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OHtAP MONEY,
•H per cent, and 7 par cant, nsenay now
ready for loan* on Macon residence and
business properly, g per cent, money for
farm loans. Over $5,000,000 successfully
negotiated in Georgia alone. Loans made
can be paid ofT at any Urns. We are bead
quarters. O. A. Coleman. Gen. Man.,
256 Second street, Macon, On.
ESTABLISHED 1884.
DEFEAT!
Mark Hanna's Chances for the
Senate lire Like the
Rainbow,
EIGHT MAJORITY
For the Democrats is the Way
Things Stand Now With
Prospects of
SEVERAL MORE BOLTERS
From the Republican Ranks to Be
Added Republicans Work
ing Frantically.
Columbus, J.in. 6, —The senatorial con
test today was changed somewhat. The
anti-Hanna combine was on the defensive,
a'i "the count of noses” stands now, with j
the steering committees, Senator liana is
beaten.
'the opposition has a majority on the
Joint ballot of three or four on concessions
of ttie Republican members who are sup
jtorting Hanna.
The opposition claims from six to seven
against Hanna, and the secretary is mak
ing accessions to their ranks. The oppo
sition is kept busy defending its ranks, as
Hanna workers are after double members
here constantly, and are starting hot fires
for some of them at their homes.
The Republicans in some of the counties
are aroused to intense indignation towards
Governor Bushnell, dissenting (Republican
members and others. These demonstra
tions disturb some of the Republican
members who are co-operating witii the
Democrats.
The opposition workers will be required
to keep up the closest vlgal for another
week or more to hold all their men in line
on account of the pressure from constitu
ents of bolting Republican memebrs,
which is increasing every day, and it is
likely to be overwhelming in its extent
and intensity next week.
As Senator Burke, the only doubtful
member, is at home today, ithere are no
changes in the estimates in the senate.
The Hanna men claim that Representa
tive Jones, of Stark county. who comes
from the home of President. McKinley, has
promised some of tits constituents to sup
port Hanna. Jones has been prominent in
the councils of the opposition. He pre
sented Mason’s name for speaker on Mon
day and was one of the Republicans vot
ing with tile Democrats for all the offices
lit organization.
On the other hand. The opposition claim
that Representative Snyder, who voted for
lloxwrll and the entire regular Republican
ticket on Monday, will not remain on the
Hanna list.
AN OVATION
Tendered to Hon. George Williams at Den
ver Today.
Denver, Jan. (i.—Hon. George Fred Wil
liams, of Massachusetts, arrived here this
morning and was met at the depot by a
reception committee.
The Democratic club took the initiative
in preparing for his reception, but the
people generally, without regard to party
affiliations, Joined in the arrangements to
extend the characteristic western welcome
IP the man whom they regard as .the le-ad
lng champion of the silver cause in New
England.
During the forenoon Mr. Williams was
escorted to tin state house and city hall
and welcomed by Governor Williams and
'Mayor McMurray.
Tonight an informal diner will be given
In bis honor by the alumnae of Dartmouth
college. Tomorrow night be will deliver a
public address and attend a banquet, and
Saturday evening he will be the guest of
honor at the celebration of Jackson’s Day.
TEMPLE CUP.
Has Been Returned to the
Donor as Per Agree
ment.
Pittsburg. Jan. 6. —The Temple Cup, the
famous baseball trophy for which teams
in the first and second places In the Na
tional Reague race have contested at the
close of the season for several years, was
returned to its donor. W. C. Temple, of
this city, in accordance with the action
taken at the last annual meeting of the
league magnates.
The cup was received yesterday from
Manager Hanlon, of the Baltlmores. Mr.
Temple will probably present It to the Du
quesne Athletic Club to be contested for
among the club athletes, either on the field
or track.
SIX ECLIPSES,
The First Will Occur Tomorrow and Will be
Visible Here,
In this year there will be six eclipses,
three of the sun and three of the moon.
The first will be a partial eclipse of the
moon on Jnauary 7, which will be to
morrow. It will be visible more or less
j North and South America, Europe. Asia.
Africa and the Atlantic ocean. In Charles
ton the eclipse will begin about 0:30 p. iu..
and will end about $ o’clock.
The second will ne a total eclipse of the
suu on January 22. It will be invisible in
North America, but visible to Central and
Eastern Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.
The path of totality will run through Cen
tral Africa. India and the Chinese Empire.
The third will be a partial eclipse of
the moon on July 3d. It will be invisible
to North America, but visible more or less
to Europe. Asia, Africa and Australia, and
to the eastern portion of South America.
An annular eclipse of the sun, which will
be the fourth, will occur on July 18th. It
w-.1l also be invisible to North America.
It will only be seen in the South Pacific
ocean and the southern extremity of South
America.
The fifth eclipse will be a partial one of
the sun. on December 13th. It will be a
small and unimportant occurrence, only
Visible in the Southern ocean.
The sixth and last of the year will be a
total eclipse of the moon, on December
27th. it will be visible more or less to all
the continents of the world, except Austra
lia and to the Atlantic ocean.
MADE MONEL
Over a Hundred Deals in
Stocks bylocal Specula
tors Were Made.
DURING DECEMBER
Without Showing a Single Loss-
Cotton Wilt Not Go Up aid Wheat
is an Uncertain Quantity.
An interesting record ba.3 been made by
the Exchange for the month of December.
During that month, Mr. Ellis Talbott
stated to a News reporter this morning,
over one hundred deals were made through
the Exchange by local people in stocks and
not in a single one had there been a loss.
They were all winners, and a considera
ble amount of money was fTCcoped in by the
investors in stocks for both big and little
deals
Everything on the boards this morning
looked in good shape except cotton, which
Is now regarded as almost a dead letter.
The good authorities among the specula
tors say that they do not see how it can
possibly show any material advance now,
and while the price may vary a little, there
will not he any sensational advance.
Wheat remains steady, but the local
speculators seem to be afraid that they
may burn their fingers in May wheat. No
one ki.ows what the Leiter crowd intends
to do. So far as July wheat is concerned,
it is certain to go down, as the whole face
of the earth will be planted in wheat, and
unless some disaster should come the crop
will be tremendous.
EIGHT MILLION
of Lumber Burned at Saginaw, Mich.,
This Morning.
Saginaw, (Mich., Jan. 6.—Eight million
feet of lumber was burned on the docks of
the Saginaw Humber and Salt Company at
■Crow Island, three miles below the city,
early this morning, causing a loss of about
$l2O 000.
WENT TO CHURCH
After Having Swallowed a Dose of Poi
son.
Guthrie, O, T., Jan. 6.—Mrs. Christine
Pontish, a young widow, took a dose of
poison because her affianced lover kissed
another girl. She then went to a revival
meeting and fell to the floor unconscious
during the services. Her life is despaired
of.
WAS IT OSBORNE?
Excitement Caused by the Appearance of a
Stranger at the Depot.
Considerable excitment was caused at
the union depot this morning when it was
rumored that a strange looking character
who had been hanging around the depot
. all night was Ben. Osburn, the escaped lu
natic, who tried to kill Dr. Powell at the
State Asylum at Milledgeville a few nights
ago.
The character suspected was seen there
last night at about 11 o'clock. His ac
tions soon aroused suspicion, and Night
Watchman Douglas went down to the
end of the shed where he was skulking
in the darkness and asked him his busi
ness. He made no reply but went off up
Fifth street, but returned after a short
while. He hung around the depot all
night, and when the day force arrived they
v.pre told of the strange personage.
At 7 o’clock Gatekeeper Holmes saw the
stranger. He said that he looked very
much like the pictures he had seen of Os
burn, and his conduct was such that he at
once became suspcicious that something
was wrong. He asked hijp what his busi
ness was. The stranger moved off, and
said that he had come from down the road
and was on his way to Athens.
He said that he had no money, but that
he thought the conductor would let him go
free of charge. Gatekeeper, Holmes de
cided that the man was crazy and he de
cided to arrest him. but he could not get
near him after jie had questioned him. and
after staying around the depot a few more
minutes the man walked off and has not
been seen since. The police have been no
tified to keep a lookout for the strange
character, and many believe that if he is
arrested it will be found that he Is Ben
Osburn.
KNIGHT-ERRANT
Os the Nineteenth Century Will A rive in
Macon Next Week.
Next week there will arrive in Macon a
young knight errant of the Nineteenth
century, who will probably spend several
days in this city.
This young knight is Mr. T. Allen Mc-
Quary. from Mountain Grove, Mo., and as
was told in The News some weeks ago, he
is on his way round the world, on a task
to wtu the hand of a fair Arkansas lass,
the task being set by a stern and rich fath
er to test the mettle -of this young man.
Mr. MdCrary dresses as a knight of ye
olden time, in black velvet, with a beauti
ful chased sword buckled about his loins,
and rides a black pony, and is followed by
two immense grey hounds. These state
ments sound extremely romantic as the
facts which Jed up to Mr. MaQuary’s task
of going around the world la eighteen
months.
EVERYBODY LAUGHS.
Death of the Race Horse Bismarck, Stirred
All Europe.
Berlin, Jan. 6—Everyone is laughing at
the attempts made by English papers to
account for the false announcement of
Prince Bismarck’s death. The assertion
that a rumor to that effect was current
here is untrue, the*real explanation of the
false intelligence being a rather careless
j misinterpretation of a dispatch to a sport
j ing paper. It is true enough that Bis
i marek <Led. but the Bismarck in question
1 was not the ex-ehancellor. but a famous
race horse of that name.
EMPTY JAIL.
Twenty Lawyers in Countv
Get Their Business
Elsewhere.
] Topeka. Kan., Jan. 6.—Finney county.
Kan., with Garden City, the county sea:,
! a population of 1,500, enters the new
i - vear with a record that probably no other
j county with 5,000 inhabitants in the Failed
j States can show.
The county poor house is the abode only
1 bats and owls, the county jail is ten
antiess and there has been but one new
suit in the courts during the last month.
The twenty lawyers from Garden City
must get their business rrorn other coun
ties.
The best time to advertise is all the
time.
THE MACON NEWS.
FOR REFORM
OF CURRENCY,
A Comprehensive Bill Intro
duced by Overstreet,
of Indiana.
All EARL? HEARING
Will Be Given it by the Committee
on Banking—Contains Forty
seven Sections.
Washington, Jan. 6.—Representative
Overstreet, of Indiana, introduced in the
house today a comprehensive bill for car
rying out the plan of the monetary com
mission for the reform of the currency.
The bill was referred by Speaker Reed
to the committee on banking, and Chair
man Walker arranged to give an early
hearing to Senator Edmunds, chairman of
the commission, and perhaps other mem
bers.
The bill contains forty-seven sections
and embodies in legislative form every
feature of the recommendations of tho
commission.
RELEASED ON BAIL.
Actor Rotcliff Was Granted a Writ of Reason
able Doubt.
New York, Jan. 6. —E. J. Ratcliffe, the
actor, recently convicted of wife beating
and sentenced to six months’ imprison
ment, was today granted a writ of reasona
ble doubt by Judge Dicker in tho supreme
court of Brooklyn.
He was released in $2,500 bail.
TO ALL NATIONS.
It is Probadle ths Chinese Ports Will be
Opened.
London, Jan. G.—lt is learned on author
ity that in the event of Great Britain
guaranteeing a new Chinese loan, the con
cessions required will be the opening of a
new treaty to ports to open to all nations
alike.
NEGROES’ NEEDS
Discussed by the American Negro Acad
emy.
Washington, Jan. 6 —-At the first annual
meeting of the American Negro Academy
the characteristics, accomplishments and
needs of the colored nation iwere discussed.
One of the notable features was the ad
dress of A. M. Gresham, of Kansas City,
on “Alma in Negro Education. Gresham
said:
“The negro has many glaring faults to
be corrected; he has duties to perform as
well as rights to protect; diplomacy is his
best weapon, not merely brute strength;
he must learn the Anglo-Saxon hahit of
biding his time. What he requires more
than anything else is persistent self- re
rpeot.
“When we consider the greatness of the
negro's needs,” he said, “by virtues of his
connection with the civilization of this
great Republic; when we consider his am
bition—to say nothing of his overwhelm
ing aptitude and demonstrated ability—
can but deprecate any narro w policy that
would limit the quality of his training and
preparation.”
MR. JEROME B. POUND
Wedded to Miss Caroline Willinghnm at
Chattanooga Last Night.
Chattanooga, Jan. 6.—Jerome B. Pound,
publisher of the Chattanooga News and
Knoxville Tribune, and Miss Caroline Wil
lingham, one of the city’s leading young
society ladies, were married at the First
Baptist church here yesterday evening.
The wedding was a most brilliant one,
some of the most prominent people in the
South participating. The nappy couple left
last night for California.
SHoTITiMSELF.
Millionaire in New York Com
mitted Suicide This
Morning.
New York, Jan. G.—Wm. T. Buckley, a
member of the dry goods firm of Dunham,
Buckley & Co., shot himself in the head
at his home in Wave Crost, Long Island,
today.
Buckley, who is fifty-five years of age,
is reputed to be a millionaire,
His hunting stable is one of the finest on
Long Island.
Buckley died without regaining con
sciousness.
There dpes not seepi to be any doubt
that he committed suicide on account of
business troubles. It }s alleged that on
January 2 he had a serious misunderstand
ing with Mr. Dunham, his business part
ner, which resulted, as stated, in Buck
ley’s being forced out of the firm.
It is stated that Buckley was informed
by Mr. Dunham that he would have
sell or buy.
NOT THE WAN.
John Coleman Has Surely Got p Double, the
Solicitor Thinks.
John Coleman, the farmer arrested on a
warrant charging him with cheating and
swindling, was yesterday discharged hy
request of Solicitor-General Robert
Hodges, whu asked for a verdict for the
defendant.
This is one of the most remarkable eases
on record. As stated in The News, Cole
man was charged with having bought a
horse from E. L. Palmer, for which he
gave a note. When the note came due
Palmer sent for the money or the horse,
and neither were forthcoming. Further
more. Coleman said that he had not bought
any horse.
Palmer saw him and decided that he
was. beyond doubt, the man who bought
the hoise. He ha.i him arrested.
But it .eeffis that Coleman has a double
v i c> is dangerously like him and who, rep
resenting bimself as Coleman, bought the
horse and walked off with it. Since then
Coleman's double has not been seen and
Mr. Palmer Is out a horse and his money.
GAME OF CARDS
Caused a Fatal Difficulty in
Chicago This Morning.
Chicago. Jan. S.—Thomas, alias Kid
Murphy, was shot and killed, and Martin
Donahue and Richard Dean probably fa
tally wounded in a fight in a North Clark
street saloon at 2 o’clock this morning.
The men. it is said were playing cards
and the shooting resulted from a dispute.
MACON NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 6 1898.
NOTHING BUT
INDEPENDENCE.
A Letter From Gomez Says
Cuba Will Never Consent
to Autonomous Regime.
LIBERTIES ARE 10 OBJECT
Even the Spanish Flag Will Not
Be Allowed to Float on
the Island.
New York, Jan. 6.—The Herald today
prints the following letter fgrom Genera!
Maximo Gomez, commander in chief of
the Cuban army, dated “In the field, De
cember 26 th, 18417;”
“You ask me for my opinion regarding
what effect the autonomous regime about
to be implanted by Spam in Cuba might
have toward pacification on the island.
The Cubans in arms do not propose to
give and shall never yield in their
struggle with the metropolis until they
have established their absolute independ
ence. No matter what number of liberties
are granted to Cuba by the Spanish gov
ernment, even in case Spain should re
serve for herself no other right than to
keep the Spanish flag over Cuba as a sym
bol of sovereignty, she will net succeed in
ending the war. The Cuban people will
adiflit of no other solution of the present
conflict than whereby Cuba shall be rec
ognized as a member of the sisterhood of
free nations.”
IN THE SENATE.
Appropriation Bills Were Passed This
Morning.
Washington, Jan. 6. —In the senate today
Allen, of Nebraska, called up, and the sen
ate passed a bill providing for the hold
ing of a congress of the representatives of
the different tribes of Indians at Omaha
in 1898, and appropriating SIOO,OOO there
for. The bill appropriating $175,000 for a
public building at Fergus Falls, Minn.,
passed.
A bill to protect the name and the in
signia of the Red Cross passed, Gay, of
Delaware explaining that Miss Clara Bar
ton several years ago asked that the insig
nia of the Red Cross Society be protected
from those who would use it for com
merciar or perhaps fraudulent purposes.
After some routine business the senate
went into executive session.
IN THE HOUSE.
Representative Grosvenor Occupied the
Morning Session in a Speech.
Washington, Jan. G. —The house today
promptly resumed the debate on the civil
service question, and Grosvenor, of Ohio,
took the floor with an elaborate speech m
opposition to the law. In opening Gros
venor disclaimed any leadersn'.p of anti
civil serve reform, and civil service re
form forces, tac any purpose to speak for
any officer of the government, executive,
legislative or judiciary.
“All efforts to entangle me in the collu
sion with the president,” said he, “Is so
much powder wasted. If I believed my re
lations to the executive would be changed
or modified because I differ with him in
any representative capacity, I would de
spise him, as he would despise me, if I
faltered in my convictions.”
Grosvenor said he had watched with ad
miration the president’s public career and
one of his most prominent characteristics
had been that he not only did not demand
subserviency, but despised the men who
sought favors by sycophancy.
Grosvenor proceeded to pay his .re
spects to the National Civil Service iße
form League, of which Carl Sciiurz is its
president. His excoriation of the latter
was the most scathing ever heard on the
floor of the house in months, He denounc
ed unsparingly those who sought to read
out of the Republican party, those who be
lieved in the repeal of the civil service
law, *
With vitriolic language he sketched the
political career of iMr. gohurz, which he
characterized as a "checkered, spotted,
leprous career of one who betrayed every
party and every duty to which he was
bound, and whose betrayal should have
been his only stock in trade in politics.”
HOSPITAL CORPS.
Interesting Paper Read by Dr, Gewinner
at the Officers Meeting Last Night-
At the regular meeting of the Officers’
Association of the Second regiment, held
last night at the Volunteers’ armory, an
interesting paper was read by Dr. N. G,
Gewinner on the subject of the medical
and hospital department of the volunteer
service.
Or. Gewinner has always peen enthusi
astic on a hospital c«rps in connection
with the volunteers, and has done goxid
work in this direction. He took the stand
at last night’s meeting that the hospital
corps is a mast important branch of the
service, and that the state should pay
more attention to the supplies for that de
partment.
It is probable that the matter will «e
pushed further and that an effort wifi be
made ;a increase the strength of the hos
pital corps in this city.
ROYAL DECREE
Gazetted the Organization of
the Service Army
Tomorrow,
Belgrade, Jan. 6.—A royal decree has
gazetted the reorganization of the Servian
army and appointed ex-King Milan com
mander-in-chief.
KLONDYKE PLANS.
T- Hinde is Organizing an Expedi
tion.
Madison. 111., Jan. 6—Attorney T. J.
Hinde is visiting relatives at Palmyra,
Mo., where he is seeking recruits for an
expedition to the Klondike country next
spring. The plan of the expedition con
templates taking ten members, each of
whom is to contribute SI,OOO. They will
build a boat on Lake Linderman and will
take experienced workmen along. Six
members of the company have beep se
cured.
SPOT' COTTON.
New York, Jan. 6.—Cotton spots are
dull and nominally unchanged. Middling
uplands a 15-16, Middling Gulf 6 3-16.
FRANKMV
Will be Urged as Next Pres
ident of the Macon Cham
ber of Commerce.
MR, SPARKS WILL SERVE
As a Member of the Executive Com
mittee if the Chambtr Intends
to do Anything Active.
An effort will be made to secure a good
attendance of the members of the Chamber
of Commerce at the meeting to be held on
next Tuesday evening at 4 o'clock. The
outlook now is that the meeting will be
well attended.
The name of Mr. W. B. Sparks has been
prominently connected with the presidency
of the chamber for the ensuing year, but
it is understood that Mr. Sparks will not
accept if elected, but has consented to
take a position on the executive committee
of the chamber provided a real effort is
made to infuse new life into the organiza
tion.
The next most probable man for the
place is Mr. Frank Mallary, who would
make a good president if given a' good
board behind him.
Mr. Mallary is not. of course, seeking
the place, but it may very fairly be con
cluded that if he is elected he will accept.
The splendid reputation Mr. Maliary bears
as a business man insures for him the re
spect and confidence of the community.
He is very much in earnest in his desire
to see the board reorganised and active,
anil it is more than probable that he will
be nominated on Tuesday next.
PRESIDENT COMER.
Os the Centra!, Was in the City a Short
While This Morning.
President H. M. Comer, of the Central
railway, was In the city a short while this
morning en route to Columbus. He came
up on the early morning train from Sa
vannah and was met at the depot by Major
J. F. Hanson, who accompanied him to Co
lumbus.
Mr. Comer goes to Columbus on business
-of the road. He said, while in Macon, that
he felt very much gratifud at the showing
of the road made for 1S!)7.
FOR BURGLARY.
A Negro ‘Wanted on that Charge Held at the
Police Station Today.
Gray Britt, a negro, was arrested by
Officers Plunkett and Duma this morning
upon receipt of a telephone message from
Griffin announcing that he was wanted
there for burglary.
Briti is being held at police headquarters
and will be taken to Griffin this afternoon.
CHIEF McDERMOTT.
The Head ot Savannah’s Police Depart
ment is ii] the City.
Captain Frank McDermott, Savannah’s
popular and very efficient chief of police,
is in the city today on a short visit to his
friends.
He is today the guest of Chief Boifeuil
lett and the officers" of the police depart
ment, and is being shown the usual cour
tesies.
Chief McDermott is one of the most pop
ular men that ever held the position of
head of the Savannah police force and lie
is justly proud both of his beautiful city
and of its excellent department.
HIS FIRST AND ONLY VERSE.
Judge Freeman’s Poetic Aspirations Cut
Short When He Was a Boy.
Those who see Judge Freeman as he pre
sides on the bench at the recorder’s court
would never think thait the stern dispenser
of justice had ever felt any of the boyish
sentiment, which invariably crops out in
writing verse. But he ha?, and a few days
ago he repeated his first and only verse
to a party of gentlemen friends and they
all pronounced it as capital. It was as
follows:
OH! WOMAN.
Fair as morning’s dawn,
Pretty as a 'blossom;
Timid as a fawn,
And deceitful as a possum.
This poem was written directly after
the judge had received the mitten from a
young lady. The 'teacher under whom he
was then studying found the verse before
he had time to construct two or three
more, that he intended publishing in some
of the magazines cf the day, and he only
received a crack on the head for his pains
and was told 'that he “was a silly boy.”
GRILL ROOM CLOSES
A Step Thought to Be Neces
sary in View of Much
Criticism,
Princeton, N. J., Jan. 6 —That the fam
ous Princeton Inn Grill room will be
closed is almost an assured fact, The
board of governors do not deny that they
have decided on this course. Such is 'the
resup. of tbe continued attacks during six
months on Princeton. It has been said
that when the grill room closed the inn
would he closed, and this may be the nat
ural course of events. When the inn is
closed the alumni will lose a most pleas
ant place to spend the time when in
Princeton, and they will feel its absence
seriously. It is a serious question to jy.auy
whether in closing the grill room more
harm than good will qpi be done.
IT WAS BERESFORD.
A Nun*ber of People Say That They Saw
v the Bogus Lord in Macon.
The statement made In The News yes
terday to the effect that Lord Beresford
had passed through the city 'he night be
fore was corroborated today by a gentle
man who went down on the -same sleeper
with him. He said that Beresford kept
himself close in his seat all the way down,
and when the train reached Oordele he got
off, though his ticket read through to
Valdosta.
The people at Fitzgerald believe that
Beresford Is in hiding somewhere in the
vicinity of the town and is waiting for the
outcome of his wife’s claim for the for
tune of old man Pelky.
MABRY WEPT IN GLYNN JAIL.
Brunswick, Ga., Jan. 6 —. Express Agent
Mabry reached Brunswick yesterday in
charge of an officer from Savannah. He
was met by Sheriff Berrie and Constable
Gaskins and carried to jail, but was not
locked in a cell. Sheriff Berrie and Ma
bry’s friends remaining with him. Mabry
wept while his friends were assuring him
of the kindly sympathy expressed in his
i behalf on every side.
ND HOPE I
The Attorney's of Durrani See
do Chance Now so Save
the Condemned Mao,
A DECISION
Yesterday of Federal Judges
Denying 1 rial of Habeas
Corpus Destroys Hope,
AN APPEAL TO THE GOVERNOR
Has Been Made, But He Has Or
dered the Warden to Proceed
With the Execution.
San Quentin Prison, Cal., Jan. 6. —Theo-
dore Durrani has but few morb hours of
life.
The barriers which have so long kept
him from the gibbet have been swept aside
and the end is near.
After the federal judges denied his pe
tition yesterday for a writ of habeas cor
pus and refused to allow him to take the
appeal to the supreme tribunal of the land,
there was but one recourse, and that was
to appeal to the governor for executive
clemency, and it looks as though Governor
Budd's action will be adverse to the con
demned man, as he instructed Warden
Hale to go ahead with the execution Fri
day and to use extraordinary care to pre
vent an attempt at suicide by the con
demned man.
Durrant is breaking down rapidly enough
now. He seems to have put all hope out
of his thoughts. It hardly seems that he
will make a brave show on the scaffold or
will be in any condition when the last mo
ments come to carry out his intention of
making a farewell speech.
His father has confessed to Warden Hale
that he has given up all hopes of a stay,
and enters into the details of the hanging
in a pitiably despondent way.
The warden promises that no vulgar cu
riosity on the part of medical men or any
body else will he gratified after the body
has been cut down, and also says that the
corpse will be delivered to Currant's par
ents immediately after the execution for
whatever disposition they choose to make
of it.
Nearly two hundred Invitations have
been issued for the hanging, and it is ex
pected that fully 175 people will be pres
ent.
The warden has been notified that bogus
invitations have been printed and sold in
San Francisco, and every card presented
at the prison gates will be rigidly inspect
ed before the owner will be allowed to pass
through.
Every visitor will be compelled to leave
tobacco, firearms and all other forbidden
articles at the gates before he passes
through. Before Durrant Is brought into
the death chamber, Warden Hale Intends
to make a speech to the assembled crowd
demanding absolute silence and order dur
ing the execution.
A special to the Call from San Quentin
prison says Theodore Durrant has broken
down completely.
When visited by his parents or friends
he controls himself and simulates calm
ness, but alone with his guards he gives
way to most violent hysterical outbreaks,
rolling on the floor of his cell, screaming
and crying.
His nerve seems to have completely for
saken him and the opinion expressed by
the prison officials of the condemned man,
whose attitude of self-possession and cool
Indifference ever since hts arrest has been
most remarkable, will have to be carried
to the gallows.
SKULL A BONE OF CONTENTION.
Theodore Durrant Declares the Doctors
Shall Not Measure His Head.
San Francisco, Jan. 6,~Theedore Dur
rant’s refusal to allow a post mortem ex
amination of his head in ease he should 'be
put to death on the scaffold, has proved a
serious disappointment to the scientific
men of the continent,
Durrant is well advanced in medical
science himself and his positive statement
that no post mortem shall be held in the
effort to determine what the measurement
of hts head may indicate, is regarded as
very significant. Dr. John W. Robertson,
the eminent physician, has fieei\ requested
by the American Journal of Insanity to
prepare a full and elaborate article on
the skull of Durrant and a review of the
extraordinary character of Durrant as a
study iu psvfchopathy, and profoundly re
grets that a post mortem examination of
the head of the condemned man cannot
be had. No measurements of Durrant’s
head have ever been made.
Meanwhile Durrant has renewed his
hope of escaping the gallows, since the
federal Judges have taken his latest peti
tion for a writ of habeas corpus under
advisement. He seems to have shaken off
the despondency that was fast bringing
him to a state of nervous collapse. Strong
pressure is being exerted to induce gov
ernor Budd to either commute the sen
tence or grant a reprieve. Chief Judge
Beaty, of the supreme court, who dissent
ed from the decision of his colleagues
against Durrant, visited the governor, but
the result of the conference is not known.
HAZLEHURST
The Well Known Civil Engin
eer Has the Contract for
the Waterworks.
Work on the new pumping station up
the river is proceeding as rapidly as pos
sible and from now' on will be pushed with
vigor.
The contract for the work has been
awarded to 'Mr. J. N. Hazlehurst, the well
known civil engineer, who has been con
nected with several undertakings in Ma
con.
Mr. Boardman, the vice president of the
Macon Gas Light and 'WateT Company,
says that he expects to see this work
completed in about four months.
The' order for the main piping to lead
from the new station to the city, passing
through Vlneville, a distance of three
miles, has been placed, and the material
Is expected to arrive in a few weeks.
Meanwhile the work of building the sta
tion is progressing. The most modern of
machinery and fixtures will be put in and
the present machinery will fie materially
improved and revised.
Receiver’s certificates to the amount of
nearly SIOO,OOO have been placed and the
amount wall be expended on the improve
ments.
The best time to advertise is all the
time.
$20.00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to $13.34.
SIB.OO Suits and Overcoats,
Down to $12.00.
sls 00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to SIO.OO.
$12.00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to SB.OO.
SIO.OO Suits and Overcoats,
Down to $6.67.
UNDERWEAR
Cash Discount.
That is a large sum of money,
but your eyesight is woith more
than that sum.
$j /\ /\ /V /v A Preserve that valuable organ by
A ||||ll using E. Friedman’s Diamond
IIS|iII |§ IS a Crystal Glasses. They are as per
il iv v viUl/l/ ect as human mechanism can
' ’ v make them.
E. FRIEDMAN,
Scientific and Practical Optician.
Office 314 Second Street, Macon,
Georgia.
Assignee’s Davidson’S Jewelry Store
q 1 505 Fourth Street.
•» l Uulu' *? 9 goods sold at cost. Goods must be
sold within thirty days.
We Have Moved!
Our office and sales room to two doors from the express
office on Fourth street, wheie we are better prepared than
ever to serve those needing
Building Haterial of Every Kind.
Macon Sash, Door & Lumber Co,
I THESE ARE FACTS! I
I And apply to our SUITS at
$7.50 and SIO.OO.
NO BETTER rtADE.
LOWER THAN ANYBODY, j
Overcoats at $lO.
Underwear at sl.
g No discount about it, but just better goods for less
I money than any house in Macon.
1 BENSON & TODD,
The Up-to-Date Clothers.
Don’t be Selfish
While buying a coat, blow yourself and put
one on the house. It needs it. I will
take pleasure in coating your house inside or
outside with up-to-date schemes of coloring at
moderate prices.
G. W, LINGO, 6201 cnerry si.
* MACON, GA.
Small Blame
to Economical
People
Who come miles to buy Clothing
here. Think what it means to
have such a collection to choose
from. Hundreds of different pat
ters and color combinations in
Suits and Overcoats, and you are
offered choice at actual cost. The
top-notch of beauty and elegance.
8 P«r Cant Guaranteed 1
Dividing pUd Mml-anniU'lT. Stock secured
“J Improved real estate In nio-e
tnan double the amount, deposited with
Union Savings Bank and Trust Co
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building and Loan Association,
Maeon, Ga., 4GI Third Street.
PRICE TWO CENTS