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VALDOSTA, GA, SATURDAY*, DECEMBER 15, 1906. DEGRADING CRIME TWO-CENT RATE FOR ALL R0A03 Proposed in Bill of Judge Adamson, I of Qeorgls. I ll 0 1II1IIII111 I Jnd * e W. C. Adamson has lntroduc- N SAI/ANNhH • ■*?. 10 M he ? 0U8e ° b i" P roYldl J >B ‘ h * t Savannah. Dec. IS—Thors Is much Is true that nothing was found In his II unlrtlllfnil —nw—nhw 1— — *... W «• I a flat passenger rate of 2 cents per In the superior court of W. H. Pow« cars an^t alsotA.t It has never been llonrn Ufnmsn Pnnuintari nl Pariini mBe on thelr ,lnes - * former sergeant of the Ocean Shows] -W anything except flcyiu ilUillull UUIIsllilull 111 idlllul" The bill was Introduced to take the steamship Company police force, and ' a pair*of gloves in his'locker which ; place of the Sherman measure, which other members of the force on a had been etoleni He says these were j proposed Interchangeable mileage charge of stealing from the company, j given him. Several witnesses were books on railroads at a 2-cent rate. Tide Is the first time a Jury has been . Introduced during the hearing to tee- The representatives of the railroads called to pass upon these cases. Three jtlfy to the gopd character of Powell. There are Other Cases of a 8lmllar'were given a hearing this morning men have plead guilty and have lm-,HI» brother, wbo Is a resident of Co. 9iiture to be Heard and 8siveral An and succeeded In having The consld- plicated those who are to be tried jlumbus Is here to attend the trial. eratlon of the bill postponed by the this week. Solicitor General Osborne conduct- rests Have Already Been Made committee until Jan. 8. Judge Adam- The case against former 8ergeant;ed the prosecution In the case of Daughters of Mrs. Mary E. Hutson son opposed the delay and Introduced w. H. Powell was the first called. It Powell today. Mr. A. P. Adams de- . . o.u. . _ ... .In the house a new measure calling will require about four hours to try fended him. A verdict Is expected this are Bride, at a Double Wedding- ^ ^ pM8eDW , r ntt of , centI |t PoweM aMert , hl , | nnoeenee . | t „t e rnoon. '*■ Other 8avannah News. !on all Interstate roads. Ocean Steamship Policemen are on Trial for Stealing from Company. WHAT NEW8PAPER8 ARE FOR. patlon in an Operation. Savannah, Dec. 13—The first con* 1 He argues that since the railroads will now be able to conduct their vlctlon was secured yesterday after- operatIons on strict business lines noon late In the superior court In and will be prevented after Jan. 1, one of the most degrading and sen* from carrying any deadhead passen- sational cases Savannah has had in £ ers * ^ey can affor< * to make the pub- a long time [lie a flat rate 2 cent8 tor passen ger traffic. Rosa Kennedy, a colored woman, t 'as convicted of participating In a riminal operation upon Miss Alico The Age of the Automobile. It Is announced by one of the bn* Olrasley which resulted In the death [ I ‘ cails the department of agricul ture that the average automobile of the latter after a day’s illness - , brought on by the operation. Much ast , s tw0 /°. ar8 ' Th '» an ”' mnce ” e " t Importance attaches to the conviction > sa f tbe Ne „ w , Tork of this woman because of those who Pro8s ‘ “«“es thousands of men M. to be tried later In the same con- to kn ° w . Ju8t ha * 80 ™, th ^ w , 1 " baTe ntctlon Ito quit foo,ln S w >th their benzine bug- George Tholken. a groceryman. It i. ^ 8 and 8eUle d ° wn to bard w " k t0 said, was Intimate with Miss Olm- pay off mortffaKe on ^ ouso sleykand it Is alleged he arranged fajJPje operation. Lizzie Pinner, a “^nd*of the deceased, went with her Savannah's Mayor Wants Silver Service for Battleship Georgia. Savannah, Dec. 13—Hon. Shelby, srnor will discuss the best plan for Myrick, recorder of the city of 8a- having them do this. Committees will vannah, Is In Atlanta today with a probably be appointed In every city special commission from the Mayor and town In Geoi of 8av?nnah authorizing him to taka that they go to up with Governor Terrell the question Ing the cash foi of the people of the state raising a la believed If thl sum cf sufficient size to purchase a money can be qul silver service for the battleship Qeor-| What la dona la with the request rk toward secur- ;his movement. It is dons that the ly raised. ^ _ it be done In a Press,^as it enables thousands ofmen'fl*« when «he !• P«t •" commission at'very short time a#It will not be long Savannah. J before the Qtorglfljls to come south The mayor thinks that the people to be put Into eotnmlesion. It is ex* of the state should contribute to this pected to make the event one, of great fund and Judge Myrick and the gov* moment In Savannah. I which they placed there to buy the machine the house of the woman who per- Dixon an old negro man was to be the operation and she is un* tried for lunacy. When ho was Indictment also. Lizzie McCon- brought before the lunacy Jury ho had colored, was an accomplice of a Queer look. It was seen by the doc* Kennedy woman and accused her tor present that ho was dying. In r ig the child. x thirty minutes the old ntyi nipt dead at ha* been added to the case and the lunacy charge which was ■Ithte conviction of one of the ne* found to be true was useless/ ssor. Dr. W. P. Brunner, city Mre. Clifton Out on Bond. Igi.officer, assisted Solicitor Gen* iMrs. J. R. Clifton, who recently shot her husband, a street car con ductor, because he stayed too long at an oyster roast, has been released on bond. She is cler.klng in a Broughton street store. Clifton is out of the hospital. Mrs. Clif'on (has dsborne in preparing the case IQ& presentation to the Jury and was prfaent during the trial. A Double Wedding Last Night ■„^A» unusual social event was the Jsjble wedding last night of Miss rv.na R. Hutson to Mr. George T. Wroten, of Kentucky, and Miss Irene — Clerk Accused of Stealing Purse cfpal contents was an old’ fashioned gold necklace which had/bcon In Mrs. Savannah, Dec. 13—W. J. Harris, Jr, a young man who- hae been employ ed as a clerk In the dry goode store of Daniel Hogan, was this morning turned over to the superior court- by the recorder to answer the charger of larceny^ He etole the handball of Mrs. N. J. Needham when the lady was In the store shopping. The bag contained some money, but Its prln- Needham’s family-for dred years and over a hun- ih aha had down town to bo oepaljAyHarrls confessed the thSft, even titfhfi to g« » reward for returning ths chain. As ho la but seventeen years of age, he will prob ably go to ths reformatory If convict ed. Fighting Cops Given a Hearing. Estimate of the Press as Given by Some Great Men, A correspondent requests that we print some of tho striking things great men, hare said about newspaper— that Is, sayings that embody the pur pose and doings of the prose. With pleasure. Bryant said: ‘‘The press Is good or evil according to the character of those who direct It. It la a mill that grinds all that Is put In Its hop per. Fill the hopper with poisoned grain and It will grind It to moal, but there Is death In the bread." James Parton said: "Tho newspaper pross is the pooplo'g university. Half the renders In Christendom read little else." Jefferson said: ‘‘The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object Bhould he to keep thai right, and wore It loft for me to dccltfo whether we should have a government without newspa pers or newspapers without a govern ment. I should not hesitate a momont to prefer the latter." Cardinal Gibbons recently said: ‘The dread of exposure In tho public press keeps many a man sticking close to tho path of rectitude who other wise would stray off Into the byways of graft." APPOINTED TO APPLY TORCH. FOUR NEGROES ARE The Were Charged With Morder of Their Trial Lasted a Week and Ver dicts of not Guilty Resulted—Alleg ed Murder was Gommltted During Atlanta Riots—An Incident With out Precedent Occurred During the Trial. Atlanta, Dec. 13—Four negroes, tried for tho murder of County Po liceman James Heard during the At lanta riots, were acquitted yesterday alter a trial lasting a week. Tho ev Ideuce showed that the negroes who flrod upon tho police squad from ths woods at Brownsville were not or- gunlzed (or a mob, but fetuming from a secret ordor meeting, and that they thought tho police squad was a mob of rioters. The foreman of the Jnry stated that hp and other Jurymen were shocked at disclosures of tho conduct of the county police during tho rlota. An Incident without precedont In Negro Confesses That 8ecret Organi zation Planned to Burn. Newberry, S. C., Dec. 13—That;. ... . AV „ the aogroe. In some sections of Now- i th « h »*° ry ,°‘ 11,0 c0 “ rt »" berry county ero organized for ^ »f thfe Jury on the rfay prerlou. purpose of "burning out” thelr white to the vordlct and but neighbor, there can be no doubt. If | the evklunce had b «" ««bmHted. The the confession of 1-owls Burton, now were permitted to separate In the county Jail charged with arson. “ a<1 *°“* ‘<* e,r bome ' wl,houl « can be believed ! In ' t0 " d ol holn « k °l* undcr ,be "»■»- Burton was arrested on the charge , Thl " wa » ‘» ken l M * bl * b com «" hn “* of Urine the barn cnA stqbls. of P. t*^personnel of tho Jury, bnt ha. Nf Boozer,'&n this «ptv. Ratuwtav IpM* C *f“ 1 morning. Soon after nl^apturn 1 *It , * nt ’* Savannah, Dec. 13—Policeman Co hen and Policemen 8cully, who had a not been Indicted. It is said that if tho Afllit on 8cully f a beat early on 8unday case against her Is over tried that N.-Hutson to Mr. George T. Pate, of i there may be some unusual and un- Bljtowell. S. C. The young ladles are tha daughters of Mrs. Mary E. Hut- act and tho marriage occurred at her riddance on Barnard street. Rev. F-fcndf Alan Brown, of Christ Epis copal church performed the ceremony which united the two couples. After ti e ceremony the quartette left for Barnwell' where they are to be enter* tallied by Mr. Pate’s parents Mr. and Mrp. J. M. Pate. They will then go north togeth*-. Both couples will 11 • in Savannah, the grooms having T*<5ent1y moved here. Died While on Trial. morning were given a hearing before the mayor yesterday afternoon. The mayor fined 8cully $20 and Cohen $10. 8avannah coppers are getting to be regular scrappers. They fight when opportunity presents itself and if It doesn't present itself they make It do so. The mayor issued orders call ing for the abolition of the fisticuff habit among the blue coats. A White Carpenter’s Crime. expected domestic disclosures that will excite a great deal of interest not only in Savannah, but in several Bmall towns along the line of tho Ce "President'’of Medical Society. Atl,nt, ‘ Dec ‘ 13 ~ A ‘ M ‘ 0,bum ’ •| 0,d 0 lr| . who,e b ' aut >' '• mor ' than Dr. T. P. Waring was elected Pres-- white carpenter, wae found guilty u,u,My • ,rlkln B- H - w *» eentenced Went of the Chatham County Medical I.., attemDled „, m|na| a .Jl° u " ye,r * ,he penltenll *7‘ society last night at tho annual meet-1 y "!* * y „! . “ “"T er ' mlnal «*-1 Th » teetlmony In the c... we. p.rtle- Ing of tho society. la said ho made a full confession In which he implicated several other ne groes, two of whom, Ernest Burton and Levi Ebaugb, havo been lodged In Jail. In his confession Burton stated that he had no cause for malice against Mr. Boozer, but the crime was committed because ho and sev eral others had been appointed by tho organization to do tho work. Ho alleges that the burning was planned at a meeting of the organization held last Wednesday •suit on little Lena Cox, a seven year ulariy revolting. President of the Butchers. John F. May was re-elected presi dent of the Savannah Retail Butchers Association last night. He has held the position for a year. The butchers running out of Atlanta will change Its Icisma of the press on the delays to There was a remarkable trial at the j are preparing for thelr annual ban- . timetable to make a longer schedule jail trains Is believes to be responsible Jail on Tuesday afternoon. Dorsey'quet early In January. '.and thus permit traine to adhere more \ for the change. Roads to Change Time Tables. Atlanta, Dec. 13—Nearly every road 'closely to announced time. The critl- Mad Dog 8caree People. Cpchran, On., Dec. 13—Great ex citement was caused by tho appear ance of a mad dog on the st roots of Cochran Saturday. The dog was seen to attack and bite several other dogs on tho principal street, but no steps were taken to kill it for several hours, no one being sure that It was affected with rabies. Ono dog is the country bitten by this one, is al ready dead of hydrophobia. Carnegie seems to Impress Ameri cans a» a good Scotchman, and Scotch men as a good American. Dry Goods Company Falla. Tho Reid Dry Goods Company, on Peters street, a large retail firm, went into tho handB of a receiver yester day, following a petition In the bank ruptcy court filed by several creditors. Tho business continues under the re ceiver and it is said that a compro mise will bo affected. No echodule of assets and liabilities was filed. Miss Booth to the Convicts. Maud Balllngtan Booth the noted Salvation army worker, will sneak to the convict* of the federal prison in Atlanta next Sunday. Special prep arations are boing made for iM1b& Booth’s talk to the prisoners. Case Goes to Federal Court. Thu cases against the Atlaqta-Bir- mingtnim Insurance Company and the Prudential Flro Insurance Company, have been transferred to the federal courts. Tho cases are consolidated and John M. Slaton has been appoint ed receiver. Russian revolutionist* declare that tho next douma will be radical. If that is tho case, It might a* well Bavo carfare. This is the St ore That Solicits and Appreciates Ladies’ Patronage. BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY GOODS. S USEFUL CHRISTMAS GIFTS. = -THE HARLEY’S SUGGESTIONS t We Carry a Magnificent Line-Come and See Us—A Cordial Welcome. ipe China Dinner Sets. [folr Stoves. Carving Sets. Cut Glass. Rogers Knives and Forks. \ Complete Set of Tools in Chest. Pearl Handle Pocket Knives. Scissors and Shears. Gillett’s Safety Razors Shaving Mugs. Razors and Straps. Rochester Chafing and Serving;Dishes. Improved Cooking Utensels. Steel Enameled Turkey Roasters. 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