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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