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ESTABLISHED 1884.
ALL DOUBT IS I
NOW DISPELLED
The Maine Explosion Was Not
an Accident—lmportant
Witness Testifies.
WHAT WILL BE HEIT MOVE?
Board of Inquiry Has About Finished
Its Work and Will Go to
Key West.
New York, Ei'b. 25.--A dispal- h to -the
raid from Havana says:
“There Is no longer any reason to doubt
that the explosion which wrecked Maine
eanie from underneath the vessel and that
Iter magazines had nothing to do with the
Initial explosion and played a much small
er part in the general disaster than was at
first supposed.
“The evidence that 'has served to confirm
the board was obtained by Ensign Powill
•on, an officer attached to the Fern.
“Powelison wax formerly in the con
struction corps and took . a two years’
special course in the Glasgow Sdhool of
Naval Architecture. He is therefore a
competent witness.
"What he discoverer] was that the for
ward part of the keel of the Maine, with
its ribs and plates was stove upward so far
that parts of rhe shattered double bottom
show out of the water, and in places sec
tions of the green painted outer hull ar
visible.
"Corroborative of the evidence given by
Ensign Pow. lison and of equal significance
ami im-portanc. is the result of the close
examination made by divers, what they
found indicated that. Lite explosion cam.
from a print beneath the keel.
A plum line dropped from a point just
sot ward of the conning tower would have
laid the lea-1 exactly on the spot where
the explosion oceui nil that hove the keel,
plates-and ribs almost to the surface. The
main force of the ex-plosion seems to have
bt en. exceedingly slight on the port siif.
of the vessel. This is consistent with the
fa< ts hitherto ascertained.
NOT CREDITED.
Washingion Officials Think the Statement is
Without Foundation
Washington, Feb. 25—Undoubtedly _thire
Is a qulter feeling manifested at the navy
di-i• irtim nt over the Maine affair as tha
time passes.
This is the tenth day since the nebk
wiar ship was de-iroy.d (but the 'officers
are willing to wait in patience at the ad
monition of tlie president and Secretary
ilxmg until the facts relating to the ex
plosion are fully developed.
They are fully oiithbir guard against the
acceptance of unauthorized statements of
the conditions at Havana, and daily devel
opments, bling aware of the efficiency of
the precautions adopted by the court of
inquiry to prevent the premature d'sclo
sure of lie proceedings.
Therefore the published statement that
the explosion had been demonstrated to bt
of exterior origin by the disci. ry of up
heaval of the double bottom of the Maine,
because the officers could not conceive that
the alert numbers of the court of inquiry
and their assistants in Havana had over
looked a fait so important as this, not
withstanding that it must have been per
fectly apparent for the past week to any
one who came near the wreck.
Captain Crowninshield turned up at the
navy department today and took the helm
in the bureau of navigation, relieving Cap
tain Dickens, who has distinguished him
self and earned the thanks of the secreta
ry for the untiring vigilance with which
he has managed all of the many details
of the Maine afi'air, that have fallen upon
the navigation bureau, and of the news
paper men for the patience and frankness
with which he has met their inquiries.
There was no word from either Captain
Slgsbce or Consul General Lee this morn
ing at the navy and state departments.
The monitor Terror Is lying in Hampton
Roads, and it Is said at the navy depart
ment that she has no orders as yet.
The Impression Is that she will remain
In that place, which is one of great strat
egic value in ease of need, at least until
IL the Monitor Puritan is ready to take her
jp place.
COURT OF INQUIRY
Will Probably Leave for Key West This Af
ternoon.
Havana. Feb. 25.—The United States
light house tender Mangrove is still here,
• and the naval of inquiry continues
its usual sessions today.
The members hope to get away to Key
West this evening or early tomorrow
morning, but are not sure which it will be.
It is probable that the testimony of civ
ilian witnesses did not add to the court’s
knowledge of the circumstances attend
ing the explosion, of the causes of which
these witnesses could know nothing, as
-they were quite a distance away at the
time of the occurrence.
The wounded are reported as doing well
today.
The Merritt & Chapman Derrick and
Wrecking company tug Right Arm is
again at work removing such‘parts of the
wreck as are possible to handle in ad
vance of the arrival of the stronger tugs
and derricks from the north.
SPAIN WANTS WAR.
Newspapers Urging Government to Strike
first R'ow.
London. Feb. 25. —According to the spe
cial dispatch from Madrid, the reports te
ceived there from the United States to the
effect that public opinion in the latter
country is becoming more excited owing
to the impression that the loss of the
Maine was not due to an accident, are
“restirring popular feeling here (in
Madrid), and the conviction is increasing
in ministerial circles that “the worst must
be expected."
Continuing, the special dispatch says:
“The government has no choice If the
United States adopts a threatening atti
tude, for the prospect of war is popular
w ith'all parties, and the more excitable
newspapers are already urging the gov
ernment to take measure to enable Spain
to strike the first and decisive blow.”
VESCAYA SAILS
The Spanish War Vessel in Under Headway
for Cuba.
New York, Feb. 25.—The Spanish cruis
er Vjscaya, was reported by the observer
ta quarantine as under way at 10:25 p. m._
Her destination is Havana.
The flag of the warship was still flying
at half mast this morning because of the
Joss o£ the Maine.
WAR INEVITABLE
Says President Iglesias Between Costa Rica
and Nicaragua
New York. Fob. 25.—A dispatch to the j
Herald from Panama says: •Advices re
ceived today from Costa Rico stat? that at |
a banquet given Sunday night President ■
Iglesias, in bis speech, said the situation i
b. tween Costa. Rico and Nicaraugua are ;
such that war was inevitable.
APPALLING DESTITUTION
Found by Clara Barton at Jaruco on Her ■
Visit.
Havana, Feb. 25.—Miss Clara Barton re- I
ports that she-found the recon centradoes
at Jaruco, Havana (Province, in an awful I
condition of starvation and misery. She :
said that she could not believe it was pos
sible to witness more human suffering and !
more appaling spectacles of distress than j
those she had already seen in Ctfba, Vet '
they did not compare with what she found
in Jaruco.
An immense crowd followed her to the
church, and the poor people knelt and
gave thanks to God for sending Miss Bar
ton to them. She had' (been appointed by
unanimous vote of the city council “adop
tive daughter” of Jaruco. She left a good
hospital in the place and has greatly re
lieved the general misery.
ST. JOHN DENIES
That the Government Has Made Arrange
rnents With Railroads.
Norfolk, Va., Feb. 25. —The rumor that
the government is securing from the rail
way companies estimates of their capacity
for moving troops and munitions of war
between Atlantic and gulf ports and the
ihtuior, is officially denied by President
St. John, of thi Seaboard Air Line, whose
road was mentioned in the reports.
St. John said today that he was ignorant
of any such move on the part of the war
department, ami as to contracts for moving
troops he had heard nothing of them.*
DE LOME AGAIN.
He Charges the American Newspapers With
Lying About Him.
Liverpool, Feb. 25.—Seuor Dupuy De
Lome, who arrived here today on board
the While Star Line steamer Britannic,
is quoted as saying in an interview:
"I have decided not to speak on the sub
ject of my letter to Senor Caualejas. I can
say, however, that I hbve been from the
first a victim of misapprehension.
"The news published in the American
papers and sent to this country and my
own, was from beginning to end made up
of lies of the most infamous character.
The allegation in. the American papers
that the terrible explosion in the Maine
was the outcome of Spanish conspiracy, is,
in my opinion, another instances of the
reckless manner in which the newspapers
in America work upon popular prejudice. ”
LA CHAMPAGNE
The French Liner Due Last Sunday Not Yet
Sighted.
New York. Feb. 25.—At 9 o’clock this
morning tire overdue French liner La
Champagne, from Havre, had not been
sighted, nor had anything been heard of
her.
Agent Boncandc and the local officials at
the dock and. officers of the French liner
still deny that the company is at all ap
prehensive about La Champagne, which
should have arrived last Sunday.
The passengers booked to sail from New-
York on La Champagne tomorrow- will be
sent <m La Bretagne.
BARNESVILLE MATTERS.'
Presiding Elder of the Griffin District Push
ing the Mission Work.
Barnesville, Ga., Feb. 25.—Rev. W. W.
Wadsworth, presiding elder of the Grif
fin district, North Georgia Conference, is
holding a missionary institute at the
M. thodist church. All the preachers in
the district are here, and many visitors.
Tuesday night Dr. H. C. Morrison, sec
retary of the foreign mission board, de
livered a very fine address.
Wednesday night Rev. Simeon Shaw, of
Madison, lectured on “Japan,” and Thurs
day night Rev. Mr. Irwin, of "Forsyth,
preached.
The day services are devoted to insti
tute work, and the night work to lectures
and songs. The Barnesville Methodist
choir has been furnishing some delightful
music, which is a great feature with all
the meetings held at this church.'
Rev. .S- Stevens is the pastor in
charge here. This is his second year, and
the people all like him. He is assisting
in making the missionary institute a suc
cess. This institute was held here last
year.
DINGLEY ATTACKED.
Moody Says He Will Not Follow a Dishonest
Leader.
Washington, Feb. 25.—The house today •
resumed the consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bills.
Quite a debate cn the motion to strike
out the appropriation of $133,000 for work
it Oakland. Cal., its opponents alleging
that no contract had yet been made for the
work, and asserting that the river and
harbor bill was to be suppressed and fa
vored a few given appropriations in the'
sundry civil bills.
Representative Moody made a sensation
al attack upon the appropriation in the
sundry civil bill of $360,000 for Rockland.
Me., harbor, which is in Mr. Diagley’s
district. He said he was willing to sub
mit to economy under honest leadership,
but for one he proposed to rebel against a
leadership that gave an appropriation to
Rockland, Me., an insignificant port.
Mr. Din-gley answered the personal at
tack made upon him. The Rockland im
provement. he said, was not simply an im
provement; it included the provision for a
breakwater and a harbor of refeuge—just
such another as was being built at Sand
Bay in Air. Moody’s district, and on which
$75,000 had been spent.
Mr. Catchings, Democrat, of Mississippi,
defended, the action of the appropriations
committee.
NAVAL MILITIA
Appears Before the Committee to Urge Ap
propriation.
Washington. Feb. 25.—A delegation of
officers of the naval reserve of the several
easter states, headed by Captain Miller, of
the New York naval malitia, and Com
mander Emerson, of the Maryland, appear
ed before the naval committee of the house
today to urge favorable action upon the
bill introduced by 'Representative Bull, of
Rhode Island, to increase the strength of
the naval militia.
The bill provides for the construction of
twenty torpedo boats of 150 tons each, at
a cost not exceeding $2,500,000 for the use
of rhe naval militia.
Through Pullman Buffet
sleeping cars between Macon
and New York via Georgia
railroad and Atlantic Coast
Line,
THE MACON NEWS.
BRYAN COMING
TO SPEAK HERE
The Man of 1900 Will Visit
This City Early Next
Month,
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
Will Be Given Him By the People of
Macon, and of This Section
of the State.
WillianrJ. Bryan will make .his first vis
it to Macon about the second or third week
of next month.
The arrangements to bring Mr. Bryan to
Macon have not yet been fully completed,
but it may be set down as a positive fact
that he will be here.
Mr. Bryan is booked to reach Alabama
to make a series of speeches in a number
of towns next .week and the follow
ing. He will then come on to Georgia, and
it is not yet known whether he will
speak first in Atlanta or Macon. An effort
will be made to get him to make this his
first stopping place in the state.
Mr. Bryan will- have a tremendous re
ception in Macon and will bring people
here from all over this section. On the
occ-xsi.j.-i of his coming Macon will have
probably tbe 'biggest crowd she has ever
known in her history ami the Democrats
of the city will be asked to make It a
great day.
The dates for Mr. Bryan’s speeches in
Georgia have not yet been fixed, but those
for Alabama are as follows:
Tuscaloosa, Tuesday night, March Ist.
Birmingham, Wednesday night, March 2.
Mobile, Thursday night, ’March 3d..
■Pensacola, Friday night, .March 4th.
Talladega, at noon, March sth.
Montgomery, Monday night, March 7th.
ZOLA’S SUPPORTERS
Have Been Made to Pav a Penalty For
Standing by Him.
Paris, Feb. 25.—1 t is semi-officially an
nounced that Colonel Picquart, chief of the
military witnesses for Zola during the lat
ter’s trial, will be placed on the ‘half 'pay
of a lieutenant.
The chaplain w’ho wrote -the letter con
gratulating Zola has been put upon the
unattached list, and Professor Grimaux, of
the Polytechnic Sschool, who signed the
i ndorsement of Zola’s action, bias, been re
tired.
QUEEN’S WEATHER.
Mrs. Pierpont Morgan Was Presented to the
Queen Today.
London, Feb. 25. —What 1 is known as
“queen’s weather” prevailed today and the
first drawing room of the season, at Buck
ingham Palace was a most brilliant affair.
Immense crowds of people lined t'he ap
proaches to the palace. Mrs. Henry White,
wife -of the United States charg d’affalrs,
presented Airs. J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.,
and Miss Muriel White. Messrs. White
and Carter attended in diplomatic circles.
MASS MEETING
Os Representatives of Organized Railroad
• Employes in Chattanooga-
Chattanooga, Feb. 25.—0 n March 12th,
13th and 14th a mass meeting of represen
tatives of all organized railroad employes
south of the Ohio river will be held in
Chattanooga. . ■»
The national officers of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, the Order of Rail
way Conductors, the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, and others, have promised
to -be present, and the attendance of sev
eral thousand members is expected.
The object of the meeting is to bring
about a more fraternal feeling among the
Southern trainmen and put them on a
harmonious working basis.
TWO MILLION DOLLARS.
Tremendous Fire Threaters a Whole'Block
in Lot : sv'"e.
Louisville, Ky., Feb. 25.—The -big four
story plant of the National Tobacco Works
at Twenty-fourth and Main streets, caught
fire this morning at about 8 o’clock, and
from the present indications it seems that
the whole building will go. .
The plant covers nearly an entire square
and is filled with tobacco which has been
bought during the past six months.
John Doerhoeffer, manager of the plant,
says that if the whole building is destroy
ed the total loss will be -in the neighbor
hood of $2,000,000.
Several persons were injured by the fall
ing walls and many employes received -in
juries while attempting to escape from the
burning building.
CHARGES AGAINST CHANCELLOR
Official Notice Has Been Served Upon the
Proper Officers.
Fitzgerald, Ga., Feb. 25. —Grand Vice
Chancellor W. E. Algee, of the Knights, of
Pythias of Georgia, is today in receipt of
official notice from W. T. Leopold, Grand
Keeper of Records and Seals, that charges
have been preferred against Grand Chan
cellor Charles R. Warren, of Hawkins
ville, Ga. Under the laws of the order Mr.
Algee immediately assumes charge of its
affairs in the grand domain of Georgia. At
an early date a tribunal will be called to
hear the articles of impeachment and act
on the same. At anearly date a tribunal
will be called to hear the articles of im
peachment and act on cite same. A strong
pressure is being brought to bear by the
citizens of this city and members of the
order in Southwest Georgia to have the
tribunal sit here. Mr. Algee informed a
reporter this afternoon that in all proba
bility the trial will be held here.
ACROSS THE RIVER.
The New Race Traik Will in All Probability
Be Built There.
The New six-lap track for the Macon
Bicycle club will in all probability be
built across the river on the land which
has been offered the club by Air. Sparks.
The matter will be decided at a meeting
of the club which will be held *at the*
store cf Percy Griffith, on Cotton avenue,
Tuesday night.
At the meeting Tuesday night a vote of
thanks will be extended to Lynwood
Bright for sustaining the reputation of
Macon wheelmen in the race at Americus,
in which he defeated Bosworth, wh<f has
been issuing challenges promiscuously over
the state.
MACON NEWS FRIDAY FEBRUARY 25 1898.
COMMITTEE
HAS JIG PLANS
Not Prepared to Give Them
Out Yet, But They
Are Elaborate.
MR, T, J, CARLING TALKS,
A Member of the Committee Says
That We Can Equal the -Dis
play on a More Limited Scale-
The committee from the executive com
mittee of the Macon Carnival association
and the Diamond Jubilee returned from
New Orleans last night.
They are delighted with the result of
the visit to the Mardi Gras festivities, and
say that they are confident that tlie in
vestment necessary to send the commit
tee to New Orleans will be productive of
big results.
Mr. T. J. Carling, who went with the
committee as one of the members, and
who is looked upon by every one as a
practical and conservative man, says that
he is well pleased.
“Our trip.” he said, “was a bard one. We
worked hard, and while there were, of
course, elements of pleasure in the trip,
you can say that every member of "the
commiitee did his full duty.”
“Yes, I think the visit to New Orleans
■will be productive of -results that will be
satisfactory to the Carnival Association
and the whole people of Macon.”
It is all a question of the amount of
.money that the people of Alacon are will
ing to give. When Mr. T. C. DeLeon was
'here he outlined the car.niva] plan and
stated that SIO,OOO would be necessary for
a given number of floats. I am confident
since I have seen the New Orleans .floats
that we can in this department make a
'bigger show for that number of floats than
they did in New Orleans.
"Os course I am not at liberty to -say
what report the committee will make. We
•have decided to keep that a secnet, but we
will outline something new in Georgia and
give the Carnival Association . something
equal to any display that has been given
in Macon.
"Yes, the New Orleans mardi gras was
magnificent. The crowds were immense
and the order kept, notwithstanding those
crowds, was something .wonderful.
“We attended the ball. It was simply
gorgeous and the costumes of the ladies
were wonderfully beatulful.
'Now .when I speak of the expense you
understand that in New Orleans they go
to tremendous expense to get eostirmes
iar,d the different, paraphanali-a of the pa
xaders. For instance, one parade costumes
cost SZ.aOO. They were all imported, and
rhe import duty from France in addition to
the first cost was $1,300.
“But there Is no necessity for such out
lay on our part. I think we can get up
just as good to all intent and purposes
■here, and I should be most emphatically
opposed to sending away/or what we can
make at home.
“If the Carnival Association can get up
the money and the people of Macon want
a big show, they can have it at very much
less expense than New Orleans, and -have
something that will be really creditable
and novel.”
The other members of the committee are
equally as much pleased with the result of
their trip as .Mr. Carling. They will not
disclose anything except the.glitering gen
eralities of their plan of carnival parade
and mystic feature, but they have some
thing good up their sleeve and have evi
dently formed -the outline of a most inter
esting report for the committee when it
meets after President Waxelbaum’s re
turn.*
WORLD BEATER
Is This Monster Monolith on Wisconsin L'ake
Front,
Milwaukee. Feb. 25.—Talking about
s'tnoes the Badger State has a sample that
be -s any rhiny in the libraries.
The great Wisconsin monolith, 115 feet
long, ten feet square at the base and four
feet square at the top, may be set up on
ixxe i.i..c Hom at Aftrwaukee to mark the
coming semi-centennial of statehood. This
stone Was taken from the red sandstone
quarries of F. Prentice at Houghton Point.
Wis., and it was originally proposed to
send it to Chicago as a Wisconsin exhibit,
but engineering and financial reasons pre
vented. and it has been left at the quarry
until the present time. A movement is now
on foot to siiip it by water to Milwaukee
'and there erect it. Plans and estimates
have been made and it is estimated that
$40,000 to $50,000 will do t-lfe work. The
claim is made that the stone is ten feet
longer than any recorded single stone in
the world.
WHAT WRIGHT WILL 00,
He Will Be an Independent Candidate for
Congress in the Seventh.
Rome, Ga., Feb. 25.—-It is rumored here
that Hon. Seab Wright, late Populist can
didae for governor, will be an independent
candidate for congress against the "Demo
cratic nominee. It is said that he will re
ceive the support of the Republicans and
straighout Prohibitionists. In one of the
morning papers Mr. Wright’s name ap- ■
pears as a candidate for attorney general
with the name of Thomas E. Watson for
governor and John Temple Graves for state
school commissioner. Os epurse there is
nothing -authentic In the printing -of this
ticket and it is understood tnat rhe gentle
men named have not all -consented to run.
There is not the shadow of a doubt that
a great many of the Floyd county Popu
lists are coming back into the 'Democratic
party this fall and vote tMe Democratic
ticket. Many of the leading ones say that
they Will participate in the primaries and
stand by the nominees.
WILL GO TO WORK.
Will Do Her Duty in Placing Georgia on Ex
hibition in Omaha.
Savannah, Ga., FKeb. 25.—Ex-Governor
W. J. Northern and other members of the
Omaha Exposition commission for Georgia,
were in Savannah today, and a meeting
in the interest of the movement was held
this morning at the City exchange. It was
attended by a large number of prominent
business men, who took considerable in
terest in the movement. Governor North
en and others made brief speeches outlin
ing the plans for preparing an exhibit for
Georgia, and there were also several talks
by Savannahlans. A committee to raise
subscriptions will be appointed here, and
from the sentiment manifested it appears
a hearty response will be the result. Gov
ernor Northen and the commission left the
city this afternoon for Waycross and other
points in Southern and Southwest Georgia.
The half a cent a word column of The
News is the cheapest advertising medium
1A Georgia.
WILL HOLD IN A TENT S
The Exercises of the State Epworth League
Convention Under Canvass.
The meeting of the state Epworth
League conference which will be held here
i-n April will be conducted under a tent
which the committee appointed to secure
a place for the raiding of the exercises,
has selected. ,
The committee has about decide upon
the rental of a tent and and are now look
ing about for a place to put it.
LITERARY MEETINC
Os the Mulberry Street Methodist Church
Epworth League Tonight.
The regular monthly literary meeting of
the Mulberry Street Methodist church Ep
worth League will be held in the annex of
the cburch tonight and a most interesting
program has been arranged. The young
ladies of Wesleyan Female College have
agreed to furnish the music on this occa
sion. The following papers will be read:
Miss Nahnette Carter on the life of Mor
ris Thompson; Miss Jula Goodall, on the
life of Charles Edwin Craddock, and Mr.
O. A. Park on the life of Irvine Russell.
OF NOBLE BIRTH
Are Many of the Employes in New York
Hoteis.
New York, Feb. Pal Mall Ga
zette announced yesterday in conection
with the report of closing of the bank
ruptcy proceedings in London against
Prince Von Auersperg, who lost 'his for
tune before he was twenty-six years old
that the Prince “is now running an eleva
tor in a big New York hotel.’’ It was said
last night at the Waldorf-Astoria and sev
eral other of the -biggest hotels that these
hosieries 'had a number of Barons, 'Counts
and Princess in their retinue of servants.
THEY HONORED THE SOUTH.
A* Distinguished Assemblage Met on Tuesday
in New York City.
The annual meeting of the New York
Southern Society *was held Tuesday. Rev.
Dr. I. S. Hopkins, of Atlanta, was present
and made an address to the society. HC
made a good impression on his audience,
wihch was composed of ex-governors, ex-
Utilled States ministers, senators and
others of prominenece.
The meeting of the Society is always
considered of great moment in New York.
The meeting are htid on February 22,
aiid it is to be relied upon that patriotic
addresses will be made. The present pres
ident is 'Hugh S. Thompson, ex-governor of
South Carolina, and he acted as toastmas
ter at the banquet.
(After rapping for attention he began
speechmaking of the evening with a
Imef address, in which he referred feel
ingly to the disaster to the battleship
Maine, paying an especial 'tribute to Capt.
Sigs Dee. President Thompson’s expression
of the conviction that if war should chance
to come Americans everywhere would
bring gifts to the altar of their common
country occasioned much applause.
At the conclusion of his address and at
the suggestion of President Thompson, the
members of the Society arose and drank
a silent toast “to the dead of the steam
ship Maine.” Mr. C. W. Jackson, of Au
gusta, Ga., was another Georgian present
and he added to the pleasure of the even
ing with a plantation melody, in which he
Initiated the barnyard calls.
The remainder of the evening was passed
in making patriotic speeches and in sing
ing Southern melodies.
INJUNCTION
Against County Commission
ers Dissolved—Three
More Cases.’
The injunction against the county com
missioners restraining them from building
the pest house out near Bellevue farm has
been dissolved by mutual consent, and the
commissioners are now at work on the
pest house.
The hearing on the petition of Messrs.
Dillon, Tinsley and others, whose name's
were given in The News yesterday,
was called in the superior court this morn
ing before Judge Felton. But it was not
gone into, as the attorneys on both sides
announced that a settlement had been
reached, and that they would agree to
an order dismissing the injunction.
The terms on which the settlement was
made are that the commissioners agree to
surround the pest house with a high fence,
and to destroy it after the present neces
sity for if has ceased to exist. The costs
of the suit for the injunction are to be.
shared equally by the two parties to the
litigation.
An order to this effect was signed by
Judge Felton., and the whole matter dis
posed of in this way.
The lumber being on the ground and ev
erything being in readiness to start the
work, the pest house will probably be
ready for occupance very soon, and then
the two patients known to the county will
be moved there.
Three more cases were reported to the
Board of Health of the city this morning.
They are on Green street, and are all in
negro houses. They have been removed
to the pest house.
This makes twenty-one cases in all in
the city, and all of them, with the excep
tion of the four cases on Magnolia street
are at the pest house at the park, and are
being cared for by City Physician Whipple.
Arrangements have been made to make
the house as comfortable and as well
equipped as possible for a temporary struc
ture, as this is.
The city authorities realize now that the
situation is most serious, and that the
most strenuous efforts must be made to
throttle the dread disease. A number of
the physicians of the city do not hesitate
to say that the smallpox is epidemic, and
there' is a clamor among the physicians
and the physicians and the citizens for
compulsory vaccination.
Said one of the most prominent citizens
of Macon this morning: “The Board of
Education is the only body that has taken
up this matter with the right spirit, and
they have done good work for the city and
the county in requiring all the -children to
be vaccinated. We must realize that this
disease is not to be trifled with, and any
efforts at official secrecy or secrecy on the
part of the newspapers will do more harm
than good.”
Col. R. A. Nesbitt, president of the
Board of Education, says that he has in
formation that nearly all the children in
the city and in the country as well have
been vaccinated, and that on Tuesday next
very few will have to be turned away on
account of not having been vaccinated. In
the county districts the response to the
demand of the Board has been surprisingly
ready,' and only at one school out in the
Warrior district has there been any hesi
tation on the part of the parents.
At this school Col. Nesbit says that ev
ery child not vaccinated will be turned
away on Tuesday next, and that school
will be kept open if there are only two
pupils left in the schools.
A meeting of the Board of Education has
been held to discuss the advisability of
closing the negro schools out in that sec
tion of the city where the smallpox seems
to have taken the greatest hold, but the
Board decided that the best thing that
could be done was to keep the schools open
for the present, and to rely upon the effi
ciency of the city sanitary and health
forces to keep the cases reported.
INFORMERS WILL
GETJO PM,
Action of Congress Will Make
a Difference in Revenue
Work.
HOW ARRESTS ARE MADE,
The Informer and Spies Are a Ne
cessity in the Service, is the
Opinion of Many Officials.
If the action of congress striking out the
appropriation to pay revenue informers
stands, it will practically kill the revenue
business in Georgia.
The dispatches tram Washington on
Wednesday slated that congerss, as a com
mittee of the whole, had struck out of the
sundry service bill the item of $75,000 to
pay spies and informers in internal rev
enue eases, r o-r many years past a strong
fight iia-s uc-ca maue on this appropriation
by Hon. Carter Tate, of the Ninth district,
and has usually received the support of inc
Democratic sloe of the house.
This lime Mr. Tate was assisted in his
fight by Kitchen, of North Carolina, and
Swanson, of Virginia, and received a solid
Democratic vote, witn the votes of three
Republican members. The clause was
killed by a vole of 09 to 63.
The news of the house’s action created
a consideraole stir among revenue men in
the state, and it was the universal opinion
that its effect -vrould be to kill the revenue
business in this state and render the en
forcement of the revenue laws a dead let
ter. The measure would be more forcibly
felt in North 'Georgia and the -Ninth Dis
trict than anywhere else in the United
States. "
A prominent official speaking of the
matter yesterday to an Atlanta Journal
reporter, said:
“I don’t think the action of the house
will stand. I think they will vote on the
matter again and I am sure the appropt-ia
tion will pass. The action, if allowed to
stand, would seriously cripple the enforce
ment of the revenue law, for when the of
ficers are left to themselves to discover
and capture moonshine distilleries they
could do almost nothing.
“The majority of ail the stills captured
are reported and pointed out by iniformers,
who receive a fee of $lO. Take away this
fee and the inducement to hunt up and
impart information to the government is
gone and the enforcement of the laws
piactiealiy dead.
Then the people who favor this action
lose sight of the ifaei that those who pay
the government sl.lO per gallon license for
the privilege of making liquors are entitled
<o protection from the competition of those
who pay no license at all.
“It is estimated that fully 99 per cent of
all the stills captured ,are reported to the
officers by persons living in the locality.
These persons also pilot the officers to
the place and some times render effective
service in making arrests.
“The fight made by Congressman Tate
has been made upon the grounds that the
fee system often caused innocent men to
be arrested and produced endless frivolous
prosecutions.”
SIX YEARS
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Geor
gia.
The sixth anniversary of the consecra
tion of Bishop C. K. -Nelson as bishop of
the diocese of Georgia was celebrated at
St. Luke’s church yesterday morning by
special Services, which were attended by &
large congregation and a number of the
clergymen of the city.
Bishop Nelson took charge of this dio
cese six years ago, at the time It was de
manding energetic and aggressive mission
ary work. He biys been more than suc
cessful in his work, and the diocese is in
a better condition than ever before. He
has been untiring in his efforts, and the
results are such as to cause the Episco
palians of Georgia to feel great pride.
The multiplying increase of building im
provements is seconded by an equally
thriving condition in the various missions,
while little or no increase of expense has
been placed upon the old parishes.
The flourishing condition of the diocese
is evidence of the successful labors of
Bishop Nelson, and In observing the sixth
anniversary of his consecration the good
results he has brought about were also
celebrated.
FOUR GLARING EVILS
Os the Present Day Will be Discussed at the
Y. M. C. A.
4 2
Secretary Stacy, of tne Young Men’s
Christian Association, has arranged a
most interesting program for the devo
tional meetings to be held at the associa
tion rooms during March.
The series of lectures will be on the four
glaring evils of the day, and will be dis
cussed as follows:
Sunday, March 6, Gambling, Judge John
P. Ross; Sunday, March 13, “Intemper
ance,” Hon. N. E. Harris; Sunday, March
20, “Impurity,” Rev. W. W. Pinson; Sun
day, March 27, “Improvidence," Hon. Wal
ter B. Hill.
All of the speakers have been heard at
the association before, and are among the
most gifted orators not only in Macon,
but in the state. They are sure to be of
vital interest £o those who attend.
GRAND MASTER BRAND ILL.
Heid of the I. 0. 0- F. in Georgia Gone to
Colorado for His Health.
Mr. Charles -H. Brand, of Lawrenceville,
grand master Os the I. O. O. F. in the state
of Georgia, has gone to Colorado for his
health. During his absence Deputy Grand
Master T. L. Guzzard, of Columibus, will
act in his stead. Circulars announcing
the illness and departure from the state of
the grand master have been received in
Macon. The annual meeting of the
grand lodge occurs in Savannah in May,
and it Is hoped by the members of the or
der that the grand master will recover his
health in time to be present.
THE FUND IS GROWING.
Y. M. C. A. Directors Are Greatly EncouF-.
aged Over New Building Prospects.
The directors of the Young Men’s Chris
tian Association are very much encourage
ed with the way the new building fund
has been growing in the past few weeks.
Nearly $2,000 have been contributed to
the fundwithin the past two weeks, and if
the fund grows at this rate" it will not be
long before the SIB,OOO is raised. The di
rectors are making no fuss about the mat
ter but are getti-n'g the money.
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