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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. Tm msDA?. Avmh * m - TRYIIICTOCET E|IMTE$ Charge Roads With Favoring New Eng land Mfrs. 15,: DIFFERENCE IN RATES TO ORIENT Hearing Before Commerce Commission May Deter mine Standing East ern Spinners. Washington, April U.—The whole question of alleged discrimination <n freight rates In favor of the New Eng land manufacturing cities as against those engaged In like industries In the South, Is raised before the Interstate commerce commission In a case which began hearing today. New England enjoys what are known as "postage stamp rates" on many things—that Is, the rate has been made for very long hauls practically or In some cases exactly the same as for much shorter distances. The Boston and Maine road's policy has been to secure such rate adjustments for the benefit of its territory, contenting itself with very small proportionals- of long distance rates, In consideration of the privilege of charging high local rates within New England territory. Georgia Company Complainant. But this entire system Is attacked In the case of the Enterprise Manufactur ing Company of Georgia against thirty- four railroad companies, and In the case of the China and Japan Trading Com pany against the same defendant com panies. The two coses will probably he consolidated for the hearing before the commission beginning today. It Is alleged In these cases that the rates on cotton goods from Southern manufacturing centers to the Pacific coast, on business destined for Oriental export. Is unjustly high and discrimi nates against the Southern points as compared to New England. Specifical ly, the rate per 100 pounds on these goods In car load lots Is. stated at'81.15 from Southern points to the coast, os against tl from New England to the coast, and In less than car load lots It Is given as 81.65 from Southern points, os against tl.tO from New England. Important Question. The railroad and manufacturing In terests of both sections Involved con sider It a case of the greatest Impor tance, for It involves a construction of the term "competition" in Its widest application to business between re motely separated sections and handled under very different circumstances. R. J. Southall, of Augusta, Go., ap pears as counsel for the complainants, and Edward Baxter, of Nashville, for the railroad companies. The cose is expected to require a long hearing and the Introduction of a great bulk of tes timony. The decision may determine the future status of New England as a manufacturing district. GENERAL DENIAL OFALLCHGES Complete Answer Exiled on Wednesday in Concord Superior Court. Concord, N. H„ April IS.—The charge tha^ the suit for an accounting of the property of Mrs. Mary Baker O. Eddy, filed March 1, was not brought in good Talth by the so*called “next friends,” Is contained In the answer of the de fendants filed In the Merrimack county superior court yesterday. The answer of the defendants Is a general denial of all (he allegations made by the complainants In the origi nal action, who sued as Mrs. Eddy’s 'next friends.” SENATEPASSES ACT 10 DISFRANCHISE NEGRO IN FLORIDA Tallahassee, FI a.. April 18.—The sen ate by a vote of 25 to 5 hds adopted a Joint resolution to declare the four teenth and fifteenth amendments to the Federal constitution vqld and to dis franchise the negro In Florida Tho resolution was Introduce! by Senator John 8. Beard, of Pensacola. Senator Beard declared that he believed that the supreme court of the United States would uphold the action of this state In disfranchising the negro. The house Is overwhelmingly for the resolution and the question of the le gality of the acts In question will thus go before the United States supreme court. Crowded galleries cheered the action of the senate. KILLED RIS BABY AND SHOT AT WIFE Demented Operator Tried to Murder Family at Gadsden. I Sptcla’ to The Georgian Gadsden, Ala., April 18.—While In a demented condition yesterday after noon, O. P. Dodson, a telegraph oper ator, fatally shot his 3-year-old jon and then shot twice at his wife. The police started In pursuit, taking bloodhounds. The dogs soon struck the man's trail and after running near, ly two miles, he was caught, just as he had crossed a large creek, was taken back to the city and lodged in Jail. The affair created Intense excitement and a crowd of several hundred people gathered around the Jail. A local news paper published a report yesterday aft ernoon that Dodson had been accident ally killed In Atlanta Monday night. All NATIONS MAY ENTER PEACE PACT / Congress Wants A1 Disputes Referred to The Hague. PLATFORM ADOPTED BY CONFERENCE Suggests General Treaty of Arbitration Be Ratified at Coming Gath- . ering. New Tork, April 18.—After a session of three days the National Arbitration and Peace Congress ended last night with two great banquets, ono at Hotel Astor, the other at the Waldorf As toria. Greatest Interest centered In the event In which Andrew Carnegie, pres ident, was presented with a cross of the Legion of Honor by the French government at the hands of Baron D’Ejdournelles DeConstant, In appre elation of his efforts for peace. National Costumss Worn. The national costumes of some of the foreign delegates were strongly con trasted with the usual coloring found In the American dress, suggesting the tn> ternatlonal meaning of the occasion. Peace messages were received from the kings of Norway and Italy, the president of Switzerland, bureau of peace In Berne, ex-Prealdent Cleveland and the minister from the Netherlands. Baron D'Estournelles DeConstant, the first speaker, dwelt earnestly upon the world-wide movement for peace. Professor Kuno Francke, of Harvard University, spoke, for the university an‘d, In a measure, for Germany. Following Professor Francke, Wil llam Jennings Bryan was Introduced. Platform Is Adopted. Don Enrique Creel, Mexican ambas sador to the United States, bespoke Mexico's hearty co-operation In the peace -plans. The last speaker of the evening was the Rev. Lyman Abbott. He exhorted for concerted action of the world to at tain the ideal of eternal peace. Tho peace congress adopted a plat- from recommending that The Hague conference shall be a permanent instl- n and open to all the nations of the world; that a general treaty of arbltra. tlon for ratification by all the nations shall be drafted by the coming confer ence to The Hague court of Interna tional disputes which can not be ad justed by diplomacy; that the United States government urge upon the con ference action looking to the limitation of armament; that the conference ex tend to private property at sea. Im munity from capture In war. Eiseman Bros. The Old Reliable Manufacturing Clothiers Established 1865. ITII THE same decree of excellence }n tail oring, and made front the very best all- wool fabrics, the clothing for BOYS at Eiseman Bros.’ are counterparts.of their make of Ready Suita for Men. They combine the shapeliness, graceful fashioning and “snappy” style, that creates an exclusiveness in mode and finish, characteristic of the tailoring done by these Old Established Manufac turing Clothiers. i The little “thumb-nail” sketch represents the ever popular Double-Breasted Suit; particularly apropos for Boys from seven to seventeen years of age. These suits are supplied with regular trousers. Serges, Unfinished Worsteds, Fancy Mixtures, Trop ical Worsteds— All desirable colors and new loom effects. The “Children’s Department” occupies the entire second floor. Elegantly appointed passenger elevators make this section quickly .and con veniently accessible. 1 EISEMAN BROS. 11-13-15-17 Whitehall, Baltimore, Md. ATLANTA. WASHINGTON, D. C. BROWNS-BROWNS-BROWNS. $10.00 BROWN SKIRTS AT $8.75 . . ... ' q v And being brown there is no question as to correctness of col or. The demand for brown has set the fabric market in a flurry that makes brown the most sought after thing and the scarcest. Coming from a “best” maker accounts for the great beauty and grace of lines and quality. There are two styles-25 skirts of each style. * 1 , * ■ Tailored effects with plaits and broad, graduated folds and stitched straps. Fine Panamas in two shades of brown; Golden and Russet. Regular $10 Skirts at $8.75 New arrivals also in black, blufe pnd brown voiles. $10 to $25. Chamberlin-JoKnsQn-DuBose C o. CRUCIFY HARRIMAN CALL OUYALL SI, Railroad King May Be Forced From Control of Monopoly. New York, April IS.—E. II. Ilnrrimnn lit to take tho stand again today In the In* qulaltlon to which the Interstate commerce commission Is subjecting him on account of Union Pacific and other transcontinental roads and the “Alton deal.” “Crucify Harrtman,” Is the call^ which WnU street has sent out by John V.“ Rocke feller and J. P. Morgan. Roth are direc tors of the Union Pacific railroad and have decided Hnrrlinan must answer all ques tions regarding the railroad and take the consequences. The rumors thnt Mr. Harrltnnn la to be removed as president of the Union Pacific are credited In well-informed quarters. bertillonTxpert QUITS FEDERAL JOB J. M. Nya will cease hla connection with the Federal penitentiary In South Atlanta on May 15 aa superintendent of the bureau of Identification and head of the department of criminal records. He has sent In hla resignation to take effect on that date and at the present time he Is considering two or three propositions about which he Is not in a position to talk at present. Mr. Nye has been a resident of At lanta for the past five years and In that time he has made many friends who will regret to see him leave the city should his future duties require a change of residence. He came here to establish the department In the Federal penitentiary, of which he has been the head, and 'so well has he done his work that he Is known-throughout the country as one of the Best Bertlllon experts In the United Statee. So well hag he studied criminology end criminals that there are few noted crooks today about whom Mr. Nye is not fully Informed, and few whom he could not recognise at a glance. In his records at the Federal pen he has the descriptions, photographs and measure ments of all the higher and lesser crooks In the country and he le fa miliar with nfost of their measure ments. Within a short time Mr. Nye will ,e In a position to make known his plans for the future., WEALTHY MAN PINCHED FOR RUNNING LOTTERY. New York, April, 18.—Louis A. Gour- daln. of New Orleans, who has been arrested on a bench warrant Issued by a judge of the United States circuit court In Chicago, was. taken to that city today. He Is the man who tome time ago was under arrest In Joliet, III., and wanted to build hi* own jail. He It said to be wealthy. MR. CARNEGIE ANSWERS ROOSE VELTS SUGGESTIONS New York, April 18.—"Our peace congress has brought three objec tions plainly before us," said Andrew Curnegle, ' In statement made letter. In answer to the statement that nations could not submit all questions to arbitration, he said six had already done so, and named Chile, Nether lands, Argentina. Norway and Switzerland. The Iron master said the first principles of natural Justice forbid men to be Judges, when they are parties to tho Issues, and In reference to the suggestion that "It la neither peace nor Justice, blit righteousness that shall exalt the nation," Mr. Carnegie simply said that righteousness was simply doing what was right.. 00000000000000000000000(100 0 THREE HAPPY HdMES: O THREE UNHAPPY WIVES, 0 O CHICAGOAN DISAPPEARS. O O 0 a Chicago, April 18.—William G. O O Underwood. formerly general O O Western sales manager for the O 0 Falrbanks-Morse Scale Company, 0 0 was formally charged last night O 0 with having led a quadruple ex- 0 0 Istence. In the past eighteen 0 0 months he Is said to have made 0 0 a collection of three happy 0 O homes, three very unhappy wives O 0 and a bride-to-be. 0 0 Warrants have been Issued by O O the scale company, charging Un- O 0 derwood with haying collected 0 g money on bogus cnecks. A guar- 0 anty company offers a reward of 0 0 8100 for his return. 0 0 The bride-to-be Is a Chicago 0 0 woman, and her name has been O 0 auppressed. 0 00000000000000000000000000 O 5 0 BREWER’S WILL PROVIDES 0 0 TRUST FUND FOR WORK .. 0 0 OF 8ALVATION ARMY. 0 0 0 O Rockford, III, April 18.—The 0 O will of Oeorge J. Schlenck pro- O 0 vldes a perpetual trust fund, part O O of the Income of which will go to 0 0 the Salvation Army to aid Its O O work “among the lowly and out- 0 O cast In places of drunkenness and 0 0 squalor." Mr. Schlenck was a 0 O brqwer. O 0 O 00000000000000000000000000 0 PASTOR BATTERS UP O 0 MEMBER OF HI8 FLOCK 0 0 BECAUSE OF STATEMENT. O 0 a O Sterling, III., April 18.—Dr. E. O O F. Eskey, ot Prophetstown, chair- O 0 man ct the Republican centra] 0 0 committee, was knocked down and 0 0 badly beaten yesterday by the 0 O Rev. William Sundston, pastor of 0 O the Methodist church. O O /Eskey refused to retract a state- 0 0 ment, whereupon the preacher 0 O pounded him. Dr. Eskey Is a 0 0 member of Mr. Bundston’s church. 0 0000O0O000000OO0000000OO0O O O O AGED NEW YORKER 0 0 WEDS YOUNG GIRL. 0 O O 0 New York. April 18.—John L. U 0000000OO0000000000000OO0O O 0 0 COLLEGE STUDENTS WILL 0 O SCRUB AUTOS TO PAY O O BACK STOLEN MONEY. O 0 0 0 Chicago. April 18. — George O O Cheever, Jr., former Andover stu- 0 0 dent, yesterday pleaded guilty to 0 0 the charge of obtaining money 0 0 under false pretenses and was pa- Q 0 rated under conditions which 0 0 probably are without precedent 0 0 in Chicago. 0 O Today Cheever began scrubbing O 0 automobiles in the garage owned 0 O by the man who had him arrest- <j> 0 ed. In this way he will repay the O money. .0 O 0 00000000000000000000000O0O 0 Heins, aged 70. widower for a 0 nd president of the Coney 0 . .. and Brooklyn railroad, to- 0 O day announced his engagement to O 0 marry Miss Margaret A. Ros- 0 O chen, a 22-year-old stenographer. O 0 The wedding will occur next 0 O month. O o a 00000000000900000000000000 KICKED SICK WIFE! GOES TO STOCKADE On tho charge of kicking his sick wife, knocking her down with his fists and then stamping her, L. W. Riley, a compositor, resting at 103 Trinity avenue, was Thurs day (doming sentenced by Recorder Rroyles to eerre thirty days In the atockade with out a fine and was also bound over to the state courts under $300 bond for wife-beat- Ing. After he serves hla atockade term Riley will be transferred to the Tower to await trial, unless he succeeds In making the $300 bond. COKSUL TAKES UP ATLANTA OLD-UP Writes to Chief of Police Concerning Attack on , Secretary. '*.! In a letter written to Chief of Police Jennlnge, Dr. Zoepffel-Quollcnsteln. Im perial German coneul to Atlanta, com plain* of an assault Bald to have been made upon hla secretary, Albert Stei ger, on Woodward avenue between Washington and Pulliam atreets, last Saturday night. Dr. Zoepffel declare* that hla reere- tary, who reildes at 18 Pulliam utreet. wa* held up at th* point of ■ pistol i.y two negroe* at an early hour In tin- evening, and although the highwaymen failed to find any valuable*, the shoe* to tho nerve* of the secretary was very severe. lie oaks that better police pro tection be given thnt section of the city, since similar holdup* nre of frequent occurrence, and urges thnt the chief use hi* Influence In securing more and better electric lights. Chief Jennings states that he will investigate the matter at once. NEW SUiTlSFlLED CITY CELEBRATES ’QUAKE DISASTER San Francisco, April 18.—San Fran cisco today began the celebration of the first anniversary of the earthquake and fire which laid In ruins three-fourth* of the city. Fillmore street and Van New avenue are decorated for the occasion and most of the buslnees house* have declared a half holiday. The disaster put San Frandaco twen ty years ahead a* a modern city. Rente and prices of commodities are 'higher, but every one has money and Is spend ing It with San Pranclsco prodigality. Jt la estimated that the population has almost reached the normal, 4*0,000. Nearly all the debris has been removed and replaced by modern buildings. Another link In the chain of litiga tion surrounding the afTairs of the At- lanta-BIrmlngham Fire Insurance Com pany was forged Wednesday afternoon, when suit was filed In the United States court against the stockholders of that company by attorneys for the Califor nia 11 re Insurance Company, with which Insurance was re-lnsured. The total amount naked for by the California company from tho stock holders of the Attanta-Blrmlnghnm Company Is 831,124.48. It Is charged that at the time this liability was in curred, April 18, 1306, and November 28, 1906, the defendant stockhold- i were stockholders In the Atlanta-BIrm- ingham Company and that under California law each stockholder Is re sponsible for a proportionate share of the company’s Indebtedness. This law declares that "each stockholder of i corporation Is Individually and person ally liable for such proportion of all debts and liabilities as ho may own stock In the whole association." Further, It Is declared In tho petition that this law applies to any corporation chartered In another state that may be doing business In California. All of the alleged stockholders are mentioned In the petition and after tho name of each Is placed the sum prayed for In recovery. It being alleged that such sum represents each stockholder, proportionate stars of the total amount sued for. These jtockbotdsrs against whom judgments are prayed for are well known. There nre also a few cor porations mentioned us stockholders. •’ • j **'11i>,n u .i- m-.l l.t Moore A Pomeroy, of Atlanta. I'.. It. t'rttes and Hewlett. Bancroft ,v Rullt-ntine, as at torneys for the California company.