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VALDOSTA, GA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1908.
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Ralber Striking Coudltion
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 29—Rather a re
markable condition of affairs was re
vealed to Chairman S. G. McLendon
and Commissioner O. B. Stevens
when they made a special trip over
the Atlanta and West Point railroad
In President Wickersham’s private
car. Instead of complaints and kicks
on every side the commission was
astounded to find only the highest
praise for the road, its management,
and the service. One delegation of
citizens went so far as to say that
the road ought to be allowed to
charge three cents passenger fare,
instead of the two cents now charg
ed. The commission noted that the
road seemed to be doing little freight
traffic, going far to establish the
contention of railroad men that
freight traffic was very much off.
At the Invitation of Chairman Mc
Lendon several railroad men made
the trip. For all the invited guests
the chairman presented the conduc
tor with regular ticket*. This la the
first of many such trips the railroad
commission will make over the state.
Woman Physician Arrested.
A local sensation was created here
yesterday when a warrant was sworn
out for Mrs. Dr. Rosa Monnish, a
woman physician on Peachtree
street. The warrant charged a mis
demeanor, but for years there has
been suspicion that Mrs. Monnish
was guilty of performing criminal
operation*.
from all over the South will attend
this meeting, which is fraught with
a great deal of importance to Geor
gia and the South.
Hingwal Fung, a Chinaman with
on American education and a special
ist In agriculture, called on Commis
sioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson
yesterday to gain some general in
formation about cotton growing for
the Chinese government. He ii
graduate of Cornell and is making
special investigation of farming mat
ters tor his government From here
h> went to the state experiment farm
near Griffin.
A NEW NAVAL FORCE.
a prominent banker of Alabama,
who had been compelled to pay the
woman a large sum of money. Mrs.
Monnish was released on a $1,000
bond for appearance before a justice
of the peace on November 3. When
Mrs. Monnish first built her place
on the lending residence street of
the city there was strenuous objec
tion, and the matter was carried in
to the courts. The woman won, how
ever, hnd her private hospital, about
which so much suspicion attaches,
has been in operation on Peachtree
for years. The outcome of the case
will be watched iflfith interest.
Fainted While Hearing Son’* Trial.
While Charles Hamilton, a white
man, was on trial for burglary In
Fulton superior court, his mother,
who was listening to the evidence,
fainted under stress of feeling. Ham
ilton was Jointly indicted with D
Buchanan, John Dorsey, Ezra Brown
and Joe Williams for burglarising a
large clothing house here and taking
more than $500 worth of stuff. Brown
and Williams were never apprehend
ed.
The Good Roads Congress.
Governor Hoke Smith will open
and preside at the good roads cong
ress or convention to be hold here
December 2 and 3. He will also sign
a general call for tbe conference. It
is expected that prominent people
The Navy Department to Organize
the Firemen and 8tokers.
Washington, D. C., Oct 28.—Offfc-
lals of the Navy Department are draw
ing up plans with the idea of or
ganizing a naval reserve force of
firemen and coal stokers. It is thought
that Congress will be asked at the
next session to authorize such a body
of men, to be stationed In various
parts of the country, and who can be
drawn upon in time of war. The need
of such a force lies In the fact that,
as new ships are being placed In com
mission under trained officers and
seamen, it is necessary^jo employ un
trained stokers and sometimes
trained firemen, from shore duty,
Much depends in battle npon tbe
stoking, fifing and steaming of en
gines and V. Y *s for effective action,
and it is regarded as Important thit
such a body of men be organized and
trained.
INSCRIPIION FOR IHER SHOOIS
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[Re Daoofiters of Confederacy He- Alfred
olds Upon tbo Hfirz Memorial.
Is Probably Fatally
coded by His Mar Baba.
DEATH OF AGED LADY.
NEQRO KILLED WOMAN.
Lady Near Savannah was 8ho<; Dead
by an Angry Negro Boy.
Savannah, Oct. 29—Solomon Riley,
the negro boy who killed Mrs. W. E.
cause she accused him unjustly of
having stolen four dollars. He says
every time she saw him she taunted
him about the theft and he could not
stand It longer. He got his brother*!
gun and going to the house shot her
in the back as she was making prep
arations to make a mattress.
The boy says he Is very sorry for
what he has done but that he couldn’t
help it. He will probably not
tried for murder or at least will not
be punished as an adult as he is
only 12 years of age.
Savannah, Ga., Oct 29.—The great
secret of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy in Georgia is out at law.
The inscription for the Wirs monu
ment which is to be erected probably
at Andersonville, baa been given to
the public. It waa not done tri 1
a lively time In the convention how-,
ever. The Inscription as agreed uport'
and which has already been cut In
the monument now being finished at
Americus is as follows:
"One Front—In memory of Capt.
Henry Wirz, C. S. A., born Zurich,!
Switzerland, 1822. Sentenced to death
and executed at Washington, D. C.»j
November 15, 1865. •
"To rescue his name from the atlg-j
ma attached to it by embitter®^ prejt
udice, this shaft is erected by the.
Georgia division, United Daughters of
the Confederacy. % *'~4a5B
"On Second Side—Discharging 1
duty with such humanity as the harsh B
circumstances of the times, and;
policy of the foe permitted, Capl
Wirs became at last the victim off!
misdirected popular clamor.
"He was arrested in time of peace,
while under.the protection of & pa
role, tried by a military commission
of a service to which he did not be
long and condemned to ignominious
death on charges of excessive cruelty
to Federal prisoners.; He indignantly
ioIs County Young Men Have
Peadly Fight, and One of Them
• PI«tol Ball Through His
i Jaw-—HI* Wounds are Considered
of a Very Grave Character.
spurned *,
TRADE IN BAD SHAPE.
London, Oct. 28.—The whole of the
northwest coast of England's trade
In iron ore mining,# iron smelting and
iron and steel working interests is in
a very unsatisfactory state, owing to
the exhaustion of certain mines that
for many years afforded abundant
supplies of an ore suitable for Besse
mer Steel and Prime Foundry pig
iron. Recent borings made for the
purpose of finding deposits of iron
yielded nothing indicative of that
ore.
Eighteen iron mines in that sec
tion are exhibiting decreasing out
puts. A number of iron and steel
working plants thereabouts are mak
ing provisions to operate with ore
brought from North Africa.
>ffered on con-
h** would incriminate,
Idrnt TuwIb . , Z * vs ex-tner.*;,
r nm .-b Vos of which hoVf
were innoceh
'Third Side—It is hard on our mdh
held In Southern prisons not to ex
change them, but It is humanity of
those left in the ranks to fight our
battles. At this particular time to re
lease all rebel prisoners North, would
ensure Sherman’s defeat and would
compromise our safety here.
"ULYSSES S. GRANT.
^‘August 18, 1864.”
“Fourth Side—When time shall
have softened passion and prejudice,
when reason shall have stripped the
mask from misrepresentation,
justice holding evenly her
will require much of past censl
and praise to change places.
"JEFFERSON DAVIS,
• "December, 1888.’
The Daughters had a great debate
over the question of whether to make
the inscription public but finally
those who wished to take the public
Into their confidence won out.
Today the session of the conven
tion is being held at Thunderbolt.
The Casino la the headquarters. It
has been practical^ decided to hold
the next convention at West, Point,
Ga.
f Port reached the city late yester
day that a serious difficulty had oc
curred Wednesday afternoon in Ech
ols county near (Melrose between
jjDoe of the Boone brothers, in which
Altord Boone was seriously if not fa
tally shot by his brother, Babe Boone.
^Skccording to the report, the trou
ble arose at the Boone home, the
first: part of It being between Arthur
tooone and his brother Babe, about
Babe, in some manner mistreating
their little sister, by probably strik
ing her. Arthur and Babe had a per
sonal encounter, in which neither one
I to have been hurt much. Pret-
lickly Alfred came upon the
and he and Babe had alight,
len they had finished fighting,
Babe went into tbe house and seeing
Alfred’s pistol lying*on a shelf, got
It and walked to the door. Alfred
who was in the yard near the door,
saw Babe with the pistol, and know
ing his intention, started at first to
H but the sedtmd thought struck
hfm that running would be the more
datfeerous, so he turned and tried ’.o
catch hisv brother and- hold him, but
Just before lie reached him Bttl?e,
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•Mrs. Martha Sloan Passed Away at
MAIItown on 8unday.
On last Sunday morning at eleven
o’clock the death angel vtaited Mill-
town and called from earth one of
our oldest and best loved citizens,
Mrs. Martha S. Sloan.
Mrs. Sloan waa 74 yeare of age and
her death is mourned by five daugh
ters, Mrs. L. L. Knight, of Milltown;
Mr*. J. D. Ray, of Waycross; Mrs.
Frank Williams, of .Milltown; Mrs.
R. T. Berryhill, of MllRown, -and
Mrs. M. E. Johnson, of Milltown, and
two eons, Mt. J. F. Sloan, of Lake
land, Fla., and Dr. W. D. Sloan, of
Milltown, twenty-five grand-children
and three great-grand-chlldren.
For the past two years Mrs. Sloan’s
health has been very bad and her
death, while a great shock to her
relatives and friends, was expected
at any time. Her remains were laid
to rest in the Beaver Dam cemetery.
Rev. Mr. Todd, pastor of the Baptist
church, preached her funeral.
Since she was a girl Mrs. Sloan
had been a true, consistent member
of the Baptist church. Indeed her
life has been an exemplary one.
THEY GO N6K TB
US! VOTES.,
Leaving Tbal flljj.
C. B. WILLINGHAM IS DEAD.
Senator Depew is to make repub
lican speeches in Virginia as if the
state were not already safely dem
ocratic.
ng Alfred's facp at the lower part
of’the left nostril, shattering the up
per Jaw bone, and tearing out all the
upper teeth on the left side except
one or two.
As soon as the shot was fired, Ar
thur Boone and Mr . John Swilley,
who "was there at the time, caught
hold of Babe and threw him down
and tied him with a rope.
Alfred did not fall when he was
shot, but stood up for some thirty
minutes before lying down.
Dr. Johnson, of Statenville, was
sent for, who went and dressed the
wound. He inteneded probing
tbe bullet yesterday, but It had nqt
been learned as to whether o^ hot he
was successful in finding it.
The report says that Babe did not
attempt to leave after be was un
tied. and that while a watch was be
ing kept over him, he had not been
arrested up to yesterday morning.
Alfred Boone is about 20 years of
age, and Babe is two years younger.
They are both unmarried.
Both their parents are living and
were about the premises that day,
but neither of them saw the trouble
between their sons.
The affair has created considerable
excltment in that community.
Was One of the Leading Cotton Fac
tors of the 8outh.
Macon, Ga., Oct. 28—C. B. Willing-
ham, one of the leading cotton fac
tors of this section and known
throughout the South, died here
Monday night. He was a brother of
Dr. R. J. Willingham, corresponding
secretary of the Foreign Mission
Board of the Southern Baptist Com
mittee of-Richmond, VA. Ho was
born in Anderson, 8. C., and woi
graduated from the University ot
Virginia in 1873. He married Mist
Washington, D, C„ Oct.29.—The
general exodus of voter* from the
District of Ootumhia has begun. The
reduced railway rates offered thin
year are the beat ever given by the
railways. Heretofore it waa possible
to get rates to points only in the
middle atatej, and a few of the Bast,
ern states. This yoar the voters may
buy a ticket from Canada to Mexico,
and as far West as Denver. The re
duced rate this year makos It possi
ble for the resident of the District
of Columbia to go home to vote at
a cost of only one and a half cents
a mile, when In IV1 the rate waa
three cents a mile.
The outgoing trains the remainder
of the week will carry several thou
sand voters tn addition to those who
have already left the city; Many
clerks use their annua] leave of ab
sence for this purpoae, and it t» dlffl-
cult to estimate the exact number of
voters who will have gone borne by
Tuesday. Henry M. i Camp, vke has
been Intrusted by the Republican cam
pal (TO committee with the tat* ot
getting out the Republican residents
estimates that there are 20,000 Re
publican voters in Washington , and
that each of (these influences two or
Mu home state.
St prinMrt and the
Charged With Peonage.
Messrs. Melvin Ward and Charlie
Warren, two young men from De
catur county, were brought to the
city yesterday by Deputy United
States Marshal Sutton, on a charge
of peonago.
Arthur Goolsby, a young negro, al
leged that McBurB. Ward and Warren
had held him In a state of peonage
for four of five mnnthB, forcing him
to work for them at their ahlnglo
mill In Docattir county. He claimed
that they had arreeted him on a fnko
warrant of some kind, tolling him
that he would have to go to work for
thorn or go to the chalngang.
This Ib the negro'B story. The white
man's side of the case Is not known,
us their hearing was postponed urn
til the r>th of November. United
States Commissioner Roy Powell
bound them over temporarily under
a bond of |1.BOO each, for tholr ap
pearance, on the latter date.
Mr. A. Pope, traffic manager of the
Georgia and Florida road, la spend
ing today In tbe city.
Savannah Democrats to Rally.
Savannah. Oct. 29—The Democrats
of 8avannah are going to have an
other big rally on Monday night at'
the Savannah Theater. A1 Herring
ton and Joe Hill Hall will be the
principal speakers of the occasion.
It Is proposed to get out as big a
vote for Bryan and Kern on Tuesday
as can be secured.
meht usually dxerfiBtSS
of going home to vote to t greater
extent that the workers In the other
branches of the government service.
It la estimated that fully CO per cent
of the employes In these two depart
ments this year will go home to vote.
Already several hundred of them
have left the city, and It Is said that
twice ns many more will go within
the next three days. The Interior
Department, Department of Agricul
ture and other departments also are
represented In the general exodus
whloh began today. Those living
In the nearby states will not leave
until Sunday or Monday. The situa
tion as It la sized up by the campaign
managers Is evidenced by tbe. fact
that both parties are exerting every
effort to Induce the employee who
hall from Ohio, Indiana, New Tork,
Connecticut and Nebraska t&so home
to vote.
Only a "corporal's guard" will bo
left at the Capitol building, where
the employes, who are strictly,, poll-
tloal appointees outside ot civil ser
vice rules, are all energetic campaign
workers In their home states. ATI of
the employes and clerks at the fWhfto
House who desire to go home to vote
were paid off today. ,
Tho new Amberol Phonograph
Records now on sale at Mathis ft
Coleman’s. 10-29 S2t wit
At Cost For Cash Until December 1st,
CANE MILLS,
Sugar Kettles, Skimmers, Dippers and Everything needed in this line
3 Roller No. 11 Chattanooga Mills were $27.50 now $18.35
3 “ “ 12 " " “ 30.00 “ 24 70
3 “ “ 13 “ " “ 48.00 “ 37*95
2 “ Kehoe Cane Mills were - 25.00 " 21.45
These are the highest grade, best mills on the mark
et. We are going to discontinue the sale of cane
mills as we want the money in lines that are saleable
every day.
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