxar Nicholas’ review of the ruard at the summer camp at Krasneyo-Selo was a success from every point of view. His majesty, attended by the Grand Duke Vladimir, and holding the czarevitch In his arms, was repeatedly cheered by the troops as they passed In review. When It Is remembered that this was the first appearance of the csar before his troops since the present troubles began, and that there was great fear that he was courting assassination by dlls determination to show him self at this time, the demonstration Is considered to be remarkable. REVIEW OF RUSSIAN TROOPS IS SPECTACULAR. The review was most spectacular. Forty battalions of Infantry, thirty- nine cavalry squadrons, 174 guns of artillery and twelvu batteries of max ims constituted the columns. The emperor was dressed In the uniform of a hussar and was accompanied In a preliminary ride among the troops by Empress Alexandra and Queen Olga, of Greece. In the review were the Grand Duke Nicholas, at the head of the foot soldiers. Grand Duke Sergius, leading'the cuirassiers, and Grand Duke Michael with the dragoons. CZAREVITCH BEGINS CRYING DURING THE REVIEW. Just before the beginning of the review the czarevitch began to cry. The emperor gathered him Into hts arms,'amid the cheering of the soldiers. The father and the boy sat together on one horse nntll'the pageant had passed. WOMAN BR UTALL YLA SHED BY TROOPS 'OF THE CZAR FOR LAUGHING AT ARMY Special Cable—Copyright. St. Petersburg, Aug. 15.—There Is Intense Indignation here today over the public whipping which was admin istered to a young woman. Mile. Smlr- nefr, by the Chevalier Guards. The guards were passing through the Nev sky Prospect and a large number of persons were watching the procession. Mile. Smlrneff was heard to remark to a woman companion: • They are as gay as If they had cap tured Port Arthur.” The crowd laughed at the remark and Joined In the Jibes which were be ing passed to the guard. The com mander of the guard became angry finally and ordered a charge upon the crowd. The troopers, slashing right and left with their whips soon scat tered the crowd. Mile. Smlrneff and her companion were pursued and when they took refuge In a doorway they were raptured. Under orders of the commander .they wore put Into a pub: lie conveyance and driven to the bar racks of the guard and taken beforo Colonel Stenbeckefermor. The colonel wanted to turn the wo men over to the police, but brother of ficers Insisted thnt she should be pun ished there and then. She was taken to the court yard, where troopers ad ministered twenty-seven lashes. The woman was terribly cut and her chances of -recovery are said to be slight. The papers are Insisting that the men who participated In the affair be tried Immediately. COS3ACK3 MAKE THREAT8 AGAINST THEIR OFFICERS Special Cable—Copyright. London, Aug. 15.—A news agency dispatch from Tlflls says that Cos sacks have refused to do police duty and have made threats against their officers. At the garrison the soldiers have become discontented and the trouble Is spreading. A number of ar rests have been nmde which has simply Inflamed the soldiers all the more. is i CMfra DRASTIC RATE BILL BRANDED A FAILURE DOWWOOOOOOOOOOOiJOOIXKKieKac O DEAR OLD LUNNON FOG O WAS AROUND OUR MIDST. O It was a regular dear old Lun- O “ non fog that hung over Atlanta O 2 like the proverbial pall early a “ Wednesday morning. It was so O 2 thick about 6:50 o'clock that you O 2 could cut It with a knife. The O 2 mist was In our midst. Bum Joke, O 2 right. 9 2 It drizzled a little shortly after O 2 *hat and then the sun blossomed O 2 nut like a whisky nose. After a O 2 While, though. Dame Nature exe- O 2 euted another quick change and O 2 about 2:00 o'clock It began to O 2 look as though the baseball game O 2 would be broken up O. K. O 2 , Local thunderstorms Wednea- O 2 ■lav night and Thursday. ‘ O Wednesday temperatures: 9 Ily Private Leased Wire. Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 15.—The rote bill, the drastic railway legislation enacted by congress. Is destined to be a failure, according to the unofficial re port which comes from tho conference of 100 railway lawyers and traffic man agers of the Southern railroads, who are In conference at the Marlborough- Dlenhelm In secret session. The outcome of the conference, from present Indications, will be the formu lating of a general plan to adopt the bill and apply regulations In a uniform manner, In order to prove that the measure Is Impracticable of application. Judge Baxter, who appears to be lead' Ing the advocacy of meeting the legls latlon fairly and squarely, has given the rate legislation thorough study, and his view Is accepted by tlje conference that ft Is vague, conflicting and a tan gle of words, and that while theoreti cally It was designed for the benefit of both shipper and railway. It Is such an Inconsistent measure that It must fall. IKING OF ENGLAND ON GERMAN SOIL 2 1 o'clock a. m. 2 * o’clock a. m. . 2 » o'clock a. m. , 2 10 o’clock a. m. . 2 11 o'clock a. m. .. 2 12 o'clock noon .. .71 degrees O ..7* degrees O ..77 degrees O . .70 degrees O ,S4 degrees O l o'clock Pi m. (max.) *5 degrees O 0 2 o'clock p. m 51 degrees O ooooooococoocaeoooooooGOOO Special Cable—Copyright Berlin, Aug. 16.—King Edward of England and Kaiser Wilhelm are now together at Fried ricks hoff, and diplo mats and officials of all classes are busy conjecturing the nature of the conference between the two monarchs. The kaiser. In the dress of a Held mar shal, was at Kronberg when the Eng lish king arrived, and the meeting be tween them was cordial In the ex treme. It was a half holiday with the school children, who were at the station In a ATTACKED BY NEGRO, WOMAN DEFENDS SELF WITH A LONG HAT-PIN G. A. R. Head Arraigns Oil and Other' i Trusts. igl degrees O .body to cheer the great men. The Im perial automobiles were at the station, and, after greetings had been exchang ed, the royal party entered It and pro ceeded lu Friederickshof. By rrlvnte Ionised Wire. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 15.—To the rattle of drums and ths shrill song of fifes, G. A. It. veterans of ’<1 to ’*5 marched In triumph through tho straeta of Minneapolis today on the occasion of the fortieth annual reunion. To day's parade was one of the greatest In recent years. The number of veterans In the city exceeds the attendance at any encampment In many years. Twenty thousand veterans were In line. From morning until nearly midnight last night Minneapolis' great auditor ium echoed and re-echoed to songs, sentiments and cheers of the occasion that Is to the rank and file of veter ans In attendance the chief of the week's program. Tanner Arraigns Trusts. Commander-ln-Qhlef Tanner, In an eloquent, fervid address, referred with pointed Invective to violent corruption that had nearly again rent the union In twain, and aroused tumultuous en thuslasm by his arraignment of the Standard Oil and other trysts. Scan the monopolies fairly," said Corporal Tanner,- "and I defy you to find among them a veteran of the civil war, who wore either bine or gray. We bullded character In the sixties and In the name of nearly a quarter of a mil lion of these sterling characters I thank Minneapolis and Minnesota for Its welcome and Its Incomparable hos pitality." Saratoga to Get Reunion. The Columbia Club of Chicago III- W. R C.,.one of the moat prominent organisations which has arrived to at tend the encampment, has been called the Silk Stocking dub for It boosts of some of the wealthiest women of the city as members. Five years ago Its president presented each member with a pair of silk stockings as a tacit recognition of the name given It. Saratoga, N. Y„ Is going after the next encampment hard and It looks like R. D. Brown, of Zanesville, Ohio, for the next commander-ln-chlef. 00990009900090000900909090 O DOWN TWO CENTS a GOES WESTERN OIL. O O By Private Leased Wire. O 9 Toledoi Ohio, Aug. 16.—Western O O OH declined 2 rent, today, but the O O Eastern product Is unchanged. O 99999999990009999999999999 NEGRO FACING VICTIM DECLARED NOT THE ONE About 11:20 o'clock a negro answering the description given by Mr. Hembree was captured at the corner of Luclle avenue and Gordon street by John Flshback and .Elijah Flowers, and as he refused at first to talk, and Inter told contradictory stories, he was put In a wagon and carried to Mrs. Hcnfbroe's home. There wore a dozen meg In the crowd by the tlmo the house was reached, and the negro was told that If ho was not the right one nothing would be dono to him. Everything wus quiet and or- derly. A few hundred yards before the house was reached one of the older men was sent forward to prepnre Mrs. Hembree and to sea that she was not excited, so that no snap Judgment would he taken. Tho negro was then led up to tho steps, and from her position on the porch Mrs. Hembree looked nt him steadily for a moment and then dropped her eyes. Involuntarily each man present thought she was sim ply looking away to avoid seeing him shot down, but ana was trying to recall exactly the features of her aasallant. She raised her eyes again In a moment, and nftor another hard look, declared that he was not the man. The negro waa turned loose and told to make himself scarce. Governor Unable to Aid Negro Fiend NowSurrounded. HperlAl to The Georgian. Greenville, 8. C., Arr. 15.— A mob of a thousand determined men have mirroundcd Hob Davis, the negro who aauultetl Miss Hrookk at Greenwood, and it is hourly expected the negro will ho lynched. Sheriff McCaslan is with the party hut he will not he able to prevent lynching. Tito posse hits located Davis and are now closing in ou him. GOVERNOR HEYWARD WIRES TIIE SHERIFF. Hptdll to Tho Uoorgldii. Greenville, 8. C., Aug. 15.—I Governor Heyward has wired tho Greenwood sheriff to do what hd can to prevent a lynching, but the sheriff holds out no hope of saving the negro. The aheriff ■ays tl»e negro ia surrounded and will be caught in an hour. The governor aeema powerless to provent a lynching. NEGRO FIEND~8UFtR0UNDED IN CAROLINA 8WAMP8. Hpoelal Is The Georgian. Columbia, 8. Aug. 16.—Bab Davis, a negro brute, who attempted criminal nssault on Mies Jennie Brooks, a young woman of Greenwood, yesterday, and who when repulsed cut her throat and her hands with a knife, Is being .hunt ed by a inob of over 1,000 people. He Is thought to be located In a swamp nine miles from Greenwood. Every man In Uie town and county big enough to carry a rifle la In the band, anil excitainent Is Inttnae. The atale cam I mi If n la holding It* meeting at Green wood today, but tho crgwd which bears them speak Is small. Assaulted Negro Girl. After Davis brutally committed the crime he came about three miles far ther on near Greenwood and crimi nally assaulted a negro girl, aged 14 yeara, the daughter of a man named Buber. Miss Brooks Is the daughter of Mr. and Mra. J. II. Brooks, of tha Mount Moriah aectlon of the county, and It waa In a store run by her father that Davis, a big black nagro of the African type, with bulging forehrnd and great physical alrenglh, attacked her. Hhe defended heraelf aa best she could, but the man alaehed her with a knife and ono gaah missed till carotid artery of the throat by a quarter of an Inch. This cut was fuur Inches long. Two of her lingers were almost severed. Her dress, hanging on the fence In her yard, was a red rag for all who saw It, and by thla token Davla' fate has been practicably eealed. AND HIS OWN He Also Slashed the Neck of Brother- in-Law. Ily Prlrale Iwnsml Wire. Batavia, III., Aug. 16.—Emil Bel arose from hla sick bed thla n u. a ravlpg maniac, cut hla wife's fin with a razor, zlazhed the Jugular * of hla brother-in-law, Emezt From as he slept on a couch, and then his own throat from ear to esi Berner and Frunaen are ib "I Mra. Berner la In a critical condltl With a gaah‘from the razor rmm from her qfthi down lo her bres-i. escaped frreh the murderer after Aral attack, and ran to the how/- o neighbor, where ahe waa eared f"i Berner reached the bedside of Kn zen when the latter had beon I aroused by the cries of Mrs. lieu mid out his throat aa he attempted rise. Then the mnnl.tc cut his .i throat and fell lieildo the l.lotd body of his brother-in-!*r>. Horror not attack Ills little daughter, Hlgi tvho slop! with her mother, not boarder, Carl Emanuel, who waa <n own room. LEAPS TO SAVE GIRL AND IS DROWNED Ily Printta leased wire. Chicago, Aug. J5.—Struggling t gangway lo the steamer Kneilum it throng of homeward bound t stonlsta Just as tha steamer was Ing flouth Haven yesterday aft.-i Carrie Anderson, a Chicago alt I pushed Into the river. Quick ns n Htephen J. Kostkn. a mechanic. I Into the stream after her. l ie was rescued, hut at the price of ka'e life. The suction of the dragged him beneath the steam" he was drowned. RUSSELL TO SPEAK IN ATIIKXSTlirHSDAY Judge Blehard B. rtussell, candidate for governor, will apeak nt Atliemi Thursday night In the Interest or his candidacy. He will address the voters at Homo’ warehouse. ANGRY MOB STONES HEAD B.R. T. OFFICER Mob Searches V^oods For Mrs. Hembree’s Assailant. Wlille’on her way to Atlanta to her mother who Is very III, Mrs. Rich ard Hembree, of the*Battle Hill dts- trict, was brutally and badly choked by in unknown negro at 7 o'clock on Wednesday morning. Mrs. Hembree Is the wife of a one- armed truck' farmer and peddler and with their live little children they live near* West Lake, about a mllo beyond the end of the WestvIeN* car line. Bhe was on her way to tne car line, and while in a bit of wm.de was approached by the negro, who at first demanded her pocket book, which she handed him. He took what money she had, 62.26, out of It and threw It down, and then seized her. Htruggllng fiercely, she was dragged Into the woods where she was choked, but retained her senses. Dsfsndsd Self With Hst Pin. Bhe reached for her hatpin and waa about to Jab tt In the negro when he took fright and left her. With the ex ception, of 1 he scratches and brulsui on her throat she said aha waa none the worse for the encounter. As soon as the negro released her she ran screaming to her home and called her husband from where he was 'working In the field. The news was spread and at noon fully a hundred armed men were scouring the country In every di rection. Mra. Hembree described her assail ant as being very black, of medium height, wearing a dark hat, blue over alls, and dark coat tightly buttnnad up. Bhe aaya she could easily Identify him TO PROBE Continued on Page Two. Following a resolution Introduced on lost Monday, Bpeakcr Blaton on Wed nesday morning appointed a committee from the house of representatives to Investigate tho Confederate Soldiers' Home and report to the next general usaembly. The following members are appoint ed: Mlllken, of Wayne, chairman: Knight, of Berrien; Williams, of Lau rens; Hall, of Bibb; Rudlrll, of Chat tooga: Longley, of Troup, and Kelly, of Glascoek. Mr. Heard purported to be a former inmate of the home, and offered to furnish what he said waa strong evi dence of mismanagement and dishon esty. Insinuating Lattar Receievd. An Insinuating latter 'was received from W. J. Heard In Chicago Wednes day morning by Messrs. Kelly, of Olaa- coek, and Mlllken of Wayne, the lead ing supporters of the movement to Investigate the Boldlen’ Home. The senate will appoint a committee of three to act Jointly with the house committee. chairman Mlllken, of the house com mittee, stated Wednesday afternoon that the committee would probably not begin Its work until after September 10. The present legislature ceases to exist after the first Wednesday In Oc tober and the committee ‘must com plete its findings before that date. Police Save Smith From Vengeance of Crowd. Ily Private I .eased Wire. New York, Aug. 16.—Driven by des peration and brutality they had wit nessed on the part of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company employees, and enraged when they were held up at Kensington station because they had refused lo pay two fares'on their return to Brooklyn from Coney Island, 250 men attarked General Superintend ent Dow M. Smith, of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, with stones early to day/ Rocks and all aorta of missiles were hurled at the obnoxious official, and a rush was mods for his aulo by the furious passengers. Forty pollremen went to the rescue of Superintendent Smith and, lining up around his sulo. drove bark the crowd. Ilut for this timely Interference, Smith would have been terribly beaten and possibly killed. Thousands Have to Walk. The attack on Smith came after another day marked by rioting, brutal assaults on passengers, fights and up roar all along the lines of the Brook lyn Rapid Transit as a result of the violent methods of the rompany to ex tort an extra fare. Blind, cripples and boys were thrown bodily off the care. Men were beaten and kicked. Women were hurled and dragged from their From last night unfit this morning not a trolley car was sent beyond Slx- ty-flfth street. It is estimated that about 7on passengers were pulled from trains at Neck road. Kings highway and Kensington, (vhlle 25,000 persons who had paid the extra fare Wert de layed from one to three hours In reach ing their destination. B. R. T. Men Arreeted. For a lime the deputies appointed by Sheriff Flaherty aided In protecting the many persons from violence at the hands, of tbs Brooklyn Rapid Transit apoooooooooooaoooooooooooa a TWENTY MURDER8 O 0 IN PAST FEW DAYS. O 0 a O By Private Leased Wire. 0 0 Warsaw, Aug. 16.—It la report- a Pel lo the authorltl"- : fin th.it 0 O 20 murders have been committed O 9 In this city during lbs past few O 0 days. Various attempts have I O 0 made today to murder police • r- 0 0 flclnla In the atrseta. A telegram O O from Vloclawek says Chief ..f o O lice Nlrnewlcx and I’rovlt i t I I'" O 0 lice Captain Pletrow i.. i .. t .<■♦■ n o O murdered. O 0 0 OOOOOGOOOOOOOoOOOOCiOOOOOOO men, but there wi*r© many conltl* - tween the deputies on the one sit the police u ml .Brooklyn Rapid ■II employees on the other. In some Instances, whei Rapid Transit men became they* were taken by the pt number of arrests *■< to. result. About forty Brooklyn Rapid Transit men were arrested and promptly boiled out. Twice that number of pns-eugera were arrested after they bad been beaten. Early today Brooklyn Rapid Tran sit Inspector Wlldie. who had been arrive In assaulting ps-sengor*, got Into an altercation vvlth police in spector Evans at Kensington station, and kicked Captain Evan- m the stetn- Itcll. Wit.lie ».'■ attested. Business Falling Off. Cltlsena and merchants, aroused by the startling decrease i n business, took steps today to form an organisation to work for ths repeal of the chatter of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company. The leader In tie- movement Is Alfred Chambers, a druggist of Surf ave- nue. They will a-k f t the rev .eutloti m the ground that the company H not running the numner of car. tailed f ,r, and that the charters are icing vio- hlt. d In it11111• r.iuit other e .tv f Tilt falling "If In bus liter - at Coney I-land I- -nett that unless tt.e /tiiatlon Is relieved lulu faces man. The num ber of vl-ltors there on 1 P« that last week, 1 had fallen off per day owi