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ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1906.
PftTfiR!* fo Atlanta two cp.stb.
irlVlvlJ. on TtiJdi five ck.nth.
5 AMERICANS BUTCHERED
IN. FIGHT WITH FILIPINOS
Three Officers and
Two Privates Are
Slain.
SURVIVORS FLEE
TO SAVE LIVES
Party of Ten Is Set Upon
By ■ an Overwhelming
Force of the Pulajanes..
B.T Private Lexeed Wlr*.
Manila, Aug. 10.—A detach
ment consisting of ten men fought
hand-to-hand with a band of I’uln-
janes at Jwlita, Leyte, yesterday.
Internal Revenue Collector Wil
liams, of Illinois, Contract Sur
geon Calvin Snyder, First Lieu
tenant J. F. James and two pri
vates of the Eighth Infantry, were
killed.
The detachment wns • greatly
outnumbered and the survivors
were forced to flee after putting
up a gallant fight.
BOURKE COCKRAN'S FIANCEE]
TAKES CHARGE OF LOVER
IN HIS SERIOUS ILLNESS]
TO PLEAD CAUSE
FOR HARRYK. THAW
Defense of Prisoner Map
ped Out and Ready
for Jury.
By Print* Lease* Win
New Vnrk. Aug. 10.—germer First
A.Mutant Dtatrict Attorney James W.
Osborne, Was chosen today by Harry
K. Thaw, on the advice of his lawyers,
to conduct his flgl(t lor hie life on the
charge of havlns murdered Stanford
White.
It was also learned today that
Thaw's lawyers have completely
rounded out the defenee. All the evi
dence npon which Osborne muet de
pend to secure an acquittal of the
youns millionaire has been sethered.
FOOD SENT TO THAW
BY MANY CATERER8.
By Private I-cascd Wire.
New York, Aus. 10.—Because It wae
repotted that Harry Kendall Thaw,
awaiting trial for. killing Stanford
White, had quarreled with the Tombs
caterer, and was forced to eat prlBon
far., frlende and sympathizers of the
5'oUns man sent enough. food to him
yesterday to keep him In rations for
some time.,
Chicken, roast beef, stews, ragouts,
soups, fish, ■ vegetables, pies, puddings
and coffee figured In the list. Accom
panying ell these eatables, were knives
snd forks, which prisoners charged
with capital offenses are not allowed
to use with their meals. The warden
had difficulty In stopping the stream
of messengers bringing food.
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O MINT JULEP WEATHER
0 IS HERE ALL RIGHT. O
MISS ANNE IDE.
Her fiance, Congressman Ccrkrsn,
it II, and the irnursing him
back to health.
Miss Ide Nqrsing Sick
Congressman on
Pacific Coast.
Br 1’rlvste Leeeed Wire.
Ban Francisco. Aug. 10.—Congress,
man Bourke Cockran, of New York,
and hie fiance, Miss Annie Ide, are the
center figure* In a very pretty roman
tic etnry. At Lake Tahoe, Mr. Cock-
ran lies seriously III today. In con
stant attendance upon him la Miss Ide.
If there had ever been any doubt about
the match between the pair being one
of true love, the present Illness of Mr.
Cockran would dispel that dmibt.
Miss Ide Insisted on being nurse ami
only leaves his bedside when It Is nec, i
essary for her to sleep and take h»r |
meals. She Is greatly exercised over
her fiance's affliction, which Is ex
tremely serious. He la suffering with
a dangerous affection of Ihe throat.
Mr. Cockran, after visiting Mias Ide
In Los Angeles, went to Lake Tahoe
only a short time ago. A few days
after he arrived there the throat trou
ble developed. It finally became ao
serious that Mlsa Ide wae notified. Hho
nt once went to Lake Tahoe and took
full command of the sink room.
RUSS CZAR APPOINTS
THREE NE W LEADERS;
ARMY MUTINY FOILED
Vasiltchikoff Is Made
Director of Agri
culture.
RAILROAD STATION
ROBBED OF $47^000
Brigands in Poland, Mount
ed on Bicycles, Plunder
Villages.
O Mint julep weather, declare! Ar-
D tlat Brewerton In hla soul-atlrrlng
2 end pathetic little sketch which
2 appear* above.
2 Friday I* the hntteet day we 0
2 hav*_had ,ln some time, the mer- O
2 rary climbing right up to *0 de- O
O greea at 1:41 o'clock. The worst O
O was yet to come and It was ex- O
O pec ted In the local forecaster’s O
2 sanctum that It would go up to O
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0 lanta sa It Is elsewhere In Oeor- 0
2 fie. For Instance, Thursday the o
2 following" temperatures were reg- O
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2 •*: Montlcello, Newntn and O
0 Rome, >4; Tallapoosa and Orilfin, o
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0 Fair Friday night and Satur- O
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5
Friday Temperatures!
1 o’clock a. m, 74 degrees.
I o'clock a. m.. 79 degrees.
■ k n in . degrees
II o’clock a. m, 14 degrees.
11 o'clock a. m.. II degrees.
11 o’clock, noon. II degrees.
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By Trieste Leased Wire.
SL Petersburg, Aug. 1#.—The an
nouncement Is made that Prince Vasll-
tchlkoff has been appointed director of
the department of agriculture; M.
Isvollsky, brother of the minister of
foreign affaire, has been appointed pro
curator general of the holy synod. And
M. Flloeoff has been appointed minister
of commerce. These appointments were
forecaeted In these dispatches Wed
nesday.
A telegram from Moscow saya a
band of brirands on bicycles Is robbing
villages In that province. A report
comes from Verkhoyansk, Siberia, that
a band of Circassians rode Into a rail
road station and robbed the cashier of
147,500.
An Infantry regiment stationed at
Ouetlahnra decided to dismiss Its of
ficers today and elect chiefs from the
renke. The commandant of the regi
ment was notified of the propdsed mu
tiny. He secretly seised the stacked
arms of the would-be mutineers and
had the entire regiment put under ar
rest snd taken to St. Petersburg, where
the ringleaders are now In prison.
BLAME GIRL STUDENTS
FOR ROW AT CRON8TACT
St. Petersburg, Aug. 10.—The Bourse
Gssette charge* that much of the rev.
nlutlonary agitation conducted among
the sailors at Cronetadt was done by
girl students of the universities who
gathered at the public houses' and
brought the sailors under their Influ
ence*.
ALBERT HOWELL
PREPARING REPLY
GOVERNOR GLENN
WAS SUGPENAED
BY HALL OEFE
State Shifted Grounds and
Indictment Was Changed
To Conspiracy,
ON TOE 001
Inmates Declare the
Management Needs
Investigation.
NO ACTION TAKEN •
BY HOUSE FRIDAY
Petition Read to Represent
atives by Milikcn Cre
ates a Sensation.
Albert 'Howell was not In his office
Friday morning, but It wa* -stated
there that he was preparing a reply to
the statement of Hon. Hoke Smith In
reference to the Dempsey charges.
The Georgian made an effort to se
cure a statement from Mr. Howell, but
It wa* said It would hardly be flnlehed
before late In the afternoon.
Special to The Georgian.
Salisbury, N. C., Aug. 10.—The elate
shifted ground this morning and
changed the-lndlrtmfint against George
Hall, one of the lyncher*, from murder
to conspiracy. A special venire wae
summoned to try the case. It
ported.
Congressman T. F. Kluttx Is appear.
Ing for Hall, anil when the Indictment
for murder was presented Hall was
willing to submit to the charge of con
spiracy and storming the Jail. He will
fight the case now.
Governor Glenn a Witness.
Governor Glenn wa* a wltnsss this
morning, having been eubpenaed by
the defenee on the ground that he wa*
out of the etate when the special term
of court was ordered. The Judge ruled
that he had authority to order It.
George Gentle, another alleged lynch
er, has been arraigned, but will be tried
after Hall. Wltneaaee are now being
examined.
United States Senator Overman was
one of the most Important witnesses
called.
MEN ARE KILLED
IN POISON CELL
Third. Occupant Refuses to
Talk and Is Held for
Murder.
By Private Leased Wlr*.
Fort Worth, Texas, Aug. 10.—Sam
Chandler and H. H. Trawlck. confined
In the county jail at Lufkin, were found
dead In their cell early this morning,
which they occupied with John Wilson.
Thtlr brains were ooslng out on the
floor when (hey ware discovered. An
earthen cuspidor had been used as the
missile of death. Wilson refused to give
an account of the affair, but a charge
of murutr has been lodged against
him.
6,000 Cars of Food Stuffs for N. Y.
Are Held Up by Tug Boatmen Strike
By Private Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 10.—Tons of food stuffs, chiefly fruit and vegetables
Intended for New York's consumption snd filling 6,000 freight care, were
tied up today In the yards of th* six big railroads entering the city be
cause of the continuance of the striae of tug boatmen.
The situation grew worse hour by hour, the city's food supply becom
ing endangered. When It became apparent that the railroads would short
ly be reduced to desperate straits, one of them, the Erie, granted Ihe de
mands of the men for 55 a month Increase In wages asked, and agreed to
submit to arbitration the demand for a 110 Increase for th* mate* of the
tugs. The other line* hold out.
EIGHT "EXCHANGES" IMANYARE HURT
CAUSES HOT EIGHT
Branch Had Given Bottle to
One—Other Wanted a
Drink.
For fighting over a half pint of
whisky, which Is said to have belonged
to Guy Branch, the young white men
who committed suicide Wednesday by
taking morphine, Arthur Harris and
Max Flemlster, two young negroes, aa*
alstant Janitors at the Grady hospital,
were each fined 110.75 by Acting-Re
corder James L. Key. Both th* ne
groes were cut slightly during the
fight.
Arthur Harris, the younger of the
two negroes, state* that Guy Branch
made him a present of the whisky be
fore he died, end that Flemlster, the
other negro, wanted a drink. Harris
says that he refused Flemlster the
drink, whereupon the two fell to fight
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New York, Aug, 10.—Comptroll- O
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O Forty-second street, for five cents, o
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O part of a dollar the city wea re- O
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O official paper, In faatenera and th# O
O time of the eighteen men required O
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ARE PUT OUT HERE
BY BOYKIN BILL
‘Wc Haven’t Had Time to
Think It Over,” Say
Managers.
By the terms of th* Boykin bill,
which he* passed both branches of
th* legislature snd which will doubt
less re Salve the signature of the gov
ernor, eight brokerage houses In At
lanta, employing altogether about 100
men, will b* put out of business abso
lutely. In the entire etate, at least
100 of th* concerns will be abolished.
Whether or not the brokerage con
cerns will qitletir fold their tents and
go away or. whether . some effort to
evade or break down th* Boykin bill
will be made, could not be learned Fri
day from any of the local concerns sf
reeled. ,
■“It's too soon tor us to ssy anything.
We haven't had time to think It over,"
was th* tenor of what th* manager*
had to say.
Th* terms of th* Boykin bill appear
to make It sweeping.
Those firms In Atlanta which are
abolished by th* art are the exchange*
of War* A Leland, Glbeft A Clay.
Hubbard Bros. Co., Chaa. A Edmund
Randolph, L. J. Anderson A Co, Pied
mont Brokerage Co, Praemsn A Co,
and Joseph Thompson.
LOEB IS SERVED
IN $50,000 SUIT
BY A WOMAN
IN TRAIN WRECK
ON TEXAS ROAD was
A petition of the Inmates of th* Con
federate Soldiers' Home prot« -ting
against their treatment by the of'i . i*
of ihe Institution and complaining
about the food and clothing piwlded
there, created a storm In th* l o r
house Friday morning. The pattUon
was a bitter arraignment of the men I
the head of the Institution.
It was Introduced by Mr. Mlllken, i
Wayne, following the resolution of tl
committee immcndlm; tl.. ... ti.
of a new hospital at the home.
The Petition.
The petition, which was read h.-r..i*
the house, was signed by a numb
the old soldiers, and was as follows;
To the Senate and House of lt< pie-
aentutlve* of the State of Georgia:
Gentlemen:—The following petition
of Ihe Inmates of the Confi . rote Sol
diers' Home of Georgia Is re i - '.fully
.resented to the general assembly, «*k-
ng that a committee of bit. ttgotion
be at once appointed by yotti h -
body before which 0*n he shown In
detull the want! and grlevancee or thu
old aoldlera now living at the Home.
1. That the Inetltutlon la overloaded
with useless officers and ampler ee,
taking away a large amount ..( in
appropriation that ahould go to Hi
maintenance and support of tin in
mat**,
2. Tina the liberal appropriatm
made by the state la nnt well exp-nd
u nil .in .-11• i• i ..pi i.i - i ’n ..r <i r.r.i.o
per annum to support and maintain
leas than 100 men, the Inmate# have
not been well fed or properly doth. .1.
With fully 60 oents per day per capita.
120 acre# of land, the Inmatea havi
been clothed or fed aa well ae tboi
similar Institutions having much
Two Doctors in Car Work
to Aid the Many
Wounded.
By Private leased Wire.
Fori Worth, Texas, Aug. 10.—North
bound Fort Worth and Denver passen
ger train was wrecked at 11:10 o'clock
thla morning at midland, a small sta
tion a few mllf* out of Bowie. The
aleeper and two parlor cars left the
track and'turned completely over. The
train waa a heavy one and wae being
drawn by two engine*, and In going
around, a long curve. *t a speed of
about 16 miles an hour, the three
coaches left th* track. The cause of
th* wreck was th* spreading of a de
fectlv* rail.
Thera were two physicians on Ihe
train, and they at once began the work
of relieving the eufferlifg of th* In
jured. A special train waa made up "
this city at 1:10 o’clock and rushed
the lean* of the disaster, carrying th*
officials of th* road and six additional
physician*. Several Fort Worth people
wen In the wreck and are among those
reported seriously Injured.
Later reports from Frultland say
that savtral of the moat seriously In
jured will die. Th* exact number of
Injured I* not yet known here, but la
reported to be large.
By Privet* Leased Wire.
New York, Aug. 10.—Subpoe
na gervcin succeeded in serving a
subpoena on Secretary Loeb to
day in the caae of Nadagie
D’Oree, who i* suing for $50,000
for being ejected* from St. John
church, Waahington.
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O Pittsburg, Pa, Aug. 10.—Mr*, a
O Augustus Hertje end her two O
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O and Ida, will leave Pittsburg for- o
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ACCOUNTS SHORT,
LODGE TREASURER
CUT HIS THROAT
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Allentown, Pa, Aug. 10.—Al
derman Fatzinger, who disappear
ed two weeks ago when it waa dis
covered that he waa $4,000 abort
aa treaaurer of the local Red Men
and Haymakera, made a dcaperate
attempt at suicide with a razor
today and inflicted wounds that
may terminate fatally.
TWO CHAUFFEURS
INSTANTLY KILLED
By Private Leased Wlr*.
New York. Augnet M.-Wllllam Walker,
aged 22, end Harry Woodcock, two chauf.
fears, of New York, were killed Iset night
when s new recta* car plunged Into a farm'
wagon on Thompson avenue, sear the
Wingfield eroeelng of Ihe Umg Island mil-
raid, In (Jaeenetmrough.
Frederick Wreesenbutg and Wllllnm
Brown were Injured, and are In a Long
leland city hospital.
The anfomoldte wee moving at terrific
speed when It hit lb* wagon. Wnodeork
their
unhurt
The drlrrr
hoe coat 21 centa per rspto.
2. That thorn hna been no pubils
report of the Institution since 1
that there la no vleltlng commll
from Ihe legislature; that aa a son
quence the public haa no Informal
aa to the disposition of the large i
proprlatlon* that have been made.
(. That owing to the fact that
board of trueteee are scattered o
the state and that they only meet <iu
terly, with short sessions, they arc
Informed as to the management of
Institution. That tho president of
board Uvea In n distant town, o
making short and hurried vlelte to
Inetltutlon; that the vice president
resident director give* little or no
dentlon to "the home” affairs.
1. That th* treasurer, who Is a
the purchasing agent,. exercises i>i
Ileal ly the whole power of tho bou
and that under the eyetem a* It I
existed there la no check on the <
pendltures of the fund of th* ■late.
4. That there ha* been no fair i
open tribunal to which the Inmates ,
carry their complaints. The so-c .i
Investigating committee of th* t id
rarely meets, and It I* not permit'- 1
to tho Inmates to appear by counsel
even to remain In person to
und cross-examine wltnesaea,
7. That the present building l«
ply large enough for all the won
the Inmates, hut a Judicious axp<
tur* In Improving theB
ill
... _ heating
house by sleam and adding to the
cullnnry department I* advisable.
I. That there la no necessity f >i a
separate building aa a hospital at the
cost of 57,600, for which an appropua-
tlon Is now pending passage In Hi"
senate. Huch a building would nearly
double the expense of maintaining "ihe
home” and would not be a benefit.
». That a careful Investigation of
the home,” giving the old aoldlera
full opportunity to be heard, fm-
coercion, will reveal not only bad mi
agement of the funds of the ln-.il
Hon, but will also show other inntt
that do not reflect credit on the »n
Your petitioner# pray for an open. I
and fair Investigation—they are old,
firm and helpless—they aak kind and
considerate treatment, which they are
not now receiving.
J. Bird. H. II. Llggln.
Ficocsn! Wood. W. J. Bankston.lt). l>.
Ware, Pat rihandley, William M • M
J. L. Hendrick, C. E. Loomle. T. J.
Milam, W. I. Clarke, C. A. Gable. J A.
Hoberts, George W. Pollard, C. A. Bile.
T. II. Barber, George A. Keith. T A.
Thomason, J. J. Forrester. J. T. Wlld-
The signatures of three-fourths of
the Inmates would have been append
ed, but the above constitute the most
Intelligent of the old soldiers.
While I do not agrae to all the word
ing of this petition, I do approve the
spirit and Intention of It. which Is to
get a commutes of the present legisla
ture to come here and learn from the
Individual Inmates their Just griev
ance*; whether *> are being treated
as tha people of Georgia expert 'heir
Confederate veterans to be I
(Signed)
The bill of Mr AU x
and others to build
Confederate Soldi.uV
to. which brought (..
was taken up in c<>i
whole. The bill pr.ivl.
tlon of JT.r.OO for bull
Mr. Davis, of Itlhb
)ROE McRAR,
ider, of DeKal
