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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.