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The Sandersville Herald.
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SANDERSVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 18, 1907.
ESTABLISHED IN 1841
MONSTER vessel of
THE WHITE STAR LINE
Gross Tannage of the Adriatic
Is 25,000.
$HE WILL ACCOMMODATE 3,000
Vestel Is the Largest and Most Com-
plete Ocean Traveler Afloat, With
Ail the Conveniences Found in the
Modern Hotels—725 Feet Long.
Xew York, May 16.—The White
Star liner Adriatic, the latent devel
opment in shipbuilding, Is due to ar
rive in port Thursday. The Adri
atic, thf newest ship of the White
ri;a; line, Is the largest and most
comple e ocean traveler afloat. Her
length over all is 725 feet, 9 inches;
bread' h 75 feet, 7 Inches; depth 50
feet, gross onnage 25,000. Displace
ment 10,000 tons; accommodations for
3,000 passengers u:td a ship's crew of
350, with apartments and space for
aecottd cabin and steerage passengers
that would have been luxurious a
few years ago for first saloon passen
gers mark an enormous advance up
on old four-masted, bark-rigged,
single pipe Adriatic, built by the
same firm in 1872.
The Adriatic is not built for speed
but for comfort. She is fit.rd with
all the conveniences found In most
modem hotels, turklsh baths, mas
sage rooms, photographic dark rooms,
aleva ors, gymnasiums and everything
else one can imagine for comfort.
The commander of the new Adri
atic Is Captain 12. J. Smith, royal
naval reserve.
ENDOWMENT OF$T90,000.
re*byterlan 8 Raise Money for Minis
terial Education and Relief.
Louisville, Ky., May 16.—The ex
ecutive committee of ministerial edu
cation and relief or the Presbybyta-
rian church in the United States, of
which Rev. Henry H. Sweets is sec
retary. has Issued the annual state-
men; for the past year. Ii was pre
sented to the general conference of
the Presbyterian church, which mot
in Birmingham Thursday. The state
ment says in part:
“Seme time ago Mr. Hugh T. In
man , of Allan a, promised to give
1100,000 to the endowment fund of
ministerial relief for aged ministers
and the widows and orphans of our
deceased ministers, on condition that
$125,000 be raised by the whole
church.
“All of this money lias now been
raised with the exception of $9,000,
and Mr. Inman has raised $50,000 of
the amount promised. This gives an
endowment of $190,000, with a suffi
cient amount pledged to make the
•total $250,000.
‘"I'wo hundred and three young
men have been assisted this year in
their preparation for the work of the |
ministry.
“Altogether, $253,820 has been
handled during the year by the com
mittee, of which Mr. John Stltes, of
Louisville, is treasurer.
“This breaks all records in the his
tory of the church.
“The general assembly to which the
committee reports will probably or
der the committee to increase the
endowment at once to $500.
HUMMEL’S LAST RAY
OF HOPE IS DASHED
New York’s Criminal Lawyer
Cannot Escape Pin.
DECISION OF CHIEF JUSTICE
Hummel's Arrest and (j^pviction on
the Charges of Conspiracy and Sub
ornation of Perjury Was at One
Time Sensation of the Day.
SEVENTY-SEVENTH SE3SION.
General Assembly of Cumberland
Presbyterian Church in Tennessee.
Dlclpfbti, Tenn., May 1C.—As a
mat ef 'of sentiment a quorum of com
missioners of the general assembly of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
went Thursday morning to Bethlehem
church, which stands on the site of
the old MoAdow log cabin, the birth
place of the church, and there for
mally constituted the seventy-seventh
session of the general assembly.
Rev. .1. L. Hudgins, retiring mod
erator, offered the constituting pray
er and preached a brief sermon up
on the same lines of Ills formal open
ing sermon delivered In this city la
ter. Returning here shortly after
noon, the general assembly was con
stituted and Mr. Hudgins preached
the opening sermon.
Elected Bishop Coadjutor.
Columbia, S. C., May 16.—Rev.
TVtlliam a Guerry, chaplain of the
I’nlverslty of the djouth, at Sowanee,
Tenn., was Wednesday elected bish
op coadjutor of the Sou h Carolina di
ocese of the Episcopal church. Only
three ballots were taken. When the
result was declared the action was
then made unanimous amid general
rejoicing. The trustees of the uni
versity of the South were re-elected
for three years as follows; Rev.
John Kershaw, D. D., Charleston,
and Messrs. W. W. Lumpkin, of
Columbia, and William Eglestou, of
Hartavllle,
CONFEDERATE REUNION.
Synopsis of Exercises To Be Held at
Richmond, Va.
Atlanta, M'ay 16—As many inquiries
are being made abou. the confeder
ate reunion, at Richmond, on May
30, 31 and June 1, 2 and 3 ,the fol-
lolng synopsis of earli day’s exercises
will be read with much Interest.
May 30, Thursday—Stuart statue
unveiled. Parade 4:45 p. m.
Friday, May 31—Calling conven
tion to order, 9:30 o’clock. Address
by Colonel Robert E. Lee, Jr.
Saturday, June 1—Conven.lon call
ed to order by Grand Commander
General Stephen D. Lee.
Sunday—Service in nil the city
churches. In the afternoon at :30
o'clock service In auditorium corner
Cary and Linden streets.
Monday, June 3, 11 a. m.—Grand
parade; unveiling of Davis monument,
General St It h Bolling, chief marshal,
at 2 p. m., unveiling of monument;
presidential salute.
New York, May 16.—With the de
cision of Chief Justice Cullen of the
court of appeals in which he refused
to grant Abraham Hummel a certifi
cate of reasonable doubt as to the
validity of his conviction for conspir
acy in the Dodge-Morse divorce case
Comes tne passing of one of the noted
figures among New York’s criminal
lawyers.
Hummel was indcited two years nnd
three months ago for conspiracy and
subornation of perjury. His arrest
and subsequen. conviction was the
sensation of the day. His tight to
escape jail has few equals In .the
criminal history of New York county.
The decision now rendered dashes
the last hope of the convicted man
to escape serving a year in the peni
tentiary, the sentence imposed upon
him. Hummel’s lawyers said they
presume the sheriff. would take him
into custody on Saturday. In se
curing the conviction of Hummel and
skillfully frustrating his efforts to
overthrow iliat result, District Attor
ney Jerome considers that he has won
the greatest victory in the long line
of cases he has prosecuted for the
purpose of cleaning up the bar of New
York.
Hummel, from an office boy, work
ed his way up till ho became recog
nized as one of the foremost criminal
and divorce lawyers of New York.
The firm of Howe & Hummel was
known even internationally, and Its
Income was large. Mr. Howe died
several years ago, but the business
continued under the old firm name
until after the scandal in which Hum
mel became Involved.
Hummel was a piaster of advertis
ing. His alliances with stage folk,
as counsel for playwright.ers and di
vorce ge.ter for scores of actresses,
kept his name In print more than that
of almost any othor lawyer in New
York.
j HIRED TO MURDER CZAR.
\ Court Officials Confirm Story of Re
cent Conspiracy.
; Si. Petersburg, May 10. —A terror
ist conspiracy directed against '.ho
life of Emperor Nicholas, the exist
ence of which has been suspetced for
some time past, has been revealed
by the arrest at Tsarkoe-Selo, of a
soldier of .lie guard regiment who
Confessed to the acceptance of a large
money bribe to assist in the murder
of his majesty.
According to the details of this
plot, the existence of which has been
confirmed by one of the highest offi
cials of the court, suspicion was dl-
rcctedto the soldier by the fact that he
was seen to have In ills possession
considerable sums of money. The
man was placed under observation.
When he noticed that he was being
shadowed, he became panic-stricken,
: ana voluntarily made his confession
after which he begged for protection.
All the threads of tills conspiracy,
which is radically different from for
mer attempts of this nature, are not
yet in the hands of the secret ser
vice men. A few underlings have
been apprehended, but the real Insti
gators of the crime and. the men who
furnished the blood m4hey have not
yet been identified.
BOTH CONVENTIONS
WANTEDJY CHICAGO
Windy City Wants Republicans
and Democrats to M=;et, Th. ra.
SUCH A MOVMliNT IS ON FOOT
Cotton Manufacturers’ Meeting.
Philadelphia, May 16.—Much bus
iness was crowded into the conclud
ing session Thursday of the American
Cotton Manufacturers' association
convention. Besides the. many Inter
esting papers read on subjects per
taining to the colton industry, there
was an address by President Fiuley
the Southern Railway company,
the election of officers and reports of
commit ees. The reports of the sec-
rctaiy and treasurer showed be or
ganization to be In a prosperous con
dition.
Woodmen Elect Officers.
Norfolk, Va., May 1C.—The Sov-
cw :gn cnnip, Woodtoven of the World,
' n bmnnial convention here, elected
be following officers for the next
’wo years; Commander, J. C. Root,
0n:a b‘a, Neb.; adviser, W. A. Fra-
^ 1 . Dallas, Tex.; banker, Morris
Sheppard, Texarkana, Tex.; clerk, J.
'• -lates, Omaha, Neb;, escort, H.
? Slnirall, Columbus, Miss.; watch-
hiau, ‘\v. b. Jewell, Manchester,
0%U; sentry, D. E. Bradshaw, Lit-
Ue Hock, Ark.
More Fighting Ships Ordered.
London, May 16.—Orders have been
given .to lay the keels of two battle
ships of the Dreadnaught type. It
lias been understood .hat in case the
proposal for disarmament took def
inite shape In the Hague conference,
only one Dreadnaught would be laid
down. The order for two such
ships is construed as Great Britlan’s
acknowledgment of Germany’s refusal
to entertain the disarmament ques
tion.
HEROIC WORK OF FIREMEN.
Former Minister Conger Very 111,
Pasadena, Calif., May 16. — Edwin
Conger, former minister to China*,
and recently resigned ambassador to
Mexico, is critically ill at his home
in this ci v. Farmer Minister Con
ger first came into prominence as
minister to Brazil in 1897. He was
tr. Pekin during the Boxer siege and
conducted the negotiations for the
United States after lie allied pow
ers captured that city.
Woman Frightened to Death.
Nashville, Tenn.. May 16.—A cy
clone struck Mount Pella, near Mar
tin, Weakly county, Tuesday night,
doing much damage. The Baptist
church, several residences, one busi
ness house awl a number of barns,
were wrecked. The wife of Pat
Gardner, who was sick of measles,
was frightened to death by a limb of
a tree falling on the house.
AGUINALDO’S QUIET LIFE.
Former Insurgent Chief Attending
Strictly to Own Business.
San Francisco, May 16.—Brigadier
General H. T. Allen, organizer and
until recently chief of the Philippine
constabulary, arrived here Wednes
day from Manila on the army trans
port Thomas.
The military police is now a body
consisting of 5,000 enlisted men, all
natives, and among the officers are
a number ef Filipinos. General Al
len says that (here is little trouble
In the Philippines now except In Layte
and. Sanmr, where the hill tribes
pilll worry the insular government.
Aguinaldo Is now living quietly on
his ranch in the province of Cavite,
where the former head of the Insur
gents Is attending st.rtotly to his own
affairs and not participating in mat
ters political. General Allen is suc
ceeded as chief of the constabulary by
colonel Baudholtz, of the second in
fantry .
Chicago Commercial Convsntion in
terested ir. Having the Two Gre?t
National Canventions to Come to
That City.
Chicago, May 1ii.—A movement to
bring to Chicago the nutional con
ventions of both tlie Republican and
Demacra ic parties has been project
ed by the Chicago Commercial asso
ciation.
The convention committee of the
association says the plan will be pre
sented to tite national committees of
bo.li patsies scon.
Charles A. Stevenson, chairman of
the convention committee of the as-
Boc’ijtlon, lias broached the subject to
Roger Sullivan, the member from Il
linois, of the democratic national
com mi. tee, and to Colonel Frank O.
Lowden, of the Republican national
committee, it is not understood that
the plans have advanced further t.han
tills. Mr. Stevens told the commit
teemen that the committee associa
tion would assure the national coin-
mlittees ample funds to carry oil both
conventions, it is expected that Mr.
Sulllvau and Mr. Lowden will carry
the proposition before their respective
committees. Meanwhile the commer
cial assocla.ion will proceed with fur
ther plans for bringing both gaiher-
iugs to this city.
STRIKING LONGSHOREMEN.
Harbor Strike Ended,
Buenos Ayres, May 16.—The har-
01 strike is about over and has re-
81l '-i‘tl in a defeat for the men. Most
or ,lle working men have returned ’to
* 0rk despite the contrary order of
the leaders.
Postmasters Appointed.
^aahlnigton, D. C., May 16.— Post-
sterB appointed: Bowens Mill, Ben
j 1 county, Thomas H. Beall, vice
• H. Beall, resigned; Edison, Cal-
° Un county, Memphis A. Sutton,
Ce *Uden Watkins, removed.
Death of Chas. J. Jernigan.
Monrovia, Cal., May 16.—Charles
J. Jernigan, secretary yf the Los An
geles Stock exchange for the pas, two
years, •!!<?() it uis home in Monrovia
Wednesday. Ha was for twenty years
a member of the Chicago Board of.
Trade.
Woman Suffragists Lose Candidate.
London, May 16.—At the bye-elec
tion held ai Wlndledon Wednesday
Henry Chaplin, unionist, and ex-pres
ident of the local government board,
whose candidacy was opposed by the
Woman Suffragists, was elected by
the plurality of 6,964 out of a total
vote of 13,652.
Will Not Be Abolished.
St. Petersburg, May 16—The coun
cil of the empire, or upper house of
parliament, ha® rejected the bill
which was passed April 80, by ttie
lower houM aboMahla# trial* by court-
martial. t . t iisritlilAfa* in:
Risked Their Lives to Save Th03e of
Six of Their Comrades.
New York, May 16.—Half a score
of firemen risked their lives Thurs
day in saving s.ix of their comrades
who had been overcome by fumes
and smoke in the hold of a burning
oil barge lying at the White Star
line piers in the Hudson river. All j
;he rescued men were seriously burn
ed, but they will recover.
The six men had gone Irrto the hold j
when they thought the fire had been !
overcome, and were cutting away a]
partition when a terrific burst of!
flame and smoke swept hrough the j
opening and enveloped them. The:
men dropped unconscious and the
flames were pouring over them wh&n
their comrades, braving the Are and
chokilng smoke, went to their rescue.
One by one the unconscious firemen
were carried out and passed up the
hatchway. The rescuers themselves
were nearly suffocated.
Unfavorable Wheat Situation.
Odessa, May 16.—The European
wheat situation is regarded by compe
tent grain merchants here as being
most unfavorable. The present prices
are 'he highest quoted in Russia for
a decade. The provinces of Bessa
rabia, Poltava, Kherson and Podolla,
where wheat is chiefly cultivated, a'.’e
gravely affected. Seventy-five per
cent of the winter crops have been
damaged by the cold weather and the
dry spring.
Reports of Fruit Tree Peat.
Washington, May 16—From every
state east of the Mirss'islppi .river
and from Missouri, Arkansas, Louisi
ana, Texas, and the Province of On
tario, Canada, the terrapin scale, ilie
enemy of'the peach and other trees,
has been reported to the department
of agriculture. Specimens of the
pests from all that territory have
been received by the bureau of eu.o-
mology.
May Lay Grievances Before Preeident
Roosevelt at Washington.
New York, May 16.—The strik-
ffig longshoremen will appeal to
Bruce Ismay, head of file Internation
al Mercantile Marine, who is com
ing on the steamer Adriatic, to grant
their demands. Failing in this, it
was stated, they will appeal to Pres
ident Roosevelt for arbitration. Pat
rick Connors, cha’trma nof the execu
tive committee, said:
“If we cannot get our rights here
we will go to Washington, and lay it
all before Mr. Roosevelt. We can
send a committee there and show him
that our cause is just and our men
deserving. He will take care of
U9.”
Representatives of the steamship
companies say that the appeal to Mr.
Ismay will be fruitless. They claim
the strike is breaking and that the
men are returning to work.
Noted Singer Dead.
New York, May 166.—Word ha*
been received in this city of the death
in Milan of Arcangelo Rossi, former
Buffo of the Metropolitan opera house,
who attempted suicide last week by
cutting out his tongue. He showed
no sign of insanity last season at
the Metropolitan and this was attrib
uted by some to the hardships he
suffered during the earthquake in Sau
Francisco His friends believed,
however, that the loss of his voice
caused him mental break down. He
was 42 years old, and ?,ad sung for
five seasons at the Metropolitan.
Great Damage to Cotton Crop.
New Orleans, I.®., May 16.—Dam
age to cotton crops in southern Mis
sissippi ha sheen widespread in the
storms occurring within the last
hours. According to reports, near
ly the entire county of Lauderdale
will iliave to be replanted. At Wood-
ville, Miss., nine tenant houses were
blown down and a small store was
washed away during a destructive
rainstorm.
Accept* College Presidency.
Nashville, Tenn., May 16.—Dr.
J. \\\ Conger, president of the
Ouicliita college, at Arkadelphia,
Ark., has accepted the presidency
of the Southwestern Baptist univer
sity at Jackson, Tenn. Dr. Conger
is a graduate of S. W. B. U., and Is
regarded as one of the leading educa
tors of the south. He has been the
president of Oulchita college twenty-
one years.
Order Railway Conductors.
Memphis, May 10.—Official reports
were again considered at Thursday
afternoon’s session of the order of
Railway Conductors. A resolution
has been introduced and referred to
a committee proposing to transfer the
sum of $40,600 from the general fund
to the relief fund.
Woodlawn Issues Bonds.
Birmingham, Ala., May 16.—The
city of Woodlawn has voted an issue
of $52,000 of sewer, school and street
bonds. A* eoon as the sale Is ef
fected , the proceeds will be utilized
according to present program.
DAMAGE FROM STORM.
Western Alabama and Mississippi Suf
fer from Heavy Rains.
Birmingham, Ala., May 1G.—'Dis
patches from towns In western Ala
bama anil Mississippi tell oT damage
done to railroads and newly planted
crops by the heavy rain of Wednes
day night.
At Tuscaloosa, Ala., a rainfall of
2*6 inches was recorded and the War-
rloT river stood at a gauge of thirty-
five fee.. The river threatens to
overflow many acres of lowlands and
ruin the river bottom corn fields.
At Meridian, Mias., both telegraph
companies' were badly crippled by the
storm.
A number of county bridges have
been washed away and lowlands in
undated. The damage to corn will
b® especially heavy.
CLOSER CHURCH RELATIONS.
mportant Question Before Presbyter!.
an General Assembly.
Birmingham, Ala., May 16.—One
of the most important questions whi.rii
will come before the general assem
bly of ;he Southern Presbyterian
church which met here Thursday will
be that of closer relations with other
bod'.cj holding the Presbyterian sys
tem .
Of the eighty-three presbyteries,
the action of .he eighty on the pro
posed articles of agreement for clos
er relations has been reported. Fifty
approve the articles, ttwenty-elglit
disapprove them, while two have de
clined ;o act. The articles provide
for a general council to which all mat
tors of uuited interests will be re
fecred.
Limited Armaments.
Rome, May 16.—-Foreign Minister
Tittoni, in Hie course cf his state
ment. in the chamber of deputies on
the a.tirade of Italy at the coming
peace confeience at the Hague, said
that the Italian government was in
favor of the limitation of armaments
and would even take part in a discus
sion of Hue question at tie Hague,
hut the government agreed with the
Austro-German view on the subject,
because of difficulty in finding a prac
tical acceptable solution of the prob
iem involved.
$23,CC0 Is Burned in Stage Coach
Los Angeles, Cal., May 16.—A
story has just reached here of the ac
cidental burning of a stage coach in
Death Valley, near Asli Meadows,
in which $15,000 in bank bills and
$13,000 in registered mail were con
sumed. The stage is supposed to
have caught fire from a cigar which
the driver, Ed Love, was smoking.
lx>ve reached Greenwater Sunday
night and related the story. The
money was consigned to the Green-
water bank.
•OUTHERN SHOWS INCREASE.
Annual Tax Returns of Railway Sys
tem for Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., May 16.—The annual
tax returns of the Southern Railway
company, made to Comptroller Gen
eral VV. A. Wright Wednesday,
shows an Increase of $590,491 over
the returns for last year.
The Southern's returns for tbtn
year are $15,867,891 total, of which
$2,832,997 is franchise, as against
$14,277 ,500 for 19U6, with practically
the same lira nobles returns. The
comptroller general has not deter
mined whether lie will accept th'is re
turn. The Southern operates 925.14
miles in Georgia.
The Alabama Great Southern, con
trolled by the Southern, has only 24
miles in Georgia, running through
the nor.liwestern section of the state.
This is returned this year at $684,-
606, of which $168,204 is franchise.
There Is an increase of about $5,000
in this return.
The Augusta Southern, also owned
by tne Southern, shows an Increase
of about $2,500. It is returned thi*
year at $367,353, of which $15,000 la
franchise. This line runs from Au
gusta to Sandersville.
The Hartwell railroad, also return
ed by the Southern, is given In At
$28,177, of which $500 Is franchise.
CASE OF FRED BUSH.
Cannot Be indicted Under Act of 1897
Says Solicitor General Hill.
Atlanta, May 16.—Fred Bush, tho
man who is alleged to have sent an in
fernal machine to the house of Mrs.
McCarthy, in ihis city, which ex
ploded and came near killing mem
bers of the family, will not be in
dicted for murder, but for assault
with Intent to murder, sail Solicitor
General Charles D. Hill, Wednesday.
The act. of 1897, he said, referred
to the placing of dynamite under or
in a house with the intention of
blowing up the house.
Where a party sends au Infernal
machine to another person, the in
tent is to kill the person to whom U
is sent. If that person was killed.
tJlie crime would’ be murder; If the
atternp; failed, as in this instance,
the crime is assault with intent to
murder.
Solicitor Hill remembered the act in
question, but said he had not read
it In several years, but that it wss
only applicable to persons who at
tempted to dynamite and blow up
houses.
“WILD BILL” IN LAW’S CLUTCHES
Noted MoonaMner Has Been Arrest
ed Near Eastman, Ga.
Macon, Ga., May 16.—Charles T.
Williams, the man who lias ramped
the state as an illicit distiller for
many years under the assumed name
“Wild Bill" Williams, was run down
near Eastman Wednesday night by
United States Deputy Marshal R. L.
DeLoach.
The officer had company when ha
found "Wild Bill," but there was no
resit ance, and the long-sought man
said to United States Commissioner
L. M. Erwin, w'iien he faced him:
“I was not trying to hide. I pursued
my own way and hart my liberty un
til they came for me.”
Three indictments await William®.
He was placed in jail at the order at
Commissioner Erwin in default of »
bond fixed at $1,000.
Wants $5,000 for Loss of Ear.
Atlanta, May 16.—Hubert Vaughan,
a seven-year-old schoolboy, value*
the loss of his left ear at $5,000, and
through hl3 father is suing the Chat
tahoochee Brick company for that
sum, and the matter came up before
a jury in Judge Calhoun’s court Wed
nesday. The accident occurred over
a year ago, April 5, 1906, the young
school lad alleging that a driver of
the brick company recklessly drove
a two-mule team into a crowd at
schoolboys on their way to the State
street school. In the collision, the
Vaughan boy claims, he was knocked
down and- run over, that ills left arm
was broken and crushed in two places
below the elbow, his left ear was torn
off, and the left side of his face torn
and lacerated.
Skyscraper Is Planned.
Birmingham, Ala., May 16.—<M.
V. Joseph, of the firm of Loveman,
Joseph & Loeb, who left for Europe,
just before his departure said that it.
would not be long before a ten-story
structure would, be erected in the
rear of the present establishment con
ducted by his firm, and which is one
of the largest dry goods houses in the
south.
To Establish Cotton School.
Atlanta, May 16.—The Farmers"
Educational and Co-operative union
of Georgia met in the legislative hall
at the state capltol Wednesday. This
was a call meeting, but almost every
county in the state was represented.
The meeting was called especially to
discuss the feasibility of holding A
cotton school this summer and to dis
cuss the warehouse question. It.
was decided definitely to have a cot
ton school, the purpose of which wiH
be to teach interested parties haBl
to judge and price cotton.
m
Will Not Hang on Day Named.
Augusta, Ga., May 16.—Judge
Hammond set June 15 for hearing the
motion for a new trial made In the
case of Arthur Glover, who was sea.-r
tenced to be hutig on May 26_, v
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