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VOL. XXIII.
DEATH OF CLEVELAND
Former President of the United
States Passes Away.
THE KEWS WAS UNEXPECTED
Despite Fact That He Had Been 11l For
Some Time—Only Democratic Presi
dent Since the Civil War.
Prirfceton, N. J.—Grover Cleveland,
former president of the United States,
died here suddenly at his home “West
land.” Death was due to heart failure,
complicated with other diseases.
The following statement was given
out Tjy his physicians:
“Mr. Cleveland for many years had
suffered from repeated attacks of gas
tro-intestinal origin. Also he had long
standing organic disease of the heart
. and kidneys. Heart failure, compli
cated with pulmonary thrombosis and
oedema,^ were the immediate cause of
his death.”
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Ex-President Grover Cleveland in 1908.
While Mr. Cleveland had been se
’ riously ill from time to time during
.-^he past eighteen months the an
, nouncement of his death was a sur
*’iprise to the entire country.
# : Hei'diC steps were taken during his
’ illness ta thwart the ravages of the
‘‘disease’ with which he suffered but
► v ^ach attack left him in a more weak
.. Jem'ed condition and the end came at
<^:3o o’clock Wednesday morning,
•June 24. .
. Mrs. Cleveland and three physicians
'^iprere at his bedside when the distin-
• gnished patfeat passed away.
£ The three children were at the
> Cleveland summer home at Tamworth,
• New Hampshire, in charge of Mrs.
Perrine. Mrs. Cleveland’s mother.
i The funeral took place Friday, June
- 26, at Westland, the Cleveland home
pt Princeton, N. J.
* * Mr. Cleveland was seventy-one
years old on March IS last. During
the past winter he kept close to his
home in Princeton until the approach
of his birthday, when he went to
.Lakewood, with his family. He was a
trustee of the Equitable Life Assur
ance society of New York City, and
up to the time of ais going to Lake
wood had attended to correspondence
in connetcion with his duties tor that
society. •
After he went to Lakewood, how
ever, he discontinued that work and it
soon developed that Mr. Cleveland
was suffering from an attack of diges
tive trouble, which he had experienced
’ many times before.
He was attended by Dr. Joseph D.
Bryant, o£ New York City, and Dr.
George R. Lockwood, a specialist in
stomach disorders, was called into
consultation. Dr. Bryant made fre
quent visits to the distinguished pa
tient at Lakewood.
The fact that Mr. Cleveland remain
ed at the Lakewood hotel after it had
long been closed to all other guests,
and that for many weeks no attempt
w r as made to take the former presi
dent to his home in Princeton, only a
snort distance away, early made it evi
dent that Mr. Cleveland’s condition
was regarded as very serious.
President Roosevelt, wno had made
all arrangements to attend the Yale-
Harvard boat races, upon learning of
the former president’s death immedi
ately cancelled the engagement and
wired Mrs. Cleveland his condolence
and of his intentions to attend t ie fun
eral. The president then issued the
■following proclamation:
“The White House, June 21, 1908.
“To the People of the United States:
“Grover Cleveland, president of the
United States from 1885 to 1889 and
again frr.m 1893 to 1897, died at 8:40
o’clock this morning at his home in
Princeton, N. J .
ANOTHER SPANISH HEIR.
Son Born to King Alfonso and Queen
Victoria.
Madrid, Spain.—A son was born to
King Alfonso of Spain and Queen Vic
toria, formerly Princess Ena of Bat
tenburg. Their first son was born on
May 10, 1907.
King Alfonso was radiant with joy
when he announced the birth of an
other son to the few persons wailing
in the adjoining room. The king, on
learning that a condemned criminal
was to be executed in the morning,
immediately signed a pardon in com
memoration of the birth of the prince,
and telegraphed io the warden of the
prison, ordering him to stop the exe
cution.
Sauatuuih (Jriinnw.
I
I “In his death the nation has been
deprived of one of its greatest cit
izens. By profession a lawyer, his
chief services to his country were ren
dered during his long, varied and hon
orable career in public life.”
“In testimony of the respect in
which his memory is held by the gov
ernment and people of the United
States, 1 do hereby direct that the
Hags of the white house and the sev
eral departmental buildings be display
ed at half-staff for a period of thirty
days, and that suitable military and
naval honors under orders of the sec
retaries of war and navy be rendered
on the day of the funeral.
“Done this 24th day of June, in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and eight and of the Indepen
dence of the United States of Amer
ica'the one hundred and thirty-second.
“THEO DORE ROOSEVELT,
"President.
“By A. A. ADEE, Acting Secretary
of State.’’
Grover Cleveland was twice presi
dent of the United States from the
state of New York. He defeated James
G. Blaiae, the republican nominee for
the office in 1884, again the candidate
of his party in 1888, but was defeated
by Benjamin Harrison. He retired to
private life for four years and again
made the race in 1892, defeating Har
! rison for the most honored position
within tiie power of the American
people.
No man perhaps ever arose from
the rank of the people who had strong
er friendships or more bitter enemies.
In most things he was a plain, blunt
man, who though; strongly and gener
ally said just what he thought.
His rise to power formed a striking
illustration of the democracy of this
country—a country where man’s worth
has often been weighed against all
other considerations.
He was known as the veto president
having, during his terms vetoed one
hundred and fifteen bills out of eight
hundred and ninety-seven bills sub
mitted to him. Of the bills disapprov
ed one hundred and.two were private
pension cases and he took similar ac
tion oa a general pension bill. He
turned forty-three thousand republi
can office holders out of their positions
in two years. Of these forty thous
and were fourth-class postmasters.
“Offensive pariiaMship” and “perni
cious activity, in politics” were the
reasons given for a great majority of
these removals. These terms proved
to be notable contributions to the lan
guage of politics. The removals caused
one of the most spirited quarrels with
the senate. The latter called for the
papers giving fully the cause of dis
missals. The president refused to
send the papers and gave tae senators
to understand that their only duty un
der the constitution was to act on his
nominations. This occurred during
his first term.
Most popular of all Mr. Cleveland’s
acts as president was his treatment of
the Venezuela boundary question. That
was in 1895, England, it was charged,
was encroaching on Venezuela and
threatened the appropriation of a large
and valuable territory. Cleveland went
to the rescue of the republic, and, at
the risk of war with England, forced
an arbitration of the question at is
sue. England was belligeient and Eu
rope frowned savagely, but the fellow
citizens of the president were wildly
enthusiastic in his support.
Mr. Cleveland being the only dem
ocratic president since the civil war
was greatly beloved in the south. Soon
after leaving the white house in 1896,
he established his family in a comfor
table home at Princeton, N. J. He had
a fortune ample for his needs. Ap
parently he had no further ambition
for public office, and he settled down
in peace and contentment to enjoy the
declining years of his life.
Time softened the enmity of those
who had been arrayed against him,
and so he gained the good will of the
great mass of Americans. His deliv
erance on any public .question was re
ceived by them with the deepest inter
est. He wrote occasional articles for
various periodicals. Some of the
theme^ to which he gave attention
were: “Integrity of American Char
acter,” “Mission of Sport and Out
door Life,” “Woman’s Mission and Wo
man’s Clubs," “Word Concerning Rab
bit Hunting,” “Would Woman’s Suf
frage Be Unwise?” “Citizens’ Duty,”
"Independence of the Executive,”
“Word to Fishermen,” and “Word tor
Forestry.”
The only occasion on which he left
his retirement was in response to a
call that he assist in bringing order
to one of the companies involved in
the New York insurance scandal.
It seems poor and trite to say that
that a long life of usefulness and hon
or comes to a close by the death of
Grover Cleveland. The news flashed
from Princeton chilled the heart of
thousands of devoted followers who
have looked upon him for years as the
one supreme and uncompromising
exemplar of democracy a.s it was
taught by the fathers of the requblic
—the strongest, ablest, sanest of them
all.
SHERMAN IS ILL
Patient is Holding His Own—Opera
tion Will Not be Necessary.
Cleveland, Ohio. — Representative
James Schoolcraft Sherman, republi
can candidate for vice president, has
been removed from the home of form
er Governor Herrick to Lakeside hos
pital, a sufferer from gallstones, and
is reported in an official •bulletin as
holding his own. If the patient's condi
tion continues to improve, the bulletin
said, it is not likely that an operation
for the removal of the gallstones will
be necessary. The physicians state
that Mr. Sherman's well-known ab
stemious habits have given him much
bodily strength to "resist the ravages
or the disease.
THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET.
SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 2k 1908.
CHOLERA IN THE ARMY
Troops in Philippine Islands Are
Placed Under Quarantine.
60 DEATHS IN 24 HOURS
Officers of the First Cavalry and the
Philippine Scouts Have Been Stricken.
Situation is Serious.
Manila, P. I. —Cholera has broken
out among the troops at Camp Gregg.
: Three scouts and one civilian have
died from the disease and the camp
has been placed under quarantine reg
ulations. Lieutenant Jones of the
First calvary and Lieutenant Muldoon
of the Philippine scouts, have been
stricken.
The situation with regard to the
cholera outbreak in the province of
Pangasinan, on the Island of Luzon, is
| very serious. Ninety-three cases have
Deen reported in the last twenty-four
hours, sixty of which have proved fa-
I tai.
j The collier Caesar, has arrived with
I the submarines which are intended for
, this station oa board.
SUNDAY SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Comes to Close—Delegates Elected to
Peace Conference.
Louisville, Ky.—After a final day of
drive and rush to finish the program,
the workers, sweltering in a tempera
ture of 98 degrees, the International
Sunday School association closed its
twelfth triennial convetnion at tae ar
mory with a session given over largely
to miscellaneous addresses and the
picking up of loose ends of business
file final hour was given over to pray
er and song, and despite the stifling
heat, the enthusiasm of the delegates
mounted higher than as any time dur
ing the convention. The armory was
well tilled for the closing session, but
numerous vacant seats in the dele
gates’ section showed that many had
already left for home.
The principal event at the closing
session was the election of two dele
gates to the next world's peace con
lerence at London. The association,
by a practically unanimous vote, de
cided to send H. J. Heinze of Pittsburg
and Justice J. J. MacLaren, of To
i ronto..
W. R. LEEDS IS DEAD.
American Financier Passes Away Sud
denly in Paris.
Paris. France. —W. B. Leeds dieT
suddenly at th? Ritz hotel, in this city,
Leeds was a well known financier, and
was promienently identified with the
Rock Island interests and with other
large enterprises for years. He had
been in poor health for several years.
Grover Cleveland's Career.
Born at Caldwell, Essex coun
ty, N. J., March 18, 1837.' Chris
tened Stephen Grover Cleveland.
In 1841 family moved to Fay
etteville, N. J.
Served as clerk in a country
store.
In 1852 was appointed assis
tant teacher of tae New York in
stitution lor the blind.
For four years, from 1855, as
sisted his uncle in preparation of
“American Herd Book” and had
a clerkship in a law firm in Buf
falo.
Admitted to bar in 1859.
Appointed assistant district at
torney of Erie couniv January 1,
1863.'
Defeated for the district attor
neyship of Erie county in 1865.
Practiced law.
Elected sheriff of Erie county
in 1870.
Elected mavor of Buffalo in
1881.
Elected governor of New York
in 1882 by a plurality of 200,-
000.
Elected president of the United
States in 1884. Majority in the
electoral college 37.
Broke all records by vetoing
cue hundred and fifteen bills out
of eight hundred and ninety
seven bills.
Married Frances Folsom in the
white house June 2, 1886.
Defeated in campaign for re
election in 1888.
Engaged in the practice of law
in New York.
Elected president of the Unit
ed States in 1892.
Settled Venezuela boundary,
dispute in 1895.
After leaving white house in
1896 established home for his
family in Princeton, N. J.
NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Reports received at Madrid, Spain,
from the west coast of Africa con
cerning the sinking by a tornado on
the upper Congo river of the steam
boat Ville de Bruges las May.’ Of the
six Europeans who lost their lives
four were caught by cannibalists,
killed and devoured. Seventy negroes
were drowned.
Bishop Charles Henry Brent, of the
Philippine Islands, was again elected
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Wash
; ington to succeed Henry Y. Satterlee.
deceased. Bishop Brent declinel the
first election, but the diocesan conven
tion insisted upon his choice in the
■ hope that he would reconsider his ac
i lion.
FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
A Great Deme nitration is Held By the
Leaders in London.
London, England.—Fully half a mil
lion people assembled in and around
Hyde Park as active or passive par
ticipants in the great demonstration
for the cause of women suffrage,W’hile
for two or three hours the w’hole cen
ter of the city was in a ferment. Va
rious processions appeared, each about
a mile in length and the routes
through which these passed were
densely crowded with spectators.
Probably there were about twenty
speakers in all, and these haranged
the masses on the rights of women to
vote and the necessity of force in par
liament to adopt resolutions on the
question. These women’s demonstra
tions are far more attractive from a
spectacular point of view than those
held by men,
Almost all of the suffragettes wore
white dresses, with sashes of their
colors, green, white and purple, in
scribed: ‘ Vote for women,” and the
scene as viewed from the platform,was
quite a feast of color. There was much
good-humored chaffing and the singing
of songs in the vicinity of platforms,
and on this account the speeches prac
tically were inaudible.
The altitude of rhe onlookers was
on^-Of amused tolerance. Ambulances
were kept busy dealing with cases of
failing and minor injuries, owing io
tire great pressure of the crowds, but
no serious accidents occurred.
Considerable scuffling and rowdyism
occurred around the platform occupied
by Mrs. Parkhurst, the leader of the
oiiff-agettes. and it finally became so
serious as to need reinforcements of
police. Thirty persons were treated
for slight injuries as a result of the
crowding and fighting in the neighbor
hood. Similar scenes were enacted
around Mrs. Martel's platform and,
owing to the general noisy interrup
tions few of the speakers were able
to get a hearing.
RACE WITH TIME.
Exciting Experience of Woman in Ef
fort to Catch Steamer.
New York City.—Mrs. Robert S. Mc-
Cormick, wife of the former American
ambassador to France, was the victor
fifteen minutes in a one-thousand mile
race against time. As a result she was
enabled to keep an engagement to sail
for Europe on the steamship Kaiserine
Auguste Victoria. Mrs. McCormick
had engaged passage on the big
steamer some time ago, but her de
parture from Chicago was delayed un
til the last moment, when it was found
that there would be a margin of only
fifte^n minutes between the arrival
of her train at Jersey City and the de
partare ot the steamer from Hoboken,
some distance away. Under ordinary
conditions it would be possible to
make the distance between the places
in a fast automobile, but Mrs. McCor
mick did not wish to take the chance
of the train being a little late, and
wired aaead a request that the steam
e ■ be held to await her arrival. She
was informed that this could not be
done, as the mail carrying contracts
made prompt sailing mandatory. She
was informed, however, that a fast tug
would be waiting for her at Jersey
City, and that she and her baggage
would be taken on board immediately
upon arrival of the train and she
would be transferred to th? ship in
the bay, if possible. Fortunately the
train came in promptly on time,, and
a few minutes later Mrs. McCormick
was on th? special tug bound up the
river for Hoboken. She arrived in
time to climb aboard the Kaiserine
Auguste Victoria just before the big
ship dropped out into the river and
started on her voyage.
A fiOOD LAW.
Much Good is Being Accomplished by
Pure Food Law.
Wasaiagton, D. C. —The public prob
ably does not realize the benefit it is
deriving from the operation of the
pure food law which is administered
by th? department of agriculture.
Inspectors in all the principal cities
cf the United States are constantly
on the lookout for meats and meat pro
ducts that are thought to be below
the standard, or to contain adultera
tions of an injurious nature. Samples
of all such products are secured and
forwarded to Washington for a chemi
cal analysis by the biochemic division
of the bureau of animal industry. An
average of forty samples of such arti
cles is received daily for inspection.
The percentage of rejections has con
stantly decreased under the opera
tions of the law, which has resulted in
a better grade of meat being placed
on the market until a very small per
centage of the samples sent is con
demned. It is the opinion of the offi
cials of the department that the law
has worked wonders as a deterrant
and that packers and others have
found it expedient to improve the
quality of the goods placed on the
market.
A CRIPPLED HERO.
Legless and One-Armed Youth Saves
Comrades from Drowning.
New York City.—Morristown, N. J.,
has a candidate for a Carnegie medal
in Joe Gilligan, 18 years old, who lost
both legs and one aim in a trolley ac
cident in Brooklyn several years ago.
He heard his playmates, Alexander
Patterson and Eustace Monohan, cry
ing out for aid when they were drown
ing in the gravel pit pond, and res
cued one of them.
Despite his physical handicap, Gilli
gan leaped into tae water and swam to
the drowning lads. He directed the ef
forts of another boy to save Patterson,
who could not swim^ and he himself
seized Monohan,
IN LAND FRAUD CASES
Two of the Accused Men Con
victed and Two Acquitted.
JURY OUT SEVENTY HOURS
Jchn A. Benson, a Western Millionaire
Land Owner, Together With Henry
P. Dimond, are Freed.
Washington. D. C. —Guilty, Freder
ick A. Hyde, Joost H. Schneider. Not
guilty, John A. Benson, Henry P. Di
mond.
This was the verdict rendered by a
jury in the criminal court here in the
case of the trial of these four men,
all westerners, one of them, Benson,
a millionaire real estate operator, for
alleged conspiracy to defraud the gov
ernment out of valuable lands in the
far west. The jury was cut seventy
hours.
Benson and Dimond were acquitted
on all of the forty-two counts in the
indictment. Hyde and Schneider were
convicted on all but ten of the counts.
Benson and Dimond were immediately
released from custody. All four men
nave been under $lO,OOO bail. Hyde’s
bail was increased under the jury’s
verdict to $20,000 and Schneider's to
$12,500.
The jury had engaged in one of the
most protracted deliberations over a
verdict on record here in federal cases.
The verdict was the second report the
jury had made in the case; on the pre
vious occasion a disagreement being
announced. Judge Stafford had tfien
instructed them to again retire in an
effort to reach a common agreement,
and, in the intervening hours, several
of the jurors changed their votes, with
the resulting verdict. All the defend
ants had confidently expected disagree
ment or acquittal, and had made plans
for dialling from the city.
AMERICANS ARE ATTACKED.
Circulars Being Issued in Philippines
Are Very Bitter.
Manila, P. I. —An inflammatory anti-
American circular has been issued
here anonymously and distributed. It
bears the cabalistic signs of the old
Katipunan society and denounces the
Americans, saying they have brought
tyiaiuiy instead of liberty and that
their purpose is to rob and enslave
the Filipinos. It calls them shameless,
dishonest, • drunken thieves, attacks
the morality of American women and
accuses the government of graft.
Pending open revolution. It urges a
campaign involving the assassination
of invading Americans, burning their
homes and killing their animals, it
concludes with the wish for a "long
life to the Filipinos” and "death to the
Americans.”
It is doubtful if the circular will be
productive cf any serious results.
TWELVE PEOPLE INJURED.
Pullman Car on the Rock Island Turn
ed Turtle.
Little Rock, Ark. —Twelve people
were injured when a Pullman car at
tached to train No. 41, westbound, on
the Rock Island railroad, turned tur
tle near Fourche. Taut the wheels
struck a kink in the rails caused by
th? intense heat, and left the track, is
tiie official explanation.
The injured include Conductor J. O.
Strange, painfully cut and bruised on
head and shoulders.
Stanley Bruce, Oklahoma City, right
arm broken and partially paralyzed.
James Oglesby, Fort Smith, Ark., cut
and bruised.
J. S. Bell. Amarillo, Texas, bruised
and otherwise injured.
Mrs. J. S. Bell, badly bruised and
cut.
The negro porter was also bruised
and cut.
GDING HAUK T« BIRMINGHAM.
One Thousand Italians Will Return
During Next Month.
Birmingham, Ala.—S. R. Guarino,
representative of an Italian steamship
line, announced that within th? next
few days 1,000 Italians will leave their
native land tor America, coming di
rect to the Birmingham district to
take up work at the big steel piant
in Ensley. The great number of these
men worked before in the steel works
and only went home when the depres
sion came on.
BAMi Til BE REOPENED.
Ail Depositors of Brooklyn institution
Will be Paid.
New York City.—Final preparations
are made for the re-opening of the
Brooklyn bank which has been closed
since October last. About $1,500,000
deposit money has been tied up and
an official announcement was made
that ail depositors would be paid in
full when the bank opens.
THREE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS.
Made by Latest American Flying Ma
chine—lnventor Sees Experiments.
Hammondsport, N. Y.—Three suc
cessful ights, one of which is said to
be the longest ever made in public
by a flying machine in America, were
accomplished by the new aerodrome
No. 3, known as the Curtiss “June
bug,” which made its maiden ascent
here under the auspices of the Aeriai
Experiment association. The aero
drome in its lasi flight of the day lose
smartly from the ground and covered
a distance of 1,266 feet at the rate of
34 1-2 miles an hour. The flight was
regarded as particularly successful.
STATE GLEAMNGS,
A rattlesnake, measuring six feet
three inches, whose body was as largo
as a man’s leg, and who wore thirty
six rattles, was killed in the flatwoods
section, near Lexington, by Joe Don
nelly, who killed twenty-six snakes,
highland moccasins and king snakes.
Active efforts have been renewed
toward opening up the railroad be
tween Athens,, Ga., and Anderson, S.
C. Those who are on the inside de
clare that this railroad is among the
early possibilities. All along the line
active interest is being taken.
Not to be outdone by the Carolin
ians who gave Joe Cannon a suit of
home-wool clothes or the Texans who
marched into the Chicago convention
with an enormous pair of trousers
which bore the legend. “Texas pants
for Taft,” Lolus B. Magid of Tallulah
Falls, silk-maker, promises to weave
Mrs. Taft’s inaugural ball costume
from silk raised in Georgia and having
no foreign element in its composition.
Cordner Smith, one of the most
prominent young men in Washington,
was drowned in Fishing Creek, it is
believed he was seized with an attack
of acute indigestion, to which disease
he was subject, while in bathing and
was unable to call for assistance.
Charles S. Northen, secretary ot the
Georgia state senate, has been named
•by the Hon. Urey Woodson of Ken
tucky, who is secretary of the national
democratic executive committee, one
of the assistant secretaries for the
democratic national convention, which
will assemble in Denver, C 01.,, July 7,
1908.
Professor Hugh T. Alfriend lias re
signed the principalship of the Dublin
schools on account of being elected
professor in the Gresham high school
ac Macon.
As the result of falling from the
train, from which she was alighting,
Mrs. Charlie Mills of Griffin was pain
fully, though not seriously, hurt.
E. H. Hamby was re-elected super
intendent of the Cuthbert schools.
The teachers namedare Miss Hettle
Tison of Cuthbert, Miss Louise Alston
of Clayton, Ala., Miss Clyde Stovall,
Columbia, Ala., Mary Glen, Edgewood,
Isabelle Williams, Cordele, Mrs. E. H.
Hamby, supernumerary.
The 'boys of Cuthbert have oranized
a brass band with Prof. E. M. Cole
man as instructor. They elected offi
cers as follows; Leland S. Bussey,
president; E. M. Coleman, vice presi
dent: Chas. A. Moye, secretary and
treasurer; E. M. Coleman. W. H.
Moye, Jr., and Frank Stanford were
elected to draw up tffe by-laws and
regulations.
In conformity with the terms of a
beforedhe-prifnary bet, in which the
“Hoke Smith” men of the city were to
serve- a 1 “crow eating” supper in case
Hoke'Smith failed to get the renomi
nating vote of the state and a like
•supper’ by the “Little Joe” men should
the.governor be returned, a number of
“Joe Brown” men each with an invit
‘■ed guest, was treated to a sumptuous
repast-at the home of Mr. P. T. Calla
way by the "Hoke Smith” men of
Washington. It was the most unique
and enjoyable occasion of its kind
ever held in the city.
The city court jury of Moultrie gave
a verdict in favor of B. F. Bryan and
against the Union Pinopolis saw mills
for $lO,OOO. The suit was for $15,000
and was one of the hardest fought
cases that has ever -been tried in Eha
Moultrie courts. Bryan was a track
constructor for the company, and
was on a roadway train that was
wrecked last year. He received se
vere injuries, but has partially recov
ered and is at work again.
The democratic convention of the
first senatorial district in session at
Atlanta, selected Mr. W. F. Slater
nominee of the party for state sena
tor.
The congressional convention ,in
session at Columbus, which nominated
Judge W. C. Adamson to succeed him
self without opposition, named the fol
lowing executive committee for the
the fourth district: Talbot county, T.
H. Bussey; Harris, G. N. Murrah;
Muscogee, S. D. Baldwin; Marion, T.
B. Rainey; Troup, E. T. Moon; Heard,
O. A. Moore; Coweta, Y. L. Stallings;
Chattahoochee, Hubert Howard; Meri
wether, C. L. Davis; Carroll, W. F.
Brown.
At the alumni luncheon of the Geor
gia School of Technology given on the
school campus, Hon. S. G. McLendon,
chairman of the state railroad com
mission. delivered a thoughtful talk, on
the subject of the “Critical Periods in
American History.”
Andrew Price, a well known citizen
of Oconee county, who was shot by
Marshal Sterling of Bishop, Ga., two
weeks since, is dead. H a had been
under treatment at Athens for two
weeks.
The United Daughters of the Con
federacy of Sylvania have let the con
tract for the erection of a Confederate
monument, at that place.
Announcement was made or the or
ganization of another banking com
pany for Americus, beginning busi
ness in July. Fifty thousand dollars
is the capital stock employed, Aid this
amount is largely oversubscribed al
ready. Experienced and conservative
•business men are interested, a fact
large!}' insuring success of the new in
stitution. which gives a total of five
banking houses. Americus banks
show capital stock and deposits ex
ceeding a million and a half dollars,
a rapid increase appearing annually.
A public rally of the Farmers' Un
ion of Spalding county will be held
this year at the Experiment station,
on the 25th of July, at which time
President Duckworth promises to
have some good speakers for the occa
sioa.
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