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THE SANDEftSVlLLE HERALD.
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MANY BARS CLOSED
As Result of Strenuous Elec
tions in Illinois.
TWENTY COUNTIESGODRY
Larger Cities In State, However, Voted
to Retain Saloons—Chicago Wai
Eliminated from the Election
by a Court Order.
In the local option elections, held by
,1,200 townships, In 84 counties of Illi
nois, outside of the city of Chicago
Tuesday, twenty counties became abso
lutely anti-saloon territory, and approx
imately 1,500, or about one-half of the
total number of saloous in that terri
tory, were voted out of business.
Most of the larger cities of the state,
however, voted lu favor of licensing sa
loons.
The larger cities voting in favor of
the saloons are:
Springfield, Freeport, Aurora, Elgin,
Sterling, Kankakee, Lincoln, Mon
mouth, Bloomington, Danville, Joliet,
Murphysboro, and Rock Island.
Those voting to abolish the saloons
were:
Rockford, Decatur, Dixon, lloopes-
fown, Georgetown, Pontiac, Shelbyville,
Carbondale and Champaign.
The following counties ure now abso
lutely anti-saloon territory, so created
by the voters by their ballots, and are,
in addition to the six which voted last
November to abolish license:
Boone, Moultrie, Fayette, Hamilton,
Edgar, Clark, Brown, Saline, Gallatin,
Douglas, Macon, Cumberland, Platt,
Shelby, Coles, White, Wayne and Rich
land.
The election In Chicago was purely
aldermanlc and followed closely party
lines. One-half of the membership of
the city council of seventy was elected
and the republicans made a net gain of
ten. The new council will contain 44
republicans and 26 democrats. The
make up of the present council is 35
democrats, 1 independent democrat
and 34 republicans.
Although the question of closing of
saloons was barred from the ballot by
court action, the united societies for lo
cal self-government claimed a victory,
inasmuch as only about 23 of the 70
aldermen who will compose the new
council, they declare, favoring person
al liberty.
The Independence League made a
strong fight in several of the wards and
polled a vote of good proportions for
eome of Its nominees, but the total
vote of the party was less than that
of the socialists.
FLORIDA LUNACY LAW UPHELD.
8uprcme Court Declares Its Validity in
Passing Upon Scudamore Case.
The supreme court of Florida Tues
day rendered an opinion In the case of
the state against George C. Scudamore
which establishes the constltuionallty
■of the law In lunacy proceedings.
Scudamore, former cashier of the Peo
ple’s Bank and Trust Company of
Pensacola, and accused of defalcation,
had been ordered committed to the
state hospital for the insane by the
county judge of Escambia county.
The supreme court in Tuesday’s de
cision, ordered Scudamore remanded
to the custody of the county sheriff of
Escambia to he conveyed to Chattahoo
chee and delivered to the superintend
ent of the state hospital for the insane
The opinion did not sustain the conten
tion of the state that the legislature
has no power to commit Insane per
sons to county judges, that sufficient
notice is not given in such cases and
that the const'.'utlonal right of trial by
Jury Is denied.
Tobacco Beds Destroyed.
Night riders rod'-- into Seottown. In
Tjawrence county, Ohio, opposite Hun
tington, W. Va.. Mondav night and de
stroyed the tobacco beds of Ned Shock-
ley and Henry Darnell.
ELECTRIC COMPANY IN TROUBLE
New Orleans Concern Gocc Into the
Hands of Receiver.
The Consumers’ Electric company of
New Orleans, with capital stock, bonds
and other obligations aggregating in
the neighborhood of $2,500,000, was
placed in receivership Friday.
The petition declared that the com
pany had defaulted in payment of in
terest due on the bonds. The Consum
ers’ Electric company is one o£ two
companies supplying electric light and
■power in New Orleans,
TWO BANKERS GIVE BONO.
Ex-Officials of Defunct Neal Bank Put
Up $5,000 Each.
Bonds of $5,000 each were made at
Atlanta Friday by E. II. Thorton and
W. F. Maury, late officials cf the Neal
bank, who were Indicted by the grand
jury on Thursday.
It is thought the trials of both of
Ihese men will be set for some time
this term of the Fulton county superior
f»urt.
BANK OFFICERS INDICTED
Thornton end Manry of Defunct Neal
Bank at Atlanta, Must Answer to
Charges of Mismanagement.
After weeks of Investigation, the
Fulton county grand jury in session at
Atlanta, Thursday, returned three bills
of indictment against E. 11. Thornton
and W. F. Manry, president and vice
president, respectively, of the now de
funct Neal bank, f r violations of the
penal code affecting banks.
Thornton and Manry are indicted
jointly for loaning more than 25 per
cent of the capital of the bank. The
loan in question was that of $120,000,
which they made to themselves as di
rectors of the bank, and also as mem
bers of the firm of C. T. Ladson & Co.
This money was invested in some
300,000 or 400,000 acres of timber land
In the Santiago province of Cuba.
The above offense is a felony, and
is punishable by an imprisonment of
from two to seven years.
Mr. Manry was indicted for false
swearing, when he swore to a state
ment of the bank's assets and liabili
ties which he gave the state bank ex
aminer. This statement was made and
sworn to when Mr. Manry was cashier
of the Neal bank. This alleged of
fense is also a felony and is punisha
ble by Imprisonment of from three
to ten years.
Mr. Thornton was indicted individu
ally for borrowing as an officer and di
rector of the Neal bank, $71,500 as
executor of the estate of John Neal.
This offense is a misdemeanor and is
punishable by a fine of $1,000 or twelve
months in the chaingang.
GOV. SMITH MAKES CHARGES.
Says Candidacy of Hon. Joe Brown is
Being Backed by Consp'rators.
Governor Hoke Smith of Georgia, is
sued Friday a statement legarding the
candidacy for governor of Johsoph M.
Brown, to the people of Georgia. In
part, the statement is as follows:
"The letter of Mr. Joseph M. Brown
confirms the charge that a combination
of lfquor Interests and iiir-d politicians
has been made to capture the state.
‘ There is not a word front Mr. Brown
in favor of negro disfranchisement.
"There is an open attack upon the
railroad commission.
“There Is a poorly concealed admis
sion that he would approve legislation
repealing the prohibition 1)111 together
with the suggestion that legislators
will be elected favorable to the sale of
liquor.
"I Intensely advocate negro dis
franchisement.
"I support the railroad commission.
“I ant opposed to the repeal of the
prohibition law. I will veto any legisla
tion changing the law except to per
fect it as a prohibition measure, and
this must be done by the friends of
prohibition.
"This issue has passed beyond the
mere sale of liquor. The brewers held
a meeting and the press reporter, a
million of dollars raised by them i u be
used in Georgia, Alabama and Missis
sippi. The liquor interests have organ
ized in Chicago with local headquarters
in Atlanta for the purpose of fighting
for the sale of liquor in this state and
elsewhere.
"Already their hired men are on tho
streets of this city. The men engaged
in this work are opposed to negro dis
franchisement. If successful, they will,
through local elections, with the negro
voting, buy his vote and place liquor
everywhere.
“Mr. Joseph M. Brown and the hired
politicians will not he permitted to
place the negro in control today. The
people of Georgia repudiated Joseph M.
Brown as railroad commissioner and
the hired politicians as political dicta
tors in 1906. Now you are asked to
make Joe Brown governor, and to put
the hired politicians back in control
with the liquor interests as the chief
power behind them. Place the demo
cratic party in Georgia under their
control and your disfranchisement lav;
will be killed.
"I announced my candidacy for a
second term as governor because I
thought it my duty to do so. The issues
now presented aroused my most in
tense zeal.
"I accept the issues and am prepared
for the fight with perfect confidence
that the moral sentiment of the people
will overwhelm this effort to debauch
our state. HOKE SMITH.”
THREE NEGROES INDICTED
For Murder of Pawnbroker Hirsowitz
at Atlanta.
Barnett Booker, Jim Madden and
John Williams, negroes, were indict
ed by the grand jury at Atlanta Thurs
day for the murder of Jacob Hirsowitz,
who was shot and killed at his place
of business several weeks ago.
The three negroes are now confined
in the Tower.
Cotton Spinners Abandon Scheme.
The Lancashire, England, cotton
spinners have abandoned the scheme
to purchase cotton growing estates in
the Mississippi delta, owing to legal
impediments against aliens holding
real estate.
CADETS PUNISHED
Over Three Hundred Expell
ed from Clemson College
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.
new field for this important southern
industry throughout all Europe.
It is possible that Secretary Straus
will addrosR the Interstate Cotton
Seed Crushers’ Association, which
meets in Louisville, Ky., on May 19,
20 and 21.
LIABILITY MEASURE
Passed in House Through Ef
forts of Democrats.
FDR APRIL FOOL PRANKS
Officials of South Carolina State Insti
tution Determined to Uphold Dis
cipline—Classes Must Now
Be Revised.
Two hundred and fifty-seven stud
ents of Cteiuson college, Soutti-Caroli
na’s state institution, we > dismissed
Wednesday morning. 'ibis number,
with the 4‘J members of the junior class
dismissed Saturday, aggregate 306
turned out on account of tne All Fool s
day escapade, when 309 cadets ab
sented themselves from the campus,
drills and classes from 7:45 u. m. until
6 p. Ri. Of the 309 participants only
four were not dismissed. One of these
was suspended until September, one
acquitted of the cnarge and two will
be dealt with by the commandant.
The testimony in the cases of these
young men differed widely from the
testimony in the other cases. The
discipline committee had been holding
sessions turee times a day, excepting
Sunday for a lull week. At 7:45
o'clock Wednesday morning, when the
corps formed in line for their regular
daily drill, Commandant Minus had
his adjutant publish an order direct
ing the participants in the escapade
to turn in at the quartermaster’s de
partment all college government prop
erties in their possession.
After all the property had been turn
ed in to the quartermaster, the boys
as directed by Commandant Minus,
congregated in the chapel. After all the
cadets of the institution were seated,
and after the regular chapel services
were concluded, President Mell made a
short talk, stating thut, though he was
sorry for the hoys dismissed, yet dis
cipline had to be preserved. When Se
had finished, he handed Cadet Adjutant
Tindall an order to be published at
once. This order provided for the dis
missal from the college of 43 mem
bers of the preparatory class, 132 mem
bers cf the freshman class, and 82
members of the sophomore class.
The faculty will he compelled to re
vise the classes. Many sections in
the freshmen and sophomore classes
were almost totally wiped out.
There are about 400 students left in
the institution.
TO PROBE PAPER TRUST.
Speaker Cannon’s Resolutions Report
ed and Passed in House.
By unanimous vote the house com
mittee on judiciary Wednesday agreed
to report favorably the "paper trust”
resolutions introduced April 2, by
Speaker Cannon.
One of these resolutions directs the
attorney general to inform the house
what steps have been taken to inves
tigate and prosecute the International
Paper company of New York, and oth
er corporations or combinations en
gaged in the manufacture of wood pulp
or print paper.
The other resolution directs the sec
retary of commerce and labor to in
form the house as to what steps have
been taken by the bureau of corpora/-
tions towards investigating the alleged
"paper trust.”
The resolutions were subsequently
called up in the house and passed.
THEODORE PRICE RETURNS.
Veteran Cotton Trader Will Quit Spec
ulation Temporarily.
Theodore H. Pr j e, of New York, vet
eran of a score of campaigns in the
cotton market, has decided to retire
from speculation for the next two
years in order to devote his entire at
tention to his only son, whose health
has caused his parents considerable
worry.
Mobile Herald Changes Hands.
Official announcement is made that
The Mobile (Ala.) Herald, the oldest
afternoon paper in the city, has been
sold by Major Tebbetts and associates
to Horace Turner and associates.
FLEET SAILS FOR GOLDEN GATE.
Sixteen Battleships Begin Last Leg of
Long Journey.
The American fleet of sixteen bat
tleships, Saturday afternoon, began its
last leg of originally planned trip from
Hampton Roads to the Golden Gate.
The four divisions of tho fleet weigh
ed anchor at 4 o’clock and three-
quarters of an hour later were thread
ing their way out of Magdalena bay
in the wake of the flagship Connect
icut.
HARRIMAN LINKS OCEANS.
Transcontinental Route from Califor
nia to Savannah Completed.
The official announcement by t,he
Illinois Central that the new Birming
ham division will new be opened for
traffic, calls attention to the comple
tion of tile last link in the great liar-
riman transcontinental route, for by
controling the Union Pacific, Illinois
Central and Central of Georgia this
system will extend from the Pacific
to the Atlantic,
Low Rates to Summer School.
Superintendent T. J. Woofter, of the
University of Georgia summer school
at Athens, has just received notice
from the railroads of the state that
redtired rates have been granted on
account of the summer school for the
Rrrsion to be held in July. The reduc
ed rates are about the same as last
year.
* * *
Porter Jones Begins Life Sentence.
Porter Jones, convicted at the Sep
tember, 1907, term of court at Eaton-
ton of the murder of Robert F. Adams,
has been sent to Macon, where he has
begun his life sentence at hard labor
with the Cherokee Brick company.
Albert, his brother, convicted at the
same time and for the same crime,
secured a new trial, and was released
from jail several months ago on $5,000
bail.
• • •
Worthless Dog Cause of Murder.
John Dev, a young man, residing
near Meigs, the only dependence of a
widowed mother, is reported to have
been literally beaten to death by the
owner of a dog which Dey killed while
it was worrying a sheep.
The dog belonged to a man named
Culpepper, who, with his sons, called
Dev out of the house and beat and
kicked nnd stamped him into insensi
bility, causing ?iis death.
* * *
Road May Issue Bonds.
Permission has been granted by the
railroad commission to George M. Brin
son, president of the Brinson Railroad
company, to issue $2,509,000 first mort
gage bonds.
Mr. Brinson is now engaged in con
structing a line from Savannah to Ath
ens, a distance of 180 miles. Mr. Brin
son says that he has some thirty miles
of his road constructed, and that the
rest of the work will be pushed. Peo
ple in the counties through which the
line is to operate will be given an op
portunity to subscribe for stock.
* * •
DeKalb Wants Better Roads.
At a recent mass meeting held in
Decatur the good roads movement in
DeKalb county reached the unanimous
adoption of a report recommending
that the DeKalb representatives in the
legislature introduce a special act pro
viding for the improvement of the road
ways of that county.
According to the terms of the re
port, which was submitted by a com
mittee of five, selected from another
committee of forty prominent citizens,
it is recommended that authority be
asked for DeKalb county to issue $300,-
000 worth of 5 per cent bonds to run
thirty years and to be issued not ex
ceeding $60,000 per year.
* * *
Sender Can Mark Packages.
The state railroad commission has
issued an order permitting the sender
of an express package, who prepays
express charges to mark on the pack
age “paid” or “prepaid,” and requiring
the agent of the express company to
put a similar stamp or mark on the
package. Failure to follow the order,
or collection of second charges at the
point of destination, subjects the ex-
press company to a penalty of twice
the proper' charge and failure to re
fund suid amount to the sender with
in 24 hours after demand, ah all he
punishable hv such other penalty as
may be prescribed by the commission.
• * *
Want Garnishment Law Changed.
The directors of the Atlanta cham
ber nf commerce have adopted the re
port recently submitted bv an attorney
on possible revisions of Georgia laws
on attachment and garnishment and
have ordered 1,000 copies of the report
printed.
These copies will be mailed to mem
bers of the legislature and commercial
bodies throughout the state together,
with a request for eo-operatlon with
the Atlantn chamber of commerce to
ward a betterment of the present stat
utes.
The garnishment and attachment
laws are responsible for the Southern
railway’s recent, withdrawal of its de-
posits from the banks of Georgia.
* * *
Perkins Dcinq Excellent Work.
According to Hon. Oscar S. Straus,
secretary of commerce and labor and
a member of President Roosevelt’s
cabinet, who visited Georgia the past
week, Albert G. Perkins, cotton se^d
expert abroad for this department, is
at present in Brussels, where he Is
doing most excellent work for this in-
dustry.
Secretary Straus, in speaking of this
matter, said: “I am of the south, and
it is my pleasure to do all that I
can In the furtherance of southern in
dustries. I hope to see the solid south
transformed into the ’sound south,’
Secretary Straus is seeing to it that
and I believe this day is coming.”
the reports of Expert Perkins on cot
ton seed by-products in Europe are
printed in the consular reports, which
are proving a means of opening up a
Premiums for Best Seeds at Fair.
That the farmers of the state may
he induced to splect better seed for
corn and cotton and in this manner
produce better crops, premiums will be
Included in the premium list of the
Georgia state fair to he held in At
lanta this fall under the auspices of
the Farmers’ Union.
G. M. Davis, prominently identified
with the Farmers’ Union and connect
ed with the department of agriculture
at Washington, has returned from
Washington and is now Industriously
working on an exhibit the governmept
will have from the demonstration
farms all over the state. By means of
this exhibit he will endenvor to urge
upon the farmers the necessity of bet
ter selection in seeds, and this in It
self will tend toward better produc
tion.
* * *
Second Pension Payment.
Commissioner of Pensions Lindsey
has mailed to the 145 ordinaries In the
state checks for the second quarterly
pensions due the veterans of the con
federacy, aggregating $229,459.25.
Under the new pension law passed
doring the last session of the general
assembly, the old system of lump pay
ment of pensions, which had given sat
isfaction for so many years, was re
pealed and quarterly payments order
ed paid instead.
With this practice, ihe veteran who
gets. $60 for the vear, Instead of re
ceiving $60 in th-K spring, will get $15
four times a year.
The first payment was made in Feb
ruary, and this second payment is due
for the months of April, May and
June.
* * *
ROADS ARE RESPONSIBLE
Under Provisions of Bill, f or Personal
Injuries Sustained by Their E m .
ployees—Only One Vote in
Opposition.
With only one vote recorded against
It, that of Mr. Littlefield of Maine, the
house of representatives Monday, un
der suspension of the rules, and dur
ing a truce between the democrats and
republicans, passed the Sterling Em-
ployers’ liability bill, after forty m | n .
utes debate.
In brief the bill establishes the doc
trine that the railroad companies en
gaged in interstate commerce are lia
ble for personal injuries received by
employees lu the service of such car
riers. It ahollsl.es the strict common
law rule of liability which bars a re
covery for the personal injury or
death of an employee, occasioned by
the negligence of a fellow servant it
also relaxes the common law rule
which makes contributory negligence
a defense to claims for such injuries.
A provision, however, diminishes the
amount of the recovery in the same
degree that the negligence of the In
jured oue contributed to the Injury.
The bill further makes each party
responsible for his own negligence,
and requires each to bear the burden
thereof.
BARS C. O. D. LIQUORS.
Committee Agrees Upon a Bill Deal-
In With Booze Shipments.
A sharp distinction is drawn by the
state court of apnoals in a decision
handed down a few days ago in the
case of Dr. E, M. Roberts of Atlanta
against the state between a "public
place of business” and a "private place
of business." as meant by the prohibi
tion law.
In the decision written by Presiding
Judge Hill and concurred in by his
associates. Judge Calhoun of the city
court of Atlanta is reversed in holding
for a conviction in the case of Dr. Rob
erts. who kept stored in his private
warehouse in Courtland street many
kegs of beer, used in the manufacture
of a prohibition drink.
The court holds, in substance, that
a room used solely for the purporo
of storage, which is kept locked, to
which the public are not invited, and
from which the public are excluded,
and in which no business is transact
ed, is not a “place of business” in the
sense of the prohibition statute.
A Washington special says: After
extended hearings and exhaustive ar
guments by the members of the sen
ate committee on the Judiciary that
committee Monday agreed upon a bill
dealing with the shipments of liquor
from one state or territory to another
state or territory.
The bill will be reported by Senator
Knox, who was chairman of the sub
committee which conducted the hear
ings.
It is comparatively simple in form,
providing that there shall De no “col
lect on delivery” packages of liquor
shipped in interstate commerce where
fictitious names are used and that the
name of the consignor and consignee
shall be stated plainly.
The provision is designed to elimi
nate the practice of railroad and ex
press companies from acting as agent!
foi\ liquor houses.
ELECTION RIOT IN LISBON.
McCREAHY IN BAD WAY.
Horseman, Accidentally Shot by Hef
lin, Suffers Case of Lockjaw.
Thomas McCreary, th e New York
horseman, accidentally shot by Con
gressman J. Thomas Heflin, or Ala
bama, in Washington, a few days ago,
is in a serious condition. He was oper
ated on for lockjaw at George Wash
ington university hospital Monday af
ternoon, as the only hope of saving his
life.
McCreary was among the bystanders
win n Heflin, after an altercation with
u negro named Lundy, on a Pennsyl
vania avenue car, threw his antagonist
off the car and fired at him twice
through a window. One of the bullets
hit Lundy in the neck and the other
found lodgment in McCreary’s leg. His
injury was thought to be slight, and
he did not go to the hospital until two
days ufterward. Monday symptoms ot
lockjaw developed.
STFtIKE BREAKER IN PENSACOLA.
Northern Representatives of Company
Also on Hand.
New developments in the street car
strike at Pensacola, Fla., Tuesday was
the arrival of a noted strike breaker
from New York, a representative of
the International Street Railway Em
ployees’ Association, and three officials
of the Stone & Webster syndicate, who
control the lines in Pensacola.
A representative of the striking em
ployees made an overture for an audi
ence with the visiting officials of the
company during the day, to effect
an amicable agreement, but was turned
down, the company stating that they
will treat with the men only as indi
viduals.
Terror Reigned Supreme After Voting
* Had Been Ended.
Seven iSersons were shot to death
and 100 omiers wounded by soldier*
after the voting in the elections In
Lisbon, Portugal had been ended Sun
day, The rhnfyig was widespread and
such was the confusion during ihe vio
lent conflict between the populace ami
the municipal guWd, that the guards
men mistaking Infantrymen, who had
been called out, Vor rioters, fired a
volley into their\ ranks, seriously
wounding three of -the soldiers.
Sunday night was tone of terror for
Lisbon, which seenieu. suddenly aflame
with eeethng revolt. Blands of man raD
wildly through the streets, brandish
ing weapons, while ttye sharp crack
of rifles was heard Hi various sec
tions of the city. Thousands of the
most prominent citizens! fled to their
homes just as they did on the night
after the assassination CAf King Carlos
and the crown prince.
ROOSEVELT AFTER ANARCHISTS.
Senate Passes Amiy Bill.
The army bill, carrying an app
prlation of almost $100 t .000,000, w
passed by the senate Monday prac
eally as reported from th\e commit'
on military affairs. '
TILLMAN ENTERS SANITARIUM
South Carolina Senator Unc^er Privs
Treatment in Atlantia.
Senator Ben R. Tillman j of Sou
Carolina is taking a course^ of (re:
( ment in the Robertson Sanitarium, 1
Capitc] avenue, Atlanta, fori nervo
breakdown. 1
The distinguished senator iF ace®
panied by hi s wife. He will ipe at t
Robertson Sanitarium severali weel
and if sufficiently recovered iju heal
before the spring is over will abro;
In Brief Message to Congress He
Urges Their Suppression.
In one of the shortest messages
which he has .vet transmitted to con
gress, President Roosevelt Thursday
called the attention of that body to
the necessity for further legislation
on the subject of anarchy. With the
message he transmitted is a report re
viewing the legal phases of the ques
tion by Attorney General Bonaparte.
ith his wife.
FULLER AND PRITCH/
RD.
To Act Together in Hearing Sdjuth Car
olina Dispensary Case.
A Washington dispatch states }lia
it is understood that Chief Jus/tice
ler has consented to sit wijrh
Pritchard In hearing the appli , (' ll '’ i0 " 1 "
a writ of supersedeas, which,\ if K ,ailt
ed, would stay Judge PritchartS’s 01(1(1
for the appointment of a receiver in 1110
South Carolina dispensary cases.