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X “Situations Wanted” Advertisements FREE in The ATLANTA GEORGIAN The Atlanta Georgian. “Situations Wanted" Advertisements FREE in The ATLANTA GEORGIAN VOL. 1. NO. 183. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1906. pDTn?. In Atlanta TWO CENT L JX-LUUi: On Trains FIVE CENT VISIONS OF HIS FATE CAUSE YOUTH TO SEEK COMFORT IN RELIGION Conductor, With Barp Fists, Bests Armed Robber. THIEF SECURES .$2,000 IN CASH lie Is Making Good Haul When Trainman Spikes His Game. Kunsaa City, Mo., Nov. 26.—Truehart the daring bandit of the Southwest, who held up a train three weeks ago ami relieved the passengers of vatu -hies, was captured early today while trying another hold-up on a Chicago and Alton fast train. F. B. Heywood, conductor of the train, single-handed, overpowered the armed bandit. Truehart had secured over $2,000, besides valuable Jewelry "hen captured. The robber boarded the . train at Slater, Mo. When It was under full (‘peed he went through the sleeping < ars, compelling the conductor and por ter to assist In collecting the passen* pers’ money. With two guns he kept every one covered. < ’onductor Heywood stepped 'into the • ;ir where the bandit was operating. To a command to hold up his hands he replied by striking the robber In tho face with his fist. Then he clinched with Truehart, bore tho man to the floor and subdued him. The robber was bound with ropes. JOHNSlli Alleged Slayer of Grace Brown Prays Every Night. TO SIT IN BOAT IN COURT ROOM Gillette To Tell Jury How, According to His Story, Girl Pell Overboard. T Will Johnson, the • negro who was Identified by Mrs. J. X. Camp Saturday afternoon as her assailant, and who Is charged with tho criminal assault of Mrs. Hembree, on August 15, will be ti led before Judge Roan, In the crimi nal branch of the superior court, Tues day morning. Johnson's case was called this morn ing. Judge Roan appointed Attorneys Walter McElreath and M. L. Talbot to defend the prisoner. After consults- «l<»n with the negro, the attorneys an nounced that they were not ready for trial, and the case was postponed to Tuesday. Johnson Is also charged with • •no case of burglary and one case of attempted burglary. Johnson was ar rested by County Officers Buntyn and J>. 8. A. Davis. APPEAL IS IN CARUSO'S CASE New York, Nov. 26.—Judge O’Sulli van. in Part 1, of the court of general sessions, this nlornlng signed an order ki anting an appeal In the case ot En- lici Caruso, the grand opera singer, " ho on Friday was fined $10 by Magis trate Baker, in Yorkville police court, for “disorderly conduct” for Insulting "omen in the monkey house In Central lark. Magistrate Baker has ten days m " hich-to make his return, after which •• date for a hearing of the appeal will he set. Judge DlttenhoeiTcr, of counsel for Caruso* denounced the evidence pro duced against his client, a» manufac tured by tho police, end declared he be haved that "Mrs. Graham,” the chief "Itness, who did not appear In court. " as a confederate of Cain, the arrest ing officer. * Despite rumors to the contrary, Cu- r ‘‘so himself says ho will sing Wednes- ; «y night in La Boheme. The singer •'doilts thut his voice b: suffering bc- ' ‘use of the ordeal he hhs Just passed u i rough, but says he will be in trim for is first appearance of this season. « OL. DAN G. HUGHES BURIED MONDAY The remains of Colonel Daniel G. H ughes, who died In Macon Saturday, »lived in Atlanta Monday morning. 1 he funeral cortege proceeded to Oak- i|! nd cemetery, where the interment '""k place. The services at tho grave ‘ '•r** conducted by Rev. Dr. W. W '••‘ndrum. The following acted as pall-. ; uers: 8am Venable, Kdwurd Me-1 ''undless, Reuben Arnold, Arnold} Froyl#*, V. A. Bachelor. A. H. Van Dyke, W. P. Hill and B. C. DeLeon. KING OP GREECE ’ SEES THE POPE Home. Italy, Nov. 26.-—The pope to- ' •>' granted an audience to King ''tfte of Greece and hi. daughter, ' !| r Grand Duchess Mlchaelovltoh ofj 'lu««|*. The king will return to Greece tn- ,rrow. . I Herkimer, N. Y„ Nov. 26.—Tortured by visions of the death chair. Cheater Gillette whose trial for the murder of Grace Brown, today neara Ita close, haa turned to religion. Once a Sunday achool teacher und devout church member, Gillette forgot religion In hia mad infatuations in Cortland while "Billy" Brown was still writing him pleading letters to come to her. Since the visit of his pastor, Gillette spends much time In religious devotion. He Is not permitted to at tend church services In the Herkimer Jail, but sits in his cell reading the Bible. He Prays at Night. The night guard says he Is much on his knees In prayer. Kach evening he reads Scriptures Just before the lights are extinguished at 9 o'clock. Gillette Is said to have borrowed the tennis racket with which the prosecu tion alleges he beat to death "Billy" Brown, from a new-found sweetheart In Cortland. Gillette became enam oured of this young girl and Just be fore he started on the Ill-fated Adiron dack trip ho borrowed the tennis racket from his now love, telling her that he wanted to play ft little tennis while away. May Escsps the Chair. Should the Jury And Gillette guilty he may escape tile electric chair on a legal technicality. When District At torney Ward presented his ease to the Jury he said: "Gillette thought no eye saw, but thers was an .eye upon him, and there wag also one near who heard tha death groan of Grace Brown resounding over the waters." Former District Attorney Steele sajd that since no eye witness had been produced Mr. Ward's little lapse might cost him the case If It was appealed. Will Get Into Boat. Measurements of the boat In which Gillette and "Billy" Brown went rowing on Big Moose lake were given in court today by Boatman Morrison and Sher iff Richards. When Gillette tells his story to tho Jury the boat will be brought into court and the prisoner will get Into It and show how Grace Brown fell overboard and lost her life. Dr. A. (X Douglass, of Little Falls, one of the physicians who performed an autopsy on the dead girl, was the principal witness today. Dr. Douglass said the girl's lips were swollen and there were abrasions on them. An up per tooth was loose. There was a dis coloration under the left eye and an abrasion on the scalp three Inches over the left ear. Mrs. Annie J. 8ewell. Mrs. Annie J. Sewell, wife of Dr. Sewell, died Sunday afternoon at her residence. 469 West Hunter street. The body wan »ent to Dawson, Oa., Mon day morning for Interment. Chicago, Nov. 20.—"I am a believer In the orderly processes of law and cannot agree with Senator Tillman in the views lie holds, and therefore I must decline to accept the chairman ship at the meeting.” The foregoing letter was written by Mayor Dunne to Sirs. Adele Keeler, secretary of the Chicago Union hos pital, for the beneltt of which Senator Tillman Is to speak, declining to act as chalrinun at the meeting. A committee of negroes, headed by Rev. A. J. Casey, pastor of Bethel M. K. church, called upon Mayor Dunne Sunday and asked that he use the po lice force If necessary to prevent the delivering of an address on the race question by Senator Tillman tomorrow night, on the ground that the nddress would be a menace to public safety. I’ll Be There If I’m Alive New York, Nov. 26.—"If I ani allv on that day I will be In my neat In the senate when congre** opens,” said Sen ator Thomas C. Platt today. "Not while Higgins Is governor,” is the reply given by the senator to Re publican leaders who have tried to in duce him to resign. SWAPS CHILD FOR CHICKENS Wllkcabarrc, Pa., Nov. 26.—An Ital ian family named Guldlno, living In Quaker valley, has exchanged a four year-old boy for a rooster and a hen with Hiram Krall, a childless farmer, and an old man. Percy Harold Wright. Percy Harold Wright, aged months, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H, Wflght, died Sunday night at the fam lly residence, 9 Evelyn place. The fu neral aervlces were conducted Monday afternoon at 2:90 o'clock. The Inter ment waa In Westvlew. <H»ooot»w»otR»ooooooo«ioo O O O WINTER RETREATS UNDER 0 a .. HEAT OF 8UN8HINE. 0 0 0 O Winter made a desperate at- O 0 tempt to seise Atlanta Sunday, but 0 0 soon tired out nnd Bed In humll- 0 0 latlon. Summer was In complete 0 O control of the situation nil of 0 O Monday. O 0 The forecast: 0 O "Fair tonight and Tuesday; O 0 warmer tonight." 0 O Tho temperatures: O 0 7 a. 46 degrees O 0 8 a. 61 degrees 0 0 9 a. 64 degrees 0 O ill a, 60 degrees 0 0 11 a. m .. ..64 degrees O 0 12 noon 67 degrees 0 0 l p. in 68 degrees 0 0 2 p. 69 degrees O 0000000000000O00000O000O00 SERMONS IN GEORGIAN BROUGHT MINISTER CALL TO CONDUCT A FUNERAL Rev. Dr. E. D. Ellenwood. pastor of the Unlversallst church In Atlanta, and who contributes each Saturday elo quent sermons in The Georgian, left Atlanta Saturday afternoon for Senola. Ga., to offlcluie at the funeral of one of Coweta's' most prominent and wealthy citizens. His selection for Ih s ceremony came about an a result of nw work in The Georgian. The funeral waa that of Captain \\. D. Lineh, and although he did^not know Dr. Ellenwood or had never seen him, he had read with Intereat the ser- inons he wrote for The Oeorglan. Often sifter reading The Georgian Captain Lineh would sing the praises of Dr. Ellenwood, his writings and hl» religion, and more than once declared hts belief In what Dr. Ellenwood '‘"s* 1 when lie died on Saturday morn ing it was t.1 Dr. Ellenwood that the bereaved family telegraphed, and al though he had never seen Captain Lineh or had ever heard of him, he took the ffrst train und arrived in Senola Saturday night for the services on Sunday. „ _ Captain Lineh was 61 yearn of age and wan one of the bent known citi zens In that section of the state. He nerved gallantly throughout the civil war and since that time he had accu mulated a (urge amount of property. TIE SITS IN DUEL BUT ALL MISSED White Man and Negro in Battle at Boiler- works. A title and shotgun duet between a white man and a negro broke the mo notony at the plant at the Southern Iron and Equipment Company, near the waterworks reservoir, early Monday morning. Neither duellist was hurt, but both are lodged In the Tower to settle their differences In court. S. E. McBride, a boilermaker, who lives In Foundry street. Is employed at the plant. William Mitchell, a negro, lives close by. Last week McBride bought a lunch eon from the wife of the negro and Monday morning went to pay for It. A quarrel over the price arose, and It Is alleged that Mltchel) drew a pistol to enforce his claim for 40 cents. Then McBride went back to his shop and emerged with a shotgun, which ho was trying to ralTle to raise the price of a Thanksgiving turkey. About the samo time the negro appeared In the yard with a Winchester. The workmen be gan to climb Into boilers and behind other armor plate. Who fired first was not stated, but two shots rang out from the shotgun, while one bullet from the rifle whistled through the atmosphere. Then by standers rushed between the bclllgcr ents and disarmed them. When County Policemen Echols and Whitfield ar rived they placed both men under ar rest Und lodged them In the Tower. GRAND OPERA SEASON OPENS MONDA YNIGHT IN GOTHAM; MISS FARRAR TO BE HEARD IS GIVEN $30,000 AND STOCK FARM Lexington, Ky,, Nov. 26.—Suits to break tha w.lll of the late Major Bamk G. Thomas, nestor of the American turf, who died here last May, have been compromised. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Howe and their daughter, Malvina Howe, of Florences. C„ will receive 61,500 and 64,600, respectively. "Aunt" Margaret Pryor, the aged ne.' gress who was a servant of Major Thomae tor nearly fifty years, receives all of the estate not disposed of through legacies, her ahdre amounting to about 630,000. The old servant will become mistress of "Dlxlana," one of tho most noted stock farms In the South. She will also be paid 12,000 dividend by the New York jockey Club to the stock farm. Electioneer having won tho Fu turity. It Is believed the Pryor woman will sell Dlxlana. INSURANCE MEN ARE BEING TRIED New York, Nov. 26.—The prosecution of Frederick A. Burnham, Ills brother, George, Jr„ and George D. Etdrldge, the Indicted officials of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, waa begun before Justice Greenbaum in the crim inal branch of the supreme court today. There are live Indictments against each for forgery and grand larcerfy. One Indictment on which the Burnhams will be prosecuted charges them with having used 67,600 of the reserve fund of the company to settle private claims. Ns*' Yofk ( Noy. 26.—The ljonio {how has come and gone and society now turns Its attention lo Hie season of grand opera which opens at the Metro politan opera house tonight. For tho first time since the days of Colonel Mapteson's opera at the Academy of Music and the reign of Abbey at the Metropolitan the inetruimlls this year to havo a two-rlnged season of grand opera. Next Monday, when Herr Conrled's stars shall have got their season well under way, the irrepressi ble Hamtnerateln will start his rival musical circus IntHo magnificent new Manhattan opera house, a few blocks westward from the Metropolitan. The Metropolitan season opening to night gives promise of being fully up to the high artistic standard ot pro-. 'lulls, VntiTt.. iJoraltlllie Kurnev, the young American who has won fame abroad, la lit be heurd 111 her native land In grand opera for the first time. Hi addition to Miss Farrar the sopranos Include Mines. Lina Cavalier), Berta Morena and Loulsla Tetraxzlnl. Mine. Hchumann-Helnk nnd Mine. Kirkby Lunn are the new names under, the head of “ineaso soprano and contralto." Thero are ten tenors, the new singers being Fernand Soubeyran, Curl Hur- rlan and Charlea Roussellere. The new baritones are Franx Htlner and Rlc canto tttrucctnrl. Vittorio Navarlnl and Victor Chalmln are added to the list of basses. i In nddltlon to the Important revivals several oporas will bo produced for the first time In America. There will be two performances of “Parsifal” and complete cycle of "Der Ring des Nlbe- lungen." BLANCHE WALSH IS A BRIDE; MARRIED TO WM. TRAVERS IN NEW ORLEANS LAST WEEK New Orleans, La., Nov. 26.—It is announced that while Hlnnche Walsh was here ivith her play, “Women in the Case,” she was quietly married to William Travers of her troupe. Judge Henry Rcnshaw, of the city court, performed the ceremony on the 15th. REV. EVERETT DEAN ELLENWOOD WHITE MAN TO BE SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER Ellxaliethtown. Ky.. Nov. 26.—The odd spectacle of a white man being offered for sale will lie witnessed here this week, when Hock Auberry will be knocked down to the highest bidder by the iher Iff of Hardin ‘ " UI Th e proceedings will be under the vagrancy statute, which Is called Into use every once in a while to frighten shiftless Individuals. Auberry> purchaser will be entitled to his services for nine months, but In view or the fact that the Jury In It* verdict found him "too laxy to work," a- well as sound phystcully. It is not likely there will be any lively bidding. e 0O00000000O000000000OO0000 O SCHOOL C0MMI88I0NER8’ 0 0 JOB WANTED BY LADY. 0 • O 0 Borne lady In Georgia Is anxious O 0 to step Into the official shoes ot 0 O Blnte School Commissioner W. B. O 0 Merritt. O 0 Just who ths lady Is does not O 0 appear, but Attorney General Hart 0 O received a letter Monday from a 0 0 lady who wished to know If the 0 0 laws of Georgia forbid a woman 0 O holding the office. 0 O Judge Hart’s letter will be Uls- 0 0 couraglng. for the statutes do 0 O stand In the way of the lady and 0 0 her ambition. 0 0 O 00000O000O0O0000O0OO0OOCOO O o O WOMAN IS CHOSEN 0 0 AS DEPUTY SHERIFF. 0 0 O 0 Nashua. N. II., Nov. 26.—Mrs. 0 0 M. Jennie Kendall, of this city, 0 0 has been commllsloned the first 0 0 deputy sheriff ever appointed in O 0 New Hampshire. Sheriff Nathan- 0 O lei Doane made the appointment. O O which lias received the Indorse- 0 0 mcnt of several leading lawyers 0 0 and many business men. 0 0 O 00OO000000000O OOOOOOPOOOOO 0 0 0 FOR TELLING FALSEHOOD 0 0 NEGRO IS FINED $25. O 0 * 0 0 Bpe. lnl to The Georgia’n. O 0 Waynesboro, Ga., Nov. 26.—This O O moVnlng Mayor Scales g„ed „ q 0 gro, named Bandy Toliver, 825 O 0 for telling it falsehood. The mayor 0 0 gave the offender a good lecturing o j 0 before discharging him. O I 0 0 0000000000000000000^.000000 I PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IS NOW NEARING HOME KpiH'lal to Tin* Georgian. Norfolk, Va., Nov. 26.—President Roosevelt, hack from his trip to tho Isthmus of Banamd and Porto Rico in tho best of health and ufter a de lightful voyage up the coast, marred only by u break-down of the cruiser Washington, one or the convoying wor ships, Is now aboard the yacht May flower steaming rapidly for Washington City, which will probably be reached before night. The president with Mrs. Roosevelt, Burgeon General Rlxey and Secretary M. C. Latto, of the White House, ar rived In the Virginia capes on the bat tleship Louisiana at 8:50 o’clock this morning. The Louisiana, without stop ping, pr«M*eeded u;> Chesapeake Ray, where the Mayflower wus met and the transfer was made to the yacht. The Louisiana was accompanied in the capes by the cruiser Tennessee, which told by wireless of the mishap to the Washington, which has one of her engines broken down. 8he Is coming In slowly under the other engine un l will arrive some time this afternoon. eooooooooo»oooooi>ooooaooojr o o O ROOSEVELT'S ORDER O 0 APPROVED BY BLACK8. 0 o o O Cincinnati, Nov. 26.—Resolu- 0 O Nona disapproving of the denun- 0 0 clatlons of President Roosevelt for O 0 the summary action he took In 0 0 dismissing in disgrace.the buttal- 0 0 ion of negro troops for disorders 0 0 committed at Brownsville, Texas, 0 0 and denouncing the negro soldiers, 0 0 by hiding behind their comrades, 0 0 have made the latter suffer, were O 0 adopted by the congregation of O 0 the Allen A. M. E. church yester- 0 0 day. O O 0 O0000000000000000000000O00 STUDENT IS KILLED BY SCHOOL CHUM St. Albans, N. H„ Nov. 26.—Parley Ovltt, a student at the Bingham Acad emy in Bakersfield, accidentally allot und killed Harlow IV. Pomeroy, aged 18, a school chum. In the latter's room. OF U, S, IS SWEPT TO DEATH Honolulu, Nov. ' 26.—Lieutenant Commander Roy Garrett, commanding the U. H. 8. Albatross, waa washed overboard and drowned Wednesday! while 600 mile, southwest of here. A heavy gale prevailed and Commander Garrett was on deck, giving commands to save the ship from what looked like almost certain destruction In the seas. He was caught and carried overboard by a ware that swept the quarter deck. Lieutenant Commander 'Garrett en tered the navel service from New York slate. The Albatross In 1902 began the trip on which It Is at present en gaged, the exploration of the Pacific ocean for the purpoee of Investigating the almost unknown species of fish that abound In the ocean, and also of chart. Ing Islands. Commander Garrett had made a number of Important reports on ex. ploratlons In the Aleutian and Japa nese waters, and also had reached the conclusion that the Islands In the South sea were nearly all mlschartcd, endangering, thereby, navigation. CHARLESTON GIRL MISSING FROM SHIP CA RNE GIE HA S SHOES MA DE BY NE GR OESAT 1USKE GEE New York. Nov. 26.—Andrew Carnegie, according to Booker, Washing ton, who spoke at the Unlversallst church of the Divine Paternity, buys his shoes ut Tuskegee, Ala., where they are mode by negro students. The speaker said the students In the past year ma.de 2,000,400 bricks. There are, lie said, more than 1,500 students, representing .75 states and 12 foreign countries. They have under cultivation 800 acres, and a few days ago harvested 260 acres of sweet potatoes. • "We are changing the Ideal of the Iditck race." declared Washington. “We are teaching them that labor is honorable and that Idleness Is not.” Special to The Georgian. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 26.—Miss Alice Browning, a young woman pas senger from Charleston to Jacksonville, on the Clyde steamer Iroquois, was missing upon the arrival of the steamer here yesterday. According to the re port of Captain Chichester to the Clyde Lino local office, the woman’s effects were found In a state room, but noth ing to explain her absence. It Is sup posed the young woman eulclded In the ocean. She seemed worried and did not retire during the night. MISS BROWNING STRANGER IN CHARLESTON. S. C. Charleston, S. C.. Nov. 26.—Arm :. . Browning, missing from Clyde ete mi. r Iroquois Is a stranger In Chariest- ii > . tried to leave here Thursday but had a throat trouble. She left Saturday and wanted a single stateroom. She was a blonde and of a quiet ap pearance. Committee Recom mends Examination Into Charges. TRIAL BOARD NAMED BY BISHOP WARD Will Hear Evidence of Wit nesses ancl Take Testi mony on Charges. Special to The Georgian. Mllledgeville, Ga., Nov. 26.—During tho morning sesninn the committee of investigation In the Blghain case re ported a trial necessary and appoint ed Rev. 8. R. Belk, of Augusta, as prosecutor. Bishop Ward appointed an a trial committee nine preachers, namely: G. W. Duval, J. E. England, R. C'lock- ler, B. F. Fraser, O. L. Kelley, J. M. Bowden, C. C. Jarrell, W. T. Hunnicutt and C. O. Jones. He also named Dr. IV. P. LoveJoy a* chairman und A. M. Pierce as secre- tary. Rev. Joel T. Davie*, of Millodgevlllt, HUH presented with n handsome gold wutch, un a testimonial of esteem from the Mllledgeville church. Bishop Ward muklng the presentation. A.rcHolution concerning Bishop Can dler’* return to America and hearty . lndor*einent of hi* *cheme for tho ex- ten*lon of the kingdom among the euHtern nation* waa adopted: Dr. J. P. Holoinon, of tho Anti-Saloon League, I* here, and I* cordially received by the confer^n^e. • Dr. Hammond, secretary of educa tion, made an appeal in behalf of full collection* for education In order . tliat the work In behalf of the Chria- tlan education of the colored race In tHo South might not be crippled. Bishop Ward alao made an earneat talk In behalf of greater exertion In behalf of the negro race. Rev. R. F. Hakes, of the We*ley Memorial hos pital, reported more than $5,000 ex pended In behalf of charity patients thl* year.