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O HE. AP MONEV.
•H per <*nt tns 7 par rant aoty M»
ready for loan* en Maroa realiroro and
buetnesa property. 8 per cent money for
farm loans. Over 16,000.000 aucceotfully
negotiated In Georgia alone. Loans made
can be paid off at any time. We are head
quarters. O. A. Coleman, Gea. Man.,
ISC Second atreet. Maroa, G*.
ESTABLISHED 1884
SEVENTEEN
BLOWN DP
Frightful Disaster to a Small
Boat Caused by
J TORPEDO,
Whether They Are Spaniards
or Americans is Not
Known.
IN CARDENAS HARBOR,
They Were Engaged in Removing
Torpedoes from the Harbor and
One of Them Exploded.
'Madrid. May 17.—A dispatch from Ha
vana says that a small naval boat crew of
seventeen nun have been blown off Car
denits while engagi'd in removing the tor
pedo* from the harbor.
The dispatch adds that the torpedo ex
ploded through the cai< I, s-nes ■ of those en
gaged in she work, and all the crew of the
boat perished. It does not indicate as to
whether the boat is American or Spanish.
COMMUNICATION
Has Been Restored on the Cable to the Bar
badoes.
New York, May 17 Cable communica
tion has been restored with St. Vincente,
Gunda, Barba lot s. Trinidad and Dcmera.
GOVERNMENT MESSAGES
Will Not be Allowed to Go Through the Lon
don Offices.
London, May 17. The (American cable
companies in this city have issued orders
io their agents Io retuse to trrnsiuit any
Spanish government messages.
THREE REGIMENTS
May be Withdrawn Front Tampa and Sent to
the Phillipines.
New York, May 17 -Colonel Hughes,
inspector general with headquarters at
New York. w,t al lhe war department to
day on a mission from General 'Merritt.
There are not enough regulars in the west
to furnish (he number Meritt thinks should
be sent to the Phillipines. and Alger and
the war department officials have been
considering the advisability of withdraw
ing about three regiments from the infan
try at Tampa and dispatching them post
haste to the Pacific coast. Captain Jesse
M Lee, of the Ninth infantry, who has
been stationed at Tumpit, reported at army
headquarters here today with refernce to
sending same troops now there to the Phil
lipines.
KEPT IN THE DARK.
Genet al Greely is Determined that Nothing
Shall Go Out.
Washington, May 17 Brigadier General
Graaly. chief of the signal service and in
charge of all stratcgetic control of the tel
egraph and cable lines, has adopted ener
getic measures to prevent the admiral of
the Spanish squadron now in the Carri
btan Item keeping posted on the where
abouts of the I’nited States squadron.
l.ast night he telegraphed to the New
York manager of the Haytien Cable Com
pany forbidding the st tiding or receiving
of any me; ages except official messages
to or from the I’nited States government
disclosing the movt ments of our fleets or
ships.
If Sampson is in Haytien waters this
cable ri-trietion makes it impossible for
this movement to become known except to
the government. Greely also telegraphed
the \nglo- Vuierican Cable Company re
newing their attention to the prohibition
aguiust any messages inimical to the in
ter, sis of the government and forbidding
the sending or receiving of messages de
scribing the movements of ships.
This latter step was taken in view of
the notice of the Anglo-American Tele
graph Company that “Pending a further
decision by the chief of the signal office,
we will accept press messages without re
strictions.”
VOLUNTEERS.
Eighty-Two Thousand Have
Now Been Mustered and
Mobilized.
Washington, May 17 —Eighty-two thous
and volunteers can now be mustered in
and are being sent to the mobilizing
points.
IN GREAT DOUBT
As to Whether Sagasta Can Form a Cab
inet in Spain.
Madrid. May 17 —The newspapers assert
that Sagasta and Gontazo will reach an
agreement this afternoon to form a coali
tion cabinet while others express the opin
ion that sagasta will encounter so many
difficulties that he will be compelled to
abandon the task.
PENNSYLVANIA MEN.
Pittsburg, May 17-The First regiment
of Pennsylvania volunteers are here en
route to Chickamauga.
WANT IMMUNES
TO BEJMMUNES
Judson Lyons and Others Ask
That All of the Two Regi
ments be Made Up
NO NEWS IN THE CABINET
So Ear as is Known the Situation is
Entirely Unchanged —Positive
ly no Information.
Washington, May 17.—At 10 o’clock it is
stated at the Whitehouse as the cabinet
assembled, that there has been no material
change in the situation.
A iong list of army and navy nomina
tions are expected to be submitted to the
senate today.
A delegation of prominent negroes, con
sisting of Governor Pinchback, James
Lewis and Judson W. Lyons called on the
secretary of war today and urged that all
ten regiments of immunes to be sent to
4’ufba be made up of colored men, as they
pointed out the especial service of the col
ored troops born in the southern climate
and most of them are used to conditions
similar to those confronted in Cuba.
Alger was not aide to concede all of the
immune regiments to the colored volun
teers, but gave the assurance that several
of them will be composed of men of their
race.
The delegation also urged the appoint
ment of Captain Thamos Kelly, of Lopis
iana, as colonel of one of tho immune
regiments. 'Captain Kelly, it is said, has
the endorsement of General Miles.
TOOK BIG GUNS DOWN.
Government Orders Guns on St. Simons and
Jekyl Removed,
Brunswick, Ga., 'May 17—That the gov
ernment is short on big guns and needs
all that it can get for use in the Cuban
campaign was strongly indicated yester
day by an order sent to Engineer Cooper,
in charge of the. St. Simon and Jekyl is
land batteries, to dismantle these batte
ries and ship the guns at once to Tampa.
The guns were sent here only last week
and the force has been at work night and
day erecting the fortifications and putting
the guns in position. The orders received
yesterday were promptly obeyed, the guns
dismounted and loaded on lighters. They
will leave for Tampa in the morning.
The guns are modern field pieces and
theii shipment leaves Brunswick entirely
without protection.
DR. CANDLER IS
MADE BISHOP.
The Distinguished Georgian
Elected bv the General
Conference.
Baltimore. May 17—Drs. W. A. Candler.
11. C. Morrison and E. E Hoss were elect
ed bishops of the M. E. Church. South, on
the second ballot today. Candler received
US, Morrison LIO, and Hoss 129 votes.
OLD BAY LINE
Sheds in Baltimore Are in Flames-A
Total Loss.
Baltimore, May 17.—The piers, freight
shed and office building of 'the Old Bay
Bine Steamship Company, plying between
this city and Norfolk and Richmond, is in
flames and will prove a total loss. A very
large quantity of freight is in the sheds
and it will all be lost. The steamer Ala
bama, which is lying at the pier with a
t'ul cargo of outgoing freight, was towed
into midstream and is safe. The loss is
probably $250,000.
WILL SET CASES.
United States Court Will Sit For this Pur
pose Tomorrow.
Ths United States court tomorrow will
sit for the purpose of calling the docket
and setting cases to be heard at a future
session.
There are some cases of importance to
come up at this term. Some of them are
of the most intense local interest and will
•be watched by the public very carefully.
The court goes into session at 10 o’clock
for this purpose.
WANTS DAMAGES.
Or. Calvin McCarthy Sues the City for
SI,OOO.
Dr. Calvin McCarthy, a negro physician
who has just been appointed the deputy
eolecteor of internal revenue for this dis
trict. has entered suit against the city in
the sum of SI,OOO. McCarthy claims that
in passing the intersection of Cotton ave
nue and College street, his horse fell into
a man hole which had been left open by
carelessness of the city officials and that
as a result of-this he received injuries that
he places at SI,OOO.
The suit was filed in tjje city court yes
terday afternoon.
ORDERED TO TAMPA.
Cleveland. May 17.—The FiFfth regi
ment of Ohio volunteers, infantry, have
received odrers to move to Tampa They
sta't Wednesday.
Free Pills.
Send your address to H. E. Bucklen &
Co., Chicago, and get a free sam,„. box
of Dr King’s New Life Pills. A trial will
convince you of their merits. These pills
are easy in action and are particularly ef
fective in the cure of constipation and sick
headache. For malaria and liver troubles
they have proved invaluable. They are
guaranteed to be perfectly free from every
deleterious substance and to be purely
vegetable. They do not weaken by their
action, but by giving tone to the stomach
.and bowels greatly invigorate the system.
Regular size 25c. per box. Sold by H. J.
Lamar & Sons, druggists.
THE MACON NEWS.
o •89oaUuc>0 JO £iw<U*l
SPAIN ARMS
HER ENEMIES
Cubans Advise All Spaniards
Not to Try to Evade Con
scription.
ARE JOINING GT HUNDREDS,
Price of Food is Going Up Rapidly
Eggs Are Selling at Ten
Cents Apiece,
Kingstond, Jamaica., May 17.—The Cu
ban provisional government has directed
the insurgent sympathizers not to try' to
evade in garrisoned cities General Blanco’s
conscription order forcing into the ranks
of volunteers all males from 15 to 45 years
of age.
Refugees who arrived here by the French
steamer Fulton from Havana, who have
since been released from quarantine say
that the Cubans in Havana are joining the
volunteers by hundreds. Spain is thus
arming enemies ready to rise at an oppor
tune time or to desert. The Spaniards in
Havana, for a communal police purpose,
spy out Cuban sympathizers and cause
their arrest.
Eggs there were ten cents a piece, meat
was 50 cents a pound and Hour 30 cents a
pound when the Fulton left on .May 7th.
The Alias steamer Adoula sailed for San
tiago de Cuba today with provisions and
to bring refugees. Three or four schooner
cargoes of food leave Jamaican ports for
Santiago weekly.
PRIZE LAWYERS
To Aid in the Trial Over the Captured Span
ish Vessels.
Key West, May 17.—At the request of
'Rear Admiral Sampson, the attorney gen
eral has appointed Edward K. Jones, of
(New York, to act as special counsel in tint
trial of prize cases.
Jones will arrive tomorrow. So cases
will be taken up Until then.
Attorney J. Parker Kirkling, of New
York, and Attorney Wehdmus iMynders, of
New York, will apear for t'he claimants
of cargoes of the Buena Ventura, Pedro
Catalina and Miguel Jover.
Attorney John Dcnegree, of New Or
leans, 'has .also been retained lor the own
ers of the same vessels. The trials begin
on Thursday or Friday.
IN COMMISSION.
Torpedo Boat Destroyer Yankton and the
SMckee.
Washington. May 17.—The torpedo boat
McKee and auxiliary topedo boat destroyer
Aankton, were placi d in commission at
Norfolk yesterday.
Lieutenant Kepper is in command of t'he
McKee, and Lieutenant Commander Adams
'is in command of the Yankton.
Die cruiser Newark will go into commis
sion next Saturday .Captain Albert Bar
ker will command the Newark.
BOUND SOUTH.
Three Warships Seen Last
Evening OH Coast of
Jamaica.
New York, 'May 17. —A special from
Kingston. Jamaica says it is reported that
three warships whose nationality it was
impossible to make out. were seen last
evening off Moran Point on the eastern ex
tremity of Jaimaica, taking a southerly'
course.
AGAINST THE BOND IDEA.
Georgia Senators Oppose Certain Features
in It.
Washington. May 17 —The Georgia sen
ators are opposed to the bond provision in
the war revenue bill. They will favor the
coinage of the seignorage and the issue of
$150,000,000 of treasury notes. They are
against those features of the bill which so
seriously affect druggists and proprietary
medicines and will do all they can to de
feat those provisions. They also oppose
the retractive features of the tobacco- tax
as it appeared in the original house bill.
The senate will strike this feature from
the bill. George M. Traylor, of Atlanta,
is here as representative of tobacco men
who are fighting some features of the pro
posed tobacco tax.
hugiTgordon.
Has Been Appointed Major bv
the President.
Washington. May 17. —The president has
sent these nominations to the" senate":
N-avy Captain Silas Casey to be United
statse Navy, to be commodore commander.
Benjamin P. Lamberton to be captain,
Lieutneant Commander Harrison G. O.
Colby to be Commander. Lieutenant John
H. Moore to be Lieutenant commander.
Leavitt C. Logan to be commander, nsign
Ralph E. M alker to be second lieutenant
in the marine corps with rank of major.
First Lieutenant James Franklin Bell, of
the Michigan United States cavalry. Hugh
M. Gordon, of Georgia. Mm. Dunbar Jen
kins, otf Mississrp'p'i, First Lieutenant s.
H. Strother, of the Ist Unit, d States in
iantiyand a long iist of mmorappoint
ruents.
FURMAN VS. MERCER.
Last Game of Season at the Park Next Sat
urday.
What promises to be one of the most
interesting and exciting ball games of the
soason will be played at the park next
Saturday afternoon between Mercer and
the Furman University nine. ■
The Furman team is conceded to be one
of the strongest college nines in the South,
and last year defeated everything in the
South except Mereer, and the latter had a
close shave.
Saturday’s game will be the last of the
season, and, in all probability the largest
audience of the season will be gathered
to witness the best game of the season.
MEN’S DOLLAR UNDERSUITS.
Unusual value. Clem Phillips.
MACON NEWS TUESDAY MAY i 7 1898.
SUPPLIES SENT
TO CHICKAMAUGA
Most of the Volunteers There
Now Are Entirely With
out Equipment.
SPECIAL TRAINS HOURLY
Arrive on All the Lines and the Rush
of Troops Continues at
the Park.
Chickamauga, May 17.—Today has been
one of the busiest in the history of the
park.
.A number of regiments which arrived
yesterday afternoon and last night remain
ed in the cars over night and since early
this morning have been at work pitching
the tents and arranging the camps.
Special trains are arriving hourly. The
Fortieth Pennsylvania Infantry, which ar
rived yesterday, remained in the cars over
night and began the work on the camps
this morning. This regiment is composed
of 700 men under Colonel Case.
The batteries ot the Twenty-sixth and
the Twenty-seventh Indiana light artilery,
which arrived yesterday, were taken •to
the park last night and remained in the
oars over night. They went into camp this
morning.
One hundred and fifty of the seven hun
dred infantry under Colonel Studebaker,
also remained in tho ears over night, as
did the Second Wisconsin infantry.
The Thirty-first Michigan infantry, com
posed of 1,026 men and officers, under the
command of Colonel Cornitius Gardner, ar
rived over the Cincinnati Southern this
morning. The regiment is without arms.
The work of equipping the volunteers is
keeping the ordinance department busier
than they have been before.
A majority of the volunteers are une
quiped and intense amounts of supplies
must be issued to them.
Several special trains with arms and
equipment are now en route.
• NO ORDERS YET
For the Moving of the First Regiment From
Camp Northern.
The Second regiment will pass through
Macon on Thursday on its way to Tampa.
Just, when the First regiment will pass
through to Mobile, which is the point to
which they are to be sent it is said though
not officially confirmed, is not known, but
they are expecting to go at any lime.
The captains gave their men orders to
day to send all the old clothes they have
here, and can do without home, and be
prepared to leave the camp as soon as the
orders comes. Colonel Brown was not at
the camp yesterday and Colonel Lawton
was in command. No messages were re
ceived, but a change is expected today that
will settle the day when the regiment will
leave for another place.
Little time will be required to make the
move provided the transportation can be
secured. The Central railway agent here
has not received any instructions that cars
would be sent for the regiment, and.il is
not at all probable that the regiment will
get away before Thursday.
The soldiers were in an uproar when the
news that the order for the regiment to
move had been received", and it quickly
spread over the camp that both regiments
wore going and would probably leave’this
afternoon.
Many rumors of the same nature were
rife, and some of the company officers
were forced to put up .bulletins of what the
substance of the real order was.
Colonel Lawton did not receive any or
der relating to his regiment, but as it has
been decided by the war department that
he is to report to the department com
mander, it is expected that ho will receive
an order to report to General Graham.
Where he will be assigned is a matter of
conjecture. The camp here is liked, but
what is wanted worse than anything else
is arms, equipments and uniforms.
NIGHT HAWKS
OFF CUBA.
Spanish Cruisers Are Known
to be Operating Out of
Cuban Ports,
Cape Hayti, May 17.—Two Spanish
cruisers or gunboats are making a base of
operations at Badiquiri or Guantanamo
Bay. ' "
They are known to be moving every
night m the waters between Hayti and
Cuba.
The Haytian schooner plying between
Mole St. Nicholas, Jean Rabel and Glati
n-agua reports, through an agent of the
•Cuban insurgents at Port de Paix, that
they met the Spanish vessels several times
during t'he past week.
The Spaniards are supposed to hide in
the Cuban ports during the day and go out
cruising at night.
LADIES’ AID SOCIETY
Will Give a Picnic and Dance on Next Mon
day.
Next Monday afternoon and evening the
Young Ladies Aid Society will give a fes
tival and dance at Ocmulgee park which
will be made one of the most attractive
affairs of the outdoor entertainments of
the summer.
Card’s band will furnish the music for
the occasion and a large number of people
will attend.
The Young Ladies Aid Society has done
good work and is well deserving of the
hearty support of the public. Their en
tertainments are always delightful.
MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER.
New Fork, May I..—The Eight regiment
of Massachusetts volunteers, 950 men,
went through Jersey City today on their
way South.
COTTON FUTURES.
New York, Maj 17—Futures dull. Sales
5,000. June 633, July 629, August 632,
September 624-25. October 622, November
623-25, December 626, Januarv 628, Feb
ruary 629, March 630.
. MEN’S DOLLAR UNDERSUITS.
Get good ones. Clem Phillips.
DERELICT SENT
OUT AS A TRAP
But thev Went Out and Sent
the Old Hulk to the
Bottom.
BLANCO'S FUTILE DOOGE
To Injure One of Our Gun Boats
Fails Utterly of Its Purpose-
May Have Had Torpedoes.
Key West, May 17 —The United States
cruiser 'Wilmington, Commander Todd,
when about 30 miles east of Havana yes
terday, fired four shell: into a Spanish trap
in the .nape of a derelict sinking it and
thus doing away with another piece of
Spanish trickery.
The commander of the Wilmington had
been warned that some dangerous wreck
age was drifting about the spot mentioned
and the cruiser steamed in that direction
to investigate. IHo reports that an old
Spanish schooner with the deck loaded to
the rails with rusty iron car wheels-, etc.,
closely packed together was found floating
in the track of the torpedo lioats and dis
patch boats. The iron laden schooner had
evident!} been sent out of Havana harbor
in the hope that a torpedo boat or small
craft would crash into it and be damaged.
As wires were noticed around the iron
rails on the schooner. Commander Todd
believed the Spanish trap might also con
tain explosives and therefore laying off
a considerable distance from her his guns
promptly sent her to the bottom.
Another commission from General Max
imo, the insurgent commander in chief,
arrived at Key West today.
John F. Jova, the former United States
vice consul at Sagua Lagrande, who was
landed by the American gunboat about ten
days ago w.ls‘picked up yesterday after an
exciting experience with the Spanish gun
boat which the Amperican gunboat chased
into her harbor.
Mr. Jova succeeded in reaching the
camp of Gomez and brought back dis
patches from the latter to Commodore
Watson. He reports that Gomez and sev
eral thousand troops are in the best of
spirits and are hopeful of .a speedy ending
of the present situation. Mr. Jova. also re
ports the Spanish troops proving westward,
keeping in cities. He made a part of the
journey along the coast in a small boat
and was chased by a Spanish gunboat
when the American gunboat hove in sight.
SHORT MEETING
Os the County Commissioners Was Held
This Morning,
The county commissioners held their,
regular monthly meeting this morning and
by common consent it was decided that it
was the shortest meeting that has been
held for five years. There was nothing to
come before the commissioners except the
veriest routine matter and not very much
of that. The commissioners adjourned
before 11 o'clock.
YET ANOTHER -
ROMANCE OF WAR.
Lieutenant Granville Connor
and Miss Carrie May
Lane Married,
The second romantic marriage, the out
come of the war and the call for volun
teers took place yesterday when First
Lieutenant Granville Connor, of the Macon
Volunteers, and Miss Carrie May Lane
lane were quietly married at the resi
dence cf the bride’s father on College
street.
It is only about ten days ago since Lieu
tenant Connor acted as best man for his
captain, Samuel B. Hunter, on rhe occa
sion of his surprise marriage to Miss Kittj’
Seai'cy of 'Boling'broke on the eve of his
departure to the camp at Griffin.
Tester-ay Lieutenant Connor came down
from the camp wi.h Sergeant Lawson
Brown. It was given out that he had come
down on leave for a ew hours and that
he would return in rhe af.ernoou. All of
this»>was tsrlctly true. He did come down
on business of a pr'vate and personal na ■
'ture and he did leave on the afternoon
train to report at t.ie camp for duty again,
but in th meanwiile he bad become
benedict and had taken to himself a wife
from among the most charming cf Ma
con’s young women.
The wedding took place yesterday after
noon at 4 o’clock at the residence of Major
Jeff Lane, on College street. Only the im
mediate family on both sides were present
and the whole affair was limple and quiet.
Sergeant Lawson Brown acted as best
man.
M'eanwbile the word had gradually
spread among the remnant of the Volun
teers who are at home and when Lieuten
ant Connor arrived at the depot he found
them there to give him their congratula
tions and a send OS'.
Lieutenant Connor is to be congratu
lated. He has won a charming bride and
she has found a bood man and a good hus
band. There is no more worthy young mail
'in Macon than Granville Connor and the
thousands of friends of both principals to
the interesting wedding yesterday after
noon will wish the groom a safe return
and for both of them all sorts of good
luck in the battle Os Life.
ANOTHER ROMANCE.
Mr. Frank Lumsden and Miss Myra Gaines
Married.
Mr. Frank Lumsden, of the Macon
Guards, and Miss Myra Gaines, of Atlanta,
were married in Griffin a few nights ago.
This is another romance of the war and
will interest a number of the friends of
both parties in Macon and Atlanta.
Mr. Lumsden and Miss Gaines have been
engaged to be married for some time. The
groom is a popular young business man of
Macon, now with his company at Griffin,
and the bride is one of the most charm
in young ladies in the capital city.
GREAT SUCCESS.
Opening Night at the Park by Peruchi Bel
dini Com pany.
The Peruchi-Beldini Comedy Company
scored a great success in their initial en
tertainment at Crump’s park last night.
The theater was crowded and the fVm
pany was given a strong reception.
The engagement is for the next two
weeks and it is safe to say that the com
pany will row in popular favor as thp time
goes on. Their work 4s clean and good,
in fact it is equal to that of the best of the
popular price companiese that have visited
Macon.
The theater at the park has been im
proved and the arrangements for the re
served seating are very much better.
MAY IGNORE
THE PRIMARY
Working People Inclined to
Resent the Executive
Committee’s Action.
IIDEPEIMT ICTIOI
May be the Program —Call it a Game
of “Freeze Out”-Mr. Craig
Might Not Accept.
The first move on the political checker
board of which the public has been put
fully on notice,. will be made this evening
at the court house, when the .working men
of the county have been called to select a
candidate for the legislature who is to .re
ceive their endorsement.
The meeting is looked upon with the
deepest interest by the candidates who are
already in the field, as on the result of this
meeting a great deal will depend.
Tin in mint cf the working men
will mean a great deal. Os course it leaves
a chance for two other candidates to get
the working men’s votes, but as there are
some five or six candidates, the question
turns on who' the two will be. It is 'fur
ther true that on more than one occasion
the working men have done some single
shotting, to the complete discomfort and
complete defeat of some of the candidates
who have been seeking election.
So far as is known there are now in the
field Messrs. Roland Ellis, S. A. Reid.
John R. 'Cooper, J. H. Hall, Andrew Laue,
D. 'D. Craig, Joe James and perhaps a
scattering of others.
Os these Roland Ellis, S. A. ißeid and
John R. Cooper are the only ones who have
formally announced.
It is said today that Colonel Joe Hall
has most positively .made up his mind to
go into the race.
After the meeting tonight there will be
a scramble for the goodwill of tho ele
ment that indorses a candidate tonight
and whose endorsement means almost cer
tain election.
This means that after tonight there will
be only two places for the six who have,
not been endorsed to fight over.
M AY IGNORE PRUMiARY.
The most interesting minor current in
connection with tonight’s meeting is to
the effect that the workingmen will show
their resentment of the Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee’s recent action in rais
ing the entry fee for legislative candi
dates. Some of them regard this as an
effort to freeze-out the workingman’s can
didate, knowing that the latter cannot
raise the necessary SSO as easily as the
average lawyer or politician.
Some of them are talking right out, and
these say the working people of iMacon
will, at tonight’s meeting, decide to ignore
the .Democratic primary and put out a
candidate of their own Independent of
party action. They will then agree to
single-shot him, and hope in this way to
make his election sure.
There is much feeling over tho Execu
tive Committee’s action, and unless more
conservative counsel prevails at tonight’s
meeting' an independent candidate may he
endorsed. Mr. Craig’s friends, however,
do not believe he would run as an inde
pendent, although many of them are in
dignant at what they term the Executive
Committees game of “freeze-outt”
COOPER ANNOUNCES.
The F irst io Shy His Castor Into the Ring
in Bibb.
Mr. John R. Cooper lias his announce
ment in this issue of The News informing
the public that he is a candidate for the
legislative honors.
If hard work, friends and energy will get
a man into a position in politics Mr.
Cooper will most certainly be one of Bibb’s
delegates to the legislature.
He is deserving of the confidence and the
respect of the mass of the voters of the
county and if he is elected he will make
a. splendid representative.
It is safe to say that Mr. Cooper is not
the candidate cf a faction or a ring. He
will run on his own merits and will
make a powerful opponent, for any one of
the other candidates.
HON. ROLAND ELLIS.
Makes the Announcement of His Candidacy
for Legislature.
Elsewtiere in The News will be found
the announcement of his candidacy for the
legislative honors in this county by Hon.
Roland Ellis.
Mr. Ellis is one of the favorites in the
race in which so far there are only two
authorized announcements.
The two early .birds in the field are
Messrs. Roland Ellis and John R. Cooper.
Mr. Roland Ellis has a host of friends
all over the county of Bibb who will go to
work for him in earnest if there is the
slightest doubt of his election.
Mr. Ellis is perhaps one of the most
bnlli'an young men in the state, and he
has under consideration some legislation of
the depest importance to the people of
Bib beounty.
EVEN HARDTACK
BEARS THE MOTTO
Remember the Maine is to be
Printed on Hard Tack for
the Soldiers.
St. Louis, May 17 —Captain Duval, of the
commissary department, has made a con
tract with the local bakers for 610,000
pounds of army crackers. On each is print
ed “Remember the Maine.’’ He has also
contracted for 28,000 gallons of vinegar.
VAUDEVILLE CLOSED?
Manager McShane Was Given an Ovalion on
Closing Night.
Putzel’s Vaudeville has closed for the
summer and the manager, Mr. McShane,
has left for New York.
Mr. McShane will return to open the
Vaudeville next season. He has succeeded
better than any other manager that has
been in charge of the house and had made
a large circle of friends in Macon.
The closing performance and the demon
stration that followed the fall of the cur
tain was a tribute to the popularity of Mr.
McShane.
MEN’S DOLLAR L’NDERSLTTS.
Get good ones. Clem Phillips.
TO PULL FOR
MILTON E.SMITH
A Big Delegation of Macon
People Will G o Over to
Augusta Todav.
MiHimun
He Will be a Splendid Officer if He
is Elected Grand Lodge
Opens Tomorrow.
.About twenty Knights of Pythias will
leave Macon at 4:20 this afternoon for
Augusta, where the meeting of the Grand
Lodge of the order will be held tomorrow.
The Macon delegation goes by the Geor
gia railroad in a special ear provided for
that purpose. A nuhber of ladies will bo
in the party.
The main interest of the meeting at
taches to the election of officers for the
ensuing year. The office of grand chan
cellor is now being held 'by A. G. Algee,
who lives at Fitzgerald, and who took the
office after the resignation of former
Gfiind Chancellor Warren was accepted.
The resignation was put in only a few
months ago.
The election of a grand chancellor for
the Knights of Pythias has before devel
oped surprises and it is possible that this
year may be one of those that bring sur
prises.
The Macon delegation will put forward
the name of Mr. Milton Smith, who has.
been a member and an officer of the Grand
Lodge for a number of years.
■A very strong movement has been start
ed in his interest and has developed very
satisfactorily for his friend's.
It is more than probable that the name
of the next Grand Chancellor will be
Smith and that his name will be Milton.
It is not stated what other candidates
there are for the office, but it is more than
likely that there will be several beside
Mr. Smith who is not really a candidate
but is being pushed forward by his feiends.
The meeting in Vugusta, notwithstanding
the war. premises to be largely attended
and the outcome will be watched with the
deepest
WHO DOES
THE WORK?
Col. Candler Says the Rail
road Commission’s Chair
man Does It.
Atlanta, May 17.—'When Colonel Allen
Candler was in Atlanta Saturday night on
his way borne, he was asked if he had not
declared that the chairman of the railroad
commission, Colonel L. N. Trammell, did
■prctieally the bulk of the board's work.
Colonel Candler stated that he did make
that statement at Dalton and has repeated
it more than once since in his speeches.
Colonel Trammell is in the office of the
commission every day and earns every dol
lar of his salary. 'While the commission
was in session only twenty-eight days out
of the 365 last year, the chairman was in
the office nearly every working day in the
month.
Colonel Candler has often referra l in his
speeches to the foot that Judge Atkinson
is drawing $2,500 a year salary as railroad
commissioner, but is not in the office one
full day in the week, and since he s’arti I
in this campaign has probably not averag
ed two hours a week, if so much, in the
commission’s office at the statehouse. This
was used as his argument directing at
tention to places where money might be
saved to the state. Some states have only
one railroad commissioner, who attends to
all the work with the assistance of the sec
retary and clerks.
The anti-Candler faction seem to have
dropped the Griffin tax fl fa. matter by
unanimous consent. The truth about it
was that the more it was agitate I the
greater the harm which resulted to their
candidatese. As it was sprung by Senator
Berner’s organ, it naturally reacted on the
senator with more force than on his run
ning mate.
All three of the gubernatorial candidates
got down to hard work yesterday, and from
now until June 6th they will take no holi
day. There are three weeks more of cam
paigning and the speaking will be like the
discharge of rapid-fire guns. Colonel
Candler was at Monroe and Social Circle
yesterday and he wil be at. Sparta today,
and Senator Berner has jumpt 1 from
'North Georgia to the southwestern cor
ner o-f the state, speaking at Bainbridge
yesterday. •
FROM A DISTINGUISHED EDUCATOR.
I have found Cheney’s Expectorant su
perior to anything I have ever tried for
colds and bronchial trouble. Send me by :
first mail six bottles of your mod excellent i
medicine.
PROF. J. H. RICHARDSON. |
Sweetwater, Tenn.
Masters of
Their Business.
That is the verdict concerning us, rendered
intelligently and impartially by the jury of many
buyers. We aim to have, and do have, the hand
somest and best Ready-made Clothing ever seen.
Every Suit is a triumph in its way.
And vet our prices are popular— s7.so,
8 50, 10.00, 12 00,15 00,18.00 and 20.00.
We guarantee all our Clothes—fabrics, fit,
tailoring.
X ' -A
. L. J* 3;
ffloneu on Hand.
Loans on real estate. Easy monthly
I' payments.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building and Loan Association,
Macon. <4n.. 461 Third Street.
PRICE THREE CENTS
END JOB.
Gladstone Can Live Only a
Few Hours Longer.
RAPIDLrSINKING
Physicians Sav He Has Taken
A Turn for the Worse.
Bi IS UItOHIOUS
And Spends His Last Moments Try
ing to Pray —Family at His
Bedside.
Hawarden, May 17—Gladstone spent a
restless night. He is, however, not suffer
ing, but was exhausted this morning.
London, May 17—Henry Gladstone took
a special train to Hawarden. He fears his
father is sinking rapidly.
Hawarden. May 17 —Gladstone's physi
cian says this afternoon: The end is now
near. Mr. Gladstone has taken little
nourishment. He breathes heavily for a
few minutes and then his breathing is
hardly perceptible.
Mrs. Gladstone is with her dying hus
band. She and others of the family do not
leave the room for more than a few min
utes at a time.
Hawarden, May 17, 5 p. m.—iAn official
bulletin just issued says: Air. Gladstone
has taken a serious turn for the worse.
'His death may be expected in less than
twenty-four hours.
When offered medicine at 4:30 p. m. Mr.
Gladstone exclaimed: “No, no.” A.part
from this he seldom speaks, except to
commence a prayer. He is practically un
conscious.
DULL MEETING
Os the City Council is Promised for To
night.
The regular meeting of the city council
tonight promises to lack anything of an
interesting nature and it looks as if noth
ing but the veraiest routine would come
up for the attention of the city fathers.
Up to noon today not a single petition
had 'been filed with the clerk, though it is
of course possible that something may
come along later.
The proposition to ask council to sus
pend work en the paving until after the
war question has been settled does not.
seem to have materialized. But there are
some of the property owners who say that
they will ask it if there is any indication
of a proposition to tear up Cherry street.
They say that they hope that council will
of its own motion take the step and in this
way avoid any petitions and get the full
credit for what would seem to be a most
wise step.
MRS, A, J. JARRETT
Died This Morning at Her Residence on
Fisst Street.
Mrs. A. G. Jarrett, died this morning
at her 'home on First street after a short
illness.
'Mrs. Jarrett was one of the most uni
versally beloved women in Macon, and her
almost sudden and untimely death will be
a saource of deep regret to a very large
circle of friends.
She leaves a husband and several chil
dren.
The funeral will take place tomorrow
morning from the residence at 153 First
street, and the funeral notice will be
found in another part of the paper.
WILL NOT RESIGN.
Miss Brunner Says that There is No Neces
sity for It.
Miss Brunner, who has been stamp clerk
in the internal revenue office here for a
long time, and who it was said in The
News a few days ago would resign her po
sition as the result of the appointment .of
a negro to the office of deputy collector at
this place, says that she will not resign,
as she sees no necessity for it. She says
that she is not thrown in contact with the
deputy collector at this point. She is, in
fact not thrown in contact with the ne
groes in her work at all.
Her office is not situated with tnat of
the negro and her work does not call for
any association with him.