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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN-
MONDAY. OCTOBER 15. If**.
COUNCIL EXPECTS
TO HOLD ANOTHER
LIVELYj SESSION
Many Matters To Be Acted
Upon and Opposition
Is Expected.
SOME STUNTS OF BIG CIRCUS WHICH
COMES TO ATLANTA END OF WEEK
OIL TRIAL WITNESS
A live union t« expected from the
city council Monday afternoon. Even
with nn unexpected epareenete or verbal
pyrotechnlca the actlona of the city
father, will be Important.
They will decide whether Peachtree
street la to be paved with 1 aaphalt or
bltullthlr; they will determine Just
what la beat to effectually rid the city
of the low classes of aoclal cluba which
degenerate Into dlvea; the October ap
portionment aheet will be paeeed upon;
Chief Joynar'a realcnatlon may be re
ceived and hia aucceaaor elected, and
the application of the Atlanta and Car
olina Conatructlon Company for right,
on certain atreeta will be paased upon.
Aa for the paving of Peachtree, the
general council will probably concur
in the report of the atreeta committee,
recommending aaphalt, but thla will
not be done without oppoaltlon.
Commlaaloner of Public Works Col
lier haa a atrong preference for bltu-
lUhic. and If he la Invited to expreee
niv opinion, the minority report of the
committee, If made, will get atrong sup
port.
It la expected that the licence on ao
rtal, cluba will be placed at aomethlng
like $500. Thla will be enough to
atarve out the dlvea and la an amount
which It l« thought the better claea
of cluba can well afford to pay In or
der to gain the dealred end.
; It la hard to aee how the council
could do otherwiu than concur In the
report of the finance committee, pro
viding for the dlapoaltton of the city's
money during the reat of the year
There la no algn that Mayor Wood
ward will yield hla point that at leaat
the laet payment on the Waah/ngton
atreet viaduct haa to be made, nnd If
he atlcke to that, $25,770 haa to be dug
up aomewhere.
Alderman Key will. It la thought
light for the full Inneaae -if forty men
In the police force and agalnat tht
abandonment of the .lohn atreet eewer.
General Manager Woodward, of the
waterworks department, will send to
Ihe council a warning that If the
Peachtree atreet paving la to be pul
down at once, It will have to appro
priate 1694.50 for Ihe putting In of
new fixtures or the atreeta will have to
be torn up next year to put them In.
WILL C. WHITE IN
A CRITICAL CONDITION
Will C. White, the telegraph operator
ahot Sunday night by Will B. Lee at
Joneaboro, la In the Grady hospital In
a critical condition and la not expected
to recover. The wounded man waa
brought to Atlanta on a apodal train
Monday morning about 1 o’clock and
waa taken Immediately to the hoapltal.
The bullet entered Whlte’a’left aide,
perforating the stomgeh. and passing
" rough the body. He waa
open
C. V
THEN HEjNSWERS
O’Brien Says He Never
Saw Pipe Line to
Whiting. '
Findlay, O., Oct. It.—Immunity was
granted John O’Brien, of Lima, Ohio
the first witness who took the stand to
day when the trial agalnat the Stand
ard Oil Company on the charge of con
spiracy waa resumed.
When O’Brian, who la superintended
of the Buckeye Plpa Line Company
was asked what hla business was, hs
appealed to the court. He said the an
swer would tend to Incriminate him,
and naked for Immunity from future
prosecution. Attorney Phelps
marked;
“Wall, I guess we will have to make
him Immune."
The court ordered the witness to an
awar questions under Immunity. He
more objection to answer questions waa
mode, and the .witness, after stating he
waa superintendent of the Lima <
alon, described the process of gathering
the oil from the producer’s tunics,
which holds 60,000 barrels each.
Although Attorney Phelps said
nos well known that the Indiana pipe
line ran to the refinery at Whiting,
Ind., tha witness said he had nevei
been to Whiting, And could not testify
from knowledge.
There was also an Eastern connec-
lion of t)ie lines of the .Buckeye, but
the witness could give no details.
MANY HOLD-UPS
IN -CITY STREETS
Five Daring Robberies Com
mitted by Negro
Highwaymen.
Highwaymen were out In force In
Atlanta Saturday night, a total of five
robberies being reported to the police.
While walking along Whitehall atreet
early Saturday night, en route to their
homes, S. Ferguson, of 541 Whitehall
atreet, and Ernest Llnam. of 160 Ira
atreet, were held up by six negroes with
pistols and dirks. The robbers took
$19.10 from Ferguson and a silver
.watch from Llnam.
O. W. Willoughby, of 130 Griffin
street, was held up about 7 o'clock at
Davis and Rock streets. After robbing
State Fair.
HARRELL COLLEGE
fiparlal to Tbs Georgian.
Anderson, 8. l\, Oct. 15.—Wl
clock struck midnight Friday
dynamite, which had been previously
prepared by unknown parties, waa ex
ploded simultaneously under tha cor
nera of Harrell College for negroes
located at Rentes. R. C., partial))
caused by the Incendiary speech of ex-
Prealdent williams, of the college, t.
hla graduation claaa last spring.
Wllllgma went to Seneca from Abbe
ville several years ago, nnd. It ta said,
has made htmaelf very objections!'
tha white people since hla arrival
haa preached Incendiary doctrines. It ta
alleged, and haa advised the negroes
not to work for the white people.
On account of all thie, a lette
sent., him several weeks ago adv'.iim
him to leave Seneca, but It seems he
paid no attention to It.
SYNOD OF GEORGIA
WILL MEET NOV. 6TH
gpeelal to Tha Georgian.
Waycroes, Oa., Oct. 15.—The annual
session of tha 8ytiod of Georgia will
convene at tha First Preabyterlan
Church in this city on Tuesday, No
vember «, at 7:*0 p. m, and will con
tinue In session until Monday, No
vember 1J.
Tha synod ranks next to the general
assembly, which la the highest church
court of the Presbyterian denomina
tion. There will be not leas than sixty
ministers and ruling elders In attend
ance.
COLONEL COOLEY BUY8
COVINGTON ENTERPRISE.
* pedal to The Georgian.
Covington, Oa., Oct. 16.—Col. James
P. Cooley, a prominent young lawyer,
and one of tha county’s moat Influen
tial ‘cltlxens, today purchased the En
terprise, the weekly paper published
here. The paper waa formerly pub
lished by Col. K. R. Gunn and Col. U.
H. Coorwell, until about five months
ago, when Colonel Gunn assumed full
charge.
— 1 ■ M 11
A circus without riding acta would
be an anomaly. There Is no feature
of the old-time circus which seems so
essential to tho completeness of the
modern nrenlc exhibition, or which has
so persistently retained Its popularity
with tha public. The daring eques-
1 trlan. turning soinersaulta <>n the back
of a awlftly-movlng horse, nr.d the
dainty equestrienne, posing nnd pi
rouetting her way Into the hearts of
the audience, both add Immeasurably
In the effectiveness of tho mammoth
three-ring circus of today. Just as they
did to the little onc-rlng circus of-a
quarter of u century ago.
The men nnd women of tho cirrus
who ride Imvc not, however, been sat
isfied "to let well enough alone." Thoy
have recognised tho public demand for
something new, even In tile way of
equestrianism, nnd during the past two
or threo’yours mnity Interesting tiding
novelties have been made known In
this country and In Europe.
Tho Burnunt & Bailey Greatest Show
nn Earth, which exhibits in Atluntu
l-’rlduy and Saturday, October 19 nnd
20, has been a pioneer In Introducing
novel, and even stnrtllng riding acts to
TOT SMOTHERED TO DEATH
B\ MAID MAKING UP BED
New York, uct. 15.—"The loss of my
baby Is a end nnd bitter lesson, teach
ing that no mother shoutd entrust her
children to the care of a nurse or a
servant. If all mothers could only learn
that."
It wax In the deepest grief that Mrs.
Rose Bender made thla pathetic com
ment today on the loss of her 5-month»-
old baby girl, Lottrt, who waa smoth
ered while lying on top of n bed,
through the servant putting on tho
bed clothing and not noticing the child.
The servant was Mary Rytak, em-
ployed by Mrs. Frank Engel, a sister
of Mrs. Bender, with whom the latter
lives. The servant, In terror at what
she had done, could tnake no other
explanation than that she had made up
the bed without noticing the child
asleep on top of It.
After the coroner's office was notified
of the child’s death the aervant was
formally placed under arrest and lock
ed up. She wns arraigned today, hut
Mrs. Bender sahl she was convinced
that the girl was Innocent of anything
worse than gross carelessness.
CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLEMENT’'
ASSISTANT POSTMASTER IS HELD
Special to The Georgian.
Valdosta, Oa., Oct. 15.—John 3V.
Spurlock, assistant postmaster at fc-
cll, Oa., was given a preliminary hear
ing before United States Commissioner
Roy E. Powell In this city Saturday on
a charge of embexstlng funds from the
postolfice at Cecil. Mr. Spurlock wns
arrested last week on n warrant sworn
out by a postoffice Inspector, who
checked up the Cecil office, the appar-
ent shortage being something ten* than
$100. The assistant postmaster claim
ed that the money of the office wan in
the hand* of another young man, n
clerk In the office, who happened to be
out of town at the time. Spurlock’s
bondsmen promptly made the amount
good.
Commissioner Powell bound tho ac
cused over to the next term of the
United States court In this city In* the
aum of $500.
the American public, and thla yenr the
management announces an unusually
lurge number of equestrian acta of a
unique character. One of these la en-
t tied "On the Way to the Races." In
this striking uct a clever company of
I'rcnoh riders and acrobats, known as
Ia-H Rowlandes. perform a aeries of
stnrtllng feats In, over and around a
tally-ho coach, and on the backa of
four rapidly-moving horses. Another
novelty, introduced hy the Ray Thomp
son Troupe, Is said to utilise four-
wheel run-abouts and two-wheel tarts
In a performance full of original Ideas
and equestrian and driving sqrprlaea.
TO DECIDE RAWLINS
APPEAL ON TUESDAY
Chairman J. 8. Turner went down
to hla home In Katonton Saturday aft
ernoon and l» not expected to return to
Atlanta until Tuesday morning,
A tleclston In the appeal for commu
tation of the Kentetrea of Milton and
Jesse Rawlins Is not expected, there
fore, before some time Tuesday. Tht
case was argued Saturday.
inn in i
2Dayt
on every
box. 25c
LOADED WITH MATCHES
FREIGHT CAR IGNITES
A freight car, loaded with matches,
caught Are early Saturday night In the
north yards of the Houthern railway,
but was saved from complete destruc
tion by quick work on the part of No. 3
Are company in Marietta atreet.
The blase ignited from shock, anoth
er car being shoved agalnat the match
car with considerable forca. The con-
tentii burned almost like powder and
ft was but a brief space of time until
the entire car was enveloped In flames.
As quickly as possible It was pulled to
the Simpson street crossing, where
the Are was extinguished.
LAST ROPE GONE
EOR G. MURICK
Governor Declined to Re
open Case—Haugiug
Wednesday.
Af|er Governor Terrell had approved
tha finding, of the prison commission
In its declination to commute the sen-
tence of George W. Bundrick, under
e of death In Dooly county
Thla the governor declined to do, and
Governor Terrell, however, believes
hat the commission was beat prepared
to know the, facta In the case, as the
appeal tvaa presented to It, and de
clines to go back of that ruling.
PAIN’S POMPEII
ev$ry night at State Fair.
runs Sunday night. A negro house at
lh'.! Elizabeth alley was destroyed short
ly offer midnight. A short while later
a Greek restaurant In Decatur street,
neatr t’ourtland, was burned, the fire
also .Uunaglng Brown's saloon, adjoin
ing the restaurant. A negro house at
_ 30* Edgewood avenue was also slightly
The fire department was given three damaged during Ihe early morning. i
to run, and as he did bo, they fired
several shots.
Sam Rogers, of Howell Station, was
attacked and knocked down by two
negroes In Johns street. He waa re
lieved of $37. •
As be was boarding a car at the fair
-ounda to coma Into the city, IV. C.
oward, of 55 North Forsyth street,
was robbed of his purse. It contained
$10 In cash.
C. Bush, of 1317 Fourth National
Bank building, waa held up at 10
o’clock by four negroes at the point of
pistols. He was robbed of $S and a
pair of trousers.
Madison Williams, a negro, la held In
the police. station, suspected of being
In the crowd of negroes who terrorised
two’sectluns of the clly last week and
shot two Innocent negroes. He waa ar
rested by Bicycle Policemen Arthur
and Hardaway.
PILES CURED IN 8 TO 14 DAYS.
PAZO OINTMENT la guaranteed to
cure any case of Itching, Blind, Blood
ing or Protruding Piles In 6 to 14 days
or money refunded. 60c.
Fine BERKSHIRE
SHOW at the Stale Fair.
WILL BEGIN WORK
ON NEW STATION
Special to The Georgian.
Valdosta, Oa., Oct. 15.—.Work will
begin this week on the work of tearing
down tho present passenger station of
the Georgia Southern and Florida rail
road. In this city, preparatory to the
building of the new station. Vice
President Parrott and General Super
intendent Grady have been here mak
ing arrangements for the temporary re
moval of the station during the time
necessary for the building of the new
structure. A temporary station w ill be
established In the freight warehouse
and the lunch room adjoining the pres
ent station. When It la finished Val
dosta will boast one of the most com
plete and finely appointed passenger
stations In the state, outside of Atlan
ta and Savannah.
the Benjamin”
West End
OVercoof
Your Overcoat
To be comfortable, as well as stylish,
should be made of the right materia]
cut over the right pattern, made by
tailors who thoroughly understand
making of a coat, giving It the little
finishings that count (or so much ia
the lasting qualities.
$12.50 to $40
Our Overcoats
Are made by experienced workmen,
and cut from a pattern measured on
a model of your figure. The "New
West End" (like cut) la one of the
swell coats.
ESSIG BROS.
“Correct Clothes for Men”
26 WHITEHALL ST.
$1.00
Starts an account with a LITTLE HOME BANK and book or with tht
book only In the
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OF
THE NEAL BANK
Interest allowed at tho rate of THREE AND. ONE-HALP PER CENT.
PER ANNUM, compounded scml-annually.
E. H. THORNTON, President. W. F. MANRY, Caihler.
H. C. CALDWELL, Aiit. Cashier.
LUCAS VARNISH
STAINS,
Oil stains, enamels, at the
GEORGIA PAINT AND
GLASS CO.,
40 PEACHTREE.
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COLLEGE BOYS SHOT
WHILE CELEBRATING
FOOTBALL VICTORY
Special to The Georgian.
Opelika, Ala., Oct. 15,—Friday night
about 7:30 o’clock, aa a party of Au
burn College boys were coming to Ope
lika after the Aubum-Gordon Institute
of Barneevllle, Go, football game, they
were fired Into by some unknown par
ties about three and one-half miles
from town. One of tho boys received
some very painful but not dangerous
wounds In the face and shoulder. He
was literally peppered with bird ahot.
The boys claim whey were passing a
house on the road w hen two men came
nut of the house, and without a word
of warning, opened fire on them, one
with a shotgun and the other using a
Tho boys claim they were passing a
pistol. Fortunately the shotgun waa
loaned with bird shot and the other us
ing the pistol failed to hit any one.
The young man who waa hit would
not give hla name, as he did not want
li to gat to the faculty that he waa
away from the college.
Malaria Makaa Pals Sickly Children.
The Old Standard, Grove’s Tasteless
Chill Tonic, drives out malaria and
builds up the system. Sold by all
dealers for 37 years. Pries 50 cents.
PYTHIANS ASSEMBLE
AT NEW ORLEANS, LA,
Special to The Georgian.
New Orleans, La., Oct. 15.—The
twenty-fourth convention of the Su
preme Lodge, Knights of Pythias, and
the biennial encampment of the Uni
form Rank opened here today. Sev
eral thousand Pythlans arrived hen
today.
The officers of the supreme rank aro
quartered at a local hotel, while the
Uniform Rank occupy the tents In the
field at the city park race track, where
the ceremonies and drill will be held
The formal opening of the convention
will take place at 4 o'clock today, when
the camp will be accepted nn behall
of the order by Supreme I'haneelloi
Charles E. Shively, of Richmond, Vu.
• The dress parade will come off at 6
•'clock.
‘GRAND
Tonight. Tuesday and Wednesday, October
16, 16. 17. Mntinee Wednesday.
EDWARD A. BRADEN PRESENTS
ON PAROLE,
By Louis Evil tin Bhlpmtn.
—A ROMANCE OF THE 80UTH—
The Flrftt War Plnr Written from the Con
federate Point of View.
Night 25c to $1.60—Mntinee 25c to $1.00.
Thursday and Friday—Mntinee Friday*
FRED FEIQL PRE8ENT8
The Successful Comedy-Drama,
THE GIRL. PATSY
By J. Mauldin Felgl, author of "Texas.r
As presented 10 weeks at Savoy Thea-
™E BIJOU
TONIGHT—MATINEE TUESDAY,
Jacob Litts’ Incomparable Company
In tha Popular American Play,
IN OLD $20,000 Produc-
KENTUCKY Hon.
THE GREAT RACE SCENE.
Six Thoroughbred Horses.
OSTEO
& Ryon
STS
E. E. B
PHYSICIAN AN 8
Offices: 324-325 Century Bldg.
Bell Phone 3901
October’s Skaters’ Month.
Cows milked by ma
chinery every .afternoon at
the State Fair.
WOMAN MISSING
FROM HOSPITAL
Boston. Mass.,’Oct. 16.—Search of
cltlea and towns surrounding Boston
has been xealously made for two days
for Mrs. I.ucy B. Boyd, of Augusta,
Me., who disappeared from Dr. Wallet
Channlng’a private hospital at Brook
line Saturday.
Mrs. Boyd Is $3 years old, and ta the
daughter of Congressman Edwin C.
Burleigh, and the wife of Byron B
Boyd, secretary of state of Massachu
setts. Mrs. Boyd was at the hospital
for treatment for a general breakdown,
resulting from an operation.
Georgia Stale Fair Grounds I
TONIGHT AT S:1S
SOL II-20
The Stupendous Thrilling, Beau
tiful, $100,000 Spectacle,
PAIN’S
LAST DAYS OF
POMPEII
And Grand $1,500 Nightly
Fireworks!
Terrific Earthquakes and Awe-
Inspiring Volcano.
400 People
Pretty Ballets!
Big Specialties!
Prices: General admission,
with good seat, 50c. Reserved
■eats 75e. Box 8eata $1.00.
Children under 9, 25c. 8ale
at. Jacobs’ Pharmacy 9 a. m.
until 5 p. m.
Skating St. Nicholas Rink.
DR. J. H. POWELL,
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Office, 315-316 Century Building-
Legation Secretary Arrives.
Nsw York, Oct. 15.—Among ths pas
sengers arriving today on the New
Amsterdam from Hamburg waa Jonk-
hoer V. D. Haeven, secretary of the
Holland legation at Washington.
Polished Plata Olass lor stores.
Polished Plate Glass for residences.
Polished Plate Olaas for show cases-
Largest stock of Plate Olass In tba
South.
F. J. COOLEDGE & SON,
13 N- Forsyth SL