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CHEAR MONEY.
B’-i per cent, and 7 per cent, joney now
ready for loans on Macon residence and
business properly 8 per cent, money for
j farm loann Over $5,000,000 successfully
negotiated in G*v>rpia alone. Toxins made
can be paid off at any time. We are head- 1
quarters. O. A. Coleman, Gen. Man.,
356 Second street. Macon. Ga
ESTABLISHED 1884.
FOUNOHERNUDE
IN SNOW BANK,
The Suicidal Mania in Wash
ington Has Two Moro
Victims.
GATHER HANGEO HIMSELF
While Searchers Were Looking For
His Demented Daughter Who
Had Tried Suic'de.
Washington, Feb. 2.- The suicidal ma
nia which has caused a number of at
tempts as self-destruction In this city for
th*' pa-t several weeks, may result in the
lon of th< lives of Walter Taylor, clerk
in the treasury department, and his pret- |
ty twenty-year-old daughter. Lucy.
Miss Taylor has been in ill health for '
some time past, and last night her ill
ness assumed a suicidal form. She was
with difficulty pursuaikd to retire to her
room, and about 1 o’clock this morning
after a violent strngggle with her parents
v *lO tri'd :o hold her, she plung' d through
th'.- window of her home and fell into a
enow bank in ihe front yard. She then
ran, terribly cut and bruis •<!, through the
-Ttef s and after half an hour’s si arch
v. .i - found in a snow bank almost nude
by a policeman.
she was taii ri home, and it was then
so ind that during her absence her father
had hanged himself with a rope attached I
to th. boiler of a stove. Hr was cut down
and removed to the hospital unconscious.
At noon physicians reported both Mr.
u' .) M Taylor improved and there was
no logger any doubt as to their recovery.
E\RTHQUAKES.
Severe Shocks Felt in Several Parts of
Asia Minor.
Constantinople. Feb. 2.-—Violent earth
quake shock: have been felt at Bankers
mid around Hrusa in Asia Minor. Numer
ous tat ilitles—r tilitd and great damage
was done. The suit.m his subscribed for
the relief of the sufferers.
POOLED hk ItHESTS.
The Boat Lines Between St. Louis and
Memphis Have Combined.
st. Lottis, Feb. 2 An agreement has
be. n r. .chid by Ihe St. Louis and Tenm’s
si e River Pai'kci Company. the Eagle
1’,., ket Company and the Lee Line of
Mi mphls by w hich their Interests have
been pooled and a line of steamers has
Inin |ut on to take the plari of the de
fun, t Anchor line for ail points between
this city and Memphis.
Steam, rs will have twice a week, Tues
days ami Fridays. One of the steamers
will be the Herald of the Eagle Packet
Company’s line . nd the other the City of
Paducah, of Ihe St. Louis and Tennessee
River Pa ■■el Company's line. Both will
be unde;- the control of John E. Massen
gale. secretary of the St. Louis and T< li
nes ■ <•■• Packet Company w iio will he. also
agent for the new line.
It is also r< ported that at the United
States marshal's sale of the \nc.hor line
property on next Monday, February 7. the
same pool may purchase three Anchor
line b.oats and reopen the Anchor line
system all the way from New Orleans.
STILL _ANO I HER.
American Wire Industry is Now Under a
Trust.
Cleveland. 0., Feb. 2.—The Leader says;
The Arm clean Steel and Wire Company, in
other words a consolidation of the entire
American wire industry, stems to be an
accomplished fact, one of the strongest in
dications in support of Fils conclusion is
the sudden and marked stiffening in the
price of wire and nails which has come
generally this week. The price was put up
Monday over a dollar a ton beyond what
It was previous to the recent temporary
drop, and as much as SB. $1 and $5 a ton
over some pr'ees for wire which were re
ported as having been nutde la-t week.
WILSON COMING
South to Investigate Tobacco Growing in
Florida.
Washington, Feb. 2- Secretary Wilson,
of the agricultural d partment, wil leave
Washington in a week or ten days fora
visit to the South, hl- objective points be
ing North and South Carolina ami Florida
It Is probable that most of his time will
be spent in the latter state where Secre
tary Wil;on wi.nts to look personally into
the questi n of t .Using high grade tobacco.
Ho bdiev. ; the Florida country is capable
of producing tobacco almost if not equal
to that of the finest raised in Cuba and
Sun,t|tra. If this opinion is borne out, it
may result In the purchase and planting
under governmeui.il supervision of foreign
tobacco seed with a vi-w to determining
just what may be accomplished under
careful cultivation.
CHATTANOOGA CASE
Decided This Morning Against
Roads Entering that Town,
Chattanooga. Feb. 2. —In the interstate
commerce commission versus the East
Tennessee. Virginia and Georgia Railroad
Company, and sixteen other roads, known
as the ■’Cb»;tanomi.i case." United States
Judge Severus delivered the dee -ion this
morning. The decision is advers to the
railroads and a complete victory for the
commission and uty of Chattanooga. An
order was isued for the railroads to at
once make Chattanooga rates the same as
nt Nashville.
ANOTHER SHIP
Will Go to Cubi to Reinforce the
Marine.
New York. Feb. 2--Tiie Washington cor
respondent of the Herald telegraphs:
Encouraged by the excellent effect of the
visit of the battleship Maine to Havana,
the administration has determined to send
anotehr man-of-war upon a friendly visit
to Cubans ports. Tn? vessel selected is
the cruiser Montgomery, which is now
taking on board a supply of coal at Key
West.
$1.95 Men’s Undersuits.
Just about half price. Phil
lips,
COLDEST YET.
Boston is S.ill Completely Cut off Frcm
Outside World.
New York, Feb. 2.—This is the coldest
day of the season. The temperature, which
was gradually falling yesterday afternoon
and last night, registered 5 degrees above
zero at 8 o'clock a. m. today, a droo of
tw-'uty-two degrees since yesterday, at 2
p.rn.
Since 1 o'clock this morning it has risen
two points.
The thermometers in the streets show a
considerably lower record, many of them
registoring two degrees above zero.
East and North river are full of ice and
the ferry boats are delayed on this ac
count. The surface and elevated railroads
ran behind time and local traffic is consid
erably congested.
OUTRAGES
Committed in Bulgaria and Prevention is
Demanded.
Constantinople, Feb. 2—The Bulgarian
agent has presented a note to the Turkish
government pointing out the seriousness
of the occurrence in the vilaye of Uskub,
where 552 Bulgarians have been arrested
on the charge of storing arms.
The agent further alleges that many of
the Bulgarians have been tortured to
death and that women and girls are out
raged and as a result were dying. There
fore the agent urgently demanded the im
mediate cessation of the oppression. The
withdrawal of the military surrounding
the locality, the transfer of all prisoners
to Uskub for trial, and the dismissal of a
number of officials.
The note has caused a considerable sen
sation among the Turkish ministers and
at the palace.
COTTON FUTURES.
New York, Feb. 2. —Cotton futures open
ed dull but steady. Sales 2,000 bales. Feb
ruary 775, March 575, April 577, May ..Si,
January ".si, July 587, August 591, Sep
ti mbe r .">32. October 551, November 593,
December 555.
AMERWFRUIT
Is Barred Out Prussia by a
Decree of the Minister
of Finance.
CONSUL OEMMS BESSON,
The Reply Is That It Is Because
Insects in California Are Com
municated to Prussian Trees.
Berlin. Feb. 2 —The Prussian minister
of finance, Dr. Miguel, issued a decree
yesterday which goes into effect immedi
ately, prohibiting the importation of every
kind of American fresh fruit.
The decree was sent to all government
ports end frontier stations excepting Bava
ria, Saxony and Wurtemburg.
The United States embassy wits not pre
viously warned and United States ambas
sador. Andrew I). White, sent a formal
letter to the foreign office today inquiring
upon what authority this inimical step
was taken.
The United States consul at Hamburg,
Dr. Pugh Pitcairn, telegraphs that 16,000
barrels of American apples have been for
bidden to bt unloaded and two trains of
American fruit have also been forbidden
to cross the frontier at Emmerich.
On receipt of this news White sent a
second and stronger remonstrance to the
foreign office calling attention to the evi
dent violation of the treaty. At the for
eign office it was learned that the Prus
sian government prohibits the entry of
Xmerican fruit on sanitary grounds,
claiming that California and other ver
min threaten the German trees and fruit.
COMMITTEES
Appointed Yesterday to See
the Business Men of Macon,
An interesting meeting of the local com
mittee ci pointed by the Georgia Omaha
Exposition Commission held an interest
ing meeting at the Chamber of Commerce
new rooms yesterday afternoon.
The meeting was to have been held the
afternoon before but owing to the*absence
of Chairman English and several of the
numbers the meeting was postponed until
yesterday.
In opening the meeting Chairman Eng
lish made a most interesting talk on the
work that lay before the committee. He
urged the necessity of Georgia’s making
a creditable exhibit at the exposition, and
he clearly portrayed the benefits to be
derived from inducing immigrants to come
here,
Chis commission, which was appointed
by the commission was for the purpose of
aiding in getting a creditable exhibit for
Georgia at the exposition.
The following committees were ap
pointed:
Committee, to confer with wholesale and
retail nierchatns—Joseph Neel, chairman:
T. D. Tinsley, N. M. Block, George
Ketchum.
Committee to confer with mayor and
city council —T. J. Carling, chairman;
George A. Smith. J. H. Hertz.
Committee to confer with banks, insur
ance companies and manufacturers —
Charles Hurt, chairman: H. C. Idanspg,
Merrill Gallaway.
A meeting of the state commission is
oeing held in Augusta today, its object
being the same as that of the one held in
Macon last week. Augusta is taking eon
side cable interest in the commission, and
will make handsome donations to the
cause.
DEBATERS ELECTED
The Young Men Who Wil! Meet the Athens
Boy? in Joint Debate.
At a meeting of the students of ?>lercer
University yesterday the young men who
will represent Mercer University in Ujo
pint debate between that' iustreuuon aim
the Universliy of Georgia in the spring
w< re elected. Mr. John Roach Straton
and Mr. J. C. Flannagan were the ones
selected.
Both Mr. Straton and Mr. Flannaetan are
known well in Macon, and it was Mr.
Straton. who won the intercollegiate medal
at Atlanta some time ago. when every col
lege in the suate was represented. Mr.
, Straion rs considered the best orator in the
state, as was decided by the contest in At
lanta. Mr. Flannagan has won for him
self an enviable reputation as an crater
since be has been a student at Mercer,
I and the debate, which will take place in
j Atlanta in May, will be one of the live
| liest that the two colleges have yet par
tietpated in.
Advertise in The News and reach the
j people.
THE MACON NEWS.
NEW TELEPHONE
JOMPANY.
It is Probable That Macon Will
Have One in the Near
Future.
LOOB OVER THE RROUNO
Partie3 Are Here—They Have Con
nections for Long Distance and
Ample Capital to dothe Work.
There is some talk of a new telephone
company for Macon and the report that
the ground is being surveyed with that end
in view is borne out by the fact that ap
plication has been made to council for in
formation on the subject of the ordinances
affecting telephone companies in the city.
■At the meeting of council held last night
application was made for this information
and the communication was referred to a
committee which reported last night re
fering the applicant to the city clerk for
all the information required.
But that is not all. Representatives of
the syndicate proposing to come to Ma
con and give the Bell Telephone people
some competition have been in the city
for the last few days and have gone very
carefully over the ground. The result of
their observation is that there is every
probability that the new company will
come here.
A gentleman who seems to be in their
confidence says that arrangements are
even now being-made and that their plans
will all be ready before any information
will be given out officially.
The company is, he says, amply able to
comply with the requirements which in
clude underground wires and they will go
into sharp competition so far as prices are
concerned with the present company.
They will, he says, have long distance
conections and that now they have their
feelers out all over the state.
jonFswllltell
What Happened to Him at the
Academy of Music Tonight.
“What Happened to Jones,” one of the
liveliest and most hilariously differing
farces of the times, will be quartered at
the Academy tonight with such clever
people in the cast, as George C. Boniface,
Jr., George Ober, William Bernard,
Reuben Faxm, J. AV". Cope, Cecil King
ston. Harry Rose, Anna Belmont, Kath
ryn Osterman, Mattie Ferguson, Florence
Robinson, Mrs, E. A. Eberle and Rose
Sturat.
“Jones” had a very successful run of
three months at the Bijou theatre, New
York, and were it not for the fact that
May Irwin was booked there and insisted
on opening in spite of the fact that, liberal
inducements were made to have her post
pone her coming, Broadhurst’s merry
farce could easily have remained there
the entire winter.
The story of "What Happened to Jones”
is one of those narratives that doesn’t
sound well on paper. The gentleman who
sends a type written synopsis of his “at
traction” to the hungry critic is distinctly
at a loss when dealing with a farce like
this. Its humor must be seen to be
savored.
Ebenezer Goodly, a professor of anat
omy, has been to see a glove contest that
has been raided by the police. Jones has
also been. Jones is a drummer who sells
hymn books and playing cards —one as a
steady thing, the other as a side issue.
Jones has lost his coat-tail in a scuffle
with a policeman. To bridge over this
damning fact he dons the ministerial garb
of the bishop of Ballarat, Goodly’s broth
er, who is expected to pay a visit to the
Goodly household. Complications with
girls, with the typical amorous spinster,
with the usual hen-pecking wife, and with
everything and everybody in sight—com
plications thick, furious and bewildering.
Arrival, of course, of the real bishop.
Confusion of the real bishop, wbo is mis
taken for an escaped lunatic.
HOYT’S “A MILK WHITE FLAG.”
If ever the Academy was too small to
accommodate our theater-goers it should
be tomorrow night when Hoyt’s roaring
success, “A Milk White Flag,” which has
created more genuine hearty laughs than
all the other Hoyt comedies combined,
will be presented In this city, with the
wealth of elaborate scenery, gorgeous cos
tumes and stage accessions. "A Milk
White 'Flag is the rpost pretentious work
that this popular playwright has ever of
fered to the amusement loving people and
it has proven the most phenomenal suc
cess. Everywhere it has been presented
the "standing room only" sign has been
displayed, and as it possesses such mag
netic drawing qualities, it is quite a guar
antee that “A Milk white Flag” is one
of the most jolly entertainers that every
body wants to see and should see. Mr.
Hoyt has a knack of securing the best
comedy people in the profession in Amer
ica. and he really seems to have surpassed
himself in the company which is present
ing his spectacular comedy The
east is a strong ope. and includes such
names as John W, Dunne, George Tail
man. Frank R. Glenn. Richard Granella.
E. J. Demming. John Barclay, Maud Mac-
Donald, Louise Rosa. Lillian Dane, Jobe
Howland. Stella Blair, Sylvia Myrrdoek.
Inna Prast, Eva Hill. Eva Mansfield.
Zella Holland, Harriet Merritt. Ethilia
Grace, and a large corps of pretty and
shapely chorus girls, and a fu|i military
band.
•Gloves. Hot kinds. Phil
lips.
HE DENIES IT.
Governor Atkinson Says That
He Was Not at Conference,
Atlanta, Go., Feb. 2.—Governor W. Y.
Atkinson denies today most positively that
he was present at any conference of any
sort to urge Spencer Atkinson or any other
man to make the race for governor to suc
ceed himself in this state as has been
■ stated.
MRS. MARY DENNINGTON.
Newberg, N. Y., Feb. S. —Mrs. Mary
Denniston, widow of ex-State Comptroller
Robert Denniston, died in Washington
villa today, aged 86,
Os her eleven children seven survive her.
Among her sons are Henry M. Dennis
ton. director of the United States navy,
stationed at Portsmouth. N. H.. and Rev.
James 0., pastor of the presbyterirn
church of the statec ollege of Pennsylva
nia. One of the daughters is the Wife of
Robert Deyo, of New York,
MACON NEWS WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 2 1898.
7IS ND LONGER
AJMYSTERY.
Messenger Saunders Arrested
For Stealing the Social
Circle Money.
AS TOLD FtHE NEWS.
Some Time Ago—All the Facts then
Given are Borne Out by the Ar
rest-Relief for One Man.
The mysterious express package contam
ting $3,700 is a mystery no longer. With
the exception of the name of the man who
sent the package and the place where he
had been located by the deteetves, the
whole story has been given by The News.
It was stated positively by The News two
weeks ago that this package represented
the money stolen from Social Circle a year
ago and that the detectives had located
the man whom they believed to be the
guilty party in a city outside of the state.
Efforts were made by other newspapers
to discredit the whole story before ■che
public, but they are now forced to ac
knowledge the corn and, belated, publish
t'he facts as given in The News.
Lucius L. Saunders, who was formerly
an express messenger on the railroad run
ning between Gainesville and Social Cir
cle, was arrested on in Cincinnati,
charged with th? theft, and the detectives
say they have a strong case against him.
The announcement of Saunders’ arrest
on the charge of robbery will create a sen
sation throughout the state, as he is well
known 'here and is well connected. In ad
dition to this, the arrest will bring hardly
less than joy to the heart of A. I. Butt, Jr.,
of Milledgeville, Ga., who was under the
shadow of the crime for some time.
Butts was an express messenger at the
time of tihe robbery. He was running on
the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
road, and it was while he was absent from
his car in Social Circle that the robbery
occurred. His mother brooded so over the
position in which her son had been placed
that she lost her mind and is now at Mil
ledgeville in the asylum.
Throughout the story is full of unusual
interest.
It was on the forenoon of the day of the
robbery that Southern Express Messenger
Butts reached Social Circle via the Gaines
ville, Jefferson and Southern. He had In
inis safe four packages, containing SI,OOO
each, from the Bank of Winder to the
Lowry Banking Company. Leaving the
express car tor a few minutes in order to
have a balk with the station master, he
returned to find that the safe had been
rifled and the money taken. Messenger
Butts, who is quite young and compara
tively inexperienced, had just entered the
service of the company. He enjoyed the
fullest confidence of his employes. He was
unable to account for the disappearance of
the packages except upon the theory that
he had neglected to lock his safe and that
in his absence some on purloined them.
I>ess than a month ago interest and cu
riosity were again revived by the an
nouncement in The News that there had
come anonymously to the express office
here a package containing a portion of the
stolen .money. The express officials gave
out no particulars, but it was learned that
the package, which contained $3,700, had
been forwarded from Macon.
It seems that a package addressed to the
postmaster of Macon was opened and re
vealed a second package addressed to the
Southern Express Company at Atlanta.
The natural surmise was that a denoue
ment was close at hand.
It came on Saturday last, when Lucius
L. Sanders, a postal clerk running on the
Social Circle and Gainesville route at the
time of the robbery, was apprehended at
Cincinnati, 0., charged with its perpetra
tion. Saunders passed through Atlanta
yesterday in the custody of officers en
route to Monroe, Ga., where he will be
tried.
Saunders hails from the neighborhood of
Winder, where his relatives reside. He.
has been in the United States mail servdee
for several years. This, so far as known,
is his first criminal offense and it is
thought the authorities will consider that
fact in meting out justice to him.
The best, time to advertise Is ali the
•Ime.
CONFUSION
On Account of the Similarity
of 1 and 10c Stamps.
Uncle gam’s latest production in the
way of postage stamps is causing so much
trouble that the entire issue may have to
be withdrawn. The first shipment of the
new 1-eept stamps arrived in Macon a
fe-w days ago, but in the limited time they
have been here the business men of the
city have done more genuT.e kicking than
for weeks.
x\pt tnat the stamps are not pretty, fur
they are certainly artistic and eclipse in
b<auty any 1-eeut stamps ever issued by
the government, but the fault lies in their
almost exact similarity to the 10-cent
postage stamps now in use in the United
States.
The 10-eent and 1-eent stamps are both
of that most attractive shade of green
known as pea green. They look as if they
were printed from the same dies, but tor
the fact that the words on one announce
the denomination as being 1-cent and on
the oiher as 10 cents.
It is almost impossible to distinguish
the two stamps and this is causing ail the
annayanee. A business man with any
sense of economy dislikes to stick 10-eent
stamps on letters which a 1-eent stamp
would carry, but this is just what every
business man is doing. All the big firms
in the city have to use 10-cent stamps to
send heavy mail. They also use large
numbers of 1-cent stamps in sending out
circulars. Some of them say they get
their stamps mixed at night and put a
10-eent stamp on an unsealed letter and
a 1-cent stamp on a heavy package. One
business man received several letters du
ring the past week with two green 10
cents stamps on each, which had evident
ly been put there by mistake in place of
two 1-cent stamps.
The government stamp’ commission did
not foresee the trouble that might arise
from the similarity of the two stamps,
but it is apparent enough now. So far
nothing has been done about the matter
except the kicking by the men who suffer
from the similarity. The new stamps are
certainly an improvement over the old
flat green 1-eent stamps. The shade on the
new Issue is much more artistic and at
tractive.
Have your magazine* rebeund by The
’■Jewa* blnderv
$1.95 Men’s Undersuits.
J’-ist about half price. Phil
lips.
SCALPING
And the Bill Against Them Will be Under
Discussion Today.
The meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce this afternoon promises to be of
considerable interest to those who attend.
The railroads of rhe South are taking a
; great deal of interest in the fight that is
being made against the ticket scalpers,
and in the bill that is new pending before
■the house of representatives at Washing
ton, and this meeting is a direct result of
the interest that the roads are displaying.
Mr. George Macdonald of the Georgia
Southern and Florida is the prime mover
in the matter in Macon, and he says that
many things that will interest even the
private citizen will be discussed and it
will be shown how important it tis to the
travelling public as well as to the rail
roads.
The main object of the meeting this af
ternon is to get the expression of the peo
ple of 'Macon on this subject through the
business men. In case their opinion should
be favorable to t'he roads, it will be wired
to Congressman Bartlett to aid him in
making up his mind as to what will be the
proper action to take in the matter as re
gards Ms constituents.
A. tremendous fight has been made by
the railroads to have the scalpers bill pass
the 'house, and they feel confident now that
they have won the fight and that it will
be proven when the vote is taken. But the
ticket brokers feel the same way and claim
that they have the majority, both in the
house and in the senate. Some of the evi
dence brought, out in the senate commit
tee investigatiion was most sensational,
plugged tickets were brought in by the
score, and at times the argument grew
most personal.
At the meeting of the Chamber of Com
merce this afternoon other matters will be
discussed.
The formal opening of the new quar
ters of the 'Chamber of Commerce wil take
place next Wednesday, and a special pro
gram has been prepared for the occasion.
SECMEET
Will Be Made a Boulevard of
Macon by the Council.
IWT BDCK IS ffllllt
Council Met Last Night and Deci
ded to accept the Bid of Georgia
Qunincy Granite Co.
At the regular meeting of the city coun
cil held last night the bid of the Georgia
Quincy Granite Company -tor paving .was
approved and they have consequently
been awarded the contract for further
paving the streets of Macon.
The extent of that contract depends on
the amount of paving to be done in gran
ite cubes.
Another matter es importance was that
council ordered the laying down of cement
rock as a pavement of Second street from
Poplar street cut. This pavement will ex
tend for several blocks and as the work of
curbing has cpmmeneed, when Second
street is completed in this way it will be
the boulevard of Macon.
Council was called to order with Aider
man Winship and Wilder absent.
After the reading of the minutes of the
last regular meeting, and also the called
meeting on the subject of compulsory vac
cination petitions and communications
were called up.
The Board of Public Works reported the
opening of the bids for paving and recom
mended that the bid of the Georgia Quin
cy Granite Company be accepted as the
lowest bidder. The report was received
and the bid was approved.
The board also recommended the laying ;
of cement rock on Second gfr-eet as on
Poplar street.
On inquiry by Pearson, the
mayor explained' that this meant the im
provement of Second street from Poplar to
the limits,
On motion of Aiderman Goodwyn the
report was received and the street was
ordered paved. This will make Second
street one of the handsomest in the city.
The cement rock ha.> proved a great suc
cess on Poplar street, and when it is laid
without a grade it will be better.
Leave of absence was granted to Treas
urer Tinsley for ten days,
The finance committee reported adverse
ly on the petition of Shinbolser & Co. for
a reduction pf the license on typewriters.
The re&vOn for this was that the license ;
ordinance had been framed and no good
reason is shown for the reduction.
On the opening up of Ash street the
committee reported as information that
the work would require a considerable
outlay of money. It was referred to the
finance committee.
Alderman 'Damcur offered an ordinance
to require curbing on Orange and Plum
street, requiring the property owners to
put down curbing and failing to do so rhe
city to do tire work and collect tor it ac
cording to law.
Council then adjourned to the next
meeting.
wallacFdaniel
Died This Morning at his Res
idence on Spring Street.
Mr. Wallace Evans Daniel died this
morning at S:3O o’clock of typhoid fever,
having been sick just three weeks.
He was only twenty-five years old, and
fell on sleep in. the prime of his manhood.
He was a member of the First Baptist
ehyrch, |
He leaves behind a devoted father and *
mother, Dr. and Mrs. W. B Daniel, three |
fond sisters and a loving w>ife, and many
admiring friend*. who mourn their loss in I
his death,
The funeral services will be held tn the j
First Baptist church tomorrow afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock. The friends and acquaint
ances of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Daniel, and
Mrs. Rosa Daniel are invited to attend.
Gloves. Hot kinds. Phil
lips.
EARL OF CLONNELL.
London. Feb. 2 —Beauchamp Henry John
Scott, sixth earl of Clonmell, is dead. He
was born in 1847 and was formerly captain
in the Scotts guards.
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BALDWIN'S MOST
BRILLIANT SON,
Hon. Robert Whitfield Died
This Morning at Suwanee,
Florida.
UNIVERSALLY MOURNED.
One of the Leaders in the State -
A Life of Great Promise is Too
Suddenly Cut Off.
Hon. Robert Whitfield, of Milledgeville,
died this morning at Suwanee Springs,
Florida.
The announcement is not unexpected by
any means. It has been known for a long
time that consumption had about sapped
the life of the man, who still young, had
taken up to a few years ago a most ac
tive part in the affairs of life and who was
very properly counted as one of Georgia’s
most prominent men.
The r<. cf the death of Bob Whitfield
was receitved by people all over Macon
with the deepest regret and by a large
number of his more intimate friends with
sincere, sorrow.
With him has passed away one of the
most brilliant of the orators and sons of
Georgia.
Always courteous, always the gentleman
and ever as gentle as a woman he leaves
a gap that it takes time to fill.
He was only 45 years of age and for the
last twenty years and up to a year before
nis death he took a most active part in
the political, social and economic affairs
of this state.
He married Miss Effie Harris, daughter
of the late Judge J. C. Harris, of this city.
Mr. Whitfield went to Florida a few
days ago in the hope of prolonging his life
—not of recovery, for he fully realized
that his days were numbered. His brother.
Hon. Bolling Whitfield, of Brunswick,
was with him at he time of his death.
Mrs. Whitfield had intended to join her
husband at Suwanee in a few days.
A telegram received this morning an
nounces that the remains will reach Ma
con this afternoon at 4:35 on the Georgia
Southern and Florida train.
The body will be taken to the residence
of Mrs. Harris at 222 Forsyth street and
the funeral will take place tomorrow af
ternoon from St. Paul’s Church, Rev. H.
O. Judd officiating.
The pall-bearers will probably be the
brothers-in-law of Mr. Whitfield and the
bar will probably appoint honorary pall
bearers.
Robert Whitfield was born in Baldwin
county in 1852 and was considered one of
the most gifted young men in Georgia in
his early life. His boyhood and youth was
spent during the “unpleasantness” on the
old family plantation in Jasper county.
In 1867 he entered Mercer University, then
located at Penfield, Ga., where he remained
two years.
Fie next entered the University of Geor
gia at Athens, from which he graduated in
1870 with degree of batchtlor cf philoso
phy, some of his class mates being the
following gentlemen: Washington Dessau
Walter B. Hill, Nat E. Harris, C. L. Bart
lett, Judge C. C. Jones, Rev. J. D. Ham
mond, Dr. A. S. Campbell. The ensuing
year he graduated with the degree of
batchelor of laws and immediatetlv located
at Conyers, Ga. Six months Inter ne went
to Jackson, Ga., so as to be conveniently
near -Indian Spring, on account of his
health He remained there three years, do
ing some practice, and then spent the year
1875 on the plantation in Jasper county.
The ensuing year he located in Mil
ledgeville, and formed a law partnership
with Hon. Fleming dußignon,- which con
tinued until 1884. A year or so later he
entered into a partnership with John T.
Adams, which existed until the time of his
death.
In 1878 Mr. Whitfield was elected so
licitor general far the Ocmuigee clrci-’c.
comprised ths counties of Morgan, G-reene’
Putnam, Jasper, Jones, Wilkinson and
Laurens. This election was for an unex
pired ipm, the incumbent having resigned,
but wo years later, in 1880, he was elected
to a full term of four years. In 18&3 he was
again elected to the same offioe.
The following November he resigned,
having been elected at the October elec
tion to represent the twentieth senatorial
district in the general assembly. In that
body he was made chairman of the com
mittee on the penitentiary and was placed
on the committee of general judiciary and
lunatic asylum.
As a legislator he was interested in the
railway question before the senate—par
ticularly the lease of the Western and
Atlantic railway. He was the author of a
resolution for the settlement ot the bet
terment issues with the lessees, defeated
at the time, but afterward passed sub
stantially as he introduced them, and he
was made chairman of the joint special
committee appointed to setlte the ques
tion and to whom the resolutions intro
duced were referred.
It was while in the senate in 188!) that
Mr. Whitfield hgd the hard fight, which
he won, to secure the location of the Girls’
Normal und Industrial school at Milledge
ville, and it was during this sensational
term that Mr. Whitfield developed, by in
tellectual capacity great legislative ability
and stateamanlik? qualities, which marked
him one o fthe foremost men of the state.
In 1890 the people called again for his
services and be was elected to represent
Baldwin county in the general assembly
and was placed on the committee of gen
eral judiciary, finance, lunatic asylum and
Western and Atlantic railway and chair
man of the special judiciary committee.
Mr. Whitfield has always* taken a very
active part in politics and attained to
great popularity, prominence and influence.
He has served on the state Democratic
executive committee and in 18ft? and 1894,
in coftiplfanue wih a reju’st of the cate
-nm nlrtce. stumped the state. Tn the e
for Ihr S ath district congressional n<’»ri
uation he was defeated bv his old class
'll Hr. (’hr l ies L. Bartlett.
Mr 'A ••’ifitid was a Muon and a mem
ber of the Protestant Episcopal church.
The half a cent a word column of The I
News is the ch-aapest advertising medium :
in Georgia,
CAUGHT IN BELT, }
George Mullis Met a Horrible |
Death Last Night.
George Mullis, a trusted employe of the I
McCaw Manufacturing Company met with j
a terrible death at the manufacturing i
plant last night about 8 o’clock.
.Mullis is one of the hands employed at >
the mills for the purpose of handling pro- j
ducts. One of the large belts flew off, and |
though it was not Mullis’ duty to put the !
belt cn, he attempted to do it, and in so j
doing met with his death.
Mullis grasped the belt and In some way j
became tangled and was carried around •
the shafting rapidly until he was mangled ■
beyond recognition. His death was almost ■
instantaneous. He was left hanging to
the shafting.
The dead man leaves a wife and four
children. He was about thirty-five years
of age.
The verdict of the jury summoned by
Coroner Hollis this morning was that the
deceased came to his death from acclden- !
tai causes, that could in no way attach I
blame to anyone.
The half a cent a word column of The
News is the cheapest advertising medium
Ln Georgia. . ....
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Men and Boys’ Suits at
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Underwelr at
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