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VOL. V. NO. 218. ATLANTA,. GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 15,1907. PRICE: l AtlMUl TWO Cl FLOOD IN OHIO VALLEY DOES GREAT DAMAGE Loss at Pittsburg Esti mated at $20,- 000,000. LIVES ARE TAKEN BY RISING WATERS Icc Gorges Rushing Down Streams Are Carrying Bridges Away. Pltubgr^. P»., March 16.—The flood tin reached tta worat and the water* are slowly receding, according to re- port* received today by the United mate, weather bureau from the Alle gheny ami Monony&heia valleya, which ■how that the water le falling at every point heard from except Warren and Franklin, which ahow a alight Increase, probably <lue to a email back water. The gorge In the Allegheny river broke during the night and the body of Wayne railroad at different point*, cutting Into the bank and threatening serjous damage. Bridge Being Carried Off. The Forty-third street bridge acroa* the Allegheny liver ta being elowly car ried away by tbe Ice gorge that la •weeping down the river. It la be lieved other bridge* acroea the Alle gheny will be ewept down the river. Thouaande of pereona are lined up along the river, watching the beam* of the inonater covered bridge being .arrled away by the Ice.' Traffic be tween Plttaburg and Allegheny may be a (upended. Ice Gorge I* Forming. The lower deck of the Fort Wayne railroad bridge acroaa the Allegheny river le now covered with water and he Ire la alao gorging When the bridge and hlrd street let go. thi blocked by the Fort Wayne bridge and this atructure will probably go. Should this happen, the Ninth. Sixth, Seventh and street and Union bridges will go. It li estimated that 116,000 people la Allegheny .county. DYNAMITE BEING USED TO FIGHT PITTSBURG FT RE Plttftburjr, P»., March 15.—Twenty building* were burned to the ground and eeveral blocks of valuable property on Mount Waahlngton iS ,re ^i e 5£?. w ** ich »tarted thl« morning In the dry goods atore at w°. 47 Hhiloh street. Firemen were unable to gain any headway and two or three bul dlnga have been dynamited. It U likely that eeveral other building* will be blown up to atop the Are,- which la by far the worat ever experienced In that part of the city. ’’ iWhile It If Itnpoaifble to" learn the damage fl thla llme It la eetlmated that damage to the extent of more than S600.900 haa already been done » om «*hing ia done Immediately the loae will be far greater. Bulldlnga fo> eeveral equares are being deaerted. all goods being thrown out Into the atreeta and being carted away. There la abaolutely no water and the chemleala are aimoet worthies* at tbla atage. FARMS AND VILLAGES LAID WASTE BY FLOODS Cincinnati, Ohio, March 16.—The worat flood In decade* threatens the lower Ohio river valley today. Farms and village* have been laid waste and breaks In the big oil and natural gas pipe linea are reported. In this city the river haa begun to encroach on the lower business section. The railroads have been driven from the central passenger station. At Zanesville, where three persona were drowned. Mayor Deacon has sworn In a large force of special policemen and given orders to confis cate the boats of owners found charging excessive ferry fares. Borne families, It was charged, had paid 116 to be rescued. in Bprlngfleld and vicinity, 200 families are homeless. JUST A LITTLE FLURRY IN WALL STREET Called Husband’s Lawyer, But Wire Was Bad. . . "if: leas. Inch 110.000.000. It _ be taken from buildings at .MoKgeeport. which is tbs •erst sufferer of the flood. Reports from upper points say tbe river is re ceding and danger of further damage CORPORATIONS ARE BLAMED FOR FLOOD CONDITIONS. Johnstown, Pa.. March 16.—When the Conctnauffh river and Stony creek overflowed their banks In the night the four ventral wharves of the city were Inundated within thirty minutes. The water ceased rising at noon and |. mm falling. The damage Is estl- rawed at IJ00.00O. The flood Is attrib uted to the narrowing of the river beds by land stealing corporations. SEVEN HOUSES CARRIED AWAV BY THE FLOOD Gloucester, Ohio, March 16.—Seven business house* and contents have gone down the river and a number of reel- n.nce,. gas and light plants are flooded and uncles*. All tbe lower vicinity residence* are flooded. Many horses **ve been drowned and the property dtimige h great. IS ft Petersburg. March 1*.—What probably was a bold attempt of as- ••"•Inn to kill many deputies of the I 'linn was frustrated today when a *•' I'urtlon of the celling In the hall ' • -tided hy the douma fell. Over 200 ”at.« smashed. Had the accident hap- i»ii"d when the members were In their 1 nany would have been killed or hurt. The sitting of the two true- “Tea. Mrs. Renfro# Jackson called op from Indianapolis over lb* long- damage la distance ‘phone Thursday evening." This statement- wax made Friday by Samuel D. Hewlett, attorney for Ren fros Jackson, upon being questioned by a representative of The Georgian. Further than thle. Mr. Hewlett said hot Uttle. "She called me up at my office, but on account of a poor telephone connec tion, I couldn't understand what she was saying. 1 could gather from what she told me that she had not heard that the matter had been published In the newspapers. “I also received a telephone call from a man In Indianapolis, who said he was an Attorney for Mrs. Jackson. I don't know the man, and can not atate positively that he wea an attor ney. For thle reason, and for others, I won't say what his object In calling me was. "There he* been no agreement reached, nor has there been any ar rangement looking to an agreement. As I have already stated, a divorce suit will be filed by Mr. Jackaon. "The situation remalna practically unchanged.” From Her Attorney. An Indlanepolle attorney, Lowry, sent a telegram lo Atlanta Thursday, stating that Mrs. Jackson was In that city In conference with him. He ateled that her return to At lanta was doubtful, and that any ref erence to her In connection with any man's name would be reaented. He de clared that there was nothing sensa tional In the situation. Called Husband? It was reported Friday lhat Mrs. Jackaon had called her husband over the telephone on the previous night and that he had refused to talk to her. Mr. Hewlett was questioned con cerning this, and made a positive de nial. It was also reported that Mr. Hewlett would leave Friday night for Indiana to confer with Mrs. Jackson's attorney, but he denied that he would make this trip or that the Indianapolis attorney would come to Atlanta. Waa Creelman Hare? It la stated on good authority that Charles S. Creelman was In Atlanta Sunday. . . The statement goes lhat he >vaa out r tin of the chamber. A new the chamber I, 1 Hundred, acting under orders „ ntl-aamatlc leaden. It will take "ccks to repair the hall. It Is as- 'hat 400 deputies would have ik.n 1 h * d * h ® douma been In Stacks by tIrroribtb , _ alarming authorities. ’ •' '•>»'. March 15.—The authorities .7 ‘" "Inc seriously alarmed at the f, '“ m ' mucks of the terrorists on i 7 and soldiery, and today tre- force of Coeaacke and Infan- , " lh,> atreete, with instructions to M , " a 1 he slightest suspicion of Itoa- j. , " n 'he part of ha angered popu- attacked, the . Mr their attacks on unarmed 1 ' «t laid* and other town* when , ■'‘tilling and knoutlng have become 1 "‘tit occurrences. tcria the altuatlon wea more **• v ,'r,iu h LM. 11 >**• txon recently, fre- ' mil killing and wounding a number j, '' m The reprisals of the troop* •"‘.‘"luenc* become mon'cruel. "'ilsabetgnd, rioters started an V, • tsh outbreak, beating the Jew* -t thd sacking a number t. , "'t houae*. The police had to » >• 1 to end the attacks. One of » we* killed and a number TO BE TRIED FORCONTEMPT I Legislature Asks For Arrest of Nashville Officials. Special to The Georgian. Nashville. Tenn.. March 15.—The lower house -of tha tore today declared the twenty-8v* members of fbe Nashville city council to be In contempt, ordered warrants te be Issued for them, end that they be brought before tbe bar of tbe bouse on Monday morning next to answer for the alleged contempt. This action grew out of the recent driving Sunday afternoon In the mou* Thomas Flyer automobile, which he formerly owned, and lhat he left thla City Sunday evening ostensibly for Montgomery. O. A. Kehm. of 61 Forrest avenue, a patternmaker for tlie Fulton Foundry Company, la the man said lo havr been out motoring with Creelman lari Bun- day. Mr. Kehm. who Is associated with Creelman In a business venture, states that this report was not true and that Creelman was tail here. . , . ••I have a letter from Creelman dated last Tuesday from the (Trent Northern Hotel In Chicago," h* said. But lie Is not In Chicago now. I know where he la—* long way from ‘'tanta.hutl do not care to say. He Is traveling In the Interest* of our business. MOTHER WILL GO OR DAUGHTER WILL RETURN Otiffin, flit, March 16.—Mr*. Eugene Sneer of Ihls city, the mother of Mrs. M??> Speer Jackson, denies that her daughter left Ailnnla In company with F. M. Creelman orgny other man. Mrs. Speer I* III and refuras Idmake a statement, but It ls_umle.aK.od that ahe will either go to Indianapolis to Join her daughter, or that Mrs. Jackaon will onto to this city to be with her mother. The |>etltlim for the divorce of Mr. Jackaon will probably be met with a croas |H>tlilon from hla wife, and In- tcresting developments are suggested. (lrunii relative* of Mr*. Jackson are not communicative, furthci than t® Insist that Mr* Jackson ha* not eloped They allege that she left to -scape her husbentL Continued on Peg* Three. EM THAW HARRIMAN MAY LOSE HIS POWER AS RESULT OF WALL STREET PANIC Moore Bros. Threaten Usurp His Throne. to WaMMgfan. March " U.—The laaurla] panic In New York has brought London te Its knee* before Wall street, and from the wreck of sseorttiaa It la predicted that the Moore brothers, of the Rock Island Sys tem, will usurp llsrrlaun's throne aa the railroad kings of this continent. U S. WINS THE GOLDEN \SCEPTER OF OLD WORLD Washington, March 16.—A dtgpotcb from England, pleading for Wall street to refrain from calling for the gold duo on this side of the At- lantlc, was received yesterday by a leading New York banking houae, and a copy of the cable was sent to the United State* treasury here, to be bald as a tribute to the financial graetneaa of the United But**, and aa evi- The boar movement wee ant waa Inaugurated, It athortty, hy the Moor* Intrenched behind mil- jrothers, who are Uona of dollar#, while every goancial Inter est In the eonelry la aliased on on* aide PUPILS OF BOULEVARD SCHOOL WATCH MAKING OF THE GEORGIAN Lesson of Linotype Teaches Work and Patience. THE BOULEVARD SCHOOL Friday was Boulevard School day. and the two upper grades came troop ing up The Georgian's atalrs just after 2 o'clock 10 see how a big dally la printed. The boys and girls almost overflowed the local rooms, and when they entered the big composing room there was hardly apace to move. Hut nobody minded that so long a* the visitors enjoyed It. And they seemed lo. The little fel lows' eyes grew big and round as they watched the llnotyiie machines. In stead of a hundred old-time primers with pipe In mouth, sitting on a high j stool and picking tip loose type with dirty fingers, they saw a row of eight neatly-dressed, well-to-do operator*, each sitting In front of n shining ma chine. pressing with hla linger tips a of key* very much llkr a type writer. And as the Angers sped over the keys, the big machines clicked and the wheels turned and tiny brass moulds came clattering down a chute, to be squeeied Into one line and held a second while hot metal was pressed against litem Then a shining bar of metal, still Inti, dropped Into place, bearing a line of words. Just the size of one line In till* column. It seems easy—but the children only the result and not the long year* of herd work which made this easy work possible. It has taken many yeara and many brains to perfect this type making machine, the linotype. It was not built all at once. The flrat ma chine was a crude affair, unreliable, full of faults. Then another year of thought brought one Improvement, the next year *1111 another. Many men have pusated their bralna to perft type-making machinery—and U perfect even now. Thera will alwaya be Improvement!. Neat to the compoalng room, where the type Is set end the big Iron frames pared, the visitor* ware Interest' the giant press In the haatment. Here they watched the last plate faatened to the waiting praea and aaw the white roll* of paper fly through the preaa to become flnlahed newspaper# at the and —all counted and folded and ready for the mail# or tha newaboy* who wait ed nutalde. When the children reach their homes and fled Tbe Georgian waiting for them on their doorstep*, they will know more of tha making of a newspaper than many a grown man In Atlanu known. Two of tha gnat fee tores of tbe os- •laught la Ike fact that tha English • banka have reqaested Wall street not to demand the gold that England owes this eoontry at the present rime for fear that “tb* monetary conditions" ther* "would ho dis arranged." and the other la that, la spit# of the terrible havoc wrought among American railroad aecarillea, Wall strait Is enabled to grant tr battling Interests at keeping up ilielr mart ._ loss. Thinka Panlo Ovnr. foiled Rtate* Treasurer Charles H'Trent, who returned lest night from New York, where be west to tooh orcr the situation, soys there le uolhlag alarming In the af fair thnt concerns anybody blit Ibose df redly Interested. it Is n 'Kilkenny cal' affair between a lot of big Wall atret operators." be says, "and. ns they ere pnttlug up their margins, they Serin to lie well supplied Willi muury. "Sr |iiiulr Is ut an end. I thiuk. it Is not the iiiltinui* of lireseul conill lions, but s tltsnb- struggle fietween greet Interests fighting for contAil. nml Che of tbe id ' clip when tbe Idg frIUi Jerome’s Experts Swear Thaw Was Sane. ! SAY HE KNEW HE DID WRONG District Attorney’s Army of One Mind on Ques tion. .:JS New York. March 16.—Whan tha Tha* trial waa resumed this afternoon, Evelyn Naeblt Thaw, wife of White's alayer, was called to the witness stand In an effort to determine whether or not eh* had been a client of “Abe” Hummel, tbe lawyer, when he prepared the alleged damaging affidavit concern ing Thaw. Delphln 51. Delmaa. chief counsel In the defense of Thaw, surprised every one In court by announcing that he would not bother to cross-examine the alienists of tha prosecution, thus Ig noring the damaging testimony mods by Jaroma's squadron of experts. JEROME’S EXPERTS SAY HARRY THAW WAS BANK. New York. March 15.—Dr. Auaria B. Flint, who was on the Hand in the Thaw trial whan' adjournment waa taken yesterday, waa called today when court opened. Delmaa excusad him from cross-examination temporarily, and Dr. William 'Hlrscb, of Cornell Medical Collage, this city, was called. He qualified aa an expert on Insanity. District Attorney Jerome failed Urn jrll qui dm uastton on which Thaw’s ezporta 1 leclared tha defendant waa tnaana. and aakad If tha wftneaa thought • 1 described In tha quaatlon waa dafas- tlva of mason at tha time of tha M and did not kDOW tbe aatara s< tha «*L Tha witnaas replied (hat he believed Thaw knew Uie nature of tbe act aMff that the act waa wrong. Hlrach said TStSXl knew the nature of tha act whan Mr wit ■■ivu shine a* “brain i cuaed, U A nether Expert Teetlffea. - Tb* next expert waa Dr. william Brutus Pritchard, of tills city, who, among many .others, Is called upon to visit Blackwell's Island hospital for the pauper Insane and Infirmary on Staten Island, where he assists as an attend ing physician. He graduated from a college In North Carolina. He la ha Instructor In mental diseases at the Polytechnic Hospital. He declared. In answer lo ih* hypo- thetlcal question, that In hi* opinion. Thaw knew what he was doing whan he killed (he - architect, and readied that the act waa wrong. Dalmaa had objected to tha queatlon framed by Jerome, and the latter said: "I protest against the learned coun sel of the Pacific coast tailing me what questions I am allowed-to aak. 1 am the sole Judge of what questions I ought to aak, when I am don* with my Continued oh Peg* Three. TEACHERS AND PUPILS OF TWO UPPER GRADES Thi* (Mrbfff of thr iMMrrifh «<id rightU grailiMi of lioulpvart! tfa-hmtl. Inrltrri to visit The (frunrtau Friday. an*; Mlaa Kate It. Young, principal: MImm* Agnra Morgan. Ada ivrrlne. Friendly kticaa and Kth*d llodnett and Mrs. M. F. Overliy. Hurray Adaihr. IJItlau Alexander* Itolterta Arrington. Illrdle Cagle. lary IfeWllltami Eighth Grad*. Kathleen hnnglaa, Alev Anderaon, NYIimiii Itri'k. •lamen IndiliR. Jake Frliluia 11. Willie llurwei:. Karl I.eillwt ter, l.ufber tjnluti, Iran tttrjdiRlia, I illffll Seventh Grade. lami iMnnell. Ila Woodruff, Kalla Wrege, Kva linker. Addle lie* I (it’ll. KilMlx'th lllrd. tirarv lledlngfltdd. Ilutli Claridy. FI (a fA-e Cobb. Ilutli ciiaiitunn. I.tudle Oflaoacb. lM»urH Fentharatou, Kubr Freeman. 'ITIt* kluard. F.tonn Joe Kir- Kfle l.ylr, F.'ta Mnrria. klary klmmey. *• fct-ii* ••■her. Vlrglult ft anna rd. Cattle Tborntmi. Cura WiNHlauu, Jeaale IVav), lleriiert klnriiury. Ilerl»ert fnv«l<*r. Nathaniel Kpenre, Willie Htultb. Harrr Yaugtian. : om »«. Will lama. Growth and Progress of the New South The Georgian record* bore each day ***** economic fact In referanea to tbo onward march or tbt Booth. BY JOSEPH B. LIVELY. Product* «f cotion aeed are gr. — try, anil cotton eee.1, once considered practically worthless are now worth million* of dollar* annually lo the farmer* of the South. Pot- inn oil mills arc >.|irlnglnK'u|i In all section* of the ball, and Ih# Indus try Is In a nrosiierotis condition. J SI Aydelotte. P. A. Nnrrle. both of Bhawnee. O. T.. and aaao- rlHles are 'arranging for the csliilillshmem of a 6126.000 rollon ooed ell mill *i Maude, O. T. ^ Ito.'krialc. Texas till Mill report* a good season for Ih* on* Just passed, having sold large quantltle* of meal.ffcake and hulls In connec tion with a k'ood turn-oul uf oil. Allison Frierson, of Aberdeen. Mis*.. Is In correspondence with the boenl of trade hi C’oluntbl*. Tenn.. relative to the eetabliehment of cot ton need oil mill i.ferred la ln*t week; capital stock 176.000. Hamlin ml and I'ntion Companv of Hamlin. Jone* county, Texas, has been Incorporated, capital slock 660.000. The new cotion seed oil mill Just completed In Colorado. Teaaa. la now in active operation, with need enough In sight to ln»uro a very successful run. It I* probable a considerable string of cattle will be fed *' * The'cotton and oil Manufacturing Company at 1 JO range. Teaaa. ta preparing to erect a line brick offl-e building and make other Improve- "tent* A’ rf " tI1Jt ' nt huslneea zoen of Allcevllle. Ain., was held recently for the nuriM.se of organnring n slock compony to put In a compress there. \V c Miller n representative of the Webb Compress Company, waa pres ent anil made the people a proposition, which will likely bs accepted. The company will be.capitalised at lin.OOO. The plant of the Transcontinental Cnmpreaa Company In Clarksville. Texas, has handled lo date a little more than 40.000 bales of cotton,'and It IB believed that as many aa two or three thousand balsa will yet be re'- reived for pressing. The total number of bales handlad during Ut* year prevloua w-aa but 'little more than 12,500 bales. Dave Hhaplra. president of the Bankers and Farmers’ Warehouse Company, wa* In Dallas a few .lay* ago and said five warehouses would be bull! In Dallas county, one of wl.lch, to coat 120,000, to bo bollt In tha city of Dallas. _ . . _ The Texas Cotion Manufacturing Company, of Fort Worth, Texas, haa baen Incorporated with I too.000 capital stock. The Independent Cotton Ginnera' Association of Oklahoma held their annual aeaalon of the year recently, closing bp their business nnd mak ing the preliminary arrangements for the erection of an Independent cotton seed nil mill ut c U shlng during ih# coming .summer. Thay have already secured a charier for the company, with Sfe.SOO capital Block. The so-called trust cotton aeed oil people hev# also secured a choAer for a mill a« Cushing. «Hh 176.000 capital iltock, and a merry war will probably result.