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TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH .— PARTLY CLOUDY TUESDAY, POSSIBLY RAIN IN NORTHWEST PORTION; WARMER IN EAST AND SOUTHERN PORTIONS; WEDNESDAY, FAIR, COLDER IN NORTH PORTION; FRESH SOUTH. SHIFTING TO WEST, WINDS. ESTABLISHED IN 1626. MACON, GJL, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1907. TWICE-A-WEEK, $1.00 A YEAR. JEROME AND DR. EVANS IN PRELIMINARY CLASH Thaw’s Conversation And Will Admitted Indications That Cross Exami nation Will be Battle Royal. NEW YORK. F r anted to shoot the bring a man here after seven month? preparation of this case and fritter away the time of the court in reading document?.'* "It Is your privilege hot to concede anything, not even common courtesy," was Mr. Delmas' reply. "I am exercising my privilege, - ’, snap ped Mr. Jerome. "One statement does not make a sys tem." retorted Dr. Evans. "Can you point out any other unsys tematized delusions ?” "I am not able to say—.“ "What are you able to say?” inter rupted Mr. Jerome. "There are a g-od many things I am able to say that I am not permitted to say," replied the witness. •'What are you able to say a? to unsystematized delusions?” "The provisions in the will which I read is such a delusion." "What else?" ”1 see in these documents evidences of insane delusions. They show delu sions that are evidences of an unsound mind." sgid Dr. Evans. Mr. Delmas. when Mr. Jerome fin ed a foul creature, era and -iaugm anted tar..ugh him to tri. eb. is.—"I sever creature. I never I knew he was troying the moth- of America, but I il means to bring I wanted to get him Into But court—to bring him to Justice. Providence took charge of It; it was in act of providence.” This is Harry K. Thaw's own story of the killing of Stanford White. It was told by him to Dr. Britton D. Evans, the alienist,, last August in the i ombs. Today Dr. Evans repeated the ptuoncr’s words to the Jury which is trying T t the will of forms of insanity indicated as he found them In the defendant at the time of his visits to him in the Tombs. Mr. Jerome began a cross- examination of the witness as-to. the will. He had Dr. Evans repeat that he found the same form of insanity In the will as in the defendant. "What form of insanity is It known as?” snapped Mr. Jerome. t "That would depend upon the classl- rying Thaw for his life.' DistricV Atl 1 fit * r " sa,d Dr ' Evanii "I would call U orney Jerome fought hard iast week de .Y£l l>pn ]f ntaI Insanity.” against the introduction of this evi- il Paranoia?” Uence. which the defense believes is .. , , . ... conclusive proof that Thaw did "ere the delusions which you ob- know his act was wrong Once the tes- scr ™ d ■ durlnpr - vour ? rst three visits tifylng physlcans had declared that ln 1 2 Thaw systematized or not sys- their opinion Thaw was insane at the zed ' time he made the statements to them I „ T\ ey were ln a measure tema il o wove r, the rules of evidence permit- } Zr< ' ted the introduction of the prisoner's Dr. Evans then proceeded to read | ; s hed with this preliminary cross-ex- the voluminous will. Having finished aminatlan. offered the codicil and later it. the witness was asked: "Can you , the entire will in evidence. The in state whether Mr. Thaw, at the time ; struments were read In full by Mr. of executing the will and the codicil. ‘ Delmas, but the recipients of ordinary was of sound or unsound mind, tak- I bequests were not mentioned by name Ing all you know of the case into con- j by the attorney, who inserted the sideratlon?" | word "blank” in place of the legatee. "It Is my opinion that he was not j During the reading of the codicil Thaw of sound mind." r sat with his head buried in hie hands Dr. Evans said he found evidence Jr. j and did not look up, but when tlw words. “Were they systematized or not s.vs- | tematized?” repeated Mr. Jerome Aio*n that^Thaw tludr < '° ntea * I "They were not altogether systema- , lnai taaw was insane when he ; timed" killed Stanford "White, the defendant's counsel succeeded today in placing be fore the Jury the will executed by Thaw the night of his marriage in April. 1505 and a codicil to the will executed at the same time. Again Mr. Jerome fought the evidence, but ho signlfluant- Ev«nl tl h?. r dTi,.^ 1 5 ,b - Jec ' lons aft « r Dr. ] on. Mr. Jerome refused to allow him . haa given It a? his expert opin- , to continue, and by consent the entire insane at the time ! answer was stricken out and Dr. Evans was asked the question again. “He shifted from one delusive Idea tized. "In what respect were the delusions not systematized?” Dr. Evans began a long answer, in which he referred to the conversations j he had with Thaw. Mr. Jerome object ed and stopped him. Mr. Delmas at once insisted that he be allowed to go j reading of the will began he again ; raised his head and listened intern.v j At the conclusion of the reading of ihe will there was a delay due to send- ! ing to the office of one of the atfof- j neys for a document, and finally it j was decided at 4:20 p. m. to adjourn j untij. tomorrow morn:ng. The v d. eii- ' ment had been given to one of 'the I experts to read and he had not r ’ turned it to court. It was desired to i ask Dr. Evans some questions coii- , eerning the paper. District Attorney i Jerome consented to the early adj inrn- | ment. btit. said he - hoped in the future I Ihe documents should he '‘Impound :■ i' I to avoid further delay, i “I'join in the'Sesrn-’d District At- j torney's hope.” said Mr. Delmas. j Justice Fitzgerald suggested that i some one take the doctors in hand in ! the future and set them down and reed the documents to them. • There was a general smile as c urt | adjourned. THIRTY FIVE ARE DEAD BY MINE EXPLOSION The List of Dead and Injured May Reach a Hundred. Accident Occurred Early Last Night MONTEREY. Mexico, Feb. 18.—tA dispatch to the N"ws from - Las Es- peranzas, Coahuia. says that thirty- nine men are. known to be dead, and twelve injured* as a result of an ex plosion of gas in the coal mine at that place. The list of oend and Injured may bo extended to seventy, that number of men are believed to have been in the mine at the time of {he accident, which occurred at 7 o'clock tonight. The telegraph office at Es- peranzus is closed tonight and further details 4 are hardly probable tonight. T El TRIAL OF BUCKET SHOP CASES IS OH IN ATLANTA Said They Would Get Even With People of Browns- vile at Any Cost. j Shooting Began in Rear of Barracks TOTAL APPROPRIATION CARRIED negro ex-soldiers. WASHINGTON. Feb. IS.—Witnesses in the Brownsville hearing today tes tified that the shooting began in the rear of the commissary, away from the town, and continued around the road and into the town while the call to arms was being sounded. The committee on military .affairs heard *a great deal of contradictory testimony, the value of which must be determined by other witnesses. As to certain in cidents it was white soldiers against ATLANTA, Feb. IS.—Trial of the bucketshop cases began before Judge L. S. Roan in the Superior Court to day. The case of C. N. Anderson was first taken up. the demurrer of the de fendant overruled and the testimony begun. There are ten defendants in these cases, all indicted for violations of the Boykin anti-bucket shop law, which makes it a misdemeanor to deal in futures in the State. The defense is proceeding on the ground that there was no violation of the anti bucket shop law in the exchanges which were opened on the membership plan and in which there was no trad ing except by. wire, direct between the customer and the dealer, located in some other city. The prosecution con tends that all the necessary elements for future trading were present and that it was simply a subterfuge formed with a view to evading the law. The finding in one CSCfte will prob ably control all of the otiiers, and there is no doubt that the Supreme Court will have to pass on the matter. It will probably be tomorrow before a verdict is reached. ion that Thaw wa he executed the will. The fact that the district attorney seems disposed to let in testimony of everv character, provided there Is a preliminary opinion from the witness that the man was of unsound mind at the time to which the testimony refers, was taken today as further indicating that Mr. Jerome 1 may at the psychological moment, if he desms his hand strong enough, de mand the appointment of a commission to pass upoD Thaw's state 0 f mind at the present moment. The will and the codicil, as read to the Jurors today, were offered in evidence as cumulative testimony of Thaw's nie.ntal unsound- ness prior to the killing of White. In his will Thaw provided that his executors should sot apart the sum of 150,000 for the investigation of his death in case of a violent or suspic ious end, and for th.- prosecution of the persons suspected of having had a hand in his taking off. In the codicil Thaw left to a lawyer in Pittsburg the sum of $7,500 to be used in securing legal redress from Stanford White and | one other person, whose name was not ! allowed to be read, for the benefit oif four, young women, who Thaw de clared, had been the victims of "degrad ing assaults” in a house "furnished used fot* orgies by Stanford White j BY BILL IS $100.727.807. WASHINGTON. Feb. lS.y-The Sen- Affairs Senator Foraker called Hoytt Robin son, formerly of Company D, who was musician of the guard and sounded the call to arms on the night of Au gust 13. He said the firing continued Three “Yeggmen” Released. ATLANTA. Feb. IS.—Walter Wood. H. B. Wilson and Chas. Rogers, three "yeggmen” who have just completed five-year terms in the United States Penitentiary near Atlanta for robbing a posloffice safe, were released today, having completed their - terms of ser vice. As soon as the release papers were signed by Commissioner Fuller an officer from Greenville. S. C.. stepped from behind the door and ar rested them on charges of robbing a safe at that place. They will be taken there for trial. Rural Schools. ATLANTA. Feb. 18.—George W. Knorr. special agent of the Bureau of Statistics of the United States De partment of Agriculture, is here for the purpose of making detailed inves- the | tigation into consolidation and trans- to another.” "ean you state one delusion that was not connected with what might be termed the parent dusion about Stan ford White and his relations with women ?” "There was his delusion that.reputa- ble lawyers and physicians were in a conspiracy to railroad him off to an asylum." "Yes. but that was connected with the parent delusion.” said Mr. Je rome. "I would consider it ns largely inde pendent. I could see no reason why he should connect me with any con spiracy against him.” “Did he?” "No, but he was suspicious of me and every one.” "Was not that a systematized delu sion?” "It might be taken that wav." "What kind of insanity is indicated by systematized delusions?" "Paranoic insanity." "Do the will and codicil show sys tematized delusions?” "Yes.” "What delusiop?" "A delusion which showed he be lieved he was the subject of persecu- I which was the addition of $3oOOO,OCO i for the armament of new battleships, i the increase bringing the total up ! $12,000,000. The House provisions for i two battleships of the Dreadnauglit j type was not amended VALDOSTA, Ga., Feb. 18.—Another . change in the Saloon question here de- • veloped today when four members of the City Council at an informal meet ing issued a signed statement to the effect that they would stand uncom promisingly by the action of Council ! revoking .the saloon license -on March | 1. A resolution was passed bv Coun cil in October last giving the saloons ; until March 1 to close out their I stocks. Such a strong showing was ! made by the anti-prohibitionists in the j way of petitions from business men and other citizens that this action was rescinded last Saturday, the vote on the question standing three and three, j Mayor Roberts breaking the tie. ! Strong pressure was brought yester- t crease of $5.7(10,336 lay and today on Council, with the re- I „ . ■ for about fifteen minutes after _ ate Comrtsittee on Naval Adairs to- | call rease( j. He thought the men fir- i portation among the rural schools of ! day authorized favorable report on ; ing the s h 0 t.s were stationed in the ; the State. Several counties in Geor- the naval appropriation hill A num- ’■ town near the gate into the military gia. provide means for hauling the her of increase? in appropriations were reservation. Ho did not hear any shot? 'children to them, especially where recommended the most important of passing over the guard house. 1 they live at great distances, recommended, tne mo. r important , wn] f am c Xolan , a private of the | just returned from first class in the hospital corps, a white soldier, who had been stationed at Fort Brown for two years prior to the arrival of the negro soldiers, said that he was at the hospital when the shooting began, with Sergeants Alt- The appropriation for ppblic works I ff>an and Sanborn, and three or four at Pensacola was increased $200,000. | An appropriation of $60,000 was made : for a training station at Port Royal, ; S. C. The provision for aqband at the naval academy at Annapolis, which was included in the bill df last year. , was reinserted. The total appropria- j tion carried by the bill as reported to the Senate is $100,727,807, a net in sult that,Councilman Davis, who voted ,$10,024,824 NET EARNINGS Saturday_to rescind the October action, i signed the state.ment to close the sa- j OF COTTON DUCK COMPANY, loons. It is learned that Mayor Rob- | —- erts was averse to calling a meeting • BALTIMORE. Md.. Feb. IS.—The an- today to consider the question again, j nual meeting of the stockholders of the with the result that the four members ; Consolidated Cotton Duck Company and other inhuman scoundrels.” The I JHH „ names of the four young women were . tion. that he was being hunted down.” ‘pro rata part of the license unexpired j with the r mentioned by Thaw, hut were not | ‘Was there a parent delusion in the at that time, about $666 each; other- { fl cers were made public. Thaw also bequeathed ” ‘ ” ” ‘j Til ' was held today, and largely attended The statement-of earnings.for the year ended December 31 last showed the gros3 income to be $10 624.824;29. an in crease of $866,807.46 as compared with 1905, and net earnings of $1,301,881.39. an increase of $384,709.31. as compared sums of $2,500 each to the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, Anthony Com- j stock and a lawyer named in his codi- j cil, to be used in discovering further alleged misdeeds by Stanford White I and securing redress for the women, i Two other physicians will take the ' stand tomorotv. Doctors Hammond and Jelliffee, and it Is said that it will r>e part of their function to detail the • improvement in Thaw’s mental condi- j tion during the period of his confine- j ment in the Tombs, declaring that the I stress which caused the mental explo- J sion was removed with the putting ' away of Stanford White. It was also : .".lid tonight that Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw might go on the stand tomorrow J afternoon to complete her story. The trial today entered its fifth I week. The opining of court four" ! Attorney Delmas again in his amis- • tomed place at the bead of Thaw’s counsel table. During the day there was no surface indication of the storcr which, it is said, raged among counsel I for the defense during the latter part • >f last week, after the trial had been j adjourned because of the death of Ju- - ror Bolton’s wife. Mr. Bolton was , ?arly at the Criminal Courts Building; today and said that he felt perfectly i thle to go on with the trial. It was I decided that the Jurors should not be j again confined until they finally retire, j to make up their verdict. Dr. Evans, who lias been by far the most important witness for the de fense among the medical experts, de tailed at length his conversations with Thaw in the Tombs. He told of how Thaw declared that his lawyers and physicians were in a conspiracy v.iih the District Attorney to "railroad” hlin off to an asylum and to prevent Ills case from coming to trial. He de clared that "they wanted to close th- matter up.” Thaw told the physician that in his attempts to bring Stanford White to Justice he had complained to District Attorncv Jerome and that the latter had told him to let the matter drop: that there was nothing to it. He also complained to Anthony Comstock and to a detective agency. Dr. Evans was corroborated as to most of Thaw’s statement Charles G. Wagner, c who first figured jls a last week. Late in the afternoon t orney Jerome on Evans briefly on th opinion that Thaw was of unsound mind at the time of executing his will. The prosecutor and witness flashed fire at the first contact and there was every indication that when Mr. Je rome undertook Dr. Evans - cross-ex- amlation in general the proceedings would be as lively and interesting as any e\er heard in a local court room. Dr. Evans met the preliminary at- ks boidlv and seemed as r sdy with per cent on the preferred stock, pay able April 1 to stockholders of record of March 20. mentioned held the informal meeting referred to. The saloon keepers werq informed that if they accepted the signed statement in good faith and would not contest the matter that the four signors constituting a majority of Council would vote to return them the previous year. The old of- --- —— . , ..ere re-elected and there wa will or codicil regarding Stanford wise the saloons would be closed and declared a semi-annual dividend of White?” no part of the license money refunded. Dr. Evans picked up the will. j considerable feeling and some "Walt.” called out Mr. Jerome. "I ] estrangements have already arisen object to your looking at those docu- ; over the matter. It remains to be ments: you have seen them and have : seen what the outcome will be. testified to them.” i Mr. Delmas said Dr. Evans had the I right to look over the papers and he ' was sustained. He handed the will j to Dr. Evans. "Now I withdraw my question,” said Mr. Jerome. "Then we withdraw our papers,” said Mr. Delmas. "Doctor, without rereading the pa pers, can you state whether or not there is apparent delusion regarding White?" ”1 don't say that there is—but there is a delusion both in the will and the codiciL” "That is not an answer." POLICE SERGT. POWELL ACQUITTED OF LARCENY ! SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 18.—Ex-Ser geant W. H. Powell, formerly in i charge of the Ocean Steamship Com- ' pany police force, was acquitted in the i Supreme Court this morning of the j charge of larceny of goods from the I company’s wharves. There remained Mr. Jerome asked the question over t four other indictments of a similar na- and over again. Mr. Delmas objected i tul- e against Poweli, which are yet un to Mr. Jerome’s course. i tried, but Solicitor General Osborne "I do not think he has the right to j ' las announced to the defendant’s continue this simply because the wit- i counsel that the other indictments will ness does not answer as the District J nolle prossed. Powell was one of Attorney wants him to.” he said. ! eight or ten others of the police force "He has answered as I wanted.” ' w ' h, 5 were arrested several mouths ago "Why do vou keep repeating it i for alleged thefts of goods- • were then T’ asked Mr. Delmas. | employed to protect PLAYED THf RACES MADE THE VICTIM'OF SKILLED WORKERS TO THE AMOUNT OF $350,000. ■ nt*= bv Dr. Binghan: ;ton. witness e arly i District At- -xamined Dr. e point t-f his ms tile Delmas stric an his feet An Mr of Mr. the wiir ctions i ted. H- I r.s’ inter® red to be durincr every :s- questioning trposed many id in gene va re plv to - latter priv- Mr Jerome i:i protesting against ai.nitrir.g ’.be r-’dic:] s? evidence, re ferred to ’these scandalous state- menw.” Mr. Delmas objected and had his objection noted as being due to the district attorney’s misconduct. A werdv conflict ensued, which ended Mr. Jerome declaring that In the f.-'ure he would concede nothing. •; don’t concede anything,” said Mr. .Teronv I, is rf n outrage. I say, to I ’’Because I don’t want him to fall '■ into a hole without seeing the hole.” j There was a general iaugli. Mr. Je rome then asked again if the will jr codicil showed apparent delusion. I “I can’t say that it is apparent de- j lusion ” "Do you know what apparent delu- ! sicn is?" j “Yes." I "Then do you find it in this will or j codicil?” "I cannot subscribe to it as appar ent delusion: there is an apparent de lusion—a well-defined delusion " "Can’t you tell whether it is ap parent delusion?" repeated Mr. Je rome. ”1 can't say whether it is or not.” "Why didn't you say so before? I asked you the question half a dozen times. ' "And the witness replied half a dor n times,” interrupted ?,Ir. Delmas. "When was the will' executed?' ask"d Mr Jerome. "In 1905." "How did you find that out?” “I heard it referred to here by you and the others.” j "Do you know when the codicil was ) executed?" i ' I assume at about the seme time." I "The will bears its own date,” sug- I gested Mr. Delmas. j ”1 know it does, but tlii= witness i says h- assumes the date. That shows how carelessly he read it.” I Mr. Jerome, asked the witness to ' point out in the will ;t single unsvs- ! tematiezd delusion. I Dr. Evans started to read. “Don't do | that " commanded Mr. .leronie. You told me to,” said Dr. Evans. Ex-Policeman John D. Reilly was tried this afternoon, also for the Ocean Steamship Company thefts. He, too. was acquitted. MOTHER AND BABES TOGETHER IN DEATH CONNORSVILLE, Tnd.. Feb. IS.— Mrs. J: -S: 'Mundell today killed her two daughters,’ aged four years and seven months, respectively, and then commit ted suicide. She was alone in the house with the children and when Mr Mundell returned home for luncheon he found the house locked and the blinds drawn. In a bedroom, side by side on a bed, with their throats cut, were the woman and two children. Mrs. Mundell was thirty-five years old. Mr. Mundell says his wife was in per fect health apparently, and he knew nt> cause for the act. MAN KNOCKED SIKTEEN STEPS BT FAST TRAIN NEW YORK. Feb. 18.—The police today investigated a report that Wm. F. Walker, the missing treasurer of the New Britain, Conn., Savings Bank, lost more than $350,000 of the bank’s funds in this city as a victim of skilled workers of the wire tapping game. This report is to the effect that one of the two men who operated the game discovered * last October that Walker had suffered losses through his ven tures in stock speculation. The pre tended wire tapper then went to New Britain and unfolded to Walker, it is said, the usual scheme of tapping the race wire to get the name of the win ning horse and then beating the pool rooms by. betting on ihe horse before the poolroom received the name of the winner. It is said that Walker came to New York with the man and was taken to a corridor in the Western Union Building and there introduced to an associate of the tapper, who pre tended to be employed by the Western Union and able to withhold reports of the races from the poolrooms. As a result Walker is said to have been taken to a pretended poolroom, where he and the two conspirators, acting as his agents, bet and lost $110,000. Walker is said then to have gone back to New Britain, but was again convinced by the conspirators that the loss was due- to his own mis take in taking the name of the winning horse. Walker is said to have con sented to try it again and to have brought to New York a lot of the bank’s securities and negotiated them for $240,000 cash. He was allowed to win SN'.ono. according to the report, but on the next .trial lost the ent : re amount. $260,000. including his Win nings. The swindlers then disap peared. patients. The first shot, he thought, came from the rear of the commissary, back of the hospital, and nor. from the direction of the town. He said he pal*L no attention to that, but in a few min utes there were three more shots, and then five shots, which, he said, sound ed as if the men firing were moving around the road. He heard no bullets nor saw any flashes from guns. Ha thought the fort was being attacked, but lie would oot be certain that the shooters .were outside or within the military enclosure. Nolan said that a few nights before the shooting Private Newton, a negro soldier, came to the hospital for treat ment. His face was badly bruised, and Nolan asked him how he was injured. According to Nolan’s story. Newton said that he was in town and that a man knocked him down with the butt of his. six-shooter without reason. Nolan told the man it was ’’funny’ he did not know the reason for ihe assault, and Newton insisted he did not. Nolan said that Newton .then said: ‘-‘Well, that's the way it was. but we'll fix the yet.” On cross-examination Nolan said that there was only one call to arms and that was sounded by the musician at the guard house and twenty-five or thirty minutes elapsed between the first shot and the call to arms. William Harden, a negro ex-private soldier, .said he was in the hospital, convalescent on August 13. and that he had been given permission to go to the post exchange to buy an apple pie. While coming back he said he almost ran into Major Penrose. Mayor McComb and another man walking to ward the hospital. He said he stepped back to let them pass. and.they stopped and began to talk. The strange man, according to Harden, said.” “I tell you Texas won’t stand for it.” He then said something about an as sault upon his wife, and added: “If some soldiers are not put under arrest by 10 o’clock tonight we’ll kill every damned nigger soldier in Fort Brown." Harden said he dodged into the hospital and heard nothing more. His testi mony differed greatly from that given by Nolan. So far as the location of the firing is concerned there was not much difference, but he said that a I number of shots passed over the hos pital. Sergeant Altman, of the hospital corps, also a white soldier, corroborated Nolan. It will require the testimony of San- burn. who has been subpoenaed, to clear the situation. He has Newton County, where he found splendid results had been achieved. He proposes to make similar investigation in Henry, Put nam, Houston. Laurens. Early and other counties in the State along simi lar lines, and it is expected the de partment will issue a bulletin on what has been done in Georgia in this direction. FIVE MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS BY DYNAMITE did Fitzge wit ness ■aid ruled tha erht to read from the wi’l in replying to the questioning. Dr. Evans then read what he c>3!-d “Paragraph 8.” It prov* VI in part: ’’7-1 case I die other than a natural death, or if any su^nici'n attaches to, rr.y taking off, or it’ I shou'd be made away. I direct that my executors shall immediately set aside the sum. of $50.- pen for an Investigation of the circurr!- stsnees pnd for the prosecution of the gui’tx- oer«-*- c ." Tf nrv additional sums were needed *he executors were directed to tfre them. ”1? th’t an un*ystematized delusion* ' asked Mr Jerome. DANVILLE, Va., Feb. IS.—Monroe Comer.-a young white man of Ander- I son,.S. 'C- about S3 years of :ige, 2nd j who was employed in the cotton mills | ....... here, was struck-.by a North-bound j Y tli.-; a K'il.vay pas-.-nger -rain l: j Pl-as about 1-2:30 o’clock• yesterday morning spiraey and killed. duras X The, 'Victim of the accident was re- made h: turning front a barber shop and was j J. Dem i in company with four or five other young men. He was jti a little ahead of the-others in the party and had-just stepped out of the way of a South bound freight tram, when the passen ger train, which he was not noticing, struck him. Comer vras knocked about sixteen steps and was picked up by his companions. An examination showed that one of his arms had been broken and also number of bones in his back From ‘he first it was evident that he had hustained fatal injuries. MEN HELD FOR DEALING IN LOTTERY BUSINESS. Educators Will Go to Chicago, ATLANTA. Feb. IS.—A party of "prominent Georgia educators will leave Atlanta next Monday for Chicago, where they go to attend the convention of the department of superintendence of the National Educational Associa tion. The convention will be held Feb. 26. 27 and 28. Among them Su perintendent Lawton B, Evans. of Augusta, and State School Commis sioner TV. B, Merritt are on the pro gram for Interesting addresses. Among others who will attend are Su perintendent C. B. Chapman, of Ma con: Superintendent G. G. Bond, of Athens; President E. C. • Branson, -of the State Normal . School; President G. R. Glenn, of Dahlonega. and Su perintendent E. A. Pound, of TVaycross. H. A. Tolbert Escaped. ATLANTA. Feb. IS.—H. A. Tolbert, who was convicted at Tallapoosa of murder and who was serving a life sentence, being confined at the camp of the Palmer Brick Company, near Atlanta, made his escape last night. Tolbert was a man of some means, said to be worth $10,000 to $15,000. No trace of him has yet been found. this decision that the supreme court has reversed on the ground that serv ice was improperly made on Stallings' attorney and not upon him personally. Three Strikes in Atlanta, ATLANTA. Feb. IS.—Strikes were in order in Atlanta today. There are three of them under, way or threatened. The Western Union telegraph opera tors are getting ready to walk out here as they are in other parts of the coun try. owing to grievances which have been discussed for several days. The chief protest of the Viestern Union op erators seems to be that the company won’t recognize the union. Then they are worried, too. because of the fact that the Postal recently increased the salaries of its men 15 per cent, while the Western Union gave an Increase of only 10. But worst of all. it is snid, is the complaint that the increase ap plies only to the high salaried men ;ind not to the ordinary operators who are getting $50 or $60 per month. The. local union held a meeting last night and passed some resolutions, but de clined to state what they proposed to do until they heard from union head quarters in Chicago. In the meantime another strike has been gotten well under way. Some twenty operators in the office of the Atlanta Telephone Company, a sup posed competitor of the Bell Company, walked out today because the com pany refused to dismiss the monitor. Miss Olive Johnson, It seems Miss Johnson was employed lo keep tab on the' girls, and they demanded her dis charge with the throat that unless she went by in o’clock this morning they Would quit. Miss Johnson was still at work at that hour and the opera tors promptly left their table The company is now trying to fill their places. The Manhattan Restaurant, on Mari etta strFet. furnished the other strikp sensation. The restaurant which is run by a couple -of Greeks, on Saturday dischsrged one of the girls. The rest of them said she must be taken back or they would go. They have not yet left, but are preparing to make good their threat unless their demand is complied with. t Wines Poured Out. ATLANTA. Feb. 18.—The Atlanta, police ruthlessly poured out through the Atlanta sewers $1000 worth of wines, whiskies and beers this after noon because there was nothing else the city could legally do with the stuff. The intoxicants were captured and seized by the police as the result of a number of raids in houses on Jenkins and Decatur streets, and those who had been the owners of it and offered il for sale were each fined $50.75 in police court this morning. There is no au thority vested in the city to dispose of such property, and the only thing that, could be done with It was to throw it away. ALASKA SUNK WITH Hoke Smith's Appointments. ATLANTA. Feb. IS.—There is a good deal of talk being indulged in about prospective appointments to he made" by Governor-elpet Hoke Smith following his inauguration in June. There is a strong belief in many quar ters that he will appoint as Adjutant General Col. A. .T. Scott, of Albany, th? present Assistant Adjutant Gen eral. It is reported that this appoint ment was tendered to Gen. Clement A. Evans and declined. Col. Scott has practically the indorsement of every military organization in the State and the general opinion seems to be that the appointment will go to him. Other comment has it that Josiah Carter, a well-known Atlanta newspa per man and until recently managing editor of the Atlanta News, may. be made Superintendent of Public Build ings and Grounds in place of J. IT. Hall, the incumbent. Mr. Carter says there is no foundation for the rumor. He expects to leave at once for Savan nah to go with Pleasant A. Stovall on the Savannah Press. It Is said that J. B. Hoyle, who acted as secretary for Mr. Smith during his will be made his private secretary, which also carries with it the position of Military Secretary. HIGHLAND LIGHT, Mass.. Feb. IS. —Six seamen lost their lives when the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Com pany’s barges Girard and Alaska went ashore and broke up off hero today. Two men, Capt. Larsen, of the Girard, and Seaman Morton Blake, were saved. They were hauled ashore in the breeches buoy by the life-saving crew off the Highland light station. The barges, together with the barge Beth- ayres, were bound from Philadelphia for Boston. Lynn and Salem, in tow of the tug Valley Forge. In the north east gale and heavy snowstorm early today the barges broke adrift and tha Girard was soon driven ashore. Dur ing the afternoon the Alaska struck the breakers and quickly went to the bottom with all on board. Tho Bethayres was adrift and in danger. NORA TURNER SHOT SWEETHEART AND SELF MARION, Ill., Feb. 18.—Nora Tur ner. daughter of G. H. Turner, of Har risburg, Ill., shot Robert Kennedy and then shot herself. Both will die. Miss Turner has been making her home in this city and has been keeping com pany with Kennedy. The couple quarreled iast night and Kennedy demanded keepsakes he had given the girl. Before separating Miss Turner told Kennedy that she would campaign, j ^j)l him if he did not marry her today. ’ At noon she went to his room. They were there alone when the shooting took place. LONDON, Feb. IS.—Hugh Sutton, a foreman, and four other men employed by the Louisville and Nashville Rail road in laying a double track at Tun nel No. 6. north of Haze! Patch, were killed today by the explosion of one hundred sticks of dynamite which they were thawing around a fire. The bodies were blown to atoms, fragments of flesh being found in the tops ot nearby trees. Three of the victims were negroes. PROMINENT MANUFACTURER TAKES HIS OWN LIFE. Hay- Supreme Court Rulings. ATLANTA. Feb. 18.—Under a su preme court decision rendered this morning no municipality in Georgia has the right to levy an occupation tax upon any railroad depot on the ground that it is an ordinary ware house. The town of Arlington, in Cal houn County, levied a. tax of $10 as an occupation tax on the Central of Geor gia depot there. Judge Spence in the .superior court granted an injunction. The supreme court says there Is no au thority vested in any municipality in the State to levy an occupation tax upon a commercial railroad doing bus iness in such municipality. The de pot is used as a warehouse merely for the purpose of storing the shipments which it handies, and it is not, there fore, subject to the tax levied on ware housemen. Ruling Reversed in Stallings’ Case. ATLANTA. Feb. 18.—On the ground that personal service was not made on the defendant, the supreme court re versed the ruling of the lower court in the divorce suit brought by Mrs. ORLEANS.’ La.. Feb. 15.— n■<: guilty io charges of con- n connection with the Hon- itirtnal Lottery Company were •e iodav by E. J. Demavest. W. C. W Breilow and James four we: held in $1,000 band wait the action of the author- Rea. T’r each to: ities at JOHN LERDCI.F VIOLENTLY INSANE ON THAW TRIAL. . TVis , Feb. L8.—Violently the Thaw trial, John Ler- ssville, Wis., was tak-rn to ■'urn today. Lerdolf talks Thaw tri: I and says h"> to help out "Evelyn and dolf. of Jar Men'l- . A: has 5190.000 Harry." _ NEW YORK. Feb. IS.—W. W den. president and treasurer of the William W. Hayden Company, of this oitv. manufacturers of gw Id and silver novelties, killed himself todav at his Belle White Stallings against her hus'- horre in Newark. N. J.. by shooting band. George T. Stallings, under which himself in tho head. It is believed he had been ordered to pay her $150 that at the time he was temporarily | per month alimony and $250 attorneys’ insane from pain, having been suffer- j fees. The supreme court holds that ing from the grip for several days. ! service on the defendant’s, attorney ) was not sufficient, and that service Frank Holtman Attempted Suicide. KANSAS CITY. Mo,I Feb. 18.-- Frank Holtman, under sentence o death with Mrs. Aggie Myers for kill ing Clarence Myers, the woman’s bus- ! if band, attempted to commit suicide in his ceil in tne county jail today. Mrs. Myers is in jail at Liberty. Mo. Her sentence has been appealed t,- the United States Supreme Court. Child Found Dead in Bed. PELHAM. Ga.. Feb. 1$.—A little child, three years of age was found dead in bed Sunday morning when the members of the family went to - -,v- Vi, . it. Its father, W. H. Davis. I? a mer- ychant of this place. be personally made or good reas- hown why it cannot be done. In vent it is found impossible to per- personai service on the defendant then the court’s duty as asked in the plaintiff’s petition to appoint a receiver for his property In Georgia. Stallings was formerly; from Augus ta. and Mrs. Stallings from Jones County. She brought a petition in the superior court for total divorce, per manent alimony, also for temporary' alimony an< * tne custody of their two children. Judge Pendleton allowed the temporary alimony and attorneys’ fee? as stated and also appointed a receiv er for the defendant s property in Georgia pending the litigation. It is NEGRO POSTMASTER SWINDLED UNCLE SAM SAVANNAH, Ga.. Feb. IS—William M. Maxwell, a negro postmaster in Liberty County, pleaded guilty of em bezzlement of funds and was sentenced in the United States Court today to serve two years in the Federal prison In Atlanta and to pay a fine equaling the amount of the embezzlement, which was over $400. It was shown that the negro had de liberately falsified his accounts in the money order department. If he issued an order for $11.60 he would' enter it on his books as $1.60, and only remit that amount to the authorities. KiuEii er»era Ga., SAVANNAH. Patterson, a ne day created db a Greek fruit de East Broad sire this afternoon I pearanre there, cigar case in t! started. Sotiric? Constantin?, ploye, seized a revolt'- 18.—Frank o, several times to- der in the place of -r at. Broughton and At about 5 o’clock mad-' his last ap- He turned over a. rough-housing !,e i Greek em- The negro _ knife and started for the Greek. The Greek fired, the bullet striking the floor, riccocheting and go ing through the arm of Bill Flaherty, an innocent bystander. Constantine fired again. The negro dropped dead, shot through the heart. Constantine is in jail for the killing. It is thought to have been entirely justifiable.