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Night Edition THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN. Night Editi VOL. 1. NO. 207. ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1906. PRICE: HURLED FROM WAGON, G.E. GRUBBS AND NEGRO ARE KILLED BYENGINE Laundry Employes Were Crossing the Southern Tracks. NORTH AVENUE IS SCENE OF FATALITY Grubbs Lived Several Min utes After Engine Struck Him. While attempting to croon the South ern Hallway tracks at North avenue Monday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock G. E. Grubbs, 23 years of age, of Whlteford avenue, Edgewood, a driver for Outh- nian's Steam Laundry, and a negro as sistant were atruck by a Southern switch engine. No. 1647, and both killed. The negro was killed Instantly, but Mr. Grubbs, who was terribly mangled, lived'several minutes after the acci dent. Jack Landers was engineer, G. A, Hush conductor and J. H. Everetffire- man. The engine was going at high speed, It Is stated, and the laundry wagon, which was squarely across the track, was hurled to one side and practically reduced to kindling wood. The horse was killed. The name of the negro has not been learned. RACES NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, Dec. 24.—Here are the results of today's races: FIRST RACE—Toy Boy. 16 to .. won; Spider Web, 6 to 2, second; Gar- gantua, 7 to 10, third. Time, :55. SECOND RACE—Palloday, 4 to 1 won; Frontenac. 6 to 6. second; Ty rolean, 20 to 1, third. Time, 1:14 1-6. THIRD RACE—Missouri Lad, 7 tc 10, won; Jacomo, 6 to 1, second; De bar, 10 to 1, third. .Time, 1:14 3-5. FOURTH RACE—Columbia Girl, to 1, won: Bellestrome, 16 to 1, sec ond; Hannibal Bey, 10 to 1, third. Time, 1:20 1-5. FIFTH RACE—Scion, 7 to 1, won; Annie Riiskln, 6 to T, second: Lucy Marie, 3 to 1, third. Time, 1:14 1-5. HACK EACiTlER I O'CLOCK MARKS HOUR OF CLOSING FOR ALL SALOONS Every saloon and wholeiale whisky house In Atlanta Is ordered closed at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon, to remain • losed through Christmas day and un til Wednesday morning. Mayor Woodward Issued orders to <’hlef of Police Harry Jennings Mon- tiny morning to notify every saloon keeper In the city and see that the or der was enforced. This move Is.taken as a precaution against any disorder resulting from -lKijqo aqj uo sp.woj.) auptujjp mas eve always brings Its big street crowd, and It was feared that drink ing might lead to disorder. That the order applies to wholesale houses, as well as saloons, means that every man will have to buy his bottle early or wait until after Christmas. The law requires the closing of sa loons on Christmas day, but not be fore has the order been put forward to the afternoon before. It cuts six hours off the time when the saloons may be open, probably the busiest six hours during the year. FOUND FAMIUTOLAO WHEN HE REIHRHED WITH XMAS GOODS Chicago, Dec. 24.—Robert Merrlng was hacked to death and John Conners lies fatally Injured as a result of a des perate duel with knives fought early today In front of a theater In State street. The fight was the result of a quarrel over a woman. The duel was witnessed by a crowd that thronged the street, having been drawn from the adjacent lodging houses by the shrieks of the fighters as new wounds were Inflicted. Merrlng fell dead at last with 25 knife wounds, his body being literally hacked to pieces. Conners has eight knife stabs In the neck and lungs and will die. tyuciM to The Georgina. Norfolk, Va., Dec. 24.—Samuel Poy- ner. n farmer of Princess Anne county, Va., left home Saturday night and croistd Ilach Bay, where former Presl- dent Cleveland sometimes guns, to make Christmas purchases. When he * ot back Sunday morning he found his home in ashes and his wife, her sister *nd two children had been burned to death, their bodies being found In the ashe*. Those burned to death were Mrs. Samu.q Poyner and child and Mrs. Wll- !, ani (Jrimstead and child. The Poyners w *r«> visiting at the Orlmeteads. The women and children burned to death in the back part of the house, ^hliu Poyner and Orlmstead slept In * h ** front part of the house. The men barely had time to escape, leaving their clothes, in almost zero weather. Henry Wilkins, aged 60, paralyzed J n<1 living alone here, built a Are in a “° l,er on the floor of his hut and was burned t o death before the Are was discovered Sunday. MELDRIM DECLINES TO MAKE RACE FOR Of TWO MEN KILLED, TWO FATALLY HURT, IN TRAIN WRECK Rochester, N. Y.. Dec. 24.—The Pltts- Ur K night express on the Buffalo, 'hester and Pittsburg. due here at j '.'clock, met a light freight engine ' r ‘ m e>l« city at Freedom. N. Y„ and “ca<i.on collision occurred. nn and Howe, engineer ami flre- ••'•pectlvely. were killed. George engineer, and C. Palmer, flre- '■ the other train. » they cannot live. Special to The Georgian. Savannah, Ga„ Dec. 24.—General P. W. Meldrlm thla morning declined the nomination tendered hlin by the Myers- Collina-Oabornc faction for mayor of Savannah. The declination came an a nurprine In many quarters, and In dlntlnet blow to the membern of the opponttlon to the People'a Democratic League. General Meldrlm wan nominated at a caucun, In. which were the mont promt nent membern of the Colllna faction, which bolted from the People'a Dem ncratlc League and the Citizen's Club, the party In power. The caucun rep resented no partirlular political party- It represented the onponltlon to the People's Democratic League. The league won the county election In June. The Cltlaenn' Club wan led in that campaign by W. W. Osborne, who since the dereat of Ills faction han not manifested any Interest In politics. After this defeat the Citizens' Club gave up hope and some of Its most prominent leaders declared noon after that election that the Citizens' Club would not go into the coming municipal fight. The nomination was made when General Meldrlm was out of the city, and be was quick to reply by tele graph that he regretted he could not accept. However, few accepted this as Anal. Great pressure was brought to benr upon him. But General Meldrlm stated today, w hen tendered The nomi nation by Mr. Collins, that he did not care to get hack Into public life or politics. He had once been mayor of Savannah. It Is probable that Mayor Myers, who has served for eight years, will be the nominee of the club. J. E. Adams died Monday morning at 7 o'clock ai a private sanitarium. He came to Atlanta from Preston, Ga„ and the body will be held at Barclay A Brandon's until his people can be heard from. ***** 00000009000000000000000000 BLEW OUT THE QA8 AND BOTH MET DEATH. Fort Wayne. Ind., Dec. 24.— B. Huston and F. Kruse, of Au burn Junction, Ind., were found dead In a hotel here today. They blew out the gas. Ooooooooaooooooocooooooooo 00000000000000009000000000 0 EDITOR DIVES $5,000 o TO FAMINE FUND. O O - Washington, Dec. 24.—The ffrst O O contribution received at the state O O department under the president's 0 0 call for funds for the relief of the O 0 famine sufferers In China waa a O O check for 35.000 from Louis Klop- O 0 she. editor of The Christian Her- 0 0 aid, of New York. 2000000OOOOOOOOO0OOO0O0OOO WOODWARDISM HIGH LICENSE, OR PROHIBITION— THE GEORGIAN IT SEEMS THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR SOMETHING DEFI NITE TO BE SAID ABOUT THE LIQUOR LICENSE QUESTION. LET US SAY IT NOW. WITH ALL RESPECT TO MAYOR WOODWARD, OUR CIVIC LIFE IS ON THERACK. THEREIS NOT MUCH DOUBT IN THE MINDS OF MANY THINKING PEOPLE THAT ATLANTA’S GREATESTMISFORTUNESINCE THE WAR, THE RIOT, WAS ONLY POSSIBLE BY REASON OF THE CONDI TION OF RESPONSIBLE DEPARTMENTS OF OUR CITY GOVERNMENT THAT FAILED THEN AND HAD FAILED BEFORE TO DO THEIR DUTY. ATLANTA HAS SUFFERED ENOUGH DISGRACE AND ONLY RAIS ES HER VOICE AT THIS TIME BECAUSE OF THE CRUSHINGBLOWPUB- LIC SENTIMENT BELIEVES WAS DEALT IN THE MAYOR’S VETO. THE CALAMITY OF THE RIOT UNDOUBTEDLY GREW OUT OF CONDITIONS THAT HAVE EXISTED AND THAT WOULD BE LARGELY REMEDIED HAD THE MAYOR STONED THE LICENSE MEASURE AS PASSED BY COUNCIL. ATLANTA IS LIVING IN THE SPIRIT OF TODAY—THE MAYOR DE NIED HER DEMAND IN THE SPIRIT OF 19 YEARS AGO. DOWN WITH QUIBBLING! IF WE MUST HAVE SALOONS MAKE THE PRICE SUFFICIENT TO PAY THE EXPENSE OF THE POLICE DEPART MENT AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS THAT ARE MADE NECESSARY BY THEM. YES, JUST SO! SAN FRANCISCO, DURING ITS RECENT RIOT AND REIGN OF TERROR, HAD FROM 105 TO 140 CASES IN THE POLICE COURTS ON EACH MONDAY MORNING. THE SALOONS WERE CLOSED FOR TWO WEEKS, AND THE CASES ON MONDAY FOR THOSE TWO WEEKS WERE FOUR AND FIVE, RESPECTIVELY. THE SALOONS WERE REOPENED, AND ON THE FOLLOWING MONDAY MORNING THEY HAD 113 CASES AGAIN. BECAUSE THE GEORGIAN STARTED OUT TO DO WITHOUT WHIS KY AND QUESTIONABLE ADVERTISING, MANY PEOPLE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO BE FANATICS FIGHTING FOR PROHIBITION AND THE LIKE. WE HAVE NOT BEEN SO. WE HAVE NOT RUSHED INTO ADVOCACY OF ANYTHING RADICAL. WE BELIEVED THE BETTER ELEMENT DOUBTED THE WISDOM OF PROHIBITION- WE HAVE TRIED TO BE AS COMMON-SENSIBLE AS WE COULD. WE BELIEVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF ATLANTA DEMAND THE REGULATION THE MAYOR HAS SEEN FIT TO VETO—AND WE BE LIEVE THERE WILL BE MORE TROUBLE UNLESS THE MATTER IS TAKEN IN HAND NOW. WE BELIEVE, AS MOST OF OUR THINKING CITIZENS DO, THAT THE $2,000 LICENSE WILL BE BEST—BUT WE SAY NOW, AND SAY IT PLAINLY TO EACH MEMBER OF COUNCIL, THAT UNLESS THEY SEE FIT TO RISE TO THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE AND OVERRIDE THE MAYOR’S VETO, THE GEORGIAN STANDS READY TO SUPPORT THE MOVEMENT FOR A PROHIBITION ELECTION. WE BELIEVE IT IS THE ONLY SAFETY FROMFURTHER TROUBLE. COUNCILMEN, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT? F. L. SEELY, Publisher. MAYOR HANDS ROAST TO DR. BROUGHTON IN REPLY TO HIS SERMON BABY SAW FA THER COMMIT DOUBLE CRIME; WALTER HIGHTOWER KILLS BESSIE JONES AND THEN SENDS BULLET TO OWN BRAIN He Dies at Hospital Within a Few Hours. HE WAS SLAYER OF BEN WILMOUTH Girl Had Caused Trouble in Family for Some Time. Discovered In a room with a young woman In his own house by his 7-year- old son, Waiter Hightower, a painter. ■ hot and killed the young woman, Bes sie Jonea, Monday morning at 1:30 o'clock, and then turned his pistol upon himself. He died at Grady hospital at 12:10 o'clock. Hightower and his family lived at 144 jGaskell street, and the young Jones woman, who Is 13 years of age, board ed In the house, occupying the room adjoining that of Mr. and Mrs. High- totver. Monday morning Mrs. Hightower sent her little son. Henry, to the room of the Jones girl to awaken her. As the little fellow entered the room his father turned and saw him. In an In stant he drew a derringer pistol and shot the girl through the right temple and sent a second bullet Into his own left temple. The girl died almoet In stantly and Hightower fell dying. He Killed Wilmouth. Hightower was the same man who killed Benjamin Wilmouth about nine months ago. In Hampton street. WALTER HIGHTOWER AND FAMILY. This picture shewa Hightower in his painter's uniform at a picnic, with hie wife and children. The bey on hi* mother’* left ic Henry, the 7-year-old eon, who witnessed hie father’* murder aid auicid* Monday, month had been attentive to Mrs. Car. rte Bryant, a slater of Hightower, and In a quarrel, shot her In the hip. High tower chased Wilmouth out of the house and shot him. Wilmouth fell and WU- Hightower ran to the prostrate man and nearly severed his head from his body with a knife. He waa arrested, but afterwards released. The same derringer with which CAUSTIC LETTER TO DU BROUGHTON NOW MADE PUBLIC This Is the letter written by Mayor Woodward to Dr. Broughton, now published for the first time: •'July 6, 1905. Dr. L. G. Broughton. Atlanta, Ga. “Dear Sir: You will find herewith attached a clipping from one of Mon day's papers, quoting from your speech of the previous night. I presume you. are correctly quoted, or you would have made the necessary correction. 1 was Informed on Saturday afternoon that you were to refer to Chief W. R. Joyner and myself In your regular Sunday night sensational tirade. If what you say was In any way correct, you knew the name of every man in the party, ; -t you single me out for your dirty criticism and leave all others un der cover—the same as you have done on several other occasions. “I have underscored the parts of your speech that I desire to call your atten tion to. You are quoted as saying that 'the city paid my expenses.’ You should have known whereof you spoke, and If you had the least desire to speak the truth you would have been thor oughly Informed before you made such utterances. I desire to Inform you that the city of Atlanta did not pay one dollar of my expenses, and that If rou made that statement, and I be- leve you did, you uttered an Infamous, malicious and willful falsehood. “Malioious Falsehood.” "You are also quoted as saying that I, with others, gambled, going and com ing from Louisville. If you had taken the trouble to Inquire, and felt any way disposed to be just toward me. you would have found out that I returned to Atlanta two daya before the regular. Atlanta party, and by an entirely dif ferent route—the Louisville and Nash ville railroad—and the party bver the Southern. So you Will see that you have given publicity, through your dir ty prelude, to another malicious false hood. •'Your criticism about my veto of the anti-gambling ordinance la too con to be ‘ “ * “ Calls [Him Sensation- Monger and Other Names. HANDLES PREACHER WITHOUT GLOVES Letter Written Over Year Ago is Produced by Mayor. 'v In temptlble i i worthy of notice, but It record of vituperation against me. what I said In that veto message, stand on that. Why do you and your kind not make the same kind of light on the bucket ahop futures that you do on this Iltlls gambling? Bucket or futures have done more harm, more paupers and criminals, and fllled more graves by suicide, and brought more women and children to want than all other kinds of ga I believe more than bllng together. “I Invite Critieiem.” "I Invite honest, decent, gentleman ty criticism (If you know whot that means) upon my every public act. My private affairs—while they are not near so bad oa you would have the public believe—do not concern the public, and my continuance In public life would have long ago convinced any man of thla fact were he not steeped In venom, ous, lying slander. •'I was born and raised, and spent nearly all of my sixty years of life, n-lthln twenty miles of Atlanta, and the good, honest people of this com munity do not need, and do not heed, the hee-hawing of a vulgar ass, whose only stock In trade la cowardly venom and slander diffused In a sensational manner from a pulpit. "I have had enough of your past record furnished me, from the time Continued on Psg* Five. statement characterising Dr. Broughton oa a "carrion crow,” a "sen sational. falsifying blackguard,” and a "sensation monger," Mayor Woodward hoa replied to the sermon by the pas tor of the Baptist Tabernacle Sunday night. Dr. Broughton, In the prelude to his sermon, discussed the veto of the may or of the whisky regulations ordinance and took occasion to say that the mayor has always been fdhnd doing everything he could for the whisky element. It Is to this statement the mayor takes particular objection. Mayor Woodward concludes his sen sational statement by producing a let ter he wrote to Dr. Broughton In July, 1905, In which he made reply to the charge by Dr. Broughgon that he (Woodward) had traveled to the Con federate reunion In Louisville at the expense of the city and had kept up a gambling game all the way. The mayor says he wrote thla let ter and had It delivered to Dr. Broughton. He warned Dr. Broughton that If he was attacked again by him, the letter would be made public. In this communication, the mayor makes sensational charges, saying, In effect, that Dr. Broughton was once a clerk In a negro saloon In Darlington, S. C. Dr. Broughton was called over the telephone by The Georgian and asked whether he had any objection to the publication of the letter written by Mayor Woodward. He replied that he hod no objections, did not (nr.' a snap of his linger what Mayor Wood ward said, and did not propose to be drawn Into a controversy with him. Mayor Woodward’s statement nml the letter to Dr. Broughton follow: Meyer Woodward Talk*. "I am the keeper of my own con science end will not ask Broughton for any of his advice In exercising IL If the city of Atlanta was run or con trolled by such sensation mongers as he It would be a good place to vacate. Atlanta has been built by good peo ple. people who had the Interest of the city at heart and people who have pulled together In the old ‘Atlanta Spirit.' This has been, doi;e without Broughton's aid, but In the face of his continually trying to create strife ami divide our people. Sensational noto riety |h his whole aim. He has a mania for seeing his name In the news- ape rs. If the newspapers had com ined to keep his sensational trash nut of their columns he would have , hunted new pastures long ago. I have no respect for his kind of religion.-' the members of the general presume they cars as little Continued on Page Five. “MAYOR IS SCAPEGOAT,” SAYS DR. BROUGHTON Wants Milk Bottles For the City Council. Continued on Pag* Three. In the prelude to hie sermon Sunday night. Dr. Len O. Broughton severely arraigned council and the mayor In a discussion of the veto of the latter to the whisky regulations ordinance. Dr. Broughton said he Is not sur prised at the mayor’s veto, ns he has always been with the whisky element, when there was the least possildo ex cuse. He charged that council Is tey ing 4o make a scapegoat of Mayor Woodward. 'Oh, the puny little babies In that council!” he exclaimed. I propose an ordinance to furnish the whole council lay-out with milk and sucking bottles. 1 believe I'll fur nlsh the bottles if they'll furnish the milk. I am sure that they would not be more appropriate In a maternity hospital than In that general council of Infantile dwarfs. If ever there was gang of babies that got together, and .layed fool any more than the council as plas-ed It about this whisky busi ness, their fool doings are not record ed. Think of It! They have straddled every rail In the whisky fence; they have taken every side of the question; they have voted wrong, and repented; they have voted right, and renemed; they have voted no way, and repented; they have voted every way. and re pented. The fact Is, they have done everything that was undone, and un done everything that was done. This has been the council of whisky acro bats and rollers. They have turned un til they are as round as billiard balls; all that Is needed Is for somebody to take the cue and do the tapping, and they will roll around until they drop In tho hole—Just any old hole; however, the whisky hole Is the one they Anally wind up In. Surely, we are disgusted with the wlshy-washtnese of many In that council. "There Is one thing that they must have credit for, at least yntll they meet avain and adjourn (the good Lord only knows what they will do then). They must have credit for passing the ordi nance that brought forth the mayor's veto. But oven then It was passed aft er they had at the same session turned It down. But they did it. If they did wait until the whisky members of the council had retired. “Do you wonder If they will run It over the mayor’s veto? Do you want me to tell you? Then listen: No. Certainly not, unless there Is a back down of the whisky party, and that. In a last struggle, u never done. The whisky gang has already been counted. It was never Intended to get any fur ther than the mayor. Some, of course, were honest, but see now If they stood. Prohibition Eloetion. "To be sure, high license and better regulation is not all we wanL The moral sentiment of the city has never been content with thla. Ws are going to hold a prohibition election In Pulton county, but we resent any giving way to the whisky power whatever. We all favored the high license and better regulation ordinance only as a step in the right direction. We want the elec tion. We want a chance to show the gang who Is.who In this county. Our petitions are now being signed, and. since the failure of this measure, men have been signing them like wild tire. Let every good man in the county who has not signed hunt up a petition ac once, and sign It. We must resent the refusal to glvs us what at least two- thirds of our people want. Let all n..n- whtsky-subsidized people hear. Call up the Antl-Baloon League In the Lowndes building and ret on the pro- htbltlon petition. HurraJi for the tight! Ami we'll ling-‘On to Victory" as go. We are simply tired messing this gnat question."