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' VOLUME XV. A Buildings With Sleeping Occupants Carried Down by Landslide and Catch Fire. K averstraw. N. Y., Jan. 9.—Firemen, aided by hundreds of volunteers >1 working thiB morning to subdue the flames which are slowly con suming the remains of at least fifteen persons who, In their homes, were carried to death In a landslide just before m<dnlght last night. There Is little hope that the victims will ever be Identified. In the eastern end o! the town seven houses on the edge of a clay pit, from which material had been taken for brick, were carried down Into the pit without warning, while most of the victims were sleeping. The landslidge broke the watermalns, cutting off tile means of fighting the flames which Immediately caught the houses from stoves and fire places. The fire department was unable to reach the flames. A'tcr the ar rival of aid a second slide took place, and many narrowly escaped death, and the fire engines were moved' bark to a place of snfety. At 11 o’clock this morning It was estimated that at least, twenty persons, and possibly more were dea l as the result of last night's land slide. A large force Is working desperately to uncover tlio ruins and to rescue the bodies, but the great heat from the burned buildings has pre vented rapid work. THE GINNERS’ REPORT TO 1.1 IS 9,721,773 BALES COTTON. Washington, Jan. 9.—The census bureau today issued a bulletin showing the amount of cotton ginned to January first to be 9,721,773 bales. There is no report for the correspond ing date of last year, for comparison. i/IAYGET WELL Well-Known Atlanta Wo man Who Was Be lieved to Be Hopelessly 111 May Recover. Atlanta, (la., Jan. 9.—(Special.)— According to the attending physician, Miss Rowena Peyton, the aged wo man who ‘'or many years has beoti peddling matches, chewing gum and soap upon the streets of Atlanta and Add 100 Per Cent. thereby won the etubrl$iet of “Moth er Matches," has passed the crisis In her Illness from pneumonia, and la now likely to recover. A relative of the aged peddler who has come here from Sandersvllle, Ga., to minister to the wants of the patient, says Miss Peyton Is very much ererolsed over the story printed Sunday that she had danced with King Edward VII of Eng. land when as the Prince of Wales, he paid a visit to this country many she has never squandered any on dress or riotous living. She Is a poet or no mean ability. Before the war her people were distinguished In many walks of life. Her great uncle was a member of the United States senate from Florida. to value of Your F arms v by using A merican ■—■1BII1IMMMII ■ mini in mi 11 I Field Fence Five Carloads just receive d at >any Mac! Linery T Announce Allegiance to Colombia—Have Never Been Conquered and , May Make Trouble. FK GREENE UNO Hlllll IRE BROUGHT TO TRIAL AT IlST. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 9.—After four years in exile as fugitives from law, Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gay nor appeared in the Federal court today before Judge Emory Speer to answer several indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government, with embezzlement and receiving stolen money, knowing it to have been stolen. COUNCIL HELD RAILROAD ASKS FOR FRONT STREET FRANCHISE-OR DINANCE READ PROVIDED PAVING SIDEWALKS. 7 q’clock a. meeetlng that Is likely to set the pace for strenuoslty .for the year. The first half hour of the session was consumed with routine matters, among other things a large number of dray and hack bonds being accepted. Council decided that all hacks which bad been condemned by the hack in spector were permanently put out of commission and that they could not be licensed again after undergoing a coat of paint and other skimpy repairs. years ago. Miss PeytonMs supposed A resolution from the board of po- to bavo considerable money, aHhougiT TEctT comnilil'stonors was read' by Clerk the Ceorgla Northern and the Albany & Northern roads a franchise on Front street. When tlio matter was Introduced by Col. Walters, Aldermen Jones, Tiirver and Ehrlich, members of the special committee to which the matter was -eferred, all slated Hint they preferred nol to act. on the ordinance Inst nlglt, ns they had not been uble to decide JiiBt wlint require ments would ho ir\do of the roads ns to the crossing of Broad street at I he entrane eto the county bridge,,, it seemed the sense of the council that a tunnel should he used at this cross. Ing, but they were unable to deter mine, In the absence of drawings seemd the snso or the council last showing tiro grades, etc., what effect such a tunnel would have on Front street. Col. Walters and the Messrs. Pld- cock wore Insistent that the ordinance be passed last night, for reasons which were explained to the council, and With every chair, save that of Al derman P. H. Jones, occupied, and the council chamber crowded with those whose business called them be fore that body, the aldermanlo board ,, ... „ ... meeting with the amendatory clause last night, the 1906 council, began at that t , V6 r , ghtB Bl . aate( , In the ordl . Bust. In It the sense of-.that body was conveyed to the council as fa voring the addition to Iho police forre of Hie city of one or two blcy cle mounted poll<’»men and also tlio nace were subject to the work being done by plans which should be first approved by the council, and that the TallroadB should give the city Indem nifying bonds against any damage to adjacent property. The members of the council seemed inclined to grant toe privileges Bought but they wore wary about passing an ordinance without further deliberation) even under the apparently fair prop osition of the railroads. Mr. J. S. Crews, vlce-prosldent and general manager or the Albany & Northern reiki. was flnall^geht "or by Col. Walters, and the matter was TWO IMFOKTINT DEB* Bt HE SFiTE SUPREME Judge Cann’s Stove .Rate Decision Reversed—Ex- x press Company and Liquor. Atlanta, Jan. 9.—(Special.)—The supromo court has reversed Judge Cann In the Injunction agnlnst the railroad commission to prevent the enforcement of certain Btovo rateB 1 from Atlanta, Rome, Dalton and Rock- innrt. Savnnnh parties sought to enjoin the commission from enforcing the rates, and Judge Cann granted the Injunction. The supreme court to. day reversed Judge Cann on the ground that the Chatham court had no jurisdiction. The court does not enter Into the merits of the case. The supreme court also upheld a mandamus granted by Judge Pen dleton, of Fulton county, to force the Southern Express Company to haul liquor to Lawrencevllle. Tliht. town passed an ordinance fixing a llcosne of $1,000 to send 'lquor Into the place. The express company refused to pay the same or to handle liquor. E. M. Rose, of Atlanta, sought to com pel by mandamus. The supreme court hold that the Express Company ■was. a common carrier, and that the Lawroncevlllo ordinance was null and void. nu BE SEMITE COUMITTEL Washington, Jan. 9.—All matters relating to the Fa ama canal and the government of the canal zone and management of Panama railroads will be investigated by the senate committee on inter-oceanic canals. This was decide they urged the council to adopt tho at t jj e mee ting of the committee today. The investigation ordinance submitted at the previous , _ will begin next Tuesday; NEW PUMPS ARE Last of Electrically Driven Machinery for Munici pal Plant Nearly Ready for Operation. The Worthington cloctrlc pumps, again taken up and dlscussod at 'ordered sevoral months ago for the length. Alderman Jones asked Mr. cilv electric plant, hut delayed for vij- Crews If his road, In consideration of the city's granting tho franchise providing of belts and side, arms for. on Front street, w< uld relinquish all all the city's nfllcera. Alderman Jones, j rights on Washington street, except. In opposing the adoption of the roso- for street car purposes. New York, Jan. 9—A Herald dis patch from Panama says that Infor mation has been received there that the San Bias Indians of the lower At lantic coast have announced their allegiance to Colombia. About 30,000 of these Indians are scattered along a hundred miles of the most, fertile part of the coast of Panama. The re volt against Panama's rule, it Is said, has been fermented by Colombians, and as the Indians have, never been conquered, the matter of bringing (hem back to Panama may prove serious. The Equitable Building and Loan Association has decided to liquidate and go out of business. This does not mean failure. The Officers and principal stockholders feel that the assoclatiou ha served its term of usefulness, however, and they have concluded to wind up its affairs, paying off the stockholders and discharging all its .obligations In full. The reasons which actu ate those in control of the association are fully set forth In an interview wltn Mr. S. Reich, the president, which Is published elsewhere in to day’s Herald. A notice to the stock holders, who are notified that tbelr stock certificates will be paid off on presentation to the secretary, is also published in today's Herald, The local chapter of the Knights of Maccabees of the World held a meeting l^dt night, the first alnco the organization of the chapter. The meeting was enthusiastic, and was aige'} attended. lutlon of the commission, gave some Interesting figures, showing that the expenses t,o the city for this year would he $16,400 in excess o’ what they had ever been. His motion not In adil another man to the police force was carried, byt the council voted to provide belts and side arms of late and approved design, as suggested. Alderman Tarver, as chairman of the street committee, stated that he was of the opinion that the street work could he done with better re sults If a smaller gang of convicts should work the streets constantly than by using the 'entire county force at intervals during the year. Thd mat ter was referred tr-the street commit tee for report at. o called meeting. The purchase of 1,000 feet of addi tional hose for the fire department, an expenditure strongly urged by the fire committee of last year and no less earnestly advocated by the pres ent fire committee, was referred to that committee with power to act. An ordinance w«s introduced by Alderman Jones and submitted for first reading providing for the pave ment. of the sidewalks on 62 blocks In the principal p-ttion of the city. The ordinance provides for a 7-foot pavement on both sides of Commerce street from Monroe to Washington, both sides of Bropfl, Pine and Flint, from Monroe to Front: both sides of Tift street from Monroe to Jackson; both sides of Residence street from Monroe to Washington; both sides of Jefferson and Jackson streets from Commerce street to Society street. Upon the reading of this ordinance Alderman Ehrlich arose and stated that he wasopposed to its passage, that he waB opposed to Its passage, who Bpoke In support of the ordi nance. The matter of naming and number ing the streets and booses was pass ed over for the present, council decid ed that this was an expenditure which could be hold over for a year or two. There appeared before the body last night Mr. J. N. Pldeock, retiring president yf the Georgia Northern railroad; Mr. C. W. Pldeock, the road's new president; Col. J. W. Walters, the road’s attorney, who sought for the passage of an ordinance granting Mr. Crews replied frankly that aitch an outcome had teen discussed by the officials of the A. & N„ but that while lie felt reasonably sure that such an agreement would he sails.'ac- tory to his road, he was not author ized then to enter Into such an agree ment. The matter, was finally left standing until a called meeting this afternoon at 3 o’clock, when it will come up for final settlement. A motion to adjourn was then car ried. 23 means exit. 9-tf rlous" reasons, have at laBt been rd- eelved and placed on. lliolr founda Hons nt the municipal plant on North streets. This completes the equipment of f,ho iiea- plant, whose machinery Is practically a duplicate of that. In the old except that In the one It Is pro pelled by electricity nnd the other by stoam. The electric air li t pump arrived several months.ago, but for weeks awaited tho arrival of the motor In tended to drive It. The air lift ma chine is now In s'locessful operation, however, and Is found to meet fully all demands made upon it. 1 Unlike the old Deane steam pumps I which they supersede, the new olec- [ trie Worthingtons are not of the same size and capacity. The larger pump | has a capacity of 1 (100 gallons a min ute, or little less ‘hsn n million nnd a half gallons a dya. This pump Is | driven by a 70 horse power motor. I The smuller pump Is driven by a 26 | horse-power motor, and has a propor- j tlonately smaller capacity. Both pumps have their' motors direct ! coupled, while tho air lift machine Is An Atlanta Young Man drlven *>- v meana °f a chal "‘ _ , _ | As soon as the new pumps nro 11m- Wno turned burglar t)ernil up an(1 I)1It i„. commission, the Had a Close Call for transformation of the plant will jhavc been completed. HIS Life. Streets and buildings In tho city will he lighted from the Btg Shoals, Atlanta, Ga,, Jen, 9.—(Special.)— the current passing through the mu- Luther Thurman, aged 18, of 719 Ma-1 nldpal plant. rietta street who admits being a| The air li't machine, working in burglar, probably owes his life to tho the big artesian well, and the pumps, fact that a bullet to tho revolver of j working direct on mains, will be driv- one of the officers making the arrest' en by the same Big Shoals electric dropped out of the weapon. When the power. youth was caught red-handed In saloon . Not a pound of coal will ho consum- at 35 Decatur street he attempted to ' e d, and the boilers will he cold from ran. The officers making the dlscov- week’s end to week’s end. All the cry called to him to halt. He ran the steam machinery .will bo kept Intact, faster. One of the patrolmen drew his however, and ready to run on a few gun and pulled the trigger. There wag ! minutes notice in case accident or no report The hamfiner ^had fallen!high water should Interfere with the on an empty Bhell Thurman Barren , j operation of the big power plant on dered and was taken to police head- the Muckafoonee. ~ / quarters. “I guess I’ll get about eight years for this job* was his remark to newspaper men yesterday. Late In the afternoon he was bound over to the state courts. OFFICER’S PISTOL FAILED TO FIRE. BIG FIRE IN DALLAS SOUTH BOSTON HAS A THREATENING FIRE Fire Started In th» Warehouse Die trlet Thle Morning. Boston, Jan. 9.—Fire of throeti Ing proportions broke out the warehouse district In South ton. Within an hour' the firemen i od the flamos to one warehouse danger of a serious spread Is 1 past .-TM loss Is ,s to $100,000, partly Insured. Cieii! But you have a mean Lion. iVJ.1 m Always leave them laughing when you say Good bye. One Man Suffocated and Two Others Probably Fatally Injured. , Dallas, Jan. 9.—Wire this morning damaged the Knepfley building In tho 9-tf business district, $50,000. One man i was suffocated, another fatally and a j Life Is a funny proposition a ter all. third seriously, injured. The loss Is I 9-tf. nrerAMAfl h covered by Insurance. And kave tkem filled ky experienced pkarmacists witk pure ingredients and exactly , in tke manner tkat your*pkysician wants tkem compounded. 5 55 Hilsman-Sali i INDSTINCT PRINT M'