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ESTABLISHED 1884. SIX FIREMEN BURNEDTO DEATH The District Chief Met His Fate With His Men in a Boston Fire. ROOF FELL 111 Oil THEM While They Were Working in the Fourth Story of the Build ing. 'Box’on. Feb. 5 -The bodies of six fire in< n, among them District Chief Egan, have just been taken from the ruins of the ll> nt building, which took fire al 4 o’clock this morning. The are: John F. Egan, J.»mcs Victory, captain of engines 38 and 39. George J. Gotwald, lieutenant of engine 38. Patrick H. Disken, hoseman. John J. Mulheron, fireman. W. J. Walsh, host man. Four other firemen were hurled in the ruins, but they escaped with more or less serious Injurious injuries. They are Jos. M. Garrity, captain of engine No. 7, Thomas E. Conway, hoscnian; T. J. Do herty, and Edward Shea. The building burned was a five-story structure on Merrimac street occupied by G. W. Bent & Co, manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc. The tire is supposed to have started in the rear of 4lie fourth story. The firemen hail entered a window ami were at work on the fourth floor when the roof collapsed, tearing away the top floor and >the one on which the firemen were engaged, burying them beneath it. ROSY VIEW Is Taken by Visitng President Dole Who Thinks Annexation Will Win. Washington. Feb. & —President Dole, of the Hawaiian Republic is enjoying his •nay in Washington, and is hftpeful lA achievement of the purposes of his mis sion. A state dinner was given Wednesday evening at the White House and a public reception tin* evening following. Last Thutsday evening Mr. Hatch, the Ha waiian minister to Washington, gave a dinner. That is as far as the public pro gram has been made out thus far. As to the advancement of the important objects of his mission. President Dole says that he was pleased with the progress al ready made. He said that by his presence here he had been cnabb d to gain a clear .tud cer \ tain knowledge of the general situation in and throughout -the United ■State.- —such a knowledge as he could not Wave gained by correspondence however, full and accurate. But he said that his interview with President McKinley is yet to take place, and to that Interview he, of course. looks for .he accomplishment of the chief ob jects of his mission. The i?.terview necessarily will be con fide n. ..I. V: the state dinner tomorrow evening ;U.r. will be toasts responded to by the tu;> presidents. Their uterances will be sea tiud by the public with close att< ti. inn for some hint as to what has been agreed upon by the two presidents in their preceding interview. If not then and thus, there is likely to be no divulgation whatever of the agree ments reached in the interview, nor even of the topics discussed. President Dole said that the date of his leaving Washington on his return will be nex: Monday. that the route likely will l>e v the Southern Pacific and that the return is expected to be without stoppage or interruption. President and Mrs. Dole and the mem bers of their party are well. was noTibel. Sensational Suit Against the Minneapolis Times. Minneapolis, Feb. s.—The greatest libel suit ever tried in Minneapolis has come to an end with a verdict of not guilty. The action was brought by the Minneap olis Trust Do. against the Minneapolis Times. W. E. Haskell, its manager, and criminal pre. cution by indictment The ease has been on trial for two months and the jury after being out 24 hours brought in a verdict of not guiltv as to the defendant Haskell, which will settle all the cases. The indictment grew out of an editorial comment by the Times on the conduct of the Minneapolis Trust Co. as trustee of certain West Pullman bonds set apart as the assets of a defunct guarantee loan company. POOLROOM BILL. Frankfort. Ky.. Feb. s.—The Bronston poolroom bill passed the senate today and was sent to the house. The bill not only makes pool selling a felony except on the race courses, but excludes foreign books even there. GREATEST LIVING AMERICAN AU THOR. On Leo XIII. in the Vatican Tuesday night. THE MACON NEWS. DIRECTOR SMITH Os the Bureau of American Republics Dies at Miami. i Washington, Feb. s—Mr. Joseph P. I Smith, director of the Bureau of American i Republics, died this morning at Miami, Fla., of heart failure. He had been well) known in Ohio poli tics for many years before coming to Washington on the inauguration of Presi dent McKinley. For many years he published a Republi can newspaper in several Ohio towns, and espoused McKinley and the protective tariff. After McKinley’s defeat as a member of congress from the Panton, 0., district, by reason a gerrymander, he immediately put the president’s name at the heads of the columns of his papers for the Repub ' Mean nomination for governor. When .McKinley was elected, Mr. Smith ■ was chosen state librarian. He and Presi ( dent McKinley were intimate friends po litically. and when McKinley was inaug urated he tendered Mr. Smith the office he held at the time of his death. The best time to advertise Is all the time. KILLED - THEM - BOTH A Coal Miner Shot His Wife and Her Paramour. Charleston, W. Va., Feb. s—Georges—George P. Tucker, a coal miner at Crescent, Fayette county, went home at noon yesterday and found his wife with William McAllister. 'He fired four shots, killing both his wife and McAllister instantly. He then walked two miles to Montgom ery and gave himself up to the officers. Mrs. Tucker was the mother of three grown children, who lived at home. She was 41 years of age. McAllister was 22. KEEP THEM AWAY, Would Be Act of Charity to Stop the Rush. Washington, Feb. 4.—The most discour aging news to intending gold-seekers in Alaska comes to the war department in the official reports of Captain P. H. Ray, brought out by E. Hazard Wells, Alaska > ' corespondent for the Scripps-Meßae ! League. Adjutant General Breck has received the i following dispatch from Major Robinson, ( guartermaster at Seattle: ■j ’’Complying with telegram of today, ' 'five lebtefs and packages from Cap tain P. H. Ray, addressed to you in bands i of Special Courier E. H. Wells, intercep ted by me. Substance as follows: j “The latest, which bear dates of No vember 2 and 3, refer to action and at- ’ tepted robbery of caches and recommends : that the United States government take | steps to effectually check immigration to j the interior of Alaska of all persons not fully supplied to last two years. i | “He gives as reasons that there is no way to earn a living and that no placer I laws have been made within the last eight 1 months, either in Alaska or the Northwest Territory. There is no employment for i any large number of people in any capac ity. All values are speculative. There is 1 no fixed standard for labor. | “There is not now. or likely to be with i in twelve months, adequate or sufficient means of supplying the people now in j Alaska of Northwest Territory. “Captain. Ray is of the opinion that only about seven per cent of all the people who have entered during the past winter have earned their living, and hundreds are now scattered along the river destitute of i food, clothing and money. • “People coming in have not had the faintest conception of what to do to earn a living, and. after spending the money they bring, become dazed and helpless. 1 “He states that the rush will be so great the next year that any step that will pre vent people from coming in their igno rance, will be an act of charity. “In view of recent developments and knowledge that the lawless are banding to gether along the river for the purpose of robbery. Captain Ray renews his sugges tion that the government place on the river small, light draft steamers, with high power, armed and used to patrol the river, and also the placing of detachments of troops as the movement of people may demand. , “He recommends a preliminary survey from Cook’s Inlet to the interior for all ! American roads.” I LITERARY TREAT OF THE SEASON Marion Crawford Tuesday night. IN TRAINING. i Lynwood Bright Is Preparing to Meet Ton Bosworth at Americus. Lynwood Bright, who has accepted the [ challenge of Tom Bosworth, of Americus, j to ride a mile, is now preparing for the race which wjjl take place the latter part of the month. ' Considerable interest is being evinced in this race, and a large party of Maeon- < ites will go down to see the contest. Bright will go down several days before hand to ; try the Americus track so that he will be used to the turns and grades. He is now riding at the Central City ' park track, and says that he is in good shape, and hopes to be in perfect condi tion by the time the race comes off. “LEO XIII. IN THE VATICAN.” Every man and woman who appreciates knowledge of the historical should hear Crawford Tuesday night. VICAR GENERAL DEAD. Baltimore. Feb. s.—Mgr. Ebward Mc j Colgan, vicar general of the diocese of I Baltimore, died this morning. MACON NEWS SATURDAY FEBRUARY 5 1898. QUEEN'S SPEECH IS IMPORTANT. Will Deal Direct and Friendly With the Questions in the East. pmiMimiiiEiisEM The Government Will Have to An swer Many Questions Put bv the Opposition. London, Feb. s—At5 —At a council held at ' Osborne, Isle of Wight, on Thursday, the i Queen’s speech to be read a-L the reassem i bling of parliament next week was ap i proved. It will be the most important pronun | clamento for years past. Her Majesty is following events in the far east closely and has the keenest ap preciation of the difficulties. She has been : most busy recently over dispatches on the subject. I It will be idle to deny that parliament j r&assem'oles with the air charged with un- I easiness and with the prospeot of a session that will be the most important as regards I home and foreign policies. And first in interest is the Chinese i question. It is known authoritatively that j the Marquis of Salisbury has disapproved i strongly of the declaration made by Sir | Michael Hicks Beach, chancellor of the ; exchequer, at Bristol, as embarrassing bis I negotiations with the other cabinet min isters. The Premier has also resented the virulence of the press attacks growing out of the so-called backdown of the govern ment on the subject of opening the port I of Ta Lien Wan and the revival of Count i Cortiqs' description of his lordship as j Lath painted it to imitate iron has em phasized his irritation. I The opposition, however; has decided ! net to unduly prolong the debate on ad ' dress in reply to the speech from the [ throne and to challenge on the Indian I troubles later, but the opposition will try - to get the government to unfold its ses : sion program at the earliest possible mo | ment. The Irish members will be much in evi j dence during the coming session. The gov j ernment’s and Catholic university bills i affording them great battle ground. In re ' gard to the latter measure the Dillonites, I Kedmonitec and Healyites have united for ■ Common action and, with the exception of • Messrs. Caron, Lecky and T. W. Russell, = all the Irish unionists will oppose it. I The first mentioned bill probably will | precede the army bill, which will be the i feature of the session and which will I serve to introduce the Dreyfus quest! n 1 into the House of Commons for a radi i’ member will ask the government if it k. = ever received secrets from the notorious prisoner. FOR COMING GENERATIONS Scientist Are Studying In Gloomy Recesses Beneath Paris’ Streets. Paris, Feb. s—For many years there has been kept under this city a laboratory, part of which contains hundreds of cells, totally dark. All sqrts of animals are kept in the cells, and scientists are study ing the evolutions of nature, which take place in the form and habits of the crea tures, depriv'd of th: natural environ - i meats. These animals are doomed never to see j daylight, for the laboratory is a perma- ■ n-en-t rns-ticution. To this end a collection of insects, | crustaceans, fishes aW*®Emmiferes has ' been made, and several of them have i brought forth their young under the new • and abnormal conditions under which they : hereafter will live. The physical changes which these con- - ditions bring about wil be carefully noted, I and, although it may be a hundred or i more years beore marked changes are | -affected, yet every step of the changes i will be found minutely detailed in the • records of the laboratory. It is a work from which the coming j generations will derive more benefit than i will the people who are alive today; but science is even longer than art, and a ‘ century or so occupied in the establish- ■ ment of a fact of nature is but a detail. Above all things, the true scientific in vestigator must resign himself to bound less patience and total sinking of seif in the attainment of great ends. This curious laboratory is in the old ex , eavations under the Jardin des Plantes, ; excavations from which building stone was quarried a thousand or more years, ago, • | and which under other parts of Paris have j been turned into catacombs. You can talk 10,000 every day through the columns of The News. MRS. LANE IS WORSE Daughter of Ex-Senator Blackburn Cannot Recover Washington. Feb. s—Mrs.5 —Mrs. Lane, daugh , ter of ex-Senator Blackburn, of Kentucky, : who about three weeks ago was accident -1 ally shot, is much worse today. Yesterday afternoon she suffered a set back from which she barely rallied. She j takes practically no nourishment and it I is feared she never will recover. You can talk to 10,000 every day through 1 the columns of The News. REMINDER DE LUTHER I, HALL He Had a Connection With the Case Tried at Jeffer sonville. THOSE COLORED DEEDS Figured In the Evidence—Matters of Interest Along the Line of . the Macon &. Dublin R, R. A News correspondent paid a flying visit to Dublin Thursday last, noting points of interest on the Macon and Dublin railroad. Superior court was in session at Dublin. Judge J. C. Hart, of Union Point was pre siding. H. G. Lewis, of Greensboro, was solicitor general. The visiting attorneys in attendance were Judge ©. M. Roberts, Eastman; A. F. Daley and V. B. Robinson, i Wrightsville; J. A. Thomas, Macon; Hon, ! L. D. Shannon, Jeffersonville. Local bar, ■ Colonels Stubbs, Howard, Saunders, T. V. j and J. B. Chappel, Tyson, Hicks, Green, j Clower, Akerman, Corpin, Adams and ' ’Wade. Over one hundred cases were dis posed of during the session of two weeks. The most interesting criminal case was that of Elisha Evans and J. L. Battle, of Dexter, charged with holding and occupy ing four lots of land cla.iming same under a Chain of forged deeds* The lands be longed to -the Hon. Dudley M. Hughes, formerly belonging ot his grandfather. One of the deeds ponported to be signed by the old man Hug'hes in 1835. (Colonel L. D. Shannon, of Jeffersonville, was leading attorney for the .prosecution. The following facts were brought out in the -trial, which we note briefly: In 1894 Elisha Evans, -a former associate of Luther A. Hall, came.from Dodge coun |ty and settled at 'Dexter, in Lawrence county. Soon afterwards Evans associated j himself with J. L. Battle, a lawyer in -Dexter, formerly from Warren county. Evans and Battle procede to erect a 1 small house over -the exact spot where the four lots of land cornered, thereby occupy ing a. portion of all of the lots of land, which belonged to Colonel D. M. Hughes. Soon afterwards a chain of forged deeds were sent through the mail to the clerk of Lawrence superior court for record. The ' clerk at once discovered that the deeds had 1 .been submitted by a coloring process and 1 were ah palpable forgeries, and forthwith ! notified D. M. Hughes. A writ of mandamus was sued out I against -the clerk and the deeds recovered, I whieh were laid before the grand jury and a true bill was found against the part’es. The case, which has been dragging through the courts at Dublin for the past four years, was decided Wednesday, re sulting in a verdict for convictian of both defendants, recommending, however, that the prisoners have sentence parsed upon them for misdemeanor, which was done, they receiving a sentence of $750.00 fine or twelve montns in the chaingang. The general Impression was that the ; prisoners would receive a sentence of ten i years, as the case a; atnst them wp ;• i strong one and clearly made out by the ■ able solicitor and Colonel Shannon. j Dublin may and truly be called the gem ;of the Oconee. Dublin has a population of ' three thousand two hundred inhabitants. ' Tlu re are three hotels and several boar-1- : iug houses. TLiee railroads enter the lit tle city, viz: Macon and Dublin, lea ling i Lam Mucoa. V. rights? Hie asd T.nui’ie, which “onoectr with the Central it IT:i --| nille, the Empire ro; d, which runs from i Dublin ta Ha whine ; Hie, connecting with the. Sosasueru uulway at Empire. Dublin also has steamboat line which ; ply it . ri::ce at- ; / Rarnaha rive s :■> tbe sea. and thence to Savannah and Bruns wick. There are two newspapers conducted : here with success. The Dublin Dispatch a : Democratic paper, and the Dublin Courier, ■ a Populist paper. The sheriff and ordinary being Popu lists, they give the legal prinitng to the 1 Dublin Courier. Dublin has splendid waterworks and an ; electric light plant, as well as sufficient ; apparatus for fire protection. A large and well arranged court house I built of brick and elegantly finished with ’ the modern improvements. Dublin has quite a number of enterpris i ing merchants and business men, and is filled to repletion with upright and honor able citizens, both male and female, of whom we will notice la- ter, time and space precluding further mention at this time. J Dublin has splendid schools, largely at , tended, all in charge of efficient teachers. Also two or three churches with large • memberships and able pastors. At Dudley, on the Macon and Dublin ' railroad, a colony, of which Colonel D. M. Hughes is president, will put out 70.000 peach rtees this season- At Montros'' Col onel J. M. Stubbs has an orchard contain ing fifteen thousand trees, all of which bore fruit last year. This is the largest and most beauitful orchard on the Macon i and Dublin road, larger even than the orchards of the Hon. Dudley M. Hughes of ■ Danville. Os the fruit interests on the Line of said road we will refer again soon. We will also notice improvements, etc., at each place mentioned above. REVOLUTION IN COSTA RICA. Washington, Feb. 5.—A telegram receiv ed at the state department from San Jose, -Costa Riea, announces that a revolution was inaugurated there yesterday. MR. HARRY EDWARDS. Famous as author of “Sons and Fathers” will introduce F. Marion Crawford Tues i day night. SOUTHERN TOUR Os the Baseball Team of Har vard Begins In April. ■Cambridge, Mass., Feb. s—The5 —The revised schedule of games for the Harvard base ball team is completed, and the Southern tour arranged beginning with a game with the University of North Carolina. The team will have a game with some college nine every week that it is away from home. Yale dates are undecided. Among the dates are April 16, University of North Carolina, at Greensboro, N. C.; April 18, M ashington and Lee University at Lynch burg, Va.; April 19, University of Virgi nia, at Charlottesville, Va. JULIUS JUMPED. From the Train and V/as Severely Cut About the Head. This morning Julius Birdsong, a son of Mr. Nat Birdsong, was brought in on the Macon and Dublin train suffering from se vere injuries v< hich, he claims, were re ceived as he jumped from -the train as it was passing the station where he wanted to get off. Young Birdsong purchased a ticket for ! some point down the road yesterday as- 1 ternoon, but he says that the conductor I failed to take up his ticket, and that the , train did not stop at the station where he i wanted io get off so he decided to jump off, which he did, and was severely hurt. Several gashes were cut in his head. He 1 was brought to Macon and now being at ■ tended by physicians. DUE’S MOVEMENTS. Washington, Feb. s—President5 —President Dole, of Hawaii, left Washington early this morn ing, taking the 7 o’clock train for Phila delphia. Hd was accompanied by Major Hiestand, of the army. Mr. Dole has some personal business to transact in Philadelphia and will return to Washington late this evening. IT’S A PRIVILEGE To hear Crawford. Macon will give him a glorious welcome. ' PAPERS ARRIVED | And the Nobles Case Will Go Before the Pardon Com mission Next Week. Official information has been received ( in Atlanta that the remitti-teur from the United States supreme court in Mrs. No bles’ -case 'had been sent to Attorney Gen eral Terrell. The document will be forwarded at once ■to Judge -G. C. -Smith, whose duty it will then be to resente-nce the wretched old wo man who has languished in the Bibb coun ty jail for nearly three years. Already petitions praying for executive clemency in her behalf are beginning to reach Governor Atkinson and he is turning them all over to the prison -commission. ; The negro, Gus Fambles, who was Mrs. Nobles’ partner in 'the crime of murdering her husband, has been repeatedly respit ed and the commissioners will fix a day on Which both cases can be heard. Attorney General Terrell and Solicitor General Bob Hodges will speak for the state, and Attorneys Marion Ha’rris and J. I R. Cooper, and .Mr. W. C. Glenn, of At i lanta, will do the pleading for the de , sense. This application will, undoubtedly, take up more of the time of the commission and I excite more general interest than any ota | er which is now pending. It not only in | valves the execution of a woman, who has i already attracted the sympathy of a very I large portion of the female population of Georgia, but it brings in a fine question of equity because of the fact that the negro Fambles must be disposed of at the same time. The papers in the case will prot»a&ly be sent to the commissioners the latter part of next wek. F. MARION CRAWFORD. Great author on -a great subject, Tues i day night. Prices 50c. and sl. Reserve sale begins Monday. Men’s and Boys’ Suits, Overcoats, Underwear At Cost. Not a Thing The matter with them. They haven’t been in the store but half a season. We can’t tell why they linger. No one can. We don’t try to. We just Mark ’em down to Cost, And that clears ’em out. PRICE TWO CtMS INCH STRIKES OOHKKKE Latest Reports Sap That. Big Finds have Been Made by New Comers. FULLY TEN MILLION Will Represent the Amount of the Winter’s Clean Up—Great Re joicing Up There. Juneau, Alaska, (By Steamer City of Se : attle, B. C.,) Feb. 5, Stamped from Daw- ■ son.—News brought out by a party of ■ about a dozen men who reached Skaguay ‘ on January 28th, several of whom reached i there by a smal steamer. 'Among -them were Gecrge McKenna, of Douglas Island, who has been tn Yukon for two years. He also states that a num ber of very rich strikes nave been made. This is the very latest from -the Klon ; dike as four men in the party left Daw- ■ son as late as December 26th. Van Couver, B. C., Feb. s.—The steam ship Ccquilan, which struck a rock near Mary Island, off the iSou-thwesr coast of Alaska, while bound north, has arrived here direct from Skaguay, brings -direct in formation of affairs in the northern 'terri tory. The -news that many strikes were made on the Big 'Salmon is confirmed by a party who came out for supplies. Pay dirt yielding 30 cents to the pan was dis-covered in the gravel above the bedrock, which at the last report 'had not been reached, on Henderson creek five miles be low Stewart, good strikes were made. It is likely that the stream will prove rich in gold. The latest reports from the inte rior of Alaska are especially encourag ; ing. The Minnok river and its tributaries promise to surprise the world, says the I return prospector, in -the next year, and ! all the United States will rejoice. It is now conceded -that the winter’s clean up will not be more than $10,000,000. COMMITTED TO JAIL Young Boys Held on the Charge of Larceny. The News yesterday mentioned the ar -1 rest of Charles Gagliardi, Tom Tubberville ! and Grover Tucker on the charge as steal . ing knives from the Fair Store -and also ; from Dr. Migra-th. The boys, ia order, as Mr. Smih thinks, I to keep down prosecution, claimed that the I knives were given them by Mr. Smith’s i young son, Powell Smith. This statement, 1 instead of having the desired effect, only I caused Mr. Smith to push the case more ; vigorously, and yesterday afternoon be- I fore Judge Balkcom sufficient evidence I was brought out not only to warrant the • commitment of the boys in default of SIOO - bond, but to completely exonerate Mr, I Smith’s son, who, as was clearly shown* had no connection with the matter what ever. The boys claimed that young Smith gave them the knives on Thursday, but it was clearly shown that the knives were in their -possession as early as Tuesday. Os course, no one attached, for a mo : ment, any importance to the bays’ story 1 that Young Smith had given them the 1 knives. 1 Ths commitment of these young boys | has suggested to -many the urgent need for a house of correction or reform school in I Georgia. YOU CANNOT AFFORD To miss the Crawford lecture Tuesday 1 night. Advertise in The News and reach the 1 ponnle