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The Georgian Carries The BUSINESS And AD Of It Clean The Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian Carries The BUSINESS And All Of It Clean VOL. 1. NO. 212. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29,. 1906 PRTnr. Id Atlanta TWO CENTS. ArxiAUia. on Trains viva cents. Warrant Is Sworn Out For Another Man. EXPECT ARREST AT ANY TIME New Suspect Is Under Ar rest in Another City It Is Said. .' What may prove to be aenaatlonal developments in the strange mystery of Bailiff Dodson's death are expected by the time the hearing is held Monday to determine whether or not the pris oners now held in the Tower in con nection with the crime shall be re leased on bond. One of these developments may be In the form of another arrest. It Is known that a warrant tor another man hna been sworn out, and that this war rant Is now in the hands of officers. It Is fully expected by witnesses dis covered by The Georgian and by the father of the murdered bailiff that the arrest of this missing man will throw some light on the mysterious crime which caused the death of young Dod- gen. Reporters for The Georgian have found a thoroughly reliable witness who declares that this missing man for whom the warrant was sworn out Saturday was In Mrs. Willie Stamper's house on the night thnt death was de tn to Dodgen. There Is also grounds for suspecting that Mrs. Stamper’s statement to ,, friend of the dead bailiff that site .: < not lire the fatal shot may he n:v. . plan to throw suspicion a.\ay from tt”. missing man for whom the war...i.t out. It Is known where this man Is. anil officers will probably leave Saturday , get him. Even If It Is shown lie d I not handle the death-dealing gun Is quite probable thnt he can tin-, some light on the dark affair. Abductors Invade the Gilsey House in Gotham. “ Prohibition Election Is Now Inevitable and Will Surely Carry ” —MAYOR JAMES G. WOODWARD New York, Dec. 29.—Search In being conducted by private detectives and lawyers employed by Mrs. Isabel W. Van Alntyne. divorced wife of the wealthy Guy ('base Van Alstyne, for her 4-year-olct son, D'Arcy, who was kidnaped from her room In the Gilsey house early yesterday. The kidnap Ing la one of the most sensational of all the Incidents In the stormy ca reer of the Van Alstynes. It was kept secret until today. Mrs. Van Alstyne says she recog nised her husband as one of the kid napers. Pour met! Invaded Mrs. Van Al- styne's room In the hotel at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. Two seised the sleeping boy, carried him down four flights of stairs, and escaped In a closed carriage. Mrs. Van Alstyne was held by the others. Her screams aroused the whole hotel, but not In time to prevent the kidnaping. Mrs. Van Alstyne, pressed only In her night clothes, fought the men as well as she could. Her night dress was tom in the scuffle. When the men disappeared from her room Mrs. Van Alstyne fainted. The Van Alstynes separated early 1q 1905, he keeping the boy while his wife was allowed the privilege of seeing him once a week. In July of last year Mrs. Van Alstyne, on one of her visits, kidnaped him. He was re covered after a sensational automobile chase over the greater part of New Jersey. Mrs. Van Alstyne brought suit for divorce and was awarded cus tody of the child with her decree. GIRL IS KILLED BY HER BROTHER Carris Moninger and John Moninger, Girl Who Waa Accidentally Killed By Hop Brother. Pretty Carrie Moninger, 15 Years Old, Slain Accidentally by Twelve-Year-Old Brother. JORDAN CASE CONTINUED: WITNE88E8 WERE AB8ENT On account of the absence of wit nesses for the prosecution, application tor a commitment trial for R. A. Jor dan, Mrs. Willie Stamper, Mn. Bessie Garey and Mlsa Addle Goss, who are held In the Tower for investigation In connection with the murder of John Dodgen, on December 18, made before Judge Pendleton, In superior court. Saturday, was continued until Monday morning at 9 o'clock, when Judge Roan will hear U. The defendants, accompanied by their attorneys, J. W. Moore and J. A. Branch, appeared In Judge Pendleton's court shortly after 9 o'clock Saturday morning. Justice of tba Peace Dodgen, father of the murdered man, accom panied by Detectives Spradlin and Kil patrick, who are the prosecutors, were alio there, Justice Dodgen appearing In the capacity of attorney with So licitor Hill. Attorney Moore made the motion for a commitment trial, and this was op posed by Justice Dodgen, who said that there were several witnesses whose testimony he considered as Importnnt, whom he had not had time to sub- pena; therefore, he waa not ready to go on with the trial. Attorney Moore held that the defendants had been held for Investigation for nearly two weeks, nnd he thought that the prosecution had had suflictent time to prepare Its case. Judge Pendleton, however, stated that he would not go into the case until the prosecution waa ready. After some argument, it waa decided to transfer the hearing to Judge Roan's court, and the date named above was agreed upon. During the proceedings the defend ing sat on tha front row of chairs b the court room and besides confer ring with their attorneys, chatted (waaantly with several acquaintances, they appeared‘to be In cheerful mood. ^whjoooooooooooooooooooo I COPY OP THE GEORGIAN O PUT IN CORNER-STONE O OF MA80NIC TEMPLE. O ■ - o Special to The Georgian. O . Augusta, Ga., Dec. 29.—In the O dedication of Hephzlbah Ma* O ' *onlc temple, at Hephxlbah, Ga,, tt yesterday there were most 1m- O prejMjy* ceremonies. Among the O articles placed In the corner-stone O w /*re copies of The Georgian and O of the three Augusta papers, as O a« a history of the lodge, *jt written by H. S. Jones, Esq., of 0 this city, and a history of Heph- O f ,bH h, written by Walter A. Clark, O treasurer of Richmond county. O A large number of Augustans O attended the ceremonies. O "V.'i'itrit fjoinif to have a prohibition election, nnd I firmly beiit've it ix e<i ii|r to carry.” Thin »tnt»ment wh» made by Mayor Woodward Saturday momiiiK to u representative of The Georgian. ‘‘The prohibition crowd is determined to bring on this elec tion, regardless of whether-council overrides my veto. The coun cil nnd the newspapers have so agitated the question that the election is inevitable. “When the vote is counted, I believe it will be found that the prohibition crowd has won out, nnd we will be in for two years of no saloons. “As far ns my veto is concerned, this really will have nothing to do with it. I am satisfied that if council overrides the ,veto, the small dealers who will be crowded out will precipitate the election, if nobody else will.” VETO MESSAGE! • Mayor Woodward is busy preparing his veto message to coun cil, which will give in detail his reasons for not approving the or dinance regulating the snioons and raising the whisky licenses. His message will be along the same lines followed in the in terviews he has given out, explaining the veto. He will plead that no changes bo made in the ordinance adopted X9 years ago, thereby opposing every single provision in the ordinance recent ly passed by council. He is not in favor of the $2,000 license, or a compromise li cense of $1,500, or of limiting the number of saloons to popula tion. He wants absolutely no changes, and will argue that Atlanta now is the best governed city, as regards whisky, in the countrv. WHISKY MONOPOLY. The mayor’s main argument will be that the adoption of the ordinance will create a whisky monopoly, to which a prohibition election, he says, is infinitely to he preferred. “The small denier,” Mayor Woodward said Saturday morn ing, “must he protected. He cannot afford to pay such an exorbi tant -and prohibitive license as $2,000. The ordinance will place' the whole whisky business in the hands of a few rich dealers in the center of the city. It is class legislation.” Mayor Woodward will probably embody in his message his views in regard to a prohibition election, iii which case he will say that the prohibition crowd is going to have the election if the veto is sustained, and the prohibitionists and the small dealers will have the election if the veto is overridden. CAUSES DELAIS FOR 24 GEORGIAN STORY BRINGS COMFORT AND SYMPA THY TO MRS. ISRAEL RUSSELL teOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOQ ^OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PARENTS dance, o BABE LIE8 FREEZING. O o Wheeling., W. Va., Dec. 29.— O «line its parents were enjoying a O nr-isttnaa dance, a two-year-old O !*® y la>r freeling under a snow- O ? r ‘ ft In a ditch In the rear of a O "’ triling house at Benwood, on O ‘ nuradsy night, wjth scarcely any O wines on Its body. The mother a nreatens to kill herself unless her O -miff recovers. O e: '0090000090900000000000 It was Just a Title story In The Georgian, but It brought happiness to a helpless mother with three children and at a time when happiness counts for so much—at Christmas. It resulted In a liqod of sympathy and help for this mother and her every want was soon supplied. sh e Is Mrs. Israel Russell, and to show her appreciation of what The Georgian did. she writes a letter giving her heartfelt thanks. Discouraged as she was and almost without hope when Ihe was called to The Georgians at tention by Major Berrlman. of the Sal- vaUon Army, now she has hope and ev ery line of her letter breathes a spirit of courage. Thin I* what she says. The Atlanta Georgian, Atlanta, Ga- •1.lease let ir.e express my sincere and heartfelt thanks for your great kindness to me and my little C'hl.dren in our hour of trouble. Your klnilneii snd >U |hat of your reader, who helped and I hope to be at work soon. I am so thankful that God sent me to the Home. The matron la very kind to me, and, with such good care, I hope to get strong and well rapidly. “Again expressing my sincere thanks for your kindness, believe me “Most sincerely, “MBS. ISRAEL RUSSELL. 1 Mrs. Russell Is now In the Home for the Friendless recuperating her health and strength, and she will remain there until she Is well and strong. BIG BRICK PLANT BURNED BY THIEVES i freight wreck at Blacksburg, 8. Friday has completely blocked traf fic on the Atlanta and Charleston dl vision and no trains have arrived from New York or Washington since Friday noon. No details of the wreck have been received at the general offices of the Southern In Atlanta, and local officials can give out no authentic In formation. It has been learned that no one was killed. All five trains, Including four due Friday and one due Saturday morning, are expected to arrive In Atlanta some time between 3 and 4 o'clock Saturday ufternoon. All are running on the reg. ular schedule of No. 39, due In Atlan ta Saturday at 3:30, No. 37, due at 3:55, having been absorbed by the de laved trains. This Is the way the delayed trains nre posted up on the bulletin board at the Atlanta Terminal station: First Section No. 30—No. 97's fast mall train, due at 11:07 o'clock Friday night, will arrive at 3:30 p. m. Second Section No. 39—First section of No. 37, due ut 3:55 o'clock Friday afternoon, will arrive 3:35 r». m. Third Section No. 39—Second section of No. 37, due 3:55 o'clock Friday after- nooiCwlll arrive 3:40 p. m. Fourth Section No. 39—39's regular train, due Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, will arrive 3:45 p. m. Fifth Section No. 39—No. 35’s train, due Saturday morning at 5:10 a. m., will arrive at 3:60 p. m. The Atlanta and West Point made up a train In Atlanta Friday afternoon, which went out on regular scheduled time for New Orleans. No train was made up, however, for No. 97, the New York and Washington fast mall train, due at 11:07 p. m., as all the mall that had accumulated In Atlanta for New Orleans nnd the southwest went out on the train made up by the West Point Friday afternoon. Clerks Wait 8ince Friday. Two mall cars and three mnll clerks have been waiting at the Atlanta Ter minal station since Friday afternoon at o’clock for the-delayed malls from the East. The delayed trains have been posted to arrive several times since yesterday afternoon, and the clerks have already been on duty, without rest, for twenty-four hours. They will have been on actuul duty thirty-six hours by the time their train arrives In New Orleans Sunday morning, pro vided the delayed trains arrived on the time posted Saturday noon. Several people have been In the waiting room at the Terminal station since Friday afternoon waiting for the arrival of the delayed trains, which would bring friends and relatives. One old woman was pretty well fagged out Saturday noon. She had been eating In the station cafe and was not hun gry, but she was exhausted from lack of sleen. She received the announce ment of certain arrival of the trains Saturday afternoon with a more or less doubtful expression. Dover, N. H.. Dec. 29.—Flske Broth ers’ brlek baking plant, the largest In New England, was burned last night. The Brc waa started by robbers, who attacked Charles Ooldthwalte, the as sistant bookkeeper. Thinking they had after midnight. DID CARRIE MONINGER FEEL PEA 7H WAS NEAR A remarkable coincidence In connection with the tragic death. of pretty 15-year-old Carrie Monlger Is the fact that on two recent occas ions she had referred to probable death anti had expressed an earneat desire to live. On Christmas the girl was presented with a handsome watch and chain by a friend of the family in Alabama and she had since been highly elated over the gift. After receiving the watch and chain and as she fondly handled them, the girl, buoyant and smiling, remarked to her mother: "Oh, mamma, I wouldn't want to die now. I want to live a long time and enjoy this pretty present." It was only Friday night, while at the home of a neighbor, that the girl, In talking of her watch, said: “If I should die, I would want mnmitia to get my watch and chain." In less than twenty-four hours the girl was a corpse. While handling a 22-callber parlor rifle at hie home, Saturday morning at 10:10 o'clock, little John Moninger, 12- year-old eon of Christopher Moninger, of 64 East Harris street, shot his pretty 15-year-old sister In the left temple, In flicting a wound from which the girl died a few minutes later on the operat ing table In the Grady hospital. The shooting Is believed to have been occidental, the little boy declaring he had no Intention whatever of harming his sister. The tragedy occurred In the kitchen of the Moninger cottage while the girl was engsged In sweeping. She hud Just remonstrated with her brother about bringing mud Into the house, aft er she had cleaned it. and, raising the broom, told him to go out In the yard to play with his gun. At this the little boy pointed the rifle at Mr .later eml exclaimed: "Look out, I’ll shoot you." Instantly this remark was followed by a loud report nnd the girl sank to the floor unconscious, with a bullet In her brain. • Brother Panic Stricken, With a piercing scream, the boy threw the gun aside and cried out: 'Oh, I’ve shot sister. My God, what will I do." Darting through the hallway and out of the front door, the boy, terribly frightened, ran to -the home of the next-door neighbor, told of whut he had done, nnd begged thut a doctor be sum moned. The boy then ran nround to oscetialn the cause of the words and to smooth over the matter, and Just u she did so, heard the report of the rifle. Rushing to the prostrate form of the dying girl, the mother raised her head and tried to get her to speak. The fa tal bullet, however, had aevered the life chord and the girl never uttered a sound after being shot. Died on Operating Table. Neighbors notified the Orady hos pital and the unconscious girl was hurriedly taken there In an ambulance. She was at once taken Into the operat ing room and the physicians worked energetically to eave her life. If possi ble, but to no avail, She continued to gasp until a few minutes before 11 o’clock, when she died. To a Georgian reporter little John Moninger, between his sobs, made the following statement: "i got out my rifle this morning and cleaned It and was playing with It. it Tras loaded and T tried It. set ihe buiiet out, hut could not. I then started Into the kltchffi to get a knife to prise out fho Imllot nnil niitpp tnlsf mn not fn WILL PROTEST AGAINST LOSS Mass Meeting Called in Washington by Catholics. MANY SPEAKERS WILL BE HEARD M. Briand Declared in Paris That Liberty Is Enemy v of Church. the bullet’ and sister told me not to come In, saying I was Just spreading dirt around from one place to another. Hhe struck me and I started to raise the gun, telling her In fun to look out nr I would shoot. In some way the trigger caught In my panta and the gun tired. I was Just footing with sis, ter end did not mean to shoot.' Mrs. Moninger said she heard her -laughter tell the boy hot to come Into the kitchen on account of bringing In dirt. Hhe saw the girl, she says, then raise her broom and punch at her brother, ns though scared, and heard her exclaim: “John, don't point that gun at me." Christopher Moninger, the fathor, who Is employed at the brewery, said ha was satisfied the shooting was an accident. The boy has been In possession of the fatal rifle for the past four years and on ono occasion accidentally shot hlmaelf In the hand. Miss Carrie was a bright and popu lar girl nnd a pupil In the seventh grade of the Ivy street school. John Is a pupil of tho fourth grade of the same school. The family 1s German and belongs to the German Lutheran church. The dead girt was a member of thnt Sunday school and had re cently been awarded a prize In the the daughter with her broom raised, shape of a handsome book, for fulthful The mother sturte-1 Into the kltehep to (attendance. and remained there for som-f time. Anally returning to his home about 11:30. Mrs. Moninger, the mother, was on the back porch pluclng Ice in a chest at the time of the shooting nnd waa an eye-witness to the terrible tragedy. Shortly afterwards, os she wept hys terically and moaned piteously for the deail girl, the grlef-strlcken mother de clared to everyone she was satisfied the tragedy was an accident! that little John had no Idea of discharging the rifle. • Mrs. Moninger overheard the words between the two children In the kitch en, and, looking through a window, saw DERAILMENT CAUSED BY BROKEN TRUCK, gpectal to The Georgian. Charlotte.’ N. C., Dec. 29.—As the result of a freight wreck, two and one- half miles fr-uih of Blacksburg, S. C„ early Ft Ida* afternoon, fifteen box cars were derailed and all north and south bound passenger train delayed until The derailment was inspired me with hope for the killed him, the robbers set tire to the I caused by a broken truck, future! I tin feeling much better now plant. Lou f!M>,00«. 1 No one waa hurt. TAFT NO CANDIDA TE, BUT WON’T SIDESTEP; R OOSE VEL T’S CHOICE Washington, Dec. 29—With regard to the published statement that he would be a candidate for the presidency In 1908, Secretary Taft, In a statement today, said: "For the purpose of relieving the burden recently Imposed by publica tions upon some of my friends among the Washington correspondents of put ting further inquiries to me, I wish to say thut my ambition la not political: that I am not seeking the. presidential nomination; that 1 do not expect to be the Republican candidate If for no other reason than because of what sdems to me to be objections to my availability which do not appear to les sen with the continued discharge of my official duties, but that I ant not fool ish enough to say that In the Improb able event that the opportunity to run come to me I should decline It, for this would not be true." President Wants Him. The president would like to be sue ceeded by Secretary Taft. He has so many times Indicated as much to call ers that there need be no qualification about the statement. But the president has not been fortunate In designating heirs to his crown. There was a time when he believed Secretary Root the right man. Secretary Root doubted his own availability, and he is now consid ered entirely out of the running. Then the president took up Taft. There is excellent ground for the belief that the publication In Washington, In Ohio, In New York, and other cities, of the report, with assumption of author ity, that Secretary Taft had entrusted his case to his friends was decidedly for the great office of president would embarrassing to Mr. Taft. oooooocH>oooooooooooooooooa EMPEROR IS TO AID a F1QHT AGAINST LAW. o! O 0 ] O Rome, Dec. 29.—Emperor Frans O 1 O Joseph, of Austria, and Cardinal O ' O Vasxary, archbishop of Grau, O O Hungary, have contributed 3400,- O O 000 each to enable the popo to O O carry on bla fight against tho 9 9 church and state separation law 91 9 of France. o 9 • o 099990999999999999999999991 Washington, Dec. 29.—A mass moot ing will be held Sunday night at tho Columbia theater for the purpose of entering a protest against tha action of the France government in confis cating the property of Cathollo churches in France. The list of speakers demonstrates the hearty co-operation which Catbo- | lice of Washington hava in other churches In the struggle. Among the speakers will be the following: Rev. D. J. Stafford, Rev. John VanSchaU k. Jr., pastor- of the Church of Our Father; Rev, Abram Simon, of the Plghth street temple; the Hon. Edgar 1. Dane, of Baltimore and Major E. T. McChrystal, of New York. p. a. Haltlgan wilt be chairman of the meeting. BRIAND 8AY8 LIBERTY - 18 ENEMY OP CHURCH Paris, Dec. 21.—M. Briand voiced some views and direct sentences In the course of his speech on the re ligious bill in the senate today, which was received with applause on the left and murmurs from the right. “We are giving you liberties,” he said. “Liberty la the wont enemy the church can meet If publlo worship ceases in France, it will cease only by order of the Vatican, and the country will not deceive itself on that point. I am not entirely satisfied that the papacy Is not aa much in need of pro tecting Itself from the France clergy as from other French cltlsens, ‘The church's lots of property was her own fault. The bill would plai n the church within tho law In xpltn of herself and oblige the pope, if he desired to continue resilience, to re sort to private worship, and this' measure never would be accepted by the Catholics of France.” SUSHIS THROIT ihh mb: Brooded Over Bad Health! and Sought to End His Troubles. PVTT. Special to The Georgian. Greensboro, Go., Dec. 21.—J. B. Barnes, section master for the Whlto Plains and Union Point Railroad, cut his own thrfkat at about 8 o'clock this morning. Bad health la said to be the cause of the deed. He resided at Btioam and was a brother of Josh Barnes with C. A. Wylds atjAuguxta. Barnes died In a short while. Ho was aged about 50 years. British Ambassador 8alls. New York, Dec. 29.—Sir Henry Mor timer Durand, who was recently de tached from his post aa British ambas sador at Washington, sailed for Liver pool today by the Umbria. Lady Du rand, Miss Durand and Captain Du rand accompanied hint. 09000999999099999999999900 O JUPITER PLUVIUS 18 IN LIMELIGHT, o O 9 9 9 9 J. Pluvlus, Esq., is still In the 9 O limelight. The old gent la work- O O Ing at the old stand and will o 9 probably open the sluice gates O O again. At least, the Weather Man 9 O says so, and he generally knows. O 9 But officially he says: 0 O ' "Unsettled weather, with rain O O Saturday night and Sunday; con- 9 9 tlnued high temperature- o “ The temperatures: o 7 o’clock a. m S3 degrees o 8 o’clock a. m 53 degrees o 9 o'clock a. m. (3 degrees o 9 10 o’clock a. m. 61 d. trees w 9 11 o'clock a. m. 65 degre- - o 12 o’clock noon 58 degress 1 o'clock p. m r,7 degrees 9 2 o'clock p.m ' qr—. 00999900909900000000 a-'OaOD