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The WMthgr: Atl»nU sad vlcUIty: l'srtly cloudy to flood/ insight ond Tuesday. VOL. y. NO. 202. U. S. SIMREASURY IN CHICAGO LOSES $200,000 BY THEFT ATLANTA, G4-, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25,1907. WILL THE DAY EVER COMfi? PRICE: Loss Just Discovered by Officers of Treasury. CHIEF OF SLEUTHS WORKS ON CASE It Is Believed by Officials That It Is an “In side Job.” Chicago, Feb. 25.—One of the largest. If not the largest, theft* from the United States treasury in Chicago U being Investigated today. Between SI*.5,000 and S200.000 wan stolen last « eelc. Chief Wilkie, of the United Stales secret service, has been keeping In formed by telephone and telegraph of every development In the Investigation nnd he left Washington today to take lierxonal charge of the Investigation. Secretary Shaw, of the treasury de tainment, was told or the gigantic theft when In Chicago last week, and was In ,,inference with Sub-Treasurer William Holdenweck and secret service officials. The money was stolen either a week ago Saturday, the next day or last Monday. The chances are It was ab stracted on Monday. The loss woa dis covered on Tuesday. All the money was taken In blits of the denomination of tl.OOO, 55,000 and 110.000. Just who discovered the loss, the sub treasury officials would not admit last night. Neither would they tell from w hat department the money was taken nor how the loss was discovered. At ffast It was believed chat there muct-bn some error In the bookkeeping. It was thought to be Impossible that such a large sum art money could have been abstracted.In the face of all the safeguard! thrown around Uncle gam's -trong box. Tha deduction wae that the Juana wire employees of the sub- treaaurv and ware at that moment pur- - ilng Ihelr daily tasks. ONE KILLED G. S. & F. Train Left Tracks and Engine Overturned. s I UTS ITS WAY Causes Big Loss the Business Section. in I'lttsburg, Pa., Feb. 25.—Fire In the ■■ i-lness section of the city today caus 'd it loss of 1250,000. At noon flames ••re still spreading and guests were 'Iven from the Beventh Avenue Ho tel. The entire building will go. The fire started In the six etory '■ Hiding at No. 515 Liberty street, op i'"»lte the Academy of Music, ocou I'M by the Darby Desk Company, and. ■ ' l- believed, waa duo to an explo- -ion. The Baker Office Furniture Com- T-ny building, next door, caught Are. The Derby Daxk Company building la o total lose. The aun-Bush building rl-o caught lire. Mina Wllllama, a stenographer, was "ished while escaping by the stairs. ">d a salesman, name unknown, wag inured seriously In escaping from one ' the adjoining buildings. The Are department water tower fell "ith a crash, tearing down some live Special to Tbs Gtorglin. Macon, (3a., Feb. 25.—The Georgia Southern and Florida passenger train No. 5, leaving Macon at 12:50 this morning, was derailed near the 47 mile post, between Unadltla and Ptnehurst, at 4 o’clock. The engine turned over on the right II side and the two express cars, combt-' jr nation baggage and mall car. turned || over on the left side, the two coaches left the rails, but did not turn over. The wreckage caught Are In the ex press cart and all five of the cars were burned. The two sleepers In the rear dltl not leave the rails and were unin lured. engineer D. C. Fnrmer was caught under his engine and killed. Fireman Will Owens, colored: Ex press Messengers Hmlth and Conner were slightly hurt. The cause of the derailment has not yet been ascertained. The track trill he cleared and traffic relumed by o'clock this afternoon. A special train waa madaupandtba passengers Pram the derailed train taken to their destination. The northbound "Dixie Flyer*' and Jacksonville limited, dua to eiirtVd at Macon at 4 o'clock this morning, were routed via Cordele over the Seaboard Air Line to Amerlcue and the Centrdl of Georgia to Macon. FATALLY BURNED WHILE STANDING BEFORE OPEN GRATE Special to The Georgian. Newnan. Ga., Feb. 26.—Information has just reached here that on Satur day night In Luthersvllle, Ga.. Mrs. PaulCouch was so badly burned that she died yesterday. , Details are meager, but It Is said she was preparing lo retire and waa sitting or standing near the Are. when her dress caught. Before assistance could reach her. she was -ao badly burned that death came to her relief Sunday afternoon. She was one of the most attractive voung matrons of the city and was the daughter of Mannle Wilson, a very prominent planter of that section. 8he had been married scarcely a year. MRS, AGGIE MYERS, WHOSE EXECUTION HAS BEEN DELAYED 'OUNG ALABAMANS SECURE SCHOLARSHIPS. ini to The Georgian. Montgomery, Ala.. Feb. 25—The two ' ihiuna boys who are to receive the " M Rhodes scholarships «t Oxford, "gland, are Addison White, of Hunts- ‘;lle. nnd J. J. Rogers, of Tuakegee. h"s* two successfully stood the exam- 'I'MInn and lure entitled to the schnl- ""hlps. Mr. Rogers Is now it student • ihe Washington and Lee University "T Mr. White was formerly a student " 'he State University. Newspaper Men Etertained. " I " to Tbs Georgian. Montgomery. Ala., Feb. 25.—t'apteln Cranford, representative from HARRIS TELLS OF nnuno DUNUd Explains About issue to Buy Southern Pacific. # FIRST WITNESS ' BEFORE BOARD Hearing by Commerce Com mission Being Held in Gotham. New Turk. Feb. 16—E. H. Hard man was the first witness called at tha resumption of the Interstate commerce commission Investigation Into tha op erations of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific systems In tha Fed eral building today. Five members of the commission were present, Martin A. Knapp, tha chairman, and Commis sioner Jefferson Clements, Franklin K. Lane, Charles A. Prouty and J. F. Bar- land. The attorneys for the commis sion .were' Frank B. Kellogg aad C. A. Severance. , ■ - - - - waa among the lint of the railroad men to appear at tha elttlng. He was ac companied by his persons! counsel. Paul D. Ciavath. Following him came Alex Minor, secretary of the Union Pa cific and Southern Pacific companies, aad former Judge R. 8. Lovett, of the Harrlman counsel. J. F. Mllburn was also present, representing the latter in terests- Mr. Harrlman, after being sworn, was asked If In January, 1I0L the Un ion Pacific provided for an Issue of $190.M0,00|> convertible bonds. Mr. Harrlman satd the aompany In Janua ry. 1501. Issued IKMbMtMO principally to purchase the fokthexn Pacific. »4«, 000,000 of which ‘ WHIM ft BO uf> sr a otttetw AN RLEVATOK IN 6PRCTPR TAKAS fli PROP IN A FAUUNCr £ LEVA TO** OH, HAPPY DAY! [DRAMATIC EPISODE IN TRIAL OF THAW LEAP FROM WINDOWS; GUESTS ESCAPE DEATH IN A BURNING HOTEL stock. ■MPOTHPPPH 000. 000 In connection with latter pur- t'hu« urul later 118.000.00') to purcluw ~ ahem Pacific preferred. The, Union HM Hr. Harrlman-astd. advanced ■MlMaBpMMMMMItaDH Southern Pacific after Re pure has be used for Improvements. The to the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific of stocks purchased since July 1. 1100, was «lli;OOO.OOD. - Evelyn Is Confronted in Court by Dr. Flint. I NEVER SAW HIM,” SHE ASSERTS Tliaw, She Declares, Was Always Kind and Pq- lite to Her. New York, Feb., 25.—Evelyn Neabtt Thaw resumed the witness aland this morning to continue the ordeal to which she has been subjected at the hands of District Jerome In i E VEL YN THA W'S MOTHER STILL DEFENDS WHITE New York, Feb. 25.—Mrs. Chari's J. Holman, mother of Evelyn Nes- blt Thaw, bitterly denounced Stanford White’s slayor today because he hail permitted the girl to go on the witness stand. VpUl-j "I blame him for all of Evelyn',, shame and disgrace." she sold, 'll he really loved her he would not have permitted her, to go on the stand and sacrifice herself. 1 do not beltev he appreciates It. If he waa tneane when he shot White he Is Insane now. "The Information I gave tha distil, I attorney was not prejudiced or colored. It was In'the nature of a plain statement Of facts. 1 still con sider that I owed It to White. I have always believed him the Innocent victim of Thaw's murderous Jetlou*>\" waa the power that he exercised over her—and she, to mollify him, and In the hope of appeasing hla wrath, sent a basket of flowars to Evalyn Nesblt Thaw, to which she attached a card hearing White's nama, which ghe ner- self wrote In a disguised hand. Richard Manafleld White, of Seattle, This Is a picture of Mrs. Aggie Myers whose sentence of death for the murder of her husband ha* been delayed for to days by Gov ernor Folk, of Missouri. charges her husband C wiTH COMMITTING FRAUD. .... lei to The (li-orglea Montgomery. Ala.. Feb. 26.—Another sui-B . . .... ... ... Captain . among the new sparer boys. been found whose testimony will play an Important part In showing that Stanford White pursued Evelyn Nes blt Thaw aa recently aa March, ItOC, three months before he was ahot by- Harry Thaw. This witness has made afflduvlt that on four occasions White followed Mra. Thaw to the house of Hattie Forsythe, where the witness brother of the plain, man, le due to ar- was employed as a hall boy. r | VO f rom Europe today. He has been George Polleck le the witness and he absent from New York elnce Ids visit was employed at the Hotal Ban Ja- • here a few weeks after the shooting, hla cross-examination. j clnto. where Mlta Forsythe lived. Hr When he arrived here to attend the Although the young woman eald that iiaya that White frequently lurked | funeral he made the aaaertlon that If she Is feeling exceedingly well, ehe le j about the hotel In the effort to renew j thf . district attonrip. did not do hie but a mere shadow of her former self. | hi* acquaintance with Mrs. Thaw., duty he would take-the law In hla own Ofcl I. . -tin Of ->irt whose stoic de- White. It le asterted. Invoked. the aid | h . She le a ellp of a girl wnoae stoic as jh,, Koisfthc to arrange a recon- han “ _. meanor has suddenly turned to etolld- <|Mnl(on Mnl Thow Bnd wh , n | Thaw Feart Lunacy Case. |ty. She welghe only *7 1-2 pounds, j miss Forsythe tricked him he sent her- When Thaw reached court today ha Her face la aahen'snd drawn and thejto California. I showed he had passed a bad Bunday. firm light, graceful atfp which marked I Architect Wee Guarded. While hla counsel do not believe a lu- her 'first entry .Into lha .court I. now j In, 'dentally. Pollack reveal, for tin- j ^ ^^"uch a move might ."uc- 1 tottering and weak. : flm lime that White went about con- , an <| plainly ehowad hla nervoua- Howard Neablt, brother of Evelyn! etuutly nupported by a body guard and nee*. He paced the corridor of the Thaw, who waa under aubpana to ap- . the testimony which he will give in Tomb* during the recreation lima In an near In court today, dlaappaartd from‘court la expected to reveal another In- “gHateil manner. t’llfTord W. Hart- New York Saturday and had a con-1 tr,-sting chapter of the famous cn»c-' iSft-IwulahimitIK^SS ference with hla family Bunday. at Title new wltneea tella of four 4 m£TlArmage remained with .him for which he decided to return here and [which Mra. Harry Thaw paid to Ml**' tnorr than nn hour, await the dlatrlct attorney'* call. j Foray the at the Han Jacinto thai arej Met France* Belmont. When It waa learned that the young, within the compare of the preaent cane Questioned by Mi Jerome. Evelyn man had left New Tork. Mr Jerome’a j nn each of there occasion* Stanford j Thaw raid tide morning that before ■leutha eearchad for him, but failed to) white regularly made hla appearntn e. : nhc came to New York from Uhl lade I- find the young man. ! 0n only one of them did t>e secure nd- i **»e lived in Allegheny. Fa. She Cpeelx! to Tke Geortlis. Asheville, N. C.. Feb..56,—The Hick, ory Inn, at Hickory, N. C„ waa totally destroyed by fire at an early hour this morning. , . M'gny narrow escapee among - the guwta are reported. One man had hi* Jj*» broken In Jumplag from a third story window, others were Injured, among them being the proprietor. W. M. Ontaguc None 6f tile Injuries i serious. ■ /- The fire originated In the servants' quarters caused by the dxploalon of A lamp. 1 ' '« The loss la estimated at about 910,- 0M. with 915.000 Insurance. o SPRING-LIKE WEATHER o FOLLOWS SUNDAY FREUB. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODJ jM| Bunday turned loose soma of the ? _ ,_al thing In w|n|er whether. Made O O some people fear for another spell O o like that of two year* ago, when O O lea began to coat trees and wires. O O Outlook la for continued doudl- O O ness. Almost spring-like, though: O O Forecast: O — - ' to cloudy Mon- * "Partly cloudy to clt day night and Tuesday. Monday temperatures 45 degrees Add degress O 40 degrees O 55 degress O 5* digress O Jereme to Spring Surprise. It was asserted today that one of the J m»-n ”* surprises Jerome 'Wae preparing to j party In which Maxine Klllott and four spring on Evelyn Thaw waa the pror! other guests partUiiwted. Whit- 'in duction of a plaster cast of lha young' ..... a... denied that she had trouble with heii tnltiance to Miss horaythes or“t • j n *,t|„ r or that ahn left home with a woman's face and shoulder*. This, It was asserted, would contradict a state ment alleged to have bean made by her that a cast of her form had never been made. , , In spite of the rdpori that Mrs.’ Wil liam Thaw had given her consent lo an application for the appointment of a commission hi lunacy to Inquire Into the present .menul'condltlon of her eon and thus and tha trial, a vigorous de. nisi was made by the lawyers fur the defense that auctr an application would be permitted, 'f they coaid reatse It. White Fetlayved Her.' I girl fr! (J (low long after the drugging. In - I • the Twenty-fourth street house was It Mnl Vr«w left rarlv h dlHlirtoi White I t,ml " n **'’• ount ctwined for you In ZuSITnelt.imii in MrtS*h'Vr’lo Amsterdam Bank' A. II might who remained until nn early h»wr In , |J(Vp )lwn „ men t|, ur mo re. I do not the morning. remember. Actraaa Saat Flawart. Whvn <IM you meet France* Hal* !*pon the other occaalon that he inont ’ A. When I waa with. “Floro- called. Ml** Fomythe had left won! dora.” it Ith Pollack that he to tell White) ^ Mr - "hlte? A. *hc «» not at home amJ on !» «>fj ^ you |fo with her to *upp«r? ihesn oecaslona Wlilte remained ouialde of ihe hotel. Mrs. Thaw to escape him. (J. At which, others tluui Mr. White being compelled lo leave by a side j were present : A. No, sir; Mr. White door When White finally learned how I * ' hr waa being tricked by Miss F.mrlh*. A new aitntas for tha defense baa he angrily sent lur to California—*u«h g*’ \i._ v - JLk siu Continued en Paso Thirteen. Growth and Progress »f the New Soath The rate at .which cotton mill, are being built and enlargod In every slate In the colton belt makes It certain that Lancashire and New Ehg- land Will soon hare active competition Injh* market* for the pun haee <M their auppUee of the raw matartal, and certain also that these two sdll centers will soon cease to dictate the prite at whtoh the farmer must sell hla cotton. With waretaontaa and mills In fun operation, the farmer la assured of fair prices for his product. — — ALABAMA.—The Alexander City Cotton M(Ue have-comraopoed boPI- neaa. The first Instellment of the machinery, comprising one hundred and sixty-four looms and six thousand five hundred spindles, wfil now negtn operation, while other machinery will continually be Installed op tg a capacity of 20,000 spindles. This Industry la capital I vert at ttSO.td* C. K. Riley, a practical mill man. la-president, and' J7 C. Cftrick, treaeusbr, both of Boston. ' > /f!L■ The Blue Bprlngs Cotton Mills, at Aimlataa. have been purchased ky Fhlladelphla manufacturers, who will luodrporata, the Floaters' Manu facturing Company to operate the plant. They sell) quadruple the capaet- tv of the mill sad manufacture cotton trank m ini am! rope The Rowe Knitting Company, at Huntsville, has purchased a large nmount of new machinery for tha cottop mill' In West Huntsville aad tbs capacity of the plaht will be'lncraased about ':.oo« epindles. GEORGIA —The Southern Manufacturing Company, av let the contract for a new- cotton mill of (,000-splndls capacity he built within the next four monthx. The raachfnery will bo.li ns soon as the building ts rendy for It. This addition will give 4) puny two mills of a total spindle rapacity of-10.000 spindles. — opereaivea' houses will be erected by the company at once. It Is reported that Walker Rrou. may bulk! n cotton gUH la The Rockmart Hosiery Mills, of AuguXtA which waf* Mljm November, are ready to begin operations. The plant la. twenty-five knitting machine*, and the prodect wilt be dyed i at the mill. The cnmptiny hm a capital of 910.*00. BOUTH CAROLINA —The- (Ntmmarclal Knitting Company, of C- vine, has Increased Its capital from 954,000 to 994.000, and has erectad a building for bleaching. The Banna Manufacturing Company, qf Ooldrllle. has been tnseigar ated with a capital of ITMtVto take ovea dad operate the Banna Cdttaa Mill*, of this place, having a plant of 7.109 spindles. TEXAS.—The Monarch Cotton Mills Company, ef Deltas, completed Its buildings and Installed the initial equipment at i which Includes 4.100 spindles and complementary mneMlMnr f ufacture of single hosiery yarn*. Operation* are expected I March I. and later In the year SOO spindle*- will be added A turner motor will drive the spinning machinery, d Tl-tsofee | tor the carding.