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Newspaper Page TextSPORTING EXTRA The Atlanta Georgian. SPORTING EXTRA VOL. 1. NO. 127. ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 21,1906. PRICE: DINNER SPEECH IS BRYANS BEST "IDREAD THE EXPERIMENT BUT IT IS COMING IN TIME" “I have favored government ownership of state railroads only after a long deliberation. I dread an experiment by which all the station agent's and brakemen and trackwalkers will be appointed and directed from Washington. I am a Democrat and I view with alarm the obliteration of state lines and the increasing influence of Washington. “But I see in the future a dual ownership—state railways owned by the states and trunk lines owned by the nation. You need not consider this now—but it is coming in time, oh, my friends, it is coming!” —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. Makes His Most Sig nificant Utterance on the Government Owneiship Idea. In Importance of Issues and Stand He Took, the Banquet Speech Was the Greater. By DUDLEY GLASS. Bryan,' the orator; Bryan, the matchless leader of men, has never in Atlanta spoken to greater ad vantage than in his address to 400 Democrats at the Piedmont dinner Thursday night. To those who had heard his address of the after noon and believed that Bryan hud lost the magic of the past it was a revelation. To Democrats faint hearted with continued defeat it was an inspiration which brought new courage to their hearts and set the blood pulsing with hope of victory at last. Thero were those who thought that in his afternoon address Mr. Bryan had been a disappoint ment. II3 had delivered u great message, had presented the cause of Democracy in a masterly way, but there had been but little of the old Bryan.whose ringing climaxes had placed him upon the summit of oratory. He had been calm, de liberate, dispassionate. There were those who said that with his years had come breadth and stability, and with their coming the fiery eloquence had disappeared. But those who heard the Great Com moner at night learned that the old Bryan wad still there. Began After Midnight. The greatest effort* of the great No- braakan have been at night, when oth* er men were exhausted from contin ued war upon convention Itonr*. It was In the gray dawn that he spoke at St. Louis and held a hostile army with the magic of his voice. It was at mid night, when other speakers had been Interrupted by the tiring crowd, that Mr. Bryan began his Atlanta address before a throng which filled every cor net of the great dining room and ren dered the street outside Impassible. In the afternoon Mr. Bryan had ad dressed a great audience of the peo ple. There were women and children, there were men upon whom It was nec essary to Impress simple facts. At night the gathering wus of veterans In the political urenu. Here It was not nec essary that the rudiments of Democ racy be explained. Before Democrats from every section of Oeorgln, from Dade to Camden, from Rabun to De catur, he aent forth a trumpet call to arms against the onslaughts of preda tory wealth. He was no longer the In structor; he was a leader calling upon his captains to lead their forces once more Into the fight. When he con cluded there were no party divisions In that hail. Populists, old-line Demo crats, all were Just Democrats again— and they were Bryan Democrats. Explains Ownership Ideas. For the first time since his announce ment of his stand on government own ership of railroads Mr. Bryan explain ed his Ideas of how this should be gain ed and regulated. He took up the dif ference between national and state onnershlp'and declared himself In fa vor of the Individual states owning their own roads. He did not hesitate to say that he feared the appointive power which would result from govern ment ownership, but he declared that he feared the appointive Influence less "hen In the hands of an administration than while under control of n railroad. He dropped the tariff question upon which he had spoken In the afternoon and confined himself to railroads. Mr. Bryan spoke for forty minutes, his hands clenched and his body sway ing as he denounced the corporation ring and appealed to his' hearers for a sweeping reform. His mobile face re flected nls every feeling and when he rose to a superb period It was a face transfigured. His climaxes were met with applause which swept the room and was echoed from the street, where h r hours the crowd had waited for the address of the great commoner. When he left the hall he waa bathed In per spiration and, as he pushed hi* way through the crowded corridor to his room, where Mr*. Bryan was waiting. young men and old fought tor the right grasp his hand. IS KILLED; Dynamite Explosion Ruins Property Val ued at $1,000,000. ; Some extracts from the address fol- “Plaln Jennings Bryan.” I am afraid that I have brought too much name to Oeorgle. Two are •r ugh. Tonight we have heard from Continued on Pago 8*v#n. Hpeelsl to The Georgian. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21.—The town of Jclllco, Tenn., 64 miles north of Knoxville, waa almost totally destroyed early this morning by an explosion of dynamite. It Is known that ten peo- R le are dead and fully fifty more or isa seriously Injured. Every house on the Kentucky side of the town Is wrecked. The buildings on the Ten nessee side are damaged without ex ception. Hot n window glass In the town remains Intact. Many chimneys have fallen as a result of the explo slon. A car loaded with dynamite, and standing In the yards used Jointly by the Louisville and Nashville and the Southern railroads, was Ignited, caus ing the catastrophe. Two reports are current as to the manner In which the explosives were Ignited. One Is that three parties were firing at a mark on the car and a bullet penetrated It, striking the dyna mite, with fatal effect. Another re port says the cars were being shifted in the yard, and a switch engine sent a car loaded with pig Iron Into the siding on which the dynamite car was standing, and the pig Iron car struck plosives, with the result stated. Circus Train Wrecked. It Is reported here that John H. Sparks’ circus train waa standing In the yards and several of the circus employees were killed or Injured and a wild lion was liberated. The Southern railway and the Louis ville and Nashville railroad are rush ing section gangs to Jelllco to Join In the relief work. It is estimated that r.00 people are homeless. The Knoxville Sentinel has stnrted a relief fund, which is grow ing. The know dead at noon today were: J. M. Cooke and son, Joseph Sellers Walter Rodgers, George Atkins, John Gordon (colored), Sam Sharp( colored), William Lovett, Ida Rayne, James Rey nolds. Three men—George Hudson, John Knock and Daniel Taylor—are dying and can not survive the day. The list of fatalities will, u Is be lieved, bfi largely augmented. Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 21.—a dis patch from Jelllco, Tenn., saya two car loads of dynamite exploded there earl/ today. A Standard Oil tank was destroyed and several buildings were demolished. It' Is reported that 16 persons were killed, five of whom have been re moved from the wreckage. A special train carrying doctors has left here The property loss Is report ed to be $1,000,060. List of Dead. The following are known to have been killed; JOHN GORDON. JOHN COOK, car Inspector for the L. & N. R. R. WALTER ROGERS. GEORGE ATKINS, lineman. East Tennessee Telephone Company, Five unidentified bodies were taken out of the wreckage. Th explosion occurred on the Louis ville and Nashville tracks at the de pot. Every warehouse In Jelllco along the I.ouiavlllc and Nashville railroad Is totally destroyed and nearly every store In the town Is either blown to pieces or damaged to such an extent that It Is u ruin. I The entire third floor of the Carma- thnn Inn, a large brick hotel atruct- ure, was blow n off. It Is believed that no prominent white people, business or professional’ men or their families are Included In the death list. Some of tile business houses either totally destroyed or partly wrecked ""Armour's packing plant, total. Judge nnd Pinnacle Brewing Compa ny’s plant, total. Kentucky and Standard Oil Compa ny warehouses. Jelllco Grocery warehouse. Glen Morgan Hotel, badly wrecked. Carmathnn Inn, third story off. Link’s tailoring house. Hoodge Undertaking building. Smith Dry Goods Company. Cumberland Opera House, $35,000 structure badly shattered. The National Bank Is ruined, as Is th“ Baird wholesale dry goods house. Moses grocery store. Central Drug house and M. J. Steinberg's clothing pl Th* postoffice Is partly wrecked, and Baird & Smith’! furnishing store Is shattered. MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP LEAGUE BEING FORMED Tax Payers and Voters to.Organize in Cause. The Municipal Ownership League. The public interest In civic owner' ship and control of public utilities has reached this point. The Leaguo Is be lng formed. Already the project has the backing of many of Atlanta's most Influential cltlxens, who have rallied to The Geor gian's cause. Within a short period of time It Is believed that there will be 5,000 voters of this city who have signed the mem bership blank. In the recent white primary a can didate running on a munlclpul owner ship platform polled over 4,000 votes. It Is expected that 100 per cent of the men who voted for municipal owner ship will Join the organisation and push Its purpose to success. Aside from those who by their bai ts expressed their views, there are hundreds of others who cast their votes for personal reasons who will Join the movement sweeping Atlanta. It Is on this basis that the conservative figures aa to the membership are baaed. Friday morning a number of promi nent cltlxens were called upon by a representative of The Georgian and asked for their vlewe. In the short pe riod of time It was Impossible to Bee a great many of the strongest support ers of municipal ownership. “I Will Join,” Ssys Hok* Smith. Hon. Hoke Smith was reticent about giving out an Interview off-hand, but It is well known that he Is one of the strongest Advocates of municipal own ership In the state. Mr. Smith eald; 'It Is against my rule to give out an Interview that I have not written out myself, but you may say I will Join the league when It Is formed.’’. 8*m Jonssi "In my Judgment munic ipal ownership Is a coming proposition, and It will be more and more Insisted upon by the people. It Is a matter I am not willing to be quoted at length on without giving careful consideration to what I say, but I am In favor of the city's owning and operating those things necessary to the public.” H. A. Boynton, president of the Boyn ton Grocery Company, and one of the committee of five suggested by Aider- man James L. Key at the past session of council to formulate plant by which the city can own Its own gas and elec' trie plants, said; "I am strongly in f* vor of municipal ownership. I have not KEY GIVES REASONS FOR NEED OF LEAGUE “The time Is ripe now for » municipal gas and electric light plant. AH tlfat is necessary to get It is fur the people to come together and say they want It, and the battle Is practically won.” said Hon. James L. Key. “The people are greatly Indebted to The Georgian for Ita effort! and they have confidence In The Georgian. "The Municipal Ownership League Is the thing. It will give the public an opportunity of getting together on this vital Issue. Every public spirited man of every shade of political belief on other lines can here find common ground and can co-operate foF the public good. "It Is going to be a long, hard fight, of course, but the fight will win In the end. , ‘The street railway company and the gas company will fight it Everybody expects that. They think they have everything they want and they will not want any one—not even the city—to entrench upon what they consider their own private preserves. And then the street railway company that owns the gas and electric company, has $7,000,- 000 of watered stock that they must pay dividends on, and they will want to scrouge everybody else out In order to do It. “The public are willing to pay dividends on actual Investments, but are not willing tn pay on the rake-off of the speculators. "The legislative committee In Nsw Tork reported that gas could be produced at 61 cents a thousand In ths city of New Tork, where labor, material and everything else la very high, and where the cost of any sort of public Improvement la very great. Here I am satisfied gas can be produced at a much lower figure and the people are entitled to It. "A gas plant such aa ws have hare could be reproduced for somewhere between $500,000 and $750,000, and the gas company Is financed on a basis of $3,600,000. We have got to pay on a whole lot more of their-water. "Another thing, people are willing to pay for the gas they use, but don't want to be held up and arbitrarily forced to pay the bill whether they have used the gas or not. "That Is one of the conditions that must be remedied, and' can be. ‘The matter of an electric light plant Is simple. 'The city can utilise the power at the waterworks pumping station .and It already has the conduits and most everything that Is necessary to operate Its plant. “The thing for the city to do Is to do Ita own lighting as soon as the present contract Is out, and then the thing will grow of Ita own accord." Make Demand for Uniform Wage Scale. RACE RESULTS. GRAVESEND. 9 Continued on Pago Three. MANY MEET DEATH THROUGH ACCIDENT OVER M COUNTRY Series of Mishaps Which Maim and Kill. Special to The Georgian. St. Augustine, Fla., Sept. 21.—The dally procession of warships en route to Key West and Cuba speak to the wireless station opposite this city. Yes terday harrowing tales of a ship wreck nnd suffering were communicated by the cruisers Tacoma and Cleveland. The former reported having picked up four sailors adrift on wreckage many mile* out to sen. The Cleveland reported having pass ed several derelicts. Today the cruiser Newark got In communication with the station here and reported the schooner John Jackson wrecked off Frying Pan Shoals. The four men rescued by the Tacoma, It ha* been subsequently learned, were from this schooner. The Newark also reported passing a sunken schooner in latitude 32.66 and longitude 78.05. About 16 feet of the masts were visible above the water. The Minneapolis was spoken to to day. At the time of opening communi cation she was 50 miles east of Charles ton. She reported that at midnight she picked up Jamen Alson, who was floating on a plank. He was a sur vivor of the schooner Twilight, which he reports was capslsed Monday morn ing at 6 o'clock In a hurricane. The schooner carried a crew of seven men, but It Is believed all perished, as the Minneapolis hovered In the vicinity until daybreak without discovering any traces of the crew. New York, Sept. 21.—"Wallace" Owen nnd his machanlclan, while tak ing their last practice spurt today tn the 80-horse-power Maxwell ear In which they were to enter elimination trial* In the Vanderbilt cup race to morrow, had a cylinder head blow out on the EliSt Norwich road at Dead Man's Curve and were flung out aa the car swung over to the side of the course. Neither of two men was seriously hurt. Owen telephoned to Krug’s ho tel for help. Walter White, In a big White touring car. headed one rescu ing party, while Christie In his 110- horee-poner Christie started with bis mechanician, formed another. Both had a narrow escape from collision as they came along at a terrific clip In oppo site direction*. White had to put on his brake, throwing all four of the oc cupants of the car to the road. None was hurt. Victoria, B. C.,’8ept. 21.—The steam ship City of Seattle, from Seattle tor Gravesend, L. I., Sept. 21.—Here are the results of today's races: FIRST RACE—Suffrage. 8 to 1, won; Lotus, 8 to 10, second; Jacobite, 3 to.l, third. Time 1:19. SECOND RACE)—Momentum, even, won; Royal Lady, 3 to 6. second; Royal Breexe, 4 to 5, third. Time 1:07 4-6. THIRD RACEJ—Coy Maid, 16 to 1, won; Dandelion. 1 to 2, aecond; Far West, 4 to 1, third. Time, 1:64 8-5. FOURTH RACE—Kennyette. 8 to 1, won; Gold .LadV. 6 to «. second: Fan tastic, I to 4, third. Time. 1:07 1-8. FIFTH RACK—Lancastrian 7 to 2, won; Our Sister, 6 to 1, second; Hunt ington. 8 to 5. third. Time, 2:07. SIXTH RACE)—Nemesis, 2 to 6, won; Stoic, 7 to 6, second; Miss Ogden, even, third. Time, 1:48. TORONTO. Toronto, Ont., Sept. 21.—Here are the results of the race* this afternoon: FIRST RACE—Garret Wtleon. i to 5, won; Blue Coat, 8 to 1, second; Bonnie Reg. 8 to 5. third. SECOND RACE)—Purslane, 8 to 5, won; Charlie Gilbert, out, second; Moc casin, nut, third. THIRD RACE—Chancellor Wal worth, 60 to I,'won; Cambridge, 8 to 6, second; Reservation, out, third. FOURTH RACK—Orphen, 10 to 1, won: Mamie Etta, 3 to 10, second* Bob Edgren, 1 to 3. third. FIFTH RACE—Loupanla, 5 to 2, won: Court Martial, l to 4. second; Ca- persauce, 1 to 2, third. SIXTH RACE—Mendllng Daisy, 6 to 1, won; Bnllotta, 7 to 10, second; Toots, 2 to I. third. LOUISVILLE. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 21.—The races at Churchill Downs this afternoon re sulted as follows: FIRST RACE—Plausible, even, won; Jessamine. 3 to 2, second; Graechlus, even, third. SECOND RACE—Miss Anxious, 4 to 1, won; Gallop Off, 6 to 1, second; Or derly, 4 to 5, third. THIRD RACE—Maverick, 8 to 2, won; Sigmund, even, second; Little Wally, 2 to 1. third. FOURTH RACE—Malleable, 7 to 2, on; Talamund, 6 to 1, second; Dan McKenna, 2 to 6, third. BRITISH IN EGYPT Tl BASEBALL. AMERICAN. First Game— Boston 000 010 000— 1 4 1 Cleveland 010 030 01*— 6 13 0 Batteries: Winters and Armburster; Hess and Bemls. Second Game- Boston 000 002 020— 4 0 0 Cleveland 000 000 001— 1 6 2 Batteries: Young and Corrigan: Townsend and Clarke. First Game— New York 001000 111— 18 1 Chicago 000 001 020— 1 1 2 Batteries Chesbro and Kelntow; Walsh and Roth. New York 002 011— 4 Chicago mo 000— 1 Batteries; Hogg and McGuire; Owen and Roth. Called en account of rain. Pittsburg 100 000 000— 1 6 2 Boston 000 101 30*— 5 11 2 Batteries: Willis and Gibson; Dorner and O'Neill. Washington 000 000 004— 4 12 3 Detroit 010 000 Oil— 5 6 1 Batteries: Smith and Werner; Slever and Schmidt. natIonal. Cincinnati 011 000 000— 2 8 0 Philadelphia .. .000 000 010— .1 7 1 Batteries Wlcke and Schlel; Parka and Dooln. Chicago 080 101 000— 5 11 4 New York 010 000 003— 4 4 4 Batteries: Overall and Kllng: Ames and Breshnan. St. Loul 000 000 002— 2 4 3 Brooklyn 000 002 100— 3 8 2 Batteries Thompson and Marshol; Pastorlus and Ritter. easTern. Newark 2 5 0 Toronto 0 8 0 Ratteriea Panic and EShea; Mitchell and Wood. Providence 2 Rochester 3 Batteries; Elliott and Higgins; Case and Steelman. Baltimore 3 Buffalo 2 Batteries Adkins and Shea; Greene and MrAlllster. London, Sept. 21.—Continual reports from Egypt Indicating the Increase of Moslem fanaticism and official dis patches from Lord Cromer, the British representative In that country, pointing out the necessity of strengthening the British garrison there, are giving some cause for alarm In England. In the present emergency England la brought face to face with ohe of the moat se rious problem* of the future. Two hundred and fifty machinists, employed at the Southern railway shops In this city, and perhaps 3,000 on the system are making a demand for Increase In the wage scale fropi $8 a day to 88.35. The proposition la now In the hands of the executive committee of the 51* chinlste' Union, and a meeting will be held within the next few days to foray ulate a request to be presented to the Southern railway management. general strike on the system la probable. If the demand Tor Increase In wages la not granted. The contention of the machlnslst Is for a uniform scale. The claim that In Birmingham the existing scale 83.25 a day. It la generally believed among the conservative leaders of organised labor here that the demand will be granted without necessity of a strike. Local unions held meetings Thurs day night and discussed the situation. About three years ago a strike exist ed for thirteen months at the Southern shope hero. J AT Hpeelsl to The Georgian. Charleston, 8. C„ Sept. 21.—The Cu ban gunboat Alleen from New York, bound for Havana to help put down the Insurrection, entered port hero at p.m. to eoal. She carries arms and ammunition. Alaska, via Victoria, I* ashore on Trial Island, held fast, broadside the shore, which I* rocky. She went on during a fog today. The passengers were landed and have ar rived here. The salvage steamship Salvator and the tub Pilot have gone to the aid of the stranded vessel and a tug will be sent from here to Port Townsend. Pulaski. WIs.. Sept. 21.—A work train on the New Northwestern railroad line ran Into a workmen's sleeping car here, killing Ed Were and George Madden, of Pittsburg, and Injuring fourteen oth ers. Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 21.—Word has Just rearhed here of a dynamite ex plosion on the right of way of the Grand Trunk Pacific railway, near Un- mark, New Ontario, In which five men were killed and six others Injured BRIDEGROOM IN JAIL ON PERJURY CHARGE Hpeelsl to The Georgina. Gadsden. Ala., Sept. 21.—Walter Parks, a young man, was arretsed to day on a warrant sworn out by his father-in-law, R. 8. Wilson, of Alabama City, charging him with perjury. The trouble arose over the marriage of Parks last night to the daughter of Wilson. It Is alleged that Parks made affidavit that hla bride waa over eight een years of age, when he applied for the license, while she Is much younger. Parks was placed In Jail In default of ball. BRAKEMAN KILLED BY PERSECUTED HU8BAND HjM'iin 1 to The Georgian. * Salisbury, N. ('., Sept. 21.—At two. thirty o’clock this afternoon, Phillip Hedrick killed Brakeman Whitaker In a store at Spencer. The trouble arose over Whitaker's alleged Intimacy with Hedrick's wife. The Inte hour makes particulars un obtainable. Hedrick gave himself up. He stand* well here, Hedrick Is re membered ns the man who shot and killed Shaping nine years ago, a woman causing this trouble. CARTER SAYS HE SAVED MONEY FOR GOVERNMENT Chlcngo, III., Sept. 2k—Claim was made before Judge Kohlsatt, In the Federal court, by Attorney Stone, coun sel for Oberlln M. Carter, former army official, who Is now being sued by the government for money he 1* supposed to have embeaaled, that Instead of stealing money from the gevernment he actually saved It more than $1,000,000 on contracting work at Savannah, Go. ONE MAN 18 KILLED. Pittsburg. Pa„ Sept. 21.—One man was killed and three Injured by a cave- In that occurred this afternoon at 224 t’oker avenue, where a new double building I* being erected. NEGRO IN TOWER MAY BE WRONG ONE Marshal Rynn aaya that while the nefro at the Tower almost exactly fits the description given by Mrs. Kimball, he cannot believe he has the .right man In the face at the statement of Mr. Hughes that the negro was at his home at the time the crime was committed. Mr. Ryan Is now working on a clew furnished by Frasier Morgan, who lives nbout half a mile from the Kimball home. Mr. Morgan says that on Thurs day morning a negro exactly fitting the description furnished by* Mrs. Kimball was splitting wood for him, but quit about JO or 11 o'clock In the morning, leaving In the direction of the scene of the crime, and that he had not returned for his pay. This Is the man whom the county of ficers are now hunting. Mr. Morgan saw the Clayton negro at the Jail Fri day morning and said he was not the man whom he had employed. AN AGED FARMER COMMIT8 SUICIDE H|h><'IiiI to The Cleorglmi. Vldalla, Qa., Bept. 21.—John Smith, aged sixty.five, and a well to do farmer, five miles west of here, committed sui cide by taking two ounces of laudanum at his home Thursday night. Mr. Smith leaves a wife and several children, all prominent In their county. THEdSEOF ASSAULTS? License Inspector Ew ing Wants to Abolish Them. Pictures, paintings and photographs of white women In the nude festoon the walls of several of the negro clubs In Atlanta. There are eight of these clubs where whisky Is sold and fires th* brains of the negro members. There have been many attacks on white women In and around Atlanta during the past few months. License Inspector R. A. Ewing has determined to dose up these clubs and to that end mode an Inspection Friday morning, accompanied by Alderman F. A. Qullllan, chairman of the tax com mittee. It Is, Mr. Ewing's purpose to enforce the $1,000 retail liquor license tax on all clubs that sell liquor. All of these eight clubs sell whisky and beer In re tail quantities. This will slso affect th'* white clubs," said 5Ir, Ewing, "but that can not bo helped under the present laws. Certainly every respectable white club would be willing to pay the license rather than have the negroes Inflamed by liquor and Indecent pictures." Ths clubs now pay th* stats tax. Senator Brackett An nounces There Is To Be No Contest. New York, Sept. 21.—Senator Brackett announced that there should be no contest of the Russell Sage will. The senator Intimated that a financial settlement had been effected, hut ha refused to give out any Informntlnn re garding It. lie snld that one of the attorneys for the estate would give out a statement. Brackett represents Edison Conrad. 8 years old, of near Troy, who Is n great grand nephew of the late millionaire. Attorneys for Mrs. Sage today Issued the following statement: Assuming no contest of Mr. Snge's will, Mrs. Sage has Intended and in- - tends to give to each of Mr. Sage's rel atives who are beneficiaries under his will nn additional amount equal to bin or her legacy, and to do thin an noon nn possible after her qualification as executrix." Had Jawbont Broken. Hpeclnl to The Georgian. Athena, On., Sept. 21.—Henry, Jr., the little 10-year-old son of Henry T. Comer, was thrown from a horse yes terday and had several teeth knocked out, his jawbone broken and hla knee badly lacerated. TYPHOON DEA TH LIST NOW NUMBERS 10,000 Hongkong, Sept. 21.—It Is now estimated that not less than 10.000 live* were lost In the recent typhoons. Moat of these were Chines*. It Is cer tain that the entire fishing fleet, of 600 vessels and 5,000 - men, were de stroyed. Dead bodies are being cremated to prevent a plague. Many of those engaged In this work have succumbed to the dreadful stench and the hor ror of It all. AUGUSTA NURSE AND DOCTOR RESCUE STARVING SAILORS New York, Sept. 21.—Rescued after having drifted In a wrecked schooner for five days without food or water, with a sick crew. Captain R. J. Robin son, of the schooner Flora Rogers, told a thrilling story of suffering upon his arrival on th* Clyde line steamship Al gonquin In New York. The captain and crew were rescued by Miss Jaequeltna Rowe, a trained nurse, and Dr. S. S. Hammond, both of Augusta, Ga., who rowed a boat from the Algonquin. SUES MOTHER FOR $5,000 DAMAGES; QUARREL OVER NU SPRLIN CAUSE Elkhart, Ind., Sept. 21.—Henry Commens has filed an action against his mother-in-law, Mary Peas, for $5,000 for alienation of his wife's nf- fectlons. The trouble originated In a quarrel over hla criticism of Brest- dent Roosevelt for championing spelling reform.