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2 1 LOWER PORT RATES 1 URGED GOVERNOR K CHIEF EXEVI TIVE ANSWERS AR GUMENT AGAINST CHEAPER RATES AND POINTS OUT BENE FITS TO BE DERIVED. _ | K CAIRO. Ga . Ma> I.—Before a crowd of K Bev thousand the Grady county public , Er,Buildings were Friday formerly opend Early morning brought great crowds from , K ‘all over the .county. At U o'clock a parade a half mile long. E.beaded by two bands, wended its way F from the courthouse to the schoo' R- park )” Governor Hoke Smith, who was the honor guest, was met by a committee ot L Citizens- He arrived at 10;45 from Thom ville. Judge 8. A. Rodden berry. of Thomas- FviHe. made the first speech of the occa k Mon on the -Confederate Dead." He was L follow—l by Governor Smith, who receiv f ed intense applause, and spoke for an I hour to fully five thousand people on the & subject of education. He dealt with the OUbJec* tn detail, reciting industries of ■ the state, their effect upon the farmer and the process by which he might im ’ prove his mental and physical condi- I tian y Governor Smith said in part; , I •The progress of our state in material i F growth must depend upon the intelligent | jr Sandlin of resources. We produce enough | • to make the people of the state rapidly | grow rich or at least acquire compe-I ft fancies. ‘ F’ THERE ARE TOO MANY DRAINS I UPON PRODUCTION. One of the losses is due to the failure of farmers to raise | gvarything needed for food in the state ‘ upon the farms Our wonderful diversity ! of climate and soil should stimulate dt t versified crops Foodstuffs should be #shipped out of Georgia for sale. They i- Should not be bought and shipped into c Georgia for use. ■' “One of the great problems is that of fir transportation. “Georgia took a valuable step forward when the convict lease system was abol t. tehed. and convicts were placed upon the K toads. L* “GOOD ROADS WILL GREATLY fc LESSEN THE COST OF TRANSPORTA- L TION BY PRIVATE CONVEYANCES, f while at the same time they will stimulate Eg‘Agririiltnr*l progress by removing the R isolation of rural life. Railroad Transportation ■ by railroads is also an Impor’ar- consideration in the accumula '■ lion of property by Georgians. »’ ■ “A RAILROAD DOES NOT PRODUCE P WEALTH LIKE A FARM OR A FAC [ T’A-Y. It merely transports what farms L ass factories produce. A railroad is of r great service by making transportation L efficient and at reasonable charges K. “What the railroad company charges W for transportation is a burden on com- P merce. but if the charges are reasonable r It is a lust burden. K' “The less the charge by the railroad company, the better for the farmer, man e ufacturer and merchant. arovided the are suffl-lent to properly tnain- K, tain the service and pay reasonable re | turns on the money invested in the rail- L road. E ‘THE RATES TO AND FROM THE f PORTS OF THE STATE not on’y fur niali the basis for trade among our own | people, but also open the markets of the J world to our people to buy and sell in k. them „*Tf our people produce something for F aale outside the state, the lower the f freight to our ports, the more profit the producer will receive for his labors. IHuMration by Cotton < “Let me illustrate by cotton The local !?' buyer has a price at which he can sell E .Cotton per pound in Manchester or g* Bremer He at once deducts the price of p.*transportai ;on of the cotton to the place | of aale. This gives the real sum the cot- E ton will be worth to him in the local market He determines the price he can pay the farmer by the price which the B cotton will bring ‘n the foreign markets less the coat of transportation. “IF YOU REDUCE THE CHARGE I FOR HAULING COTTON TO YOUR PORTS FIFTY CENTS PER BALE IT y- WILL BE NEARLY THAT MUCH PI T £ INTO THE POCKETS OF THE FARM »R P “If you reduce the cost of transporta tion from your ports to interior points, K you lessen the cost to the consumers of L things brought through the ports which ’ they buy. I “But it has been < iaimed to lessen the , 1 price to Georgia buyers of things brought in through the ports would injure Geor gia factories by compelling them to sell to the people of Georgia at lower prices. Factory Van Compete p /'Are our factories babies that they can not right here on the ground compete F vrltb factories at a distance? What Geor- > gia factories are there which object to j g' lower rates from the ports of Georgia? K: “Not our cotton factories. They ship P their products through Liverpool to Chi k na. They buy machinery outside rhe State. Lower rates from the ports' | would help them. ® "Aur furniture factories ship to New F. England and Texas THEY NEED NO |C'PROTE< TIV E RAILROAD TARIFF. ; The man who thinks Georgia factories * would be ruined by lower rates to and iff? from the ports of Georgia must have railroad instincts or deficient knowledge. “We have been told that lowering rates £ from the west caused no benefit to the peon! eof the state uecause the factories AUNTIES They Belong to the Whole Neighbor hood. That dear old neighbor we knew as "Aunty" and who lived down the street ■ was no relation of course, except that jk her tender old heart made her ■•Aunty" i? to all the young people And how she did Jove the young mothers: Ore who remembers her says: "We could always depend on •Aunty’ for good sound advice She was par ticularly well Informed on food and what to use for certain troubles. 5 "After having taught In the public E- aeßools for years my health became bad and I suffered frequently from indiges tion After nay marriaee [ had indiges tion so badly it became chronic. K “Owing to my condition my little baby ’ did not get proper nourishment and was a yer}’ delicate child I had about de |* elded to put her on artificial food alto L getfser when the advice of dear old b ‘Aunty' put baby and lon the right road “She insisted upon my trying Grape- Nuts food, declaring that it would help me and gire bany more nourishment, sc K to please her I did. trying it for break fast. The result wa« so marked and so I quick that Mate ft for h ncneon too and ? 1 must say the change has been wonder- I Cui. I have good health now and baby is a strong active child. "My mother says that Grape-Nuts helps | her more and keeps her more cheerful p. and happy than anything else rhe har . ever done. Truly pure scientific food has I ‘great power.” 'There s a Reason." K Read 'The Road to Wellvtlle.” tn pkgs Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. Tin y are genuine, true, and full of human io tercet. anti large sellers took the entire benefit of the reduced freight rates and did not I lower the prices of the things they sold. | Lower Port Rates ' “Now we are told that rates should i not be lowered from th eports because j the factories and large sellers would be I compelled to lower the prices of the things they nandle. and that the buyers j among the masses of the people would j get the benefit. “In one instance the reduction of the I freight rates was claimed to be useless i because the buyers tn Georgia among the masses of the people got no benefit, and In the other instance it is claimed that lowering the freight rates from the ports would be objectionable because the buy ers. the masses of the people, would get the benefit. “In point of fact, lower freight rages. ( provided they are still sufficiently high to give reasonable profits on the money actually invested In the railroads, will benefit the entire state, build it up and save part of the wealth that legitimately belongs to the people of the state.” At 1 o'clock a big spread was given. There was a large crowd near the park, and fully five hundred baskets were opened. In the parade were one hundred vete- j rans carrying their flag and marching behind them were three hundred and fifty members of the Farmers’ union of tne county, then followed five hundred children of the county. In the afternoon J. L. Head, of the Farmers’ union, addressed a large con course at the stand, followed by two baseball games and races at the fair grounds. M. L. Ledford, a well known lawyer of Cairo, with a committee, had charge of the arrangements and prepared the l program. The courthouse is a handsome two story structure, costing forty-five thou- Isand dollars. It is built of brick with I stone columns. The Jail is also new and ■ commodious. The school house dedicat ed has a seating capacity of five hun dred. IM) YOU SUFFER WITH PILES? Do they protrude? Do they pain you? Do you have mucous or bloody dis charges? I can cure you. I also cure varicocele and stricture. Advice free. Dr. W. J. Tucker. 43 1-2 Whitehall street. Atlanta. Ga. SAYS THAT TRADER JUbL’ COULDN’T WIN CINCINNATI. 0.. April 29,-The case oi the United States against Louis W. Fos ter. John M. Gorman et al, bucketshop men, went to trial before the jury in the United States district court here to day. The government seeks to show that the defendants did not consummate bona fide sales and therefore used the malls in sending literature to further a scheme to defraud. The opening statement for the govern-' ment to the jury was made by Assistant United States District Attorney Mouli nier. who in explaining the methods used by the defendants said that ouis Foster an dthe five co-defendants oper ated the Odell Commission and Brokerage company in the Fit st National building after the death of W. J. Odell, and also operated a branch office in the Havlin hotel. If a trader made a stock deal In the Havling hotel branch, it was “filled." he said in the headquarters of the Odell company. The trade was merely recorded on a sheet, he said, and a blue pencil mark drawn around the quotation. If the later quotations showed that the mar ket was an upward one, the trader won, if downward, the trader lost. Mr. Moulinier said tha tthe trade was not bona fide, as it was not executed in any recognised market, yet, he said, the defendants charged traders the cost of execution of the trade. He said the de fendants had a fast telegraph wire and a alow one to New York and Chicago, by which, he alleged, they were enabled to manipulate trades They aUc had ad vantage. he said, of closing out trades between the high and low quotations, an-’ practically taking the money of traders by means of a swish of pen or pencil. The trades were fraudulent. Mr. MouH nier said, and in soliciting them by mail, he said, the operators violated the postal laws. The published statements of the re sources and a capital stock of the Odel' company, he said, were likewise fraud ulent. The defendants did not make any bona fide deals in the stock market, ho said, but merely registered trades in their own books in order to take advantage of them, at the moment when the real mar ket looked beet to them W. J. Odell conducted the largest buck etshop business In the country, having branches in all important cities in the west and south, and died leaving an es tate of two million dollar*. PORTRAIT OF DAVIS MAKES SECTIONAL STRIFE WASHINGTON. April Representa tive Hollingsworth, of Ohio, has prepared a resolution calling on the secretary of the navy for information relative to the report that the state of Mississippi is preparing to present to the battleship Mhwifslppi an elaborate silver service. I whose centerpiece bears an engraved por ' trait of Jefferson Davis. Mr. Hollingsworth was dissuaded from presenting the resolution today. The pre amble declares that “the dignity and character of the United States govern ment and its creditable standing at home and abroad require that its battleships should be in command of officers imbued with high American ideals, healthy loy alty and a just pride in the history and institutions of the government they serve.” The resolution asks ’“by whom and on what authority such gift is to be accepted and what lesson of loyalty or patriotism such portrait engraving is intended to teach, and with what ideals of govern ment it is expected thereby to inspire the officers and men now and hereafter to be j in control of such battleships?" The secretary is asked "especially to ascertain ••’.nd inform the congress wheth er or not the proposed gift of a silver ser vice thus decorated and such use of it are agreeable or desirable by the officers now In command of the Mississippi.” In an interview. Mr. Hollingsworth said I his resolution followed the line, although lin contrary direction, of the one intro } duced by Senator Money, of Mississippi. March 2S», in which Mr. Money sought to revive war memories by requiring tha attorney general to file in the supreme court proceedings to question the validity of the fourteenth amendment of the con stitution of the United States. TERMINA rEN AGREEMENT UNDER DINGLEY J.AVV WASHINGTON. May I.—Fcllowinj: Is tbe »uui tnary of the Washington new* today: Tin- state department gave formal notification of its intention to terminate Important com , merclal agreements wi h otuer countries under I tue Bingley la*. Tlie senate finance <-omuilttee !»ill submit to tbe senate Monday amendments Ito tbe tariff bill, t Aldrich of tbe ’. ominittee. ami other rougre^alonal leaders who I talked with tue presides, asserted tbelr belief that tbe tariff bill will he ready for bis signs lure by Jutw 1. Tlie president was pleased with the pruapect. Tl.e entire ways and means com mittee will be saked to rote on the Philippine tariff MH next Monday, -.bat measure to be n introduced tn the bonse with committees MaendMents. Tbe s-ont crnlsers Chester and Blrmlngbam. , tarrying the investigation commission to Llbe rM. are making 42a miles a day. r.>e senate will have an opportunity Monos/ io order an inves igation by the interstate eom merrw •otum'aslon of charges that tl-e Missouri railroads are exacting unreasonable rates. The treasnry reports on receipts and export 1« xpenditutea for April show ■ deficit for tbe month of April W.OUO.WO. TUB ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1909. BODIES RECOVERED FROM DEEP WATERS Early Saturday Morning the Bodies of William Withrow and His Sister, Pearl, Were Taken from Watery Grave. At 6:30 o’clock Saturday morning the bodies of William Withrow and his 19- year-pld sister. Miss Pearl Withrow, who sank to death beneath the waters of the lake at Lakewood Friday afternoon were recovered by County Policeman Jordan and Tim McDermont. The brother was found within a foot or two of the spot where he was seen to sink and nearby was the form of his sis ter. Though the bodies were not lock ed in embrace. Miss Withrow’s arm was curved in such a manner as to indicate that she had clasped her brother in go ing down. They were both taken to Greenberg. Bond & Bloomfield's where they will remain pending funeral ar rangements. WITHROW HAD SAVED THE LIVES OF TWO OTHERS Though an excellent swimmer, having saved two people from a watej-y grave during the past five years. William With row Friday afternoon was drowned in the lake at Lakewood park while trying to save his sister fPom drowning. AU those at the picnic at Lakewood knew of his prowess as a swimmer and life saver. Ever since his childhood .lays Withrow has been an excellent swimmer. He learned to swim in a creek close to his father’s farm near Culberson. N. C.. where the farmer boys met each after noon and had swimming races down the He was the champion swimmer of the surrounding country and after moving to Atlanta some ten years ago kept up his swimming exercises In the lakes and streams In and around the city. Here he also gained quite a reputation as a swimmer. It was in the creek near his father's hbme that Withrow flrat won distinction as a life saver. While a number of boy friends were in the creek swimming. Os car Withrow, a brotner ot the dead man, caught cramp and was rapidly sinking when William Withrow dived into the stream and by heroic efforts managed to save his brother. Oscar Withrow had gone beneath the surface of the water the third time and it was necessary for his brother to dive into the water to catch him. Despite the fact that his brother was given up for lost he was saved. Croley says that on September 24 he had a warrant to serve, and about 8 o’clock in the evening he was driving to wards his home at Coolidge, near Thom asville. When he had reached a point about two miles from Thomasville, and a mile from the Vashti home, where Miss Linton was said to have been rescued, he met Mitchell. The latter was striking matches, and looking for something in the road. Croley called to Mitchell, and asked him what his name was, and what he was looking for. Mitchell gave his name, and said that somebody had atolen his horse, snd he was endeavoring to find tracks on the road. Croley says this was in a side road leading into the Boulevard, and was lees than 100 yards from an old deserted house where disguises said to have been worn by Mitchell were found. He says he met Mttchell between «:10 and 6:16 o’clock. He was confident of the time be cause a half mile or so down the road he had heard the Thomasville clock strike six. Croley says he hadn't given this tes timony sooner because at the time of the Mttchell trial he was at home with a sick grandchild. Afterwards, howevei, when he heard of Mitchell’s conviction, he wffht to Thomasville and gave the infor mation to W. C. Snodgrass, and to friends of Mitchell. Would Show AJibi The defense claims that this affidavit showed a double alibi. According to the charges, Mitchell disguised himself as a negro woman, and drove to Miss Linton's house with a note purporting to be from her brother, who, the note said, was dangerously hurt, and was then at a point near the Vashti house In need of his sis ter's attention. Miss Linton testified that arc lights were burning when she left home with Mitchell. According to Thomasville re cords. the arcs are lighted at 6:18 o'clock at that time of the year. According to this, it would have been impossible for Mitchell to have been two miles from Thomasville at the time Croley saw him, which was between 6:10 and 6:15 o'clock. The defense also claims that he was nearly a mile from the alleged scene of the abduction and Miss Linton's rescue of the time it was alleged to have occurred. Reuben R. Arnold. of Atlanta. and Theodore Titus and Judge S. A. Rodden berry. of Thomasville, represent Mitchell. The prosecution Is represented by Solic itor General W. E. Thomas, of Valdosta, and Thomas F. Green, of Athens, Miss Linton’s brother-in-law. Withrow's second life-saving act occur red at Switzerland park, near Atlanta, af ter he moved here six years ago. He was out with a party of friends when he heard some unknown man calling for help. Realising that he was drowning. WITHROW, HIS SISTER AND GIRL WHO WAS RESCUED I Ri W/ > Ira IRb ml- flofl ■Sk. s y. .■O’ ivt' MMrawrcaKw I I ..fl-* 1 ail—sssi-sMMasanissaasß*saaJ x,M the lett is William Withrow, in the center, his sister, Miss Pearl Withrow, both of whom met death in the waters of Lakewood. On the right is Miss Alfrieda Jithlin, the sweetheart of young Withrow, who saved herself by clinging to boat. , William Withrow rapidly threw off hla I coat and dived into the lake and swam ■ out to where the drowning man was bat- ' tling for his life. Though It was far from | land Withrow managed to bring the drowning man to land and save him. Withrow did not know whom he was sav ing. but it proved to he J. Page, of At lanta. | "William Withrow was a Christian gen tleman and one of the best young men I had ever associated with,” said Rev. Ho mer Hodge, pastor of the Free Methodist church, when seen Saturday morning. “He came to Atlanta ten years ago and has been attending the school at my church for the past two years. Though a poor man he gave S6O for the building of the Free Methodist church and work ed it out on the building during his spare time, being an expert carpenter. ’’Shortly before Withrow was drowned he attended a prayer meeting and there led In prayer. I was preaching at Holly wood at the time of the sad accident and was very much surprised when told that Withrow had been drowned, knowing that he was an expert swimmer. It was a sad affair and the Free Methodist church loses a sterling young man in the death of William Withrow.” INDIANA EDITORS ARE RELEASED ON BAIL INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., May I.—The acene of the proceedings by the govern ment of the United States against the proprietors of the New York World and the Indianapolis News, charging them with criminal libel in publishing articles ( intimating there had been a "graft” ofi millions of dollars In the transfer of the Panama canal zone to the United States, shifted from New York to this city to day, when Delavan Smith and Charles R. Williams, owners of the Indianapolis News, were served with warrants for their arrest, on indictments found against them by the grand jury of the District of Columbia. They gave surety of $5,000 each for the other, for their appearance in the Uni ted States district court here on Mon day, May 31, for hearing on the ques tion whether or not they shall be re moved to the District of Columbia for trial. Today’s action appeared little like crim inal court procedure. Late in the af ternoon. in the chambers of United States District Judge Anderson, there assem bled the judge, Stuart McNamara, as aistant United States attorney, for the District of Columbia; Charles W. Miller, United States attorney for the district; the defendants and their attorney, Fer dinand Winter, of Indianapolis, and nu merous prominent business men. friends of Messrs. Smith and Williams, who were ready to give bond for them if it should be required. The United States marshal was not present, and when the attorney for the defendants had said that they had no objection to the immediate serving of warrants on them, it was necessary for an attendant to search the federal build ing for a deputy marshal for the ser vice. An agent of the government's secret service, who had accompanied Mr. Mc- Namara to this city, was not present in the judge’s chambers. Mr. McNamara returned this evening to New York. He will come again to Indianapolis on the day of the opening of the hearing here. Messrs. Smith and Williams will re sist removal to the District of Colum bia, and the court will hear evidence on the merits of the case. The verified copy of the indictment filed today contains copies of the articles ot both editorial and news nature, of which complaint is made that they are libelous. NEW TURKISH SULTAN IS GRATEFUL TO TAFT WASHINGTON. May I.—" I thank you cordially,” cabled Sultan Mehmed V., of Turkel, to the “great and noble Ameri can people.” .The message was in acknowledgement of the greetings sent to him by President Taft on his accession to the throne. The following cablegram, dated at Pera, yesterday, and addressed to the presi dent. was made public at the state de partment today: "I received with real pleasure the tele gram of congratulations which your ex cellency was pleased to send me on the occasion of my accession to the throne. I thank you cordially for the sentiments contained therein, as well as for the as surances of friendship which you give me in the name of the government and the great nation of the United States, and to which I attach the highest value. I beg of your excellency to believe in the cordial wishes which I cherish both for your happiness and proaperity and for those of the great and noble American people.” Another encouraging cablegram regard ing the improvement of the conditions in Turkey came to the state department to day from Ambassador Leishman at Con stantinople. According to this dispatch, the situation in the disturbed districts al ready has become much better and the gfiovernment has taken most energetic measures to suppress any further at tempts at disorders and to punish per petrators of the recent trouble. The new government, the ambassador says, appears to be both able and ex ceedingly anxious to restore peace and quiet throughout the country, FATHER AND SON ARE ELECTROCUTED RICHMOND. Va., April 35.—John and William Brown, negroes, father and son, were electrocuted in the penitentiary here this morning. John Brown went at 7:25. the son following twelve minutes later. No hitch in the affair. ID UNVEIL STATUE TO STEPHEN LEE CEREMONIES WILL BE MADE A FEATURE OF VETERANS’ RE UNION AT MEMPHIS ON MORN ING OF JUNE 11. NEW ORLEANS. La.. May 1.-Accord ing to present plans, the officers of the United Confederate Veterans will make the unveiling of the statue of General Stephen D. Lee, late command er-ln-chlef, one of the principal features of the reunion in Memphis, early in June. The site of the statue is in the Vicksburg National park, but arrange ments are now being completed to run special trains to the park from Mem phis, as soon as the final ball is over, early on the morning of June 11. and the unveiling will take place at 2 o'clock that afternoon. The ceremonies in connection with the unveiling will form part of the official program of the reunion. Sfiet-ial Railroad Rates General William E. Mickle, adjutant general and chief of staff, has com pleted arrangements with the railroads for a special rate from Memphis to Vicksburg. As a result, veterans and others attending the reunion Fill be able to make the round trip from Memphis to Vicksburg for $3, leaving either on the regular southbound trains in the af ternoon before the unveiling, or in the special trains the following morning. In an order issued here today by com mand of General Clement A. Evans, commander-in-chief of the United Con federate Veterans, under the signature of General William E. Mickle, adjutant general and chief of staff, official an nouncement of the arrangements for the unveiling is made as follows: “The general commanding is much pleased to announce that the arrange ments for the unveiling of the bronze statue to Lieutenant General Stephen D. Lee, C. 8. A., and commander-in-chief of this order for several years, have been completed, and that the ceremony will take place Friday, June 11, at 2 o'clock tn the afternoon. Friend* Raised FYind "The funds contributed for this magnifi cent work are made by friends and ad mirers of the dead chieftain In all sec tions of the union, from the south and from the north, from Confederate and Federal veterans, from U. C. V. camps and from G. A. R. posts—abundant proof, If any were needed, of the affectionate esteem in which he was held by all men. “The general commanding most earn estly begs all his comrades to make the trip, that possibly can. to testify their affectionate regard for the memory of the man who did so much for our beloved cause. i “In addition to the sad pleasure of par ticipating in the unx'eiling ceremonies, those who will go will have the oppor tunity of examining the attractions of the Vicksburg military park, its wide avenues, its beautiful trees, grand drives and magnificent monuments which show the positions of th ecommends in the memorable siege of Vicksburg. To all of this Genera) Lee contributed his share as one of the park commissioners. This 1« an occasion that occurs, but once in a lifetime, and the general commanding sincerely hopes the attendance may be very large indeed.” The statue which will bg unveiled to General Lee is of heroic size, with a huge base of Red Stony Creek granite. It will be erected on a site near the position which General Lee held while commanding a brigade during the siege of Vicksburg. PATTON’S WHEAT GAINS EXCEED ALL ESTIMATES CHICAGO, May I.—This was delivery day on the board of trade and the May option, which was the medium of the re cent bull campaign led by James A. Pat ten, became cash wheat. On May contracts today. 3,100.000 bushels of wheat were delivered, practically all of it to Bartlett, Patten & Co. Brokers have hazarded a guess that Mr. Patten paid an average of $1.06 for his May wheat. Assuming this figure to be approximately correct, Mr. Patten might have sold the wheat delivered him this morning at $1.12 for delivery in July, which would show a profit of 4 cents per bushel. May wheat, however, opened to day at $1.341-4 to $1.24 3-4, and a good demand for actual wheat would enable the bull leader to sell at a much greater profit. While May 1 is commonly known as delivery day, sellers have until the end of the month to turn over the wheat which they have sold. Formerly only No. 2 red winter wheat could be deliver ed on future contracts, but a new rule of the board made two years ago, No. 2 spring wheat was made standard. A large quantity of this latter, it is expected, will find its way down from the head of the lakes when navigation opens, thus swell ing the amount in the Patten elevators. No. 2 red wheat Is selling at $1.41 3-4 to $1.44 3-4 and No. 2 spring at $1.26. PREMIER STOLYPIN TO RESUME LEADERSHIP ST. PETERSBt'RG. Msv 1.-‘-Premier Stol ypin. who has been on a visit to Yalta, in Crimea, will return tn st. Petersburg and resume the direction of affairs early next week. Rumors concernins a change in '•* cabinet, which flourished durine the first days of the nremler's absence from the city Have now practioallv died out and it is now gen erally conceded that M. Stolvoin will retain his nnst. The importance of the so-called crisis. was greatly exaggerated, and the Russian newspa pers have Indulged in speculation over the situation chleflx’ bemuse of the absence of nexvs and the dull political season. There !s a certain foundation, however, for the consti tutional Question which has been raised con cernlng the competence of parliament to dva. with financial aspect of military and naval affairs. Provision* tn tbe hifi to establish a general naval staff have been eagerly seiz ed upon bv the old reactfonarv clique, head-d by M. Durnova, who have been making ev-rv effort to discredit the premier. In this fW>y had the assistance of Count Witte who aj* I parentlv is anxious to return to powet. M. Markoff, the leader of the meet • the extreme right in the dums. who had e I long interview with the enweror on Thurstry | staged todav that there was now no question of a change in the premiership. JUDGEMENT OF $28,800 AGAINST MAYBRAY i LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. April 29 —A judgment j of default against J. C. Msybray in the sum ; of $28,000 wa* rendered in the United biates circuit court here todav in favor of J. E. i Cavanaugh. Non-suits were taken against Winn ! 8. Harris. I. J. Warner, Montie McCall ano I others alleged to have been implicated in ; fleecing Cavanaugh in a wrestling match a. | New Orleans two years ago. Cavanaugh will i receive about $3,500 money taken from the met. I when they were arrested. Judge Trietier has ordered sold an automobile l diamonds and other property setred. which will I probably bring an additional ss.«*'. The race | horses attached by Cavanaugh were recAtiy ' sold for $5-10 and he will also receive this I amount. BAD WEATHER SPOILS THE-MONSTER”PARADE] NEW YORK. .May I.—l'ngraclous May «Uy weather here today spoiled tne plan* of the in duatrial workers <>• he world for a "monster parade, mass meeting and demonstration In be half of labor. Fewer then 3.000 of the expect- ( cd 50.000 person* turned np for the parade. , while only four hundred men with umbrella* 1 stood in I nion Square, chose for the meeting, I and listened to tbe speakers. GOOD ROADS TO RADIATE FROM ATLANTA AS RESULT WASHINGTON. D. C., April 30.-The I publication of plans for The Joumal-Her- ] aid road building and reliability contest . from New York to Atlanta has aroused again the advocates of other big high-1 way schemes, including the proposed gov ernment road from Atlanta to Chicka mauga Park, and there are strong indica tions here that there will be a revival of the effort to interest Uncle Sam and the necessary counties In Georgia in this par ticular project. The proposal has been made several times in the past five years, and several Georgia congressmen, par ticularly those from north Georgia dis tricts, have promised to push the plans if the government could be interest in it, but for some reason definite steps towards the highway have never been taken. Enthusiasm over the proposition is rap idly warming up again, however, since The Journal-Herald highway across the continent was proposed. Several other road building plans have been discussed by the Georgia delegation individually and collectively, but It looks as though the ox’erflow from the New York-to-At lanta idea will center more steadily on the Chickamauga project, since the gov ernment might be more readily induced to aid in this route than in the others. South Georgia members have discussed with much interest the proposed exten sion of the New York-to-Atlanta route to Fitzgerald and thence to Florida; also there has been considerable talk of the extension to Augusta and Columbus. These projects have all arisen as a re sult of The Atlanta Journal and New York Herald New York-Atlanta automo bile and good road building contest. Nevertheless, the advocates of the Cbickamauga-to-Atlanta route have the cal), apparently, on all the excess energy from the one big highway proposition now interesting the country, and if there is any side issue to be shoved it is more than likely that the revival of the Chick amauga proposition will get the action first. Ths government already has a magnifi cent road system in and around Chick amauga Park, including a fourteen-mile stretch from Chattanooga. The entire park is owned by the government, and one of the largest calvary posts In the country is located there. With the vested interests already there, it would seem the government might easily be induced to see the advantages of extending the pres ent road system to Atlanta, where the headquarters of the department of the gulf and other central government sta tions are located. CONVICT IS CASHIER LONG THOUGHT DEAD BT. LOUIS. Mo., May I.—Another devel opment in an extraordinary insurance case was revealed today, when attorneys for the New York Life Insurance com pany filed in the United States circuit court the deposition of Andrew J. White, a convict in the Auburn (N. Y.) state prison. White declares he is George A. Kimmel, cashier of the Farmers’ State bank, of Arkansas City, Kan., who disap peared more than ten years ago. The witness graphically tells a story of being drugged and imprisoned in a room ing house in St. Louis for three Weeks. The convict's identity as Kimmel is de nied by Kimmel's relatives, who are suing for insurance on his life. Kimmel had already been declared dead by the St. Louts court, but the United States circuit court of appeals declared the evidence Insufficient, the judgment against the insurance company was as sailed and the case is to be tried anew. Shortly after insuring his life for $25.- 000 in 1898, in favor of his sister, Mrs. Edna K. Bonslett, Kimmel disappeared from Arkansas City. Detectives follow ed him to Kansas City, but could find no further trace of him until White, an in mate of a New Tork asylum for the criminal insane, three years ago declared himself to be Kimmel. He later was pronounced sane and transferred to Au burn. Kimmel's explanation of his disap pearance is that a relative was impli cated in the embezzlement of SIOO,OOO from the Pacific Express company and that he had damagtnz evidence against him. He declrres the relative and others caused him to be drugged and kept a prisoner in St. Louis. When he escaped he was beaten on the street by the rela tive snd ♦hr latter's friends. Kimmel says that he awakened from the second encounter in a hospital, re mained there several months and left St. Louis in the spring of 1899, going to Cin cinnati and Philadelphia. The suit in which the deposition was taken was brought by the receiver of the First National Bank of Niles, Michi gan, Mrs. Bonslett having assigned the insurance policy to him. MONEY AN ISSUE IN~ CHINESE REBELLION NEW YORK, May I.—Newberry D. Lawton, who was sailing master of the victorious cup defender. Reliance. has brought suit in the surrogate court for a share of the $368,000, which the Chinese government paid for the suppression of a rebellion in one of its provinces in 1859. That rebellion was suppressed by Gener al Frederick T. Ward and Cyrus Law ton, who organized a force and marched against the insurgents. Long after tl\e death of both Ward and Lawton the re ward, as a part of the Chinese indemnity fund in the recent Boxer uprising, was paid to Mrs. Georgiana Ward Amidon, widow of Henry C. Ward, who was a son of the general. Newberry Lawton, as a son of Cyrus Lawton. and a partner of General Ward in the suppression of the rebellion, now demands an accounting of this reward and his share. He declares that his fa ther was to hax-e received ten per cent of whatever the Chinese government was to have paid. TAFT MAY ACCEPT MOBILE S INA ITATION MOBILE. Ala.. Mav 1. —Col. Edward L. Rus sell chairman of the committee to invite President Taft to visit Mobile, has received a telegram signed bv Senators Bankhead and': Johnston and Reoreaentatix-e Taylor, statin* the president ha* set May Z< as date to re ceive the committee, and “xpre*s*d a desire to visit Mobile. The senator* think indica tion* arc good for his accetpance. 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IHREEVESSELSLOST ON GREAT LAKES CREWS OF UNFORTUNATE VES- SELS ARE BELIEVED TO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES IN FURI OUS STORM. DETROIT, Mich., May I.—Three ves sels lo«t, one of them with her crew of seven men. and a fourth craft found floating deserted on lake Michigan with the fate of her crew unknown, is the day's summary of disaster from storm and ice on the great lakes. On the bleak shores of Huron is.and last night the schooner George Nester, of Detroit, was torn to pieces by the furious gale, and all of her crew of seven were lost. On lake Huron the freighter Russia, of Port Huron, succumbed to the waves after her cargo had shifted, and went to the bottom. The Russia's crew of twen ty-tow men, however, escaped in small boats. On lake Michigan, the Ann Arbor Rail way car ferry No. 1, picked up, 18 miles south of Fox island, the big steel light er Batavia, deserted by her crew, and with no positive evidence as to whether they penshed .or were taken off the lighter by the steamer which is believ ed to have been towing her. To these fresh stories of marine dis aster was added from Sault Ste. Marie with the arrival there of the crew of the steamer Aurania, the flrst story of how she was crushed by the ice and sank, and how the members of the crew made a perilous way qver nearly four miles of ice floes to the steamer J. H. Bartow. . Drath and Disaster Few days in the history of navigation on the inland lakes have brought such tales of death and disaster. Bound up Lake Superior behind the steamer Schoolcraft, the schooner George Nes ter met the full force of the terrific gale. Off Huron island the tow Itne was broken and the Nester went on the rqcks. The furious waves made it impossible to launch small boats from either the Schoolcraft or the lighthouse tender Mar igold. which was close behind, to go to the rescue of the seven men aboard the schooner. The Nester went to pieces rapidly: and every member of the crew was lost. The Marigold made unsuccessful efforts to take the imperilled men off the wreck with life lines. The Russia was bound for Duluth on her first trip of the season with a full cargo of freight. Twelve miles off De tour the Russia's cargo shifted. Part of the deckload of cement was jettisoned over the side, but shortly afterward the cargo again shifted and the steamer be gan to fill,- Captain John McLean, of Port Huron, and his crew of twenty-tw<> launched their small boats into ths raging sea and succeeded in saving their lives. They arrived at Detour today-, Marine Mystery It is a strange story of marine mystery which the big Ann Arbor car firry brought into port with her today when she arrived towing behind her the big steel lighter Batavia, which was built in 1904 for the Valley Transportation company. The car ferry found the light er tossing on the waves south of Fox Isi land with no crew aboard. In the dining room was evidence that there had been a crew. Table Set for Dinner The dining room table was set as for dinner. Nothing but the severed hawser indicated a possible solution of the crew » whereabouts. Marine men think the evi dence which the hawser bore of being cut may meap that the tug or steamer which had the lighter in tow found it necessary in the gale to cast her loose, and. if so. probably took off the crew before leaving the steel hulk at the mercy of the storm. Lighters of this style usually carry, marine men say, crews of four to ten men. Safe and sound after the loss of their ship in the ice. the crew of the Corrigan steamer Aurania came into the Soo aboard the J. H. Bartow and told W thrilling story of their experiences. Caught fast in a great ice floe In White Fish bay. they could only watch the re lentless force bear harder and harder against the sides of their ship until they were crushed and the water poured in. When it was evident that she was doomed to sink, they left the Aurania and took to the |ce. Carrying with them one small yawl boat, with which to ferry Them selves over the patches of open water in the floe, the men. headed by Captain Robert C. Pringle, made a perilous way over to the steamer Bartow, also held so fast in the ice four miles away that she could not go to the Aurania's assistance. All arrived uninjured and were cared for aboard the Bartow. ALABAMA PLANTER KILLED BY BOY BIRMINGHAM. Ala. April A special from Tuscumbia, Ala, says news has just been received of a traxedy enacted Wednes day afternoon on the Bayless plantation, sear there, in which John Clarke, a white farmer, wa* killed by Charite Warren, the seventeen year-old sen of Ed. Warren, a well known citixen of Colbert county. The boy used a knife, killing Clarke almost Instantly It is said that Clarke had mis treated hi* wife, a daughter of the elder Warren. When the boy went to Clarke's hom-* to procure some clothing and other things for his sister. Clarke is said to have at tacked him with an iron poker, when the boy drew hi* pocket knife and cut Claxke almost in two. ENDS LIFirwITH POISON AND KNIFE MOBILE. Ala.. April 30.—Gustavus Schultz, the white man who took rat and roach poison and then cut his throat Wednesday morning, died last night at the city hospital from the effects of the poison. Efforts are being made to locate Schultz s two daughters, living in New York city.
