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r Night Edition VOL. 1. NO. 177. Night Edition GETS BUIE FBRUFELOSS Smashed Craft Sinks as Panic Is in Progress. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1906. In Stlaeta TWO JUR Y HEARS HOW GRA CE BR 0 WN WAS SLAIN A 7 BIG MOOSE LAKE RACE RESULTS. SIX WOMEN DIE; ONE GIRL RESCUED Mate of the Dix Is Charged With Murderous Reck lessness by Captains of Two Boats. Seattle, Wash., Nov. 19.—Puget sound, ao prolific of marine dis asters, had another last night in a collision between the Alaska steamer Jeanio and the Seattle- Port Blakely steamer Dix, in which between 45 and 50 people were drowned. Those lost were all passengers' of the Dix and many residents of the mill town of Port Blakely. The unfortunates were sent to their awful death with scarcely a moment’s warning. Saddest of all, they gave their lives through the criminal, nay the murderous, reck, lessness of one Charles Dennison, mate of the Dix. This strong statement is practi cally that of Captain P. Lermond and Captain Mason, masters, re spectively, of the Dix and Jennie. Both charge him with having been responsible for the enrollment of : dlinir a |h list. SIX WOMEN DROWNED; ONE GIRL IS RESCUED. Mate Dennison waa at the wheel trm|s>ratfly in charge of the Dix, and In this rapacity of master, deliberately approaches from aatem and tried to cross the bow of the Jeanie. The ves sels cume together about midway be- toeen Duawmlah head and Alkal point, two mll«a oft the Seattle abore. The rescue vessel arrived at about 11 o'clock. Of the seven women and girls aboard the Dix, only one girl, Alice dltnpson, 14 yeare old, survived. The Jeanl» with her regular crew and 300 ions of Alaska ore, left Smith Cove at In minutes of 7 o'clock, and at 7 o’clock the Dix set out from her berth. The whurves are about two miles apart. Off Duawmlah head, the Jeanie hold- in* the regular course for Tacoma, war HENNING. Washington, Nov. 10.—Here arc the results of today's races: FIRST RACE—S|x and a half fur longs: Barlngo, 105 (Miller), 11 to 10. won; Yorkist, 103 (R. Williams), 7 to 10. second; Tudor, 109 (McDaniel), 3 to 5. third. Time. 1:33. SECOND RACE—About two miles: Valley Forge. 135 (Pyle). 8 to 1, won; Frank Somers, 140 (Regan), 8 to 5. sec ond: Harry ILiylor, 135 (Ehelder), 6 to 3, third. Time, 4:33 3-6. THIRD RACE—Six furlongs: I.ord Boanerges, 112 (Notter), 6 to 1, won; Landsman, 113 (Creamer), l to 3, sec ond: Botanist. 113 (Hogan), 1 to 3. third. Time, 1:16 1-5. FOURTH RACE—Six furlongs: Eh Dorado, 105 (Horner), 6 to 6, won; Cnmbyses, 105 (Miller), 8 to 5. second: Kmlnota, 102 (Bllac), 3. to 1, third. Time, 1:16. FIFTH RACE—Mile and 60 yards: Ivanhoe, 109 (J. Johnson), 6 to 1. won: Brand Duchess, 109 (McDaniel). I to 1, second; Delphla, 109 (Howe), 2 to 1, third. Time, 1:48. SIXTH RACE—Mile and an eighth: Ormonde's Right, 115 (Notter), even, won; Angler, 120 (Miller), 1 to 6, sec ond; Araunter, 110 (McDaniel), out. third. Time, 1:57 2-5. I'vernl ships lengths ahead of the Dix. Seeing that the Dix kept up her ef fort to cross his bow, Captain Mason signaled full speed astern, but it was too late. The Jeanie struck the Dix on the starboard side amidships, almost cutting her In two, TELEGRAPH OPERATORS MAY GO OUT AT DALLAS Dallas, Tex.. Nov. 19.—At a meeting ut Western Union operators last even ing 75 per cent of the men employed In the Dallas office were present and voted unanimously to join the union In n body. A strike at Dallas Is now probable. Evidence that Will Johnson, the ne gro now In the Tower,-Is guilty of as saulting several white Women during the paat summer and fall seems to be now almost conclusive. Sunday at the request of Chief Tur ner, of the county police, Mrs. Richard Hembree, who was assaulted near Bat tle Hill In May, came to the Tower and positively Identified the negro as her assailant. This will In probability con let the negro, whether or not Mrs. J N. Camp Is able to say thot he Is the n)an..vrJta.ass.iulteil her In such a brutal manner mat Tuesday. ’ Johnson Is the negro' whose nrrest during the trial of Joe Glenn last week for the assault on ilrs. Camp caused that negro to be turned loose. Glenn Is, however, still In the Tower at his own request for protection. Identified Clothing. The three extra suits of men' clothes and two skirts which Johnson had on at the time he wee apprehended Friday by County Policemen Buntyn and D. 8. A. Davis have been Identi fied by an old negro named Bill Jef- fries, who Uvea on L. A. Baker's place, near Buttle Hill, as the property uf himself and his wife. The old negro missed his "Sunday clothes” when he went to dress up Sun day and called on tht county police to help him And the-man who had taken them from his house. When he went to tell the officers what he had lost his description tallied with the property found on Johnson. The grand Jury will meet Thursday,- November 22, and will at that time, In all probability, return a trite bill against Johnson for the assault on Mrs. Hembree at least. The superior court convenes Monday. It has been found that on the day he was caught Johnson - had been In crowd with five other negroes, all i whom were near by at the time of hi arrest. The negroes were together In the country, but on approaching the city separated. W. J. FREEMAN DEAD; TUBE FROM GAS JET LED TO HIS MOUTH J. Freeman, night clerk of the Marlon hotel, died at 8:45 Monday morning as a result of his second at tempt at- suicide. He was found at 8 o'clock Saturday morning with his bed under a chandelier at a room In the liome of his sister, Mrs. Will Meador, at no Ivy streeL and a rubber tube running from the gas Jet Into his mouth. The physicians kept him alive *’■' artificial means for 48 hours. Mr. Freeman waa oft duty Friday rfternnon and spent the time In Ills toon: In the Marlon annex, writing a •uk letter to his wife and .Hacking effects. He worked at the desk Friday evening and went to his sister's n one to spend the night. In the letter tq his wife he said that " had carefully considered his act nnd lad derided ,u e on | y u d er mature d. liberation. He .said that he felt that «as losing his mind and that he could not remember things ax he ha«1 'n., |,pe n able t „ do. Re eubl he bought suicide preferable to the posst- of becoming larnllv. much more. Another check payable to him and by hlin Indorsed was also with the letter. Mrs. Freeman, who has been vlsltttlg her father, Dr. Harris, one of the lead ing dentists of Knoxville, for the past two months, arrived nt her husband's bedside Sunday morning, but the doc tors were never able to bring him to consciousness. Mr. Freeman had been In wretched health for several weeks, but had ap parently been In good spirits. His Second Attempt. Mr. Freeman's .first attempt on hls life waa In Baltimore three weeks after his marriage, a few years ago. Dabney H. Scovtlle, proprietor of the Marlon, speaks of his dealings with the dead man In terms which any man might envy. "He was one of the most gentlemanly men I ever met,” said Mr. Scovllle Monday. "Friday evening after he had been off In the afternoon, he came back here to the office and bnlanced -UP hls books perfectly and turning all lit cash over to W. J. Fart might, the oth night clpi-ii, told him that ho might Good Schedule in the City Required By Council. The ordinance granting a franchise to the Atlanta and Carolina Construc tion Company t operate un electric railway through city streets waa passed •Monday afternoon over the veto of Mayor Woodward. Every member of council voted for the measure except Councilman Dra per, who stated that he wished council to go over the route again. An ordinance by Councllmen Holland and Draper was passed requiring the company to mnlntaln a fifteen-minute sohe'dule In the city limits between 5 am. and 8 p.m. A second ordinance passed requiring a ten-minute schedule between 5 and 8 n.m. and 4 and 6 p.m. A letter from the stock-, holders agreed to this schedule. Ask Legisluture to Amend Charter _ of City. The Georgia legislature will ha a«»ko#1 by oily council to amend the charter of Atlanta to make retail liquor licenses not less than $2,000 nor more than $:!.< 000 a year, and wholesale lflcensfs not le«H than I1.0Q0 a year. This action Is recommended by the sj»cclal saloon committee and has been signed by ('ounrllmen Ofdtamv. peters, Roberts, Wood side. Hancock and Ki lls. Councllmen Key nnd Pomeroy have not signed because they wish to make the amendment even stronger. An amendment will also be asked pro hibiting the operation of ji beer saloon In either white or negro residence dis tricts of the city nnd requiring an ex amination of applicants for any license as to moral character and ability to keep order.* The present license fee |* $1,000 for retail nnd $300 for wholesale liquor houses. Factory Girls Say Gil lette Never Went With Woman. not see him any more, and hls conduct here have always been burden to hlr 1 yrry cwtwwMlfc” At Knoxville Mr. Freeman was a Check for Mi. wife : leader In the Elks' Lodge and the At- .. tor Hit Wife. i ln[|tB will escort hls body to the ' Ith the letter was a check payable ! train tor Knogville, where hls remains ' ids Wife, who was Ml** «'.>ra Lou will be sent prohal’ly tonight If hli " iris, of Knoxville before their mar- brother arrive, her- this afternoon. 11 ., Z : , ,neH mar Coroner Thompson holds an Inquest ( - This cheek was for every cent M „„ day afternoon. account at the Central Bank and I The runner's Jury returned a ver- Company, and hr aald that in 1 die* of asphyxiation fror > gas poison, ■ ‘fg her this he wished that It was administered w;llh s'l ,’ldst Intent. ■ Herkimer, N. Y„ NoV.. 19,—The stqry of the fatal love ■ tragedy of Grace Brown, whose botry was found lh the. waters ■ of■ Big ■ Moose Lake, was'un folded chapter after chapter today when the taking of testlntony was commenced In the trial of Cheater E. Gillette, charged with the girl's mur- der. , . Girls w-jip-worked In the . Cortland skirt factory, where Grace Brown first met the defendant, told the Jury that Gillette, never appeared In public with her. The district attorney la handling the case In n«rratlve form, starting from the first relationship of Gillette anil Grace Brown and closing with the death of the girl and the arrest of Gll- ,0t Mrs. P. C. Carey, of East Orange, N. J., who, with her husband, had a camp on the lake, will testify that the even ing of the tragedy ahe heard Grace Brown's death cries. It was too dark to see, and Mrs. Carey was unable to tell from whence the cries came. Gillette's NerVb Wtsksn*. • Gillette's nerve Is fast weakening and when Frank T. Brown, father of hls alleged victim, was called to the stand today as the first witness for the Htate, the young rnan’n nervousness wan apparent to every on; In the packed court room. ' • He sat. biting hls finger nails-and casting side-long glances at the father of the murdered girl without once look ing squarely at him. The father’s testi mony was comparatively unimportant; serving simply- to show the close rela tions between Gillette and Miss Brown. The testimony of Mrs. Hawley; the eldest lister of the dead girl, was along the same general lines. Several em* ployees of the skirt factory were called to testify to Grace Brown's attachment for Gillette, and hla-mlatreatment of her. , Proprietor of Restaurant in New York Ctty A11 d Offers DeCastellane $10,000 a Year New York, Nov. 19.— Count Bonl Dr Caatellane has' only to say the word; and It will be In hts power to regurd with lofty hauteur the fashionables, of lien York-while they dine under 111*, personal supervision in a Broadway 1 restaurant. . 1 It all lies with his decision on an of fer cabled him today by J. B. Martin, proprietor of the Cafe Martin, at Broadway .and Twenty-sixth streets. The cable was worded substantially as follows: Will contract to engage you as a major-domo at salary of 50,000 francs a year to take charge of waiters and manage restaurant privileges of Cafe Martin. Oblige with Immediate an swer." "Count Bonl Is Just the man I am looking for," Martin said. “My patrons will be Interested In a head waiter with such an Intereating career aa that re vealed in. Mme. Gould's divorce. Count Bonl Is graceful, fascinating and un doubtedly knows good food and how to serve It.- I.made the offer a handsome one of 110,000 a year In case Count Bonl has scruples about going to work.” WAS BOY POISONED? . MAX BRASELTON HAS • TWO QUEER ATTACKS JUMPED FROM BRIDGE TO BE MANGLED BY WHEELS OF A TRAIN Unknown Man Hurls Himself From Magnolia Viaduct to Meet Death on Tracks Below. After walking to and fro over the MngnoIIa stwt bridge for three hours Monday morning, an unknown white man at 9:30 o'clock suddenly leaped from the bridge to the railroad track below, In the yards of the Western ami Atlantic railroad, being crushed ond mangled by a moving train of freight cars. The stranger was picked up uncon scious and hurriedly sent to the Elkin. Goldsmith sanitarium in the Grady hos pital ambulance, where he died at 11:30 o’clock. He never regained conscious- IiI.h death ren« annul* of local »ge- a Hailed the dering the case terlous In the dies. The railroad i man’s death was a deliberate ru.se of suicide. Ho leaped directly In front of the moving train and It was Impos sible for the engineer to’ atop In time to save him. No one has been found who .*■ <i\v the Mi.tngor Just ;it the mo ment when he took the fatal leap, but members of the train crew saw the fall ing body as It plunged through the air and fell on the track. SNOW IS PREDICTED TO FOLLOW SUMMERY WEATHER OF MONDAY May be Here Before Morning—or May Not. Mystery Surrounds the Strange Illness of 1 Small Boy. OCEAN LINER IN DISTRESS London, Nov. 19.—A report from Holyhead says a large passenger steamer la flying signals of distress off that port, and ta thought to be disabled. Assistance has been sent to her. RELATIVE OF OIL KING DIES FROM EXPOSURE. Homervlllet N. J.. NoV. 19.—Menlo Rockefeller, gged 62, who Is said to be a member of the Hunterdon county family of Rockefellers, of which John D. Rockefeller Is a descendant, was found dead in a lane near the home or 8. E. Gari-etaon, three miles eaat of this place, today. It Is supposed that Rockefeller fell off hls horse, was Htunned and died from exposure. gOOOOOOtX: OOt^tXHSOOOOOOOOOOO FROM ROUNDHOUSEO N'owburg. N. Y.. Nov., 19. —Two O 'opewel unction roundhouse on the New Haven road lost night and rode ten miles to fishktll landing, where the engine was found today. OOOOOOOOODOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO when he showed Improvement, and it VVIlat poisoned little Max Bruxelton That Is the question’ which Is pux- xllng hls father and mother and the physicians at Grady hospital. It Is a strange case. The boy has had two attacka of a serious nature. Just a week apart. He Is recovering from the second at the hospital, but no positive explanation of hls suffering has been made. Max la the II-year-old, son of Po liceman Robert Itraxelton, of 91 Crew- street. - On ■ Sunday morning a week ago heJcame Inin the house, frothing at the mouth, hls . eyes'set; and glassy and evidently tn a.serious condition, He was brought round by prompt at-; tentlon, but he could not explain hls condition. Hunday morning. Ju*t a week after hls first attack, little Mnx was playing at a neighbor’s with his brother, Rob ert, who ls*lJ years of age, and Albert Butler, a young companion. The other boya mleeetl Max from their play ami found him sitting on the front ate|>s, hls eyes glassy, hls mouth covered with a white foam. He was atlff and ro|d and could hardly speak, "Take me home,” he muttered. "Arid take those bugs off me." Before the ambulance from Grady hospital arrived Max had had three convulsions. At the hospital he lay unronsejous until Monday morning, Is believed he .will recover. -. "1 believe Max was poisoned,” said Mrs. Uraaelton at her. home. • “No, 1 cannot say I suspect.anyone. Max had a quarrel with a mean little negro boy who stole hls bicycle a short time sgo, which might have something to do with It." "I saw Max eating some red berries Hunday,” said ' the little Butler boy. What the berries were bns not been learned. . Physicians at Grady say no trace of poison was found In the boy’s stom ach. iThey .are of ■ the opinion hts condition was due to acute Indigestion. Max, denies he ‘ate any berries or that he wax given anything to eat'by any one. WRECK REPORTED ON GEORGIA R. R. Augusta, Ga., Nov. 19.—It is reported here that a wreck, has occurred oh the Georgia railroad between Warrenton and Macon. Whether or not the wreck is a serious one is not known. More snow! (Maybe.) The second Installment 'of fleecy flakes may fall In this neighborhood Monday night or Tuesday, unless an other of the unexpected climatic changes takes place and more favor able conditions for other brands of weather prevail. The local weather observer, whether you believe it or noL says that rain or snow will probably fall Monday night and Tueaday will be clear. Also, that as the conditions Indicate colder weath er Tueaday may be clear and cold and the foggy dampneaa of the paat few daya will give way to less grouch-pro moting weather. , Excessively high temperatures pre vailed In this section Saturday night, Hunday and Hunday night, while a bat tie between "hlgha” nqd “Iowa” was on down about the gulf coast and Gal veston. A queer combination of at- moaphertc conditions prevailed tn that section with the low barometer a win ner with high temperatures as a result In this section. Tlie rain storms In the Mississippi valley tore down the wires and the ser vice had not been completely repaired Monday morning, because the signals were elow In coming In to the local bureau. It was not until about 11 o'clock that the chart daily was ready for the public. Considerable precipi tation 'was reported from that section with the heaviest at Knoxville, where 11(6 Inches was recorded. Hunday night the official mercury climbed up as far .us 71 degrees. The temperature has been rising steadily utlier to drop gradually nnd somewhat weather would prevail. The w< will probably remain cloudy for or so until a higher barometric- |irc-H*ure prevails. Snow or rain may fall Mon day night. . ■ nt by Washington, Nov. 19.—A sene* of most remurkable charges against tho conduct of the general lone! office, es pecially In relation to the Wyoming coal lands, that have been turned >vcr to the Union Pacific Intesests. have I. • a l <1-1 cl flicials ..f Che Interior department tn a staten Artemus J. Smith, a Denver Air. Smith declares that foi than three years he has been to get a hearing concerning thee tera, but thus far has failed, cites the history of hls endec) get the chance to prove, us he . can.do. that "vast areas of the valuable coal lands In the st Wyoming have been wrested fn government by a system lieu nefarious as to become a public > that the Union Pacific Rallwa Coal Company has acquired t these lands on perjured evldenc outrageously false represented WICKER COMMITTED SUiCIDE: VERDICT OF CORONER'S JURY opium poison with suicidal Intent was live verdict of the coroner's Jurv Monday afternoon on the death of r. since tho cold spell, which has been j dearo'mm'broBfftKlmbUM' J*fy?** *'*” waning since last Thursday. The iner- . ' cury Thursday was at 36 degrees. Fri- j STOCKHOLDERS OF B. A O. day it had riaen to 49; Bulurilay night RE-ELECT OLD DIRECTORS - It was at 56, and Hunday night reached Baltimore, Md., Nn\ . Iy The board of directors of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad wer. r—-elected at the annual the maximum of 72. In 1890 the high est temperature for November ever registered at this station waa on tha 10th, when the record waa established t , IM j ay * -p,,,. ()i| nt 82, at which time the weather was! in a week or b clear and a southwest wind was blow- of officers pmb. Ing, . 'day's meeting w The Indications Monday morning most of tlo- * were that the meifttury would begin proxy. ckhold