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rrV ■ '“i _ ' 1 A *W* a •'•k. y*B" *y ■ Yk A Yi■ ■■» ■ n A ‘"MT “trv • . VOLUME X.V. ALBANY, OA., THUR8DAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 6, 1908. NUMBER 140. IMMENSE GROWTH OF OUR EXPORTS. Department of Commerce Report Deals Only in Big Figures. Washington, April 5.—According to a bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor today, the ex ports for the eight, months ending with March were one hun dred and ninety million dollars greater than for the corres ponding months of last year. • The same authority says that the imports yrere seventy million dollars greater. The growth in the exports of manufactures was forty-five millions, and of agricultural products one hundred and thir ty-three millions. . The increase in the exports of manufac tures was chiefly in cotton goods, iron and steel, in cars, wood, mineral, oil and leather. ALL NAPLES SPRINKLED F Streams of Lava Flowing Down the Mountain Put Villagers tt Flight. Naples, April 5.—The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius is as suming alarming proportions. Five streams of lava are de scending the mountain, threatening everything below. The villagers are fleeing. All Naples is Sprinkled with cinders and ashes, but the Neapolitans are not alarmed. GROVER HAD GOOD LUCK „ FISHING IN FLORIDA, Former President Improved .In Health and Pleased With Fishing. Stuart, Fla., April 5.—Former Pres ident Cleveland and party left today for the North after a fishing trip of some weeks. Mr. Cleveland Is much improved In health and expressed him self as pleased with the fishing. Albany Machinery Co. Make a specialty • • oil • • H eavy M aclun ery Southed Engine and Boiler Works. High. Grade Engines/ Boilers, Saw Mills, Wood Working Machinery, Shingles and Lath Mills. Marsh St Slow Progress of the Greene and Gaynor Trial-Many Women Continue to Visit the Court Room. Special to The Herald. Savannah, Ga., April, 5.—Capt. Ben jamin D. Greene, one of the defendants In the Greene and Gaynor case now on trial In the United States Court, spent the entire time of the trial yesterday upon the stand, and began what prom ises to be a thorough review of his connection with the Savannah river contracts and his association with Capt. O. M. Carter. Captain Greene proved a very adroit and altogether satisfactory witness un der the questioning of his counsel, Mr. W. W. ^Osborne. He told a very straightforward story, giving explana tions of all the deals that^Carter Is alleged to have tried to get him and Gaynor to enter Into with prominent Savannahans and others. If the witness can retain his com posite under the searching cross-ex amination of Mr. Marion Erwin, for the government, he will have made a fine Impression on the jury. They are again talking about the end of the Greene and Gaynor case. It may conclude in a couple of weeks now, or It may run through the month of April. The masculine public is be ginning to tire of It, but .the ladles enjoy It. There were more than fifty ladies In court at one time today. Some of them have been in attendance almost constantly since the trial be gan. MISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONVENTION. New Orleans, April 5.—The Missis sippi Valley Latln-Amerlcan Conven tion opened here today for a three day’s meeting. It was called origin ally to develop trade with the Latln- Amerlcan republics, but the scope promises to be extended so that there will be no limit as far as trade dis eam Jrumps. missions are concerned. BENJAMIN MOT KILLED BE WILTED J. Another Horrible Domestic Tragedy in Atlanta- Woman in the Case. Special to The Herald. Atlanta, Ga., April 5.—As a result of the killing of Benjamin Wilmouth, aged 30, a switchman, Tuesday night, by Walter J. Hightower, aged 32, after Wilmouth had shot and wounded Mrs. Carrie Bryant, a childhood sweetheart with whom he was madly infatuated, County Policeman Maddox swore out a warrant against Hightower before Justice of the Peace Puckett, charg ing the young man with murder. Cor oner Thompson made aft Investigation, but decided that a formal Inquest was not necessary. The date for the pre liminary trial of Hightower has not been set, hut will probably take place before the week Is ended. Immediately after the killing High tower surrendered to the police and is now an Inmate of the Fulton county jail. According to the stories told by eye witnesses, and which coincide, Wilmouth came home in an\ugly mood Tuesday night. He was Doardlhg at the home of Mrs. Joe Johns, mother of Mrs. Bryant and Walter Hightower. Mrs. Johns had been in 111 health, and her daughter, who is married, had come to her house tg^ look after the household duties. Wilmouth opened the door to the room In which were Mrs. Johns, Mrs. Bryant and High tower. He had a revolver In hlB hand, and, without Baying a word to anyone, fired point blank at Mrs. Bryant. The shot missed. The woman ran behind k chair and Mrs. Johns tried to keep Wilmouth from shooting again. He pushed the elder woman aside, how ever, and fired over her shoulder. The bullet took effect In the lowar part of Mrs. Bryant’s back. She fell screaming. Wilmouth turned and ran. Hightower picked up a pistol and gave chase* He fired twice at Wilmouth and continued to chase him down the street. He drew his knife as he ran and opened a blade with his teeth. He caught Wilmouth, the two grappled and fell to tlje ground. Hightower says Wilmouth struck him over the head with the pistol and he began stab bing Wilmouth with all his might Soon Wilmouth ceased fighting and Hightower arose. Wilmouth was dead. "I have ^killed one of my best friends, but I had to do It,” said High tower in his cell yesterday. "W1I- mouth and myself had been compan ions for years, and-had never had any trouble. I feel,- however, that I did only what any other man would have done under the circumstances,” This Is what the wounded woman says of the affair: "Mr. Wilmouth was madly in love with me, and wanted me to have nothing to do with my hus band, from whom I have been-separ ated. He had even threatened to kill merit I went back to live with my hus band. I have all along feared that his mad jealousy would lead to trouble.” E NECfS. States Cannot Pass Law that Will Stand the Test of Fifteenth Amendment. -A- Tuskegee, Ala., April 6. — In his speech at the, celebration of the twen ty-fifth anniversary of Booker Wash ingtons’ Institute last night, Secretary Taft said: “But," say the pessimists, "what of the political future of the negro?” And this brings me to the consideration of the third great war amendment— the fifteenth—which forbade that any state should deprive the negro of his vote on account of his color, or previ ous condition-of servitude. When we regard the history of the forty years through which the negro of this coun try has been obliged to struggle, the progress which I have already alluded to, material and educational, is won derful. Consider the condition of things immediately .after the war. Here were a brave, warlike and mas terful people, who had been used to a social condition In which the negro occupied a servile status, brought by law . to face the prospect of sharing political control with the poor, ignor. ant, bewildered and irresponsible peo ple who but yesterday were their prop erty. Declarations of equality and popular rights and universal suffrage offer hut a feathers’ weight against the Inevitable Impulse of human na ture. It was Impossible that with the elements I have stated here there should nolfhave been disturbance and fraud and violence and Injustice and Illegality and oppression. It was Im possible that that which was written on the tables'of the fundamental law or In the statute bpok should he Im mediately carried into-effective execu tion. The negro’s vote, after a long struggle,,the history of which I shall not recall, was made to count for noth- lng. Then the leaders of the South in many states came to realize the dread ful demoralization of all society It law was to be flouted and fraud was to con stitute the basis of government So toey cast about to make the law square witli the existing condition fay property and educational qualtflpatton which should exclude the negro. The very desire to avoid the fraudulent and rl lent methods which were wont to over come the colored vote In the South It self Indicates a turn for the better, It Is Impossible to frame 'a law which will, on Its face, stand the test of the fifteenth amendment, and which will not ultimately operate, no matter what the qualification or present ef fect, to permit a certain class of the negroes to exerclBe the ballot: It is true, that some state constitutions or laws with the so-called "grandfather” clauses mpy operate temporarily to ex clude him, but as they expire In effect, the limitations on adult male suffrage must become nothing more than edu cational or property qualifications ap plicable to white and negro alike. Such qualifications existed in many of our states at the beginning of this govern ment and continued for years there after, and they can he defended with much forceful argument. The theory upejn. which a popular government Is to be sustained Is that In the long run the rightB of every person and class are likely to be more safely guarded by the laws of the country and en forced by the executive If the voice of the person or the class Is always given opportunity to be heard In the adoption of the laws or the selection of the executive. , - GENERAL OFFICES OF SEABOARD AIR LINE May Be Moved frof Portsmouth—At lanta Mentioned. New York, April 6.—At the offices of the Seaboard Air Line it Is report ed today that the question of removing the company’s geiieral offices from Portsmouth was not considered at yes terday's meeting of the directors. It Is reported that an-appropriation has been made to move the general offices to another city, and that Atlanta has been mentioned as the place to which the transfer may be made. Best Cantaloupe Seed. We cap still fill orders for Best Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Seed in small quantities, for replanting. Seed are the genulneBurrell’s. Order now. 4-3t W. H. NEWSOM & SON. TREMENDOUS GAINS IN ALBANY OFFICE. Near 100 Per Cent. Increase in Figures, in Five Years. The quarterly report of the Albany Po^tofflce has just been com-, pleted by Postmaster Brlmberry, and comparative quarterly and annual' totals Bhow that the phenomenal increase ot the office's business during the last few years still continues. Here are the figures, which speak eloquently for themselves: i\ Receipts from sale of postage stamps, postal oarda and stamped V- ' envelopes, for the year ended March 31, 1906 $201015.16 , i m Receipts from same sources for the year ended March 31, 1905.. 16,416.21 1 Increase In twelve months ^...... 6 3,508.82 Percentage of Increase, 2. Receipts last fiscal year (as above) $20,015.16 Receipts fiscal year ended March 31, 1901 MwW" .11 I Tt’ Increase In five years 9,652.0$ Percentage/ of Increase In five years, nearly 100. The postofflee of any community Is a reliable barometer of ’ conditions In that community. Since Albany’s remarkable growth began several years ago, eve quarterly and annual report of the local poBtofflce has shown phenomep Increase In the volume of annual business transacted. The Increase ljk ' the five years has averaged a little less than 20 per cent., and It Is Big-- nlficant that the increase of the last flseat year wist 22 per cent, ' j Here are the facts: The Increase of the last fiscal year waa greater'than In any-year. The percentage of Increase of the last quarter of the last fiscal year was the greatest In the hlBtory of-the office, the total receipts for this quarter being $6,379.24-—the heaviest receipts of any quarter. The business of the office Is still Increasing rapidly, and It Is one ok the busiest places In Albany.’ The next year will show a continue* ins- crease of perhaps even greater proportions. Should the present rate of Increase, of the business of the office ire ‘ maintained during the next five yeara, and (here is no reason to doubt v - that it will he, the annual receipts will Approximate $60,000. HOKE SMITH Supporters of Popular Can didate For Governor Will Meet This Evening at the City Hall. i THEY ARE MINING COAL ‘ IN PITTSBURG DISTRICT, Doesn’t Look'Much Like There Is ^ , ,cA,- Pittsburg, Pa., April 6.—The Pitl burg Coal Company today report tl seventy per cent, of tfaetr mines ar operating today and that/ more mine are working than yesterday. Oha Robbing says they mined 40,000 and shipped 860 oars. S A number of the local supporters of Hon. Hoke Smith In his candidacy fdr governor if Georgia are planning for the organiaztlon this evening of. a Hoke Smith Club, The meeting will be held at the city hall, and the statement was made this morning to a representative of The Herald by .one who Is takliig an active, part In working up the meeting that several- hundred voters are expected to become charter members of the club. Mr. Smith has a strong following In Albany and Dougherty county, and there has been talk for some time of organizing a Smith Club. A definite movement In that direction did not ■ ‘ 1 V begin, however, until several days ago, but now a good deal of enthusiasm Is being manifested. Mr. L. W. Nelson) who Is an enthusi astic Hoke Smith man and hag been active In working up the club which Is to be organized this evening, stated to a Herald man this morning that the club would labor actively In the city and county In the Interest of Mr. Smiths’ candidacy, and would make a strong effort to swing Dougherty county Into the Smith column when the primary Is held. If you u§e. any othe brand of paint, it i proof conclusive / tha. you dp not know all the virtues of Unquestionably the- best paint for this cli- j _ * A i ' mate. < Any good paint will advise its use, yc - cause it looks better and lasts better than other kinds. This is the best sear , son for painting. If your house needs a fresh \ coat, figure with us We can save you money Eull line of BALLOONIST’S DEATH TO BE INVESTIGATED. Floor Paints, Floor Stains, Perished In Long Island Marsh After Landing Safely. New York, April, 6.—A coroner's investigation will be made into the death of Paul Nocquet, the young bal loonist who perished In'Long Island marsh Tuesday night, after landing safely from a perilous 'ascension. It Is believed that Nocquet died from hear( failure following physical ex haustion and mental anguish at the prospects of being carried to sea In hla balloon. Wall Paints, Roof and Bar Paints, Enamels, Varnishes, Leadfand Oil. Hilsman-Sale Drug Co. m