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WEATHER FORECAST FOR GEORGIA—PARTLY CLOUDY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY; LIGHT TO FRESH SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WINDS.
ESTABLISHED IN 1826.
MACON, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1907.
TWICE-A-WEEK, $1.00 A YEAR.
CORBIN BANKING CO.
MADE AN ASSIGNMENT
Banlring^Ccminanr*Vo?’ 28 ~ The Corbin ! INTERSTATE COMMISSIONERS
the benefit cntdlt^r. t?*ofw«e C. I W ' LL INVESTIGATE TROUBLE
«re S G"o r Je W E ^Fdgell™ mi 'a'’ c ; 0:n P any WASHINGTON. March 23.—Chair-
bin. Mr Fdi'niT * in <l Aur-tin Cor- j man Martin A. Knapp, of the Inter-
Corbin vic/r>r.“--i(Jei ^of^h^vr ^nH /? lr * ■ Mate Commerc e Commission, and
Beach Hot**] r \ „ / A 51 * ^ an ^ a ttan j Chas. P. Neill, Commissioner of La-
Iel an3 - will leave here tomorrow noon
and Mr.
Manhattan
. , n 'l Land Company. Mr.
Austin haul that a rough estimate
. 1 •••‘co the liabilities at *1.700.000 and
tne assets at 13,000,900. The assign
ment was due to -the maturing of obli
gations, said he: “Times are hard
and money is high. The company owns
four hundred acres of land at Manhat
tan Reach and Far Rock way which is
worth *3 000.000. You can not get any
one to buy real estate at present. There
Is other valuable real estate in the
South arid West hut loans and con
tracts prevented it from being dispos
ed of.”
A petition praying that Austin Cor
bin anil Geo. “
and as co-partnc
ing Company, 1
was tiled in th
today.
Tin- petitioners are Isabelle IT. Knott,
of Denver: Alice H. Hill, of Los Ange
les. and Alexander J. Shamburg. of
New York The petition alleges that
ti'fv Corbin Ranking Company owes
more than haif a million dollars and
mentions various sums deposited by
the three petitioners. The plea for
the declaration of the bankruptcy of
I-elgeii an,l Corbin is made on thr
ground that the tiling of an assignment
was In v:o!a:ion of the bankruptcy
Kdgell. individually |
Corbin Bank- I
irerl bankrupts. I
for Chicago, where they will hold a
conference with representatives of the
conductors and trainmen and officials
of Western railroads entering Chicago
in regard to the dispute over the ques
tion of wages which threaten to result
in a disastrous strike unless a satis
factory adjustment Is effected.
Chairman Knapp said that the visit
of himself ar.d Mr. Neill will be sim
ply in the direction of mediation and
conciliation. The request for these
efforts at mediation snd conciliation
came from tho railroads. “It there
fore becomes our duty under the law.”
id Chairman Knapp, “to put our-
Lnltcd States Court
selves in communication with the par
ties and endeavor to bring about a
settlement. If we fall In that effort,
then It is our duty to endeavor to in
duce the parties to enter Into an arbi
tration.”
MERIWETHER KILLED
NEGRO IN SELF-DEFENSE.
HARRY THAW UNDERWENT
RUNNING FIRE QUESTIONS
Jerome Contends That Thaw
Is Suffering From Par
anoia
Cairn Answers
for Questions
Crocker and Wlckes, counsel
'dinners in the bankruptcy
s. said the action was taken
of depositors
into
art.
I Were
for the p<
proceeding
to protect
find other creditors,
r "Home of the fund
tors are tied up by 1b
p ent," said Mr. Cruker,
the attorneys, "and they s
l>y law of the United States how their
interests are to be protected.”
GEORGIA MAN APPOINTED
AS SPECIAL U. S. AGENT
WASHINGTON. .March 28.—In ac
cordance with his tentative announce
ment made some time ago, Secretary
Strauss of the Department of Com
merce and Labor today appointed J.
I. Renton, of Monticollo, Ga., as a spe
cial agent to Investigate the trade con
ditions in foreign countries with spe
cial reference to the marketing of cot-
t in seed products. Mr. Renton ts a.
memberof executive committee of tho
In t erst;
FJATONTON. Ga., March 28.—While
coming to town to visit hi? father, Mr.
William T. Meriwether, whose home
is near Oconee Springs, in this coun
ty, was forced to kill a negro in self-
j defense. Mr. Meriwether, who is
| prosperous ttnd quiet young farmer.
came upon Davis Gardner, a negro,
I who was fighting one of Mr. Meri
wether’s tenants, George Simmons. It
seems that Simmons had been pretty
f thso deposl- j badly beaten up and injured in a rock
ict of assign- j haltie with Gradner, his assailant,
speaking for j Mr. Meriwether remonstrated with
cck to know Gardner, and tried to make him leave,
when Gardner turned upon Mr. Meri
wether and he yas forced to kill him in
seif-defense.
Young Meriwether is the son of Mr.
Tom Meriwether, a R. F. D. carrier of
Katonton. and has the sympathy of the
community in his trouble.
ARCHIE ROOSEVELT
TAKEN OUT
FOR DRIVE
WASHINGTON. March 28—All dan-
er of infection having passed, the
I quarntine placed upon the room in the
j White House .occupied by Archie
it ton Seed Crushers’ Asso- j Roosevelt during his illness from dyp-
clatlon and is also the secretary of the i theria, was raised today. Archie has
Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of . so far progressed that ho was taken out
Georgia. for a drive this afternoon.
83,941,510
THE
SOULS IN
UNITED STATES
NEW YORK, March 28.—Harry K.
Thaw for two hours today submitted
himself to a running fire of questions
from the three men appointed by
Justice Fitzgerald as a commission in
lunacy to determine his present state
of mind. The examination was con
ducted behind closed doors and when
few minutes before 5 o’clock this
afternoon an adjournment was taken
until 10 o’clock Saturday morning, no
one connected with the hearing be
fore the commissioners would discuss
the details of the inquiry.
Thaw went willingly and confidently
before his judges, and when the two
hours secret session was concluded
his attorneys appeared with smiling
faces and declared they were more
than satisfied with the course of the
proceedings. - District Attorney Je
rome hurried away from the Criminal
Court building, declining absolutely
to say one word about the commis
sions’ work.
The most important feature of the
day’s proceedings was the decision of
the commission to limit the scope of
its inquiry to the exact language of
the state-^-to determine solely the
question as to whether or not Harry
Thaw is able to understand the nature
of the court proceedings against him
and is able to advise his counsel in a
rational manner.
District Attorney Jerome announced
to the members of the commission
that all of the legal experts he had
employed in the ease had advised him
that Thaw is suffering from a typical
case of paranol—a disease of the mind
in which the recoveries are limited to'j
2 or S per cent- He offered to adduce j
testimony to support this statement, <
HENRY BURDEN CAUGHT
BY OFFICERS LAST NIGHT
It will be remembered that Officer
Moseley chased Henry Burden a half
mile a few weeks ago, in an effort to
arrest him for beating his wife. Henry
haj lambasted his spouse on several
occasions, but always escaped.
Last night he was in the lime light
again. He returned home and began
an onslaught on his wife when an of
ficer was called. Patrolman Johnson
was on the beat and responded at
once. Her.ry resorted to old method
of escape by a foot race, with Officer
Johnson and two bailiffs in hot pur
suit. He was making fine headway,
but the officers kept in view. Unfor
tunately for Henry, his No. 12 struck
an obstruction and he tumbled to the
ground, and before he could recover
an upright position to continue his
flight Officer Johnson had him by the
collar. He was landed in the bar
racks and Recorder Cabaniss will
“deal out even handed -justice” to him
this morning. It is said there are
several charges against him.
BIG FACTORIES
60 UP IN FLAMES
IN ILL-FATED TOWN
TOE TAXIMETER CABS
ARE THEJIEXT THING
NEW YORK, March 28.—'Before the
heat of summer has made walking un
comfortable New York will be pro
vided with a new means of transporta
tion in the shape of several hundred
motor cabs, equipped with' the taxi
meter, a machine which automatically
registers the distance traversed, and
time consumed, and Indicates the legal
charge therefor.
According to Richard W. Meade,
president of the New York "f ransporta-
tion Company, this corporation expects
to put out from one to txto hundred
machines equipped with th9 taximeter
in the near future. They would have
been sent out much sooner had it not
been for the disastrous fire of Febru
ary 1, which played havoc with the
company’s main garage. In addition to
the transportation company’s cars, it
. , . is rumored that a new company will
but the commission waived it aside, I jncorporated.-^which will immediate-
saying that the purpose of the inquiry , jy pi ace five hundred or more cabs in
was a very simple one and had to do1 service, all provided with taximeters,
not with any classification of mental , rates below those of its rivals’,
diseases, but with the prisoners pres-j j n jj, e course of conversation, Mr.
ent state of mind as judged by lay- Meade said today:
men. j “We are going to adopt the taximeter
In iayin-g down this decision the j because we think that not only can we
commission confronted the District i ^ive our customers better satisfaction,
Attorney with the very position he but that we can mako more money our-
has maintained in putting Thaw on • pelves. Its success hns been demon
trial for his life. Mr. JerdYne contends j s tratcd in numerous—European cities.”
The taximeters look very much like
the registers in street cars. They are
surmounted by a piece of red metal
like a flag, bearing in black letters the
word “vacant” When this flag is ele
that Thaw Was suffering from
paranoi on the night of June 25 last
when he shot and killed Stanford
White, but he added that paranoiacs
often have knowledge of what they are
doing and that Thaw knew the na- j vated, it means that the cab Is for hire.
nr
WASHINGTON. March 28.—There
e now nearly eight million people
in continental United States than there
were six years ago. The above esti
mate is based upon figures compiled
by tho Census Bureau in a special
report issued today. According to its
estimates the population of continental
United States In 1906 was 83.941,510.
this being an increase over 1900 of 7,-
946,936. The population of tho United
States inclusive of Alaska and the in
sular possessions in 1906 was 93,182,-
240. The growth In population in con
tinental United States from 1905 to 1906
was 1,367 315.
Computed on the basis of the esti
mate the density of population of con
tinental United States in 1906 was 2S
persons per square mile, as compared
with 26 In 1900.
The five leading cities and their es
timated population in 1906 are as fol
lows: New York 4 113,043: Chicago 2,-
049,185; Philadelphia 1,441 730; St.
Louts 649,520 and Boston 602 27S. Tho
State? which took a census in 1905 are
Florida. Iowa. Massachusetts. Minne
sota. New Jersey Now York, North
Dakota, Oregon Rhode Island. South
Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming,
Michigan the census is taken in
roars ending with a "4."
REV. W. F.
WRIGHTSVJLLE, Ga., March 2S.—
The case against Presiding Elder W. F.
Morgan, against whom an indictment
for perjury was returned last Thrusdav
at the instruction of the grand jury o>
h W. J. Flanders Is foreman, was
whi
tried yesterday, being concluded about
midnight last night. The jury return
ed a verdict of not guilty after only
a few minutes consultation. The trial
was attended by large crowds of the
city and county’s best citizens. A great
number of ladies were at the morning,
afternoon and evening session of the"
court. The defense was made out per
fectly by the State’s wisnesses and not
a single witness was introduced for
the defense, which rested on the de
fendant's statements. People here be
lieve the verdict one of the most right
eous ever rendered by a jury in the
county. Flanders was the main wit-
i ness for the State and sat bv and
In prompted the Solicitor General through-
ho out the entire trial.
Solicitor Genera]
The popu- : Herrington repesented the State while
lotion returns for these States was : the defense was directed by Hon. W.
26.263.877. an increase since 1900 of 1.- : B. Stubbs of Savannah, assisted by
901 572. or 7.3 per cent for the remain- ' Messrs. Daley, Bussey, Robinson, Fair
ing Stales and Territories. The pop- j cloth, Stephens Blount. Julius. Hicks
uliiiion for 1906 ns determined by the | Martin and Hatcher of the trial bar
method estimating adopted by tlie ; and the defendant’s brother. Cliff Mor-
■Hureau of the Census was 56.2S3.059 i gan. of Reldsviile,' all of whom tender-
nn increase over 1900 of 4.374,040 or 8.4 ed their services. Among these who
per cent. tendered their services to the defen-
The poulation of the fourteen States dant hut were not present on the trial
making an enumeration if est'mated in were Judge S. B. Adams and Congress-
tii,. some manner, would be 26.204.762. man Chas. G. Edwards, of Savannah:
n decrease of only 0.2 per cent from | Hon. DuPont Guerry of Macon theen-
tt» actual returns. , tl r e bar at Tattnall County and others.
The population of continental United The defense would not demur to the
States in 1905. as obtained by adding j indictment nor permit the State to en-
t,i the returns of the States which took ! ter a noli prosse to it. hut allowed the
a census in that year, the esimnted j State to amend the indictment as to
flat ion of the remaining States and | such matters ns it desired in order ! urdav. no sessi
r~
ries is 82.574.195 an increase I t
over 1900 of 6 579,620. or S.7 per cent. I
The rapid growth of urban popula- g
tion is noteworthy.
The eighty-eight cities with an esti
mated population of 50,000 or more in
1906 had a total estimated population
of 19.771 167, an increase of 2.766 S63,
or 16.3 per cent over that reported at
the twelfth census.
get a jury trial.
WAITRESS STABBED
WITH in H*
PITTSBURG.March 28.—Miss Nnacy
Miller. 24 years old. a waitress, employ
ed at a hotel In East Pittsburg. was
stabed seven limes tonight with a
butcher knife and died within afew
minutes. Walter Howard who has sev
eral aliases, is locked up charged with
the murder.,
Howard made advances to Miss Mil
ler which were not reciprocated and
when he became persistent she had
him arested. Tonight Howard called
a: the hotel and after being refused.ad-
mittance Is alleged to have purchased
a butcher knife. Returning again he
made his way unobserved to the kitch-
e \ where he plunged the knife into the
voting woman’s back. Then Howard
stained her six times in t.:e breast be-
f re she fell dead. ...
Ov r 1 000 persons crowded the street
•■....•it of the hotel threatening ven-
: ■ >n Howard, but a squad of of-
c’.v lodged him in the Alle
gheny County JalL
BOVS, IT DROVE HE
TO II,” SAID STM
WEST BADEN. Ind., March 23.—
Chas. S. Stahl, known in baseball
circles as "Chick Stahl,” committed
suicide today in his rooms at the
West Baden Springs Hotel, by swal
lowing cabolic acid. No cause is
konwn. Stahl was captain of the Bos
ton American League baseball team
and formerly lived at Fort Wayne.
Ind. Manager Taylor has abandoned
the spring practice games of the
team.
Stahl ate his breakfast as usual to
day and visited members of the team
in their rooms. Later he left for his
own room, which he shared with
Collins, and it was supposed he was
dressing for practice. Collins entered
the room a few minutes afterward and
Stahl told him he had Just taken car
bolic acid. In a few minutes he was
in terrible agony. To members of the
team whom Collins had summoned,
Stahl said:
“Boys. I couldn't help it; it drove
me to it.”
Members of the team say they do
not know what he meant, but thev
knew he was worried about some
thing. A bottle of carbolic acid had
been taken away from him a few
days ago at Louisville Ky. Sth.-.I's
wife, at Boston, and his relatives a:
Fort Wavr.e, Ind.. were rot fled. He
will be buried at Fort Wavr.e Ind.
The coroner's inauest began late to-
*Uy-
ture and quality of his act in kilin
White and knew that the act was
wrong.
Thus while medical experts may
determine today that Thaw is still
suffering from paranoia the question
to which the lunacy commission has
decided to confine itself v deals solely
with Thaw’s knowledge as to the pro
ceedings against him and his ability
to advise his lawyers.
The commission got underway with
a rush and plunged at once into the
personal examination of the defendant.
District Attorney Jerome protested at
first that he was not able to proceed,
saying he would-like to have his med
ical advisors present during Thaw’s
examination. He finally stated he
would have no objection to tho exam
ination going forward, provided he was
permitted to reserve his cross examina
tion and the commission forth wit*
settled the matter of the presence of
the experts by excluding them from the
room along with every one else, ex
cept the defendant and his counsel the
District Attorney and Assistant Attor
ney Garvan. As to the cross examina
tion by the District Attornev the com
mission said the matter would be taken
up when it Is reached.
It was stated that during most of two
hours Thaw was before the commission,
the notes and letters he has written to
his counsel since the trial began was J ^
under consideration.
To put Thaw thoroughly at ease, the
commissioners addressed their ques
tions to him in a conversational tone
and in a casual manner as though he
were In conference with them asked
him from time to time to explal inci
dents in the trial which called forth j
certain of the letters placed before the
commission bv Thaw’s attorneys. It
was said that Thaw answered the ques- ;
tions calmly and went into lengthy ex
planations of some of the notes he had J
addressed to Mr. Delmas while his
trial was in progress. These notes and J
letters were made a part of the affi- I
davit filed by Mr. Delma.s with Justice !
Fitzgerald when Thaw’s counsel were '
opposing the appointment of a com- ,
mission.
Thaw’s explanation was not conclud- j
ed today and he will appear again be
fore the comission when it meets Sat-
being scheduled for
and at the same time the taximeter
machinery is not working. As soon
as the cabman gets a fare he turns
down the flag and, if his vehicle still
stands a clock inside operates so as to
indicate on a dial the amount of time
which has passed and the tariff due
for it. *-■
When the wheels begin to turn at a
speed greater than four miles an hour
the clock stops working, but the rev
olutions of the wheels start another
part of the machine, and the distance
and resultant fare are registered on a
second dial. A third dial shows
whether the first tariff, that is, the
tariff for two persons, or the second
tariff, which is twice as much, and is
for* three or four persons, is in use.
They are costly machines, and will be
affixed to the top of cabs, where the
flags will be plainly visible to all per
sons.
MOTHER AND BRIDE
DUBLIN, Ga., March 28.—-Another
chapter in the Dailey-Kitchens run
away marriage has been written. Yes-
: terday afternoon Prof.'J. A. Dailey ar
rived in the city from Sparta, leaving
his wife in Hancock County until he
could make the necessary arrangements
to bring her to Dublin. His mother,
who had gone to Atlanta when she dis
covered that hed son had been married
returned to the city yesterday after
noon and this morning returned to At
lanta. carrying her son with her.
The young man went UfcwUllngly. He
received several telegram from Atlan
ta yesterday to the effect that his
mother was there in a dying condition
and that he must come at once. He
suspected the trick and would not go.
Yesterday afternoon he was reached
over a telephone and was informed that
his mother was very ill in Dublin. He
still refused to go near her. Finally
Mrs. Dailey secured Prof. Dailey over
the telephone and asked him to come
and tell her goodbye and receive her
blessing. He decided to do this. Mrs.
Dailey never let go her hold upon her
son after she had secured him and this
morning carried him with her to At
lanta. Whether she will be able to keep
her son from his wife remains to be
seen. She has a strong hold over him.
In fact, she recently stated that not
more than once or twice in the life of
. ______ _ _,__ i the young man had he ever slept other
A. PROCTOR DIED FROM j jjj an j n u a rne hed with her. He is
SELF-INFLICTED WOUND j about twenty years of age. His wife
~ i has a son sixteen years of age.
CINCINNATI. March _S. \\ m. A. i There is much speculation here con-
Proctor, president of the Proctor & cerning the outcome of the case. In the
Gamble Co., and son of one of the ■ meantime the Dublin Public Schools is
firm’s founders, died this afternoon ! without a musical director. Mrs. Dailey
form a bullet wound, self-inflicted, at ; is j n Hancock Countv and Prof. Dailey
his home in Glendale, a suburb of this ! j s ; n Atlanta with his mother.
city. When announcement was made j .
of his death it was stated that death 1
resulted suddenly and it did not de- , g|Q RAILROAD STRIKE
DANVTLLE, Va., March 28.—For
the second time during the past
twelve months the town of South Bos
ton, located t hirty miles north of
Danville, was visited by a disastrous
fire this afternoon and tonight. At
9:30 o’clock tonight the fire was re
ported to be under control, but only
after entailing a loss that Is estimated
at between SSOO.OOO and *1.000,000.
Almost the entire tobacco section of
the town, and a considerable portion
of the business section, was devasted
by the flames. The heaviest loser;
from the fire will probably be the R
J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,
whose plant it originated.
Fire broke out at 2:30 o’clock this
afternon in the steam tobacco factory
of the Reynolds company and was
caused by some mishap to one of the
drying machines. In a short time, the
building, a four-story brick structure,
was in flames. The loss from the
building and machinery Is estimated
«.t between *25,000 and $30,000. The
fire then extended to the storage ware
house of the Reynolds company,
three-story building, in which was
stored hundreds of hogsheads of to
bacco, valued at about *100,000
more. The building was worth *5,000.
From the Reynolds factories the fire
then burned the storage house of the
H. A. Thomas Lumber Company, then
to the factory of Geo. A. Lea & Co., of
Danville, and the storage warehouse
of T. B. Johnson, a tobacconist who
was a heavy loser In the fire last sum
mer. The building occupied by Lea &
Co. was valued at aboqt *10,000 and
the stock of tobacco between $15,000
and $20,000. In the Johnson factory
was stored tobacco valued at fully
*50,000.
The following other buildings and
most of their contents were destroyed:
Guilt & Mosely, tobacco prizery;
Stebbins. Spragins and Lawson, whole
sale grocers: Easley Grocery Company,
wholesale grocery: Easley's Tobacco
Warehouse; Virginia Bottling Co.; D.
B. Patterson’s saloon; Turner’s saloon:
Griffin’s Harness Factory; Bank of
South Boston, in which building the
telephone exchange was located and
burned: Johnson & Lloyd’s Dry Goods
establishment: Perry Grocery Com
pany; Flag’s Warehouse; Star Ware
house; J. W. Elliott, groceries; J. L.
Neal, dry goods; J. G. Patterson, sa
loon; Collins Livery Stables.
In adition to the above a large num
ber of small houses, including cottages
in the negro settlement In the vicinity
of the tobacco district burned.
No one sustained any injuries in the
fire and no railroad property wa3 de
stroyed. The Norfolk & Western freight
and passenger depot was in danyw,
and all of the freight removed from the
depot to box cars. This step later
proved unnecessary.
The fire fighting facilities at South
Boston proved very inadequate in com
batting with the flames. Shortly after
the fire broke out the Danville fire de
partment was telegraphed to hold in
readiness and shortly after four o’clock
left for South Boston, arriving there
about an hour later.
At this time the flames had gained
great headway and but for the arrival
of the Danville company it is reported
the entire town would have been de
stroyed. The South Boston department
s a volunteer company and the water
pressure ih very low. Only by hard
work the fire was kept confined to the
south side of Main street.
Early tonight the Durham. N. C. fire
■department was telegraphed' for but
had just prepared to leave when no
tified that their services were not
needed.
It is said that the loss Is covered by
about three-fourths insurance.
Soutfi Boston is one of the largest
tobacco markets in the country and the
]03s in this respect will be enormous.
The big plant of the American Tobac
co Company is reported to have been
saved. Early last summer a fire in the
heart of the town caused a loss'of near
ly half a million dollars.
J. H. CRUTCHFIELD WILL
SHAKE DUST OF STATE
ATLANTA. March 2S.—J. H.
Crutchfield, the machinery agent who
assaulted John Temple Graves on the
streets a short time ago, appeared in
the City Criminal Court today and en
tered a plea of guilty to the charge of
assault and battery. Sentence was
passed in accordance with a pre
viously reached agreement announced
in these dispatches yesterday. Crutch
field stated that he was desirous of
leaving the State and asked the court
to make the fine on him as light as
possible. Judge Calhoun said he
thought it would he a good thing for
Crutchfield to get out of the State as
there were a good many people here
who were not fond of him, and more
trouble might result if he remained.
He fined him *20 and costs and sen
tenced him to serve twelve months on
the chaingang, announcing that he
would suspend the chaingang sen
tence if Crutchfield would leave the
State and not return.
he sustained under the evidence, on
the ground that the forcible expulsion
of a passenger from a railway train
when he presents a ticket from which
coupons have been improperly de
tached by another conductor of the
company on an earlier portion of the
passage, is a tort by breach of duty
for which the passenger is entitled to
recover. A ticket honestly bought, it
is held, entitles the passenger to so
much transportation, and if the cou
pon? have been wrongfully detached,
he has none the less a property right
in them and what they represent.
Col. Scott Returned From Columbia.
ATLANTA, March 2S.—Col. A. J.
Scott, assistant adjutant-general, re
turned to the city today from Colum
bia, S. C., where he went as one of
the delegates from Georgia to the
meeting of the Interstate National
Guard Association. He expressed
great satisfaction over the work done
at the convention, the principal fea
tures of which were the announcement
of strong opposition to the militia re
serve bills pending before Congres
and urgent request of more appropria
tions for State troops. Col. Scott
considers that the prospects for the
advancement of the State troops are
growing continually brighter.
No Reply From Expert.
ATLANTA, March 28.—For some
unknown reason the railroad comrnis
sion has not yet received any reply
from the expert to whom an invita
tion was sent more than a week ago,
to come to Georgia and inspect the
properties of the Georgia Railroad and
Banking Company. It is more than
likely, however, that he has been ab
sent from home and has not received
the commission’s letter. A telegram
was sent to him today urging an im
mediate reply, as the commission is
anxious to push the matter to an ear
ly completion.
Pink Moore and Will Smith Dead.
ATLANTA. March 2S.— 1 Ttvo more
negroes, Pink Moore and Will Smith,
died at the Grady Hospital today as
the result of injuries received from
the explosion of a carload of dyna
mite caps at the Southern Railroad
depot yesterday. It was stated that
there was no hope for these men
when they were taken to the hospi
tal.
The railroad authorities and the in
surance agents are busily engaged to
day investigating tbe causes of the ex
plosion and the rules and laws as to
the handling, of dynamite. There was
a fire following the explosion, but the
damage had already been done. There
some question as to whether any
Insurance can be collected.
Two Cases of Cheating and Swindling
ATLANTA. March 28.—Two cases
were decided in the Slate Court of
Appeals today having an important
bearing on the law of 1S93. which
provides that a person who contracis
to go into the employment of another,
and then procures money or supplies
after which he breaks his contract
and leaves such employment, with in
tent to defraud, shall be deemed guil
ty of heating and swindling and pun
ishable accordingly.
The cases were those of Mulkey vs.
the State and Joe Heywood vs. tho
State, In bothfof which the defendants
were convicted in the lower courts,
which convictions the Court of Ap
peals has promptly reversed, holding
that the act of 1S93 cannot he used as
a remedy to enforce the collection of
debt or the performance of a contract.
The two eases were similar. In tho
case of Mulkey. from the City Court
of Blakely. It was shown that the de
fendant had borrowed $54 from his
employer to pay a debt to a former
landlord. Ho agreed to work out the
amount. He went to work for the
man in January and worked until Oc
tober. during a period of nine months
after which he left to go into some
other person's employ. His employer
claimed that Mulkey had earned no
more than his supplies and advances
and had not squared the $54 loan,
therefore he prosecuted him and se
cured a conviction for cheating and
swindling.
It cannot be held, according to the
Court of Appeals, that there was any
intent to defraud in this case. That
Mulkey intended to pay the money is
shown by his having remained in the
constant service of his employer for a
period of nine months. It, therefore,
becomes a. question simply of an ef
fort to collect a debt. This law. in
fact, barely escaped being declared
unconstitutional. and was upheld
solely on the ground that its object
was to prevent fraud. In the case of
Mulkey it is held that the violation
was too remote from the alleged in
tention to warrant a conviction. The ■
Court of Appeals goes even further
and sa3-s if a man making such a con
tract intends to pay when lie makes
he cannot be convicted even .If
later he forms a new intent and vio- jp
lates the contract shamefully. r
tomorrow. Good Friday. The Satur
day session also will be held behind
closed doors. Attorney Delmas was
present at the session today, but took
no part in the proceedings it wa= said.
When the inquiry began he directed
Chairman McClure to Mr. Hartridge as
the cousel of record was called for.
WM.
velop till some hours later that he had I
shot himself in the head while alone j
in the bathroom. Mr. Proctor was j
widely known in business circles and l
was a prominent layman in the Pro- |
testant Episcopal Church, to the insti
tutions of which he was a libera! ;
giver. |
His weatb was estimated at many j
millions, most of which had been ;
made by himself. He was noted for j
IN WEST IMMINENT
CHICAGO. March 23.—“The contro
versy over a wage scale between the
general mangers of the western rail
roads and their employes in tne train
service cannot be arbitrated and the
only way in which a strike can be
averted is for the officials of the roads
the co-operative scheme for a division | to make terms with the men."
of profits with employes which he had 1 This is the- ultimatum issued by the
designed for his company. I representatives of the two unions in-
vol.ved in the difficulty after a meet-
HAMLIN F. LEE DEAD. I ing tonight to consider the action of
NEPHEW OF ROBT. E. LEE the railroads in asking the Federal
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. March ; Government to endeavor to bring about
23.—Hamlin F. Lee. a veretan of the
Mexican and Civil wars, ar.da nephew
of General Robert E. Lee died here
yesterday of heart failure, aged 37.
jttlement by mediation along the
I lines provided by the Erdmann act.
The general managers tonight for the
first time admitted that the situation
Although closely related to the southern j is grave. The crisis is intensified by
nerti .and a Virginian by birth Mr. i tbe fact that no compromise had been
Lee fought with the Union army,
the latp seventies Air. Lee went
Leadville ard was the discoverer
fhs famous Robert E. Lee mine.
j effected with the representatives of 15.-
000 locomotive fireman, who are here
I negotiating for higher wages and an
sight-hour day.
LILLIAN DAVIS
WILL IE BURIED
IN WEDDING GOWN
BRISTOL, Tenn., March 2S.—De
velopments today lead to the belief
that Lillian Davis, who was shot in
East Hill cemetery last night, dying
an hour later, was assaulted and
murdered. Johnson City officials
claim that the girl was to have been a
witness against a younger brother of
Ack Hale, who was with the girl at
the time she was shot, in a trial for
manslaughter to be called at that
place next week. It is reported that
the man killed was a brother of the
dead Davis girl.
Policemen who arrested Hale and
have had him in the sweat box, hold
to the story of foul play.
TVitnesses examined testified at the
inquest today to incriminating actions
and tonight the authorities agreed to
hold a second post mortem examina
tion of the girl's body.
The inquest was adjourned and the
coroner’s physician made the exami
nation. of which they reported finding
evidence of criminal assault. No
signs of powder burns were found.
Hale is still in the Bristol, Va.. jail,
and owing to intense feeling develop
ing tonight, no attempt to transfer
him to the Tennessee side will be
made at present. He adheres to the
story that the young woman shot hre-
self.
The spot where the shooting oc
curred is six feet south of the Vir-
ginia-Tennessee State line and as the
arrest had been made by Virginia of
ficials, all the legal formalties had to
be gone over by the Tennessee author
ities.
Miss Davis is to be buried in the
fine wedding gown in which the dead
girl was to have been married early in
April to a well known coa! mine
owner.
Governor of Wisconsin in Atlanta.
ATLANTA, March 2S.—Gov. James
O. Davidson, ex-Senator W. F. Vilas,
and others ^constituting the Wisconsin
party wfio game to Georgia to investi
gate the (Jeorgia marble quarries with
a -view toTTSblding whether the Geor
gia stone shall be used in th’e con
struction of the new Wisconsin capi-
tol, called informally on Gov. Ter
rell this morning and discussed State
matters at length. Members of the
party expressed themselves as delight
ed with the trip, and while none of
them would.commit themselves, there
is every reason to believe from what
they said that the Georgia marble
will receive favorable consideration.
In fact it Is stated that if Senator
Vilas’ influence in the matter carries
the day, the Georgia stone is sure to
way Company, from the City Court of win.
Depot Wanted at Chalybeate Springs.
ATLANTA, March 28.—A party of
citizens living at and near Chalybeate
Springs, in Meriwether County, ap
peared before the State Railroad Com
mission today and presented reasons
why the Atlanta, Birmingham and At
lantic Railroad Company should be
required to erect a depot at that point.
The commission, after hearing from
the citizens, took their view of it and
ordered the depot built.
Interesting Point Decided,
ATLANTA, March 28.—An inter
esting point was decided by the State
Court of Appeals todav in the case of
Moore vs. the Central of Georgia Rail-
Atlanta. Moore was traveling on
coupon ticket and it so happened that
the conductor on one division, tore off
the coupon which furnished authority
for transportation on the division next
following. The result was that when
Moore presented his ticket to the
second conductor, the proper coupon
having been detached, he stopped the
train and put him off. Moore brought
suit for damages, but the case was
nonsuited. The Court of Appeals re
verses this finding, holding that
Moore is entitled to whatever damages
Death of Rev. Dr. J. H. Boyd.
ROANOKE, Va., March 28.—Rev.
Dr. ,T. H. Boyd, a prominent minlste#
in the Baltimore Methodist confer
ence for more than thirty years, died
here today after an extended illness.
At the time of his death he was pas
tor of St. James M. E. Church, this
city. He was for several years edi
tor of the Baltimore Methodist, the
church paper, published at Baltimore.
He had filled pulpits in many of the
leading churches in the conference.
26 PASSENGERS KILLED
IN WRECK-100 INJURED
Liverpool Cotton Statistics.
LIVERPOOL. March 27.—Following are
the weekly cotton statistics: Bales.
Total sales of ail kinds 28.000
Total sale? of American 24 009
English spinners' takings 50.000
Total export 7.090
imports of all kinds 89.000
Imports of American 83.009
Stock of all kinds 1.248.000
Stock of American 1,137.900
Quantity afloat of all kinds 227.090
Quantity afloat of American.... 166,099
Total sales on speculation 690
Total sales to exporters 2,200
COLTON, Calif., March 28.—A dis
astrous wreck on the Southern Pacific
occurred one and a half miles east of
here late this afternoon when west
bound train No. 9 from New Orleans
for San Francisco, ran into an open
switch. Ten of the fourteen coaches
were derailed. Twenty-six persons are
known to have been killed and the
final list will probably total much high
er. The injured number about one
hundred. The wrecked coaches were
hurled in every direction and four were
smashed into splinters.
Most of the dead were Italians from
New York and New Orleans, going to
San Francisco. They occupied the
smoker and day coach. Eighteen
corpses were brought to Colton this
evening and eight additional bodies
could be seen underneath one of the de
molished cars. This car could not be
raised until a derrick was brought from
Lis Angeles, sixty miles away.
•But two Americans are known to
have been killed. Geo. L. Sharp, of
Munice Ind.. was Instantly killed. The
baggage man of the train whose name
has not been ascertained also was kill
ed. Engineer Clarence E. AVormington
and Fireman Victor Crebb were caught
in the wreckage and terribly burned.
Out of about 80 Pullman passengers
only two sustained serious injury. The
three Pullman passengers coaches and
the diner, which were on the rear of
the train did not leave the track. The
Florence Roberts theatrical company
SHERIFF BRINGS SHIT
AGAINST BiCTRiC CO.
Sheriff George B. Robertson has en
tered suit in the superior court against
the Macon Railway and Light Com
pany in the sum of $228.
The sheriff gives as grounds for the
action, that September 26. 1906, he was
approached by J. T. Nyhan, superin
tendent of the electric company, who
announced that there were strong
probabilities of efforts being made by
certain unruly and disorderly perepns
to wreck and injure the property of
the company, and instructed the rfier-
iff to ■ employ extra men to protect
the company’s property, compensation
to the extra men to be paid by the
company.
The sheriff says, that he, acting up
on instructions from the superintend/-
ent of the company, employed nine
men who gave their time and attention
to protecting the company's property
for a total of 58 days. He employed
the men at $4 per day and a total
amount of $228 is due the nine men.
He alleges that he has asked the
company to settle with the men for
^ . „ their services rendered, and that the
occupied one coach, which was hurled 1 company has refused to do so; that
the men are looking to him for their
pay now. and he asks the court ^ to
to the track and both ends of it crush
ed in bv impact against the others. Two
of the twenty-two members of the com
pany were injured. Miss Roberta es
caped unhurt. The escape from death
of the occupants of this car was re
markable. The scenery and properties
carried were destroyed.
There were three tracks where the ac
cident occurred, which is in the open
country. The people of Colton were
first to be not'fied of the eatasrophe. TOKIO Starch 28.—It was announced
Hundred? hurried to the scene and phy- toc ; :1 y that r;en. Kuroki will represent the
slcians and nurses were brought to Japanese army at the Jamestown exposl-
6an Bernardino and Colton. tion.
award him the sum as petitioned Jpr.
The men were alleged to have been
empolyed to protect property of the
electric company about the beginning;
of tbe second strike late last last year.
GEN. KUROKI TO REPRESENT
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