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The Georgia enterprise VOL 41 NO 27. COVINGTON WINS fast came ball. Defeats a Picked Nine From At lanta in One of the Prettiest Games of Ball Played on Local Ground. Before one of the largest and st enthusiastic crowds of the jno applied the season Covington w hite wash brush to nine young men from Atlanta at the new ball pa r k Wednesday afternoon. Covington 2, Atlanta 0. It was one of the prettiest co.i tests of the year and was distinct¬ ly a pitchers battle. Alrnand, for Covington, pitched |a magnificent game, and like [jack fVVaddell Chesbro, other Cy Young, celebrates Rube of and khe firing line, he won his game by two singles in both instances scor ing Burt Davis. Besides this feat, L retired fourteen batters at the [late and did not hit a batter or talk one. 1 Smith, the city gent, who es¬ sayed to do the twirling for the Atlanta crew-, put up a fine article [f ball. While not found a strike-out trouble pitcher, [ the locals Invaribly n batting the ball out. [hey would pop out on an infield ball or send an easy grounder right Into the fielder’s hand. He struck but 6. ! Henry McCalla made a sensa iotial catch of a high fly over [hort in the fifth that looked safe. ,e was roundly applauded. Gray but up a star game at second, ac¬ cepted five chances without an furor. Rice, Atlanta’s little short top was easily the best on the km. Besides h ading the team it the bat, he scooped up every¬ thing going down his way. Irb Norman was out of th« game Caused by a wrench of his left leg n Madison. He umpired the game [o the satisfaction of both teams. Score by innings. r h e 10V. 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0—2 4 2 lTL. 000 000 0 0 0—0 7 4 Covington met and defeated iladison in Madison last Thursday |efore fee one of the largest crowds of season. The score was 4 to 8. At the beginning of the ninth fining tho score was 8 to 2 in favor [f hu the Madiaonians. Covington the game in this inning as she often done this season. Norman and Franklin constitu Covington’s battery and their was gilt edge. Franklin’s to second was one of the while Norman was con fifteen strike outs to his Bradshaw made three hits °f five times at bat, which is some. Broughton and Hall constituted H °b- Hoke Smith, candidate for Jus. R. Gray, editor of Atlanta Journal, and many notable Georgians viewed the : oc o eby inning; r h e 0v '- 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2—4 9 5 Ar,:2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0—8 8 5 °AK HILL HAS BIG CROWD Celebration on The Fourth of July. Annual Sunday School cel la 'i° u a t Oak Hill on the Fourth !ar f?ely attended, over two ,is 'nd people in attendance, hood music and good speaking r ‘ s the order of the day Col I Vln Rston. Hon. Madison BHi ( Hg and Rev. L. I. Echols e . peeches in the afternoon l‘ nh » normng- exercise eon- 7 the Sm,da y Schod ad / Miging - v Hon. C. D. McKinney contests between a ' er of Sunday Scboois. COVINGTON, GA. FRIDAY, JULY 7 , 1905 . THE STATE WILL PAY 16,500 FOR MOB OF LINCHERS. State Will Pay $500 Each for First Five and $200 Each for Re¬ maining 70 Men Who Took Prisoners From Jail. Atlanta, Ga., July 1.—The first act ot Gov. Terrell today, af¬ ter being inaugurated as governor of Georgia the second time, was to take up the matter of the lynching at W atkinsville and offer a reward of $500 each for the first five and $200 each for all the other metn bers of the band or lynchers ap prehended and convicted. This constitutes one ot the lar¬ gest, if not really the largest re¬ ward ever offered by the state of Georgia. For the first five men apprehended the state will pay over to whoever may capture and convict them the sum of $2,500. It is generally understood that the mob who took the prisoners from the jail and lynched them numbered 75, which would leave 70 men for whom a reward of $200 each has been offered, or a total of $14,000, the grand total offered for the entire mob being $ 16,500. The amount of the reward, be¬ ing as it is in the nature of a con¬ tingent fee, will beyond doubt at¬ tract some of the amateur and professional sleuths of the state, and very likely those from with¬ out the state, and it is believed here that there will be some pretty active detecive work developed at Watkinsville and vicinity in the next few days. The reward will be pa : d when the prisoners are turned over to the sheriff. THE INAUGURATION TODAY. Governor Terrell was inaugura¬ ted this morning for his second term of office as governor of the the state of Georgia, being sworn in by Chief Justice Simmons. In his inaugural address he re¬ ferred briefly to his past adminis¬ tration and pledged his most earn¬ est endeavors in the interest of the people future. There were a great many people present, at the ceremonies, includ j U g myiniwi'8 °f the senate and j louse After lie was inaugurated the governor swore in the state house officers. SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRA TION AT SNAPPING SHOALS Programme Entirely New—Elo¬ quent Speekers to Be Present. The Enterprise is requested to call attention to the annual Sun day Scbofol Celebration at Snap¬ ping Shoals, which will be held on Saturday,July 15th. In speaking of the celebration > Mr. H. A. DeLoach said: We are going to make this the biggest celebration of recent years. Our program will be interesting, some¬ thing entirely new. There will ho a competitive Sunday School sing¬ ing for the new banner, recitations eminent speakers and a charming elocutionist. All who come will get a big dinner and a happy day.” Hon. Hoke Smith has been in vited to speak on that day. His answer is being awaited with more or less interest owing to the fact that he has entered the race for governor and there are a lot of people in the county who be P leaspd to hear him s P eak * His decision will be known within the next few davs< - — - ------ -- Joe C. Greer represents the Gainesville Steam Laundry. All work is guaranteed, either gloss or domestic finish. Next door to Post Office. A trial will be ap predated.—4t. NO SPECIAL TERM TO TRY WALKER. Petition Signed by Two Hundred and Fifty Newton County Citizens is Declined by Judge L, S. Roan. The petition to Judge Roan, signed by some two hundred and fifty Newton county citizens, ask¬ ing for a special term to try the murderer, Lum Walker, has been declined by the judge. There are several reasons why the request was not granted, prin¬ cipally because of the illness of Mr. Howard, the solicitor general. Mr. Ploward’s health has been very bad since the adjournment of March term ol court and is now confined and undergoing a system of treat¬ ment at a hospitial. His condi¬ tion would not undergo the strain of a heavy criminal case. Judge Roan gave the petition due consideration and would have been glad to have acceded their wishes. The case will be tried at the September term of Newton Super¬ ior Court. WYATT BAILEY KILLED. Negro Frolic Near Mansfield Re¬ sults in One Death. Wyatt Bailey, a highly respect¬ ed and well to-do negro, was shot to death Tuesday night at Mans¬ field by an unknown party. Bailey was attending a party at Charlie Preston’s. He walked out into the front yard when au nn known party fired in the diiection of the house from a buggy in the main road, the bullet hitting Bai¬ ley and producing death. Coroner Peek went down Wed¬ nesday morning and held an in¬ quest over the negro. The coro¬ ners jury returned a verdict that Wyatt Bailey came to his death by a pistol shot in the hands of an unknown party. The jury con¬ sisted of W. B. Hurst, foreman, B. F. Roquemore, F. Ozburn, F. S. Henderson, J. L. Hays and J. E. Taylor. WOOD RELEASED ON GIVING BAIL OF $1,500. Bond Signed by Robt. R. Wood And Mr. Wood is Given his Liberty Wednesday. Cary Wood, the prominent At¬ lanta business man, who Ins been confined in the Tower for several weeks past on the charge of arson, was released from custody Wed¬ nesday on a $1,500 bond. The bond was signed by Wood’s brother, Robert R. Wood. Wood is accused of firing his shirt manufactory in West Mitchell street some lime ago. This offense is not a capital crime, as the build¬ ing burned was not a residence, and this gave Wood the privilege of bond. Wood's case was called at a re¬ cent session of the criminal super¬ ior court but was postponed «n ac¬ count ot his illness. - - Mr. Millard F. Dabney Dead. j Mr. Millard F. Dabney, a well known traveling man, died in Ox £ or(1 Tuesday night at the home of jjj g Brother, E. H. Dabney, Mr. Dabpey came down Tuesday morning on a visit to his brother. jq e p asse d a very pleasant day. and renewed a number of old ac qua j n tances. About supper time he complained of not feeling well and his death resulted a few hours later.' Death was probably caused by a stroke of paralysis. He was a man of means. His body was taken to Conyers Thursday morning for interment « « Mob of Masked Men Entered Jail and Demanded Keys of Sheriff at the Point of Guns. On the moaning of June 29th nine prisoners were taken from the H atkinsville, Oconee county jail and all, save one, was shot to death by a mob of masked white men within two hundred yards of the center of the town. The prisoners taken out and lynched were: Lon. J. Aycock, white charged with the murder ol P. M. Hol¬ brook and wife, of Oconee county, and seven negroes, Rich Robinson, Lewis Robinson, Claude Elder, charged with the murder of the Holbrook couple, Sandy Price, a yjung negro, charged with at¬ tempted assault upon the person of Mrs. Weldon Dooly; Rich Al¬ len, a negro convicted and under sentence of death for the murder ol Will Robertson, another negro, charged with burglary of a rifle from Mr. Marshall, and Bob Har¬ ris, a negro charged with shooting another negro. Joe Patb-rson, negro, feigned death and the mob left him, think¬ ing he, too, had been riddled with bullets. The mob formed quietly just, af¬ ter midnight Thursday morning and marched in order to the jail, where the keys were demanded of the jailer. The demand was made at the point of drawn rifles and pistols and the jailer quickly real¬ ized that resistance was out of the With the keys in its possession, ufe mob opened all the cells, or¬ the trembling inmates out then lined the men up in sin¬ flle, tying them securely with The piisoners, nine in number, marched to a corner lot, within two hundred ynrds of the and in the very heart of the town, where they were bound to a feuce with their hands tied behind them. The work had been so quietly that the sleeping residents of the town had not been aroused. Lon Aycock, the white man who it is claimed, engineered the Hol¬ brook murder, protested his in¬ nocence to the last, and Rich Rob¬ inson, col., implicated three other negroes in the same horrible deed, but this did not quell or check the infuriated mob in their death dealing work. LOTT’S RAPID STEAM WASHER Does Perfect Work and Fills a Long Felt Want—Endorsed by Prominent Citizens. We, the undersigned cit izens of Covington and Newton county, Ga. have seen Mr. Manning demon¬ strate Lott’s Rapid Steam Washer and find the work perfectly done, and believe it to be an article that fills a long felt want. J. F. Lunsford, Tax Rec'r. W. S. Ramsey, Tax Col’r. Jno. B. Davis, Clerk Sup’r Cr’t. S. M. Hay, Sheriff Newton Co. J. H. Carroll, el’k Ord’y office. Rufus Cruse, N. P. ex off. J. P. S. F. Headen. Demonstration of the Washer will be made near Court House next Saturday, July Mil. Public invited. Notice. The Covington and Oxford ters U. D. C. will hold no meetings during the nonths of July and August. A full attendance is re quested on the second Wednesday iu September. GODFREY, Pres. MRS. P. W. MBS. W. D. TRAVIS, Cor Sec. 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