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Atlanta WtwwL? VOL. IV. ENGLAND IS INDIGNANT OVER WAR PURCHASES Money, Free As Water, Has Been Foolishly Expended in Supplies. LONDON. Feb. s.—The apparent Incom petence. and. It is claimed, possible dis honesty. which permeated the purchasing departments of the British army, as re vealed this week in parliament, have caused a public agitation that augurs badly for the war office. Judging from recent and promised dis closures. scarcely any of the supplies for the army in South Africa were secured on business principles Speculating contrac tors are now known to have made hun dreds at thousands of pounds by reselling •ontracts. The opposition vainly endeavored to get details regarding the new contract for the supply of meats, announced by the government in the house of commons, with the view of ascertaining If a saving over the former methods will really be affected. • The government successfully avoided answering, but the Associated Press un derstands that the contract in question was first sold at £IO.OOO premium and then at £40.000. while Cecil Rhodes and the De Beers group handed over £2oo.<*» and thus •ecured the privilege of supplying the troops in South Africa with fresh meat. These figures are likely to be published here soon, and when known wilt doubt less add fuel to the fire of public indig nation. which threatens to centre around the secretary of war. Mr. Brodrick. ss viciously as it did around Lord Lansdowne when the latter was sponsor for the early blunders of the war. A dosen or more committees of investi gation are now sitting or are in process of formation, but. as The Saturday Re view says, “these are only too often •ynonims of oblivion.'' "The fact remains." adds the Saturday Review, “that we have been swindled on a very large seals. *’ While these stringent criticisms of the war offlce are being publicly aired, there is proceeding beneath the surface a re volt which threatens to be of even greater importance. The leading authorities of the leading volunteers. Including many at -the commanders of the best known regiments, several of them being titled persons and nearly all wealthy, are hold ing trequer.t meetings tp decide on the best method of defeating Mr. Brodrick's new volunteer regulations. The commit tee which Mr. Brodrick appointed to hear the grievances only aggravated matters. The commanders of. the leading regiments had previously formed themselves Into a deputation to wait on Mr. Brodrick and he. temporarily, declin'd to see them, but the secretary for war stole a march on the members of the deputation by an nouncing in the house of commons that he had appointed a committee of bis own. in which none of the deputation was inclu ded. .ills act too created intense feeling among the members of the original depu tation. who privately declare that the new volunteer regulations and the "dead-head •osMnittee" were Introduced for the sole purpose of making conscription possible. The colonel of one of the London regi ments said to a representative of the Associated Press: “We know Mr. Brodrick wants conscrip tion. though. perhaps, in a modified form. If his ideas win the day. the volun teers will gradually cease to be an ef fective force, and will thereby supply the war offlce with its strongest arguments .tn favor of compulsory military service, or the enforcement of the old ballot laws. Rather than see that come about, we In tend to break up our regiments. I have a letter .from a d.stlnguished nobleman, urging me to take that course, and many other commanding officers contemplate disbanding their regiments." GENERAL EVANS ISSUES ORDERS ON BIG REUNION Gen. Clement A. Evans has issued orders to the various camps in Georgia, of which he is commander, instructing them to prepare for the coming reunion which is to be held in Dalias. Tex. in April. L AU commands of this division wUI at once begin preparations for the annual reunion of United Confederate veterans at Dallas. Tex.. April 22. 23. 34 and 25 1302. The annual meetings of comrades endeared to each other by all the fea tures of their glorious common cause arc always important, and it will be a special pleasure this year to .meet at Dallas many hundreds of Georgians who moved beyond the Mississippi since the war. The great-hearted Texans are making ample arrangements for lavish hospitality and the rhllroads will give at least the usual low rate of 1 cent per mile traveled going and returning. 1 Camp commanders are earnestly urged to assemble their camps, choose delegates and alternates, and torward the names of officers, delegatee and all mem bers cff their respective command. Bri gaade commanders will put their com mands in order and establish new camps wherever they are needed. All staff offi cers will give any assistance required of them in the organisation of camps and In giving information about the reunion. 2. With great regret the division com mander has received the request of the highly efficient adjutant general. Col. John A. M> er. io be relieved of service tn the office on account of imperative du ties which will prevent his attendance on the reunion at Dallas. Colonel asiller is therefore appointed and assigned to duty as assistant Inspector general, cavalry commands of this division. Colonel lam M. Crumley Is appointed adjutant general of the division. 4. The press of Georgia has brought the division under many obligations by thou sands of editorials and articles which have kept the interest of our Confederate story alive and the heroism of Confeder ate times before the attention of the country. This consideration is greatly appreciated and the con -nuance of this kinuness wu. be gratefully acknowledged. SLAYER OF WOMAN DIES ON THE GALLOWS SAULT BTE. MARTE. Ont.. Feb. 7.- yhredertck Shultze eras hanged here to day. One night in the first week of August last. Shults returned home intoxicated and after a quarrel with Mrs. Craig, a woman who passed ss his wife, deliber ately shot her. He eras arrested and af ter a trial was found guilty and sentenced to death. Big Sale of Lumber. WAYCROSS. Feb. i.-Mr. O. H. Lou ther. of this city, closed a deal yesterday tn which he sells to the Sanford Lumber company of Florida acres of land in Holmes county. Florida, for over glS.oeo. Mr. Lout her retains the turpen tine privileges and! sells the land and saw mill timber. HOBSON'S EYES ON SEAT IN CONGRESS NAVAL CONSTRUCTOR STILL PER SISTS IN GETTING INTO POLITICS. WASHINGTON. D. C.. Feb. B—Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson's proposed second attempt for retirement from the navy, which will appear tn congress in a few days, it is said. In the shape of a bill authorising the navy department to issue the necessary papers for his relief, has developed the fact that the hero of Santiago really intends to run for con gress. Captain Hobson is in Washington and will neither admit or deny that he has political aspirations, but it has leaked out here that he has already approached an Alabama political leader and asked him to manage the campaign. Alfred Tunstall, a prominent politician of Greensboro, is Hobson's choice for manager. The naval officer went to him several weeks ago. it is said, and asked him to take charge of his campaign, stal ing positively that he would run for con gress against Representative Bankhead, of the Sixth Alabama district, in which Hobson's home is located. It is not known if Mr. Tunstall accepted or de clined the invitation. Captain Hobson’s persistent efforts for retirement would seem to indicate that he either secured the services of Mr. Tunstall or some one else, whom he has confidence in as cam paign manager. Alabama congressmen assert that Cap tain Hobson will tackle a genuine buzz saw when he runs against Colonel Bank head. who’ they say has a particularly strong hold on his district. They believe that the young hero's limited acquaint ance with the voters in the district will prove a stumbling block to his political ambitions just now. From the talk among the Alabama delegation here It appears that Captain Hobson told his close friends in. Alabama that he wanted to be elected to congress for a term or two and after ward to become the head of the navy de partment. which he would thereupon thor oughly reorganize. motois WILL VISIT -JM • MOTHER OF THE CONFEDERACY WILL BE GUEST OF LEGISLA- TURE AT LAST SESSION IN HISTORIC CAPITOL. JACKSON. Miss., Feb. B.—lt was offi cially announced yesterday that Mrs. Jefferson Davis will arrive in Jackson tor the purpose of meeting and greeting the last legislature that will ever assemble In the historic old capitol. Concurrent resolutions extending her every courtesy were adopted and commit tees were appointed to receive her. There is no doubt but that “Beauvoir,” her old home on the gulf coast, will be purchased by the state and converted into a home for the indigent Confederate vete rans. GAVE WRONG AGE! POLICY CANCELLED CHICAGO. Feb. C.—Because Thomas Chalmers. of the firm of Fraser & Chal mers. made a mistake in his age. a life Insurance company has cancelled a poli cy on his life issued more than fifty years ago. Mr. Chalmers has brought suit in the superior court to have the company's action annulled. When Mr. Chalmers, in 1851, was a? he says in his bill, a working man, following his trade as a machinist, he took out a policy for 82.100. giving the date of his birth as June 14. 1830. A few years later his daughter visited his old home in Scot land and consulting the parish registered discovered that the date of her father's birth was June 14. 1816. Mr. Chalmers took out another policy for 82.000 with the same company in 1866, and infiling his application gave his cor rect age. He continued to pay the pre miums on the first policy, he says, after the second policy had made the company acquainted with his true age. Finally, in 1901, the policy was cancelled. SAMPSON IS sinking; - RETIRED FROM NAVY WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-Alarming ru mors were afloat here today to the effect that Admiral Sampson had taken a se rious turn for the worse within*the last 24 hours. « Inquiries at the Sampson residence and of the naval physicians developed that there has been no decided change in Ad miral Sampson's condition, but that a steady retrogression is In progress, which Is common to his disease. Secretary Long today issued an order retiring Rear Admiral Sampson. Macon Men Will Go To Washington. MACON. Feb. 6.—Messrs. T. D. Tinsley, J. W. Cabaniss. William M. Johnston and George A. Smith will leave next week for Washington to work in the interest of the new government building proposed for Macon. They go as a committee from the chamber of commerce. . WARDEN SOFFEL WILL DEFEND HIS BETRAYER PITTSBURG. Feb. 8.-Mrs. Soffel. who aided in the escape of the Biddles and was shot during the battle which r< suited In their recapture and death, shows consid erable Improvement in her condition to day. She is suffering more from mental distress than from the wound, and it may be a week or more before she can be re moved from the Butler hospital to the Pittsburg Jail. Her husband. ex-Warden Soffel. has re tained counsel for h< r defense, but says ATLANTA, GEORGIA. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1902. BLEW OFF HIS HEAD TO ESCAPE FROM HIS DISGRACE YOUNG FARMER, IGNORANT AND CRIMINAL, COMMITS SUICIDE WHEN OFFICER TOOK HIM HOME. DECATUR. 111., Feb. B.—Because he did not know how to deposit money In a bank and had committed a forgery, John Koh ler. aged 17. son of a farmer living near Decatur, killed himself. Kohler had earned 820 and came to the city to deposit it. When he »stepped up to the teller's window he presented a check bearing his father's name. It was a for gery, and an officer was called. He took the boy tjome for an Investigation. Arriuisg there, the officer stepped into one of the rooms to talk with the boy's mother about the matter. Young Kohler, thoroughly frightened and evidently be lieving that he was going to be sent to the penitentiary, stepped into 1 the next room, picked up a shotgun, placed the muzzle against his forehead and pulled the trigger. The top of his head was lit erally blown off. ex-govern6r~budd~ TALKS ON CHINESE LAWS NEW YORK, Feb. B.—Former Gover nor Budd, of California, is in this city, after having testified in Washington be fore the committee in charge of the Chi nese exclusion bill. The failure of the Kahn-Mitchell Chi nese exclusion bill to pass before the end of this session, he said, in an Interview, will mean the extinction of the present treasury regulations for the transit cf Chinese across this county and will mean a great Influx of Chinese before the op portunity to enact restrictive legislation occurs again. . "The Kahn-Mitchell bill now beforetooth houses is so framed,” continued Governor Budd, “as to provide for the most hu mane treatment of those Chinese permit ted entry to this country and it excludes perfectly all Chinese coolies and labor ers of all sorts. "It was framed by Mr. Llvernash after many consultations with the treasury of ficials and with the attorney general’s office. It is as perfect a bill as can be devised and brings up to date in one bill all the provisions of the six bills passed since 1882. It has been Indorsed by the Pacific coast delegation and by the Cali fornia commission as well as by Samuel Gompers and all the labor organizations. “It is a bill against which nothing can be said and there is no other bill under consideration which can in any way com pare with it for effectiveness. "If enacted into a law it will fulfill all the purposes for which it was drawn and will prevent the entrance into this coun try of the undesirable element among the Chinese. It makes adequate provision for the transit of Chinese across the country under treasury regulations now Th fSwWwT ♦Yh'ch h»ve Wfi ’considered effective heretofore.’’ TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT SOON SAILS TO ORIENT CHICAGO, Feb. B.—Major General Otis, commander of the department of the lakes, has returned from Washing ton. where he was in attendance on the sessions of the army post board, called by the secretary of war to consider the needs of different army posts. As to the recommendations of the board General Otis said it would not be proper to speak In advance of the report to the secretary of war. It is under stood. however, savs the Chronicle, that the barracks at Fort Sheridan will be enlarged and made modern in every re spect. Since the United States became a world power and troops are required for work abroad, the posts throughout the country have been found too small for the accommodation of the regiments and batteries recruited to fighting strength. In addition to Fort Sheridan many of the other army posts will be enlarged. That the work at the fort will be un dertaken at once is said to be assured. "The movement of troops Is at present the business of most pressing importance in this department,” said the general. "All the Twenty-ninth Infantry Is to be sent to the Philippines very shortly. "The place of the present garrison of Fort Sheridan is to be filled by the Twentieth, which is now on its way home from the Philippines, one battalion having sailed about the end of December and two ethers January 16. SHIP WITH CARGO AFIRE WINS RACE FOR PORT PORTLAND. Ore.. Feb. B.—The Portland and Asiatic Steamship company’s liner Indravelli, which sailed from Portland Wednesday noon with a 8400.000 cargo, is back in the harbor with her hatches bat tened down and decks popping hot, the .re sult of a smouldering fire which started Wednesday. From present indications the ship has suffered but little damage, but the loss on the cargo will probably be quite heavy. It is expected that the fire win soon be under control. The ’tween decks of No. 1 hatch, where the fire is smouldering, contains 725 bales of cottan and 4.900 sacks of flour. Under neath this, in the same ’ hold, are 26,000 sacks of flour and 400 bales of cotton. TRIED TO BUY LIQUOR WITH BOGUS MONEY ATHENS. Ga., Feb. 6.—Saturday after noon Burrell Billups, colored, called at Uje Athens dispensary with a counterfeit silver dollar. He was tried and convicted on the charge of passing counterfeit money, and since that time two other ne groes. Bob Brown and Berry Slack, have tried to deal with the dispensary with counterfeit money. They will have their trial today. It Is a matter of record that the dispensary managers always get the man who attempts to give them counter feit money. he does not want to s«e her or have any communication with her in the future. Mrs. Soffel is receiving letters from all over the country. Most of them contain tracts and advice of a religious nature. When rhe op*ns a letter and discovers that it is one of this character she turns it over to some of the nurses without reading. Many letters are also from attorneys, proffering their eervlcef! free In her de fense. ‘ HIS SICK SON STOPS THE VISIT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT WILL BE UNABLE TO VISIT CHARLES TON EXPOSmON AT THIS TIME. 1 1 ’ WASHINGTON, Feb. ; &-President Roosevelt received a telegram this morn 'lng from the physician at the Groton school informing him th<t tbe condition of his son, Theodore, Jr.,. was unchanged since last night. • - The following statement was Issued at the white house at noon today: "The condition of the 'president's eon is favorable. The doctors say the presi dent should not go ito Charleston, as at any time Vithln six days the disease may take a sudden turn for the worse. The president is also asfaed not to go to Groton, as his visit plight excite the boy. who is not In immediate danger.” Owing to the request of {the doctors the president has abandoned his trip to Charleston. Should a turn for the .worse occur the president is prepared at! a moment's no tice to go on a special *tra!n. ■ -P Theodore’s Mother Arrives at Noon. GROTON. Mass., Feb. B.—Mrs. Roose velt and maid reached here just after 10 o’clock today. i,' .' At the school Mrs. Roosevelt was re-, celved by President Peafebdy and a few moments afjer was at her boy's bedside. Subsequently an attempt was made to obtain from Mrs. Roosevelt a statement for publication regardliw the illness of young Theodore, but titrough President Peabody she declined tojfaepart from the course approved 'president Roose velt. According to thia flan all informa tion concerning the lad I condition will be transmitted to Pres dent Rooevelt, who will determine Wks i news shall be given to the public. Charleston Sorry He Can’t Come. CHARLESTON, 8. 'C I Feb. 8,-The greatest disappointment i felt in all cir cles here at the abftr lonment of the president's trip to Chari wton. Arrangements had bee made for a splendid reception and everybody was looking to the occasion t R the great day of the exposition. Ever; thing will have to be called off as the president was the feature of the programi and the only' feature practically of occasion. Atlantians Go to Charleston. Governor Candler, accompanied by about 20 of his staff, a number of maids of hon or, several of the statehdiuse officials and with the Gate City Guard as an escort, left- the city yesterday afternoon at 3:IU o’clock via the Goprgfn. railroad for Charleston, where !>e Wiltbe the guest of that city today and tomorrow. SHOTHUSBAND TO SAVE LIFE OF SON DRUNKEN POLICEMAN ATTACKS SON WHEN STEP-MOTHER FIRES FATAL , SHOT. James M. Duncan, an Atlanta police man, was shot and fatally wounded about 7:3i) o’clock Saturday night by his wife at their boarding house, No. 51 North For syth street. From the testimony of eye-witnesses it appears that Duncan, who had been on a protracted spree, was very drunk and abusive of his wife, when his 20-year-old son, Charles Duncan, remonstrated with his father, which so enraged the latter that he attacked his son. knocking him down and attempting to draw a pistol. In the scuffle the father and son fell qver a child’s bed, the latter being on top and choking his son. Mrs. Duncan says that, believing her husband would shoot his son and afterwards herself, grabbed a pistol from the young man's back pocket and lired at ner husband . the bullet entering his brain. Mrs. Dun can claims that she did not snoot to kill, but seized the weapon to save the young man’s life. Duncan had been on a protracted spree and was said to have been drunk at the time of the shooting. He threatened to kill his wife because she remonstrated with him about drinking. , Mrs. Duncan is a tall brunette about 30 years of age. She is a daughter of the late A. M. Eady, of West Point, Ga. Her father was quite wealthy and left her con siderable property in her own name. She was divorced from her first husband, and married Duncan on the day she was granted a divorce. PRISONERS BREAK JAIL AT REIDSVILLE REIDSVILLE. Ga.. Feb. 6.—Four negro prisoners. Bob Gamble, charged with at tempted criminal assault: Richard Speed. Josh Corbett and Bob Carter, minor crimes, escaped from the Tattnall county Jail last night. Two bars of the cell were cut and a hole picked through the brick wall. Sheriff Brewton offers a reward of 825 each for the escaped prisoners, and is in pursuit 'with a posse. oomST ROBBEO OF SIO,OOO ACWORTH. Ga., Feb. 9.—The safe blowers got in their work here this morn ing. About 2 o'clock the safe of the Lemon Banking company was blown and about $5.0(0 In gold and currency, a $5,000 Geor gia state bond and a large amount of stock certificates were taken. This loss 'alts bravtlv on the bank and community, WOMAN CONFESSES TO MURDER AND ROJBERY SAYS HER MALE COMPANIONS THREW AGED MAN INTO RIV ER TO GET HIS MONEY. KANSAS CITY, Feb. S.-Rhoda Taylor made a written confession to the police of Argentine, Kas., across the river from here, today, that Noah Long, the aged stonemason who disappeared mysteriously from his home there a week ago today, had been robbed and his body thrown into the Kaw river. Long was an old soldier, and had drawn 8210 pension money from the bank on Thursday last. He visited a saloon in Argentine that night, which was the last time he had been seen. To day the police are searching for the body in the river, which, except at the place where It is alleged he was thrown in, is covered with thick ice. According to tne woman's confession, Henry Donohue and u antes Gon were with her and Long at Donohue’s house on the Thursday night Long disappeared. Donohue, she asserts, taunted her with not being able to secure the money from Long. During the evening, she declared, the men robbed Long and compelled her to start with him across a bridge over the Kaw. While in the middle of the bridge the men, she asserts, caught up with them, held Lorfg and ordered her to hurry on and not turn back. A mo ment later she heard a splash, she says, and knew they had thrown Long into the water. Donohue, Dave Moran, a nephew of the missing man, and the Taylor woman were arrested on Tuesday last and Goff was taken today after she had made the con fession. Last night Moran attempted to commit suicide. The nature of the charge against Moran is not known. On the . day before Long disappeared Argentine was furnished another mys tery in the finding in his hut of the dead body of Thomas Carroll, sixty-five years old. Who had lived alone for years. He was known to have considerable money and woun<js on his head made it appear that he had been murdered by robbers. No clue to his assailants has been found MANY FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE The United States civil service commis sion announces several special examina tions which will be held on February 18, February 26 and 27 and March 4 and 5 In Atlanta. Ine examinations on February 18 will be for the position of interpreter. Slav enlsh, Croaton and Italian in the immi gration service: interpreter Arabic. Ital ian and French and for the position of industrial teacher, female, in the Indian service. On February 28 the examination will be for tbe positions of assistant In path ology and assistant Ift phy»ielegy in the bureau of plant industry, department of agriculture. The examination on the fol lowing day will be for the position of meat inspector, bureau of animal indus try, department of agriculture. Examinations for the positions of trainmaster in the quartermaster’s de partment at large, and seed laboratory assistant will be held on March 4: those for local and assistant inspector of hulls in the steamboat inspection service and machine designer on March 4 and 5 and one for the position of steam engineer Jn the quartermaster’s department at large on March 5. CHERRY-TREE FRAUD BINDS OVER FIVE CHARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. B.—As a re sult of a lengthy preliminary hearing nt Rutherfordton, N. C.: W. H. Hester. H. T. Clower, C. D. Wilkie, G. L. Rollins and C. F. Geer, were bound to the Char lotte federal court In $1,030 each for al leged participation in the famous Antos Owens cherry tree fraud. The charge Is fraudulent use of the malls. This makes 11 defendants who have been placed under bond. $1 tWO FIHE II ELBERTON ELBERTON. Ga.. Feb. 9.—Fire broke out In the heart of the business section of this city at an early hour this morning, and before the flames were choked over SIOO,OCO had gone up In smoke. Today'two of the main business blocks of the city are in ruins, a lot of smoking timbers and tottering walls being all that Is left. The loss is esi.mated at $104,500. Os this less than half was covered by Insurance, the total amount of Insurance on the burned buildings ahd stocks amounting to only $41,750. Hon. T. M. Swift was the heaviest loser, not being protected by insurance at all. • WILL HXSTAfEFATR - DATE NEXT WEDNESDAY A meeting of the executive committee of the State Agricultural society will be held at the Kimball house next Wednes day for the purpose of naming the place where the next state fair Is to be held. Savannah and Valdosta are bidders for the next fair, and It is expected that there will be a lively fight between the two towns for the honor. Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, of Danville, the new president electee! at the Thom asville meeting last summer, will be In stalled here Wednesday. BURGLARS BEATEN BACK BY BULLETS FROM BANK LANCASTER, Pa„ Feb. S.-Early to day an attempt was made to rob the Gap National Bank, at Gap, Pa„ sixteen miles east of this city, ending in a lively ex change of shots between the town watchman, David Stamix, and the burg lars. Stamix heard an exp.osion In the di rection of the bank, and upon proceed ing there, found three or four men stand ing in front of the bantc building. He was promptly ordered to hold up his hands. Stamix opened Are on the burglars, wounding ona. as there was blood marks where they Mtl been standing, PATERSON, N. J., SWEPT BY $10,000,000 FIRE BROOKS ENTERTAINED By THE RED MEN w DISTINGUISHED OFFICIAL OF OR DER MAKES ADDRESS TO AT LANTA TRIBES. The Red Men had a gala day Friday In the entertainment of Wilson Brooks, of Chicago, the great chief of records of the United States. The tribes of Atlanta entertained the distinguished official with marked attention. The celebration of the day took place that evening in the wig wam of the Mohawk tribe, where many Red Men of the city were present. Mr. Brooks made a speech here in which he told some Interesting things regard ing the order, and* held the attention of the meml'ers closely. Speeches were also made by leading great chiefs of Georgia and prominent sachems of the Atlanta tribes. At 10 o'clock the meeting adjourned and the great chiefs of Georgia and the great sachems of Atlanta tribes, with other vis iting officials, accompanied Mr. Brooks to Folsom's, where a smoker’ was engaged in for several hours. The repast was a delightful one and greatly enjoyed by those present. During cigars several short talks were made and much delightful pleasantry passqd. Mr. Brooks is now en route to Da?- tonia, Fla., where he goes to attend a meeting of the great council of that state. ELEMMSfED IN SILDUIS FIRE ST. LOUIS, Feb. 9.—An early morning fire, which destroyed the Empire hotel, a large thrre-story lodging house at 2700 and 2702 Olive street, occupied by men exclusively, caused the death of eleven persons, ten men and one woman, and dangerously Injured eight others. Ten or more who had narrow escapes from death in the fire were more or less injured by being frost-bitten. It is estimated that there were between thirty-five and forty persons in the building last night, and it is believed all have been accounted for. Twenty thousand dollars it is thought will cover damage to buildings and contents which were totally destroyed. BABY THROWN FROM ■ '."'T WINDOW BY WOMAN SWAINSBORO. Oa., Feb. B.—Wednesday night Anna Grubb, a negro woman, threw a one-month-old white child out of the window of a passenger coach at Monte, on the Millen and Southwestern railroad, in this county. The child was found dead Thursday morning with ugly gashes on its head and face and saturat ed in blood. The negro woman went to Millen on the late train Wednesday night, after she committed the crime. She was yes terday apprehended by Sheriff Flanders at Adrian, brought to Swainsboro and placed tn Jail. The woman says that a gyp»y woman gave her the child to keep, but it is said this is not true, that a white woman was seen to go to the house of the negro several days ago with the child and leave it. The identity of the white woman is unknown and nothing can be learned concerning her or her whereabouts. VALDOSTA NOMINATES MAYOR AND COUNCIL VALDOSTA, Ga.. Feb. B.—Valdosta’s white primary yesterday developed a good deal of interest, though the outlook was for a very quiet election. Valdosta origi nated the white primary about 10 years agp and with it came a syst*m which forbids any man offering himself a candi date for municipal offlce. His friends usually do the canvassing and he is liter ally drafted and put in office -if he gets enough votes. The primary resulted in the nomination of C. R. Ashly for mayor and M. R. Ous- Iqy, W. D. Peeples, L. E. Brown, O. K. Jones, J. M. Harvey and T. M. Cook for aidermen. H. M. ATKINSOiTELECf ED DIRECTOR IN BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 6.—At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company directors. were chosen as fol fows: B. F. Roden, A. M. Shook, H. M. At kinson. J. K. Newman, Nat Baxter. W. H. Kettig, G. B. McCormack. N. E. Barker, M. V. Joseph, R. H. Pearson, Gordon Ab bott. Robert Jemison, S. H. March and George H. Davis. The directors met and re-elected the old officers, as follows: Robert Jemison, president; William A. Walker, vice president; J. P. Ross, sec retary; G. O. Simpson, treasurer; George H. Davis, general manager. WEST SENDS WHEAT - DIRECT TO STOCKHOLM PORTLAND. Orc.. Feb. 6.—The steam ship Matfida. has been chartered by Kerr, Gifford & Co., of this city, to carry 6,000 tons of choice milling wheat from Tacoma direct to Stockholm. This will be the first shipment of wheat from the northwest di rect to Sweden. The robbers returned the fire, Stamix backing away toward the home of the cashier, with the view of getting assist ance. When the shooting began two or three other men ran out of the bank building and. joining their comrades, disappeared in the darkness. The men had made an ineffectual effort to enter the front of the vault, and then attacked the rear end. One of the supposed bank robbers, whose wound was dressed at Glen, was subsequently arrested at Parkersburg. He was brought to Lancaster this after npon. Ho had a bad wound in the tace. Electric Wire Starts Blaze That Feeds For Nearly 24 Hours On City’s Finest Buildings. P.ATERSON, N. J.. Feb. 10.—Tottering walls, desolated blocks and ash-strewn territory making the site of the business portion of Paterson is the only vestige left by the conflagration of yesterday that almost obliterated the city from the map. The loss today Is not materially changed from the figures of yesterday—slo,C6o.ooo. The total insurance is as yet unknown. The fire was complete in its destructive fury; Offlce buildings, city and county buildings, churches and educational insti tutions fell like chaff before the great wave of smoke and flame that rushed tn riotous fashion across acres of populated territory. • Hundreds are roaming the streets of the today without homes and thousands are without jobs. Unless there is instan taneous relief for this army of outcasts and' unemployed, there will be suffering grievous and hard to hear The unsheltered and unprovided for are now being looked after as fast as funds can be raised for their necessities. Pat erson will not make appeal for outside help and is at work raising what funds ‘ are needed. The Are alarm came upon the city Sat urday night while it slept. The flames were fed by buildings of Inflammable ma terial and were driven in fury by a north erly gale. Appeals for aid were quickly made to ail cities in reach when it was known that the fire was beyond the control of the Paterson department. Engines and hose reels came on special trains, but the Are was fastened to buildings covering sev eral blocks and it seemed Impossible to stay their progress. During the fire, wheih lasted until day break Sunday morning, the city was in total darkness, as the electric light wires were cut off By the flames. Many explosions and the crash of tall walls came thick and fast and death was imminent momentarily. The area as destruction foots up, rough ly, twenty-five city blocks. From Main street to Paterson street, between Van Houten and Market streets, there Is but little left. On the block bounded by Main, Elllsop. Washington and Market streets not a single building, excepting that of the Paterson savings institution, stands. All along the west side of Main street property is wiped odt and on the east side also from Market to Van Houten streets. Along the south side of Broadway, be tween Washington and Church streets, great damage has been done. Van Houten street is reduced to smold ering debris, so far as buildings are con cerned, for some distance. ElHson street suffered from the neigh borhood of Prospect ztreet. on its north side, as far as Church street. On tne south side of this street there is wide spread ruin from a short distance west of Main street to the parsonage of the Second Presbyterian church, near Pater son 1 street. ' Market street is a pile of ruins from Main street to the Market street church, on the north side and on the south side. Nowhere was the scene of devastation more marked than north of the Erie rail road in the v strict bounded by Sixteenth avenue and Market street. There was simply nothing but ashes left to tfell that a busy and populous section of the city had ever existed- Church street Is wiped out on its west side between Ellison and Market streets as it is on the east side. It was in its newest and best built portions that Paterson suffered, though some of the property now lying in black ened heaps had an interest which came with age and usage. The trolley car sta bles. where the flames began, had In their time been a skating rink, and also the scene of politcal rallies and other popular gatherings. The First Baptist church had a history all its own. Its origin running back for a century. The old city hall, used for a police station, was also a landmark. Neither the home of John W. Griggs, ex-attorney general of the United States, nor that of Mrs. Garrett A. Hobart, wid ow of Vice President Hobart, was harmed by the fire, both being well out of its path. In the confusion of the day and the rigorous guarding of the burned districts at night, it was impossible to locate a majority of the heavier sufferers. The estimate of $10,006.00 probably will cover the destruction broadly and a group of city officials who went over the city this evening were Inclined to scale that figure down to between $7,500,000 and $8,000,000 for actual property losses. Their estimate made no calculation for loss on account of suspension of business. A hastily pre pared and Incomplete list compiled by a business man tonight gives the following estimated losses: City hall, $450,000; First National bank, $100,000; Second National bank, $60,000; Paterson National bank, $100,000; Hamil ton club, $150,000; Katz building, $65,000; Garden theater, SSO.(K>O; United States ho tel, '$40,000; public library, $100,000; Quackenbush & Co., department store, building and contents, $500,006; First Bap tist church, structure and furnttute, $75,- 000; Paterson high school, building and contents, $35,000; old city hall, used for po lice headquarters, $15,000; the Boston de partment store, Meyer Bros., proprietors, building and stock. $800,000; The Evening News, building and plant. $65,000; Young Men's Christian association building, $15,000; Paterson Passaic Gas and Elec tric company, $25,000; St. Mark church, building and contents, $27,000; St. Mary Parochial school, $10,000; Park Aveaue Baptist church, building and furnishings, $40,000; St. Joseph German Catholic church, buildings and furnishings, $56,000; St. Joseph rectory and furniture, $15,000; the National Clothing store. Levy Chan brush & Co., proprietors, building and stock, $45,000; the Paterson Department store, D. Sonnenberg, proprietor, building and stock, $50,000; Schuer & Co., grocers, building and stock. $50,000; Marshall & Ball, clothiers, building and stocky $60,000; Globe Department store, D. Bohm, pro prietor, building and stock, $55,000; Ste venson building, $10,000: scent's Drug store, $25,000; Kinsella's Drug store, $25,- 000; Fuld’s Shoe Store, $15,000; Muzzy Brothers, hardware, building and con tents, $15,000; Douglas Shoe Store, $10,000; Sunday Chronicle, $15,000; Romaine build ing, $100,000; D. H. Wortendyke & Co.. grocers, $20,000; Jchn Norwood, paints, $5,000; engine house No. 1, $5,000; Oberg’s grocery, building and contents, $25,000; estate of Daniel McArthur, wholesale liq uors, building and contents, $50,0t0; police patrol, headquarters, $5,000; L. D. Mi chaelson. clothier, stock. $25,000; Sorosls Shoe Store, stock. $10,000; Waldorf Shoe Store, stock. $10,000; Cogan & Tohuey, saloon. $10,000: J. Brett, saloon, $10,000; Hugo Munzer, saloon and wholesale liq uors, building and contents. $75,000; Bill* Kane, residence and furniture, Gt'.OOOj John Mullis, furniture stock, $15,000. NO. 43.