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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 ! * • • • 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.