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VOL. V.
ODELL AND COLOR RUN
NECK AND NECK RACE
Candidates For Empire
State Governorship Are
Making Spectacular
Finish.
NEW YORK, Not. I.—Governor Benja
min B. Odell and Bird S. Coler have al
most an even chance for election a» chief
executive of the Empire State, according
to The Herald s latest revised forecast.
Os course the gift of prescience is not
within the attributes even of metropolitan
newspapers, but a poll of all the election
precincts of the state, such as The Herald
hn carefully conducted during the past
montn. is apt to show pretty accurately
the trend of political sentiment
The very latest figures, diligently veri
fies and compiled by The Herald, indi
cate an apparent plurality in the entire
state of 1.071 for Odell. Republican, over
Coler, Democrat. This is tantamount to
saying that the balance is pretty evenly
maintained, and that a very few votes
may swing the election either way.
The Herald's second postal card poll in
dicates that Coler will carry New York
county by 76.<161 votes. Coler's managers
claim Kings and Queens and Richmond
by smaller pluralities; and if these claims
are well-founded the Democratic candi
date should go to the Harlem river with
90.M0 votes to the good. If these calcula
tions are anywhere near correct. Bird S.
Coler will be the next governor of New
York.
Conservative political observers are not
inclined to admit that Odell can come
down to the Harlem with more than 75.00
or 80.000 plurality, although some of his
more extravagant supporters have been
claiming as high as 100,000 up-state plu
rality.
The latest revised postal card poll of
Erie county, in which the city of Buffalo
is located, shows that Coler will carry
the county by 5.W8 plurality.
Frank Campbell, chairman of the Dem
ocratic state central committee, expresses
great confidence, and declares that the
Democrats cannot lose the state.
A careful and exhaustive estimate of
The Herald as to the political complexion
of the fifty-eighth congress indicates that
the bouse of representatives probably will
be controlled by the Republicans by a bare
, majority of six. Congressman Griggs,
however, is positive that the house will
have a Democratic majority. Congress
man Babcock, chairman of the Republi
can congressional committee, asserts that
the Republicans will elect 3M members of
the house, which would give the Republi
cans a majority of 22.
The campaign tn this state wound UP
tonight with a whirlwind finish. and
General Apathy, who has held the field
during most of the time since the nomi
nations wgre made, appears to be com
pletely mute!.
LOUISIANA REPUBLICANS
MAKE BID FOR LABOR VOTE
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. L-Loulsiana
will elect seven congressmen on Tues
day. The Republicans have made an ac
tive campaign, but lbs ease among them
is apparently as to who will poll the
largest vote, in hope of administration
recognition. The Republicans have made
a strong bid for the labor vote. The
Democratic leadete have been aided
greatly by the two years poll tax pre
requisite to voting, which has kept down
registration.
IN LONE STAR STATE
CAMPAIGN HAS CLOSED
DALLAS. Tex.. Nov. L-ZThe political
campaign in Texas, which closed today,
\ has been exciting only’ in spots. There
are five tickets in the field, and unusual
opposition has been manifested by the
Republicans in several congressional dis
tricts. The Democrats have a full ticket
in the field, while the Republicans nomi
nated only a partial ticket. The registra
tion was light all over the state and in
terest in the election is mild.
F. J. ODENDAHL COMPANY,
OF NEW ORLEANS, RUINED
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. I.—President F.
J. Odendahl, of the F. J. Odendahl com
pany. limited, one of the largest grain
exporting firms in the United States, has
issued the following circular to the grain
trade:
« "We regret very much to have to ad
vise you that our firm is forced into liqui
dation and will not be able to pay its lia
bilities, You will spare us the necessity
of making further explanations, as they
are painful.
•*Our business has been very profitable
and large, but the profit has been divert
ed into other channels, not through any
fault of the writer.”
Today's circular follows a widely cir
culated report of alleged forgeries on the
pert of a prominent officer of the firm,
amounting to between *150.000 and *175.000,
and at the present time the following
banks are known to hold the company's
paper in approximately these amounts:
Comptotr Nationale d'Escompte de
Paris, *70,000; Hibernia Bank and Trust
company, SO.OOO; Louisiana National
bank. *15,000; Commercial National bank.
The Odendahl Commission company has
done ar -*normous grain exporting busi
ness and for yean has been in the habit
of borrowing large sums from ten days
to a month on unendorsed notes secured
by bills of lading, warehouse receipts and
blanket Insurance policies.
It is alleged that advantage has been
taken of the high credit of the firm to
borrow immense sums from banks on
forged bills of lading and warehouse re
ceipts and that this has been the cause of
the failure. F. J. Odendahl, president of
the company, was formerly president of
the New Orleans board of trade and is
one of the beat known business men in
the south The company bought exten
sively in Kansas Chy, St. Louis, Chicago
and other cities.
No warrant has been issued for the ar
rest of the official alleged to be Responsi
ble for the failure of the firm and be is
reported to have left the city.
TWO MEN ARE SENT
BY INTRUDER TO DEATH
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., Oct 2k<—A spe
cial to The News from Dayton. Tenn.,
says a tragedy occurred there at 11 o'clock
last night, resulting in the killing of N.
J. Cooley, and his son-in-law. Will Whit
field. by Manuel Thurman, a saloon keep
er
Whitfield was shot three times and died
Immediately. Cooley made a dying state
ment saying that Cooley and Whitfield
were at Cooley's hotpe when Thurman
entered a room occupied by Cooley's
daughter. Whitfield heard a noise and
entered the room, when Thurman grap
pled with him.
Cooley then entered and Thurman open
ed fire, with the result as stated. Thur
man surrendered to the sheriff. Whit
field was an engineer of the Dayton Coal
and Iron company. - ;
HUNDREDCOLONELS
TO MARCH WITH
COLTERRELL
SMALL STANDING ARMY OF CITI
ZENS ARE APPOINTED TO
MILITARY LIFE BY
GOVERNOR.
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When Governor Terrell signed his name
to an order Saturday afternoon he made
one hundred new Georgia colonels and
one new major. They are scattered about,
at least their residences are. in the va
rious sections of the state, and when they
are called together to accompany the gov
ernor on his various expeditions a regular
army will be formed.
Some of the most prominent men in the
state were given a title by the order is
sued yesterday: men who had heretofore
been known as "Mr.” will hereafter an
swer to the cognomen of “Colonel.'* The
hundred colonels who were appointed Sat
urday comprise Governor Terrell's staff—
his military staff. They will be sent com
missions Monday, commissions that are
good for three years and for that length
of time and forever after they will be en
titled to be colonels in Georgia.
There .were numerous applicants for po
sitions on the governor's staff and he was
engaged for nearly three days in compil
ing the list of 100 men from different sec
tions of the state. He will make some
more appointments tn February.
The appointments made Saturday do
not include any of the men who were on
Governor Candler's staff, as their com
missions last until February Ist. At that
time Governor Terrell will make some
more Georgia colonels.
Major J. W. Warren, the veteran secre
tary of the executive department, said
Saturday when he heard of the appoint
ments:
•'More Georgia colonels were made today
than in maqy years. Governor Terrell,
however, did not come up to the mark of
Governor Stephens, who had over 300 col
onels on his staff throughout his admin
istration.”
birminghambar-rooms
CLOSED FOR THREE DAYS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. I.—On ac
count of the Sunday laws and the Sayre
election laws, all saloons In Alabama
must close tonight at midnight and must
remain closed until Tuesday night. This
means three consecutive days. In Jeffer
son county the day preceding the election
and tisetion day, Tuesday, wfflTse rigMTy
enforced with the saloon keepers, while,
in Birmingham all three days will be ob
served closely by the retailers of boose.
This makes it real hard on the dealers
in Birmingham, inasmuch as on Monday
a big street fair opens up here, to con
tinue a week, and during that time no
little “grog’' is dealt In. The sheriff has
announced that all saloons in this coun
ty must remain closed on the days men
tioned. Chief of Police Austin states
that saloons in Birmingham must observe
the Sabbath day and he will have extra
men out to wath the day. The saloon men
say they are “hit" quite hard through this
law.
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WOMAN LIVED FOUR DAYS
WITH WOUND IN HEART
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-Great Interest
was manifested by the doctors of the city
in the autopsy on the body of Mrs. Kings
ley, who had six stitches taken in her
heart. The woman was stabbed by her
husband and was Immediately rushed
to the hospital. Dr. George W. Stewart,
attending surgeon at Bellevue, stitched
the cut in the heart up. The woman lived
four or five days. An autopsy was per
formed and it showed that the left ven
tricle, which Dr. Stewart drew together
and stitched, healed perfectly, and recov
ery would have followed, it is said, but
for an infection of the original wound
caused by the knife blade with which
Mrs. Kingsley was stabbed. This caused
blood poisoning, which the most skillful
and delicate surgery could not prevent.
HUSBAND DREW KNIFE;
WIFE SHOT HIM TO DEATH
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JOPLIN. Mo., Nov. I.—R. O. Randall, a
real estate dealer of Carthage, was shot
yesterday noon by his wife and instantly
killed. Mrs. Randall had sued for a di
vorce some day ago and.yesterday when
they met In a lawyer's office in Joplin, a
quarrel ensued. Randall drew a knife
and attempted to stab his wife when she
shot him five times. Mrs. Randall was ar
rested. The Randalls are prominent.
EATHMMiSTIKE,
KILLS DAUGHTER
WITHOISDN
J. P. FREEMAN GIVES HIS TEN-
YtAR-OLD CHILD A DOSE
OF DEADLY STRYCH-
NINE.
SOCIAL CIRCLE. Ga., Nov. 1.-One of
the most heartrending tragedies of the
times occurred here yesterday. J. P.
Freeman, through mistake, gave his ten
year-old daughter a done of strychnine.
The child lived only a few hours. The
father is almost erased.
BIRMINGHAM WILL HAVE
NEW DAILY NEWSPAPER
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. Nov. 1- J. Carter
Cooke, chairman of the Republican state cam
paign committee, stated today that as soon aa
the election wa« over the Republicans of Ala
bama would organize a company for the publi
cation of a daily paper In Birmingham, with
both morning and afternoon editions.
He said that a company would be formed
with 1100.OOC capital and that a first-class plant
would be installed. Steps have already been
taken, he says, looking to the formation of the
rtoek comreny. •
ATLANTA, GEORGIA; MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1902.
PEACE BOARD
TOADJOUHN
THURSDAY
COMMISSION WILL GIVE MIN
• ERS AND OPERATORS SUFFI
CIENT TIME TO PREPARE
THEIR EVIDENCE.
SCRANTON, Pa., Nov. I.—The arbitra
tion commission, which is engaged in set
tling the differences existing between the
anthracite coal operators and the mine
workers, decided today while on their
tour of the Wyoming valley to adjourn
next Thursday until Friday, Nov. 14,
when the taking of testimony will begin
in this city.
The first four days of next week will be
taken up in inspecting the mines and min
ing towns of Hazelton south to the end
of the hard coal fields. Chairman Gray
said tonight that the object in taking a
recess of one week was for the purpose
of giving both sides sufficient time to pre
pare their cases and also to give the mem
bers of the commission an opportunity to
examine the issues.
The commissioners feel that the ques
tions Involved are so important that any
haste may work an Injury to either side
of the controversy. When the hearings
are begun week after next it is the inten
tion to have the miners, who are consid
ered the plaintiffs, submit their case first.
The 67 individual operators will also be
given an opportunity to be heard as well
as all the larger coal companies.
The arbitrators spent the entire day in
and about the city of Wilkesbarre. visit
ing one mine and making a tour of sev
eral of the towns on the outskirts of the
city. The commission’s special train
reached the Dorrance colliery of the Le
high Valley Coal company at North
Wilkesbarre at 9:30 a. m. Nearly two
hours were spent in the mine, about 850
feet below the surface. The mine is a
very gaseous one, and the commissioners
and other members of their party were
compelled to carry safety lamps. Thera
were no special incidents in the trip be
low ground.
Today was All Saints day, and it is re
ligiously observed by many of the for
eign-speaking mine workers. The com
pany officials drew the attention of the
commissioners to this enforced' curtail
ment in the production df coal.
After luncheon the party visited South
Wilkesbarre, Ashley, Sugar Notch and
Plymouth, inhabited principally by mine
workers. Whenever their private car
stopped the commissioner asked questions
of the crowd which gathered about them,
regarding rents and other living expenses.
On the return to Wilkesbarre the party
immediately boarded the train for Scran
ton.
The arbitrators will leave here late Sun
day night for Hazleton, where they will
continue their inspection of the mines.
PEACE BOARD VISITS
ANTHRACITE MINES
SCRANTON. Pa., Oct. 30.—The real
work of the arbitration commission ap
pointed by President Roosevelt to adjust
the differences Existing between the coal
operators and their employes began to
day.
Briefly stated, the day's work consisted
of a general Inspection of the Inside and
outside workings of coal mines and the
homes and surroundings of the workmen.
Tomorrow and Saturday the mining re
gion from here south to Wilkesbarre will
be looked over. The commission is mak
ing this tour so that the members may
gain a better idea of mining, in order to
more intelligently understand the testi
mony that will be given by experts on
both sides ot the controversy. No tes
timony will be taken during the inspection
trips. The commission party consists of
14 persons.
The personnel of the party is as follows:
Judge Gray, Colonel Wright. General
Wilson, Thomas H. Watkins, E. W. Par
ker, Bishop Spalding, E. E. Clark, com
missioners; E. A. Mosely and Charles P.
Neill, recorders; C. Gerry, S. W. Morris,
F. R. Hanna and A. C. Edwards, stenog
raphers; J. S. Sears, messenger; General
Superintendent R. A. Philips. Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western; E. E. Rose,
general superintendent Delaware and
Hudson; General Manager W. A. May,
Erie company; General Superintendent J.
R. Breyden, Ontario and Western; Gen
eral Manager 8. B. Thorne, Temple Iron
company; T. D. Nichols, district president
United Mine Workers of America; Rev.
Peter Roberts and James I. Warwick, both
representing the miners; Henry Collins,
organiser United Mine Workers.
STRIKE RENEWED THURSDAY
AT HAZELTON COLLERIES
HAZELTON. Pa., Oct. 30.—The strike at
the seven collieries of Coxe Brothers &
Co., the four mines of G. B. Markle & Co.,
and the Silver Brook operation of J. S.
Wentx & Co., was \)fficially renewed to
day through an order issued by District
Secretary Gallagher of the United Mine
Workers upon instructions from President
Mitchell.
Thre strikers at those mines were not
permitted to return to work in a body,
Coxe insisting that their employes make
personal applications for their former .po
sitions and G. B. Markle & Co., requiring
that each man before going back to work
promise to abide by the decision of the
arbitration commission.
The mine workers allege that the object
of these requirements is discrimination
against men who were prominent in the
strike.
A. Pardee & Co.’s collieries, where the
men have been asked not to interfere with
non-union hands, are not included in the
strike order. The men voted on Saturday
not to resume work until the agreement is
withdrawn.
The trouble at Silver Brook is similar to
that at the Coxe mines. The following
notices were posted by Coxe Brothers &
company at their collieries today:
“Any man, who, by intimidation (moral
persuasion) attempts to induce a company
employe to leave or join a society or
anybody who objects to work with any
other employe because he has or does
not belong to a society, will be discharg
ed.
(Signed) "EDGAR KUDLICK.
Another notice posted is headed, "Scope
of Board of Arbitration In Connection
With the Strike of 1902,” and is a copy of
that portion of the fiftlr paragraph of
the coal operators arbitration proposal
which refers to the non-interference of
former strikers with non-union men. The
only change in the wording is that “own"
has been ips*rted after "their,” making
it rend "their own” employes, which in
its original shape read "their employes."
This notice is not signed or dated.
Soldir of Two Wars Dies at Home.
R J. Black, agred twenty-six yezrs, died at
bls home in South Atlanta Friday afternoon
after an extended illness. Mr. Black was a
volunteer in the army during the war with
Sialn and later served f-> the came canacitv
tn the Phllivvl"—
TRAIN DASHES
LIKE BOLT
ON GAB
MOTORMAN INSTANTLY KILLED
AND MANY OTHERS ARE VERY
SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CHI
CAGO SATURDAY.
CHICAGO, Nov. I.—With no warning of
the approach of a Chicago, Milwaukee
and St. Paul freight train, a Clayboume
avenue electric car was struck broadside
Benjamin Ptacek, 34 years old, cut about
was killed and five injured as a result of
by the train at 5 o’clock today. One man
hurled fifty feet, being turned completely
around.
The dead:
Richard Wilson, motonnan, 59 years old,
skull crushed.
The injured: ’ I
Henry Yaeger. 52 vehrs old. seriously in
jured internally and fracture of right
arm; may die.. i ’
Andrew Grand, 35 years old, cut and
bruised
the collision in which the street car was
the face and supposed Internally injured.
William Rube Hagen, teamster, at u,e
Claybourne avenue bims, cut about face
and left arm.
Joseph Drelss. Conductor, thrown
against the side of the car and bruised.
The men were employes Os the Union
Traction company. All except 'Wilson and
Dreiss were on their way to work when
the wreck occurred. Wilson was the old
est motorman in the service of the street
car company, having! been in its employ
36 years. He drove a horse car while John
M. Roach, now president of the company,
was a conductor on the Larrabe street
line. There were three other passengers
on the car, none of whom were seriously
Injured. The trolley Oar was smashed
into splinters and two cars of the freight
train were thrown from the track by the
impact. The collision occurred at Clay
bourne avenue, 200 feet north of the in
tersection of the Chicago and Northwes
tern railroad tracks.
Backing swiftly into the street through
a narrow cut in th* high board fence sur
rounding the Deering Harvester Works,
which is known in Lake View as the
Red Terror,” the freight train bore down
on the trolley car Just as the latter was
crossing the spur leading from the Deer
ing works to the elevated bed of the
Northwestern.
Wilson, who was running an “Owl car"
between Element and Fullerton avenues,
was making nls Fast trip for the night
anu was due at the Claybourne avenue
barns in three minutes. Then came the
wuu shout of one of the passengers as the
end of a box ear shot through the narrow
gate in the fence not twenty feet from
the street car track. Before any one
could escape the creshscame.
BOY Bk«W PEA ifirTYE*^ 1
AND CAUSED BAD WHECK
CHICAGO, Nov. I.—A 10-yfear-old boy,
celebrating Halloween with a pea gun,
caused a collision between an electric car
and a patrol wagon last night, in which
nine persons were more or less seriously
injured.
A pea from his blower struck the eye
of John Paul, motorman on a Fulton
street electric car Just as the car was
passing Franklin street, and Paul, smart
ing under the pain, clapped his hands to
his face. It was only an instant that he
neglected the controller and the brake,
but in that time the car crashed into the
Larrabee street station patrol wagon that
was conveying two patients to the Wash
ington home.
The patrol wagon was wrecked by the
impact and all of the nve persons riding
in it were injured. Four persons in the
car were also hurt.
The police were unable to learn the iden
tity of the boy whose pea blower caused
the accident. i
NEGRBBURNED
FDR MURDER
AT BE
MISSISSIPPI MOB OF FOUR
THOUSAND MEN APPLIED
TORCH AFTER CONFESSION
WAS WRUNG OUT.
SARDIS, Miss., Nov. I.—One negro,
name unknown, has been burned at the
stake, and two white men. implicated by
the negro in his dying confession, are be
ing held by a posse pending an investiga
tion in the murder of E. O. Jackson and
a mill owner named Roselle, at Da-ling,
Miss., Wednesday night.
The negro was burned at Darling last
night by a mob of four thousand persons,
both white and black, and Just before
lighting the funeral pyre he confessed
that he had committed the double mur
der with the assistance of two white men.
The motive-was robbery, and a consider
able sum was secured, which, the negro
stated, was divided among the three.
After the burning a posse went in
search of the two white men. and soon
captured them. They are being held pend
ing an investigation of their guilt or in
nocence, and it is believed that a double
lynching will follow if guilt is proven con
clusively.
The names of the prisoners are not
known.
Darling. Miss., is a small station on the
Lake Cormorant branch of the Yazoo and
Mississippi Valley railroad, about 25 miles
from this point, and there is no direct
telegraphic communication.
The news that has reached Sardis has
come through persons from the neighbor
hood of the crime, who have been called
here on business.
The region is a remote one, and the
particulars of the lynching and subse
quent actions of the mob cannot be ob
tained except by chance.
Later it was learned that the two white
men were released by the mob, an alibi
having been proven by each man.
No further trouble is expected tonight.
Congressional Elections Tomorrow.
The elections for members of congress
throughout the United States will occur
THIHTY PEOPLE
HRECAUGHT
IN DEBUG
GRANDSTAND AT FOOTBALL
GAME IN CHICAGO COLLAPS
ED WITH HUNDREDS UPON
THE SEATS.
CHICAGO, Sept, I.—Thirty persons were
hurt, ten oi them seriously, by the col
lapse of one of the smaller grandstands
at Marshall Field, a few minutes after the
Wisconsin-Michigan football game started
this afternoon.
For a time panic prevailed and the crash
came without the slightest warning,
throwing the occupants of the stand,
about 300 in number, into a seething mass
of humanity. Those injured were laid out
upon the grass and surgeons attended
them temporarily when some were remov
ed to university buildings and otlfers to
neighboring houses.
Among the seriously injured were:
Fred Carton. 15 years of age, of Chicago,
probably fatally.
Walter Robinson, Princeton, Ills., seri
ously.
Alfred Welnett, 615 East 35th street, leg
broken.
E. E. Washburn, hurt inter
nally.
F. Y. Wall, Tbluca, arm broken.
The stand which broke was on the east
side of the field, north of the regular
bleachers. Men were still at work on the
temporary structure when the accident
occurred.
Those occupying the seats were sup
porters of both teams as the structure
was but a temporary mahesn—<. to accom
modate the vast crowds.
For a time it looked as if there might
be other accidents and panics in the im
mense rows of seats an both sides of the
field, as many hurried to reach the ground,
fearing there might be a repetition of the
mishap. Those who occupied the stand
which broke swarmed through the ropes
onto the north end of the field and many
volunteer surgeons were called to assist
the injured.
For a time the gfridlron was turned into
an emergency hospital, and the doctors
who came to attend injured players were
put to their utmost to relieve the spec
tators. '
me most seriously hurt were not remov
ed, but were attended while they lay on
the grass.
Their injuries had hardly been cared
for when three patrol wagons arrived on
the scene to remove the patients to the
hospitals. WTien the accident occurred
players did not go on with the game for
several minutes.
GAINESVILLEDAHLONEGA
LINE ALREADY UNDER WAT
GAINESVILLE, Ga., Nov. I.—The
Gainesville and Dahlonega Electric Rail
way company yesterday began laying
track. The wiring will be completed by
the latter part of next week, find the
big double dynamo is at its place on the
Chestatee river.
Colonel H. H. Dean drove the first spike
on the road. Ordinary W. N. Dyer the
second and Councilman L D. Puckett the
third.
About *175,000 has already been dis
bursed by the company. Six cars have
been ordered for the line and two have
been shipped.
The city is having a string of granite
put down on each side of Main street from
the depot of the Southern railway to the
public square, and when the work is com
pleted Main street will present an attrac
tive appearance.
The Southern railway several days ago
enclosed its right of way in the neigh
borhood with a strong wire fence. The
city council last night put a force of
hands at work and In a few minutes tore
all the fencing away, because of the fact
that the fence obstructed a road which
has been in use for almost a generation.
The idea of the railroad company in put
ting up the fence may be traced to the
fact that the electric road company con
templates the erection of a line of tracks
from the depot to the junction of the G.,
J. & S. railroad and from the railroad to
Pacolet mills at New Holland, which is
situated on the direct line of the South
ern’s track, thus giving the Pacolet mills
competitive freight rates. This ruse of
the Southern’s probably had as its inten
tion the throttling of the electric road’s
scheme.
ENGINE AND CREW TAKE
LONG LEAP TO DEATH
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. I.—A yard
engine of the Woodward Iron company
at the Woodward furnaces ran off the end
a high slag dump this morning and
Engineer James W. Hoyle and Electrician
Boss Fields were instantly killed, being
crushed under the locomotive.
The fireman who had got down to throw
a switch escaped death.
The locomotive was moving slowly and
the cause of the accident is not known
except that the engineer failed for some
reason to stop it hefore It reached the
end of the trestle.
FIVE MEN ARE DROPPED
FIFTY FEET DOWN SHAFT
DES MOINES. la., Nov. I.—Five men
fell fifty feet down a coal shaft at New
ton yesterday afternoon and some of them
cannot recover.
The men were being elevated to the sur
face of French Brothers mine at the close
of work. The cable broke just as they
reached the top and they dropped to the
bottom of the shaft withllghtning ra
pidity.
The men were found plied In a heap at
the bottom, all unconscious. But one,
Andrew Fleming, has regained conscious
ness. Hugh Smith cannot recover and the
fate of the others, John Snook, Eugene
Welsh and John Walsh is uncertain. Each
of the men have a family.
BURTON SMITHES
( IMPROVED IN CONDITION
The condition of Burton Smith, who is
at the Halcyon, was improved yesterday.
It is believed by the physicians that Mr.
Smith will be able to be at his desk at
the end of two weeks unless complications
set in, which is a possibility that can
probably be guarded against successfully.
After the second operation of Thursday
at which four ot Mr. Smith’s fingers were
removed at the wrist, leaving only the
thumb, it was feared that his entire hand
would have to be amputated above the
wrist, but it is now stated that the neces
sity for the third operation has been re
moved and that Mr. Smith will retain his
ROOSEVELT IS NIMROD
ON WILD TURKEY HUNT
SOUTHERN TO BUILD
UNION DEPOT
IIS flTLftNTft
PRESIDENT SPENCER ANNOUN-
CES HIS COMPANY HAS DE
CIDED TO SPEND OVER
HALF A MILLION.
By July, 1904, Atlanta will have a new
union passenger depot the equal of any
in the United States; one that con
tain ten tracks, arranged to hold trains
of twelve ears each, a station with
commodious waiting rooms and every
convenience for the traveling public.
The new station will be constructed by
the Atlanta Union Station company,
which will be formed as soon as the pre
liminary survey of the property is made
and which company will be composed of
the various railroads entering Atlanta.
The plan for the organization of such
company has been formed, mainly by
President Samuel Spencer, of the Southern
railway, but it is understood that all of
the railroads coming into Atlanta have
agreed to become stockholders in the
‘company.
The new union station in Atlanta
will be located mainly on the property
of the Central of Georgia railway, be
tween the Mitchell street viaduct and
the Western and Atlantic railroad. It
will be a magnificent structure. The de
pot building will be five or more stories
high and will contain offices for railroad
officials, watting rooms, baggage rooms,
mall rooms and ticket offices.
The train shed will be 750 feet long by
250 feet broad, and will contain ten tracks,
each track capable of holding a train of
twelve cars in length. The train shed
will open at both ends for trains to enter
and depart.
This morning H. »M. Steele, chief en
gineer of the Central of Georgia railway
will begin the preliminary survey for the
new station. He will be assisted by the
engineers of the various railroads. This
work will take a week or more, and when
the exact location of the depot building
and train sheds are determined, a meet
ing the railway officials will be called in
Atlanta to form the Union Station com
pany. When this is done and the prop
erty is transferred from the Central and
Southern roads to the station company
and the data necessary for the architects
to drew plans is compiled the work of
drawing plans will be turned over to the
architects.
Stated Chances Killed.
' ■ Ipewedart ASiaMwy ttfiwnrK •T. Btovre, •
the Western and Atlantic railroad said:
"If the Southern builds a depot it kills
all chance of the state building one on Its
own property. The state could not afford
to build a union station for the Western
and Atlantic railroad alone. I have been
expecting that the Southern would build
a station ever since the meeting of the
depot commission and the railroad officials
here last February."
Mayor Is Pleased.
Mayor Mims Is pleased with the an
nouncement that the Southern will erect
a *600,000 depot, although he declares that
he would have been better pleased had it
been possible to have the state erect a
union depot for all the railroads on the
present site.
“Build to the Sea.”
Hon. Ferris Cann, who is a member of
the depot commission, which was unable
to bring about any agreement between the
state and the railroads relative to a de
pot, said this morning:
"I thought all along the railroads would
build a depot. It leaves the state road in
a bad predicament. When the lease runs
out the line will be entirely bottled up and
will hardly pay running expenses. It
seems to be the only thing that can be
done will be to build the road to the sea
or sell it. If it is bottled up by other
lines at the end of its lease it will hardly
be worth anything to the state.”
FLORIDA COTTON GROWERS
DEMAND AN INCREASE
GAINESVILLE, Fla., .Nov. I.—At a
called meeting of the State Cotton Grow
ers’ association, held at Alachua, a large
number of growers were present. It was
decided to withdraw all staple from the
market, and not to again put it on the
market until a raise in pricte was made.
By a committee appointed, it was learn
ed that the yield for this year would fall
far short of« last year’s crop and that
last year’s crop being a short one. the
growers were in a position to demand bet
ter prices, which they are determined
to have.
Last year they held their cotton and
succeeded in getting 21 cents per pound
for the staple in lint.
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BI IN ENGINE
, EXPLOSION
SWAINSBORO, Ga.. Nov. I.—Friday af
ternoon about four miles from town, a
locomotive on the log road of the Rentz
Lumber company exploded, killing three
men. Engineer Green Underwood and two
colored employes, outright, and seriously
wounding three other negroes and one
white man. Two of the wounded negroes
are not expected to live.
The train was heavily loaded with logs
and the engine had on an enormous
amount of steam. Physicians hastily left
for the scene and did all they could for
the wounded men.
Engineer Underwood was an experienced
man and a good citizen. He leaves a
wife and one child.
MILLIONAIRE SCHWAB
ENJOYS HIS VACATION
LONDON, Oct. 31.—The last news received ■
here from C. M Schwab. Is that he is at I
Coma, Italy, thoroughly enjoying his holiday. [
No mention is made of his being in bad health
or of his having the Intention to resign the
presidency of the United States Steel cor
poration.
He is likely to cruise in Drexel's steam
yacht Margaret* in the Mediterranean sea for
NO. 15.
President and His Small
Party of Hunters Are
After Wild Tur-
keys* Scalps.
MANASSAS, Va., Nov. I.—ln the fitful
glare of locomotive lanterns. President
Roosevelt at 11:30 stepped briskly from
his private chr in the railroad yard here
and greeted cordially the little group of
newspaper men, special officers and rail
road men who had gathered to see him
start on his hunt, for wild turkeys.
He was attired in a khaki suit with leg
gins and over this was a long heavy over
coat and a black hat. Secretary Root, who
had preceded the president from the train,
wore a canvas shooting suit, an overcoat
and a golf cap.
The president, after a quick survey of
the starlit sky, remarked to Mr. Root
that they were in luck as to the weather.
Mr. Root and the president were joined
fit once by Dr. Rlxey, Secretary Corteiyou
and Mr. Lelchman, who will act as guide
for the party during the hunt. They were
preceded by the railroad men bearing lan
terns.
The party proceeded along the maize of
.railroad tracks to the carriages in wait
ing for them to convey them to the shoo't
ing grounds. They were followed by ser
vants carrying a big hamper of mineral
water and luncheon. As he walked brisk
ly along the president remarked to Sec
retary Root:
“I have tramped ties before in my time."
"Yes,” responded the secretary with a
suggestion of irony in the tone of his
voice, “I have often thought that there
was no active exercise so restful to the
wearied mind as the tramping of railroad
ties."
The party entered carriages in the vil
lage and, preceded by Sheriff Lelchman
and a secret service officer, in a buggy,
started for the hunting grounds, about
four miles distant. President Roosevelt,
Secretary Root, Secretary Corteiyou and
Dr. Rlxley, occupied one carriage, which,
was followed by another containing ser
vants and messengers with the luncheon.
Thia morning the party is hunting over a
fine preserve of 500 acres known locally
as the Ben Lomond place, owned by Rep
resentative John F. Rixcy, brother of Sur
geon General Rlxey.
While the president'hopes to add a wild
turkey or two to his hunting trophies, he
said this morning he was here partlculM*ly
for the needed resuscitation the outing
would afford him and for the purpose of
getting over the historic Bull Run battle
fields which he never had visited. After
the morning hurit, the party assembled
about noon at the Henry house, which is
in the very center of the operations of ths
first battle of Bull Run. There luncheon
was served.
Corteiyou Wings Bird.
The prestde\jt and party reached ths
"Turkey Blinds" before day-break and
after *ach had been stationed, the callers
endsavored to entice ike wily birds with
in gunshot.
A drove of six turkeys were discovered
and later one of them fell so the gun of
Secretary Corteiyou.
President Roosevelt was unfortunate in
being the only one of the party who did
not get a shot during the morning. The
turkeys are wild and scarce and Mr. Cot»-
telpou’s bird was the only one bagged.
At noon the party assembled at the
Henry house for luncheon and for two
hours afterward the president walked over
the Bull Run battlefield, the points of
historic Interest being Indicated and ex
plained by Henry Seen, who now occupies
the Henry house.
Subsequently the party returned to the
turkey overs and continued the hunt.
NATION’S CHIEF MAGISTRATE
NEVER GOT A SHOT SATURDAY
BRANDY STATION, Va., Nov. 1.-
President Roosevelt, Secretary Root,
Secretary Corteiyou and Surgeon General
Rlxey are tonight the guests of Repre
sentative John F. Rlxey at his handsome
ly appointed country home, about two
miles from this village.
During the turkey President
Rocseyelt did not get " shot. He led
the party on a long, hard tramp. De
spite the recent injury to his leg, he was
the least fatigued member of the party
at the close of the day.
When the president reached his special
train at Manassas on returning from the
hunt, he a crowd of two pr three
hundred people awaiting him. At the
solicitation of Judge Nichols, of this
judicial circuit, the president consented
briefly to address the people. His remarka
follow:
"I wish to thank you very much for
the way you have come to greet me. I
have thoroughly enjoyed my day here.
I regret to state that the turkeys did not
materialize (laughter). In the first place
I had a good walk. It is the first time
I have had one for six weeks and I ap
preciated it. I was delighted to have
a chance to visit the great battlefields
heres and It is a very pleasant thing to
any man Who has the desire to be a good
American to come through your historic
town and to see the two avenues named
in memory of Grant and of Lee (ap
plause). I feel that all of us in any part
of this country now have an equal right
to glory in the valor and the devotion
to duty as each saw his duty alike of
those who wore the blue and those wbb
wore the gray (applause). I thank you
for having greeted me.”
President Roosevelt’s coupling of the
names of Grant and Lee elicited genuine
enthusiasm. As the special train pulled
out of the statiofi, the crowd gave the
president a parting cheer.
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REUNION OF VETERANS
COLUMBUS. Ga., Oct. 30—The fourth
annual reunion of the Confederate Vete
rans of Georgia closed last night in a
blaze of glory and amid cheers for Co
lumbus.
The old soldiers carry away with them
many pleasant memories of this occasion.
Augusta was selected as the place for
holding the next reunion.
The principal feature of today's pro
gram was the parade of the "Haymakers,”
a long and comical array. The members of
this order, Who are Red Men also, fur
nished more amusement for the many
thousands that filled the streets. Almost
everj' kind of a comical vehicle or char
acter was represented, and the crowds
cheered loudly and laughed as they passed.
MAJOR ROBERTSONTbANKER,
DIES AT DEMOPOLIS, ALA.
DEMOPOLIS. Ala.. Oct. 30.—Major John
R. Robertson, one of our best and fore
most citizens and president of the Robert
son Benking Co., died at his home last
night about hair past twelve after an
illness qf three weeks.
The deceased was about 65 years of age
and leaves a wife and several brothers
and sisters.