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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. rttlDAY, AUGUST 23, mi. 0 S FLEE French Shot and Shell Drive Natives From Walls of Casa Blanca. Tangier. Aug. 23.—Dispatches from Casa Blanca state that there Is general rejoicing In the city as the result of yesterday’s battle between General Drude and the French forces and the hordes of Moors who tried to sweep over the small force of French troops and gain entrance to the city. The plan sof the wild tribesmen to enter Casa *310000 to sack, loot and murder the Inhabitants and drive the soldiers Into the sea has been so ef fectually checked that the attempt will probably not be made again. The French troops, supported by the fire of the battleships and field artillery, re pulsed the Moors yesterday and they lied with heavy loss. Shrapnel fired from the guns did frightful damage, and when the Moors who were mounted on superb horses were thrown Into con fusion by the rain of lead and shell. General Drude took advantage of the situation to press them back from the city. He captured the hill behind which they were encamped and mounted field artillery to keep them at a distance. The fact that the Moors are fleeing Inland and General Drude has been granted reinforcements by the govern ment Is taken to Indicate that the French government cannot longer make progress In quieting Morocco and ob serve at the same time the terms of the Algeciras convention. All Eu rope Is waiting for the next develop ments with great Interest. TARIFF REVISION WON'T BE TOUCHED Washington, Aug. 23.—"There’ll be no revision of the tariff In the next "ingress,” said ffhalrman Payne, of the ways and means committee of the house today. “In my opinion there’s a tacit agreement among the Itepubllcans that It Is unwise to agi tate revision on the eve of a presi dential election. I don't anticipate any depression of Industries In our country and am certainly hot at all worried by the so-called financial panic.” BE A T CHILD INTO FAINT; MOTHER FINED IN COURT FOUND PRISONER DEAD WHEN HE WENT TO CELL Special to The Genrdan. Brunswick, Ga., Aug. 23.—A man whose name Is said to be Charles Evans, and It Is understood that he was a news agent on a train between this point and Atlanta, died suddenly on St. Simons Island. Report says that the man had been drinking Wednesday right and was arrested by Officer Matthews for disorderly conduct, and locked up. When the officer went to see him yesterday morning, he found him dead In the room. Hardwick to Speak. Congressman T. W. Hardwick passed through Atlanta Friday en route to I.a layette. In Walker county, where no will make an appeal Saturday for the. ratification of the disfranchisement bill passed by the general assembly. Because her 12-year-old daughter, Marie, dusted the piano with a bath towel Instead of a dust rag, Mrs. V. M. Ulmer, proprietress of a boarding house at 92 Garnett street, beat her with a buckled strap until the neigh bors, and even her own boarders, com plained to the police. In the recorder’s court Friday momlng the child's back and shoulders were exposed. The flesh was covered with welts nnd was as red as If It had been scalded. "Yes, I beat her,” said Mrs. Ulmer. She was disobedient and Impudent, and I Intend to make her behave while I have anything to do with her." "If I couldn't manage a child of mine without beating her so, I'd send her to the house of correction,” said Acting Recorder Charles M. Roberts. It was brought out that the child was strapped until she fainted, hut she seemed to bear her mother no 111 will. The recorder debated what punish ment he should fix for sotpe time. Finally he fined Mrs. Ulmer 35.75 and allowed her to take the little girl home. “But the little girl Is only given you on probation," said the recorder. ”1 want Mr. Gloer to watch this case and to take her from her mother at the first sign of cruelty.” Marie Is a bright, black-eyed, black haired, rather frail child, quick at answers and at making friends. Just K fore her mother's case was railed, e whispered to Probation Officer Gloer: "Now I hope there ain't going to be lot of fuss about this, for both mother f.nd I are very nervous people.” MADMEN IN PITCHED BA TTLE TRY TO ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM / Pittsburg, N. Y., Aug. 23.—Rein forced by armed men from the village, the guards of the state hospital for the criminal Insane at Dannemora have finally gained the upper hand over their patients, after as severe a prisoner In surrection and attempted wholesale escape as ever was known In the his tory of the state Institution. Many of the convicts are terribly battered as the result of the big fight with the guards in the middle of the night. One man Is dead and It Is feared others will die of their wounds. The outbreak was planned with great cunning and carried out with reckless boldness. The Inmates rushed Into the big dormitories and slammed the doors In the faces of the guards. The mad men barricaded the doors and began a fierce onslaught upon the heavily barred windows, evidently, hoping to force all at once, and thus obtain easy avdnues of escape. The Insane rioters put mattresses In the windows and continued to hammer at the stone work at which the bars are fixed, all the while shouting and shrieking. Several shots were fired by the guards, but It was Impossible to tell whether they were effective until the riot was quelled, when R was discov ered that Isaac Dubois had been shot and killed, probably Instantly. This Is the first and only outbreak of any sort since the opening of the hospital In 1900. Officials Declare Big Con cem Has Violated Law. CHARLEY'S COURTSHIP MUCH TOO NOISY There Is no soft pedal on Charley Jones' voice, and recently the neigh bors of Annie Appelby complained that they had grown tired of hearing Charley singing love songs on Annie's porch every night. When the police remonstrated, both Charley and Annie, who are colored, had so much to say that they were arrested and given a chance to tell it to the recorder. "Well, this seems like a rase of true love." said Acting Recorder Rob erts. "Why don't you get married?" It developed that that was what they were planning to do. So Charley passed over his bankbook and Annie drew the money and got a license to marry. She came back with the docu ment and a negro preacher, and they were made one In the corridor leading from the courtroom. 'Wish I could dispose of alt these cases as easy,” said the recorder. Training School Opens. Special to The Georgian. Huntsville. Ala., Aug. 23.—The New Market Training School opened Wed nesday with the largest enrollment It has ever had. Professor J. T. Murrey Is principal of the Institution, and he has three able teachers on bis faculty. GAYNOR MAY NOT GO TO INDIAN SPRINGS Macon, Ga., Aug. 23.—It Is believed that the United States circuit court of appeals will deny the application made by John F. Gaynor to be allowed to go to Indian Springs, Ga., on account of his Illness. Gaynor. who Is under con viction of embeixlement and conspiracy against the government along with Col onel Greene, is In a very poor state of health, and his phyilclans have an nounced that unless he Is allowed to leave the Bibb county jail, where he la now confined, that serious consequences may result. WATER 8UPPLY MUDDY; GAS WOULD NOT WORK. Special to The Georgian. Macon, Ga.. Aug. 23.—Not only was Macon’s water supply muddy yester day, but the gas would not work In th* momlng, and as a result many persons were forced to eat breakfast of canned goods or go down town to the restau rants. Of course, (hose having wood stoves were not left In the lurch, but there were many who complained. Beaten With Monkey Wrench. Special to The Georgian. Asheville, N. C., Aug. 23.—J. O. Wal lace, a blacksmith of this city, was bad ly beaten by Wiley P. Black, a local saloon keqper, a monkey wrench being used with possibly fatal results. The tiouble is said to have occurred over the collection of a debt. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 23.—One of the moat Important anti-trust suits started was filed In Austin yesterday. The suit was filed by the attorney general's department against the International Harvester Company of America, which was organised under the laws of Wis consin. The petition alleges that the defendant concern has violated the anti-trust law of Texas, and demands penalties In the sum of 11,700,000. It Is further alleged that this concern has formed an unlawful combine with these corporations: McCormick Har vester Company, Deerlng Harvester Company, Plano Manufacturing Com pany, Warder, Buchnell and Gleaner Company, Minneapolis Harvester Com pany, D. M. Osborne & Company, and Aultmann Manufacturing Company. FIX COTTON PRICE FOR THIS SEASON When the nations.! convention of the Farmers’ Union meets In Little Rock next month, the minimum cotton price will be fixed at between 12 1-2 and IS cents, according to an officer of the union who was In Atlanta Friday morn ing. "The crop In Georgia this year will be a bad one. about 85 per cent of last year's production,” said this official. *'“ have been over the state, and that es tlmatc Is based upon good Information. Farmers ought to get a good price for their crop this season. I am not In a position to slate what the minimum price fixed by the union will be, but It will be between 12 1-2 and IS cents, and not far from the latter figure.” Georgia's crop last season was 1,900,. 004 bales. If the estimate of 85 per cent this season Is correct, the state crop will reach 1,015,000 bales. DRUNK WHEN SALE WA8 MADE, MAN CLAIMS IN SUIT Chattanooga, Tenn.. August 23.—Rob ert E. Lovq. of Unicoi county, T*nn., has Instituted suit against F. Powell, J. E. Ford and the Holston corporation, seeking the revision of a deed to a large tract of property on the unique ground that he was Intoxicated at the time of Its execution. The property was purchased. It Is said, at 314.000 some weeks ago and the consideration was paid to Love In cash. Bank Organized at Wadley. Wadley, Ga.. Aug. 23.—A new bank was organised here on yesterday, with a capital stock of 125,000. It will be known as the Jefferson County Bank, and will begin operation In temporary headquarters In a few days. The fol lowing arefthe officials: President and financial agent. John D. Walker; vice B residents. Captain J. H. Williams and , L. Perkins; directors. Captain J. H. Williams, A. G. Howard, Dr. C. E. Rents and T. 8. Brown. The stock holders have purchased a lot and will erect a bulldlng-at once. A Bit of tTi? Alps Ahotksr example °f effective and out-of-ths-erdi- nary wall-papering. » A sc?nic frieze into which the d?sign?r has embodied a massive o]d pine tree, a snow-capped mountain peak and an expanse of blue sky.- And while it serves the duty of wall-paper it gives something that 9ns may look at day after day and not tire of. The wall-paper stock is replete with these artistic things. The wall below ths frieze can be carried out in panslsd bather and relief mouldings or in burlaps. The furniture shown her? is on the old Flemish or-, der—many styles of which are shown in the fumitur? de partment. Chamberlin Johnson-DuBos? Co. UNABLE TO GIVE BOND. THOMA8 18 8ENT TO JAIL. Special to The Georgian. Huntsville, Ala., Aug. 23.—James Thomas, charged with being an acces sory In the shooting of the late Stan hope Logan, has been bound over to the grand jury under a bond of 32,000. The defendant has not succeeded In making bail, and Is still a prisoner. Nathan Weylman, who Is charged with firing the shots that resulted In Lo gan's death, has waived examination to the grand jury and will remain In Jail. Bartow (bounty’s Returns. Bartow county’s returns for 1907 reached the office of the comptroller general Friday, and shows a gain of Burke and McIntosh are still May Build Paper Mill, 1 Special to The Georgian. Huntsville. Ala. ■ Aur. 23.—Tha HuntavIfie.Bualnsaa Men'a Club la In correspondence with capitalists In At lanta who wish to establish a paper mill In this section, or In some city where abundance of waate front cotiop mills can be procured. Rebels Sack Village. Shanghai. Aug. 23.—A serious but-, break has occurred In Ngan Hwel prov ince. Rebels have sacked a small vil lage near Tang Chlng and murdered the authorttlea. A general revolt is be ing planned to start at a given signal. Man Stabbed May Reoover. Special to Tbe Georgian. Asheville, N. C» Aug. 23.—Captain J. W. Brunson, who was stabbed by Ed Miller on the public equate here Tues day night. Is reported as almost out of danger. Bond for Miller has been fixed at 3600, but up to the present he has not been able to make It and Is still to Jail. Negro Suapecta Released. Special to The Georgian. Columbus, Ga, Aug. 23.—Henry Car ter and John Body, the two negroes ar. rested In connection with the Shatulga affair, In which they were charged with assaulting a railroad section fore man and destroying his property, weri released from custody by Juatlcs CargttL SACRIFICE SALE OF WOMEN’S $3.00 AND $3.50 OXFORDS ; ;—s For a quick clearance we oiler a collection of about 500 pairs women’s fine Oxford Ties and Slippers Saturday at $2.45 pair. New fall styles women’s Shoes are arriving daily and we need the room. Hence this tremendous sacrifice. The line as advertised consists of broken lots women’s patent and vici Oxfords, Gibson Ties and Slippers in newest shapes and models; identical Oxfords selling in all exclusive shoe stores at $3.00 and $3.50 pair. Saturday, $2.45 Pair $2.45 PAIR J. M HIGH CO.