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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10,
SHOOTS UP TRAIN
Kills the Porter and Stam
pedes the Passen
gers.
SOME INTERESTING DATA
ON STREET CAR SERVICE
Comparative Figures
Covering Hartford
and Atlanta.
Memphis. Tenn., Sept. 10.—James
Blanchard, an oil mill seed buyer, after
being beaten In a flat light, "shot up" a
gleeping ear on the Southern railway,
killing the porter and stampeding the
passengers, some of whom are reported
Injured, but this last Is not confirmed.
Blanchard Is 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's
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 la not
soon put down.
Inspector General Obear says the law
does not permit the national guard to
be sent out of the country as an or
ganisation.
If this government should Intervene
In Cuba, the regular army could be
sent, 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 Ray'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.
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 Sth 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 79,860 and our own
city 89,872, thus giving Atlanta over
10,000 more Inhabitants than Hartford.
From this It Is safe to assume that the
street railway company here Is carry
ing a greater number of passengers
fhfllivSST and deriving more revenue
iJUTK 01 ". than a c,ty w,th 10,000 less
Inhabitants.
In Hartford pupils ...
schools are furnished, by the street
railway company, with "school tickets"
which are accepted for fare at a cost
of 2 1-2 cents each between the hours
of 8 a. m. and 6 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 5 1-2
Chicopee Falls,Moss. .35
Deedfleld, Mass,. . .80
Easthampton, Conn. .65
Fitchburg, Mass. . 1.40
Florence, Mass. . , .56
Greenfield, Mass. . .85
Holyoke, Mass 40
Marlboro, Mass. . .
Meriden, Conn. . .
Milford, Conn. . .
Mt. Tom, Mass. .
New Haven, Conn..
Northampton. Mass.
New York City.. .
Palmer, Conn. . . .45
Plainville, Conn. . .18
Plantsville, Conn. . .25
Providence via Wor.,1.70
Southington, Conn.. .25
So. Framingham,
Mass 140
Westfield, Mass.. . .40
Worcester, Mass. . .95
1.15
.40
.60
1.40
2 3-4
51-2
4 1-2
9 1-4
4 1-2
61-2
3
71-2
2 1-2
4 3-4
3 1-2
3 1-2
3 3-4
113-4
3 1-4
11-4
14-4
11
13-4
100 71-2
67
55
130
COL n, F,
RETURNS FROM TRIP
Colonel R. F. Maddox, vice president
of the Maddox-Rucker Banking Com
pany, returned Monday morning from
a month's vacation spent In and near
Chicago.
He will Immediately begin an active
canvass In his race for the county com
mission, to succeed Hon, Hubert L.
t'ulberson, resigned. During his ab-
eenre Colonel Maddox’s friends have
been working hard for him.
Colonel Maddox saya that In his trip
he found signs of prosperity and prog
ress hanging out everywhere.
80 81-2
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 be so badly drifted that motor
plows are useless, In which event the
writer has seen hundreds of white men
employed with shovels nt a tremendous
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 done at
the North, where all the employees are
white. It also stands to reason that
they can nltord 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 Plainville, a dis
tance of 18 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 cats are operat-
JEWELRY THIEVES
HOLD CROWD OFF
AND LOOT STORE
Owner of Place Is Terribly
Beaten by the
Robbers.
ELEVEN ARE HURT
Motorman Clings to
Post aijd 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.
New York. Sept. 10.—While hun
dreds 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 rings, worth from 310 to 320 each.
The beating and the robbery were
seen by many persons, who'were pre
vented from aiding Krauss, or pursuing
his assailants, by one of the men who
overawed them with a revolver. Krauss
was seriously hurt.
DR, C, R, HALL DIES
AT AGEJF SEVENTY
Noble Life Ends After Long
and Useful Sendee in.
Profession.
Special to The Georgian.
Macon. Ga„ Sept. 10.—Dr. Charles H.
Hall died at the family home on Col
lege street, early yesterday morning. A
citizen whose active life for the past
forty years haB been devoted to the
medical profession of this city, passed
to his reward. Dr. Hall had passed the
seventieth year of his life and had been
In feeble health for the past fifteen
months. A heart trouble 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 than 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
days 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 survlved-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.
8. R. Jaques and Airs. Kate Taylor,
Macon, and Mrs. Ellis Talbott, of Rich
mond, 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.
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 collision and ot Unl,ed Slate * Marshal Frank
of three surface cars at the Manhattan ^■ vrP ' former secret service man and a
special friend of President Roosevelt,
as well as those of two score men 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 of the moun
taineers In central West Virginia, and
end of the Brooklyn bridge early to
day eleven persons were Injured. One
of them will die. There was one wom
an among the Injured.
The accident was caused by the fail
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
his 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
hie legs were so badly crushed that
amputation will be necessary. He was
terribly cut and crushed all over the
body and will die.
GIRL IMPRISONED
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 jail here late Saturday after
noon on a charge of forging the name
of J. M. Stoner, a prominent merchant,
t check for 380, 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 best 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
mltted, and It Is believed that he had
something to do with the affair. The
handwriting on the check gave evi
dence of having been written by
man.
One can ride from Cheshire In
Alassochusetts, to Great Barrington, a
distance of about 60 miles, for about
60 or 80 rents, 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,
In voicing the policy of The Georgian,
are making & consentaneous appeal for
justice.
ROBERT NELSON SILL1MAN.
Atlanta, Sept. 10.
ROAD TAKES NO HAND
IN STATE POLITICS
Special to The Georgian.
Jackson. Miss., 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
through Mississippi are attending to
the legitimate business, trying to Im
prove the properties confided to their
care, so as to render the most efficient
service possible to the people of Mis
sissippi and othfr states.'
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 Mnrshal Tyre
knew of the threats, but the other pas
sengers were not notified.
EFFOR1 MADE TO MURDER
BRITISH AGENI AT BAKU
MABEL LAWRENCE
PACES A SUSPECT
HELD INJHE JAIL
Employer of Negro Says
He Could Not Be
Guilt}-. * '[a
St. Petersburg:. Sept. 10.—A dispatch
from Baku says that a desperate effort
was made Sunday night to assassinate
Leslie Urquhart, 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 ranraway and the English
man was thrown out upon his head.
He was rendered unconscious by the
fall, and as he lay in the street, his
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 30-MILE AREA
The Duektown, Tenn., copper mine,
Just across the state border, again
holds the board.
The tall stack of the mine, 326 feet
high, according to Assistant State Ge
ologist 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
stilt 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 farther objection.
In this, it Is said, they are In error.
Before the stack was erected the vege
tation was afTected only In a compara
tive radius of seven miles.
The fumes of sulphuric acid noty af
fect the country for a distance of 30
miles. The odor Is easily distinguish
able at Ellljay, a distance of 30 miles.
This Duektown mine Is dlssslpatlng
2,400 tons of sulphuric acid dally In the
atmosphere around about that sec
tion. ,
T RACE IS Off
BECAUSE OP 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 oft today. The postpone
ment flag was hoisted hy-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 tlio yachts and
they were Intercepted about a mile from
the start and turned back.
MAIL CLERK SLAIN
IN TRAIN WRECK
LUMBER LADEN SNIP
DISABLED AT SEA
Hp.clnl to The Georgian.
Wilmington, N. C„ Sept. 10.—The
steamship Richmond, 1,437 Iona, lumber
laden from Georgetown to New York, Is
disabled five miles northeast of Frying
Pan lightship. Tugs from Wilmington
have gone to the rescue. Her home
port Is New York.
Ous Watson, a negro who has come
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
lils employer Is correct. Is In the Tow
er being held ns a suspect.
This negro was arrested at the At
lanta Creamery, 114 Edgewood avenue,
Friday evening by R. EL 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
his little daughter, Mabel, who with
her aunt, was attacked 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 lias not caused to bs
released Immediately. She said to her
father that she was "afrnld to say yes
and afraid to say no." She said, how
ever, that the negro looked very much
like the one who had attacked he.- 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. Jfr. Deloach has been working
at the dairy since August 9, and during
that lime he says the negro has hardly
been out of Ills sight from 6 o'clock In
the morning to 7 in the evening. He
says he has never been oft a day or
part of a day since he has had charge
of him.
Watson will be held at the Tower
until Ills movements can be thoroughly
Investigated. He may be dressed In
overalls nnd 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.
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,
Kans., early this morning. Mall Clerk
Ira H. Wood was killed and several
persons Injured.
KILLS WIFE AND ,„„i„
THEN TAKES OWN LIFE
Eau Claire, Wla., Sept. 10.—Albert
Tandler Saturday night shot and killed
his wife and Milton Johnson, whom he
found together and chased through the
crowds or shoppers on the east side
streets. Tandler then committed sui
cide.
W, R, FAGAN TO LEAVE
GIBERT & CLAY FIRM
W. R. Fagan, for the past year
manager of the Atlanta branch of Glb-
ert & Clay, stock brtJker*,' has resigned
to accept an Important position with
Daniel Odell & Company, of 71 Broad
way, New York.
Daniel Odell & Company, of New
York, should not be confused with the
Odell Brothers, of Cincinnati, who op
erate a chain of bucket shops. Th*
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 hie leaving At
lanta has no significance whatsoever as
regards any artlon Glbert & Clay may
or may not take as regards the Boykin
bill. It will be remembered that Mr.
Kagan was one of tile central figures
In the Southern Cotton Association In
vestigation, and appeared as a witness
at the hearing.
Mr. Fngnn has made many friends In
Atlanta, who will regret to see him de
part, but will congratulate him upon hla
advancement.
MEDICINE ADVERTISEMENTS-
1
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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 ad vertisements 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.