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ooooooooooooooooaooaoooooOOOOCOOO The Atlanta Georgian. VOL. L NO. 70. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1906 PHTpP, In Atlanta TWO rFNTS. *-IVLV>.Ej. on Train* FIVE CENTS. BIG SHIFT IS MADE BY THE SOUTHERN BrooksMorgan Resigns to Enter Private Bus iness in Atlanta. JEROME C. BEAM TO GO TO ST.'LOUIS Change in Passenger Agents Made Affecting Entire Circuit South of Washington. IS JEROME THE MAN THE SUN REFERS TO? Smiles When Asked If He’ll Be Democratic Candidate For Governor—and Next • President. Changes affecting the passenger de partment of the Southern railway from Washington to Jacksonville, from Co lumbus to St. Louis, have been decided on and will go Into effect August 1. They are: BROOKS MORGAN, assistant gen eral passenger agent, In charge of the Atlanta division, has resigned to enter a manufacturing business In tills city. JEROME C. BEAM, district passen ger agent, with offices In Atlanta, goes to Bt. Louis to succeed George B. Al len. • ' GEORGE B. ALLEN, assistant gen eral passenger agent. In charge of the Bt. Louis division, will probably take the position made vacant by Mr. Mor gan's resignation. J. C. LUSK, of Jacksonville, at pres ent district passenger agent for Flor ida, comes to Atlanta to succeed Mr. Beam. JAMES FREEMAN, traveling pas senger agent, with headquarters at Ma. con, will be transferred to Jacksonville to succeed Mr. Lusk. J. LAWRENCE HUNT, city ticket and passenger agent at Columbus, goes to Macon to succeed Mr. Freeman. Slate Made Saturday. The slate was made up at a confer ence held In Atlanta last Saturday, at which General Passenger Agent W. H. Tayloe was present. The result of the conference was kept very quiet and news of It did not transpire until Tuesday. y Official confirmation cotild not be ob tained Tuesday from any of the rail way men In Atlanta, all declining to talk for publication. The news Is .straight, however. The entire shake-up Is caused by the retirement of Brooks Morgan, who has, since the promotion of W. H. Tay loe to the position of general passenger agent, been In charge of the Atlanta division. Mr. Morgan will become a member of the manufacturing firm, of the Prank E. Block Company, making crackers, cakes, candles, wholesale groceries, etc. HIs success In the rail road world baa been phenomenal, and he Is perhaps the youngest railroad man In the country, occupying a posi tion of relative responsibility. He has been particularly popular In Atlanta, »nd has madb an enviable record. As chief clerk and district passenger sgent, Mr. Allen, of St. Louis, served Atlanta several years, when Mr. Hardwick was In charge of tho passen- i'-r department here. He Is very well tmnvn In Atlanta and Charleston, "here he was for severil years a dl- vlsion passenger agent. Mr. Beam gets a big promotion ac cording to the slate, going to St. Louts. Mr. Lusk, Mr. Freeman and Mr. Hunt * re *U well known In the passenger urn-ice and have made good records. By J. WIDEMAN LEE. Warm Springs, Ga., July 17.—While on the way down here yeaterday after noon William Travers Jerome was shown The New York Sun's now fa mous political forecast that the next governor of New York will be a Demo crat and that the next governor of New York will be tho next president of the United States. Mr. Jerome was standing on tho front end of the sleeping car talking to Mr. Garvan and Mr. Vandiver. He looked, at the clipping and smiled, hut said nothing, nor would he say any thing on the subject. Mr. Vandiver volunteered the sug gestion that the reporter look at The Issue of The Sun containing the edi torial, which, by the way, was without a heading, and double leaded, at the top of the first column of the page. Tho editorial of The Eagle discussed at length, to the extent of a column and a half, the significance of such on editorial in The Sun, and the prophet ic nature of the simple statementa made so terse and to the point. It was noted, too, that on the front page of the same issue of The Sun appeared a story to the effect that Hearst would run on a ticket of nis own, whether nominated by any party or not. This feeler by The' Eagle, which was en tirely noncommittal, by the way. In ferred that The Sun meant nono other than William Travers Jeryms, the dis trict attorney of New York, who Is now at Warm Springs, and will deliver an address here Thursday morning before the Georgia Bar Association. Mr. Jerome's reticence as to himself Brooklyn Eagle of the same day as the SuuJ his own political affairs is quite noticeable. Despite his remarkable race of the last campaign, he has little to say of New York political conditions, and his notice of‘The Sun editorial was expressed merely In a smile. HARGIS AND CALLAHAN ARE ACQUITTED BY JURY WITHIN HALF AN HOUR By Private Leased Wire. * Beattyvllle, Ky„ July 17.—Former County Judge James Hargis and for mer Sheriff Ed Callahan were acquitted this morning of the charge of com plicity in the murder of J. B. Marcum, who was shot to death at tho court house door In Jackson, Ky., in May, 1903. Hargis and Callahan were accused of having formed tho plot to kill Mar cum and with .having persuaded Curtis Jett, Hargis' nephew. ajuTTom White to carry it out. Jett and White are In the penitentiary for life for the crime. The Jury was out twenty-two min utes. The case was given to the Jury at 7:80 this morning. When the ver dict was returned the Hargis hench men around the court house set up a shout of Joy and a few. pistol shots emphasised their satisfaction, though this was quickly stopped. Mrs. Marcum, widow of the murdered man, wept over the verdict. Bets \voro freely made last night by friends of the defendants that they would be acquit ted In less than half an hour after the Jury retired. This lent color to the rumor that members of the Jury had pledged themselves to acquit tho de fendants no matter how strong the evidence. It was commented on that while Beattyvllle Ik in-a Republican county, every member of the jury’ wai ft Demo crat and Jurge Itnrgl.K Ik n member of the Democratic atatc central commit tee.' A verdict ngalnat hue been con sidered doubtful, however, since Curils Jett, after a confession that Hargis and Callahan persuaded him to kill Marcum, went on the witness stand drunk and asserted that he alone killed Marcum for personal revenge. VACATIONS ARE EXPENSIVE BUT THE COMMON PEOPLE FOOT THE BILL! RUSSIA IS RIVEN BY CIVIL STRIFE IN ALL SECTIONS Mutiny and Riot An Signs of Disinte gration. the Iny. riot tlnue in CENTRAL SLAUGHTER PEN NOW NEEDED IN ATLANTA, SA YS CHIEF JNO. JENTZEN “Can't Say," Says Morgan. " hen asked Tuesday for a conflrm- “ti jii or denial of the report of these charge^ Mr. Morgan said he had noth ing to say. " g' l<:ii:, d000O00000000iJI0000O000 SPEEDIE8T RAIN ° FOR MANY MONTHS. Atlanta had some rainfall Tuesday morning, the heavens opening upand pouring forth their lament for the Little Rock team, which was so badly mangled in the fray Monday afternoon. In twenty-five minutes over an Inch fall was recorded, and about 1 0 "lock there came another downpour, and the Instrument registered a quarter of an Inch In three minutes, which, Mr. Marbury said, was raining some. Between JO:J« o'clock and 1:30 [he precipitation amounted to a little more than two Inches. forecast: Partly cloudy Tuesday night and Wednesday;, probably showers. .Wednesday temperatures: • o'clock a. m 78 degrees * o'clock a. m 73 degrees 9 o'clock a. m ...75 degrees JO o'clock a. m 80 degrees ]1 o'clock a. m..73 degrees 12 o'clock noon 79 degrees 1 o'clock p. m 70 degrees 2 o'clock p. m 71 degrees Absolutely the best thing the city could do Is to have a central slaughter house and have all the cattle, killed'for use In Atlanta, slaughtered there Under the Inspection of city otflclals,” said Chief Jentzen, of the health depart; ment, Tuesday morning. Chief Jentzen was asked what he thought of the action of council ap pointing a committee to Investigate the condition of meats being sold in At lanta. "I don’t know the exact purpose of the committee," said the chief, "but If It will lead up to municipal control of the slaughter houses, It will do a great work.” Chief Jentzen then explained how the slaughtering was done outside of the city, and, therefore, the animals could not be Inspected by his tnen before the animals were killed. 'T know soms horrible things are dons, but I am powsrlsss to stop thsm." He then mentioned the killing of cows Just before they gave birth to calves and selling both the cow and the calf In the market; the Incident brought to light In The Georgian and the one that Is the foundation of the present cam palgn In Atlanta. He also gave numerous other In stances as to the killing of cows while they were dying of some disease, and then selling the meat. DENSON ELECTROCUTED IN MYSTERIOUS MANNER His body writhing with pain for a fractional part of a minute, and with out uttering a sound. Will J. Denson, an employee of the Southern Spring Bed Manufacturing Company, of Bell street, was Instantly killed by elec tricity at the plant of the company Tuesday morning at 6 o’clock, shortly after beginning his day’s labor. Jacob Haas and R. 5. Davies were standing cloze by the unfortunate man when the accident happened, and they rushed to his assistance, but were too late. Just what caused the electrocution has not yet been learned. The stricken man was working over a piece of ma chinery and touched an electric light wire, being Instantly killed: As soon as possible after the affair happened the city electrician was summoned and two others as well, but no faulty In sulation or other causes could be lo cated. 1 Denson was a married man and lived at No. 390 Whitehall streeL He had been employed by the same company for the past fifteen years, and was con sidered one of the best workmen about the place. He had no children. The body was taken to tha undertak ing establishment of Harry Pools A Co. as soon as It was learned that Ilfs was extinct, sad later taken to the home at No. 39(7 Whitehall streat. The body >wlll be taken to Locust Grove, Ga.,- on Wednesday morning for fu neral and Intermeat. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN SITUATION UNCLE SAM PLANS TO STOP FIGHTING By Prtvote Lcooed Wire. Oyster Bay. July 17.—As s result of the conference between President Roosevelt and Assistant Secretary Ba con. definite steps are to be taken to ward bringing about peace in Central America. It Is understood that the United States warship Marblehead will go to the scene of negotiations, so that Guatemala and Salvador will appoint peace delegatea, and they will meet with the Mexican and .the United States ministers to the warring, repub lics. These latter will act In the na ture of arbitrator* though without power except as adTlaom. It Is un-. deratood that a truce will be declared pending the beginning of formal nego tiations. It Is not settlod whether or not Honduras. Salvador's a!!?, will be !fho*iiarbiehead already has sailed GENERAL REGALDO WAS ASSASSINATED By Private Leased Wire. City of Mexico, July 17.—Mexico will act In conjunction with 'the United States In bringing about peace between Guatemala, Salvador and Honduras. The sugestlon thattthe northern re publics act together at a peace con ference le well received here. The news from the south Indicates that the fighting between the warring republics has been unusually severe end the losses have been enormous. One estimate places the Salvadorean lied and 1,100 wounded, and those of Guatemala at 2,300 killed and 1,900 wounded. It Is renoried here that Instead of being killed In battle. General Ragaldo was assassinated by Guatemalan emissaries. HON. MADISON BELL. ■ 'n Who finally won out with his child labor bill. CLAIM FOUL PLAY WAS THE CAUSE OP CENTRAL WRECK Train Derailed and Three Lives Are Lost As, a Result. CHILD LABOR BILL; WHAT IT WILL MEAN The child labor bill passed by the lower house Monday provides that no child under ten years of age shall bo employed in any factory within the state under nny clrcumstnnrci; that nftcr Jnnunry 1, 1907, no child df twelve years shall be so employed unless rntrli child Is an orphan and line no other means of support or unless n widowed mother or aged or dis abled father Is dependent upon tho inbor of such child, In which event such parent shnll file In the factory a certificate from the county ordinary. It Is further provided that after January I, 190R. no child of under fourteen years shall be employ' d In any fuctory between the hours of 7 p m. and The compulsory education feotu uflry I, 10a«, no elilkl under fourte n factory unless lie or she enn Wrl tended school for three months en six weeks of school attendance to of tbs law provides that after Jn years or aae shall he employed Simple sentences, and shnll have i year until nftrr public school ni consecutive. It provides Hint ci I _ , ■■■ lives of the factories hiring such children as are under nge are llnhle for penalties, as are parents or guardians who lih out • ).tl.liin vioiniiou of the law. By Private teased wire. St. Petersburg, July 17.—Mi id sign of disintegration ce 1 sections of the esar's emp The trusted garrison at th of St. Peter and St. Paul mutlnl-d when two soldiers were threatened with ar rest for refusing to obey orders. Ev ery soldier In the went to the support of the two. They were paci fied by assurance that the grievances would be Investigated. Several battalions of Cos-acIts arc to be disbanded beenus. they have grown disorderly and demand to bo relieved of police duty. Representatives In parliament of the various regions are uniting Irrespective of party, for the ailvnnren local Intoresta. Th# Arnv tars, Georgians and Cossacks of tl Caucasus have formed a group and tt little Russians havo also united. Tho Poles and. the members fro, the Baltic provlncea were prevlonsl organized. This movement show plainly th# tendency toward dlalntegra tlon of the vast empire should the K ri of tho central authority be brnkon In the village of Kunlknff joo house havo boon burned In peasant rloto. Th crown forest lands have been net o fire In sixteen different places. Guard are working night and day to put ou tho llamos. heir GIRL IS DRUGGED AND MISTKI-ATED BY UNKNOWN MEN DECISION INVOL VES VOTE FOR GOVERNOR Special to The Georgian. Montezuma, Ga., July 17.—Three lives were sacrificed In a frightful rail road accident here yesterday evening, A Central refrigerator train, loaded with fruit, In charge of Conductor C. Winn, had left town only a few miles when the engine, for some un known cause. Jumped the track, turned over, carrying with It all of the loaded fruit cars and the cab.' Engineer Green, of Macon, and two colored members of the crew were In stantly killed. FOUL PLAY IS CLAIMED BY OFFICERS OF THE ROAD, Special to The Georgian.' Macon, Ga., July 17.—Officials of the Central of Georgia railroad claim that foul play was the cause of the wreck at Montezuma, Ga., yesterday afternoon. Superintendent H. D. Pollard, of the southwestern division of the rood. In which territory the wreck occurred, spent yesterday evening at tbs scene. The' dead are: CHARLES GREEN, of Macon, Ga., engineer. SAM KEDD, of Powersvllle, Ga., col ored, fireman. JIM REDDING, of Macon, Qa., col ored, brakeman. 0OOO0OOO0O0OOO00OOOOOOO000 O NO WORD SPOKEN 0 AT FATAL DUEL. 0 B °*>O0OO0000M^e<!05Si*000000* for Acajutla. Salvador, where It U uu- ter. deratood the peace envoys will board By Private Tossed Wire. Geneva, Switzerland, July 17. Two deaf mutes, whose sec-, ends, were also deaf and dumb; went to a secluded spot In an auto and fought a duel, at which not a single word was spoken, amt one of them waa fatally ■hoL 00000000000000000000000000 Special to Tho Georgian. Macon, Ga., July 17.—In a decision todajftlnvolvlng the cltlsenshlp of a lit igant In his court. Judge Hpeer ren dered a decision that participation In a whits Democratic primary does nut, without additional proof, determine the citizenship of a man. This decision was' brought about by the plaintiffs In a case trying to keep the defendant from transferring the suit from tha stats to the United States court. The plaintiffs alleged that while the defendant claimed cltlsenshlp In North Carolina, he had participated In a whits Democratic primary, sat on the stand at a Hoks Bmlth meeting, In Irwin county, and had whooped th' up for that candidate Juat like a v... sen of Georgia. Judge Hpeer thought that the whooping up on that edifying occasion, while It might have been good politics,t|t did not constitute a proof of cltlsenshlp. Ha also decided that the primary was a selection, and not an election. The litigant was atlowsd to bring hU case In the United Htatee court. HARTJE LETTERS • ARE FORGERIES, DECLAIM EXPERTS Different Persons Penned the Famous Divorce - Epistles. By Private teased Wire. Pittsburg, Pa., July 17.—Mrs. Hart- Js’s attorneys opened the day by put ting several mors handwriting experts on the stand to aay the ‘‘Madlne" let tars were not genuine. John K. Duff, secretary and treasur er of the Cltlsens’ National Bank, was the first witness called. He waa shown the forty famous letters, and asked his opinion. • My opinion Is that exhibits 10 and 14 were not written by the same per son who wrote Nos. 1 to 9." Then you think Nos. 10 to 14 were all written by the same person T" No; No. 14, the envelope, was writ ten by a different hand than 10 to *5.” James H. Orr, first paying teller of the Mellon National Bank, came next. He said No. (, the "Dear Susie" letter, was not written by the person who penned Noe. 1 to I. He examined the lettere, he said, between 10 and 1 o’clock yesterday and at 5:30 to 10 p. m. last night. J. H. Nicely, receiving teller of the Mellon Bank, was called. The first two bankers had been eaelly dealt with ' y the croee-examlners, hut Attorney erguaon Balled Into Nicely and asked a hundred questions about the forma tion of characters Into writing. Nicely was firm In his answers and remained unshaken In his positive declaration that the "Madlne" letters had been written by different persons. FLAGMAN SLEEPS IS Passenger Train Dashes In to Freight, But No One Is Killed. ' Special to The Georgian. Oglethorpe, Ga., July 17.—Ths north bound Central passenger train for Ma con ran Into a freight train standing on.the main line hare early this morn ing, and both trains wars badly wrecked. The flagman'on ths freight train was asleep, It le claimed, and failed to flag the passenger train. Nobody waa esriouely hurt, but the paasenger angina and several freight By Privet# teased Wire. Marion, InrL, July 17.—Min* Minnie Miller, tho pretty 16-year- old daughter of Mr. nml Mrs. William Miller, of East Sherman street, was seized, bound, drug ged nnd assaulted by two un known men Sunday night as she \<'as returning from church about !• o'clock. She was found in a Held along tho river yesterday about 8 o'clock by Mrs. llarrv' Sheldon, a member of a searching 1 party who wag attracted to tho body by the barking of her bird dog, that accompanied her. She snid tho men poured a Ii- fptid into her mouth that para- lysed her tongue so she could not call for aid. THREE AERONAUTS LAM) /.V RIGGING ' OF FERRY SLOOP ' 'llfton, death By Private Leaeed Wire. New York, July 17.—Leo Charles terse and James 1 made a balloon ascension frui H. I., yesterday, narrowly ssra by drowning when the ball wrecked by coming In con ths mast of a,sloop In Flue After crossing New York high elevation, the seroneutK ed over Flushing Bay end I perimente with a sea nnrho thus engaged their balloon u against the mast of the me sloop Adeline. A hole was ripped In the li. collapsed, leaving the three ir Ing to the rigging, from a n descended to the'deck of the KILLS HER SISTER; STARVES TO DEATH Illy Prints Leered Wire. Nebraska City, Nebr., July 17. After killing her aleter to keep her from go ing Insane, Lucy Lloyd starved herself to death In the asylum at Lincoln, [where she was taken Immediately fol- wlng the tragedy two weeks ago. The elatera lived alone on th- farm left them by their father a f*w miles Inorih of here. Lucy admitted »h« ■Igled her slater to death. She was adjudged Insane, although protesting she was not. There she absolutely re fused to touch food. cars were I battered. SLA YER OF WIFE CHEATS GALLOWS By Prime teased Wire. Detroit, illch., July 17.—Christopher Splndieman, wife murderer, facing the gallows In the county jell at Sandwich, Ont., across the river from Detroit, committed suicide during Monday night by hanging himself with hie shoe lace. He was found dead by the Jailer ueaday morning. Splndieman killed his wife by shoot ing her In ths head with a revolver last Saturday night. He was drivsn Into a trensy by drink and constant brooding over the fart that he had been forced Into deeding over his property to hit wife. , Splndieman was* prevented from put ting a bullet through hie own brain by the prompt action of hU eldest son. Five children survive. WANTED TO WHIP HIS SON IN COURT By Privet# Leased Wire. South Bend, Ind., July 17. Ar chapter to the sensational "waitr divorce case, In which Frnnkli Griffiths Seybert, of Chl-ng.,, defendant, was added to the fight ye terday when D.-A. Griffiths, father the defendant, threatened to horsewhip Seybert In the court house. The threat waa mads because Seybert refut-"<l the plea of his wife to withdraw the satlonsl charges against her an allow her to get a divorce on a charg or desertion. Mrs. Seybert Is charged with treme cruel treatment of hie two chil dren. twins, aged 7 years, tho alieg: being that sha tried the Filipino ' ter curs" upon them la gMNR beating them until they were black blue. i Street Car Company Sued. Carrie Wllaon flle-1 -nit In the court Tuesday morning .igaln.-t Georgia Railway and Kl'-irto r pany, claiming 33,900 for Injurin' leged to have been received «hi passenger. Rhe alleges th»i a nm, tor ej» ted her fr.uu th* car after had "aid her f.,"- and treated he roughly as to Injure her seriously.