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AUGUSTA SAVINGS BANK.
833 Broad Street.
W. B. YOU NO, President.
J. G. WEIGLE, Cashier.
Savings Accounts Solicited.
INTEREST PAID ON DEPOSITS
VOLUME XI. NO. 3.
MISS ROOSEVELT'S WEDDING
TO BE A VERT “QUIET AFFAIR”
REPORTED SHE HAS TOLD HER
FRIENDS SHE WILL HAVE NO
ATTENDANTS.
DISAPPOINTMENT
HAS FOLLOWED
Only Persons Outside of Family and
Intimate Friends to be Invited Will
be Her Father's Cabinet and Mem
bers of Their Families.
WASHINGTON. D. C., .lan.
(Special ) —lf the announcement cum
ins from the moat Intimate friends
of Mis* Alice Roosevelt la correct,
there will he considerable disappoint
ment to follow the definite announce
ment. The statement is made that her
wedding to Hon. “Nick." Longworfh
will occur on February 17, and that
the ceremony will be strictly an nf
fair of the "family and intimate
friends," including only the cabinet
circle.
The ceremony will take place in the
East Room of the White House, and
will probably be about 4 o'clock in
the afternoon.
It was naturally supposed after the
announcement of the engagement that
the ceremony would be attended by
the dignitaries of the foreign coun
tries, representing the heads of those
countries, and for the purpose of
making presentation of such remem
brances as might be tendered the
daughter of the president of the Uni
ted States. Besides, it was also ex
pected that the whole of the cream
of society would be in attendance and
a number of attendants would make
the wedding a splendid affair. Now
it is food for comment that Miss
Roosevelt has confided to her friends
the fact that she will have no attend
ants.
There is much speculation as to
what raiment the president's daughter
will wear for the nuptial service. She
is known to have a preference for
satin for all evening gowns, and it is
also known that she would like to wear
the wedding gown of her grandmother,
Y ;s. Geo. C. Lee. of Boston, which
tpetlarefully preserved In the recesses
o i the attic in the splendid mansion
on the Brookline estate of Mrs. Lee,
just outside of Boston. This is adorn
ed. as all wedding gowns of grand
mothers should be, with rare old
lace.
Miss Roosevelt will have superb
jewels, but whether she will wear
any at her wedding is a matter of
doubt. She is democratic about it all
and will have only a short wedding
journey, returning within a week af
ter the ceremony to take up her duties
as mistress of a plain, but. substantial,
residence on Eighteenth street, which
Mr. Longworth has occupied with his
mother for several seasons.
SNOW WILL HELP WHEAT.
Kansas Blizzard Increases —Suffering
Lack of Fuel.
TOPEKA, Kan., .lan. s.—The first
heavy snow of the season began fall
ing in Kansas early yesterday and is
still falling. The snow rovers the en
tire state, ranging in depth from two
to four inches. The storm will be of
great benefit to the wheat, as for
three months there has been very lit
tle moisture in the wheat belt. The
grain has been growing well, but
needed the snow.
Reports from southwestern counties
indicate that there will be loss of life
there because of shortage of fuel if
the blizzard Is protracted, tleorge B.
Cones, a member of the state legisla
ture. has written to the board of rail
toad commissioners that there is no
coal for sale in Meade country, and
that farmers are driving as fur as 10
miles to beg for fuel.
LITTLE GIRL HAD
A CLOSE CALL.
COLUMBUS. (Ja.. .lan, 5. —Yester-
day morning as the passenger train
pulled out from the depot in Phoenix
City the little ten or twelve year old
granddaughter of Mr. .1. .1. Kenned;
stepped on the side track looking at
the passenger train leaving, and
came near being run over by a freight
ttain which was backing on the side
track. Fortunately for her Mr. .1. T.
Kendrick was standing near and pull
ed her off the track Just In time to
save her from a horrible death.
EXCITEMENT
DISMIRED
Effect of Schiff's Speech Was Gone
When Market Opened This Morn
ing.
NEW YORK. Jan. 5. —The excite
ment and weakness in the stock mar
ket yesterday afternoon, caused by
Schiff's speech on currency, seemed
to have disappeared entirely when the
stock exchange opened today. The
first prices showed mixed gains and
losses, but almost immediately specu
lation developed a strong tone and
an advancing tendency.
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THE AUGUST A HERALD
MEXICO WANTS HER
MONEY MADE BY
THE U. S.
MINT'
SILVER PESO WORTH MORE AS
BULLION THAN COIN AND BE
ING MELTED AND SOLD. •
GOLD COIN IS
TAKING THE PLACE
Mexican Mint Can't Coin the Money
Fast Enough to Meet the Demand
and Aid Has Been Asked of United
States.
(Herald Bureau, 206 Corcoran Bldg.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. —It is stated
here today by Director Roberts, of the
United States mint, that the aid of
the treasury department of the United
States has been called upon by the
Mexican government in the coinage
of its gold currency. Owing to the
high price of silver, the Mexican peso
is at present worth more as bullion
than its face value as a coin, and in
consequence the peso is being rapidly
converted Into bullion by speculators
and exported to the Orient, in order
to keep the circulation of the coun
try at its normal value the Mexican
government is replacing the pesos as
rapidly as possible with gold coins.
The capacity of the Mexican mint,
however, is being severely tested, and
it is found impossible to supply ihe
increasing demand for gold coin. Con
sequently the aid of the United States
is sought, and will be obtained.
Mr. Roberts stated that the matter
has already been taken up, a repre
sentative of the Mexican government
having called at his office at the
treasury department today, and that
the United States mint will shortly
begin the coinage of Mexican gold for
that country.
NEW SIOO,OOO HOME.
Plans for Masonic Temple Have Been
Completed.
ATLANTA, Ga.. Jan. s.—(Special.)
—Plans for the Atlanta Masonic Tem
ple, to be erected at the northwest cor
ner of Peachtree and Cain streets, op
posite the governor's mansion, at a
cost of SIOO,OOO, have been completed
by the architects and work on the
edifice will in all probability be be
gun February Ist. Contracts for the
demolition of the small building now
occupying the lot will be let soon as
bids have been asked for. The Ma
sonic Temple will be seven stories
high. The lot has a frontage on,
Peachtree street of 60 feet and runs
bark for 180 feet along Cain street
and cost the Masons about $35,000.
The ground floor will be given over to
stores, and above will be located the ,
various lodge rooms.
AFTER THE STANDARD.
Government Agente Are Investigating
in Richmond,
RICHMOND. Va., Jan. s.—Govern-
I ment secret service men are here
quietly looking into the methods of the
Standard Oil business here.
The Dixie Oil company, which has
been operating here for some time in
opposition lo the Richmond Oil com
panv. an Independent concern, has
king been under suspicion as an instru
ment of the Standard Oil. This seems
to have been confirmed by Ihe fact
that the aluminium-colored wagons of
the Dixie appeared today painted in
green and the words "3taudard OH”
across them.
The merchants who were closely
questioned by strangers expect to be
summoned by the government to
Washington to testify.
GIRL IN WRONG PLACE.
ATLANTA. Ga.. Jan. 5.—-(Special.)
—Florence Kergassner, a 15-year-old
girl of Lexington, K.v., who came to
Atlanta some time ago and has been
working in a bag factory,' is held at
the police station In care of the ma
tron until some satisfactory disposi
tion of the girl can be made. The
girl was taken into custody while of
ficers were investigating a row at a
boarding house on lower Decatur
street, which Is said to have been
caused hy an attempt of a young man
to hug the girl. This provoked anger
among some of the male boarders and
a general row was the result. After
hearing all the evidence the recorder
decided it would be best to send the
girl back to Lexington. The evidence j
was to the effect that the boarding
house was hardly the right place for
the girl.
BOY BABY WAS BORN
IN the COUNTY JAIL.
SAVANNAH, Jan. 5.—A baby was
born in the county jail. The mother
of the child is Hester Young, a ne- '
LOCAL FORECAST: For Augusta and vicinity. Fair tonight and Saturday,
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EXTENSION OF THE FLOIODA EAST COAST TO
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LYONS HAS BAD JOB
LONG ENOUGH;
MUSI GIVE
OP NOW
PRESIDENT, HOWEVER, HAS NOT
CHOSEN THE FRIEND OF BOOK
ER WASHINGTON FOR IT.
SERIOUS CHARGES
AGAINST VERON
Veron and Williams, Two Negroes, to
be Given Consulships to South
America Instead of Fat Job in
Washington.
(Herald Bureau, 206 Corcoran Bldg.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—lt develop
ed here today that it is not true that
the president, lias chosen a successor
to Judson Lyons, the Augusta negro,
now holding the position of register
Jof the treasury. While It. is definitely
announced that Lyons will not be re
tained after the expiration of his sec
ond term in March, it is now assert
ed that the negro by the name of
Vernon, of Kansas, who It was said
some time ago had been decided upon i
by the president, will not gel Ihei
place after all. It has developed that '
I many of the colored people of Kansas'
are strongly opposed to Vernon and
have entered serious charges against j
him. Just what these charges are j
cannot bp learned, but they appear to
be well founded enough to at least
cause hesitation on the pnrt of the
chief executive. The other candidate j
for the lucrative position Is a negro
by the name of Williams, coming from !
Chicago. It is now slated that the rea
son for the termination of the very ]
warm contest between these two
darkies, Vernon and Williams, was;
due to an agreement whereby both of
them would he well taken care of.
What the alternative position to that]
of register was to he is not given out,j
but is said to lie "an Important con
sularship In South America."
Southern negro politicians are said
to be still rowing over the alleged t
fact that Lyons is to be turned out at
the instance of Booker Washington !
who, it Is sati). favors one of the other]
candidates, and is urging his appoint-1
ment. The fact of the matters seems]
to be, however, that the president
thinks It time that Lyons should give
up the position upon which he has ;
been fattening for the past eight ]
years and that some one else should j
have a chance to draw the salary I
which It tiays.
gro woman, given a six month* sen- j
'fence in the city court for a mlsde 1
' men nor.
The woman had been fighting with
another woman The first time she
wa H arrested, the warrant, against her
was dismissed by Justice Wlckman
because of the woman's condition.
When released she looked up the oth- '
er woman and renewed difficulties. A
second warrant was sworn out and ]
the woman was then bound over to i
the city court, where she was tried !
and sentenced to serve six months. I
The baby is a boy. Both the child I
and the mother appear to be doing
very well.
AUGUSTA. GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 5. 1906.
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LAND-
ST. AUGUSTINE. Fla., Jan. 5.- While the representalives of more
than 70.00U,n0n of people are struggling with the problem of how best
i to construct the canal that will unite the Atlantie and Pacific oceans, one
of these people, Mr. Henry M. Flag lei. is rapidly pushing forward Ihe
i ronstrucMon of a railroad across the line of Islands or keys forming Kloi
irla Bay that partly separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic ocean.
This project Is the extension of the Florida East Coast railroad south
front Miami. lis present southern seaport terminus, to Key West.
This piece of road will he 154 miles long. Twenty-eight miles of
(his, from Miami to Homestead, was built during 1904. Of the 126 miles
remaining to be constructed, about 65 will he built on natural founda
tion. According to Ihe present plan the reßt of Ihe road will be laid on
concrete arch viaducts.
Scarcely a mile of this part of the road will he constructed with
out the solution of questions that have never before arisen—the solv
ing of difficulties without precedent.
NU CLUE TO SIB,OOO ROBBERY
OF EXPRESS PACKAGE SENT
FROM AUGUSTA TO NEW YORK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. s.—(Special. thousand dollars
were extracted from a pouch sent from Augusta. Ga., Sunday to New
York and transferred at Washington. Express officials and Pinkerton de
tectives are now in this city Investigating the case.
The package containing the amount was received by the Southern
Express company at Augusta. It was carried to Columbia, S. C., where
it was transferred to the Southern train for Washington.
The pouch was transferred In this city to the Adams Express com
pany, and by it carried to New York, where the loss was discovered.
The pouch that was robbed contained also another package of $50,000,
which was undisturbed.
General Agent Barrett, of the Adams Express company; H. E. Huff,
manager of the Adams office at Baltimore, and J. E. Sadler, superintend
ent of the Southern Express company at Charlotte, N. C., are in the city
investigating the loss,
H. E. Huff, of the Adams Express company, said last night that there
were no developments in the case and that th e company had no Idsa
where the money disappeared.
COLUMBIA, S. C„ Jan. s.—Nothing can he learned here about the
loss of SIB,OOO from a package from Augusta to New York. J. R. Fant,
route agent of this division seemi to think that the loss occurred out
side of his territory. The package was in Columbia two hours, he
tween 3:30 and 6 o'clock In the morning, a suitable time tor a robbery,
but th e package nas been traced to New York in apparent good order.
However, thl s is known as a "concealed" loss and the robbery might
hove occurred even before the package left Augusta.
Mr. T. W. Leary, general manager of the Southern Express com
pany, is here making an Investigation.
The early hour of the morning at which the package arrived here,
a a well as a wait of two hours on the arrival of the train from Bavsnnah,
makes this a good place for the examination.
Within the last few years the Southern Express company has lost
two SIO,OOO packages here. Neither were ever found.
JIMINEZ WILL HAVE THE AID
OF MORALES FOR PRESIDENCY
Fight in Which Rodriguez Was Killed Cost 150 Men Their
Lives —The Independent Still Held by Morales.
CAPE HAYTIEN, Haytl, Jan. 5 -Fully a hundred and fifty men
were killed or wounded In the fighting on January 3rd, when Demetrlo
Rodriguez, ihe Morales commander, lost his life. The remainder of
Morales' followers embarked on the gunboat. Independecla, off Puerto
Plata, after which the vessel sailed for Monte Crlstl.
It Is understood that General Jimlnez, former president of Santo Do
mingo. will, with the assistance of Morales, compete for the presidency.
A large part of the population 0 f northern Santo Domingo la said to
favor Jimlnez.
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TRIAL COURT WILL BE KEPT
BUSY FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD
38 BOUND VOLUMES
COMPRISE THE
SMOOT CASE
HECOHO
OVER A MILLION WOMEN HAVE
SIGNED PETITION PLEADING
FOR PURITY OF HOMES.
ENDOWMENT HOUSE
OATH IS WANTED
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Several Hair Raising Oaths Have
Been Quoted. But They Are Not
Substantiated as the One Now
Wanted —Record Goes to the Senate
(Herald Bureau. 206 Corcoran Bldg.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. Thirty
eight bound volumes, comprising a
i thousand petitions, tu Ihe Reed Smoot
case will be filed with the secretary
of the senate a* soon as the commit
tee submits Its report. The petitions
are being bound In New York. The
names of more than 1,000,000 women
have been affixed, pleading with the
senate to take a stand for the purity
of Ihe home.
Before the report in submitted to
the aenate the committee will en
deavor to obtain the exact language
of the test oath taken in the endow
ment house, to which Brnoot subscrib
ed while a boy. Several witnesses
have sworn to having taken this oath,
l but the exact wording ha* not been
fully established. Senator Smoot him
self. when on the stand, refused to re
peal Ihe oatli a* he remembered it.
The first oath taken, according loom*
wilncMs, Imposes an obligation on Ihe
subject which Is calculated to deter
one from gossiping among Ills neigh
bora about, it. Ah near as the witness
can remember, the oath was admin
istereii in I Ills language:
"You, and each of you, do solemnly
promise and vow that you will not re
veal tills the first token of the Aaroulc
priesthood, wdtli its accompanying
name, sign. Slid penalty. Should 1 do
so I agree that my Ihroal he cut from
ear to ear and my tongue cut out. by
Its roots from my mouth." This
quick shin In the personal pronoun is
hardly correct, hill II Is argued Hint
the witness may have been excited.
There are several other vows, In
eluding the vow of vengeance, which
is in this language: "That you, and
each of you, do promise and vow that
you will never cease to Importune
high heaven to avenge l|ic blood of
the prophets upon the nations of the
earth or the Inhabitants of the earth."
The last witness it) lake the endow
ment oath obtainable so far Is An
gnsl W. Liindslrum, who swore that
he look tills obligation: "And we ask
Thee, God, the Eternal leather, to
avenge the blood of Joseph Smith
upon this nation."
It lias been brought out In tlio testi
mony ttint the lest oaths have never
been changed, and for Mils reason It
is especially desirable lhat the exact
words employed lie known, so that
the senate may understand the obli
gations Senator Smoot assumed.
DYNAMITE IN SHIP'S COAL.
Alleged Attempt To Blow Up United
States Transport Thomas.
SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 5. That
two sticks of dynamite were found
hidden in the coal of the transport
Thomas on her Issl trip to the United
Slstes, was the story told by Lewis
E. lihvis, of Vancouver, n passenger
on board the Ixini and now in Seat
He.
About 2,000 miles from Nagasaki
the coal passers discovered the two
slicks. The passengers were panic
stricken when the news got around
the ship, and great caution was taken
In handling the coal. Davis says the
officers stated that. Iliey believed Jap
anese stevedores put the dynamite In
the coal when loading It, because of
their feeling over America's part In
Hie making of an unpopular peace
treaty.
The Thomas was carrying 1,500 sol
dlers of the Seventeenth Infantry and
400 saloon passengers. Four thousand
tons of coal was put, aboard at Nag
asaki, and It was In this the dynamite
was found.
EIGHT YEARS IN PENITENTIARY.
ATLANTA. Ga., Jan. 6. --(Special )
A total of eight years In ten minutes
for vagrancy is what Judge Calhoun
gave eight negro women yesterday
in the criminal city court. The prls-j
oners pleaded guilty. Each was given
a sentence of twelve months on the
chalngang with the privilege of pay
ing a tine of S6O. Judge Calhoun has
given It out that he proposes, in so
far as he is able, to stop loafing on
the pari of negroes in Ihe city. If
they wont work for themselves he
thinks they should work for the
county. i
has lost
THF PLANTER'S LOAN
AND SAVINGS BANK. '
(Opposite Monument.) 1
PAYS 4 PER CT. INTEREST. <
GROSS Reeourcee, $851,000 00. <
Depoelte may be made by MAIL. <
DAILY AND SUNDAY. $6.00 A YEAR.
ACADEMY AUTHORITIES HAVE
MANY MORE HAZING CASES TO
BE PRESENTED.
REPETITION OF THE
WEST POINT AFFAIR
Extent and Scope of "The Coda”
Seems to Have Had Nu Limit and,
Real or Farce, the Court Has Long
to Grind.
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Jan. 6.—Th«
! trial of Midshipman Patterson B. Mar*
r.onl, nf Pensacola, Florida, a metnbaf
of the first class, on the charge ol
hazing Midshipman Roberta, of Joliet,
Illinois, a member of the fourth class,
began today. The charge Is supports
ed by five specifications Roberta wag
also alleged to be a sufferer In Inci
dents upon which are based all four
of the specifications In Foster's case,
irial of which was completed yester
day.
Marzont Is being defended by Geo.
It. Mann, an nttorney of New Yorla
rlly, who was a member of the olaae
of '95.
No charge against any otuer mid
shipman has been filed, but the
academy authorities state that the
court will he kept supplied wltti
charges at the termination of each
ease for an Indefinite period.
The first specification alleges Ihe
hazing of Roberts by compelling him
to perform "No. 16." The second and
third specification allegea that Mar
zont hazed Fourth-Classman Ben
jamin W. Tye, of Atlanta, by com.
P'illng him to bring the accused's
breakfast on different occasions. The
Ikhl three charges are In connection
with the alleged hazing of Midship
man Albert Bryant, of Canton
Bend, Alabama, a fourth classman.
They are that Marzont compelled him
lo bring him his breakfast, to stand
nu Ills head 20 times and perform Nu.
16" sft times.
KEPT HIS PERIL SECRET.
Assistant Attorney General Russell
Under Surgeon's Knlfa.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 5.
Hon. Charles W. Russell, assistant
attorney general, Is nl the George
Washington University hospital, re
covering from an operation performed
several days ago by Dr. Vernon Jack
son.
It was in Ihe height of the Christ
tmiH festivities that tile operation was
found io lie imperative. At Mr. Rus
sell's home was a large house party
made up of the college friends of hla
son. Nol wishing lo disturb the mer
riment, Mr. Russell concealed hla con
dition from ills family and told them
lie would lie absent for a fortnight on
business. He told the attorney gen
eral Ihe same thing.
Yesterday evening Ills family re
ceived a note from him telling th*
facts and of his assured recovery.
To Mr. Russell former Attorney
General Philander Knox Intrusied
the entire transfer of the Panaima
canal from the French companies,
necessitating his making several trips
lo Paris and Panama. He was also
went bj Ihe attorney general to Cubs
at Ihe close of the Spanish wsr to re
port on Hie legal slat us of (he island.
For several years he has been In
charge of the colonial and Insular di
visions of Ihe department of Justice,
Mr. Russell's father was speaker o(
the house of representatives of tha
first Confederate congress. His wife
Is the sister of Col. John S. Mosby,
of the Southern army.
HE DRANK PICTURE FLUID
Photographer Would Die by Drug
with Which He Worked.
WASHINGTON. l>. an. s.—With
the poisonous fluid which he had
used lu hla father's studio In develop,
log pictures, Edward It. Pullman,
son of Hie proprietor of ihe studio at
429 Ninth street, attempted suicide
yesterday, lie had Just finished break
gHst and gone to his room over ihw
studio, where the poison was In read
iness.
Tlie cause of his depondency can
not he assigned by his relatives.
s gronns attracted atten
tion .and lie was found probably ill
time for his life to be saved al
though at the Emergency hospital,
where he was taken. It. was said hla
condition Is critical
Pullman Is 36 years old and single,
lie had worked for his father as a
photographer and appered to ho con
tent with Ills lot.
The poison ws pronounced to Fie cy
anide of potassium by the police. Its
power was known lo the would-be sui
cide. and from the amount taken It
Ih evident he expected a quick death.
ROLLING STOCK OF 1905.
CHICAGO. Jan. S.—The Railway ago
prints statistics of the car and loco- j
motive business showing In 12 lnonthn
Just closed the railways of the coun
try ordered 341,315 freight cars, 6...
266 locomotives and 3,289 passenger
cars, s
ELEVEN BODIES RECOVERED.
BLUEFIELD, Jan. s.—Eleven vtc
tlms of the Conldale mine disaster
were removed from the mines at 3
o’clock this morning. Other bodies
have been located.