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VOL XXVII
eorgia Briefs
ems of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
Comptroller Issues Fi. Fas.
Comptroller ..General Wright has is¬
sued tax li. fas. against the Savannah
Electric company for $11,596.88; the
Brinson railway for $297.93, and against
the Western Union'Telegraph compa¬
ny for $420.03. The executions were
Issued at the roquast of the tax col¬
lector of Chatham county far taxes al¬
leged to be due f ? county.
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Must Continue Conyers Train.
The railroad commission has given
Superintendent W. S. Brand of the
Georgia railroad and the people In¬
terested to understand that it would
not permit the discontinuance by that
road of the daily accommodation train
between Conyers and Atlanta.
This announcement was made fol¬
lowing the conclusion of the hearing
on this subject.
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Slayer of Policeman Doomed.
Andrew Johnson, the negro who kill¬
ed Patrolman Mauier in Atlanta, some
months ago, will have to hang, accord¬
ing to a decision of the state supreme
court, handed down last Friday morft
ing. The opinion was rendered by
Justice Atkinson (all justices concur¬
ring), and affirmed the decision of the
lower court in refusing a new trial.
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County Liable for Debt.
In .a decision handed down a few
days ago by the state supreme court,
Butts county’s liability to the Jackson
Banking company for money loaned
the county by the bank is fixed.
From February to October, '1906, the
Jacksoli Banking company loaned
Butts county about $48,000 on notes.
Ail bat some $19,000 was paid, then
the county treasurer declined to pay
any niore of the amount on the ground
that the county was not liable.
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Big Power Company Projected.
A company has been formed in Jesup
with a capital of $300,000, for the pur¬
pose of developing water power and
generating electricity for manufactur¬
ing purposes.
J he company will erect a cotton*
mill and a cotton seed oil mill and
storage warehouses, and will build
and operate an electric railway. front
Jesup to several other surrounding
towns.
Application for charter is now be¬
ing prepared. The privilege of increas¬
ing the capital stock to $500,000 is
asked.
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Postal Clerks Transferred.
Twenty railway postal clerks and
about $25,000 a year in salaries spent
in Atlanta will be taken away as a re¬
sult of changes recently made by the
Southern railway in its train sched¬
ules.. Orders to this effect moving
away from Atlanta this number of men
have,bee a.: issued . by L. M. Terrell,
superintendent of the United States
railway mail service.
Under the schedules as ehanged
there was r.o other alternative for Su¬
perintendent Terrell, and he was com¬
pelled to have twenty Clerks transfer¬
red to- Washington.
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Appeals to Stale Supreme Court.
B. C. ■Sloan, son-in-law of the late
Rev. Sam- P. Jones, has appealed from
the decision of Judge Fite, ih which
he awarded the little grandson of the
great-.-.evangelist to. his grandmother,
Mrs. Sam Jones, at Cartersville, for
five years.
In an effort to obtain possession of
the baby his wife waived her claim to
the boy, to her mother, Mrs. Sam P.
Jones, 'and Judge Fife, after reviewing
the case, ordered the child to the care
of Mrs. Jones, its grandmother.
It is from this decision that Mr.
Sloan appeals to the supreme court
of thef-.state.
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Ociila Declared County Seat.
According to a decision handed
down ffiy the state supreme court,
Ociila. will be the county seat of Ir¬
win county instead of Irwinville, the
old capital of the county.
Following an act passed by'the last
legislature a new county, named Ben
Hill, was created with Fitzgerald as
the. .county seat, out of parts of the
■comjty of Irwin and adjoining counties.
Irwinville was at that time the county
seat of Irwin county, and was left
n the old county. A petition was got
en up, signed by the required number
f tax payers, seeking to change the
aunty site from Irwinville to Ociila,
l&o in the old county. On the f;;ce
the returns Ociila won. Proceedings
begun by certain.citizens to stop
■'■{Taiisfer of the county seat to
iif'wqm ’Ja^.ijnd 111 the lower court, Ociila
’Thfr'caSe was brought up
review;' 'wiffi' 'the ‘fSSiflt that* the
er court was sustained, and Ociila
i* out again.
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cle Sam IsSues
rom- the- r.cfcdnte fidfe-sliti jjjrign-nal
siiiee 4t^5jt%flirfsi;matipn
Offered that the first of-Jan-
66 federal licenses ]iatX e -been
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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OR ELLIJAV AND GILMER COUNTV.
issued for the retailing of spirituous
and malt liquors in the state of Geor¬
gia.
The purpose for which these licenses
are secured is of course not apparent.
With a prohibition law operative in the
state, making illegal the sale of intoxi¬
cating liquors or beverages, the num¬
ber of licenses issued by the federal
authorities, expressing the permission
of the national government for the
holders of those licenses to do the
thing which is prohibited by state law,
becomes exceedingly interesting.
A perusal of the internal revenue
record of these licenses' shows that
most of them were issued to people
who give Savannah as their place of
business. Only four of the whole
number are charged to Atlanta, with
an additional license issued to a fish¬
ing club located at Brooks Station in
Fayette county.
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Decision %i Favor of State Fair.
There will be a state fair at Pied¬
mont Park in Atlanta this fall. The
old machinery hall will lie torn down
this spring. These two things were
agreed upon by the park board after
a three-hour session, at which a num¬
ber of prominent citizens, including la¬
dies, were heard from. There were ar¬
guments against the holding of the fair
at the park so all the bid buildings
might be removed, and there were ar¬
guments for the holding of the fair
for commercial reasons.
The argument to tear down the old
machinery hall came in the way of a
compromise, as this will give room for
the immediate beautifying of a portion
of the park which will not be used
for fair purposes.
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Crime Decreases in Atlanta.
Here is the record of Atlanta’s first
month under prohibition. It speaks
for itself:
Total number of cases tried in police
court in January, 1907, 1,663.
Total number of drunks, 341.
Total number of cases tried in Jan¬
uary, 1908, 768.
Total number of drunks, 64.
’Ae 'first month under the reign of
prohibition shows a slutrip. in police
court business of 895 cases. The de¬
crease in. the number of -ca'ses of
drunkenness is even greater than in
the' total number of cases.
The police court acts as a splendid
barometer and gives a good idea of
the effects of the “dry” reign.
JEROME LAMBASTS THAW.
Likewise District Attorney Severely
AT ^cores New York White special in Summing William Up.
says:
Travers Jerome, representative of tha
people, made a masterly plea Thurs¬
day that justice bs done in the case
of Harry Kendall Thaw.
Vindictiveness, sneers, insinuations
all were lacking; logic, analysis and a
calm consideration of the facts were
their substitutes.
It was no blind appeal for the ven¬
geance of the law that Mr. Jerome ad¬
dressed to the jury, but ever and al¬
ways there was the note of fairness,
even at times of mercy.
The year that has elapsed since the
(first trial liad wrought a wonderful
and startling change In the prosecutor.
No longer attempting to shield the
name of Stanford White, he. accepted
the story told by Evelyn. Nesbit Thaw
as true-r-all but the drugging—arid no
made frank confession to the jury that
the velvet swings and mirrored rooms
of the studio houses described, by The
girl were indeed a miserable Vrbality^
No longer attacking Evelyn T§iaw
as a skilled adventuress, Mr. Jerome
pleaded for the girl, because she never
had had a chance for any of tile higher,
cleaner, sweeter things of life.
The climax came, however, when
Mr. Jerome denounced both Thaw and
White in one breath and classed them
as “two degenerates quarreling over
a woman.” And the woman, the pros¬
ecutor declared, knew no more—had
been taught no more by the world—
than to play one against the other
until in jealous rage, in blindest rage,
in vengeance of “an undeniably gross
wrong done to his wife,” Harry Thaw
shot and killed the architect.
TO REIMBURSE CONFEDERATES.
Congressman Howard’s Bill in House
Appropriates $50,000,
Representative -Howard Wednesday
introduced a bill in the. house provid¬
ing for an appropriation of $50,000 to
reimburse the confederate soldiers
who were paroled in 1S65 and under
the terms of their parole were permit¬
ted to keep their horses, saddles 'and
side arms, but had these accoutre¬
ments taken from them before they
reached home.
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DEATH ATTEMPTED RAPE.
Mississippi Legislature Makes New
Penalty for Crime.
The lower house of the Mississippi
legislature has passed a bill provid¬
ing the death penalty of life impris¬
onment for attempted rape, the pun¬
ishment to be within the discretion
of the jury. This places attempted
rape in the same class with murder.
Heretofore the maximum punishment
has been £en years.
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LABOR UNIONS HIT
In Far-Reac’n'ng Decision of
U. S. Supreme Court.
EVERY LABORER IS FREE
Railway Companies May Discharge
Men for Belonging to Unions—Con
tion Won by the Louisville
and Nashville.
A Washington special, says: The
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coeetitotkmaiity- ,
of the- act of congress
of June 1, 1908, prohibiting railroad
companies engaged in interstate com¬
merce from discriminating against
members of labor organizations in the
matter of employment, was called into
question by the case of William Adair
against the United States, which was
decided by the supreme court of the
United States Monday favorable to
Adair.
The opinion was by Justice Harlan,
and held the law to be repugnant to
the constitution. The court held that
Adair, as master mechanic of the Louis¬
ville and Nashville Railroad company,
had a right to discharge an employee
because he was a member of a labor
organization, just as it was the em¬
ployee’s right to quit such employment
because of his membership in such or¬
ganization.
The case came to the supreme court
on a writ of error from the United
States district court for the eastern
district of Kentucky. Adair is the mas¬
ter mechanic of the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad company, and he
was proceeded against o;i the charge
of threatening to discharge front the
employ of the company a locomotive
engineer named Coppage, because the
latter was a member of a labor union.
The act of 1898, which was one of the
results of the great Chicago strike, was
invoked for Coppage’s protection, and
the district court fined Adair $100. The
constitutionality of tha act was stren¬
uously attacked in the district court
by the railroad attorney, and when the
decision was announced they promptly
brought the case to the supreme court,
with; ttes rer-Mt that the* deetsforr-o*
the lower court was reversed. In his
decision Justice Harlan held it was
Adair’s right to serve his employer
as best he could, so long as he did
nothing forbidden by law as contrary
to the public welfare.
Supreme Court Justice Holmes also
expressed the opinion that the law
should be construed as intended. He
thought that the right to make con¬
tracts had been stretched to the limit
by the court’s decision in this case.
That congress had a right to so legis¬
late as to encourage labor organiza¬
tions was another suggestion of Justice
Holmes.
“While,” said Justice Harlan, in his.
opinion, “the rights of liberty and prop¬
erty guaranteed by the constitution to
the United States against deprivation
without due process of law is subject to
such reasonable restraint as common
good or the general welfare tnay re¬
quire, it is not within the. functions of
government—at least, in the absence of
contract between tin- parties—tp com¬
pel any person- in the course of his
business and against his will to accept
or retain the personal services of am
other or to compel any person against
his will -to perfqyfii. .personal services
for another. •. ... -
“The right-of a person to sell his
labor, upon such terms a's lie deems
.proper, is in its'essence the sartie as
the. right of the purchaser of labor tq'
prescribe conditions upon which he
will accept such labor from tiie person
offering to sell it. So the right of an
employee to quite the service of the
employer, for whatever reasqn, is. the
same as the right of the employer,-for.
whatever reason, to dispense with the
services of such employee. In all such
particulars, the employer and the em¬
ployee have equality of rights and any
legislation that disturbs that equality
is an arbitrary - interference with the
liberty of contract which no govern¬
ment can legally justify in a free
land.” "'
CASE UP TO ROOSEVELT.
President to Pass Upon the Hancock
Courtmartiai Papers.
The case of Major Hancock, coast ar¬
tillery corps, stationed at Fort Baran
cas, Fla., has been received at the
war department for action of the pres¬
ident. Hancock was tried by court
martial at Atlanta, Ga., on charges of
alleged violation of a pledge to ab¬
stain from the use of Intoxicating li¬
quor.
STANDARD OIL : IN AFRICA,
Interests of Trading Company Purchas¬
ed and Monopoly Established.
The correspondent of The London
Daily Mail at Durban announces in a
dispatch that the Standard Oil com¬
pany has acquired the South African
trading interests of the Shell
and Trading company, thus'
ing a monopoly in South Africa. „
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ELLIJAY. OA„ TH FEBRUA RY r,. 1008
grosveno^rguring.
Official “Statistician” *f Republican
Party Prognosticate How Na¬
tional Election will Terminate.
A Washington dispatch says ^Gen¬
eral Charles H. Grosvenor, ex-con¬
gressman, has recently given new'
proof of his claim to. the ‘title “Oid
Figgers.”' He is’the recognized sta¬
tistician of the republican party.' -
Though he is now out; of ..congress,
he is still furnishing “statistics’’ to
show 8 that the republican party will
be successful this y$ar, ancf that Mr.
Bryan is facing hopeless and comfort¬
less defeat. If it proves true Mr. Bry¬
an can expect no r’ynlpsfSiy from the “i
general; he will be able' to say
told you so.”
He has allowed Mr. Bryan 166 electro-,
ral votes. As the electoral college
will consists of 483 electors' it 1 will
require 242 to secure the pVesidency.
This means that Mr. Bryan will need
to win 76 from the states put down
by the general as solidly republican.
He says that Bryan cannot possibly
do it.
The states conceded to Mr. Bryan
and their 166 electoral votes are as
follows:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Geor¬
gia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina,
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Texas and Virginia.
The following states, with 2-50 elec¬
toral votes, are picked by General
Grosvenor in the republican cqluran:
California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts,
Michigan, Nebraska," New Hampshire,
Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Vir¬
ginia, Wyoming* Connecticut, Minne¬
sota, New Jers#, Ohio, Rhode Island,
Wisconsin.
While not admitting that the follow¬
ing states are in any sense doubtful,
General Grosvenor declares that any
gains in the democratic electroal vote
must be secured front,these: Connecti¬
cut, Delaware, Indiana, Minnesota,
Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New
York, North Dakota, Ohio, Rhode Isl¬
and and Wisconsin. These states have
137 electoral votes and out of this
number the democrats must secure the
required v 6 to lici^e a majority in tile
electoral college.
While contending that Mr. Bryan
cannot win the necessary 76 votes, this
statistician says:
“The long career of Mr. Bryan as a
successful candidate has seemed to
make it impossible to consider the j
claims of anybody "else. He is a' vigor¬
ous candidate; he is aii attractive can¬
didate ; he is a tremendously successful
candidate in every way except getting
electoral votes.” Gro^enor
General kindly suggests
Judge George Gray of Delaware to the
consideration of the democratic party
as a man who can carry Minnesota,
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Ohio and Wisconsin if any democrat
can.
In making up election predictions,
interesting note nray be made of the
prediction of Justus L. Johnson, pres¬
ident of the Swedish-American Repub¬
lican League of Illinois, who was in
Washington. Thursday, Mr. Johnson,
although a republican, declares’it as
his belief'that09vemor^John A. John¬
son of Minnesota can carry enough
states to .give him forty-pine more
electoral votes than Bryan.
DISPENSARY PROBE BEGINS,
South Carolina Commission Begins In¬
vestigation at Columbia.
The commission to close out the
,
' affairs of the defunct South Carolina
dispensary .•'gjet in Columbia, Thurs¬
day t<t inspect. books of creditors
whose claims aggregate .$66<),fli00. The
commission, .-sitting, -as a .court, had
announced previously that some claims
were believed to he fraudulent, and
they would pay no clairiis until all
claimants presented books .showing
narative of all transactions with the
state. ’
ARTHUR GIOVER HANGED.
Paid Penalty at Augusta, Ga., for the
Murder of Maude Dean.
At Augusta, Ga;, Friday morning,
Arthur P. Glover was hanged for the
murder of his sweetheart, Maude Dean.
He professed to forgive all those who
had anything to do with his conviction,
but said up to the last that he never
knew when he killed the girl.
Though the execution was private,
by order of the court there were about
160 people in the jail yard, .wearing
badges of “special deputy.” Twenty
minutes after the drop fell Glover was
cut down.
FLORIDA FARMER MURDERED
Body Was Found Near Home With
Head Beaten to Pulp.
Elia's Sappold, a prominent farmer of
Jonesville, near Gainesville, Fia., was
waylaid and killed Monday night. His
body was found near, the roadside in
the vicinity of liis home.’” His head
.
was beaten .into a.pulp with some blunt
instrument. . Suspicions of certain par¬
i ties are 'entertained, .
FOREST PRESERVES
Given Boost at Big Meeting
in Washington.
CANNON IS WON OVER
Speaker Promises Early Consideration
of Appalachian Bill—Hot Fight
to Be Made for Its
That tins nation has reached' the
Point where' it must decide whether it
is to iose the use of the rivers in tha
east and sotuh through the non-pres¬
ervation of forests which safeguard
the wat^r sheds, was the declaration
of Secretary of. Agriculture Wilson,
president of tne American Forestry
Association, which convened In Wash¬
ington Wednesday. ' The secretary
said that the rivers of the west were
fairly well taken care of on account
of forests. He expressed the hope
that congress would take action to
assure the beginning of the work of
the preservation of the forests and
the safeguarding of the watersheds.
Speeches were made at the morning
session by Gilford Pinehot, chief of
the forest service; J. T. Rothroclc,
secretary 'of the Pennsylvania State
Forestry Association, and others. John
A. Walker, game and fish commission¬
er .of Alabama, said that his state
was not only making wise laws to pre¬
serve its forests, but is enforcing
them.
The membership of the association
is 6,555, of which 1,735 were added
during the past year.
One of the objects of the convention
is to further the movement for the
establishment of national forests in
the White mountains and the South¬
ern Appalachian range, a bill 'appro¬
priating $5,900,000 for the ertatift of
which is pending in congress* The
territory to be set apart comprises
about 5,000,00) acres in the south
and 600,000 in the White mountains.
To further this project,' a hearing
will be given before the committee
on agriculture, to representatives from
the states affected and also represen¬
tatives of all societies Intel eeted in
the preservation of the forests.
At the afternoon session Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson was re-elected
president, and the following vice pres¬
idents were chosen:
Edward Everett Hale, chaplain of
United States senate; B. E. Burnow,
dean of the Canadian School of Fores¬
try; J. W, Pinehot, Washington, D.
C.; W. J. Bachelder, master of the Na¬
tional Grange; George F. Peabody,
New York; George C. Pardee, Califor¬
nia; Rutherford D. Hayes, Ohio; Al¬
bert Shaw, New York; W. W, I^iley,
Washington, D. C.; D. J. Rothrock,
Pennsylvania; George T. Oliver and
Dr. Van Heiss. Otto Leaukbert was
elected treasurer.
Three important resolutions were
adopted, one recommending the pass¬
age at this session of congress of the
bill providing for the establishment of
national forests in the White moun¬
tains and the Appalachians; another
providing for a census of the timber
lands of the United States,, and- still
another asking co: gross to enlarge
the Hatch fund law, so tb it out of the
receipts from the national forests an
addition would be made to the fund,
to be spent strictly on forestry ed,uca
'tlon and experiment's.
■ At the” concluding session Wednes¬
day night' Gov. Hoke'Smith of Georgia
Announced . the arrangements for the
before the house committee'
bn tiie establishment of the proposed
forests. Addresses wcr.e made by E.
T*. Wa'tson, South Carolina; Professor
L. CV Glenn, Vanderbilt' University :
Harvey N. Shepard, Boston, and W,
J. McGee, .Washington.
“Uncle-Joe” Cannon, speaker of the
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national house ol representatives, on
Wednesday announced that the com¬
bination of the Appalachian forest re¬
serve people from the'sotuh and the
White mountain men from. New Eng¬
land was so formidable that he could
no longer defer the consideration of
the Appalachian forest reserve bill,
This means that the bill will be per- •
mitted to come to a vote in the house.
That it has not clone so heretofore has
been due to Speaker Cannon’s attitude
exclusively. •
FIRST ITALIAN CONSULATE
Established at Savannah with Senor
Mose Cafeiro at its Head.
Senor Mose Cafeiro of Savannah,
Ga., Wednesday received credentials
appointing him Italian consul at that
city. This is the first Italian consul¬
ate to be established in Savannah. Se¬
nor Cafeiro is also the consular repre¬
sentative of Cuba.
BUSINESS BLOCK IN ASHES.
Loss In Big Stone Gap, Va,, Confla
» gratlon of $100,000.
An entire business block at Big
Stone Gap, Va., was wiped out by fire
Thursday morning, entailing a loss of
$100,000. . Among the "buildings burn¬
ed was the Hotel Eugene; the South¬
ern Express company and the West
ern -Union officers were also destroyed,
«<JWTaufo« mm
Must Serve Temporarily in Asylum at
Matteawan—Curtain is Down on
Malodorous Case.
A New York special says: Adjudged
not guilty of the murder of Stanford
White by reason of insanity at the
time the fatal shots’'were fired, Harry
Kendall Thaw Saturday was held by
the court to be a dangerous lunatic and
was whirled away to the state hospi¬
tal for the criminal insane at Mattea¬
wan,
It was quick transition from the din¬
gy little cell in the Tombs, which
had been tiie young man’s home for
more than eighteen months, to the
•white-bedded wards of the big asylum
tucked away on the snow-covered slop- -
ing banks of the Hudson river, 50
nif 1 es above tiie city.
The verdict came after twenty-five
hours of waiting and when every one
connected with the case had abandon¬
ed all hope of an agreement ever being
reached in this or any other trial.
Four hours after the foreman’s lips
had framed the words “not ullty” with
an accompanying insanity clause, Thaw
protesting he was sane, was on his
way to Matteawan. A little after night¬
fall he had been received in the in¬
stitution under commitment papers,
which directed his detention “until dis¬
charged by due course of law.”
Scarcely an hour later the members
of the Thaw family were in conference
with their lawyers as to the advisabil¬
ity of applying for a writ of habeas
corpus. Thaw was greatly enraged
over being committed to the asylum
and argued strenuously for the appli¬
cation to be made. It was finally de¬
cided to defer Ibis action at least a
week.
After deliberating twenty-five hours,
the jury brought in a verdict of “not
guilty” at 12:45 Saturday afternoon.
The verdict was arrived at on the
ground that Thaw was insane at the
time the deed was committed.
Although practically cleared of the
charge of murder, Thaw is not yet a
free man.
On the recommendation of Justice
Dowling lie was taken to the insane
asylum at Matteawan as a dangerous
person and one whose malady is likely
to recur at any moment.
This uoted case may be summed up
Chronologically as follows:
Harry Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit were
married in Pittsburg on April 23, 1905.
On June 25, 1906, Thaw killed Stan¬
ford White on the Madison Square roof
garden, and on June 28 he was indict¬
ed. -In January following the first
trial began. Ten days were required
for the jury to return a disagreement.
The trial cost the county of New York
$100,000: The cost to the Thaw fam¬
ily is estimated to have been $400,000.
The testimony of alienists brought the
figure to this great total.
The euitre second trial occupied but
seventeen days, five of which were tak¬
en up with (he selection of a jury. The
prosecution had but few witnesses and
made oiit its case in four and a half
hours.-' The defense brought witnesses
from several European centers, from
the Pacific coast of America, and from
a number of other cities. The cost to
the county will hardly exceed $2’5,000,
while the cost to the Thaw family
will be equally as' much as that of-the
first trial. The case may justly be
referred to as the “million dollar mur¬
der trial.”
FIVE VICTIMS OF FIRE.
Fatalities Result from' Burning of
Rooming House in Kansas City.
- Five perrons were burned to death
and twelve others injured in a fire in
a three story rooming house in Kan¬
sas Cify Saturday morning.
Tiie fire started from an explosion of
natural gas hi the basement. The
flames ard dense smoke spread quick¬
ly throughout the building and before
an alarm could be given all means of
escape by the ordinary exits had been
shut off. The five persons who lost
^ves were asleep on tht third'
floor -
FORESTRY DELEGATES AT WORK
Governor Smith of Georgia, Pleads Ee
fore Senate Committee.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia
had charge of the hearing Thursday
before the committee on agriculture in
regard to the bill now pending before
the house of representatives for the
Appalachian and W’hite Mountain na¬
tional forest reserves.
Much expert testimony showing the
need of this action and some strong
addresses containing arguments for
the Currier hill were submitted to the
committee.
ALLEN GAINS FOUR VOTES.
Senatorial Deadlock in Kentucky Leg¬
islature Remains Unbroken.
John R. Allen of Lexington, Ky.,
gained four more votes in the joint ses¬
sion of the Kentucky legislature at
Frankfort for United States senator
W ednesday. The ballot resulted: Beck¬
ham 57, Brddley 57, Alien 7, J. J, C.
; Mayor 1. Thus the deadlock remains
i unbroken,
NOTIN SNYTRi
Many newspapers Lave lately ,-::v--n • irrfiV*
torcporis byirivs|>onstf<ie parties to the effect
that
THE NEW HOME SEW,';? fM2H'.H5S0
had entered a tis^f * r cm ..i t: v •• wts'i
to assure the j sMif fan a. .v * *»o : ».
Slidi rc*i»or!s. \Vi* \ i *.t
sewing maehfnuRfor; • n:*r? t«-:
ry, and have ostabiishe.i a r. ;n;! rrion f .. . r
selves and our niruhiin sii.; t i j< tl.u ' y*.. 1
others. Our **JY<*?r J/oiru” iro. ><
never fcren rivaled s u. t. y . * *
stands at the la-ad ofaH //;%? ’; <Jr r .-•*?;•» s* :n r
machines, and i lands on its t*>: :t
The, Tictv Home” £3 t -. 'f t .
HIGH GItAHJS
on the
Ii is not neressary for : to < v,* r r i - o r tra>t
to save cur credit «*r pay a t v »'.• r « -«.* ■! :r, ?
no debts to pay. We hav*’ n« r ■ -d
competition with mairjUact’if'T- of ?mule
cheap machines that a *v u t • s • ■ ‘ i r- -nx
less of any inlrin.sl» mcri' . ]) » >*• ' 1...» de¬
ceived,when you want as 'n il:..' : ■ u-j don't
send your money r way ironi 1 ^
“New Home'* Hcaier
better machine for less than yo
elsewhere. If there is 1*0 d
write direct to us.
THE NEW HOME SEW&I3!
ORANGE, MASS"
New York, Chicago. Til., St. I.i .uis, A i’ai>
ta, Ga., Pallas. Tex., S;m i’ruiicb \ I.
GILMER COUNTY DIRECTORY.
Gilmer Superior Court meets third
Monday in May and second Monday
In October. lion. Geo. F. Gober,
judge Blue Ridge Circuit: Hon. B
F. Simpson, solicitor general.
Court of Ordinary meets first Mon¬
day In each month.
County Board of Education me. ta
first Tuesday in each month. Horace
M. Ellington, president Boavd of Edu¬
cation. N. L. Tankersley, county
school commissioner.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
T, If. Tabor, ordinary.
]. \V. C’rnigo, Clerk Superior Court.
A. J. Pinson, sheriff.
E. J. Chastain, tax collector.
L. B Chastain, tax receiver.
R. P. Parks, treasurer.
CORTELYOU SENT ONLY BRIEF.
Manner of His Reply to Senate's In¬
quiry Causes Criticism.
The long delayed reply of Secretary
Cortelyou to a senate resolution call¬
ing ifor information concerning tho
operations of the treasury department
in connection with the recent financial
vrisis, was laid before the senate on
Wi dnesday by the vice president. Tha
document was not read, but a printed
copy of it was on the desk of yaclj
senator, and nearly all of them at once
gave it bis attention.
Mr. Culberson inquired of the vice
president whether the pamphlet con¬
tained all of the secretary’s communi¬
cation. The vice' president said he had
not examined tiie report.
“I do not recall an instance," said
Mr. Culberson, “in which a head of a
department of the government has .an
swered a senate resolution in printed
form.”
”1 will ask the senator from Massa¬
chusetts,” broke in Senator Ti.llman,
turning,to Senator Lodge, “who is such
a stickler for senatorial, digrity and
senatorial rights, to reply to Gils in¬
quiry.”
"I don’t know,” responded .Mr. Lodge,
“whether a cabinet officer ever sent
in a printed report of this kind as a
convenience, and I do not think it is a
matter of importance. The entire reply
will be printed tomorrow.”
Mr. Tillman retorted by declaring:
•‘The secretary of the treasury is as¬
suming the airs of a president before
he is elected to that office. The pres¬
ident sends his message in‘this printed
form, but I have never known it cabinet
officer to assume to do this before.
Mr. Culberson said that the fact of
which he complained was that the sec*
rtU'.ry of the treasury had printed his
argument'itMd had it laid on the debits
of senators which and .rad^leftfo^^temcaf
of facts a c co in
printed afterward.
OLD FOOD LAWS
Georgia Ai.orney General Says New
' Statutes Supervede Them.
According to an opinion, by Attoi
ney General John <’. Hurt of Georgia,
to Commissioner of Vgriculturp Hud¬
son, old laws under which county food
inspectors were appointed by ordina¬
ries anff municipal inpsectors mid r
ordinances, ..superseded '
elty have been
by the general pure food la(v enacted
in 1906 and effective August 1, 1097.
The effect Of this view of the,.new
law is to' take the appointment of meat,
milk and other food inspectors out
the hands of ordinaries and health
boards, and to lodge this jurisdiction
entirely in the hands c-f tbg.-e<5rfftEi<v^
sioner ot agriculture.
MORSE IN MORE TROUBLE.
Ship Combine Buiit Up by Him Goes
to the Wall.
Proceedings in Boston for ? receiv¬
ership for the Consolidated S;-aroship
company were instituted simultaneous¬
ly with those at Portland, Me., and
New York, Wednesday. Bills of com¬
plaint were fiied against the Consoli¬
dated and also against two subsidiary
companies, the Eastern and Metropol¬
itan Steamship company. Petition:! for
an injunction against these companies
were also filed.
NO. 1684