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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