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IN FIRST DEGREE
Is the Charge Upon Which
Geo. W. PerKins, Former
Vice President of New
YOrR Life, is Arrested.
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New York, March 28.—George W.
• Perkins, formerly vice-president of the
New York Lit* Insurance Co., was ar
rested today on the charge of grand
larceny In the, first degree. PerklnB
appealed his case from, Magistrate
Moss to be taken Immediately before
a Supreme Court Justice, where be
presented a petition for a writ of
habeas corpus, alleging that he waB
restrained of bis liberty and had not
,been committed by the judge of any
tribunal. He declared his arrest and
restraint Illegal.
MAYOR OF THUNDERBOLT
AND HIS BATH HOUSE.
A Citizen Asks for an injunction
Against Nude Bathers.
Special to The .Herald.
Savannah, Ga., -March 28. — For a
couple of days the Superior Court of
Chatham county has been wrestling
with an Injunction suit from the town
of Thunderbolt.
Mr. Ernest Schmitt, who owns a
home In sight of the bath house of
Mr. W. W. Airmar, the mayor of
Thunderbolt, )ls after him for per
mitting men and boys to go In bath
ing in a nude condition at his bath
house. Mr. Schmitt complalfis that
his wife and company are often
shocked by the nnde condition of
young men and boys who lead into
the water from the springboard at
the Airmar bathing place. He wants
an injunction to prevent any such ex
hibitions during the coming summer.
He had his fill last summer.
Mr. Airmar contends that there Is
nothing Immodest about the action of
the bathers, and he doesn't want them
to be made to stop.
It will remain to be seen whether
^he masculine company of the mayor
can disport themselveB during the
heated term as they did last year.
The court will decide the question
within the next few dayB. i
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Altai
ny
Machinery
Co.
Atlanta Woman Who Shot Her Sister Will Have
to Go to Trial.
AT THIS SESSION PE CONGRESS.
No Action hy Congress Would Leave the President
and Commission Free to Act.
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Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA, Ga., March 28.—Mrs. Willie Standlfer, who shot and
killed her sister, Miss Chappelle Whlsenant, on March 9, because of al
leged relations between Mrs. Standlfer’s husband and the young woman,
was indicted on the charge of murder by the grand jury of Fulton county
today.
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By Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga„ March 28.—Mrs Willie Standlfer, who shot and
killed her sister, Miss'Chapelle Whlsenant, March 9, was indicted for
murder this morning by the Fulton county grand jury.
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THE OTHER END.
Thomasville Paper Up in
Arms Against Train 'Ser
vice on Atlantic Coast
Line Branch. ’
Here comes the Thomasville Times-
Enterprise with ah editorial kick
against the passenger service on the
Atlantic CoaBt Line, S., F. & W.
branch, between Thomasville and Al
bany.
The Herald has already printed col
umns about the service on the B.. &
W. branch of the same svstem, be
tween Albany and Brunswick, but
called off the dogs of war some time
ago In consideration of the positive
promise by officials of the road that
the conditions complained of would be
remedied.
The Tlmes-Enterprise of this morn
ing says:
“In Justice to Its patronB the Atlan
tic- Coast Line ought to • improve its
rolling stock between Thomasville
and Albany. The equipment is In
such a condition as to make traveling
on that branch a very uncertain mat
ter. Not once, but a half dozen times
during the last few weeks,' the train
due to leave here at 9:26 In the morn
ing has been delayed from one to
three hours on account of the engine
breaking down. The word ‘engine’ is
used by courtesy. It was an engine
once.
"This Is very annoying to travelers.
It causes a waste of time at the depot,
and makes them miss their connec
tions at Albany. And there is no ex-
cuse for It. The Coast Line Is amply
able to purchase new equipment. The
cars on the road are old, dirty and
uncomfortable, and lt # is adding insult
to Injury to make the people travel
in them. Even this would be forgiven
if the service were reliable. Folks
will travel on a cattle car if it will
take them where they want to go, at
the time they want to go.
“It will take organized effort to
bring about any betterment The
Coast Line officials are not going to
put In new engines and comfortable
cars Just because this newspaper has
registered a kick. In fact, they may
not read this kick at all. But you
have read It, now go do the rest of
your kicking yourself. If the people
who travel, those who pay railroad
fare, will Join In a dignified protest
through the proper channels, their ap
peal will be accorded due attention.
If they continue to fuss on the street
corners and In the depots, the railroad
will take Its own sweet time about
remedying' things. And when that
time comes most of the residents of
this city who read thiB will be too
qld and decrepit to travel. Kick, but
kick right”
SAVANNAH ODD FELLOWS
HAVE PLEASANT TIME.
Special to The Herald.
Savannah, Ga;, March 28. — Last
night at Odd Fellow’s HalL three
lodges of Odd Fellows adopted a plan
of entertainment that Odd Fellows in
other cities might adopt with profit,
\ They combined and gave a musical
entertainment,1tollowed by serving re
freshments. This is a monthly affair
with these three lodges, Acorn, Con
cord and DeKalb. Once a month one
lodge acts as host for the other two.
AFTER A BIFF
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Pretty Young Birmingham
Woman Left Home-Held
Up in Atlanta—Suspected
Man Not With Her.
Special to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga., March 28. — Charged
with deserting her home and hUBband
In Birmingham, Ala., and eloping with
another man on a midnight train, for
Atlanta, Mrs. Catherine Shivers, an
unusually pretty young woman, Is de
tained at police barracks pending ad
vices from Birmingham. Late Mon
day night the police department was
notified by phone by the chief of pc-
lice in Birmingham that Mrs. Shivers
was on the train due to arrive in At
lanta between 6 and 6 o’clock in the
evening. The police here were asked
to detain her and, her companion. An
officer was detailed, and met the train
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at the Terminal station. He had no
trouble In- singling the pretty Mrs,
Shivers out of the crowd of passen
gers, and' escorted her-..to the police
barracks In a cab. 1
■Mrs. Shivers is apparently about. 22
years of age. She Is a brunette with
very high coloring. She is dressed
stylishly. She says her married life
was not ns bad ns It might have been,
but she didn’t like Birmingham and
Jiad repeatedly begged her husband to
move to Atlanta. She says they had
a tiff the other night and she decided
to leave and go to her people In Louis
ville, Ky. She says she was bound
for Kentucky when arrested, Mrs,
Shivers denies that she left Birming
ham In company with anyone. She
says the report that she was with a
man probably gained currency from
tbe fact that a married friend helped
her with her luggage at the railway
station In Birmingham.
MORE POSTAL CLERKS
ON THE EXTENSION
For,
to
Be Increased Next, Sunday
From Four to 8ix.
The Increase of the postal business
on the Central of . Georgia railway
west of Albany has made It necessary
to add two mall clerks to the force
hitherto employed on that line.
The change ordered by the su
perintendent of the Batiway Mall Ser
vice will become effective on Monday.
There are now four clerks on the run
from Albany to Lockhart, Ala., via
Smlthvllle, and the force will be in
creased to six.
There has been a steady increase
of the volume of mall handled on the
line of the Central west of Albahy.
fhe time Is only a few years back
when one clerk did all the work, there
being but one mall train a day each
way. Now six clerks will be kept busy
tbe year round.
No section of the country Is build
ing up more rapidly than that along
the line of wbat Is still, as it has been
since It was built, called “the Exten
sion.”
Mrs. J. McC. Hill entertained this
morning Informally at bridge in
honor of her guest, Mrs. Alex Reid, of
Columbus. The first prize, a hand
some deck of cards, was won by Mrs,
J. Paul Munnerlyn.
WASHINGTON, March 28.—Canal legislation at the present session
of Congress is regarded as extremely Improbable. Tbe Senate committee
has devoted two months to Investigation, and Is unable yet to frame a
bill. The House committee Is- not disposed to accept the testimony taken
by the Senate committee as to the feasibility of lock or Bea-lc ( vel canals.
The witnesses before the committee have been divided aB to the Better
type to adopt.
No action would leave the President and Canal Commission free to
adopt a type, and In such event the lock system would prevail.
General sentiment favors contract construction.
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RAS A GREAT FIRE.
Fire Raged for Three Hours
in Business Section and
Finally Burned Itself
Out
Johnstown, Pa., March 28.—A fire
which threatened the entire destruc
tion of the business section of the city
raged three hours after midnight to
day and Was controlled only when the
fire practically burned Itself out and
caused a property loss of (800,’000 and
the death of one fireman, who was
caught under a falling wall, tl ip also
reported that the telegraph operator
for the Publisher's Press was burned
to death. The firemen were seriously
handicapped by Inadequate equipment
and bursting hose. Five large build-
lngs were destroyed.
MINERS AND OPERATORS
IN FINAL CONFERENCE.
.No- Apparent Prospect Ykt of an
Agreement.
Indianapolis, Ind„ March 28. rr- The
joint conference of bituminous coal
operators and miners met this morn
ing In what is generally understood
to be the final effort to rpach an
agreement on the wage scale In IHln-
ols, Indiana, Ohio and Western Penn
sylvania. No move has been made
since adjournment yesterday, and the
deadlock is apparently as firm as ever.
MORE WARRANTS ISSUED
FOR INSURANCE MEN.
District Attorney Jerome Procuring
Witnesses In John Doe Proceedings.
New York, March 28.—District At
torney Jerome had a conference today
with Police Magistrate Moss and Jus
tice Downing, at which, It Is reported,
Jerome secured warrants for the ar
rest of prominent life lnsur^ce of
ficials on summonses to appear in the
John Doe proceedings. The action Is
based on evidence showing that po
litical contributions were made by of
ficers of life Insurance companies
TWELVE ITALIANS
IN DESPERATE FIGHT.
8lx Dead Bodies Found In Room, Four
Literally Cut to Pieces.
Minneapolis, Minn., March 28.—The
bodies of bIx Italians were found In a
room here early this morning. It is
reported that twelve men were In a
fight Neighbors .called the police,
who entered the shack were the fight
occurred. The bodies of four of the
men were liberally stabbed to pieces.
BRODIE L. DUKE
GETS HIS DIVORCE.
New York, March 28. — Brodle 1*
Duke was today .granted a divorce
from his wife, Alice Webb Duke, to
whom he was married In December,
1901.
ALBANY TO RAVE
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Matter in Hands of Business
League, and Promises to
Be WorKed to Successful
Conclusion.
Trade days in Albany!
We are going to have them.
Not because trade In Albany needB
stimulating, or because Albany busi
ness meg are dissatisfied with present
conditions, but for the reason that It
Is desired to have parties resident In
the section embraced in the territory
within a radius of fifty miles of Albany
take advantage of trade conditions as
they exist in this market
Albanyi being the'largest city and
principal market In this Immediate
part of the state, offers opportunities
which are not unappreciated by the
people with many wants to be filled
by retail dealers.
Trade days In Albany villi not be
antagonistic to the merchants of
smaller towns, it Is well known that
very many of the residents' of- these
towns now come to A^iany to do a
certain amount of their trading—to
purchase articles which can not be
secured from the more limited stocks
of country stores.
To begin with, there will probably
be one trade day In every month, but
later they will be more frequent, oc
curring probably once a week. On
these.trade days, each merchant in
Albany will have on his counters some
“leader”—that is, Borne article on
which he has placed a special price
and offers as a special Inducement to
buyers. ,
Trade days will be Judiciously ad
vertised well in advance, and busi
ness men will at the-same time adver
tise their special offerings.
In addition to all this, there will
be the Inducement to out-of-town
parties of a refunding of railroad fare
If amounts to a certain aggregate are
spent with Albany merchants. For
each purchase, a buyer will receive a
coupon. If these coupons, secured
on a trade day, reach a certain total,
the buyer will have his or her entire
railroad fare refunded, or in case of
a smaller aggregate,, will have re
funded such portion of such fare as
Is called tor by the coupons.
The details of these trade days re
main to be worked out, but they are
In the hands of the Albany Business
League, which can be depended upon
to carry the matter through to a suc
cessful termination.
ED ADAMS INDICTED
ATTEMPT TO ASSAULT.
Discoveries Made After the
Death of Mrs. Ada Lang
ston, of Atlanta, Lead to
Charges Against Husband.
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Special to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga. t March 28.—The coro
ner’s jury which made an Investiga
tion of the death of Mrs. Ada Lang
ston, the beautiful young wife of J.
D. Langston, manager of a ten-cent
store on Marietta street, yesterday af
ternoon rendered a verdict to the ef
fect ' that the woman had come to
her death from natural causes, being
due to eure&mlo poisoning, ' but rec
ommended that the husband he ex
amined by the Fulton grand jury on
the charge of mistreating his wife
while she was 111.
Mrs. Langston died- Sunday at her
home on West Baker streeL The
finding of several peculiar bruises on
the corpse caused ttie police and de
tective department hbads to decide
that an investigation be made at once
by the coroner’s Jury. In the mean
time Langston, the husband, was
guarded in his house by police offi
cers. Mrs. Roxle Archer, of 131 West
Baker street, a neighbor, testified that
while on her deathbed Mrs. Langston
had confided to her that Langston
had mistreated her. "But don’t
breathe a word of this to any ono,”
the slok woman had. begged of,tho
witness. A mjgro girl who worked
for the Langstons ’ testified that she
had seen Langston beat his wife on
one occasion. --The man who em
balmed the body ot, Mrs^ Langston M ,
burial said he had found a number
of bruises on the corpse. He thought,
they looked freshly made.
GOVERNOR PATTISON
MUCH BETTER TODAY.
Fulton
County Grand Jury Indicts
Negro Janitor on Serious Charge.
8pedal to The Herald.
Atlanta, Ga, March 28.—Ed Adams,
the negro janitor of the Walker street
public school, who was arrested sev
eral days ago charged with attempting
to assault Lollle, Belle Ward, the 16-
year-old daughter of Rev. A. 0. Ward,
pastor of the Temple Baptist church,
was indicted this morning by the Ful
ton granltl jury for attempt to assault
ColumbUB, Ohio, March 28. — Gov
ernor Pattison was reported m.uob
better this morning..
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