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ESTABLISHED 1884.
15,11 TROOPS
GOARD DMA,
It is Evident that Fear o' Fur
ther Trouble Has Not
* Subsided
LARGE BRIBES OFFERED
Insurgent Leaders to Surrender
Cause Spanish Captain to
be Shot.
Havana, via Key West, Jan. 20.--Since
Saturday th<- rioter* have been quiet with
eh. exception of a dynamite bomb exploded
In ibe Plaza de Colon, which did no harm.
Rumors that the volunteers would revolt,
swiiht the government have had no foun
dation. Nevertheless, on Saturday and
Sunday several gendarmes arrived here
from Mantanaz province and outlying por
tions of Havana province. With additional
rclnforcein. nta about 15,000 men are now
located within the city limits ami in the
outskirts. <’. rtaln politicians nave indus
triously circulated rumors that the volun
teer* would join the rioters and have still
further increased the popular passion by
saying the government intended to disarm
them. It was also asserted that the vol
unteers would not have a ballot, because
In the pay of the government, which Is not
a fact, as only buglars, mobilized gue.r
rilae, and a few others are paid. The rest
are merchants and clerks, serving without
government pay. Those responsible for
circulating these rumors are interested, it
Is asserted, in the palace circles, in breed
il g truble bc'ween the government and
the volunteers, so as to have t.he latter -dis
fl -mod and be assured of 6,000 men less
against the insurgents. Now that the dls
t'lrlwini'es have quited down, the greater
part of the troops have return'd to their
r ■s|M'ctive stations. Among the govern
ment supporters the riots are explained as
Hporvtnneous and wholly without previous
nrrangenn nts. They are ascribed to the
violent attacks ujum not -only the army of
ficers, but also upon prominent loyal ftp.in
iarda, like the Marquis of Pinar del Rio,
and Madam Eva Cam I, me well known
newspaper woman. The rioters, on t'he
other band, blame the authorities for tol
erating newspaper attacks prohibited t»y
Ji.w, Though without social standing, the
rioters Insist upon patriotism.
Upon the body of Captain Rincon, of
-this province, was found a letter signed by
Puga, military commander at Rincon, of
fering to the Insurgent leader 'Hernandez
$2,000 ami a free pasage to the United
States if lie would surrender with fifty
•armed followers. Another answering t.he
above was found addressed to him saying
if he continued bis atempts to corrupt the
insurgents he would be courtmartialed and
shot if captured. As Puga could not in
duce Hernandez to surender, he began ne
gotiating with the leader Juan Delgada,
through the latter’s father. Hernandez
having learned this, captured and shot
•Captain Puga without allowing hint to
communicate with Delgada. When this
was known the Spanish force left Rincon
ami recovered the body with the letters on
it. The govcrnmeuit also sent $20,000 t'o
the military commander at San Juan de
Ln* Veras, to procure the surrender of
Jfltader Ixtreno Ce]>ero and his nephew.
The cabinet will issue a manifesto ex
plaining t'he salient points of the scheme
of autonomy and its advantages over in
dependence, together with an appeal to
the Insurgents to surrender.
CURRENCY QUESTION
Committee Declines Positively to Hear from
the Silver Side.
Washington. Jan. 20.—The currency
hearing IxMore the House committee on
banking and currency was continued to
day. ex-Secretary Fairchild being hoard
•through the morning with the understand
ing that Secretary Cage would resume at
2 o'clock.
The inquiries of Mr. Fairchild were
along the line developing the degree of
success with which the monetary commis
sion bill could be put into practical oper
ation. Considerable feeling was aroused
by the determination of the committee on
a party vote not to hoar President Warner
of the Bimetallic Union, and -Chairman
Town, of the silver Republican national
committee unless these gentlemen pre
pared a bill and assumed the responsibil
ity for it.
Mr. Cox. senior member of the minority,
said the action is equivalent to declining
to hear the silver representatives under
any circumstances as they do not wish to
appear as advocates of a currency or
banking bill but to resist such a measure
on the gold lint's. Mr. Cox takes the view
that is as importatn to the present oppo
sition to the pending measures as to hear
points in their favor. He expresses con
fidence that the majority on the commit
tee will reconsider its action and grant a
hearing to Messrs. Warner and Town
without conditions.
STITCH IN TIME
Saves Nine and the Board of
Health Has Taken a
Wise Step.
The Board of Health has decided to take
the stitch in time that saves nine.
\t the last meeting of the city council
the board petitioned for the erection of a
disinfecting house, to which may be added
a pest house for the purpose of seques
trating any infectious cases that may sud
denly come up.
of course there is no immediate
necessity for such a step, the board has
deemed it wise to prepare for any emer
gency that may arise in the future.
The principal object of the petition is
to secure a place where bedding and cloth
ing can be properly disinfected without
the actual destruction of the property,
which has been necessary in the past.
The matter was referred to the finance
committee of council but there is no rea
son to suppose that it will not be granted.
blackWdying,
Traveling Salesman for Beck
& Gregg Kills Himself
in Atlanta,
New York. Jan. 20.—A. Blackney. of
Covington. Ga., traveling salesman for
Beck & Gregg, hardware merchants of At
lanta, Ga. and Savannah, shot himself in
the left breast in West street hotel today.
He is in a dying condition. He left a note
saying he was about to end his Ute be
cause ©f unrequited love.
ON DIFFERENTIALS.
Convention This Morning Seems to Have
Reached a Deadlock.
Chicago, Jan. 20. —The opening session
of the interstate bituminous coal operators
and miners’ conference today was of but a
few moments duration. No report being
received from the scale committee, and
that body having asked for more time, a
recess was taken.
The discussion of the state differentials
Waxed very warm in the committee meet
ings last night, the Ohio and Pennslyva
nia operators conferred, but, it is said,
only got further into the mire.
Pennsylvania is said to have presented
an ultimatum in the form of a demand
that no differentials be allowed to longer
exist between the two states. Tnis pro
position was at first bitterly opposed by
the Ohioans, but after a long wrangle they
are said to have expressed a willingness
to compromise on a basis of a four cent
differential, in the place of the nine cent
existing difference. But even this is said
to be unsatisfactory to H. L. Chapman, of
Ohio. In fact it is stated that the former
candidate for governor became so pro
nounced in his disapproval of a compro
mise, that it was agreed to practically ig
nore him in Teaching a settlement.
Reports reached the convention today
that 300 miners employed in the Acme
mine at Streamer, 111., has gone out on the
strength of the rumor that a scale to be
adopted would reduce their arte four cents
per ton. Officials of the state mine work
ers wired them that there was no truth
in the statements regarding the reduction
and advising their eturn to work.
You can talk to 10,000 every day through
the columns of The News.
HISSADMISSION.
M. C. Hoge, on His Way
Home to Meet His
Wife
FELL UNDER A TRAIN
And His Body Was Ground to Pieces
and Distributed Along the
Track,
Port Scott, Kan., Jan. 20—A horrible
fate intercepted M. C. Hoge, of Nevado,
Mo., on his journey home to meet his wife,
with whom he was about to become re
conciled. He fell under a Memphis freight
train at Fulton and his under clothes and
portions of his body were found at Liberal,
Mo., three miles distant. He was muti
lated beyond description, but was identi
fied by an affectionate letter from his wife
pleading with him to stop dissipation and
return to her, under promise that she
would dismiss the pending divorce suit.
He left home almost a week ago and would
have joined her today. As much of the
body as could be gathered In a blanket
was sent to his wife at Nevada.
QUIClTsuiciDE.
After Insuring is Not Advisa
ble But it is Permissable.
Macon life Insurance agents are discuss
ing with great interest the decision in the
United States supreme court of Justice
Harlan handed down a day or so ago in
the case of A. Howard Riter, executor of
William M. Runk, vs. the Mutual Life In
surance Company of New York, involving
the question of whether the heirs of a
man who commits suicide when in sound
mind can recover an insurance policy.
The court held ‘that they could not. It
ap'xtrtxl from the facts stated -that Mr.
Runk, a resident of ‘Philadelphia, commit
ted suicide within less than a year after
increasing his insurance to the extent of
$200.P00. making an aggregate insurance
of $500,000 upon his life. Os the $200,000
the New York company carried $75,000,
which it refused to pay on the ground that
Runk was sane when he took his life.
It was shown in the trial court that he
hod written a letter the day before his
death stating that it was his purpose to
put an end to his life so that his life in
surance money could be collected for the
payment of bls debts.
In deciding the case Justice Harlan said
that when an insurance company entered
Into a contract to insure a man’s life
nither party to the contract could be sup
posed to have suicide in contemplation
and It was not intended in entering into
such a contract that the life of the person
insured should be at the option of one of
the parties.
In fixing the premium the company
would naturally take into consideration
the circumstances bearing upon the dura
tion of life and no company would under
take to insure against suicide.
If any should make such an attempt It
would, he said, be against public policy
and would not be allowed. Concluding,
he said explicitly that no insured person
cammßtting suicide and found to be of
sound mind could recover upon his policy.
The Macon agents say that after two
years a man can take his own life and his
heirs may recover from the company in
which he is insured. Most policies pro
vide for such contingencies by stating that
the policy Is payable two years after issu
ance upon the death of the holder from
any cause.
NEWIDEAL
Combination to Defeat Bryan
In 1900 Said to Have
Been Formed.
Washington. Jan. 20—There are rumors
that Richard Croker. ex-Secretary Whit-,
ney. ex-Senator Brice and others are pre
paring to form a combination that will
prevent the nomination of William J.
Bryan as the Democratic candidate for
prisidnet in 1900
Tne few gold Democrats who are in this
scheme are keeping very quiet, and it is
next to an impossibility to induce them
»«» express an opinton this tar in advance.
Ail the ardent advocates of free coinage
of silver in the Democratic party insist
that practically the same states controlled
the Chicago convention in
tasters of situation two years her, co.
It is generally epneedeq here that Mr.
Bryan. in his Jackson Day speech, deliv
ered at Chicago last Saturday night, had
many of the New York Democratic lead
ers in his wind when he alluded to those
who have “swaggered back into the
Democratic party and who insist on re
modeling it.
The best time to advertise is ali the
time.
THE MACON NEWS.
DENOUNCED
MJIANNAISM
Clark, of Missouri, Hits
Straight from the Shoul
der at Administration,
FEEBLE, CRINGING, COWARDLY,
Is What He Says of the Foreign
Policy of the Administration —
Outlines Cuba’s Woes,
Washington, Jan. 20 —3efore the Cuban
debate was resumed in the House today
Lacy, Republican, of lowa, chairman of
the committee on public lands, called up
a bill to extend the public land laws of
the United States and to grant the right
of way under certain restrictions to any
railroad organized under the laws of any
state in the union.
He explained that the right of way
grant was 100 feet on each side of the
road but that all mineral deposits were
specifically reserved.
Without completing the consideration
of the bill it went over and the House
went into committee of whole and resum
ed che consideration of the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill.
Clak, Democrat, of Missouri, opened the
debate with one of his characteristic
breezy speeches.
He said in part: “If Spain does not
bring the war to a speedy conclusion the
United States ought to expel her from the
Western hemisphere.”
“There can be no doubt,” he said, "as
to what has been our traditional foreign
policy, but what our foreign policy is un
der the McKinley administration, like the
peace of God passeth all understanding.
"In those days of McHannaism our for
eign policy is so feeble, so cringing, so
cowardly that even old and decrepid
Spain insults our flag, maltreats or citi
zens and searches our ships with perfect
impunity, and President McKinley, in
stead of sending men of war -to protect
our honor, assert our supremacy and
■teach insolent and impotent ’Dons’ a les
son they would never forget, passes the
hat around and invites the American peo
ple to contribute alms for the starving
and dying Cubans.
“It is high time that we serve plain
and emphatic notice on -all kings, em
perors and potentates that the navies of
the trans-Atlantic powers shall not be
used as collection bureaus for questionable
debts as was done a year or two ago at
Corinto and as was done a month or so
ago at' Hayti.
“Cuban case is this: For three years
the insurgents have fought with a courage
and suffered with a fortitude that chal
lenges’ the admiration of the world—save
and except the McKinley administration.
“Three or four hundred thousand peo
ple, some papers say 600,000, have died,
men, women and children, as much mar
tyrs in the cause of liberty as was War
ren or nay other hero who died that we
might be free —and yet the McKinley ad
ministration lifts not its finger to stay
the slaughter and can think of nothing
more effective for their relief than to
pose as a big beggarman.
“My Republican friends, I invite you
to lay aside the weight that is holding
you down to assert your rights come on the
side of eternal justice and human liberty,
thereby demonstrating you are worthy of
■the high vocation wherein you are called.
We Democrats and Populists stand here
ready to remove from America her great
reproach on this side will contribute one
hundred and fifty-two votes if only twen
ty-seven Republicans will break the yoke,
defy their taskmasters and join in this
noble work before the sun sets this day,
we will send the glad tidings ringing
round the world that ‘Cuba is free. Free
thank God, but the act of an American
congress.”
SILVERMEN
In the Senate Voted Solidly Together To
day.
Washington. Jan. 20 —Senator Vest mov
ed to take up the Teller silver resolution
in the senate and Senator Lodge moved
an executive session.
The latter motion was voted down by 27
to 39. The silver men voted solidly and
were aided by several western ‘Republicans
and Quay, of Pennsylvania, who also voted
no. No Democrats voted in .the affirma
tive. The Teller resolution was then
taken up by a vote of 41 to 27.
ON TRIAL FOR ASSAULT.
Will Lancaster Given a Preliminary Hearing
Today.
Will Lancaster, the young white m'an
charged with attempt to commit an as
sault upon the person of Tommie Greer, a
young white girl seven years of age, was
arraigned before Justice Dorsett at Judge
Thomas' court this afternoon at 2 o’clock.
A Targe number of witnesses were pres
ent when the case was called. Mr. Walter
Grace appeared for the defendant, and Mr.
Branch for the prosecution.
The accusations against Lancaster are
that he atempted to commit an assault on
the person of Tommie Greer. Mrs. Lan
caster, young Lancaster’s mother, lives
near the Macon Knitting Mills in the low
er floor of a two-story house. Mrs. Greer
occupies -the uper story. They are both
widows and are employed at the Bibb
sault was attempted, they had gone to work
about 6 o’clock in the morning.
On the morning upon which it is claim
ed by the little girl’s mother that the as
sault was atempted. they had gone to work
as usual and left the little girl to dress
and go to school. Lancaster was down
stairs and called the little girl down, tell
ing her he had something to tell her. She
went, and from her story it seems that
Lancaster closed the door and thum-bolted
it and assaulted her. When Mrs. Greer
came home the child told her what had
happened and a warrant was immediately
sworn out for Lancaster. Last Sunday he
came in and gave himielt up to the 'au
thorities. It is probable that the defense
will plead an alibi.
MACON CIRCUIT
Will Not Be Called in the Supreme Court
Until N*\t Monday Week.
-a
Mr, Washington Dessau received a tele
phone message from Clerk Harrison, of
the supreme court this morning stating
that the Macon circuit would not be called
until next Monday week. It was thought
by the Macon attorneys that this circuit
would be reached sometime this week.
There are many Important cases to be
heard from the Macon circuit.
Telephone.
No. 843, The Bradstreet Compas .
N», 47, MP’x, 8. T., carpenter.
MACON NEWS THURSDAY JANUARY 20 1898.
MRS. REID'S CASE
HAS GONE OVER.
Probable That a Verdiet of
Acquittal Will Be
Asked,
WILL NOT NOL PROS.
Says the Solicitor General, but He
Has No Better Case Than That
Against Dennington.
The criminal docket has been completed
in the superior court and after the verdict
in the Menza Davis case was brought in
this morning, court adjourned until next
Monday when the civil docket will be
taken up.
This means that the case against Mrs.
Charles Reid, who is under indictment for
complicity in ‘the murder of Halstead will
not be heard at this term.
In fact it is very doubtful if it will be
heard at all.
Solicitor General Hodges .was seen this
morning by a News reporter and in reply
to an inquiry as to the status of the case
he said that it would not come up at this
term.
"The case will not be nol -pressed, how
ever,” he said, “and consequently must
come to -a trial.”
It is probable ‘too that the case will be
pushed forward to trial by the attorneys
for Mrs. Reid, who expect a verdict of ac
quittal as in the case of -Dennington.
Tn fact it would seem that it is gener
ally considered that it would be a waste
of time to bring the case to trial with all
the evidence to be repeated and the prob
able course that the ease will take will
be that a verdict will be -asked for after
the case has been called and that it will
be so ordered by the court.
NO PARDON
Will Be Applied for by Charley Reid, So He
Says.
When seen by .a News reporter several
days ago, Charley Reid said that he would
not apply for a pardon. He said that he
believed that if he conducted himself in
the camp where he was now located as
he should, that he would be released as
soon .as the law would allow.
Reid will be taken from the jail tomor
row -and be carried back to the Durham
coal mines near Chattanooga, Tenn. He
says that he has enjoyed being In Macon,
and seeing the familiar faces of his
friends.
CRAZED BY NOVELS.
Samuel Henderson’s Supposed Victim Was a
Child of 5.
Philadelphia’. Jan. 20. —The body of Per
cy Lockyar, 5 years of age, who is believ
ed to have been murdered on Friday night
by Samuel -Hende.rsion, aged 15, was yes
terday found at the bottom of a creek.
There seems to be little doubt in the
minds of the police that young Henderson
is guilty of the crime. He is now locked
up in a cell. The body of the child, when
found, was weighted by heavy stones. Tlis
skull was crushed in and there is a knife
thrust just above the heart, and similar
wounds on his breast, side and forehead.
From what the police hve been able to
learn, the crime seems to have been one
of the most horrible character. And if all
the details are true, It stamps young Hen
derson as a degenerateof the worst type.
The police believe it was a planned mur
der. in which the guilty one also proposed
ending the life of another small boy. Hen
derson, it is claimed, has been reading
trashy novels of the wild western type, and
has hown a desire to emulate the “hero”
of these -tales.
Advertise in The News and reach the
people.
roland’Teed
And Miss Isadore Rush at the
Academy of Music
Tomorrow.
Roland Reed and his beautiful leading
lady, Miss Isadore Rush, will visit Macon
tomorrow for the first time since the hear
ing of their suit against the Southern rail
way in which the actor and his company
secured a verdict of $6,000 agamst the
road.
The incidents of that hearing are still
very fresh in the public minds. Mr. Reed
created much amusement by his attitude
of the stand and his baiting of Colonel
Henderson, the gruff old Tennessee coun
tryman, who represents the Southern as
its leading counsel, was as rich as a play.
Mr. Reed’s answers to Colonel Hender
son’s questions were bright, quick and
snappy, so snappy indeed that the gallant
mountaineeer lost his head and said many
things during the course of the trial which
had been better left unsaid. At least he
succeeded in losing the sympathy of the
publie if he had any to start with, and it
is thought that he successfully doubled
the damages awarded to Reed and his
company.
The dramatic climax of the trial was the
close shave the colonel had of a clash with
Dr. Willis Westmoreland out of which he
managed to escape by laying the b’ame
on the newspapers and “by placing a con
struction on what he bad actually said in
open court, which smoothed over the offen
siveness of the attack upon Dr. Westmore
land.
The gallant colonel was called to
count by the pepperry doctor and there
would have been a hot time in Atlanta
that night had it net been for Colonel
Henderson’s explanation.
It is a pity that Colonel Henderson will -
not be in Macon tomorrow.
Probably Judge Speer will attend the :
night perfomance and certainly the law
yers and the audience that heard Mr. Reed .
in the court room will be there.
Mr. Reed established himse’it As a strong I
favorite in Macon hd was here dur
ing the cupimer, and Miss Rush, by her
ohqrmiug manner and her pleasant ad-_ :
dress host of friends.
They will be very welcome here tomor
row,
At the benefit matinee in the afternoon
Mr. Reed will play, "The Wrong Mr.
Wright,” one of the very best things ’
known to the stage. He will, of course, j
command the best matinee of the season.
At night Mr. Recti plays "A Man of I
Ideas,” his new production and one in
whtch he is said to have found the char- j
actor of his life.
The best time to advertise is ali the
time.
THE WAITING ROOM
For Ladies in the Superior Court Room is
Completed.
Mr. Stuart C. Davis, clerk of the county
commissioners, points with pride to the
ladies’ waiting room in the county court
house, which has just been completed, and
reflects credit upon the commissioners.
The room is comfortably furnished and
carpeted and is entirely cut off from the
passage way where the witnesses have in
the past been obliged to wait.
LOOKING OUT FOR SCALPERS.
Railroads are Trying to Keep Them From
Working Off Old Stock.
The railroads are keeping a strict vigi
lance on all tickets that pass through their
hands, especially the through tickets from
the North. The scalpers, who see noth
ing but defeat in their business, are now
trying to work off all their old stock. Sev
eral of the roads have already detected
several tickets through from ■Chicago to
Soutern points.
One was detected on the Southern Rail
way a few days ago. It was a ticket that
had been sold to the World’s Fair, and
read to Jacksonville, .Fla., via the Georgia
Southern and Florida. The date and limit
had been plugged and changed 'to suit the
date for which the ticket was wanted. The
purchaser boarded the Southern railway
train at Atlanta instead of the ‘Central to
come to Macon, and upon careful exami
nation bhe counterfeit was discovered. The
purchaser had taken the address of the
broker from whom he had purchased it in
Chicago, and he will be reported.
AUOiWM
For the Use of the Convention
of the Epworth League
Will Be Discussed
IT 1 MIEIHG TONIGHT,
Jf
And a Committee Will Be Appointed
—Both the Baptist and Meth
odist Churches Will Unite.
The movement to secure an auditorium
for the use of conventions in Macon is
about to take deffinite shape.
It Is not probable, however, that any
thing like a permanent structure will be
secured.
But the local members of the Epworth
League are faced with the proposition that
they have a big convention here in April
that they have no place in which they
<‘Kn properly accommodate that conven
tion.
T’he >sta-te convention of the Epworth
League will meet in Macon on April 7th,
Bth and 9th. The railroads have just grant
ed a one cent fare for the round trip and
this very low rate will bring more dele
gates to the convention than was at first
anticipated.
It is c-onservatively estimated tha-t fully
800 delegates will attend the convention,
.and these with the people gathered for the
purpose of watching the proceedings, will
make a very large audience—very much
larger than any place in Macon, except
the Academy of Music will accommodate
comfortably.
The proposition now is to erect a tem
porary structure on the vacant lot at the
corner of First and Poplar streets. In
this movement both the -Methodist and
Baptist churches have, it is understood,
combined, and it is more than probable
that the building wil be erected.
It is absolutely necessary to have some
such structure, and as the movement look
ing to a permanent auditorium is still in
the -air and -the time for the holding of the
Epworth League convention is at hand,
some thing must be d-. ae at once.
The local -executive committee of the
Epworth League will hold a business meet
ing at ‘the office of Messrs. Dasli. r, Park
& G:Td-i'i!.-- this afternoon at 3 o’clock to
discu s further plans for the organisation
of the work for the e-ntertainmf nf the
state ■conference of the league whirl' meets
here in April.
At this meeting the subject of a build
ing -in which to hold the sessions of the
convention will be discused. The propo
sition to build an .auditorium on th<> cor
ner cf First and Poplar streets, seems to
meet with general approval, and this mat
ter wii be> discussed, and it is probable
that a committee will be appointed to look
into the matter.
CASE SETTLED, 1
And the Plaintiff Took Eighty
Seven Dollars Instead of
SIO,OOO.
The case of John M. Harrell, of East
man, against the Southern Railway, was
settled in the United States court.
The suit was for SIO,OOO, but was set
tled for $8,750.
Harrell sued on a xnin-t of injuries re
ceived by him whik he was on the train
at Cochran.
The cars jolted together heavily and he
was thrown across a car seat seriously .in
juring himself, he claimed, and sustaining
damages that called for a verdict of $lO,-
000.
The case has been pending in the United
States cqui't for some time, and was to
have been heard today, but the counsel
tor the plaintiff agreed to the offer of the
road’s attorneys, Messrs. Delaney & Bish
op, who gave the complainant $8,750 and
paid the costs amounting to about $1,250.
The total amount of the cost to the road
being about SIOO,
FOND OF SKULLS,
And Wore a Linen Duster During Winter
Time.
La Porte, Ind., Jan. 20 —James M. Pat
terson, a farmer who lived north of here
near Three Oaks, and whose death occur
red a few days ago, was undoubtedly one
of the most eccentric human beings who
ever lived.
He l&tl & will deeding all hta property
to his sister. His wife died many years
ago, leaving a daughter. The girl refused
to live with her father on account of his
eccentric nature and for this reopen he
disinherited her. He was a strict vegeta
rian. In winter he would appear on the
streets attired in. a linen duster, carrying
a faded green umbrella. In the summer
, he would wear a big overcoat and fur cap
and a quilt wraper around his head, still
carrying tae same green umbrella, which
was his companion, rain or shine.
The old man lived for many years in a
small cottage in the woods. His abode' was
a storehouse of animal and human skulls,
and filth beyond description. The first
thing to greet the visitor upon entering
his home, was a row of grinning skulls.
His powers of memory were extraordi
nary. He could recite the entire book of
St. John without committing an error.
« DAVIS
WAS ACOUITTED,
The Jury Brought in a Ver
dict of Not Guilty Early
This Morning,
SHOT W KiLLED HARRELL
Was Fired From Behind, and There
Was Nothing to Show 1 hat
Davis Fired the Shot.
The jury in the case of Menzy Davis,
charged with the murder of J. Frank Har
rell, brought in a verdict of not guilty
this morning, and Davis was turned loose.
The verdict had been anticipated by
those who had watched the case closely.
None of the evidence went to show that
Davis fired the shot that killed Harrell.
The evidence produced was purely cir
cumstantial, but while there is good rea
son to b- Ti.vc that Davis was somewhere
in the vicinity and that he may have fired
some of the shots, it was dem'onstiated
very clearly that Harrell’s death was
caused by a bullet that entered his back.
If Davis fired it was evident that he
shot at H.irell while the later was stand
ing in the doorway. The evidence showed
that after being fired upon at the front
end of the house, and by some person
standing in front of him, Harrell ran and
other shots were fired at him from the
back of the house. One of these shots en
tered his back and killed him, but there
was no evidence to show Davis’ connection
with the later shots.
The defense was conducted by Messrs.
S. A. Reid and E. P. Johnson, and the
prosecution by Solicitor General Hodges
and Mr. W. 'P. 'Bracken.
DARING SCHEME.
Sought Signatures of Klondike Authorities,
But Was Exposed.
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 20—For several days
last week the department of the interior
entertained a stranger calling himself
“Alexander MacDonald,” and claiming to
be <an ex-member of the staff of the United
States Alaskan Boundary Survey. He was
after information, and he got a good deal
of It. But he was prevented from getting
what he wanted mostly—photographs of
the signatures of Gold Commisisoner Faw
cett and Police Inspector Constantine, of
Dawson City, together with genuine blank
certificates of Yukon location claims.
Surveyor General Deville suspected the
fellow was a fraud, and wired an inquiry
about him to the survey department at
Washington. A reply came stating that
MacDonald not only was not connected
with the United States survey, but had
been in Washington representing himself
to be a member of William Ogilvie’s staff.
MadDomald said that he had been sent
to Canada by a company, headed by the
governor of Virginia, who had bought
claims from a returned Klondike miner,
the certificates for which the company
feared were forged.
MacDonald escaped when he found he
was suspected.
DR. CHIVERS COMING.
He Willi Address the Baptist Young People’s
Union at the First Baptist-
Dr. E. JE Chivers, general secretary of
the Baptist Young People’s Union of
America, will reach Macon tonjglht and ad
dress the Young (People's Union at the
First Baptist church. The attendance upon
this lecture will, no doubt, be very large,
as Dr. Chivers is the most prominent char
acter in the Young ePople’s Union in the'
United States.
He is coming to Macon to stir up inter
est in the Union here. The union of all
the branches of the different churdhes of
the city was perfected some months ago.
GENERAL LEE.
Birthday of the Confederate
General Was Observed in
Macon Yesterday.
' Ninety years ago yesterday Gen. Robert
E. Lee was born. His birthday has been
made a holiday in the Southland, and in
nearly every town of any size exercises
commemorating the day are held. In Ma
con the day was observed most appropri
ately.
• The exercises at the Mulberry Street
Methodist church last night were most ap
propriate. The address was made by Hon.
Claude Estes. Colonel Estes returned from
Milledgeville yesterday afternoon, where
he had gons, to deliver an oration at simi
lar exercises. He was greeted with great
enthusiasm in Milledgeville, and the peo
ple in Milledgeville pronounced his ad
dress one of the most eloquent they had
ever heard.
The oration by Colonel (Estes at the an
nex of the Mulberry Street Methodist
church last night was a most excellent
one, though the threatening weather kept
many away who would otherwise have at
tended.
The Macon Volunteers -turned out yes
terday afternoon notwithstanding the rain
and fired three Volleys at the Confederate
monument.
INTERESTING LETTER.
From W. W.'.Brown to Cabaniss, Calloway
and Cabaniss.
NEW YORK LIFE INCURANCE CO.
John A. McCall, President.
Departments of Georgia, Florida and East
Tennessee.
TL H. Plant, Manager.
H. M. Willet, Cashier.
Macon, Ga., 13th January jggg
Messrs. Cabaniss, Callaway * Cabaniss,
.vgents '! raveders Insurance Company.
Macon, Ga.
Gentlemen;
I beg to acknowledge with great appre
ciating yo Ur prompt settlement in full of
_e large claim I had against your com
pany for the accident sustained Decem
ber, sth, 18M The promptness with which
you have paid my claim, and the courtesy
and kind consideration extended to me by
yourselves and other officers of your com
pany is gratifying in the extreme, and is
worthy of and can but inspire the generous
patronage on the part of the public. ’ I
certainly eommend it to all needing acci
dent Insurance (and who doesn’t?) as
prompt, liberal, reliable and responsible.
A person insured in your company is cer
tainly insured, which means everything.
Very Respectfully,
, , Wm. W. Brown.
Local agents, Cabaniss, Callaway & Cab
aniss, 461 Third street. ’Phone 260. Geo.
E. Hatcher, solicitor.
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The only exclusive optical store in the city.
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Special Attention to Repair Work.
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Has tended to lessen the volume of busi
ness at our store, but wo are doing some
business at the old stand yet. We have
a few pieces left of the DELFT and Im
perial Bonn China at your own price.
BEELAND, the Jeweler Triangular Block.
Buy of me and get what you pay for. Prices, $3.50
per ton and up.
Best Red Ash, Genuine Jelico,
Eureka, Nut and Egg Hard Coal.
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PHONE T 3. — —-x
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We have an experienced white gardener who understands
his business. Leave orders now.
STREYER SEED CO
466 Poplar Street.
« Little 80-Peep
Has Lost Her Sheep,
and so have many farmers who have been
gVuu fattening them for the market. We are
receiving every day the finest meats that
- 3 A ever trotted on a hoof, and we will cut
f • an< J P re P are them for your table in an ar-
yfe I tistic manner and sell them at lowest
market prices.
Georgia Packing Co.
The Great
COST SALE.
Spreading from stock to stock—each
day broadening and extending the influence of high
value linked to low price, and each day making new
friends and staunch patrons while strengthening our
hold upon old ones.
Best qualities only, and at prices that can’t
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