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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER N, 1906.
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AFTERBATTLE
Fight Starts Over
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Negro’s Refusal to
Pay Fare.
WHITE SOLDIERS
AID CONDUCTOR
Trolleys Running Between
Leavenworth and Fort
Are All Guarded
by Sentries.
FRENCH CHURCH CLOSED
BY ORDER OF MAYOR;
PRIEST TOLD TO LEAVE
Christmas Eve Mid
night Mass Is Cele
brated in Private.
SPECTACLE HUNTERS
DON’T MIND CHANGE
Editor, Angered at Carica
ture of Cardinal Rich
ard, Smashes Window.
Leavenworth, Kans., Dec. 26.—As the
rnult of a (treat car riot here last
night, started by a negro, soldier re
fusing to pay his fare, fourteen caval
rymen, mostly members of the Ninth
Cavalry, are said to have besn placed
under arrest today. At least four have
been ordered court-martialed. The
president has been apprised of the af
fair.
The trouble occurred late last night
i a car between Leavenworth city and
the fort.
Fifteen or twenty aoldlers, Including
both whites and negroes, seem to have
been engaged In a free-for-all fight in
which several shots were fired and
eome of the windows In the car smash-
Conductor F. L. Brown, who was
In charge of the car, says the trouble
arose over the refusal of a negro
troo|ier to pay his fare or get off. The
trooper became abusive and struck the
conductor. A general light followed In
which the white soldiers came to the
aid of the street car men.
The negro troopers were finally
ejected from the car. In retaliation
several shots were fired and stoneB
thrown through the windows of the
car. Two women and four civilians
were aboard the car. which was crowd
ed from the fact that It was the last
car for the night from the down-town
district to the fort. • •
During the melee the motorman lock
ed himself In the front 'vestibule, leav
ing the conductor to be beaten by the
negro soldiers. H* was badly beaten
before the white troopers came to his
aid. ■ ■ * , | ■
The negro troopers who created the
disturbance were captured only a few
hours later, while attempting to reach
their quarters at the fort. The senti
nels fired at one of the men. who tried
to escape. All cars running between
the fort and the city of Leavenworth
have been guarded by armed sentries
today, In anticipation of further trou
ble.
Paris, Dec. 26.—Christmas has come
and gone In France, without the Christ
mas Eve midnight mass. Privately,
midnight mass was celebrated In va
rious places where the devout could
assemble, just as there Is mass dally
In the church, and the devout attend
ed without any embarrassment what
ever, but the spectacle hunters, who
have been numerically the greatest fac.
tor In thq midnight mass, went their
several ways without seeming to mind
the change ordained by the church.
Devout worshipers, to the number of
a thousand, made their way to the
great church of the Sacred Heart, in
Cure Ordered to Leave.
The Authorits says that next year,
when the peasants leave their cottages
and step into the cold night, they will
see a light on the hill, a light similar
to the Star of Bethlehem. Crowds will
gather In a bam, open to the winds of
heaven, to celebrate a feaat to which
the churches are closed.
The first Instance of the closing of
a church under the separation act oc
curred at Indre, where the mayor, in
writing, ordered the cure to leave both
the presbytery and the church edifice,
which, he declared, the communal au
thorities would take over In pursuance
of the law.
The cure consequently quitted the ed
ifice, which has been closed. The ques
tion of the legality of the mayor's ac
tion Is arousing considerable contro
versy.
Angered by Caricature.
At the corner of the Grand Boule
vard and Rue Richelieu there la i
window, where public men are carica
tured In drawings that are changed
dally. The caricature today showed
Cardinal Richard In a way which of
fended a Catholic journalist,' Henri
Bruchard.
Bruchard did not act Impulsively, but
went up to a policeman standing near
the window and Inquired what would
happen If he smashed the window. The
policeman politely informed him that
It would be necessary to arrest him.
whereupon Bruchard violently struck
the window wlth-his cane and bade the
officer to'do his duty.
After acknowledging his guilt at the
station house, and declaring that he
had acted because his conscience was
violated by the caricature, Bruchard
was liberated.
FIVE RAILROAD WRECKS
MARKED THE HOLIDAYS
Southern Breaks the
Record For Trouble
and Accidents.
NEGROES AT KAN8A8 CITY
IN FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT.
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 26.—Using
clubs, knives and atones, SO. negrosa en
raged In a drunken fight last night.
Many heads were brqjten.
Patrolman C. M. Larabee was knock
ed down by S. R. Johnson, a negro,
I") used a baseball bat.
■fames Hully, white, bartender In a
near-by saloon, struck Johnson with a
etnne and knocked him senseless.
James e. Maricol, a white man, was
•truck on the head with a stone and
•evenly hurt.
KEIFER CHARGE8 CONSPIRACY
AGAIN8T BROWNSVILLE FOLK.
Springfield, Ohio, Dec. 26.—When
*"ked about the discharge of the negro
troops J. Warren Kelfer. congressman
from this district, who is home from
nuhlngton, said:
" l think the preaident has made a
tniMHkf*. i believe the evidence will
9 that they are Innocent, and that
tnoro was not a man away or a gun
!* ut °f t amp at the time of the shoot-
,nff I believe that the evidence will
how that there wan a conspiracy
r *J» the part of the white people to
fHace ti lf . blama for firing of the shots
n the negro troops.”
The general added that he was not
J, oin & to take any part in the fight on
IP* question and that he would allow
l Jt*m to scrap It out.
BRIDE IS SHOT;
FARMER sought
Rutland, Vt., Dec. 26.—While ehe was
Wertalnlng some friends Christmas
night at a reception following her
"•titling. M r ,. Mary Gilmore, aged 19,
*“ *hot and seriously wounded by
unknown persons who were In the thor-
“tlifaro | a front of the house. The
authorities are making an In-
••iiga'lon and are looking for An-
Farrell, a young fanner. The
used Is eald to have been a
. ■ f large caliber, carrying heavy
nantc-rnade bullets. The motive for
•vult Is unknown. .
Cllmore heard voices In the
and thinking other guests were
ff Ttt,n g. opened the (door. She law
■v'ftai rnep i n the road and spoke fa
™ n - Two shots was the answer.
Five wrecks occurred on the South
ern system Christmas Eve and Christ
mas day, and the wrecking crews In the
divisions In which the accidents oc
curred had anything but a holiday. But
one man was reported killed In the
series of wrecks, notwithstanding the
heavy holiday travel. Several were In
jured. Two of the wrecks were freights.
Several Atlanta people were injured
in the first of the series, which occurred
at Central, 8. C„ about 8 o'clock Christ,
mas Eve. Northbound passenger No.
40 was standing at the station at Cen
tral when passenger train No. 88, go
ing In the same direction, rah Into the
rear coach of No. 40 before the engi
neer could reverse his engine. The
official report said that sixteen people
were hurt.
Christmas morning the wrecking
crew In the local yards were hurried
out to Inman yard, where a freight
engine had left the rails, carrying sev
eral freight cars with It, blocking
traffic and causing Incoming trains to
make a circuitous route to get Into the
city.
Another passenger wreck was report
ed at Cedar Mountain I-, the Charlotte
division. The engine Jumped the rails,
carrying several coaches Into the ditch.
No passengers or trainmen were killed,
but several were Injured. No other
details were contained In the reports.
A wrecked train at Oakdale tied
up traffic on the main line Christmas
afternoon. Trains from Birmingham
and Cincinnati, running late anyway,
were prevented from entering the city
and a special was made up and sent
out to bring Ihe passengers Into the
Terminal station.
The last of the Christmas series oc
curred near Jacksonville. Fla., at
Moncrlef, where southbound passenger
No 33 was sent Into the derailing
switch by the operator In the switch
tower. A negro fireman was killed.
The white engineer was scalded; the
express messenger and a negro helper
wore also injured. None of the pas-
sengers was hurt.
out of twenty-three trains on the
Southern due in Atlanta Christmas day
sixteen were from an hour to sixteen
hours late. Only one arrived on time.
Tills train came In from Brunswick.
Other local trains from points within
the Stalp were from twenty to forty
minutes laic. ^
SPECIAL TRAINS DUR
ING HOLIDAYS BE
TWEEN ATLANTA
AND ALBANY VIA
CENTRAL OF GEOR
GIA RAILWAY.
Effective first train leaving Atlanta
8:45 a. m. and first train leaving Al
bany 2 p. m.. December 16, and dally
to and Including December 26, for the
accommodation of holiday travel,
qcor detailed Information apply to
your nearest picket agent, or
District Passenger Agent.
Sailors from the United States crui
ser Cleveland caused a panic last night
In a public park at Clenfuegos, Cuba,
where a concert was going on, by en
gaging hi a fight and firing many shots.
The police arrested several of the sail
ors.
.HARRIED TO DEATH
BT AJIERCE DOG
Crawfordsvllle, Ind., Dec. 26.—Mrs,
Nancy Wallace, aged 90, met death In
a shocking manner here last night. Her
granddaughter, Mrs. Leona Benson, had
gone down town, leaving the aged
woman at home alone. A short time
after her departure Mrs. Wallace faint
ed and fell to the floor.
A bull dog which was In the room
began to bark and pull at her clothing
and hair and bit her several times,
badly lacerating her arms and pulling
out great bunches of hair. The bark
ing continued until neighbors were at
tracted. and upon Investigating they
found the woman covered with blood
from the many wounds Inflicted and
bearing evidence of having been
dragged about the room by the ani
mal. She died about midnight as the
result yf her Injuries.-
If, SAWTELL DEAD
AT ADVANCED AGE
I. Y. Sawtell, the father of T. R. Saw.
tell and L. P. Sawtell, two of the most
prominent business men of Atlanta,
died Tuesday afternoon at 6 o'clock.
For over fifty years he had been a res
ident of Atlanta, coming here from
Athens, Tenn., where he was born 72
yearn ago. During the greater port of his
residence In this city he was engaged
In the real estate and mining business,
from which he retired some ten years
ago.
In 1859 he married Miss Elisa Rob
erts, a daughter of Dr. O. H. Roberts,
of Villa Rica, Oa. She and three sons,
T. R. Sawtell, of Atlanta: L. P. Saw
tell, of Atlanta, and E. M. Sawtell, of
Columbus, Ha., and four daughters,
Misses Mary. A'linle, Estelle um! Dorn,
all of Atlanta, survive him.
The funeral services will be conduct
ed Thursday afternoon at Mr. Saw-
tell's late residence, 143 Richardson
stroot. The Interment will be In West
view cemetery.
A GOLD MINE
in South Georgia
Not to be. dug from the bowels of Mother Earth, but
by systematic, intelligent farming in
South Georgia lands.
905 Acres of as fine South Georgia lands as
can be had. 225Acres of the tract already under
high state of cultivation. Practically every foot
of the tract can be successfully tilled except
where branches flow. About 700 Acres lie al
most as level as a yard.
A new railroad has recently been built right through these
lands, giving a main stop in the midst of the plantation. A far
mer living not over ten miles from this tract of land on a similar
farm has cleared by book account in the last three years over
$30,000.00, a record that the world can’t beat, and a healthier
section cannot be found.
Price, $20.00 Per Acre,
Half Cash, balance on Easy Payments.
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
Stans an account with a LITTLE HOME BANK and book or with ths
oook only In th«
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OF
THE NEAL BANK
Interest .Mowed at th. rat. of THREE AND ONE-HALF PER CENT.
ANNUM, compounded semi-annually. -ANRY Ca.hier
I- THORNTON. President. W. F. MANRY. Callus
H. C. CALDWELL. Asst. Csehier.
The seismographs at the observqto-
ry. Hamburg, registered earthquakes as
severe as those which occurred at San
Francisco.
The National City bank of New York
has ordered from the Carnegie Steel
Company the largest fire and burglar-
proof vault ever built In the United
States. It will be made of 300 tons of
armor plate and constructed in Ihe old
custome house building in Wall street.
According to the annual report of
General Superintendent Kimball, of
the life-saving service, Washington, D.
C.. out of 849 marine disasters In the
waters of the United States 49 vessels
and 29 lives were lost and 811 persons
succored. The total value of property
saved was 812,268,100. The service
cost the government 81,832,416.
In the presence of four troops of the
Fort Sheridan (Illinois) squadron of
the Ninth cavalry, who had Just begun
their Christmas dinner In the dining
hall of the fort Tuesday night. Ser
geant John Griffin, of Troop I, shot and
almost Instantly killed Corporal Wil
liam Taylor, of the same troop. Both
the men, whp are colored, quarreled
over a woman. ,
Earl Northup, aged 22, wan probably
fatally stabbed during a saloon quarrel
at Fort sill. Okla.. yesterday, by Pii-
vate Howard, of Troop K, Thirteenth
cavalry, Howard was arrested and Is
in jail in default of bond.
The assassin of Count Ignatleff has
been Identified at Tver, Russia, as a
student named Fidler, who was one of
the leaders of last year's Insurrection
at Moscow. At that time he was bound
over In 86.000 ball fur good behavior,
and this sum will now revert to the
treasury.
For further information, address
B. E. WILCOX,
„ Fitzgerald, Georgia.
Ex-Senator Fifteenth District, and
Ex-Representative Irwin County.
A TR0CITIESIN CONGO
UP TO UNCLE SAM
Mrs. J. P. Parsons.
Special lo The Georgian.
Decatur, Ala., Dec. 25.—Mrs. J. P.
Parsons, aged 71, died at her home on
Sixth avenue, New Decatur, Thursday
afternoon after only a few hours’ Ill
ness. Heart disease was supposed to
have been the cause of her death. Mrs.
Pursons had lived In New Decatur for
the past nlrteteen years. She was a
native of Dwight. III. She leaves u
husband, brother and sister. •
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S. L. PARROTT,
District Pssssngtr Agent.
9 N. Pryor St Atlanta.
New York, Dec. 26.—The attention
of Secretary of State Root has been
directed to conditions In the Congo
Free State by a letter addressed to him
And signed by the Rev. Messre. Lyman
Abbott, Henry Moffet, Wllford L. Rob
bing, George William Knox, Charles H.
Parkhurst, John P. Peters, William R.
Richards, Anson P. Hattorbury, Percy
S. Grant - and Messrs. William Jay
Schleffelln, William H. Douglas,
Charles A. Schleren, Spencer Trask,
George Haven Putnam. Everett P.
Wheeler, Robert C. Ogden, J. Plerpont
Morgan, D. Willis James, R. Fulton
Cutting, J. Cleveland Cady and W. J.
Havemeyer.
The letter declares that “flagrant
inhumanity exists” In the African slate
controlled by King Leopold of Bel
gium, and Mr. Root la urged, on be
half of the American neople, “to use
the moral support of the United Statea
government to Correct the abuses from
which the Congo natives are alleged to
be suffering." v
No Reforms Undertaken.
The letter says that while reforms
have been recommended by a commis
sion appointed by King Leopold, no re
forms have beep Inaugurated, and there
seems no evidence that the evils re
ported are to be corrected.
Here are measures said to be prac
ticed In the Congo Free State, as re
ported by a former board of commis
sioners:
The exaction of a labor tax so op
pressive that many laborers on whom
It falls have little, If any. freedom.
Appropriation of land to such an
extent that the natives are practically
prisoners within their own territory.
Murder and Pillage.
The employment under the authority
of the government as sentries of cruel,
brutish blacks, chosen from hostile
tribes, who murder, pillage and rape
the people for whose protection the
government Is avowedly established.
The abuse of the natives by white
representatives of officially recognised
companies.
The binding ofllttle children to years
of labor at uncertain wages by con
tracts they do not understand and even
more serious maltreatment of children
supposedly under the Immediate care
of the government.
Great Injustice In the administra
tion of the courts, so that the natives
dread the place of Boma, the place
where the judicial system Is central
ised.
The sending out of punitive expedi
tions, not for the purpose of establish
ing peace and order, but for the pur
pose of terrifying the natives Into
paying a tax which, as administered,
even the commissioners regard as In
human.
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line ever shown In Atlanta. Recogniz
ing how hard It's been for you to get
something to please you, we nave made
special efforts to secure the best makes.
Walter Ballard Optical Company. 81
Peachtree street.
HOLIDAY EXCURSIONS
VIA GEORGIA RAIL-
ROAD.
On account of Christmas holidays
tickets will be sold at all points south
of the Ohio and Potomac and cast of
the Mississippi liver, St. Louis, Mo.,
Included,,at rate of one and one-thliil
first-class fare, plus 28 cents* for the
round trip.
Tickets on sale at all stations De
cember 20 to 26, 30. 81 and January 1,
final limit January 7. 1907.
For further Information apply to any
ticket agent, or
A. Q. JACK80N, C. C. M’MILLIN,
G. P. A. A. Q. P. A.
Augusta, Ga.
SOUND AND HEARTY
MI98ING BOY IS FOUND.
Special to The Georgian,
Decatur, Ala., Dec. 28.—Tillman
Clark, the 18-year-old non of William
Clark, who so mysteriously disappear , I
from this city on the night of Decem
ber 3, has been located In Chattanooaa
and placed under arrest until bis ra
ther could be communicated with. Tim
ynung man Is sound and well. His fa
ther offered a reward of 850 for the
return of the young man dead or alive.
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