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mmwxi VOLUME XII. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1913. NO. 63. CAN CLEAR FOUR ARE NOW MURDER MYSTERY; Developments in Case Have Come Thick and Fast Monday But No Evidence Has Yet Been Discovered Which Fixes the Atrocious Crime - Mullinax Seems to Have Proved Alibi and Will Soon Be Released OF SCUTARI FORTS Crown Prince Danilo and Troops March Out of City Toward North on Monday Morning Detectives expect to wring the secret of Mary Phagan's murder from Newt Lee, negro night watchman at the National Pencil factory, 37-39 South Forsyth street. Their theory is that he is innocent of the crime itself, but that he knows the murderer of the four£een-year-old girl, and is shielding the man who strangled Mary Phagan with a piece of hempen cord on Satur day and dragged her body into the pitch black cellar of the factory. The negro will tell nothing, but from him and from J. M. Gantt, the discharged bookkeeper, detectives expect to draw the story of how Mary Phagan was beaten into unconsciousness, assaulted, and then strangled to death. FOUR ARE UNDER ARREST. Four men are under arrest: Lee, the negro night watchman; Gantt, who was discharged three weeks ago by the company; Arthur Mullinax, of 62 Poplar street, and Gordon Bailey, a negro elevator boy at the pencil factory. L. M. Frank, superintendent of the pencil factory, was questioned by the police, and spent the better part of Monday morning at police station. But he was not placed under arrest, and at noon returned home. An alibi has practically been established for Mullinax by Jim Ruth erford, with whom he boarded, and the police have no direct evidence against Gordon Bailey, the elevator boy. 'They are depending upon Newt Lee, the watchman, anc* upon Gantt, the discharged bookkeeper, for a solution of the mystery whic^ shrouds the murder of the fourteen-year-old girl. SLEEPING COMPARTMENT. An improvised cot, fashioned from wodden boxes pushed close together and covered with crocus bags, was discover ed in a separate compartment in the basement at the rear end near where the dead body of the girl was found. The compartment which is about eight or t ^£' ee l Wld . e runs abou t half the length of the building and the ground is soggy with dampness. Just inside, and to the left of the door at the back end, is the cot. In the ground near it were discovered two small footprints, that are believed to be tnose of a woman. The belief is now that the girl was lured here, assaulted and then murdered and her body dragged to the spot outside where it was found lying face downward in a pool of blood. Through the discovery of this cot the police are led to believe that it has been used as a place of rendezvous. The watchman discovered the place Sunday and pointed it out to newspa per men who discovered the tell-tale footprints through the aid of lanterns in the ill smelling, damp and dismal place. It is the theory of the police that the negro, Newt Lee, knew of the place. The negro fireman, William Nolie, who has been in the employ of the company for two months, denied most emphati cally any knowledge of the existence of the rendezvous. Investigations Monday morning proved that Mary Phagan was murdered in the metal room, on the second floor of the factory, and- that her body was lowered in the elevator to the base ment, and was dragged across the oozy, slimy floor of the cellar to the corner where it was found lying face upward between 3 and 4 o’cluck Sunday morn ing. / They are not sure of the time at which the child was murdered, but they believe that she met her death at mid night instead of Saturday afternoon or Saturday evening. BELIEVES WATCHMAN KNOWS. The negro night watchman was on duty during the later afternoon and throughout the night, and they are com vinced that he must know how the crime was committed.. As soon as he can be made to tell his story, detectives believe that they will have the full ac count of how the girl was murdered. Blood upon the floor in the metal roum, and strands of hair found in the machinery of a lathe, establish the fact that Mary Phagan met her death there instead of in the cellar. With inhuman ferocity she was at tacked, beaten into unconsciousness and her murder completed by the hempen rope twisted about her throat. Newt Lee, the watchman, remained in the building throughout the night, but he says that he heard no screams, that lie knew nothing of the murder in the metal room, and that he neither saw nor heard the murderer as the dead body of Mary Phagan was placed, in the elevator, lowered to the cellar, and drag ged across the wet damp floor to the corner where it was found. The police place no belief in his pro fessed ignorance. They think that he must know who murdered the girl, and who bore the body to the cellar. They are also entertaining the theory that the murderer must have had as sistance in lowering the body to the basement, and that perhaps the negro watchman lent his aid. NEGRO KEEPS HIS TONGUE. The negro’s silence has been proof against all questions, but the police are confident that he has the whole story at his tongue’s end and that he will eventually clear the. mystery. The third degree Tor the watchman and an examination of Gantt, the dis charged bookkeeper, are the means through which .the police mean to dis cover the murderer of Mary Phagan. Their efforts Monday morning bore fruit chieffiy in the arrest of Gantt, and the discovery of facts which seem to tassure the negro’s knowledge of the murder. They first discovered that the girl had been murdered upon the second floor and tier body lowered to the basement; they next found that Gantt had visited the factory on Saturday afternoon, and they finally effected his arrest at Mari etta. SL'PPTRINTENDENT IS QUESTIONED. Other developments of the day were chiefly random investigations. L. M. Frank, superintendent of the pencil fac tory, was questioned at police station during the gerater part of the morning and a stenographic record was kept ot his answers. So rigid was this exam ination that Mr. Frank employed Lu ther- Rosser and Herbert Haas to repre sent him in his appearance before the police. But no charges w-ere made against him, and at the conclusion of his examination he returned home. The coroner’s jury met and made a personal investigation of the metal room where Mary Phagan was murder ed and the cellar where her body was (By Associated Press.) VIENNA, Austria, April 28.—Crown Prince Danilo, of Montenegro, and his troops have marched out of Scutari to ward the north, according to official dispatches received here today. Only five batteries of Montenegrin artillery remain in the city. Montenegro Terms Demand Of Europe Cruel and Unjust LONDON, April 28.—The representa tive of the Montenegrin government in London received instructions today from Cettinje ordering him to protest formally against the demand by the European powers for t he immediate evacuation of Scutari by the Montene grins which is described by the govern ment of King Nicholas as “unjust and cruel.” The demand of the European powers is couched in the following terms: “We have the honor to declare col lectively to the royal government of Montenegro that the taking of the fort ress of Scutari does not any way modify the decision of the European powers rel ative to the delimitation of the fron tiers of northern and northeastern Al bania and 'consequently the city of Scu tari must be evacuated with the brief est possible delay and must be handed over t > the European powers represent ed by the commandants of the interna tional naval forces lying before the Montenegrin coast. “The royal government of Montenegro is invited to give a prompt reply to this communication.” The Montenegrin representative in London, to whom this'' demand was ca bled back from Cettinje, said today: “I have been ordered by my govern ment to protest formally against this unjust and cruel demand and once more to ask the European powers to examine in an equitable manner the vital ques tion of Montenegro’s future and to place that nation on an equal footing with the other Balkan allies.” found. But the examination of wit nesses* was deferred until Wedensday. FRANK LEAVES STATION. At 12:15 o’clock Leo M. Frank, super intendent of the National Pencil com pany’s plant in which fourteen-year-old Mary Phagan was murdered some time Sunday morning, left police headquar ters in the company of his lawyers and a number of friends. Before leaving, he had confronted Arthur Mullinax, the street car conductor, whom the police were holding under suspicion, and had declared that he never saw* Mullinax before that moment. Also, he had helped the police to clarify the recollec tions of Newt Lee, negro night watch man,* relative to one incident upon the evening preceding the crime. Lee had told the detectives that J. M. Gantt, formerly a bookkeeper at the plant, calling there Saturday afternoon and being admitted, had stayed in the office only three or four minutes. Under questions by Mr. Frank, the negro said Gantt stayed inside longer than that— long enough to wrap up his old shoes that he had called to get, and to tele phone to some girl. SAW MAN WITH GIRL. L. T. (“Charley”) Hall, in charge of the automobile trucks of the city sani tary department, told the detectives that he took his brother-in-law to the corner of Forsyth and Alabama streets, a block north of the pencil factory, at midnight Saturday to put him aboard the last East Point car. After the car left, Hall entered the soda and cigar establishment on the opposite corner, west side of Forsyth, and while there, at about 12:05 o’clock, he saw a couple going down the street toward the pen cil factory. The man, said he, seemed to fit the description given to him of Gantt. He had seen the man before around the plant, said he. when he went there with the sanitary trucks. He had looked on him as some sort of an official. Recently for a couple of weeks DAY 111 DEBATE ON Underwood Hopes to See Bill Finally Disposed of by the House in One Week From This Monday THE WAY THE WEND BLOWS! FROM MISSISSIPPI FLOOD Tensas and Concordia Parish es of Louisiana Flooded by Break in Levee at Gibson vm .T T pyAaaociated Press.) VIDALIA, La., April 28.—Vidalia to- d ? y m is fll,ed wlth refugees from sections of Tensas and Concordia parishes north of here which are being rapidly flooded by the waters from the crevasse in the Mississippi river near Gibson’s land ing. which occurred early Sunday morn ing. More than 4.000 persons were taken from the overflowed section yesterday to Natchez and other places across the river in Mississippi. Several thousand head of cattle also were transferred to points across the river and last night and today there was a continuous stream of cattle passing through the streets of Vidalia to the ferry where they are being taken to Natchez. There are eight river steamers and a number of launches engaged in the rescue work between Vidalia and Gib son’s landing, under the direction of the United States army relief corps. The levees n^rth of Vidalia are lined wfith people, many of whom have brought what few household goods and wearing apparel they could hurriedly assemble. Horses and cattle also are being driv en from the levees, awaiting steamers to take them across the river. Reports received this morning say that the crevasse is almost a half mile wide and thousands of the broken levee continue to fall away rapidly. For a distance of about fifteen miles just back of the break, and south, the wa ter ranges from a depth of two to three feet on the outer edge to twenty feet in the Immediate vicinity of the crevasse. The water had spread over the towns of Water Proof, Goldman. Gibson and Azu- buma this morning and was rapidly ap proaching Clayton which is expected to be covered within the next two or three days. The St. Louis, Iron Moun tain and Southern railways which skirts the west bank of the river from Fer- riday north to St. Joseph js covered with water a distance of several miles and the tracks just west of the crevasse have been washed away. About twenty miles of the tracks of this line will be under water within the next few days. Another of this company’s roads, which extends north from Ferriday via Ray- ville, La., will be put out of commission by the middle of the week. CHEATS HANGMAN’S NOOSE IN WILD DASH IN AUTO AFTER WIFE HELPS TO OPEN CELL he had not seen him. He was with a girl, whose dress reached just to her shoe tops. Hall thinks the girl wore white shoes. He thought no more of it until he read of the murder. A woman whom no one could identify, called detective headquarters upon the phone Monday morning and asked if Mullinax, the trolley car conductor, was under arrest. Detective Hollingsworth informed her in the affirmative, and asked if she knew anything of the case. She answered “Yes,” said he, but hung up before he could get any further re plies from her. FACTORY IS CLOSED. Owing to the feeling of unrest and intense excitement that prevailed among the women employes at the Na tional Pencil company’s plant Monday morning while detectives were making further investigations into the brutal murder and assault of little Mary Pha gan, Assistant Superintendent H. G. Schlff. ordered the machinery stopped and the place closed for the day. The girls and women lost no time in getting into their wraps and hats and leaving the scene of the mysterious tiagedy that still baffles those inves tigating the case. All were told, how ever, to be sure ana report on time for work Tuesday morning. HAIR IS IDENTIFIED. It is the belief of detectives that an important witness has been discovered in Magnolia Kennedy, the young girl who worked next to Mary Phagan in the metal or pencil tip room. She will testify that the hair 'found wrapped around a part of a lathe in this department of the factory was that of Mary. L. A. Quinn, foreman of the room, was also positive that the strands of hair had come from the head of the dead girl. Woman Brings Condemned Husband Hacksaw During Religious Services—Prisoner, Bars Window, Scales Wall and Steals Automobile (JBy Associated Press.) TAMPA, Fla., April 28.—Speeding through the country in a stolen auto mobile, E. F. Andrews, condemned to be hanged for the murder of J. W. Alexander at Palmetto, eight months ago, is making a dash for liberty. In the county jail here is hife wife, who is under charge of furnishing the hack saw with which Andrews last night sawed his way out of the cell in “mur derer’s row,” and then through the barred outer window into the jail yard, after which he scaled the wall and got away without arousing the guard. Mrs. Andrews was admitted to the jail yesterday to see him while religious services were being held and it is charged she slipped the hacksaw to him then. The tool was found at the morning where Andrews had aropped it. Andrews killed Alexander during a drunken brawl at Alexander’s home near Palmetto, in Manatee county. He was tried and convicted in that county and brought here for safe keeping, the jail there bing insecure and therealso being much popular feeling against Andrews. The man came from near Greenville, Ala., and it is thought he is headed in that direction in the automobile. Sheriff Spencer sent out news of the escape and offered a reward for Andrews’ capture. HOKE SMITH ASKS MORE PAY FOR RURAL CARRIERS Georgia Senator Would Allow $300 Annually for Care of Their Teams BY RALPH SMITH. WASHINGTON, April 28.—A bill in creasing the salaries of rural carriers from $1,100 to $1,400 was introduced to day by Senator Hoke Smith. The in crease is intended to cover the expenses incurred by the carriers in maintaining their teams. The senator introduced also a bill increasing the rate of interest paid by banks on postal saving deposits from 2 1-4 to 3 per cent per annum. The government pays depositors 2 per cent interest on their deposits and it Is es timated that it will require an addi tional 1 per cent to bear the expense of the government maintaining postal banks. DIAZ AND HUERTA SPLIT; ROTH KEEP ARMED MEN Diaz Has Artillery and Huerta the Infantry, According to Reports Stabbed to Death WEST POINT, Ga., April 28.—Mike Morris, a mill hand in the Lanett cotton mill, was stabbed to death Saturday by David L. Adams, Jr. Walter Smith and Jesse Allen are being held as witnesses in the West Point jail. Other operatives were of the same opin ion but not being in the same part of the place were not so certain. But the little girl who worked with Mary sai dthat she was not ipistaken. She was asked point blank if she would sweat the strands came from the head of her companion. “I am positive of it,” she said, “and will swear to it if neces sary.” While detectives, newspaper men and employees gathered about the lathe lit tle Magnolia tiptoed up close to the ma chine and stared intently at the golden strands. She shuddered. Awe-stricken women stood away from her. Then her voice broke the silence. “It’s Mary’s hair,” she almost whispered. “I know It.” BLOOD SPOTS FOUND. Across the room from the lathe, spots of blood were found on the floor near a wooden closet built out from the wall near a door that opened into an other department of the factory. The largest spot was four or five inches in diameter ana around it were smaller spatterings. Detectives and Chief of Police Beavers chiseled up shavings of the flooring to get a better light on the wood. An alcohol test was made by dipping the stained piece of wood into the liquid. It was not soluable as paint or grease would have been, and did not discolor the contents of the glass. This test satisfied the officers that the stains were blood from the body of the murdered girl. Employes of the factory stated posi tively that the spots were not there Friday afternoon when the room was swept out. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 28.—A rapidly growing situation in Mexico City, fraught with friction between the Huer ta and the Diaz factions of the pro visional government is reported in con fidential advices and these reports are augmented by agents of the Carranza constitutionalists arriving here. Robert Pesquiera, a member of the Mexican house of deputies .arrived here today to succeed Gonzaies Gante as con- dential agent of the Carranza forces. Gante has been assigned to a special mission, the nature of whicji is not dis closed, but it is believed he is going to Europe. Reports of the situation in Mexico City confirm earlier advices of the tens ity of the relations of Diaz to Huerta. Between the two officials practically all government forces in the federal dis trict have been divided Into two armed camps. Huerta hasadded to the infan try at the national palace and Diaz has encamped much of the artillery on his estate, Hacienda del Cristo, about thirty miles away. Mondragon, minister of war, is in practical possession of the citadel, where other artillery forces are quartered. , (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, April 28.—A rush of speechmaking on the final day of general debate on the tariff bill made lively pro ceedings in the house. Most of the members had held back with the aim of getting larger audiences expected with the closing of the general debate and the shifting of consideration of the re vision measure to a reading under the five-minute rule beginning tomorrow. Leader Underwood has not changed his view that the bill should be dis posed of in the house within a week from today and that the sugar schedule is not likely to offer much real trouble. He hopes that unless the fight of the anti-free wool advocates spreads, the bill will emerge from the senate’ sub stantially in the form in which it stands. Representative Rainey, of Illinois, who has charge of the agriculturai schedule of the bill as a member of the ways and means committee; Represent ative Murdock, of Kansas, leader of the Progressives, and others of that party, and some of the big guns of the Repub licans were on today’s speaking pro gram. Mr. Rainey declared that the bill rep resented the dawn of a new era in the government’s fiscal policy, “making lighter the burdens of taxes upon con sumers and compelling great wealth to contribute its fair share toward pay ing the government expenses.” He pointed out that no government that adopted an income tax system and given it a fair trial had repealed it INCOME TAXES. “We hake the tax highest upon the great incomes and lowest upon the small incomes, taxing 425,000 in all and expecting to collect from them at least $70,000,000. He said the tax would reach 126,000 incomes that amount to between $4,000 and $5,000 a year, from which the gov ernment expects to collect only $630,000, an average of $5 per income, and would reach 100 incomes amounting to more than $1,000,000 each per year, from which a collection of nearly $6,000,000 is expected. Mr. Rainey said he knew of no swol len fortune which had not been made possible by the favors of government, and that a protective tariff conferred upon protected interests the right not only to levy taxes but to collect and dis tribute the dividends to the holders of watered stocks. He declared that the revision would end the alliance between the protected woolen mills of the east and the wool- producing states of the west. “This,” he concluded, “is not a free trade bill, but it will fail of its purpose if it does not bring about a freer ex change between the products of this and other countries, each nation, each sec tion producing what it is best adapted to produce and trading its products for the products of other sections and na tions.” Democratic Leader Underwood, fram er of the new tariff bill, contends that the United States is entirely in its right in the provision of the bill in which foreign nations have protested. The clause which would grant a 5 per cent tariff on goods imported in Ameri can vessels and which has caused pro tests from a number of nations, Mr. Underwood says, is to encourage the building of American ships and he be lieves it violates no treaty. The French protest is against the pro vision that foreign manufacturers and exporters shall submit their books to United States agents when demanded. This clause, Mr. Underwood declares, does not mean that the United^ States is going to try to learn the secrets of for eign manufacturers, as it would be used only in cases where there is reason to suspect that goods have been under valued. Representative Payne defended the Payne -Adrichtariff law and declared the Underwood bill as a tapi^ Rev enue measure “ a signal f« “If this bill becomes a law as it now stands, the next four years will be years of weary waiting,” he said. “That the proposed bill is a revision downward, I frankly admit,” Mr. Payne concluded. Aviator. Stops Only Twice on 1,000-Mile Trip; Time 22 Hours Girl Weds Father’s Slayer After Seeing The Death Struggle (By Associated Press.) CAMDEN, Tenn., April 26.—With the bride-to-be an onlooker, her brother and father, George Cole, and her intended husband and his father, Alonzo Smith, fought with knives in the roadway near Camden, late last night until the elder Cole was killed and his son probably fatally wounded. Three hours later Smith and the girl were married. The elder Smith was arrested. Cole, it is said, protested that his daughter was only fourteen years old, and for this reason objected to the mar riage. "War Speech" Is Delivered in Congress*Monday by Repre sentative Sisson, of Missis sippi on Jap Land Ouastiorn WASHINGTON, April 28.—A “wap speech” in support of the proposed California anti-alien land law was de livered in the house today by Repre-1 sentative Sisson, of Mississippi, “If we must have war or submit to- this indignity, I am for war,” cried Mr. Sisson. "I am with the people of Cali fornia in their efforts to prevent these aliens from acquiring land.” SHADES OF WASHINGTON. "I believe," said Mr. Sisson, “that noi non-residental citizens should be al- lowed a single foot of land in the ter ritory of the United States. What would! Washington say in answer to the ques tion, war or submission? What would, Jackson say? What would Cleveland say? What would McKinley say? “I resent the efforts of Japan to foroe ■ us to submit to her demands.” ’ Mr. Sisson took the position that the.. Japanese government in protesting against alien land, legislation was en deavoring to exempt its citizens from the operation of the laws of states. "The president and secretary of state,” said Mr. Sisson, "should only as sure an alien government that the peo ple of that alien nation would be dealt with fairly in accordance with the law ofv the state. Any other position would lead to the federal government taking opt from under the laws of the states the citizens of another nation. But ail citizens or aliens resident in a stata. must be held subject to its laws, and to exempt the alien would give him privi leges over and above those accorded to American citizens.” Representative Mann, the Republicart leader, suggested the United States had the constitutional right to treat with foreign governments to secure for American citizens property rights abroad and that Mr. Sisson was con- tending that the foreign governments i did not have a similar right. Mr. Sisson contended that the people of California had the right to pass, laws regarding alien holding of land as in their Judgment seemed best when such laws did not infringe upon federal j constitution. Secretary Bryan Arrives In Sacramento for Conference SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 28.—Wil liam J. Bryan, secretary of st»te, ar-( rived in Sacramento today to conferl with Governor Johnson and the Cali-, fornia legislature on the proposed anti- 1 lien land holding laws. Governor John son met the visitor at the train at which many Democratic legislators had gathered. An hour after Secretary Bryan’s ar rival it was announced by Governor Johnson that he would call the two houses of the legislature in a joint executive session this morning to allow Mr. Bryan to deliver his official message. The meeting was called at the request of Mr. Bryan, said the governor. Although he will spend much of hia time at the governor’s home, arrange ments have been made for him to have an office at the capitol building where he will be accessible to callers. Secertary Bryan made the following statement on his arrival. “I am visiting California at the re quest ‘ of the president and wtitf the consent of the legislature, to oonfec upon an important matter which, while local in its immediate effect, is inter national in character. “Each state occupies a dual position. While it is the guardian of its domestic affairs, it is a member of the union, and therefore interested in all that con cerns the nation’s relations with the outside world. “The president, upon whom rests th®; constitutional duty of maintaining dip lomatic relations with other countries, asked me to come to California to con fer with the governor and legislators upon such phases of the subject as to/ touch this nation’s relations to other* nations. “Coming on such a mission, it would be obviously improper to say anything’, in advance upon questions which may; enter into the conference.” Secretary Bryan went to the capitol with Governor Johnson shortly before 10 o’clock and spent half an hour in the executive offices, where he was visited by several legislative leaders. It was arranged that Mr. Bryan should take possession of Lieutenant Governor Wallace’s ffices in the capitol. His firsto | visitor was Dr. David Carr Jordon, of Stanford university, who came at Mr^ Bryan’s request to confer on the aliei* land situation. (By Associated Press.) J KOLLUM, Holland, April 28.—A con- j tinuous flight of over 1.000 miles by | aeroplane was completed here early j tday by the French aviator, Ernest > Francois Giullaux. He made only two | stops during his ’flight from Biarritz, in the extreme southwest of France, which l he left yesterday morning, descending to | replenish his fuel at Bordeaux and Vil- lacoublay. The entire trip was made in a little more than twenty-two hours, the aviator leaving Biarritz at 4:42 a. m. Sunday and reaching this city before daybreak today. ROLLER SKATES HURL BOY TO HIS DEATH (By Associated Press.) NEWBERN, N. C.. April 28.—Roller skates claimed their victim Saturday when Ellis Meekins, seventeen-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Meekins, a prominent family of this section, died as a result of injuries sustained several nights ago while skating on the public sidewalks. NEWNAN CAMP FORMED BY SONS OF VETERANS MACON PEACHES POOR CROPS WILL BE G00D« MARSHAtzLVILLE, Ga.. Apil 28.—-It is estimated that there will be one- third of a peach crop shiped from here this year. Planters have about finished planting and are getting good stands of cotton and corn. Asparagus shipping is about over. The asparagus industy has grown to such, proportions that shipments have been made in car lots, which was very ad vantageous to the growers. NEWNAN, Ga., April 28.—A camp of Sons of Veterans was organized here Saturday with over 100 charter mem bers. The officers are: W. C. Kinnard, commandant; J. A. Stephens, first lieutenant; N. E. Powel, second lieutenant; Lynch Turner, adju tant; Dr. T. S. Bailej', surgeon; Dr. T. B. Thomas, chaplain; B. J. Fry, quar termaster; E. C. Goodwyn, treasurer; C. J. Owens, color sergeant; T. M. Thompson, historian. James E. Brown presided at the or ganization, which will be known as Camp Coweta, Sons of Veterans. COTTON OIL PLANT BURNS AT BATESBURG BATESBURG, S, C., April 28—Fire of unknown origin Sunday destroyed the oil plant of the Batesburg Cotton Oil company here. The company’s ginnery and fertilizer plants were also slightly damaged, and 2,000 tons of cotton hulls consumed. The total loss is estimated at from $50,000 to $60,000. Insurance amounted to $25,000. NOTICE to Sheriffs, Marshals, Etc. LOOK OUT for R. War ren, claiming to be agent for Semi-Weekly Journal in Florida. Wire information to R. R. BRADLEY of Journal, A tlanta, Ga.