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ESTABLISHED 1834.
' HA>A
fill fin His Fight for fte
* Ohio Ser.atorship,
I HAS zTvOTES
Today—Against 70 for the
Opposition, So Reliable
Reports State.
1 OPPOSITION WEAKENS,
Ard the Boss is Running a Lively
Gait on the Home Stretch-In
dignation Meetings Did it.
I Columbus, Jan. S. —Hanna is gaining on
the home stretch. At the caucuses one
week ago tonight he was beaten and has
J been beaten ever since. But there are re
liable reports today indicating that he has
the necessary 73 votes. The Hanna head
quarters are jubilant and the opposition
seems less confident. The opposition de
pended upon the following ten Republicans
. voting with the 65 Democratic members
of' the legislature: Representatives Ma
son and Bramley, of Cuyahoga; Jones, of
Stark; Griffith, of Union; Otis, of Hamil
ton; Scott, of F.ulton; Redkey, of High
land; I g n, of Carroll, Manuel, of Mont
gomery, and Senator Burke, of Cleveland.
This would make the joint ballot stand 75
to 70 against Hanna. At a public meeting
in Dayton last night, at which resolutions
were adopted condemning Governor Bush
nell and the bolting Republican members
and demanding that Charles L. Kurtz re
sign as the Ohio member of the national
\ Republican committee, Representative
. Manuel made a speech pledging himself
unequivocally for Hanna. Representatives
Griffith, of Union, and Jones, of Stark, are
reported to have done the same thing at
their homes, and there is a like report
from Rutan, of Carroll, and Redkey, of
Highland. The Hanna men go so far as to
claim today that it is 75 to 70 the other
way and in their favor for the next week.
Apparently 72 members are pledged to
Hanna publicly, but the opposition con
cede no less except that of Manuel. While
Representative Griffith is at home with
his constituents. Mrs. Griffith is here at
the Great Southern Hotel, where the anti
l’auna men have their headquarters, ar t
is still with the opposition. The anti-
Jfnnna men admit that after securing coia
j.ptrol of both branches of the legislature
they made a great mistake in adjourning
* from Wednesday to Monday and having
he members go home till inauguration
my. Republican members who are co
operating with the Democrats against
Hanna are thus confronted with indigna
tion meetings at their homes which are
likely to turn the tide in favor of Senator
Hanna. The opposition made repeated and
most persistent* efforts last night to get
Senator Foraker to come here, and that
has been regarded as an indication that he
was needed. But the senior senator from
Ohio left Cincinnati last night for Wash
ington. without stopping at Columbus. It
is reported that certain parties met the
senator on the way or before his departure.
u but nothing definite is Known as to the
k matter. All efforts to get either Foraker
< or John R. McLean here failed and. withal, j
» they are credited with being the two great .
K fa' tors in the "combine.”
W The Republican factional fight in Ohio
f began in ISB9 when ex-Secretary of the •
' i Treasury Char L-s Foster was governor and
. I was blamed by Sherman with dividing the ,
I Ohio delegation and causing Garfield to be
\ nominated in place of Sherman. At St.
) Louis at the convention last June the old ■
l factional feeling was controlled by Hanna,
I who sacrificed everything else for McKin- j
’ hy’s nomination. Foraker presented Mc-
Kinley's name and was chairman of the
Ohio delegation of the committee" on reso- j
lutions, etc., and Charles L. Kurtz was
then made the Ohio member of the na- •
tional Republican committee.
Mrs. Griffith, the wife of the representa
tive from Union county, went home this
* afternoon to join her husband at Marys
ville.
Mr. Griffith announced to a meeting of
his constituents last night and again to
s, day that he did not want to vote for Han
na. but if it was their wish he would do '
so.
* There is no lack of effort in Union coun
ty now on the part of the people to ex
press their wishes to their representative,
and he is being transferred from the list
* of the opposition to that of Hanna.
| BRUSH BURNED OUT.
■ The Home of the Baseball Magnates is in
■ Ashes.
Indianapolis. Jan. B—Lombardy,B—Lombardy, the |
home of John T. Brush, the baseball mag
nate three miles east of this city on |
1 Washington street, was gutted by fire this ’
morning. The house was of unique archi-
I tecture, built of stone and cost about
I $350,000.
’ The loss is estimated Qt $200,000.
I
F CASTILLO RETURNS.
■ Says That the Insurgents are Confident o
I Success.
;
New York. Jan. B—Dr. Janquin Cas-
I fillo, one of the leaders of the Cuban
Junta here, and said to have been con- •
uected with several filibustering expedi
tions, returned today on the Ward line
* steamer, Niagara, after a successful in
r cursion into Cuba. Dr. Castillo refused
to say on what ship he reached Cuba, but
said he landed nine miles east of Manati ,
Bay November 1 last, after being fired
upon by the Spanish fort. “In our party,” I
THE MACON NEWS.
said Dr. Castillo, “was Justo Garcia, son
of General Garcia, who had escaped from
the Spanish penal colony at Ceuta, of
Africa. After we landed we were joined
j by Colonel Garcia, who had with him 800
' insurgents. The insurgents are well fed,
I well armed and supplied with plenty of
j ammunition. The troeps are disciplined
and confident of success.” Dr. Castillo
■ maintained that the killing of Colonel
, Ruiz was perfectly justifiable.
TAYLOR DECLINES
Most Positively to Enter the Tennessee Sen
atorial Race.
Nashville, Tenn., Jan. B.—Avowed can
didates for senator have been uneasy as to
Governor Taylor’s intentions, but he has,
r numerous conferences, given out this
statement:
"Circumstances forbid my entering the
senatorial contest. I have no explanation
I to offer, no comments to make.”
The circumstances to which Governor
Taylor refers consists of Senator Turley’s
refusal to withdraw. It developed last
night that Governor Taylor sent a note to
Senator Turley saying it was apparent
Senator Turley could not win and if he
would withdraw and transfer his strength
to Taylor that he (Taylor) could beat Mc-
Millin.
Senator Turley replied that under no cir
cumstances could he withdraw; that the
matter had gone too far for him to con*
sider such a proposition, his self-respect
demanding that he remain in the race un
til the finish. Some of Governor Taylor's
friends are still saying he will be nomi
nated and one of them gives out an inter
view making the prediction, but it is unau
thorized and Governor Taylor has told sev
eral legislative friends so and asked them
not to vote for him.
NEPHEW DID IT.
Nystery Surrounding a Murder at Last
Cleaned Up.
Selma, Ala., Jan. B—News comes from
Tuscaloosa that Rice Banks, colored, went
•to the county jail in that place yesterday
and surrendered to the sheriff. He con
fesses to having been a party to the mur-
I der of Lon Wilson, a wealthy country
j merchant, near Akron, in Hale county,
I two years ago.
1 He says Wilson's three nephews are
I equally guilty with him and the story has
1 been suppressed until the two surviving
■' nephews could be arrested. The third
I suicided in Meridian, Miss., several
months since and to the surprise of his
i friends left a statement amotig his effects
I that his life had been so full of dark deeds
I that he could find no rest this side of the
j grave.
Wilson, the murdered man, was found
dead in his store, his hands and feet j | -
toned, a gag in his mouth and his bead
rammed trough a slit in the mattress of
i his bed.
The contortions on his face showed that
he had died of suffocation. A large sum of
money was missing. The murder has |>een
a great mystery and the confession of the
negro Banks is equally as great a sur
, prise. Excitement runs high in the neigh-
I borhood where the murder occurred.
RAPID WORK
Is Now Being Done on Fourth
and it Will be Completed
by February 1.
The paving of Fourth street will be
completed by February 1.
Work is now being pushed rapidly and
the force is making good progress each
day. One side of the block between Mul
. berry and Cherry street will be completed
today and ground has been broken and ex
cavations made as far down as Ocmulgee
street.
At the meeting of the executive commit
tee of the Carnival Association last night
Messrs. G. C. Matthews, E. A. Waxel
baum and Merrill Callaway were appoint
ed to see the mayor and urge on his as
much haste as possible in order that the
work of paving may be completed by .the
time for the holding of the carnival.
The probability is that unless this work
is now’ rapidly pushed the streets in the
upper part of the city will be badly torn
up.just about the time for .the holding of
the carnival and the committee thinks that
it will not be a good thing for the city if
the streets are in bad condition when the
big show is going on.
So far nothing has been done towards
the plans for the paving of the next
strets after Fourth, but in a few days
something will be done.
The pavement cn Fourth has so well
satisfie the critics of granite cubes that it
is more than likely that this material will
be used for other streets in the city, and
probably Third and other streets will be
laid in cubes.
For Second and Mulberry there will be
an effort made by the property-woners to
secure a pavement of either brick or as
phalt.
HANDY DEAD.
The Commissioner to the Par
is Exposition Dies In
Augusta.
Hotel Bon Air, Augusta, Ga., Jan. S
Major Moses P. Handy died at noon to
day. The remains will be taken to Ber
lin, Md., for burial.
Major Handy had been an invalid for the
past two months. He was taken ill in
Paris, whither he had gone as special
commissioner of the United States to the
French exposition of 1900.
He recovered sufficiently to make the
journey to America and came at once to
Augusta.
HAIR CUTTING.
Hair cutting cheap. I will cut children’s
hair for 20 cents instead of 25 cents as
charged elsewhere. A. L. Glasco, the bar
ber, under Massenburg’s Drug Store.
MACON NEWS SATURDAY JANUARY 8 1898.
$ luowrn
ffiW
Os the Southern Railway to ths
: Petition of Macon People.
DENYALLCHARGES,
Say That They Do Not Con
trol the Central or Hold
Stock in It.
COMPETITION STILL REMAINS
They Say as all They Have Ab
sorbed Are Not Competitive
Lines With the Southern,
The answer of the Southern Railway to
the petition of the Dunlap Hardware Com
pany and other citizens and business men
of Macon will be filed sometime during
this afternoon in the clerks office of the
United States court.
The contents of the petition and its ob
ject are very well known to the people of
Macon and nothing in. the way of railroad
•legislation has aroused so much interest.
It is an effort on the part of the busi
ness community of 'Macon to break the
illegal combination of railroads effected
by the Southern Railway for the purpose
of stifling competition.
In the original bill it is charged that
Macon’s business is most seriously dam
aged and the petitioners claim damages
' and a receiver for the roads in which the
1 Southern illegally hoids stock.
I The main point of the answer are given
below. It is a most voluminous document
and only a general outline of the main
points can be given:
First. The Southern denies that it has
' entered into an agreement or combination
i for the consolidation, as alleged in the
i bill, of the railroads of the Southern
states east cf the Missisippi river. Un the
j contrary, it insists that its whole plan has
I been with a view to the organization,
maintenance and operation of continuous
lines, not competitive, and to carry on such
I operation as would promote the traffic,
increase the facilities and lessen the ex
pense of the citizens having business with
I such lines.
The Southern expressly denies that cn
’ the 31st day of December, 1895, or at any
I other time, the receive*’ turned over to ■’
the control of the Central Railway of Gee. -
gia or any of its branches, openly and no
toriously or otherwise. Prior to the orgax
i ization of the Southern the Richmond an .
I West Point Terminal was a creditor cf th;
• corporation known as the Central of Geor
| gia Flailway Company. It also held indi
rectly part of the stock of the Central
Railway of Georgia. When the West Point
Terminal Company failed a committee se
lected by its security holders took charge
of all its assets. This committee received
1 stock of the new Central Railroad Com
' panj- in settlement of the liability cf the
old Central Railroad Company to the West
Point Terminal Company.
Under the plan and agreement by which
the securities and assets oi the West Point
Terminal Company were handled by its
committee of organization it was expressly
declared that while the reorganization
committee must make every effort to pro
tect the assets which it received from the
Central of Georgia, it was expressly pro
vided that these assets should be reserved
to and vest in the reorganization commit
tee to be disposed of otherwise than by
transferring che same to the new com
pany.
At all times the reorganization commit
tee has rerained the control of all the cap
ital stock cf sail Georgia Central Railway
Company except the shares owned by the
directors, and at no time has there been
any contract or agreement or any under
standing by said committee under which
the Southern Railroad Company had or is
entitled to any interest or right or control
either in the property or the stock of the
Central. It is thus seen that rhe Southern
disclaims any interest, acmal or assumed,
either in the control of the stock or of the
securities of the Central Railway Compa
ny. On the contrary, it is expressly al
leged that the Central co-operates with
the Western and Atlantic, North Carolina
and St. Louis and Louisville and Nashville
lines to the disadvantage of the Southern.
It is further shown in rhe answer that
while the Southern holds the minority of
true stock of the Georgia Southern and
Florida, that this company in no sense a
competitive line to any branch of the
Southern. As to the lines which the South
ern has absorbed the answer shows the
same state of facts and fully shows tha*
these lines since they have come into the
possession of the Southern have been im
proved. better facilities have been fur
nished to the patrons of the lines and the
charges for the service have been de
creased.
Elaborate exhibits are attached to the
answer setting forth in detail the con
tracts between the committee of reorgani
zation and the original holders of the se
curities of the West Point Terminal Com
pany showing that the Southern has no in
terest in the Central.
Elaborate exhibits are also attached to
show’ the present rates of charge on the
lines of the Southern to substantiate the
claims that the prices have been reduced
while the service has been improved.
Judge Emory Speer’s decision on the
Brewer-Hanleiter case will probably be
handed down this evening or on Monday
morning.
The contents of the decision are of
course a mystery, but it will make inter- ,
esting reading to the large number of peo
ple who are interested in the operation of
the long and short haul clause.
The question is whether Judge Speer
will compel the roads to comply with the !
order of the Interstate Railroad Commis- 1
sion directing the railroads to charge the
same rates to Griffin as to Macon, where
as they are now charging more from
Western points to Macon while from East
ern points Griffin enjoys the same rates.
The case was argued some weeks ago
and but for the holidays intervening the
decisicn would have been handed down
some time ago.
MILITARY DAY,
The Plans Have Been Made But Ara a
Secret.
. The plans for military day at the Carni
val have been made out by Major O. T.
I Kenan and are on a most elaborate scale.
: By request of the committee, however, the
| details of the plan will not be made pub
-1 lie until such time as they have been
adopted and all the military have agreed
to participate.
It may be stated, however, that under
those plans Macon will have the greatest
, military day eve? seen in the South.
RCORDER’S COURT.
A Number of Hobos and Suspects Were Be
fore His Honor.
Recorder Freeman had a full docket of
unfortunates before him this morning.
Out of some twelve or fourteen cases his
docket contained the names of a large
number of suspects and vagrants.
Among those were several white men.
who were evidently birds of passage bound
for the Land of Flowers, who had rested
in Macon on their way, attracted, possibly,
by the announcement that the city is al
ready in the hands of highwaymen.
Five v.'hite men and four negroes were
docketed with vagrancy or as suspects of
vagrancy.
TOMORROW AT THE Y. M. C. A.
Rev. Bascom Anthony Will Address the
Mens Meeting.
No better place can be found to spend
an hour after dinner cn Sunday than in
one of thv Men’s Meetings of the Young
Men's Christian Association. They are
always bright and attractive, with splen
did music from their excellent, orchestra,
and are addressed by the very best speak
ers it is possible to secure. Their meet
ing tomorrow will be addressed by Rev.
Bascom Anthony, who is making such a
splendid success as the pastor of the
j Vineville Methodist church, and whose
1 addresses at the association in the past
| have been so well received and universally
admired. Mr. Anthony is forcible, logical
and pleasing in the discussion of any
phase of the subject of Christianity, and
whatever bis line of thought may be to
morrow, it will b,e sure to interest and
please all who attend.
The very erroneous idea obtains with
some people that these meetings are for
the memebers of the association alone.
This is a great mistake. They are not
meetings of the association, but meetings
conducted by the association for the bene
fit of all who will come, and they cor
dially invite all men to attend.
WHO WILL IT BE?
Looking for a Suitable Pres
ident of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Considerable interest .has been aroused
j in the continued meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce which will be held at the
rooms on Tuesday afternoon.
It is still a matter of surmise as to who
wiil be elected president. A very distinct
movement was on foot to elect Mr. Frink
Mallary to that position but his letter
declining the use of his name has set the
active members to thinking.
It is difficult to say who will accept.
The position is one of honor and glory and
hard work and those who would be ac
ceptable to the majority of rhe members
hesitate about accepting a respoasib.lity
that entails a great deal of hard work.
i It is felt that the Chamber should be
thoroughly reorganized and that it should
■ become a really active and energetic fac
tor in the upbuilding of the city. To do
this it wiil be necessary to make the work
of the Chamber continually felt and to put
it at all times well to the front in move-
i meats looking to Macon’s good.
The executive committee will be a most
important part of the machinery and on
this committee those woh are really inter
ested in the future of the board are figur
ing.
It seems to be very generally accepted
that unless the Chamber of Commerce be
comes really more active and more useful
in the building up of Macon, it would be
better to disband it and to organize some
other body made up cf active men who
are interested in the future cf the city.
MARION CRAWFORD
Will Probably be the Next At
traction at the Library.
The directors of the Public Library
have about completed arrangements with
Marion Crawford, the famous author, to
deliver a lecture at the Academy of Music
on February 8.
The subject of the lecture will be Pope
Leo XIII, and literary Macon may expect
one of the grandest treats they have ever
known.
Everyone who reads has read Craw
ford's books. They are of a style and beau
ty peculiar to himself and his presence in
Macon is alone enough to bring out a large
audience aside from the fact that the sub
ject of the lecture is a popular one.
POLITICS IN HAWKINSVILLE.
Hawkinsville, Jan. 8. —Interest in the
present municipal campaign, which has
been waxing warm for several weeks, has
been intensified by the retirement from the
mayoralty race of J. B. McDuffie in favor
of T. H. Grace. The election occurs on the
12th. I
$20.00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to $13.34.
SIB.OO Suits and Overcoats,
Down to $12.00.
$15.00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to SIO.OO.
$12.00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to SB.OO.
$lO 00 Suits and Overcoats,
Down to $6.67.
UNDERWEHR Cash At D^unt .
That is a large sum of money.,
but your eyesight is worth more
than that sum.
/T\ J Zfc Preserve that valuable organ by
CP I I Wail AA/i using E. Friedman’s
I 111111 Crystal Glasses. They are as per-
CO 1& w 1/ 0U if s ect as h uman mechanism car
1. J j v V make them.
E. FRIEDMAN,
* Scientific and Practical Optician.
Office 314 Second Street, Maca®,
Georgia.
Assignee’s Davidson’s Jewelry store
S I 505 Fourth Street.
H | , All goods sold at cost. Goods must be
sold within thirty days.
COAL Montevallo,
Jellico,
I
, - /"■. & ~r" Alabama,
wCJ-OuJLj
Anthracite,
Prices the Lowest
COAL
a -r- Yard Phone 150.
COAL Office Phorie ia&
Don’t Overlook
Collars, Neckwear,
Shirts, Hats, Underwear.
Their importance demands the exact and thorough
attention we devote to their purchase and sale.
We buy ’em right.
We sell ’em right.
Our manner of dealing in Furnishing Goods is judi
cial in its fairness and intelligence. We do notover
• price novelties. That method wall never find favor
with us. Square, honest, golden-rule ways dominate
this department. Exclusive haberdashers are under
sold by 30 per cent. Os course they are.
PRICE TWO Cl NTS