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ATLANTA) 12.000.000 of bunking capital. The Atlanta Igeorgian. OrOMClAi population. '0,ivv> , . >p In Ifm. inik*r ..•-cui rniiruAd. ,11.-a •l*»«*trlo r»nw«f. *tr.>u fartorl^a. l.Soo.'Vy) ipfom#*. trl*»A fo'inmH 500,OnO tn»Uc IMS. VOL. I. NO. 94. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1906. T>PTPI?. In Atlanta TWO CENT*. JTXVlUiJ. Oo Train* 1TIVF LENTIL WITH THE BABY CZAREVITCH IN HIS ARMS, CZAR WILL REVIEW MANEUVERS OF HIS ARMY BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSITtCO. E TO KILL 01 With Czarevitch in Arms, He’ll Review Army. ROYAL FAMILY LEAVES PALACE Members Are Safeguarded on Their Trip From Peterhof. OOO0O00000O000OO00O0000000 O O 0 20,000 RUSSIANS 0 O ARE NOW CATHOLICS. O O 0 O Special Cable—Copyright. 0 O London, Aug. 14.—A ill.oatch 0 O to a nawa agency from .uohile, 0 0 Russia, aaya that there have been 0 O 20,000 converts to the Catholic 6 0 faith from the members of the or- 0 O thodox church of ltussla since the 0 O publication of the decree granting 0 0 freedom of conscience In that 0 O bishopric. 0 O 0 OO000000000000000000000000 Special Cable—Copyright. St. Petersburg, Aug. 14.—Caar Nich olas and hla entire, family left Peter hof today. They have gone to Kraa- noye-Selo, where the summer maneu vers are being conducted. It la said that It la the czar’. Intention to review the fnfhrd having by hla aide bla In font son the csarevltch. This action la considered extraor nary In view of the attempt made upon the life of Orand Duke Nicholas Nlch olavltch last week, but the statement is made that the czar desires to show bis confidence In. the loyalty of the guard by an open demonstration of this kind. The utmost precaution la being taken to safeguard the person of the caar. The Bt. Petersburg railway station la under heavy guard and nobody la al lowed to take passage for Kraanoye Selo until he has satisfied the authori ties that he la not a dangerous charac ter. Two announcements are made con cerning the caar’a plana after the re view. One aaya the family will go to Tsarskoe-Selo. Others that he will take hla family to Llvadla in the Crimea for the reat of the autumn. STOLYPIN’S OFFICIAL HEAD 800N TO BE CUT OFF H.r Private I-cosed Wire. London. Aug. 14.—The Times prints today a dispatch from Its St. Peters burg correspondent In which the atate- inent Is made that the position of the Russian premier Is becoming leas se cure dally. There la some ground for rumors that Prince Vaaalltlchkoff, who Is In high favor with the court, will be M. Stolypln’a successor. He Is known to be reactionary In hla tendencies. C0000O00000000000000000000 O 0 a HOW THE WEATHER IS NOT DOPED OUT. MAY LOSE CHARTER AS RESULT OF BRUTAL ACTION OF EMPLOYES One Victim Calls on Attorney General to Act. - A’o, tne foregoing In not a pic- O 2 ture of Porecaater Marbury dop- O 2 Ing out the weather, though many O JJ f °Hca think the framing up a fore- O 2 oast Is done pretty much In *uch O 2 manner. That picture la merely O 2 result of Cartoonist Brewer- O 2 ton’s eating a Welsh raWilt the O 2 other night. O 2 Speaking of the weather, Jitat 23 O 2 yean ago the old Kimball houae O 2 —then the pride, glory and Can- O 2 dler building of Atlanta—was O 2 burned to the ground. It was a O 2 r atastrophe, a cataclysm. So O 2 great was the excitement that our O 2 yenerable contemporary* The At- O 2 lanta Journal, got out an extra O 2 about It. It was the first extra Q 2 ever Issued by a newspaper In At- O 2 lanta. O 2 The Forecast: 2 Shower* Tuesday night and O 0 Wednesday. O 2 Tussday Temperatures: O 2 * o’clock a. m. 71 degrees O 2 * o’clock jl m. .. .. ..72 degrees O 2 » o’clock, a. m 73 degrees O 2 Id o'clock a. m 7fi degrees O 2 11 o’clock a. m 78 degrees O 2 12 o’clock noon 80 degrees O 2 1 o’clock p. m. (max.) 82 degrees O g 2 o’clock p. m 81 degrees O COOPOOOOQOOOOOOIW'0000900? POLICE NOW AIDING CAR MEN IN RIOTING Girl Is Found Dead in Creek and Many Persons Are Hurt. By Private Leased Wire. New York, Aug. 14.—A petition turn been presented to Attorney General Meyer calling upon him to begin pro ceedings under the law fitting the case for the annulment of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company's charter and demanding that he apply to the su preme court for an Inquisition re straining the corporation from further attempting to collect an extra fare of 5 cents for a continuous ride to Coney Island. The petition Is signed by William J. Foley, one of the victims of Sunday's lawlessness. It demands, that In con sequence of the B. B. T.'s dCflnnce of Justice Oaynnr’s mandate against 10 cents fares, the attorney general be gin Immediate action looking to the forfeiture of the company's franchise. The attorney general has full power to cope with the present situation and he Is the only official who has. . To Insure action. It la provided by law, that the supreme court may Issue an Injunction restraining a corpora tion from committing the Illegal acta oomplalned of. All of the officials of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, If such an Injunction was granted, would be lia ble to arreat for contempt of court If further efforts were made to collect the extra fare. SHOOTING UP State Adjutant Gen eral Appealed to By the Citizens. By Private Leased Wire. Austin, Tex., August 14.—Ad jutant General Ilulefa has receiv ed a dispatch from the mayor and citizens of Brownsville, Tex., stat ing that the negro troops recent ly sent there from Nebraska, have broken out and killed one man and wounded several others, and are now shooting up the town. General Ilulen is asked to send state rangers and troops. The greatest excitement prevails. IS ASSAULTED; THROAT CUT E n raged Greenwooc Mob Pursuing Black Fiend. Special to Tim Ojjnrgtan. Spartanburg. S. C., Aug. 14.— A dispatch from Greenwood says n negro made n criminal and mur derous assault on Miss Brook, of thnt county,' cutting her throat from ear to ear. The young woi man is still alive, though is in a iprious condition. In trying to protect her. throat her hands were out to pieces. An armed posse, with bloodhounds, are in pursuit of the negro. Great excitement prevails. POLICE AID IN WORK OF BEATING PA88ENGER8 By Private leased Wire. Now York, Aug. 14.—With one vic tim of Brooklyn RapliJ Transit brutal ity dead, a number In hospitals and hundreds at their homes suffering from cuts and bruises, the police to day had practically 1 gone over bodily to assist the Rapid Transit Company lp Its plan to compel the public to pay an Illegal 10-cent fare to Coney Island. All night and this morning police men were on every train and trolley car coming from Coney Island, and they aided In Intimidating passengers and forcing them to pay the fare. The city police actually took the place of the Brooklyn Rapid Tranitt Company, whose licenses had been revoked by Deputy Commissioner Waldo and help ed In the work of extortion. Made Brutal Attacks. With the exception of the two hours during which orders from Captain Harkins, of the Coney Island precinct that assaults and that throwing of peo ple from cars must cease, were obeyed, the police were active In aiding the In spectors and other Brooklyn Rapid Transit employees In their brutal at tacks on men, women and children. During the lunch hours, the city po- tlcemen were fed with sandwiches and iunches provided by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. Today all pretense of Impartiality had disappeared and they were openfy on the side of the Rapid Transit Company. 1,000 Thrown Off Cars. This action by the police followed another day of rioting nnd brutality during which more than l,©0i) persons were thrown from cars, and women as well as men Insulted and beaten, and more than «00 persons were sidetrack ed In cars because they had refused to pay the second fare. With theso hun dreds suffered those who had paid the extra fare, but were held because a few In the same car had refused to pay. Another Incident of the day was the finding of the body of Mill ij—gi. Fannie Sabrinsky In a creek. Bhe had paid a second fare, but had been ejected from the car when It was stalled, anil when walking to Coney Island was ran down by a car on a bridge over tne creea and hurled to death. It has developed that when reported to the police that the girl probably had been’ killed by a car they refused to act and that no efforts had been made to find the motorman who ran down the girl- . . Police Guard Cars. At Neck road, where the second fare Is collected on the trip to Coney, from 50 to 75 policemen under Captain Gal lagher were on duty today. At Ken- nlngton. where the second fare is de manded on the return trip, 50 more po licemen were stationed. None of these made an effort to check the brutality of the Rapid Transit Inspectors and «m- ductors. In adltlon there were from 3 to 5 uniformed policemen on every car and train leaving Coney Man<L About midnight ^raugh Frc.ldent Bird 8. Coler, Burban 1 an Vleck, Sher iff Flaherty. of Kings county, and Stephen C. Baldwin went to Neck road nnd saw Borough Police Inspector Ad- am Cross In his role of menacing the Subhc? A few minute, afl.r'th.y ar rived, a train was held up and the In spectors. followed by Crow, Jumped CONTRACTORS ARRESTED ON CHARGE OF PEON A GE ON CONSTRUCTION WORKS Specie I to The Georgian. Columbus, On., Aug. 14.—A. Q. Camp bell, superintendent; A. L. Bradshaw, ganeral foreman; W. A. Matthews, commissary, and J. A/ Eason nnd J. D. McElroy, foremen, of the Atlanta- Blrmlngham Construction Company, contractors for the Atlanta, Birming ham and Atlantic railroad, were arrest ed by Deputy Marshal Roberts and brought here this morning, charged with peonage. Hoyt, special agent for the United States, on complaint of a number of laborers brought from New York two months ago, wl L o < 'aim they wero un lawfully ttetalnril'fcy threats. An Investigation la going On before Commissioner Brown, the government representative, and Hon. Carter Tate. The defenae Is conducted by J. J. Bull, of Talbotton, and Walter T. Colquitt, of Atlanta. The case will occupy all this after noon. H E HITS CHI CAR; 25 PERSONS HURT By Private la-sseil Wire. Sedalta, Mo., Aug. 14.—It Is reported that 35 pasengers were Injured at Fqrl Scott Junction, Kans., today In a col lision between a Missouri, Kansan, and Texas train and u Frisco switch en gine. The Injured passengers were In chair car. The train had stopepd at the Katy and ’Frisco crossing when u Frisco switch engine crashed Into tho chair car. The most seriously Injured are Jo seph Hulllck, of Susquehana, l’a., en gineer on the Erie railway; Mrs. Jo seph Hnlllck and A. W. Truland. South McAlestcr. FAMOUS BANDIT TO KILL A PRINCE spect abon.... Sheriff Takes a Hand. Are you going to pay your fare or notT' Cross was demanding of a scared passenger when Sheriff Flaherty forced way down the aisle to the police- """Look, here. Crogs" said the sheriff, "you get out of this. You have no busi ness on this car, and no authority to what you are doing and have been doing. A supreme court Judge has de clared that a 5-cent fare la the legal fare on this line and everybody who refutes to pay any wore Is doing what lly Private Leased Wire. London, August 14.—A Vienna dispatch says that Ynnne Sandus ky, the bandit who captured Miss Helen Stone, has surrounded 'Prince Ferdinand’a villa with the object of killing the prince. RUSS TOWN AFIRE; CITZENS BURNED By Private Leased Wire. London. Aug. 14.—A dispatch from Nlshl Novgorod, Russia, says the sub urb of Gordlerka Is In flames and a number of persons are believed, to be dead In the Are. One body has been recovered. FOR $150,000,000 TO FIGHT PENNSY Ity Private I.rn.eil Wire. Pittsburg, Pa., Aug. 14.—Josoph Ranisey, Jr., former president of the Wabash system, has made the nr»- nounceinent from New York that plans are about completed and a deal con summated with foreign capitalists for the construction of a trank line rail road between New York and Chicago via Pittsburg,, which will cost $160,000,- 000. Tha promised lino will be a direct competitor of tha Pennsylvania and New York Central systems and have the advantage of a route more than 100 miles shorter than Other of the two great trunk lines. Papers of consolidation, which will mergu three railroads In Pennsylvania will he filed In Harrisburg this week, marking the first step toward the con struction of a now railroad. The line will be known as the New York, Pitts burg and Chicago Air Line nnd will be 05 miles shorter than the Pennsylvania between Pittsburg and Chicago and 105 shorter than the Pennsylvania between New York and Chicago. • FORTUNE^ PO VER TY AND DEA TH SEIZE LARGE FAMILY; RAILROAD HEARTLESS Two Are Dead; Six Hungry Mouths To Be Fed. GEORGLV R. R. DENIES THE CHARITY RATE Family of A. T. Evans at 400 Highland Avenue in De plorable Condition. With an empty larder and an empty purse, six hungry mouths to be flllSd and a child to be hurled, A. T. Evans, an engineer for DeLoach Mill Man ufacturing Company, 400 Highland av enue, awoke Tuesday morning at his meager home, 25 McBoland street, to find that his wife had also succumbyd to death during thq night. ■ Norman, the 1-weeks-old baby, died early Tuesday morning. Mrs. Evans died, presumably of rheumatism and heart trouble as well ua tho shock uused by the death of her child. The alx remaining children, the old est of whom Is 14 years, are unable to realise the extremity of the situation. The father Is stunned by the rulamlty. The ease waa brought to tho atten tion of City Warden Evans and the city warden did all In his power to help the family. It was the wish of the father to bury hla dead at Washington, Ga., their former home. Mr. Evens called up J. A. Thomas, agent for tho Georgia railroad, and Mr. Thomas, act ing In Ills official capacity, declared that (here was being too much traf fic of a charitable nature hauled by the he represents and auggested that the six children be left nt the home In Atlanta nnd that the father, alone ac company the body to Washington. The total fnre for the father, children and tha two bodies amounts to tl 1.65, If regular fare Is paid and with the char ity reduction amounts to $14.41, The amount of charity the Georgia railroad han done In the way of helplna Atlanta's popr out of the city In the Inst few years Is not startling, says Warden Evans. The totnl reduction of i since January, 1»W, aggregates $111.7$, or an average of $41.75 per %n- OOOOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0OO a o O MAY A8K GOV. TERRELL O 0 TO HEAD A MOVEMENT 0 0 FpR SILVER 8ERVICB. O O 0 O Special to The Georgian. O O Savannah. Ga., Aug. 14.—Mayor O S Myers will, take up the matter of 0 n silver service for the battleship O 0 Georgia. If nothing has been dona 0 O In the way of securing the service 0 0 tho governor will probably be 0 O asked to undertake the movement, 0 O though It will be desirable to have O O all parts of the state Interested O In the service. Savnnanli .will . O gladly entertain the officers nml 0 O visitors If the presentation Is hold — O here. O O O 00000000000600000000000000 num. In the year 1$03 $63.14 was ax ponded by the rlty with the Georgia railroad for charity fares. In 1*04 1104.2* was expended. In 1*06 $113.14 was expended. When a representative of The Geor gian vlsted the home, matl,ern were In a deplorable state. The six children were sitting on the ground, around the three-room cottage, all poorly clad and hungry. In the cupboard were several hard biscuits anil a quart or twu of flour. The father was sitting In the rear room, Ills eyes swollen and red, while the undertakers had charge of the two bodies In Ills front room. Aside from the kitchen stove nnd cupboard, several beds, a few bottomless chairs anil a table comprised the total fur nishings of the home. When asked whether he had any money, khans seemed so stupefied liy the rapid succession of disasters over shadowing hla home, that he could give no coherent reply. It waa found, how ever, that the employees of the mill had in up a collection anil by “chipping In” iiuiirters nml dimes Imd raised nearly 3* to help bear tho sxpensea of the burials. City Warden Bvnr; told the innn to buy food with this sum and that the city would see to the rest. It was also learned thnt the deaths wero only the ultimate ellmnx to n se ries of misfortunes. The children had helped to bear the family expenses by- working In the Atlanta Hosiery Mills, on Oakland avenue. But several week" ago they, too, become III and had to cease work. When Evans sent Ills little hoy to the DeLoach Mills Tuesday the foreman stated It won against the rules to give “time" until a certain date, but thnt tv- would visit the house Tuesday evening. City Warden Evans, after comrilllng tho mayor decided to take up the quea tlon of reduced fares with other ripl road officials nnd hopes to gel the family off fnr Washington on IH# 1:38 o'clock train Tuesday afternoon.. RAM LOOTERS ARE ACCUSER Suicide’s Diary Blames Stensland and Hering. TELLER KOWALSKI LEARNED OF DEAL Fugitive President Soon in Wisconsin and Police are Hunting for Him., lly l’rirste Leased Wire. Chicago, Aug. 14.—Late this nf noon tha police declared they have rated Paul Stensluil, fugitive pi dent of the wreckeirMilwaukee Av« State Bank, and that hla arrest soon be made. lly Private I.eased Wile. Chicago, Aug. 14.—An organ I/., d i hunt is In progress today In the vb Ity of Minllann, Itaraboo, Mendota other Wisconsin towns, directed by Chicago police, who believe that nt they are on the right trail of Paul Stensland, the fugitive bank wrecl Tha reward of $6,000, offered by INVESTIGA TION RESOL U7ION NOT TAKEN UP BY HOUSE CONFEDERATE 80LDIER8' HOME. Chicago Hearing house, has stirred I police of the continent to action In I seared. Stensland It 8atn. Shorn of his beard, hla moust.n trimmed, hla head shaved far up In I forehead, Stensland nevertheless « rerognlsnd at Msndota by two fora drposltora of the Milwaukee Avn state bank. The authorities ptace sv credence In this Identification, nnd the theory that the fugitive would found somewhere In csey comma cation with Ml.. I.e,,nc Loughmi. tl are banding effort, to rout the banlt Accused by ths Dead. While the search for Stensland Is progress, both he and lterlng are ac cused by fingers of the dead, la ■ re markable diary kept by Poylng Telling Kowalski, who committed suicide a» a result of the failure. The tragedy of a life Is revealed In the entries. In March the young man learned r the rottfcn condition of the bank. He did not falter, lie hail the oelfme and the Interest of his people a( heart. He would protect them even at Iho tl-k of losing hi* position. So he Invaded the private office of the bank president nnd told him what he knew. Expostulatsd With Beth, Here are some of his entries: ■'March 11.—Expostulated with 1 tdent Stensland and Cashier Ilerli April 27.—Expostulated again c.'nahler Hering. Told him I had offered position with new bank.” ■June 23.—Turned down position new bank. I think pretty well though.” "Jtilv 13.—Wrote letter to bmthr Hudson Lake. Told him thought I was to Btanaland and Hering. ua and told ua to stick. The The resolution calling for an Investigation of condition! at the Con federate Soldiers' home was not taken up at the session’ of the house on Tuesday, and It Is probable that It will not be acted upon. Mr. Williams, of Laurens, Introduced at the Monday morning aesslon a resolution calling for the appointment of an Investigating committee from the house. Under the rules, this was laid upon the table for a day, and it was expected that It would be acted upon Tuesday morning. the law entitles him to do. It’s not a matter for police settlement and you'd better understand that. Now get on' Cross made no reply and wte the train. May Cut Off Cars. The Broklyn Rapid Transit Compa ny, through Vice President and Gener al Manager Calderwood, today declar ed that surface cars at Coney Island would be cut off If It were found Im possible to collect the 10-cent fare or ■> eject passengers for not paying It. "We have abandoned the regular said \n ned the summer schedule already,” said'Vice President Calderwood. 'We are oper ating eight lines of surface cars to Co- ' ey are being run on a iy which la the regu lar winter schedule. If we get to the point where wc cannot collect fares apd cannot eject passengers for non-pay ment of fares, we i '*1 ' - ~ on the surface cars i and Mlsa Fortune are pretty doaely related, but the smile of the mother Is preferable to the frown of tho daughter. Which will you /provoke? You've an opportunity to meet the smiling face of the Dame. Just look over the want col umns of The Georgian. Worry along alone nnd you will for years pursue the saucy, frowning face of the fickle Miss. Don’t do IL We're had her for a companion In our time, but we have learned better now. Read those lit tle want ads, and when you would boom your business try them now and then. Every body knows WOMAN FIGHTS TO SLEEP IN SAME OLD PRISON CELL Seeking to sleep In the same cell at the police barracks In which she slept two months ago, Mrs. Luey Johnson, who was arrested late Monday night, grabbed Minnie Dunn, a woman who was occupying the room, by the hair, and pulling her out of the bed, and striking her several blows she ejected her from the room. Then Mrs, Johnson propped,a chair against the door and sat down In the chair. Minnie Dunn, who was aroused from her slumbers and excited In no rude Two months ago, Mrs. Lucy John son was brought to the Button house charged with drunkenness nnd she was allotted the middle room on-the right ham’ side of the women's ward. Mon day night Officers Butler and Haney arrested her again on the charge of stealing a watch. The woman was put In the corridor of the women’s ward and directed In a room, but when she was left alone took charge of her old bed room In the manner related. O0000000OO0000O0000O0OOO0O o . manner, called Mis. Sanderson, ins- % BATHERS MENACED, #HA » tron of the police station, and sought -*- to have her wrongs arighteil. Miss Sanderson took In the situation and knocked on the door of the room which the woman had taken posesston of. Un able to gain entrance by means of po liteness and gentleness Miss Sander son gave the door a wrench and a push, the combination of which sent Mrs. Johnson, chair and all flying Into tha center of the room. It took the matron hut a few minutes to restore order where a few minutes before a miniature riot seemed Imminent. O , 0 O By Private leased Wile. O. 0 New York, Aug. 14.—The iarg- O 0 est school of man-eating sharks O 0 seen there In years, gathered yes- O 0 teidnv In the Fire Island Inlet. 0 O Warnings were sent H> neighbor- O O ing resorts, and bathers quit the O 0 water for several hours. After 0 0 scores of the sharks had ben bar- O 0 pooned by fishermen the school 0. O cut away for the ,ipen sea. O 000000O0OOO0OOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAS BEEN F( Special to The Georgian. Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 14.—With her skull crushed, tha lifeless body .-f lira. E<l Scott vkas found In a •li-tll- lery of the husband, at Wolfs Mouth, Ky. 1 II Is' believed the murder was committed several days ago. Scott has disappeared. DAUGHTER ELOPES; FATHER PURSUES ON SPECIAL TRAIN Special to The ticotgtab. Albany, Ga., Aufuut 14. Miss Corinna Mima, the 15-yenr-old daughter of L. W. Mima, of Phil- etna, eloped yesterday afternoon with Alva Johnson, a news butch er on the Albany nml Northern rnilway. The irate fntlier, lifter missing ilia daughter, chartered a special train in order to overtake ohorn, but the couplt rieil Bt a small statii this side of Cordde. As yet Mr. Mints his daughter, the co completely disappears ere mar- six miles cannot find uple having Prcachtd at Columbus