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ATLANTA
1910
The Atlanta Georgian.
VOL.- I. NO. 66.
Morning Edition.
ATLANTA, GA.\ FRIDAY, JULY, 13, 1906
Morning Edition.
T>PTr*l?. * n Atlanta TWO CENTS.
on Train* FIVE CENTS.
HPT. DREYFUS
WINSJT LIST
His Honor is Restored
by the French
• Court.
HE IS TO COMMAND
COMPANY IN ARMY
After Being Under Cloud for
Years, Victim of Conspiracy
Comes to His Own.
By Private Leaned Wire.
Parle, July II.—The verdict of the
Rennee courtmartlal of Captain Alfred
Dreyfus haa been annulled by the cour
of cassation by which the case was
reviewed.
As a result of today's verdict Captain
Dreyfus will .re-enter the French army
with the stain upon his honor wiped
out. It is understood he will at once
be made a major and assigned to
command.
8ent to Devil's Island.
Dreyfus was a captain of the gen
era! stalt of Paris. In the spring of
1994 he was arrested on the charge of
having sold secrets of the national de
fenaes ofi the country to Germany and
Italy.
He was courtmartlaled, publicly
•tripped of the Insignia of hie rank.
Ilia sword a*a* broken In the presence
of a Jeering crowd and he was sen
tenced to life Imprisonment on Devil's
Island.
There, beneath Mho broiling tropical
sun, he spent four 'years In a stone
hut, guarded day nnt night bysol-
dlera, who had instructions not to ex
change a single word with him and to
shoot him down if he made the leant
move that might be construed Into an
attempt to escape.
Victim of Conspiracy.
Yielding to the universal clamor for
Justice, Frapce accorded him a new
courtmartlal, held at Rennes, and
which again resulted In. condemnation,
••with extenuating circumstances."
This time he was sentsneed to ten
years' Imprisonment, but almost Im
mediately pardoned by the president.
Dreyfus was not satisfied with this.
What in n amed was vindication and
restoration to tm- rank from which he
had been degraded.
Died in a Cell.
Colonel Henry and Colonel Ester-
hasy, who had sworn that certain doe
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 he commit
ted suicide or was murdered. That
the latter Is the more probable theory
was Indicated by the fact that Lemer-
cler-Picard, one of the few who dared
testify favorably for Dreyfus at the
courtmartlal, was afterwards found
strangled to death.
Complete Exoneration.
No further trial Is necessary, the
court declares, as the charge upon
which the trial at Rennes was based
no longer exists. Reparation Is pro
vided for In one way—publicity of the
finding of the court. It la directed that
the decision shall be posted conspicu
ously In Paris and Rennes and that
Captain Dreyfus shall name fifty news
papers throughout France In which
the decision shall be printed. He la
liven no monetary Indemnity because
if the fact that he voluntarily withdrew
all claims for damages!! simply desir
ing that his name be cleared.
The reading' of the decision lasted
on hour. At the finish there was an
outbreak of applause which was quick
ly suppressed.
After reciting the new tacit present
ed the court says:
“Thess facts, without seeking for any
further grounds, are of a nature to
establish the Innocent of the accused,
and It la only necessary to examine
whether the verdict of the Rennes
courtmartlal shall be annulled without
a retrial or be followed by another
trial by a courtmartlal."
CANT HELP THAW,
WON'T TESTIFY
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, July II.—William Stur
gis, star witness In the Thaw trial haa
'aken a new and decided stand. He
says that since writing the district at
torney he has changed his mind, that
under no circumstances will he come
t" New York to testify In the Thaw
vase; that he can do Harry Thaw no
good and that he will not testify
against him. ■
Mayme McKensle, the actress with
THOS. W. ALEXANDER
LEA VES BIG SHOR TA GE
IN FIRM AT A UGUST A
Prominent Society Man anc
Member of Big Cotton Firm
of Alexander & Alexan-
* der, a Defaulter.
BANKS INVOLVED MEET
AND ISSUE STATEMENT
r—
Claim Liabilities Will Not Exceed $14£,00i L
With $80,000 Good Securities, and
$30,000 Doubtful—Talk Is Total
Shortage Will Reach $200,000.
Special to The Georgian.
Augusta. Oa., July II.—Mr. Thomas
W. Alexander, a member of the firm
of Alexander & Alexander, mysterious
ly left Augusta last Saturday, and It
daveloped this morning that ha Is
deeply Insolvent, and an official state
ment says that his Indebtedness Is In
the neighborhood of !14S,000.
Mr. Alexander Is one of the leading
society men of the city, and hts family
has been one of high standing for a
half century.
Left Saturday Morning.
It appears that Mr. Alexander left
the city Saturday morning, but his
whereabouts did not create any suspi
cion until yesterday, when the banks
began turning down his checks. An In
vestigation was Instituted by the banks
Involved, and It -was found that their
claims were no good.
A meeting was held at the Georgia
Railroad Bank today at noon and 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 have greatly
exaggerated the amount of the firm's
Indebtedness. The total liabilities do
not exceed 1145,000, and assets good
and available amount to about 180,000,
besides $30,000 of doubtful claims.
To Ssttls Preferred Claims.
"There was held a meeting today of
the local creditors with a view of ar
ranging to settle such clnlms as arc
preferred by law nnd to realize on the
assets ns speedily as possible, nnd
avoid expense.”
It Is learned that the Georgia Rail
road bank Is a sufferer to the amount
of $115,000, the National Bank of Au
gusta $10,000,- and the National Ex
change bank $1,000.
Resides the above claims. It Is also
learned, though not officially, that Mr.
Alexander had borrowed sums amount
ing to $10,000 from two of his friends
at different times, and the general be
lief hers Is that the amount of the In
debtadnasa will rekeh $100,000, or prob
ably more before It le stopped. The
firm was supposed, to have had
than 1,000 bales of cotton In their
warehouse, and there Is only about
bales on hand. There will be farmers
who will loss as well as the hankers,
as the money secured from the banka
was on a cotton collateral.
Left Two Letters.
Mr. Alexander left two letters when
he left Saturday, one to his partner,
J. Bishop Alexander, telling him that
he would never return to Augusta alive.
The other was to a friend that he had
borrowed money from. The defraud
Ing has cessed one of the greatest sen
satlons In Augusta that has been here
In some time.
It !■ said that the money that the
National Bank Is the lossr of. was
drawn by Alexander Saturday, a few
hours before he left It Is claimed by
some of his friends thnt he has gone
to New York, hut no one can say poal
lively where he Is.
There will he an.Aher meeting of the
bank officials nnd creditors tomorrow
at noon In the Georgia Railroad Rank
and the accounts will be further Inves
tlgated.
PARKER TAKES FALL
OUT OF BILL TAFT
Octopi Curbed By Old, Laws and Not By
Any New Legislation, Declares
Alton B.
the night of the shootfn
Stanford
fey's office today.
•She haa beep submitted to a long
and searching series of questions. As
•he was known to be a confident of
'he Thaws, Mr. Gervln sought from her
corroboration of many Important
features of the case against the Pitts-
burg millionaire.
HARTJE LETTERS
ARE ALL mRGERIES
It* 1'rlrets Leased Wire.
Pittsburg, Pe_, July II—The after-
" » session of the Hartje trial was U-
xen up In Its entirety by the cross ex
amination of expert Carvalho, who de
flates the letters Introduced In evl-
aente forgeriea.
By Private Loser,I Wire.
New York. July 1$.—Secretary Taft’s
speech, delivered /it Greensboro, N. C.
has called forth a spirited reply from
former Judge Alton B. Parker, who
takes exceptions to Mr. Taft's state
ments regarding anti-trust prosecution.
Judge Parker derives that the eecre
tary In his speech sought to have the
public draw the Inference that the re
cent proaacutlons of alleged Illegal
combinations era due to new statutes.
Parksr Tskss Excsptlon.
To this Judge Parker takes excep
tion and to support hla contention he
quotes from his letter of acceptance and
speech delivered during the last
presidential campaign. In both the
peech and the letter ,
I uoted as saying tl
is statute books
quate If enforced.
Judge Parker In his statement says:
"The Inference that Secretary Taft
would have the public draw from hie
utterances, le that these things are due
to new statutes: and the vindication
which the law Is now receiving Is due
to congressional action since 1*04,
But It le not so.
Lews In Force Then.
Not one of the successful prosecu
tions for which the existing adminis
tration Is now entitled to credit, Is
based on any new statute. Every sin
gle one of them, down to date, rests
solely on the law as It stood In 1904,
and It should not be loet eight of by
the discriminating public that the law
could have been enforced In 1904 and In
speech and the letter Judge
ej aa saying that the laws then on
were entirely ads'
190$ and In 1002, Just as wall as today.
Had It been, the wrongs from tfrhlch
the people have suffered would have
not eo multiplied.
"Secretary ■ Taft's speech at Greens
boro, N. C," says Judge Parker, "was
Interesting throughout, but It cannot be
said that It was accurate throughout/'
NOT MUCH ENTHU8IASM
GREETS SECRETARY TAFT.
By I'rlrste Leased Wire.
Put-In-Bay, Ohio, July 12.—The
State Bar Association haa heard Sec
retary Taft speak . n th.- Piinamn re
nal. There was nothing resembling In
the least a presidential boom, and the
lawyers received his effort with little
manifestation of enthusiasm.
The address of the secretary was a
defense of the Panama route as against
ths Nicaraguan and a plea for Oie
American people to be patient and let
the government have Its own time In
' 'ginning to "make the dirt fly."
Secretary Taft was cordially re-
cslved and began hla address by say
ing: "The American people want
everything the next morning, and
they do not get It they are dlspoi
to be rather unreasonable.”
It was then pointed out that while no
K it amount of excavation haa yet
n done, the direct work of con
structing the canal had been steadily
going on. It waa shown that the first
and moat Important question to be
dealt with was the question of preserv
ing the! health of the employees.
A comparison of the sea level and
lock system of cannts was then made
and the reasons for the adoption of a
lock system jet for the 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 hoapltal as the result of having
been struck several terrific blows on
the head Monday night with a big Iron
bar In lha hands of her husband, who
wa s enraged because she had pulled
the bed cover off him.
Joe Hardeman, the elayer, le behind
the bare of the police station and will
now have lo face a charge ofmurder.
Hardeman was arrested by Mounted
Policemen Cowan and Evans and waa
arraigned before Recorder Broyles on
Wednesday morning for preliminary
examination. Hie wife was still alive
at that time, however, and tha hear
ing was postponed, pending the out
come of her wounds. She died a few
minutes later-
was excaedlngly brutal. Hardeman'a
<~My defense Is that he acted while In a
mad passion. He says he attacked hie
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 husband
leaped from tbe bed, and, selxlng an
Iron bar, dealt hie wife several power
ful blows as tha lay In the bed, fright
fully crushing her skull.
The woman waa taken to the Grady
hospital, but the was so badly Injured
(bat medical science proved of no
avail. She lingered In a comatose state
until Wednesday morning when she
died.
Her slayer will probably be rear-
reigned In police court for prtllmlnary
axa ml nation Friday morning.
A SUGGESTION TO TEDDY
THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE.
OF 200 PASSENGERS
3abe is Washed-Out
of Mother’s Arms
to Death.
By I’rlrste Leased Wire.
Lacrosse, Wls., July 12.—Two hun
dred passengers on the steemer Quincy
at 19:30 o'clock last night narrowly ea
caped death when the big packet
steamer, Quincy, struck a bank In the
darkness near Trenpeleau, Wls., turn
ed half over and then caught fire.
It Is believed that the majority of
the passengers were saved and only
one drowning Is definitely known, that
of an Infant which waa washed from Its
mother’s arms.
Few D.sth. Expected.
At 1:20 o'clock this morning a be
lated train brought, sixty passengers,
who were on the boat, to this city. Ac
counts given by them of the disaster
do not Include positive statement as to
drownlngs, but It Is believed compara.
lively few met death.
All communication with the village
Trenpeleau It cut off nnd Informa
tion relative to the accident to the
steamer Is obtainable only through the
stories told by passengers nnd meagre
reports received at the railroad offices.
Babe Washed Overboard.
At the' time the steamer struck. It la
said It carried no searchlight. One
passenger says he saw n babe washed
overboard from Its mother's arms. The
boat waa sinking, though npt In deep
water. The steamer caught fire Im
mediately after the collision with the
bank.
Amid a crashing of timbers, with the
boat on Its aids, the.life boats were
launched and the passengers, $00 In
number, were taken off before the
flames gained any considerable head
way.
BOAT LEAVES 8T. LOUI8
WITH MANY PA88ENGER8
By Prints Leased Wire.
St. Louis, Mo., July II.—The steamer
.Quincy left Sunday afternoon with a
full list of passengers. Among them
was Captain John 2. Luebben and
family, of St. Louis. Captain Maurice
Kitten. of the steamer Sidney, waa a
passenger on the Quincy, as were also
the members of his crow.
DTATMFE,
RU7IILES
Jealousy Leads
Tragedy Near
Griffin.
to
TRAIN WRECKERS
TRAILER BY DOGS
AND ARMED MEN
Freight Sent Into
Ditch and Three
Lives Lost.
Ilpeclal to Tbe Oeorglsn. „
Griffin, Oa., July 11.—Because of
Jealousy of his wife, nud Touchstone
shot and fatally wounded Joe Barfield,
a single man, 11 years of age, on the
plantation of C. M. Patteraon, near
Sunnyslde, this morning, and aftsr
firing stveral shots at his wife, fled to
Grinin,* seven miles, whsre he surrend
ered to Policeman Archer at noon and
was lodged In Jail. When he reached
here Touchstone, who le 41 years of
age, waa almost exhauslad, frothing
at ths mouth and In a seml-dased con
dition. In his cell he refuses lo dis
cuss ths matter. *
The excitement when the shooting
occurred drew a crowd of neighbors to
the scene, who formed a poses and
pursued the man In hie flight. It Is
thought that Touchstone Intended to
dee to Atlanta and In hla fright went
the wrong way. He has a wife and
one child.
The wounded man cannot recover.
Ily Private Leased Wire.
Petersburg, Ind. July It.—Ths wrack
1 s westbound freight train on the
•Southern railroad, eight mile, "rat of
here, at 5 o’clock tnla morning,
resulted In the death of three persona.
The freight was making thirty mtla*
an hour whan ths engine ran Into a
spill switch. The entire train left the
track, demolishing many cars and to<
tally wracking ths train.'
Both firemen and an engineer were so
badly scalded that they died a few
minutes latsr., Luther Capeheart, ■
brakeman, son of Rav. Mr. Capeheart,
of Wlnai> ■;, lost his right arm pnd left
leg and died a few hours later.
Two other members of iht train craw
worn fatally Injured and are esangtad
to die. Hundreds are hurrying lo the
scene of the wrack, and the sheriff's
deputies and Ihe coroner are working
together In gathering evidence
bring the (rain wreckers to Justice.
Bloodhounds ara on the trull of the
men. The west end of the switch was
also spiked, so as to get either the east
or westbound train.
Mrs. Emma Howland.
Ths funeral of Mia. Emma Howland
will be held Friday afternoon at
o'clock from tha home of her daughter,
Mrs. W. II. Moors, III Gordon street.
Interment will be at Westvlew.
CHARGED WITH KILLING GIRL,
MARRIED MAN ENDS LIFE
IN CELL OF CITY PRISON
the members
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
TO FACE COURT
Kperial Cable-Copyright.
Campaigns, France, July 11.—Al
though John D. Rockefeller refuses to
comment on the Ohio Indictments, be
•ays he has secured passage for Amer-
on a steamer which will aall on
July 10. Ills extradition therefore will
unnecessary.
WEBB JAY’8 TOUR CAR
OE8TROYED NEAR CLEVELAND
Private levied Wire.
Geneva. S. Y.. July 11.—Firs de
stroyed the White steamer driven by
Webb Jay, of Cleveland, In Ihe Glld-
den tour, this afternoon.
By Private leased Wire.
Minneapolis, Minn., July 11.—Nathan
M. Riggs, a conductor on tha North
western road, who waa arrested st El
roy, Wls., Wednesday, charged with the
murder of Mies Millie Kllleon In the
National hotel In Cincinnati, committed
st/lclde In Ihe Jail last night at Elroy.
How he managed to secrete the
weapon with which he shot himself Is
a mystery.
Denied Seeing Women.
Riggs, when he waa arrested at El
roy, Wls., strenuously denied having
seen the woman. He la known, how
ever, lo have been acquainted with her
for a number of years.
Relatives of ths woman declared to
the police that Riggs Induced the girl
lo sell out her millinery, come to
Minneapolis and Invest the money In
Washington land, after which they
were to have been married.
Had .Wife In Town.
According to her family, Mlsa El
lison believed Rlgge to be unmarried.
The police learned today he la mar
ried and lived with his wife and daurh-
ter. at 1406 Pftteburg avenue, this city.
TO § HIM
Admiral Chouknin
Dies From His
Wounds.
CITIES OF RUSSIA
PREPARE FOR REVOLT
Jews, Fearing a Massacre, Are
Fleeing in Oreat Numben
From Warsaw, Poland.
By Private I.eased Wire.
Bt. Petersburg. July 1!.—Dispatches
from Warsaw say that sensational ru
mors are currant In that city that an
other Jewish massacre might be ex-
peeled today. Thousands of Jewa ara
fleeing from the city In panic. Similar
scenes are reported at Lode.
Vice Admiral Chouknin la dead at
Sebastopol. The commander of tbe
Black Hea fleet succumbed to the shot
fired at him yesterday at I o'clock this
ornlng. He did not recover conscloun-
tse after he waq'ahot.
Swore to Kill Admiral.
The admiral’s asealtant le thought lo
be one of tbe sailors of the battlcahl|>
Otchakoff, and his act Is supposed to
have been In revenge for the execu
tion of Lieutenant Schmidt, the revo
lutionary leader.
Admiral Chouknin* was unlver.allv
hated by his sailors, and at the time
of ths execution of Schmidt the revo
lutionists Condemned him to death, lno
of their number pledging Ihemeelve,
lo carry out Ihe sentence. This I. the
second attempt elnce Schmidt's exe, u-
tlon March 19 of this year.
Preparing for Revolt.
The war office haa been making great
preparations at all the principal citle.
to meet an armed revolutionary move
ment. The plana for the defer— ,,f
ltlK.1 h.ixe fallen lilt .1 til, band, of the
revolutionary paper, Mists, which this
morning publishes them In full
Ah given, tin' x.. i 11,n i- divided Into
i In .■.■ illt 1 hIoiim ,.r l w,, I,all,ill,,n» r In -
flint rv, half II C(,|n|ian\ ,,r i 'osem ks ai
three machine gunH, each to [ireve
the Inxiudon of the city from lie tin
open aides, namely, the canal, the ,te
ami the river ltmm. Two haifallo
of Infantry, twenty t'oienrks and four
machine guns commute the reaerve.
Field Guns Are Ready.
Similar plans. It la unslerstod, have
been drawn up by every commander
of II HOI rl.HoU to • III
Sjiecli, I tin In a. equliqie.l with ma
chine nnd field guna, are In cnnxtant
l lonllne.-i III S: I'elio ilitirg, Mo-now,
Kleff, Warantv nnd other pointh
The thirty volunteer sailors shipped
at Vladivostok, who were discharged
from ths Uuaslnn cruiser Terek at
Virgo, arn threatening trouble there.
They say they have been trentnd bru
tally, nnd that thoy would rather nurva
III" .lap.ill".-".
BACON SAYS TAFT
WILL BE NOMINEE
OF REPUBLICANS
William H. Taft will »><* th* Republi
can presidential nominee in 13"*. be
lieves ftonator A. O. Huron.
"Senator, will Ilooeevelt be a candi
date or allow the use of hla name in
1008V* waa the direct question aaked
him.
X believe not. I am of the opinion
that Prealdent Rooaevolt la nbaolutely
alncere In hla aaaertiona that he in not
a candidate for a third term, and will
not allow' hla name to be ueed.**
•Who looma up aa the atron^eat poa-
alblllty for the Republican nomination
now?"
William II. Taft,” waa Ihe ln*tant
reply. "lie la the prealdent’s < h »| ( 4*,
and In my Judgment one of tht* Mn* Ht
fellows In the country. fi> in a big
man In more ways than phyalcaily. Me
la a line mixer, and la popular Kith
nearly everybody within hla party."
H < n.it r It.i* • n " i i a <k* ■! a a to rhe
current atoriea concerning the health
of Senator PcttUa, of Alabama.
‘ Senator Pettua had a bad fall on the
Ice In the winter, and H
n*e—85—wan laid up
LONELY WOMAN
ASSAULTED BY NEGRO
Special to The Georgian.
Columbia, 8. C.. July It.—Monday
morning about I o’clock Mrs. L. Chapin,
prominent woman of Mancheatar.
VL, waa asaaulted by a negro named
Isaac Knight at her home, about elx
miles from Aiken.
The sheriff Immediately, upon knowl
edge of the affair, went to the vicinity
and tried to capture the negro, but no
trace of him count bo found.
Mrs. Chapin llvea with no one but the
negro who committed the assault and
a negro family which lives In her yard.
The negro stayed In a room at the
side of the house. Mrs. Chapin treatad
the negro with the greatest considera
tion and la said to hava remarked that
she considered him a perfect gentle
man. She had been warned by white
people several times to be careful bow
she allowed him to stay at her home
with no white protection.
ABE HUMMEL BARRED
FROM LAW PRACTICE
New* York. July It.—Abraham H.
Hummel, In an opinion handed down
by the appellate division of the su
preme court today, was suspended from
lurther practice at tbe bar.
for soma time,
but I’m sure he has entirely recovered
and Is now as hale and hearty aa ever.
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 tbe face of
the tremendous prea.ure from the pe .-
>le of the country for a railroad rate
Jill, both of the Alabama member,
voted against It on conviction that It
was not the right thing Yet. not on-
word of ensure have you heard from
their people! I do not believe you
could find another state In tbe Cm n
where such Implicit ennfiden. would
evidenced In the integrity of Its
public officials.”
Senator Bacon Is looking remarkat.lv
well. His step Is springy, hla eye <
and his complexion smooth and un
wrinkled with marks of care or lllnesa
He says his health te robust now.
FINDLEY BOUND TO COURT
UNDER A $2,500 BOND
Special to Tbe fienrxtau.
Rochelle, Oa., July 1!.—The commit
ment trial of W. F. Findley, ixhn killed
W. T. Ryeraft. at rut*. Ga . on the M
Instant, was Concluded this evening at
Abbeville. Justice B..«en placed Find
lay under bond of $2.mo. It Is under
stood that Findley u 111 make bond to
morrow.
