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Money to Lend.
If you want to bo row money on farm
business or residence property on the most
favorable terms see the Georgia Ix>an and
Trust Company,
O. A. COLEMAN, Gen Man.,
J 56 Second Street, Macon, Ga.
ESTABLISHED 1884
FIRST ALABAMA
WANTSJO QUIT
Will Be Mustered Out of the
[Service Among the
First.
LIST NOT YET MADE UP
But the Difficulty Now is to Get the
Men Tired ofCamp Life to Stay
in the Service.
Washington, August 22.—The war de
partment has no y«t made out the list of
the regiments to be mustered out of the
service, but is in constant correspondence
•with various wctlona of the country upon
the subject.
At first it was thought that the demand
to remain in the service would prove em
barrassing to the department, as so many
troops desired to continue in service.
it is now believed that there has been a
change of sentiment and the officers and
m.-n of regiments that see no possibility of
further fighting are willing to go back to
their avocations.
Some want to go to the new possessions,
but others, it is said, see no glory *n po
licing Santiago and other captured points
■where there is nothing to Jo.
Some of the troops are also becoming
tired of camp life.
The Firet Alabama, it is understood, has
been selected for mustering out. at Its own
request.
EIGHTY SOLDIERS
Drowned at Buda Pasth By the Collapse
of a Bridge.
Buda Peath, August 22. —Yesterday while
a regiment was crossing a pontoon bridge
over the river Maros, near Hoadf, the
bridge collapsed. Three hundred men 'were
emersed and eighty drowned.
TYBEE HOTEL BURNED.
Fire Took Place This Morning- Bohan's
Loss is Twenty Thousand.
Savannah, August 22. —The South End
hotel, casino and four cottages on Tybee Is
lam! were burned this morning. The loss
is 120,000. It caught from an electric light
Wire. The hotel will be rebuilt.
MAY BE SERIOUS
INCIDENT YET.
Intimated by the Spanish Pass
That it Will Be Difficult
to Settle.
Madrid, August 22. —El Corero, the or
gan of the ministry, says:
•'The Culmiu question may yet lx* the oc
casion of serious incidents, as may also
the question of the international policy,
which may raise incidents that it is diffi
cult to foresee. ,
The Madrid press generally, and notably
the lleraldo, advises the government to
seek to save the economic situation by
means exclusively Spanish instead of ap
pealing to foreign capital, which the Her
aldo says will doubtless be offered, but on
such terms that the loans will be burden
some.”
COUSIN CUTS COUSIN.
Ox Daly, a Negro, Stabs His Couisin Seri
ously.
Remus Daly was seriously stabbed by
his cousin, Ox Daly Saturday afternoon
just beyond Mercer University.
ißoth men are negroes and are cousins.
The row started about Remus not driving
fast enough for Ox. They were in a wagon
and were going to their homes about five
miles from town. Ox stabbed Remus over
the heart and fled. The wounded negro
come near bleeding to death before he
could be carried to a doctor.
Dr. Worsham dressed his wounds and
said that the cut was dangerous. At the
last reports the negro was resting efl|ily.
Ox has not yet been captured.
FOUR KILLED
In the Wreck on the New York, New
Haven and Hartford.
Sharon, Mass., .August 22 —In the ex
citement and confusion attending the
clearing away of the wreckage caused by
last night's collision on the New York.
New Haven and Hartford, it is reported
that seven persons were killed, four of
them being given as unknown
Today it is learned definitely that the
total number of killed was four.
POWDER MILL
Near Chattanooga Blown Up Several
Lives Lost-
Chattanooga, August 22. —A tremendous
explosion at the plant of the Chattanooga
Powder Company, eighteen miles from this
city, killed two white men, Lucius B.
Eakin and Harlon Mortiehke. and wound
ing seriously, if not fatally, six others.
After the explosion the plant was destroyed
b * flre ' .
KNIGHTS IN SESSION.
Biennial Encampment at Indianapolis Will
Begin Tomorrow.
Indianapolis. August 22. —The biennial
meeting of the supreme lodge of Knights
of Pythias will begin tomorrow with every
section of the world where there is a
grand lodge represented.
The national encampment of the Uniform
Rank will be formally opened this after
noon and ueary 10,000 uniformed men are
in camp.
NOT WANTED NOW.
Gibraltar, August 22. —The Spanish engi
neers who have been working on the forti
fications at Algeciras on the west side of
the bay of Gibraltar, have been ordered to
Madrid, and the batteries recently sent
there have been ordered to Seville.
CHARLES PRATT DEAD.
New York, August 22.—The death is an
nounced of Charles Edward Pratt, the
founder of bicycling in the world. He
.was the first president of the League of
American Wheelmen and pioneer of bicy-
Cliflg. _ _ ~
ASSASSINATION
IN THEPULPIT,
Was Attempted on a Congre
gational Minister at Smi
lev, Georgia.
DU A NEGRO METHODIST
It is Thought that the Dastardly At
tempt Was Made—Wife
Lost Her Reason.
New York, August 22 —The American
Missionary Association has received dis
patches stating that Rev. J. T. Fletcher,
congregational minister and on the com
missary has been shot while attempting
to organize a Congregational church at
Smiley, Ga., which Is about twenty miles
from his home at Hogan, Ga.
He went to Smiley as the result of cor
respondence concerning the organizing of
a church, which had been carried on for
several months. While in the pulpit he
was shot through the window, his body
being riddled with 107 buckshot and sev
eral small shot.
His wife, with the assistance of others,
put him into a buggy and took him
twenty miles to his home.
His condition is serious although the ex
pectation is that he will recover.
One of his assailants has been arrested
while others have been located and it is
believed that they will be arrested in a
short, time.
Mr. Fletcher’s wife has become tempo
rarily insane by the occurrence, but will
regain her reason.
Fletcher announces his purpose to pros
ecute his assailants at whatever cost to
himself.
The would-be assassins are said < be
colored officials of a Methodist church,
but the officials of the association are care
ful to acquit the (Methodists of any respon
sibility for the crime.
THANKS FROM McKINLEY
To the Commissioner in Charge of Belle
view Hospital, New York-
New York. (August 22—President Mc-
Kinley has sent a letter to Charity Com
missioner John W. Keller, thanking him
for his kind treatment of the soldiers left
at Bellevue Hospital to recuperate.
The letter states that the treatment ac
corded the sick and wounded has 'been the
very best they could have had.
Surgeon General Sternberg has also
written to the commissioner, thanking him
for the treatment of the wounded and sick.
SPANISH VESSELS
May Enter, Load and Depart From United
States Ports,
Washington, August 22 The secretary
of the treasury has decided under existing
circumstances that there is no reason why
Spanish vessels should not enter and load
and clear at ports in the United States.
Collectors of customs will be instructed to
this effect today.
MANILACABLE
WORKING NOW.
Has Been Repaired and Will
Soon Be Working Into
Washington.
Washington, August 22—The Manila
cable has been repaired and is operated
by the signal corps of the United States
army.
The first intimation that the cable was
again in working order was a dispatch
from Lieutenant Colonel Thompson, who
telegraphed General Greeley that he had
repaired the cable with materials taken
to Manila with Merritt’s army.
Two days after the message from
Thompson, a message was received from
the president of the cable company an
nouncing that the 'Manila line was again
in working order.
A signal corps has been sent with every
detachment which was ordered to the front
with a complete outfit.
When the army is landed at any pla.ee
it. will begin operations at once and will
very soon .place the government at Wash
ington in communication with the officers
in the field.
IS MAKING RAPID TIME.
City of Macon is Breaking All Forrrer
Records on Return Trip.
The City of Macon is making rapid time
on its return trip and President Smith ex
pects the boat to arrive here tomorrow or
Wednesday.
The boat has on board a large cargo. If
the boat arrives here even by Thursday it
will be the quickest trip ever made on the
river. The officials are well pleased with
Captain Hathaway, who is making a
splendid officer.
MOONSHINERS CAPTURED.
Brought in Saturday Night From Upson
County.
Deputy Marshals Thomas and 'White re
turned from a raid in Upson county Sat
urday and with them they brought two
moonshiners.
The names of the men are A. C. Fallen
and Washington Redwine.
These two men have been operating a
still in Upson county for some time. The
officers destroyed three barrels of peach
brandy and about twenty gallons of beer.
The mtn were given a preliminary hear
ing this morning and were bound over to
the United States court.
PAY FOR MANILA TROOPS.
Washington, August 22—Paymaster
General Stanton has ordered three pay
masters with funds to go at once to Manila
to pay the troops there. They will sail
from San Francisco in a day or two.
VERY LITFLE INSURANCE.
Potsdam, N. Y.. August 22. —The plant of
the High Falls Sulphate Pulp and Mining
Company, located at Pyrites, has been de
stroyed by fire. The loss is $300,000. In
surance $50,000.
COTTON FUTURES.
New York. August 22—Futures opened
steady at a decline. August 554. Septem
ber 55, October 59, November 63. Decem
ber 64. January 67. February 70, March 75,
I April 77 May SI, June 83.
THE MACON - NEWS.
SIGSBEE GOES
OP AJW PEGS
The Commander of the Maine
Remembered bv the
President.
DON'T WANT SPANISH RIFLES
Ordnance Officers Say that a Few of
Them Introduced in the Army
Would Do No Good.
Washington, August 22—The president
has promoted Captain Sigsbee, now com
manding the St. Paul, by advancing him
three numbers on the list of captains of
the navy for ‘extra‘ordinary heroism.”
Admiral Sampson will retain command
of the North Atlantic fleet, notwithstanding
his service on the Cuban commission, and
Schley will continue jn his present naval
command, although serving for a time on
the Porto Rican commission.
This statement was made authoritatively
at the navy department today.
The list of naval assignments which was
posted today contain the announcement
that Sampson and Schley are on the Cuban
and Porto Rican commissions respectively,
but no reference is made to any change in
the fleet commanders.
There is much interest about the navy
department 'today in connection with the
expected official visit from the two ad
mirals, who are ordered to report here.
They had not reported up to mid day.
The ordnance officers say that they will
not have any fear of the small arms cap
tured at Manila, which, by the terms of
the surrender, will be returned to the
Spanish soldiers when they evacuate the
city.
It is stated by officers of experience that
it would not be profitable for the United
States to secure ammunition for different
kind of guns where there were only a
small number of such as those captured at
Santiago, or which might have been cap
tured at Manila.
If fifty or one hundred thousand stands
of arms were taken then the United States
might work profitably in the matter, sup
plying them with ammunition different
from the regular arms which have been
adopted for the troops and now in use.
They believe the introduction of arms into
the army of different makes and calibre
would do more harm than good.
LYNCHED THE
RIGHT NEGRO.
Murder at Americus Was the
Result of a Carefully
Laid Plot.
Americus, Ga., Avgust 22.—Chief of Po
lice Wheeler, Marshal Feagin and Deputy
Sheriff Bell, who went to the scene of the
double murder and lynching near Friend
ship, in this county, Saturday taking blood
hounds with which to chase the murderer
of Mrs. McGarrah and her son, James
Boone, returned here at 2 o’clock yesterday
morning, the murderer, Hamp Hollis, hav
ing been caught and lynched several hours
before the officers reached the scene of
the terrible tragedy.
Friendship is a hamlet fourteen miles
west of Americus, being without telegraph
or telephone facilities, communication can
only be had by mail or special messenger.
THERE WAS A PLOT.
It is now certain that the atrocious
murder of Mrs. McGarrah and young
Boone, her son by a former marriage, was
a well laid plot in which others besides
Hamp Hollis and his wife were concerned.
Considerable evidence is at hand to show
that this was true, and the arrest of other
negroes in that locality will follow. Hol
lis’s wife made a statement of the killing
yesterday afternoon, which led to the find
ing of the bloodstained ax and suit of
clothes worn by Hamp Hollis when the
crime was committed. Confronted with
this damaging evidence of guilt, Hollis
confessed the double murder, and was im
mediately strung up to a 'tree and 500 bul
lets fired into his carcass.
The body of Hamp Hollis remained sus
pended from a limb for some time, after
which it was cut down. The carcass was
pierced by hundreds of bullets, and pre
sented a ghastly spectacle. It was the
finale of the most brutal and atrocious
crime ever committed in Sumter county,
and while the cause is deeply deplored, it
is generally believed that the negro got
his just deserts at the rope’s end.
The funeral of the poor victims, Mrs.
MeGarrah and young Boone took place at
Friendship yesterday morning, thousands
of people from the city and surrounding
country attending. The family is among
the most highly respected in the county,
and has wide and influential eonections.
If there are others connected with the foul
murder of these people, the truth will soon
be ferreted out.
BOSTON HOSPITAL
Offer to Take Charge of and Care For
the Sick and Wounded.
Washington, August 22 —The Olivette,
hospital ship, which has just
Montauk Point with 200 sick on board, has
been ordered to proceed to Boston. The
sick soldiers will be taken to the hospitals
there which have volunteered to take care
of them.
TYPHOID FEVER
Killed Three Soldiers at McPherson Bar
racks This Morning.
Atlanta, August 22. —Thomas J. Prince,
troop C. Sixth cavalry, Robt. M. Bailey,
troop D. Fifth cavalry, and Frank Mellor,
a prisoner undergoing a six month’s sen
tence. died today of typhoid fever at Fort
McPherson.
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MACON NEWS MONDAY AUGUST 22 1898
HAD ENOUGH OF
CAMPING LIEE
It Seems as If the First Regi
ment Might Be Muster
ed Out.
HAS GONE TO KNOXVILLE
Left Chickamauga Last Night at
Midnignt—Senator Bacon Works
for Their Disbandment.
Chickamauga, August 22—Judging from
present indications, Camp Thomas will
soon be a thing of the past.
A number of regiments have already
been ordered home. A number of others
are ordered to Knoxville and Lexington
and now comes the order to Colonel
Wheeler, acting chief quartermaster, to
secure bids from the railroads to convey
all the regiments remaining at the camp
to their respective state capitals.
The idea seems to be to get the regi
ments to the places where they can be
mustered out close to home.
Numerous regiments are now making
preparations to leave and by the end of
the week the population of the camp is ex
pected to be reduced one-half.
The regiments ordered to Knoxville and
Lexington will be moved as rapidly as
transportation can be secured.
The First Georgia and the Thirty-first
Michigan left at midnight for Knoxville.
The Constitution this morning says:
The boys of the First Georgia regiment
were the worst disappointed set of soldiers
in the service yesterday when they re
ceived orders to break camp at once and
proceed to Knoxville to the new camp es
tablished by General McKee, the division
commander.
The men had strong hopes that they
would be mustered out and sent home, but
this order knocked the hopes to flinders.
A petition signed by a large number was
sent from Chattanooga yesterday afternoon
to the president and secretary of war ask
ing to be mustered out, and to Senator
Bacon asking his influence to secure this
end.
The boys took their predicament with
wonderfully good spirits under the circum
stances. Their tents were struck yester
day afternoon, loaded on wagons and by
5:30 o’clock the regiment was at Rossville
ready for departure. They were loaded at
once on cars of the Soutnern railway and
were taken out in five sections, the last
section leaving at 7 o’clock. The embark
ation was made without accident or inci
dent.
The regiment will not find the camp
ground prepared for them, inasmuch as
the detail which was to have gone ahead
of the command, had not left at noon to
day. Several-of the boys who were in th.-
city' on twenty-four hours' leave, were left
in the city, not havipg received word to
report.
FUNERAL OF MRS. CRIMMINSZ
Was Held Yesterday from St Joseph’s Cath
olic Church.
The funeral sorvices of Mrs. Crimmins
were held yesterday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from the St. Joseph’s Catholic church. Rev.
Father Roydhouse conducted the cere
mony.
The following gentlemen acted as pall
bearers: 'Messrs. Mike Fitzgerald, Edwin
Cassidy, Mike Redmond, Pat 'Murphey, J.
S. Sullivan. H. McKervey, Tom Sheridan
and E. J. (Burke.
The interment was at Riverside ceme
tery.
LAWN PARTY
WILL BE GIVEN
This Afternoon and Evening
at the Mount de Sales
Academy.
The lawn party which was to have been
given last Thursday night by the sisters of
Mount de Sales Academy, and which waw
postponed on account of the inclement
weather, will be given this afternoon and
evening.
The young folks are Invited to attend
from 4 until 7 o’clock and the grown people
from 8 ’till 11.
Numerous games have been arranged
for the entertainment of the young people.
The peanut hunt promises to be very in
teresting. 5 cents will be charged to en
ter the contest, and the winner will be
awarded prizes. The prize for the boy
finding the greatest number of peanuts is
a ball and bat, and for the girl a beatuiful
toilette case.
The prize for the most popular boy will
be awarded tonight. Several of the young
boys have entered the contest and it prom
ises to be very interesting.
Tonight the grown people are expected
to attend. Professor Weisz has tendered
the services of his orchestra and it is pro
posed to make the affair a promenade con
cert.
No admission will be charged and every
body is invited to attend.
The entertainment is given to secure
funds to make repairs on the academy
building.
EASTMAN LOST.
The Wiregrass Boys Would Not Play With
the Tigers.
Eastman was defeated by the Macon
team Saturday afternoon by a score of 12
to 1. The j?ame was very uninteresting
and the crowd became very much tired
with the playing of the Eastman team and
left the grounds.
The Macon boys showed up in fine shape
and some very brilliant plays were made.
McAfee, the pitcher for the Macon team,
pitched a phenomenal game, striking out
eleven men and not giving up a hit. The
game was very one-sided on account of
Eastman’s poor team. Eastman saw that
they were defeated at the end of the
seventh inning and refused to play any
longer.
The game was witnessed by a large
crowd of people and a nice sum of money
was realized for the Soldiers Relief As
sociation.
Following Is the score by Innings:
R. H. E
Eastman o 0 0 0 0 1 o—l—o—lo
Macon 1 3 14 11 I—l2 —I—21 —2
Summary. Batteries. Stoval and Mont
gomery; McAfee and Jones. Struckout by
Stovall 4, by McAfee 11. Two base hits.
Garrett and Harris. Earned runs Macon
"■ C’Ccnncll. Time of rime two
hours. 1
MEETING CALLED
FOR TOMORROW
At the Academy of Music-
Mr. Horne Will Again Take
Up Paving Question.
TO GO BEFORE COUNCIL
And Ask for a Suspension of Paving
Arrangements Until Further In
vestigation Is Made.
Mr. Henry Horne has called on the
property owners of Macon to meet In the
Academy of Music tomorrow.
Mr. Horne proposes to again outline the
paving situation and to ask the property
owners to appoint a committee to go 11-
fore council tomorrow night with the re
quest that all paving work including Third
street ibe suspended for one week so as to
give the property owners an opportunity
to see for themselves something more
about the paving.
Mr. Horne will also ask that another
committee be appointed by the meeting
to go to Savannah and make a further
week day Inspection of the paving there.
While the gentlemen who went to Savan
nah yesterday are representative in every
way as property owners and were selected
because of their impartiality and fairness,
in fact one of them being pronounced in
his advocacy of brick as against asphalt,
Mr. Horne wants the committee to be
•more fully satisfied as to the conditions
existing in Savannah.
The committee to go before council and
to go to Savannah will be made up of two
property owners on Cotton avenue, two
from Mulberry street, two from Second
street, and two representing the heavy
traffic streets that are still unpaved.
Mr. Horne thinks too that council should
appoint a committee from their number to
accompany these representatives -and make
a satisfactory investigation of the paving
there.
This should be done in view of the al
most unanimous demand for asphalt on
the streets to ibe paved.
Mr. Horne hopes that the property own
ers on the remaining streets of Macon and
of the city generally will come out to the
meeting tomorrow. He will state facts
that will be to their benefit and will save
them a large amount of money.
WOMAN’S
COMMITTEE
Os Carnival Association Held
Meeting Saturday List
of Troops Secured.
The first meeting of the woman’s com
mittee of the Carnival Association was
held Saturday afternon with Mrs. Ben C.
Smith in the chair.
The first meeting was very successful
and the members of the committee were
very enthusiastic. The committee secured
the names of all people who owned traps
and who would participate in the Floral
parade of the Carnival and also of those
who were willing to hire traps for the oc
casion. It is thought fully two hundred
traps will be in line. All of the turnouts
will be beautifully decorated. The woman’s
committee will have charge of the Floral
parade.
Weekly meetings of the committee will
be held from now on and it is proposed by
the ladies on the committee to make the
Floral parade the convincing feature of
the Carnival.
GEORGIA DAY
At the Omaha Exposition Has Been Fixed
for Sept. 28.
Atlanta, August 22 —September 28 will
be Georgia day at the great Omaha ex
position.
Mr. H. H. Cabaniss received a telegram
from ex-Governor W. J. Northen Saturday
announcing this most interesting tact.
Georgia has a magnificent display at
Omaha. In marble, building stones and i
fruits, it stands unsurpassed and in many |
other features it is easily abreast of tne
finest exhibits at the grand Trans-i Missi
ssippi exposition.
Georgia and Georgians always hold their
own everywhere on earth, and it must not
be forgotten that the daj’ dedicated to the
Empire State of the South at Omaha-
September the 28th—is going to mark a
superb epoch in the history of the exposi
tion, in the career of our great state, and
in the annals of this glorious republic.
It is settled that the state of Georgia
will do herself proud on the grand occa
sion and that hundreds of Georgians -will
be on the ground to unite in the red-letter
celebration.
The work of organizing a great excur
sion from Georgia to attend the imposing
exercises of Georgia day will be began at
once.
In addition to the scores of enthusiastic
Georgians who will join the excursion, the
Georgia Press Association will attend in
full force. The officers of this association
are: President, H. H. Cabaniss; vice pres
ident, John Triplett; secretary, B. F.
Perry’, and treasurer, J. W. Anderson.
President Cabaniss will arrange the de
tails for the Press Association, which will
be comfortably placed in special Pullman
sleepers attached to the big excursion
train.
AT THE WIGWAM.
List of Arrivals at this Popular Resort
Yesterday.
The following were the arrivals at the
Wigwam at Indian Spring on Saturday:
Miss Ernie DeHaven, Macon; Robert G.
Daniel. Millen; C. J. Shipp. Cordele; Har
ry Cantey, Morton Smith, Atlanta; Robert
H. Smith, Macon; W. G. Dyer, Atlanta;
M. P. Hall, Jackson; J. F. Coney, Hawk
insville; R. C. Jordan, Macon; Sam T.
Barnett, Atlanta; J. N. Neel, W. F. Hous
er, J. C. Holmes and wife, Tom W. Loy
less, Macon; Mrs. John F. Lewis, Monte
zuma; C. Murphree, Troy, Ala.; T. M.
Willingham, Macon; W. J. Obear, Atlanta;
W. H. Jones, Macon; M. S. Ware, Mar
shallville; William Lee Ellis, Jr., St.
Simons; L. P. Lester, Macon; J. S. Speer,
Gus Castle, J. H. Holder, Atlanta; C. M.
Boifeuillet, Macon; O. S. Jordan, Miss
Clara G. Jordan, Columbus.
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PUT ON TRIAL
FORJS LIFE
Abner Taylor, the Wife Mur
derer,Brought Into Court
This Morning.
INSANITY WILL BE THE FLEA
An Effort Was Made to Secure a
Contiunance of the Case Until
Next Term Was Overruled.
Abner Taylor, the wife murderer was
placed ou 'trial in the superior court be
fore Judge Felton this morning.
At 10:30 the first name on the jury was
called and was refused for “cause.”
At the jury was completed and is
made up as follows:
A. R. Matthews, W. G. Hicks, J. J. Dur
den, L. W. Burkett, Paul Watson, E. Wing,
J. W. Kyche, O. P. Heath, L. B. Clarke,
M. C. Balkcom, W. H. Adams, A. L. Jones,
Taylor is closely guarded by a deputy
sheriff, who stands or sits within reach of
of him in the court room. It is evident
that .the sheriff expects some outbreak and
perhaps an effort at self-destruction. In
fact a sensational incident before the ex
piration of the trial is very probable.
Taylor sits beside bis three counsel
Messrs. Dupont Guerry, C. H. Hall, Jr.,
and Robert H. Jones. He is dressed in a
brown suit with a gray stripe and a woolen
shirt open -at the throat.
Since his capture and imprisonment Tay
lor has allowed his beard to grow. It is a
reddish brown and has grown in a short,
thick mass, completely changing the sharp
contour of the man’s face.
His cheeks show more evidence of blood
than when he was arrested. In fact, he
looks altogether a different and more
healthy man.
During most of the morning he has sat
with his hands shading his eyes and not
looking up except when addressed. Then
his blue eyes, full and wide, are fixed on
the person addressing him and on those
arouud him.
Once, and once only, did he sho-w any
sign of emotion.
His counsel, Mr. Dupont Guerry, had of
fered a motion for the first presentment of
the case until the next term of the court.
The reason for this was the absence of
Mrs. Armstrong, a material witness, but
who was unable to be present. An affida
vit was read from her in which she stated
that she had had ample opportunity to
witness the great affection that Taylor had
for his wife. How he had nursed her ten
derly and had denied himself in every
way while she was sick. The affidavit was
closely descriptive of these affectionate at
tentions on the part of Taylor for his wife,
and during the reading of it Taylor had
a struggle to suppress his emotions. Tears
gathered in his eyes and a convulsive
movement of the throat showed that sobs
were near the surface.
After reading the affidavit Mr. Guerry
said that counsel for Taylor proposed to
put in a plea of insanity for Taylor at the
time of the commission of the crime. Un
der that plea testimony that went to show
the almost foolish affection of the murder
er for his victim was material and indis
pensable. Mrs. Armstrong’s absence was
from providential causes, as she had given
birth to a child this morning and conse
quently could out be present for some time.
Dr. C. D. Redding was put on the stand
to prove Mrs. Armstrong’s condtion.
Solicitor General Ellis, who is conduct
ing the case alone, said that he would ad
mit the facts as outlined to be proven by
Mrs. Armstrong and would not contest the
truth of the facts as sworn to by her in
the affidavit, setting forth the evidence
she had of Taylor’s affection for his wife,
but would not admit the fact that Taylor
was an affectionate husband. He proposed
to prove the contrary.
This admission of the truth of the af
fidavit removed the main reason for con
tinuation and a motion for further time to
consult with witnesses and prepare the
case was overruled by the court.
At 10:30 the state and defense announced
ready and the jury was put upon the
prisoner.
When arraigned for trial Taylor stood
up and when asked whether he pleaded
guilty or not guilty, he remained mute and
was still silent when asked how he would
be tried.
Mr. Guerry answered both questions for
the prisoner.
Eli Taylor, his brother, is assisting the
counsel for the defense.
The solicitor general opened the case for
the prosecution, briefly stating to the jury
that he expected to prove that Taylor wil
fully and maliciously killed his wife.
Only two witnesses were put upon the
stand. Mr. C. D. Lowe, father of the mnr
dered woman was the first on the stand.
He was followed by Miss Genie Lowe, his
daughter.
Both of these witnesses detailed the
story of the killing, which has already
been told many times. How the abused
wife had returned to her father’s home for
safety and for shelter. The husband en
raged, followed her there and was re
ceived in all kindness by the family. He
demanded to see his wife, and when she
came to him, he told her that She must
come home. She refused and he drew a
pistol and shot her. The father, coming to
the relief of his child, struck at Taylor,
who shot him down with another bullet
from the pistol.
Thea the infurated man turned on his
defenseless wife with a surer weapon and
again and again stabbed and cut her while
she begged for her poor life.
It was a terrible tale coming from the
witness stand and told by the pretty young
sister, who saw the deed and joined her en
treaties with the other for mercy.
She told her story bravely, while the
murderer looked at her with eyes wide
open and changed not a muscle of his face.
The father, whose face is lined and fur
rowed with care and hands hardened with
toil, told the same awful story and pictur
ed the scene at the little country home,
now desolated, the daughter murdered and
the mother dead as a result of sorrow and
grief.
The case will probably be concluded to
morrow.
SHIPMENT MADE TODAY,
By the International Brotherhood League to
Headquarters in New York.
The International Brotherhood League
made a large shipment of goods this morn
ing to the headquarters of the league in
New York.
In the shipment were three hundred dif
ferent articles. Medicine, clothing, shoes
and etc., were the principal articles strip
ed.
It is the intention of the members here
to make as many shipments as possible
to the headquarters and they have be
etle work to get up things for another
shipment.
This Way, Please.
can onl\ repeat that ours is the place where you
can invest your money now to best advantage. The
bargains offered through our Mid-Summer Clearing
Sale of Stylish Suits, Hats, Underwear, etc., are of
phenomenal sort, and those who will grasp the op
portunity while they may will secure
Values beyond the ability of conception.
Now is your time—your splendid chance—to pay
due respect to your pocketbook.
Your Watch
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That’s what’s the matter with it. It can’t keep good
time while full of dust. Bring it here and we’ll fix
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UUDUn/lU, Triangular Block.
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iterature, English language and litera turo, modern languages, mathematics
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P. D. POLLOCK, President, Macon, Ga.
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Prompt delivery of baggage to aud from all depots.
Office next door Southern Express Co.
W. H. ARNOLD, Manager.
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Crump’s Park Bulletin
Tonight=="Tfte LigFitning Rod Agent.”
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NOT IDEAS . .
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All ideas have their beginning in the nature of the
thinker. We obtain ideas through our characte ,
opinions through our eyes and ears—and opiniors
never deepen into ideas.
’Round-town competition has very strong opin
ions concerning our progressive and aggressivs ways
Many who criticize our low prices are suffering from
mental pauperism, a pauperism as real as the more
ordinary and visible forms that attract the attention
of the economist.
We are rushed putting bright ideas into our
business, instead of expressing gratuitous opinions
about other people’s business.
money on Hand.
Loans on real estate. Easy monthlv n*r
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