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ATLANTA popnutlan """!!!“"!! 1 m|ooo H—** I’W 16,000 Hff im*e of railroads. Beven ^" n°g «puok °- w "' : ooo.ooo The Atlanta Georgian. GEORGIA Population 2.800.000 Mile* of stonm rail road* 6.500 Mil*** of electric railway* 400 Cotton factorle* 130, nnlndle*.. 1.500.000 Hale* cotton consumed In 1905. 500.000 Value of 1906 cotton crop $100,000,000 VOL. 1. NO. 121. Morning Edition. ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,1906. Morning Edition. Oa Train* FIVF CKNT& PALMA WILL RESIGN AS THE HEAD OF THE CUBAN GOVERNMENT IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANY INTERVENTION BY THE UNITED STATES WITH MEIERS IF CABINET Tl PECI0E1 THE NEXT STEP Secretary of War, Secretary of Navy, Acting Secretary of State and Senator Beveridge Take Part in Discussion. AFTER ATTEMPTING TO KILL WIFE OF ONE OF HIS BEST FRIENDS, MARRIED MAN COMMITS SUICIDE ITS UP TO THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE HURRIED ACTION Washington, Sept 14.—Orders have been issued by the navy department to the Des Moines, now at Key West, to proceed to night to Havana. Orders also sent to the Dixie, which has 250 marines on board, to proceed at once to Havana. The Dixie has started from Guantanamo. The purpose in sending these two additional vessels to the Cuban capital is to supply a landing force of considerable size if the situation should demand it. The cruisers Tacoma and Cleveland, at Norfolk, under or ders to proceed to nSnto Domingo to relieve other ships there, will be held in readmess to change their destination to the north ern mast of Cuba if it should be nectssary. By MANUEL CALVO. Havana, Cuba, Sept. 14.—For the sake of peace and to prevent euch American Intervention aa may mean the permanent occupation of the Is land, President Palma today called a special meeting of his cabinet and announced his Intention of resigning his office. Secretary Montalvo urged Palma to reconsider his determination, but while his resignation Is held up for a few hours, he Is said to he determined and may retire at any mo ment. | It Is understood that the president Is acting under the Influence of his family. His wife Is a / daughter of President Oueradtcla, of Honduras, who was murdered by. revolutionists. She has .been begging Mr. Palma ever since the revolution started, to tender his resignation. President Palma cried like a child when he saw the Americans land. He said his work of forty years for the Independence of Cuba had been destroyed by the revolution. It Is well known among Cubans that he called lor American help. The timely landing of the Denver's men saved Havana last night from an Insurgent attack. Palma has given up hope of win ning by force of arms In spite of the war party In the palace. Should Palma resign Vice President Capote will assume, the presi dency. nut the universal opinion Is that the Americans will have to etay then, for the war will continue, Capote being no less unpopular with the liberals than Palma. The people expect Commander Colwell, of the Denver, to pacify the Island, nctlng In the capacity of a referee. The commander says he can do nothing without Instructions.: The two rebel commissioners from Sen ior Zayeas and General Loyanex went on board the Denver this morning tnd urged him to act. Commander Colwell and Consul Stelnhardt called at the palace this morning. The commissioners from the Insurgents have asked Commander Colwell to ussure the rebel envoys protection should they come to Havana to visit him on board the Denver. They want to explain to him the case of the revolutionists. Consul Stelnhardt explained the matter to President Palma and the rablnet. Loycnex desires to come unoffdally In his private capacity. Sec retary Montevalo's opinion prevailed, and Mr. Stelnhardt was Informed that the government would not authorise a visit from Loyenex. The situation outside of Havana Is unchanged. The city has no com munication by rail or wire with the provinces that are In reyolt. CONFERENCE IS NOW ON A7 HOME OF ROOSEVELT its /• CHARLES GEISMAR, The Young Macon Man Who Killed Self After Trying to Shoot !Mrs. Eugene Ivey. Denied Admittance to Ivey Home Thurs day Night. CHARLES GEISMAR WAS FROM MACON OPERATION ON HIS BRAIN HAD BEEN CONI EM PL A TED BY GEISMAR'S PHYSICIAN Oyster Bay, Sept. 14.—How serloue In the presldent’e estimation the Cuban Insurrection hae become Is evidenced by the fact that he has sum moned to Oyster Bay Secretary of War Taft, Secretary Bonaparte and Act ing Secretary of State Bacon to discuss the situation. With the two cabinet members and the acting secretary of state, Sen ior Beveridge, of Indiana, Is also here aa the guest of J. H. Sears. Mr. Beveridge Is a member of the senate committee on Cuban relations, and •ill participate In today's council of war. Since the outbreak, the president has adhered to a conservative policy. He has been determined from the beginning not to Intervene unless It was Jbjolutely necessary to do so. He wants to be perfectly sure of his ground wf'ire committing the United States to a role which, once assumed, would "»ve to be played out to the end. The sending of men of war to Cuban waters. It has been maintained, •as a precautionary measure, which this country would not have failed i" take, for the protection of its cltlxens no matter where a revolution had brnkm out. But In spite of the assertion that the Denver's marines were disembarked solely to guard the United 8tates legation at Havana, the “"ding of an armed force seems to many to be the first step In this coun- >0 « participation In the crisis which the affairs of the Cuban republic b»ve now reached. . ...... It rooms likely that the subsequent withdrawal of the majority of the msrlnos that had been put ashore was ordered by the state department af- , r President Roosevelt had been communicated with, which Indicates ths 'ttrome caution on the part of the president. *l»otal to xhe (ioorgtsn Ndotta, Sept. 14.—It Is re- aaif. k h ‘ r * that an effort was tb. o ' a mob * n the upper port of # »rr.,°1 r ‘i t> ’? *ynch Frank Turner, the In th a , *** *° have been Implicated * L ' arter murders here last year w *“» released from Jail this i,] ( " n a 1W0 bond signed by him- Alf U \) *" ,l,e negro preacher whom tt,,.'" ,r " "®ld hired him for J. O. Ha trial 1 '* * KI11 tl,e Carter children. At guilty ,V , , the cases he was found fat >... "*'»« an accessory to the GOMPERS TO REPORT ON MAINE ELECTION Special to The Georgian Macon, Oa., Sept. 14.—Charles Gels- mar was 39 years of age and Is sur vived by his wife and three children, a hr* and two girls. He operated a large grocery store on Cotton avenue. Both of his parents are living and re side In Alsace, Germany. .Mr. Gelsmar was a member of the Macon lodge of the Knights of Pythias. The news of the sudden death of her husband was -ot broken to Mrs. Gelsmar until many minutes after It had been verified. Several relatives then went to the family residence at 644 Plum street and Informed Mrs. Gelsmar what had happened. Later word was sent to Max Harris, asking him to look after the arrangements. The body Is expected to reach Macon over the Southern n< 2:40 o'clock this afternoon. It will then be taken to the family residence. So funeral arrange ments have yet been completed. Mr. Gelsmar had been In III health tor several weeks and had been under the care ot a physician. Some time ago an operation upon his brain was contemplated by his physician, but as ho continued to Improve, the Idea was given up for the time. For over a year the friends of Mr. Gelsmar noticed a slight change In his disposition, as he had always been a cheerful companion and a good conversationalist. Mrs. Ivey was well known r church worker In Macon, and her hus band was a prominent employee of a company here. Mrs. Ivey' Not Seriously Wounded, But Is Pros trated by Crime. Possibly laboring under the stress of a disordered mind, Charles Gelsmar. Jew, and a merchant of Macon, Ga., shot Mrs. Augusta Ivey, of G91 Edge wood avenue, through the hand Friday morning at 6:57 o'clock, and then turn ed the revolver upon himself, putting a bullet through hls brain and killing himself Instantly. Gelsmar had attempted to enter the Ivey home at a late hour Thursday night and had been refused admission because Mr. Ivey, was away from home. He returned to the house early Friday morning and entered the kitch en without warning. He drew a re volver and fired at Mrs. Ivey twice or three times. One bullet passed through her shirtwaist and the second struck her In the right hand, passing through the thumb. Gelsmar then shot him self In the head, the bullet entering Just behind the right ear and shatter ing the top of the skull above the forehead, where It passed out. He fell In the corner behind a cupboard and died Instantly. Old Friend of Mr. Ivsy. Gelsmar had been an old friend of Eugene B. Ivey and hls wife and fam ily. Tie was a merchant from Ma con, where the Iveys lived formerly, and had been a guest at the house fre quently, the last occasion being Iasi Sunday. He was married und leaves a wife and two children. It wavslaled that he hnd been given to drink and was perhaps not responsible for hls ac tions Friday morning. Jf there was any other reason for hls attempt upon the life of the wife of hls friend beyond her refusal to admit him to Tier home Thursday night, the secret died with him. Eugene B. Ivey Is a bookkeeper and cHTcf clerk for the Atlantic Compress Company at Its offices at Pearl street and the Georgia railway. He lives In a beautiful home at the corner of Edge- wood avenue and Waddell street, In Inman Park, and the home bears every evidence ot refinement. Mrs. Ivey Is n Continued on Page Two. A CHANCE IN ON THESTAND, COLON RATES DEFENDSSELF Scare Thrown Into Ranks of Rail road Men. COMMISSION ENDS HEARING AT CAPITAL Did Mrs. Reid Put Arms Around Miller ? COMMITTEEMAN SAYS HE SAW IT It Is Expected That Thirty Days’ Notice Will Be * Insisted Upon. Soldiers’ Home Hearing Continues To Be Brisk and Breezy. Washington, Sept. 14.—The Inter state commerce commission this after noon conclude^ Its hearing of the rail road men, steamboat lines and cotton growers. Interested In the question of export cotton rates. While It undertook to make no decis ion at this time, the attitude ot the commission was broadly Intimated In some remarks of Commissioner Prouty. Hls suggestions gave a scare to tho railroad men, for he Indicated the lm presslon that the present arrangement of cotton export rales Is unjust and Inequitable, and that a reorganisation of them will probably have to be mode. John Sharp Williams w»* one of the speakers of the forenoon, and, ns i planter and grower of cotton, lie Indl cated the opinion that the railroads In refusing through billing to people who jrovlde their own ocean carrying facll- tles, have not been fair or fraik with the cotton growers. It Is expected that the commission will require the roads to give 10 days' notice of changes In rates, and to read just rates from Interior polntk to the ports of the gulf and south Atlantic coasts. Tho commission heard the statement of the position of the coastwise water carriers represented by Attorney Haynes. It was tentatively agreed that they might continue for the pres ent the plan of writing Into their through bills the statement that these constituted no admissions of the com mission's authority; and when the commission has more time It will rule on the proposition. The board of trustees of the Soldiers’ Home had their Inning at the Friday morning session of the committee which Is Investigating affairs at the home, and they placed on the stand first the vice president of the board, Colony W. S. Thomson, nnd then the treasurer, Dr. Amos Fox. The principal point brought out by Col. Thomson's testimony was that he believed everything was well and good at the home, that he didn't want to serve on the board, nnd that he made nothing more than a perfunctory ex amination of the reports of the treas urer and the vouchers submitted for purchases. Mrs. Reed, who has had her name linked with one of the veterans at the home, nppeared nnd asked a hearing from the committee, and Introduced several wltnescs who testified as to her good character. A dramatic tinge was given to affairs when sho denied tho statement of Senator Bunn, of the commltoe, that on Wednesday last after the committee adjourned she put her nrtn around the shoulder of one of the veterans and asked him to testify for her If her character was attacked. Sho Intro duced as one of her witnesses, the man Snffold with whonj her name has been linked. In a clear and conclne manner Saffold defended the character of tho former stewardess, and hls statement Continued an Page Two. TABERNACLE CAUSES CHURCH TO WITHDRAW FROM THE ASSOCIATION Washington', Sept. 1.—The executive council of the Federation of Labor will begin Its last session next Monday In Typographical temple prior to the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, which meets In Minneapolis th# second Monday In No vember. President Samuel Oompers will submit a report on the recent fight In ths second congressional district of Maine. Georgia supreme court and the Judg ment reversed. As It was Impossible to obtain any evidence against Turner except that of Alf Moore, which the eupreme court had discredited, he was returned on an order signed by Judge Mitchell of the superior court. Turner went from here to Harlra. but as soon as he learned the temper of the people he left the community. It Is Impossible to learn particulars of the attempted lynching, but a trustworthy cltlxen from that , .y*‘» accessory 10 me section says forty or fifty men.were a recommendation to looking for the negro on the night of uia cane was carried to the bis arrival there. Would Not Remain With Dr. Brough ton in. Because of the fact that the Baptist tabemscle remains a member of the Stone Mountain Baptist Association, the Calvary church, located near In man Park. In east Atlanta, withdrew from Shat organised body In the ses sion at Covington Thursday. This action Is merely a reflection of the big row in the association of two years ago, when the question of alien Immersion nearly split the organisa tion In twain. At that lime Dr. Lett O. Broughton and the members of the Baptist taber nacle, of Atlanta, arrayed themselves against nearly all of ths other members of the association. The fight was bit ter, but Dr. Broughton and hls forces apparently won out, because the Tab ernacle stayed In the association, and the subject was dropped. Dr. Brough ton then refused absolutely to hedge on hls stand and said he would with draw from the association before he would change hls position. The action of the Calvary church delegates came somewhat as a surprise, but they stated they were only repre senting the spirit of their church when they declined to compromise on the subject of alien Immersion. GRAND SON OF SAMPSON ADMITTED AS MIDSHIPMAN Annapolis. Md„ Sept. 14.—Roy C. Smith, son of commander Roy Smith, United States Navy ex-naval attache at Parts and a grand son of the late Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, has been admitted to the naval academy as midshipman. TO THE DENVER! Havana,. Sept. 14.—Comipander Col well said this afternoon: "Since landing, I have received no Instructions. whatever from the navy department. This morning Mr. Sleep er notified me that the state depart ment had Instructed him to request me to return on board. I was ready to comply, ot course, but I first visited President Palma and told him that In my opinion it was wall enough since the city continued quiet, to take the men aboard the Denver, which Is close at hand at the foot of O'Reilly street. T sold that we could land again In a few minutes In case of any disturb ance which made our presence neces sary tor the protection of Americans or quieting the situation. President Palma stated again that he would much prefer the men to stay where they were, but In view of ths circum stances 1 felt unable to comply. Conse quently here we are aboard ship again. We will remain light here, handy In case necessity arises for the landing a second time." WILL BURY MR8. WRIGHT IN ARLINGTON CEMTARY Washington, Sept. .14.—The body of Mrs. L. R. Wright, news of whose death at Brevier, Ky„ reached this city yesterday evening, will arrive here this afternoon for Interment at Arlington.