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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. a 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 T "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. Vmc’oon*j.o r**tc*~ 3- K)Dh t, jXt.JLr-o-C Ttz,’, tL. tr