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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. i., si 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. Hilsman-Sale Drug Co. l I t m n CTTMfT pdtmt