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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
THURSDAY. SRPTRMBRR 6. 190<T.
WIDESPREAD PLOT
Blf THE TERRORISTS
FOUND BY POLICE
Courtmartial of Prisoners
Not Expected to Stop
Killings.
By GEORGE FRAZER.
Br private Leased Wire.
gt. Petersburg, Sept. 8.—The police
of Odessa have discovered a widespread
revolutionary plot in Southern Russia
and a number of the leaders in the
plot have been arrested. The revolu
tionists had by some means secured a
Urge quantity of arms and ammuni
tion. Including several machine guns.
The police have not as yet succeeded
ln locating the munitions of war, but
expect to. Papers seized show that the
Ilian contemplated simultaneous up
risings in a dozen or more places. It
Ivan by tar the most dangerous upris
ing yet planned. The discovery was
due to accident, papers being found on
( man arrested on suspicion giving the
Cl The action of the government ln de
riding to try the terrorists by summary
court-martial, It Is believed, will not
discourage assassinations.
MEET SEPTEMBER II
II INVESTIGATE HOME
After correspondence with the senate
chairman of the Joint committee to In
vestigate the Soldiers' Home, Chairman
Milikln. of Wayne, has called in his
former date for the hearing, September
18. and lias 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 tlte capitol.
The makeup of the committee is:
Senators Adams, Blalock (36th), and
Bunn: Representatives Mllllkln, of
Wayne; Knight, of Berrien; Williams,
„f Laurens; Hail, of Bibb; Rudlcll, of
Chattooga; Longley, of Troup, and Kel
ly. of Olascoek.
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-
reaentatlve Williams, of Laurens, and
the resolution calling for the probing.
PRETTY SLATE BURST
AT THE CITY HALL
UNITED STATES ARMY TRANSPORT SHERIDAN
WHICH RAN ON A DANGEROUS CORAL REEF
Continued from Page One.
as mayor, so he refused to hold the
election, not having the Jurisdiction.
After the election of Mr.* Kilpatrick's
successor 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
ln 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 at 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 councllmen from
the Fourth had not been cognizant of
the slating, and that the whole matter
should go over. During his remarks
the mayor replaced Mr. 8mlth’s name
among the candidates for secretary.
Another Candidate Out.
Now it Is understood that things are
being whooped up In the Fourth. There
is a candidate out for the place recent
ly made vacant by Mr. Kilpatrick, re
signed. Further, It Is stated that the
new cnmHdnte has an exceptionally fine
ehan< o of making good, as Mr. Welch
has lived in the ward onls' six weeks.
It Is also stated that the five commis
sioners who were to vote for Mr. Smith
nrc still of the same mind and arc not
likely to be changed .
Tlmse for Kilpatrick, are: Frank P.
TTice. I). N. McCullough, W. S. Dun
can and J. D. Turner.
Those for Smith are: James O.
Woodward, J. H. Harwell, R. T. Pace,
Thomas F. Stocks and Hugh Dorsey.
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 Pplnt, near Honolulu.
O BAT NELSON STARTS O
V FOR SAN FRANCISCO. O
O By Private Leased Wire.
O Goldfield, Nev., Sept. 6.—Bat- O
O tllng Nelson Is ail right. He left O
O this place this morning for San O
O Francisco. .
A dispatch from New York g
O Thursday morning said news had g
O reached the office of Henry Clews O
O that Nelson was dead.
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CATTLE QUARANTINE
LINE BEINGEXTENDED
Systematic Campaign in
North Georgia Against
Cow Tick.
The cattle quarantine line Is being
gradually extended lower year by year.
This enables the North Georgia cattle
raisers to market their cattle on the
hoof In more Northern markets.
Assistant Agricultural Commissioner
R. F. Wright, Dr. L. A. Klein and C.
L. Willoughby, of the Georgia experi
ment station, returned Thursday from
a trip to Pickens, Dawson, Lumpkin,
White and Habersham counties, where
they have been conducting a campaign
against the "cow tick.”
The object was to get those counties
to conform to the national law, so that
they would be put abqve the govern
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 the
line, and they must find a market south
of It, practically confining the cattle
raisers of that section to Georgia terrl
tory to market their beeves.
This law was passed to prevent the
Bprend of the "tick,” which Is very
destructive to cattle.
The government has appropriated
166,000 to Btamp out this pest In these
mountain counties along this range.
TOOK 17 MINUTES
TO KILL NEGRO
By Private Leased Wire.
I'lttshurff, Pn., Kept. 6.—For seventeen
minutes today the IkmIjt of “Ibid” William*,
it negro murderer, who killed Mnmle Quincy
here. Jerked and *H7ty«*d from the scaffold
In the eotinty Jail yard liefore he was pro-
uotiiieed dead, lie died harder than the
majority of prisoners who have been exe
cuted here. William* waa a glnnt negro
0 feet 4 Inches am! of mum-uhir build.
IHm companion in death, Cornellua Couth*,
another negro, aenteneed to death for kill
ing Lizzie IdekKoti. filed in tifteen minute*.
Comb* seemed to have much more nerve
than III* companion. lie walked to the
senffold alone, and *mlle«! aero** the Jail
yard at Kherlff Dickson, who pulled the
ilrop.
THEFT OF S3,000,000
CHARGED TO CASHIER
By Private Leased Wire.
Itqenos Ayres, Argentina, Sept. 6.—
Upon request of the Itusslan legation, Erik
Wnldoiunr Ehrstrom, a Finlander, has been
arrested at Santa Ana.
The man ts accused of the embezzle
ment of $3,000,000 while acting as cashier
of n big corporation.
The prisoner protests his Innocence.
FACTIONS ENGAGE IN QUARREL
AND FORGET CONVENTION DATE
Special to Tho -Georgian
Decatur. Ala., Sept. 8.—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 Is 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 a* pa rate county executive com
mittees and ’ separate delegates to the
congressional convention which met In
Decatur.
The Joke Is that the congressional
convention was 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 n result did not attend the
meeting here Saturday, but came here
on Monday, after the convention was
all over, thinking that waa the date of
the convention. •
WILL BE
BY BIG
INCREASE
More Constructive Work Is
Going on Now Than
Ever Before.
RUFFIN TOOK CHARGE
OF NEGRO REVIVAL
If all of the prisoners who come be
fore Judge Andy Calhoun In the crlm
Inal division of the city court would
heed hts 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
vince 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 ln
the city. Don't try It In the country
any more. Thirty dollars or six
months,” said Judge Andy.
Jack McKIbbons was given 950 and
costs or eight months in two rases—
one for cursing In the presence of ladles
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. "It'll
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.”
SEA GIRT SHOOTERS
Assistant Adjutant General Kcott and
the other members of the Georgia Seagirt
team are expected to return Monday.
The Georglu hoys are not carrying off
many laurels at the hlg shoot this year.
Out of forty-oue entries, they stand
twenty-fourth. The New Yorkers are lead
ing In the shoot, just as the New York
Americans are In hasebull.
There was n time when the Georgia l»oys
could shoot, hut that has been so long
ago that It has almost passed out of the
memory of even the oldest Inhabitant.
They carried off the prize once, hut not
In the good year 1909. The Jerseyites
sought to steal It from them then, vt
there la no fear of a repetition of this
again soon, judging from the icoro this
year.
FOUR MEN SHOT
BUT BY MISTAKE
"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. This esti
mate Is conservative, ad 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 $5,000,000.
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. Permit*.- Amount.
January.. .. .. ..240 $300,808
February.. 211
March 292
April 3f«
May.. MST
June 310
July 335
August.. 375
$-\530~ $3,729,996 $1,498,734
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"ANTE UP" WITH
SCHOOJJAX SHARE
Legislature Got Around a
* Supreme Court De
cision.
MRS, BAXTER M'KEE
TO SEEKJ DIVORCE
“Most Beautiful Woman Ever
Born in Tennessee” Will
Break with Millionaire.
Nashville, Sept. 6.—Cornelia Baxter-
Tevls McKee, "the most beautiful wom
an ever born In Tennessee,” will sep
arate from her husband, A. Hart Me
Kee, according to dispatches received
here from Paris. McKee, the million
aire, whrj has divided hts time and his
business between New York and Pitts
burg, married her less than a year and
a half ago. At that time she w*as
courted by men of national prominence.
McKee won, however, and society
throughout the country believed the
union was a happy one.
The beautiful young woman broke an
engagement with the Earl of Rosslyn to
Wed McKee. He had Just been divorced,
and It was thought he would marry
Mrs. Lawrence C. Phipps, of Pittsburg,
who has also been through the divorce
mill.
Mrs. McKee, who Is of the famous
and rich Baxter family, 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 ln
California, and he won her affections
from young Hughes. They were mar
ried a few days after the other nup
tials were to have been celebrated.
Tevls died in Japan while on his honey
moon.
By Prlvnte Leased \Vlre.
Albany, Ky., Sept. 6.—George Morris
was 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 Byrdsvflle. 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 Clark,
Roscoe Reagan and J. M. Gllllntlne.
MRS, GREGORY STILL
SUFFERS FROM SHOCK
Mrs. .Gregory, who was so brutally
choked by an unknown negro ,ln 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. Th^ .attack
was so sudden ln the dark that Mrs.
Gregory w'as 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 run 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 got 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 q!l other
corporations which are now required to
make their returns to tke 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 1* 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, ns 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 r/illlng stock,
franchises and other personal property
to be distributed for taxing * purposes
to each school district.
WOMAN IS GAGGED,
THEN SHE'S ROBBED
AND HOME IS FIRED
Mrs. Grant Tells Cincinnati
Police Remarkable
Story.
IN CHURCH CASE
To determine who shall worship In
the First Cumberland Presbyterian
churah 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 the
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 rofistttutlonal-
Ity at the act of the Cumberland Pres
byterian church In forming union with
the presbyterlan Church. U. S. A., last
May. It was fully argued. Since there
are practically no Georgia decisions
covering the Issues Involved, the de-
visions of other states will have to be
gone over and sifted before the Judge
renders his finding. This inay take a
week or ten days.
The lawyers have been given a week
In which to aubmlt their flhal briefs.
i certain that however the de-
vision of Judge Pendleton goes, an ap
peal will be taken to the supreme court
of Georgln. All recognize this and the
Judge accordingly announced Wednes
day that, pending such final action of
the supreme court, both parties will
have free uae of the local church house.
This will probably be for three or four
months.
The two aides 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 argument 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 »« years
has assumed the Implied right, there
Is no ezpress 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
sembly and Presbyteries, acting to
gether, to amend Its constitution. Bo
that the church could have first amend
ed then effected union In harmony with
the amendment, "two bites at the
chewing," as Judge Caldwell admitted
But since the result Is the same and
since the work would be done by the
sovereign power of the church, the as*
sembly and the presbyteries, why do
the work In two 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.
Hervlces next Sunday will be In
charge of the opponents of the union.
WANTED—A MAN WHO
IS WILLING TO INVEST
$1,000 IN LEGITIMATE
ADVERTISING PROPO
SITION. ADDRESS T. H.
ENNIS, CARE OF THE
GEORGIAN.
By Private Leased Wire,
Cincinnati, Ohio, Kept. 6.—To the police,
Mr*. Pearl Grant, of CovlURton, today told
a remarkable story, Khe said that she was
set upon by thieves, houud, gagged and
robbed of $70 and pat In a vacant lot.
She said that a man, woman and a boy
committed the deed. The robber* made
their escape, after setting Are to her home,
which was burned to the ground. Mrs.
Grant’s husband Is iu the Philippines.
JOE JOHNSON, JR„
UIOSUHI JOB
Former Atlanta Man Named As
Expert Accountant in Stat
istics Dept, of Gotham.
Joe Johnson. Jr„ formerly a well-
known newspaper man of Atlanta, but
who has resided In .New York for a
number of yea is, has been appointed
expert accountant In the department of
statistics In Gotham at a salary of
84,0(10 a. year.
The appointment Is not a polltlial
one, but Controller Metz named Mr.
Johnson for the place through per
sonal friendship nnd 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 Ills connection as the Illg 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 stnncl the
test and finally went down and out.
Atlunta friends of Mr. Johnson will
be pleased'to hear of hla appointment
to so Important a position In the me
tro polls.
HANGED HERSELFj
FIRST TRIED KNIFE
By Private Leim-il Wire.
Buffalo, *N. Y„ Sept. 6.—Friends of
Miss Sarah Crow found the body of
tho woman hanging from a beam In the
cellnr of her home on Pearl place this
afternoon. A strip of canvas had been
employed ns a rope. On the ground lay -
a bread knife covered with blood and
several gushes In the woman's throat
showed thnt she had attempted to out
her throat before resorting to hanging.
Miss Crow was released from the Buf
falo state hospital September 1, aa
cured of mental derangement brought
on by close nppllcntlnn to work.
EXPERT CRACKSMEN
BLOW OPEN SAFE
— - — i
By Private Leased Wire.
Buffalo, N. Y., Sept. 8.—Expert
cracksmen entered the offices of Hunt
ington * Flnke, extensive lumber deal- ,
era, In Tonawanda street, early this
morning nnd blew the safe to pieces ;
with a charge of nltro-glycerlne. Nine- i
ty dollars In cosh was secured. Val- -
until,, papers, representing several
thousand dollars, were scattered about
the room. The robbers escaped.
TOO MANY REPLIES TO GEORGIAN ADV.
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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