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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.
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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.
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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."
