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8 P vr Cent Guaranteed! paid Mml tumnaUv. Bt*ek MoarM by <!*•>: to improved real Mtate In mors than d<> ibis the aux Hint deposited with | l nlcm Havings Hank and Trust Co GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. Equitable Bui’ding and Loan Association, Macon, <i 4G I Third street. T - - ESTABLISHED 1884. GUNBOATS I May be Ordered io Go Io Cuba al Any Moment INTMTION On the Part of This Govern ment May be Forced, WITHIN 48 HOURS. Rioting is Much Worse Than Re ported Americans are in Dan ger Navy Notified, New York, Jan. 13- A special to the .Journal and Advertiser from \V ishlngion says: Within forty-eight hours, on present indications, liKet’vi ntion in Cuba will have i>e< n forced on the administration. It will be found not unprepared. The rioting in Havana is much fiercer than reports in dicate. General Lee got a cable early <tnd tapoiKd that the situation was seri ous and that the mob was “Getting even with Americans" an 1 "downing the United States" as much as striking »t the auton omist polic y and 11-coneentrados. Amer ican citizens bad to seek refuge in the consulni e. General Li e’s prompt military iiistim ts told him that the consulate might be in , ven greater danger than any other place in Havana, but General Blanco at once threw a heavy cordon of Spanish re gulars with artillery around tin* consu late and the v. hole square ami adjoining streets were h. Id. Ibis alarming infor mation came late. The president did not wish to act precipitately, but an cmer g< ncy had to be met promptly. The navy department was notified and Commodore < rownimdic Id, chief of iiie bureau of navi gation. at once sent dispatches to Admit al Bunce with (lie White Squadion to hold every vessel in piompt readiness, and to Key \\< st lor vessels at that point to be » 'indy to stall lor Havana on signal, but l " bind unle.-s instructed by Gcmial 1..A ORDERED NORTHWARD. British Torpedo Boat Destroyer in Chinese Waters. (IRHOREI) NORTHK\RD. Hong Kong, Jan. 13. Tr.e British tor pedo boat destroyer.;. Hui t ami Ilandv conveyed by the dispatch i.-.il. Ala. city’ has been ordered northward. The home ward orders of the British first-class cruiser, Edgard, have been counterman ded, IN THE HOUSE. Several Appropriation Bills Under Consider ation Today. Washington. Jan. 13. Th.' Ifousc today entered upon tile consideration cd' the ap propriation bill. Tile bill carries $3 323 3() > being $135,500 in excess .if the imount for the current year. Wadsworth, Republican, of New York, chairman of the agricultural committee’, explained that the men ase is due to rhe' constantly growing demand for inspections of meat ami meat products for i xport Under (he latitude allowed lor debate, Williams. Democrat. of Mississippi, sub mitted an extended argument in favor of the establishment of the' postal sav’ngs bank system. BRAKEWOMAN. Mrs. Mulligan Supports Herself and Family by “Braking” on a Box Car. Brainerd. Minn., Jan. 13. Still s de climbs—•th.' new woman. She is n w "shelving” brakes on top of a box ear. With tlm e <e eption of bloomers this wo man is atrir.d imii' like. "Braking” is no lark for her. either. She supports a family ami is ambitiems of becoming a passenger conductor. She is Mrs. Jessie Mulligan, widow of Jaims Mullli.au. railroad conductor, who was’ killed on th,' Yellowstone division of the Northern Pacific railroad ux months ago. Mrs. Mulligan is now employee! by the’ Northern Pacific Company in the ca pacity of freight train brakeman. She sets brakes, couples ears, turns switches and performs the various other duties that are' required of a brakeman Siie is considered by officials of the road anel by tlm men with whom she works to be> a first-class, capable employe, liable to speedy promotion. QUIET AT COLUMBUS Senator Hanna and Party Have Left the Scene. 1 olumbus. 0 , Jan. 13.—Senator Hanna 1> ft this morning for his home at Cleve lat.d. where he will remain over Sunday. His private ear. attached to a Big Four tram, left at 8 o’clock this morning. Among those in the party were his neighbor. Colonel Myron Herrick, and Mr. Charles Dick, secretary of the Repub lican national committee. Senator Hanna’s physician insists " on him taking a rest. The strain on him here for the past two weeks has worn on him severely. He shows it very visibly. _\il the workers on both sides are exhausted. Kurtz and others are suffering from over worn*' d loss of sleep. F yhose who have been lively as hustleK ..ave now almost near a collapse "as the operation" itself. Many outsiders and workers still remain to watch proceed ings of the legislature in which body the war is not yet over. There was a confer ence last night for more resolutions in the reorganization of the house. Both branches of the legislature ad journed. today till Tuesday. In the senate -those voting yesterday against the resolution for the investiga tion of bribery, changed their votes. Sub poenaed were issued for Dick Hollenbeck, Otis and others, to testify before the com mittee next Tuesday. In the house there was a long discussion of the Otis bribery resolirticn. as the Re publicans expect to reorganize the house, an attempt wa smade to postpone the fur ther consideration of the Otis resolution itill February 3. The house refused to postpone the reso lution and it was adopted 54 to 5, most of the Republicans not voting. PICQUOIT ARRESTED. ZZ He Was the Man Who Charged Esterhazy With Treason. Paris. Jan. 12. —Col. Picquart, understood to ',<• the officer who brought charges against Count Ferdinand Watsein Estar harzy. recently acquitted of treason by a •ourt-martlal. was arrested this morning i .me incarcerated in the fortress of Mont Valen in. AN EXPLOSION At Tampa Port Injures Four United States Navy Men. W.: -hingtan, Jan. 13. —Commander Mc <’ill. of a-- United States steamer Marble ib .id, reported t otbe navy department from Fort Tampa, that while at a small ..rinu target yracticc yesterday, four men of the Marblehead were Injured by an < xpio- ion, two were very seriously injur ed and were removed to the Marine hos pllal near by. No details of the cause of the explosion ar.- given nor the names of the injured given. IN THE SENATE. National Law Makers Pass Nany Important Treasures. Washington, Jan. 13 —Among the meas ures reported to the senate today was the - pension aproiiri.it ion biITT It was placed on the calendar. At the conclusion of the morning business the immigration bill and unfinished business was taken up and Mr. C.tilery, of Louisiana, was recognized for a speech in opposition to the measure. Senator Cannon, of Utah, presented the following resolution and it was adopted: “Ri solved, That the president is request ed, if in his opinion it is not incompati ble with public interest, to transmit to the senate at his earliest convenience a . ui nu nt showing what measures are in force by this government in the Island of Cuba and in the waters contiguous, to pro:i et the lives, liberty and property of American citizens now dwelling in Cuba.” The senate committe on judiciary de cided to- report favorably on the nomina tion of Attorney General McKenna to be justice of the United States supreme court. KIDNAPPED. The Twelve Year Old Daugh ter of a Wealthy Texan Has Been Stolen. SHE IS HELD FOR RANSOM, Is the General Belief—Whole Pop ulace out Looking for Her. Dallas, Texas. Jan. 13. —Almost the en tire male population of AVaxahatehie, twenty miles south of Dallas, is out hunt ing for the 12-ycar-old daughter of James S. Davis, one of the wealthiest men of northern Texas. I'he child has been kidnaped or murder ed. it is believed, and fully 400 men and youths, most of them armed, are search ing t verywhere in and about town in an effort to find the little one dead or alive. There is a strong feeling that the little child is being held for a ransom. If this is the case and the kidnapers are captured, death will undoubtedly be their fate. The little girl, whose name is “Jimmy,” was last seen about 6 o’clock last even ing on the sidewalk a short "distance from the house of her parents. Not returning at dark members of the household made starch for her. At 8 o’clock the fire bells of the town werer ung, which called out the male population. The situation was explained at a meet ing at the city hall and every man and boy volunteered to search. Every building in Waxahatehie, a town of 10,000 population, has been /thorough ly searched, the searchers are now thor oughly exploring the surrounding eoftu try. Found This Morning. At 10 H’elock this morn'ing one of the searching party found Jimmie Davis, the missing daughter of James Davis, a wealthy resident of Waxahatehie, about five miles in the country, in a mentally deranged condition. The child had not l>e< n physically injured, but her mind was so clouded that she can give no informa tion as to how she was taken or where she was found. She' was returned to her parents. WHY BLANCH WAS RELEASED. Judge Genuine Did Not Even Know a Mur der Had Been Committed. Judge J. L. Gerdine, before whom the negro Blanch, accused of being a party to the murder of Zeke Winn, the Fourth street barber, was tried a few days ago. and who was released and rearres’ced be fore he had time to get out of the build ing, says that he could have done noth | ing else than release the negro. “I did not know that a murder had even been committed," said Judge Gerdine. “The prosecution did not prove it. and all that 1 knew of the matter was what I had seen in the newspapers. No evidence was introduced which proved that ’Winn had been murdered, much less to prove that Blanche was the guilty one.” DIRECTORS. Os the Y. M. C. A. Will Hold a Meeting Tonight. A meeting of the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will be held at the asso ciation rooms tonight. This is the regular monthly business meeting, and plans for the new building will be discussed at length. . REV. JONES’ FUNERAL. Took Place at Rose Hill Cemetery This Af ternoon at 2 O'clock. The funeral of Rev. W. L. Jones, who died at his home in South Macon night be fore last, will take place from his residence 1 this afternoon at 2 o’clock. The interment will be at R f ill cemetery. The pall-bearers are Messrs. W. E. Jen kins. J. F. Heard. J. M. Fargo. J. J. Hig gerson, J. S. McGehee and B. T. Evans. DAN DAVIS. Another Negro Accused of Having a Part in the Murder of Zeke Winn. Dan Davis, another one of the negroes accused of having had a part in the mur ! ler of Zeke \\ inn. the Fpurth street bar ber, will be arraigned Before Judge Ger dine tomorrow afternoon. Eighteen witnesses have been summoned and it is expected that a sensation will be developed. THE MACON NEWS. TUMULT IN CUBA HAS SUBSIDED, Dispatches to That Effect Have Been Received at Wash ington. NO SHOES WERE FIRED. Is the Statement Made in One Dis patch—The Feeling of Sym pathy in New York. Washington, Jan. 13.—United States Consul-General Lee reported to the state depai tineut from Havana under date of yesterday the facts connected with the rioting there yesterday. While the state department officials do not divulge the text of the dispatch, it is said that they corroborate the news re ceived on the subject. According to Gen. Lee’s report, the dis turbance has been quelled for the tune be ing, but he was apprehensive of another outbreak at any moment. Nothing has been heard from the consul general today, so it is assumed at the state department that the situation remains un changed in Havana. Gen. Lee did not ask to have a war ship sent to Havana, and it is the opinion of the state department offi cials that this is sufficient reason for the assumption that there is no occasion for sending.one. The officials evidently are not apprehen sive of jany trouble in the immediate fu ture that will require the forcible inter vention of our government. The disquieting feature of the situation is the horrible condition of the poor in Cuba. According to Gen. Lee’s advices no less than 200,000 people on the island are in the lasts stages of destitution and wholly dependent upon charity. Spanish Minister Senor Dupuy De Lome received a dispatch from Secretary-General Congresso this afternoon, dated noon to day at Havana. It said: “Your excellency can affirm that the tu mult of yesterday had so little importance that not a shot was fired, and there is no knowledge that anybody had been wounded or hurt. The agitation was confined to one quarter of the city.” This was followed closely by another official dispatch from the same authority filed at Havana at 9 o’clock this morning. It said: “Complete calm. The city has recovered its normal condition.” SYMPATHIZERS IN NEW YORK. Express Themselves on the Sensation at Havana. New York, Jan, 13.—Rioting in Havana and the wrecking of several Liberal news paper offices by army officers and con servatives opposed to the plan of autono my, excites more satisfaction than surprise among the sympathizers with the cause Os Cuba in this city. The opinion is general that the time has arrived for the United States to interfere. Gen. Thomas E. Palma, head of the Cuban junta here, said today: “The rioting in Havana is the direct result of an attempt to give autonomy, so-called, to the islands. Spaniards in Cuba will not have it at any cost if they can help it. You must know every Spaniard regards Cuba as an enemy of Spain. Even those who have been ap pointed to office under the plan of autono my are distrusted by the Spaniards. I believe that the present attacks on the newspapers is only a beginning of what may prove more serious. If they are not successfully interrupted, the result will be a massacre and assassination in Havana. I think the time has come for the Ameri can government to intervene. This is the only way to stop constant trouble and out breaks in the island.” Senor De Lome, the Spanish minister, today received a dispatch from Dr. Con gosto, secretary-general at Cuba, relating that there had been an outbreak in Ha vana, but it is over and that no apprehen sion is Celt for further trouble of a serious nature. ALLEN’S CASE Up Before the Pardoning Board in Atlanta Today. Col. John R. Cooper and J. W. Preston went up to Atlanta yesterday afternoon, where they are before the pardoning com mittee of the state penitentiary today ar guing the Allen case, in which petition has been made for pardon on grounds set forth in the new evidence. When seen at the depot by a News rep resentative Col. Preston said that he had great hopes of at least having Alien’s sen tence commuted to life imprisonment, if he did not get him an absolute pardon. The governor is now in Mexico, but even if the pardoning committee should refuse to recommend a pardon Allen will not be executed until the governor returns. Col. Cooper, who is on the prosecution, said that he realized that it was the gen eral wish of the people that Allen’s case be viewed more in the light of mercy, but that the law was to the effect that he should be executed for murder. Col. Cooper says that in representing the state in the case he will do his duty, and give the pardoning committee the law bearing on the case. The decision of the committee will be held up for seyeral days, even if they should come decision at once. Tj) TAKE CENSUS. Board of Health Decided on This at Their Meeting Last Night. At a meeting of the board of health last night it was decided to take a census of the city. The four sanitary inspectors will do the work, and their reports will be pub lished by the city. It was decided that the sanitary officers should wear uniforms made of blue mate rial. with hats to match. The employes of the health department will wear white suits. COMMITTEES MEETING. Epworth Leaguers Preparing to Entertain the State Conference of the League.' A meeting of the local executive commit tees of the Epworth League will be held at the annex of the Mulberry Street Meth odist church tonight. The union council will also be in session there, and business of considerable importance will be tran sacted. It is the purpose of the Macon League to do as handsomely by the conference as Atlanta did. and to this end they are working. The first thing to be considered is the organization of all the committees so that there will be no friction in the conduct of the vast entertaining machine. Each committee will be chosen with es pecial care, and those who are known to possess the necessary attributes will be placed on them. That will be the princi-" pal business before the session tonight. As yet no place has been decided on where the session of the conference will be held. There is hardly a binding ra the city that will hold the crowd that will be present, and a tent has been mentioned as a place for holding the meetings. n. EEjln mafah rthar htrato dadorarchtht Have your magazines rebound by The Newa’ bindery. MACON NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 13 1898. CARTER'S TRIAL j GOES SLOWLY Nothing of a Sensational Na ture Was Developed in the Court Martial. JOBDAI OH THE STAND. The Identification of Checks, Which is Merely a Matter of Form, Gone Through With. Savannah, Ga., Jan. 13. —Those who ex pected sensational developments at the court martial of Captain- Oberlin M. Car ter, United States corps of Engineers to day, were disappointed. The entire morning was taken up in in terogating Mr. C. M. Jordan, assistant treasurer of the United States at New York, in reference to certain checks cash ed in New York. These checks were given to the 'Atlantic Contracting Company by Captain Carter from 1892 to 1897. Most of them were all for large amounts. Ident'ifiacotion was simply a matter of form and the entire proceeding from 11 to 1 o’clock were listless and tiresome. The assistant treasurer called out a number of cheeks, amount and name of party in whose favor it was drawn. Interest in the trial is unabated. The court room is filled with spectators, many ladies being among those present. The half a cent a word column of The News is the cheapest advertising medium in Georgia. POPULAR MARRIAGE. Miss Scarboro and Mr. Ben Robertson at Toy Last Night- At Troy, Ala., lest night, Miss Carrie Scarborough was married to Mr. Ben Rob erson, manager of the Elberta Peach Com pany. The ceremony which united this very popular young couple was performed by Rev. Mr. Edmondson. Both of the parties are deservedly pop ular in their respective communities and have many friends who will wish them a most prosperous voyage through life. McCRARY-WILLIAMS. Two Prominent Young People Married in East Macon Last Night. At the home of the bride’s parents, Mrs. Henry Jones, in East Macon, last night, Mr. DeWitt McCrary and Mrs. Mattie E. Williams were united in marriage. Mr. McCrary for a long time served on the aldermanic board and is one of the most prominent citizens in the city. He is engaged in the drug business in East Macon. The bride is a sister to Mr. Ben L. Jones, and has many accomplishments that go to make her a model wife. SMALL AUDIENCE Saw Rosabel Morrison in Carmen at the Academy Last Night. Manager Abram’s error in bringing Miss Morrison to 'Macon in Carmen was evident last night when the curtain rang up on an exceedingly small audience, which is ac counted for by the fact that Carmen is an unpopular play and that it was played a short time ago here by Miss Blair. The company last night evidently felt the damper of the small attendance, as most of them went through the perform ance with apparent indifference. The presentation as seen last night can not be compared with that of Miss Blair several weeks ago. ANOTHER MAN’S WIFE. Attracted the Doctor and He Skipped Out With Her. Stateboro, Ga., January 12. —The upper part of this county, in the Laston neigh borhood, furnishes a good-sized sensation this week. Everett Hendrix is a well-to do young farmer, and has, or did have, a fine locking young wife, whose name is Ida. In the same neighborhood there has re sided a bachelor physician of the name of Thomas J. Hendley, who was as a good doctor, and besides he has ac cumulated a. fortune of several thousand dollars. Now this doctor and the wife of Hendrix created a sensation in that good neighbor hood by their recent conduct. It appears that some time in December Mrs. Hen drix went on a visit to friends near Way cross, and was to have returned home the last of the month. About the time she left, it is said that the doctor also shook the dust of Bulloch off his feet, and the husband is satisfied that the couple have elope'd together, and he was in town yes terday to publish in the papers that he was no longer responsible for her con tracts. He says that he is fully satisfied that the}- are together somewhere, but he knows not where. The husband has been watching them for several months, and his wife has been receiving letters from the wily doctor, and that one day when his wife thought he was absent, when, in fact, he had crawled under the bouse, a neighboring woman, who, it is alleged, was the mail carrier between the illicit lovers, came to his wife and gave her a letter and then left. Then he slipped close to an open window and peeped in, and his wife was reading the letter and crying. She looked up and saw him and he asked her what she was crying about, and she replied that sometthing had got in her eye, but the husband saw the letter and tried to get ft, but she tore it to pieces. They have no children and the husband is left alone and the doctor and Ida have not been heard from. Telephone. No. 343, The Bradstreet Compan . Na. 47. S. T.. carpenter. ANDREE’S BALOON Seen in British Columbia in August Last. Stockholm. Jan. 13 —Professor Nordensk jold, arctic explorer, informed the Swed ish Academy of Science that foreign office had received intelligence that several per sons worthy of credence had seen Profes sor Andree’s balloon in British Columbia, seven miles north of Quesenelle Lake in the district of Cariboa. The professor re gards the news as being of Sufficient im portance to call for closer investigation. The half a cent" a word column of The News is the cheapest advertising medium in Georgia. ROBBED. Willi-: Leroy Jones Knocked Down and a j Dollar Stolen from Him. Willie Lee Roy Jones, a clerk at the • i postoffice was knoek.'d down and robbed last night .as he was going to his home on Boundary street. Jones was so badly injured that he was not able 4o come io work this morning. He was hit on the head, he says, from be hind, and dots not remember anything af ter until several hours later, when he was found by some passers by. At r?ie time he was assaulted Jones had only ?1 in his pocket, but his assailant took" this. The relatives of the young man did not l:now what io make of his long delay in getting home from work, and had started to form a searching pat ty when some one told them that he had been assaulted. He was carried to his home and a physician ■summoned. BUSINESS MEETING. Os the Firs! Methodist Epworth League Will Be Held Tonight. A business meeting of the First Street Methodist church will be held at -the church tonight, and business of general imj•'irlatteo will bo tran acted. A large at nd.mce is expected. During the discussion of general busi ness mt ilcrs pertaining to the government of ‘hi league, the league will make some arrangements for its part in the onter tainmert of the state conference which meets here in May. HON. N. E. HARRIS. Will Lecture at the Y. M. C. A. Next Sun dap Afternoon at 3 Oclock. Next Sum’ iy afternoon at 3 o’clock at tlie mce tiny of the Young Men’s Christian As.-oeiatii a, Don. N. E. Harris will make an address. He has not yet announced his subject. Colonel Hart is is too well known to the young men of Macon to need its being said that the address will be one of the most interesting that they have ever lis tened to. lOTWIED. \ Brewer and Hanleiter Ask the Commission for Reduced Freight Rates. lege over charges • On the Part of the Road Above the Rate Set by the Commission Signed by 18 People. Mr. W. 11. Brewer, of the firm of Brewer & Hanleiter, which has frequently figured in complaints before the railroad commis sion, called at. the capitol this morning and filed with Secretary Massey a petition asking foe a reduction of 4 cents per 100 pounds 011 classes B, C, D, F and all other classes on which the rates for less than car lots have been advanced. The petition has eighteen signatures of retail rums at Griffin, is addressed to the railroad commission and is as follows: “The undersigned retail merchants of Griffin petition your honorable body for a reduction of 4 cents per hundred pounds on the following classes of freight, towit: B, C, D, F and all other classes that have advanced on less than car lots from points outside of this state, on the following grounds: “First. The advance of 4 cents per hun dred pounds in less than car lots was made for the- purpose of further oppressing and discriminating against the retail mer chants. “Second. This advance falls most heav ily on t’nc farmers of Georgia through supplies bought from the retail merchants at small tov,ns than any other class. “Third. In some instances this advance is made from one point in the state to another j oint in the state. “Fourth. The railroads in Georgia are parties to this agreement for an advance in rates from points outside to points in the state, accomplishing indirectly what they cannot do lawfully. Your petitioners are prepared to show that the railroads have virtually advanced the rates as much above the commission rates as the reduc tion asked for. Wherefore your petitioners pray that the railroads of the state be re puired to .-how ea’i:;> at an early date why the proposed reduction should not be made.” ROASTED. Horrible Cannibal'-m Reported From the Congo. Paris, Jan. 13. —The government has re ceived information that the Bondjos have attacked the French Congo post at Yakole and massacred the garrison, together with fifteen natives and four women. The Bond jos then roasted their bodies and ate them. The Bondjos secured a large quantity of booty, including 30,000 cartridges. The French Congo authorities are unable to punish the Bondjos. SUPT. ABBOTT Is in Atlanta Investigating the School System, Superintendent D. Q. Abbott, of the public schools, is in Atlanta, where he went to confer with State School Commis sioner Glenn relative to takingfi the school census. «. Superintendent Abbott is arranging the details for the taking of the school census of Bibb county. There will be an enu merator for each ward of the city and each district of the county. These enumer ators will be paid S 2 per day. Superintendent Abbott is confident that the school population of Bibb county will reach 15,000, which will make Bibb’s part of the appropriation from the state ?40,Q00, where it is now only $32,000, the school population being figured at 12.400. The county appropriated $50,000 for the public school fund, and the appropriation from the state makes the amount about $90,000. The increase in the school population of Bibb county has increased so rapidly that it is almost an absolute necessity now that new buildings be erecled and more room made for the accommodation of the child ren. Today Superintendent Abbott, in com pany with other superintendents from dif ferent parts of the state, are going through the schools in Atlanta to catch all new ideas that they can. Bibb boasts of her j splendid school system, and it is now be- 1 coming such a large one that more money 1 is needed to operate ... A VALUABLE REMEDY. It gives me pleasure to recommend to j the public such a valuable remedy as Cheney’s Expectorant. I have used it in my family for Coughs. Croup and CoKis, and would not be without it. Atlanta, Ga. John A. Barry. WHO SENT BACK THISJVIONEY? The Southern Express Com pany Receives $3,700.00 From Unknown Source. i MACON'S POSTMASTER, Was Made the Middle-man Through Whom the Mysterious Pack age Was Transferred. The Southern Express Company is richer by $3,700 titan it had any reason to ex pect to be, and the way it name about is this: One day last week Postmaster Hertz, of the Macon postoftiee, received a somewnat bulky package through the mails addressed to the postmaster at Macon. He broke the string, and on taking oil the outside discovered, to his surprise, an other pa -kage enclosed and addressed to ; the it,:....,,., r.xpress Company in Atlanta, Ga. Postmaster Hertz is a careful man, and while at times he receives letters and. packages with enclosures to be forwarded, this particular package aroused his sus picions. He had thrown the outside cover on the floor, but he gathered it up again and looked for some indication as to the place from which it iiad come, but there | was nothing there to satisfy this very nat- , ural curiosity. He preserved the cover, | however, and forwarded the package to At lanta without opening it, of course. By re turn maii he received the information from Atlanta that the package contained $3,700 in bills. There was no letter of explanation ac companying the money, and now the ex press company is wondering where it came from. The supposition is that the money had been taken from the express company by some one aml g course as there are steal ings every nos. and then in the offices of the express company, it is somewhat diffi cult to understand what particular con science has been smitten with remorse and seeks now to make restitution. The case has been placed in the hands of the company’s detectives, who are at work on it, but so far as is known to the public, nothing has been discovered. In fact, the general public knows noth ing in the world about it. The express company’s people here are officially ignor ant and no one else cares to talk because it is the express company’s business. Possibly something may be found out, but it is more than likely that the package and where it came from will remain a deep and dark mystery. That it was conscience money there can be little doubt, but what conscience is the question in which the express company is interested. They would at least like to know who the conscience stricken individ ual is. NEARLY CREMATED. A Negro Woman and Child Came Very Near Being Burned to Death. A negro woman named Susan Solomon came very near being cremated .at her home on Ocmulgee street yesterday after noon, and but for the timely arrival of (Detective J. W. Ford, she and tier three weeks old child would have been burned like rate in a hole. The woman lives in the Jeff Long house on Ocmulgee street. Detective Ford was across the street when he saw smoke iq suink from the house. He ran across the street and into the house. In one of the rooms he found the bed clothing on fire. The room was filled with smoke, but he soon found that there, were two people in there, the negro woman and her child. He hastil extinguished the burning clothes, but not until the woman was so ibadly burned that she will probably die. Neighbors said that the woman is sub ject to fits, and it is supposed that she had one whil§ sitting before the fire, and the bed clothing which was wrapped around her caught. When Detective Ford got to her she had lost all consciousness. A physician was summoned and the in juries weTe attended to. She is unable to be moved and there is little hope of her recovery. ARRESTED. Charley Loud is Charged With Embezzlement and Swindling. “Colonel” C. D. Loud, of Savannah, is very well known in Macon. He has visited the city several times, and Charley Loud has a goodly number of acquaintances with the sporting element of the city, if indeed such an element exists now. He was arrested in Savannah the day before yesterday amd escaped under the protecting wing of the statute of limita tion. The charge upon which Loud -was ar rested was brought by Charles F. Cather ine, a clerk for Charles F. Graham, pro prietor of the Pulaski House. He charged that Loud had given drafts of $176 for board at the hotel, and that the transaction was fraudulent because Loud knew that he had no funds in the hands of those upon whom he had drawn. Loud returned to Savannah last Saturday for the first time since leaving in 1895. He was seen by Mr. Graham and gave another draft, rep resenting that he was the immigration agent of the Georgia and Alabama railroad. This draft was made to cover the amount of the old ones than had that had never been honored. The recorder held that the fact of the original drafts having been given more than two years left Loud free to go his way, and he was accordingly dis missed. He did not get out of the court room, however, before he was arrested on an other warrant. This was worse than the one upon which he had just been dis missed. In it Loud was charged with hav ing embezzled $2,000. The warrant was sworn out by L. Kayton as agent for the Brooklyn firm of Einstein & Sons. It seems that Loud was intrusted with the sale of lands. The w-arrant alleges that the mosey was collected but appropriated by Loud. Col. Loud is well known in Georgia. In 1895 he killed a saloon keeper named Fitz patrick at Thunderbolt, near Savannah. There were some sensational features con nected with the killing and trial and con siderable attention was attracted. Loud was acquitted of the alleged murder. He has spent a good deal of his time in the West since. Piles, Piles, rues i Dr. Williams’ Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding, and Itching Piles when all other Ointments have failed. 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