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THE ATLANTA EVENING HERALD
VOL. II.—NO. 206.
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GEN. HOWARB,
He Was Entertained By the Peo
ple Last Night.
A PLEASANT AFFAIR
The Members of the G. A. R.
and the Veterans of the Con
federate Army United to Do
the Old Soldier Honors.
General O. O. Howard was the re
cipient of a last night from
O. M. Mitchell post and its friends
that was as hearty and enthusiastic as
it was sincere.
General Howard is and has been a
prominent figure in war, peace and
Christian work, so as to earn for him
the title of the “Christian Soldier.?’
The beautiful rooms of the post in
the Knights of Pythias hall were full
last night when the meeting was
called to order by Post Commander
Averill. Members of the post with
their ladies, of the Northern society,
Woman’s Relief Corps, the Confed
erate Veterans in large numbers, with
a good attendance from Fort McPher
son of the Fourth Artillery officers in
full uniform, made a picture that was
pleasing to contemplate and a com
plete representation of Atlanta.
General J. R. Lewis made the open
ing address of welcome on behalf of
Grand Army and Northern Citizens,
touching upon pasft warm friendship
with General Howard, and giving a
glowing tribute to his worth as a man,
soldier and a friend. Following came
a letter of regret from Governor
Northen, who had been invited to ex
tend a welcome on behalf of Georgia,
but had been suddenly called from the
city.
A song, by Miss Kenney, was ren
dered in a delightful manner, and then
Mayor Goodwin, in a beautifully
worded address, welcomed General
Howard to Atlanta. He said we are
glad to welcome northern people, be
cause we know they love us ; they
loved us so hard thirty years ago, that
they persuaded us to remain in the
Union when we had made up our
minds to withdraw. He spoke with
pride of Atlanta, and the position she
nqw occupies, and is to fill in the
future.
Colonel Calhoun followed, welcom
ing General Howard on behalf of the
Confederate Veterans. His address
was worthy of the? speaker, and his
well known kindness of heart. He
said in opening: “I wish it distinctly
understood, not only for myself, but
for the Confederate Veteran’s associa
tion, over 500 strong, which I have the
honor to represent, that we are not
contemplatiug any new rebellion. The
crown of glory today of the American
Union, is the American soldier, and
the valor displayed by them on fields
of battle. Brothers who once fought
against each other, are today united
like the roses in the crown of England,
are equal gems in the diadem.
At the conclusion of the very happy
remarks, Dr. Sherrill stepped up to
the front of the hall, taking the Union
general and the Confederate colonel
each by the hand, brought them to
gether and joined their hands over the
American flag which draped the
speaker’s table, and so in the presence
of “Old Glory,” completely sealed the
friendship of the two brilliant Amer
ican soldiers.
After another song by Miss Kenny,
which was well received, Mrs. W. M.
Scott, president of the Woman’s Re
lief Corps, welcomed General Howard
on behalf of that organization.
“From the side of the women, who
turn instinctively toward the man who,
with strength has gentleness; who to
power adds mercy; who in authority
shows love to his fellows; and whose
life is one of high endeavors, I offer
you, sir, welcome. I congratulate you
that your name is enshrined in
women’s hearts. I give you from my
dear sisters the imperishable diadem
of this assurance of their confidence
and regard, won for you by your life.
As time goes on we shall hope to see
you often, with every renewing health
and vigor for you will doubtless de
monstrate as another Sir Galahad did,
that his strength was as the strength
of ten, because his heart was pure.”
General Howard’s response came
from a full heart and was worthy of
the man. He spoke with great ten
derness of his friend and comrade,
General Lewis, and then said that
early in life after careful study of all
things pertaining to wars in the old
world, he had decided that the true
relation which the officer should bear
to his soldiers was parental, rather
than tyrranical. In his own heart
there never had been any hate or bit
terness toward the Confederate
soldier. As an illustration he spoke
of General Stewart, the Confederate
cavalryman, as his warm classmate
and friend at West Point, and that his
heart never changed toward him.
Both sides fought for what they con
scientiously believed to be right, but
the war is over and we are a united
people.
I have been criticized for my connec
tion with the Freedman’s bank, when
the truth is, I never had anything to
do with the management. I went to
day and stood on the top of the Aragon
hotel to take a look at Atlanta, which
Mayor Goodwin so proudly referred
to. I looked north toward Peachtree
creek, and southwest toward Ezra
Chapel, and everywhere I saw un
doubted evidences of the wonderful
growth and prosperity of Atlanta. 1
then looked soutij towards Jonesboro,
but I could not see it. I love Atlanta,
and I am proud of her because she is
just as much my city as an American
as she is yours who live here. Now,
what we want in this glorious republic
is good men at the head of the govern
ment; men who will go forward, men
who will do their duty. I care not the
turn of my hand what political party
is in power, so long as we have in office
good men and true.
This is my political platform, to love
the Lord with all my soul, and my
neighbor as myself.
General Howard then told with em
phasis of two American institutions,
both of which are strongly exemplified
in the south, the distinctively Ameri
can family in which each member is
true to each other and to the whole,and
the American public schools, which
have not their superior in the world
Upon these two institutions, with the
recognition of the Supreme Being,
rests the entire structure of our Ameri
can government.
At the conclusion of General How
ard’s response all of the friends pres
ent were introduced to him, and he
shook hands with each person in the
hall. After the introduction coffee
and cake were served and the company
dispersed. Altogether it was a most
enjoyable occasion and will be pro
ductive of great good. The gathering
was a complete representative one, and
included Rev. Dr. Holderby, represent
ing the southern clergy, he also being
a Confederate veteran; Major Rawls
and officers of the Fourth Artillery
with their ladies, Captain Forbes and
many others, which space forbids
mentioning.
FIGHT FOR LIFE.
The Tug Lost, Two Men Drowned
and Others Escaped.
Brunswick, March 30. —The tug
Mascotte, A. B. Potter commanding,
owned by J. L. Lengle of Jacksonville,
Fla., valued at slß,ooo,went ashore near
Cumberland Island beach yesterday
and is a total loss.
Steward Frank Bowen and the cook
and Boatswain Bosen lost their lives.
Potter is dying and Pilot Frank
Fader, of St. Andrew’s bay, is se
riously ill from their battle with the
waves.
The Mascotte was returning from
Jacksonville’s marine railway when
she spoke the schooner Susan N. Pick
ering and schooner S. Barrett.
She took in tow the Barrett and started
up the Satilla river. An unusually
heavy northeaster was blowing, the
sea heavy and the hawser parted. It
was repaired and parted again, tang
ling in the propeller and disabling the
machinery. Potter dropped anchor,
but one chain parted, leaving the Mas
cotte dragging. Potter’ shipped the
other anchor and started for the beach.
The sails were torn into shreds and he
was dr ihed on the shoals.
Fader, displaying usual heroism, en
deavored to get the men to follow him
and swim to the shore, but the waves
were mountain high and they were
afraid. Fader leaped into the sea,
reached shore safely, and was followed
by Potter.
The Mascotte went to pieces at once
and the seamen tried to make shore.
Fader braving the heavy surf to help
them in. It was ten miles distance to
Cumberland hotel.
They started to walk, leaving their
dead on the beech behind them. Six
miles from the hotel Potter fainted and
Fader carried his apparently lifeless
body to the door, fainting himself in
the doorway just as help arrived in
answer to his despairing cries for aid.
Fader is in a precarious condition,
while Potter’s life is despaired of.
Manager William C. Morgan and
wife, of the Cumberland hotel, did
noble work reviving the men.
Fader’s noble work is the talk of the
town.
ATHENS’ DARK WEEK.
Lively Times Among the Boys in
the Classic Burg.
Athens, March 80. —The cowhiding
of Mr. Lee J. Langley, correspondent
for the Atlanta Constitution, by Mr.
Byron Bowers, president of the O. B.
German club, has created a decided
stir in college circles. Another chap
ter has been added to the series of
sensations by a street fight here today
between Mr. H. A. Alexander, corres
pondent for the Atlanta Journal, and
Mr. Langley. Mr. Langley took ex
ception to an article sent from Athens
by Mr. Alexander, descriptive of his
recent difficulty, and meeting him to
day denounced his story as a lie from
head lines to foot slugs, and the writer
as a tool andjbootlicK.
The two men collided and a fist and
skull fight ensued. Tney were finally
parted and both placed under arrest.
A new wrinkle has developed in the
Langley-Bower trouble that promises
a sensational denouement. In the
presence of Bower’s friends Langley
denounced him as a coward and they
stated that unless the charges were
withdrawn he would demand satisfac
tion. Langley was challenged by
Bowers and the latter’s second called
on the former’s to arrange the details
for the meeting. Bowers’ second
stated that their proposition was
merely a suggestion and demanded
that the challenge come from Langley.
In reply he sent the following:
“H. M. Dorsey, Sir—You called on me
last night as the representative of Bowers
and stated that if insisted on calling Bow
ers a coward he demanded an opportunity
to fight me. I agreed. Considering your
propositionja challenge, as it could have
been meant for nothing else, and agreed
with you not to attack him on the street
and not to call him a coward again but
since Bowers has verified my statement
that he is a dirty coward and you have
completely backed down, I now challenge
Bowers to fight me to a finish in the ring at
a time and place agreeable to Mr. Erwin,
my friend, and yourself. If Bowers does
not accept this, I vzill publicly brand him
a dirty coward and a scoundrel beneath the
recognition of courageous and honorable
men. Respectfully, Lee Langley.”
It is almost certain that this war
like proposition will be accepted. Both
men have been indefinitely suspended
from college.
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ATLANTA. GEORGIA FRIDAY. MARCH 31. 1893.
TOLLESON.
His Bank is Little But Seems to
Be All Right.
CRITICISMS ARE MADE
By the Bank Examiner Who
Says the Book-Keeping Ought
to Be Improved.—The Report
of the Examiner.
The Empire State bank of Atlanta
is receiving the attention of Bank
Examiner Hardeman. In his report
to the governor heJsays:
“My examination of the said bank
shows as follows: Deposit account
$33.13 and their books show to whom
it is due. The bank has complied
with the law in not loaning to any
one person more than 10 per cent of
its capital and surplus. The capital
is $10,400 and the highest loan is SI,OOO,
which is secured. The law requires
the banks to show in their statements
the good and bad debts. The state
ment rendered Colonel Hardeman
shows $6,999.46 good and $930 bad.
They have also complied with the
law which authorized them to com
mence business when $25,000 was sub
scribed and ten per cent paid in. The
following are the stockholders and
amounts of stock owned by each:
M. A. Cason, $10,000; S. K. Osburn,
$100; B. Sansone, $100; J. R. Tolleson,
$100; F. Q. Cason, SIOO. Total, $10,400.
“As to the charges and complaints
made by the lawyers to you and my
self concerning claims they hold
against said bank, growing out of coir
lections sent to said bank by the par
ties represented by the lawyers making
complaint, I have to say that the man
ner of keeping and reporting upon
such collections as are sent said bank
in my judgment, is a loose and un
business-like method. They keep that
which is called a collection record upon
which all papers for collection sent
them are entered, of such papers as
may be sent them by their regular cor
respondents, the entire transaction of
such papers is a part and parcel of
their general books, but such papers
that may be respondents, are simply
entered upon their collection register
and do not go through the accounts of
their regular books. Consequently, to
trace up anything is a difficult matter
to any one not accustomed to such
method of bookkeeping. #
“The books of the bank show JJB
ths National bank of Winston,
sent to the Empire State ba rW ■
drafts f ~r collection, one for S7SM
one for $75, making $150.75, thatM .
was remitted for on or about JatWß
12th. Upon asking Mr.
that check was signed when sent, he 1
answered me that it was not, but that
when the check was sent back, he re
turned the same properly signed, and
that he had said to Mr.’ Reid, ‘that if
when his March account was rendered
by the New York correspondent said
check had not been paid, he would pay
said amount.’
“When asked by me for his check
book, showing stub of the check, he
replied that he kept no stub showing
the checks drawn.”
He closes his report by saying:
The method of keeping and report
ing on collections is loose and unbusi
ness like.
Mr. Tolleson says: “The article in
this morning’s Constitution was the
work of enemies. I merely wish to
say that my bank is all right. I have
few liabilities and plenty of money,
notes, etc. Mr. Hardeman will say
that the bank is all right.”
Mr. Hardeman declined to express
an opinion as to the condition of the
bank, but referred The Herald repre
sentative to his statement, from which
were made the extracts published
above.
The Markets Closed.
On account of Good Friday the mar
kets, both at home and abroad, are
closed today.
The Liverpool Cotton Exchange will
remain closed until Wednesday morn
ing. The New York Cotton Exchange
will reopen Monday morning.
The New York Stock Exchange and
the Chicago board of trade will reopen
tomorrow morning.
Cotton on the spot in Atlanta is
quoted quiet at 8 1-16 today.
ATLANTA CLEARING STATEMENT.
Clearings Monday $ 206,971 48
Clearings Tuesday 172,731 75
Clearings Wednesday 192.728 36
Clearings Thursday 165,551 39
Clearings today 197,465 71
Total $ 925,448 69
A Town Wiped Out.
By Telegraph to The Herald.
Wilmington, Del., March 31.—The
chief of the fire department* of this
city this morning received word that
the town of Galena, of about eight
hundred inhabitants, near Chester
town, Md., was on fire and requesting
assistance. Later a dispatch was re
ceived saying the town had been
wiped out. The loss cannot at present
be ascertained.
Another Fire.
Philadelphia, March 31.—The
five-story buildings, 129 to 137 North
Front street, owned and occupied by
Weikel & Smith Spice Co., were par
tially destroyed by fire this morning.
Loss $75,000. It is covered by in
surance.
Garden Seeds.
If you want nice, fresh, well grown
and early vegetables, buy your seed
from the New Seed Store, 19 South
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Dr. W. M. Durham.
Surgery and Chronio Diseases, No, 774
Peachtree street.
THE WILD MAN
Who Has Been Scaring Eadies in
the Third Ward.
Lon White, a son of Police Sergeant
White, had a lively encounter with the
man who has been scaring ladies re
cently at Grant park and Oakland
cemetery. White attempted to arrest
him but failed, not, however, before
giving him a severe pounding over the
head with a heavy hickory stick that
he carried.
Heads Go Off.
By Telegraph to The Herald.
Washington, March 31.—Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-General Max
well today appointed 136 fourth-class
postmasters, which involved fifty-nine
removals. The largest number of ap
pointments was made in Indiana,
where there were 36, involving 18 re
movals. In Missouri there were 16 ap
pointments and 7removals; Tennessee,
20 appointments, 7 removals; Vermont,
11 appointments, 10 removals; Ken
'lflckX 9 appointments, 2 removals;
West Virginia, 8 appointments, all the
incifrnbents having resigned.
Appoiniiueat by Carlisle.
Washington, March 31.—Secretary
Carlisle today appointed S. M. Gaines,
his'private secretary, chief of the mail
division of the treasury department at
a salary of $2,000, vice Nichols, re
signed.
A FRENCH PEASANT.
A Man Charged With Robbing
His Benefactor.
Jule Boson, a young Frenchman, is a
prisoner at the police station charged
with having stolen money from Felix
Bragard, a Belgian, ,by whom he was
employed.
Bragard is the keeper of a junk shop
at 113 West Peters street, and gave
Beson money to buy goods for him,
which he now claims was spent by the
young man.
Bragard says he gave Beson money
to pay his board and other expenses
and then employed him only to be
robbed by the man he was trying to
benefit.
Beson denies his guilt. He is attired
in a picturesque costume of a French
peasant and is a rather good-looking
and intelligent fellow.
Arrested on a Bench Warrant.
H. L. Patton, of Lithonia, was ar
rested here this morning on a bench
warrant from that place charging him
with larceny. Patton was a school
teacher and collected considerable
teurns of money from different parties
Isi’ THE
■ . •
MNR/s What Cleveland Told a
W Congressman He Will Do.
Washington, March 30.—There were
no signs of letting up in the rush of
office-seekers of the white house today.
They, came early and stayed late and
some of them would have stayed later
if th6 opportunity had been presented.
From 10 until 12 o’clock senators and
representatives, with the constituents
they had brought with them, occupied
the president’s attention, and from 12
until 1 o’clock, we, the people, were
admitted.
“But, Mr. President, what are you
going to do with the slates that the
congressional delegations are fixing
up about the distribution of local
patronage?”
“I am going to smash them.”
This is the question reported to have
been put to the president by a con
gressman, and the reply of the presi
dent. It is said to have followed a
conversation which had proceeded for
some time between the president and
several members of a certain delega
tion in congress over the question of
local appointments. They wanted to
know “where they were at,” and they
found that they were simply parties
and not principals in the game.
To make the matter a little clearer,
they learned that while the agreement
of a delegation upon local officers may
have weight, the president'will not be
bound by it.
So plain has this policy of the presi
dent become, that the Alabama delega
tion has decided to abandon its slate
heretofore agreed upon. This lead will
be followed by other delegations with
the result probably that the contest
for office will become a free-for-all
race, and each candidate will run on
his own merits.
This will probably be satisfactory to
many congressmen, for it will relieve
them of considerable responsibility.
They can endorse Tom,Dick and Harry
and say, “now go it, and let the best
man win.”
A strong pressue is brought to bear
upon Mr. Cleveland to have him select
a commissioner of pensions from a
state east of the Alleghenies. Those
who are exerting their influence to
this argue that the west has had the
office too many times, and that it is
now the turn of the east.
Mr. Cleveland has given no sign as
to his selection, if he has made any,
but he has that the new
commissioner will be a young man of
known abilities, not too closely allied
to practical politics.
The president told a recent caller
that he had information that led him
to believe that the force of clerks in
the pension office could be reduced
by about 400 or 500 to benefit the gov
ernment, not only in economy, but in
the more rapid disposition of the
work.
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THEJINK.
More Facts Come Out in the
Redwine Investigation.
ONE BIG BORROWER.
»
Mr. W. H. Patterson Owed the
Band More Than IO Per Cent
of Capital Stock—What Bank
Examiner Stone Says.
The Gate City bank matter remains
a puzzle.
Examiner Stone insists that the
banks doors ought now to be open and
the Federal prosecuting official seems
to be as firmly convinced that its
capital is impaired to the tune of
$240,000 to $250,000.
One of the charges that would have
been made before the grand jury had
the investigation proceeded is that W.
H. Patterson, the broker, and
at one time cashier of the
old Citizen’s bank, had borrowed
from thirty to thirty-four thousand
dollars, which is in excess of the
amount the law allows any one indi
vidual to borrow upon his own paper
from a national bank. The law, how
ever, does not restrict the lending of
money on commercial paper and it
seems that other names appeared in
the transaction besides that of Mr.
Patterson.
The law under such circumstances is
perhaps open to two constructions.
At all events when Examiner Stone
took charge he differed with the offi
cials of the bank as to the
meaning of the statute and was
of the opinion that Mr. Patterson
had borrowed beyond the limit.
Since that time the debt has been de
creased through money paid in, and it
is undoubtedly now within the limit.
District Attorney Darnell says he
has his theory concerning the
local influences brought to bear to
have the investigation stopped, but he
is not in a position to state what that
theory is. He thinks a mistake has
been made, as Captain Jackson was
going to the bottom of the facts. No
attorney ever worked harder or more
faithfully than he has since his ap
pointment.
Captain Jackson, as stated yester
day, was appointed on his recom
mendation. He thinks he will not be
consulted as to the appointment of his
successor stmukUfackson he removed.
In fact doubt that the
matter will gower and be handled by
his own successor, Colonel James.
The district attorney’s term expires
next Tuesday. He says if he goes out
of office with the Redwsne case still
uninvestigated he will, in his own de
fense, enlighten the public as to the
circumstances under which the inves
tigation was stopped at so critical a
point.
He will not publish the official cor
respondence, as that cannot be done
with propriety, but he will give all
the material facts.
He makes a point on the fact that
the prosecuting attorneys have never
been allowed to go into the bank to
examine its condition. Redwine he
regards as a minnow in the business
as compared with others who would
have been involved.
Attorney General Olney wired to
Atlanta to stop proceedings because it
came to the department that he had
been criticized for the appointment of
Captain Harry Jackson as special at
torney for the government in the pro
secution. He had made the appoint
ment upon the advice of District At
torney Darnell.
When the various stories from At
lanta came to Mr. Olney’s ears he im
mediately wired to Atlanta to stop
proceedings until he had decided what
to do about a special government attor
ney—whether he would retain or re
move Captain Jackson.
The attorney-general wanted to
talk to Captain Jackson and confer
with Mr. Carlisle. It may be that they
will decide to have some other lawyer
represent the government in the pros
ecution, but both were impressed with
Captain Jackson’s evident desire to go
to the bottom of the affair and un
ravel the entire mystery. They want
this done. They want Captain Jack
son’s aid in the matter, but they may
decide to give another man charge of
the case, feeling that the department
of justice should not perform an act
that would place it in a position to be
criticised.
It is safe to state that the sensa
tional dispatch in the Macon Evening
News stating that indictments would
have been found against President
Hill, Cashier McCandless and Mr. Dan
Rountree was not correct.
Cashier McCandless, who has here
tofore declined to be quoted or appear
in the affair in any way, has written a
card vigorously denouncing the
author.
When approached about the affairs
of the bank this morning, Examiner
Stone insisted that its affairs were in
good shape, as indicated by his report,
and that it should already have re
opened its doors but for the many fool
ish rumors in circulation which
tended to destroy public confidence.
Concerning the Patterson loan he
spoke as already indicated, but pro
tested that there was nothing ugly in
the matter.
Brokers were in the habit of bor
rowing-as Patterson had, and if every
bank that allowed them to do so were
called to a strict account there would
not be half a dozen of these institu
tions left in the country.
So far near $300,000 had been col-
lected and making all due allowance
for doubtful paper the capital of the
bank would not be impaired more than
about 20 per cent, as indicated by his
report.
“There is no rascality in this bank,”
he said, almost hotly. “President Hill
and his family own the bank. Is it
credible that he or they would at
tempt to rob themselves?”
They surely wouldn’t pick their own
pockets. The examiners represent the
depositors. As their representative I
declare that there are no thieves now
in the bank, and that the public makes
a mistake by mixing up the bank with
Redwine.
“I have been thoroughly disgusted
by the attempts to drag the affairs of
private individuals into the Redwine
case.
“If the bank should not open,” he
said, “it would be placed in the hands
of a receiver before payments to de
positors were made.”
One of two things certainly had to ,
happen before payments began:'
Either the bank would be reorganized
or be turned over to a receiver.
Had it not been for the frequent at
tacks on the bank as an institution it
would already have been opened.
Around the World on Bicycles.
By Telegraph to The Herald.
St. Louis, March 31.—This morning
Thomas G. Allen, of Ferguson, Mo.,
and Will L. Sachtleben, of Alton, 111.,
rolled into St. Louis on their bicycles
having completed a tour of the world
in three years. Both young men grad
uated from Washington university in
1890 and undertook a trip to Chicago
to improve their education.
In their tour the cyclers crossed the
Chinese empire from east to west, a
distance of 3,200 miles and are the only
white men who have accomplished this
feat since Marco Polo in the thirteenth
century.
Representatives of the St. Louis
Cycling clubs met the tourists outside
the city and escorted them to the club
house where they were given an en
thusiastic reception.
Indian Troubles Feared.
By Telegraph to The Herald.
Washington, March 31. —Late last
night Secretary Hoke Smith received
a telegram from Commissioner Gib
bons at Athens, I. T., in which he
states that unless steps are imme
diately taken to prevent a collision
between the two rival factions of the
Choctaw Indians, bloodshed is immi
nent. Secretary Smith at once com
municated with the secretary of war
with the result that the officer in com
mand of the United States troops
nearest the .scene of the threatened
trouble has been instructed to
promptly infirm himself of the exact
situation and? take such action as it
Agfent BeJnnett at
Muscogee, has also been directed to
proceed at oboe to the locality and
report upon tne situation.
Light Plant Burned.
By Telegraph to The Herald.
McKeesport, Pa., March 31.—This
morning at 8 :30 the McKeesport elec
tric light plant caught fire and was
tolally destroyed. The loss is from
$75,000 to SIOO,OOO. The blaze was ig
nited by a torch in the hands of the
oiler, coming in contact with a bunch
of oil-soaked waste, which communica
ted the flame to an oil barrel which ex
ploded, scattering fire in all directions.
The city public highways will be left
in darkness tonight unless three pri
vate light plants here can be connected
with the public and provide light.
The Duynese Electric railway and the
Citizens Electric railway are also left
without power.
Opera House Burned.
By Telegraph to The Herald.
Anderson, Ind., March 31.—The
Dixey opera house was destroyed by
fire last night. Loss, $50,000; insurance
$45,000.
Judge Pardee.
Judge Don A. Pardee reached the
city yesterday and held court in
chambers this morning with Judge
Newman. The judge has been across
the gulf to Tampa and has been spend
ing a while in Florida. He is on his
way to Mobile, where he must be to
morrow.
The only business transacted was
to make the judgment of the coiirt
of appeals the judgment of the
court here in the case of O. P. Fitz
simmons. In this case there was a
verdict for the government for $1,885
principal and $525 interest.
Take Your Choice.
Had you as soon bu| a good Hat as
a sorry one; a new style as an old
style; a dressy Hat as one that is not
dressy, when there is but little differ
ence in price ? Os course you had.
Most men had. Well, then, you’ll find
these very desirable points to be spe
cial features of OUR Hats.
Watch our window for the correct
styles.
A. O. M. GAY & SON,
18 Whitehall Street.
Wanted.
The merchants of Atlanta to place their
old and bad accounts —large and small
tor collection in the hands of
A. H. Behling.
Attorney at Law,
7i North Broad street.
SIX CENTS A WEEK
STOMI
The Case May Be Called Next
Week
IS READY FOR TRIAL.
He Thinks He Will Come Clear
—Short Interview With Him—
He is Recovering 1 From an At
tack of Fever.
Porter Stocks may be tried for the
killing of Alf Cassin next week and if
the case is called he will be ready, he
says.
Porter Stocks is just recovering
from a severe attack of fever and that
with his continued imprisonment has
made him considerably paler than he
was a few months ago.
The fever has left him in a very
weak condition and he has lost con
siderable flesh. He was sick for nine
days and was taken from the rock jail
to the room now occupied by Mrs.
Hammond, where he was nursed by an
attendant until he recovered suffi
ciently to be returned to his iron cage.
“I hope my case will be called next
week,” he said this morning, to a
Herald mar, “and I feel confident
that I will be a free man as soon as
the trial is finished.”
He was weak and as he talked there
was a noticeable tremor in his voice
that showed that his strength had not
returned.
While he was speaking he threw
himself on the little cot in his cell and
after a minute’s silence, he said: “I
want a fair trial, and want to be prose
cuted and not persecuted. My first
trial was not a fair one because my
side of the case was not understood.”
•‘I W*ul« Sav Ha«g Him.”
“If I had been a stranger to the
facts in the case and had not seen Alf
Cassin’s sister, Mrs. Echdls, while she
was testifying, I would have said hang
the man that killed her brother. Her
grief was natural, and God knows I
am sorry for her, but I am not to
blame for what I did and believe I
will soon be free.”
The cell in which Stocks is now kept
is the second one on the left of the jail
and was freshly whitewashed this
morning and the floor scrubbed by one
of the prisoners.
A; SCOUX.DREIj.
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A Man Robs a Widow—Was Hll
Friend.
The police department is looking for
a young man with dark eyes, black
hair and a scar on his right wrist. He
is wanted in Milwaukee, Wis., where
he is charged with having defrauded a
Mrs. Sherbrook out of SI,OOO.
The man gave his name in Milwaukee
as Harry E. Hightower, and not Harry
Hallman, as was printed in an after
noon paper yesterday.
The swindler said his father was
a member of the firm of Hightower
& Hallman, of this city, and that he
was an heir to an estate of SIOO,OOO,
but would be compelled to spend $7,000
before he could secure his money.
He had, he said, $6,000 of the amount
and succeeded in borrowing from Mrs.
Sherbrook the sum he claimed was
needed. As soon as the money was se
cured he disappeared.
Chief of Police Connolly received a
letter last night from the chief of Mil
waukee who said that Mrs. Sherbrook
was a widow and had given the man
all the property that she had, so fully
had he gained her confidence. No suet
man is known in Atlanta.
NO BOYCOTT.
The Columbus Southern Rail*
way is All Right.
Commissioner Slaughter, of the
Southern Railway and Steamship as
sociation says that the report that the
Columbus Southern railway is being
boycotted by the association, is en
tirely without foundation.
“I sent out a circular,” he said,
“stating the relation of the road to the
association, but as to any boycott that
is untrue.
Death of Major McCarthy.
Major Maurice McCharthy died
suddenly at noon yesterday at his
residence 368 Peachtree. Major Mc-
Carthy, had resided in Atlanta only a
short time, coming here from Colum
bus, Miss. The funeral services will
be conducted by Rev. G. B. Strickler
at the house this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
Beans, Sped Beans.
All varieties of bunch bean seed
pole bean seed, butter bean seed; none
but fresh seed sold. All seeds are sold
at growers’ prices. New Seed Store,
19 South Broad street.
Bucher & Boyd.
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JV. K.HAWKES*
MANUFACTURING OPTICIAN.
All OCULISTS’ PRESCRIPTIONS filled the
SAME DAY as received. EJoctnc motor power
used in the factory. RELIABLE GOODS and
QUICK WORK our specialty.
Established Twenty-Two Years Ago.
12 WHITEHALL ST.. ATLANTA GA.