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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. FRIDAY, MAT 31, 1397. The First Dividend Many n capitalist of today re ceived his first dividend years ago in the form of interest on a mod est little savings account. When you start a'savings ac count you can never tell what it will lead to. It’s a sound founda tion for the erection of a : suc cessful career in any degree, from a moderate competence to an in dependent fortune. You can openan'account in our Savings Department with a ; dollar, or as much more as you like. Interest compounded twice a year. Central Bank & Trust Corporation, l Candler Building, Branch Cor. Mitchell and Forsyth. ABIDE BY RULING ON A..B.&A. SYSTEM No fight will be made by the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic on the re cent freight rate reduction on Its lines by the Georgia railroad commission. It has been Intimated that the road might seek an Injunction against the commission to prevent the enforcement of its freight reduction order, but It Is learned from reliable sources that no such thing wilt be done. It Is to be the policy of the Atlantal Birmingham and Atlantic to abide the rulings of the commission, and then If the same should be unjust to show It to the commission by the facts. In other words fighting by Injunction and long, tedious court process Is not to be a part of Its policy. WESLEY COMMITTEE WILL DISCUSS PUNS The committee of 100 on the Wes ley Memorial enterprises will hold an Important meeting Friday afternoon, beginning at 3 o'clock, to discuss the situation. Walker White, recently selected as secretary to take charge of the work and who will work with the executive committee,twill be l'le^nt to detail, the progress to date.' Full details of the plan for raising the 3200,000 necessary to make good the offer of (50,000 from Asa G. Can dler, trill probably be announced An nouncement may also’be'made of other large donations. The movement Is growing In public favor all tho time, and the promoters feel certain that the enterprises will go through to successful consummation. Rev. Frank Eakes, pastor of Wesley Memorial and head of the hospital, ex presses himself as very much gratified at the progress made. Enough sugar was produced In the United States In 1006 to supply one- third of the total amount consumed In this country, according to a statement madS by a special agent of the agri cultural department.; FATHER TRIES TO THROTTLE ABDUCTOR OF HIS DA UGHTER New \ork,.May 31.—There wns ft dramatic ■cene In the Harlem police court ,ye»ten!ny when Andrew Grady, father of pretty Elisabeth Grady, the plrl victim of XPo- S2T5 Theodore J. Hess, sprang upon throttle* him. """ 'Til kill yon, you scoundrel,” the father cried, as ,he leaned from his seat and caught Mess by the collar. Grady's • eye. blrr-ed with rage, and he . the court officers back by mol justlod out of tb nos held in 14.500 ball. FALLS FROM FLYING TRAIN; 5-YEAR-OLD FOUND UNHURT .. • Iowa » May 31.—The 5-year-old son of a‘woman named Kar- Unelli fell out,of a car window of an Illinois Central* westbound train H!?.j at 80 mHea an houivlaat night, while,his'mother was asleep. The child was found walking on the tracks later by the train crew of an eastbound train. Except for a alight cut the boy wa^ unhurt. FOUR ARE CHARGED Well Known Railroad Men Are Held on Serious Charge. The robbery of two freight cars In the yards of the Western and Atlantic railroad the ulght of May 23 resulted Thursday night In the arrest of four men, three of whom are connected with the railroad com pany. These men are Hobert L. Ilognn. a well know’ll engineer of the Western aud At lantic; M. Wler and W. E. liynn, switch man of the same road, and Charles I). Har ris, engineer at the plant, of the Swift Fer tiliser Works, The quartet Is accused of complicity In the robbery. Hftgnn nnd Harris were locked In the Tower, while Wler and Ityan were placed In the state word at the police station. The arrests were made by Special Officers Me- criminal court agalngt the four men. charg* Ing them with larceny from a railroad car In two esses. Escb of the quartet denies he Is guilty and protests he knows uotblng whatever of the robbery. Their bonds were fixed at 1200. . Hogan succeeded In making bond Friday morulug nnd was released., . . The case wns turned over Friday to De tectives Itoherts and'I-ockhnrt and they tiro at work In an effort to throw nil or the light possible bn the r crime. The four men nre iiccused of robbing two cars, from which a lot of hats, shirts, hand kerchiefs, and cigars were stolon. One hat officers, are now on u still hunt for the re mnlndcr of the booty. The arrests of Thursday night followed n quiet tip given the officers. All of the ac cused men nre well known and their arrest and the charge against them has occasioned great surprise among their friends. OF TO SUE FOR RIGHTS Present King of Spain Will Be Sued by Hlegal Brother. Madrid, Spain,' May 31.—The in, preme court has declared Itself compe tent to try the suit of the heirs of Elena Sanz, the singer, against the heirs, of "King Alfonso XII. Elena Sanz was a Bohemian opera singer, with whom Alfonso. XII, fa ther of the present king of Spain, be came enamored. She bore the king two sons, the eld est of which she named Alfonso. The singer was banished from Spain after the death of Alfonso XII and died poor and friendless In Paris In 1898, though the' king Is said to have provided fully for her In his will, leaving her an ample annuity, which was to revert after her death to/ her children, until they came of age. The terms of the will, however, ap’ pear not tb have been carried out, and the eldest son of Mme. Sanz zecured the service of Sertor .Monguez, a well- known Republican lawyer and member BLOWN THIRTY FEET BY EXPLOSION Brief News Notes According to the figures based on an Investigation conducted by Harbor Commissioner Stafford, there are Ap proximately 40,000 persons Idle In San Francisco as a direct result of the ex isting labor troubles. The French cruiser Chanzy, which went ashore on one of the Saddle Is lands, May 30, will,prove a total loss and has been'abandoned. According to reporte by the bureau of statistics, the value of manufac tures of - the United" States lb 1(05 was fifteen times as great as In 1850, while the value of exports of the same class of articles In 1805 was twenty- four times as great as In 1850. Special to The Georgian. Pickens, S. C„ May 31.—Yesterday evening Thad Brown and William Hodges, white convicts, by attempting to blow up a stump on a road near Easley, wore seriously hurt. They had six dynamites under the stump and lighted the fuse and thought It had gone, out and went back to relight It when the charge went off, blowing Hodges twenty feet high and, thirty, feet from the stump. He Is not ex pected to live. Both men were brought to the county jail. • . ' REFORM MOVEMENT ON IN CHARLESTON. 8|HM'lnf to The Georgian. Charleston, S. C., May 81.—A re form wave has hit this city.. Orders have been Issued by the chief of police to close all bars on Sunday,-and 'for the first time In decades Charleston promises to be dry ion'next Sunday. The Young Men's Christian Associa tion board of managers recently at tacked the lax enforcement of liquor, and gambling laws, and Mayor Rhett and the police are getting busy. STRAWS ARE IN. WHEN WILL YOU BE IN? IS CIUJM Had Done Much to Pro i mote Good - of City During Long Lif e. Another landmark passes .with the death of Michael Mahoney, who died Thursday afternoon at his home, 161 Richardson street, at the ripe old age of 83 years. • For forty-nine Years he had'been resident of Atlanta, and had seen grow from a raw village to a great city. And In the growth and progress of At. lanta he played no small part .as com mlssloner of public works, as alderman and aa progressive citizen. .Mr. Mahoney Is survived by eight children, four sons and four daugh ters. Two sons, M. S. and Edward Ma. honey, reside In Dublin, Ga.; John Ma honey In Gainesville, Tex., and J. P. Mahoney In Atlanta. Of the daugh ters, Mrs. L. -C. Green, Mrs. John Lynch, and Mrs. Daniel A. O'Connor, reslde'ln Atlanta. Sister M. Vincent, a Catholic nun, resides In Denver. The absent members have been reached by telegraph and will probably come to the funeral. Born in Ireland. Michael Mahoney was born In White gate, * coiinty dork, Ireland, June 24, 1824, and came to America In 1846. He lived In Boston several years and mar. rled In Woonsocket, R. I. Removing to Albemarle county, Virginia, he su perlntended the construction of the Blue Ridge tunnel on, the Chesapeake and Oh'io railroad, considered then one of the finest pieces of. engineering In the country. In 1858 he came to Atlanta, where he resided to the day of his death. For over twenty-five years he was engaged In mercantile pursuits here. He served Atlanta ns an alderman from 1869 to 1671; was the first commissioner of public Aorks, and also one of the first police commissioners and organized the police force. He was known for hlB strict Integrity and his zeal for the welfare of his home city. At the pme of his death he was president of the Hibernian SavIngB and Loan Associa. tlon, a position he had held for thirty years. The funeral probably will take place on Sunday morning, but final arrange ments are awaiting word from John F. Mahoney,,who Is In Texas. IS TWICE STOLEN Tom Bailey Held For Rob bing Finger of Corpse At Undertaker’s. GOOD STRAW is good from the start and still good at the season’s finish. There are good straws and cheap straws. *Some are cheap in price because they’re cheap to produce—they're glued together—not made together. Pay enough and get what s coming to you. Muse’s sells them Panamas, .... $5.00 to $10.00 Poncy Hat Bands, ... 25c to 75c Coif Caps and Duck Hals, 50c and 75c Auto Caps, .... $1-00 to $2.50 1.50 to 5.00. MUSE’S, 3-5-7 Whitehall. The mysterious disappearance of ring from a Corpse resulted Friday morning In Tom Bailey, a negro, be ing placed behind the bars of a Tower cell on the charge of larceny. Notwithstanding the superstition and fear of negroes generally In regard to the dead, Tom Is said to have ban ished all such fear from his systsm when he sighted a handsome ring on the finger of a corpse that reposed In a coffin In the undertaking establishment of David T. Howard. Tom Is an em ployee In the undertaking establish ment, and this fact probably accounts for his lack of superstition. At any rate, Tom Is charged with coolly swiping the ring from the clammy fin ger of the dead. According to the evidence, the ring disappeared twice, being found the first time. It Is said. In possession of Bai ley. He Is said to have replaced the ring and the matter was dropped. Shortly afterward, however, the ring again vanished and since then no trace of It has been found. Tom de nies he took the ring the second time. The recorder decided he would give the negro a chance to explain matters to a Jury, however. In the meantime the corpse has been burled minus a ring. VAUDEVILLE BEGINS AT WHITE CITV SOON High-class vaudeville at popular prices will be put on at White City, Atlanta’s new amusement park, next week. Announcement to this effect has been made by W. C. Puckett, resident manager, whose efforts wers largely responsible for the great crowds that attended the opening Wednesday night. White City Is now In tip-top shape. Only a few little details were necez sary at the opening to finish up the work, and these having been added, all that Is necessary for the park to enter fully Into the summer season Is rea sonably fair weather. With a commodious vaudeville house, a figure "8" toboggan, much larger than any other that has been put on In Atlanta, a circle swing with wicker work seats, a miniature railroad that travels at a fast rate around the pret ty lake In the center of the grounds, moving pictures, soda water and cigar stands, a barbecue stand and restau rant. and many other attractions. White City will be a boon to the pleas, ure-lovlng public of Atlanta during the dull aummer months. The Fair street car to Grant Park goes directly to the grounds, and all Grant Park cars stopping at the Chero kee entrance leave the passengers only a short walk from the center of the grounds. White City looks good. CHICAGO PAPER SUSPENDED FRIDAY Chicago, May 11.—After twelve years’ existence. The Chicago Chronicle sus pended publication today. Horatio W. Seymour, the publisher of the.paper, says In an editorial ‘that suspension HIGH’S HIGH’S HIGH’S Just Received By today’s express five cases Women’s Snappy Gibson Ties in Patent Leather and the popular Russet Browns in newest models, with the large eyelets and silk rib' bon laces. $2,50, $3.00, $3.50 AND $4.00 A PAIR J. M. HIGH CO. BILLY BEARD, MINSTREL, JOINS PRIMROSE BUN.CH Billy Beard, an old Atlanta boy, who has been steadily climbing towards tho head of the procession In minstrelsy, will be with George. Primrose's min strels next season. . Beard was with llavoriy last year, and Haverly opened the season at the Bijou. Who doee not remember the Says Bad Record Is Dis grace to All American Negroes. > Baltimore, Md, May 81.—Lincoln Post, Q. A. It., composed entirely of negroes, was addressed last evening by Attorney General Bonaparte. The only other white man In the hall was C. P. Manning, one of Mr. Bonaparte's law partners. The attorney general was Introduced by Adjutant General Wilson, of the post, as a true friend of -the colored people. After paying a warm trlbuto to the colored .soldiers, the attorney general rqade this Incidental reference to the Brownsville Incident, saying: "Let me say here now, a colored sol-’ dler who makes a bad. record as a soldier Is a danger as well as a dis grace to all colored Americans, but It Is no less true that a colored voter who sells his vote and the colored citi zen guilty of a crime, or sunk In lazi ness or vice, Is also a danger as well as a disgrace to his race. "America has no more room for loaf ers and lawbreakers than It has for cowards or mutineers. American citi zens must know how to work'hard In jeace and to fight in war; to obey the aws they help to make and to defend the country they help to rule, and If any class of men cannot, or will not, do these things, they have no rightful place among American citlsens.” CIRCULATION EXPERT TO ATTEND MEETING inimitable way In which Billy t "Waltz Me Around Again?" He — srbres of friends here who. are always pleased to learn of tils sticce#. Beard: will be the leading comedian with Primrose next yeor, and his At lanta friends will have an opportunity of setln# him here. Ho Is now In Kal- uinazoo, Mich. GOULD BROTHERS L Say They Will Support Him in Allegations Against Wife. New York, May 31.—It waa aniioaucetf to- day that George Gould aud Frank J. Gould, brothers of Howard Gould, will take the witneaa stand lu tbelr brother's behalf when the suit of Mrs. Ilowsrd Gould for peruianeut separation la brought to trial lu The two brothers, It la sn|d, will be called to support allegations made hr Howard Gould In his reply to bis wife's amusing bill of< couiplslnt, > In which she declared that he was “not a tit person to live with/' SEAMEN STRIKE IN WORLD PORTS Paris, May 31.—The contemplated general strike of seamen engaged in the merchant marine went Into effect today. Reports from all great French ports say the officers and sailors left the ships together. GEORGIA MILL BUYS COTMENGLAND Like Carrying Coals to New castle, But It Is Necessary. For the first time In cotton mill his tory In Georgia, a Georgia mill has just ordered 500 bales of cotton from Liver pool, and In order to get It has willing ly paid the transportation and other charges, which Increase the price of the staple about 1 3-4 cents a pound. Never before has such a thing been known to Atlanta cotton experts and they declare that this shows better than anything else the scaoclty of Splnnabte cotton unsold In the United States. The order for this cotton was placed through Inman, Akers & Inman, and ! not a member of this firm knows of another instance where a cotton mill was ever compelled to buy cotton In Liverpool to spin because cotton of > that class could not bo sepured In this country. It Is pointed out that In the past cot ton has been shipped from Liverpool to New York and NewOrleans, when there waa a corner, but this was only - done for speculative purposes, and was not a case where a mill was compelled to go abroad to secure cotton of the proper grade to spin, • That such a thing Is possible and yet profitable Is shown by tho fact that'dry goods are selling at high prices, and even by having to pay a cent and three- quarters more per pound there Is still enough margin to mako It profitable. J. L. Boeshans, circulation manager of The Atlanta Georgian, will leave Fri day afternoon for Milwaukee to at tend the ninth annual convention of the National Association Managers of Newspaper Circulation, of which be le secretary and treasurer. The convention will be In eesslon June 4, 6 and 8 and will be attended by newspaper circulation managers from all over the United States and Canada. Mr. Boeshans Is one of the organizers of the association, and has ala-ays been one of the movlnr rplrlts In Its deliber ations. Many Intel, sting papers will read from well-known managers, entering every phase of the question of circulation. Mr. Cogburn Here. W. S. Cogburn, editor of The Edge, field 18: C.).Chronicle and one of the best-known newspaper men In* South was due to the fact that The Chronicle j Carolina. Is In Atlanta for a lew day*. had never been a paying Invt the on*ner, John It. Walsh. stment to I at the Piedmont. Editor Cogburn has | many frlefads In Georgia. Said of Soda Crackers f “They are one of the most eco nomical, digestible and nutritious of human foods and- well worthy of the high estimation in which they are generally held." Of course the writer had in mind Uneeda Biscuit The on* perfect soda cracker Fresh from the oven, crisp and delicious, in dust and moisture proof packages.' NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY [€ ESSE