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NEW M IS
SWEPT 8 V
EKE
WINO, SIXTY-FIVE MILES PER
HOUR BLOWS MANY SHIPS
ASHORE IN THE
BAY. >
NEW YORK. Feb. X—The strong gale
from the west-northwest which began
early last evening continued all through
‘ the night and this morning.
The maximum velocity of the wind was
€5 miles an hour, and at 9 o’clock today
the local weather bureau instruments
showed that it was blowing at the rate
of 55 miles an hour. AH the nearby marine
stations reported the sea rough and
from different points along the coast there
came news of wrecks and of vessels
4 ashore.
The tugs John E. Berwind and E. S. At
wood. which were sent to the stranded
steamer Cavour at Long Beach yesterday,
were unable to return to port and both
sank about 11 miles east of the Sandy
Hook light ship. The crews were res
cued by the German steamer Barcelona.
The tugs left the Cavour about 4
o'clock yesterday afternoon and within an
hour both were in a sinking condition.
The seas broke over the craft and washed
•way everything moveable, the water
gradually filling the holds until it was
above the floor of the fire room and .be
gan to put out the fires.
About s:® o’clock the Barcelona was
seen approaching and the tugs steered to
ward her to ask assistance. She stopped
and made a good lee so that the tugs
were able to run alongside. A rope lad
der was lowered and the men from the
tugs scrambled on board.
Fourteen men all told were saved, seven
from each tug.
Fifteen minutes after the rescue the At
wood went down and some time later the
Berwind disappeared.
Fire Island reported a ship ashore at
- Point Lookout and a barge in distress
near the Forge river life saving station.
The barge was anchored about two miles
on shore, and was rolling badly. Those
•n shore could not tell whether there
was any one on board the barge. The
name of the ship could not be seen from
the Point Lookout station.
Atlantic City reported an unknown four
■sasud schooner went ashore during the
night on the Brigantine shoals, near
Where the Claverdale grounded yester
day. »•
Fire Island also reported that the beach
five miles east of the Bellport life saving
-station was covered with wreckage and it
was believed that a coal barge had been
last. .
Tempest Tossed Ship Reaches Fort.
LONDON. Feb. I—After tossing help
lessly in the English channel for 48 hours,
the Dover-Oetend passenger steamer Ma
rie Henriette was towed Into Ostend this
morning. The gale Is abating. In view of
the severity of the weather the number of
casualties thus far reported is compara
tively small. - * _
The first officer of the French steamer
Chanaral was landed at Falmouth today.
He is the sole survivor of the crew of 22
men of the vessel, which-was capsized off.
L'shant. n
The bark wrecked off the Belli y islands
last evening and which was supposed to
be a German vessel, turns out to have
been the Italian bark Lofaro.
News has Just been received that the
steamer Trawley Anlaby. with a crew of
12 men belonging to.Huil, has been Icgt in
g snow storm off’lceland
.JThe Cbannral ‘left Kantes.
uary 30. and encountered a heavy gale,
during which three of her boats were
smashed. The same night her ballast
shifted and the ship capsized. The mate
and five men had in the meanwhile
launched the remaining boat, but this
also was capsized and the five men were
drowned. The mate dung to the boat's
keel and righted her. The boat was af
terwards overturned several times, but
the mate held on to her and was picked
up after being 12 hours in the water. He
is in a critical condition.
Col. James H. Skelton Out For Senator.
HARistLL. Feb. X—The announcement of
Colonel James H Skelton as a candidate for
senator of the Tktny-flrM district appeared tn
the Hartwell Sun this week. As it la Hart
county's time to furnish the member ot the
senate Mr. Skelton seems to standflh good
ehance for election. He has been urged to
announce by many of the strongest leaders
in the county.
Many leading citizens of Habersham and
Franklin have asked Mr. Skelton to make the
race, assuring him that he would bo accepta
ble to those counties.
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Atlanta, Ga.
VETERAN OF RATTLES
LOSES LIFE BY GAS
NEW YORK. Feb. 4.—James Reid, a
British veteran who fought at Sebastopol
and on the field of Balaklava and had won
two medals, is dead in this city from
asphyxiation.
The old soldier, on retiring, had turned
the stop cock of a gas heater in the
wrong direction and when he was found
in his little three room flat the gas fumes
had done what the bullets of the Crimea
failed to do.
Mr. Reid, who was In his 73d year, kept
a small cigar and stationary store. He
was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. When
he was 18 years old his father, who had
distinguished himself in the battle of
Waterloo, moved to Australia. James pre
ferred to follow a soldier’s career as his
father had done, and he enlisted in the
British army.
During the Crimean campaign he rose
to the rank of quartermaster sergeant in
his command, the Chestnut Troop of the
Royal Horse artillery. This rank he won
by personal gallantry in action and he had
two medals to attest the fact.
* Again he. distinguished himself during
the cholera outbreak in the army and
won special honorable mention for his
fearless end devoted attention to duty in
the stricken camp.
Sergeant Reid purchased his discharge
from the army and came to America in
1865.
bloddF 1e wot
: OELftYS WEDDING
INYONKERS.N.Y.
BRIDEGROOM, BRIDE AND BEST
MAN WERE CUT AND BRUISED
AND ALMOST NAKED
WHEN FOUND.
NEW YORK. Feb. 3.—A race riot in
Yonkers, the outcome of festivities in
connection with an Austrian wedding,
has resulted in the serious injury of five
participants two of whom were taken to
a hospital.
When the police reached the house
where the wedding was held they found
a crowd of at least 2.000 in the streets.
Within many of the guests were engageo
in conflict. After a fierce hand to hand
conflict with the crowd the police, having
been reinforced, got into the house.
There they found John Stugo, the best
man. and John Buela, terribly cut and
bruised. Three others also were badly
hurt. Both the bride and groom in their
effort to restore harmony, had lost most
of their clothing. The bride explained
that the row was the outcome of the ha
tred of the Austrians by the Russians who
were present.
After making several arrests and placing
the wounded men in ambulances, the po
lice withdrew and the ceremony proceed
ed.
FILIPINOS 7 WARFARE
CRIME AGAINST RIGHT
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—Before the sen
ate committee today, speaking of the mil
itary policy in the Philippines, Governor
Taft said:
“The war has been all over the islands
and that which remains is a crime against
civfUgation. Jt is also a crime, againsrt
the Filipino people jo keep up a state of
war up<jef the circumstances. The Insur
gents have worn out the right to any
treatment but that which is severe and
within the laws of war.”
Governor Taft also said that the great
majority of the people of the islands de
sire peace and that the insurrectionists
were by their acts preventing the may of
the people from settling down and earn
ing a quiet living. Instead of being al
lowed to do this they were kept under a
system of terrorism, which should be stop
ped.
LOSTIS OWN LIFE
BY JEOPARDIZING
OTHEBLIYES
RAILROAD FLAGMAN, TARRYING
TOO LONG IN CABOOSE, IS KILL-
ED BY THE TRAIN IT WAS ’
HIS DUTY TO SAVE.
SALT LAKE. Utah, Feb. 2.—A special
to The Tribune from Denver says:
Colcrado Midland passenger train, west
bound for Salt Lake and San Francisco,
had a narrow escape from instant destruc
tion Sunday morning two miles west of
Buena Vista.
The locomotive dashed Into a freight
train standing on a trestle sixty-five feet
high, hurling the xaboose and one freight
car into the creek bottom and Instantly
killing Owen McCarthy, rear brakeman
on the freight train.
Engineer Peck and his fireman were pre
vented from jumping by the high trestle
and remained on their engine, expecting
to be dashed to death. The engine left
the rails but miraculously remained on
the trestle, almost balanced on its edge,
not only saving their lives, but the pas
sengers’ as well.
Owen McCarthy, the only man to lose
his life, received orders to flag the com
ing passenger train, but tarried in the ca
boose, warming himself, as the morning
was extremely cold. He had just started
to flag tbe train when he saw the head
light of the locomotive rounding a curve
not one hundred feet distant. He retreat
ed toward the caboose, but was caught
and knocked into the creek, being shock
ingly managled.
ADEL LOSES 230 Qod _
BY FIRE MONDAY
ADEL, Ga., Feb. 4. About half of the
business portion of Adel was destroyed
by fire yesterday from a blaze which
originated over Kennon's drug store. The
loss is about 230.000 with 212.000 insurance.
The following parties suffered 'by the
Are: J. M. Kennon, drug store, 26.000:
Insurance, 23.000; W. W. Webb. 21.000, no
insurance: J. L. Wilkes, loss 28,000. insur
ance. 23.000; Kennon & Wells, loss 25.000.
insurance. 23.200; Mrs. Legrand loss 2500;
C. E. Webb, loss 22,000. Insurance 21.000;
Parrish & Parrish. 25.000. with insurance
of about half that amount; A. Edison,
21.000.
The fire is the largest that ever occur
red here. The people will go bravely to
work to repair this loss.
FIRST INSTALLMENT
PAID_BY CHINESE
WASHINGTON. Feb. 4.—A cablegram has
been received at the state department trim
United States Minister Conger at Pekin ar.-
nounctng that he has received the first pay
ment from the Chinese government on ac
count of the indemnity. He will hold the
money to his order until the qualification of
the trust company, which is about to under
take to do an American banking business In
China and the Philippines.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 190
EIPLWTIOIS
FROM ESTILL
ANDGUEHRT
GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES
WRITE CARDS ABOUT THtIR
STATEMENTS AND CON
FERENCES.
Col. J. H. Estill. Satfltnnan's candidate
for governor, and Hon. Dupont Guerry,
who represents Macon in the gubernato
rial race and are out in cards again—Estill
denying that he is considering withdraw
ing from the race and declining to con
sider the proposition of the Terrell sup
porters in Savannah to vote for Terrell in
the "event the convention became hitched
up, and Dupont Guerry explaining that
his Jesup speech was only a little pleas
antry. The politicians and others who
are interested in the gubernatorial scrap
will be interested in the communications.
The Jdurnal has the following
telegram from its correspondent in Sa
vannah* * :
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Feb. 4.—C01. J. H.
Estill -and his Chatham county friends
have rejected the prposition of the
friends of Terrell that the Chatham coun
ty delegation go into the state conven
tion pledged to Terrell for second choice.
Colonel Estill himself refused point blank
to entertain any such proposition. “If I
carry Chatham county.’’ he is reported to
have said. "I shall name my friends and
stanchest supporters as delegates to the
convention.” Estill’s friends say they
could with equal fairness ask that in Ter
rell’s county delegates be named who
-would go to Estill If Terrell should not
win, but they would not think of doing
so. .'
Following that telegram came this one
froni Colonel Estill: '
SAVANNAH. Ga.. Feb. 4.—“ln The
Journal of Saturday there appeared a dis
patch from this city over which were the
headlines. ’Estill’s Friends Meet; Terrell
Second Choice.’ 'the caption is misleading
and the statement nut correct. I should
not ask you to make a correction of this
matter, were it not that I have received
several letters from friends in middle
Georgia, making Inquiry about It. and fur
thermore, in your Issue of yesterday there
is a paragraph intimating that I» may
withdraw from the race for the governor
ship, I wish it distinctly understood that
I have no second choice; and furthermore,
that I have no intention of withdrawing
from the contest. I am not concerning
myself as to the second* choice of my
friends. J. H. ESTILL.”
And then the mails brought to The Jour
nal office this card from Hon. DuPont
Guerry:
“MACON, Ga., Feb. 3, 1902.
“Editor Journal:
“I notice In your paper a reference to
what I am alleged to have said about
my being Colonel Estill’s second choice,
and also what Colonel Estill has had to
say to newspaper reporters on the sub
ject. I do not suppose this side issue
wl)l have any powerful bearing upon the
direct issues involved, but if it is of any
Importance at all. it might be well to have
the facts.
“I had an engagement to speak at the
noon hour Monday at Laurens court.
Dublin. As Colonel Estill was there, I,
offered to give him part'of my time, bdt
he declined, saying, however, He would
hear me speak.
“He was not present and upon ap
proaching the gate going out of the court
yard I met the colonel and good-natured
ly twitted him for not being present, say
ing to him If he had been he would have
heard nothing Unpleasant. He replied,
giving me his hand. and. saying he had
been informed about the nice things I
had said about him. and added r “If I am
not elected I hope you will be, as I con
sider you the man to me in the
race.” Over this we both laughed ps we
walked away from each other.
Os course, I regarded l this as pleasantry
with that much sincerity in it necessary
to make that form of pleasantry genuine.
I did not understand the colonel to be
taking any serious position in my behalf
as his second choice. On the contrary, I
was gravely impressed every time I saw
the colonel during our pleasant sojourn
in Dublin with the belief that he was se
riously concerning himself only about his
well known first choice.
“After disclaiming animosity toward all
my then opponents, Messrs. Terrell, Es
till, Brown and Smith, in my speech at
Jesup oh the 30th I simply alluded to the
above as a sample of good humor, and
said that I regretted that I could not say
at the time to the ‘colonel what he had
said to me; that I had no concealment as
to my preference among my opponents
and that my preference, both for personal
and public consideration; was Mr. Brown.
“I am not running as the second choice
of the colonel, but as the first choice of
the people. Yours truly,
“DUPONT GUERRY.”
Mr. Terrell Is busy tn his headquarters
in the Kimball house, answering his large
mall and arranging the details of the cam
paign. He declines to be interviewed and
will write no cards.
STOPS THE COUCH
AND WORKS OFF THE COLD.
Laxative Brom-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in
one day. No Cure. No Pay. Price 25 cents.
JAS. W. TUFTS, OFIoSTON,
DIES IN NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH, N. C„ Feb. 4.—At 10 o’clock
Sunday night at Pinehurst, Moore county,
James M. Tufts, the millionaire soda
fountain manufacturer of Boston, Mass.,
died suddenly.
His death is supposed to have been caus
ed by apoplexy, as he had not been sick
during the week. He was about 70 years
old.
In 1892 Mr. Tufts began the building of
Pinehurst, and has spent over 23.000,000 in
developing this magnificent winter resort,
which draws great crowds from the north
every year.
Yesterday at 9 o’clock a special train
passed here from Boston to Pinehurst
carrying Mr. Tufts’ son. and the remains
will be taken back to Boston for Inter
ment.
Hugh McKee in Washington. /
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—Hugh McKee, of
Atlanta, is in Washington in the Interest of
patronage for his Georgia friends. He has
not made known his particular preference but
It Is expected he will call on the president to
day. He Is a Republican elector from Georgia.
♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦■»
♦ TOURED THE WORLDj *
♦ THEN SOUGHT DEATH *
♦ SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4.—The +
♦ identity of a middle-aged, richly- ♦
+ dressed woman who committed sui-
+ cide in Stockton on Friday night +
<• has been established by friends in «fr
this city. She was Mrs. Hammond +
+ Moore, of New York city, the wid- ♦
4* ow of Colonel Hammond Moore, an
officer of the Confederate army, 4*
•f. who settled in New York shortly
+ after the civil war. She came to 4*
San Francisco from Guatemala last 4»
May in the course of a tour around
4> the world, which she began three
+ years ago and which had just been +
+ . concluded.
+ The cause of her suicide is un- +
♦ known. +
♦ ♦
COMPANY TO ESTABLISH
A *1,000,000 PLANT
A million dollar Portland cement plant
is shortly to be erected and put Into oper
ation at Rockmart, Ga., by the Southern
States Portland Cement company, to be
organized In Atlanta within the next week,
backed by the powerful Michigan organi
zation known as the Peninsular Portland
Cement company.
The president of the new company will
be W. F. Cowham, at present the general
manager of the parent company. Mr.
Cowham has been in Atlanta for several
days, leaving the city Monday. The
secretary of the Concern will be H. F.
Vanderventer, of Knoxville, Tenn., who
Is now here. Several prominent Atlanta
men are likely to be connected with the
new company.
The Peninsular Portland Cement com
pany has in operation at Cement City,
Mich., an immense modern plant, but it is
the intention to construct an even more
commodious and magnificent plant at
Rockmart, where ever facility has been
found for carrying on the work on a large
scale.
Portland cement is a comparatively
modern accessory to building, and its man
ufacture in this country is of still more
recent beginning. Jt is used largely for
dams, foundations 'for buildings and all
kinds of masonry, for paving, monuments,
building blocks, fire proofing, stairways,
sewers, conduits, tunnels, floors and
many other purposes.
SOUGHT ANISYLUM
TO STAY HER HAND
FROMNimER
WOMAN ASKED AUTHORITIES TO
INCARCERATE tyER BEFORE SHE
KILLED A LITTLE CHILD SHE
DEARLY LOVED.
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Authorities of the
New Jersey asylum for the insane, at
TTenton, have been astounded by the
strange request of Louisa Diehl, 25 years
old, that she be admitted to the institu
tion in order that she might be prevented
from committing murder.
Miss Diehl, who is the daughter of a
well known citizen, said she recently
had been ill and had become possessed of
numerous delusions.
One was that a mysterious man was
seeking to hypnotize her to make her kill
some one. She was particularly fond of
and attentive to her sister’s little girl,
and she realized that if she were put
under hypnotic influence she would kill
the child.
Without notifying her family of her pur
pose, she left home and journeyed on foot
to the asylum.
She will remain i few weeks at least,
until her actual condition can be ascer
tained. It is thought by the hospital au
thorities that she will recover.
Mail Clerk Rice Dies in Wreck.
SAVANNAH. Ga., Feb. 3.—ln a collis
ion on the Seaboard-Atr Line railway be
tween passenger train No. 66, northbound,
and an extra freight train at 11:12 o’clock
last night. Mail Agent J. Aubrey Rice, of
Jacksonville, was killed, and Engineer
Ashley slightly injured.
The collision was caused by Engineer
Ellison, of the freight train, overrunning
his meeting point. 1
state’board of pharmacy
WILL MEET IN MARCH
The Georgia State Board ot Pharmacy will
meet at the state capttol on March 24 for the
purpose of examining applicants for licenses
to practice pharmacy in the state of Georgia.
A special rate of'one and one-third fare has
been granted by the railroads to those at
tending this meeting.
The State Board of Pharmacy has been very
active’ in enforcing the laws against incompe
tent persons conducting a pharmacy. A large
number of applicants are expected to present
themselves for examination.
SILISmf>ITS
ONLY FDB PEACE
TO BESICA
PREMIER HAS FIXED CONCLUSION
OF WAR WITH BOERS FOR
DATE OF HIS RESIG
NATION.
i
LONDON, Feb. 4.—lt is now said that
the retirement of Lord Salisbury from of
fice will be coincident with the end of the
Boer war. <
The St. James Gazette today claims to
have the highest authority for saying "the
premier has fixed restoration of peace in
South Africa as the appropriate moment
to resign office. If the war is ended. Lord
Salisbury will retire at the conclusion of
Yhe present parliamentary session, but it
is his present intention to retain his post
until peace is accoihplished.”
INVESTIGATION FAILS
TO SUSTAIN CHARGES
JACKSON, Miss., Feb. 3.—After being
in session a week today the penitentiary
investigation committee, which in its re
port to the present legislature made such
scandalous charges against the officials
of the Mississippi penitentiary, and who
by resolution were authorized to continue
their investigation in open session, had
failed to sustain any of the charges
which they made in their first report, and
all the scandalous things which it was
rumored that this committee was going
to bring to light has so far failed to have
been brought out.
The penitentiary authorities and the
warden of the state prison so far have
the best end of the deal, and there Is a
feeling of relief all ovef the state.
What will develop this week is not
known, for there are a large number of
witnesses to be put on the stand, including
the governor and the railroad commis
sioners, but it is the general opinion that
the committee has put its strong witness
es on first and that nothing sensational
will be developed.
NORTH CAROLINA
. LABOR STATISTICS
CHARLOTTE. N. C., Feb. 3.—The re
port of the state labor commissioner,
completed, shows the number of textile
mills by counties. Gaston is far in the
lead, with 26 cotton mills, 202,776 spindles,
and 4,642 looms: Mecklenburg second, with
17 cotton mills, one knitting mill, 125,242
spindles and 2.026 looms; Rockingham
third, with 7 cotton and one woolen mill,
102,682 spindles and 2,135 looms; Ruther
ford fourth, with 4 cotton mills, .102,240
spindles and 2,476 looms; Alamance fifth,
with 17 cotton, one woolen and two knit
ting mills, 95,588 spindles and 4,811 looms;
Cabarrus sixth, with 9 cotton mills, 98,-
588 spindles and 3,274 looms; Durham sev
enth, with 6 cotton and one woolen mill,
83.924 spindles and 2,258 looms. All other
counties have under 75,000 spindles.
scmraiin
IK OF TH E
BITTLE
ALFREDO LABORDESAYS THAT
SAMPSON TRIED TO REACH
THE FIGHT BUT
FAILED.
Alfredo Laborde, colonel in the Cuban
army, pilot aboard the Marblehead at the
battle of Santiago, and commanaer of the
schooner Competitor during her successful
filibustering expedition in 1896, is among
Atlanta’s latest arrivals.
Colonel Laborde. is living at No. 95
West Baker street Colonel La
borde went aboard the Marblehead at Ha
vana, and started to Clenfuegos to cap
ture the Spanish steamer Montserate. He
reached the scene of the battle of Santia
go, he says, after the affair was nearly
over. .
“We could see the smoke from Admiral
Schley’s ship as he was going after the
Colon," said he, "and we could also see
the smoke from the New York, when she
was trying to get to the battle. But she
was too late!" and the colonel laughed
merrily.
In 1896 Colonel Laborde was in command
of the schooner Competitor, when he suc
cessfully landed a cargo of arms and am
munition near Berracos, on the northern
coast of Pinar del Rio. He was captured
by the Spanish gunboat Mensazera as he
was starting back,’ and served 19 months
in prison at Cabanas.
"The commander of the navy yard at
Havana was named Albear,” he contin
ued. "He was a very bad man—a cruel
man. We were courtmartialed and would
have been shot if it had not been for the
United States.
"But after the war started this man was
in command of the Infanta Ysabel, and
his ship lias anchored at the mouth of
Santiago harbor. One of the American
gunboats was firing at the fort, when a
shell fell on the deck of his ship and
killed him and nine other men. That’s
what he got for it.
"I was at Key West after I got out of
prison,” he said, “and one day the com
mander of the navy yard sent for me.
Then the captain of the Dolphin said they
needed my services. So I went to Havana,
and was there transferred to the Mar
blehead as pilot.”
Colonel Laborde’s commission as colo
nel in the Cuban army was given him by
Maceo, and is signed by Gomez. He tells
many interesting stories of the fighting
on the island.
FißMMra
TO MEET 111 MACON
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE APPRO-
PRIATES SSOO TO ENTERTAIN
NATIONAL GATHERING.
9
MACON, F*b. B.—Hon. Harvie Jordan
is writing letters to various state house
officers and others prominent in the
state’s affairs, asking that formal invita
tions be sent to the National farmers’
association for the next congress to be
held in Georgia. Macon is the city pre
ferred by the association, and the cham
ber of commerce has guaranteed the SSOO
required for the expenses.
Mayor Bridges Smith has sent an invi
tation on behalf of the city, and Mr. Pope
Brown or Col. Dudley Hughes will be
asked to send an invitation on behalf of
the state agricultural society.
It is claimed that more than a thousand
farmers from all parts of the United
States will spend a week to ten days here
if the congress is held. Trips are being
arranged to Andersonville, the peach
belt, etc., in case Macon gets the con
gress.
KLONDIKE DANCE GIRLS
DRINK CARBOLIC ACID
SEATTLE, Wash., Feb. 4.—Advices from
Nome state that two girls connected with
a dance hall recently committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid. Despondency is
ascribed as the cause. They were known
as the "Carlisle sisters.”
The Nome Gold Digger, of November
13th, has the following:
"United States Mail Carrier Jacob Wal
don, who left on the flrst of the month for
leak’s Point with the mall, may be lost
in the tangled underbrush and the thick
timber which lies between Golovin bay
and the point. August Nelson, who was
one of the party that reached Nome from
Norton bay on Sunday, being the flrst
men over the ice from that district this
winter, says that they saw the mail car
rier when they were crossing Golivin bay.
He states that Waldon was alone and
making very slow time, his sled being
heavily laden and his six dogs in bad
shape.”
EDUCATORrDECIDE TO
MEET IN CHATTANOOGA
CHATTANOOGA. Feb. 4.—The executive
board of the Southern Educational asso
ciation held a meeting in this city Sat
urday and Sunday. At a late hour Sunday
night the board decided that the next
convention should ’meet in Chattanooga
July 1 to 4. The conventions have here
tofore been held during the Christmas
holidays, but the association has decided
that the summer will draw a large crowd.
State superintendent of education cf
Florida, W. M. Sheets, who is president of
the association, estimates that there wiU
be 1,000 educators in attendance. Knox
ville made a great attempt to get the
convention. J. J. Claxton, of Knoxville,
held out that it should go to that city,
while Professor Sheets, Frank Smith, of
Knoxville, and G. R. Glenn, of Atlanta,
voted to have the convention here. Great
preparations will be made to entertain
the convention.
MANY SELmIvOTERS -
WERE DISFRANCHISED
SELMA, Ala., Feb. 3.—Out of the three
thousand white voters in Dallas county
about 1.100 had paid their poll tax Satur
day night, when the poll tax books for
this year were closed. Os this 3.000 vo
ters there are about 500 who are exempt
on account of military service, and about
800 who are over the age limit. This
leaves between 200 and 800 voters in the
county who have voluntarily disfranchised
themselves. The majority of the voters
who have disfranchised themselves are
of the poorer class who could not afford
to pay the 2L Z SO for the privilege of vo
ting. Tax Collector Morrison of this coun
ty says that a great many more have paid
the tax than he expected.
Mr. Giles Pitt Dies in Coweta County.
MORELAND, Ga., Feb. 3.—The death of
Mr. Giles Pitts, which took place at his home
near here, entails upon the county an irre
parable loss. He was one of our oldest land
marks and best and most useful citizens. The
family and friends have our sincere condolence
in their affliction.
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FOUR STOCKMEN KILLED, •
SIX HURT IN WRECK
DUBUQUE, la., Feb. 3.—A rear-end col
lision at 3:45 this moaning on the Illinois
Central at Apple River, 111., a station 30
miles east of here, resulted in the death
of four stockmen, while six were seriously
injured.
The dead:
H. C. LAWLER, Wall Lake, la.
H. F. PANCAKE, Wall Lake, la.
CHRIS FERNDON, St. Anagar, la.
C. R. BLUNT, Charles City, la.
Seriously injured:
W. Cameron, Dundee, 111., badly crush
ed; not expected to live.
F. J. Jordan, Dunlap, la.. Injured about
ribs and back.
D. Lawler, Wall Lake, la., Injured about
breast and legs.
Slightly injured:
J. J. Morehead, Dunlap. la.
W. J. Evans. Dunlap, la.
Unknown man.
None of the were injured, as
they heard the second train approaching
and jumped.
BURTON SMITH HONORED
BY INDIANA LAWYERS
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 3.—Burton Smith, of
Atlanta. Ga., has been invited to the State
Bar Association to deliver the annual address
before that organization in Indianapolis on
July 8. He has accepted tbe invitation. Mr.
Smith was chosen by a committee o< the most
prominent lawyers of the city, including Hon.
Merrill Moore, secretary of the association.
They became acquainted with the young Geor
gian at the meetings of the American Bar
Association, of which organization Mr. Smith
is vice president.
His acceptance of the invitation has been
received with genuine pleasure by the State
Association of Indiana, and much enjoyment
is anticipated from the address of this brilliant
young Georgian.
MURDER OF WOMAN BAFFLES
THE NEW YORK POLICE
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—Two arrests have
been made in connection with the death
of Mrs. Rosa McComber, whose body,
with the throat cut, was found Saturday
night in a basement room of a tenement ‘
in Chrystie street and the police are now •' :
positive that a murder was committed.
It is stated that the woman was the
daughter of an Episcopal clergyman Os
Minnesota, who had spent his life as a
missionary among the Indians of the •
northwest. She came to this city from I
St. Cloud Minn., several years ago with 1 J
her husband. William B. Clark, and her < •• |
17-year-old daughter. The husband be- •
came insane eighteen months ago and is | ■
now confined in an asylum.
The men under arrest are a bartender
and a butcher, who are supposed to have
seen the woman in the Bowery shortly L *
before her death.
Coroner’s Physician Higgins performed ;
an autopsy on the body and announced j
that death was due to asphyxiation caus- !
ed by internal hemorrhage.
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Geologist West Dead.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 4.—Tester-,
day G. W. West, a well known geologist, ;
died at his home in this city of pneu
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