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Georgian.
GA., THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1906
FIVE CENTS.
HPT. DREYFUS
WINSAT LAST
His Honor is Restorec
by the French
Court.
he is to command
COMPANY IN ARMY
After Being Under Cloud for
Yean, Victim of Conspiracy
Comes to His Own.
By Private Leased Wire.
Paris, July 12.—The verdict of the
Rennes courtmartlal of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus has been annulled by the court
of cassation by which the case was
reviewed.
As a result of today's verdict Captain
Drevfui will .re-enter the French army
with the stain upon his honor wiped
out. It Is understood he will at once
be mad* a major and assigned to
command. •
Sent to Devil’s Island.
Dreyfus-was a captain of the gen
eral staff of Paris. In the 'spring of
1S9I he was arrested on the charge of
having sold secrets of the national de
fenses of the country to Germany and
Italy.
Ho was courtmartlaled, publicly
stripped of the Insignia of his rank,
his swprd was broken In the presence
of a Jeering crowd and he was sen
tenced to life Imprisonment on Devil's
Island.
There, beneath the broiling tropical
sun, he spent four years In a stone
hut. guarded day ant! night by sol
diers, who had Instructions not to ex
change a single word with him and to
shoot him down If he made the least
move that might be construed Into an
attempt to escape.
Viotim of Conspiracy.
yielding to the universal clamor for
Justice, Franco accorded him a new
courtmartlal, held at Rennes, and
which again resulted In condemnation,
“with extenuating circumstances."
This time he was sentenced to ten
years' Imprisonment, but almost Im
mediately pardoned by tha president.
Dreyfus was not aatlslled with this.
What ha wanted , was vindication and
restoration to the rank from Which he
had been degraded.
Died in a Call.
Colonel Henry and Colonel Ester-
hazy, who had sworn that certain doc
uments had been written by Dreyfus,
now confessed . that they themselves
had forged them. Colonel Henry, short
ly after his recantation and arrest, was
found dead In his cell, and It has not
been quite settled whether be commit
ted suicide or was murdered. That
the latter Is the more probable theory
was Indicated by the fact that Lemer-
clcr- Picard, one of the few who dared
testify fnvorably for Dreyfus at the
courtmartlal, was afterwards found
strangled to death.
BACON SAYS TIFT
WILL BE NOMINEE
THOS. W. ALEXANDER
LEA VES BIG SHOR TA GE
IN FIRM AT A UGUSTA
Prominent Society Man and
Member of Big Cotton Firm
of Alexanders Alexam
der, a Defaulter.
BANKS INVOLVED MEET
AND ISSC/E STATEMENT
Claim Liabilities Will Not Exceed $14^,000,
WitK' $80,000 Good Securities, and
$30,000 Doubtful—Talk Is Total
Shortage Will Reach $200,0.00.
Special to The Georgian.
Augusta, Ga., July It.—Mr. Thomas
W. Alexander, a member of the Arm
of Alexander & Alexander, mysterious
ly left Augusta last Saturday, and It
developed this morning that ha
deeply Insolvent, and an otltclal state
ment says, that his Indebtedness Is In
the neighborhood of 2 US,000.
Mr. Alexander Is one of the leading
society men of the city, and his family
has been one of high standing for a
half century.
Left Saturday Morning.
1^ appears that Mr. Alexander left
the city Saturday morning, but his
whereabouts did not create any suspl
don until yesterday, when the banka
began turning down his checks. An In
vestigation woe Instituted by the banks
Involved, and It was found that their
claims were no good.
A meeting was held at tha Georgia
Railroad Bank today at noon anil the
following official statement was given
out for the public by Judge J. R. La
mar, the attorney for the firm:
•‘Rumors In the street hove greatly
exaggerated the amount of the Arm’s
Indebtednaaa. The total liabilities do
not exceed $146,000, and assets good
and available amount to about $80,000,
besides $$0,000 of doubtful claims.
To Settle Preferred Claims,
■There was held a meeting today of
the local creditors with a view of ar
ranging to settle such claim
It Is learned that the Georgia Rail
road bank Is a sufferer to the amount
of $115,000, the Nutlonal Rank of Au
gusta $10,000, and the National Ex
change bank $2,000. ,
Resides the above claims, It Is also
learned, though not officially, that Mr.
Alexander had borrowed sums amount
ing to $20,000 from two of his friends
at different times, and the general be
lief here Is that the amount of the In
debtedness will reach $200,000, or prob
ably more before It Is stopped. The
firm was supposed to have had more
than 100 0' > bales of cotton In their
warehouse, and there Is only about 60
bales on hand. There will be farmers
who will lose as well ns the bankers,
ns the money secured from the banks
was on a cotton collateral.
Left Two Letters.
Mr. Alexander left two letters when
he left Saturday, one to his partner,
J. Bishop Alexander, telling him that
he would never return to Augusta alive.
The othdr was to a friend that he had
borrowed money from. Tho defraud
ing has caused one of the greatest sen
sations In Augusta that lias been here
In some time.
It Is said that the money that the
National Bank Is the loser of, was
drawn by Alexander Snturday, a few
hours before he left. It Is claimed by
some of his friends thnt he has gone
to Now York, but no ono ran say posi
tively where he Is.
Thereavttl Iw another meeting of the
hank officials nnd creditors tomorrow
preferred by law anil to realize on the at noon In the Georgia Hnllrond Rank
assets as speedily as possible, and and the accounts will be further inves-
avold expanse." - [ligated.
TO KILL M
Admiral Chouknin
Dies From His
Wounds.
PARKER TAKES FALL
OUT OF BILL TAFT
Octopii Curbed By Old Laws and Not By
• . Any New Legislation, Declares
Alton B.
OF
William H. Taft will be the Republi
can presidential nominee In 1*0$, be-
lines Senator A. O. Bacon.
".Senator, will Roosevelt be a candi
date or allot? the use of his name In
liios?" was the direct question asked
him.
"I believe not I am bf the opinion
that President Roosevelt Is absolutely
sincere In his assertions that he la not
a candidate for a third term, and will
n..t allow hla name to be used."
"Who looms up aa the strongest pos
sibility tor the Republican nomination
now?” . •
William H. Taft," was the Instant
reply. "He la the president's choice,
and In my Judgment one of the finest
fellows In the country. He Is a big
man In more ways than physically. Ha
Is a fine mixer, and Is popular with
nearly everybody within his party.”
Senator Bacon 'was asked as to the
current stories concerning the health
of Senator Pettus, of Alabama.
"Senator Pettus had a bad fall on the
Ice in «the winter, and owing to hla
age—86—was laid up for aom* time,
nut I’m sure he has entirely recovered
xml Is now as hale and hearty aa aver.
A Remarkable Pair.
"Did you ever think what a remark
able pair represent Alabama In the
senate, and how the people of their
state reverence them? In the face of
the tremendous pressure from the peo
ple of the country for a railroad rata
bill, both of the Alabama members
'"ted against It on conviction that It
"as not the right thing. Yet not one
"ord of censure have you heard from
their people! I do not believe you
"’uld llnd another state In the Union
" here such Implicit confidence would
he evidenced In the Integrity of Us
Public officials.”
Senator Bacon la looking remarkably
" ell. Hla step Is springy, his aye clear
and his complexion smooth and un
wrinkled with marks of care or Illness.
He aay* ht* health la robust now.
Colonel Chariton to Spook.
The general assembly of Georgia,
"imposed of members of the house of
representatives and the senate, will
“f addressed Thursday evening by Hon.
"alter o. Charlton, of Savannah,
" hose theme will be "The Life and Ser
vices of General James Oglethorpe."
The public Is Invited to hear Colonel
, harlion, who will spaak In tha hall of
•he house of' representatives at I
• clock.
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July 12.—Secretary Taft's
speech, delivered at Greensboro, N. C.,
has called forth a spirited reply from
former Judge Alton B. Parker, who
takes exceptions to Mr. Taft's slate
menta regarding anti-trust prosecution.
Judge Parker declares that the sec re
tary In hla speech sought to have the
public draw tha Inference that tha re
cent prosecutions of alleged Illegal
combinations are due to new statutes.
Parker Takee Exception.
To this Judge Parker takes excep
tion and to support hla contention he
quotea from Ms letter of acceptance and
speech delivered during the last
presidential campaign. In both the
speech and the letter Judge Parker la
quoted aa saying that the laws then on
the statute books were entirely ade
quate If enforced.
Judge Parker In hla statement saya:
"The inference that Secretary Taft
would have tha public draw from his
utterances, la that these things a
to new statutes: and the vlndl
which the law la now receiving la due
to congressional action, since 1204,
But It Is not so.
Laws in Fores Then.
Not one of the successful prosecu
tions for which the existing adminis
tration la now entitled to credit, la
baaed on any new statute. Every sin
gle one of them, down to data, rests
aoleiy on the law aa It stood In 1*04,
and it should not be lost sight of by
the discriminating public that the law
could have been enforced In 1604 and In
1601 and In 1(02, just as well aa today.
Had It been, the wrongs from which
the people have suffered would have
not so multiplied.
"Secretary Taft's speech at Greens
boro, N. C.," aaya Judge Parker, "was
Interesting throughout, but It cannot be
aald that It was accurate throughout.'
NOT MUCH ENTHUSIASM
GREETS SECRETARY TAFT.
Ry Private Leased Wire.
Put-In-Bay, Ohio, July 12.—Tha
State Bar Association has heard Sec
retary Toft apeak on the Panama ca
nal. There was nothing resembling In
the least a presidential boom, and tha
lawyers received his effort with little
manifestation of enthusiasm.
The address of the secretary was a
defense of the Panama route as against
tha Nicaraguan and a plea for the
American people to be patient and let
the government have Its own time In
beginning to "make the dirt fly."
. Secretary Taft waa cordially re
calved and began his address by say
ing: "The American people want
everything the next morning, and If
they do not get It they are dli
to be rather unreasonable.”
It was then pointed out that while no
K at amount of excavation has yet
n done, the direct work of con
structing tha canal had been steadily
going on. It waa ahown that tha first
and moat Important question to be
dealt with waa tha question of preserv
ing the health jot the employees.
A comparison of the sea level and
lock system of canals was then made
and tha reasons for the adaption of a
lock system set for tha work.
KILLS HIS WIFE WITH IRON BAR
BECAUSE SHE PULLED BED-COVER
OFF OF HIM AND KICKED HIM
Bertha Hardeman, a' young negro
woman, died Thursday morning at the
Grady hospital as the result of having
been struck several terrlflc blows on
tha head Monday night with a big Iron
bar in the band* of her husband, who
was enraged became she had pulled
the bed cover off him.
Joe Hardeman, the slayer, la behind
tha bare of tha police station and will
now have to face a charge of murder.
Hardeman was arrested by Mounted
Policemen Cowan and Evans and waa
arraigned before Recorder Broyles on
Wednesday morning for preliminary
examination. His wife waa still alive
at that time, however, and tha hear
ing waa postponed, pending the out
come of her wounds. She died a few
minutes lawr.
According to statements, the crime
waa exceedingly brutal. Hardeman’s
t,.'ly defense Is that he acted while In a
mad passion. He aaya ha attacked hla
wife because she pulled the cover off
of him, kicked him. cursed him and
told him to "get out."
Taking her at her word, the hnsband
leaped from the bed. end, seising an
Iron bar, dealt bis wife several power
ful blows as sba lay In tha bed, fright
fully crushing her skulL
The woman was taken to the Grady
Hospital but aba waa so badly Injured
that medical octane# proved of no
avsIL She lingered In e comatose state
until Wednesday morning when she
died.
Her slayer will [>robably be rear-
reigned In police court for preliminary
examination Friday morning.
THREATENING LIVES
' 0P200 MSSENGERS
Babe is Washed Out
of Mother’s Arms
to Death.
By Private -Leased Wire.
Lacresse, WIs., July 12.—‘Two hun
dred passengers on tha steamer Quincy
at 10:10 o’clock laat night nirrowly es
caped death when the big packet
steamer, Quincy, struck a bank In the
darkness near Trenpeleau, WIs., turn
ad half over and then caught Are.
It la believed that tha majority of
the paaaangers were saved aryl only
one drowning la definitely known, that
of an Infant which waa washed from Its
mother's arms.
Fsw Dsaths Expsctsd.
At 1:10 o'clock this morning a be
lated train brought sixty passengers,
who ware on the boat, to this city. Ac
counts given by them of tha disaster
do not Include positive statement as to
drewnlngs, but It Is bellaved compara
tively fsw met death,
All communication with the village
of Trenpeleau It cut off and Inform#'
tlon relative to tha accident to tha
steamer Is obtainable only through tha
stories told by passengers and meagre
reports received at the railroad offices.
Babe Washed Overboard.
At tha time the steamer struck. It la
said It carried no searchlight. One
passenger says ha saw a babe washed
overboard from Its mother's arms. Tbs
boat was sinking, though not In deep
water. The steamer chtight flre Im
mediately after the collision with tha
bank.
Amid a crashing of timbers, with tha
boat on Ita side, tha lift boats were
launched and the paaaangers, 200 In
number, were taken off before the
flames gained any considerable head
way.
BOAT LEAVE8 ST. LOUI8
WITH MANY PA8SENGER8
By Private Leased Wirt.
SL Louis, Mo., July II.—The steamer
Quincy left Sunday afternoon with a
full list of passengers. Among them
was Captain John E. Luebbsn and
family, of 8t. Louts. Captain Maurice
Klllen, of tha steamer Sidney, was a
passenger on the Quincy, as ware also
the members of his crew.
he rnnun
BRAINED WITH 11II
KILLED IN
SHOT AT WIFE,
RAN 7 MILLS
Jealousy Leads
Tragedy Near
Griffin.
to
TRAILER BY BOGS
AND ARMED MEN|
Freight Sent Into
Ditch and Three
Lives Lost.
Special to The Georgian.
Griffin, Go., July 12.—Because of
Jealousy of his wife, Bud Touchstone
shot and fatally wouhded Joe Barfield,
a single man, 12 years of age, on tha
plantation of C. M. Patterson, near
Sunnyslde, this morning, and after
firing several shots at his wife, ii*u to
Griffin, seven miles, where ha aurrend-
end to Policeman Archer at noon and
waa lodged’ In Jail. Whan he reached
here Touchstone, who Is 41 years of
age, was almost exhausted, frothing
at tha mouth and In a seml-daxed con
dition. In his call ha refuses to dis
cuss lha matter.
The excitement when the shooting
occurred drew • crowd of neighbors to
the scene, who formed a posse and
pursued the man In hla flight. It Is
thought that Touchstone Intended to
flee to Atlanta and In hla fright want
the wrong way, He has a wife and
one child.
Tha wounded man cannot recover.
By l’rlrate Leased Wire.
Petersburg, Ind., July 12.—The wreck
of a westbound freight train on the
Southern railroad, eight miles west of
hire, at ( o'clock Inin morning, has
resulted In the death of three persons.
The freight was making thirty miles
an hour when the engine ran Into a
spilt switch. The entire train left the
track, demolishing many cars and to-
'■'II'. >' >• ' i'l'iK III" n i,III
Both firemen nnd an engineer ware so
badly scalded that they died a few
minutes later. I.uther Capeheart, a
brakeman, eon of Rev. Mr. Capehrarl.
of Winslow, lost his right arm and left
leg and died a few hours later.
Two other members of tbs train crew
ware fatally Injured and are expected
to die. Hundreds are hurrying to the
scene of the wreck, and tho sheriff's
deputies and Ihs coroner are working
together m gathering evident# mm
bring tha train wreckers to Justice.
Bloodhounds are on the troll of the
men. Tha watt and of tha a*it. n wma
•• • I " ' T. '• I" g't Hit" I 'll"
or westbound train.
Mrs. Emms Howlend.
The funeral of Mrs. Emma Howland
will be held Friday afternoon at 4
(/clock from tha home of her daughter,
Mrs. W. H. Moors, 212 Gordon street.
Interment will be at Waatvlew.
CHARGED WITH KILLING GIRL,
MARRIED MAN ENDS LIFE
IN CELL OF CITY PRISON
CITIES OF RUSSIA
PREPARE FOR REVOLT
Jews, Fearing a Massacre, Art
Fleeing in Great Numbers
From Warsaw, Poland.
Ily l’rlreto Leased Wire.
81. Petersburg, July 12.—Dispatches
from Warsaw say that sensational ru
mors are current In that city that an
other Jewish massacre might be ex
pected today. Thousands of Jews
Ileetng from the city In panic. Similar
scenes are reported at Lode.
Vice Admiral Chouknin Is dead nt
Sebastopol. The commander of the
Black Sea fleet succumbed to the shot
tired at him yesterday at 1 o'clock thla
morning. II* did not recover conscious-'
ness after he waa ahot.
Swora to Kill Admiral.
The admiral's assailant la thought Id
be one of the sailors of the battle-hip
Otchakoff, and his act Is supposed to
have been In revenge for the execu
tion of Lieutenant Schmidt, tha revo
lutionary leader.
Admiral Chouknin was unlv#
hatetl by his sailors, and at the
of tho execution of Schmidt the ...
unionists condemned him to death, l
of their number pledging tfeemsolve
to carry out the sentence. This in the
second attempt since Schmidt's ext • u-
tlon March 16 of this year.
Preparing tor Rsvolt.
The war office has been making great'
preparations at all the principal clth ,
to meet an armed revolutionary move
ment Tha plana for tha Helenas at
Riga have failen Into the hands of tho
revolutionary paper, Mists, which thla
morning publishes them In full
As given, the garrison Is divided Into
three divisions of two battslloos of in
fantry, half a company of Co '-," k< and
*1" 'Inc S'"". "" *1 t.i p’ event
xslon of the city front Its throe
"t on I lo '. 11.111" l.. II"' ' iiii.il, til" diiin
and the river Dunn. Two battalions
of Infantry, twenty Cossack* and four
machine guns constitute the reserve.
Field Qunt Are Reedy.
Klinllnr plans. It la understod, line
I"'•■n dmwii ii11 in every I'omuiander
of a garrison or city.
Special trains, equipped with ma
chine ami Held guns, are in eonst.iut
readiness at St. Petersburg, .Moscow,
KlefT, Warsaw and other point
The thirty volunteer sailors
at Vladivostok, who wire .lit- >
from the Ituaelnn cruiser Terek
Virgo, nre threatening trouble til
They say they have bean treated I
tally, and that they would rnthet si,
tho Japanese.
Demand Transportation.
They demand traneportatlon lo i
cify, hut the Terek's cm
fuses to send them on.
have appealed to tho Ru
VI'S- •. Where Ml'' mill
main until another crew arrives from
tbla clty.e
Hevernl armed robbers nttackoil As
sistant Caahter OasperOTltch ns he w as
leaving the navy paymaxter'* ofitca
yesterday. With him was a elerk nndl
n porter, earrylng a ling < ontntnlng
112,600 The robbers shot C'.nnprrovltrh
in ' I e bend I II. p"i lei, vv "iiniled In
the Inw. dropped the money hag, with
which tho robbers esenped.
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'PLEA8ANT TEMPERATURE#"O
■ Q
It Is seldom Indeed that the O
■1 .'/it),* I 11, in *" f." f Tg'd - to fit
tie strictly nnd sternly - lenimc 0
III l.l. phraseology n- be
Thursday morning, when, f
the fourteenth floor of the I
plre, he sent forth the eti
tnent that "pleasant tempt
lures" might be expected.
Pleasant, Indeed!
What loose language! Sr,
Ing can be stated os pleas;
lore!
uTr"
Special to The Georgian.
Waltarboro, 8. C., July II.—J. W.
Imogen, a well-to-do while farmer of
Colleton county, yesterday killed hla
wife and four children, braining them
with an ax at their home about twenty
miles from Waltarboro. He then went
to a neighbor's house and told him of
his dsed. Neighbors brought him to
the Waltarboro Jail. Iraegan says he
killed his family, but does not know
why. He le a native of Sweden. Some
years ago ha tried to cut his throat
and Is bellaved lo he insane.
By Private I-eased Wire.
Minneapolis, Minn, July It.—Nathan
M. Riggs, a conductor on the North
western road, who waa arrested at El
roy, Wla, Wednesday, charged with lha
murder bf Miss Millie Ellison In the
National hotel In Cincinnati, committed
suicide in the Jail last night at Elroy.
How ha managed to secrete tha
weapon with which ha shot himself Is
a mystery.
Denied Seeing Women.
Riggs, when he was arrested at El
roy, WIs., strenuously denied' having
He la known, bow.
dad with her
seen the woman.
ever, to have been acquaint!
for a number of years
Relatives of tha woman declared to
lha pollea that R/gge Induced the gtrt
to sell out her millinery, come to
Minneapolis and Inveat tha money In
Washington land, after which they
were to have been married.
Had Wife in Town.
According to hor family, Miss El-
lleon believed Riggs to be unmarried.
The police learned today ha le mar
ried and lived with hla wife and daurh-
tar at 2106 Pittsburg avenue, this city.
JOHN D. TO HURRY HOME
TO FACE COURT CHARGES
By WILLIAM H08TER.
Special Cable-Copyright.
Campaigns, France, July 12.—Al
though John D. Rockefeller refuses to
comment on the Ohio Indictments he
saya hb has secured passage for Athsr-
Ica on a steamer which will sail on
July 20. Ills extradition therefore wilt
be unnecessary*
Those clow to Mr. Rockefeller aa-
rt that tha Indictment cannot stand.
They quota hla statement that he had
no official connection with tha Stand
ard Oil for tha past twelve years. Al
though ha le the president of the
Standard oil Company of New Jer
sey. It la pointed nut that this Is only
a holding corporation and Mr. Rocke
feller's position Is honorary. That ha
actually la tha presiding genius of the
concern is, however, not denied.
Mr. Rockefeller Is not so well as
t.l pi
for there are some folk
world who can never be
with what delights other
was once a chronic g
who died and went to
He looked o long time f"
thing to kick about. nn<
went to 8i. Peter <
big beef that his I
loose and didn't flt ht- he
Forecast:
t'nssttled weather and sh
era Thursday and Friday, t
pleasant temperatures.
Thursday temperatures:
7 o'clock a. ra 68 deg
I o’clock a. m 71 deg
it o’clock a. m 72 tleg
10 o'clock a. m 76 deg
It o'clock a. 77 deg
11 o'clock noon 73 d>-g
1 o’clock p. m $1 tleg I
I o'clock p. m........81 d<gi
Th<
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By Private Leased Wire.
New Haven, Conn., July 12 —
Bit on the wrist by an In-on.-
patient. In Sprlngslde 11'H.e,
Joseph Goebel, 76 years old.
wardmaater of tha home, Is dead
of blood poison.
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usual. He Is worried concei
health of Mrs. strong and M
ties, who harp been ordered t
at Carlsbad a fsw weeks k
treatment. When Informed t
Strong waa not well enough
the voyage to New York he
■ery gloomy.
To a French newepopei
wrote several question- mm. i
Findlay Indictment- Mi It.
sent this reply:
The whole atr.hi is a matte
tics."
