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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. 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