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ADVANCE
VOLUMJE y.
MILLARD LEE HUNG
Pays Penalty for the Murder
of Miss Sutiles.
EXECUTION IN ATLANTA
Crime Was Committed Eighteen
Months Ago and Murderer Re¬
spited a Number of Times
by the Governor.
Millard Lea, wh,- murdered Lilia May
Settles on Sunday, May 23, 1902, m
Wesley chapel, ncak Ben Hill, Ga.,
was hanged Friday morning in (he At¬
lanta jail. Thirteen minutes later he
was pronounced dead.
With a smile of content on his face
and without a tremor in his frame,
Lee walked to the gallows, stood on
the death trap and prepared for tho
death he knew must come.
“Have you anything to say, Mil¬
lard?” asked Sheriff J. W. Nelms a
minute before the trap fell.
“Only that young men should read
their Bibles and pray. Take warning
from me. Oh, God, have mercy on
my soul!” were tho last words of the
young murderer.
Leo was the most composed man in
the gallows reem. Save for the con-
etant movement yf his fingers and the
occasional twj^chfng of his lips ho
displayed no emotion a3 he marched
to the gallows or as he stood while
his arms and legs were being tiod.
The execution was very orderly and
there was not tho slightest hitch from
beginning to end. Everything had
been co carefully arranged that there
was not a second’s delay.
Lee died a professed Christian, rnd
said lie was going straig.it to heaven,
there to meet the girl for whose mur¬
der he paid the penalty on the gallows.
Dr, J. M. Sullies, father of the dead
girl, was one of the men present in
the gallows room when Lee plunged
through the trap to death. During the
entire ocean!or. he spoke to no one.
face was immobile as the slayer
of his daughter went to death. He
left the Tower within a few moments
after the hanging had been completed.
A grsat crowd gathered around the
Tower early, dosplt© tie fact that 'hey
knew they could not be admitted to
the jail. T!iq rain which fell just be¬
fore the hanging did not drive them
away.
Story cf the Crime.
On Sunday morning. May 23th of
last year, just as the last notes of the
doxoiogy were dying away, end as Ihe
hundred worshipers in tho Tittle Wes¬
ley Chapel, at Ben Hill, a settlement
seven miles from Atlanta, bowed
their heads in prayer, Millard Leo, Ejpn
cf a well known planter living in Ihe
neighborhood, shot end instantly kill¬
ed beautiful Lilia May guttles, a play¬
mate from childhood and the object
of his devotion in manhood. Unre¬
quited love was tho cause et the trag¬
edy.
Lee asraped from the church, hut
was captured next morning, just at
daybreak, at Mobelton, 15 mile? Trom
the place where he shot his sweet¬
heart. He had gone there with the
evident intention of boarding a train
for Alabama, which was due to pass
within a few moments after he show¬
ed himself to the officers.
'Almost from infancy Lee had loved
Lilia May Settles, the daughter of Dr.
.T. M. Settles, a neighbor to the Lee?.
The two had been playmates in child¬
hood and had been thrown together
much in the frolic? of the country¬
side. Lee’s queer actions, hi3 evident
desire to shun every living man and
his brusqueness turned tho girl away
from him and she began to avoid him
in every way. This made Lee ever
more sullen and morose.
Six time? since he committed the
murder he had been respited bv Gov¬
ernor Terrell, awaiting now trials and
action on the part of the supreme
court. Every court, however, .declar¬
ed him to be sane and to have com¬
mitted a murder.
The final decision was handed down
by the state supreme court Thursday,
only one day before the execution.
JUDGE CLARK ARBITRATOR.
Officials of United Mine Workers and
Operators Fail to Agree.
National Organizqr Rice, of the
United Mine Workers of America, to¬
gether with District Organizer Brown,
J. T. Kill and Arch McDonald, the last
two on behalf of the mine operators
and the four composing a board of ar¬
bitration to settle the differences be¬
tween operatives and operators of
mines in Kentucky, adjourned at
Chattanooga Thursday, after a con¬
ference lasting several days.
They were unable to agree rfirt
agreed to leave tho question at issue
to United States udge C. D. Clark.
DOLE APPOINTED JUDGE.
Governor of Hawaii is Given a New
Berth by President Roosevelt.
The president, Saturday, appointed
B. Dole, to be United States
a; judge for Hawaii, to succeed
the 1au> Judge Morris M. Estee, and
George & Carter, secretary ol Hawaii,
to be governor of the same to succe5d
Governor Dole:
"Both appointments will be sent to
the senate soon after congress meets.
MUCH DE “ C CASH
Being Wagered on Mayoralty Contest
in New York City Between
McClellan and Low.
r
A New York special says: Plenty
of McClellan money appeared In Wall
street Wednesday, great quantities of
it being in evidence about the Broad-
way hotels. Many thousands of dol¬
lars were wagered on the municipal
election during the day in the finan¬
cial district and, as the McClellan
money kept corning out in evor-in-
creasing volume, the Low backers
grew more conservative. Late in the
afternoon Low money had practically
disappeared and curb bettors who
stiff had i'.; g rolls to place on McClel¬
lan had to go up town to look .or
takers.
It was a banner clay for election bet¬
ting. C. H. Dewitt, who succeeded n
placing $5,000 even on McClellan, an¬
nounced that he had $50,000 more to
bet on the same terms. Later ho was
willing to give odds.
F. H. Brooks, after making* some
small wagers, declared ho still had
$50,000 to bet on McClellan at odds of
10 to 9.
The biggest actual wager of (he day
was $10,000 by Ennis & Newman on
McClellan, C. E. Laidlow, Jr., taking
the Low end. Many wagers of $50C
and $1,000 were made at even money.
F. H. Brooks bet $1,030 to $1,500 that
McClellan would have 10,000 plurality,
and $1,000 to $950 that McClellan will
he elected. C. H. Harris took the
Low side.
It was announced Wednesday night
that Billy Leonard, acting for a syn¬
dicate, had $50,000 at a number of
Broadway hotels to bet on McClellan
at odds of 10 to 9. Joe Vendig, at
the Hoffman, also had a $10,000 roll
to place at the same figures. The bet¬
ting at the hotels was active Wednes¬
day night, though Low men demanded
liberal odds.
DEPOSITORS MUST WAIT.
St. Louis Banks Take Advantage of
Thirty and Sixty Days’ Notices.
A St. Louis special says: Just be¬
fore tho hour of opening Wednesday
the lines of depositors were before
the closed doors of the Mississippi
Valley Trust Company, the "Mercan¬
tile Trust Company and tho Missou¬
ri Trust Company.
Small orowds were also gathered be¬
fore the doors of some of tho other
savings institutions, it was observed
that most of those in line were work-
ing people, and many of them women,
whose savings were not heavy.
Owing to the action taken Tuesday
night by the officials of the eight,
trust companies doing business in St.
Louia, enforcing thirty arid sixty days’
notices of intention to withdraw funds,
depositors were not able to get any
money.
All they could do was to declare
their intention of withdrawing thoir
deposits at the end of the time takci
advantage of by tho companies under
their rules. The trust companies also
decided not to pay certificates of de¬
posit before maturity.
The policemen in trying to handle
the crowd pushed many of them into
the gutter, and in several instances
personal fights were narrowly averted.
CHURCH DICTATES FRANCHISE.
Mem.bers of Western Methodist Re¬
quired to Vote Prohibition Ticket.
The general conference of the West¬
ern Methodist Church of America, in
session at Grand Rapids, Mich., took
action Wednesday looking toward the
merging of that church with the Free
Methodist church.
Tho conference adopted a resolution
which requires all voting members of
the ehurch to vote the ticket of the
prohibition party.
Resolutions commending President
Roosevelt's stand in the Miller case
were adopted, and denouncing the pos¬
sibility cf the seating of a polygamist
in the United States senate.
Philadelphia Theatre Burned.
Fire early Wednesday morning do-
stroyed the Grand Avenue theatre, in
Philadelphia. Ihe loss is estimate;!
at $100,000. The Grand was for many
years the home of a stock company,
but this season was thrown open ro
road companies.
ATTRIBUTED TO SUN SPOTS.
Electrical Phenomena Seriously Di:-
turbing in France and Switzerland.
A London special says: Scientists
attribute the magnetic disturbance of
Saturday to sun spots. Tbs worst
effects of the phenomena appear lo
have been experienced in France, but
Berlin was not affected, and apparent-
ly neither Australia, Italy, nor Dsn-
mark suffered. In Switzerland, how-
ever, there occurred a strange pile-
nomenon. The telephone service
ceased suddenly and remained sus.
pended for half an hour, while the
telegraphs were rendered useless.
BANK ROBBERS IN VTtNNA.
Big Roll of Cash' Reported MiS3ing
and Bloodhounds in Demand.
headquarters T^'egrams were in Macon. received at police
Ga., Friday
night from Vienna asking for blood-
hounds.
The hounds were wanted, the mes-
sage said, to trace a band of bank rob¬
bers who had itist broken into the
bank at that place and had gotten
xway with a big roll of currency.
CARNESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER (>. 1903.
INTO DEATH’S JAWS
Rollicking Members of Foot¬
ball Team are Hurled.
AN APPALLING DISASTER
Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
in Indianapolis Suburbs, Scat¬
tering Death and Destruction.
Sixteen Dead; Fifty Hurt.
A special from Indianapolis, Ind.,
s.ys: Fifteen persona were killed
and over fifty injured, soma fatally,
Saturday morning by a collision be¬
tween a special passenger train on the
Big Four railroad and a freight engine
drawing coal cars. The accident hap¬
pened in tho edge of the city.
Tho passenger train of twelve
coaches was carrying 954 persons,
nearly all pf whom were students of
Purdue university, and their friends
from Lafayette to Indianapolis, for the
annual football game between the
Purdue team and the Indiana univer¬
sity squad for the state championship
which was to have been fought Sat¬
urday afternoon.
In tho first coach back of the en¬
gine were ihe Purdue football team,
substitute phnyers and managers.
Three players, tho assistant coach,
trainer and sever, substitute player 3
of the university ream were killed and
every one of the fifty-three other per¬
sons in the car were either fataHy or
seriously injured.
From Joy to Gloom.
From tho twelve passenger coaches
were con ing the joyous cries of a
thousand rooters for Purdue, clad in
gala dress with colors streaming,
while in the front coach sat twenty
muscular fellows trained to the hour,
on whom tho hopes of a brilliant vic¬
tory oh tho gridiron were confidently
placed.
Around a curve at the Eighteen h
street cut. Engineer Schumaker found
directly in front of him the freight
engine and coal ears moving slowly
from a switch leading to a gravel pit.
He reversed liis engine and jumped.
The crash hurled the passenger en¬
gine and three front coaches against
the steel freight cars loaded with coal
that plowed their way through and
buried under a pile or wreckage
weighing many tons fully sixty human
beings,
Tho first car, in which were the
player?, was completely demolished,
the roof being torn away and landing
across a car of coal, while the body
of the car was reduced to kindling
wood against the side of the steel
freight cars. The second coach, eon-
tabling the band of musicians, was
partially telescoped, while the third
was overturned and hurled down a
15-foot embankment.
The other coaches did not leave
the track. Immediately after the
shock the passengers,men and women,
began the work of tearing away the
wreckage and pulling out dead and
dying classmates and fraternity
brothers. Tho young women perform¬
ed heroic work. Though the bodies
were in several instances horribly
mangled—one completely and one par¬
tially beheaded—they took upon their
laps the heads of the dying and in¬
jured and soothed their sufferings as
best they could until the surgeons
arrived.
A general alarm was sounded and
every assistance the city could afford
was rushed to the wreck, which was
three miles from the business center.
While the dead and injured were be-
ing carrld to the morgues and hospit¬
als, the work of tearing away the
wreck and rescuing those pinned no-
neath went on. Big muscular stu-
dents wept aloud as they stood over
the bodies of their dead friends and
fellow workers or gazed helpless on
t * ie sufferings of their college matei.
writhing in pain. To add to the hor-
ror the wreckage caught, fire, but the
flames were extinguished by the stu-
dents after a hard flght
while the work of rescue was going
Qn there arrive(i in the clt the
p0Elng team and over nine hundred
cheering followers of the) red and
white of Indiana university at Bloom-
ington. As the happy and excited stu-
dents poured from the train news of
the tragedy to the black and gold of
Perdue was received. Instantly all
was sadness and sympathy. The
throng melted into sorrowing groups
that separated to search the morgue
and hospital for friends or took cars
for the scene of the wreck to lend
any possible aid.
The Sixteenth Victim.
William Bailey, of New Richmond,
Ind., sub-player on the Purdue uni-
versity foottjall team, died Sunday af-
ternoon from internal injuries receiv-
ed in the Big Four wreck. This is the
sixteenth death. j
Fourteen dead bodies were shipped
to their homes during the day.
WAS FOUNDER OF ANNISTON.
William Nob^e, Prominent Alabama
Citizen, Passes from Earth.
William Noble died in Anniston,
Ala., Thursday night. Ho had been
in falling health for the last throe
years. He had only recently returned
from Noble’s infirmary in Atlanta, and
was thought to be much improved.
He was one- of the founders cf An-
nl&ton, and was known ail over tho
south,
TWENTY-FIVE VICTIMS.
Twenty-One Men, Three Women and a
Babe Lose Life In Tenement House
Holocaust at New York.
Twenty-one men, three women and
a lO-monfh&old babe, nearly all Ital¬
ians, were burned to death or suffo¬
cated in a firo that started early Sun¬
day morning in the "1101180 of all Na¬
tions,” a five-story tenement house at
426 Eleventh avenue, New York, and
which the police hnd coroner believe
to bo of incendiary origin.
Some of the peculiar features of the
disaster, in addition to the startling
loss cf life, are that (he fire was prac¬
tically extinguished in twenty min¬
utes; that the nolle could learn of
but one person being injured, other
than those who lost their lives, and
that the property loss was only
$7,000.
Were Celebrating Hallowe’en.
The only person injured, so far as
can bo learned, is Larry Jancquinn, 4?
years old, who was burned about the
face and hands by leaping from the
second floor fire escape to the ground.
In several apartments Hallowe'en par¬
ties were in progress and the guests
at those added greatly to the number
of persons in the house and made the
crush and jam to escape more than it
ordinarily would have been. Al¬
though plentifully provided with flip
escapes, front and rear, escape by
that means was cut off a few minutes
after the fire started by tho bodies ot
the dead becoming wedged in the
openings leading to the ladders. The
fire had been burning for soma min¬
utes before it was discovered. It had
started in the basement and, rushing
upward, had attacked the stairway
leading to the apartments. In a short
space of time the flames had so en¬
veloped the stairway that egress from
the building by it was impossible. The.
house from the third to the fifth floor
was entirely destroyed.
All Exits Entirely Blocked.
At the windows, front and rear,
bodies of men and women were jam¬
med, showing that a desperate strug¬
gle to get free had r,.'suited in the
complete choking of these exits to the
firo escapes, and had been the cause
of a number of inmates being suffo¬
cated.
Lying on a bed alongside a window
at the rear of the fourth floor, the fire
men found the bodies of five mon.
Each had clutched the one next to him
in an endeavor to push him away in
order to get to the firo escape outside.
The features of tho men were distort¬
ed, some with rage, others with
agony, and, in two instances, the men
had gripped each other so hard that
blood had been drawn and had run
over their hands.
WENTZ HELD FOR RANSOM.
Young Millionaire Now Said to bs
Prisoner in Cumberland Mountains.
Robert L. Brown, president of a
prominent coal company in Wise coun¬
ty, Virginia, is quoted as having said
that on Friday afternoon the Wentz
family received tidings of Edward L.
Wentz, the missing young Philadel¬
phia millionaire.
A shrewd looking young man, it is
stated, appeared at the Wentz man¬
sion at Big Stone Gap. Va., and re¬
quested a conference with Dr. John S.
Wentz, father of tie missing young
man.
He was admitted, when he told Dr.
Wentz tjaat his son was alive and well,
and that he had been authorized to
say that for $100,000 voting Wen-z,
who was then in handcuffs in the Cum¬
berland mountains, would be delivered
to the family unharmed.
Dr. Wentz, it is said, told the strun-
ge r that he would have first to bring
him a letter from his son as an evi-
dence that he was alive, and that then
his proposition would be considered,
The stranger agreed to this, and
immediately left for the mountains.
He was shadowed and was seen to
get off the train at the mining village
of Esservilie when he disatinoareJ * in
the tne direct directKm on of the Cumberland Cumberland moun-
tains.
Three Killed; Four Injured.
Three men were killed and four in-
jured at Farmington, Ill., Saturday by
falling slate in the Newsam mine.
COLOMBIANS ARE DULL.
Difficult to Convince Them that Canal
Treaty is Defunct.
Advices received at the state depart-
me nt f ram unofficial sources indicate
^at there again has been a change :n
the sentiment of the Colombian sen
ate respecting the Panama canal.
Th o agents of the state department
have found it difficult to make plain
the fact, even to the Colombians, that
the Hay-Herran canal treaty is abso-
lately and finally dead, and that no ac-
Hon of tho Colombian senate can res-
urrect it. Entirely new negotiations
are necessary, and none such have
been instituted.
- SPALDING WINS FIRST PRIZE.
Hustling Georgia County Awarded
$1,500 at State Fair in Macon.
Spalding county, Ga., gets the $1,500
given by the Macon Fair Association
for the best, county display,
Jones county secures the $1,200 of-
fered for the second best county dis-
play, while Houston county is award
ed the $900 hung for the third best
county display.
PICKING HALF OVER
The Curtailed Cotton Crop
Will Soon be Gathered.
FURTHER DETERIORATION
New York Journal of Commerce Issues
Final Report for the Sea¬
son—3ome Interesting
Deductions.
Tho Journal of Commerce, New
York, issued its October cotton report
Friday—the final one of the season.
The points of inquiry were:
1. Increase or decrease in condition
compared with last^month.
2. Increase or decrease in yield com¬
pared with last year.
3. The proportion of crop picked.
No attempt is made at estimating
the yield; that amusement is left to
readers. The remarks of correspond¬
ents are so much better than percent¬
age reports that wo have refrained
from averaging tho latter. The con¬
census of 1,275 reports made by cor-
'respendents indicate a decrease of 6
points iij condition during tho month,
a decrease In yield and of 57 per cent
on the crop picked, tho average date
of replies being October 21. These re¬
ports antedate the recent frost wave,
which seems to have done little dam¬
age except to top crops and conse¬
quently affects the above returns but
slightly.
Reports from the whole cotton belt
show weather conditions to be more
favorable for picking. Even had the
crop not been from two to four weeks
late, picking would have been delayed
by a scarcity of labor. Last year at
this time our reports show tho crop
to have been about three-quarters
picked, compared w-ith 67 per cent
now. The remaining 45 per cent ha3
been subjected in many localities to
fro3ts, in.numerous instances killing
ones. Correspondents’ opinions regard¬
ing the effects of frost are conflicting,
but it is very often regarded as bene¬
ficial.
What damage frost has dona is
chiefly confined to the top crop, the
prospects for this portion of the yield
being universally poor, principally on
Recount of the lateness ot the sea¬
son. There is quite a general tenden¬
cy to market cotton as fast as ginned.
Correspondents’ remarks, as (Tist-ln-
guishod from their percentage re¬
ports, are not gloomy if the com¬
plaints of top crop prospects are elim¬
inated. Arltansas and the territories
may be excepted, however. There the
season has been so far backward that
the crop has been very late in open¬
ing, picking having just commenced
in some localities, * and the per cent
already picked being less than in any
other states.
Advices from Texas are conflicting
to such »n extent as to leave a rea-
sonable.doubt whether that state will
not yield as much as last year.
The average decrease in condition
since last month is 6 points and all
states, with the exception of Mis¬
souri, have participated, North Caro¬
lina being 7 points lower; South Caro¬
lina, 6: Georgia, 8; Florida, 11; Ala¬
bama, 6; Mississippi, 3; Louisiana,
9; Texas, 9; Arkansas, 3; Tennessee,
3; Oklahoma, 1; Indian Territory, 1,
while Missouri increased 4.
The percentage of cotton picked is
55 in North Carolina; 68 in South
Carolina; in Georgia it is 65; Florida
71; Alabama 64; Mississippi 61; Ixw-
isiana 55; Texas 62; Arkansas 30;
Tennessee 47; Missouri 26; Oklahoma
19, and the Indian Territory 28.
CHATTANOOGA GETS UNIVERSITY
Literary Department Now Located at
Athens, Tenn., to be Removed.
President J. H. Race, of Grant uni¬
versity, announces that plans are well
under way for moving the literary de¬
partment of the college, now located
at Athens, Tenn., to Chattanooga. Thq
university will receive $12,00© from
the Freemen’s Aid Society, and other
large gifts are' expected. Grant uni¬
versity Is under the jurisdiction of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
TENNESSEE SYNOD ADVERSE.
University Consolidation Project at
Atlanta is Turned Down.
By a vote of 50 to 32 the Tennessee
synod in session at Memphis went on
record Friday as opposing the trans¬
fer of the Southwestern Presbyterian
university from Clarksville to Atlanta,
Ga.
This vote upholds tho unanimous re¬
port from tho committee on bills and
overtures that a committee bo sent to
the conference in Atlanta this month
to inform he synods of the five other
states of the reasons which prevent
the proposed merger.
WILL DISCUSS UNIVERSITY.
The Tennessee Presbyterian. Synod
Holds Forth at Memphis.
The Tennessee synod met in Mem¬
phis Tuesday night and during the ses¬
sions will take up the scheme for con¬
solidating tho Southwestern Presby¬
terian university at Clarksville, Tenn.,
and the Columbia Theological semi-
nary in Columbia, S. C., and establish-
ing a million dollar university at At-
lanta, Ga,
Cream of News.
Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—Will Taylor has been arrested In
Cherokee county, Ga., charged with
the murder of Mrs, Holcomb and her
daughter. The three men charged
with the double murder will have thoir
preliminary hearing at Canton.
—Southern railway southbound
limited, No. 39. ran into a funeral pro¬
cession at Charlotte, N. C., Sunday
morning, demolishing the coffin and
throwing the corpse to the ground.
Four persons were killed.
—The educational meeting at Dur¬
ham, N. C., will be attended by a
large number of prominent college
presidents' of the south. The object of
tho meeting is to enhance uniformity,
—A million dollar Portland cement
plant is to be located” at Selma, Ala.,
by Boston capitalists who have al¬
ready secured options on valuable ce¬
ment rignts.
—General Edward McCrady, the
well known South Carolina author,
and the father of the famous “eight
box law," died at Charleston Sunday.
—At Bartow, Fla., Sunday morning,
dynamiters cracked the safe In the At¬
lantic Coast Line depot, getting about
$160 as their booty.
—Hon. W. A. Riehards,
er of the general land office, reports
that during the past year there was
an increase in the number of suppos¬
edly fraudulent land entries.
—The prank of a negro girl while
celebrating Ilallowo'en in a Chicago
suburb caused the chief of police to
strike her. Her brother killed the
chief and a mob formed to lyn«h the
negro, but officers succeened in get¬
ting him to jail.
—Two cars loaded with dynamite
exploded at Cresline, Ohio, Sunday
night, and the shock was so terrific
that thousands of window glass were
broken, panics occurred in churches
and about five hundred cars were
burned.
—The death list of the victims ot
the wreck on the Big Four railroad,
on Saturday, has reached sixteen.
There are thirty-four victims in hos¬
pital of Purdue university.
—Twenty-five lives lost in tho burn
ing of five story tenement in New
York, known as the "House of All Na¬
tions.” The fire occurred early Sun¬
day morning.
—Gigantic swindle is charged
against Incorporators of the shipbuild-
ing company by Receiver Smith, who
calls It an artistic swinri:-*.
—ooney Island was visited by large
conflagration Sunday. About a million
dollars ot damage done.
—-Street cars stopped and tele¬
phones rendered useless In France and
Switzerland by magnetic disturbance.
Scientists attribute trouble to be caus¬
ed by spots on the sun.
—The rooccupation of Mukden, cap¬
ital of Manchuria, by Russian troops,
has greatly disturbed the Chinese gov¬
ernment, which admits its helpio.is-
nes in the matter.
—Fire In the Vatican does great
damage. The flames broke out in the
hall of inscriptions, where the pope
holds audiences.
—Citizens of Santiago, Cuba, protest
against the stamp tax which went into
effect Sunday.
—The great strike at Bilbao... Spain,
has ended, the miners, getting most of
their demands.
—Sir Henry Durand, British ambas¬
sador to United States, in an interview
says he is delighted over his appoint¬
ment.
—The Russian foreign office de¬
clares that the reoccupation of Muk¬
den, Manchuria, has no connection
with the question of open ports.
—In a special report on cotton is¬
sued Saturday. Bradstreet states that
the crop this year will be no larger
than, if it equals, that of last, year,
which wan 10,727,000 bales.
—The east bound Chicago "Flyer”
of the Santa Fe wag wrecked on a
bridge In Colorado by persons who
hoped to rob the train. No one was
killed, but thirty poisons wore Injured.
—President Roosevelt last Tuesday
celebrated his forty-fifth birth-day.
He received many congratulatory tie-
grams and floral tributes.
—Forty thousand Spain, men are martial on ?.
strike at Bilbao, and
law has been proclaimed. The riot-
ers stone carriages and ci-y "death to
tyrants.”
—It is reported at Yokohama that
Russian troops have invaded the terri¬
tory of Korea.
—The increased rate on lumber is
said to be having a depressing effect
on the business in Georgia. Land own-
ers are thinking of joining the saw
mill men in their fight against tho
railroads.
—At a great democratic mass meet¬
ing held In Baltimore Friday night,
Senator Gorman excoriated President
Roosevelt for his course in regard to
the negroes. He predicted that the
president's policy wouid result in re-
publican defeat.
—The Tennessee synod at Memphis,
by a vote of 50 to 32 adopted the com-
rnittee report advising against the re
moval of the Southwestern Preebyte
rlan university from Clarksville, Tenn.
Tenn., to Atlanta, Ga.
NUMBER fil
ALLEGATIONS FALSE
Say Atlanta Attorneys In
Coming Back at Accusers.
COURT PAPERS RAISE ROW
Th Other Side of Case Drought Before
United States Court at Atlanta
By Building and Lean
Stockholders.
Ellis, Wimbish & Ellis furnish th«
following statement for publication la>
roply to tho Intimations contained in
the interventions filed Tuesday in the
U. S. court at Atlanta by W. P.
McGeo, of Marshall, Texas, and Feld¬
er & R^unrec and W. F. Hill, of Atlan¬
ta, as attorneys lor A. E. Dixon et al.
and Mrs. M. C. Alexander et al., stock¬
holders In the Southern Home and
the Atlanta National Building and
Loan Associations:
To the Public: This morning there
appeared an account cf an interven¬
tion filed in the cases of the Atlanta
National and Southern Home Building,
and Loan associations. Every intima¬
tion in that intervention that the firm
of Ellis, Wimbish & Ellis dissolved
for the purpose of obtaining separate
positions as counsel in connection
with future litigation over the build¬
ing and loan associations is utterly
false. On January 1, 1899, the firm,
of Ellis, Wimbish & Ellis was formed!
in Atlanta. Mr. Wimbish still retain¬
ed his interest in his Columbus firm..
After three months it was ascertained;
that it was impracticable to do a gen¬
eral practice in both cities, so thafc
in May, 1899, Mr. Wimbish returned
to Columbus and the firm of Ellis,
Wimbish & Ellis was dissolved. Th&
receivers were appointed for the.
building and loan association compa¬
nies In April, 1990, nearly a year after
the firm of Ellis, Wimbish & Ellis had
dissolved. The firm was reorganized
in October, 1901, after Mr. Wimbish.
had wound up hi3 Columbus business,
and removed to Atlanta to make thi(j
city exclusively his home, and with 1
the published statement that the part*
nershtp did not include building and,
loan litigation.
The intimation in the intervention!
that Mr. Wimbish had any agreement*
with the board of directors of the*
two associations by which he was en*i
abled, to name the receivers is equab¬
ly false. The fact that the boards ot 1
directors of these companies includ¬
ed such men as G. A. Cabaniss,
Charles E. Currier, Charles S. Kings-
berry and E. C. Atkins alone wouid
have made such an arrangement im¬
possible.
The statement in the intervention,
that the National Finance Company
was not a chartered organization, and
was not the real purchaser is equally
false. The National Finance Company
was a corporation organized under the
laws of the state .of Delaware, having
its principal office at Wilmington, but
being permitted under the laws cf
Delaware to have its home office In
the city of New York. Among other
■well known men connected with the
corporation may bo named Silas B.
Dutcher, president of the Hamilton
Trust Company, and George W. Ad¬
ams, cashier of the Oriental bank of
New York.
The allegation of the intervention
that the corporation is a myth is not
only false, but any inquiry from either
ef the receivers or from any repre¬
sentative of the Finance company
would have furnished the informa¬
tion to show in advance that such a
charge would be false. Neither at the
time of the purchase of the assets or
at any time prior thereto did Mr.
Wimbish have any interest in or con¬
nection with the Finance company.
We had no intimation that this in¬
tervention was being prepared until
we saw the publication this morning.
No effort was made by Inquiry from us
or from the receivers to obtain the
truth. The vile falsehoods, recklessly
and greedily made, which the intar*
ventlons contained were presented ’o
the court and made public without an
effort to obtain the truth.
ANOTHER GRAFT FEATURE. 1
Receiver of Land Office in Oregon Un.
der Indictment.
The United States grand jury at
Portland, Oregon, has returned an, in*
dietment against Asa B. Thompson,
receiver of the land office at La
Grande, that state. The indictment
charges Thompson with soliciting
money to influence his official decision
for approval for homestead applica¬
tions which had been held up for
insufficiency of proof,
The interior department has had
agents in the state for many months
past investigating alleged frauds in
the entFy of public lands,
FIVE STRIKERS SHOT DOWN.
Fierce Rioting Occurs in Bilboa, Spain,
Troops Guard t’he Banks.
u ur j ng the fighting which took place
in the streets of Bilboa, Spain, Wed¬
nesday afternoon, five strikers were
killed and a largo number were
wounded. Th^ and* troops are guarding
the banks public buildings and
a re using strategic positions through
the city in order to prevent the mass-
( d g of strikers.