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PERKINS ARRESTED Was Former Vice President of New York Life. CHARGED WITH LARCENY Service of Warrant Only a Technical Proceeding in - Connection with Insurance Scandals?Habeas Corpus Was Ready. On a charge that his connection with the contribution of $43,702.50 from the funds of the New York Life Insurance company to Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of the republican nat;onal campaign committee in the campaign of 1904, constituted grand larceny in the first degree, George W. Perkins, a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan & Co., and until recently first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company, was arrested in New York Wednesday on a warrant issued by City Magistrate Moss. When a detective went to serve the n'ovront nnnn Darl.-irc Vi Q tnil T1 r? nancuw u^/vu 4U& JL vtu^o that a writ of habeas corpus had already been obtained from Justice Greenbaurn of the supreme court, . and rhe matter was immediately taken out of the magistrate's hands. Mr. Perkins appeared before Justice Greenbaurn, and at the request ..of his counsel, the hearing in the cas9 was adjourned until Friday. Mr. Perkins was paroled in the custody of his personal attorney, Lewis A. Dela * field. The warrant for Mr. Perkins' arrest was applied for Tuesday by District Attorney Jerome. Magistrate Moss would not act, however, until affidavits were filed in the case. These were presented to him Tuesday. They were signed by Darwin P. Kingsley, vice president of the New York Life; Edmund D. Randolph, treasurer of the company, and by Thomas A. Buck ; tier, also a vice president. , Mr. Perkins' counsel admitted to Justice Greenbaurn that Mr. Perkins had advanced the sum named to Mr. Bliss upon the request of the late John A. McCall, president of the N^w York Life. He was afterwards reimbursed through the action of the company's finance committee. It was contended that Mr. McCall had executive authority to order the payment, and that it any crime was committed it was participated in by every member of the finance, committee present when the * matter was acted upon. Despite the action of Mr. Jerome in v. . applying for a warrant for Mr. Per* kins and thus taking the matter to the higher courts of the state, Judge O'Soillivan, in the court of special sessions, again addressed the grand jury which is considering life insurance matters and'instructed them that it was their duty to continue the investigation to the end. He told the grand jurors it was their right to demand that the district attoriey subpoena witnesses to be examined before them in any matter they may under consideration. Robert A. Granniss and W. R. Gillette, as vice presidents and trustees, and Eldridge T. Gerry, as trustee of the Mutual Life Insurance company, tendered their resignation at a meet-' ing of the board of trustees of that company at a meeting held during the day. They were accepted. A report of the Truesdale investigating committee was received and ordered printed, but no other action was taken upon it. * BOOST FOR ATLANTA EXPOSITION Two Corporation Of City Donate Handsome Sums for Enterprise. t The subscription of the Georgia Railway and Electric company and of the Atlanta Gas Light company, to the fund for the 1910 exposition was announced in Atlanta Wednesday. The two corporations will give $50,000 to the fund, conditioned upon the securing of solvent subscriptions to the extent of $500,000 EX-MAYOR VAN WYCK WEDS. Takes to His Bosom the Divorced Wife of John C. Hertle. Robert A. Van Wyck, former mayor of New York, and Kate E. Hertle, the former wife of John C. Hertle, commissioner of accounts, were married last Monday night in the new Broadway Tabernacle by Rev. Charles A. Jefferson. Only intimate friends were present. The former mayor with his bride took passage Tuesday for Europe. Asked for details of his marriage, Mr. Van Wyck smiled and said: "There are none. We were just married?that's all." VERDICT WAS GREAT SURPRISE. i ! Sart Bryant Given Only Three Years for Murder of Father. The jury in the Bryant murder case j at Nashville, Ga? rendered a verdict j of involuntary manslaughter. The re- i suit was a srreat surprise to every- J body, in passing sentence, Judge Mitchell told Bryant that he would be glad to sentence him for more than three years, but he could not do so under the law. it ' . WOMAN PRISONER KILLED I I j Deputy Sheriff's Pistol Fell From His Pocket and Bullet Pierced Erein of Mrs. Crabb. ' ? Wednesday night on the WViglits- j ville and Tennille passenger train at J Lovett, Ga., a pistel fell from the i pocket of Deputy Sheriff John A. Walden, and was fired. The ball entered the right eye of Mrs.' Lorena Crabb, piercing the brain, and causing her death in about an hour. Mrs. Crabb was in the custody of the deputy, and a man by the name of E. M. Joiner was, it is said, trying to take her from him. Joiner had Mrs. Crabb's satchel, and was going to the door of the coach i with it. Walden cav.ght the satchel j and endeavored to prevent Joiner from i taking it. In the scuffle the pistol fe1] from the pocket of the officer, witn the above result. There were a number of people on the car, who testify that the killing was an accident, and was unavoidable. Mrs. Crabb was arrested in Dublin on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Wyatt, mother of the woman, who charged her with deserting her children. She was arrested on Wednesday by Sheriff Prince, who placed her in charge of "Walden, to be carried to Meadows. The woman died shortly after the train reached Meadows. Joiner asked that she be placed in his custody, even after it was*seen that she was dying, but the officer refused to do this, j The satchel which Joiner tried to i take from the train contained a pistol j and a box of cartridges, j No blame is attached to the officer, | who was simply endeavoring to do tiis j duty. i HARLAN TO QUIT BENCH. ! Promises to Resign from Supreme Court to Head Church Work. Tho Washington Post says that Associate Justice John M. Harlan cf the United States supreme court, announced to the officials of the New York Avenue and the Assembly Presbyterian churches, that if the latter would consolidate with the former, the Assembly church giving. $25,000 as a nucleus for a fund to build a new building for the two consolidated churches, he would resign his position on the supreme bench to take personal charge of the work, and see that it is successful. Thursday night the congregation of the Assembly church adopted a resolution for union with the New York Avenue church with provision for the $25,000 to be used for the new church. STRIKE SEEMS IMMINENT. Coal Operators and Miners Fail Again to Reach Agreement. The joint meetings of the bitumi 1 .nnwitrtra onri miners of the IIOUS CUcll upciawu uuu central competitive districts composed of western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Territory, reached a final disagreement at a meeting in Indianapolis Thursday on the wage scale to go into effect at the expiration of the present scale and the conference of the central district adjourned sine die while the joint scale committee of the sotuhwestern district decided to report a disagreement to the joint conference of that district. VICTORY FOR TRANSFEREES. Supreme C:urt Passes Upon Sale of Life Insurance Policies. A supreme court decision in an Americus, Ga., case rendered Thursday, has an important bearing in transferred life insurance policies. Prior fo his death, a year ago, Thos. M. Allen of Americus, transferred for valuable consideration policies aggregating $11,000. After his death his heirs scugnt iu i recover the insurance mcnev, and were awarded a verdict in the superior court. The transferees appealed the case to the supreme court, which has reversed the decision of the lower court. CHARGED WITH -PATRICIDE. Bryant Lodged in Jail for Murder of His Aged Father. Bart A. Bryant, a farmer, living 6 j miles east of Nashville, Ga., was arrested and lodged in jail Thursday for the murder of his father, Jonathan Bryant, who was 82 years old, and very feeble. Bryant, it is said, had been drunk for several days, and became involved in an altercation with his father over some trivial matter, and beat him to death. JORDAN FOUND IN ATLANTA. Long Missing Ex-Comptroler of Equitable is at Last Located. Thomas D. Jordan, former comptroller of the Equitable Life Assurance society, who rather hastily left New York, September 1, last year, and whose whereabouts since then has not only been a mystery, but has also been the subject of much spec ulaticn among the Armstrong investigating committee, has been locate*.1 n Atlanta. His wife is with him. MINERS WERE ALIVE Remarkable Escape of Men Thought to Be Dead. SAVED BY OWN EFFORTS Entombed in Explosion-Wrecked Pit Twenty Days, They' Lived on Decomposed Horse Meat, Hay ar.d Bark. Fourteen of the 1,200 miners who were entombed in the coal mines at Courrieres, France, March 2, were taken from the mine alive and well, jfriday. : They had lived on hay found in one of the underground stables and -the morsels of food which.they took into the mine with them nearly three weeks ago. All attempts to rescue the entombed men had been abandoned more than two weeks ago. The sudden appearance of the imprisoned men caused stupefaction. A gang of salvagers had just completed their night's work when they were startled to see a group of miners, terribly haggard and exhausted and with sunken eyes appear from a remote nart nf nit No. 2. The strona est in the party said they had broken oat of a distant gallery, where they had been entombed since the disaster. The rescued men were taken up the elevator, but were unable to see, owing to the dazzling daylight. The mine officials were deeply affected' as the weeping survivors were taken to a hospital. ~ 1 The men were able to talk feebly, but sensibly. They all asked for news of relatives or friends and wished to go home immediately. The doctors, however, prevented them with difficulty from so doing. Later crowds besieged the mine in the hope of hearing of further escapes, necessitating the employment of a strong police force and detachments of troops to maintain order. It is said that others of the entombed miners are. alive, their signals having been heard. One of the men rescued Friday, a man named Nemy, said that for the first eight days the party ate bark off the timbering of the mine. Later they found the decomposed body of a horse which they cut up and ate with hay. The survivors brought portions of the decomposed horse meat Nemy, who was the most lucid of the miners who escaped, described their imprisonment as follows: r ,J- , \ " * 1 T mv "Alter ine expiu?iuu ? way about, stumbling over bodies and seeking refuge from the gases. \ found some comrades sheltered in a remote niche. We ate earth and bark for eight days, and then the provisions gave cut. "We continued to grope among the bodies, seeking for an outlet from our j prison, but were forced back time and again. We found some hay which we ate, and two days afterwards we found a dead horse, which we cut up and ate with the hay and bark.. "We suffered for want of water. Finally we got desperate and separated into parties and communicated with each other by shouts. Last night we felt a draft of fresh air, which finally guided us to an opening." A survivor named Martin said: "We suffered intensely from cold. Tho chamber above us was burning, but it did not temper the cold in the lower gallery." The doctors have forbidden the survivors to do any further talking. Vast crowds of people surround the hospital where the escaped men are be?ig treated. The families of miners are intensely j - tVififr salvage i indignant, j. iicj tiaim w operations were never undertaken on the part of the mine from which Nemy and his companions escaped, and disorders are expected. The most severe repressive measures have been taken. Crowds of women denounce the directors and foreigners, crying: "If you had given us tools we would have saved our own husbands." SOLDIERS TO TAKE PART ! In Celebration of Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence. . Two companies of infantry from I Fort McPherson, Ga., are to be or- j dered to participate in the celebration at Charlotte, N. C., of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, j May 21, 22 and 23 next. I That these troops should be present I as part of the representation of the government has been -promised by President Roosevelt. CAR TAKES A TUMBLE. Two Women Fatally Hurt and Others Injured in Trolley Accident. As the result of an accident on the Vineville and South Macon line of the Macon Street Railway and Light company, Thursday afternoon, an elec-, fn> r-ar nluneed down an embank ment and into a culvert, and dealing fatal hurts to two Macon ladies an 1 serious injury to half a dozen other persons, passengers in the car. -DAGOES KILLED. J Bloody Butchery the Result of a Fierce Fight With Knives Between Greeks in Minneapolis. j At 10 o'clock Wednesday morning tie mutilated- bodies of six Greeks, evidently workmen, were found lying in deep pools of coagulated blood in a little tumble-down house in the south .section of Minneapolis. Four of the bodies were found in a sleeping room cn the second floor, cut and slashed in a most horrible manner, while in the cellar were two others with their throats cut from ear to ear. Near the bodies were found five large bowie knives and a bloodstained hatchet. The dead: Nicolo Dimitri, Kirle Dimitri, Agne Karofii, Kerstan Yovko, Unka Naudaba, Baakon Kapanni. The Dimitris were evidently father and son. All of the men were comparatively young and smooth shaven, their identity being established by letters found on their persons. The only clew possessed by the police which may lead to a solution of the crime was obtained from a dray?nan named Micklenberg. He says that he was approached Monday afternoon preceding the tragedy by some men whom he took to be Italians or Greeks, who wanted him to take six packages from the house where the bodies were found to the union station. On arriving at the house he found there were twelve packages, and after some haggling about the price, h9 took them to the station. A young man, agtsd about twenty years, rode on the wagon with him. BLUE AND <3RAY REUNION. Felicitous Aftermath of Wheeler Memorial Services at Atlanta. At Atlanta Wednesday the battle songs of "Dixie" and "Yankee Doodle" were interwoven in the great anthem of the union, "America." This was the spirit of the first session of the Blue and Gray reunion. While the exercises were scheduled for 11 o'clock, it was yell after that hour before thev session was called to order. As early as 9 o'clock the old soldiers of the 60's, both those who fought for the union and those who fought for the confederacy, began to congregate in the convention hall, and from that hour all through the day and well into the night stories of old battle fields were recalled by these makers of history. In spite of the tremendous wave cf patriotism that seemed to run floodtide with the General Wheeler memorial exercises at the Grand Opera tt-h-a T.irtorloir uffflmnnn thoro CPPm nUL'OC X UC>1U1J uiv-vi uuuu) vuv> V ~ ed to be no abatement in the enthusiasm of these fighting men from both sides of the one time Mason and Dix* on's line at their reunion Wednesday, i MRS. STANDIFER INDICTED. Atlanta Grand Jury Charges Her With Murder of Sister. The grand jury at Atlanta Wednesday indicted Mrs. Willie Standifer on the charge of murdering her sister, J Miss Chapell Whisenant. Mrs. Standifer was arraigned before Recorder Brcyles and held without oail. Subsequently she went before [ Judge Roan, of the criminal court, ! and was allowed to give bond of j $5,noo. ! It was believed by her counsel and j friends that there would be no indict- | ment, owing to general public sympa- | thy for the woman. j HEARST DUBBED A TRAITOR I By Vice Chairman of Democratic Na- ! tional Committee. DeLancej* rsicoi, vice cii<iirm<tu ui the democratic national committee, in j a sensational speech at the democratic j club banquet in New York, denounc- 1 | ed Representative William R. Hearst j as a political traitor. The attack came as a surprise. He charged Mr. Hearst with accepting the hospitality of the | democratic national committee, using the committee's money and then stab- j bing the candidates of the party in the j back. j NO CASH FOR HEALTH BOARD. Mississippi Legislative Committee j Knocks Out All Quarantine. The Mississippi /house appropri-i-; tions committee has agreed to unfa-1 vorably report the apropriation bill j for the state board of health. The report' of the committee will; deny the health board a single cent, j not even allowing the usual fund an.l j cutting out the $75,000 emergency fund j for quarantine purposes for the next j two years. The committee simply took j j the bits between its teeth and ths only explanation offered for the action is that Mississippi doesn't care for any more quarantines. j CLAY SPEAKS ON RATE BILL. j - - i- ? Georgian Favors Stringem Legislation and Hepburn Measure. j A Washington dispatch says: Sen- j , ator Clay was the principal speaker in the senate upon the railroad rate lbill Thursday. The Georgia senator took strong stand in favor of stringent rate legislation, advocating the I passage of the Hepburn bill. 9- m * V ' t, ' * "* ' ^ 4T / [a national order i I I .* i Formed by Blue and Gray at' Atlanta Reunion, ! i | GENERALCARRPRESiDENT! i I i | Official Name is '-Veterans' Associa- j ! tion of the Blue and the Gray and j Their Sons"?Reunion Closed i I With Love Feast. i i ... j General Juiian S. C'arr, U. C. V., of 'Curham, N. C., was Thursday mornins made commander-in-chief of "The Veterans Association of the Blue and the Gray and Their Sens,*' amM the greatest enthusiasm that had been I | shown at any of the sessions of the I Blue and Gray in Atlanta. He was nominated by A. M. Clark ci Southern Pines, in a ringing speech, and the veterans of the Blue and the i ; Gray arose as one man to second the ! nnmtnntinn nlmnst hpfnrp thp name . - - - - j liad passed the lips of the speaker. | . General Carr has been a prominent j figure at this third meeting of the ! veterans of the sixties. He is a disi tinguished-looking gentleman, typical| ly southern in mauner and voice, cul; tured, polished and a ready speaker. : It is easy to understand that he would j be loved for his great personal charm, ! even if he had not been entitled to j all love and honor for his noble serv ice to his country in the sixties, when, I as a boy at the university, he closed j his lexicon and shouldered arms for | four years of warfare, and afterwards as a citizen when he grew into deserved prominence as lawyer, statesman and financier. After the election of General Carr to the chief office of the new organization, the other elections followed in quick succession, many veterans on both sides putting before the convention the names of men who had done valorous service on more than one battlefield during the sixties. General Carr accepted his election in a voice fielled with emotion and pride. "If I followed the dictates of ray own I ? 4_ T 1 J neari, i suuuiu ucunuc una uuuui, he said, "for I was only a private in tbeVar of the sixties. I wore no stars on my collar, and no bars on my sleeves. However, comrades, I have never found it necessary to apologize for the lack of stars and bars, but count it my proudest distinction that j I was a Confederate soldier of the j ranks?a private in Lee's army." j Captain A. M. Clarke, of Southern Pines, N. C., (federal), was made adjutant general; W. H. Conyers, Palatka, Fla., (federal), was made senior vice commander; D. P. Mull, Fitzger! aid, Ga., (confederate), junior vice commander; Rev. E. Henry Byrons, New Haven, Conn., was made chajvlain; Dr. H. A. Murphy, St. Petersburg, Fla., (confederate), -was made surgeon general; W. H. Williams, Abbeville, Ga. (confederate), judge advocate; W. H. Marston, Fitzgerald, Ga. (federal), was made inspector genej ral. "The Veterans' Association of tho ! Blue and the Gray and Their Sons" was decided upon as the official name j of the organization. | Auxiliary organizations for wives and daughters were also arranged for. The fnll.-iwine are the camps of the j organization at present: Fitzgerald, I Ga.; Atlanta, Ga.; Port Arthur, Tex- I as; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Palatka, Fla.; Southern Pines, N. C. 1 Members of the committee on constitution and by-laws were appointed as follows: E. Henry Bvrons, New Haven, Conn.; W; H. Marston, Fitzgerald, Ga., and L. P. French, Southern Pines, N. C. The following representing^ the sev- Ieral camps were elected a council of administration: . Captain William Friend of Fitzgerald, Ga.; Harry Eurns of Macon; J. E. Buchan, Manley, N. C.; John W. Woodruff, Atlan- ' ta, Ga.; Judge J. Meuse, Port Arthur, *Texas, and Captain J. S. Chase, of St . Petersburg, Fla. MOTHER SEES BABIES DROWN. Little Ones Tried to Follow Her Across I Creek and Both Went Down. Mrs. Fate Brown, wife of a well known Macon, Ga., carpenter, while out fishing with her two small children. a boy aged four and a girl aged six years, witnessed the drowning of both. They had been on the creek only a short time when the mother crossed to the opposite bank and warned the children to await her return. Soon she heard their wild screams, and she saw bcth go down into the deep stream. They had attempted to fr.iTr.Tv- hpr and both went down to- j iUliV ? ? - ..gether. * J i TO MEET IN CHATTANOOGA. J Convention of Tennessee-Alabama Veterans Slated for May 21. The annual convention of the Ten- ' nessee-Alabama divisions of veterans , of the civil war, will be held at Chat- ; tanooga, Tenn., May 21, the date be- : announced Friday by W. i 113 I B. Samuels of Knoxville, division commander. 1 MR. JORDAN FLIJS AWAY. Discovered in Atlanta, Former Comptroller of Equitable Hies Himself to Parts Unknown. "? Thomas D. Jordan, former comptroller of the Equitable, whose presence in Atlanta was disclosed Thur> uM day morning through the Atlanta Coastitution, left the city at once. Mr. Jordan was accompanied by Is Mrs. Jordan, and they left from the -0 Terminal station. "I have absolutely nothing to fear in the investigation," said Mr. Jor- '/M dan to a friend before he departed, "but I do not care to return to New ' York just at present. My record with the company is absolutely clean. "I did, not care to give out an interview while in Atlanta, and have -t|a no intention of issuing any statement ijfl whatever. If I cared to say anything .-Jg for publication, I should let it come Y:|Sb from 'New York. I have a number ^ of friends among the newspaper men , of New York city, and feel that it .^j| would* be treating them unfairly if anything should come through other newspaper souice.i. "I have consistently refused to bo interviewed by newspaper men, and -~:j have not the slightest intention of do- | viating from that rule/' ? Among these in Atlanta who aro yW acquainted with Mr. Jordan is Samuel M. Inman, a director of the Equi* i|I table. Mr. Inman is emphatic in his >||J statement that not the slightest scin-o|l jj| tilla of evidence exists which would |1 tend in any way to incriminate Mr. Jordan with any act not perfectly In the meantime, as has been his custom waenever located, Mr. JordairJjM has left for parts unknown. ITALIANS IN GREAT DEMAND. 38 ?| Big Lumber Company Plans to Secure Fifty Families from Gotham. '-4rSg0 Another colony of Italians, will brought south to do the work that has heretofore been done by negroes in this section. Efforts are now being made by thdjg IS Enterprise Lumber company through --M one of its officers, G. H. Purvis, secure fifty Italian families from NeiFH "-SI York. They are wanted for the coik3| struotion of a railroad between Do*./;* than, Ala., and St Andrews Bay, The company is willing to pay M ctonHord nrfnp fnr such labor and sup-A'je ^ oiauuutu .w. ply food and shelter. In addition, the company, which owns large tracts of ^ land, is willing to give the Italian^ an opportunity to purchase farms id "Georgia at low prices and on easy^JSH Mr. Purvis conferred about the mat^gfrja ter with Secretary W. G. Cooper, of/JljsB the Atlanta chamber of commerce, and^Jj ^ the latter-directed a letter upon subject to M. V. Richards, of Wash- || ington city, industrial agent of Southern railway, who has been coo-?^ siderably interested in the work of bringing foreign immigrants of the..*"-!mM better class into the south. Ja "We simply must get labor fromj$M|J some place," declared Mr. Purvis. "The negroes will not work at even-IS r|l high wages, and our business cannot ^^ go on without labor. We have had under consideration several plans foreJ||j securing labor, but decidedly the most hopeful one is the course we are nowJ|| a SOUTHERN LETS BIG CONTRACTS lIM For Additional Couble^Tracking to Approximate Five Million Dollars. ' ? Contracts for additional double?~^ti^ tracking approximating in cost $5,000,- ^ J| 000, were let Friday by the Southers^HH railway to W. J. Oliver of Knoxville^ ^ jji Tenn., the well known railroad build er. These coniracis cover to iuuu w, m double track construction immediately; south of Lynchburg, 40 miles betwesa Knoxville and Morristown and a heavy _ ;,'|1 piece of work of 15 miles . between Chattanooga and Ooltowah through Missionary Ridge. Mr. Oliver has just begun a stretch jlp of about 50 miles for the Southern; between Greensboro and Spencer, and >|| has almost .completed the double t 4|| tracking between Austell (and AtNEGRO DIED FOR COMPANION. Attempted to Save Life of White ter and Lost His Own. 2 While duck shooting in Greasy ;11 lake, 20 miles north of VIcksburg, Miss., Friday afternoon, Alex Grant, V'M J white, and Alex Claiborne, colored; |i were drowned, the latter losing his || life in an attempt to save his white companion. Mr. Grant v#s a wealthy' cotton planter and merchant of Har- ijjglll dee, Issaquenna county. | PASSENGER TRAIN DITCHED. Twenty-Three People Badly Shaken Up?One May Die. 'A As east bound Nickel Plate passen- /"SSI ger train No. 21 was approaching the town of South Whitley, Ind., Friday afternoon, the smoker, -day coach and j five sleeping cars left the track and turned over in the ditch, in juring ~v|| twenty-three persons, one fatally. Only the baggage car and the rear t-ruMrq r?f the dining car remained on '