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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. SIOO REWARD, SIOO. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving 'he patient strength by building up the constitution and assising nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers, that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi monies. Address. F. J. CHENEY &CO., Toledo. O. ■ ' by Druggie;;, 75c. [ Hall’s family pils are the best 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. Bucklin’s Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give .perfect satisfaction or —f.irl 1. frr b-v sale by H. J. Ijamai & Sons drug stoiv, . 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 Needs Cleaning ! 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 it so it will run right, for only $2.00, with one year guarantee. BEELfIND Thejewe,er ’ UUDUn/lU, Triangular Block. Mercer University, MACON, GEORGIA. A high-grade institution, with goo d equipment and with an excellent fac ulty, bull course in Latin language and literature, Greek language and iterature, English language and litera turo, modern languages, mathematics aS ?>r ” atural history, physi cs and chemistry, history and philos opny the Bible, law. Many students finish the college year at a cost of $l6O lor all expenses. For catalogue or further information address P. D. POLLOCK, President, Macon, Ga. City Baggage Transfer Co Prompt delivery of baggage to aud from all depots. Office next door Southern Express Co. W. H. ARNOLD, Manager. 518 Fourth Street. Phone 20 b PH* >* f 1- I* I L*-U P J COOL NIGHTS | I » PLEASANT DAYS-' i lu the fall of the year when the long summer 4* J has tired nature out INDIAN SPRING is 4* the most delightful health resort in the South. J $ THE WIGWAM,S • 4- Under its new management, is pronounced by 4- 4* all the patrons of the hotel this year as equal 4- T in every respect to the best hotels. 4“ T You can find rest, health, comfort and pleasure T J at the WIGWAM J J T. C. PARKER, Proprietor. ± 5 C. E. Hooper, Manager. J X 4 Crump’s Park Bulletin Tonight=="Tfte LigFitning Rod Agent.” OPINIONS ARE NOT IDEAS . . They are the mere outside appearance of ideas 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 ments. GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. Equitable Building and Loan Association, Macon, Ga.. 461 Third Street. PRICE THREE CENTS