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Urillnwy’i Offloe la min eg. TWICE-A-WEEK VALDOSTA, GA., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1905. POSTAL’S FIGHT IN NORMAN INSTITUTE HAS A HEAVY LOSS BY FIRE Ward Fought Struggle to Keep Postal Telegraph Company out of the Land of Flowers Comes to Naught—The Atlantic Coast Line its Chief Oppo nent In the Fight. For some months the Postal Tele graph Cable Company has been trying ■Eb feet a network of wires throughout Florida. The Western Union tike had practically a monopoly of the business for many years. It has contracts with the railroads, over whose lines it runs its wires and in return for telegraphic service tho railroads distribute mate rial for the keeping up of the wires /of the company. When the Postal attempted to enter the Florida field the railroads ,in ac cordance with their contracts with the Western Union refused to give it the same advantages in service that they gave the Western Union. The first difficulty which the Postal met was in getting a right of way along ‘the tracks of the railroads for the placing of poles. This difficulty was overcome by an act of tho last legislature, which gives tho company the right to con demn rights of way, and thie was done*; •soon as the comp Any was to begin. aliiyiiifcUto of One of the Dormitories for Boye was Destroyed Yesterday Morning by Firs, Involving s Loss of $7,500. Th© Moultrie Observer gives the fol* lowing account of a diastrous fire at Norman Park yesterday. "Killls Horne Ball, the dormitory for boys at Norman institute was de stroyed by fire this morning between seven and eight o’clock. The loss is heavy. It will reach $7,500 at least, and there was insurance for only two thousand dollars. The fire originated in the roof of the large wood struc ture, from whnt cause Is not known Tho blaze soon passed beyond the stage where it could be hoped to extin guish it and the boys set to work carrying out r the furnishing. Very lit* tie could be saved, as the flames soon covered the entire building. "This is the first loss by'fire the In stitute has ever had and it is a se vere one. It left a large number of boys out of a bpard place for a time, but the good people of Norman Park! came to their rescue and took them to their homes until the building can be rebuilt. Good homes have already been provided for every boy. "The Observer received a telephone message from Norman Park this Af ternoon which stated that a large brick dormitory would replace tho burned one and that it would go up in the shortest time possible. Friends of the school of coarse feel the heavy loss, hnt they are by no means discour aged. The* students held a meeting in the auditorium at noon making a great demonstration of leyalty and in in spiring speeches pledged their "unfal tering support to the school.” THE VALDOSTA EX- PRESSJRAIN To fie Operated Again Between The New Train Will be. Put on Next Sunday and will Greatly Improve the Already Excellent Service <on the Georgia, Southern and FlorWa Road. .X3SAULT W*| and wires were offered for.transporta-j P tion to the/Atlantic Coast Line. The|jThorm>8 County Official* Will tnvesti- rallroad company replied that, while-' gate the Case, it would haul:the poles, wires and oth*‘; Thcmasville, Ga., Nov. 17—The ofll er materials from one station to an-^<*ers were informed this afternoon of other when they were effered for j criminal assault upon a 12-year-old transportation, it declined to furnish j daughter of Hark Hadley, colored/ a train to distribute them along the - Hadley lives on the place of James tracks as it had done for the Western Matthews at a turpentine still, nine I Union. miles west of Thoiiinsvllle. When ho On complaint of the Postal Compa- jeame home at noon he found his ny against the Coast Line the matter j daughter in an exited condition. She came up recently for a hearing before declared that she was assaulted at the Railroad Commissioners of Flor-110:30'o’clock by a strange white man wearing a beard It is supposed that he was a tramp passing through the community or a resident In disguise. The family are hard working ne groes. Their employer believes the story end is aiding in tho pureult. Sheriff Hight was asked to go With his doge, but is out of. town <on official business. Ida. The Postal charged the railroad with discrimination in performing a service for tbe Western Union that It would not perform for the Postal and petitioned the commissioners to order the discrimination of material to be stopped and to prescribe a-reasonable rate for the performance of the serv ice by the railroad company. .The commissioners have rendered a decision In accordance with the re quest of the Postal Company. •The Georgia Southern and Florida railroad has announced that tho Val dosta Express, which gave ouch excel lent passenger service on -that road several years ago is to bo 'established again, the new train being put on next Sunday, The following is the official notic/i in regard to the new service: "Effective with Sunday, November 19th, 1905, the Georgia Southern and Florida railway, will put on an addi tional train between Macon and Val dosta. "This train wil be known as the Valdosta Express and will be schedul ed to leave union depot, Macon at 6:45 a. m., arriving at Cordole 9:30 a. m.; Tifton 11:10 a. m. and Valdosta 12:518 noon. Returning, the train will leave Valdosta at 4 p. m. arriving at Tifton at 5:43 p. m.; Cordeks at 7:15 p. m and at Macon 9:35 p. m. All local stops will be made ’ between Macon and Valdosta, and until other arrange* ments are made tho train will he opai* ated to accommodate both the passen ger and freight service , The proposed schedules of the Val dosta Express will enable passengers Jit 1ck4> Maeon spemRigootl pori town on the G. S. & V. between Macon and Valdosta and return home at'9:T5; at night. Its facilities for handling, with dlspatdh all freight shipments destined to Florida are unequaled. "A few years ago the Valdosta Ex press was first placed in service but It was afterwards decided to dlscontin* ue the operation of same until a later, date. The .marveloim developmeirt of. SEN. BACON’S DAUGHTER DECORATED BY SULTAN. Tfce Ruler of Turkey Wanted to Pile Hit Honors Upon the 8enator, but he Declined the Honor and It Went to Hia Daughter. Washington. D. 0., Nov. 17.—The saltan of Turkey has conferred a de coration on Mrs. Willis S. Parks, daughter of Senator Bacon, of Georgia. Senator Bacon passed through Wash ington several days ago on his way from New York to his home, in Macon, Ga, after an extensive tour of foreign coun tries, daring which he visited Constant inople and received from the sultan tho decoration of Mrs. Parks. Tho ordor of which the waajor’s daughter is made a member is said to bo the samo as that with which Robert Goelet. of New York, wqp doporated a year or two ago by the ruler o^tTnrkey. Seuator Bacon made a visit in Const antinople this summer as tho guest of Minister Leislxnan at the American legation. Dnriug his stay he was invit ed to tbo palace for an audience with tlie saltan. Conversation between the American legislator and his rugal host was carried on by means of an interpre ter. In the coarse of the interview tho sultan expressed hie desire to confer an honorable deporaticn on tha senator himself, hurt was informed that the United States government forbado its offtaals acooptiug tiecoratiom from for eign, government. Tho sultan then sug-j gested that the decoration ha conferred' on'the senator’s daughter, Mr. Baoou aeo opted fie honor-. la addition to the decoration, Sena tor Bacon received also from the saltan two handsome fclr.ua vases as gifts for Mrs. Bason and the senator’s other daughtac,Mn. J.Uaniey Gurry,of Macon. The decoration 5*5 in the form of a parch ment docnnmijtgmd was brought to this juA heavily seal A other. Thevx nfcrHfc of'tlie honor on -Mrs. -fjparksii* of particular' interest, owing MORE GLOOMY IN RUSSIAJODAY. The Strikers are Being Encouraged in Some Mysterious Way. The Workmen’* Council Returned a Scornful Reply to M. Witt’* Person- al Appel to "Brother Workmen”—A Panic Created on the Bourse by Rumoro of New Appointment. St. Petersburg, Russia, Nov. 17.— The outlook for an early collapse of the strike is more gloomy today and the situation distinctly more men acing in different portions of the empire. Workmen are encouraged by the extension of the strike in St. Petersburg. It is manifest that the workmens’ Council has received funds from a mysterious source, and in consequence they are con stantly presenting a bolder front. The Council returned a scornful reply to Witte’s personal appeal to brother workmen,” ridiculing tho government’s profession of solici tude for the workmen, and renew ing demand for the abolition of martial law in Poland. The imperial ukase on the land question, which was issued today wipes out forty millions of dollars of the peasant’s arrearages, but the promises of additional land are too vague to calm the starving peasants, who in the valleys of the Don and Volga, are again marching from place to place, plundering, pillaging and murdering. No confirmation INN0CENT[MAN IS KILLED„ to tlnv fact that Senator Bacon in a mem iborof tf. 10 foreign rcUtieuH committee of the agnate Tlie acceptance of Ikxjoth from foreign govemn ents by members of congress iH ^vigorously opposed by.many members of tlioAuruseaudfiOJiate. Senator Spoon South Georgia arid the natural" In" 'T 1* particularly umpludir in his obfec crease In passenger and freight traffic^ occasioned thereby bag made it de sirable to re'estatflitlh the service of this train, which will be of much con venience to the traveling public and of great benefit to all of Central and South Georgia."* They Fought and Ran. A negro named BTT1 Bradly and an-: other negro had a fight today in rear Officers from here will -/go, of Ham’s stable. The police got af- fco Investigate tomorrow. Subscribe tor The Daily Times. ter them and they 'Tan up stairs in the stable and Jumped from second story window, effecting their escape. • tion to the practice It was on account «of this seiitimeiiS that Mr. Bacon declin ed tin*invitation of the snltan to .join the honorable,and substituted his dough - (far* as the recipient of the honor. Reid JDnming. Home London, Nav. 17—As no question ie pending requiring the presence here of United States' Ambassador Reid he Sias decided to ^pend Christ mas holiday in . America, Heaving ear- fo’ In Deaemoer. Mrs. RHd and Mies It fid will accompany him . Subscribe for’The DalJy Times. MI ','V' II I Wi^ipoiwv. 1 w ■■ ^jeror Penza. A panic was created on the bourse 1 yesterday by the report that the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholvitch, had boon appointed military die- j tutor. The chancellor denied pos itively that any person had been' appointed dictatei and said it had! been decoded not to establish mar-' tial law to St. Petersburg. The first inceting'of the cubinet since the cre ation of the new ministry, was held , today, Uhe meeting having been called at (Count Witte’s suggestion.' Emperor Nicholas presided. I Attempt to Assassinate the Governor.* Riga, Roland, .Nov. 17.-—An un successful attempt was made to as sassinate if he Governor of Riga to day. Kalish, Poland, Nnv. 17.—Martial law is being rigidly enforced here and suspicious persons forced to leave the city. FOR ALLEGED DESPERADO W. E. Langford, 8ormerly sf Clinch County, was Shot by a Florida Sher iff In Pursuit of a Gang sf Law breakers. Tho following dispatch *rom Icillu Fla., gives tho particulars la regard to tho killing of W. E. Langford, for merly of Clinch county, brief mention of which has already appeared in Tin Times: The fatal wounding of W. E. Lang ford Saturday night was the result *»i a terrible mistake Some tough char acters from the turpentine camps had been in towfi on a spree, in the coui.se of which they flourished pistols frooi.. and terrorized several haclunen ami other peaceful people, appropriating one carriage whose driver went to. tue authorities with his complaint. "Shoiff Gordan, with Deputies Hui son and Weaver, started out to gutliei the turbulent parties In. When in tlie locality where tho disturbers had last been 3oen, they mot a carriage wlili throe occupants, whom they took io be tho men they were in search of They ordered them to stop. "On the other hand the driver of tic carriage, tho boy with him and tht passenger, who was Mr Langford, took the officers to be the toughs who had been terrorizing that part of town Tho driver and the boy Jumped from the carriage and ran and Langford put his hand in his hip pocket, thoug • unarmed, and told tho officers to con.i no nearer. At this, Deputy Sheriff Hutson fired. Tho ball struck Mi Langford In the abdomen. Ho d <t not know at first that he was bun Ho was taken to the hospital and gi en every attention possible. His wife employer, Mr. W, •tune’ up A****! Wf*ii w wood Immediately aud stayed widi him to tho end, which camo at 1 o”clock thin morning "Mr. Langford was from Clinch county, Georgia, and was about 3 years old. IIo leaves a wife and i 1-year-old son. He was very mu '» esteemed by Ills employer and neigh bors in Sumter county, where he ha < lived the last few years’’ His Father is a Fugitive. New York, Nov. 17—Frank B. Jor dan, son of tho former comptroller of tho Equitable, was first witness be fore the Insurance Investigating com mittee this morning. He declared ho did not know the whereabouts of his father, nor whether he Is alive. Joseph A. Purdy, assistant register of the Equitable, produced vouchers for legal expenses of company for last ten years. Other witnesses examin ed on same subject. 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