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VOLUME XV. ALBANY, GA.. THURSDAY AFTERNOON JUNE 7, 1906. NUMBER 194. C RAILROAD CLERKS GET BIG GRAFT. The “Lusitania,” the Larg est Liner in .the World, Launched Today—It Will Carry 2,350 Passengers. Glasgow, June 7.—The new Cunard line steamer “Lusitania," the world’s largest liner, waB safely launched at Clyde Bank today. Her sister ship, the “Mauritania,” will follow a month lat er. The “Lusitania” Is 790 feet long, breadth 88 feet, depth 60 feet, displace ment 40,000 tons. Her turbine en gines are expected to drive her 24 knots an hour. She will accommodate 2,350 passengers, and carry a crew of HOUSE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Dwelling Occupied by Mr. W. R. Bear- ley Damaged. Yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock a house on State street owned by Mr. Ben Adams and occupied by Mr. W. R. Beasley was' struck by lightning. The lightning first . struck the chimney, completely demolishing it,’ and ran down into a bedroom below. Strange to say, nothing caught flre, although things were smoked up badly. The bricks from the falling chim ney were thrown with terrlflce force against a neighboring house, planks being split open by the impact. Beyond the damage done by the chimney falling and part of the roof being torn up nothing was especially damaged. No one was in the house at the time, a fortunate’-thing.-for the 1 room was used as a sitting room and ordinarily it would have been occu pied. Mill Supply Department: Genuine Gandy Belt, Atkin’s Cir cular and Cross Cut Saws, Marsh Steam Pumps. / Implement Department: Harvesting Ma chinery, Thresh mg Machines in stock, all sizes Gasoline \ Engines, Towers and Tanks Albany Machinery Go. MORE STARTLING TESTIMONY BEFORE THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Philadelphia, June 7.—Testifying to-, day before the Interstate Commerce Commission in the investigation of railroad conditions, Joseph K. Aiken, former chief clerk in the office of the superintendent of the Monohgahela division of the Pennsylvania road, re vealed evidence almost as startling as that of J. H. Boyer yesterday. Allcen said that on a salary of from $30 to $126 a month he purchased $75,000 worth of stock in different coal com panies. He admitted that he received cash gifts from coal operators on the Pennsylvania line and that he received $50 a month from the company store, Boyer, who testified yesterday to having received large sums of money from coal companies, was dismissed from service’ by order of President Cassatt. ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OF GUN WOUNDS TW0--0NE SERIOUSLT. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT IN A PICNIC PARTY AT PALMYRA. This morning at about 10:30 o’clock Mrs. R. F. Dunlavey was seriously^ but not necassarily fatally shot, and Mr. Ed Holley painfully shot through the hand. The shooting was entirely accidental. Mrs. Dunlavey and Mr. Holley were members of a picnic party that had gone out to Palmyra from Albany. After the party had arrived at Palmyra several of the ladies wandered off into the woods, and Mr. Holley heard them screaming as if something were wrong. He hastened to the drag and got u shotgun that he had brought along. As he pulled it out, the hammer of the gun in some way struck the body of the drag, and the load was discharged through his hand, passing on and strik ing Mrs. Dunlavey, who was standing hear, the charge taking effect in the abdomen. Dn Hilsman dressed the wound. He states that while not considered fatal, It is of a very serious nature. Mrs. Dunlavey’s age is one thing that makes it worse.. Mr. Holley’s wound is of a very painful nature, but not serious. Mr. Holley regrets the accident very much, but he is not to be blamed for it. Board of Education Organ-* izes New System.,' Election of Superintendent, Principals and Teachers—Most of the Present Tteachers In the Academy Re-elect ed—The New Ones. The Board of Education having con trol of the new system of city schools met yesterday afternoon for the pui pose of organizing the system and electing officers and teachers for the next school year. There were many applicants for the places to be filled, and there was an abundance of material from which to select. At a previous meeting of the board a special committee had been appointed to go through the applica tions, credentials and recommenda tions and select such applicants as ap peared to be most meritorious, and this committee submitted to the boat'd three or more applications for each position to be filled. Salaries. Before proceeding with the. elec tions, salaries were fixed, as follows: Superintendent of Schools, $1,600. Principal of High School, $900 Two teachers in High School, $80 per month oach, for nine months. Principal Grammar School, $900. Primary teacher, A„ $60 per month; Primary teacher, B., $50 per month. Six grade teachers, each, $50 per month. ELECTIONS. The elections were by ballot, and resulted as follows: Superiptendent of Schools — S. R. DeJarnette. Principal of High School—Prof. B. T. Hunter. High School Tteachers—Miss Mamie Brosnan and Mrs. Annie Muse. Principal of Grammar School—Prof. W. A. McGregor. Primary Department, Grade A — Miss Marla Davis. Primary Department, Graie B — Miss Madelyn Robinson. Grade Teachers—Miss Annie Mock, Miss Gertrude Mock, Mrs. Jessie Wal ters Wallace, Miss Marie Forrester, Miss Willie Adams, Miss Nellie Cor bin. Prof. S. R. DeJarnette is a former principal'of the Albany Academy and a resident of Xlbany. Prof. B. T. Hunter, the principal- elect of the High School, formerly taught a school for boys fn this city and is well known as a teacher throughout the state. His last work was as principal of a high school <n Atlanta., \ • Prof. McGregor, the principal-elect of the Grammar School, comes from Buena Vista, where he has been as- eistant principal of-tho-iloktr Sniitfr High School during the past school year. All the other teachers elected, arc local, except Miss Nellie Corbin. Her home is in Griffin, Ga., and she has been teaching this year in the school at Jefferson. No elections were held for the two special departments which are con templated— Music and Domestic Sci ence. The board decided to eloct a man to the position of music teacher and to get the best man to he had for the place, the purpose being not to have instrumental music taught in the schools, hut to have sight Reading taught as part of the regular course. The action of the board with reference to this position contemplates bring ing a man to Albany who will be an acquisition to the musical interest of the city. For the Department of Domestic Sci ence it was deemed advisable to defer the election until, a future time, with the view of combining this department jvith some other desirable department, either drawing or physical culture, perhaps, provided a teacher for such a combination could bo had. The matter of looking further into ithese departments and forming a more definite plan for them than the board seemed to have at its meeting yester day was referred to the superintend ent and the two princlpals-elect, the board to.fill the places at a later time. Mr. L. E. Welch was re-elected sec retary and treasurer of the board at a salary of $300, and his bond was fixed at $1,000, Colored Schools. The election of principal and teach ers for the colored schools was post poned, the board not having such in formation as was desired, until a fu ture meeting to be called by the Mayor. Mr. Joseph Ehrlich was appointed to confer with the Masons with refer ence to the program for laying the cor nerstone of the new High School build ing and to prepare a suitable Inscrip tion for the stone. Prof. DeJarnette, It is perhaps prop er to state, was not an applicant for the position of superintendent. When nominated, however, it was stated by the gentleman placing his name before the board, that he would accept the position if elected. After his election he was sent for and appeared before the board, and signified his accept ance. RAILROAD COMMISSIONER JOSEPH M. BROWN IN A LETTER TO PEOPLE! OF GEORGIA, EX POSES JOURNAL’S CAMPAIGN METHODS. 8peclal to The Herald. takes as Its text, are based on the all- Atlanta; Ga., June 7.—The following water rate from Burlington to Sevan- letter from Railroad Commissioner nah. I will show that our old familiar Joseph M. Brown, addressed to the friend, the "port rate" horse, 1b led people of Georgia, was given to the into the ring here; but as he gets his press today: , tall over the dashboard in too disturb- Office of the ing a manner, the Atlanta Journal Railroad Commission of Georgia, wantB to unhitch him and take him Atlanta, June 5, 1906. , out—In this case. To the People of Georgia: | Since writing the above, my atten-. The Atlanta Journal, in its efforts to tion has been called to statements al- bolster up its attack upon the railroad leged to have been made by me to commission of Georgia, published in Mr. J. B. Rqberts about marble rates, display type, May 26, what it said were published June 1 In the Atlanta Jour- “rates (on marble) fixed l^y the Geor- nal, whllo I was absent from the city, gla Railroad Commission from Georgia and as usual the Journal has grossly quarries, i. e„ Blue Ridge, Ga.," its fig- exaggerated. I will give the facts ures being aB follows, in cents, per 100 later, pounds: Respectfully, , JOSEPH M. BROWN, Commissioner. JOINT DEBATE caution Taken To Keep Down “Rough House.” SPANISH CABINET ALL RESIGNED. Madrid, June 7.—Premier Moret to day presented to King Alfonso the res- ignatlons of the entire cabinet To Bainbridge, Ga., 61; to Bruns wick, Ga., 42; to Fitzgerald, Ga„ 47; to Quitman, Ga., 61; 'to Savannah, Ga., 42; to Tifton, Ga., 45; to Thomasvllle, Ga., 49; to Valdosta, Ga„ 48.6; to WaycroBS, Ga., 48. | The Railroad Commission of Georgia disowns the bantling. The rates in question are the Atlanta Journal’s' baby, not ours. And let me say that the Atlanta Journal haB not only in-1 vented some rates on marble to charge to the discredit of the Railroad Com- J mission of Georgia, but it has trenched upon the power of the Most High and has created some “Georgia quarries" Rigid Rules To Be Applied, from which to make these “excessive j m — , .. . _ freight rates" for which it must hold, and ^very Possible Pre- the Railroad Commission in the glare of condemnation. These “ Georgia quarries" it locates at Blue Ridge, Ga„ a Btation on the Louisville & Nash- ville railroad, forty-one miles north of 8peolal to The Herald. Tate, Ga., where the "Georgia quar- Atlanta, Ga., June 7.—All is now in rles" really are. With specious art readiness for the joint debate here to- the. Atlanta Journal takes the name of morrow evening between Hon. Cleric the Blue’ Ridge Marble Co., whose Howell and Hon. Hoke Smith, two of works are located at Nelson, Ga., two the several candidates who aspire to ml)es.souJh of Tate ( ^anjl. ap^Hes it to the chair of the governor of the state, the station Blue Ridge, 'Ga., and seeks 'The lltthThTtch which came in the ne- to deceive the people Into the belief gotiatlons between Ihe two sides has that the works are at a quarry and the been straightened out, and there iB quarry at Blue Ridge, Ga. nothing to do but await the hour for But from ono attempt to deceive it the speaking to begin. The debate is leaps to another, for even the rates it to take place at the Peachtree audl- names as being “fixed by the Georgia torium, which is next door to the Ara- Railroad Commission” are not correct; * gon hotel. It has been decided that if there wore any “Georgia quarries” thOBe who introduce the speakers can- at Blue Ridge, Ga. v That seltadver- ‘ not use laudatory language. No flags tised railroad rate expert went away j n re to he permitted in the auditorium, from the fact that these rates on, mar- Police will be stationed in all parts of hie are made by combining the local the auditorium. The doors will open rate of the Louisville & Nashville rail- at 7:30 o’clock and the meeting will road from the quarries to Atlanta with begin at 8 p. m. Reuben' Arnold will the rates beyond, and, instead, based introduce Mr. Smith and Chas. T. Hop- them on the combined locals of the, Kins will do the same by Mr. Howell. Louisville & Nashville and Western Both are prominent ■ attorneys of At- & Atlantic railroads from the quarries ^anta. The speakers will not he’ al to Atlanta. That combination which i owe d to be disturbed by questions the Railroad Commission's rules broke from peruana In the audience. Mr. up more than a year ago when the smith will open tho debate. Mr. How- Louisville & Nashville trains began j 0 n w m rop iy „nd then Mr. Smith will running through to Atlanta. The At- have the* last word. Four or five hun- American Medical Associa tion at Boston Figuring on the Value of Man in Dol lars and Cents. Boston, Mass., June 7. — The thalmplogical Department of the American Medical Association yester. day considered the value of man in dollars and cents, Dr. Holte, of Port land, Me., insisting that such value be expressed in figures with a dollar mark before them. He declared that the economic value of a laboring man decreases from his twenty-fifth year, and of a professional man after hie fortieth year. He said a boy 10 years old is worth $2,601; at 16 he is wprth $2,633; at 25 he is worth $5,48$, from which time his value decreases until at 70 he Is worth $17. At 80 he is u drawback on the community, by’ $873. Professional men are worth at 40 years, $29,344, HEAT PROSTRATIONS AT THE NORTH. Intensely Hot In Chicago and New York Yesterday. j ( New York, June 7.—One death, and several prostrations from heat wero reported yesterday, which, althoug not the hottest day of the year so fa: brought more distress. I > In Chicago, Too. Chicago, June 7.—Yesterday the hottest day of the present here, the temperature rising ;to 91 i groes, causing the death of six p sons and several prostrations, normal temperature of this date is ' 8 ome Idnta Journal revives because it en ables iti to thereby publish higher fig ures with which to attack the Rail road Commission — figures which to some points work out nearly $20 per car more than the "rates fixed bjj the Railroad Commission of Georgia.” The people of Georgia can therefore see to what depths that paper is will ing to sink itself in its assaults upon their Railroad Commission. And . that the people may know that the charge made in the editorial columns of that paper, May 25, was not a sporadic one, the Atlanta Journal returns to its vomit June 3, naming specifically its former rates "from Blue Ridge” to Bainbridge, Brunswick and Quitman, saying In black, capital letters that the “RAILROAD COMMISSION PER MITS” the roads to charge a rate of 61 cents per 100 pounds from Blue Ridge, in North Georgia, to Bainbridge. This is 5 cents per 100 pounds higher than the rate the "Railroad Commis sion permits" from this fictitious quar ry! And its rates ’to Quitman are 5 cents per 100 pounds higher than we would "permit,” and to Brunswick 6 cents per 100 pounds higher. The Atlanta Journal has published many silly statements about the rail road commission of Georgia within the past year, but if there has been an other out of the number which was so absolutely disreputable as that herein exposed I confess I have failed to see it. That paper has also published some other fictitious rates which it says were “fixed by the railroad commis sion of Georgia.’’ I will show up that attempted fraud later. In the mean time,'! will remark that the marble rates from the Burlington, Vermont, group of towns to Savannah and Brunswick, which the Atlanta Journal dred seats will be reserved immedi ately in front of the speaker’s stand for ladles and their escorts. The two committees declare that there must be no disorder and that anyone who at tempts to start a “rough house” will be fired out of the building in quick time. Local Interest In the affair ap pears to be such as to warrant the pre diction that the auditorium will he densely packed tomorrow night. OHIO MINERS AND OPERATORS CANT AGREE. We are showing a beautiful lme bristle goods, inch, ing Hair Brushes, 75c to $4. Tooth Brushes, 10 c to $1. ColumbUB, O., June 7.—The miners and operators of Ohio have practically come to a deadlock in their attempt to reach an agreement on the wage question. The committee mpt today, hut negotiations will probably be de clared off, This statement Is from authoritative sources. CECIL OUTZ SHOOTS HIMSELF. Young Man in Inflrrpary In Atlanta Attempts Suicide. Special to The Herald. ’ Atlanta, Ga„ June 7.—Cecil Outz, 20 years old, a patient in the Tabernacle Infirmary,'shot himself Just over the hqart today, and will probably die. Outz was despondent over 111 healtff. He was so much Improved that he would have been discharged from the Infirmary in a few days. When the nurse left the room for a moment, Outz shot himself with a re volver which he had concealed. Outz belonged to a prominent family of McRae. I i’.vl I Nail Brushes, 25 c to $1. Shaving Brushes, 25c to $1.50. Clothes Brushes, 25 c to $1. ( Bath Brushes, Hilsman-