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We will have at our disposal during
November >75.000 to loan on Georgia farms
or city property. We are offering money at
low rates.
THE GEORGIA LOAN AND TRUST GO..
O. A. Coleman, General Manager,
356 Second Street.
ESTABLISHED 1884
MT KU Llffi
A IM IN HERSELF.
William Stead, of London, Writes from the Capital of the
Interior-Life of the Immense Country that Ex
ists Only in Future.
INDIFFERENCE
Os the Russian People to What
is Going on in the Out
side World.
AMERICANS TO THE FRONT,
They Find Vast Possibilities in the
Domains of the Czar, and Are
Taking Advantage of Their
Chances in Every Di
rection.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.
I»ndon, 0,1. 20 Mr. William T. Stead,
writing from St. Petersburg, says:
"When Sir Robert Morier, one of the
ablest of British ambassadors, was trans
ferred from the court of .Madrid to the cap
ital of Russia, he remarked on his arrival:
‘I have come from a country which lives in
the past to a country which lives in the
future, ‘
"Since then many years have gone by.
Fpain has almost used up its past in a vain
effort to contend with the forces of the
present, while Russia is exhausting the
resources of the ■present in order to tv Tble
io cope with the immense possibilities of
the future.
Russia is the greatest aggr< gate of white
trtien ever compacted into a state unit sine
Ihe world began. The English speaking
family alone exceeds in number th< Ru
slan. but they know on one political al
liance such as that which bind" ill the
Russians to the throne of Nicholas 11.
Rus.l ,1, ioriirr • >c.
"One hunderd and twenty millions of
men constitute a worM in thenje Iv's
large enough to obsorb th. ir energies and
monopolize their intention. The indiffer
ent' of the Russians as to what passes be
yond their frontier is phenomenal.
Fifty years ago one of the aides de camp
of the emperor, falling into conversation
with an \mcriean, asked him to what coun
try be belonged and was told America.
‘America.! \meriea!’ said the aide de
camp, "where is America?"
"An American traveler recenly returned
front Siberia gravely assured me that nil'
the war news he could find ip the Oren
burg papers were brief reprints of tele
grams describing the war which was rag
ing between 'Spain and England.’ The
Russian peasantry are no apt to make fine
distinctions.
'Mankind for them. It has been said, con
sists only of two great divisions—the Rus
sians. or speaking men. anil the r.on-Rus
slanis, or those who cannot speak.
Sori* tv’s Menotonv.
"The small but highly cultivated minor
ity which forms Russian society, the larger
group which forms the administration and
the officers of the army and of the navy
nro, of course, keenly alive to the evolu
tion of events in America.
"There is ’l'obyi'dons'tsffi. who is univer
sally regarded as a kind of lay pope and
‘persecutor general’ throughout. Russia. No
milder mannered man over closed a con
venticle or doomed a schismatic to exile.
He is keenly alive to the American evolu
tion. or. as ho thinks it. degradation.
"To him ‘boss’ Croker Is a kind of som
bre portent of the doom that awaits par
liamentarism or representative govern
ment. In hiR ’reflections of a Russian
statesman.’ which has just made its ap
pearance in English, ho expresses profound
alarm at the probable (?) triumph of the
■Roman Catholic religion in the United
Rtates.
"Prince Khilkoff. (pronounced Hilkoff.)
minister of ways and communications, is
known as the ‘American.’ He serve! some
time in an American railway shop: he
wears his beard in the traditional Ameri
can fashion: his letters are written on a
typewriter, ami he is simply burning with
n desire to repeat in Siberia the great in
dustrial developments that the Americans
nehievd in the last fifty years west of the
Mississippi.
Sentiment for United States.
"At the foreign office Count Mo'irnvieff,
bluff, cynical Bismarckian in his ambi
tions. though not in his capacity, has kept
ft careful eye upon the development of
American ambitions. While scrupulously
preserving the most rigid neutrality dur
ing the wa- he had a bias in sentiment to
ward the United States. Grea* and grow
ing powers have not much sympathy for
states that are moribund, and Spain bad
few sympathizers among the ministers of
the czar. Rut the Spanish war interested
them but HttD. It was wage’, as it were,
in a distant planet. \s‘*onomers might
watch it. but t was not the business of
the average man.
‘‘‘Americans are coming well to the front
In Russia, as they are discovering mor?
and more what an immense and undevel
oped field the lands of the czar offer to
western enterprise.
Russia is but at the beginning of a new
Industrial development. Betora the next
century closes she hopes to have achieved
n progress as great as that which the
United States has accomplished in the
closing century. No one adequately reali
tese the immense agricultural resources
of th< immense prarie through which the
czar and Prince Khilkoff are running an
iron highway 8.000 miles long.
\m-ri t•« at Work
Americans are supplying many of the
rails and American engineers are every
where. One American is superintending
the construction of new steel works near
St. Petersburg. Bates’ dredges are to
deepen the Volga, the Dnieper, the Don
and I know not how many Russian river
besides. The representatives of Messrs.
Worthington. are laying down 200 miles o’
eight inch piping in the trans-Caspian
region, through which the Rothchild oil
combination will pump petroleum by means
of four pumping stations, all of which
will be supplied with the latest American
pumps.
“The other day I met an American geol
ogist and engineer who. having quit the
post of city engineer in a great .-American
City, had been spending the summer in ex-
' aminlng the gold mines of Northern Si
beria, and before the day was #ver I
■ stumble<l on another who had been re
porting on coper mines in the Kirgis
steppes. The testimony of these Americana
! was favorable to the labor value of the Si-
I berlan workman. The Russian is docile,
quick to learn and does quite as good work
as any but the skilled laborer in the states.
As a craftsman he is a past master with
j his only tool, the axe, and my American
I friends seemed to think that he would be
■ equally deft with other tools if he had had
I the training of the skilled artisans.
“On the other hand, another American
declared quite as positively that the Rus
sians employed In his works work as me
chanically as the machines they tend.
They never make a suggestion or propose
an improvement. Their minds are slug
gish and they are the meet conservative of
men.
T.eavpnbf? flip
"There Is manifest in certain quarters
a suspicion that after a time the cordiality
Russian and American friendship may
undergo some little change. The American
I element in the country is as a little yeast.
I leavening the Russian mass with Ameri
, can ideas. Already Russian workmen
here and there have been heard to observe
I that they had no use for a Thas, a phrase
which seems almost pure American.
No greater contrast could be conceived
than that between the feverish, newspaper
lit. electric driven democracy of tho
United States and the slow. patriachaJ des
potism of Russia. The mere influence of
Americans bringing in their train, their
American mails is in Itself breaking down
the Chinese wall of archaic censorship.
C’en-oritifr thn Mails
“Consul General Holloway, of whom I
was delighted to receive the best, accounts,
subscribes regularly to nine American pa
pers. As tbc mails do not come in every
day it is easy to imagine the perplexity of
'the unfortunate Russian censor, who has
to examine every column of every page of
every paper that passes through the post
Po the censor capitulated and taking
refiice 'Badly in the rule which allows
certain off lai personages to receive their
papers uncensored, it was decreed that the
consul general should receive his mail in
tact. The incident is illustrative of much.
A thousand Inrricans scattered up and
down Sibt ria would let in a flood of light
info many d irk places and help to roll the
czar’s chariot along a little more rapidly
than it moves at present.
"Another point upon which Russians, or
rather some Russians, see impending dan
ger, is the certainty with which the
American ambassador here never loses an
opportunity to emphasizing that the United
States will stand no interference with the
open door policy in China. In Mr. Hitch
cock the United States has been fortunate
I to.find a thorough business man, who has
spent years of his life in the Chinese trade.
He knows the value of China to American
commerce and he has no intention of al-
any obstacle to be placed in the
way of its development.
< zm ’s Conference.
“ Tho . action taken by the czar on his
own initiative in summoning a conference
of all the nations to consider whether any
th ng can be done to secure an arrest of
armament affords an opportunity for the
friends of peace in the United States to do
a stroke of good business, both for the
cause and their country.
The czar has been plentifully placed
with cold douches of scepticism, ridicule*
an dscorn. The diplomats and the sover
eigns and the ministers of the world have
no faith in the humaniarian enthusiasm of
i the young emperor. Even among his own
ministers there are many who have little
sympathy with his chivalrous crusade of
peace. But Nicholas II means business
and he is going through this business as
best he can with such support as he can
command.
"If there be any real enthusiasm of hu
manity anywhere in the world it ought,
to be easily evoked and strongly expressed
in support of his valorous declaration of
war against the ruinous armaments of the
modern world. One thing Americans may
be sure. The more enthusiastically they
make manifest and effective their response
to the appeal of the young enfperor. the
better it will be for the future relations of
tho two countries.
"The United States after the Russian
Empire, is the greatest human aggregate
that will be represented at the conference.
If th .American delegates is well chosen
and he is backed by the hearty and visible
manifestation of popular support the new
world may even sooner than was anticipa
ted, wield a dominating influence in the
decisions of the Areopagus of Europe.”
DREYFUS CASE.
;Court of Cassation Has De
cided to Accent Bard’s
Conclusions,
By Associated Press.
Paris. Oct. 29.—The court of cessation,
according to the newspapers, will accept
the conclusions of M. Bard, the reported In
the Dreyfus case and order a supplemen
tary investigation, but has declined to or
der the release of Dreyfus.
CHANCE TO VOTE
Will Be Given to the Department Employes
at Washington.
| By Associated Press.
Washington. Oct. 29. —Secretary Algei
has issued the following memorandum for
the chiefs of bureaus and offices in his de
partment bearing on the question of re
quests made by the employes to go home
to vote:
When the request is made by employes
of the department for leave of absence to
[ enable them ,o go home to vote, permis
( sion. irrespective of party. Will be granted,
if it can be done without detriment to the
public service. The time so absent to be
charged against the annual leave authoriz
, ed by the law or if the leave is exhausted
‘ the absence to be without, pay.
“(Signed.) R. A. Alger.”
I Hear Hon. N. E Harris
on “The Saloon Question”
at the Prohibition tent to
morrow afternoon at 3
. o’clock.
THE MACON NEWS.
FROM SANTIAGO
Maj. Lawton Says ZAffairs Are Adjusting
Themselves to New Conditions.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 29.—Major Henry
I Lawton, who recently arrived in this coun
i try from Santiago, was at the war depart-
I meat today, accompanied by Captains
I Mendoza and King, of his staff, and Mr.
A. E. Maestro, a native Cuban.
Major Lawton came to Washington for
consultation with the authorities. He
spent some time at Adjutant General Cor
. bin’s office, and afterwards went to the
j White House to Bee the president.
Major Lawton expresses satisfaction at
the manner in which things are moving at
Santiago province. He believes affairs
there will adjust themselves gradually to
the new order of things.
MORE EXECUTIONS
Os Mussulmen Who Took Part in the Mas
sacre.
By Associated Press.
i Candia, Oct. 29.—Five more Mussulmens,
i convicted in taking part in the massacre
of the British soldiers on September 6th,
, were executed today. In addition four :
Bashi Razouks were sentenced to twenty
years imprisonment with hard labor.
Since the departure of the Turkish
troops a number of additional guilty Mus
sulmens have been discovered daily. It
appears that the Turkish officers appro
priated the valuables looted by their sol
diers.
COALING STATION
Or Naval Post Considered Unnecessary at
Havana.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 39. —The navy depart
ment, which was early in the field to se
cure a good wharf and site for a naval sta
tion at Honolulu, has made no Buch effort
; to secure similar advantages in Cuba. It
Ils understood that the department does not
see the necessity for anything more than
a coaling station on some point of South
. ern Cuba, Guantanamo or some other
j place near, and even this, in view of the
I possession by the United States of Porto
Rico, does not making such a coaling sta
tion neceßasry.
The officers of the navy regard Havana
as a very unhealthy place and say the
naval station at Key West answers every
purpose of a naval station or coaling sta
tion in Havana.
THIRD WILL REMAIN.
The Governor Nolified that They Will Not
Go to Seventh Corps.
Special to The News.
•Atlanta, Oct. 29. —Gov. Atkinson has re
ceived a communication from Adjutant.
General Corbin in regard to the request
i made by him some time ago to allow the
Third Georgia regiment to be transferred
to the Seventh Army corps in command
of General iLeee. The communication
from the adjutant general was a short
one. and stated that nothing could be done
at the present time for jUhe Third Geor
gia, as the Seventh corps had been com
: pleted, and no other regiments were nec
essary. Gen. Corbin expressed the hope,
however, that the Third Georgia would
have a chance to see active service, and
that arose the department would be taken
care of by ’the war department.
The letter inferred that the retention of
| the Second Georgia in the service after it
‘had been ordered mustered out was as
much as this state could expect of the
government.
Gov. Atkinson stated last night that he
regretted that Ms request in regard to
the Third regiment could not be granted,
but was gratified to learn that the iwar
department had decided to allow the Sec
ond to remain In the field instead of being
mustered out.
’ LOLA SMALL.
r
Daughter of the Evangelist
Has Been Discharged.
By Associated Press.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Get. 29.—-Lola
Small, daughter of Rev. Sam Small, the
famous evangelist, who played here
Thursday night with Hoyt’s "A Strange
in New York” company, was dismissed
from the company, having received the
usual two weeks’ notice from the man
agement to leave their employ.
-Miss Small, who made her theatrical de
but three weeks ago at Hackensack. N. J.,
took the part with the company of Vir
ginia Pride, but her ability as an actress,
asidefrom her shapely form in tights in
the part she took, did not suit the man
agement, and after many clashes Hoyt &
McKee, before the company departed for
.Marietta, Ohio, notified her 'by the cus
tomary “blue envelope” to quit.
Her part in the play was an inferior one
•with few lines and fewer opportunities
and her acting was only ordinary. She
was unable to control her feelings and
hide fiom the audience tjhe fact that she
was angry over the clash between the
management and herself, and the large
audience that expected to see in a clever
role the actress who was featured here
by her employers as “the beautiful and
talented daughter of Rev. Sam Small,
who had gotten more divorce decrees than
any living woman,” was greatly disap
pointed'.
AT POLICE STATION.
A Busy Session for Judge Freeman this
Morning.
The case which Detective Alex Clarke
succeeded in running down a few days
ago was brought up in the Recorder’s
court this morning. The case was that
against Kessler Bros., who were charged
with receiving stolen goods. The goods
were shipped here some time ago from New
York to Kessler Bros, by an expressman
in that city named Goldstein.
Detective Clarke did a good piece of
work in unearthing the the case, but he
was unable to convict his men as there
was no evidence to show that they knew
the goods were stolen. Goldstein, who is
at present in a New York prison, made an
affidavit to the effect that Kessler Bros,
were working in co-operation with him
and that they had been doing this for some
time. His testimony did not bear any sig
nature except his own. and the law re
quires that two witnesses shall corroborate
the statement of a prisoner when he is tes
tifying against another. As the two wit
nesses could not be secured it was neces
sary to dismiss* the case against Kessler
Bros.
Several negroes were tried thL morning
for stealing from the ruins of the Winn-
Johnson fire.
Ira Geter was bound over to tne city
court under a $lO bond.
Will Bell was dismissed.
Armon Culpepper was bound over under
a SIOO 'bond for the same offense as Geter.
Willie McClendon was fined $2.50 for be
ing drunX-
Alex Furgeson was bound over under a
S2OO bond for larceny.
Ed McKenny was fined $2.50 for. sleeping
in a hack.
Hear Hon. N. E. Harris
on “The Saloon Question”
at the prohibition tent to
morrow afternoon at 3
I o’clock.
MACON NEW? SATURDAY OCTOBER 29 1898.
wilt
GOVERNOR AL LEN D. CANDLER.
. Who Was This Morning Inaugurated Governor of Georgia.
ALLEN CANDLER
INAUGURATED
•
Ceremony Took Place at the
Capitol at High Noon
Todav.
OPPOSED TO IMPERIOM.
He Says that We Have Enough to
Do to Take Care of Ourselves —
Stand by State’s Rights.
By Associated Press.
tlanta, Ga., Oct. 29.—Allen D. Candler
was inaugurated Governor of Georgia at
noon today.
In the course of his inaugural he said:
"Not content with the extent of our
magnificent national domain, we are
reaching out thousands of miles for the
islands of the sea, with heterogenous pop
ulations, and there are those in both po
litical parties* who would reverse the pol
icy of more than a century and enter upon
extensive and expensive schemes of coloni
zation as have the monarchies of Europe,
which will necessitate an immense stand
ing army and a large and costly navy, to
be supported by a tax imposed upon the
■people of the states.
“It will not do for us to wander to far
into the realms of experiment. Our safe
ty is in conservatism and a rigid adher
ence to the precerents of the past.
“This is especially true of the people of
the South. 'We should resist alll danger
ous innovations. We should cling to the
constitutional right of local self-govern
ment, the sheet anchor of our safety, and
oppose in eVery legitimate way the con
stantly increasing tendency of the agents
of federal government to encroach upon
the resedved rights of the states.”
MISSOURI IN PORT
With Sick Soldiers from Island of Porto
Rico.
By Asso dated Press.
New York, Oct. 29 —The United States
hqspital ship Missouri, arrived today from
Porto Rican ports with 271 sick or .wound
ed patients, most of whom are suffering
with malaria fever, typhoid fever or
dysentery.
Two have died. Burton Bradish, cor
poral of company A, of the Third Illinois,
and Heryy M. Morrison, private, of com
pany H, of the Foutrh Ohio. The men are
practically from Kentucky and Illinois.
BUSHNELL’S CHARGES
Will Be Investigated bv a Specially Appoint
ed Commission.
By Associated Press.
Washington. Oct. 29—The civil service
commission has ordered an investigation
of the charges preferred by Governor
Bushnell, of New Hampshire, against the
Republican state committee of New
Hampshire for making political assess
ments upon the United S-tates officials in
that state.
MANY DIED
Among Repatriated Spanish
on Their Wav Home.
By Associated Press.
Ponta del Gada. Azore Islands, Oct. 29.
The Spanish steamer Monzerrat from Ha
vana on Ootpber 12, via Gibraltar for Ca
diz with repatriated Spanish troops, has
arrived here. There were seventy-two
deaths during the voyage.
LUTZ AS CONSUL.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 29. —The president has
appointed John W. Lutz, of Ohio, consul of
the United States at Arica, Chile.
All properties of estate H.
T. Johnson to be sold Tues
day before court house.
[YELLOW FEVER IN
NEW YORK CITY
Colonel Waring Who Went to
Havana as Special Com
missioner
li[» THIS MORNING,
Fatal Symptoms Were Shown To
day for the First Time Every
Precaution Taken.
By Associated Press.
New York, Oct. 29—Colonel George E.
Waring, Jr., died of yellow fever today at
his home in this city, where he has been
since he arrived from Hlavana on the
Yucatan on Tuesday last. He was 67
years of age.
Dr. Blauvelt, who has been attending
Colonel Waring during his illness, was
summoned to the 'house this morning. He
found 'Waring attacked with black vonilt.
This symptom continued all the morning
without cessation.
Everythihng possible was done for the
dying man but he only lived until a quar
ter to S.
President Murphey, of the board of
health, was informed of the death of
Waring within five minutes after it oc
curred. Dr. Roberts, the sanitary super
intendent, was ordered to have the body
placed in a hermetically sealed casket im
mediately. Murphy also gave orders that
every precaution be taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Waring had been sent to Havana as a
special commissioner from this govern
ment to ascertain the exact sanitary con
ditions in that city and form ideas for the
best methods tor putting the place in
first-class sanitary shape.
Colonel Waring was a native of New
York state and much of his earlier life
was spent in the study and practice of
scientific agriculture. He was tor some
time in charge of Horace Greeley’s farm
at Chappaqy, N. Y. He entered the army
In 1862 as major of the Garibaldi reserves
but was transferred to the army of the
southwest, where he helped consolidate
the Fremont and Benton reserves into the
Fourth Missouri cavalry, of which he be
came colonel.
During the yellow fever epidemic in
1878 in Memphis Colonel Waring devised
the system of sewerage in vogue now,
which has since been adopted in many
other American and European cities.
He was appointed commissioner of the
bureau of street cleaning in this city by
Mayor Strong and made a highly credit
able record. His mother and three broth
ers died of yellow fever in New Orleans
years ago.
WAR MINISTER.
Difficulty in Selection Delays
Formation of Cabinet.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Oct. 29 —The newspapers here de
clare that the difficulty which is delaying
the formation of a new cabinet lies in
the selection of a minister of war.
If DeFreyeinet refuses to accept the
portfolio of war it is believed that Dupuy
will not find the general willing to accept.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Meets in Atlanta Today —Will Discuss Plans
for Benefit of the Schools.
At the last meeting of .the Georgia
Teachers’ association a committee was ap
pointed to take up such matters as may be
referred to it by the convention and pre
sent them and urge them for adoption by
the legislature.
The committee is holding its meeting
today in Atlanta, and will get rhe ques- !
ticns coming before them in shape tor :
presentation to the legislature.
The questions which will come up be- (
fore the committtee at this session will
be the grading of the public schools of the
state.
They will urge upon the legislature the
monthly payment of teachers of the pub
lic schoools of the state. They will also i
discuss a plan for the beginning of man
ual training.
The committeee will probably be pre
sided over by State School Commissioner
Glenn, as the chairman will be unable to
be present. The teachers composing the
committee are H. C. White, .Athens;
Supt. G. G. Bond, Athens; Prof. J. S. Ste
art, Dahlonega and R. G. Guinn, of At
lanta. ’ - (
CONFLAGRATION
At Suskegee, Ala., Destroyed Large Amount
of Property.
By Associated Press.
Tuskeegee, Ala., Oct. 29 —Thirteen busi
ness houses, the Tuskeegee opera house
and the Telephone Exchange were burned
last night. The loss is $60,000.
MEETING POSTPONED.
Pansy Circle Did Not Meet this Morning as
Usual.
The meeting of the Pansy Circle was
postponed this morning on account of the
Inclement weather. Tbe next meeting will
be held next Saturday. At the last meet
ing of the organization it was decided to
hold meetings only twice a month, bu as
no meeting was held today it will be called
for next Saturday.
All of the members are requested to at
tend as important business will be brought
up. It is expected that some new plans
will be introduced at the next meeting.
EARTHQUAKE.
Two Distinct Shocks Were Felt Today at
Cleveland.
By Associated Press.
‘ | Cleveland, 0., Oct. 29. —Three distinct
j earthquake shocks were felt in this city
' early today, each being about ten seconds'
length. ■
The quake was not severe enough to be
noticed generally, except in the tall build
ings and st bmographs. The trend of the
quakes was in a northerly and southern
direction.
INVESTIGATION
Bv Commission Going on To
day at Chickamauga.
By Associated Press.
Chattanooga, Oct. 29. —Maj. Edward T.
Comegys was the first witness before the
war investigating commission today. He
was medical purveyor here during the
life of Camp Thomas.
He admitted that he had refused to fill
some requisitions from the hospital of the
second division of the 'third corps because
he was satisfied that the articles demand
ed were not needed. 'He 'accounted so the
sickness at Camp Thomas by saying that
the men did not know how to take care
of themselves.
“They seemed to think,” he said, “that
when they put on uniforms there was
nothing else to do; that they could sim
ply enjoy themselves and the officers
would do the rest.”
'He thought the colonels and regimental
surgeons were to blame.
Lieut. James .M, Arrasmith, who acted
as chief commissary, said that while in
the beginning there was some congestion
on the transportation lines there had
never been any shortage of supplies.
There was constantly on hand an average
of 1.500,00 rations. He thought the prin
cipal trouble in regard to the rations was
in 'the cooking. Lieut. Arrastmiih said
the sinks were badly oared for and ‘the
etench therefrom at the camp at night
was simply stifling. He also said the dis
cipline was very slack.
Doctors Baxter and Boyd, local physi
cians. were called to testify with regard
to the ease of ■Sergeant Frank, who died
during the summer, as a result of a rail
road accident. Dr. Baxter said that not
withstanding that the man was in a pro
found shock after the accident Dr. Hub
bard, the surgeon of his regiment, insist
ed upon moving the wounded man to
Chickamauga. The man died on the way
out.
Dr. Baxter told of one train of Wiscon
sin sick which he had seen on the way
home without an officer or supplies.
STEINHEIMER.
Assignment of a Wholesale Liquor House
Yesterday,
Mr. E. Stienheimer made an assignment
yesterday for $32,00. He has been con
ducting a whisky business on Cherry
stret for some time. Mr. Julius Mack, who
has been conducting the business for some
time made the asignment.
The assets are $32,000 and the liabili
ties are $30,000.
Mr. Stienheimer has adneissed a letter
to every one of his creditors in which he
gives a plain statement of the case. The
stock will be converted into cash as
quickly as possible and the debts will be
paid.
PEACE AHEAD.
No Change in the Hopeful Sit
uation at Washington.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Oct. 29—Advices from Paris
are to the effect that there is no change
in peace negotiations situation.
The administration has some hopeful
feeling of success entertained yesterday
and the statement is reiterated that the
negotiations are in a fairway to be
brought to a speedy termination.
The question bf the Philippines has not
been formally considered by the peace
commissioners, but there has been some
informal discussion between the American
and Spanish representatives with the re- ’
suit that the American commissioners
have indicated to the administration. A
settlement will not be as difficult as was
anticipated some time ago. As indicated
in the Associated Press dispatches from
Washington a few days ago a determina
tion seems to have been reached by the
United States government to retain all th
Philippine islands.
TWO FIRES
Two Fires Broke Out Last Night on Macon
News Block.
Fire broke out in two places Last night
and both ffrse were from the same cause.
The fuse wire burnt out in two places.
About 12 o’clock the fire alarm sum- .
moned the fire department to the store of •
Huthnance & Rountree on Third sreet,
where a small blaze was burning in the
rear of the store.
The flame was immediately extinguished
and no damage was done. Almost at the
same time fire was discovered in the store
of Jaques & Tinsley, but this was put out
without calling out the department.
Professor Adier, the world’s- greatest
High Diver, will give a free exhibition at |
1 and 6:30 p. m. from the show grounds of I
Cooper & Co.'s, show next Monday, jump
ing from a 100-foot ladder into a net. Free
to all.
No Right to Ugliness.
The woman who is lovely in face, form
I and temper will always have friends, but
' one who would be attractive must keep
i hdr health. If she is weak, sickly and all
I run down she will be nervous and irri-.
table. If she has constipation or kidney"
trouble, her impure blood will cause pim
ples, blotches, skin eruptions and a
wretched complexion. Electric Bitters is
the. best medicine in the world to regulate
stomach, liver and kidneys and to purify
the blood, ft gives strong nerves, bright
eyes, smooth velvety skin, rich com
pletion. -It will make a good looking- wo
man of a run-down invalid. Only 5b cents
at H. J. Lamar & Sons, Druggists; guar
anteed.
Cooper & Co.’s Big 10 and 20 cent, show
on English lot next Monday. This year
bigger than ever.
BRIGADE
ARE BOTH 111 MAEOM'
General Compton Arrived in City Last Night With Members
of His Staff and is Quartered al
Brown House,
JOE LEITER.
He is Now Seeking to Control
the Iron and Steel Plant
of the Country.
By Associated Press.
New York. Oct. 29—A special to the
Times from Providence says:
It is stated on authority which appears
to be unquestionable that Joseph Leiter,
of Chicago, has purchased the Rhode Is
land Locomotive works and that it is his
purpose to begin the manufacture of loco
motives under the patents -the concern
holds and also manufacture the Wheelock
stationary engine under patents owned by
a Chicago firm.
The price paid for the property cannot
be learned but it is thought to be near a
million dollars. Mr. Leiter is understood
to represent a syndicate of rich iron and
steel men, who are bent upon monopoliz- I
ing all the big plants like the Rhode Island !
Locomotive works.
He has been in -the city during the past |
two weeks on three different occasions and ;
each time be stopped at the exclusive I
Hope Club. This was probably in pur
suance of the policy of the people inter- j
ested to keep all information regarding I
the deal from the* public.
Eugene Mason, who bid the property in i
at the last sale, said as far as he knew no |
definite plans were under way. Herbert J. I
Wells, president of the Rhode Island Hos
pital Trust Coinpany, which is trustee for !
the locomotive works was seen at the '
bank and while he did not say there were '
no plans for a sale of the property under
consideration, he did say they had not ;
reached a point where he cared to do any I
talking about them.
He seemed somewhat surprised that any |
information of the deal had become public |
and declined to state with whom the deal i
was being effected, either in behalf of -the I
owners of the property or the prospective i
buyers.
At one time tli.g Rhode Island Locomo- ■
live works formed one of the largest man- j
ufacturing concerns in the state. The ;
plant was originally built for the manu- ‘
facture of the Burnside rifles and during }
the civil war many thousands of arms
were made. Then locomotives were made
here and sent all over the world, but
trouble came and the concern failed. Since
that time it has been practically idle.
At the sale of the property last spring
one of the bidders was Frederick Sayles,
of Pawtucket, who wanted the property to
turn it into a cotton manufacturing plant.
But evidently the price was too high and
Mr. Mason, representing the bondholders
bid it in.
The capacity of the factory is large.
When running on full time it gave em
ployment to 1,000 hands.
Two farms and several
pieces city property belong
ing to estate H. T. Johnson
to be sold before court house
Tuesday.
For Men Only.
•
All the latest shapes and shades dn Men’s Vici, Willow
Calf Box, Calf, Patent Calf and Enamel, both canvas and
calf lined, ♦
Only $3 50 a Pair
Also a full line of Ladies’ Fine Shoes at astonishingly low
prices, quality considered.
Strong Shoe Company
STUART WATSON,
Bidder for your hade by offering lowest pi ices.
The Crisp October Air
t Increases interest in our
splendid stock of
Fall Overcoats
Yes; it is a splendid gather
• —unusual in its size and
variety, unmatched in its #
elegance, and doubly unusual
in the goodness of the gar
ments that are sold at the
little price. These are thor
oughly stylish, well made
Overcoats at
$7.50, at sl2, sls, $lB.
The superiority of each is in
the neatness of finish—the
excellence of workmanship.
-
Hlodbu on Hann.
Loans on real estate. Easy monthly Mo
ments.
GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man.
Equitable Building and Loan Association,
Macon, Ga„ 461 Third Street.
PRICE THREE CENTS
PIONEER_CORPS
Os the Third Regiment of En
gineers is Also Here and
Will Lav Out the
Grounds,
The two generals that are to command
the two brigades that are to be stationed
here are in the city.
General McKee arrived in the city yes
terday and General Compton arrived last
night.
General McKee Is stopping at the Hotel
Lanier and General Compton is at the
Brown House. He is accompanied by Mrs.
Compton.
Mi th General Compton came a pioneer
. corps of the Third regiment of engineers.
The corps consists of a commissioned
| officer, two non-commissioned officers and •
i twelve privates. It is in charge of Cap
tain Hardee, who is a native Georgian.
A pioneer corps from each regiment has
i been ordered to precede the regiments here
i and prepare the camp grounds. The corps
will lay off the exact location of the camp
; for each regiment and will put It In con
i' dition. ,
Generals Compton and McKee will desig
' natt> the sites and the engineer corps will
j put them in condition so that they will be
|in readiness for the troops when they
: come. General Compton is only accom-
I panied by one member of his staff, Lieu
tenant Stewart, the others will probably
arrive today or tomorrow. With General
McKee are Major Kendall, Captain Smoke
I and Lieutenant Davis.
Arrived Cast Night.
General Compton took the city by sur
; prise. No announcement of his arrival
| was made though he arrived at the Brown
j House at 7 o’clock last night it was
known by the mayor until told 'by a News
j reporter this morning. Mayor Price and
; Mr. Tinsley called on the general this
I morning and explained- to him the exact
I location of the camp. If the weather clears
he will go out to the camp today and se
lect the sites for his brigade to camp on.
Mayor Price and Mr. Tinsley will begin
work ns soon as they know the exact loca
tion of the camps and will have -them ready
for the troops in about fen days. The
water mains will be the first thing laid and
then the lights will be put in. Many la
borers will be employed in clearing off the
camp and it will be done under the super
vision of the pioneer corps that will come.
It is thought tha-t work will be commenced
Monday morning and by Saturday night
it is hoped to have things in condition.
General Compton came here direct from
Anniston, where he has been for sonre
time. He has been in command of a bri
gade at that place. He is originally from
New Jersey. He out ranks General (Mc-
Kee and this of course will give him the
preference of theecamp site.
Compton’s Brigade.
He will have his headquarters at the
Brown House until he goes into camp. He
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