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ATLANTA ropnlfllloo Home* zu.uw Telephone* 15.003 >[kId line* of rnflrv'nds 6«\«>n Mllrs of street railways 150 Banking capital...... $12,000,000 The Atlanta Georgian. GEORGIA Cotton fnrtnrlPB 130. *plmll#» ••1 Jn 1033 SOO.OW VOL. 1. NO. 154. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1906. pPTPir. ° n Train* PIVB CENTS. riuv.lt. In Atlanta TWO CBNTJL CONVENTION BEGINS WORK; ENTHUSIA STIC GA THERING FDR VERY LIFE Sheriff and Posse Lay Siege to Robbers’ Retrea 1 . Sawyer, N. Dak., Oct. 2*.—Surround ed In a wood, ten miles from here, five bandits are battling for their lives with the sheriff and a posse of twenty-five citizens. It Is believed that the chief of the robbers' has been slain, but his comrades still refuse to surrender. The bandits have barricaded them, selves behind a wagon and big piles of loirs. They hold an fldvantageous po sition, which prevents the posse from charging from across an open wheat Held. The battle has waged fpr hours, and several of the posse have been slightly wounded. Armed with Krag-Jorgensens, the citizens arc aMlc to do their fighting at long range and have taken shelter be hind various farm houses. The bandits, when they saw there was no chance to escape, turned their weapons on the posse, which outnum bered them five to one, and the citi zens replied. Twenty-five men. armed with Krag- Jnrgensens, left Minot, X. Dak., on a goo train to assist Sheriff Lee in cap turing the bandits. The robbers entered the town early yesterday, and wiled discovered at work, held the citizens -at bay for two hours, until they had looted a safe of 14.500. The robbers escaped amid a volley of shots, and their pursuit was at once begun. • . Committees Canvass ing City to Raise • Money. $109,000 so far for the auditorium- armory. A committee composed of Sam D. Jones, Asa a. Candler. Colonel Clifford L. Anderson and \V. O. Cooper was out all Tuesday morning and as a result the following subscrlntlons to the stock and bonds of the Atlanta Auditorium- Armory Company were secured: W. Q. Raoul $5,000 J. Carroll Payne .. 5,000 John W. Grant .. 6.000 Walter P. Andrewa 4,000 E. H. Thornton.. .. 4,000 Henry Johnson 4,000 G. W. Connors .. / 1,000 E. Woodruff 1,000 Thomas H. Morgan 1,000 BIG DIACE Merchants and Manu facturers Lose Large ✓ Sums. Daniel T. Wilson Is Named For New President.. F, ID Ell PRICES Meeting at Topeka Is Discussing the Matter. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 23.—An organiza tion to control the grain products 'of th« country Is being formed in Topeka this week. o The Farmers’ Co-operatlv^BusIneea Congress opened Its first national meet ing here. 4 About 100 farmers' organizations are represented, and the purpose of the congress Is to decide upon plans of corn-tried action that will enable the farmers belonging to the organisations to fix the prices that consumers must pny for their agricultural products. Xo secret Is mado of this purpose. The leaders of the movement avow It openly, and point to the results that they have already attained In the South, where a similar attempt has been made. The plan by which the farmers figure on Axing the price that must be paid for their product! la that of co-operatlvo enterprises. In the South, the most powerful of agricultural organizations exists, and has succeeded In banding the farmers together. Co-operative gins and Warehouses are used to hold back the cotton crop until the buyers are forced to pay the price demanded by the union. „ S. Barrett, of Oeorgta, says this J* not a political movement, but that the organization will not healtate to , icglslatorz to do certain things. Bucket shops must go, he says, and In their places will be Installed agricul tural colleges and experimental sta- When President Brunsmon called the opening session of the Carriage Build ers’ Association to order In convention hall at Piedmont park Tuesday morn ing, there was a very large attendance. Quite a number of ladles were pres ent, nnfi President Hrunsman express ed great eatlsfartlon over this fact. He then • Introduced Governor-elect Hoke, Smith, who welcomed'the dele gates In a speech that received fre quent applause. Hoke Smith's Wolcome. GOVERNOR TERRELL RETURNING HOME Special t„ The Georgian. Darien, Ga., Oct. 2$.—Governor Ter- "" and party were here 8unday. All rmi*..*’*. 11 ’ , They were at St. Cathe- to Ll tcr l ay and will go from there .“ 5 a ' a " n « h today. The governor goes 10 Atlanta tonight. 0500<IOOOCIOOOOOO<KKHWOOO<HJO O C rn T I«5 00GA DOOMED O O T0 „IOTAL destruction o S SAYS WOMAN PROPHET. O ft • — 0 o S D''' UI to The Georgian. O i hattanooga, Tenn.. Oct. 23.— O o t . Mary H - Cullen, of Mobile, O “ “lm forecasted the Valparaiso - Earthquake and the San Francisco y ''Ix.lflfpr, HlMlMail atwweeg |f;l (B ciatcr, dreamed about' the Ha- O ana cyclone and made prediction* O o upheaval In Memphis, pre- O 0 n, a * le dcstr 'K*h>n of Chatta- Q nooga tomorrow morning at 7 0 1 ; She «yr Chattanooga O odestroyed by either an O 0 'riiiquake or a volcano eruption O o .t , au L ‘ e of the sins of the people O O ani the elections frauds. O SOOCOOOOOOSOOOOOOOOHJOOOOOC largest and most powerful association In the country. Mr. Smith said he had been called In to welcome the delegates at the last moment, owing to the absence from the city of the governor. He touched upon the vast resources of Georgia, and said he hoped that many of the visitors would And It ad vantageous to either move or estab lish branches of their business here. Mr. Smith received hearty applause and brought about u feeling of good fellowship at once. Woodward Talks of City. Mayor Woodward followed In a wel come In behalf of the city. He raised a laugh by saying that a great many years ago a distinguished federal gen eral mado a mighty Ane site for a city. "I leave It to you If we haven’t made good our opportunities and built a won derful city.’’ He referred to the recent riots here and said that In order to allay any un easiness any one might feel that the reports were greatly exaggerated In tne newspaper reports. Mr. Hunter Responds. R. P. Hunter, of Cincinnati, respond ed in behalf of the association In a most happy manner. He Is an easy, gracefuf speaker. "When we held our last session In Philadelphia there was some question ns to where our next convention would bo hold. A’ meek looking - gentleman with the air and bearing of a South erner came there, and In the face of Cincinnati, Chicago and other places, he won tile convention for Atlanta by Ills pleasing appearance and cordial In- V He referred graclgusly to Secretary Elliott Dunn, of the Atlanta Vehicle Club, who Invited the C. B. N. A. to A, »lr. Hunter said that they were all mighty glad they had come, for the welcome accorded them was most cor dial In every way, and he felt assured that It will be one of themosttuccee.- ful conventions ever held In the South. He was given hearty applause, President’s Address. President Brupsman In declaring the convention open for business, made a short, but Interesting,' talk on the work of the hssoclatlon.' ’’For the Aret time In the 34 years of our organisation ive are meeting south of tho Mason and Dixon line, and l’m sure we are all very happy to be here In such a line city and ninong such hospital hosts." BrleAy. he outlined the work of the association, what It had and hoped to accomplish. ., . t "We ore not a monoply, he de clared. "But we aland "" Common ground In such matters as freight rates. Insurance and such other matters as DANIEL T. WILSON NAMED FOR NATIONAL PRESIDENT Nomination Amounts to Election by the Convention. After the speech-making had been safely disposed of gt the Initial ses sion of the Carriage Builders’ National Association .Tuesday morning. Presl- lent Brunsmon c< “ for his successor. H. said Atlanta was )MM tor have ilLKASftS such a great and representative body of men here. That It-was perhaps the nation Daniel T. Wilson, of New York, for years rhalrmait of the, executive committee. The nomination was unter unrolled a huge telegram, with the following on It: "For president, Wilson. That’s all. (Signed) "EVERYBODY.” And Mr. Wilson had enough nice things said about him In a few minutes to turn his head. If he were not a well- balanced man. His formal election will take place Wednesday morning. One‘Person Is Killec and a Score In jured. Oct. It.—one Schenectady, X. dead ai the result of a smash-up on passenger dead and at least a score Injured is DANIEL T. WILSON. FT. OGLETHORPE DESERTER EFFECTS DARING ESCAPE FROM PRISON IN ST. LOUIS Special to The Georgian. St. Louie, Mo., Oct. 23.—Several com panies of eotdlers are scouring the woods south of St. Louis, searching for two deserters who yesterday captured their guard and escaped to the woods. Charles W. Rodgers, one of the es caped prisoners, was serving hie third enlistment In tho army, when he de serted from Troup H of tho Twelfth cavalry, at Fort Oglethorpe, Oa. Ho was tried by a general courtmorlfal at Jefferson barracks and his sentence of two years' Imprisonment was mado public Sunday. Mich Tnylor. the other escaped pris oner, was also bervlng a term for de sertion. REALISM CARRIED TOO FAR IN EL DORADO MELODRAMA i ior nit luiiiihom —. . We stand for the best Interests of the carriage-makers and manufactur ers of accessories. We can "dvlse to aether, hut we can not and no not at- tempt to Ax arbitrary rules on any "'lie^stated that during the convention a forestry expert from the government would talk on the subject of hart- woods and lumber generally In thla country. Hardwoods Almost Exhausted. "According to the estimates of the best experts tlie total available supply of hardwoods in the United States will be exhausted In 30 years. We must face this tremendous problem. President Brunsman stressed the ne cessity of good roads as one of 111'.' While portraying a murder scene Monday night at the El Dorado thea- ter. In the second act of "For a Broth er’s Crime," William Ffcrello. In the role of "John Redmond," the villain, accidentally plunged a knife blade Into tho left arm of Leo Monroe, playing the part of "Old Man Flynt," InAlctlng a painful, but not serious, wound. Monroe continued on the stage until the curtain fell, and no one In the au dience wgs aware that an accident had occurred. Notwithstanding the wound In his arm. the actor played his part perfectly and gave no Intimation by either expreaslon-or action that he had been hurt. .• At the conclusion of the act Dr. E. L. Hawley was summoned and dressed the wound. The doetty stated that the wound was not- serious. The "murder,” which had auch an unexpected and realistic tinge, ended Monroe’s part In the performance, but he remained In the theater until the Anal curtain was rung down. In the second act "Old Man Flynt” la ’•killed" by “John Redmond," the "mur der" being committed with a knife. Ad vancing upon his victim, the villain raised his knife and made a swipe at him, the blow Uniting on the "old man’s” arm. Florello realized he had cut his fellow actor, but,-like Monroe, he remained calm and kept up the play. feared that several of the Injured wlll.dle. A car. coming from. Troy got beyond control of the mortorman and alt his attempt* to stop It proved useless - The car, going at a fearful rate of speed, left the tracke, at the Junction and bowled along the ground until It hit one of the poles that support the trol ley wires. The car was overthrown an the passengers were thrown about lllt< sacks of grain. ARE SENT AGAINST REBELS IN CUBA Havana, Oct. 21.—Three hundred men of the Seventeenth Infantry, under command of Colonel Orsdale, have been ordered to Puerto Pilnclpe province to cope with armed rebels who are re ported as hovering around the out skirts of the capital and committing depredations. And They Say This Isn't A Fake Story By That Festive Gent, The Press Agent PRETTY ANNA HELD ROBBED OF $297,000! Continued on Pen* Three. Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 23.—Chief of Police Kohler hag had a large force of detectives busy trying to run down the alleged theft of a satchel containing gems and money to the amount of $297,000 that was reported as having been stolen from Anna Held, the ac tress. At Aret the chief was Inclined to be lieve It was a press agent's yarn, but ,Mr. Zlegfeld. the husband of the ac tress, Insisted that this was a bona Ade robbery, and the actress really wept as she told about It, According to the story, the satchel was taken from a state room on a- Pennsylvania train. She said: "They look all my Jewels—every one of them, but a Jeweled comb and the little watch I wore. I worked for this property all my Ilfs, and now I've nothing left, not even a ring. They took a portfolio containing valuable pa pers, notes and policies. They took $6,000 In $100 bills, 9,000 francs In t.000 and 100 franc notes, and one gold piece." ALDERMEN REFUSE FI At Its meeting Monday afternoon the alderinanic board found that there were people who objected to the granting of a franchise lo the Atlanta and Caro lina Construction Company'for the building of an electric line through cer tain streets of the city entering the corporation at Confederate avenue and ending near the Terminal station. J. ,'Q. Oglesby, Julius L. Brown and others living along the route which the proposed ordinance allows the road to take came before the board anil argued to such effect that the measure was re- referred to the city cbuncll, with the recommendation that the com n't tee on electric and other railways give It a more thorough consideration and make further recommendation. Total Tuesday $30,000 These subscriptions were secured on Monday after the publication of the list in The Georgian: Georgia Rnllway and Electric Company $10,000 Asa O. Candler 6,000 C. J. Simmons .. 4,000 J. W.-English .. .. .. .. 4,000 George W. Parrott 4.000 J. K> Orr ... 2,000 Raised at the meeting of thfe committee of 25 at noon Mon day 60,000 Grand total ..$109,000 The following committee are can vassing the office buildings named on Tuesday afternoon: Fourth National Bank Building—H. C. Bagley, J. Wiley Pope and J. W. English. Prudential Building—E. If. Thornton and a committee to be selected by him. Third National Bank Building- Frank Hawkins and C. E. Caverly. E. R. DuBoae reported the subscrip tion of his partner, Henry Johnson, Tuesday morning, and said he expected at least $76,00n.of tha securities to he taken In Whitehall street. Richmond, Va., Oct. 2$.—Heavy dam age to real estate and merchandise In the submerged district, the extent of which can not be. Intelligently esti mated at this time. The Iosb of thou sands,of dollars to manufacturers and merchants by the Inundation of Indus trial plants, wholesale and retail stores. Thousands of dollars' loss In trade to rotall merchants In lower Main, Frank lin, Cary and Seventeenth streets In the submerged portion df the Shockoe valley and In the low-lying districts of Fulton, whose places of business are closed. Temporary suspension’ of traffic In the Hooded streets, Inconvenience and expense to the patrons of the street whose business compelled them to make use of the Improvised ferry sys tems, which are In operation in. the Inundated streets. * “- * j • Several thousands of .dollars paid out by merchants for the removal of goods and machinery to temporary storage out of reach of the encroaching waters. maximum 'height -shortly before day break this morning. QOtJoei KWKSOOO<HJOOO<HJOO<KKXH3 a o O GOTHAM TENDERLOIN Q IS CLOSED UP TIGHT, a O a Yew York Oct. 21.—The tender- O O loin was closed up tlpht Inst night. 0 0 It was Mid by the wise ones that C Q It was the greatest frost that has o O descended upon rambling and 0 O pool room .plans , in the memory O O of the oldest lookout. O O ' O 00000000000000000000000000 SAYS VOICES GUIDE HER; MRS. BRIGGS FANCIES SHE IS UNDER HYPNOTIC SPELL Believing she Is under the Influence of some strange hypnotic power, which controls her every movement and from which aha la unable to free herself, Mrs. Alice Briggs, of 38 East Georgia ave nue, wife of Charles Brings, both na tives cf London, Is held prisoner, a Jury before Ordinary Wilkinson Tuesday morning declaring her to be Insane. Mrs. Briggs, who was taken Into cus, tody Monday night by Police Call Of Acer Dorset! at the Instigation of her husband, ridicules the Idea that she Is Insane, declaring there la absolutely nothing wrong with her mind. She as- rerts she was hypnotized by some un known persons for an unknown reason and that she has been under the hyp notic epell for tho past year and nine months. On all other subject*, except hypno tism. Mrs. Briggs talk* rationally and demonstrates that she Is- a woman of culture. On thle subject, however, her conversation becomes rambling and It plain her mind Is unbalanced on this point. , Husband Tails Story. The husband, In talking of the cose Tuesday morning, stated, that he Was afraid the strange hallucination of his wife might lead her to do something rash. "My wife says sha can hear voices talking to her and that these voices commsnd her what to do. This hal lucination haa driven her to threats of suicide rtnd other violence.” Mrs. Briggs last July created a scene In Washington by appearing nt the po lice station and appealing to the chief of police to afford her some relief from the hypnotic spell. She had been sent to Washington by her huaband In com pany with another woman, he thinking the trip might benefit her. "I certainly am not cmay," said Mrs. Urlggs Tuesday morning at the pollen station. "I hove always been regarded as a woman ot Intelligence and, in 1' ict, my older sisters and brothers, locked up to me, I know there Is something wrong with me, but It Is not my mind, it Is hypnotism. I was hypnotized a year and nine month* ago anil ever sine* then I have bean trying to $*• llevo myself of this spell. It nAccts my whole being. I am under control bf other minds and I Just have to do what they command.” Mrs. Briggs and her husband came to America from London nine years ngn. They have traveled. extensively since coming to this country. SHIP WITH $3,000,000 IN GOLD ON BOARD MAY BE A WRECK New York, Oct. 22.—There Is much apprehension felt by the agents of the British steamer, Arlblstan, for her safety. She has $2,000,000 In gold on board. She sailed from Buenos Ayres and Montevidq last month. She was last reported as having sailed from St. Lucia on Octo ber 12. The eteamer was then bound for San Juan, P. R., but no news of her arrival there has been received In New York. DEFENDAN7 IS SET FREE; WITNESS HE Lb FOR PER J UR Y 00000000000000009000000000 O BO'? KILLS MOTHER, O THEN RUNS AWAY. O O O O Chatham, N. J. Oct. 22 —The O O police searched today for John J. O O Sacco, 7 years old, who while O a playing with a Flobert rtAe accl- 0 O dentally shot his mother. The Ju- O S guler vein was serered and she O died in twenty minutes. The boy O O then disappeared. . O O O 90004000000000000000000000 IE UTILE TO SAY The local striking machinists of the Southern have decided not to make a reply to the statement of II. B. .Silen cer. general manager of the Southern, which was published In Monday’s pa pers. They continue to hold their regular morning meetings, but will not give out any action that takes place there, unless It Is considered by them of gen eral Interest. They are steadfast In their determination to hold out to the end for tlielr demands for higher wages. Asked If the Southern could einploy enough men to take their places, which has been threatened, one of the strik ers replied that the Southern might get "enough men, but not enough nutchln- Ists.” The liberating of the defendant, .the arrest of the stato's only witness for perjury and the arrest of another man for contempt of court, was the result of the trial Tuesday of Walter Edmunds, a white man charged with the murder of Frai$J< Smith, a negro, on the For syth street viaduct during the rioting on the night of September 22. Tom Oakes, the slate's witness, had sworn before the grand July that he saw Edmunds kill the negro with knife and hud pointed out Edmunds us the guilty man to J. T. Oawhorn and T. L. Fuller on the night of the riot ing; but when lie got on the stand he said thut he was so scared that he cijuld not tell who did the killing. He said at Arst that no one had spoken to him about the case since he was before the grand Jury, but later admitted to Solicitor Hill that a man who said Ills name was Webb anil who represented himself to be a bailiff, had told him at the court house last week that If he testlfled against Edmunds he would be sent to Jail. He stuck to his story, however, that he could not swear Edmunds was the man who stabbed the negro. It ts said the defense, was prepared to show by companions who were with 'sented thi state. Oakes on the night of the riot that he saw nothing of the killing of tho Smith negro. When he saw how things stood Judge Roan ordered that Oakea be held for Investigation by the grand Jury' and that Webb be brought before him for contempt. The Jury returned a verdict of not guilty In the Edmunds case, without leaving their seat*. AFTER LENGTHY TRIAL OWENS' IS ACQUITTED T. L. Owens, a railroad brakeman and former city policeman, was found not guilty Tuesday afternoon In the superior court after a twelve-hour trial, for an alleged assault on his daughte Bertie Owens. The defense claimed that the ’girl had had a bad character and I trumped up the charges against I father because he had been too str with her. The defense was unable prove positively any Immorality other thin swearing, however, and the prose cution claimed that this had been tnught the girl liy hep father. Attorney John W. Moore spoke m about an hour nnd a half for the de fense and Solicitor C. IX HU1 repre-