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VERDICT
AMYSTER
TO JUD(
F ret ™nBP^ 11 r -'
lar, aafflMRfris-
on Treatment ^as
Very Cruel.
Atlanta, Dec. 14^_y rc< j jPi,i Si a
burglar who baa J’ist finishing serv
ing a taro y*ar$» sentence In tha
Fulton county'state convict camp,
comes for>'ari with n story of the
extreme" brutality, of guards at
UWy Springs cants. He says that
thb guards get drunk, act like wild
men, and. sometimes have whole
squads of prisoners whipped at one
tie. He says.the whip consists of.
a long leather strap fastened oh a
big handle. The whole thing, he
says la about six feet long,, Is a lit
tle broader than a man’s hand, and
has 48 metal brads In If, He says
they beat the convicts with It
brutally, on tbttn naked backe.
He claims .W he was beaten
simply becausjflrhe.^ couldn’t lift a
heavy stone,^wlitoh subsequently
took two me/ to move.
Head of I^rge*Emanuel
County Family Dies
Sherwood Bill Adds Big
Sum to Pensions
He Says Their Methods
are Causing Unrest
FAMILY OF 188 DESCENDANTS
GATHERED ABOUT, GRAVES
WHERE THE TWO OLD PEO
PLE WERE BURIED.
E CHA.MIN6.9tt THE LAFOIj-
LKTTK 1111,1/ AND BAYS IT WILL
l’CT THn TRCBTB OUT OF BUS-
INESS.
FOUR hundred thousand
; VETERANS WOULD REAP
, IUCg GRABBINGS IF THE BILL
SHOULD BECOME A LAW,
Washington, Dec. 14.
Bwelneboro, Dec. 14.—Deith en
tered for the first time a family of
138 people ten days after the par
ents, children, grandchildren end
greatgrandchildren had assembled for
a reunion In the log house which
had sheltered Mr. end Mrs. John
Peebles for 88 years. The long de
ferred death blow waa a double one
and came
-Making the
direct charge that the methods of
the gigantic monopolies are causing
a spread ,ot dangerous unrest,''At
torney touls- Brandies today ap
peared before ..tho senate interstate
commerce committee, speaking in
favor of.the LaFollette bill design
ed to curb tho growth of the trust.
Most of the men creating tho
trust, said Attorney Braudels, are
Wall
' Washington, Dec. 14.—The Sher
wood service pension bill, wj&h
would add upward of 370.$t)«,fifi'0
to the government’s ensual expen
ditures by granting increased lien-
'-■ns to tlvlll end Mexican war vet
erans on th« bills of tenth of
service, was pasaei by the house de
spite the determined opposition of
many democratic (camera. Secretary
of the Interior Fisher bps. estimated
that the bill would add ?75a|M,000
to the pension /roll If the 400,000
veterans eligibly, take advantage of
io man and woman
who began the family more than 80
years ago. They were burled side
by side in the same grave, and the
family of more than ISO was assem
bled again following Its celebration
two week B before of the 81st birth
day ot John Peebles.
No more clpsely had the two been
associated in life than they were In
death. They died within twp Hours
of each other and from 'the same
disease. Both were more than so
ind It Is Wall
. money that .It tightening up
on these Americano.
Ho charged that the coondltlnns
in tho trust's Own mills and facto
ries are nut nearly so good as tho
’oilcans votep with the
Lmocratf against the
Klark voted with the
k party for tho bill
^Lleadcrs Underwood
New York, clialr-
Independent.Plante.
Ho; paid when the LaFollette bill
(111 be Impossible lo
is onlorce>\ it
form arijf mors I trusts.
Ho declared 1 that since tho. Steel
Trust gnlnofL ,control of the ratl-
mnkinR bur incss, -wrecks’ had' In
creased alar jUtfaly, -due to defective
rails. j fBa -..
Senate.
p to the senate
^ition to pass
■ service P en ’
However, will
Hons!deration
MUD IN ATLANTA!
oznt Wt.ets his, wife.
Atlanta,
city of At
Eurnpn'and Had
locrote voted for the measure in
belief that the senate would not
Sfgtnnah
from Kite, AnWi Ozholt, who
came to join Mis wife who had been
In Savannah for several days wait
ing for him 1 . Mrs. Ozbolt came
from Europe ! to meet her husband
who had co)me on ahead several
years ago. ‘She remained at the
Union station so lqng ehe attract
ed the attention of the authorities.
Her husband hae been,promising
to come for her for the past two or
three days, and the people with
whom Mrs. Osbolt has Ibeen living
had ' despaired of his getting
here at all when he put, In an ap
pearance.
He will return to Kite where he
Is employed and will take hi* wife
.with him. Mr*. Osbolt was over
joyed to see her husband and he
seemed, very glad to see her.
problem.
the mud thatH^
lecte on the etreels In rainy weath
er, but mud that the city manuCac-
turee out at the waterworks—the
mud that It collects from the Chat
tahoochee river water before It la
fit to drink. Up to this time the
city bye been dumping this mud Into
nearby lakes, but the Steel company
which gets holler water fpym the
lake, has entered a protest.
So much mud has settled st the
bottom of this lake that It will soon
bids fair to be all mud, says the steel
company officials.
Savannah Man 1,
Several Knife Wounds. 1 /
Savannah, Ga., Dec, 14.—Nathan
Lavln Is at his homo on Congress
street. West, dangorlously cut with a
knife. He has three or four stabs.
The peculiar thing about It la that
Nathan refuses to tell who cut him
or to go to s hospital. He went
home Tueedsy night sliced up end
bis esse was reported to the police
yesterday. The man, however, 're
fused to go to s hospital or to tell
how he was cut. The police are con
tinuing their Investigation •today.
Assoc4|tlon of Bridge ai
Iron Workerfi, whoso names afo
likely to figure In the Federal In
quiry are President Frank M. Ryan,
of Indianapolis, former vico presi
dent B. A. Clancy of San Franclsol,
M. J. Young of Boston, F. A, Cob-
ley of New Orleans, M, 8. Hookln, of
Detroit, B. J. Hendricks of Los An
geles, James E. Bey of Peoria, J. T,
Butler of Niagara Falls, J. B, Mun-
sey ot Salt Lake City, W. Reddln of
Milwaukee, James Coughlin of Chi
cago, Rlobard W. Smith, of Sen
Francisco, William Shnrpo of Chica
go, P. J. Smith of Cleveland, F. H.
Thomna of Chicago, H. W, Pollman
of Seattle, D, F. Dwyer of Oakland,
and Fred Shertnan of Indlanapolta.
r The Sulloway age pension bill
passed by tbe house lsat spring,
failed of passage In the senate
that time. This republican measure
was offered unsuccessfully in the
house as a substitute for the Sher
wood bill. Scores ot amendments
were offered and a hard, but unsuc
cessful, fight waa made to have a
straight 31 a day pension bill es
tablished without regard to length
ot service of the veterans.
Basis of Pensions.
The Sherwood bill would estab
lish the following basis of pensions:
For service, for ninety days to MX
or nine months, $20 per month;
from nine months to one year, $28
per month; more than one year, 3SO
per month,
The fight on the bill waa waged
along pollttoal lines to a consider
able extent and members of each
-party will buncombe In their atti
tude toward the old soldiers. Prom
inent democrats attacked the bill
as directly opposed to the democrat
ic principles of economy and des
tructive of plana to reduce the tariff.
Great Draft on Treasury.
Chairman Fitzgerald, of the ap-
Georgla Hotel Men Meet
Augusta, Oa„ Dec. 14.—The an
nual meeting of the Georgia Hotel
Men’s, Association opened for a two
days’ session In this city today with
an attendance of several hundred of
tho leading hotel men of the state.
DELAYED BY DERAILED TRAIN
Coast Line Traffic waa Interrupted
at Altamaha Bridge.
Savannah, Oa„ Dec. 14.—A de
railed freight train'on the Southern
Railroad and the Atlantlo Coast
Line bridge over the Savannah
River, about 12 miles, from Savan
nah held up traffic on the Coast
Line tor aome time yesterday. It
waa necessary to detour one train
over the tracks of the Seaboard Air
Line via Fairfax. Late in tbe af
ternoon the bridge woe cleared and
many delayed tralna succeeded In
getting through,
Columbus, S. C., Dae. 18,—An
nouncement t* made of the post
ponement of the unveiling of the
monument erected In title city to
the South Carolina women of the
Confederacy, The unveiling waa to
have taken place tomorrow, but
owing to a delay In shipping tha
bronte group from Europe It was
found necessary to defer the event
until a later date.
.The Turpentine Market.
Savannah, Dee. 14.—Turpentine
l» 49.3-40. Rosin 38.52 to 37.75.
proprlatlons committee, fought It
because ot Its tremendous draft
on the treasury. Representative
Harrison, of New York, a leading
democrat on the ways and means
oommltee, declared that the (bill
"knocks In the face all pretenelons
made by the democratic party In the
last campaign.
Peebles, all farmers of Toombs
county. In addition to the ten chil
dren, they have living 62 grandchil
dren and (4 great-grandchildren,
all of whom were present at tha
birthday celebration of a few days
I ago.
Fulghum, of Blundale; Cicero Pee
bles Lit Peebles, Christopher Pee
bles, Sampson Peebles, Calvin Pee
bles, Thomas Peobles and Jordan
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