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-V \ ' *.ray?t*.;" a boomTorgrant As Democratic Candidate for President Launched, MOVE WELL UNDER WAY I Party Leaders Think Youngest Son of i Great Union General Good Timber and Campaign is Being ; Pushed. The Atlanta Constitution publishes cue i UIIUW1U3. That a well-organized boom is being launched for the purpose of securing , the democratic nomination for the presidency for Jesse R. Grant, the . youngest son of farmer President Glyases S. Grant, the great union commander, was the interesting intelligence brought to Atlanta yesterday by Hon. G. V. Gress of Heartsease, Ga., who has just returned from New York, where he was in close touch with the democratic leaders. Colonel Gress, who will always be remembered iu Atlanta as the donor of the Grant Park Zoo, andw ho is quite a figure in Georgia politics, having represented Wilcox county in the legislature at different times, has frequent business in New York in connection with his extensive lumber interests, and during his trips to the metropolis has become intimately acquainted with the strongest men in tb/i rtemnrratic organization. Ocionel Gress 'declares that there is no doubt a3 to the deteriaination of the Grant. Park Zoo, and who is name before the democratic convention, and he believes that by the time the convention meets Mr. Grant will have a large number of delegates - . .? pledged to nis support, v ^ , "A better man to head the ticket would be hard to find," declares Colonel Gress. "A lifelong democrat and a man whose life has been spotlessly clean, the New York leaders believe that he is the best man available to i -oppose Roosevelt, for they arc certain that Roosevelt will again head the republican ticket. v r.rant ihnuzrh fortv-eisht years of age and for twenty years a power in the democratic councils of New York, lias never held public office. He / oould have had any place he desired in ihe city government, but he refused all offers, as he did the foreign jmssion which was tendered-him by President Cleveland. Mr. Grant has kept himself in the background waiting for the proper opportunity, and he and his friends think this has now oomc-. All along he has done yeoman service for the party, and I can *ay with the greatest certainty that he now has the enthusiastic backing of nearly all the democratic leaders of New York whose influence counts / tor anything. "New York and New Jersey and > some of the other eastern startes are already enthusiastically for him, and prominent democrats declare that, should he be nominated, he will have no trouble in swinging those states into line. Ihe question of Mr. Grant's oandidacy is now being put before the democratic leaders of other states, and the most favorable expressions have been heard. A number of southern states are counted oi^to come into the Grant column. "The eastern leaders with whom 1 have talked feel that they can get the support of the south for Mr. Grant, despite the sentiment which has become widespread in the south that it f is time for a southern man to lead the democratic hosts. They think that just now no southern man could make - ' anything like the showing which they are sure Mr. Grant could make. They speak of wishing some prominent southern man named for vice president, but as to just who he shall be nothing definite has been said, of course. Mr. Grant's friends feel that the south will come into its own in due time, and it is with this idea that they are going to go out for southern delegates. ____ ___ DON'T LIKE THE DECISION. Louisiana immigration Commissioner in a Quandary. Charles Schuler, Louisiana state commissioner of agriculture and immigration, has expressed the opinion that the decision of United States Attorney Bonaparte, regarding South Carolina immigrants, will seriously interfere with the plans of his de 'v f LICKING HELPED SPAIN. New Spanish Minister to Washington Says His Country's Defeat by U. S. ProveJ a Blessing. "My mission to the United States is to help cement new ties of friendship," said Senor Don Ramon Pina, the new Spanish minister, who arrived in Washington Friday. "I have not j come here to remind the American government that it defeated us in a conflict, hut. I have come here on a mission to help both countries live down the unpleasant past." When his attention was called to a recent communication Admiral Dewey addj&sscd to a correspondent, in which the hero of Manila Bay said that that he had won his victory over the Spanish fleet by "divine aid,*' Senor Pina said: "Please do not consider me irreverent, but if Admiral Dewey won his victory over the flee* of our navy in: 1 Manila Bay by 'divine aid,' I think it must have been the god of war? the aid that iron gave him in conquering wood." Senor Pina says his country has prospered greatly since the war, and intimated that defeat by America really developed in a benefit to It, rather than a disadvantage. "It caused the people to awake to the realization," he said, "that they must be up and doing to keep pace with the times, particularly with American progress, and following this both political and commercial chang- J es have greatly improved." Senor Pina was presented to Sec- j retary Root Saturday and warmly welcomed. His presentation to the president will be delayed for some time because of the illness of the president's son, Archie. RURAL MAIL ROUTES. ? Report Shows That 37,323 Are at the j - Present Time in Operation. vcmnri- nn the operations of j X UU A V ?? - - _ the rural delivery service up to March 1. 1907, made public at Washington Friday by the fourth assistant postmaster! general, shows that the total number of petitions received up to that date was 50,020, upon which 15,701 adverse reports have been made, and there are now in operation 37,323 routes, on which 37,174 regular rural I letter carriers are employed. On March l of last year there were pending 3,130 petitions. During the year 2,693 petitions were filed, making a total of 5,823 petitions handled, and now only 705 are pending. Of this number 284 have been favorably act- j ed on and ordered established, leaving j the net number of petitions pending l,- j 411. COLOR LINE IN BARBER SHOP. Connecticut Tonsorial Artists Are Not Obliged to Shave Negroes. Tho r-nnnecticut supreme court ha3 just handed down a decision to the effect that the barbers in that state need not shave negroes. The decision was reached on an appeal from a superior court decision in Bridgeport, by a colored man, who brought suit against a barber of that city. The barber refused to shave the negro, his defense being that his barber shop was not a place of public accommodation within the meaning of the law. The supreme court upholds that contention. ft GUTHRIE GETS BIG PRIZE. Guessed Exact Number of Paid Admissions to World's Fair. After two years of litigation, decision has been rendered by Judge Mcllhenny, in the circuit court at Clayton, Mo., awarding to M. Logan Guthrie of Fulton, Mo., the prize of $25,QUO in a contest to the person who entered the nearest guess to the total number of paid admissions into the world's fair. Guthrie guessed 12,804,616, which was announced as the exact number of admissions. Several j partment. About six hundred Italian ; agriculturalists were being arranged for, the state government to pay the passage of such newcomers and the employers of such labor to reimburse the state for expenses incurred. EIGHT SCOTCHMEN ARRIVE. First Installment of Proteges of the ; Georgia Immigration Association. A bunch of six Scotchmen reached Savannah, Ga., Friday, constituting an installment of those the state hopes to get to help out in supplying the demand for labor from which it is suffering. Two others arrived Thursday. and the eight will go to Columgus. They were met cn arrival and j tu.L u nearly welcome. ju y ~ v \ xj? other claimants appeared and pay- I ment of the prize was held up pend- j ing settlement of the different claims. Guthrie instituted suit in 1905. JUDGE BLECKLEY ENTOMBED. Funeral Services Held in Supreme j Court Room at Atlanta. All that was mortal of Judge Logan E. Bleckley, eminent jurist, patriotic citizen, profound scholar, humanitarian and dreamer of beautiful dreams, was laid to rest in Oakland cemetery. at Atlanta Thursday. The services in | the supreme court chamber were chamber, Atlanta, Thursday, were marked with that degree of simplicity which best befitted the last chapter in the life of a man who ever frowned on ostentation and display. THIRTY-FIVE MEXICANS KILLED. Dynamite Explosion Takes Lives of Men, Women and Children. Advices received from Chihuahua, Mexico, state that thirty-five persons ?men, women and children?were killed San Andoes, sixty miles from there, Friday, by the accidental explosion of a large quantity of dynamite. ' ' TO CUT OUT TRAINS Southern to Make Change in Passenger Service. TO DECREASE EXPENSES Order Goes Into Effect Sunday, March 24th. According to Authentic Report?Details Are Being Withheld. According to the Atlanta Constitution arrangements are being made for ihe dropping off of a number of passenger trains on the Southern railway on March 24, and these iu a position to know state that these plans will affect the Atlanta division particularly. Except for the' information that a number of passenger trains are to be cut off, none of details could be learned. The cutting down of expenses is given as the reason for this contemplated cut. So far as the service is concerned, it is a matter or general knowledge that so heavy has been the passenger traffic lately that the present number of trains has really been inadequate for the handling of the business. For this reason, it seems a difficult problem to understand just how the Southern railway will be able to still handle its present nn^pn-rpr business with even few er trains than they now operate, especially in face of the fact that this passenger business is constantly growing. No reasons have been given for the cutting down of expenses, but in Atlanta railroad circles, where the coming cut on March 24 is being discussed, it is generally believed that fears 011 the part of the railroad executives regarding coming legislation is principally responsible for this curtailment of passenger trains. It is the opinion cf several passenger officials that the railroads mean to put the public on .notice that any drastic legislation will be met with curtailing the present service and equipment, which is being provided. In other words, there are many officials who insist that if Georgia legislates a 2-cent per mile passenger rate, the railroads will retailiate by giving a much cheaper equipment and a schedule with comparatively but a few trains where now many are operated. The plans which are being made for the coming cut is thus explained as the first move by the railroads to put the public on notice as to what they intend to do in case of drastic legislation on the part of Georgia. Another reason, which is given l'or 1 a ? *\v tV* a noo. rne cuiung uui ui. soiiiv \jl me senger trains on the Southern railway is because of the tremendous increase in the amount of the opeiating expenses of the road. Very recently the conductors, trainmen, switchmen and other employees have received increases of wages, while the telegraph operators and signal men have applied for such an increase and have been assured that their petition will be granted to the extent of a substantial increase, and the locomotive engineers are preparing to make similar demands. The railroads also state that their operating expenses in other ways, materials, etc., have increased tremendously, and while the monthly reports show big increases in revenues, these increases in the expenses are such as to have cut down the net profit very materially. The railroads declare that as the prices of living expenses, clothing and practically in every other line of business have been increased, it is impossible for the railroads to be the one exception in this era of unprecedented prosperity, and in the face of greater expenses be expected to reduce railroad far S. For which reason the Southern railway is preparing to even up matters by reducing expenses by cutting out some of the passenger trains. SWALLOWED PRUSS1C ACID. Short in Accounts Preston Decided on Self-Destruction. All mystery in the death last Thursday night of Leonidas M. Preston at tlit Hotel Cumberland, in New York, was dissipated Saturday at the coroner's inquest, when it was learned that it was practically certain Preston was short in his accounts as secretary and Xew York manager of the Tinken Roller Axle company. He suicided with prussic acid. The shortage is expected to aggregate from $50,000 to $iuuu,uuu. PARIS STRIKERS VICTORIOUS. Darkness Aided Them in Winning Their Fight. The strike cf the electricians -of Paris, France, which threw the city into obscurity for the best part of two nights, came to an enfi as abruptly as it began. Through the intermediary of M.^DeSelves, the prefect of the Seine, the electrical companies finally conceded the principal de, mands of the strikers. I % BBMM????1?????g?? "WE ARE BEING RUINED'7]; Is Plaint of Railroad Magnates cf the Country?They Send Morgan for a Conference with Roosevelt. J. Pierpcnt Morgan, the New York financier, arrived in Washington in j his private car Monday night, aiul { went immediately to the White House, I where he was in conference with President Roosevelt for more than two hours. The object of Mr. Morgan's visit was to urge the president to take some r.ciion to "allay the public anxiety now threatening to obstruct railroad investments and construction." Mr. Morgan pointed out to the president that the financial interests of the country are greatly alarmed at the attitude of the administration toward corporations, and particularly the railroads. At Mr. Morgan's earnest request President Roosevelt has agreed to have a conference with four leading railroad presidents, Messrs. McCrea, of the Pennsylvania; Newman, of the New York Central; Mellen, of the New York, New Haven and Hartford; and Hughitt, of the Chicago and Northwestern, to determine if some agreement can be reached as to the relations between the railroads and j the administration. It is probable that E. H. Harriraan. head of the Harrimaa lines, may also participate in the conference, which, it is understood, will take place at the White House. After boarding his train shortly after midnight to return to New York, Mr. Morgan dictated the following statement: i -At fhn rpniipst of many business j men, before leaving for Europe, I crime to Washington to see the president to discuss the present business situation, particularly as affecting the railroads. I suggested to the president that it v/ould be greatly in the public interest if he would seo-'Mr. McCrea, Mr. Newman, Mr. Mellen and Mi. Hughitt and confer with them ns tc what steps might be taken to allay the public anxiety as to the relations between the railroads and the government. I he president said he would be glad to see the gentlemen named with this end in view." P. F. Yoakum, chairman of the ktard of directors of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, also had an interview Monday with President Roosevelt and members of the interstate commerce commission regarding the railroad situation. He toid President Roosevelt that the agitation and legislation in various states * ' -3 ...-v | regarding two rent iares auu iuc .cdiicticn in freight rates have ha J the effect of making it almost impossible lor the railroads to negotiate loans en their securities and he i declared "the railroad men are willing that the supervision of the railroads bo centralized in the national government. I "That," he added, "would restore confidence and give the pecs^le to understand that the railroads wish to observe the laws and it would stop the hostile legislation in various states ' ROOSEVELT MAKES COMPLAINT. Says Act;on of California Legislature Bars Settlement of Jap Guestion. i r,nvpnior Gillette of California has seat to -ho state senate a message from President Roosevelt, eompiaiv ing that .*l\e recent action of the iegislaturo would have a most urlortunate ettoct oa the president's efforts to secure exclusion of* Japanese laborers by friendly agreement. The president asked the governor to secure suspension of further action until receipt ?;f a letict from him GINNERS MAKE REPORT. i Number cf Bales Ginned to March 2 Officiary Placed at 12,716,000. The National Ginners' Association issue;! a bulletin at Memphis. Tenn., at 1 o'clock Monday showing the number of oales of cotton ginned, up to March 2. 1907, to be 12.7lG,C00. The report is signed by J. A. Tay, lcr, president of the association* CANNOT DRAW COLOR LINE. Whits Postal C'erks in West Are Given Cold Comfort. The posi office department dees not | intend co draw lhe color line in the matter ol' white and negro railway mail cle:l:s working tcgethe; on ihe same runs Although an intimation has been given ibat v.liite cierks in the- mid lie. west are pifj.ariag to request **?c deiarinurji to effect a change so as to put. ihe negroes on runs wnich will not bring them m proximity to the whites, it was given our. that nc such discrimination could or woulu be made. . ENG'NE -BOILER LETS GO. Two Men Kil'ed, Several Hurt and , Tcwn Badly Shaken. Two men were killed, two mortally injured, a number of others more or less seriously inpired and Metticheu, i N J., was snaken and threatened with many fires Monday, when the boiler of an engine of the Pennsylvania railroad exploded while drawing a long freight train through the towq 1 1 NO HURT TO SOUTH Bonaparte Explains Ruling on New Immigration Law. BUGABOO IS ELIMINATED Smith Carolina Men Call cn Roosevelt and Attorney General to Straighten GuL Matter?Outcome is Satisfactory. A Washington special says: South Carolina official!* and others interested in the attitude of the administration towaids assisted immigration, held a conference Monday with President Roosevelt and Attorney General Ponaparte at the White House and with Secretary Straus at the department of commerce and labor. The result of the conference with the president and Mr. Bonaparte, according to statements made by for6 mer Governor D. C. Hey ward and Commissioner of Immigration Watson, of South Carolina, was entirely satisfactory to all concerned, and the opinion was expressed by Mr. Heyward that according to the explanations made by the government officers, the new immigration law will not denrive the states of any rights conferred by former laws which may not nave been appealed or by the existing laws. Early in the day Messrs. Hevward and Watson had a brief conference with the president. This was followed late in the afternoon by a second meeting, at which in additioin to those named there were present^ Attorney General Bonaparte, R. G. Rhett, mayor of Charleston, and Thomas F. Parker, the chairman of the immigration committee of the South Carolina Manufacturers' Association. At its conclusion the attorney general and his visitors said the conference had been a satisfactoi y one. These conferences grew out of a request made by Mr. Heyward, who, with Mr. Watson, is about to start for Europe: to make an eft'out to secure the permanent establishment of the line of steamers which the North German Steamship Company has been operating to Charleston, with a view to turning' the tide of immigration southward. The opinion of Attorney General Bonaparte, rendered- last- week on the immigration question, they fearel was calculated to upset their plans. At the meeting the entire matter was reviewed carefully and Mr. Bona* nnri-? Pvnb.inei the exact meaning of his opinion , Messrs. Hey ward and Watson enplained that the state did not wish to do anything not absolutely legal in securing immigrants needed in South Caiolina. "The result," said Mr. Watson after the meeting, "is satisfactory to all. We do not* feel that the movement for immigration to the south will be retarded in any way' as a result of ihe attitude of the administration and I am sure that the labor interests will not only not be injured in any way, but will be benefited. *' Former Governor Hey ward said: "The construction of the law as given by the attorney general today 13 absolutely satisfactory tc the movement for imiSigration to the south. It has never been the purpose of this movement to bring in contract or cheap labor. The question of the rights and power of the state as to prepayment of the passages of immigrants will doubtless be set forth later by the attorney general. It seems certain that the new law will not deprive the states of any rights n^nfflrrAri tw tho former or nresent laws.' T ^as very much gratified at the interest shown oy the president and all the officials in our movement to upbuild the south on practical lines and i feel that they all r.ow have a clearer idea of its economic value to the entire country." PERKINS RETURNS MONEY. Given by New York Life for Republican Campaign Purposes. George W. Perkins, former first vice president of the New York Life Insurance company and now a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan &. Co., has sent to the New York Life his personal check for $54,019.19 to reimburse the company for the repub lican * campaign contributions made from its funds in 19C4, in connection wit'a which Mr. Perkins recently was made defendant on a charge of larceny. FUZZ MACHINE A FAKE. Alleged New Cotton Delinter Does Not Exist. The department of agriculture at Washington has been besieged during the last few days with inquiries from all parts of the south for further information as to the machine which will delint cotton seed. Investigation develops the fact that the whole thing is a fake. \ , FAKE PROPHET DEFUNCT. Jj i Death Claims John Alexander Dowiet 1 ! Who Posed as Elijah the Third, and Fooled Many Followers. John Alexander Dowie, self-termed Elijah III, and prophet of divine se- " | lection, died Saturday at what was . ! once his palace in Zion City, 111., Shii loli House. I Hii death was lingering. The faithfill prayed until the very end that he . might yet be spared. He led them continually in their supplications until at last his feeble voice ceased and he 4* breached his last. About ins oea siooa. ssvckii ojl mc ^ faithful and one or two men who have fought him with great vigor in his ,j?Jb last months of life. These men repented at the deathbed; they asked -^0 for forgiveness. Some of the faithful asked him if he would permit a physician to attend - :\M him, in the hope that the life might l^e prolonged. * , Mjjm "No, my dear friends. God is calling /^jj? me to Him. I am going to my reward, jjg Call the faithful about me that they may see the end." Word was sent to Dr. Gladstone Dowie, the son, and his mother, the other two of the family. In the hour /J|? following the struggle they had de- ||g sorted him. To the last moment Dowie did not asked for either of them. He had quently had words with his son. There was no forgiveness. He died ^$1 with a feeling of anger against theai. feeling of anger against them. Dowie came to his end in the house in which he ruled the strarfgest ^ city the world has ever known. He' /J died there a poor, broken cld( man,-^| shorn of his power and influence, where once he stood the leader. * Jon a Alexander Dowie, who claimed ." -j| to be the Prophet Elijah reincarnated, I general overseer of Zion City, and tne ^ ! head of the Christian Catholic Chtfrch, was born in Edinburg. Scotland;. in 1847, and went with his parents' to Australia in 1860. He first began to advance his doc?|| 1 trines in Sydney. While preaching on YjMstreet corners he became so bolster- -yJ ous and obnoxious that he was ar- ^; rested and. put in jail. He was actually driven out of Ans^lJ ? tralia, and landed in San Francisco in 188$. Finally, in 1892, he thought it best and safest to move again, and. went to Chicago. In spite of his previous moyes^. jM Dowie had done well fifinancially. Ho always took excellent care of that end of his religion, and he was pres^|ffl pared to make a great battle in r cago. It was in Chicago that success began to come to him. The downfall of Dowie may be said >1j to date from October, 1903, when he, .,3t with the hosts of Zion, invaded Xew v3 New York would not take Dorriese^;^ rioiMlv. The little red-faced fat man, ;i?S hopping about on a platform, clad in gaudy robes, was taken as a joke and his audiences laughed at bim. The T-k/M?r?o'c! vanifv wn<5 a severe lis?! UJUW IU i/Ullbd ? ___ one, and after a dismal campaign, lie gave up the fight and returned :>f to Zion. The next scheme of the "Prophet* vis was a "New Zion" to be located in &? Mexico. He sought to establish a branch of the "Christian Catholic ;|f Church" there, but Mexico would ^ have none of him. The tide had set J|| against him. Then Zion arose and asserted its :|S independence. "The Prophet" was :>|| hurled from power and Overseer Voliva was put in charge of the city,, its. resources and its immense debt, to l| save what he could for the people. DESPERADO IS RIDDLED. ' M Negro Killed by Americus Officers ^ While Resisting Arrest. Surrounded in a house at Americas, M Ga., and fighting to the death llko %;' * a demon at bay. Bill Reese, the negro ^ desperado who Sunday morning mor- ,'.J tally wounded Police Officer William | Morris, was shot to pieces at seven o'clock Sunday night, his body bein$ ^ fairly riddled with buckshot and pistol balls. SNOW STORM IN GOTHAM. | New Yorkers Experience March Bliz- }; zard?Ditto Quaker City. Leaden skies and the ominous east *;j| wind to which New Yorkers awoke :^| Sunday, dashed any hcpes they may V have entertained that the backbone < - %jfi of the winter, locally speaking, had been broken. The city's thirteenth Jj big snowstorm materialized. The storm seems to have centered J ninn^r the New Jersey coast and east j era Pennsylvania. Snow fell continui onsly for fifteen hours to a depth of seven inches in Philadelphia. , SIX NEGROES BURIED ALIVE. Caught in Cave-in of a Sewer and ^ Died Standing Bolt Upright. By the caving in of a sewer ditch at Stntesvllle, X. C., Friday afternoon, six colored men were buried alive under tons o? dirt. The rescue parity t'oiznd the six standing bolt upright ; when the earth was removed and life : was extinct. All the men leave faml- /