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VOLUME XV. ALBANY, GA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 23„1906. NUMBER 106. Democrat on Interstate Commerce Committee Agree to Report the Bill and Make Fight in Senate. / Washington, Feb. 23. — The Demo cratic members ot the Senate commit tee on interstate commerce today voted to report the Hepburn bill to the Senate without amendment and trans fer the contest to the floor o£ the Senate. This action does nob commit the .Democrats on the question of court review. 7 SENATE COMMITTEE DIVIDED ON RAILROAD RATE BILL. Washington, Feb. 23. — The Senate committee on interstate commerce failed during the morning session to reach a vote on the railroad rate bill to be reported to the Senate. An en deavor is being made to reach a' de cision by 3 o'clock. Senator Dolliver moved to report the Hepburn bill favorably without the amendment as adopted by the House. The Democratic members asked time for consultation, and Senators . Tillman, McLaurln, Foster and New- lands withdrew for that purpose. Senator Dolliver said he would force a vote by 3 o’clock if possible, and expressed the belief that he had votes enough to pass his motion. NEGRO WITH A KNIFE RUNS AMUCK IN TOPfeKA. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 23.—After cut ting three persons, two of whom will probably die, Cyrus Hapgood, a negro, believed to be insane, surrendered to the police and asked protection. He had been chased by friends of his vic tims, who surprised him in the act of robbing a boarding house. s' Alt M any aclnnery e o. TO SEE JORDRS In Interest of Burrell Pat terson—Fair Messenger of Hope WorKing for Con demned Man. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 23. — If Burrlll Patterson, sentenced to be hanged in Heard county, escapes the gallowB he may thank Mrs. Able Boyce, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. M. C. Martin, who re side at 64 Hill street Mrs. Boyce is young and beautiful. She has Interested hersetlf in Patter son’s behalf, and it was owing largely to her ’ pleadings that the governor gave Patterson a three weeks’ respite to enable the prison commission to make a thorough investigation of the case. On Monday Mrs. Boyce will make a trip to Heard county to interview each of tho jurors who par.sed on the Pat terson case, also members of the grand jury, the juc.ge and solicitor- general, and hundreds of citizens, if need be, to establish the young man’s innocence or at least secure a com mutation of sentence from hanging to life imprisonment. Mrs. Boyce’s interest In the case came as a result of a Sunday after noon stroll In company with a visiting cousin. They were walking near the capltol when this cousin suggested that they visit the Fulton county jail, which Is half u block distant from the state house. She knew Jailer Fain, and agreed to the plan. She was In duced to see Burrlll Patterson In his cell. The young man’s mother was talking with him wh^i they arrived. The pathetic sorrow of the aged woman stirred Jhe younger one, and she decided to do what she could for Patterson, to saye his mother from as much grief as possible. Having fully made up her mlnd, she lost no time in carrying out her plan. She called on the governor and pre sented so many strong arguments that he consented to give her time In which to work on the case. TO ENTERTAIN On Rivers and Harbors, Preparations of Business .League Are Now Well Under Way. Under direction, ot the directors and secretary of the Albany Business League? arrangements are well under way for the proper entertainment of the RlverB and Harbors committee ot the national House of Representatives, which will Ivlsi't Albany on March 0. A number of committees have been appointed and are at work. One com mittee will look after the reception and entertainment of the city's guests, the program includlpg breakfast at the New Albany. There will be a short carriage drive, and a run down the river on ohe of the little steamboats which ply the upper reaches of the navigable Flint. These matters are also in the hands of proper commit tees. Arrangements have been made for the running of a special from Al bany to Columbus over the Seaboard Air Line', President Barr having him self taken up the matter with the Business League and agreed to do all that may be desired. The special will leave Albany at 10:30 o'clock. Sev eral prominent citizens of Newton will be upto meet the committee. The Business League desires that the use of a number of carriages be placed at its disposal, those engaged from the livery stables not being suf ficient They will be needed from 7 to 10:30 a. m. on the 9th. Those who will furnish carriages are requested to notify Secretary Betjeman, of the Business League. Phone Chips. 280 for Stove Wood and Ji Former Chinese Minister to the United States Talks at Pekin. PEKIN, Feb. 23.—Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese Minister to the United States, in a long Interview on existing conditions in China, today ' said: "China is at a crisis and is, passing through a transition stage, States men and people feel the need of reform, but there is great difference of opinion regarding the means of bringing it about The majority is agreed that China has been deprived of many rights by concession and territorial grants and by the manner in which Chinese have been treated by ton elngers in China and in foreign countries. Chinese abroad write com plaining of arbitrary discrimination against them which dare not' be at tempted against other foreigners 7 . Hence the boycott of American goodh, Illustrating the feeling against unjust exclusion laws. The rumor of an antl-fore.gn feeling is not well founded, and there Is no sign ot an out break against foreigners.’’ JL AGAIN DELAYED. Legal Complications Cause Stay of Execution of Fa mous Wife Murderer- Federal Court Intervenes. Chicago, ill., Feb. 23. — Today was set for the legal execution of Johann Hoch, convicted of wife murder. Shortly before the hour set for the ex ecution Hoch’s attorneys filed a peti tion in the United States circuit court asking for a stay of execution on the grounds that hanging would be In vio lation of the fourteenth amendment to the federal constitution. As a result of the legal complica tions, Jailer Whitman announced that the execution would be delayed until the application for a writ of habeas corpus could be passed upon by the federal court. Hoch exhibited extreme good nature and jovlajity. ■THIS intRNOOH Federal Court Judge Reftise^ to Grant Stay and the Wife Murderer Pays Death ' Penalty. SARAH BERNHARDT GOING TO SAVANNAH. Will’Play “Camille” in Skating Rink Hall. Special to The Herald. Savannah, Ga„ Feb. 22. — “The Di vine Sarah" Is coming this way. She will be In Savannah the night of March 10 and will appear in the Mutual Skating Rink in “Camille.” Madame Bernhardt could not get the theatre, as she Is out of the keeping of tho “theatrical trust,” and the skating rink was the next best thing offered. She will have to play “Camille” be cause that is the only ’thing in her repertoire that doesn’t require any high scenery. A living room and such things as that are the only things re quired to play "Camille,” and no high “props" are needed. It is expected that "the divine one" will ho given a marked recoption when she comes here. GOVERNOR TERRELL. DID NOT ENJOY HOLIDAY Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 23. —Governor Terrell fully meant to spend Washing ton’s birthday at his old home In Greenville yesterday. But he did not have that pleasure. Instead, he work ed the greater part of tho morning at his office in the capltol. Early in the morning he boarded a train for Green ville. All went smoothly until the train had arrived at a point about six miles from Atlanta. Then it stopped. It took a siding and remained there: Fifteen minutes rolled by. Then half an hour, and then an hour. The train did not budge. Realizing that he could not make connections further down the road so as to reach his home, the governor got out came back to the city and went to work. Chicago, Feb. 23.—Judge LandlB, in the federal court, refused to grant n stay of execution in the case of Johann Hoch, and the preparations for his execution were renewed. After the Landis decision, attorneys hastily prepared an appeal bond and rushed to the jail to get Hoch’s signs* tore to >thb bond, after his, march to the, scaffold had begun. Proceedings were again temporarily stopped. A hasty conference ot the 1nil officials waB held and Judge' Landis was tele phoned. H e sa *d he refused to do anything, und that the officers neeii not delay the execution. Hoch was hanged at It 34 o’clock. Upsets a Wireless Station at Newport-Navy Depart ment Disturbed by Boy’s WorK. Washington, Feb. 23.—With home made apparatus, a Newport school boy is able to interfere with the operation, of the naval, wireless station at that point. Commander Albert Glaeves thinks the matter so Important that he has Bent to the bureau of equipment of the navy a detailed account , of the plant which the boy has built The meagreness of it may bo gathered from the statement of the commander that the young operator Is getting messages through tho medium ot an ordinary Incandescent eleotrlo lamp, whose glass he has broken and which he uses for a receiver. In his detailed' description, Com mander Gleaves says that the power is derived from a' battery ot eight dry cells, giving about twelve volte. His Induction cAli Is one taken from an old automobile, and throws a halt Inch spark, while his key is the ordinary Morse instrument The coII with which he controls the wave length is made of No. 14 copper wire, bare, wound around a wqodon cylinder in grooves. His spark gap Is made by two com mon steel nails driven' into a pine board one-eighth of an inch apart, and bis - ground current is accompllshel through a connection With water pipes Id . the house in whioh he llveB^ Two. common wooden poles, Slteep feet high, attaohed to the ridge pole Of titfl house, support the antennae. Those are three bare capper wires, stretched between the poles, kept'' apart by spreaders, and Joined only by a single wire ruining down to the Instruments, In addition to this, his equipment also Includes a home-made potentio meter, choke colls and a telephone receiver. Aocording to tho reports made to the. Navy Department, the young man, -who Is not more than six teen years 81d, has given a decided shook to the wireless operators, and it Is believed that in his crude appa ratus they may And several' valuable Ideas. At New Orleans April 26 to 27-Cammander Leeways the Original Dates^Must Stand. ,, Columbus, Miss., Feb. 23.—To quiet conflicting reports as to the date ot the annual reunion ot the United Con federate Veterans at Net*. Orleans, Gen. Stephen D. Lee, commanding the veterans’ organization, today issued'an order that as It is Impracticable now to change the dato, tho days first named will stand for the reunion, JUDGE NORWOOD AFTER J. FERRIS CANti. Former Legislator, Celled, on for. Ex planation of Utterance* Made in a Public' Speeeh. , 1 . ' ' . Special to The Herald. Savannah, Ga„ Feb. 23.—The' author of “Plutoeraoy” Is In the saddle again. Judge,T. M. Norwood, judge of,the city court of Savannah, has, it is un derstood, taken Mr. J. Ferris' Gann, ox- Senator and ex-RepreBentatlve Chatham qounty, to task for. a criti cism of Judge Norwood’s court, made In a political speech in Savannah. Mr, Gann, In a' apeeoh last week, re ferred to the method of drawing ju In Judge Norwood’s court He clalmfed that "taloshuin were used Instead of having the Jurors drawn from the Jury box’ Jticiga Norwood"® written t asking about Ilfs .-Utterances, and It understood domandlng-an explanatld Mr. Cann has replied what hiB, answer is, Is not kn he and Judge Norwood are out i city and can not be reached Ju this time, Interesting Exercises Occur red this Morning at the School, Which Celebrated Special Arbor Day. interesting Arbor Day exercises were held this morning at the Albany Academy. While not the Arbor Day of general observance, it was never theless a memorable occasion as an event In the history of the school. The exercises In the building con sisted of songs, recitations, etc., and' were followed by a program rendered out of doors. Five trees wore planted, one each by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh grades, and one by the High .School department. The Fourth grade named Its tree “L. B. Welch," after the beloved coun ty; school commissioner. The Fifth grade’s tree is “Nelson Tift,” in mem ory of the founder of.Albany. Tho tree planted by the Sixth grade Is to be known as “John A. Davis.’’ "Joe Wheeler” Is the name of the tree planted by the Seventh grade, and that of the High School was christened “Mamie L. Brosnan,” In honor of the beloved assistant principal of the school. GERMANY EXTEND8 RECIPROCITY TARIFF, Berlin, Feb. 23—The roiehstag to day, by a large majority, passed on final reading the bill providing for the extension of Germay’s reciprocity tar iff rates to the United States to June 30, 1907. Brinson &.Co, JVood and Coal, 'Phone 867. Prompt service. Patron- age solicited. CHINAMAN WILL RESIST REQUISITION MOVE. Interesting Case In Atlanta, Where Lum Woo Is on Parole. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 23.—Ail efforts to take Lum Woo, a Chinaman, to Lou isiana to stand trial on a charge ot murder will be resisted' here. The governor hhs been' advised that Gov ernor Blanchard has written him a letter asking that a requisition for the Celestial'be, honored in Georgia. When this letter arrives the governor will take action. Woo, In the meantime, Is on parole. Every day he calls at tho office of the chief of police to show that he has not left the elty. Yesterday Lum Woo, in company with Solicitor-General Charlie Hill, Clerk of the Superior Court Arnold Broyles, Attorneys Harley Hill and Rev. Dr. A. R. Holderby, pastor of the Moore Memorial church, called on tho governor for a consulation. The con ference was held for the purpose of forestalling any sudden actlon'on the part of the Louisiana State officers. Woo was attested hero somo Umo ago, but was released, the state and local authorities deciding that he was not guilty, and that there might be something in Wioo’s claim that .High binders .had Instituted the proceed ings. H .uy] Ler s Cand ies ’ Are tl he •Best. ijm We sell them. F: shipments of these cious confections are - ceived -weekly, 1, 2, and 5' pound boxes Sii Fa ncy Package As with candy, so v everything. We sell o .the best. If you the best your., "ore should come to - WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED IN HAWAII. Hilsman-Sj Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb. 23.—Wash ington’s Birthday was celebrated here yesterday by the : biggest itoral parade in the history of the inlands: ig c M .1 * ...