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THE WEATHER. For Atlanta and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday: somewhat cooler Wednesday. The Atlanta Georgian and news SPOT COTTON. idr. 6.07<1; At idy, 101M6; Nr VOL. VI. NO. 79. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1907. PT?TPT?. In Atlanta..TWO ('ENTS. J ia.lvj.lj. On Train*..FIVE CENTS. HEAVY VOTE I BIG CITIES Intense Interest in San Francisco, New York and Cleveland. JOHNSON FAVORITE IN CLEVELAND, 0, Graft Issue in San Francisco „ and Public Is Aroused .. to Action. Intense Interest Is being shown In the elections In New York city. Cleveland and San Francisco. Exceptionally heavy votes are being cast In these cities and the outcome will be noted with more Interest than the state elec tion* In many other sections. Tom Johnson and Congressman Bur ton are fighting It out in Cleveland. In New York the Independence League has been fused with the Republicans to fight Tammany to the finish. Graft la the leeue In San Francisco and the re cent exposures have aroused the people to their duty at the ballot box and they are reepondlng In great numbere. Generally good weather prevails at all the places where elections are on and everything points to a heavy poll ex cept In places where there' la but one ticket In the field. New York. Nov. 5.—Cltlsene began voting early today, a Jong line gather ing , at each polling place before o'clock, and there _waa a certain Indi cation that a large' fusion vote was be ing polled. Independence League and Republican' leaders' predicted a sweep ing victory for the entire ticket. Attorney General Jackson, Deputy Attorney General Rcles and Superin tendent of Elections Leery were seen early. They had warranta for 2,600 repeaters, whose Identity le positive, and had evidence against fully 2,600 ballot box stutters, sufficient to warrant their arrest It they attempted to vote today. Thirteen states ore holding elections todsy. Five of them—Rhode Island, Maryland, Moasachusetts, Kentucky and Mississippi—will elect a governor and other state officers. Three of them —Ohio, California and Utah—will elect only municipal tickets. In N. Jersey the vote le for election of governor, assem blymen and certain municipal officers, In Pennsylvania a state treoaurer, and In Nebraska a supreme court Justice, a railroad commissioner and two regents of ths state university are to be elected. In New York state two Justices of the court of appeals will be chosen, while In addition New York county will elect various Judicial officers and a sheriff. In the states where state tickets are to be elected. New Jersey, Massachu setts and Kentucky are conspicuous from a standpoint of general Interest. In Mississippi, where there Is but one ticket In the field. Democratic, of course, excitement Incident to an elec tion Is nil. Balloting Fast in Toledo. Toledo, Ohio, Nov. 6.—Clear aklea and Important Issues resulted In half the ballots In the municipal campaign be ing cast by 10 o’clock. There will be about 26,000 votes cast. The Sunday saloon, wine rooms and public gambling are Issues, R. A. Bartley, the Republi can candidate, being against them. Brand Whitlock, the present msyor, fa vor■ an open town. Roosevelt Votes at Oyster Bay. Oyster Bay, N. Y„ Nov. 6.—President Roosevelt stopped here only long enough to vote. His ballot was cast at 2:68 and the president went Immediate ly on board the Pennsylvania tug, Lancaster, which sailed at 10:22. He will reach Washington this afternoon. Mississippi Election Quiet. Jackson, Miss., Nov. 6,—Today is general election day in Mississippi, as In several other states, but very little Interest It manifested. There le no opposition to the Democratic nomin The weather It fair. ■ Splitting In Buffalo. BufTalo, N. Y„ Nov. 6.—Election day opened clear and bright, with every indication of a large vote. The prim clpal contest Is over the office of com' •nlseioner of public works. Both sides appear confident. There Is much split ting being done. Doubtful In Pennsylvanis. Pittsburg, Nov, 6.—The outcome of the fight In Pennsylvania for the elate • reosurerehlp that la being fought be tween Candidate Sheets for the Re publicans and Harman for the Demo crats, Ir doubtful, both sides claiming victory. The capitol graft was featured by the Democratic party throughout the campaign and they claim substan tial results. Hot Tims in Clsvsland. t'leveland, Ohio. Nov. 6.—Intense In terest Is being manifested here In to day's mayoralty contest between Tom Long Normal Work . Is Deemed Necessary. Trust Companies Are Found To Be Per fectly Solvent. INDORSE PLANS OF SUPERINTENDENT School Teachers’ Petition For Shorter Normal Work Not Granted. GEORGE W, SCIPLE SUES FOR DIVORCE; ALLEGESjRUELTY Says Wife Caused His Ar rest and Con finement. Charges of throats to take his life on different occasions by means of poison or other deadly Instruments, coupled with cruel and abusive treatment cov ering a period of several years, formed the basis of a suit for divorce filed In superior court Tuesday by George W, Bclple, ft member of the firm of Sclple Sons, dealers In coal and builders’ sup plies, against his wife, Lldle E. Sclple, The petition of Mr. 8clple, which was filed by Attorneys Anderson. Feld er, Rountree & Wilson, sets forth that he and Mrs. Sclple were united In mar. rlage at Forsyth on October 22, 1884, and that they lived together until their separation, which occurred on January 16 of this year. Mr. Sclple alleges that for many years his life has been made unbear able and unhappy because of the abusive treatment of his wife. He af firms that he has provided liberally for her In the efTort to prevent the dis ruption of their domestic relations, but that all his efforts have been In vain and that he was forced to separ ate from her In order to protect his life and health. He alleges that on one occasion she asked him to take her to the theater and that he refused because of her at titude toward him and her treatment of him. On the same day, he avers, he carried a business acquaintance to the theater, and when his wife heard of It she became enraged, and after abusing him, called for the police and had him locked up In Jail. She told the Itollce. the petitioner affirms, that her husband Continued on Pegs Two. was craxy and cautioned the officers not to let him use the telephone, as no promise he made would be kept. On account of this statement of his wife, he alleges that he was kept confined In the Jail until the case came up before the recorder and he was allowed to go On several occasions, alleges Mr. Sclple. his wife threatened to take hta life either by poleon or some other equally effective Instrument of death, and that as a result of these threats he was kept In constant fear of his life On one occasion she began to abuse him and followed up a blow In the face with her hand with another threat to use some Instrument which would produce death. Mr. Sclple states that he has made an agreement with his wife to provide alimony, and asks for the custody of their four children—Marie Alma, aged 21; George W„ Jr., aged 17: Carl Ells worth. aged 12, and Ludwig Avery, a8 Mre.’8clple. It le said, Is now In New York, to which pine* iho ha* recently returned from a trip to Europe. Judge Pendleton ordered service perfected by publication. CHARGED WITH SHOOTING AT REVENUE OFFICERS. Montgomery. Ala.. Nov. 5.—Bill Thomas, a white ettisen of Randolph county, haa been placed under a 21,000 bond by Judge Thomas O. Jones, of the United States court, charged with shooting at.the revenue officers in that county. TO CHILDCHARGED Little Girl in Serious Con dition and Feeling Is Intense. Charlotte. N. C.. Xor. 5.-8. B. Hhoaf and wife, of Tliomn*rl|li>. X. C., charged with brutally heating the 4-year-old daughter of P. C. Field*, of High Point, hare been ar retted and taken to Lexington Jail for aafe keeping. Following the new* that the child will die from her wonnda, feeling I* running high both nt Lexington and High Point, and FOR FRIDAY NIGRT Distinguished Orator To De liver Speech For Police Fund. Senator Edward W. Carmack, the famous orator, editor and atateamau from Tennes see, will deliver a lecture on Friday night of tbl* week at the Bapllat tabernacle, for the benefit of the police relief fund. Ill* engagement for la*t week was cancelled becauac of Senator Carmack's sudden 111* ncM, but It I* stated that be positively will appear Friday night. Ticket* purchased for the original date announced will t»e hon ored for the lecture. Few men In the South are better known than "Ned* Carmack, of Tenneiaee. two year* ago, and ha* made hla mark among Houthern atateamen. He I* an ora tor of unusual brilliancy and power, and will be well worth bearing on Friday RE OR HIS DOUBLE SEEN AT^IEDMONT Glerk Bradstreet, Who Is Acquainted With Actor, Noticed Resemblance. O00OOO00O00000000000O0000O o 0 FAIR WEATHER AHEAD; 0 COOLER WEDNESDAY. O O Forecast: 0 “Fair Tuesday night and Wed- 0 O noday: somewhat cooler Wsdnes- 0 O day." O Tuesday temperatures: O a m... .. .. .. 60 degrees O 1 a- m 62 degrees 0 ' a. m 66 degrees 0 O 10 a. m 67 degrees 0 0 11 a. m 60 degrees 0 0 12 noon g; degress 0 P- m. 65 degrees 0 P. m. 66 degress 0 O0O00OOO0O0000000Q0000000O Race Results. AQUEDUCT. First Race—Tom McGrath. 10 to I, won: Ace High. 8 to I. second: Hoo- i}-. 2 to L third. Tims, 1:21. Second Race—Tblstledale, 12 to 10, won; Jimmy Lane, 2 to 6, second; 3at, \ third. ■ Time, 4:26. If Raymond Hitchcock, missing Broadway star, for whom the police of Europe and America are searching, was not In Atlanta Monday night, then It was a man who looks enough like him to be hit double. And that more of this stranger could not be learned was due to the fact that the Piedmont Hotel happened to be crowded and he could not secure the room he desired. B. M. Bradstreet, clerk at the Pied mont, knows Hitchcock from seeing him many times In Boston and Fall River, and he Is authority for ths stats, msnt that the stranger who sought ac. commodatlon at the Piedmont was either Hitchcock or his double. Before coming to Atlanta, Mr. Brad street operated the Mellln House at Fall River, Mass., and ha was also eon. nected with the Hotel Quincy In Bos ton. Many times while he was In these two cities has he had Hltchcok for a guest, and he thinks he knows him pretty well. “As soon as this man came to the desk,” said Mr. Bradstreet Tuesday morning, "I noticed the striking resem blance to the badly wanted actor, and If he had given me time I would prob ably have called him by that name, but he didn't. The house was rather crowded and I could give him nothing In the shape of a room that he desired. Before I couM explain that possibly another room at a different price would do. he picked up a couple of grips and, getting In a cab. drove away. Whether he went to another hotel or left the city on a late train, I do not know. Of course, I may be mistaken In the man, but If the stranger who was In such a hurry here last night, and who was so particular, wasn't Raymond Hitch* cock, then he could take his place ad mirably In the show now running on Broadway." Inquiry at other hotels failed to lo cate thla mysterious stranger, and It la believed he left the city on a late train. 00000000000O0000000000000O O FIVE VIOLENT DEATH8 O RECORD IN BIRMINGHAM. O O O O Birmingham. Ala., Nov. 5.—Vlo- 0 0 lent death In several forms reaped 0 O a harvest In the city and suburbs 0 O Monday. The list of dead totals O O five. They Include: 0 0 SAMUEL TATE shot and killed O O by his wife. , O O JAMES H. CLOUB. killed hv O O Mrs. Edith Ament, his boarding- O O house mistress. O O DAVID WINN, special deputy. O 0 killed by dropping his revolver on O O the floor. 0 0 JOHN SHARPE engineer on 0 O the Louisville and Nashville rail- O 0 road, crushed to death In hie loco- 0 O motive ceb. 0 O JIM SCOTT, negro, railroad O 0 porter, run down and killed by O O Terminal ilreet car. 0 resolution, which In effect, over ruled the proteat'of the teachers of Atlanta against what they asserted to be oxcesalve normal work. Was unani mously adopted nt a meeting of the board of education held Monday night. The meeting of the board was held for tho purpose of discussing a peti tion filed last Saturday by a commit tee of six teachers representing the Atlanta Teachers’ Association. This committee waa composed of Mrs. F. 8. Whiteside, principal of the ivy street school; Miss Lilllo Wurm. principal of tho Calhoun street school; Mrs. M. C. Thomas, principal of tho Marietta street school; Miss Kate Massey, prin cipal of the Boulevard school; Mrs. S. R. Sams, principal of the Formwalt street school, and MIbs Nena Mitchell, principal of tho Ira street school. In tholr petition, which had the en dorsement of every teacher In tho city’s schools, tho teachers declared that tho normal work as arranged for tho pres ent term by Superintendent Slaton Is excessive; that whereas they formerly did only three hours normal work with Intermission. (hey ore now required to do four hours work with no Intermis sion. They assorted that this Is work ing a hardship on the teachers and that it ia unnecessary. They declared further that In many Instances teachers In the various classes aro being taught by teachers In their own grades, and that many of the teachers are being required to do work which Is not at all relevant to the Work they do In tho class room. Thoy also declared that they are being required to take courses In which many of the teachers are already pro' flclent and which they do not need. Turn Down Petition. At the meeting of the board Mon day, night the petition filed by the committee we* thoroughly discussed and In Indorsing the plan of Superin tendent Slaton and In declining to In terfere with the preseht arrangement, the board commended the teachers of the various schools, but expressed the opinion that the board should not In terfere with Superintendent Slaton’s plans. The resolutions In full, as submitted to Mrs. Whiteside, chairman of the committee, by Secretary' L. M. Lan drum Tuesday morning are as follows “Upon carefully considering the pe Continued on Page Two. TAFT MAY GIVE UP TRIP'BOUND WORLGi MORGAN CAME TO THE RESCUE Advanced $15,000,000 ■ Oakleigh Thome For Trust Co. of America. to Believed That the Financial Crisis and Politics Will Cause Action. New York, Nov. 6.—With a holiday Intervening and large- arrivals of gold due today, hankers look for further Im provomonts In the situation at the opening of business tomorrow. Tho Lincoln Trust Company and the Trust Company of America are giving the banking Interests more concern than anything else now. This is not duo to the fact that these Institutions are In solvent. For at tho conference at J. P. Morgan's home Sunday they were both proved to bo thoroughly capable of meeting Indebtedness. Tho anxiety felt Is due to tho prolongation of tho runs upon tho banks, which show no signs of diminishing and which each day threat en the ability of the company to con tlnue. Capital Intact. Aa a result of an examination It was found that while the capital of the Lincoln Trust Company had not been impaired. Its surplus had been wiped out by forced sales of securities In weak market. The examination of tl Trout t'limpHliy "f America showed that not only Is Its capital Intact, but 22,000,- 000 of the surplus It hnd on hand when the trouble began Is still on hand These things satisfied Mr. Morgan. In ten minutes the directors had Rgreed to alt terms ottered. The propo sition made to tile Trust Companr of America Is said ’to have been somewhat different nnd versions differ ns to ex actly what was said. It was said by somo that Mr. Morgan offered to, ad vance 215,000,000 to President Thorne on securltlos which Thorne. values at 230,000,000, even nt the present market. Mr.‘ Thorno agreed to the proposition, providing the privilege was given him to work the securities out of debt. On Btoek Basis. He wae told that tho transaction would have to be on the stock ex change baste—that le. If the securities fell off In market .value below a margin of 20 per cent over the loan, the securi ties were to be sold for whatever they would bring. Mr. Thorne protested that this woe not fair and an alterna tive proposition providing for the sale of some Tennessee (.'oal nnd Iron etock held by the company as collateral for the loin was agreed to. It Is said President Thorne and other directors were called upon to put their resigna tion! In the trust company committee of five. All director* will resign. Their decision on these propositions Is to be given today. TO BEGIN WORK I Contractors in Chicago, and Expect to Close Deal For Work. Manila. Nov. 5 —Secretary Taft Is A reuirsct for he construction of the At- „ . , ' I Until mill I’srollun Electric railroad will considering the abandonment of the j probably, be signed In the nest few .In rest of the world tour and hla Imme dlate return to the United States be cause of the financial crisis and urgent political demand* for hie presence at home. The recent mutiny and contin ued .disorders at Vladivostok are un deratoed to be behind the growing con viction that It le best for him to give up his original plan of circling the globe. No positive decision has yet been reached, hut It le the general Im pression In official circlet and every thing point* tp the secretary's de parture within a few days for San Francisco. RUNAWAY HORSE KILLS HIMSELF While J. A. Thompson, a well-known Campbell county farmer, living near Falrburn, wa* driving to Atlanta Tues day morning hi* spirited young horse ran away at Mallory's crossing, throw ing Mr. Thompson out and bruising him up considerably. The horse ran about a hundred yards and striking a single strand of barbed wire cut Its throat and was dead In a few minutes. A beegum near by waa wrecked by the accident, and the bees swsrmed about the dead animal, an hour elapsing before Mr. Thompson _ _ coaid get within reach of his wrecked ppOOOOPOPOOOOOOOOOOOOiWWKl' vehicle. iuid work on this new Interiirbon l*ne will probably begin In the nesr future, J. II. Cook, of the 1‘outrurting firm of now In Chlottg ■ at terSted^in 'the* 1 roa«£ back In Atlanta Thursday wtlh a favorable report. A franchlNe for *thla road to enter Atlautn was granted by the dtj, ago and ouly recently It cause the company nail not been able to •tart work on schedule time. The construc tion company la the company organised to Imlld the road which Is plsnned to run from West Point to Attantu nnd then on through to Conyers. The ultimate destination of the road Is Augusta. It is said that Mr. Cook and the chief engineer of the construction company are going over f ‘ * * “■ “ construction . ... ....... ... quite probable It will be signed when these two reach Atlanta. In mb! It Ion to capitalist* from outside the city, several well known Atlanta people are Interested In the rood, among them being Captain 1. W. KncHah. Ur. II. L. Wilson. B. V. Carter, T. J. Kelly and others. This fnterurhan road will tap s thickly mutated part of the country and win Tng Atlanta Into still closer con>nmnlct< IT CAPITOL Will Lay Bare History of the Busi ness. TERR ELL PETITION IS BEING HEARD Commission To Go to Bot tom of Ownership and Profits of Bell. BANQUET FRIDAY TO COL. ANDERSON A banquet will be tendered Brigadier General Clifford L. Anderson by the officers of the Fifth regiment at the Etowah cafe Friday evening. It will be In the nature of a farewell to the former popular colonel of the Fifth, who has been elected as head of trh national guard of Georgia. r The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Is under the probe of the Georgia railroad commission. A hearing before the commission be. Ban Tuesday morning at 10 . o'clock, continuing to 1 o'clock In the afternoon and was resumed at 3 o'clock. It le probable that two or three doys will be ronsumed, though a hearing In this case will ho euepended Wednesday be cause another matter Is set for a hear ing then. That the Innermost W'orklngs of the company will be revealed before thla hearing Is concluded, seems assured. Tho officials of tho company Insist that everything benrlng on tho company shall be placed before the commission. At the healing Tuesday there wa* present Councilman W. II. Terrell, who brought the petition to reduce the rates on local phonea to about 22.40 per month, nnd the following offlclnls of the telephone company: Vice President )V. T. Gentry, General Counsel Hunt "hlpley, General Manager J. Epps rown. Auditor.I. M. B. Iloxsey. Trees- ror D. I. Carson, Associate Counsel Ilrutus Clay, and F. E. Montague, su perintendent of exchange traffic. President C. J. Simmons, of the At lanta Telephone Company, was slso present, anti near the conclusion of the morning session stated: Other Company Interested. "We are not directly Interested In Bill hearing, because we are separate untl distinct companies. But Indirectly am vitally Interested, because any thing that tends to reduce tho rates of the IJell will necessarily have It* In fluence on our rate*. I may want to be heard later.” Dr. J. A. McLe.a was also present end said he wished to make some state ments regarding the Bell service. As thnt feature would not be reached on Tuaday, the commission decided that a special day would be set aside r..r hearing all who desired on the ques-. lion of sorvlce. the date to he announc ed later. Practically all of Tuesday morning wus taken up with Ihe question of the organization of the Southern Bell, and any relation it might have to other companies. The Hell replied to Coun cilman Terrell’s petition for lower rates by stating that to make the rates any lower would be eonflxeatory. A* Mr. Terrell desired full Information h» to capitalization, etc., he rested his pe tition here. He did stale that he would ask the commission to call on the Bell fof a list of employee* and wage* paid; also Hat of contract* to show that tho ompany had no fixed or stable barge*. He declared that some of the operators received n* small salaries as 218 per month, and that good service could not be rendered for that sum. Whet Bell Will Show. General Counsel Chtpley, In the be ginning of the hearing, made the fol lowing statement of what they pro posed to ehow' during the hearing: "Until now the obligation and respon sibility connected with the development of the telephone Industry within the state of Georgia wa* entirely upon the telephone companies operating within the state of Georgia. Now that thi- cummlsslon has assumed Jurisdiction over telephone companies operating within the state of Georgia, this re. sponslhlllty I* divided between this commission and the telephone compa nies. "By virtue of the laws of the state of Georgld this commission enjoys and exercises tho right of controlling anti reguluttng telephone companies from practically every point of view. Its powers being greater than aro the powers of a board of director* of any telephone company. Thla commission holds In Its hands the future of the telephone Industry tvlthln this stale. "On August 34 this commission Is sued a circular letter directed to the Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company, asking for certain In formation relating .to Its capitaliza tion and Its property. In preparing to make answer to this letter we con ferred on different occasions with members of this commission, and we understood thut the commission would be glad to have this company make a full and complete exposition of Its af fairs, beyond the extent covered by the commission's circular letter. To Open the Books. •'This we are now prepared to do. nnd It Is our purpose at this hearing to lay before the commission every fact and figure connected with the In corporation. capitalization and opera tion of this company, both as a whole . and within the state of Georgia, front Its beginning to the present time. •AVo will do this by Introducing testimony as to what has actually oc curred. We have no theories to present and from the recital of the operation of the 1 company In the past the policy of the company In the future will be clearly seen. "The character of the showing which Continued on Page Two.