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"Situations Wanted" Advertisements FREE in The ATLANTA GEORGIAN The Atlanta Georgian. "Situations IVanted" Advertisements FREE in The ATLANTA GEORGIAN VOL. 1. NO. 185. . ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1900. PRTffP. In Atlanta TtVO CENT 1 JX-Ujili. 0n Trains FIVE CBN FS?yS LETTER THREATENS DEATH; MRS. W. H. YOUNG FINDS TWO WARNINGS IN HER MAIL AND SUSPECTS NEGROES Last Message Gives Her Ten Days to Live. CRUTCHFIELD IS ON TRIAL FORTUNE FOR TURKEY DINNER; ATLANTA’S MEAL TICKET WILL COST HER MANY THOUSANDS FRIGHTENED WOMAN APPEALS TO POLICE Double Rising From Riots Believed To Be Cause of Threats. Death In u violent form Ih tho fate J that Ih awaiting Mrs. W. II. Young, of [ 'll7 Plant Gain street, on or before next Sunday night, according to a predic- I tion made In a letter she has turned over to the detectives at police head- (iiiarters. She ha* until Sunday to live and in the meantime she Ih at her little home in fear of her life. Mrs, Young tries not to believe what this letter suy*. But try us she will, she cannot erase front her memory the words contained in that short, threatening note. It was on Thursday last that Mrs. Young received an envelope through the mall. On Its face was her name iiilUressed in a scrawling hand, and In the light-hand corner whh an Atlanta post mark. There was no clemyjnl for money—simply these words: "Mrs. Young—You will be murdered Before ten days.” And thin letter, or rather note—It was written on a blank visiting card—did not come entirely as a surprise. In fact, Mrs. Young had been expecting something of the kind for a day or two. Was Second Message. And there was reason for this, only a duy or two before she received a let ter, unonymoUH of course, that fore told something of the Black. Hand methods. This letter was a threaten ing one, and besides making threats. It contained many spiteful things. Who It came from Mrs. Young had not the slightest Idea. Hhe has lived In Atlanta about two years und In the East Gain street house about a year and a half, and in that time she has learned enough of the people near by to suspect at least one of them—a negro "‘ MtSl’VootrgM fttfimnurtt trrtncniaTr'hT the . mploy of the Georgia Hallway and Electric Company, and when he came home from his work his wife acquaint ed him with the facts untf showed him the letter. But he was not Inclined to place much faith In It. He totd his wife to forget It. But this she could not do. Slu* feared It would |>e followed, by something else, and In this she was correct. Tbs 8tcond Letter. ♦ Then came, the envelope ^containing tu card With the death sentence. To ►ay that Mrs. Young was unnerved by j Hits short, but terrible, note Is to put It mildly. Again her husband was con- | ►ulted and again he ridiculed the Idea : of a Black Hand being at work with ; designs on his wife’s life. J Hut Mrs. Young could not get the note or Its content* out of her mind. Sim went to Postmaster Blodgett and acquainted him with the facts, and lie. too, reassured her and told her to pass it from her mind. She then placed the two letters In the hands of detectives at police headquarters, but with no re- >ult so far. . . And in the meantime the time she has to live, according to the letter, Is rapidly drawing to a finish. In ten days the note said she would be murdered, and this time will expire Sunday night. As that day approaches Mrs, Young’s fear Increases. Tho house In which she lives Is Just ■ iround the corner from Hilliard street am! in tho vlclraty are several families of negroes. And It Is one of these that Mrs. Young believes has something to do with the death sentence. This be lief Is held for no other reason than ■— Hmt the other families In her neighbor-I hood, both white and colored, are pleas- j Speelul to Hie Georgian, smt enough ami would give no cause Gadsden. Ala., Nov. 28.—The dead for any suspicion. ! body of Wiley Ross, a well-known cltl- Woman It Susptcttd. I zen n { thiM city, was found entangled But this one negro woman bears the Jn 4 barbed wire fence which sur- r< nutation In the neighborhood of be- rouni j H H cemetery a short distance »>c- mg a fire hrund. Neighbors rem ^'nbei ( this city, by a fisherman at lu * 11 " A-rrn I o’clock this morning. 1,1 • 1 lust seei . THANKSGIVING FOR OUR NEWSBOYS. On Thanksgiving day we will give The Georgian to the news boys FREE OF CHARGE, so that all you pay the little fellows will be clear gain to them. Be sort o’ nice if you’d give a nickel for your paper and not wait for the change, wouldn’t it? !•••••••••••••••••••< '••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••■I SECOND ANONYMOUS NOTE RECEIVED BY MRS. YOUNG I ‘Walter and Jack” Had Met Mrs. Crutchfield. 1° cDc^- ‘LADY DETECTIVE” PLACED ON STAND Written, on ordinary blank visiting card, this note cams; through the malls to frighten resident of East Cain street. JIALICm | Solicitor General Hill is arguing for 1 the prosecution in the Crutchfield case at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon. All the evidence was in before 2 o’clock, and argument in tha caeo be gan at ones. It !e expected that the case will go to the jury during the aft ernoon. J. H. Crutchfield, charged with as sault with intent to murder his wife, Mrs. Hal lie L. Crutchfield, on October 25, \vas placed on trial Wednesday morning In the criminal branch of the superior court before Judge Roan. Mrs, Crutchfield failed to appear In court to teatlfy against her husband. Crutchfield, In giving evidence for him self, stated that Mrs. Crutchfield had written several letters, which he had In ATLANTA’S THANKSGIVING DINNER CHECK IS $59,410 160.000 pounds turkey, 23 cents $ 36,800 250 barrels cranberries, 12 cents a quart 2,<60 2 car loads of celery, 16 cents a bunch 3,000 J.ooo pounds chestnuts, 10 cents • too 8.000 quarts oysters, 40 cents 3,200 r»,noo dozen oranges, 25 cents 1,250 16.000 pounds grapes, 25 cents.... 3,400 20.000 pounds chicken, 15 cents 3,000 6.000 pounds nuts, 20 cents 1,200 Other trimmings 5,000 Total 359.410 HOW THE PIEDMONT DOES IT American Bird Will Get it in the Neck. ’POSSUM AND TATERS ON BILL OF FARE Atlanta Hotel Chefs ■ Dis- elose Secrets of Their t Sanctums. - .. htaJjMjk IftjtaUMhBttin, etat|qg that fane did not want to pfpspgutO' him; that she was satisfied that the shooting was an accident, and that she wanted a ^rapbuol nation. u *Ji+*** The claim of the defense Is that Crutchfield went to Mrs. Crutchfield’.' apartments for the purpose of effecting reconciliation. He had previously been driven from the place with guns, and fearing that he might be threat- [ ened with guns again, he carried his OilHltnil PrpfpVH f 1 hnvcn»M Winchester repeating shotgun with lllglllUIl X I tltlB VMlUlgtS, | hlm . Mrs. Crutchfield thought her hus- But They Are. Ruled Out of Order. Continu,d on Pag. Three. MRS. W. H. YOUNG. FOUND IN FENCE AROUND CEMETERY Special to The Oeorgiun. Columbia, 8. C., Nov. 28.—The gen eral conference of* the Methodist church for South Carolina and the expected sensation was not long In coming. When the second question was called, "Are the lives of the preachers blameless?” all the preachers and presiding elders were passed with out comment, except Rev, W. T. Dun can. When Mr. Duncan’s name whs reached. Rev. c. W. Creighton arose and said he had charges to prefer. The bishop ruled that Creighton being un der suspension from the conference could not prefer charges, but that If another preacher preferred them that was willing to entertain them, j HOTEL GUESTS By JOE CANALI, Chef Piedmont Hotel. Take a 12-puund turkey, clean and wush It well. Take two pound* of Imported cheMtnuta, bake and |ieel them and boll them with piece of celery until they are eoft. Have one pound of sausage meat, two pound* of white bread crumbs, two exits, one ohopped and fried onion und ■ hopped parsley, mix well together, stuff the breast and sew with a needle so ns to give a good shape. Put In a pan and baste with butter and hake in a slow oven for two hours. Haste frequently. At the end of two hours tho turkey should have u golden color. To tnako a good gravy spread a little flour In the pun and add some stock. This will also give good flavor to the turkey. LOOKS GOOD AT KIMBALL By EUGENE WE8T0N,Chef Kimball House. Roast turkey with chestnut dressing: Take one chopped onion, a pinch of celery, mix and fry In two ounces of butter until a golden col or Is obtained; add one-quarter pound of sausage meat, one-half pound fresh bread crumbs, one-hulf pound cook’s chestnuts, removed from skin and cut In small squares: the yolks of three eggs, half-pint of milk, n pinch of sage, a pinch of thyme, a little grated nutmeg and a pinch of chopped parsley; mix well together. Then tuke a 12-pound turkey which has been cleaned In the usual way, stuff with this mixture, put In a mod erate oven and roast for about two hours, basting every now and then. Serve with cranberry sauce. ARAGON SOUNDS APPETIZING By JIM JACKSON, Chef Aragon Hotel,- Select a good-slxed turkey—say, II to 13 pounds—clean In usual way and till with the following stuffing: Take a little bread and souk In chicken broth; chop a few onions, mix a little raw ham. chopped fine, and fry until It gets u gold color; take the bread out of the broth, squeeze, season with salt, pepper ami sage or poultry dressing, chestnuts and a few pistachio nuts. The turkey should then lie sewn up, laid In a clean roast ing pan, with a nlco piece of lard on top, uml roasted In a moderate uven foe about 3 1-4 hours, hosting every live minutes. Tuko gravy left In pan, throw some over bird und servp remainder In sauce howl; cranberry sauce to lie served on side. POLICE GUARD HOUSE RENTED TO NEGROES IN RESPECTABLE LOCALITY It will take a mighty big meal ticket to satisfy Atlanta’s hunger on Thanks giving day. And this ticket Is going to coat a fat roll, too. Homethlng like 330,000 or 370,000— that’s all. This price doesn't Include the folks who will dine on greens and pork. It Is the meal ticket which >wlll feed those who are going to have one of tlioso real, old-fashioned .kind of Thanksgiv ing feeds—the kind your grandfather told you about. And to satisfy all that Atlanta . hunger for turkey—the national blnl of 1 feed—thousands of the gobblers will get It In the thorax. Home 16,000, ex- , peris say, will be necessary to satisfy Atlanta and these birds are coming from a large area of the country. Now, the proper kind of a Thanks giving bird Is the genuine Vermont or Rhode Island turkey and while sotno folks may buy birds with this kind of a laliel on them, don't bo fooled. It’a all right to tell the friends you have ,' Invited to dinner that the bird was ] bred In old Vermont or Rhode Island, but on the quiet, forget It. Tha bird probably camo from the wilds of Ten nessee nr North Carolina, If a good old Georgia farmer didn't raise It. ’ Turksys Ara High. Good turkeys will cost anywhere front 20 cents to 25 cents a pound. Of course ! the kind that come from Missouri and are killed aome weeka before and uro soaked In cold storage, may be pur chased cheaper. But they are not like the kind that come from nearer home on the foot and that are sent to their doom the day before Thanksgiving. Big preparations for Thanksgiving have been made In Atlanta and store keeper! are having no troublo In get ting rid of tho turkey supply they pur chased, The hotels especially have laid In a goodly supply of the national bird of feed. All their guests will have- it good dinner on that day. The Piedmont hotel alone will uso 150 turkeys, while tho Kimball house and Aragon will have about as many. Not only the guests will feed well on that day, hut In tha case of the Pied mont hotel the employees will not ho forgotten. Every employee of the Piedmont, both white and colored, will be served with a delicious regulation turkey dinner, nnd as a result there Is Joy In the ranks of the Piedmont force. ’Possum and ’Tatere. There are some people In Atlantu. and Its environs, who are not going to be satisfied with turkey alone. They must have aoma Georgia trimmings— ■ the kind that ure not served way down Eust where the Unit cabin passengers of the Mayflower landed. They must have 'poaaum and aweot potatoes and this has caused the ‘pos sum market to be somewhat shy. 1C you have not already made provlilon for this feature of a Thanksgiving din ner It will be a case of hustle, for '|Jbs-. sums cannot be picked up with the ease of turkeys. Most folks who are going to eat 'possum have already a cqgtlve Creighton retorted hotly with bearlyir* ■ • a It ■ suppressed feeling: "If a man then Is [ blUVcltlOn AmiV HOt^I condemned to be hang he has no right { Bums in St. about midnight n<i tell about the way this negro worn, ui acted at the time of the riot*. ” hey • ill-talk about the way this woman,. . , , u Winded Kant Cain st«-eet and Hb „Jncr caused no alarm until ■• ■uneed the whites and told what she afternoon, when a search "“Id do were she a man and hud .i; |nstl t u te«l for him. but no trace . Mr. ] could be found. It Is thought lie wan- '• it ing.°nnd 'they* are °th I ngs* she cannot •rget and things which she connects "ith the mysterious letter—the letter '•Licit sentence* her to death on or be- h»re next Sunday night. s Mrs. Young’s husband works two • t*ks nt night and two week* during Hit; day. At present he Is working In Hie day time, but on Sunday at noon changes and begins working nt • light. Is it possible that the sender of •he Black Hand missive know* this and plans to deal out death to a defenseless nnan—the mother of a bright little ■ hap of eight years—at night while ‘ i husband Is at work? . Mr*. Young and some of her neigh- , t. 1 _l f.lamld liol (>VP lly deranged. The body was slightly scratched by the wire and had the appearane having been dead twenty-four li or more. MY. Ross was about 4o years of age. and Is survived by a wife and lied daughter, Mrs. John Htlllwell, both of whom reside In Birmingham. this, null take the view of my husband and Postmaster Blodgett, hut 1 Just cannot get the thought of those awful words from my mind. "Even now In the day time, when I whVare herYlose'friend* believe am alone and my little boy Is ut school. '••is to be the case. She believes that this negro woman v ill not henltate ut anything, and so • her neighbors. They believe, too, • t the*e same negroes want to get '• house Mrs. Young occupies aftd ■ "• nt the fact that she moved Into the • ighborhotsl. Mrs. Young’s home before her mar ; <k»* was In Statesboro. Ga., and her father and mother arc living there to- *>, and they ar» among the best |»eo- in Bulloch county. They are *•** >'! Mrs. Joseph H. Roberts, und Mrs. feurs that they might learn of -ive, ha* Concealed From Family. I wouldn’t have those dear old peo- harn of this for the world.” *Jie 1 Wednesday morning. "My father Ih» in Atlanta o» the next train ul. I am startled at every unusual noise, and I dread to think w'hat It will he after Sunday at noon when my hus band begins working at night. All I i nn do Is to pray that the sender of this terrible sentence will not carry out the threat.” , *. Ho far the detectives have been un able to learn anything about the mat ter. and every effort has been made t keep ft a sco**t. *'•>’ not to believe there Is any tiling in bug. „ In fact. Mrs. Young said nothing shout It. except to tin? of ficials and her husbund. until Monday night and wt hen she could hear the strain no longer. Mrs. Young says she has no enemies and cannot think of any one who would he suspected, unless tt Ih: the negro woman mentioned. And until Hunday night * •ones and g.K-s, she will continue to sh in her little parlor, fearful of an assassin’s bullet or al night the torch of a flre- ondernnecl to be hang he has no right to appeal to the supreme court?" "1 can only Interpret the law as it Is. * said Bishop Wilson. ”lf you want It changed you must change It. If any on* else wishes to make the complaint fiber .preferred any plaint and Rev. Duncan was passed on. At the appointed time R^v. W. Duncan reported the Investigation of the Creighton case and said a trial wa* deemed neci ssary The bishop accordingly appointed a committee, consisting nt thirteen preachers and their first sitting I* to he had during this afternoon. The ses sions will be public. Greetings Received. There are about 3oo preachers, mem bers of tin* conference and 4S laymen. Two Interesting incidents of the morn liig .session were greetings from the Baptist convention, now In sessi- Spartanburg, and one from Governor Kllatt Ansel. Both were returned In kind and Rev. J. B. Tray wick, and aged membef* »»f the conference, Recalled that 30 years ago the con ference had prayed for Hampton in the dark days of 1876, Governor Ansel’:* greeting was prefaced with a request that the conference would pray for his success as a ruler of the people. An Invitation was received nnd ac cepted from Columbia College, a Meth odist institution for girls In Columbia, Thursday night. Louis. 8t. Louis, Mo., Nov. 29.—The Light House hotel, a three-story building, at the corner of Market and Ninth streets, utilized as u .Salvation Army barracks, was damaged by fire early toduy, while Threats- to Dynamite Two Houses by Citizens. The indignation of citizen* in the vi cinity of Mnngum nnd Mitchell streets over the action of \V. K. Wimpy In renting the two-story residence ut 120 Mnngum street to a negro woman for a 500 homeless men wet*e lodged within negro boarding house reached the cu lts rooms. j max Tuesday night when It became feature of the conference worjc will be dally, lectures on the teaching of Hcrlpture by Bishop Wilson at noon. In the afternoon Rev. Tillett, of Nash ville, lecture on the doctrines of tho Methodist church. Half a dozen of the lodgers are dead and probably thirty-five are in hospi tals, more or less seriously Injured. Home of them are expected to die. Four were burned to dentil and their bodies could not be Identified. Two oth ers died front Injuries received In Jumping from upper windows. Six Are Unconscious. Six others of those who Jumi>eU are still uncon*c|ous und there 1* hut a slight chance thut any of them will re cover. The dead: FOUR UNIDENTIFIED MEN. »>o«llee burned beyond recognition. . OSCAR F. DAVIS, aged 76. old sol- An*'Interesth*»gj of Quincy, III., Jumped; filed at hospital. G. D. ROSE, Jumped; di^d at hospi tal. Fight for Lift Lints. The fire started on the third floor iinal swept rapidly through the old j building. The inmates fought at the OOOOOOOOOOOOOC>O0OO0OOOOOOO; windows to secure tin* life lines which O • Oi had been put up by the firemen so that O LOSES JOB FOR MAKING O I they could slide down to the street. necessary to have the house guarded throughout the night by a detail of po lice to prevent It and It* occupants from being blown to utoms with dyna mite. The sensational information that a quiet, but determined, movement*was on foot aiming certain of tho Incensed citizens to dynamite both the negro boarding house and the home of W. E. Wimpy. In West End, accidentally leaked out late Tuemluy afternoon and created Intense excitement. This news was quickly communicated to. Chief of Police Jennings and the chief in turn had a conference with Police Captain Jett, Instructing lilm to guard the house. Captain Jett, with a detail of eight policemen, went to the scene at 6 o'clock und remained on active duly until 6 o’clock Wednesday morning, guarding the property from any possi ble violence. Two of these policemen were stationed In an alleyway along- &GOtK>OOOOOOtK>OGOOOOOOOOOOO 0 CHANGES HER MIND O O RIGHT AT ALTAR. O 5 o 0 Tm'iv Haute, 1ml., Nov. 26.— O O When the Rev. J. II. Carnes, at O O Sullivan, asked Miss Fannie O 0 Crawford, who stood before I)ltn O O with Andrew Haynes, If she would O 0 "lake this nmn to be your lawful 0 0 husband," she said: 0 0 “No." 0 0 She explained that she had O O changed her mind. O O 0 OOOOOOOOOOOOO000OOOOOOOO0O RACE8 MARCH TOGETHER. O: but so great was the exelteinent of I .pje the house. Two other* were ae —— O those In the burning building that the I ,-reted In the Temple Haptlat ehuren. Pittsburg, Pa., Nov. 26.—C. C. Oiropse were of v’erv little tlxe,,and those ;it Mangum and Weat Hunter atreeta, " ' ~ short distance away. Two others 6 Marshall, superintendent of the O who could not escape liy the atalr,woy O public school at Coralpolls, n sub- 0 leaped from the windows. O lull of this cltj, will be asked to O A large number of those who Jumped C n slgn because of an order Issued O were caught In nets, but many did not O by him compelling while • hflitren O! wait for tho nets to lie spread and were O to march with negro pupils. OI O O . 00000000000000000000000000 Continued on Pago 3. were stationed at Mangum and Mitch ■ II streets, while the remaining two patrolled Mangum street In front of the bearding Itou'e. Woo No Outbreak., The presence of the notice put u quietus, temporarily at least, on the proposed demonstration and there Was no outbreak of any kind. It I* expected thut n similar guard will be maintained about the house again Wednesday night. ■voiding to the Infnrmnilon that leaked out about the plana fur revenge, a meeting of cltlxens, on the onler of a gathering of the old Ku Klux Klan, was called for Tuesday night at 10 o'clock. Where this meeting was to be held Is not known. After assembling at tlft appointed place, tho cltlxens were to proceed quietly to tho boarding house anti wreak summary vengeance. It Is said that the Intention had been expressed by them to then go to tho home of W. E. Wimpy for a similar purpose. It Is understood that two sticks of dynamite had actually been procured and the statement made that one was to be used In blowing up the Mangum afreet house and the other to iierform the same function at the Wimpy home, in West End. Whether the secret mooting was held Tuesday night could not bo learned. t'hlef Jennings stated Wednesday, in answer to questions, that Mr. Wimpy has made no appeal to him for siieclal police protection. Tho feeling I* still at fover heal nnd every effort will he made to prevent |s>sslble trouble. Tho negroes liqve as yet made no move toward vacating the animal In the back yurd wherefeald captive has been fattening for several days past. But ‘tla not well to <lw<ll upon such thoughts. They make the mind wander back to tho tall timber •: Georgia wilds and. the mouth water. While dealers who have been con sulted give Ilgures aa to what Atlanta will consume on Thanksgiving day In the way of turkey, chickens and a few stereotyped trimmings, there are lots of ; other good things for dinner which aw not Included In the list’and these will probably swell the dinner bill by sev eral thousands. Even at that, 370,01'" Is rather u good price to pay for u din ner, but then nothing la too good for Atlnnta folks. Possibly 3100.000 for tho , Thanksgiving feed bill would nearer . lilt the mark after Ole 150.000 Atlantu folks get through satisfying their hunger on the day of giving thanks for blessings received. But what's the use of bothering about expense? The day only cornea onco a yea i'. FIVE ARE INJURED Freight and Work Trains Crash Together, Wreck ing Loaded Cal’s. B|hh ini to The Georgian, Mm-oti. Ga.. Nov. 28.—A i‘oliixlou be- uveen a regular freight train siul n wrack ing tralu on tin* CVntral of Georgia rail- roitil. lionr Itolliii(l»roki, at 5 nVInt’k this nnirnliig. In n«l<Utlon to l»k*:klng tin* trains. Injur***! live iuimi, none aertonaly. It. K. Tomlinson, engineer, of Macon. T. J. Brown, of Macon. S. S. ttflfofi. of Mn«*on. Foreman of the Wrecking Tralu G. Bolgtit A train hit ml of M.icoii. a Flrctusn John Itulbcrfoni Evan KotiiJrick. Uoth tin* cHglin** were iMilly ilninugoil, au«l Flrvtaan of oyaiors. The «>nirul Iraln* uaeil the Imki for a while foiloy.