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REPUBLICANS
HIT TRUSTS
IN IOWA
' STATE CONVENTION, BY RESO
LUTION, MAKES CUSTOMARY
C BATTLE AGAINST TRUSTS.
WILL SELECT TICKET.
DES MOINES. lowa. July 30—The Re
publican state convention convened at 11
••dock tn the new auditorium with a
large attendance. On the platform were
Senators Allison and Dolliver. Secretary
of Agriculture Wilson and the full con
gressional delegation with the exception
•f Captain J. W. Rumple, who is ill in
Chicago.
Rev. A. B. Marshall. of the Central
Presbyterian church, of this city, offered
the invocation, after which Congressman
_« W. L Smith, of Pottawatome county,
was introduced by Chairman Stndaire, of
the state central committee, chairman of
the convention. He spoke as follows:
.' “The Republican party is wedded to the
general principles of a protective tariff,
but not to say any specific schedule. The
tariff should be revised from time to
_ time to meet the changing conditions
and reductions of a rate, or placing
an article on the free* list is no evi
dence. much less no confession that
the original rate was wrong when
Republican party will modify
the tariff whenever new conditions re
quire such modification, and if. in any
specific case, a change in the tariff will
tend to relieve the people frcm the oppres
sion of a trust without undue Injury to
American labor, that change out to be
made.**
As the result of the congressional cau
cuses this morning the committee en reso
lutions decided to report for a re
affirmation of the Cedar Rapids trust
plank in the platform which reads:
"We assert the sovereignty of the peo
ple over all corporations and aggrega
tions of capital, and the right residing in
the people to enforce such regulations,
restrictions or prohibitions upon corpor
ate management as will protect the indi
. vidual and society from abuse of the
power which great combinations of capi
tal yield. We favor such amendment of
the tater-state commerce act as will more
fully carry out its prohibition of dis
crimination in rate-making, and any mod
ification of the tariff schedules that may
be required to prevent their affording
shelter to monopolies."
The following will be nominated without
opposition:
Beereary of State—W. B. Martin, of
Adair.
Treasurer of State-G. L. Gilbertson, of
“ Winnebago.
Attorney General—Charles W. Mullane,
of Black Hawk. -
Judge of the Supreme Court—Charles
Bishop, of Polk. f
Auditor of State—B. F. Carroll, of
Bloom fie id.
Wounded Boy Will Recover.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. July SO— Rob
ert Davenport, who was accidentally shot
by his cousin at Sulphur Springs on Sat
urday. will recover. The boy is still in a
very serious condition, however.
ELOPIFOWETTE
STILL BEHIND BARS
THEY HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO SE-
CURE BONDSMEN THEIR
FATE 18 YET A MATTER
OF DOUBT. -
GREENSBORO, A. C-, July ».-The
eloping quartette. Nick Carter, Tom Col
llne. Minnie Shaw and Nannie Jones are
•till tn jail, do bondsman from Goldsboro
or Danville having yet appeared in ansAr
io their telegraphic summons. They are
very restless this evening, evidently get
ting tired of their frolic. Carter has beert
• reading yellow-backs, and must have
used "Nick Carter” as a pen-name for his
real name to Tom Hicks and he hails from
Randleman in Randolph county.
The two men owed a boarding house
keeper here $lO for board. They left, say
' Ing they would return tn two days and
referred the proprietor to the Charlotte
Drug company, for whom they claimed to
be selling medicines. This morning a let
ter came from this firm, saying they had
uo such representatives. They now claim
to have been selling medicines of their
j wwn manufacture. The sheriff says they
' hare been violating the’ law, not having
taken out any license.
Yesterday fresh cow* peas were again
included tn the bill of fare, and instead
of cursing the jailor for sending them,
they sent back twice for more; this pleas
ed the jailor mightily, and he to in a good
humor today.
The Shaw woman wrote a letter to her
father in Danville yesterday, telling him
•be vas tn a bad fix. but it might be
worse, and for bhn not to trouble over
her as she had a loving lover, separated
only by Jail bars, but where they could
look at each other all the time, and pray
tor the time to come when they would be
tree.
It to said the Shaw woman is also a
wife, her busband being Thomas Bailey or
Baity, of Danville, from whom she has
been separated for a year.
The husband of Nannie Jones offered
yesterday to pay all costs of prosecution
against her and let her out of jail if she
would go home to her sister in Danville,
but she refused to do this. It to not a
tough looking crowd at all.
The young men have a good appearance
x and the two runaway wives have intelli
gent 1 faces. They are both young and
go xl looking.
HARDING TO RETURN
AND LIVE AT HOME
GREENSBORO. N. C-, July M—Mr.
Caesar Cone, who has Just returned from
New York, where he saw J. E. Harding,
the Stafford eloper, says the young man.
after being interviewed repeatedly yes
terday and Saturday night, finally agreed
to separate from Mrs. Stafford and make
some provision for her. Asked if Hard
ing would come back to Greensboro Mr.
Cone said not yet. at least. What Mrs
Stafford's plans were he could not say
Ss he did not see her. Mr. Cone is one
of the owners of the Revolution mills of
which Harding has been the efficient
chief bookkeeper for so long. He was
in New York, and on being telegraphed
by Harding's father, who is a valued
frrtond. to save the boy. he joined his in-
Rueuee with that of Mr. Harding’s at
torneys to convince the young man of
the destraction and ruin ahead. He says
it took perseverance, courage and pa
tience to convince him. but in the end
he agreed to turn back and make a new
start.
It to really believed that Harding will
return from New York tonight with Mr.
Kimball, going immediately to his fath
ers home at Jullar. in Randolph county.
23 miles distant.
SOLDIERS’ THROAT IS CUT
AND A WOMAN SUSPECTED
Henry Beckhold, a private in company
L. Sixteenth infantry, had his throat cut
last night at 5 Collins street, and Bessie
White, in whose room he was found, is
being detained at police headquarters sus
pected of the crime. The cut was a bad
one. but the hospital authorities announce
that Beckhold will recover.
The woman denies the charge and as
serts Beckhold cut his own throat. She
says she left him in her room and went to
supper. When she returned she says she
found him lying on the floor with his
throat cut. Her cries alarmed the house
and brought assistance. Beckhold was
carried to the Grady hospital.
Beckhold late yesterday made the state
ment that he himself cut his throat. He
offered no explanation of the deed. The
woman will probably be released.
LIVE PIG USED AS BAIT
TO CATH AN ALLIGATOR
MACON, July 29.—News reached Macon
last night to the effect that Messrs. Rosco
Lucas and Jack Beeland, residing near
lx>cket Swamp, not far from the Flint
river in Taylor county, had captured a
300-pound alligator. The gator is 12 1-2
feet long. He was captured on a hook
baited with a live pig. The alligator had
been destroying pigs tn the swamp for
twelve years or more, and many unsuc
cessful efforts were made at various
times to capture hltn.
BLOODHOUNDS _ PURSUE
MURDERER OF WILSON
WASHTNNQTON, July 30.—A dispatch
from Drainesvtlle, Va.. says John Branch
arrived there from Suffolk, Va., thl® morn
ing with several bloodhounds. As soon as
he arrived the horses were saddled and
the chase began for Charles Craven, the
al’eged murderer of William Wilson. It
was after 5 o’clock when the posse went
in the direction of the place where the
"man was last seen.
expebToncdtton
WORKING IN
ALABAMA
T
PROF. W. A- ORTON, OF THE DE-
PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ,
MAKING EXPERIMENTS AT
TROY AND IS PLEASED.
MONTGOMERY. Ala., July 30.—Wil
liam A. Orton, assistant pathologist from
the bureau of plant industry, of the de
partment of agriculture, was here today.
He came from Troy, where he had been
to see his experiment station. ♦
He is making a specialty of the study
of “wilt" in cotton, which has become,
such a serious problem to the planters of
the south. He has four acres containing
about 100 selections and 20 varieties of cot
ton planted at Troy and he is much grat
ified at the results he has secured there.
Ex-Mayor Folmar has taken quite an
interest In the matter and has furnish
ed the plot of ground upon which the ex
periment 'has been conducted. On account
of the drought the results are perhaps
not what they would otherwise have
been.
Mr. Orton said to your correspondent:
’•This disease is of very serious import.
It has come to where the cotton crop of
the south is seriously threatened. It ap
peared first Ip South Carolina where the
finest grades of sea island cotton are
grown. The disease became so trouble
some about four years ago that the peo
ple there asked congress to grant them a
special appropriation to pay for an inves
tigation of the matter and to have experts
go into it thoroughly. The matter was
taken up in earnest and these four years
of experimenting have proven the reme
dy. Z
“A variety almost Immune has been
found among the sea island cotton, while
the mark is being approached by the up
land cotton. The sea island variety is
planted in all the states troubled with the
diseases. save Alabama, where the up
land has been planted."
Mr. Orton hopes to secure by next year
a goodly supply of seed which he can
distribute to the farmers. He has tried
every variety of eotton he could find and
has found none that approaches perfec
tion po nearly as does the Jackson. He
says this is the highest grade—better than
the original which he began with.
Mr. Orton says the department is exper
imenting with breeding cotton seeking to
get a longer and a finer staple. The object
is to get something to take the place of
the fine Egyptian cotton which is import
ed. The progress In this line to very grat
ifying to the department. He says that
when the disease gets into -e piece of
land that there is no way to get it out.
no fertiliser that can remedy it, no prepa
ration that can be applied that will do
any good, the only remedy being to grow
an immune plant.
Mr. Orton said that he was on his wav
to South Carolina where he goes to lec
ture to the state horticultural society. He
is to take up the subject of disease In
pecans and is to gq to Georgia to study
that subject as there is much trouble
there with it. He is to make a study of
the cabbage disease which has menaced
the Interests of south Georgians no little.
There are experiments on many other
lines going on, the most interesting per
haps being thatiof tea culture. Only re
cently, in co-operation with Dr. C. U.
Shepherd, has the department produced a
tea that is superior to the imported tea
and It brings several dollars per pound on
the market. A regular tea farm is to be
begun in Texas next year by the govern
ment. The curing of tea seems now to be
the most perplexing part of the problem,
yet a machine has already been patented
to cure it
Mr. Orton will return in October to see
his crop and to make further arrange
ments for the continuance of the work
next year.
GETS
ANNAPOLIS PLACE
ROME. Ga., July 30.—Senator Clay today
appointed Frank Maddox, son of Con
gressman John W. Maddox, to Annapolis.
Frank Maddox resides in Rome with his
father.
John Towers, of this city, was appointed
to a cadetship tn Annapolis by Congress
man Maddox some months ago.
All that is needed to make these South
American revolutlcnts look business like
is a casualty list.
Disfigured Skin
Wasted muscles and decaying bones.
What havoc I
Scrofula, let alone,‘is capable of all that
sod more.
It is commonly marked by bunches tn
the neck, inflammations In the eyes, dys
pepsia, catarrh, and general debility.
ft is always radically and permanently
cured by •
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Which expels all humors, cures all erup
tions, and builds up the whole system,
whether young or old.
'RooJVFM* cere liver ills: the eoeJrrttattag eJ
only cathartic to take with Hood . S*r»sp»rilia
1.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1902.
IMFM
SHOOTS SELF
ANO SON
TEMPORARILY INSANE FROM
ILLNESS DYE MORTALLY
WOUNDS HIS SON ANO THEN
COMMITS SUICIDE.
LOUISVILLE. Ky., July 30—While In
a fit of temporary insanity, as a result of
a severe attack of pneumonia, D. P. Dye,
formerly a barber, shot and fatally
wounded his 11-year-old son, Carrol, and
then committed suicide at his home in
this city, at 7:45 o’clock today.
This morning, after eating breakfast
with his family, he started upstairs to
awaken bis son. A short time after he
left the dining room his wife and daugh
ters heard pistol shots from the room
above. Hastenfhg upstairs they found
Dye on the floor dead with a bullet wound
in his bead, while on the bed lay his son,
shot through the temple and uncon
scious. A physician was called and pro
nounced the boy’s wounds fatal.
englanThas withdrawn
SOVEREIGNTY O»ER ISLANDS
NEW ORLEANS. July 30.—The steam
er Condor which arrived here from Puerto
Cortes, Honduras, brings the news that
th« British government has withdrawn all
claim to sovereignty over the Bay Islands
of Utllla, Ruatan, Bonacca or Gflanaja,
Feina and Barbarat and aknowledged
they belong to the republic of Hondurs.
Great Britain's formal acknowledgment
was carried to the island by the cruiser
Psyche, which sailed from Havana under
sealed orders on July 17. The British
landed at Ruatan where a proclamation
was read to them by the captain of the
Psyche. There are some Americans from
the western states who have recently
come in. The only language spoken Is
English. The islands do a large fruit
trade mainly with New Orleans. The Unit
ed States government is the only one
having a consul in the islands.
barkeepers’responsible
FOR INJURY TO PATRON
T /
OMAHA, Neb.. July 29.—According to a
decision of the United States court of ap
peals, which affirmed the judgment of the
plaintiffs of the federal court o( Nebraska,
a saloon-keeper may be held responsible
for the death of a patron of his place in
the event that th© death occurs from an
accident resulting from the Inebriated
condition of the patron.
The suit was filed by the widow and
daughter of Charles WaJker, against John
Moser an others who were engaged in
the saloon business at Ashland, Neb.
Plaintiffs charge that Charles Walker, in
1900, drank intoxicants at Moser’s saloon
and in consequence was thrown from a
buggy and killed. A verdict giving the
plaintiffs damages was appealed.
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TWO PAIRS OF TWINS
BORN TO FARMER’S WIFE
JACKSON, Miss., July 29—Joe Banks, of
Yazoo county, presented her husband the
other day with two boys and two girls,
both healthy and In fine condition. Mr.
Banks, the father of the four young ones,
to a very prosperous farmer of Yazoo
county, living near Benton, and this sud
den addition to his family, will undoubted
ly increase his popularity.
pdwelTcHyton
MUST AWED
CHARGES
SENATOR PENROSE IS NOTIFIED
THAT PAPERS HE FILED
HAVE BEEN SENT TO
AMBASSADOR.
WASHINGTON, July 28.-Bome weeks
•go Senator Penrose filed with the presi
dent papers which he asserted tended to
substantiate the charge made by Mr.
Mealy, the American, who has been ii>
trouble in Mexico, against United States
Ambassador Powell H. Clayton, to the
effect that the ambassador was directly
interested to the extent of 100 shares in
a mining corporation antagonistic to
Mealy's claims.
The papers were referred to the state
department and now the senator has been
Informed by Acting Secretary Hill that
the department has decided to send them
to the City of Mexico, inviting Mr. Clay
ton to examine them and make a report
The case of Mealy was one of two
referred to tn the stirring debate in the
senate last session involving a personal
encounter between Senators Bailey and
Beveridge.
COAL CITYM7NES ARE
IN GOOD CONDITION
A second investigation made by the
prifbn commission of the mines at Coal
City and Durham, where convicts are
worked, shows the mines to be in good
condition and that the Improvements or
dered by he prison commission some
time ago have been completed.
E. P. Clute, a mining expert, was em
ployed by the commission last spring
to look into the condition of the mines
and make suggestions whereby the health
of the convicts working in them could be
Improved. Mr. Clute tnade an extensive
report and recommended some marked
changes. These changes were ordered, and
a few days ago the commission sent Mr.
Clute to the mines to see how the changes
were progressing.
He reports that the changes aro being
made as fast as possible ana the better
results are already being obtained.
Shipments of Peaches Continues Brisk.
MACON, Ga.. July 29.—Peach shipments
continue to hold their own. The Central
df Georgia's stations shipped 39 cars yes
terday, and they do that well almost ev
ery day; but it is not likely that the total
from all over the state will be as great at
the end of the season as last year. The
season began earlier this year and the in
dications are that it will end earlier.
To Move Great Trees.
Probably the largest contract ever let in thia
country for the transportation of big trees
is that just entered into for the World’s Fair
In St. Louie. The site Is Forest park, in which
there are many large trees.
Actuated by a desire to preserve as many as
possible of the trees and to have their shade In
the broad avenues of the exposition, the director
of works will have seven hundred trees, each
twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, lifted
and raoianted.
SOLD GIRL’S SOLO AT
PRAYER MEETING
Philadelphia Press.
“I'll give a dollar to have the violinist
repeat that solo," exclaimed a man, who
said he was from Alabama, to Evangelist
Charles H. Yatman, at the young peo
ple's meeting tn the Temple at Ocean
Grove this morning. The young woman
referred to was Miss Cecelia Bradford,
who had just finished playing “Safe in the
Arms of Jesus." ,
“You'll have to bid higher, brother,”
replied Leader Yatman.
. “Well, two dollars then,” the man
from Alabama shouted back.
“Make it five and I’ll ask Miss Brad
ford to repeat the solo,” retorted Mr.
Yatman.
“Here’s the money,” said the southern
er, handing the evangelist a bank note.
Miss Bradford played the hymn again.
When she had finished Mr. Yatman said:
“Half of this money I will turn into the
fund being raised for the Marine Carnival
on Wesley Lake, and the other half I will
give to Miss Bradford to spend for ice
cream.”
The donor of the bill expressed his
satisfaction and as soon as the meeting
adjourned the talented violinist gathered
her chums about her and started for a
ice cream parlor.
GOVERNOR-ELECT TERRELL
COMING BACK FROM EAST
Hon. J. M. Terrell, governor-elect, will
sail today from New York on the
steamship Kansas City for Savannah, and
will arrive in Atlanta Sunday morning.
Mr. Terrell has been away from the state
for more than two weeks, resting after
his long campaign. He has visited many
points of interest in the north, and in a
letter to a friend at the capitol which
was received this morning he says he has
enjoyed his trip immensely.
Mr. Terrell will be inaugurated as gov
ernor on the fourth Saturday in October
for a term of two years. He has been be
seiged for appointments by many people
recently, but he has announced that he
will not consider ahy of them until the
general election is held in October.
FURNiniiEWILL
BE GIVEN OLD
SOLDIERS
TRUSTEES OF VETERANS’ HOME
WILL ALLOW FRIENDS TO FUR
NISH ROOMSAND NAME THEM
AS MEMORIAL ROOMS.
v . ■ ♦
The Confederate Soldiers’ Home, built
to replace the one destroyed by fire last
September, will soon be completed and
ready for occupancy. The board of trus
tees of the home have instructed its pres
ident, Col. W. L. Calhoun, to send ‘ths
following card to The Journal:
“Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia.
ATLANTA, Ga;, July >O,
“By a resolution of the board of trus
tees of the Confederate Soldiers’ Home, I
am directed to publicly express to the
people and organizations of our own state,
and of other states Its high appreciation
of, and thanks for, tfie generous dona
tions of cash and 1 various articles in kind
which have been so freely made both be
fore and sine© th© 'unfortunate destruction
Os the home on twe 30th of September last.
These donationsi added to the insurance
money, have placed in the hands of the
board a sufficient amount to replace the
building which will be finished about the
15th of August next, and will be a hand
some and commodious structure of the old
colonial style of architecture, containing
a memorial hall, library, mess hall, hos
pital, offices and 50 bed rooms.
“These rooms will have to be furnished
entirely new, as all the contents of the
•Id building were destroyed. It Is pro
posed to # furnish these rooms comfortably
and substantially, as and It to es
timated that the cost of furnishing each
bed-room will be $65. Quite a number of
persons had furnished rooms before the
fire which were designated and named as
the dohors desired.
"Some of the public rooms were furnish
ed by organizations at a larger cost. Prop
ositions have already been received from
several persons to renew this manner of
furnishing rooms by donations, and, ow
ing to the most certain large increase in
the number of Inmates when the new
home is opened, the board will need help
to accomplish the fitting up of the rooms
in a manner which will be suitable and
comfortable for our old soldiers in their
declining years.
“What is done for them will have to be
quickly done, as they are rapidly passing
‘over the river.’ Since the opening of the
home on the 3d of June, 1901, 20 of the in
mates have died; but we have the comfort
and satisfaction of knowing that their last
hours were made happier by kind atten
tion, and that they had Christian burial
the most of them on the beautiful lot of
Atlanta camp No. 159, U. C. V., in West
view cemetery. Proposals to furnish rooms
may be made to the president, any mem
ber of the board, or officer of the home.
"W. L. CALHUN,
"President.”
CONFEDERATE CAVALRY TO
HOLD REUNION AT ACWORTH
The annual reunion of the First and
Sixth Georgia Cavalry will take place at
Acworth, Ga., on Wednesday, August 6th.
The railroads have granted a far© of
one and one-third for the round trip, and
it is expected that a large body will be
present at the reunlop. In order to ob
taln this low rate, it will be necessary
for the members of the cavalry regiments
to get a certificate from the ticket agent
in the city from which they go, and it
will be signed by the secretary and treas
urer of the regiment at Acworth. All of
the visiting veterans are to be cared for
■free of all charge to themselves, and the
veterans at Acworth have been hard at
work to make this reunion the most suc
cessful ever held.
DR. W. M. BEARDSHEAR
IS AT POINT OF DEATH
AMES. la., July 31.—Dr. W. M. Bra
shear, president of lowa State college and
former president of the National Educa
tional association, is very low and his
death is expected hourly.
Dr. Bradshear was stricken with ner
vous prostration during the recent ses
sion of the National Educational associa
tion at Minneapolis.
MANY MEN AND BOYS
JOIN STRIKERS’ RANKS
NEW YORK. July 31.—Garment workers
who are on strike in Newark have had
their ranks increased by t,he addition of
over 200 men and boys, who quit work in
several factories and decided to remain
out until the strike was settled. This ad
dition, it is declared by the strikers, will
materially strengthen their cause.
Annual Stat® Fair,
BIRMINGHAM. Ala., July 28.—The
Alabama State Fair Association, which
is to give a state fair in Birmingham in
October, will bring pressure to bear upon
the next legislature to have an appro
priation made to assist in holding such •
fair each year, thereby assuring such a
display of the state's resources year by
year. ’
FORTY LIVES
HI
BY OCEAN
IN COLLISION AT SEA VESSEL
SINKS AND FORTY PERSONS
GO DOWN WITH THE DISA
BLED SCHOONER.
SINGAPORE, July 30—In a collision off
Malacca, Straits Settlement, between the
British schooners Prince Alexander and
Ban-Hln-Guan the former vessel was
sunk and 40 lives were lost.
The schooner Alexander was built at
Papenburg, Prussia In 1878. It was 162.7
feet in length with a net tonnage of 138
and sailed under the British flag. The
Ban-Hln-Guan also was built in 1878 at
Glasgow. It was 160.3 feet long, with a
gross tonnage of 443.
BE
FORMED BY MERCHANTS
Merchants of Georgia will form a mutual
ftre insurance company to insure their
property and the first steps for organiz
ing the company was taken Thursday
in the law office of Natper & Cox, in the
Equitable building.
Fifteen different cities were represented
at the meeting and it was agreed to form
a mutual insurance company as soon as a
charter could be secured. W. H. Nunnal
ly, of Monroe, who started the scheme,
will probably be elected president.
The charter will be prepared and notice
of it will be published in the newspaper
the time required by law. It will then be
filed with the secretary of state. As soon
as the charter is secured the company
will probably open a headquarters here.
The idea is to make the insurance rates
as low as possible and to pay back to the
policy holders all surplus dividends.
SUMTER’S TAX' RETURNS
SHOW BIG INCREASE
AMERICUS, Ga., July 30.—Tax Collec
tor Dunn finished on yesterday his com
pilation of the tax digest of Sumter coun
ty for 1902, which showed that the total
amount of property in the county was
$47,350.28 against $47,078 83 for 1901, showing
au increase in the aggregate amount of
property of $27,145.
An interesting fact is that the returns
show an acreage of 301,227 acres for 1902,
against 294,202, or an increase of 7,025
acres in the county according to the
returns of the current year, against that
of last year. This is on excellent showing
and though the county has been on no
boom it shows a steady and prosperous
growth.
HAVANA COALING STATION
IS LOST TO UNCLE SAM
WASHINGTON, July 30.—Probably the
last chance the navy department had to
secure a coaling or naval station In Ha
vana harbor was lost by the action of the
Cuban cabinet yesterday in authorizing
. the leas® of the arsenal grounds. This
was the sit® of the projected United
States naval station, for ■ which it was
admirably adapted by its position.
HUGHES FOLSOM DIES
FROM TYPHOID FEVER
WAYCROSS. Ga.. July 30.—Hughes Fol
som, the 17-year-old son of D. W. Folsom,
and second cousin of the lamented Mont
gomery Folsom, died here at 6 o'clock this
morning of typhoid fever.
His remains will be burled tomorrow in
Liberty county at the old Folsom burial
grounds.
PUMGTMFIT
THE COTTON GROWER
PRESIDENT HARVIE JORDAN, OF
THE GEORGIA COTTON GROW-
ERS’ ASSOCIATION, HAS
IDEA ON THAT LINE.
MACON, July 28.—When the ginners of
the state hold their convention here next
week, for the purpose of organizatlng,
President Harvie- Jordan, of yie Georgia
Cotton Growers’ association, will lay be
fore them his plans for making weekly re
ports of cotton bales ginned and packed,
so that the state agricultural department
may at all times keep posted on what the
cotton yield has been up to a given period
In the year, and the national department
of agriculture can get accurate figures,
and thus keep down the bullish or bearish
estimates that are frequently made for
the purpose of influencing prices. Mr. Jor
dan has had this plan in mind ever since
the cotton growers were organized, and he
is glad at this opportunity to make it prac
ticable.
EAST SIDE TAILORS
WILL RETURN TO WORK
NEJV YORK, July 31.—Ten thousand
striking east side tailors will return to
work today as a result of a verbal settle
ment reached between employers In the
New York Clothing Trade association and
the Garment Workers’ Trade Council.
Non-association manufacturers to the
number of 135 have made settlements with
the strikers and signed agreements. The
association manufacturers, however, have
refused to sign any agreement.
BRIEF ODDITIES.
In the Carpenterla valley, a few miles from
Ganta Barbara, Cal., Is an enormous grapvine.
It was planted in J 842 by Joaquina Lugo de
Ayala and therefore has just completed its
three-score years. The first election in Santa
Barbara county under American rule was held
beneath Its ample shade. This candidate for
the world record is double from the surface of
the ground up; the two parts are knit together
in a David-and-Jonathan-like embrace to a
height of about five feet seven Inches, where
they separate Into huge branches, the largest
having a circumference of three feet. Six
Inches above the ground the vine measures
eight feet and a half Inches In circumference
and it covers an area 113 feet square. Sixty
posts support the framework. The owner
says that wsrs provision made, it would spread
over a greater surface, for it is pruned every
year. Fabulous tales are told of the grapes
this vine produces. That it did actually yield
ten tons In a recent season seems to be au
thentic.
When the inhabitants of Sidestrand, near
Cromer. England, awoke one morning a few
weeks ago they were surprised to find that a
large portion of a cliff on the seashore had
sunk into the sea. Thirty thousand tons of
earth had fallen and with it the wall and a
portion of the graveyard of old St. Michael's
church. The ancient church tower itself la
now in jeopardy, for during the day following
the slip a further portion of the cliff crum
bled, away, leaving only a few feet between
the tower and its edge. A grewsome feature
of the slide was the unearthing of many igng
burled coffins and the scattering of human re
mains far and wide.
TORE WOMAN’S CLOTHING
AND CAME TO GRIEF
■I
For attacking on the street the woman
he professed to love and following her
home aqd attempting to break in, Frank
White was arrested Tuesday. Mrs. Lula
Cook, of 23 Orme street, was the woman
attacked. It was about 7:30 o’clock, at the
corner of Luckle and Fairlie streets. The.
woman had her clothing torn almost en
tirely from her person.
Later White appeared at her home and
tried to get in, it is said. Police head
quarter® were notified and Call Officers
Tibbs and Dorsey went to the house and
arrested White.
Mrs. Cook says White has professed to
love her for about a year. He has given
her a number of presents. He wanted
them back and attempted to tear the
clothes off her, he says. She states sho
cares for White and is willing to marry
him yet. He was drinking, she declares,
and did not know probably what he was
doing.
,«
TAX DIGESTS CONTINUE TO
SHOW BIG INCREASES
Several tax digests were received by
Comptroller General Wright this morn
ing, a majority of them showing a de
crease. Instead of an Increase in the prop
erty returns, it begins to look as if there
will be a decrease.
Comptroller Wright and Governor Can
dler are very much disappointed over the
outlook, and unless there is a big increase
from some of the large counties It may be
that the returns will show a decrease of
several million dollars instead of an in
crease of $20,000,000, as was expected at
the beginning’ of the year.
lanetFcotton mills'
CLOSED BY COAL STRIKE
WEST POINT, Ga.. July 30.-On account
of scarcity of coal the Lanett Cotton
mills, employing about 1,500 hands, shut
down at noon. The strike in the coal re
gions is the cause of the trouble.
M'TO MS
ID DE PUCED
ON SALE
HANDSOME CARDS IN MEMORY OF
DEAD PRESIDENT TO TAKE
PLACE OF OLD
Yi] J ONES. ’r-’T
A new style postal card has been issued
by the postoffice department in honor of
the late President McKinley. The Atlanta
postoffice will soon receive its allotment,
when they will be placed on sale.
The new cards were to have been is
sued earlier in the year, but the first de
sign submitted was not satisfactory and
another was orderbd. This has, of course,
caused delay.
The new card is of exactly the same
size as the one now in use, but is, on
the whole, an Improvement over the old
issue. It is to be of better quality of
paper, although it is somewhat thinner,
and will therefore give a better writing
surface. The printing on the address side
is better arranged and presents a plainer
and more business-like appearance.
On the old card there is considerable
scroll work around the< portrait of Jstffer
son. There is merely a plain line around
that of McKinley and the words, "Post
age one cent. 1843—McKinley—1901.” This
is printed In plain type outside of the
line around the portrait.
Just opposite the portrait of McKin
ley in the upper left hand corner Is the
seal of the United States, also with a
light line around it, with the words,
“United States” above and "of America”
just below and outside the line. Printed
In large letters between the lower ends
of the two are the words, “Postal Card.”
Just above is printed, “The space above
is reserved for postmark.” and below In
type a little darker, “The space below is
for the address only.”
» All of this printing is a little above the
center of the card and leaves an open
space for the postmark. Nearly all of the
wavy cancellation lines will pass across
the portrait of McKinley but the name
of the mailing ofllce, dates and other
marks will appear on the blank between
that and the seal. This is an improve
ment ©ver the old card, 'as on that the
legibility of the postmarks is interfered
with by the heavy black field for the
words "United States of America.”
GEORGiiTTHIBD
IN PRODUCTION'
• PHEAS
STATE NUMBERS SEVENTH WHEN
STATISTICS ARE SHOWN BEAR
ING ON THE CULTURE
OF TOBACCO.
WASHINGTON, July 30.-Georgia
stands third in the list of pea producing
states, being led only by Michigan and
South Carolina, according to a census bul
letin to be issued in a few days.
Ths production In the United States in
1899 was 9,440,269 bushels from 968,371 acres,
with a value of $7,909,074. an average of 84
cents per bushel, or $8.17 per acre. Georgia
produced 1,130,441 bushels on 167,082 acres.
Burke was the banner pea county, with
52.669 bushels.
The production In other counties was
20,000 bushels or more, as follows:
Bulloch, 23.439 bushels; Dooly, 32.697;
Emanuel, 33.443; Hancock, 22,139; Johnson.
25.726; Jefferson, 36,782; Montgomery, 24,201;
Randolph, 20,545; Screven, 38,813; Stewart,
22,920; Tattnall, 21,446; Warren. 28,081;
Washington, 44,772, and Worth. 20,749.
Georgia produced 176,304 bushel of beans,
with an average value of $1.51 per bushel,
and 967,927 bushels of peanuts, worth on
an average 61 cents per bushel. Virginia
and North Carolina alone led Georgia In
the production of peanuts.
Georgia stood seventh in the list of
tobacco producing states in 1899, according
to a census bulletin to be issued tomor
row. The total production in the United
States was 868,163,275 pounds, with a value
of $56,993,003. In Georgia 2,304 acres devoted
to tobacco culture produced 1,105,600
pounds, with an average of $159,659.
The bulletin shows that the Georgia
crop was raised on small tracts of land.
In Union county 236 acres were devoted to
tobacco, producing 112,628 pounds. White
county had 55 acres in tobacco, and Lump
kin county 56 acres, while for the rest of
the counties the average ran from one to
20 acres per county.
Enterprise.
The Courier de Paris.
A party of men sitting in front of a boulevard
case were recently approached by a man
had a clarinet in his hand, and who said:
“Gentlemen, excuse me, I have to make my
living, but I suppose you would rather give
me a sou not to hear me.” They took the hint.
He repeated this performance- several times till
one day one of the men said he felt like bearing
a tune and asked him to play. “I am sorry,”
said the man with the clarinet, “but I cannot
play a note.”
W SEGGIRS
INNEWyORK
MRESTED
FORTY CHILDREN WERE TAKEN
FROM THE STREETS TUES-
■ DAY NIGHT BY POLICEMEN.
WILL CONTINUE WORK.
CHICAGO, July 30.—Under direction of
the probation officers the police made a
tour of the principal down town retail
streets last night, and gathered tn as
many as they could of the scores of lit
tle children who are sent Into the streets
nightly to beg and peddle.
Forty children, boys and girls, all be
tween four and seven years of age, were
gathered in. Each “waif-finding wagon”
was preceded a half block by two police
men who picked up the little ones and put
them into the wagons. Many others es
caped the officers.
The children are held at the Harrison
street police annex pending an Investi
gation in the case of each child by the
Visitation and Aid society. The raids will
be kept up until the streets are cleared
of baby beggars.
OXFORD’S OLDEST LANDMARK
IS DESTROYED BY FIRE
OXFORD, Ga.. July 30.—The burning of ths
Selman houae here on Thursday last carried
from Oxford its oldest landmark.
The house was first erected in Covington
about one hundred yean ago, and when Emory
college was founded here in 1836 it waa moved
to Oxford and rebuilt on the site that Mn. R.
U. Hardeman’® residence now stands, and waa
then ownM by the Murrell family of Walton
county. When the late state treasurer, R. U.
Hardeman, moved to Oxford ha purchased the
house and lot and resided in the house for a
number of yean, and being much pleased
with the lot, when he proposed building a new
home, had the Selman house removed to ths
next lot and later sold it to Mrs. M. ▲. Sel
man, who owned it when it was burned.
Many distinguished parsons have lived in it,
among them the late Bishop A. G. Haygood,
who lived there previous to his marriage, and
the late State Treasurer Hardeman, who waa
married In It.
About five years ago it was remedied and
changed from an ancient ante-belldm home
with huge columns to a modern home and was
one of the prettiest in the village.
TIME-LOCK SET BIG
BANK TO BORROWING
Phoenix National Had to Hustle to
Get a Paltry tI^OOO—
OOO In Cash Was In Vault.
Though solid as a rock, the phoenix Na
tional bank, of No. 51 Wall street, had to
do business on credit yesterday, according
to the New York World.
This was simply because somebody on
Saturday afternoon set the time lock on
the big vaults for 5:15 p. m. yesterday
Instead of 9:30 a. m. The result was that
the bank found itself practically without
funds in the morning.
Locked up in the safe was $1,315,000 in
cash, to say nothing of notes and collater
al worth much more than that amount.
A hurried consultation of the bank’s offi
cers was called.
A safe expert was summoned. He was
asked how long it would take to open
the vault. He told the gentlemen present
that it would take all day, and that great
damage would be done to the expensive
machinery governing the time lock end
to the steel walls of the safe.
Then it was decided not to open ths
safe by violence, but to wait until ths
afternoon, when the lock would allow it
self to be opened. Then the hur
ried out into Wall street to raise funds
for the day's business. When the plight
of the Phoenix was learned there were
many offers of cash.
Meanwhile deposits ware flowing In, and
this cash waa used to offset withdrawals.
In ordinary business a bank’s deposits
of cash about equal the withdrawals in
cash. Most of the business both ways is
done by check.
But there was the clearing house Bal
ance to be met. Thia must be settled every
day in ready money. If there is a bal
ance against a bank it must pay up; if
there is money coming the clearing housa
pays equally promptly. Yesterday there
was a balance of $16,000 against the Phoe
nix, but it only needed a friendly call
down the street to raise the funds and
meet the balance.
“It was very lucky for us," said Cashier
Bull last night, “that the vaults were
closed Bn a Saturday. That was a half
holiday and business was very light. We
had to have very little cash today to
make good our clearing house balance,
and our deposits about equalled our with
drawals*
“But all our papers were locked up, too,
and it made it hard to do business. For
tunately. the books were in another vault,
which was opened at the proper time, so
we were not completely tied up.”
Everybody in the bank waited around
until after closing time to see that the
vaults were opened. At 5:15 p. m. there
was a click inside the works, and when
Mr. Bull turned the knobs the vaults
opened as easily as the door to a doU's
h Then the lock was carefully reset for
9:30 a. m. today.
HON. CRAIG WADSWORTH
HAS SAILED TO EUROPE
NEW YORK. July M.—Craig
worth, of this city, has sailed for London
to take up bls duties as third secretary
of the United States embassy, to succes
sion to William Eustis.
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