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The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. 1. NO. 49. ATLANTA, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 21, -1906. ■DpTriTTi, In Atlanta TWO Cant* 1 (j n Tralua Iff VIS Cunt a. GRAPHIC AND HIDEOUS STORY OF MASSACRE OF HELPLESS JEWS BY RUSSIANS SHOWS THAT SLAUGHTER OF MEN, WOMEN AND BABES WAS DONE “OFFICIALLY Robert Crozier Long, Commissioned by the Hearst News Service, Makes a Searching Investigation at Bialystok and Lays the Blame for Outrage Where it Belongs., Here I* ■ stnrv—graphic and hideous—of the massacre of Jews, men women and children, at Bialystok, Russia, told by Robert Crosier Long, a writer of note,' who was commissioned by the Hearst News Service, of New York, to *0 from St. Petersburg, where ho had been watching events In the national capital of the csar's empire during the meeting of the douma, to the rlot-rldden town and tell what he saw and learned. He was not permitted to send hla account from Bialystok, and had to go to Warsaw, Poland, to put It on the wires. He declares the massacre was essentially official; the police, military, hooligans and the "Black Hun dred" played a subordinate part In the outrage. That the' slaughter was planned far In advance, has been made evident by Investigations such as Mr. Long made. , Many Jews were flogged to death and the bodies mutilated. Some, es pecially girls, went mad as a result of Inhuman tortures. In their dia bolical thirst to kill and destroy, many of the rioters demolished houses and even smashed children's toy* In the excess of their anger. By ROBERT CROZIER LONG. Special Cable—Copyright Warsaw, June 20.—Worse than Kish InefT. Such Is the indisputable conclu sion regarding the Bialystok massacre of the Jews. In unbridled, elemental human passions, Klshlneff Is equated by Bialystok, but for far-sighted plot ting and for cold-blooded atrocity In execution Bialystok la Incomparably the worst "pogrom" (antl-Jewleh out break) Russia has yet produced. It was Impossible to cable from Bialystok, so this Is sent from War saw. where I arrived tonight after spending last night and the day In the ravaged city. The pogrom ceased final lv with the Cossack slaughter of i Jew who was trying to reclaim hla stolen goods, but hundreds of Jews lie dead, many nfter mutilation and tor ture. Some seventy or more are wound ed and many ore doomed to death, be ing mutilated and hideously disfigured, Massacre Was Official. I visited all pnrts of the town, tak ing evfdenco from both Jewish and Christian residents. The stories from the latter are even more damning to the authorities. . „ The massacre was essentially ofd- rial. The police, military hooligans and the "Black Hundred" played subordi nate roles In every case. At a period when a mass of butcheries occurred th® police and soldier® either actively assisted or encouraged the butcheries. There are many authenticated caset of soldiers themselves perpetrating slaughter. In the Boyare district, where the worst massacres occutred, the soldiers of the Uglltzky, Sixty-third regiment, accompanied by two officers, massacred seven Jews at Gehness saw mill. Many Jews Become Insane. Full details of this tragedy were given me by tfie surviving manager. IVlien the soldiers were occupied with liming, their victims sought refuge In a small wooden house, on which, at C o'clock on Friday evening, the sol diers fired suddenly. Many Jews of this district, especially girls, became Insane. The officer ordered the Inmates to come out, one by one. Five of them wore shot dead a® they emerged from the house, and six were hacked to piece® by ®aber*> One remained In the h"UHe, an old woman named Kautech, To year® of age. and th® "oWlere burned the house and she perished In the flame®. Families Are Exterminated, In other caeee the loldlera were merely onlooker®. In Souvroff ®treet a prosperous Jew named Podlatcheff kept & leather work® ®hop. The pro prietor, hla relative®, named v\lr®t- mann. and six other® were slaughtered. I inspected the house. It® state 1® In- <lr«rr!bable. Everything destroyed. The upper rooms are dabbled with pool* blood and fragment® of fleih and hair are sticking to the wall®. W* 1 ** 1 ®*?” wan the first killed. He "a® shot by a gendarme named Schultxe. Then the hooligan® stripped the corpse, carved pieces out of the breast and drove nail® Into the nos®. _ .. outside this house I saw a youth wearing the blood-stained clothe® of a slaughtered mother. In many caw® whole families were exterminated. Are Beaten to Death. I visited a house In old Boyare street occupied by Alnsteln, a respected teacher, who with hi® mother, daugh ter and two sons were done to death by hooligan® under the command of a disguised police officer, while soldiers « ere prevent. At first the soldiers fired into the house and the policeman or dered the family to save themaelvea In the field®. + There, after tying the father, eon. niithcr and daughter together, they were beaten to death, this policeman In the meantime firing at random. In the fields are pools of blood. Every where Innocent children stand arguing beside these ghastly pools, talking about whom each belongs to. Tortured snd Mutilated. Throughout the town for two days the massacres continued. Fiendish tor tures and mutilation of the corpses In- tarlably followed the mgsMere with active or passive co-operation of tht authorities. ' 'oncerning the Vladimirsky and Ug- ll'.ky regiments. Jew witnesses af- firm that Colonel Bukovsky directly enocouraged the soldiers, crying: "Ubelte xhldoff.” Thst is. "Kill the Jews.” Torture before death repeatedly oc curred, and mutilation afterwards. In Nikolai street a woman had a crow bar thrust In her and then twisted. She totally was harked to pieces with a hatchet and left to bleed to death. Nailed to a Table. The hands of Boyar, a tailor, were nailed to a table while he was clubbed to death. A little girl whose body I saw In the Jowlsh hospital had her leg sawed off while she was yet alive. Othera were carved to^ death slowly. In the yard of the Jewish hospital, where eighty-six corpses were laid side by side, I saw thirty cases of tllatlon. In some, noses were cut off. In others the ears were cut off. many cases nails were driven Into the face' or skull. One old man had hla eyes torn out. I have established the fact that the massacre was planned days In advance. Slaughter Well Plannsd. For Instance, when the Jewish depu tat Ion on Tuesday asked a police of ficer named Bheremetleft for permis sion to lay a werath on the grave of a murdered police master named Der- gatchoff, Sheremetleff cynically an swered, "You’ll get an answer Thursday," which was the first day of the killing. Dergntrhoff was a clever and hu mane man. beloved by JewSand Chris tiaan. Hit murder by the Jew-bnlters gave his subordinates freedom to exe cute their plot. The governor of Grodno province It equally guilty. He arrived on Thurs day evening and stayed only two hours. He did nothing to atop the massacre, and worse violence followed his visit. Wsrs Not Dishonored. The appointment by the douma of an Investigating committee caused a ces sation of slaughter. The small pro portion of wounded or killed shows the Impnnlty with which the murderers were allowed to finish their victims. Every ravaged house I visited shows that the raiders were left In posses sion for hours. A remarkable feature of this massacre la the absence of out rages on the women. Though thirty Were killed, .there Is no authenticated case of outrage discoverable. This Ik explained because tne hooligans and troops got their orders only to "kill. 1 ' The precise number of deaths can not be learned. There are eighty-six dead now In the Jewish hospital and seven In the Christian hospital, but the corpses of those dragged from the train and killed were burled without being counted. Children's Toys 8msshsd. The material destruction Is enorm ous. The houses Into which the mob broke were literally deatroyed. Even the wall paper was torn down. Tha riot ers stole everything portable; even the children's toys were smashed. The heavy furniture and the unsmashable things were thrown out of the win dows. The merchant’s account books were burned and only the bare walls were left. In a bakery, where the owner was killed, the mob soaked loaves or bread In a pool of blood, leaving behind an Ironical note. It Is estlmatsd that the loss will amount to 2,000,000 roubles. Today tht town I, quiet and it Is not expected that a renewal of the massa cre will odcur, but there Is a panic among the Jews, who are migrating by the wholesale. A local committee of relief has been formed, end It le hoped that New York, where there are thouaande of former men from Blalyetok, will help In the work of assistance which Is so urg ently needed. CZAR-WONT PERMIT MINISTERS TO RESIGN By Pritpte Leased Wire. 8t. Petersburg, June 21.—A dispatch from Warsaw says: “At Rlazan the BoUchofeky regiment mutinied on June 12. The men sur rounded the Officers' Club and fired upon It. Several officers were killed. Panic prevails at Rlazarn. The Jews are fleeing.’’ Moit alarming reports are In circu lation about dlzafTectlon among the guards, including the Semnoffsky regi ment end the Hussars. The Kron stadt garrison and warships are being transferred elsewhere. The ministry of the Interior le said to have received disquieting newa re garding tbe agrarian situation In the southern and central provinces. The ministers all wish to resign, but the emperor hea not yet decided to let them go. The situation, therefore, re mains alarming. A telegram from a member of the douma Investigating matters at Blalyetok says: •The massacre was pre-arranged. A mere handful belonging to the "Black Hundred" did the wrecking, while the ■ II AIA Iks blftleiar ** Sheepzhead Bay, June 21.—Go Be tween won the Suburban Handicap this afternoon,. Dandelion came second and Colonial Girl third. Time, 2:05 1-5. OIL GOES DOWN; STANDARD TO GET Independent Com pany Will Soon Be Started. OCTOPUS TAKES NOTICE ALREADY Manager Reid Says Decrease Is Due to Small Drop in Crude Oil. Ip understood that tha Standard Oil Company will Friday morning re duce the price' of kerosene In Atlanta one-half a cent per gallon. It la known that an Independent concern, which will be known os the Georgia Oil Company. Is In the process of formation and will soon, possibly within thirty days, establish a plant on the Southern railway near Pryor street. The two facts. It would seem, are related. Information that the decrease In the price of oil will come Friday curate. However, the management of the Atlanta office of the company would have nothing to say about It Thuraday. A rsportor called up the office Thurs day afternoon uml asked for the man -r. It. N. Ili-lil. Ii was «ntd lie wnsn’ In. Assistant Manager B. 13. Taylor was asked It the price of oil would be lowered Friday. Mr. Taytor waa badly rattled and- finally aald It waa not the policy of the Standard Oil Company to furnleh In formation. This the reporter granted, but he expressed surprise that a cltl zen couldn't learn the price of kero sene. Mr. Taylor then said that as soon as the manager came In he would call and Info Friday. He hasn't The Georgia Oil soldiers did the killing.' M. Schepkln. also a member of the douma committee, reports: -We wished especially to bring home the responsibility to the government. If the massacre was organised In St. Pe tersburg. But oar conclusions are that It was not planned In flt Petersburg: Company purposes — — Atlanta from tha Pennsylvania fields. It wilt make an effort to gain a foothold here by de pending on the sympathy of the public. A leader In the movement Informed The Georgian that he knew the Stand ard would cut rates far below the price hts company could afford to sell oil, but that he hoped the people would not be gulled by any such tactics and would stand by the Independent com pany. • Manager Raid Talks. At 2:30 o'clock Manager Reid, of the local Standard Oil Company office, called up The Georgian and very cour teously stated that the reduction of half a cent In the price of oil had Just been put Into effect Wednesdey. It affected, nearly all Georgia points and some In Alabama, he said. Manager Reid said this waa due to n slight decrease In the price of crude oil and In a re-divislon of the freight rates. EIGHT PERSONS DIE WHEN VESSEL SINKS By Prtrste Lesssd Wlrs. London, June 21.—Eight persons were drowned by the sinking today of the schooner Bertha In collision with the steamer America, bound from Antwerp to New York. 0000000000 0OOO00OOO CARGO OF LINER AFIRE; VE8SEL RUN8 TO PORT. By Private Leased Wire. London. June 21.—Firs was discovered In the cargo of the Wilson liner Colorado, from Hull to New York, and she put Into Queenstown today so that It' might be extinguished! 0000006 000000000000 O 0 0 9 PRINCE HENRY OF PRU8SIA IS COMMANDER OF NAVY. By Private Leased Wire. Berlin, June 21.—Prince Hen ry of Prussia was today ap pointed commander-ln-chlef of of the German navy. OO000000OO00O O OO O neither do we find that Chief of Police Shcnimetleff of Bialystok, was a party to the plot. However, the respon.'lbll- Ity of his subordinates, together with that of the rank ami file of the police and some of the military officers who fondly Imagined that the odious sys tem of von Plehve and Trepoff has not eided. Is clearly. proved." EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW NEKT CONVENTION GEORGIA DENTISTS COMESJO ATLANTA William Grenshaw, of Atlanta, Chosen President. Special to The Georgian. DeSoto Hotel. Bavannah,'Ga., June 21.—The following officers were elect ed for the Georgia State Dental So ciety this afternoon: President, William Crenshaw, of At lanta; first vice president, T. CV Glb- on, of Forsyth; second vice president, J. P. Davis, of Amerlcus; correspond ing secretary, J. H. McNeil, of Athens; recording Secretary; Delos Hill, of At lanta; treasurer, H. R. Jewett, of At lanta; Journal editor, H. H. Johnson, of Macon; executive committee, W. C. Miller, of Augusta;. W. E. Bugg. of Madison: W. M. Selrkle, of Atlanta; E. A. Tlgner, of Mllledgevllle; It. Holmes, of Macon; H. H. Johnson, cf Macon. ,- . . One hundred dollars was voted for San Francisco dentists In distress. Atlanta was selected as the play# for the next metering. . . H. A. Lawrence, treasurer, of the so ciety for thirty-seven years, was pre-, ssnted with a gold-heailcd umbrella. He declined re-election. . • Thla afternoon there was a bdat ex cursion to Tybee Light. BRYAN DECLARES TRUSTS AN ISSUE IN THEJAMPAIGN Great Commoner De dines to' Talk Much About Politics. OPPOSES ESTILL By Private Leased Wlrs. • Trondhjsm, Norway, June 21.—To attend the 1 coronation tomorrow of King {laakon and Queen Maud, Wil Ham J. Bryan arrived here thla morn ing and was given an Impromptu re ception. by. the Americans, Mr. Bryan Is looking hale and henrty and saya his health Is all that could be desired. . He will meet the' king, prob ably this afternoon. ’ Mr. Bryan will not talk about Ameri can politics further Ihnn to express the opinion that the tnuta . will he the great Issue In the next campaign. Crown Prince a Favorite. Little- Crown Prince ■ Olaf has be come the pet of evdry one and not least of the’ hundreds of Antsrlcans who are here. Time And again he has run sway from his governess,> who was In-despair until-the king relieved her of her responsibility and turned the little prince over to an attendant, who had been told to show him everything there Is to be seen. SHOT TWICE IN HEAD, HE GETS A HEADACHE After having been punctured by five bullets on two previous occasions, and after being shot twice In the head Thuraday morning shortly before o'clock at the Central railway freight depot, at the foot cf Alabama street, Abner D. McMillan, of No. 222 East Hunter street, a switchman of - the Central, when asked how Jm ML cool ly and stmlllngly remarked that he had headache. The shots were fired by C. C. Daniels, night watchman at the depot One of the bullets struck McMillan In the fore head. while the other cut a hole In the back of the head. Both of -the bullets appear to have glanced, and as a result made only flesh wounds. At the time of the shooting the pistol „as held almost against McMillans head, and that he was not Instantly killed Is considered remarkable, Seizsd Smoking Pistol. At the second shot, the nervy switch man caught hold of the pistol and pre vented Daniels from again firing, hold ing onto the weapon with a viee-llke grip until A. J. Barnwell, a telegraph operator, cams to his rescue. ^The shooting directly followed a Jok ing remark, said to have been made by McMillan to the switchman. It Is understood, however, there was some fooling between the men, as the result of court proceedings. In which both were Interested. Directly after the shooting Daniels went to the police station and surren dered. A short whUe latsr he was ar raigned before Justice of the Peace Landrum and was bound over to the ate courts on tbs charge of aaeault with Intent to murder. His bond was fixed at 6600. It le thought the bond will be made during the day. Daniels .asserts that.he acted purely In self-defense. He stated that Mc Millan attacked him with.an open knife and tried 'to-cut hlm'.'slashlng his coat Other witnesses, however, declared that the ewHchman had no knife. Career Like a-Kentuckian. McMillan works at night and had Just gone off duty, at the time of the trouble. He aays he passed Daniels on the depot platform, and laughingly made a Jesting remark. Ha said this until he thought It necessary to defend hla life. The shooting was Investigated by Policemen Hutchins and Borocnoff. McMillan, who Is reputed to bo de cidedly nervy, has had an extraordina ry experience with bullets. He enlist ed In the army during the Spanish- American war and fought In the Phil ippines. It was there he received his first taste of lead, two FUtpIno bullets finding a resting place In his anatomy. Some time ago, while pasting along Tonga street croeelng, tn route to hie home, he was attacked by two white men snd shot three times. He was In a bad condition for a lime, but finally re covered. Hla narrow escape on Thursday morning did not seem to fsase him In the least. He laughed and Joked about his thrilling experience end remarked ln-a Jeering tone: “It seems I am somewhat like a cat I haven't been shot tbe ninth time Charge He is No Friend of Work ing Man. Special to The Georgian. Augusta^, On, June 21.—Practically all of the morning session of the fed eration of Labor meeting here was taken up In reading resolutions, most of which were of little or no Interest to the outside public. There were two resolutions, how ever, that were of general Interest, one being against Colonel J. H. Estlll's candidacy for governor of the state, and the other making Hon. W. R. Hearst a life member of the Georgia Federation of Iatbor. It was stated In the resolution against Colonel Eetell that he was no friend of organized labor and that while the labor unions were not In Politics, they would show the public when the time came to vote who their friends were, and they would cast their ballots accordingly. The child labor reaolutlons, which were referred yesterday, .were adopted Unanimously this morning. A resolution appointing a committee to confer with the Atlanta Newspaper Union Company, requiring them to put the union label on all country publica tions that they Issue, was also adopted. It has been decided to have the elec tion of officers the first business to morrow morning and then the other business of the session. There will be a number of the delegates who will not remain In the city to attend the excur sion down tha river. Child Labor Resolution. The child labor resolution referred to above waa Introduced by Earl E. Griggs on behalf of the Atlanta Typo- ^'cal Union, and la as follows: iresa. At each succeeding meet ing of the Georgia Federation of Labor the members of tble body seek to build up, within the bounds of reason and Justice to all, the conditions of the af filiated bodies In lie Jurisdiction, and also to wisely amend the laws for the healthful uplift of all the working peoples, and Whereas, This body seeks not to tear down, but ever to build higher the standard of the working peoples of our stats, and to that they contribute their tithes to the end that schools, munici palities and communities may be prop erly equipped and operated to conduce to the best interests of all, either In the ranks of labor or of capital, and Whereas, As the twig Is bent so the tree will grow; therefore, be It Resolved, That, though we feel deep ly grateful at the growth of senti ment, both In the state at large and In the general aaaembly, we deprecate the non-existence of an adequate child la bor law upon the statute books of the state of Georgia, and urge the adop tion of a wise snd conservative law. such aa meets the approbation of the officers of this body; and Resolved, That a committee, com- posed of five, to be known as the “Georgia Laborers' Child Labor Com- mlttee,” be appointed by the president of the Georgia Federation of Labor, the duties of wblrh shall be to assist In evtry honorable manner possible In the passage of an humane child labor bill et the coming session of tbe gen eral assembly SEEKS A LIFE Police Reserves Hard Put to Save Their Prisoner. HARMLESS OLD MAN IS STABBED TO DEATH Thoso Who Witness Cold-Blood ed Murder in Street, Want to Lynch the Slayer. Ily Private Leaned Wire. New York, June 21.—Oulsseppe Tne- oboccl, who narrowly escaped lynching at the hands of an East Side mob of 6,000 persons, waa arraigned In Essex market police court today and held fir having stabbed and almost Inntnntly killing Abraham Koalowltz, of No. 31 Norfolk street. Were It not for the fact that Eldrldge afreet station was promptly notified, the man would have been beaten to death by the Infuriated crowd. The murder waa unprovoked. The victim Jostled the murdered accidental ly. The Italian drew a long illrk from hie belt and attempted to strike. Kos- lowltz ran. He turned tho corner at Norfolk street, end, believing his foe had gone, stepped to catch hi* breath. Through tho crowd, and not fifty feet nwny, Yocoboccl dnrteil forward and Iged the dirk to the handle In Kos- li'a breast. Tho crowd cornered the murderer and would havo beaten him to death toil for the atilval "f the police reserves. Yncoboccl was placed In the center a hollow square of th# bluei oat*. With this formation a start wax made for tho atatlon. A mob, which Cap tain Murtha estimated at 5,0fla, preened about the square. Incipient rioting prevailed on tho mnrcti tn tho station nnd nfter the prisoner lind been hustled to a cell, the reserve* hurried out to rratore order In tho afreet*. GEORGIA EDUCATORS MEETIN CONVENTION AT CUMBERLAND IS. SPECIAL STEAMER CARRIED THE CROWD ACROSS BAY FROM BRUNSWICK, Rpoelal to Tha Georgian. Brunswick, Oa„ Juno 21.—A apecial ateamer took a crowd of Georgia edu cators over to Cumberland Inland thla morning, where they will attend the Georgia Educational Association, which opened Ha seaslona today. A meeting of the directors takes place at I o'clock, and the trustees will meet at 4 o'clock. At 6 o'clock tho edu cators will enjoy an oyster rnnnt, the association convening In open session at * o'clock. Among the prominent educators at tending are: Professor Pound, of the Georgia Military Institute; Superinten dent Lawson, of Augusta; Prof. .. ,r Stuart, of the University of Goorgla: Professor Weber, of Emory; Preeldent Smith, of LaGrnngo Female Colleg, Professor Pickett, of Gordon las President Guerry, c I College; President College; State St errltt; President Smith, of Me 000O0O0O 00000O000OO O THURSDAY LONGEST o DAY OF THE YEAR. O • «nK*‘ r I'miup • f liordi.n Institute; r Wesleyan Female nt 1,'lerre. ,.f Hrennan S- tp,i| ' 'ommlssluner Thursday la the longest day of the year. Hadn’t you no ticed ItT The day la exactly fourteen hours and twenty-five minutes In duration, from sun rise to sunset. The sun was up exactly' at 4:27 and was due to set at 6:12. Friday will he about a minute shorter, and then they will sort o’ shrink up until December 21, when the shortest day of the year will be pulled off. Thursday Is what Is known In technical language ns the summer solstice. December 21 will be the winter aplstlce. Tbe reason Thursday Is long er than other days Is that the earth. In Its traveling around the sun, gets In such position on June 21 that the sun la near est the northern hemisphere. On December 21 It Is farthest. Forecast: Fair night and Friday; n Friday night. Thursday’a tempei 7 s. m , a a. in. .. t. • am Thi .day degrees 10 I 111 de 13 degrees 0 45 degrees 0 ’4 deyrer.V* 0 -1 degrees p. m ,SS degrees O ?. m degrees