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We will have at our dlspoeal during November $75,000 to loan on Georgia farms or city property. We are offering money at low rate*. THE GEORGIA LOAN AND TRUST CO., O. A. Coleman. General Manager, 356 Second Street. ESTABLISHED 1884 JOE CALLAWAY COMMITS SUICIDEJNATLANTA. Popular Young Macon Man Ends His Life With a Pistol in the Kimball House, BULLET IN BRAIN i.nd a Pistol Grasped in His Right Hand Tell the Tale. WAS DESPONDENT, And Had Probably Been Disappoint ed in Business Affairs A Most Deplorable Tragedy. Atlanta. Ga., 3 p. in.—(Special—<Mr. Joe 'l' (’.illaw.-i . of Macon, committed suicide in a room at the Kimball House this af t.-ruoon by siwoting himself in the head with a oistol. A chamber maid entered the room wilt, u pass key shortly before 3 o'clock nnd found Mr. Callaway lying on lhe floor with ii jdstol grasped in the right had. A bul let wound in the head indicated the cause «,f death. Tim body wan not thin cold, allowing that the deed had not been long committed. Kt range to say. no one heard the shot. .Mr Callaway, It is understood, was here tto arrange for the opening of a branch of Jacob's Pharmacy in "Macon. It Is bus jxx’ted by his friends that he failed in his plans and becoming despondent killed himself. 'Mr Callaway was one of the .most ]«>]>- ttlar of Macon’s younger men. .He had been engaged in business in this city for H long time and was well thought of by l yeryone, For years ho was with the late Artuand L. Hutts in the coal business The .lee. as, d leaves u lovable wife and one lime daughter. His married life had Peet) a most happy one, and everything go.. io indicate that business troubles must have caused the rash deed. \ younger brother of Mr. Callaway com mitted suicide in tills city about fourteen y< ars ngo. . / ! LATEST HORROR OF THE SEA. Steamer Portland Lost With All on Board—Havoc All Along the Coast. By Xssoclated Press. Jtaston, Nov. From reports by wire to the Mail and Messenger to me \ssoeia ted Press from New England points up to 10 o’cks k it is difficult to estimate the •total loss of life ami damage to shipping along the coast, as a result of the ti.eent storm. The list of disasters seem to grow every hour and from dispatches thus far received it appears that in addition to the loss of the steamer Portland, at least thirty sehonens have been wrecked at different Vein:- from Easipart. Mass., to New Ha ven, Conn., eighty-six schooners have been driven ashore and fourteen barges loaded or .imply are aground. This list does not include thirty vessels either wholly or par tttally wrecked in Boston harbor. nor half a dozen more craft which are reported as an i.■using, including the steamer Portland, tior th.' big Wilson line freighter. Ohio, •which s ashore on Spectacle Island, n this Marina. the steamer John J. Hill, which is . .(shore : the Merchants’ ami Miners’ Transportation steamer Fairfax, ashore on Sow and Pigs Ledge. off Cuttyhunk: the smal steamer George A. Chaffee, founder ed a Rockport. .Mass. When these vessels are adde the aggregate list exceeds one hundred and seventy. \ late special to the Herald from North Truro, says the steamer Portland, plying between Boston and Fortland. was totally vvris ked al 10 o’clock Sunday morning off Highland bight and the crew and passen ger* p-rished within a short distance of the kind. A large quanitty of wreckage. Including trunks ami other materials, came ashore tit dark last night. Thirty-four bodies have been recovered from the surf by the life-saving crew at High Head sta tion. One is the body of a woman. The news of the disaster was brought to the Herald through the agency of a special train as communiaction to Boston by wire Cram points to Cape Cod is impossible. on account of the hav c wrought by the storm. TRANSFERRED TO MACON. Headquarters of the Second Division, First ’ Corps. IP Associated Press. Knoxville. Tenn.. Nov. 29.—The bead- I quarters of the old Second division first j • •orps. which has been here since August 27 will be broken up tomorrow and trans fem-,1 to Macon. Ga. Only two regiments i now remain here. The Thirty-first Mich- ; igan and Sixth Ohio are under orders to be j ready for departure to Cuba. Owing to , conflict of orders the Fourth Tennessee ; did not get away till late last night for j Savannah Major David Hemphill, chief .quartermaster of the division, has been I relieved from duty. I Hear Maj. Hanson and others discuss the business side of the prohibition issue at the Academy of Music to-1 flight, 8 p. m. GOVERNMENT PRINTERS. Extraordinary Amount of Work Done by Them this Year. By Associated Pruxs. Washington, Nov. 29—(A. M. Johnson, director of the bureau of engraving and printing in his annual report shows that during the year there were. 92.079,478 sheets of stamps and government securi ties printed and delivered at a cost of $1,570,59!*. This sum, however, includes $12,590 increase of stock. $30,000 paid for machinery and $6,416 paid to outside em ploye.,. Deducting these extra amounts the cos. per thousand sheet this year was 47 cents less than last, making a total saving of $43,700. The average number of sheets handled by t ach employe was 57,290 which is the best record ever made by this bureau and increase of 56 per cent over the year 1893. A Femarkable record was made by the bureau in supplying adhesive stamps to the internal revenue bureau. In seventeen days after the passage of the act the bureau had delivered 185,390,925 stamps. This work wa* done in addition to and in connection with the new bond issue and in addition to supplying increas ed demands for United States notes, silver certificates and treasury notes as well as to issue a. new series of postage stamps for the Omaha trans-Mississippi exposi tion. The director recommends that the appropriations for printing postage stamps be made direct to the bureau and settle the point, that the government and not private establishments shall do this work. MEETING POSTPONED. Carnival Association Did Not Have a Quo rum. The mectinr of the Macon Carnival As sociation v h was to have been held yesterday all, rnoon was indefinitely post poned on ount of the weather. The pur pose oft! meeting was to elect officers. The pre- nt officers have endeavored to ge, a meeting together on several occa sions to elect the officers for the coming year but. ft seems that the members are just now too busy with other matters. LIBRARY DIRECTORS Will Hold Their Regular Monthly Meeting Thvrsday Night. The> regular monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Public Library will be held Thursday night. The regular routine business will be transacted and in addition to that it is probable that plans for a library .benefit w'lll be dlseuessed. AT POLICE STATION. Another Dull Session at the Police Barracks Today. Judge 'Freeman said this morning that the court did not pay expenses today and that the policemen -must be having a day off. The number of cases was unusually small and the tines ranged from $2.50 to $5.00. Ixvuis Hall and Julian Nero were fined $2.60 for figmtlng. Annie Lord wga fined $5.00 for disorderly conduct. Oscar Tracy was fined $2.50 for fighting. Florence Park was given the Rime fine for being drunk, thus Howard, who was held as a suspect, was discharged and Joe Castlin was lauinxl over to the city court on the charge of carrying concealed weapons. His bond was fixed at SIOO. STEEL RAIL PRICES. fiy Associated Press. Kew York. Nov. 20 —'While no official admission that steel rail manufacturers had agreed to raise prices can be obtained it is not denied chat there is an under standing by which Hit h dyadic- of about $2 a ton will he arranged. i Rails last week were quoted at sls ami the ruling price is now between $lB and sfo. Wn< interest was responsible for the advance is «pt made public and no in formation on the eablpft is given at the office of the Feders' Steel, Aiarnegie. Cam bria and Lackawanna Companion. Tue q{j vanee comes at ;i season when railroads aro making contracts for bed equipment for next summer. CENTRAL’S REGULAR DIVIDEND. By Associated Press. Savannah. Ga.. Nov. 29—-At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Plant system held today. President Plant not being present. F. Q. "Brown, of Boston, a newly elected director, presided. The net earnings were $185,415. The annual di vidend of two per cent was earned and will be declared at the next meeting of the board of directors. SENATOR HAWLEY’S LUCK. By Associated Press. Hartford. Conn., Nov. 29—The Canton Republican Club some time ago issued a pamphlet announcing the candidacy for the United States senate of W. F. Simonds of that town, ex-congressman and ex patent commissioner. The club has now sent out a circular to the members of the legislature announcing that Mr Simonds has retired in favor of General Hawley. Hear Maj. Hanson and others discuss the business side of the prohibition issue at the Academy of Music to night, 8 p. m. P. T. BARNUM’S WIDOW. i Ry Associated Press. I Bridgeport. Conn. Nov. 29.—1 tis stated that the widow < d P. T. Barnum is about j to marry a Frenc « nobleman in Paris. The I great showman’s .. dow took for her sec i ond husband Demetrius Calliss Bey. who died in Septerrtber. 1596, in Constantinople after a wedded life of a year. Madam Cal lias has been in Paris for more than two years. HER BODY CREMATED. By. Associated Press. St Paul. Nov. 29.—The body of Mabel Davidson, the famous skater, who died in this city a few days ago from consumption resulting from a heavy cold contra'trd I I while on a professional tour of England, j j has been cremated at Woodland cemetery | ' and the ashes will be placed in the grave ' with her mother. Business men’s meeting at the Academy of Music to , night at 8 p. m. THE MACON NEWS. INCREASE OF REGULAR ARMY Seventv-five Thousand to Constitute the Regular Establishment. fill Os OISHIIOTIW More Pay for Enlisted Men Recom mended—3o,ooo to Be Mus tered Out at Once. By Associated Press. New York, Nov. 29 —A special to the Herald from Washington says: One of the first results of the determination of the peace negotiations at Paris will be orders for mustering out of as many as 30,000 men of the volunteer army. The orders thus far covered about 85,000 men but not more than 35,000 have actually been mus tered out. The present army consists of about 130,- 000 men exclusive of all ordered mustered out, 52,000 of whom are regulars. The forces contemplated for the islands are: For the Philippines 20.000. For Porto Rico, about 7,000. For Cuba not more than 30,000. This is on the basis of 75,000 men for the regular establishment—which is the number now reckoned on by competent military forecasters here—will leave 20,000 men for frontier and station work in this country. Secretary Alger recommends 100,000 men. There are now 30,000 volun teers who are entirely useless in view of the technical cessation of hostilities. Or ders for the mustering out of these will be issued without delay, which will leave 100,000 in the army. It was recalled by army officers that the regular army of 25,000 men had never been up to its limit of enlisted strength and that the army of 62.000 men under the Hull bill lacked 10,000 of complete enlist ment. Secretary Alger refused to say whether he would ask for more pay for enlisted men but it is asserted unhesitatingly that it will be impossible to secure the enlist ment of 75.000 men unless there be a greater pay than sl3 a month for each man. An increase of pay for privates in the service will be one of the almost certain developments of legislation for army re organization, the measure being based upon the dangerous climates to be endured in the new possessions. : CUBAN COMMISSION On the Way to Washington to See the Presi dent. By Associated Press. New York, 'Nov. 29.—A1l of the mem bers of the Cuban commission except Gen eral Calixlo Garcia, will start today for Washington. General Garcia is in bed suffering from foyer and it is npt thought that he will be able so go. Colonel Tqr riente and Martin Puey are also ii}. They, however, will be able to go to Washing ton. Colonel (Manuel Sanguily will proba bly act as president of the commission He is well known in Cuba as an orator and a veteran of the ten.-years war, Cubans do not favor the idea of the com mission proceeding to Washington without General Garcia. They argue that it will lost niudh of its prestige and significance by his absence. In talking about the commissions plans for Washington, General Jose Gomez said: “We will call at the Whitehouse on Wednesday afternoon. We do not know if President.,McKinley will receive us. but we are assured that the seucetary of state will do so. General Garcias' illness is yTry unfortunate, for we must get through our wprji and return at onqe to Cuba to re port to the gssemb^y.’ , MAKINGUP““ THE TREATY. Secretaries of American and Spanish Peace Commis sions Perfecting Doc ument. By Associated Press. Paris, Noy. 29 —The secretaries of the IHwe commission*, Messrs. Moore and Ojeda., began the joint task of formulating the articles of the peace treaty qt 3 o’clock this afternoon as directed by their res pective commiossions at yesterday's OP4). ferenee. This work will be easy and rapid, as to relinquishment and cession* referred to in the protocol the terme of which docu ment can be transferred bodily to tin* treaty. Secretaries Moore and Ojeda will em body the tentative articles for discussion on Wednesday. The subjects are religious freedom in the Caroline islands; a naval station for the United State* in the same group; cable landing rights at other points within Spain's jurisdiction; the re lease of insurrectionist prisoners and the revival of treaties broken by the war. Will prohibition injure or benefit Macon from a busi ness standpoint? Come out and hear the question dis cussed at the Academy of Music tonight. SUPERIOR COURT, 1 Several Cases Were Disposed of this Morn ing. Several criminal eases were disposed of iu_the superior court this morning. They were mainly for burglary and gambling. P. W. Powell, who claimed to be a Baptist preacher, was sentenced to twelve months on the chaingang for assault and battery. Ed Cleveland was given twelve months on the chaingang for burglary. George Hay lin. Annie Hudson. Will Lucas, Will Ly ons, Frank Bell and Henry Benett, all colored, pleaded guilty to the charge of gambling and were sentenced to pay a fine of SIOO. Mr. John R. Cooper, attorney for John Stevens, filed a motion for a new trial in the case of Stevens. In his motion Mr. i Cooner claims that the court erred in the i charge to the jury and that the jury found i a verdict contrary to the law. Mr. Cooper says that he has good grounds for a new triaL and that in case he does nod get the new* trial here he will carry the case to the supreme court. Come to the Academy of Music tonight. MACON NEWS TUESDAY NOVEMBER 29 1898. PANAMA CANAL ' BEINUOOMED i French Director Takes a Very Rosy View of the Future Prosoects. DOESN'T WANT TO SELL OUT Eighteen Miles Out of the Forty-Six Completed—Difficulties Suc cumb to Engineering Science. By Associated Press. New York, Nov. 29—M. Hutin, director general of the new Panama Canal Com pany, has come over from Paris to see what this government thinks about the water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific. He protests thax there is no in tention on the part of the French com pany to sell the canal and says that it has only one purpose in view and that is to cut the big ditch at once. When asked if the published reports that his company wanted to sell out to the government were true, M. Hutin said: “Absolutely no. Selling out is the last thing we should think of. We want to cut the canal and we are ready to do it; what is more, we are doing it. We have kept 1.500 to 3.000 men constantly employed in digging the canal and a force of 3,000 is now at work on the ditch. “What has been accomplished? Much. We have actually dug eighteen miles of the total forty-eix. Os these vessels are now navigating twelve miles on the At lantic and six miles on the Pacific side. The canals' depth is twenty-eight feet though in some places it has made bars that would have to be removed and can be removed easily. Our company, which is the successor by purchase of the De Lesseps Company ha* in assets, reckoning as such the machinery and accomplished work at least $75,000,000. These assets have been appraised at $95,000,000. We have gone far enough to learn that the Panama canal is entirely practicable and is the shortest, cheapest and best water route between the two oceans. “There were formerly thought to 'be two insuperable obstacles —the Chagres river and the Culebra cut. Both of these dif ficulties have disappeared before engineer ing science. The Chagres river can be readily mastered and -the cut through the Culebra mountain which was once thought impracticable because of the sliding earth that filled the ditch as fast as It could be dug has turned out to be a comparatively simple problem. It has been four, that there is a rock substratum through which the canal may be cut so that it cannot be distributed by sliding earth. -An inter national technical commission has recent ly examined the route of our canal and will, I think, pronounce it entirely feasi ble. On the commission is General IL L. Abbott and a corps of engineers who had experience in digging the great Manches ter and Kiel canals. General Abbott has given his views on several articles in the periodicals. He calls attention tq these two facts: The Panama canal would be forty-six miles long ,and- the 'Nicaragua canal would be 176 miles, the 'Panama would cost $100,000,060 while -the Nicara guan would cost $133,000,000, “I may add to these facts given by Gen eral 'Abbott the important one that the Panama canal can be completed in less than the tirpe it would take t<? cut the waterway across Nicaragua." When asaked about his object in going to Washington. M. Hutin said: “We want to know just what interest the United. States will take in the canal. We are not trying to get the government to buy us out but it is natural that the United States being most deeply affected by the canal will feel a keen interest in it and it is equally natural that we should want to learn Just what foe extent of (hat iuteres-t may be.” ■M. Hutin will go tp Washington in a few days. Business men's meeting at the Academy of Music to night at 8 p. m. UNION PACIFIC. Decree of Foreclosure Demanded by Mort gage Holders. By Associated Pres*. St. Paul. Nov. 29—The Union Trust Company of New York has made applica tion before Judge Sanborn in the United States court for a decree of mortgage foreclosure in the ecse against the Union Pacific Company and the receivers. Attor neys in so-e case will be given another hearing the part qf fojs typek at which certain matters of form will probably be settled and the decree granted. Th.< pgge involves $1,500,000 and title to the lands granted t» the JJnion Pacific so Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and other West ern states. 'The mortgage was given In 1873 and :nadc for twenty years, so it was renewed. Default was m4.de so fop payment of the interest and the foreclos ure proceedings were instituted. The in terest for two yegrs js npw due aud un paid. Come to the Academy of Masic tonight. SETTLED BY PRAYER. New Method of Adjusting the Difficulties of Legatees. By Associated Press. Youngstown, 0., Nov. 29—The important will ease of Hoffmeister vs. Goucher In which Hillary Hoffmeister began suit to set aside the will of Jonas Hoffmelstar has come to an abrupt end and a settlement was reached out of court in a peculiar manner. The case involved $25,000 in cash and a considerable amount of city and county real estate. When the lawyers assembled to try the case they were astonished to learn that the litigants met last Friday at a prayer meeting and came to an amicable settle ment of the case within the walls of the sacred edifice. RAILROAD EXTENSION. By Associated Pres*. Burlington. Vt., Nov. 29—The Free Press says Dr. Seward Webb has just returned from Canada Lake where it Is generally believed that he has about completed ne gotiations for the lease for ninety-nine years of that part of the Grand Trunk railway system between Massina and •Howick and running arrangements with the Canada-Atlantic to Alburgh Springs. Come out to the Academy of Music tonight and hear the prohibition issue discuss ed by business men. "THE SPIRIT OPJMIiy." Judge Speer ICannot Appoint a Deputy of a State Court Receiver. REFERS TO FEDERII Ul, Ruling Which Will Be of Considera ble Consequence to Officers of the State Courts. Quite an interesting incident took place in the United State* court" this morning on the motion of Dessau, Bartlett & Ellis, J. L. Andersen, and Steed, Ryals & Stone, to appoint Mr. V. A. .Menard receiver of the United States court in the Steinheimer bankruptcy ea*e. Mr. Menard had been appointed receiver by Judge Felton, and the litigation had been moved into the Unitedt Sates court under the provisions of the bankrupt act. Counsel, in moving for the appointment of -Mr. Menard, called attention to his effi ciency and his familiarity with the* ease. Judge Speer stated that he had only a casual acquaintance with IMr. Menard and asked what was his occupation. He was informed that he was a deputy sheriff o£ the superior court. The judge then in quired, “Does he purpose to continue his duties as deputy sheriff?” Mr. Dessau then replied that the superior court would be in vacation after this week and that -the property would be sold in ten days and the money paid over to -a trustee. No re ply was made as to whether Mr. Menard purposed to remain a deputy sheriff of Bibb county, and Judge Speer assumed that he did so intend and remarked. “The only difficulty I have about the appointment is this -act of congress, which I believe has been in force since May, 1896.” Judge Speer read from the amendment to the appropriation bill of that year, ■ which provided in substance that no mar shal, bailiff, deputy marshal, crier, janitor or other officer of the United States court • should be apointed a receiver. “It is time,” the judge continued/ “that this refers to officers of the United States court, but I . do not see why the same motive which prompted this enactment Should not make it also applicable to officers of the state court holding similar positions. If there was reason for the law that a deputy mar shal Should not be a receiver, I do not see wbv a deputy sheriff should be a re ceiver.” Mr. Steed stated he did not have the statute in mind when he made the sug gestion. it was only to saye fees. Mr. Anderson then said that the proba ble motive underlying the statute was that #>n r-’Acrr of the United 'State® court should not be withdrawn from his duties as such in order to discharge the duties of a re ceiver. Judge • •-er replied; “1 should be very happy indeed to ap point Mr. Mneard but for the principles of the act of congress, I do not very well bow I e>n appo'n* him when congress for bids me to appoint similar officers belong ing to this aourt. It is true that I cannot divine the motives which influeneed con gress and it may be, as counsel say, that it was purposed that officers of this court should J-vote all of their time to the du ties of the particular offices they fill, but If that is to be regarded as true, the spirit of comity which exists between this court and the superior court would dictate that this court should not take any action which would withdraw the officers of the state court from the performs nee of their similar duties. I cannot appoint iMr. Me nard r&edivCT.” Every citizen who is con cerned tn the business wel fare of Macon is invited to be at the Academy of Music to night. STUCK IN THE MUD. Great Battleship Wisconsin in an Awkward By Associated Press. tSan Francisco, Nov. 29.—The battleship Wisconsin is stuck fast in the mud of the bay off the Union Iron Works. The Chan nel in which the Wisconsin took her first dip had been well dredged. Across this the vessel shot and went into the mud. It was impossible for the tugs to reach her so the iron works men attached a new ten inch hawser to the bull and by, means of the machinery at the yard sought to pull it frqui if* sticky bed. Tremendous power was applied but the Topes snapped. The company has now decided to use dredges and construct a channel around the Wis consin and out to deep water, The vessel can then be floated easily. The business men of Ma con will consider and discuss the prohibition issue at the Academy of Music tonight, 8 p. m. TO STUDY DISEASES. I 1 Dr. Rosseau Ordered to Proceed to Wash ington. By Associated Press. San Francisco. Nov. 29. —Dr. Rossneau. who was quarantine officer at the port of Ban Francise©, hae been detached from duty here and is to proceed to Washington in a few days. . He will be attached as bacteriologist in the hygenic department of the Marine hos pital service and hopes to proceed to Cuba and Porto Rico to study the diseases prev alent in those Islands. His successor will be Mr. S. D. Brooks, now stationed at Port Townsend as federal quarantine officer. Dr. Brooks was vent to China last year to study the bubonic fever plague when it raged in Hong Kong and his knowneldge will be of infinite value io h>m in Cuba. MUSIC AT WESLEYAN, Recitals Will Be Commenced Next Friday Night. ■" , l" ■ • The first of a series of recitals to be givea by the faculty of the Wesleyan Fe male college of music, will be held in the college Chapel on Friday evening, Decem ber 2, at 8 o’clock. Miss Loudon will be the pianist, Mrs. Williams the vocalist and Miss Parkinson the violinist. This will be the first ap pearance of Miss Parkeneon as a soloist. All lovers of music are cordially invited to be present. WEATHER CLERK 1 ISJJELAYED. t Macon Will Receive No Re ports from the Local Man Until Dec. 15. , WILE DUE TO PLATFORM. • Treasury Department Appealed to in Order that the Work May Be Hastened. s The weather bureau at Macon will not ; be in shape for some tme yet. Mr. Collins, , the observer, says that it will be the 15th , of December before any reports are sent J out from this office. The observation platform has not been i built, -and it will .be impossible to issue re l ports until it has been fitted up. The , postoffiee building, on which the platform is to be constructed, is of such a peculiar shape that it will take some time to ar range the platform. Mr. Collins has writ ■ ten to Washington in reagard to the mat ter, but says that he has heard nothing from.it. It was thought at,one time that the postoffice building would not be used for the weather bureau, but the weather authorities at Washington have reeom menrer its use as the matter of building .the latform is with the treasury depart ment. Mr. Collins called on Senator Bacon this morning and requested him to urge the treasury department to rush the order for the platform for the observations. All ot the instruments for the office have arrived •but there is no place to put them. Mr. ICollins says that if the platform is in shape by the 16th that he will be ready to give out reports. AT THE CAMPS. Too Much Rain for the Soldiers—To Be Paid Off Before Christmas. The troops in camp have been having a wet time -for the past few days and very few men from the camps have been seen in the city. All drills have been dis pensed with until the weather becomes moderated as the officers consider it use less to drill the men in the mud. The ordinance officers of each rigiment have been kept busy this week issuing out the new guns to the men. The work will probably be completed by tomorrow, how ever, and the old guns will be packed up and returned to the arsenals. The negro troops have been giving the officers very little trouble recently and very few arrests have been made by the provost guard. General Bates will probably move his headquarters into mup this week as his baggage has arrived, -All of the officers of his staff are now in the city and the general is anxious to get Into camp. Very few men are on the sick list and the health of the troops is gradually im proving. The men will be paid off again tn about ten days and it is thought that the provost guard will be kept busy for a while. Over $15,000 will be paid to the troops in caffip here and if they are not ordered from here before Christmas nearly all ot it will be spent in the citv. Th* presence of the troops has- already been a great help to IM aeon and evidepees of pros perity are Keen on all The hotels have come in for thetr share of the trade and on several occasions they have had to turn away guests. The street ear companies have also done an excelent business and it is estimated that each line hauls fully 1,000 soldiers per day. No moving orders have been re ceived recently and it is thought by this that the troops will remain here for some time yet. The signal corps has both the camps connected by telepone and a line also runs to both the corps and division head quarters. The men have also put floors 1q their tents and the camps are now iq good, condition. ■ "r- j Every citizen who is con cerned in the business wel fare of Macon is invited to be lat the Academy of Music to night. INVITATION TO M’KINLEY To Be Signed Tomorrow by the Chamber of Commerce Committoe. The committee on invitation and recep tion ot President McKinley are requer v »d to meet at the Chamber of Commerce to morrow at 10 o’clock to prepare and sign the invitation in behalf of the city of Ma con. The committee is composed of the following named gentlemen: R. M. Rogers, chairman; Hon. A- O- Bacon, C. L. Bartlett, Judge Emory Speer, Hon. S. B. Price. S. R. Jaques, I. B. Eng lish, T. J. Carling, J. H.‘ Hertz, Hou. W. H. Felton, J. F. Hanson, Edgar Wilson, J. W. -Cabaniss, Robert Plant William H. Ross, T. D. Tinsley, A. Block, S. S. Dun lap, W. A. Doody, William Checkley Shaw, J. Marsh Jqhnston, George A. Smith, Wil liam McEwen Johnston, Henry Horne, R. F. Burden, Ellis M. Talbott. W. W. Brown, W. W. Winters, J. E. Neel, G. C. Mat thews, George A. Macdonald, iN. B. Cor bin, Charlton Adams, Henry Wortham, T. E. Artope, E. A. Maxelbaum, Asel Free man, Clem Phillips, W. T. Morgan, J. Dannenberg, Ed, Huthnance, Harry Still well Edwards, Morris Harris, Sam Mayer, Washington Dessau, A. L. Miller, Wallace' E. McCaw, Robert Nisbet, George Plant, Tom Loyless, W. A, Redding, S, Joseph son. Claud Estes, Eugene Harris, J. 8. Jones, W. R. Cox, and Merrill Callaway. The business of Ma con will consider and discuss the prohibition issue at the Academy of Music tonignt, 8 p. iu. ELKS MEET TONIGHT. The Lodge of Sorrow Program Will Be Dis leussed. The regular meeting of the Elks will be held at the hall tonight. , Several new members will be put through “East Tennessee” and many other names will be considered. The arrange ments for the Lodge of Sorrow, which is to be held Sunday afternoon at the Acad emy of Music will a tee be discussed. Come out to the Academy of Music tonight and hear the prohibition issue discuss ed by business men. SEE HERE! How about your Winter Suit and Overcoat. Have you purchased it yet? W e have a lively trade this season in Men’s Suits and Overcoats at SIO, sl2 and sls. \\ hy shouldn’t we, when we are showing the swellest of goods at the most reasonable price. Perfect in Fit, Perfect in Art. ' * ' * We take Periodical Tickets. Rubber Boots! All Sizes, Only $2.50 A saving to you of SI.OO on every pair. The very thing to keep your feet dry : this kind of weather. Corner Third Street and Bargain Lane. ." ' ~ C. H. & D. TO MICHIGAN. 3 Trains Daily. Finest Trains in Ohio. A Fastest Trains in'Ohio. “ Michigan and the Great Lakes constantly growing in pojff Everybody will be there this summer. For of your nearest ticket agent. train Bi tht D. G. EDWARDS, Passenger Traffic Manager, Cincinnati, V.*4 Winter Shoes For Men, Women and Children. All of the latest styles to select from. See our specials for men for $3 50; good as some 5.00 Shoes sold elsewhere. Rubber Boots for this kind of weather. CHILDREN’S SHOES The most complete line ever brought to Macon just received. See them before purchasing elsewhere. Strong Shoe Company STUART WATSON, Bidder for your ttade by offering lowest pi ices. 368 Second Street. Here Are Some Warm Friends.. For the School Boys. We carried over a few Cape Overcoats, age 3 to 10, that we are selling for One-Half Price You Don’t Have to Wait for your money w-ben you get loans from us. We have it always on hand. GEO. A. SMITH, Gen. Man. Equitable Building and Loan Association, Macon, G»„ 461 Third Street. PRICE THREE CENTS