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THE WEATHER. For Atlanta and Vicinity—Fair tonight and Wednesday; slowly rising temperature. The Atlanta Georgian Full and Complete Market Reports are Printed Every Day In The Georgian. AND news “Tho Bracebrldge Diamonds," a thrilling mystery story, Is now being printed In The Georgian. SPOT COTTON. Liverpool, easier: 8 87. Atlanta, quiet; 11%. New Orleans, steady: U*fc. ** ’ York, quiet; 31.80. Samnnah, steady; llVi. Augusta. steady; 119-18. ATLANTA, GA„ TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1,1907. 10 INSPECT CIS METERS FOUR WITNESSES CALLED IN THE ROWLANDS CASE Alderman Key’s Ordi nance to Protect Consume: s. TEST AND SEAL METERS IN HOMES Consumer May Secure In spection When He Thinks Meter Is Wrong. The high-epeed and fast grinding gaa and electric meters which run up largo bills, irrespective of the use of fens or electricity, are doomed If an ordinance prepared by Alderman Key becomes a taw. An ordinance providing for the elec tion of a meter Inspector and setting out Just what his duties are has been prepared and will be introduced by Al derman Key at the next meeting of council. At present. If a consumer has shut up his house and has not burned either gas or electric lights for a month and bills come In. he either pays the bills or has his light cut off. Sometimes me ters go wrong and register any old number of cubic feet or kilowatts and the consumer Is compelled to foot the bill. Complaints of this kind are nu merous, and It Is to give those citizens relief that Alderman Key has prepared his ordinance. The ordinance provides for a meter Inspector, to • be elected biennially. Hoth tho Inspector and the deputies thereafter appointed shall give bonds for 15.030 each. All deputies must bo appointed with the approval of tho mayor and council. This new official must Inspect nil new ami old go* and electric meters and seal them at least once every two years. If n consumer has reason to be. Hove hla meters uro handing him tho short end of tho stick the Inspector must Inspect them upon request. No gas or electric company will be allowed to Install meters nfter-tho ordi nance becomes a law until those meters nre tested and sealed by the Inspector. In this manner consumers will be pro tected against Instruments which have a tendency to work a gold brick game. When ordered to do so by the Inspec tor, any gus or electric company must remove any meter between 8 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m. on any week day In the presence of the Inspector and give the consumer another meter while the first one Is being tested. The Inspector will hnve the necessary Instruments for testing meters and will have In his office standard gas and elec, trie meters which have been tested, sealed and certified by the United Staten Bureau of Standards. All other 'meters will be compared with these. A feature of the ordinance Is the manner In which the city shall be com pensated for this week. Whew a citi zen thinks his meter Is fllm-fiammlng him, he requests an Inspection and pays a dollar to the city treasurer. If the Inspector finds the citizen was wrong and the meter .was rtcht, the city keeps his dollar. If the Inspection demonstrates that the meter was run ning on the high speed and fleecing the citizen, he gets his money back and the company owning the meter will have to pay the dollar. When the new meters are Inspected before being Installed, or when re moved to be Installed In new places, the company owning them shall pay the fee of a dollar. The ordinance especially protects con sumers who think or hsve reason to believe their bills have been too large. Any company owning meters Is prohib ited from removing meters against ths will and consent of consumers for non- K yment of bills after an application e been made for nn Inspection, and when the amount of the prevloue month's bill has been tendered In pay ment for the month In dispute. In order that consumers may know that employees of gas and electric companies have read the meters cor rectly, the ordinance provides that such employees, after reading meters, shall leave a copy of the reading at the place where the meter Is Installed. In this manner, when the man who pays the bills comes home at night he may compare the rending with the me ter and see If he Is getting a square deal It this Is not done, he has no way of ascertaining whether or not the employee read the meter Incorrectly, as by the time he learns what the em ployee read the meter has ground, out several dollars' worth more of product. Other features there are In the ordi nance providing for the carrying out of the work and penalties are provided for the failure to comply by any gas or electric company. Penalties are also provided for the altering or defacing of seals placed on meters by Inspec tors. MRS. LILLIE ROWLAND. On trial with Dr. Rowland charged with complicity in alleged poison* ing of her former husband. Trial Called in the Criminal Court at Raleigh. Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 1.—In the trial of Dr. Thomas L. Rowland and hla second wife, Mrs. Lillie Rowland, on the charge of killing Charles B. Strange, former husband of Mrs. Row land, a lo comotive engineer, efforts are being made to prove that Dr. Rowland was "Dr, Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" In real life. He was even arrested on a charge of having poisoned his own child to get some insurance money, but he was let go because the chemlsta could find no trace of poison In the tests which they made. In the present case Dr. Row land la alleged to hove used aconite, vegetable poison. Judge Benjamin F. Long Is presiding at the .trial. A special venire of 150 men was exhausted yesterday In secur ing a Jury and a second special venire of twenty-five was culled. The Jury Is composed of eleven farm ers and one Jeweler. Judge Long, who Is presiding at the trial, came Into prominence some weeks ago by Imposing a fine of 930,000 on the Southern railroad for violation of the new rate law. Mrs. Strange 1s a'beautiful woman and because of her marriage to Dr. Rowland, their family physician. In Norfolk, Vn„ six weeks after the death of her husband and clozely following the sudden death of Dr. Rowland’s son sn Investigation was started which led to their arrests. The examination of witnesses for the state began this morning. Fifty-two state witnesses were sworn today, but at the hour of adjournment for dinner only four had been examined. So far there has been no Important new evi dence brought out, other than was ad duced at the coroner's hearing, and habeas corpus proceedings. But It Is stated that there will be some new and sensational evidence brought out later. The witnesses examined this morn ing In the Rowland trial Included I. O. Strange, of Bedford. Ind., brother of the «ead engineer, and James T. Strange, another brother. The-latter MRS, MILLER AND MAKES DIS ESCAPE Death of Krumholz’s Ar rest. HER MOTHER GOES BEFORE JUDGE QRR Witnesses Summoned Be fore Grand Jury to Tes tify as to Threats. Discovered in House in Woodward Avenue Mon day Night. did not make a very good lmpressloa Engineer Mike Tlghe, star witness for the state. Is on the stand tills aft ernoon and his testimony Is expected to be of on Intereetlng nnd sensational nature. MRS. AUREL BATONYI WANTS FULL DECREE New York, Oct. 1.—Mrs. Aurel Ba- tonyl, formerly Mrs. Burke-Roehe, whose marriage to the riding master and final estrangement has been the sensational topic of society for many weeks, entered suit against her hus band this aftemdon for nn absoluta divorce. Edward A. Alexander. Ba- tonyl’s counsel, admitted that his client was served with the summons In the •ult today. INSURANCE CHIEFS WILL SOON STAND TRIAL New York, Oct. 1.—The caaea based °n Indictments charging forgery and perjury against various life Insurance officials of New York city will be called >n the criminal branch of the supreme court on Monday next. Motions will be heard and the court *HI be asked to fix dates for trial. One 5 me first roses to be reached will be mm of Walter B. Gillette, vice presl- of the Mutual Life, against whom "S' *rs five Indictments for forgery Lv"?. ,0 . r Life*, George W. Perkins, J. Plerpont Morgan's partner, and Charles S. Falr- chlld will be tried. Tha Equitable Life Assurance Socie ty nn be represented on the criminal docket by Robert O. Jordan, former controller. John R. Hegemon, presi dent ol the Metropolitan Life Insurance Compary. must answer to seven Indict- man S m ' L***rw4 aniot/ A RlimhlHIl Ilf (hi •“bert A, Grannls, of the Mutual charged. ments. Frederick A. Burnham, of the Mutual Reserve, his brother, Ocorge A. Burnham, and George E. Eldrtdge. vice president of the company, are yet to be On being discovered In the room of Mrs, W, M.. Miller, of 290 Woodward avenue, early Monday night, an un known negro burglar struck Mrs. Mill er a terrific blow and knocked her en tirely across a trunk, painfully Injur ing her In the back and breast. The burglar then bolted from the house and leaped from a atone wall Into the street, being closely followed by S. I* Miller, Mrs. Miller's brother- in-law. who resides with his family In the same house. Aa he ran, the ma rauder pulled a long knife from his pocket and defied Mr. Miller, threaten ing to cut Ills throat. Notwithstand ing this threat, the pursuer kept up the chnse for some distance. The ne gro proved the better sprinter, however, and disappeared In a dark alley. Besides receiving painful bruises on her back and breast. Mrs. Miller was badly frightened and shocked by her thrilling experience, and was still greatly agitated Tuesday. Mrs. Miller's husband was absent from home at the time of the attack, but her sister and brother-in-law Mr and Mrs. 8. L. Miller, were In the rear w..‘, h f. lr foment. They heard Mrs. Miller's m?reams of fright and pain and Immediately hurried to the scene Quickly learning what had occurred ELlSPZJei.1° W" burglar, while his wife remained with her sister. The burglar had rifled almost the whole of the room and had a large number of valuables plied In the floor ready to take away at the time of his discovery. He ran off with several small articles In his hand, but what they were Mrs. Miller has been unable to ascertain. The burglar was In the house fully thirty minutes, having been seen to enter by people across the afreet. These people, however, raised no alarm, as they thought be was gulpg H. B. Krumholz, of 129 South For syth street, was arrested Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock by Deputy J. A. Parker, of Judge Orris court, on a war rant charging him with the murder of his wife. Mrs. Rosalie Krumholz, on Monday night, August 8. The warrant was sworn out by Mrs. M. J. Jenkins. 223 Smith street, mother of tha ileu,I woman. Krumholz was put In custody of Deputy Sheriff John Miller to await the action of tho grand Jury, which meats Wednesday morn ing. Mrs. Krumholz was shot nnd killed by her husband on tho night of Mon- dny, August 6. at their home, 139 South Forsyth street. Mr. Krumholz admit ted firing the fatnl shot, but declared that lie mistook his wife for a burglar. Ho stated further that he nnd hla wife. In the earlier part of the night, had detected sounds ns of some ono trying to enter the house. Later ho was awakened by some one moving near the window. He called to tho person nnd fired when he received no reply. Mrs. Krumhholz was almost instantly killed. Jury Said Accident, he coroner's Jury, which Investlgat- tho case, returned n venlict of 'dentil bv ncclbnt am! Krumholz, who had been taken Ir. charge by tho police, was reteaaed from custody. Dur. Ing the coroner's Investigation there was one witness, A. T. Palmer, who testified that ho had heard Krumholz ROOSEVELT STARTS ON HIS TRIUMPHAL VOYAGE DOWN MISSISSIPPI RIVER H. B. KRUMHOLZ. He shot his wife on August 6, saying be thought she was a bur glar. Left Keokuk, la., Tues day Morning on River Boat. Keokuk, Iown, Oct. I.—President Roosevelt was greeted by an Immense crowd when shortly after 9 o'clock he delivered a notable address In Rand's Park. The day was perfect and from early dawn farmers and country folk for miles around had been pouring Into this little Iowa city. The presidential train arrived on schedule time and after a short Infor mal reception on board his car, the president was escorted to the park. Immediately after finishing his speech the president and his party boarded tho steamboat Mississippi and at 11 o'clock proceeded on their way down the river. The president discussed the policy of the government toward corporations, reiterating his determination to enforce the law against wrong-doers, rich and poor alike, nnd urged the Importance of better ways for commerce. Tho president's triumphal march down the Mississippi river has begun. The steamer Mleslsslppl, bearing the chief executive and his party, left the wharf here at 11 o’clock this morning, after the president had delivered his stirring address. Steamers of all de scriptions accompanied the president's' boat down the river. PEDDLER WANTED TO SHOOT ROOSEVELT) UNDER ARRE8T, Keokuk, Iowa, Oct. 1.—John Gately, an umbrella repairer, was arrested yes terday on the charge of threatening to shoot the president when he arrives In Keokuk today. Gately made the threat as he was paying toll on the Illinois end of the Keokuk and Hamilton bridge. threaten to kill his wife. It developed later that ho had been Involved In a law suit with Krumholx. It appears that Mrs. Jenkins, mother of Mrs. Krumholz, did not accept Krumholz’s explanation of the acci dent. In addition to swearing out a warrant charging her son-in-law with the murder of his wife, she has fur nished Solicitor Hill with a list of wit nesses. hv whom she expects to prove before the grand Jury Wednesday that Krumholz had threatened to slay his wife. "My mother-in-law Is merely perse curing tjie," said Krumholz Tuesday morning. "She hns already cauzed the separation of one daughter and her husband, A month before the fatal accident Mrs. Jenkins left my house. My wife told her that she would have to go and stay with some other rela tives, as she was always causing trou ble. "I learned some time ago that she was endeavoring to have me prose cuted, but had no fear of conviction. However, I did not want my little child to be among mv enemies, so I took It myself." SNOW Skull Was But Suffers With Con cussion of Brain. Berlin, Oct. 1.—Bobby Walthour, of Atlanta, Ga., who waa Injured In a col lision Sunday, la proRrexHlng favorably at the city hospital at Spandau. Wulthour’H skull was not fractured, but he la suffering from concussion of the brain. Walthour slept soundly all day yesterday and today was allowed to have friends calt on him. Race Results. BRIGHTON. Flr«t Race—Jane Swift, 8 to I, won; Orcagnl, 2 to 1, second; Glaucus, 3 to 1, third. Time 1:14. Second Race—Ambush. 13 to 6. won; Judge Post, even, second; St. Nick, > to 5, third. Time 4:11. there on business. Mrs. Miller had entered her room Just a few minutes before discovering the Intruder, and at this time he hid In a closet. Mrs. Mil ler tried to get In tha closet to get some article, but the burglar held .the door and she waa unable to open It. When she entered ths room the sec ond time the burglar was standing In the middle of the floor. Mrs. .Miller asked him what he meant In the house and he sold he was looking for a-",Mr. Jackson." At this, Mrs. Millar cried for helix and the negro struck her In the breast with his fiat, knocking her violently over a trunk, after which he ran. The police Investigated the affair, but were unable to get any trace of the Four Killed in the Sec ond Clash Tatum. 35 JAPS, 12 KOREANS KILLED IN WRECK at Dallas, Tez., Oct. 1.—A, a sequel to the killing of Cashier Honbj, of the Stale Rank of Tatum, Texas, Saturday night, an other shooting nffrny took place in the street, of Tatnm today. Four persons were killed, according to telephone messages to Governor Campbell, from Sheriff .Stone, of Rusk county. No telegraph wires are working nnd the telephone service was so Imperfect that tho governor could get but few detulln from the sheriff. The name only of one of the deed could be understood, James Adnms. Both shies to the feud were firm ing, nnd Sheriff stone urged the governur to send state rangers to Tntum. tlovernor Campbell hurried. Csptnln lingers nnd n company of rangers to the scene. They can not reach Tatum until tonight, nnd perhnps uot before tomorrow moraine, and fears are entertained that mure tragedies Seoul, Korea, OcL 1.—Thirty-five Japanese soldiers and twelve Korean citizens were killed when a train Jump ed the track and plunged over an era. banktpent In tho suburbs of this cljy today. O0000O00000O000O00000O0000 O 0 0 SUNSHINE IS PROMISED O O FOR EARLY OCTOBER DAYS. O O O O Supposedly on the trail of Ha- 0 FULL MICE AND PUBLIC —PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. Urges Honest Enforce ment in Keokuk, Iowa, Speech. NEED WISE LAW^S TO HELP NATION Commends Georgia’s Action In Building Schools For Fanners. 00000000000000000000005^5, O SALIENT FEATURES OF ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH. O o . Exercl.e rigid fairness In con- O O trolling railways, 0 Need wise laws resolutely ad- O a O ministered. * .5y,*.FL™? n must have master; O O should master himself, v Corrupt politician—great or O O,small—win be prosecuted. o O Let every man do his duty. a O Georgia’s agricultural school de- O 2 velopment Is significant. o Train farmern In schools; give u O genbeck’s circus, the “area of high 0 O pressure" has drifted east during O O the last twenty-four hours and as O O a result, fair weather will fall to O O the lot of this section during the O O next thirty-six hours. Forecast: "Fair tonight and Wednesday." Tuesday temperatures: 7 o’clock a. m. 8 o’clock a. m.. 9 o’clock a. m.. 0 10 o’clock a. m.. Oil o’clock a. m.. O 13 o'clock noon.. 0 1 o'clock p. m.. 0 2 o’clock p. m.. .42 degrees. ..84 degrees. ..87 degrees. .. 70 degrees. ..73 degrees. . .78 degrees. ..77 degrees. ..77 degrees. 0 children training. 00000000000000000000005^3 Keokuk, Iowa, Oct. 1.—President Roosevelt directed his address today to the "Men and Women of Iowa," nnd It was regarded as one more Interesting to the people of this section than any speech he has ever made In this part of ths country. It waa some few minutes after he was Introduced that the cheering sub sided sufficient for him to bo heard even by those crowded close to tho speakers' stand. Ho advanced and when he rained his hand the nolso quieted nnd bo proceeded. He said: ROOSEVELT’S SPEECH. ”1 nm glad Indeed to see you and to Rpeak to you In this thriving city of your great and prosperous state. I be lieve with all my heart In tho people of Iowa, for I think that you are gone], typical Americana, and that among you there has been developed to a very high degree that body of characteristics which we like to regard os distinctively American. "During the last few years we of the Unl'ed States have been forced to elder very seriously certain eronnt, problems. We have made a beginning ... (Ien , w , (h , h0 ro|a 000000000000000O0000000000 TT FOR DIVORCE assailant. MISS MAE WOOD. New York, OcL 1.—Miss Mac Wood has again bobbed up and is giving United States Senator Platt trouble by suing him (or divorce. It Is also understntid she charges the senator with bigamy. She came Into the lime light some time ago by charging Secretary WUUam Loch with having let ters essential to her suit. . In the attempt Wl.., .... tlons of the national government that Is, with the relations of the people of the country—to the hugo nnd wealthy corporations, controlled for the most part by a few very rich men, which are engaged In Interst&to business—es pecially the great railway corporations You know my views on this matter. You know that I believe that the na tional government. In the Interests of the people, should assume much the same supervision and control over the management of the Interstato common carriers that It now exercises ove r the national banks. You know, further more. that I believe that this super vision and control should be exercised In ff spirit of rigid fairness toward the corporations, exacting Justice from them on behalf of the people, but giving them Justice In return. ROME'S DOWNFALL. "Recently I hsve been reading the work of the eminent Italian scholar, Ferrero, on the history of the Roman republic, when the life of the Roman stats had become that of a complex and luxurious Industrial civilization. 1 am happy to say that the dlrreren. es between that civilization and our nn are more striking than tho resem blances; and there Is no warrant for our being drawn Into any pessimistic comparison between the two civiliza tions. But there Is every reason why we should study carefully the past In order to draw'from It lessons f.ir use In the present. One of the mast strik ing features of the years which saw ths downfall of the Roman republic was the fact that the political lire r Rome became spilt between two camps, one containing the rich who wished to exploit the poor, and the other the poor who wlaned to plundi r the rich. . "Naturally, under such circumstances, the public man who was for the mo ment eucceeaful tended to be either a violent reactionary or a violent dema gogue. Any such condition of political life Is as hopelessly unhealthy now as It was then. I belle! eve no implicitly In tile future of our people, because I be lieve that the average American citizen will no more tolerate government by a mob than he will tolerate government by a plutocracy; that he desires to nee Justice done to and Justice exacted from rich man and poor man alike. EACH MAN FAIR CHANCE. "We nre not trying to favor any man at the expense of fits fellows. We are trying to ahapo things eo that as far as possible each man ehnll have a fair chance In fife; so that he shall have, so . |far as by law this can be accomplished, f the chance to ehow the stuff that there Is III film We have no Intention of trying to work for the Impossible and undeslr- a. able end of giving to the lazy, tha l. thriftless, the weak, and the vicious, the reward that beionas to. and in the long run cap . nly come to, the hard — Pegs Four. i .