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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN, TXirnSDAT, DHCEMDER 6. 1304. One Man Is Killed. Wounded Found by Rescuers. Houghton. Mich., Dec. 6.—The.Mes- na.ii Shaft of the Quincy mine was visited last night by one of the worst disasters that has'befallen a copper company In years. That the loss of life was not greater than actually occurred Is believed to have been due to the , (U jck relief measures Instituted,by the mining company. At least one man was killed and a •core more or less Injured as the result of the explosion of several thousand iwunds of dynamite stored In a maga zine on the twenty-first level. Until an early hour tills morning It was Impos sible to ascertain the extent of the damage, and even then there are u number of men who have not been accounted for. Fire broke out after the explosion and the damage may be much worse than at flrst was believed. Forty miners had just descended to commence the night shift in the Men- nard shaft when the magazine exptod- ed. William Goggln was Instantly billed and a number of the thirty-nine others fatalljP injured. Rescue parties Immediately commenced an under ground search for the missing men. The heat and gases caused by the ex plosion made this work difficult, but with perseverance the men finally found several unconscious and badly injured men. ft has been ascertained that the ex plosion was caused by a miner who ires engaged In cutting a stick of dyna mite. dropping some flaming grease from his candle. BIRDSONG TRIAL IS BEGUN IN COURTi SHERIFF TESTIFIES MRS. RA WLINS BEARS BODY OF HUSBAND TO HOME AMONG HILLS Daughter Drives Old Horse Along Country Road While Widow Sits Beside the Coffin. Special to The Georglao. Jacksonville, Oa., Dec. 6.—Along the country'road, under a misty, rain that seems to shut out every hope of sun shine, a widow and her daughters are driving to their old home. In the wagon is a coffin and beside It sits the woman, her eyes undlhiiiied by tears that will not flow, staring ahead Into the mists. Beside her ts the body of her husband—but she can not give herself to grief for him. Rack ing her mind, driving her mad with fear, is tile thought of two other bodlei. that must soon be borne along that same road—the bodies of her sons. TiJ© woman la Mrs, Rawlins, widow of the man who paid the penalty of his prime last Tuesday In the Valdosta Jail. She la bearing home the body of her husband—a murderer, but atlll her husband. A daughter holds the reins and guides the old horse slowly PASTOR TO LEAVE ALA, CONFERENCE Montgomery Divine To Be Located at New Or leans Church. Special to The Georgian. Kufaula, Ala., Dec. C.—There Is no more conspicuous figure In the Alabamu conference now in session here than Tells How Murdered Doctor Was Shot Five Tunes, Two After Dead. r ? -.\ #<F.oi in! to The Georgian. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 6.—At Hazle hurst today the Birdsong trial was be gun in earnest wltli the examination *»f witnesses. W. W. Williams, former sheriff of Lawrence county, and an eye witness, testified tbnt Dr. Butler shot five times; twice In the office and three times on the pavement;, that two •>f the shots were fired after he was down. Judge Miller refused to allow the ad mission of any evidence tending to show the relation! between Dr. Butler nnd Mrs. Birdsong, as urged for by the defense. The defense requested that the physl- < fnns they had summoned to testify be not placed under the rule, but this was overruled. ATLANTA NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD Union Machiniats. An annual election of officer a for the International Auoclatlon of Machinists. Atlanta I.oilgo No, 1, will take place Thursday night at Federation hall. Un usual Intercut I* being displayed by the union machlnlMH *.f Atlanta In the elec- Hon of president, and a full attendance I* expected. Dr. H. R. Barnard. I'r. if. R. Bernard, who was elected Tuesday , to the position of auditor of Hie Baptist board of missions for Geor. via, will move to this city. He was formerly secretary nnd treasurer of ■he Baptist commission of education, and had,his headquarters at Macon. I >r. Bernard Is well known as a. mission «orker and Is very popular In Atlanta. through the wood's to the hptne among H' hills at Jacksonville. ithe This' will be the home-coming of Rawllns-a-borne HI- a -coffin to his last rest. • For eighteen months the women have waited and watched and prayed —for husband and sons, father and brothers—behind the bars of the Val dosta Jail. * They have given Mrs. Rawlins her .husband—a corpse. Will they let her young sons live to serve out their lives In prison, perhaps to be set free after paying dearly for" a'reputed crime which their father swore on the gal lows they did not .commit— Or will the old mother be given the bodies of her sons, that'she may make a second pilgrimage- to, Valdosta nnd drive the old horse-once more to the little home In the hills—this time with two coffins In the wagon Instead of one? It Is up to the three prison commis sioner* to answer. On one side |s the law. stern, Inexorable. On the other —mercy—with the benefit of “very rea sonable doubt.” FOUGHT PISTOL DUEL; ONE SHOT TO DEATH Shooting Occurred in Bar room, Both Men Emp tying Revolvers. Special to The Georgian. Birmingham, Ala.. Dec. 8.—Following a charge of mistreatment In a south side saloon, Alf Parker, a blacksmith, was shot to death by J. P. Edwards, a bartender, at 8 o'clock this.morning. Both men ethptled their, revolvers. Parker being shot through the heart and chin. Edwards received wounds about the legs and left side, which may prove fatal. I? was a pistol duel fought to the finish. ASSERTS SPIES OE JAPANESE ARE AT WORK Western Senator Says Agents of Mikado Menace Country. Washington/ Dec, 6,—The Far Weat and the Kouth are In sympathy In the matter of Miolr problem*. ‘The Southerner* have expressed themselves about the Japanese question, and make it clear that they under stand what Californians hare In. their mind, and some of the expressions suggest that the Snn Francisco question is uot to l*e lightly passed over as an Incident to be for gotten after everybody has had Moreover, It la nppareut that California Is not alone In this protest against the Japan ese. Western men point out that this prob lem ban been developing for a long time. Sa/s Jap Spies Are Active. Western senator, who comes from mountulu rather thaa a coast state, talked frankly of bla people, ffe would not permit his uatne to Ih» used. Itut he mode It plain thnt his people In hla state do uot fhl the question is a local incident. I have no doubt thnt the whole West is ... and 'sples. , • he said. evidence enough to make kli I have seen „j believe It They are working just as they did In Rus sia and Manchuria before the war with' Russia. “The people out West are very much in arnest about tbla question. The Japanese jre still coming to our shores, and will keep coming and making the problem larger and TO HOLD MEETING WITH BIG DINNEH REV. HENRY T. JOHNSON. Pastor of First Methodist church of Eufsuls, Ala., and host of tbs present station of ths Alabama conference. First Methodist churcn and host of the conference. Mr. Johnson rose from the foreinnn- shlp of a bridge gang on the Louisville and Nashville railroad to the position which lie now occupies’. He Is one of the greatest preachers of Alabama Methodism, having held some of the best appointments In the conference. He has u style all his own. Some people have called him the “Sain Jones of Alabama.” * It Is announced that Rev. J. A. Rice, D.D.. who has served Court Street church, Montgomery, for the past four years, will transfer to the Louisville conference. It Is furthermore under stood that he will be appointed to Rayne Memorial church, New Orleans. An animal meeting of the Hnghiccrliig Association of tin* South, composed of dll the prominent civil and constructive cm gluccrs of Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, will take place at tbc,K!inball December It and 15.* The v!siting engineers will be entertained by the Atlanta section, of which City Knglnoer Clayton Is president. The busluess. meeting of the association will he held In- the convention ball at the Klmhnll December 14. Prominent en gineers. Alexander Itonucrman. chief en gineer of the Atlanta, nirmingham nnd At- liintle; Hunter McDonald, chief engineer of the Louisville nnd Nashville; Professor liraudi, Georgia School of Technology, and others, will read Important papers, The Atlanta chapter will entertain the Isltors with a tour of all the points of engineering Interest In the city on Decern her 15. They will be taken In carriages the Atlanta terminal station, the Gate Htjr tcrndnnlH. now under construction Ictlon.” Firs ’Em Out, Says Mudd. Itcpreseutatlve Mudd was asked today for specific statement of Ids view# on the demand of the Japnuese to enter the white schools in San Francisco. - I do not sec any use.” he said, “lu mincing words, or of treating this matter, to use n familiar expression. In a 'mealy- mouthed* manner. It Is useless either to deceive ourselves or to seek to deceive the Japanese. “I know of hut one method of treatment of a fellow thnt we do uot want to enter our house, and that Is to keep him our. If lie does nut go our. we put him out. It Is uot the American fashion to use very much unction of ceremony lu the manner of bis ejectment. . They Ought to-Settle It. "In my Judgment, this question of the ad mission of Japanese, particularly adult Japanese, to the same schools with the white children of California I# a matter of domestic concern with the people of Cali fornia. It Is lar—* ** - ' * •“ the people there these people, they ought to settle it. “I have, I am frank to say. some rather not think the Japanese contentious should he tolerated for a minute in a movement seeking to enforce the admission of these overasscrtlve smartish fellows Into social Juxtaposition with the white children of California." SHAW ASKS CASH F( hut the freight terminals of the Louisville und Nashville,' the Washington street viaduct nnd the reinforced concrete viaducts In West Atlanta. . Krlegshaber, 8. L. Morrow HiJI, Jr., im>»)l>er* of the enter- committee. Two Corporations. Two petitions for charters were filed in the superior court Wednesday aft ernoon. The Willingham Investment f ompany, capital stock $5,000, incor porated by J. A. Willingham, E. M. Dillingham and A. H. Watson, asked for a charter. This company will deal ,n r< *»l and personal property. A char- t“r for the Atlanta Labor Temple Com pany. capital stock $25,000, was applied [;■' by Charles W. Bernhardt. J. B. Mewitt et al. The purpoee of the com. wny i, to erect a labor temple In the Shanghai, I.’idna, Dec. 6.-The South China Morning Post's rorre.iionilent nt Mil- ■-hiraiur telegraph. Hint the Japanese to iler linn i'll till- city over to Hie Chinese, and th.it the Clilneno fins tin. been hoisted ,-pr the public buildings. Miii'hwans hill lieeii hebl by the Jap anew* .la,-* the beginning of the. war with llua.li- RIFLE SOLD IN COURT; SMALL BOY RECKLESS Clt Big Kick on Late Mails. ► The Georgian. “peels! to Augusta, Ga., Dec. 6.—Auffusta lm* a S'-it deal of trouble getting the mail ■'u time, and scarcely a day posses that '[ li not from one to three hours late. J "mplalnt has been made trer.uently ay the postmaster. New Boiler for Hospital. The finance committee Thursday morning adopted a resolution recoin- ' hding to council the appropriation nf 81.580 as a supplementary fund Ion of a new boiler “mplete the erectL the Grady hospital. VIVA Thursday was bargain day In police eourt. Only one article was sold, but It went for a mere trifle, the transac tion being on entirely unique piocecd- Ing for the municipal mill of justice. Clifford Owens, a small, negro boy, was arraigned on the charge of reck lessly shooting a repeating rifle, the testimony showing that the bullet had gone Into a house In Windsor street and narrowly missed a sick woman. The hoy said lie ivos shooting at a bird and had no Intention of doing any harm. •. . . . . Judge Broyles dismissed the case and order'd the boy whipped by his moth er, also telling her she would have to get rid of the rltle. She said she was willing to do this, nnd Officer Duck, who was In the court room, promptly offered her one dollar for the weapon. The woman agreed to the price and the officer tvas given the gun, after winch nil parlies In the case left the court room. -A slight change for the better In the condition of James R. McKeldin, who ( ls critically III at Ills home. 15 East North avenue, has greatly encouraged his family nnd friends. Wednesday night he held his own and even this was encouraging. Thursday afternoon Ills physician* reported a alight change for the better. His brother, Hugh Sic. Keldln, la at the bedside and will re main. TO WpRK CONVICTS BUILDING RAILROAD INTO BRUNSWICK, GA 8uit for Damage*. H. W. Pitch haa brought suit in the superior court against the Louisville and Nashville railroad nnd the Atlantic Coast I.li.e railroad for 810,000 dam ages. Plaintiff alleges that while act ing as detective for defendant he was Injured by a door which fell from a passing freight train in Atlanta. Special to The Georglao. Brunswick, Ga., Dec. 8.—The board of roads and revenues of Glynn county haa paased favorably on a petition pre- aented them, algned by a large majority of the largcat tax-payers In Glynn county, aaking that the city and county convicts be put to work to grade the roadbed, lay the ties and Iron of the extension of the Georgia Coast and Piedmont railroad from the Glynn county line to the city of Brunswick. The Georgia Coast anil Piedmont of ficials, at a conference here several days ago, agreed to extend their line from Darien to Brunswick, provided the eltlsens of this county would con tribute labor to the value of $130,003 for the purpose of grading their road bed and laying the ties and Iron from the county- line to the city limit*. In addition to the value of the labor to he furnished through the county and city convicts, sufficient cash will lie sub scribed to furnish any balance required to make up th* $100,003. ■ Atlanta May Federal Prison Get Large Amount. Special to The Georgian. Washington. Dec. 8.—In his letter to the speaker of the house of represen tatives, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw makes the following recommendations for appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1308: Por the Atlanta United States peni tentiary, 1102,000, with 1138,420 addi tional for-maintenance. Por public building, Atlanta, 8250,000: Dalton. 315,000; Albany, 380,000; Ma con, 350,000, and 83,000 for rent of building; Gainesvlle, 315,000; Marietta, 320,000; Valdosta. 350,000. For harbor Improvements nt Savan nah. 180.000, und for maintenance of harbor, 350,000; for Savannnh quaran tine station, 3500; for Improvements at Darien and Doboy bar, 323,000; Cum berland sound, 375,000; Brunswick har bor. 326,000. Improvements In rivers; Savannah, 323,000; Altamaha. 315,000; Oconee, 315,000; Ocmulgee, 315,000; Mint, $20,- 000; Chattahoochee. 375,000; Coosa. Oostanaula and Coosawattec, 360,000. For waterway between Savannah and Pernnndlna, 830.000. Por Ogleriiorpe Veterinary hospital, $17,600. To add one regiment of cavalry at Port Oglethorpe, near Brunswick, and for maintenance of same, 1330,250 and 3323,850, respectively. Por cotton boll weevil investigations, $105,000. HURT YEARS AGO, ACTRESS GETS $4,000. New York. Dee. 8.—Eleven years ago sa she was getting off a car. May Gar- lick, an old-time opera singer, wjio married an Italian nobleman, the Mar quis. de Keo, was thrown backward, breaking her ankle and suffering In juries which make’ It Impossible for her to pursue her stage and operatic career. • On yesterday she was granted a verdict for $4,000 in the supreme court against the Metropolitan Street Railway Company. LADIE8* UNION SELLS CHRISTMAS GIFT8. Looking for something nice to buy as a Christmas present? Listen. The Ladles’ Union of the Central Congregational church have mber 7, at the store of Delbridgo & Rice, on Broad street, opposite the Engllsh-Ainerlcan building, and there will lye Christmas presents by the busheL Toys and Dolls The Best Display in Atlanta. Wise folks are buying Toys and Dolls now, before stocks are picked over and assortments broken, and be fore the later rush makes choosing difficult and unsatis factory. To more strongly influence early buying we offer some very special values for tomorrow and Saturday. Come and share in the bargains. Second Floor and Balcony. A big lot of 50 and 75-cent Dolls that have become slight ly soiled from handling; will go at, choice -. “Buster Brown’’ Circus and “Buster Brown” Part}*; two new children’s games Express Wagons'; 4-wheel; well made; best value you’ll see at Special Demonstration of "Exer-Kefch, The Novelty Game and Exerciser. Doll Dining Tables at 25c, 50c and $1.00. Doll Chairs, nicely painted. Special, 10c. Doll Castors for the table, 10c and 25c. Doll Pianos; Seboenhut make, 10c to $1.00. Doll Carriages and Go-Carts, 10c to $1.00. Doll Tea Service Sets, 10c to $1.Q0. Doll Heads, 25c, 50c, $1.00. Iron Toys of .many kinds, 10c to 50c. Ilorns, all sizes, bright colors, • 5c to 25c. Mechanical Trains, with track. Special. $1.00. Woolly Sheep, Dogs and Don keys. Special, 50c. Elephant, with moving head and tail. Special, 60c. .Magic Lanterns, with Slides, 25o to $1.00. Stuffed Monkeys. Special, 60c. First Floor Specials. Table Set—Consisting of hemstitched, fringed linen table cover and G mats to match; reduced to 75c Leather Pillow Materials for making the pop ular “post card” pillows—lacing and fringe; 5c and i lOo Leather Postcards—A new line of attractive designs at, choice 5c Ruching—New and pretty—6 different styles in box; all for / 25c Candies—Delicious Chocolates and Bonbons; best iu town at 10c and 20c Bargains'»«■<■ Basement Crumb Tray and Scraper of solid brass; nickel- plated; special • $1.00 Bath Room Fixtures of solid brass, nickel- plated; special values at 25c and 50c Wire Racks for kodak pictures or souvenir postcards; large size lOc Pastry Boards of select white wood; size 20 by 27 inches; special at gQc Coat Hangers, wire or wood; per dozen ...50c Raisin Seeders, best on the market 10c Holiday China, Crockery, etc. Main Basement. Toy Table Set of imitation cut glass; consisting of butter dish; sugar dish, cream pitcher and spoon holder; 25c value; at 15c Oatmeal Saucers of rose deco rated porcelain; special . ,5c Fancy Cake Plates and Salad Howls; 19 to 25c values; at ...10c Fruit Stands and Cake Stands of heavy clear glass in imita tion cut designs; very special ,15c Salad Sets and Cake Sets of line china, in beautiful floral or landscape designs, on tinted background; set consists of 7 pieces; worth $1.50 to $2.00; only .* $1,00 Mustache Cups and Saucers; decorated and tinted; 25c values .....15c J ordinieres with pedestals; largo size, odd lot; choice to morrow 60c McClure Ten-Cent Co. Main Store - - Corner Whitehall and Hunter. BOND ISSUE WINS IN HAWKINSVILLE Special to The Georgian. Ilawklnsvllle, Ga.. Dec. 6.—All credit Is due to the Young Men's Democratic Leasue for It* magntfleent effort In yesterday's election. This body Is com- posed of the best talent among the young men of*the city. The' city now own* Its waterworks and Is proud of It. The election yesterday to determine whether the city of Hawklnsvllle pose of building a city hall and audito rium. was carried by 188 In favor of bonds, with only 20 opposed. This as sures the bond issue. INTERESTING ITEMS. AT THE TURN OF THE ROAD. (By Ollrtr Wendell Holmes.) The glory fens passed from the goldsarod's pluuie. Tbs pnrple-hued asters still Usgsr Anil winter’s w blast) For" na* dull November May. Por my love Is Its suoshlne-ebe meets mt tu-lay! blowing his sweeter than Will she come?—Fill the rlag-dore return to her nest? Will the needle awing back from the etel or the west? At |be stroke of the hour she will be st her gate; A frleml may prove laggard—but nevet comes late. THE BEST MAGAZINES AT THE BEST RATES. Sheffield upea yearly over ring-bone# for knife handle#. In Southern Egypt thye I# no dew- fall, and sometime# only twenty min ute# of rain for a whole year. Every employee of the Brltlah post- office get# a wedding present from the government when he marries. No bird can fly backward. The dra gon fly, besides outstripping the swift est bird, file# backward with ease. During thirty days after a death In China the nearest relatives of the de ceased do not shave nor change their clothes. There are stars so distant that a fly ing machine moving at the rate of 500 miles an hour would require 600,000,000 years to reach them. Each stroke of a man's heart occu pies about half a second, but the heart rests after each stroke, so that It only makes seventy a minute. While the Germans fire paying more and more attention to the English lan guage there Is a decline of German us a school subject in England—Philadel phia Pre##. Not Do I ree her afar fa the distance? yet. Too •"irljr! Too early! She could not for* get: When I cro** tho old bridge where Jb« brook overflowed. She will daub full lu sight at the turn of the road. I pass the low wall where the fry en twines; I trend the brown pathway that lend* through the pine*; 1 haste i»y the Itowldor that lies lu the Held, Where her promise nt porting was loving ly. sealed. Will #lie conn* by the hillside, or round through the wood? Will she wear her hrowu dress or her mantel and hood? , The minute draw* m\ir-but her watch inny In* wrong; My heart will be asking, what keeps her so long? moment? More shame Why doubt for If I do! Why question?_ Why tremble? Are angels more true? 8l»e would coma to the lover who calls her Ills own, crossed the old bridge ere the minute Iuttl pr.ssed. looked: lo! my love stood before me at lb*t Her eyes, how they sparkled; her checks, bow they glowtnl, A* we met. fnee to fsee, at the turn of Says a woman: *i cure not who does ( *» .»v U ...... p*- . «• .** «. the thinking so long as 1 am permit;*! 'cuse for not recognising his creditor# Idea Into t\ln head tha to do the talking.” when he happens to meet them. dimple can be In the IntelKc near-sighted man h is p. good ft* Every one must keep up with daily events going on so rapidly all the time. If you do not read some dally paper you are falling behind. If you do not read some good magazine and en joy the literature that Is contained In these publications every month you are missing much that Is good. You can secure The Georgian every day in the year, except Sunday, and one of the most prominent magazines iu America for a little more than the price of The Georgian alone, which Is only $4.60 per year. Take advantage oc The Georgian clubbing ofTer. You pan get The JefTersonlan (Watson’s new magazine) and The Georgian one year each for the price of The Georgian. $4.60. Do It now. STOKES HOLDS JOB, SUES FOR DAMAGE Special to The Georgian. Montgomery. Ala., Dec. 8.-,Y«“;er- ilay afternoon Chancellor Parka de clined to dlaaolve the Injunction grant ed to SI. C. Stoke*, general tnanagt r of the Alabama Central railway, aguinat J. W. Dimmick and Joe Dim- mlck, dlrectora of the company, nnd Sir. Stoke* will keep hla old position. The dlrectora attempted lo hold a meeting and ouat Sir. Stokei, but .in Injunction had been granted and they were held in contempt of court and the Dimnilek* were fined $50 each. The road la a valuable piece of prop erty and I* Jointly owned by the Dhn- mlcks and Stokea. Stoke* haa now entered .ult for 8to 000 aguinat the Dimmlcks for alleged damages. At the time of his marriage a tm think* ha I* getting a better half. In later on he may dljcover he ha - counterfeit on his hand*.—Chicoi News Somehow a man la unable to get mamjbM