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Money to Lend.
If you want to horow rr /ney on farm
business or residence property on the most
favorable terms see the Georgia Loan and
Trust Company,
O. A. COLEMAN. G» n Man.,
356 Second Street, Macon, Ga
ESTABLISHED 1884
SPAIN IN NO HURRY.
HUH OEM IS NOT
UNCONDITIONAL
Has Been Cabled Io Washington, bo! Not Received Ye! as
Translation of the Cable by Way of Paris Takes
a Very Long time.
COMPLICATIONS
May Arise and Fresh Difficul
ties May be Created as
a Result.
MUSI REFER TO CORTES
Before Territory Can be Ceded and
It is Thought That This May
Not be Acceptable to Pres
ident McKinley.
Madrid. August 8. Tin Liberal Hays:
Th,' government .ice, pts the United
States conditions and referendum, believ
ing it is not authorized to cede territory
without a vote of the cortes.
If Pnsidelit McKinley objects the Cortes
will he convoked this month.
V flesh note from McKinley replying to
Spain's reply is expected during the course
of a week.
The Liberal expresses the opinion “that
certain passages of Spain's reply may lead
to tli ’ exchange of cable messages of a
critical nature ami possibly creating fresh
difficulties.
NOT RECEIVED YET.
President and Secretarys Long and Alger in
Conference this Worning.
Washington, August 8. Secretaries Al
ger and Long and Xttorncy General Griggs
were In confer, nee with the president for
an hour ami ending at 12:30 o’clock.
\t the conclusion of the eoafe.'-nce it
wm anneum. 1 that the official aot'llcation
of Sp an's acceptance of our ie/cis had not
been received.
The president's expectation is that he
will receive the formal acceptance early
tomorrow
I'be delay was accounted for by the tame
required in transmitting the cipher in the
several stagise via Paris.
\t 2 o’clock this afternoon it was stated
at the French embassy that the Spanish re
ply had not been received.
There ire no less than five translations,
four of them jn cipher in transmission be
tween Madrid am) Washington.
I \fter the Spanish cabinet met last night
th.- tesponse was reduced to Spanish ci
pher arid trien sent to the Spanish ambas
sador at P..r ls , Senor Castillo, by whom it
M . to be deciphered and iran-lated in
French. which CWtllo would deliver
it to the b’r.Tifh foreign oin."' bt> ''educ
ed to the Frem’ii cipher for traii.'‘ i U issi °n
to the French ambassador here.
These moves, including the work of the
cipher code, calls by Castillos on the for
eign oftie. at Par >. and the time required
in cabling will take some eight or ten
hours.
Under the circumstances the impression
prevail.d at official quarters that the re
sponse would not be placed in the hands of
the president until quite late today at the
best, and more likely not before tomorrow
The impression is growing in official
quarters that the Spanish answer, while in
4he nature of a concession to the American
demand. is not a brief and simple accep
i.ufce without reservation or condition
There is no dir.xt oftlcial advice on this
point but all the pn ss idvii.s from Idadrid
indicate the response document is of con
siderable length, prepared with laborious
fc’.ire and that it has several features which
«uay not appear in the conditions presented
»>y the Vr.it d States
Whether an a c. ptar.ee of this character
•will be regarded by the authorities here as
eufficL-utly responsive to the American de
mands is a matter welling much conject
ure today. In some .quarters it is being,
urged that so long as Spam accepts the Es
sential pom’s of the principal rthnulred by
the United States, the disposition here will
be to deal with the defeated enemy in a
generous spirit on minor details.
It is probable that ti.is will be the view
presented by the French ambassador in
case the Spanish is not a simple eat
egori. al acceptan. of the American terms
On the other hand, it is believed the re
sponse. which opens up diplomatic contro
versy and gives the conditions a much
broader scope than as originally framed at
'Washington, may not meet with approval
here.
For instance. Madrid adv ces seem to
imply that the answer based on the imme
diate cessation of hosillitiese. but the view
■among officials here is that hostilities will
not cease on submission of a conditional re
sponse. but will progress steadily until the
American conditions progress entirely be
yond the stage of possible diplomatic com
plication over the details.
There is -a strong disposition in some in
fluential quarters to have hostilities con
tinue until rhe actual evacuation of Cuba
and Porto Rico begins by the embarkation
of the Spanish troops.
MAY RE COMPLICATIONS.
Ixmdon. August «—Although there are
fears of possible complications in the ac
ceptance of the peace terms by Spain,
prices strengthened all around on the stock
. exchange today.
CABLED FROM PARIS.
Paris, August B—The Spanish ambassa
dor this morning presented to the French
minister of foreign affairs. M Delca-see.
Spain's reply to the peace terms of the
United States which was subsequently
publed to 'Washington,
SIGNAL CORPS
Left Camp Thomas this Morning- Paymas
ters Busy.
Chickamauga, August B—The signal
Corps which has been stationed at Camp
Thomas for some time left on a special
Western and Atlantic train today for
Newport News. The train goes via the
We ti.rn and Atlantic, and Seaboard Air
Line.
The seven regiments are included in
General Wad 's Port Rican expedition, are
still awaiting moving orders.
The paymasters have begun work today.
This work will be done as rapidly as pos
sible. but. will probably consume at least
ten days. During the next few weeks a
rung provost guard will be maintained at
Chattanooga to prevent disorder.
SICK AT SAN FRANCISCO.
Two Hunc’rel and Ninety-two Patients Are
in Divisional Hospital.
San Francisco, August 8. —There are now
2!*2 patients in the divisional hospital at
Presidio. Os the last twelve patients
brought in seven have measles. Three are
from the Seventh cavalry, two from the
■ Fifty-fhst lowa and from the First Ten
re -see and one from Oregon recruits.
The most serious case at the divisional
hospital is that of First Sergeant Wesley
Kimberly, of the First Tennessee, who has
spinal meningitis and is not expected to
live.
PARK MORRILL,
Ex-Chief of the Atlanta Weather Bureau, is
Dead.
Washington, August B—Prof. Park Mor
rill. chief of the forecast division of the
weather imrenu, died of typhoid fever to
day lie came here' from Atlanta and has
been employed in the weather bureau for
twelve' years.
ALL COLORED.
Eighth Illinois Left En Route to Santiago
this Morning.
Springfield. 111., August B—The8 —The Eighth
Illinois infantry, colored. was paid today
and left over the Baltimore ami Ohio
Southwestern for New York,thence to San
tiago. The Eighth is famous as the one
regiment of the United States army com
posed entirely of colored men including all
the officers.
THREE KILLED
And Many Injured in a'Special Mail Express
Wreck.
Canton, Mass., August 8. —Three men
ware killed and a number of mail clerks
severely injured at Canton this morning
by an express mail special from New York
to Boston jumping the tracks.
CUTTING SCRAPE
NEAR FACTORY.
For a Time the Affair Wore a
Most Serious Aspect.
In the recorder’s court this morning R.
H Hambill was fined $5 for tlghfiijg yes
tee.Jay afternoon near the Bibb Mills No.
“Babe” Sawyer and John Hambrick were
dismissed, as R. H Hambric was the cause
of all the disturbance and others were
only defending themselves.
Yesterday afternoon ’ Babe” Sawyer ami
R. H. Hambric had a serious tight on Ogle
thorpe street, in front of Factory Row,
near Bibb Mills No. 2. which might have
resulted n the death of both men but for
a timely separation. \s it was Sawyer cut
Hambric with a knife on the left side of
the face aid also stabbed him in the nip
ple near the left armpit.
Hambric severely pounded Sawyer in the
face with his fist and Sawyer was given
a bad lick on the back of the head with a
brick, cither by Hambrick or a third parfy.
Misses la>u and Mollie Saw ver ran out of
their house to separate the combatants
and in their effort to take a knife out of
the bauds ot Hambric. Miss Lou was cut
on the hand and Miss MpUie was cut
slighly cut on the neck ft is claimed 'hat
Mis: Mollie was designedly cut by Ham
bric.
Misses Lou and Mollie Sawyer are sis
ters of “Babe” Sawyer and the fight oc
curred in front of their house. It is said
R. H. Hambric, and his brother, John
Hambric, went to Sawyer's house yester
day afternoon, and John.t who it is al
leged. was drunk) entered Sawyer's house
and commenced to quarrel with him. In
order to avoid a fuss Sawyer left his house
a id went to the home of his sisters. Misses
Lou and Mollie, near by. and was followed
by the two men and finally the difficulty
ensued between R. H. Hambric and Saw
yer. as related above.
HOBSON AT ANNAPOLIS.
The Hero of the Merrimac Paid a Visit so
Admiral Cervera.
Annapolis, August B—Hobson arrived
this morning. He called on Cervera and
visited his old quarters at the naval acad
emy.
GUSSIE IS SAFE
Washington, August 8. —The war de
partment has received a report from Gen
eral Gilmore saying that the Gussie, which
was reported wrecked, is safe.
GEORGE EBERS IS DEAD.
London, August 8. —George Ebers, the
author, ia dead.
THE MACON -NEWS.
SHAFTER SEES
LITTLE DANGER
For Fresh Troops That Are
Now to be Sent to
Santiago.
OTHERS WERE BHAUSTED,
But the New Ones Will be in Good
Condition and Will Not Have
to Undergo Hardship.
Washington, August 8. —General Shafter
has telegraphed the president regarding the
publication of the “Round Robin,” signed
by the general officers of his command, as
follows:
"I very readily see the intense excite
ment the publication must have occasion
ed —a great deal more than the situation
warranted. The situation is greatly ag
gravattd from the fact that before any
men were taken ill they were thoroughly
exhausted. At least seventy-five per cent
of the command have been down with ma
larial fever from which they recover very
slowly.
The regiment of immunes recently ar
rived is not suffering at all and I don't be
lieve they will. They can keep out of the
sun, are well clothed and well fed.
“'What puts my command in the present
condition was the two days’ campaign
when they had nothing but meat, bread
and coffee, without a change of clothes,
without any shelter whatever, and during
a period twice as stormy as it has been
since the surrender.
“The fresh troops arriving here In the
middle of August with good camps, good
water and the abundance of tentage which
they will find here, need not apprehend
serious danger.
“I thank you for the high regard in
which you hold my command, and value
the service they have rendered. It pays
for all the suffering we have endured.
“I have read this to Wheeler, Lawton,
I Bates and Kent, who concur with me in
the view expressed above.”
POST D wTIF - ■
BOOM CARNIVAL
And Will Take an Important
Part in the Program-
Good Meeting.
Post D. of the T. P. A. held an enthu
siastic meeting in regard to the Carnival
at the Chamber of Commerce on Saturday
afternoon and plans were adopted, which
will, no doubt, bring large crowds of visit
ors to atend the Carnival.
Every member present was in high
spirits and if everything is carried out as
well as the drummers intend to their part
the Carnival cannot fail to be a success.
Tt was decided that the T. P. A. should
keep an open house throughout all the
Carnival and that all of the out of town
members of the association should be in
vited to attend.
The association will send out a circular
letter to each of the home members of the
association directing them to extend a per
sonal invitation to the out of town mem
bers and to their customers
The T. P. A. will do all In its power to
help the Carnival Association and they
will entertain all the visiting drummers
and their customers who come here They
are thoroughly in earnest and say that
they will carry out their plans to the let
ter.
WONT DO IT AGAIN.
Hobson Said that He Would Not Sink the
Merrimac.
Lieutenant Hobson’s visit to Atlanta is
but a memory, but such a pleasant recol
j lection that-people have not lost interest
i in hearing of the entertainment given in
| his honor. An Atlanta lady, whose is a
' close friend of Mrs. Atkinson and assisted
! jn receiving at the reception given at the
executive mansion in hpnnr of the hero,
writes this to a Maeon friend.
“You should have been here last night
at the reception the Army and Navy
League gave to Lieutenant Hobson and his
mother. • * • • »
“It was the most gorgeous crush you can
imagine and people estimated the crowd at
the mansion, the yards, the piazzas and the
streets in the immediate trout and side of
the place, as fully numbering five thou
sand. Hobson is a charming fellow, quiet
unassuming and sensible, plainly showing
by these qualities that he is really great,
, in the best sense of the word. His mother
is a dear old sold, and won qs a)l by (her
old-fashioned sweetness and simplicity.
"She nearly fainted from the heat and
crush and we had to spirit her through
to a rear room to let her rest and catch
i her breath. People crowded in the win
dows and fell over themselves in their ef
forts to meet the man of the Merrimac,
who had finally to go up stairs and get on
the balcony where everybody could see
him and hear him make his little speech.
1 shook his hand and told him I was pt.
, tremely sorry he had sunk the Merrimac,
since we all had to get in such a crush as
this: it was wbrse than a football scrim
mage and I said one had to suffer for doing
' a daring deed. He was very sweet about
it and told me he would never do jt again,
' whereat I forgave him on the spot arid
passed on.’ * ■ » *
NEGRO SOLDIERS
I ATTACKED JAIL.
Mob of Ninth Cavalrymen Re
pulsed bv Sheriff With
Bloodshed.
Tampa, August B.—Made bold by the suc
cess of the Ninth cavalry in taking a man
from the county jail on Saturday nigh;, a
■ mob tried it again last night and were re
pulsed.
Three negro teamsters of the regular
army are incarcerated there and a little
before day this morning a mob of negro
teamsters went to the jail and made an
1 atten.pt to gain entrance to the yard.
An armed guard in the side gate ordered
them to desist and the mob immediately
opened fire on the jail. A wag pour
, ed into the crowd from the upper story of
the building and signs of blood show that
at least some shots took effect.
The wounded were carried away by their
more fortunate comrades and the raid was
MACON NEWS MONDAY AUGUST 8 1898.
PARALLEL FOR
NOBLES CASE
People of Monroe County,
Tennessee Aroused Over
a Dastardlv Crime.
WIFE HIRED ASSASSINS
To Kill Her Husband and One of the
Negroes Confessed—Lynching
May Follow.
Memphis, Tenn., August B—The people
of Clarendon, Monroe county, Ark., are
fearfully wrought up over an assassina
tion which took place on July 30 and the
developments of Saturday and yesterday.
On the night of July 30, J. T. Orr, a
prominent hardware merchant of Claren
don, was murdered and now his wife and
two negroes are in jali.
The negroes are charged with murder
direct and Mrs. Orr with having procured
their services to make way with the hus
band.
There was a demonstration last night
and a lynching may yet be the climax.
It is charged that Mrs. Orr hired a negro
named Record to kill Orr. A negro named
Manse Castle, however, volunteered to lo
the work for the same amount, so It is
stated.
Record, Castle and 'Mrs. Orr were Imme
diately placed under arrest.
Yesterday Castle said he killed Orr and
charged that Mrs. Orr hired him to do the
work.
Last night a great crowd gathered and
it looked for a time as if there would be
a lynching. Judge Thomas, who had just
returned from Desark, made a speech and
dispersed the crowd.
Orr’s life was insured for $5,000, his wife
was the beneficiary.
DAN LAMONT’S CAR
Run Into by a Freight, But No One Was
Hurt.
Seattle, iWash., August B—News8 —News has been
received that the private car of Daniel La
mont, vice president of the .Northern Pa
cific railroad, was badly wrecked on the
Seattle and International road, fifty miles
from this city. Fortunately no one was
hurt.
While the passenger train to which the
car was attached was standing on a trestle
sixty feet high it was run into from the
rear by a freight.
The engineer of the freight had reversed
his engine and the force of the collision
was not sufficient to throw the passenger
train from the the track.
Mr. Lamont and the occupants took re
fuge in the forward cars.
GEN. POLLARD DEAD.
Contracted Fever at Chickamauga —End
Came at Asheville.
Asheville, August B.—-Brigadier General
S. Polland died here today of fever con
tracted at Chickamauga. The remains
were taken to his home in New York.
CORBETT’S COIN.
Jim Answers Defiance bv Posting Twenty
five Hundred.
New York, August B.—Jim Corbett has
answered Bob Fitzsimmons defi by put
ting up $2,500 to meet the champion. Cor
bett has also taken advantage of the fact
to issue a statement in which he says he
expects Fitzsimmons to make a match with
him when he defeats McCoy, as he expects
to do. Should Fitz show an unwillingness
to meet him he will take on Jeffries. He
believes Fitzsimmons will then have 'to
fight him. Fitzsimmon’s declaration that
he (Corbett) will have to defeat Maher,
Sharkey and other “dead ones,” as Corbett
puts it, the ex-ehampion thinks is foolish
and insincere.
MAY MUSTER
OUT SOME TROOPS.
Thought that Those Who Are
Now on Pacific Slope
May Be Disbanded.
San Francisco, August 8. —The big trans
ports Scandia and Arizona may sail for the
Philippines by the end of the week If not
before.
There is a growing belief that they may
not carry so many men as was first inten
ded, and the beginning of peace negotia
tions may mean the mustering out of most
of the troops remaining at Camps Merritt
and Presidio.
General Merritt has now with him or on
the way to Manila 15,000 men.
STILL DICKERING.
The Tyson Long Distance Line and the Bell
1 elephone.
There is still talk of an agreement with
the Beil Telephone Company and the Ty
son line from Macon to Savannah by which
the two lines will operate mutually.
It is understood the only bar to an agree
ment is the requirement that the Tyson
company shall use the Bell company’s in
struments along its line. Inasmuch as the
relations between the companies will only
be to connect their lines at intervals for
the convenience of patrons, and to remain
entirely independent of each other, the Ty
son company does not desire to use any of
the property or equipment of -the other.
The company has no objection to buying
instruments outright from the Bell com
pany, which would be a greater saving, but
it is said that none will be rented. Wheth
er this difference will interfere with the
proposed arrangement enough to block the
deal is not known, but. the great conven
ience to the patrons of both companies will
likely induce concessions that will bring
about an understanding of some kind.
The Tyson company has now conections
established with Bloomingdale, Meldrim,
Blichton, Arcolia, Statesboro, Summit,
Graymount, Swainsboro. Stillmore, Cove
na, Rentz, Rixville, Adrian. Odomville,
Ethel, Blackville, Penalton, Lothair, Moßnt
Vernon.. Dublin, Wrightsville, Tennille,
Sandersville, -Lovett, Brewton, Harrison,
Dexter, Spring Haven, Jeffersonville, Dan
ville. Montrose, Riner, Kite, Wadley,
Louisville, Bartow, Kilburn, Durdenville
and Ma xu.
SECRETARY DAY
WILL RESIGN
The Office of Secretary of
State as Soon as Peace
is Declared.
MAY BE COMMISSIONER.
He Accepted the Portfolio With This
Understanding—Will Practice
Law.
New York, August 8. —A special to the
Herald from Washington says:
In connection with the probable selection
of Secretary Day as one of the peace com
missioners, it is stated that he will at an
early date retire from the office of secre
tary of state, and after concluding his la
bors as a member of the commission, re
sume the practice of law in Canton.
Although tlhis is the first public an
nouncement that Day intends to retire
from public life, it has long been known to
his most intimate friends that when he ac
cepted the portfolio he did so with the un
derstanding that he would resign the office
immediately after peace had been restored
between Spain and the United States.
BOTTLE WAR
Will Be Waged Between the Makers and the
Men.
Pittsburg, August B.—'Flint glass manu
facturers are threatened with one of the
biggest strikes in the history of the trade.
The wage conference between the repre
sentatives of the American Flint Glass
workers’ Union and the American and
Lime Glass Manufacturers’ Association
opined in this city this morning. Each
side piesented its demands. Between the
two there is a difference of over 27 per
cent. This is caused by the workers de
manding advances in wages, basing their
claims upon the assumption that all 'the
propsperity talk they have been hearing
from the manufacturers’ side for the past,
six months Is true beyond doubt.
The manufacturers commenced at once
to talk fight. This did not embarrass the
workers. The workers asked for a direct
advance of 16% per cent and a restriction
of production.
COMMISSIONERS
TO INSPECT SITES.
Leave Today for Different
Points and Will Decide
in Two Weeks.
The prison commission will start out to
day on a tour of inspection of the different
sites throughout the state that have been
offered for the penitentiary. Each com
missioner will take a different site and
will inspect it under an agreement made
between them, then If they find that the
presence of the other commissioners is ad
visable they will be summoned by wire.
It is thought that in this way the different
sites can be inspected at less cost and in a
shorter time than by all of the commis
sioners going together. The commissioners
will not again inspect the sites at Juliette
mills on the Southern near Macon, but it
is thought that they will finally decide that
It is the best site that has been off ere 1
them.
The work of inspection will he completed
in about two weeks and shortly after that
time the commissioners will be ready to
make the announcement as to the selection
of a site for the state penitentiary.
AMERICAN POLITICS
Have Come With American Sovereignty on
Island of Hawaii.
Honolulu, July 26, via San Francisco,
August B.—With Araericai sovereignty has
come American politics. The annexation
ists who for five years have fought unwa
veringly for political union with the United
States, have already begun to-split up, and
party lines are beginning to apear.
The Americai Union party has the only
political organization which had direct and
avowed representation in the last legisla
ture. It will undoubtedly be the nucleus
and the organization which will develop
into the Republican party when the island
politics shall be admitted to national poli
tics.
The Portuguese have a voting strength of
about 3,000. How they will vote is a ques
tion. It is admitted that their voting
strength will be almost a determining fac
tor in party supremacy. Whatever party
succeeds in capturing the Portuguese vote,
if any party can capture it at all. will have
an excellent chance of being supreme in
the islands.
RAY’S REGIMENT
IN SAVANNAH.
Will Not Go Out Until Tomor
row When the Transports
Will Arrive.
Savannah, Ga., August 8. —The Third
and Fifth regiments of United States vol
unteers arrived here yesterday and are in
camp awaiting the arrival of transports to
take them to Santiago. The Third regi
ment arrived yesterday morning from Ma
con, and the Fifth last night from Colum
bus, Miss.
The transport Rio Grande arrived, today
and is loading the baggage of the Fifth
regiment, two battalions of which will go
on board to morrow morning and will sail
at noon.
The Leona is expected this morning. The
Minnewaska is delayed througn an accident
to her machinery and is not expected there
before Tuesday. She will carry the Third
regiment, commanded by Colonel Patrick
Ray.
The Fifth regiment received here a set
of regimental colors, presented by the la
dies of Mississippi, which will be unfurled
for the first time on the arrival of the
Mississippians at Santiago.
CURZON HAS ACCEPTED.
London, Augy§t Ss—Tne Evening News
today learns that It is positive that George
Curzon, parliamentary secretary of foreign
affairs has accepted the vice royalty of
India. He succeeds Earl Elgin.
STEAMBOAT HAS
NEWJPUIN,
Captain Miller Has Resigned
and His Successor Has
Been Appointed.
MEETING TOMORROW
Os the Macon Navigation Company
to Discuss the Building of the
New River Boat.
The steamer City of Macon now lying at
her dock, has a new captain.
Captain Miller has resigned and his
place has been taken by Captain Ellis
Hathaway.
The resignation of Captain (Miller comes
as a surprise. He has been in command
of the steamer since she was launched and
has made a number of most successful
trips. The rea-son for the resignation is
not givtn. but ii is understood /'.at Cap
tain 'Miller has a better offer at another
river point or at .Brunswick. He finds the
river work somewhat monotonous and try
ing on his health.
Captain Hathaway, who will have charge
of the boat on her down trip which com
mences tomorrow, is himself an experi
enced river navigator.
The City of Macon will carry a large
cargo to Brunswick and river points on
her down trip.
A meeting of the Macon Navigation
Company will be held tomorrow when the
question of the new boat to ply the Oc
mulgee will be discussed.
In the next, congress Hon. C L. Bartlett,
the able and energetic congressman from
the Sixth district, propose to make special
efforts to get 'a large appropriation to be
used in work on the Ocmulgee between
Macon and Hawkinsville in deepening the
channel and clearing it cf certain obstruc
tions. Most of the appropriations that have
been made by congress for the Ocmulgee
have been applied on the stream*, belot
Hawkinsville. Congressman Bartlett pro
poses to have this changed, at least to the
extent of having the river between Macon
and Hawkinsville worked.
IMPURE ICE.
Mhat a Trade Journal Says of the Crusade
Against It. '
The story in Saturday’s News relative
to the attempted sale of lake or pond ice
in Macon has aroused considerable inter
est, and there Is already much opposition
to the sale of impure ice in the city.
The following is what a prominent trade
Journal has to say of the crusade against
Impure lake or pond ice in the North:
The annual crusade against the use. of
natural ice containing impurities has been
carried on io a lively extent during the
past month, and it will continue to be a
vexed question in every city that has a
board of health. Massachusetts, which
has always been a leader in educational
matters, foremost in its efforts to con
demn tho use of impure ice as a menace
to the public weal. Tn North Adams the
local board appealed to the state board of
health for an examination and .analysis.
The engineers of the state board declared
most of the sources whence the ice was
obtained as dangerous, and some of the ice
wholly unfit for consumption. From many
other cities come similar reports Nor is
this confined to Massachusetts. From all
around one reads of warnings by the local
health officer against the use of . ,-e har
vested from this or that lake, or pond, or
river, as the case may be. Cases of sum.-
mer cholera, typhoid fever and almost in
numerable gastric disturbances are traced
to the use of impure ice. Os course it does
not follow that all natural ice is imp ire—
far from it. But enough of it Is impure
to attach the element of risk to the use of
natural ice for drinking or other con
sumptive purposes. The artificial product
Is directly under the control of the maker,
and a perfectly pure article may always
be obtained. It is the one source from
which pure ice must come eventually.
True, it is not necessary for people to eat
Ice or to drink the water from it. The
cooling effect may 'be obtained by placing
the ice outside the vessel instead of -within
it. But it is not what people might do. 1»
is what they do do, that counts
blgloney ’
For the Railroads ‘in Trans
porting Soldiers to Mon
tauk Point.
The impression exists in railroad circles,
and it is evidently based on advices from
Washington, that Tampa will soon be en
tirely abandoned as a camp, and that such
of the troops as do not go to Porto Rico
will be sent North to Montauk Point, the
eastern end of Long Island.
It is also (believed that soldiers are to
be moved from Fernandina and from Lake
land, both of which places have consider
able troops, to Montauk. The Georgia
Southern and Florida, Central railroad and
the Southern are looking for a share of
this business.
Montauk is 1,450 miles from Tampa,
where there are now probably five regi
ments encamped A rate of 2 cents a mile
is made for the transportation of troops,
which would give about $lO for tach sol
dier, qr for a full regiment about $150,000.
There Is a charge for excess baggage, tout
as each soldier is allowed 150 pounds, the
aggregate allowance for the regiment of
about 1:0. practically precludes any
excess charges.
The entire transportation expense on a
regiment for the entire distance to Mon
tauk Point, from Tampa, would be about
135,000. There would be no change of cars
all the way through from Tampa to Jersey
City, and the Plant System would, of
course, derive some income from the use
of its ears over the lines of the other com
panies. To move three regiments would
m.an an expenditure by the government
for fares of ever SIOO,OOO. War is a costly
necessity.
CAPT. HUNTER HERE.
Says that the Boys of the F rst Regirrent
Are All Well.:
Captain Sam B. Hunter, of toe First
Georgia regiment of United States volun
teers is in the city today for the first time
since hi- regiment went to Chicgamauga.
He says that he feels confident that his
regimen' will be sent to Porto Rico or
some other point. Like all other soldiers
be regrets that the regiment and espe
cially the Macon contingent was not given
an opportunity to show the stutf of which
it -is made.
Captain Hunter will be here for a few
daJS * .L 11
VUTANTED AT ONCE,
* * SOD IREN AND BOYS
. To inspect the excellent bargains
ottered through our Midsummer Clothing Sale of Stylish
SIO.OO Suits now for $ 6.67
12.00 Suits now for 8.50
• s'oo Suits now for 10.00
18.00 Suits now for 12.00
That s the rate our prices are cut. Pick of suit from out
entire stock.. All garments of this season’s latest make.
Loys Knee Pants Suits at one-half of former prices.
as ana soc
Your Watch ’
Needs Cleaning /
That s wiiat s the matter with it. It can’t keep good,
time whiie full of dust. Bring it here and we’ll fix
it so it will run right, for only $2.00, with one year
guarantee.
RERIifIHD The Jeweler,
UuUljp|TLl, Triangular Block.
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lAt the Wigwam |
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• Everything you need, for a pleasant vacation
—health, rest, pleasure, perfect table and
4* service, large, aiiy rooms, low rates, bathing,
J bowling, bicycling, riding, tennis, billiards,
music. All under perfect management. 4*
“g Write today for reservation of room, as we
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f T. C. PARKER, Proprietor. j
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Crump’s Park Bulletin
Tonight-Chick & Peters— lnternational Stars
Broken Lots,
Broken Prices
Our two stores are now con
solidated. We find in the round-up
that we have one and two Suits of a
kind in some of the finest of this
season's goods. We have marked
prices to move them. Our buyer is
now in market. We want to clear
our counters before his purchases
arrive. Come this week for bargains.
. z— ~
money on Hann.
Loans on retH estate. Easy monthly pay
ments.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building' and Loan Association,
HMoa, Otu. 461 Third Street.
PRICE THREE CENTS