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ESTABLISHED 1884.
RECOGNITION
OF HIS_S ERVICES
Asked for in Behalf of the
Family of the Late Ad
miral Worden.
ECHOES fROM THE SIXTIES.
A Memorial Presented Asking That
Officers of the Monitor be Recog
nized by the Government.
Washington, Feb. 7.—A communioation
was received by the senate from .the sec
retary of war today presenting the urgent
necessity for immediate action to control
the disorderly element assembling in Alas
ka.
Chandler, of New Hampshire, presented
a memorial which called to the attention
of the senate one of the most thrilling
events of the civil war.
The memorial was prepared in 1874 by
the late Admiral Worden, who as lieuten
ant in the navy commanded the Monitor
In the historic meeting in Hampton Roads
between that vencsl and the iron-clad Mer
rimac.
Chandler said Admiral Worden conceiv
ed the idea that it would be proper for the
government of the United States to pay
to the officers and crew of the Monitor
S2OO each in the nature of prize money,
but after having prepared the memorial
concluded not to present it tocongress,
lest his motives might be misconstrued.
Candler said that he now took occasion
to present the memorial himself and he
hopid <xmgr<ss might see its way clear, in
view of the wonderful victory achieved by
lieutenant Worden, to 'do something sub
stantial for the surviving members of his
family, who are not in good financial cir
cumstances. He asked that the memorial
be referred to the naval affairs committee,
his idea being lie said that the secretary
of the navy could evolve some plan where
by such recognition by the government
could be made of the great services ren
dered to this country by Astmiral Worden.
Hale, of Maine, paid n high tribute to
Admiral Worden, and a pea led to the sen
ate to accord not only a just but a gener
ous treatment to the surviving members
<rf Ins family.
hoppeFand _ sousa
Will Tour Eutope Together in
Force Next Season.
Chicago, Feb. 7. —DeWolff Hopper and
John Phillip Sousa are going to Europe to
give American comic opera and American
band music throughout the old world.
All the members of the Hopper opera
company, "El Capitan,” and all the mem
bers of Sousa’s baml are booked for the
trip.
The start is to be made sometime in the
fall and lioth companies expect to be away
the entire season of 1898-’99. In conse
quence of this trip abroad the production
of DeWolff Hopper’s new opera will be de
layed until some time in 1899.
BEET SUGAR.
A Big Company Organized in New York
State.
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 7—The Buffalo Beet
Sugar Company, of Brant, Erie county,
incorporated today with a capital stock of
$600,000 in shares of SIOO. to manufacture
and refine beet sugar.
The directors are Clarence M. Fenton,
Benjamin Fenton, H, P. Bissell and Eu
gene F. Rea. of Buffalo, and J. C. Battle,
of Piquo, O.
The Etie Preserving Company, of Buf
falo, owns 5,995 shares of the capital
stock.
MILITARY BILL.
Was Taken Up by the House This Morning-
Attendance Light.
Washington, Feb. 7 —Attendance in the
House today was small. A bill passed to
ratify the act of the territorial legislature
of Arizona authorizing the erection of a
capital building. Without further prelim
inary business the House went into a com
mittee of the whole and took up the con
sideration of the military academy appro
priation bill.
after aThens.
The Mercer Ba'l Team is Making Great
Preparations.
The management of the Mercer baseball
team is making great preparations for the
coming season, and there is but little
doubt in the minds of the students out
there but that Athens will be any easy vic
tim.
Two of the best ball players in the state
will enter college in a few days and go on
the team. One of the new men is a star
pitcher, and with tnansfleld the team will
be amply supplied in the box.
The game with the Cadets at Milledge
ville has been called off, as the cadets say
they are unable to get up a team.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
Subject of Admitting Professionals Will be
Taken Up Monday.
Commencing Monday, the delegates to
the National Assembly of the League of
American Wheelmen, that convenes at the
Southern Hotel in St. Louis Wednesday,
Thursday. Friday and probably Saturday,
will begin to arrive.
The League of Amerncan Wheelmen is
divided into two different bodies —the L.
A. W. proper and the National Assembly.
The latter is composed of delegates elec
ted by the members in each state division.
Jt holds its meetings in the winter, and
they are conducted in a strictly business
manner. The national meet of the L. A.
AV. is an entirely different affair. It has
no business at all to transact, and holds
no business sessions. It is best known as
the sumer outing or vacation of the wheel
men, and they gather at one point to have
a good time.
The most important subject to be taken
up next week wil be the election of offi
cers. From president indications Isaac B.
Potter has a clear field for re-election.
The subject of admitting professionals
to membership in the L. A. W. will be dis
cussed. and probably changes will be made
in the racing rules. At last year’s meet
ing delegates to the assembly went all the
way from San Francisco to Albany, N. Y.,
to cast their votes. Only one woman will
be a delegate to the coming Assembly, and
•be will come from Nevada.
FOR FORGERY.
Lord William Neville Will be
Indicted by the Grand
Jury.
London, Feb. 7.—'Recorder Sir Charles
'Hall addressing the grand jury in the case
of Lord William Nevill, fourth son of the
Marquis of Abergavenny, who was com
mitted for trial on January 31, charged
with fraud, in connection with the suit of
Sam Lewis against Lieutenant Spender
Clap, of the Second Life Guards, to re
cover 11,113 pounds due on two promisory
notes cashed for the prisoner, said the
evidence “apeared to establish a prima
facie case of forgery” and it would be thtir
duty to find a true bill against Nevill.
Eventually the trial of Lord William
Nevill was set down for Wednesday next.
ZOLA’S TRIAL
Commenced This Morning in Paris ana
Arouses Great Interest.
Paris, Feb. 7 —The trial of M. Zola, who
is being prosecuted by the government as
a result of a letter which he wrote last De
cember to Aurore, strongly reflecting upon
high officials conected with the Dreyfus
case opened today in the assizes court of
the senate.
The most keen public interest is mani
fested in the case. Hundreds of people
surround tae court aav .is to gain al
mittanee. Police loamras will be taken
to insure the most rigid order.
Have your magazines rebound by The
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COLLECTOR’DUNN.
His Name Was Sent in for the
Port of Brunswick.
WIMBISH IN ATLANTA
To Be Surveyor of Customs—Some
Other Appointments Made bv
President
Washington, Feb. 7. —The president to
day sent the following nominations to the
senate:
Treasury—'Christopher C. Wimbish, sur
veyor of custom's for the port of Atlanta,
Ga.
Collector of customs, Henry T. Dunn,
for the District of Bruswick.
Joseph H. Short for the District of
Vicksburg.
'Frank E. Lee, Texas, District of Galves
ton, Texas.
TOO MUCH NAME.
A Very Distinguished Spanish
Lady Gets a Divorce in
North Dakota.
Fargo, N. D., Feb. 7. —-On Saturday night
States Attorney Fred Morrill secured a di
vorce for a Spanish lady.
Cruelty was the grounds upon which the
decree was secufcd and no fight was made
on the suit by her husband.
The plaintiff was the Countess Marie De
La Concepcion De La Canteray Clark De
Goebel y Fernandez.
The defendant was Juan C. Goebel y
Fernandez. They were married at Madrid,
March, 1892. The lady belongs to one of
the oldest and wealthiest families in Spain
and owns large estates in both Cuba and
Spain.
Minister Woodford, of the United States,
resides In one of her houses at Madrid and
the lady is second in rank and wealth
only to the family of the premier.
JOCKEY SLOAN
Has Arrived in San Francisco and Outlines
His Plans.
San Francisco, Feb. 7. —Tod Sloan, the
jockey, is back in the city which he is
pleased to call his home.
He arrived here from the east last
evening and was warmly welcomed by his
friends.
He is several pounds heavier than when
he left here, but expects to ride at about
103 pounds. He confessed to being in
ipoor condition, owing to his long journey,
and will not accept any mounts here for
several days. After six weeks he intends
to go east. He will live up to his contract
with Fleischmann, he says, all reports to
the contrary notwithstanding.
Next year he may be expected to do a
good deal more racing abroad. This year,
he says, he will not be able to race abroad
for the reason that the English racing
season closes in November, and his con
tract with Flieschemann will keep him
in America until that time.
VERY GORY
A Don at Havana Wants Some
American Blood.
Havana, Feb. 7.—The Conservatives are
organizing their party throughout the is
land. Weyfer has been named honorary
president and Romero Robledo as vice
president. On Sunday, as General Lee was
entertaining the officers of the Maine at
La Play«. the Conservatives held a large
meeting at Mariano, two miles away.
; Romero Rubio, one of the speakers, said
i that the great enemies of Spain were en
i joying themselves not far off; that he
• hoped that the day was not distant when
Spain would show .them what Spanish sol
diers could do, and that the Americans
were very much mistaken in believing that
Spain to be a weak nation because she
had not been able to subdue 30.000 Cubans;
but that was due to the fact that the Cu
bans were sons of Spaniards, having the
same blood and the same vigor. But. had
they been 30,000 Americans they would
have been annihilated long ago. The ora
tor received deafening applause and hur
rahs.
THE MACON NEWS.
PARDON ROARD
DID NOT MEET
But Commutation of Sentence
in the Allen Case is
Now Certain.
ffICTIO THIS MOMiIG.
All the Papers Have Been Prepared
and the Action of the Board
Has Been Settled.
The final action of the Board of Pardons
in the Allen case was looked for today,
but the Board of Pardons which was to
have met at 10 o’clock this morning failed
to get together.
It is understood that the papers in the
case have all been prepared and that 'Al
len’s sentence would certainly have been
commuted today had the board met.
This action will be taken, however, to
morrow’ in all probability.
The news of the commutation of the sen
tence of Tom Allen will be received with
pleasure by a very large number of peo
ple. As the time has passed the magnifi
cent effort to save his client’s life made
by Col. J. W. Preston has been watched
with the deepest interest and has enlisted
the sympathy of those who had before
been lukewarm and has won over those
who were most bitter, as the murdered
man’s friends in their denunciation of
Allen.
Had it not been for the persistent efforts
and the dogged determination of Colonel
Preston, nothing could have saved Alien’s
life. 'His case has been carried through
every court to the highest tribunal in the
land. Notwithstanding the fact that the
original finding of the jury has been up
held, the lawyer and friend of the doomed
man has stood beside him without shirk
ing any work or effort that might save his
client’s life.
Allen himself has at all time lived in
great hope that the final outcome of his
case would be commutation. He has al
ways stuck to the same story and those
who have heard him are firmly convinced
of the truth of his statements.
He has always said that he did not know
Carr and that he has no recollection what
soever of the shooting. He says that he
was drunk and that while the killing took
place he had no knowledge of what had
occurred.
It is ia close shave for Allen, however.
Next Friday is the day set for the hang
ing. In speaking of it he has said that he
was ready for his doom though he firmly
believed that he would not be called upon
to give up his life. He has always spoken
like a .brave man prepared to die and
deeply regretting the killing of Carr.
For some days past he has been very
unwell and the tremendous strain of hope
deferred has told upon him. He has lost
weight and is depressed in spirits, but the
news from Atlanta will necessarily work
a wonderful change on him.
graWTury
Will Meet for This Term Next
Monday.
The grand jury of Bibb county will meet
on next Monday.
Following are the names of the grand
jurors drawn to serve for the term:
George T. Harris, E. D. Huthnance, John
J. Jelks, A. Gibian, E. AV. Burke, L. S.
Worsham, M. C. Balcom, George W. Dun
caia AV. L. Douglas, C. C. Wilder, J. T.
Dozier, C. D. Findlay, AV. T. Shinholser,
S. H. Sheppard, T. Skelton Jones, T. H.
Henderson, AV. W. Brown, R. Lee Long,
R. W. Jemison, Edgar A. 'Ross, AV. F.
Elder, Joseph N. Neel, AV. AV. DeHaven,
AV. C. Turpin, Frank B. West, Alex Blair,
A. L. Wood, A. B. Small, Thomas R. Ayer
and H. J. Thomas.
The civil docket will be taken up in the
superior court next Monday.
MARTIN’S CASE.
Court at Wilkesbarre Was Crowded With
Interested Spectators.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Feb 7. —Hundreds of
persons, anxious to hear what action Judge
Woodward woud take in reference to the
sensational outbreak on Saturday between
Attorneys Garman and Lenahan, opposing
counsel in the Latimer shooting case,
thronged the court room today.
Judge 'Woodward spoke of the incident
of Saturday, saying that after he had left
the bench and before court adjourned an
altercation had arisen between two of the
lawyers engaged in the trial which the
court did net fully hear, nor did he real
ize the words used until they were seen
in the newspapers.
"Had we heard,” said the judge, “what
was said, we would have dealt with the
lawyers in a summary manner, as the af
fair so deserved, and if there is a repeti
tion of it we shall punish the guilty par
ties for contempt of court.”
The first witness today was Silas Jones,
a justice of the peace of West Hamilton.
He stated that he had seen the meeting
of the deputies and strikers at West Ha
zelton, and followed the deputies to Latti
mer. He saw Sheriff Martin advance to
wards them with a paper in his hands.
Some of them surrounded him and an al
tercation occurred, but the witness could
not see exactly how 'the altercation com
menced or how it terminated.
He heard a couple of shots and then a
volley. He saw several men fall, and two
of the men who fell near him were dead.
Just before the noon adjournment the
court acepted bail for all the accused dep
uties and sheriff in the sum of $6,000 in
each case, making $402,000 in all. Bail
was furnished by the Philadelphia Surety
Company.
ON FLOATING ICE.
Thrilling Experience of a Party of Men on
Lake Erie. ’
Cleveland, Fe.b. 7.—Five workmen who
had started to walk across the ice from
the new waterworks crib, five milese out
in the lake, were rescued last evening by
the fire boat Clevelander from an ice floe
after an exciting experience.
The men bad started to walk to the
shore and when one mile out discovered
that they were on a detached ice floe and
rapidly moving away.
After prolonged cries and waving their
coats they finally attracted the attention
of a skater near shore, who telephoned to
the fire boat. After a hard battle with the
ice, the Clevelander succeeded in crush
ing her way through, the heavy ice and
rescuing the men.
You can talk to 10,000 every day through
the columns of The News.
MACON NEWS MONDAY FEBRUARY 7 1898.
ATLANTIC CITY
Big Fire This Morning De
stroyed a Vast Amount
of Property.
Atlantic City, N. J., Feb. 7. —A fire
which originated in the Academy of Music
this morning destroyed half a block of
buildings entailing a loss of about $65,000
before being got under control.
The origin of the fire is a mystery. Of
ficer Robinson discovered fire issuing from
under the board walk in front of the Acad
emy of Music. A general alarm was sent
in, but before the engines arrived the
Academy of Music was enveloped in flames.
The fire spread to La pres’ confectionery
store and there communicated to the rear
of the Bryn Mawr hotel.
The flames quickly spread to Beth’s Are
furnishing store, Rutter's school of Phre
nology, Myers photograph gallery, the Gold
Mine bath house, Smith’s rolling chair es
tablishment and a portion of the vitascope
parlors on the board walk.
For a time it looked as if the Berkley
hotel, the largest house on Kentucky ave
nue, would surely be destroyed.
The rear of the hotel joins the burned
buildings and a stiff west wind fanned the
flames toward the big house.
Several lines of hose were run out the
hotel windows and the sides of the build
ing and the surrounding property were
thoroughly drenched.
The guests in the Berkley hotel hurried
ly packed their clothing and prepared tor
a hasty retreat, but the wind shifted at
this time and this alone saved the hotel.
MRS. LANE BETTER.
Washington, Feb. 7. —The condition of
Mrs. Lane, daughter of ex-Senator Black
burn. is reported Improving today. She
had a good night’s rest and is taking nour
ishment more freely.
MEETINGONFRIDAY
The Executive Committee of
the Carnival Association
to Start the Ball.
COMMITTEES TO BEFOOL
And a Full Program for the Three
Days of the Carnival Will Then
be Made Up.
A meeting of the executive committee of
the Macon Carnival Association will be
held at the Chamber of Commerce next
Friday, at which time a full attendance of
those who are interested in the success of
Macon’s Diamond Jubilee are requested to
be present.
President E. A. Waxeibaum said that
the association had been holding back to
see what Atlanta intended doing in the
way of having a carnival, trades display
or centennial celebration.
The city council of Atlanta has refused
to aid in the demonstrations that some of
the citizns are anxious to make, and now
it is almost certain that Atlanta will not
have anything that will interfere with the
Macon Carnival.
At the meeting next Friday all of the
committees will make reports, and it is
expected to get down to work and make
the four days which will be taken up by
the Diamond Jubilee, the most brilliant in
the history of Macon.
Mr. George A. Macdonald, who is chief
of the bureau of promotion and publicity,
has been at work for the past week or two
■arranging a program, which will probably
be submitted to the meeting next Friday.
Os course as arranged so far the program
is merely outlined. The floral parade will
be repeated, and will be made more exten
sive and brilliant than the last one.
President Waxeibaum is most enthu
siastic and says that the carnival will be
one of the grandest ever displayed in the
South.
Those who saw Macon’s exhibition last
year, and who had also seen New Orleans’
magnificent display, said that the one here
was equal to those of the Crescent City
in every respect.
FOULLY MURDERED
The Postmaster a Goodwyn’s
Station Found Dead this
Morning.
Atlanta, Feb. 7. —J. H. Polk, aged G 5
years, and postmaster at Goodwyn, a sta
tion fifteen miles north of here on the
Southern road, was murdered at his home
on Saturday night about 7 o'clock by un
known parties, and his store, which he ran
in conection with the postoffice was rob
bed.
His dead body was not discovered until
this morning. 'He was shot through the
head and death was instantaneous.
There is no clue to the perpetrators of
of the crime. He had SSOO on his person,
which was left undisturbed.
HELD FORCONTEMPT
The Judge of a Kentucky
Court Has Arrested the
City Officials.
Independence, Ky., Feb. 7. —Seven mem
bers of the Covington council, the city
clerk and attorney, are held in contempt
of count by Judge Tarvin and have been
placed in the custody of the sheriff with
the alternative of purging themselves of
contempt before the day ends or being
committed to jail.
The trouble arose from the refusal of
the council, on the advice of their attor
ney to obey an order by the judge to pro
vide the necessary furniture for the court
house in Covington under the law.
While Independence is the county seat,
the court is held in Covington for general
convenience.
Upon the failure of council to obey the
judge's order he ordered the removal of
the records to this little village and cited
the members of council to apear today to
answer the charge of contempt.
These unusual proceeding has aroused
the keenest interest and the town is
crowded with visitors.
•DOLE IN BUFFALO.
•President Dole and party arrived this
morning from Washington In a private
car over the Pennsylvania Railroad. A
committee headed by Captain John M.
Brinker, president of the Pan American
Exposition Company, met the train and
escorted the party to the hotel.
MANY ISSUES
INMimiGN
For the Legislature in Bibb
County Will be Put
Forward.
BOIFEUILLET OUT OF IT,
He Will Run for Clerk of the House
and So Leaves the Field Open
for Another.
Hon. John T. Boifeuillet will not be a
candidate for the legislature in Bibb coun
ty this year.
As predicted in The News sometime ago
he has decided to make the race for clerk
of the House or Representatives to suc
ceed Hon. Mark Hardin, and his friends
say that he is certain of election.
Mr. Boifeuillet is in receipt of letters
and telegrams from all over the state con
taining assurances of support.
The withdrawal of Mr. Boifeuillet’s name
from the race gives an opening for more
candidates and already they are beginning
to 'talk.
The crop will be a large one and those
who are certain 'to be in it say that they
will make it lively.
vne of the leading issues in the legisla
tive campaign in Bibb county this year
will be whether or not the board of road
commissioners shall be abolished.
The roiad board has been in existence
about twenty-six years, and has givefi
great satisfaction, and given to Bibb
county 'the best system of public roads
possessed by any county in the state.
The board consists of twenty-seven
members, three citizens from each of the
nine districts of the county. They serve
without pay, and are elected by the grand
jury.
The board of county commissioners,
consisting of five members, who are elect
ed every four years by the people, are of
the opinion that the road board should be
abolished and their powers and duties ds
legated to them, the county commission
ers.
The county commissioners had a bill in
troduced at the last session of the legisla
ture to abolish the read board, but it was
defeated. It is said the fight will be re
newed at the next legislature, hence an
effort will be made in the approaching
legislative race to nominate and elect leg
islators from Bibb who will favor abolish
ing the read board.
The read board now elects the superin
tendent of the county ehaingang and the
county commissioners wish to have the
right of electing the superintendent.
In addition to the above there will be
another issue in the campaign that will
have to be met.
The temperance people say they will not
vote for any man who does not clearly
define his position in favor either of pro
hibition or the Bush bill. If necessary
they will put forward temperance candi
dates. Last year in the Democratic prim
ary they supported Mr. Charley Howard
and he received over 800 votes.
If there are several candidates this year,
and all the temperance people vote solidly
for one man and he receives also other
votes he will be formidable and may stand
a good chance of winning.
The liquor men at are not organized in
Bibb, and it is not known if they will
organize before the campaign opens.
Liquor has not had an organization in
Bibb county in many years, and at late
elections whisky’ dealers have manifested
but little interest in politics, and are sel
dom seen at the polls working.
The question of the independent incor
poration of Vineville or the annexation of
the suburbs may pop up to bother the
candidates no little.
There is a growing sentiment in Macon
for the extension of her territory. Macon
thinks that the suburbs in a radius of one
and a half miles at least should be annex
ed to her, and thus add 15,000 persons to
her population. All these people depend
on Macon for support. They work in the
city, but live in the suburbs.
A part of the citizens of Vineville have
been trying some time to obtain independ
ent incorporation, but a majority of the
people of Vineville are opposed to the in
dependent incorporation of Vineville and
would rather Vineville be annexed to Ma
con. The people of Macon would be glad
to receive Vineville into Macon, but they
•are storngly opposed to Vineville having
independent incorporation. Candidates
for the legislature may have to take de
cided position on this matter. There will
be other issues besides the above.
mawTprTce
Talks on the Subject of the
Manufacturers’ Con
vention.
'Speaking on the subject of the conven
tion to be held in Atlanta this week for
the purpose of promoting manufacturing
industries and for the discussion of mat
ters calculated to improve the con
ditions in the South, Mayor Price says:
“I believe in the encouragement by mu
nicipalities of any kind of manufacturing
interest. Manufactories take down the
rent cards and fill empty houses; they
stimulate trade and circulate the dollars;
they increase the population and make the
cities grow; they find work for the worker
and put bread in the mouth of his child;
they quicken, brighten and sustain every
other interest, and make glad the waste
places. The whirr of wheels and the rip
of the saw is sweeter music than that of
a brass band, and can arouse mors enthu
siasm in a town thai has ambition to go
forward. I have the honor of being the
first mayor in the South to relieve manu
factories of a license tax, and am an ad
vocate of still further relieving them where
it is possible to do so. I am in full accord
with any movement looking to their en
couragement and promotion. ’
CUTTING EXPENSES
Central Railway Discharging
Employes.
A large number of employes a-t the shops
of the Central Railway have been dis
charged, as the management of the road
is after saving some of the salaries that
are now being paid.
Mast of those who were discharged from
the service were in the carpenter’s depart
ment. The officials say that it will not be
such a hard matter for the men discharged
to get positions as carpenters are nearly
always in demand.
It is understood that cuts will be made
atother points of the system.
CONDEMNATION
Is in Store for Bridge Row—
The Old Buildings Must
Come Down.
For a number of years past Bridge Row
has been a thorn iu the side of Macon, and
the squalid quarters that now line the
street are a last in danger of being pulled
down.
Several members of the city council have
decided to introduce and support a resolu
tion to have the old rotten wooden build
ings iu this section condemnedand pulled
down.
(When an alarm of fire was sounded a
few days ago and someone said Bridge
Row was burning a sigh o. relief went up
from many, though the fire was in a por
tion of the street that is not offensive. But
Bridge Row won’t burn, for time and
again fires have been discovered in that
quarter and as many times extinguished.
There are a few instances where sub
stantial brick or wccden buildings can be
found on the street, but as a rule the
buildings are’one story dives occupied by
■negrots. The houses have fall n into de
cay, and the health officers make double
rounds in this section.
(Passengers getting off the Southern Ra l
way train are not impressed with the city
when they see the many hovels that front
on a street which should at least have
some pretence of a city.
Trade in the stores on the street has al
most been stifled by the surroundings.
With the pulling down of the old buildings
and t’ro ' >e ton cf new onees the proper
ty v.oultl v.ouble in value, and a goo.l bus
iness could be established there for mer
chants.
Some of the old buildings near the Cen
tral railway bridge have been pulled down,
for they soon would have fallen into the
street.
The best time to advertise is all the
time.
DODBfWELLED
The Younger Sister-of Miss
Knox Has Mild Case of
Smallpox.
REPORTED TO THE BOARD.
By the Attending Physician This
Morning-She Has Been 111 for
Several Days.
Another case of smallpox was reported
to the Boarrd of Health this morning in
the person of Miss Lilian Knox, the youn
ger sister of Miss Kate Knox, who has
been suffering with the disease.
The case was reported in due form by
Dr. M. A. Clark on one of the card’s fur
nished by the Board of Health for such
cases.
■Dr. Barron, chairman of the Board of
Health, is out of the city, and will not re
turn ui til tonight at 7 o'clock, when it is
probable that some action will be taken by
■the board.
Miss Knox has ben in he house with her
Bister while she was 1.11, and as she had
been successfully vaccinated did not think
there was any danger in her catching t'he
disease. Dr. Clark says that he thinks her
case will boa very mild one.
There are many people in Macon who
believed there was not a genuine case of
smallpox here, but now that it has .shown
that it is contagious, it will be believed
that this is a case of genuine smallpox.
Miss Knox has been ill for several days,
but Dr. Clark was not certain until today
that She had smallpox. He at once re
ported the case.
TOBACCO?
A Combine is Reported to he
Organizing.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7. —A gigantic com
bination of plug tobacco manufactories has
been talked of here for seme time past. A
capitalist of Hamilton, 0., is said to be in
England to interest a syndicate there in
the scheme.
A rumor is afloat that all the unat
tached manufactories in America are to
be included and capitalized at $50,000,000.
The agent is said .to have asked for op
tions on the Weissenger Company’s, John
Finzer & Bros.’s, Starter Bro’s., and Wil
liams’ factories, in Louisville, but inquiry
at these places failed to substantiate the
report. No one can lie found among .he
tobacco men here who knows anything
definite about the plans.
However, options are reported to have
been secured in other cities, including New
York and Middletown, O.
If the rumored consolidation should be
made, there would be pitted against each
other the American Tobacco Company,
Liggett & Myers, and the nevz combine.
The new combine would have considerably
the best of the. fight from the standpoint
of capital and capacity.
As it is now, the American Tobacco
Company has an annual output of plug
amounting to about 40,000,000 pounds a
year; 36,000,000 of v.’hich are made in
Louisville; the Liggett & Myers Company
makes about the same amount, or perhaps
a little less, while the combined output
of the proposed gigantic company would
be something like 50,000,000 or 60,000,000
pounds a year.
DETERMINATION
On Both Sids Still the Feature
of New England Strike.
New Bedford, Mass., Feb. 7- —The begin
ning of the fourth week of the cotton oper
atives strike showed nothing but the same
determination on both sides to stick to
their respective positions until the other
yields.
Secretary Cunnan, of the joint strike
committee, issued a statement saying that
the total amount of money received up to
Saturday, February 5, at 9 a. m., was
$1,345.
“In looking over the amounts received
from outside sources,” says Secretary
Cunnane, “every evidence that New Eng
land is beginning to help. The people of
Lowell, Lawrence and Boston in particu
lar give encouraging signs.”
You can talk to 10,000 every day through
the columns of The News.
COL, LOCKE
WMf
bays If Edwards Claims
Macon as His Home He
Committed a
FRAUD ON THE BALLOT.
For on the Night of the Election He
Said He H d Voted for Mc-
Kinley at Sparta.
The Repuolicans of Macon are very much
, ttirnd up over a statement contained in
j batr.rday s .\tlar.ta Constitution in which
■■■'■ Harry Edwards is quoted as saying
’ that he lias always been a resident of Ma
i con, and that his residence at Sparta has
I only’ been temporary.
Through it is true that Mr. Edwards has
■ lived in Macon most of his life, the Re
publicans who are pushing the claims of
, Mr. \\ alter Corbett for postmaster to suc
ceed Mr. Hertz against Mr. Edwards,
i claim that previous to the time of Mr. Mc
‘ Kinley’s election and at the time, that Mr.
I Edwards was -a resident of Sparta, and
' that was his voting place.
lu speaking of the matter Colonel Locke
i said that it was nonsense for Mr. Edwards
’ to in ake any claim for the Macon posio.fiee
I upon the ground that he was a resident
of Mactn, and voted for the president.
“Un the night of the presidential elec
tion.” said Mr. Locke, “Mr. Edwards came
to me at Republican headquaters and said
that he had voted for Mr. McKinley at
Sparta.
“ ‘At Sparta/ ” said I.
“Yes,” he replied, “that is my voting
place.”
“Now,” continued Colonel Locke, “it
Mr. Edwards persists in claiming Macon
as his home, and a man usually considers
his voting place his home, if he voted at
Sparta as he said he did, he commit
ted a fraud upon the ballot, and that is
one thing that we do not want in the Re
publican party.”
“The records have been examined and
it has .been found that Mr. Edwards did
■not vote in Macon.”
The delay in making the appointment for
the Macon office has somewhat provoked
those who thought that Mr. Corbett would
be appointed, and a more vigorous opposi
tion to Mr. -Edwards is being male.
Mr. Corbett is still iu Washington, and
those who are on the inside say that he
has fixed everything so far as the ’Macon
postoffice is concerned, despite the fact
that Major Hanson seems confident that
Harry Edwards is appointed. Th'e ap
pointment of a postmaster at iMacon
means a split in the party in this section,
and it is believed by many Democrats that
this is one reason why those in power are
hesitating about making the appointment.
Colonel Locke himself says that he has
never expected that the appointment would
be .made until four years from the time
Mr. Price, was appointed, but he does con
fidently expect that Mr. Corbett will be ap
pointed when the president does act in the
matter.
He says the president will not go back
I on those c-n whom he depended tor the
| n< <>h : , who are worthy of his con
side vicn ai.d are backed by the coll'd
party' organization.
HOGAN’S ALLEY
Atthe Academy of Music for
Toni gh t—other Attfac
tions.
A return engagement for Gilmore &
Leonard’s “'Hogan’s Miey” company is the
inevitable result of that play being per
formed once so popular has it become.
This play will appear at the Academy of
Music tonight, ar.d promises to be a great
success. -It was constructed especially
for the fun-loving public. The desire to
please runs through every act and the re
sult is a series of the most irresistable
laughter making scenes. It includes lets
of puns that snap back and forth pnd a
number of songs that are up to date. The
complications are gradually spun out.
Mickey is a hero. He leads the alley to
victory. Hogan hears good news and the
band plays on. All the actors are stars
iu theii line, special ante nt ion being drawn
to Campbell and Caufield. Taylor and Kar
c'her, Clements and Marshall, Harry Cran
dall, Joseph J. Conlan, Johnnie Dugan,
Mamie Ward, Frank Rhoades, and the
Misses Ethel Cope, May E. Cunard, Anna
Driver, the ’Chappelle sisters, and Tiddle
dewinks, as Mickey Dugan, that inimita
ble “Yellow Kid,” is the life of the play.
JASPER COUNTY TO THE FRONT.
I wish to say to you and to the public
that I have been using Cheney’s Expector
ant for years and. can truly say it is the
best preparation for coughs and croups in
existence. BOYKIN R. SMITH
Jasper County, Ga.
Men’s
Furnishings
Fair prices for all Furnishings and all the
time. That is the principle that has made our
Furnishing Goods Department the safest and most
satisfactory place for you to patronize Here you
are not trapped by a few popular novelties adver
tised at less than cost today, to be told tomorrow
that “the supply is exhausted.” It’s an easy fraud
to work. Does it make permanent customers ?
All the right things are here at popular prices.
Underwear at Cost.
CHEAP MONEY.
SH per cent, and 7 per cent, loney now
ready for loans on Macon residence and
business property. 8 per cent, money for
farm loans. Over 10.000.000 successfully
negotiated In Georgia alore. Loans made
can be paid off at any time. We are head
quarters. O. A. Coleman, Gen. Man.,
356 Second street, Macon, Ga.
PRICE TWO CENTS
TELEPHONES.
The Macon System tc be Im
proved in the Near
Future.
Some improvements of an important na
ture are to be made in the Macon Tele
phone system. Manager .Weaver is not
inclined to talk upon the subject but he
admits that the improvements will bo
made in the near future, or as soon as the
company can reach this point.
Among these improvements a new
switchboard will probably be included,
though this report is not confirmed by the
manager, while it is not denied.
Nothing furth< r has been done about the
new telephone system, which has been
talked of as stated in The News some time
ago.
It is more than probable that in ary
event that the ordinance requiring the
laying of all the wires underground will
prevent anyone else from coming here.
At any rate the Bell people will give
Macou a perfect service and there will be
no complaint from Lite subscribers here.
The experience of other places with a
double telephone service has not been sat
isfactory.
While competition between two compa
nies is going on the subscriber is obliged
to keep two 'telephones and the cost of the
two even at the lowest possible cut rates
is higher than the one telephone. The
service is not as satisfactory and there are
many other causes that bring about dis
satisfaction.
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guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
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■tore.
sabbath onsu nd ay
Movement to Change the
Jewish Sunday to First
Day of Week.
The suggestion advanced by Rabbi
Moses J. Gries, of Cleveland, 0., that the
Saturday-Sabbath be changed to the first
day of the week has brought about au
interesting discussion among the recog
nized leaders of the Jewish faith.
Saturday, the historic Jewish Sabbath,
which has for centuries been observed as i'_
a day of rest and religious service, is held
too sacred by many of the leaders of the
faith to be abandoned for the civil Sun
day, and before Rabbi Gries secures many
followers in his movement he must nec
essarily bring to bear convincing proofs
that the first day of the week will meet
with the endorsement and approval of
several million Jews.
Many and interesting are the opinions
which have been elicited from prominent
rabbis throughout the east and the ques
tion is now being discussed both in the
temples and in the Jewish papers. Rabbi
Gries is one of the most prominent men
of Jjis church and his opinion iy regarded
by all Jews with great consideration.
The question is not a issue and
Rabbi Gries is not the fatWr of the move
ment by any means, as there have frees
wiio £
1 ■ ■
to become interested in the
and he is now bringing the discussion “
prominently to the front.
In the east for many years a Sunday
service has .been held in the Jewish tem
ples for the accommodation of those who
have not the opportunity to attend tem
ple services on Saturday. The special
Sunday service, however, has not been
regarded as any effort to abandon the
Saturday services, which have always
been regularly attended.
In New York, where distances are con
siderable, services are held every Sunday
in the Jewish temples. These services are
largely attended and on account of the
conditions found in the great metropolis,
they are probably the most interesting
services of the week.
In Boston. Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chi
cago and other large cities where it is im
practical to attend religious service on the
busy week-day Saturday-Sabbath, these
services have been held with great suc
cess, but it had never been believed by
many that the special services would
in any way tend to destroy the historical
Sabbath of the Saturday.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
A notable event in the dramatic annals of
the stage in this city will be the appear
ance of Denman Thompson in his own
play, “The Old Homestead,” with all the
elaborate attention to detail that made its
four year run in New York, and its re
cent long stay at Chicago, so successful.
The effects and settings are new, and the
cast is the best that nas ever rendered
this play. In a word, nothing has been left
undone that will assist in making this en
gagement 'the dramatic event of the tea
son for Thursday night.
A CORRECTION.
Macon, Ga.. Feb. 6, 1898. —Editor Even
ing News: It is a mistake about Tom
Tubbeville being in the swamp on Tues
day with Gioves Tucker and Charles Gar
lardi with pocket knives.
R. F. SMITH.
Advertise in The News and reach the
people.