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aooaaooaaoaooo VOL. 1. NO 38. Morning Edition. ATLANTA, GA. f SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1906. Morning Edition. On Train* FIVE (.'•at*. BEFORE THE BATTLE! "GET TOGETHER, BOYS!” POISONS GIRLS Potted Chicken Was Right From the Packing House. Wooster, Ohio, June •.-—Ten young women student* at Wooster University were poisoned last night by eating pot ted chicken fresh from a Chicago pack ing house. i>octors worked for hours to save their lives, and all but two. Miss McKinley and Miss Vance, are now out of danger. The college chemist will analyse the chicken. CLOSE GRIP HELD IN THIS COUNTRY BIG CROWD READY TO HEAR DEBATE OF PLANS OP PLOTTERS OFTEN! ALL INREADINESS FORHOW- BALKED AS RESULT ELL-SMITH DISCUSSION. Government Ik Aided in Work by Sleuth Systeme of Other Nations. By Private Leased Wire. Washington, June I.—The United Htatea government haa a done grip on the anarchlata of Patemon, N. J.. am) of other localities. It la also true that the movement* of every avowed plotter mgalnat the lives of the world's ruler*, whether he re sides In Paterson, Milan, Tart* or el*e- where, are now under aurvetlance and reimrted to the authorities of all the leading nations. The system under which this espion age la maintained waa organised by John Wilkie, chief of the United States secret service, and It waa responsible for the prompt apprehension and arrest of the Italian anarchist who recently left Patterson to attempt the life of Jffr.g Victor Emanuel of Italy. The plotter was shadowed from the time he left the New Jersey hot bed of anarchism, through England,'Prance and Swltxerland, and the momont he set foot on Italian enll tvna arrested. About four years ngo 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 secured the co-operation of the police and national authorities In a compre hensive plan for keeping track of dan gerous anarchists. The proposition grew out of the **• snrslnatlon of President McKinley and II is wholly the Idea of American ofll- clals. Mr. Wilkie evolved the details "f the scheme under which the au thorities of each country get Into as • lose touch as possible with the local "reds." The new* of the plotters, ds- scrlptlons of the leader* and other de tails are prepared In convenient form and sent tp the proper officials In every foreign country Interested, Chief WII- ie gets this Information In the United *tntea. The national government ha* means of knowing what the Paterson anar chists are about. The anarchist* have no Idea that their plans and movements -re regularly reported to Washington, and In turn are sent to foreign officers OOO0000000000O00000 o O O ATLANTA IS COOLE8T O CITY IN THE STATE. As hot as It was Thursday and Friday, Atlanta waa about the coofeat place In Georgia south of the mountains. Ddwn at Griffin Thursday, the ther- mometer got up to IT, and at Mnntlcello and Kewnan It reached It. At Augusta and Macon It waa *4,' and at Sa vannah M. The highest tem perature recorded In Atlanta during the earns time was 49— which, however, waa waVm enough to make the Ice man happy. Frtqay will be Just about the sums, as will Saturday, accord ing to tha weather man's pre dictions. Forecast: Fair Friday night and Saturday. 900000000000000000 Peachttee Auditorium. ..Will - Ac commodate Six Thousand People Friday Night. Doors to Peachtree Auditorium will open at 7:10 p. m. Reuben Arnold will Introduce Hoke Bmlth at K o’clock. Mr. 8mith will speak an hour. Charles T. Hopkins will Introduce Clark Howell at 9 o'clock. Mr. Howell will epeak an hour and a half. At 10:14 Mr. Smith will close with a talk of 10 minutes. Five hundred seats on the stage will be provided for friends of the two can didates; 210 seats for Mr. Smith's sup porters, 250 for Mr. Howell's. Five hundred seats were reserved In center of auditorium for ladles. La dles and escort* and those with cards to stage will enter at aide entrance op posite the Grand; general public at two front entrances. Boy* under 21 will not be admitted un less acting as escorts to ladles. SOLDIERS TO CRUSH REVOLT SET FIRE TO HOMES. Shot as Result of Trial on July 4. From all parts of Georgia adherents of Hoke Smith and Clark Howell are coming to Atlanta to hear the second Joint debate of the campaign Friday night at Peachtree auditorium. It Is probable that the big auditor ium. with an estimated seating capac ity of 0,000, will be crowded to the limit by 0 o’clock, the hour for the opening of the debate. Every precau lion will be taken for securing perfec order In the building, and for handllm the great crowd that will attend. Friday morning the seats on the su ditorium stage were arranged for the accommodation of the 600 friends of the candidates who will be seated there. Reuben Arnold, chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the Fulton Coun ty Hoke Smith Club, and Charles T. Hopkins, chairman of the executive committee of the Fulton County Clark Howell Club, will preside Jointly over the sesembloge. Laudatory remark* on the part of the two presiding officers In Introduc ing th# candidate* are strictly tabooed. It will be etralght business, with the frills left out. A simple statement of the speaker's name will about consti tute the Introduction. Interruption of either epeaker on the part of any one Is also forbidden. At tempts to disconcert either of the can didates will be promptly squelched. A large detail of police will be present to suppress any disturbance. Undoubtedly a notable audience will gather In Peachtree auditorium Fri day 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 all Friday getting every little detail ar ranged so there would be no hitch or confusion of any kind. A corps of ushers will be on hand to seat the au dience. An especial Invitation la ex tended ladles to come out. guateIuTnIebels REPORTED SUCCESSFUL By Private Leased Wire. New York. June A private dis patch received from the republic of Salvador reports that the success of the revolutionists in Guatemala I* as sured and that the statements to the By Private Leased Wire. St. Petersburg, July I.—One hundred women have been burned to death by coasacka at Morahansk, In the northern provinces. The peasant revolt I* spreading and Increasing In violence all through the north. The cnaaacka In an attempt to crush out the revolt, burned fifty housej at Morahansk, and one hundred and twen ty-flve at Aekhovo. Peasants Burn Proparty. The peasants are burning the prop, erty of the landowners all over the die. trlct 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. The entire district of Slontrn la In flames. Near the Kasan railway leading stage the timber yards are burning. Peasants at Reagan have seised and occupied practically all (he landed es tates. May Shoot Rojsstvtnsky. The naval court of Inquiry haa pre sented an Indictment against Vice Ad miral Rojestvensky, who commanded the Russian fleet at the battle of the Rea of Japan, and the officers of the torpedo boat destroyer Boned*. which engaged and sank a Japanese torpedo boat. The trial of the Indrcted officers has been fixed for July 4. The penalty Is death. Tha Rech saya that General Renne- kamff. who commanded the coseack cavalry division daring the war with Japan, has preferred (fftorgee against Lieutenant General LlnevRcb, who was commander of the Russian army In Manchuria. OF GATHERS STRENGTH OUT IN THE WEST Ily Private Leased Wire. Lincoln. Ntgjr.. June 8.—Discussing tho proposed reception at New York to william J. Bryan, In August, on hlo return from Europe, Charles W. Hrynn, a brother, said ne believed the New York commltteo had a misunderstand hut an to tlio dato of William J. Bryan's return, which .was, he aald, early In September Instead of Am gust. WATTERSON COMES OUT FOR WILLIAM J. BRYAN By Private Leased Wire. Louisville, Ky., June 8.—Declaring that Grover Cleveland and sound Iiio-ioy Democrats will iuppoit WII Ham Jennings Bryan as tho nominee of the party for tho presidency In 1908. Henry Wstterson, editor of tho Loulsvlllo Courier-Journal, today comes out In att enthusiastic editorial Indorsing the l^obraidtan. Tho edito rial Is headed "Hurrah for. Hrynn.” In It Mr. Watterson prediets Bryan's nomination by. states boforo the meet, ing of the National Democratic con vention. By Privato Leased Wire, Indianapolis, Juno 8.—Two striking miners were killed and six others In. Jured by tho members of tho stato constabulary during a street riot at Ernest this morning. Tho Injured men wero »ent to tho hospital at Punxsaw. tnney on a train shortly nftcr tho tight occurred. The strikers are In n threatening statu and all efforts L* r a i i ' l ' arn w *'° the men were killed and Rojestvopaky May Be -ertwWW'erlff^torts W-Wit*-"pulsed tlons In Indiana and Missouri, whoro Bryan him been Indorsed for tho presl detitlal nomination. POPE'S ILL HEALTH IS IN PLOT TO KILULFONSO She Got Clothes for Would-Be Assassin of King and Queen. By Private Leased Wire. Rome, Italy. June S.—Notwlthsand- Ing the repeated official denials, the rumors of the III health of the pope have been eonffrmed. His weakness Is extreme, and the chief physician of th* Vatican, 'Dr. Lapponl, ha* recommended for the pope special treatment, declaring that this should be strictly adhered to and prophesying bad consequences If he should not obey. R Y 0FFICIA LS IN SE CRE T 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 anil Fair streets, whsre the city law specifically provides that trains shail not run at a greater speed than 4 miles an hour. WHAT ENGINEER COSBY SAYS: Engineer Coeby, of the Central Railroad, elated Wednesday night to a reporter that hie train was coming In “at th# rate of 11 miles nn hour when 1 saw that an arcldsnt was Imminent and reversed my lever, bring ing the speed down to 0 or I miles an hour when the crash cams." WHAT CORONER THOMPSON SAYS: Corontr Thompson, whose duty It Is to hold an Investigation In cae* of loss of life, stated. Thursday morning that he would not conduct an In quest, and reiterates his statement Friday, although he liaa full authority to conduct a fair snd Impartial Investigation and place the blame for the death of Oscar Cook where It belongs. WHAT MAYOR WOODWARD SfiYS: Mayor Woodward said Friday morning: "City ordinance No. 1SSI requires that at certain railroad crossing* In the city, one of which Is Castleberry street, at which the accident Wed nesday night occurred, requires that railroads shall place watchmen to see thgt approaching trains do not go at a greater speed than 4 miles an hour." 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—• MINERS SHOT DOWN BY CONSTABULARY Two Men Are Killed and Six Others Injured. strikers. Tho light was started by the strikers It Is alloged. A brass band com posed entirely of striking miners from Anita. Jefferson county, was passing through tho streets of Ernest on Its way to a meeting to be hold today by the strikers, at which ono of the leaders .of tho mtnere’ union la to address them. In one of tho streets the strikers' band passed sev eral members of tho state constab ulary and It la alleged the riot was jreclptated by a member of the band ilrlng a revolver Into the rank* of the constabulary. The lattor retal iated by firing a broadside at tho members of tho band and eight of tlio band fell. Feeling among tho striking minora Is running high, and It la feared that another outrbeak may occur when the miners attempt to hold their meet ing. WIDOW OF SLAIN OFFICER • KICKS PLEADING SLA YER BECAUSE OF DEATH # FILES SUIT FOR $80,000 AGAINST TWO ROADS. Several Other Suits Filed Because of Smash-up of Pionic Train. By Private Leased Wire. Philadelphia, June 8.—Fared by the widow of the policeman he had killed, John Maxwell, a burglar, broke down In court and groveled at the woman’s feet. 'Don't let them hang me. Don't let them hang me," he shrieked. The policeman's widow, with dry eyas filled with hate, simply pushed him away with her foot. Maxwell, while being taken In by Po- lice man Frank Slaymaker last week, shot the policeman twice. Slaymaker died yesterday In a hospital and Max- wall was brought up to face th* chargs of murder. As soon as he entered the magis trate's court the burglar gav* way. A* Mrs. Blaymaktr cam# In he Jumped down from th* dock and threw himself headlong before her. "1 didn't mean to kill him," he cried. "Don't let them hang me." The police caught him by the throat and forced him to stand up In the box. Then he turned to ths magistrate; ■'Don't hang me," h# cried to the magistrate and to th* llsutsnant of police, who answered his appeal with grim laughter. He was carritd back to prison on th* murdsr charge. By Private Leased Wire. Madrid, June S.—The clothes worn by Morales, the would-be assassin of King Alfonso and Queen Victoria, were pur chased by the wife of a Republican leader named Nstaa, who baa con fessed. It la bellevsd she was • con federate In the plot and la now under arrest. contrary gtvsn out by the government of Guatemala are untrue. General Toledo* operating In the south, has fully 6,000 men, and aid Is pouring In. Gensrat Leon Castillo Is acting tinder Ms orders In entire har mony. Volunteers from Nicaragua have arrived. The forces In the north are preparing for another attack on Ocos, and It Is again reported that Americans of military experience ore In charge of the revolutionists. GRAFTING CLERK IS FIRED BY PRESIDENT CASSATT By Private Leased Wire. Philadelphia. Pa, June Joseph K. Aiken*. th* grafting clerk of th# Monon- gshela river division of th* Pennsyl vania, haa been Bred by president Cas satt. Vice President McCrea has resign ed from the Pennsylvania Internal troubles In the Investigating commu tes because he want* tub lines west of Pittsburg looked Into and Rudolph El- lie has been appointed In hi* stead. Th* West Jersey and Seashore Rail road has also asked to be Investigated. Tonnags Was Increased. A. C. Spangler. Pennsylvania local agent at Milton, Pa., was ths first wit ness put on the stand today by Attor ney Glasgow In the hearing before the Interstate commerce commission. He had, ha laid, with the knowledge of hie superiors, been the selling agent of the Keystone Coal Company at Milton since 1004. He declared that the arrangement hod been suggested by Assistant Sell ing Agent Hare, of the Keyetnne Co., and had bean approved by Superin tendent Lincoln, hie Immediate super ior. He hod done It, he sold, primarily to Incroae* the tonnage of the Penn- aylvanla rood- It had accomplished thle object. Mrs. Emma Conk, the Kite of Oicnr Cook, of 318 Went Fair airccl. who waa killed Wednesday night In the wreck of the Atlanta and West Point train at the West Fair afreet crossing In AUnntn, lilts filed suit f,.r flft.omi dam age* against the Atlnnat and West Point railroad and n similar suit for 140,000 against the Central of Georgia IlalBvny Company, alleging careless- neaa on the part of the railroads In op erating their trulns on a block sys tern. It Is alleged by Ms. Cook that her husbknd, who wns 2S years old, coming Into Atlanta June 0, Idas, on the Atlanta and West Point picnic train from I'enrl Springe, and that through the carelessness of the operator In al lowing two trains within the block at the same time n wreck resulted, which her husband was killed. II alleged that the operator who controlled the movements of the trains of the Central and Atlanta and Weet Point nt tha place of the wreck Ig employed by the railroads Jointly. It la further al leged that the /Ianman on the Atlanta and -West Point failed to go back to flag the Central train. Arnold A Arnold filed the cults, which ware served by the sheriff Thursday afternoon. Great Strike of Cotton Mill Hands Is Threatened in New England States By Private Leesed Wire. Fall River. Maes, June *.—A greet etrike of cotton mlU operatlvee te regarded as probable If the manufacture re Ignore the vote of the Tex tile Council requesting the restoration of tho wage seals to the point ft held before the cut of 12 1-2 per cent, which precipitated the big strike of two years ago. Within forty-eight hour* niter the wreck of tho Atlanta and Weet Point picnic train at the Weet Fair street crossing In Atlanta Wednesday aftsr, noon sevsral damage suits have been filed against the railroad. Alleging careloeaneee on the part of the railroad company, the Atlanta lad Wait Point railroad Is mad* the fendent In a cult for 11,000 damsgea Instituted by Clara Meyer. In which Clifford M. Meyer la the plaintiff, and a 110.000. damage suit with Andres Mey er as the petitioner. All of the plain tiffs allege careleeaneea on the I I of the rood as causing the wreck, fi which they claim they received bod ily Injuries. Suit was filed Friday aftarnoon by Burton Smith for Llasle M. Andrew* against the Atlanta and West Point railroad for 510,000, for Injuries alleged to have been received In the wreck of the picnic train of tha Atlanta and West Point Wednesday night at the West Fair street crossing In Atlanta. tuckerYtoIe IN ELECTRIC CHAIR By Private Leased Wire. Boston, June 8.—Charles Louis Tucker, of A u burn dale, 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 June SQ. Governor Curtis Guild announced laat night that he had decided not to commute the sentence to one of life Imprisonment Made Second Escape. Special to The Georgian. Havanah, Oa., June «.—Tha two es caped negro, convict*, WUI Hutler and Wllle Jenkins, who made their war out of the Chatham county jail early on Thursday morning, after their recap ture In a negro saloon, are still at large. The turnkey. Joseph Brown, waa promptly suspended by Mayor Myers. An Investigation ns to the causes of Wednesday night's wreck between Cas tleberry and Fair streets rroanings, caused by the rear-end collision of a Central of Georgia train with a plmlo special of the Atlanta and West Point railway, will bo held at 3 o’clock Frt- day afternoon* In tho office of President Wlckerahnm, of the latter railroad. It was stated In tho office of Presl* dent Wlckersham Friday morning that tho Investigation will bo held behind closed doors and that representatives of thn iic\\NpHp«»ra will not he admit ted. It will be conducted by President Wlckersham, assisted by Huperlntend- ent Cox. of tho Atlanta and West Point, and Huperlntendent Hall, of the Cen tral, each of whom has held an Inves tigation for his own road. Only ths employees of tho two roads who wero Immediately concerned with the acci dent will bo summoned. Coroner Thompson Insotive. In the mean tlmo, thd coroner of Fulton county has tnado no movement toward fixing tho responsibility for the accident which was due to the negli gent of some one. He said again Fri day morning that ho would not hold nn Investigation, ns thero had been no requost for ones either from the rall- ronda or from a citizen. Docauso of the great number of per sons hurt In tho wreck and tho un- usuaJly aggravating clrcumMtanct'H un- d«*r u hldi it 'mi urn.I «li i uiiiHtances which mako it certain that it was caused by rank dereliction of duty by peiNiins in tin* Miiiilny «>f tin* railroads —thero has been a great d* clsm in Atlantu of tno coroi EX.Ur Kiv ids be f their MtigllUo I of i rltl- ■r anti ths failure to of ths only by a ne of ths public hat led Irarle saved from being most horrible catastrophes ever known In tho stato. Question of Rosponsi bility. Tim ro-Mp..fi*• If.l11f > <.f t tie* accident has, according to unofficial Investiga tion, been placed between Conductor W. F. Dillard, of tho Atlanta and West Point train, and til- eon. I* S Dillard, who wns Harman of that train, and Engineer H. II. Cosby, of the Central train No. 16. • Officials of both railroads decline to •*< ij-h th.* j••Npon'dldllt\ f the tele graph operator In the Whitehall street block station, hut Information xrcun»d ft "in tin- dl*put< he i'M <-r < it lie r railroads Is unanimous In stating that It Is not the duty of operators of hlockt within raid llmlti t > hold trains until ths block Is cleared. The city has a law which requires such low speed in yard limits that, if observed, would prevent any such accident ns that of Wednes day night, and the railroads have laws hi, I, make Imperative the sending back of a flagman in case a truln Is stopped. Ths spstd limit in Atlsnts st osrtsin crossings, ons of which is Csstlsbsrry, right st Fair, is four mllss an hour. ginssr Cosby, of tho Control train, stated Wednesday night to a reporter that hie train was coming in "at ths rate of twelve miles an hour when ha saw that an accidsnt was imminent snd rsvorood his Isvsr, bringing tha speed down to six or tight miles an hour whon the crash came." HowevSr, it is inconceivable that a light train should shove an engine half way inta another coach when going at the rate of only six or eight miles an hour. The Atlanta and West Point tralg had stopped and wns absolutely with out the protection of a flagman In tha rear, according to the statement of En gineer Cosby. Flagman Dillard, of th# West Point train, says, however, that when his train stopped ho got out of the rear with his red lantern and had Started down the tr.uk Mi.mi he Haw the Central's engine. Ho said it was coming In too fast and that the crash was certain. No Information could bo s« to why the picnic train stoppe street—whether it was due to down of some sort or in obei signal from tho conductor to •engers off at the crossing. Hut the questions the people Ing la: Who was responsible for th And what 1# going to be do II? knew Fair 1 ask- about Victims Rssting Comfortably. Reports Friday from the beds Me the more seriously Injured of the sev eral wreck victims are to th** effect that all are resting comfortably, and that none of them la considered fatally Injured. ' *7?\ Miss Rosa Ham, daughter of Pro fessor Ham, of McDonough, who was badly hurt. Is doing nicely. She w as resting comfortably Friday and It Is believed she will have recovered with in a short time. Miss Ham m at the home of a friend. Mis* Charlie King, No. 35 Fells avenue, West End Miss King, who waa also considerably bruised, Is improving. Mlis Luella Lancaster, Rawaon street, wu <-••ndition at first was doubtful. I rlously hurt, face and othcrv th** Tabrrnarlo : Howard Ollv* bruts* <1 and wh pita I, fs reported None of the c ‘ ed as being In