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*5* : . ? % y * / , UTILIIYOWNERSHIP' * 1 ? i - % ; ? r Raises Fun and Feathers at .Municipal League Meeting. > ATLANTA MAYOR BLUFFS His Remarks Became So Personal That n.U..t.e ETrnm Ual] \A/hil* wvi *vva will ?? ! If He Was Speaking ? Mayor Dunne His Target. * ' v Municipal ownership of public uti*V ities was the question which aroused i ? earnest discussion at Thursday's session of the League of American Munic* ipaJities at Itoledo, Ohio. The conflict of views among the members which was so apparent was intensified b* Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, whose speech in defense of municipal ownership was the feature of Thursday's session. - Mr. Dunne's address covered all the (points in favor of public ownership, which he advocated in his recent campaign for mayor, and he v...pressed himself as being firm in the belief that the people of his city, along with citiaens of other cities, would own and control these public utilities. Mayor Woodward of Atlanta, who was leading the fight against municipal ownership, replied to Mr. Dunne, hold% ing that municipal ownership is a .-sham. Before beginning his address, SB .1 he turned to Mayor Dunne and said: I "Do not take remarks as personal," and Mayor Dunne smiled and bowed. I&2 :. > Continuing, Mayor Woodward said: "There are only a few men who could successfully work out municipal ownership, as most of them could be bought the same as in the political arena. I know of only one, and that man was Sam Jones. You could not buy Sam Jones, and I will v pay him ^ a tribute before I leave the platform. But who can show me another man ** )vke him?" N "I can," cr.'ed Hugo Grosser of Chv E cago. i "Wfeere?" yelled Woodward. |i.' y "All over the country," vociferated B||y & aQroaser. - x "Well, there ain't one in your city," 5c; ' - fairly screamed Woodward. This brought a smile from Mayor Dunne. > Cries of "Throw him out," Shut him up," were heard, and when quiet was again restored, President Crolius cautioned Woodward to adhere to his subject, and not get too personal. Then Mayor Woodward told what control he had over the corporations in Atlanta. He mentioned Mayor Weaver of Philadelphia and told how one * councilman in the city had admitted' to hhn that he resigned a position paying ten thousand and accepted one which paid nothing because be could graft fifteen thousand a year. Then Atlanta's mayor turned directly to Mayor Dunne and said: "I am no demagogue, and when the people of At!an ta elected me they knew where to find me." At this juncture a delegate asdeS him when he was going to mention municipal ownership and tell why -t was not right. Turning to Mayor Dunne, Woodward said: "You made a great play for votes In Chicago on the hobby of municipal ownership and the people elected you. But they will never get municipal ownership and you know it." "Why, I have my corporations un> der better control than either Dunne or Johnson of Cleveland, and as a result all of the papers which we have in Atlanta are fighting me." By this time the uproar was general. Delegates shouted at Woodward and * demanded that he he put out or force! . to talk business. A St Louis delegate arose, saying: "We have had enough of this foolishness, and I move we adjourn." Before the question was put to a vote and while Woodward was still talking the delegates arose in a mass and broke for the door. r MRS. LEA UNDER ARREST. Charged With Murdering Husband at Spring Place. Mrs. John Lea of Spring Place, Ga., has been arrested on the charge of murdering her husband, whose body nn? fmtvtfl to a ioist of a sawmill near Spring Place, about six weeks ago, where it was reported, he committed suipide. Mrs. Lea and John Hix were indicted by the last grand jury .of Mur ray county, Ga., because of a statement of the little daughter, who told" that Hix and the woman killed her father in their house. PLAGUE IN PHILIPPINES. Dreaded Black Cholera Scourge Makes Its Appearance in Manila. An outbreak of cholera in Manila has been reported. It is thought ttrStt-. it is due to green vegetables from Hong Kong. Two soldiers have died at Camp McKinley, which is now quarantined. In the city several natives and one American woman have died. Surgeon? state the disease is nor serious. WOODWARD JS QUEERED Action of Atlanta Mayor in Toledo, 0-, Roundly Condemned by Council Members?Talk of Impeachment. Reports in the New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Louisville end other newspapers concerning the actions and utterances of Mayor James G. Woodward of Atlanta during the convention of the League of American Municipalities at Toledo, Ohio, have had a very disquieting effect in Atlanta, and particularly upon members of the general council. The reports of nearly all these pa' p?rs state that Mayor Woodward was sufficiently in a state of intoxication to cause comment, and that when in that condition he staged, among other things, that there was not an honest man in the oity' of Chicago. Members of the Atlanta general council are very much perturbed, and they declare it is certain that some action will be taken. They assert that an effort wilt he made to adopt a resolution apologizing to alt the cities of the League of American M'unicipalities, and particulrly to Chicago and Miaycr Dunne, for the words and sets of Mayor Wocdward. This same resolution, it is ^bid, win go further and declare that Mayor Wbodward at the Toledo convention in no wise represented the character, the feeling or the sentiment of the people of Atlanta. Some members favor adopting a res oli.tion calling upon Mayor Woodward to resign, while others are in favor of at once commencing impeachment proceedings. . . Councilmen declare (hat tnere ai? three features to the acts and utterances of Miyor Woodward. The first is the humiliation and disgrace which they believe has come to Atlanta. The second is the destruction of the belief all over the country that Atlanta has clean politics, a thing about which the city hits hoisted. The third is the failure of the Atlanta delegates to secure the 1906 convention for Atlanta, a thing that was believed to be easily possible. Members of council are apparently very indignant, and declare that they cannot afford to overlook the Toledo incident. A dispatch from Toledo says: Mtoyor James G. Woodward, when seen this evening in regard to the statement to the effect that impeachment proceedings might be brought, said: "Oh pshaw! There's nothing to it. Don't you worry about my being impeached. The situation is this: All the corporations are against me because I control them, and some of the papers are flgnting me because the corporations control them. "Impeach me! Do you suppose the people would see a man impeaohea who had i chance to make half a million doilars grafting and turned it down? They tried to impeach me once before, but they did not do it? "Haven't I got a right to speak my mind as well as anybody else? I delivered the same speech as I starte<? to deliver the other day down in Georgia. I never said that I was entirely opposed to municipal ownership. I believe that every city should ov* its own water, light and sanitary plants." It was then suggested to the mayor that perhaps it was not so much the speech that had gotten htm into bad repute as his physical condition. He laughed and saad: "Well, was I drunk? Who said I was drunk? I didn't know It If I was." His parting volley delivered to Clerk Johnson of the St. Clair hotel was: "im going borne, and when I get there ju&t watch me. Why, I'll make them like me. They'll never Impeach in*. In two weeks you will receive a letter from me as mayor of Atlanta, Now, nllnd what I say." Then handing Johnson a $5 bill he departed. HOLMES FAILED TO SHOW UP. Did Net Appear Before Criminal Court to Give Bond. Former Assistant Statistician Eaw?tt S. Holmes, Jr., of the department of agriculture, failed to appear before tho criminail court in Washington Saturday and give bond, as he had promised he would do. OFFERS REWARD FOR ASSASSINS Tennessee Governor After Murderers of Non-Union Miners. Governor Cox cf Tennessee b?s offered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of the assassins of the non-union coal miners at Tracy City, several days ago. .Th-is makes a reward of $2,000 for the apprehension that he hopes to avert further trouble v going To iracy aim matiug a ycisonal appeal fcr - peace, but that he mat- have to order troops there at any moment;" HUNGARIAN NATIONAL BANK. Million Dollars Capital to Handle Emigrant Accounts. A national bank with a capital ct a million is being formed for the suppose of carrying on banking operations between the United States and Hungary and to handle the accounts of emigrants to this country from the Balkan peninsula. The new bank is being organized in co-operation with a number cf -prominent Xew York banking houses. ^E? miimiCTED Washington Grand Jury Nails Cotton Leak Manipulator. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD ' Indictment is Based on Section 5440 < of Revised Statutes and Penalty i is Not Le9S Than $1,000 or' More Than $10,000. ' Edwin Holmes, Jr., of Washington, D. C., until recently the associate sta tistician of the department of agricutlure, but who was dismissed aa an outcome of the investigation intc the leakage into the cotton crop re ports, has been indicted by the grand jury of the District of Columbia on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the government. , This announcement was made Fri day night by United States District Attorney Morgan-H. Beach, just after he had returned from N6w York city, where he has ben instrumental in causing the arrest of Frederick A. Peckham the New York broker, at Saratoga, and Moses Haas, of New York. There are two indictments covering the charges against tie three men. Mr. Beach said that Holmes, who has been away from Washington fo> some time and whose whereabouts * have not been generally known, will return to Washington to answer to the indictment Section 5440 of the revised statutes, under which Holmes is indicted, and which it understood forms the gravamen of the charge against tne three men, provides that if two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States in any manner, and one or more of such parties do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, all the party shall be liable to a 'penalty of not less than $1,000 and not more than . S10.0C0 and to imDrisonment of not more than two years. The report of the secret agents into the charges alleging that advance information regarding the cotton crop reports had been given to cotton brokers in New York asserted that Holmes had communicated advance information to L. C. Van Riper, a New York broker, and Moses Haas of New York, who Mr. Van Riper said acted as a go-between in conveying information from Holmes to other New York brokers. Moses Haas -Surrenders. A New York dispatch says: Moses Haas, Indicted in connection with the cotton leak Bcandals, surrendered himself to a United States marshal Friday when officially informed of the warrant issued against him a few days ago. This warrant was issued simultaneously with one for Frederick Peckhan, who was arrested at Saratoga, and is now under a $10,000 bond. Bail was fixed for Haas in the same amount, which was furnished. NEGRO CHURCH DYNAMITED. 8trenuous Race War Is Under Way in Little Indiana Town. As the result of a race war at Carlisle, In<L, the negro Baptist church was destroyed by dynamite which was placed under the altar. Bloodhounds have been put on tho trail of the dynamiters. Threats are being made that if any arrests are made every negro in town will be driven out. DIRECTORS COURT PUBLICITY. Equitable Officials Ask Full Investigation of Their Management The Equitable Life Assurance Society has joined with the state of New York in asking for a full investigation in court of its directors and officers and their alleged wrong doing in managing ttie moneys or rae society. The document is the answer of the forty-nine Equitable directors to charges made against them Iconnection with a suit brought agaiDSt the Equitable Life Assurance Society by the state. MAY TURN QUARANTINE TABLES. New Orleans Preparing to Shut Out Other Infected Points. With the fever in New Orleans coming steadily under control and apprehension no longer felt of a dangerous epidemic the federal authorities are anxious to put restrictions against free intercourse between New Orleans and infected communities in Lousiana and elsewhere. The policy of such a move was fully discussed Thursday in the conference of the fever fighters with Governor Bianchard and the results are to be made known at the next meeting of the state board of health, j | NEGRO TROOPS NOT WANTED, j Move on Foot in Alabama to Have j Them Disbanded. \ petition nas ueen circuia^eu iu > Selma, Ala., among officers and for- j mer officers of the state troops, asking j those in authority to muster out the negro members of the Alabama national guard. The petition has been very generally signed and the move- j rnent will be pushed. to"ocean bottom S earner Peconic Goes Down Uff the Florda Coast. TWENTY SAILORS DROWN Only Two o* the Crew Escaped Watery Grave to Tell the Story?Vessel Was Bound to New Orleans With a Cargo cf Ccal on Board. Twenty men constituting all but two of the officers and crew cf the American steamship Peoonic, bound from Philadelphia to New Orleans with coal, were arowne-d by the sinking of the vessel off the coast of Florida Monday. The disaster was the result of a fierce gale which rag?H alflnc rlift />nacr rJnt-inrr rhu nicrhr and early morning, leashed by the storm, an immense wave struck die vessel with terrific force about 12: 3u o'clock a. m. The impact coming just as the vessel was making a turn, caused a shift of the cargo and the vessel careened and sank immediately. The accident occurred so quickly that only two of these aboard her, an Italian and a Spaniard, were able to save themselves. They succeeded in getting into a life boat, reached Amelia beach about noon Monday: and, landing, told the story of the disaster. About midnight of Sunday, during the heaviest part of the storm, which had raged all day, the officer of the deck gave the order to put further ctit to sea, fearing they were approaching the coast too nearly. In the endeavor to turn the ship was struck by a heavy sea, the cargo shifted, giving a broadside and sbe began sinking rapidly. In less than ten minutes after the alarm was sounded she had gone to the bottom and no trace of her was left upon the waters. The account of their own miraculous escape out of all cf the ship's crew who went down was something approaching the marvelous. One of these men was at the wheel at the time the order was given, the orher was upon watch. As soon as the ship began to careen these two men rushed for one of the small boats, which they jumped into as the vessel began to go down. With their knives they severed the ropes as the water's level was reached, and the sma'll boat was thrown far out on the waves. The men whose names are, respectively, Bagellihi H-umberti and Antono Clark, were unable to speak out of their native tongues, and it was some time before the facts of the disaster were thoroughly ascertained. They have testified to the correctn of the a hove report before a notary pub'ic, and the people of Fer nandina kindly cared for their wants. At the time of the disaster the ship was tout 20 miles northeast of Fernandina, heading south, and in the teeth of the gale. The small boat was thrown here and there until finally control was gained through handling the oars, enabling the two unfortunate survivors to pull ashore at last. The vessel had been engaged in the fruit trade from Central America to New Orleans, but on account of the quarantine regulations prohibiting the import of bananas she had been engaged for two voyages to carry coal from Philadelphia to New Orleans. She was a ship of 1,154 register and bad on board about 1,500 tons of coj.1. T*ie arrived at Philadelphia August 14, and cleared for New Orleans August 19. The. Peconic was built at Liverpool, England, in 1881. She was 270 feet long, 34 feet 6 inches beam and 22 feet 8 inches deep. She formerly sailed under the iUritrsh flag and ran on the Phelps Erothers & Co.'s line between New York and Mediterranean ports. D. H'. El Jones of the firm of J. Wi El well & Co., New York, is her present owner. SURELY MAD IS MADDEN. Noted Turfman Proposes to Press His Suit for Divorce. John E. Mlidden, noted turfman, engaged in a legal fight in New York, Ohio and Kentucky courts over divorce proceedings and alimony, claim, and who was held in contempt of the New York court Saturday, held a conference in Lexington. j\v., Monday, with his attorneys to take steps to press Mariden's suit for divorce in the local court. Madden says he now proposes a "fight to the finish if it costs a fortune." PLOW WORKS IN ASHES. Sig Plant at Atlanta Almost Totally Destroyed by Fire. The new plan of the Atlanta Agricultural Works, outside the city limits, on the Marietta road, was .almost totally destroyed by fire, which started about 9 o'clock. Monday night. The buildings and their equipment of machinery, together with other property destroyed, will create a loss of $35,000. ~ - a- >r -> RrDICULOUS DA Mi AGE SUIT ? 1 Brought Against Railroad Company by i ' a Woman in North Carolina. The last legislature of North Car- ! olina passed a law that made it un- j J , lawful for contingent fee lawyers to | solicit trade in the matter of suing the company, but that seems to have done no good. Tne limit has been ^ reached, however, if we credit a telegraphic news item sent out and bearing a Chariotte date line of where a ^ WODian SUeS mo SOUtuciu leuinaj company because, as a passenger, she was carried past the Durham station and taken on to Raleigh. It seema that she was forced to spend the night in Raleigh and seis up that she sul- j lered mental anguish; that she could j not sleep in that city; that she wor- z ried and her health is impaired for c life, as she believes, and winds up the > hot air spiel by her lawyer by laying I claims to the modest sum of $10,000 1 damages because of all these things, s It is to be sincerely hoped that the j day will come when judges will throw j : such cases out of court We are willing to admit that we j would not like to stop In either Ral- < elgh or Durham over night?but were we to be delayed on a journey and such was the only alternative, wo , have a half notion that a sum of money much smaller than the amount 1 sued for by the lady who modestly , claims but ten thousand plunks would , hpni nnr lacerated feelings. The law- , 1 yer does not state in the petition filed i in court how much of this likely , wad he expects to get?and it is to ^ be hoped, for the good name of the , state, that such a case will never be allowed to go to tfial. It was only the other day that we received a letter sent to us from a neighboring city. The letter contained a check for several dollars and , also the change of copy for an advertisement that had to go in the , next issue of the paper. While we dm not need the money we did need the copy, because failing to get it de- j layed our issue, and it was important , that the advertisement be changed be- ) cause we had contracted that it would j appear. The letter was belated, and ' had been sent to another ^postoffice. The superscription was plain, plain as print, and no living expert could have deciphered anything but Greensboro, N. C., out of it?but Just the same the letter went to MJooresvllle, 1 North Carolina, and stopped over 1 night there and came along here the ' next evening. And the postmaster 1 marked on it in big. black type?a ( type made for the business?"Missent." In other words, the <postoffice which started it out made a mis- j take. That was what it was, a mistake pure and simple. Mooresville called attention to it by stamping the letter "Missent." Now, suppose the case for just a moment. Suppose we 1 had been a transient and that check 1 was of all importaince to us. Suppose the delayed letter had caused < us to miss a train and thus cost more hotel money waiting for it, and suppose by missing the train we had lost a big sale or lost a job or lost sev- , eral thousand dollars? Whpre would there have been any redress?no matter what damages we J , could have proven? There would | have been none. Tho government j , runs the malls ? makes a mistake once In a while and the man who loses out whistles and lets it go at that. But had such a thing happened and a railroad had been the cause of it?why, bless your life a dozen con- ( tingent lawyers would have harangu- ( ed a jury?let off enough hot air to inflate a Walloon for a Polar expedition and a weeping jury of "our countrymen" would have given us a verdict for twenty thousand dollars. Not j that we were entitled to a red cent, but because it is popular to sue railroads and telephone and street car companies ? put up v. the mental anguish squeal and show a wrecked and nervous face, all caused through worry and wonderment as to whether the damages , would come, and that is all-sufficient. The particular case of which we j make mention is farther fetched than ! any lately coming under our notice, I unless it was the tramp in Asheville i who was trespassing upon the property of the company and leaped from a trestle to save his precious neck and sued the company for damages sustained in alighting^-and if a jury is asked to hear it it will be positively 1 shameful. The passenger perhaps received as muph notification as any one received, because the train boy ( and conductor always call the stations, and if she failed to have intelligence enough to know what thev were saying, it should not be charged un to the company. But it is the wav of the world?and the fad to sue j the company remains in favor ? no j matter about the barratry laws and I no matter about common decency and j justice. ? Everything (Greensboro, j N. CX to annul school support. Effort Will Be Made to Repeal Law Aiding Booker Washington. Rumors are current in Montgomery i that at the next session of the Ala- j bama legislature an effort will be j made to repeal any section of the Laws ! which tend to recognize the Tuskegee J negro school, presided over by Book- i er T. Washington, by according neither j financial or mora! support. This fee?- j ing is due to the recent Washington- j Wanamaker incident. >:4 NDEMN1TY WAIVED * . -4 ' * " . . . .,. .. . ...... * jM apan Decides to Forego Her Demand for the Cash. . 1 M tCTION INSURES PEACE i >minous Stumbling Block to Envoys Removed by Officials in Tokio and Clear Road to Peace Compact is Opened. , Jj Peace be*.ween Russia and Japan 13 Lssured. The great stumbling block >f indemnity was removed from the vay Mondaj. Baron Komura, acting upon instmc- -p? lions received from Tokio, as a reiiilt of the meeting of the cabinet % md "elder statesmen," under the di- ^ rect presidency of the em-percr 0? ,"?< lapan, will submit to Mir. Witte a J| new basis of compromise, and that compromise, it is firmly believed, will insure peace. The revelation 'contained^ in the^ announcement that Japan had ai- ready informed Emperor Nicholas, through Ambassador Meyer, that J a* pan was ready to waive the question of indemnity and submit the price -j to be paid for the northern half of Sakhalin to the judgment of a mixed. || commission, but prepared the -way ' for Japan's backdown upon the main 'M issue. The announcement had been the sensation of the day in Portsmouth. It had met with denials high ^ and low- It was decided to be impos- M sible, incredible. The Japanese ae- gg clined to admit and the Russians said they had no confirmation. Mr. v Witte intimated strongly that St. Pe- A'M tersburg had not apprised him of any -M such action, by the president. There was even a disposition to ridicule the ijga idea of arbitrating the price of half of the island. Nevertheless, on, all ;J-ja hands, it was admitted if Japan took thds position, the ground was cut out ' ~r$3 from under Emperor Nicholas. Mr. "WIMte, by consummate skin in f|ln conceding all the demands of Japan Involving the real issues of the war, ;$| had maneuvered his adversaries into 4'|?B a position where, unless they pv domed the cladm for indemnity, they 7*. could be held responsible for contin- J|| uing dhe war for money. The Japan- \||| ese by foregoing the demand for an rf| indemnity practically turn the fca- Jjj bles upon Russia and shift the- bur- 41 den back to her shoulders if she does not consent to submit a minor issue *? to the impartial^ Judgment of a tribunal. Mr. Wltte publicly dissents vigorously from the proposition, and %2 there will still be a struggle with Pa- '"-52 terhof, but if Japan agrees to formally renounce all claim for direct or indirect compensation for the ex- gg penses of the war, the big stumbling* block to peace is out of the way. p A SR. Petersburg special says: The dispatch from Portsmouth declaring ?| that President Roosevelt was authorized several days ago, on behalf of Japan, to waive all chdm for Indem- ^ nlty or reimbursement for the cost -' j tft hack to Rus Cli UiC W CU y a>U(J vv sia the northern half of the island of \ Sakhalin, leaving the " redemption '* 'fjgfl price of it to the arbitration of a .^? mixed commission, was received too late Monday night to reach the gen- . ;|g eral public, but its significance was instantly reoognized in the quarters vjf where it became known. HOLME8 APPEARS IN COURT. J| Arrives In Washington and Gives Bond ?n the Sum of $10,000. Former Associate Statistician E. 3. . Ssj Holmes, Jr., of the department of ag- M rkuriture, indicted with Peckham and Isaacs, of New York, charged with Vila conspiracy to defraud the government, surrendered to the United. States marshal MJcmriay and later appeared before Justice Stafford and J| gave bond In the sum of $10,000. |?| Holmes' attorney stated that his J? client's failure to present himself on (|| Saturday was due to delay in get- ; ting a letter to Holmes, who was in Wildwood, N. J. FEVER IS MARCHING ON. Cases Are Discovered in Other .J Places in State of Mississippi. The Mobile board of health received notice Monday of the discovery of -i^j four cases of yellow fever at Esca? ? tawpa, Miss., across the river from Moss Point, and about forty miles ^9 ' -* w,?Mio Tho hoard helu soutnwesc jl bwuuc. - a meeting and authorized the institution of quarantine against the J whole of the counties of Jackson, *-| Harrison, Hancock and Adams In Mississippi. TROOPS TO TRACY CITY. Tennessee Governor Sends Military to Scene of Miners' Trouble. The battalion of the third Tennes- . see national guard, ordered from ramp at Harriman to Tracy City, left Cowan, at the foot of Cumberland' mountain Monday morning. Officers in command are veterans of the Spanish war. Mem who are !| posted in the situation consider the outlcok a very grave one. All was quiet at Tracy City Tuesday mora