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r ATLANTA 1910 L- ..l.jgji. I PL'*» U'UinpniByi.MU.1 hi. . ... The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. 1. NO 38. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1906. T>J>T/"iT^. In AtldnU TWO Ont* I t. oo Train* FIVE C*d!* GATHERS STRENGTH OUT IN THE 1ST NEBRASKAN WON'T REACH U. S. BEFORE SEPTEMBER His Brother Says There Is Some Misunderstanding About Date of Arrival. IN THIS COUNTRY PLANS OF PLOTTERS OFTEN BALKED AS RESULT BIG CROWD READY TO HEAR DEBATE OF ALL IN READINESS FORHOW ELL-SMITH DISCUSSION. Government Is Aided in Work by Peaohtree Auditorium Will Ac Sleuth Systems of Other Nations. By Private Leased Wire. Washington* June 8.—The United States government haa a cloee grip on the marcblftf of Pm tenon, N. J* of other localities It Is also true that the movements of •very avowed plotter against the lives of the world’s rulers, whether he re- tides In Paterson, Milan, Paris or else- where, are now under survellance and reported to the authorities of all the leading nations. The system under which this esplon* •ge Is maintained was organised by John Wilkie, chief of the United States secret service, and It was responsible for the prompt apprehension and arrest of the Italian anarchist who recently left Patterson to attempt the life of King Victor Emanuel of Italy. The plotter was shadowed from the time he left the New Jersey hot bed of anarchism, through England, France and 8wltserland, and the moment he let foot on Italian soil was arrested. About four years ago Chief Wilkie disappeared from Washington. He was absent four or five months, travel- ing through Eurpoe. He visited every important city on the continent. and •ecured the co-operation of the police tnd national authorities In a compre' henslve plan for keeping track of dan- gfrous anarchists. The proposition grew out of the as sassination of President McKinley and it ♦« wholly tjie Idea of American ofll- dals. Mr. Wilkie evolved the details ••f the scheme under which the au thorities of each country get Into us close touch as po.«lble with th, local "red,.'' The new* , of the plotter., de- nnptlon. of th. leadtra and other de tails are prepared In convenient form and sent to the. proper official* In every foreign country Interested. Chief Wil kie get* thl* Information In the United Plate*. The national government haa mean# r 't knowing what the Paterson anar chists nr^ about. The annrcblsts have ho Idea that their plan* and movement* are regularly reported to Washington, and (n turn are sent to foreign officer* OOQOO0OO0O000O00000 0 Q o ATLANTA 13 C00LE8T 0 CITY IN THE STATE. A* hot a* It was Thursday and Friday, Atlanta was about the cooleet place In Georgia south of th* mountains. Down at Griffin Thursday, the ther mometer got up to 97, and at Montlcello and Newnsn It reached II. At Augusta and Macon It was 94, and at Sa vannah 92. The highest tem perature recorded In Atlanta during th* same time was 99— which, however, was warm -nough to make the Ice man happy, Friday will be Just about the -ante, as will Saturday, accord ing to tba weather rtsn’s pre dictions. Forecast:- Fair Friday night and Saturday. 9OOQ0OO0000OQ000000 commodate Six Thousand People Friday Night. Door* to Peachtree Auditorium will open at 7:10 p. m. Steuben Arnold will Introduce Hoke Smith at 8 o'clock. Mr. Smith will speak an hour. Charles T. Hopkins will Introduce CUrk Howell at 9 o'clock. Mr. Howell will speak nn hour and a half. . ' At 10:10 Mr. Smith will close with a talk of SO minutes - Five hundred seats on the stage will be provided for friends of the two can didates; 2S0 seats for Mr. Smith's sup porters, ISO for Mr. Howell's. Five hundred seats were reserved In center of auditorium for ladles. La dles and escorts and those with cards to stage will enter at eld*.entrance op posite the Grand; general* public two front entrances. Boys under 21 will not be admitted un less acting aa escorts to ladles. a adh _ Howell are coming to Atlanta to hear the second Joint debate of the campaign Friday ' t at. Peachtree auditorium. .. 1* probable that the big auditor ium, with an estimated seating capac ity of 6,000, will be crowded to the limit by S o'clock, the hour for the opening of the debate. Every precau tion will be taken for securing perfect order In the building, and for handling the great crowd that will attend. Friday morning th* seats on the au ditorium stag* were arranged for the accommodation of the 600 friends of th* candidates who will be seated there. Reuben Arnold, chairman or the ex ecutive committee of the Fulton Coun ty Hoke Smith Club, and Charles T. Hopkins, chairman of th* executive committee of the Fulton County Clark Howell Club, will preside Jointly over the assemblage. Laudatory remarks nn the part of the two presiding officers In Introduc ing the candidates are strictly tabooed. It will be straight business, with the frille left out A simple statement of the speaker's name will about consti tute the Introduction. Interruption of either speaker on the part of any one It tito forbidden. At tempt* to disconcert cither of the can didates will be promptly squelched. / large detail of police will be present to ,U {jmJoubt«Tly , a t notable audience will R ther In Peachtree auditorium Frt- y night. Many out of town people are here and others are coming to hear the debate. . . W. D. Harwell chairman of the com mittee on arrangements, hustled al Friday getting every MUe detail ar ranged so there would be no hitch or confusion of any kind. A corps of uehers will be qn hand to seat the au dience. An especial Invitation I* ex tended ladles to come out. GUATEMALAN REBELS REPORTED SUCCESSFUL By Private Leased Wire. New York, June t.—A private dis patch received from the republic of Salvador reports that the success of the revolutionists In Guatemala Is as sured and that the autemenu to the By Private Leased Wire. Lincoln, Nebr.. June 8.—Discussing the proposed reception at New York to William J. Bryan. In August, on bis return from Europe, Charles W. Bryan. brother, said no believed the New York committee had a misunderstand Inc as to the date of William Bryan’s return, which was. he said, early In September instead of Au gust. WATTERSON COMES OUT FOR WILLIAM J. BRYAN By Private Leased Wire. Louisville. Ky., June 8.—Docla’ing that Grover Cleveland and sound money Democrats will support Wil liam Jennings Bryan as the nominee of the party for the presidency In 190S. Henry Wdttoraon, editor of the LoulavUIo Courier-Journal, today conies out In an enthusiastic editorial Indorsing the Nebraskan. The edito rial Is honded "Hurrah for Pryan.’’ In It Mr. Wattorson predicts Bryan's nomination" bj states before the meet ing of tho National Democratic con vention. Friends of Bryan here are pleased over the reports from state conven tions In Indiana and Missouri, where Bryan has been Indorsed for the presi dential nomination. POPE'S ILL HEALTH IS SOLDIERS TO CRUSH REVOLT SET FIRE TO HOMES. Dr. Lapponi Prescribes Special Treatment for the “Prisoner of the Vatican." Rojestvensky May Be Ordered Shot as Result of Trial on July 4, By Private Leased Wire. 8L Petersburg, July 8.—One hundred women have been burned to death by eotaacke at Morshsnsk, fn the northern province*. The pcaesnt revolt Is spreading and Increasing In violence all through the north. The cossacks In nn attempt to crush out the revolt, burned fifty houses at Morahansk, and one hundred and twen ty-live at Aekhovo. Peaeante Burn Property. The peasant! are burning the prop, erty of the landowners all over the dis trict and are resisting the soldiers. They refuse to pay rent or taxes or to furnish recruits for the army. The government's forest near Kos- lovka has been burning for days. Th* entire district of Blonem Is In (lame*. Near the Kasah railway leading stage the timber yards are burning. Peasants at Reasan have seised and occupied practleally all th* landed es tates. May 8hoot Rojestvensky. The naval court of Inquiry haa pre sented an Indictment against Vies Ad miral Rojestvensky, who commanded the Russian fleet at th* battle of th* Rea of Japan, and the officers of the torpedo boat destroyer Boned a. which engaged and sank a Japanese torpedo boat. The trial of th* Indicted offlceri has been flxed for July 6. The penalty Is death. The Rech says that General Renne- kamff. who commanded th* Cossack cavalry division during th* war with Japan, haa preferred charges against Lieutenant Oenerel Llnevltch, who was commander of the Russian army In Manchuria. WOMAN IN PLUT TO KILULFONSO She Got Clothes for Would-Be Assassin of King and Queen. By Prlvnte Leaned Wire. Rome, Italy, June 8.—Nntwlthsand Ing the repeated official denials, the rumors of the 111 health of the pope have been confirmed. His weakness Is extreme, and th* chief physician of th* Vatican, Dr. Lapponi, has recommended for the pope special treatment, declaring that this should be strictly adhered to and prophesying bad consequences If he should not obey. EXPLOSION REPORTED ON BIG BATTLESHIP By Private Leased Wire. Boston, June 8.—It I* reported at the navy yard here that there haa been some sort of an explosion on board the battle ship Indiana. Particulars lacking. R Y. OFFICIALS IN SECRET SESSION TO PLACE BLAME FOR WRECK; FRIENDS OF VICTIMS EXCLUDED WHERE THE ACCIDENT OCCURRED The accident of Wednesday night occurred In the yards of the Cen tral of Georgia and the Atlanta and West Point Railroads, between Castleberry and Fair streets, where th* city law apt trains shall not run at a greater speed than 4 mill WHAT ENGINEER COSBY SA YS: Engineer Cosby, of Ih* Central Railroad, staled Wednesday night to a reporter that his train was coming In “at the rate of IS miles an hour when I saw that an accident was Imminent and reversed my lever, bring ing th* speed down to ( or S miles an hour when th* crash cam*. WHAT CORONER THOMPSON SAYS: Coroner Thompson, whoa* duty It Is to hold an Investigation In cast of loss of life, stated Thursday morning that he would not conduct an In quest, and reiterates hla statement Friday, although he has full authority to conduct a fair and Impartial Investigation and place the blame for th* death of Oscar Cook where It belong*. WHAT MAYOR WOODWARD SAYS: Mayor Woodward said Friday morning: ‘‘City ordinance No. 1SS2 requires that at certain railroad crossings In the city, one of which I* Castleberry street, at which th# accident Wed nesday night occurred, require* that railroad* shall place watchmen to aeo that approaching trains du not go at a greater speed than 4 miles an hour.” MINERS SHOT DOWN BY CONSTABULARY Two Men Are Killed and Six Others Injured. By Private Leased Wire. Indianapolis] June 8.—Two striking miners were killed and six others In jured by the members of the etato constabulary during n street riot at Ernest this morning. The Injured men were sent to the hospital at Punxtaw- tancy on a train shortly after tho light occurred. Tho strikers are In a threatening state and all efforts to learn wjto the men wore killed and Injured Is being ropulsod by tho Strikers. The fight waa started by tho strikers. Is alleged. A brass band com posed entirely of etrlking minora from Anita, Jcfferaon county, waa passing through the etreeta of Ernest on its way to a meeting to be held today by the strikers, at which one of the leaders of tho miners' union la to addreae them. In one of the streets tho strikers' band passed sev eral members of the state conFfab- ulary and It la alleged the riot waa preclptaled by a member of the band llrlng a revolver Into the ranks of the constabulary. The latter rets! In led by llrlng a broadside at th* members of the band and eight of tho band fall. Feeling among the striking miners is running high, and It la foared that another outrbeak may occur when tha miner* attempt to bold their meet* lug. H BECAUSE OF DEATH FILES SUIT FOR $80,000 AGAINST TWO ROADS. Several Other Suits Filed Because of Smash-up of Picnic Traill, The Law Was Violated by Crews of Trains. CORONER HAS SHIRKED HOLDING AN INQUEST Mayor Woodward Quotes City Ordinance—Engineer Cosby Ad mits Violating It—and Yet— WIDOW OF SLAIN OFFICER KICKS PLEADING SLAYER By Private Leased Wire. Philadelphia, June I.—Faced by the widow of the policeman he had killed, John Maxwell, a burglar, broke down In court and groveled at th* woman's feet. "Don't let them hang me. Don't let them hang m*,’’ he shrieked. The policeman'* widow, w|th dry •y«* tilled with hat*. (Imply pushed Im away with her foot. Maxwell, while being taken In by Po- llceman Frank Rlaymaktr last wesk, shot th* policeman twice. Blaymaker died yesterday In a hospital and Max well was brought up to fact the charge of murder. As soon sa h* entered th* magls •rate's court ths burglar gave way. Aa Mrs. Rlaymaktr cams In hs lumped down from ths dock and threw himself headlong before her. "I didn't mean to kill him, he cried. "Don't let them hang me.” The police caught him by th* throat and forced him to eland up In tha box. Then he turned to th* magistrate: “Don’t hang me,? he cried to th* magistrate and to th* lieutenant of police, who answered hie appeal with grim laughter. He waa carried back to prison on th* murder charge. By Private Leased Wire. Madrid, June I.—The clothes worn by Morale*, the would-be assassin of King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, were pur chased by the wife of a Republican leader named Nates, who has con fessed. It Is believed she was a con. federate in the plot and Is now under arrest. contrary given out by the government of Guatemala are untrue. General Tnleda operating In th* south, has fully s.99* men, and aid la pouring la. General Leon Castillo Is acting under Ms orders In entire har mony. Volunteer*’ from Nicaragua have arrived. The forces In tbs north are preparing for another attack on OCO*. and It la again reported that Americans of military experience are In charge of the revolutionists. GRAFTING CLERK IS FIRED BY PRESIDENT CASSATT By Private Leased Wire. Philadelphia. Pa-, June Joseph K. Alkens, th* grafting clerk of th* Monon- gahela river division of the Pennsyl vania, has been fired by President Cas satt Vic* President McCrea has reslgn- from the Pennsylvania Internal ■burg looked Into and Rudolph ra tios been appointed In Ms stead. The West Jersey and Seashore Rail road has also asked to be Investigated. Tonnage Was Increased. C. Spangler, Pennsylvania local agent at Milton, Pa., was the first wit ness put on the stand today by Attor ney Glasgow In the hearing before the Interstate commerce commission. He had, h* said, with Ih* knowledge of his superiors, been th* selling agent of tha Keyeton* Coal Company at Milton since 1904. He declared that the arrangement had been suggested by Assistant Bell ing Agent Here, of th* Keyeton* Co, and had been approved by Superin tendent Lincoln, his Immediate super ior. He had don* It, he said, primarily to Increase the tonnage of the Penn sylvania road. It had accomplished this object. Great Strike of Cotton Mill Hands Is Threatened in New England States By Private Leased Wire. Fall River, Maas, June 9.—A great strike of cotton mill operative* Is regarded as probable If the manufacturers Ignore the vote of th* Tex tile Council requesting the restoration of tha wage scale to the point It held before th* cut of It 1-9 per cent, which precipitated the big strike of two years ago. Mr*. Emma Cook, th* wife of Oscar Cook, of SIS West Fair street, who wns killed Wednesday night In the wreck of th* Atlanta and West Point train at the West Fair street crossing In Atlanta, haa-filed suit for Sto.ooo dam- ages against th* Atlanat and West Point railroad and a similar suit for 110,000 against the Central of Georgia It ' ■ 11-1nv. ill,- Klnv - .M .-I--.- ness on the part of the railroads In op erating their trains on a block sys tem. It la alleged by Ms. Cook that her husband, who wss SI years old, was coming Into Atlanta June I, 1901, on Ih* Atlanta and West Point picnic train from Pearl Springs, sad that through the carelessness of the operator In al lowing two trains within th# block at the same time a wreck resulted. In which her husband was killed. It Is alleged that the operator who controlled ■he movements of the trains of th* Central and Atlanta and West Point at the place of the wreck Is employed by the railroads Jointly. It la further al leged that th* flagman nn th* Atlanta and West Point failed to go back to th* Central train. mold A Arnold filed Ih* aults, which were served by the eherlff Thursday afternoon. Within forty-eight hours after th* wreck of the Atlanta and West Point picnic train at the West Fair street crossing In Atlanta Wednesday after noon several damage suits have been filed against lb* railroad. ess ness ipany, tl West Point railroad Is mad* th* de fendant In a suit for 91,046 damages Instituted by Clara Meyer, In which Clifford M. Meyer Is th* plaintiff, and a 910,000 damage suit with Andrea Mey er as tha petitioner. All of th* plain tiffs allege carelessness on th* * of th* road as causing tha wrack, which they claim they received bod ily Injuries. Bull waa filed Friday afternoon by Burton Smith for Llsxl* M. Andrews against the Atlanta and West Point railroad for 110,000, for Injuries alleged to have been received In th# wreck of the plcnlo train of th* Atlanta and West Point Wednesday night at th* West Fair (treat crossing In Atlanta. TUCKER IS TO DIE IH ELECTRIC CHAIR By Private Leased Wire. Boaton, June S.—Charles Louis Tucker, of Auburndale, convicted of the murder of Mabel Page at Wes ton, In 1904, will be electrocuted In the state prison at Charlestown during the week beginning Juno 20. Governor Curtli Guild announced last night that be had decided not to commute the sentence to one of life Imprisonment. Mads Second Escape. Special to Th* Georgian. Havanah. Oa, June 9.—Th* two ea rned negro convicts. Will Butler and Will* Jenkins, who mad* their way out of th* Chatham county Jail early on Thursday morning, after their recap ture In a negro saloon, are still at large. Th* turnkey, Joseph Brown, waa ptlf an*pended by Mayor Myers. An Investigation aa to the rauaca of Wednesday night's wreck between Cna- tleberry end Fair streets crossings, caused by the rear-end collision of a Centra! of Georgia train with a plrnlo special of the Atlanta and West Point railway, will be held at 3 o’clock Fri day afternoon In the otnc* of President Wlckershnm, of the latter railroad. It wss stated In the office of Presi dent Wlckershnm Friday morning that the Investigation will be held behind rinsed doors and that representatives of the newspapers will not be admit ted. It wll! be conducted by President Wlckersham, assisted by Superintend ent Cox, of the Atlanta and West Point, and Superintendent Hall, of the Cen tral, each of whom has held an Inves tigation for hla own road. Only the employees of the two roads who were Immediately concerned with the acci dent will be summoned. Coroner Thomp&on Inactive. In the mean time, the coroner of Fulton county has made no movement toward fixing the responsibility for th* accident which was duo to tho negli gence of some one, Ha said agala Fri day morning that ht would n--i h.-id an Investigation, as there had been no request for one, either from the" rail road* or from a citizen. Because of the great number of per sons hurt In the wreck and the un usually aggravating circumstances un der which It occurred—clrcumetan. es which make It certain that It was caused by rank dereliction of duty by persons In the employ of the railroads —there haa been « gteat ileal of criti cism In Atlanta of the coroner and the railroads bemuse of their failure to i public Investigation of the that led to what wns only by a miracle saved from being one of the most horrible catastrophes ever known In the stale. Question of Responsibility. •rile n aponslblllty of the a.-,-blent has, according to unofficial Invevtlga- tlon, been placed between Condo- tor W. F. Dillard, of the Atlanta and West Point train, and his son, r. s imiard. who was flagman of that train, and Engineer H. H. Cosby, of the Central train No. 18. Officials of both railroads decline to discuss tho responsibility of the tele graph operator In the Whitehall street block station, but Information -c ured from the dispatchers of other railroads Is unanimous In stating that It is not tho duly of operators of blocks within yard limits to hold trains until the block In cleared. Tho rtty has a law which requires surlt low speed | n yard limits that, If observed, would prevent any such accident us that of Wednes day night, and the railroad which make Imperative t back of a flagman In cost ■topped. Ths spead limit In Atlanta at certain crossings, one of which Is Castleberry, right at Fair, is four miles an hour. Engineer Cosby, of ths Csntral train, stated Wednesday night to s reporter that his train wss coming in "at the rats of twelve miles an hour when he sew that an accident was imminent and reversed his lever, bringing the speed down to six or eight milee an hour when ths crash came.*' However, It it inconceivable that a light train should shove an engine half way into another coach when going at ths rate of only six or sight milts an hour. The Atlanta and West Po had stopped and was abroluh out th* protection of a Oagmi rear, according to the stateinr; glneer rosby. Flagman Dlllai West Point train, says, howe whan bis train slopped he g. the rear with his red lantern started down th* track when he raw the Central's engine. He raid it was coming In too fast and that he knew th* crash was certain. Nn Information could be secure.) as to why the picnic train stopped at Fair street—whether It was du* to a break down of some sort or In obedience to signal from the conductor to let pas senger s off st the crossing. But th* questions the people are ask ing Is: Who wns responsible for the wreck? And what Is going to be done about It? Victims Resting Comfortably. Reports Friday from the bedside of the more seriously Injured of the sev eral wreck victims are to the effect that all are resting comfortably, and that none of them Is considered fatally Injured. Miss Ross Hsm, daughter of Pro fessor Hem, of McDonough, who wss badly hurt. Is doing nicely. She reefing comfortably Friday and 1 believed she will have recovered with in a short time. Alls* Ham Is at the home of a friend. Alias Charlie King. No. IS Sells avenue. West End Miss .-riding train with in the of Kn ot the \ that King, wbo bruised. Is Improving. Miss Luells Lancs* Rawson street, whose c waa doubtful 1* now r riouely hurt. She wa» face and otherwi-e Lru th* Tabernacle Inflrmar Howard Oliver, w h bruised en<l wbo Is in pltsl Is reported st IM None of th# others In; d Ss bctig til a eerlo. .nslderably of No. lit lltlon at first irted not it about th* J. She la In w as badly Grady hoe- K easy. rid Is regard- condition. L MB - i ]I, iinijggiijlhijftj i