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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10. 190«.
SHOOTS UP TRAIN
Kills the Porter and Stam
pedes the Passen
gers.
Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 10.—James
Blanchard, an oil mill seed buyer, after
being beaten In a flat fight, "shot up" a
Sleeping car on the Southern railway,
killing the porter and stampeding the
passengers, some of whom are reported
Injured, but this last Is not confirmed.
Blanchard I* a temperance advocate
at home. When the train arrived at
Moorehead, Miss., the mayor of that
town entered the car and persuaded
Blanchard to surrender*.
Georgia Boys Anxious For
a Call to Suppress
Cuban Rebellion.
A member of Co. I, Captain Palmer’*
company, which had the clash with a
street car on South ’ Pryor street, says
the boys are expecting a call to Cuba
In the event the rebellion there is not
soon put down.
ln«i»ector General Obear says the law
does not permit the national guard to
be sent out of the country as an or
ganization.
If this government should Intervene
in Cuba, the regular^ army could be
gent, and If more troops were needed,
the president could call for volunteers
and the state guard would volunteer
promptly.
There Is no doubt about that, says
Inspector General Obear. In the Span-
Ish-Amerlcan war, Georgia provided
more troops than any other state In the
union, according to population.
She furnished four regiments, the
First, Second and Third and Kay's Im
mune*. These were officered by Cols.
Alex R. Lawton, Owen Brown and John
S. Candler, the latter resigning later
and being succeeded by Colonel Robert
L. Berner, Governor-elect Hoke Smith's
law partner.
The Fourth regiment from Georgia
was Ray’s Immunes, commanded by
Colonel Ray, of the United States
army. The Immunes saw service In
Cuba.
The. Georgia boys' seem to be eager
for a chance to go to Cuba.
SOME INTERESTING DATA
ON STREET CAR SERVICE
Comparative Figures
Covering Harford
and Atlanta.
To the Editor of The Georgian:
I was greatly Interested In the article,
“The People's Fight," signed by W. S.
McIntyre, which appeared In your Issue
of the 8th Inst., and for his benefit and
that of other patrons of the Georgia
Railway Company, I would respectfully
submit, by way of comparison, figures
relating to street railway service In
Hartford, Conn., where the writer was
for many years a resident.
The census of 1900 shows Hartford to
have a population of 79,880 and our own
city 89,872, thus giving Atlanta ovsr
10,000 more Inhabitants than Hartford.
From this It Is safe to assume that the
street railway company 4iere Is carry
ing a greater numher of passengers
each year and deriving more revenue
therefrom than a city with 10,000 less
Inhabitants.
In Hartford pupils of the public
schools are furnished, by the street
railway company, with "school tickets"
which are accepted for fare at a cost
°; 21-2 cents each between the hours
of 8 a. m. and 5 p. m. These are, of
course, good only on days when the
schools are in session. In Atlanta no
such concession Is made, and I am
Informed that frequent attempts to get
the street car company to comply with
so reasonable a request have been flat
ly refused.
People living on suburban lines about
Hartford obtain commutation tickets
at a great reduction, and apropos to the
complaint of Mr. McIntyre relative to
exorbitant rates charged by the local
company to those living In Atlanta's
suburbs, the following figures may be
of Interest:
Distances, fares and time by trolley
from'Hartford, Conn.,’ to
Time
Fare. Miles. Hours.
Boston, Mass. . .$1.35 120 8 3-4
Bridgeport, Conn. . 70 65 6 1-2
Chicopee Falls,Mass. .35
Deedfleld, Mass. . .80
Easthampton, Conn. .65
Fitchburg, Mass. . 1.40
1.16
Florence, Mass.
Greenfield, Mass.
Holyoke, Mass....
Marlboro, Mass. .
Meriden, Conn. .
Milford, Conn. . . .60
Mt. Tom, Mass. . .45
New Haven, Conn.. .50
Northampton, Mass. .50
New York City.. . 1.40
Palmer, Conn. . . .45
Plalnvllle, Conn. . .18
Plantsvllle, Conn. . .25
Providence via Wor.,1.70
Southington, Conn.. .25
So. Framingham,
Mass l.io
Westfield, Mass.. . .40
Worcester, Mass. . .95
112
61
70
80
2 3-4
5 1-2
4 1-2
9 1-4
4 1-2
5 1-2
3
7 1-2
2 1-2
4 3-4
31-2
3 1-2
3 3-4
11 3-4
3 1-4
1 1-4
I 3-4
II
1 3-4
S 1 *
6 1-2
if, R, F,
RETURNS FROM TRIP
Colonel R. F. Maddox, vice president
of the Maddox-.Rucker Banking Co$n-
pany. returned,(Monday morning from
a month's vacation spent In and near
Chicago. ,
He will Immediately begin an active
canvass In hla race for the county com
mission. to succeed Hon. Hubert L.
Culberson, resigned. During his ab
sence Colonel Maddox’s friends have
been working hard for Him.
Colonel Maddox says that In his trip
he found signs of prosperity and prog
ress hanging out everywhere.
The cost of operating a street rail
way system in Atlanta Is not nearly so
great as In a Northern city like Hart
ford, where usually severe snow
storms every Winter so seriously Im
pede traffic that enormous and costly
rotary snow plows, electric sweepers,
etc., are frequently employed to clean
the tracks, and It Is not uncommon for
snow to bo ao badly drifted that motor
plows are useless, In which event the
writer has seen hundreds of white men
employed with shovels at a tremendoys
expense to the company.
The Georgia Railway Company never
Incurs expense of this kind, and as all
their track laying and work of a like
nature Is done entirely by negroes at a
much less rate than It can be (tone at
the North, where oil the employees are
wMte, It also stands to reason that
they can afford to give as cheap rates
as In Hartford, Conn. Yet by looking
at the above table one can see that the
fare from Hartford to Plalnvllle, a dis
tance of 16 miles, Is 18 cents, while the
Georgia Railway Company charges
from Atlanta to Marietta, a ride of
about the same number of miles, the
exorbitant rate of 36 cents, nearly
double that charged In the North,
where more expensive cars are operat-
JEWELRY THIEVES
HOLD CROWD OFF
AND LOOT STORE
Owuer of Place Is Terribly
Beaten by the
Robbers.
New York, Sept. 10.—While hun-
areds of persons were passing the Jew
elry store of Emanuel Krauss, at 74
Newark avenue, Jersey City, on their
way to the Pennsylvania ferry today,
three men shut themselves in the place,
beat Krauss Into insensibility .with a
blackjack and ran off with seventy-
five rlng.«v worth from 910 to 920 each.
The beating and the robbery were
seen by many persons, who were pre
vented from aiding Krauss, or pursuing
his assailants, by orib of the men who
overawed them with a revolver. Krauss
was seriously hurt.
DR, C, H, HALL DIES
AT AGEOF SEVENTY
Noble Life Ends After Long
and Useful Service in.
Profession.
ELEVEN. ARE HURT
WHEN CAR RUNS
ITI
Motorman Clings to
Post and Is Fatally
. Injured.
His
PRESENCE OF PRISONERS
PRE VENTS THEIR FRIENDS
FROM DESTROYING TRAIN
Mountaineers Balked in Plan to Dynamite
Cars So as to Kill Judge, Marshal,
and Many Passengers.
Fairmont, W. Va., Sept. 10.—The
lives of Federal Judge Alston G. Day-
ton, formerly a member of congress,
New York. Sept. 10.—In a cOlll.lon anJ ot Unlted statea Marshal Frank
of three surface cars at thp Manhattan T > rre ; f or ™ er *« cret ■ ervlce man aad a
Hperlnl to The Gvorglnn.
Macon, Ga„ Sept. 10.—Dr. Charles H.
Hall died at the family horns on Col
lege street, early yesterday morning. A
citizen whose active life for the past
forty years has been devoted to the
medical profession of this city, passed
to his reward. Dr. Hall had passed the
seventieth year of hla life and had been
In feeble health for the past fifteen
months. A heart (rouble had developed
and during the past few days members
of the family and Immediate friends
knew that the end was near.
Dr. Hall, .for more thon a quarter of
century, stood at the head of the
medical profession In Macon. His work
In his profession here' made him one of
the most highly esteemed citizens of
Macon, and as he grew older he held
this strong respect by giving the last
duys of an active career still to his
chosen life work.
The announcement of his death cast
gloom about the community, and
many lifelong friends were saddened.
He Is survived by a wife, who herself
has also reached mature years, and
two sons and three daughters. These
are Dr. Thomas Hall,‘of Macon; At
torney C. H. Hall, Jr., of Macon; Mrs.
S. R.'Jaques and Mrs.'Kate Taylor, of
Macon, and Mrs. Ellis Talbott, of Rich
mnnd, Va.
The funeral was held at the residence
this afternoon by ReV. J. M. Northrop,
rector of St. Pauls., Interment occurred
In Rose Hill cemetery.
end of the Brooklyn bridge early to
day eleven persons were Injured. One
of them will die. There was one worn'
an among the Injured.
. The accident was caused by the fall
ure of the brakes to work promptly.
The Bergen street car was absolutely
beyond control, and dashed wildly
down the slope Into two other cars.
Motorman Julius Schaeff stuck to
Ills post up to the Instant of the crash.
Afterwards he was found pinned be
neath the telescoped ends of the Ber
gen street and Court street cars. Both
his legs were so badly crushed that
amputation will be necessary. He was
terribly cut and crushed all over the
body and will die.
GIRL IMPRiSDNED
ON FORGERY CHARGE
Says Money Was Exhausted
and Her Creditors An
noyed Her.
Special to The Georgian.
Asheville, N. C., Sept 10.—Miss Pearl
Sorrels, a young woman about 20 years
of age, pretty and apparently a wom
an of refinement, was arrested and
placed In Ja!l v here late Saturday after
noon on a charge of forging the name
of J. M. Stoner, a prominent merchant,
n check for $80, which she had
cashed at the Battery Park bank. The
woman admitted her guilt, and said
that she committed the act rather than
lead a life of shame, which was staring
her In the face. She said that she
came ' to Asheville from her home
week ago, stopped at the beat hotel In
Asheville and spent all the money she
had. Her creditors began to worry her.
A man, acting peculiarly, was seen
with the woman several days before
the forgery is said to have been com
mitted, and It Is believed that he had
something to do with the affair. The
lwritlng on the check gave ey
■e of having been written by
One can ride from Cheshire In
Massachusetts, to Great Barrington, a
distance of about 50 miles, for about
50 nr 60 cents, and the cars are as fine
ly built as a Pullman coach. Seats are
upholstered with plush and each car
contains a smoking compartment with
leather seats, cuspidors and the ap
pointments found In a regular combi
nation railway passenger coatch.
Comparisons may be odious, but as
an adopted and loyal Atlantan I wish
to show where the people of this city.
are making
justice.
: consentaneous appeal for
ROBERT NELSON SILLIMAN.
Atlanta, Sept. 10.
ROAD TAKES NO HAND
IN STATE POLITICS
Special to The Georgian.
Jackson, Mist., Sept. 10,—E. L. Rus
sell, vice president of the Mobile and
Ohio railroad, publishes a letter today
In which he replies to the Insinuations
recently made by some ,of the candi
dates that the railroads are taking a
hand In politics. He says that "the
officials of the railroads running
prove the properties confided to their
care, so as to render the most efficient
service possible to the people of Mis
sissippi and other states.*
special friend of President Roosevelt,
as well as those of two score (pen and
women, were probably saved yesterday
by the fact that the train on which they
traveled from Webster Springs to
Holly Junction had aboard eight. Fed
eral prisoners.
The prisoners were friends and part
ners In crime of some ot the moun
taineers In central West Virginia, and
to avenge themselves upon Judge Day
ton for giving them severe sentences,
the mountaineers threatened to blow
up the train on the Holly River and
Addison railroad, which carried the
party.
The road management learned of the
plot and stationed 100'guards along the
way, though the numerous high tres
tles could not be watched ■ closely
enough to prevent an awful catastro
phe had not the mountaineers learned
that their friends were on board the
train.
Judge Dayton and Marshal Tyre
knew of the threats, but the other pas
sengers were not notified.
EFFORT MADE TO MURDER
BRITISH A GENT AT BAKU
St. Petersburg, Sept. 10.—A dispatch
from Baku says that a desperate effort
was made Sunday night to assassinate
Leslie Urquharf, the British vice con
sul at that place. The Englishman was
In his carriage when a man leaped upon
the step and fired point blank at the
Vice consul. The bullet pierced Urqu-
hart's hand and he tried to grapple
with the assailant. The horses drawing
the vehicle ran away and the English
man was thrown out upon his head.
He was rendered unconscloue by the
fall, and as he lay In the street, hie
assailant fired five other shots at him,
all of which made slight flesh wounds.
No arrests are reported, but the dis
patches say an Investigation Is being
made. . •
COPPER PLANT SCATTERS
RUIN OVER JO-MILE AREA
The Ducktown, Tenn., copper mine.
Just across the state border, again
holds'the board.
The tall stack of the mine, 325 feet
high, according to Assistant State Ge-
ologlat McCauley, Is ruining the forests
and vegetation for 30 miles around In
that section.
Professor McCauley has Just return
ed from an Inspection tour up there.
The state of Georgia has an Injunction
suit now pending In the United States
court against the mine owners. Insti
tuted by Attorney General Hart and
Llgon Johnson, an Atlanta attorney.
This suit Is now held In abeyance In
order that the company might have
time to experiment with this high
smokestack, which they thought would
eliminate all further objection.
In this, It is said, they are In error.
Before the stack was erected the vege
tation was affected only In a compara
tive radius of seven miles.
The fumes of sulphuric' acid now af
fect the country for a distance of 30
miles. The odor la easily distinguish
able at EIHJay, a distance of 80 miles.
•This Ducktown mine Is dlssslpatlng
2,400 tons of sulphuric acid-dally In the
atmosphere around about that sec
tion.
YACHT RACE IS OFF
BECAUSE OF DENSE FOG
On Board the Tug Mercury, at Sea,
via Stone Wireless, Marblehead, Mass.,
Sept. 10.—On account of the dense fog
the fifth race for the Roosevelt cup
was declared off today. The postpone
ment flag was hoisted by the committee
boat, but It was not observed by the
yachts and they went over the starting
line with a rush and disappeared Into
the dense fog. The steam yacht Wild
Goose was sent after the yachts and
they were Intercepted about a mile from
the start and turned back.
MAIL CLERK SLAIN
IN TRAIN WRECK
Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 10,—West
bound Santa Fe passenger train, known
as the Colorado Flyer, was wrecked at
Lewis, a small station near Klngstree,
Kani., early this morning. Mall Clerk
Ira H. Wood was killed and several
persons Injured.
LUMBER LADEN SHIP
DISABLED AT SEA
MABEL LAWRENCE
FACES A SUSPECT
HELD JjjHE JAIL
Employer of Negro Says
He Could Not Be
Guiltv.
Gus Watson, a negro who has coma
nearer than any other to being Identi
fied as the assailant of Misses Mabel
and Ethel Lawrence, but who can not
be the right man If the statement of
hls employer Is correct, la In the Tow
er being held as a suspect.
This negro was arrested at the At
lanta Creamery, 114 Edgewodd avenue,
Friday evening by K. E. Haygood, a
private citizen. The fact had been es
tablished that the negro had frequented
the woods on the property of Mr. Keys,
a dairyman living near the Lawrence
home. He had 'been seen there fre
quently by Mr. Haygood under peculiar
circumstances. He has a bad reputa
tion and has been In the gang several
times. He was known to frequent the
home of some negroes named Huckaby
near the scene of the crime.
Monday morning Mr. Lawrence took
hls little daughter, Mabel, who with
her aunt, was nttacked by a negro
August 20, by the police station to look
at the negro. Although she could not
Identify the prisoner positively, he is
the first one she has not caused to bs
released Immediately. She said to her
father that she was "afraid to say yes
and afraid to say no.” She said, how
ever, that the negro 16oked very much
like the one who had attacked her and
her aunt. Difference In dress confused
her.
If W. B. Deloach, the manager of the
Atlanta Creamery, where Watson has
been working, Is not mistaken, how
ever, the negro Is not guilty of this
crime. Mr. Deloach .has been working
at the dairy since August 9, and during
that time he says the negro has hardly
been out of hls sight from 5 o’clock In
the morning to 7 In the evening. He
says he has never been off a day or
part of a day since he has had charge
of him.
Wotson will be held at the Tower
until hls movements can be thoroughly
Investigated. He may be dressed in
overalls and taken before Miss Law
rence.
He was arrested on the testimony of
a negro girl, who said she thought he
was In the woods at the time the as
sault was committed.
W, R, FAGAN TO LEAVE
GIBERT & CLAY FIRM
Special to The Georgian. '
Wilmington, N. C., Sept. 10.—The
■tram.hip Richmond, 1,487 ton,, lumber
laden from Georgetown to New York, Is • . .
disabled five miles northeast of Frying * rt , : f
Pan lightship. Tugs from Wilmington 10 ae " pt Hn ,r
have gone to the rescue. Her' home
port Is New York.
KILLS WIFE AND
THEN TAKES OWN LIFE
Eau Claire, WIs., Sept. 10.—Albert
Tangier Saturday night shot and killed
hls wife and Milton Johnaon, whom he
found together and chaaed through the
crowda or shoppera on the eaat aide
atreeta. Tandler then committed sui
cide.
W. R. Kagan, foj* the past year
manager of ihe Atlanta branch of GIJj-
k brokers, has resigned
mpormnt position with
Daniel-Odell it Company, <*f 71 Broad*
Way, New York. ; » i - • ^ s
• Daniel Odell & Company, of New
York, should not be confused with the
Odell Brothers, of Cincinnati, who op
erate a chain of bucket shops. The
New York firm has been members of
the stock exchange there for thirty
years, and stand high in the commer
cial world.
Mr. Fagan says that hls leaving At
lanta has no significance whatsoever as
regards any action Glbert & Clay may
or may not take as regards the Boykin
bill. It will be remembered that Mr.
Fagan waa one of the central figures
In the Southern Cotton Association In
vestigation, and appeared as a witness
at the hearing.
. Mr. Fagun has made many friends In
Atlanta, who will regret to see him de
part, but will congratulate him upon hls
advancement.
MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENTS—
A mistake was made in our advertisement of Satur
day—it should have read that we refuse advertisements
for unclean medicines, not all medicines. Some people
object to patent medicine advertisements of any kind,
but we can’t please everybody.
We do not advertise medicines for unclean diseases.
THE GEORGIAN IS A HOME PAPER-
KEEP THE HOME CLEAN.