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T11L ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
WIDESPREAD PLOT
Of THE TERRORISTS
FOUND BY POLICE
Courtmartml of Prisoners
Xot Expected to Stop
Killings.
By GEORGE FRAZER.
n r rrlrate Ij«I Wire.
St. Petersburg. Sept. fl.—The police
0 ( Odessa have discovered a widespread
revolutionary plot In Southern Russia
8n j a number of the leaders In the
plot hove been arrested. The Revolu
tionists had by some means Secured a
large quantity of arms and ammuni
tion, Including several machine guns.
The police have not as yet succeeded
In locating the munitions of war, but
expect to. Papers seized show that the
„l-n contemplated simultaneous up
risings In a dozen or more places. It
tvas by far the most dangerous upris
ing vet planned. The discovery was
due to accident, papers being found on
0 man arrested on suspicion giving the
c *The action of the government In de
riding to try the terrorists by summary
court-martial, It Is believed, will not
discourage assassinations.
MEET SEPTEMBER II
TO INVESTIGATE HOME
After correspondence with the senate
chairman of the Joint committee to In
vestigate the Soldiers’ Home, Chairman
Mlllkln. of Wayne, has called In his
former date for the hearing, September
IS, and has named September 10 as the
date for the investigation to begin.
The hearings will be open to the pub
lic and will be held In the senate cham
ber at the eapltol.
The makeup of the committee Is:
Senators Adams, Blalock (35th), and
Bunn: Representatives Mllllkln, of
Wayne: Knight, of Berrien: Williams,
of i,aurens: Hall, of Bibb; Rudlcil, of
Chattooga; Longley, of Troup, and Kel
ly. of Glascock.
The Investigation Is the result of a
complaint sent by inmates of the home
to members of the legislature, fol
lowed by the fiery denunciation of Rep
resentative Williams, of Laurens, and
the resolution calling for the probing.
PRETTY SLATE BURST
AT THE CITY HALL
Continued from Page One.
UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT SHERIDAN
WHICH RAN ON A DANGEROUS CORAL REEF
L BE
BY 010 INCREASE
More Constructive Work Is
Going on Now Than
Ever Before.
At the top Is a picture of the
United States army transport
Sheridan, which recently went
ashore on one of the Hawaiian Is
lands with sixty-three men aboard,
and was for hours beyond reach of
rescuers. Below is a diagram show
ing where the Sheridan was In a
dangerous position on a coral reef
off Barber’s Point, near Honolulu.
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CUTTLE QUARANTINE
Systematic Campaign i
North Georgia Against
Cow Tick.
as mayor, so he refused to hold the
election,, not haying the Jurisdiction.
After the election of Mr. Kilpatrick’s
surressnr was postponed, the opposi
tion got busy again. There was a good
deal of explaining. Wednesday after
noon. after the water board had con
vened, and the commissioners had been
sounded, it was discovered that there
were four commissioners who were go
ing to vote for Mr. Kilpatrick and five
who Intended voting for W. Z. Smith,
connected with the water department
in the capacity of inspector for some
ten or twelve years.
Several of the members of the board
disappeared and held a caucus in the
hall. Mr. Smith was told he was beat
en, or something to that effect, and
was promised the position of book
keeper nt the Hemphill station If he
would withdraw his name. His name
was withdrawn, and he explained his
reason. Mr. Kilpatrick asked that the
election be deferred until the next ses
sion of the water board. This was
done.
Mayor Woodward following Mr. Har
well, made a short speech on the sub
ject. He stated that the people of the
Fourth ward had not been consulted In
the matter; that the counctlmen from
the Fourth had not been cognizant pf
the slating, and that the whole matter
should go over. During his remarks
the mayor replaced Mr. Smith's name
•mong the candidates for secretary.
Another Candidate Out.
Now it is understood that things are
being whooped up In the Fourth. There
1* a candidate out for the place recent
ly made vacant by Mr. Kilpatrick, re
signed. Further, It Is stated that the
new candidate has an exceptionally fine
chance of making good, as Mr. Welch
has lived in the ward only six weeks.
It Is also stated that the five commis
sioners who were to vote for Mr. Smith
arr still of the same mind and are not
likely to be changed .
Those for Kilpatrick are: Frank P.
nice, I). N\ McCullough, W. S. Dun
can and J. D. Turner.
Those for Smith are: James G.
Woodward, J. H. Harwell, R. T. Pace,
Thomas F. Stocks and Hugh Dorsey.
hoof In more Northern markets.
L. Willoughby, of the Georgia experl*
against the “cow tick.’’
ment quarantine line.
This line follows closely along the
Blue Ridge mountain ranges. In those
counties below or south of that line,
cattle can not be driven across 9 the
line, and they must find a market south
of It, practically confining the cattle
raisers of that section to Georgia terri
tory to market their beeves.
This law was passed to prevent the
spread of the “tick,” which Is very
destructive to cattle.
The government has appropriated
$65,000 to stamp out this pest In these
mountain counties along this range.
TOOK 17 MINUTES
TO KILL NEGRO
By Private Leased Wire.
Pittsburg. Pa., Kept. For seventeen
dilutes today the body of “Bud’’ Williams,
negro murderer, who killed Maude Quincy
here. Jerked mid swayed from the scaffold
In the county Jail yard before he was pro-
tiotinced dead, lie died harder than the
majority of prisoners who have been exe
cuted here. Williams was a giant negro
6 fed 4 Inches and of iitusciiliii' build.
Ills companion In death, t'ornellns Combs,
..nother negro, sentenced to death for kill
ing Lizzie Hickson, died In fifteen minutes.
Combs seemed to have much more nerve
than Ids companion. He walked to the
scaffold nlone. and smiled across the jail
yard at Sheriff Dickson, who pulled the
drop.
“In the cost of buildings erected this
year we will surpass all previous rec
ords. not even barring 1904, when the
Candler building and the Terminal sta
tion were erected,” F. A. Pittman, city
building Inspector, said Thursday
morning. “The remarkable part of It
is that so far we have surpassed every
month in the sum of money spent on
building, the corresponding month of
1905 by over $100,000, and with the
exception of the Louisville and Nash
ville railroad freight sheds, there have
been no buildings costing over $100,000.
The increase Is a steady growth of
substantial buildings.”
The record heretofore was made In
1904, when $4,213,446 was expended on
buildings. Mr. Pittman states that this
year It will reach $4,500,000. Thlfc esti
mate Is conservative, as during the past
eight months $400,000 has been the
average amount put into buildings, and
to bring the present total up to $4,500,-
000 there would only have to be slight
ly over $100,000 per month put In build
ings until the end of the year. The next
four months are, as a usual thing, the
best building months of the year, so
It Is probable that the total for 1906
will be over $6,000,000.
The number of buildings erected from
month to month this year Is also out
stripping the number last year.
The following Is a table of 1906 show
ing the Increase In amounts of money
spent:
-1906-
Month. Permits. Amount.
January 240
February.
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"ANTE UP" WITH
SCHOOL TAI SHARE
Legislature Got A round a
Supreme Court De-
THEFT OF $3,000,000
CHARGED TO CASHIER
By Private Leased Wire.
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, Kept. 6.—
Upon request of tire Russian legation, Krlk
WnlUotnar Kbrstroiu, u Finlander, has been
arrested nt Knnta Ann.
The lunu is accused of the eml>ezzle-
went of $3,000,000 while noting as cashier
of a big corjKtrntlon.
The prisoner protests his Isuocence.
FACTIONS ENGAGE IN QUARREL
AND FORGET CONVENTION DATE
Special to The Georgian
Decatur. Ala., Sept. 6.—A good po
litical Joke is on the Republican lead
ers of Lauderdale county. In that
county there are two factions of . that
party. One of these factions Is headed
by ex-Postmaster Dr. Pitt, of Florence,
and the other faction fs headed by Ma
jor Negley, the present postmaster,
who defeated Dr. Pitt for reappoint
ment. A few days ago these two fac
tions held meetings and each faction
elected separate county executive com
mittees and separate delegates to the
congressional convention which met in
Decatur.
The Joke is that the congressional
convention wqs held In .this city last
Saturday. These two factions were so
busy In their quarrel that they forgot
the date of the Decatur convention,
and as a result did not attend the
meeting here Saturday, but came here
on Mopday, after the convention was
all over, thinking that was the date of
the convention.
RUFFIN TOOK CHARGE
OF NEGRO REVIVAL
SEA GIRT SHOOTERS '
RETURN ON MONDAY
. .241
. .292
April 305
May 363
June 319
July 335
August 375
$300,808
301.549
531.025
500,070
549,197
675,217
472,6S6
399,444
Increase
$157,093
170.691
162,318
244.541
140,458
285.428
187.885
145.316
$2,530 $3,729,996 *$1,498,734
If all of the prisoners who come be
fore Judge Andy Calhoun In the crim
inal division of the city court would
heed his advice fewer of them would
get in the chain gang, even If they
did still continue naughty.
June Ruffin, black, was before the
bar Thursday morning to try to con
vlnce the court that he should not be
punished for trying to take charge of a
negro meeting, while filled up. with bad
whisky. He had been Just drunk enough
to give the parson and sisters a treat
on profane talk.
“June, it costs leso to get drunk in
the city. Don’t try It in the country
any more. Thirty dollars or six
months,” said.Judge Andy.
Jack McKlbbons was given $50 and
costs or eight months In two cases—
one for cursing In the presence of ladies
and the other for assault and battery.
He took up the argument on a South
Pryor and Federal Prison street car
conductor was having with' another ne
gro and grew' very abusive, and finally
bellicose.
The moral of your case Is* ’Don’t
butt In,”’ said Judge Calhoun. "Itil
go a lot harder with you when you get
In trouble meddling with other folks'
affairs than when you are attending to
your own business. Your actions show
that you were going around trying to
find trouble. You found It. Fifty and
costs or eight months.”
Assistant Adjutant General Koott and
the other members of the Georgia Seagirt
team are expected to return Monday.
The Georgia boys are not carrying off
ninny laurels nt tlie big shoot this year.
Out of forty-one entries, they stand
twenty-fourth. The New Yorkers are lead
ing In the shoot. Just ns the New York
In the good year 1906. The Jerseyltt
sought to steal It from them theu. \yt
there Is no fear of a repetition of this
again soou. Judging from the score this
year.
FOUR MEN SHOT
BUT BY MISTAKE
MRS. BAXTER M'KEE
TO SEEKJ DIVORCE
'Most Beautiful Woman Ever
Born in Tennessee” Will
Break with Millionaire.
Nashville,(Sept. 6.—Cornelia Baxter-
)vls McKee, “the most beautiful wom-
1 over born In Tennessee,” will sep
arate from her husband, A. Hart Mc
Kee, according to dispatches received
here from Paris. McKee, the million
aire, who has divided his time and his
business between New York and Pitts
burg, married her less than a year and
a half ngo. At thnt time she was
ourted by men of national prominence.
rlcKee won, however, and society
hroughout the country believed the
inlon was a happy one.
The beautiful young woman broke an
Mrs. McKee, who Is of the famous
and rich Baxter family, 1 also had been
engaged to Gerald Hughes, a young
lawyer. At a house party In her home
In the Colorado mountains, she met
Hugh Tevls, the richest young man In
California, und he won her affections
from yount Hughes. They were mar
ried a few-’day* after, the other nup
tials were to have been celebrated.
Tevls died In Japan while on his honey
moon.
By Private l.enscd Wire.
Albany, Ky„ 8ept. 6.—George Morris
Wat shot dead, John Buck fatally
wounded and Orville Huddleston and
Vlrgle Beatty hurt as a result of a
fight In Pickett county, Tennessee,
about three miles from Byrdsvllle. The
shooting, it Is said, was the result of a
mistake, the men attacked being taken
for other persons. Although no ar
rests have been made, It Is said' the
shooting was done by Luther (.'lark,
Roacoe Reagan and J. M. Gllllnttnr.
MRS. GREGORY STILL
SUFEERS FROM SHOCK
Mrs. Gregory, who was so brutally
choker] by an unknown negro in the
rear of her home, 193 Whitehall street.
Tuesday .evening, was able to be about
the house Thursday, though still suf
fering from the terrible nervous shock.
Owing to the complete absence of
any description of the negro the police
have no clew to work on. The attack
was so suddety In the dark that‘Mrs.
Gregory was unable to furnish any de
scription other than It was a negro.
When frightened away by Mrs. Greg
ory’s screams and the cries of neigh
bors, the negro hurled his victim al
most ten feet, stunning her severely.
The railroads will have to come
across with their proportionate share
of the tax money for local school dis
tricts, where their lines rton through
such districts, and that, too, notwith
standing a former supreme court de
cision that relieved them of this tax.
For, the school adherents stole a
march on the men of the rail and tie,
and get around the court’s Interference
by having the recent legislature enact
a law eliminating these objections, and
now the railroads must “ante up,” Just
like any ordinary tax-payer.
The educational department of the
state Is sending out the amended law,
which provides that all property, both
real and personal, Including franchises,
belonging to railroads, telegraph and
telephone companies, and to all other
corporations which are now required to
make their returns to the comptroller
general of this state, which Is In the
taxable limit of any school district,
shall be made subject to taxation by
said school districts as fully and com
pletely as Is the property of other cor
porations within such taxable limits.
The rolling stock, franchises and
other personal property of said corpor
ations shall be distributed to said
school districts on the same basis that
rolling stock, franchises and other
personal property are distributed to
counties and municipalities under the
law; that Is, as the value of. the prop
erty located In the particular district
Is to the whole located property, real
and personal of said corporation, such
shall be the amount of rolling stock,
franchises and other personal property
to be distributed for taxing purposes
lo each school district.
IREN SHE'S ROBBED
E
Mrs. Grant Tells Cincinnati
Police Remarkable
Story. ‘
By Private Leased Wire.
Cincinnati, dhld, Kept. 6.—To the police,
Mrs. Pearl Grant, of Covlugton, today told
a remarkable story. She said that she was
set upon by thieves, bound, gagged and
robbed of $70 and put In a vacant lot.
She said that a man, woman and a boy
committed the deed. The robbers made
their escape, after setting fire to her home,
which was burned to the ground. Mrs.
Grant's husband is In the Philippines.
JOE JOHNSON, JR„
LANDS_$4,000 JOE
Former Atlanta Man Named As
Expert Accountant in Stat
istics Dent, of Gotham.
IN CHURCH CASE
To determine who shall worship In
the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church is now up to Judge Pendleton
In the superior court. The argument
on the petition of certain members to
prevent the pastor, George H. Mack,
and the majority of the membership
from abiding by the action of tho
Cumberland general assembly In unit
ing with the Northern Presbyterian
church, which began last Friday morn
ing, closed at 6 p. m. Wednesday be
fore Judge J. T. Pendleton, of the su
perior court.
The case turns on the constitutional
Ity of the act of the Cumberland Pres
byterlan church In forming union with
the presbyterlan Church, U. 8. A., last
May. It was fully argued. Blnce there
are practically no Georgia declslpns
covering the issues Involved, the de
cisions of other states will have to be
gone over and sifted before the Judge
renders his finding. This may take a
week or ten days.
The lawyers have been given a week
In which to submit their filial briefs.
It Is certain that however the de
cision of Judge Pendleton goes, an ftp
pent will be taken to the supreme court
of Georgia. All recognize this and the
Judge accordingly announced Wednes
day that, pending such final actldn of
the supreme court, both parties Will
have free use of the local church house.
This will probably be for three or four
months.
The two sides of the contention were
ably defended. E. M. Underwood
spoke for three hours for the petition
ers. He was followed by Judge John
M. Gaut, of Nashville, who spoke for
five hours In support of the union. The
opposition then had the aVgument of
Judge W. C. Caldwell, of Trenton,
Tenn., for seven and a half hours.
The Issue In a nutshell seems to be
this: Though the church for »o years
has assumed the -Implied fight, there
Is no express provision in the consti
tution of the Cumberland church to
form a union by which It gives up Its
name and creed. It does allow the as-
eembly and Presbyteries, acting to
gether, to amend Its constitution. 80
that the church could have first amend
ed then effected union In harmony with
the amendment, “two bttes at the
chewing,” as Judge Caldwell admitted
But since the result Is the same and
since the work would be done by tho
sovereign power of the church, the as-
eembty and the presbyteries, why do
the work in twp acts when It can be
done In one, urge the unionists.’ It Is
needless red tape, they say.
The union party of the local church
with their pastor, Rev. George H. Mack,
will go on with their work as usual.
Services next Sunday will he In
charge of the opponente of the union.
Joe Johnson. Jr., formerly a well-
known newspaper man of Atlanta, but
who has resided In New York for a
number of years, has been appointed
expert accountant In tho depnrtment or
statistics In Gotham at a salary of
$4,0(10 a year.
The appointment is not a political
one, but Controller Metz named Mr.
Johnson for the place through per
sonal friendship and because of the
ex-Atlantan's ability to attend to the
duties.
Mr. Johnson has been In the lime
light quite a deal since he went to New
York. He won considerable fame
through his connection ns the Big Gun
In the Acorns, a political organization
that exerted no little Influence while
it existed. Afterwards he became man
ager of the subway saloon, opened by
Bishop Potter, which didn't stand the
test and finally went down and out.
Atlanta friends of Mr. Johnson will
be pleased to hear of his appointment
to so Important a position In the me
tropolis.
He HERSELF;
FIRST TRIED KIIFE
By Private Leased Wire.
Buffalo, N. Y„ Sept. 6.—Friends of
Miss Sarah Crow found the body of
the woman hanging from a beam In the
cellar of her home on Pearl place this
aftsmoon. A strip of canvas had been
employed ns a rope. On tho ground lay
a bread knife covered wltH blood and
several gashes In the woman's throat
showed thnt she had attempted to cut
her throat before resorting to hanging.
Miss Crow was released from the Buf
falo stato hospital September 1, as
cured of mental derangement brought
on by close application to work.
EXPERT CRACKSMEN
BLOW OPEN SAFE
By Private Leased Wire.
■Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 6.—Expert
cracksmen entered the offices of Hunt
ington A Flnke, extensive lumber deal
ers, In Tonawanda street, early this
morning and blew the safe to pieces
with a charge of nltro-glycertne. Nine
ty dollars in cash was secured. Val
uable papers, representing several
thousand dollars, were scattered about
the room. The robbers escaped.
WANTED—A MAN WHO
IS WILLING TO INVEST
$1,000 IN LEGITIMATE
ADVERTISING PROPO
SITION. ADDRESS T. H.
ENNIS, CARE OF THE
GEORGIAN.
TOO MANY REPLIES TO GEORGIAN ADY.
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One week ago Prof. Gardner of the Donald Fraser
School gave us an advertisement to
run till his school opens Sept. 13th,
he said he had room for 8 more boys.
Read his letter written 10 days before
he expected to open.
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