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Volume xv.
ALBANY, GA„ WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 18, 1906.
NUMBER l5l.
WILL BE MANY. ■
CONTESTANTS
For the Chautauqua Medale—Notioes
Are Being Received Dally.
It Is hoped that there will be a larg
er number of contestants for the four
Chautauqua medals at the approach
ing Eighteenth annual assembly than
ever before, and there is reason to
believe that In.thts Chautauquans will
not he disappointed.
Formal notices have already been re
ceived from several counties that their
contestants will be on hand next Mon
day, and others are being received
- And, as has been the case In
the past, some of the counties will
dally.
neglect tp-send In their notices at all,
the contestants presenting themselves
on Mondayl- morning with the proper
credentials. ' No other notice Is neces
sary, and probably the greater num
ber of the contestants will come unan
nounced.
Interest In the ^Chautauqua medal
contests seems to he Increasing, and
the young people prove a more and
more popular drawing card with each
recurring season. It Is hoped that the
time Is not far distant when every
county In Southwest Georgia will be
regularly represented at the annual
contests.
MR. HILBURN WEDS
MISS RENFROE
Well-KnowrV' J R«HroBd Man Marries
Young Lady at Geneva.
Mr. Allen N, Hllbum left art 4
o’clock this morning for Geneva, Ga.
where today he leads to the altar
- -t-i-ii
Miss Rosq Renfroo, of that place,
Mr. HUburn has managed to keep
the fact of bis approaching marriage
from the knowledge of all hut A few
of his friends,: and this announcement
will, be the first, intimation many will
have that, he hasbado farewell to the
■State of single blessedness. He will
return home tonight with, his bride.
Mr. Hflburh Is chief clerk in the
freight ofllce of the Central of Georgia
Tallway at this point He has spent
njost■ of, .hip life. In Albany, and has
ihUndrSdS'WBMiifeds who are much' to*
•terestsd In his marriaR«u-i ,v]j®8 .fe a-,
young -man of ability and exemplary
habits, atid hhs; a : .firight business fu
ture.
We have in Stock the Celebrated
and invite Inspection.
One customer tells us lie
hauled two car loads of freight
at one trip .over an ordinary
Country Road.
We also carry
Grain
rs
in stoclc in ajl sizes.
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CALIFORNIA SHAKEN BY EARTHQUAKE
SAN FRANCISCO PRACTICALLY WRECKED
First Reports Say 1,000 Lives Were Lost-Many Buildings
Wrecked, and Fire Adds to the Horror of the Situa
tion-Firemen Helpless on Account of
Water Mains Being Burst ,
NOTE.—The difference in time between Albany and San Francisco is three hdurs—the San Frahcisco time being three hours later than ottrs.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 18.—San Francisco was practically wrecked by an earthquake at 5:10
o’clock this morning. • . V- . . '
The shock lasted three minutes, and a thousand buildings were damaged or destroyed.
’ The loss of life is great. ...
There is no water, and fires are breaking out all over the city. All wires, excepting one of the'Postal Co.,
are gone.. • • :
The City Hall, costing seven million dollars, is in.ruins.
The confusion and excitement is indescribable. Most people were asleep and when aroused by the rum
bling noise and shaking of buildings, rushed into the streets in their night clothing.
Buildings swayed and crashed, burying the occupants.
There was great panic in the downtown hotels. The Lick House is badly damaged, but no loss of life is
reported there,' , -- •
The business section of the city* from Market street to Mission street, and from the bay back, has been
almost completely wrecked. The Call and Examiner buildings were destroyed- Many buildings along Market
and Mission streets, including department stores, collapsed. Hundreds of people in the cheaper tenement dis
tricts are reported killed. Fires ate raging and on account of the scarcity of water are practically beyond con-
trol. . f -.j . '
The residence portion of.the city was only slightly damaged, although nearly every house was more or
less injured.
A Thousand Lives Lost.
' <Kr\* ■
.KANSAS CITY, Mo, April, 18.—-Tpe Postal Telegraph Company has
received the ■following Information from Lp/j .Apgetes: ....
•i It Is reported that aW>u&iid lives werelostalSnh Francisco. -Both
. the Postal and Western Union buildlngB vfCre destroyed. A dliSBtrouB fire
Is eating its way along the south side of •Mafitet street, and at' list itoj
counts was within one block of the Palace hotel. The watermains burst,-
and the fire department Is absolutely helpless. Business l!j entirely sufl-
Severe at Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO, C&f, 1AjfU, 18;—A ih%»e Earthquake, dqcurred here
pended.
early this morning. Great ponfuslon,exists:and It la Impossible to learn
the full amount of damage. Ho loss of life Is reported.
Area of Earthquake Extensive.
CHICAGO, Ill., April 18.—The Union Pacific Railway Company re
ports all Its wires down west of Ogden, Utah. The area covered by the
earthquake appears to have extended over several hundred square miles.
First Reports Probably Exaggerated. y
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April 1 18.—Reports received here by the
Postal Telegraph Company indicate that the first reports of the San
Francisco earthquake were exaggerated, . ■>
Magnitude of the Disaster Growing.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 18.—8:40 a. m.—As reports come In, the
magnitude; of the disaster grows. Fires are raging In all dlrectlopa, and
peopleware moving''hpi ,of the downtown, sections. The tops o( life!
- may reach Into hundreds, and millions of dollars’ worth of property has '
> Another Shock. :, '' r : ! '
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal„ April 18.—8:45 a. m.—There has just boon
another earthquake ,Shock, with Intensified panic. No reports have been
received from outside of San Francisco, but the damage about the boy
must be enormous. Oakland Is reported to liave suffered SeVere/y.
Shops Across the Bay Collapse. 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 18.—The Santa Fe rallrqad .ropndh°UBe
and' machine shops at Point Richmond, across the bay, collapsed:
.. The Entire Water Front Burning.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oal/, April 18.-8:30 a.. m.-rPractically the entire
water front Is burning. The Hall of Justice Is expected to fall momen- ,
tarlly. ’ ■
. Reached Across the Continent.
WASHINGTON, D. 0., April 18. — The San Francisco earthquake
reached across the -entire continent. The seismograph at the Weather
Bureau here showed violent agitation at 8:30 o'clock this morning, so
that the pen passed off the recording sheet. The Instrument Is still vi
brating at noon, showing that the earthquake has not yet ceased.
Fire Still Spreading.
SAN FRANCISCO,-Cal., April 18.-9:45 a,.m.—The fire Is spreading,
and the damage already' inflicted Is roughly estimated at forty million dol
lars.
CHILD KILLED
BY A TRAIN.
Terrible Accident on Atlantic Coast
Line Near Brunswick Yesterday.
Passenger train No. 94 on the B. &
W. branch of the Atlantic Coast Lino ,
ran over a 3-year-old child between
Brunswick and Waynesville yesterday
morning.
The accident occurred
about ,i
o’clock In the morning, and at a curved
place In the track, whleh made It .Im
possible for It to have been prevented.
Just as the engine turned the curve
Engineer John Golding, who was at
the throttle, saw a little child walking
along the side of the track only a few
feet ahead. When the little follow
looked up and saw the engine coming
he attempted ot run across the track
and the train struck him.
The speed of the train was not iilgli
at the time and Engineer Golding
brought'It to a standstill'within a few
yards. He ran back and picked up'tte
broken and bleeding form of the little
boy. The head was awfully gashed
and the back was broken, but there
was still life, and ub long as there was
life, there was hope.
The llttlefellow was laid on a ouah-
Ion and taken up to the home of Its
parents some little distance- away!
Everything that was possible: to'
was done by Conduotor Palin, Engineer
Golding and the train crew and paw*
songors. Engineer Golding ran Ms
train to the nearest station and.
brought a doctor and one of the sur
geons from the Waycross hospital waft
hurried bn a special to the Injured
child. v
But the.lfijuries whloh had been're
ceived, proved'more thatttho HtOq
body could stand, and life, whleh hung
on by a thread (or a few hours, left'B.'
Everything that could be done to sail)
.the life of the child or to comfort-Ua|
shocked and sorrowing parents WOT
done by Engineer Golding'and
ductor Palin. ,
Engineer Golding Is the oldest En
gineer on this line.and If it bad beet*
possible for the acoldent to have been
^voided- all -know that It would nevqr
hqve 'happened. , It; wag. just!;,<^>!jr«i.
thoso unavoidable . accidents .I'wbidq
dire hbne,'the'iess d.ldtfesqid$? There'
i i«;'(ib.;.<me,;ieaV4 1 ';tho,.parents of.'at
child, &hb Is so 'deeply grieved’ < "
the aoeiaent as is (he 'klhd-ho'atted
engineer whose hand was at the throb, ■
Vu
Vi
Inifc?'
tlb .whep the!'mighty engine carried*
death to this little child.
Unquestionably the- '
best paint for this clt-
U. S. SUPREME COURT
ON DIVORCE LAW.
DECISION WHICH WILL TEAR UP MANY
DIVORCES AND MAKE ILLEGITIMATES OF
CHILDREN.
Chicago, April 18.—The Tribune this
morning prints a Washington dis
patch to the effect that the recent de
cision ot the supreme court on the
W. Haddock vs. Harriet Haddock, a
divorce proceeding instituted in the
courts ot New York City, In favor of
the woman. The Haddocks were mar-
divorce question will tear open thous*ried in 1868, and the husband claimed
ands of divorces which are supposed to have. been an unwilling participant
to be binding on all parties. It wlli in the ceremony. He says in Ms an-
dissolve all marriages made by par- swer to the woman’s complaint that
ties to such divorces, and afterward he left her Immediately after the mar-
all children by such marriages will be rtage rites were performed and dhr-
Illegitimate and will be unable to In- ing all the time that has Intervened
herlt property from their parents. The bps seen her only three times. In
decision in its simplest form is "That, 1881 he secured a divorce in the state
no court can grant a valid divorce un- of Conectlcut, where he then resided,
less the defendant Is personally with-;apd In 1882 was married there W an-
In the jurisdiction of the court or nn- ojher women. The New York county
les sthe offense for wbteh a divorce Is supreme court held the second mar-
gran ted. are committed witMn Buch ; rjage ceremony to be illegal, Idecreed
jurisdiction.”
The Case Decided.
Washington, April 17.—In an opln-
first .’wife to he still the legal
re, and directed Haddock to’pay her
afi annuity of 8780.
the jurisdiction of the Connecticut
court Justice White decided the case
and laid down the general principle
that a state In which only one party
to a divorce proceeding resided haa
no right to dissolve a marriage tie
which all other states must respect
Justices Harlem, Brewer and Brown
united In a dissenting opinion .yttlcli
was delivered by justice Brown. They
took the position that the Connecticut
divorce proceeding was regular and la
entitled to d&V' credence In other
states.
Justice Brown declared In his opln*
Ion that the Court had taken a back
ward stop In tMs direction.
Justice Holmes also’ dlBsented from
the decision of the court, but delivered
an independent opinion. He said the
result of the decision would be to II-
legitimatize many cMldren, but added
that he would not go so far as to pre
dict -that civilization would come to
an end whatever the conclusion In the
case,
Justice White In Ms opinion said
that the effect of the contention made
In behalf of Haddock would be that
“any person who was married In one
state and* who wished to violate the
marital obligations, would be able by
following the lines of least resistance
to go into the state where laws Were
That finding was ; the most lax. and there avail of them
tract, to the overthrow of the laws
and public, policy of the other states.
Thus the argument comes necessarily
to. this, that to preserve the lawful
authority of all the states over mar-
rlage, it la essential to decide that all.
the states hare such authority only at
the.suff-srance of the other states."
TYPE OF CANAL
MUST BE SETTLED.
Secretary. Taft Makes Positive State
ment to Senate Committee.
If ypu use .any other
brand of paint, it is
proof conclusive that
you do . not know all the
virtues of
mate. Any good painter
»he-;
cause it looks better and
lasts better than other,
kinds.
This is the best sea-.-
son for painting! If
your house needs a fresh
coat, figure with us.'
We can save you money.
Eull line of
Ion by Justice White the supreme sustained by today's decision, wMch for the severance of the marriage Me
court today decided the case of:John held that Mr*. Haddock was without and the destruction of the rights of Barron gets It by traliuoads.
Washington, April 18.—Secretary
Taft today told the senate committee
on canals that the type ot the Isthmian
canal must be determined Immediately
or Chief Engineer Stephens would be
compelled to suspend work.,
U. S. COURT TO SIT
AT MIAMI, FLA.
, Washington, April’ 18.—The house
today,, passed a bill providing for an
annual sitting of .the United .States
district court for the south district ot
Florida at Miami. ’
No Wood famine In Albany now.
Floor Paints,
Floor Stains,
Wall Paints,
Roof and Barn
Paints,
Enamels,
Varnishes,
Lead and Oil.
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