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L. 12.
Professional. Card Sharp Breaks
Up Game With Big Pistol.
THREE DEATHS QUICKLY
Sheriff Undertakes to Arrest
derer .___ and Is Killed, But Slays
HU ms man Man ueiore R<*fnrr> Dying. n«in<r.
Three men were killed at Abbeville,
e ts. n C., Maturday a , . night, including the
sheriff of the oonoty. About 10 oclock
several men were having a social game
of cards in the office of the Miller ho-
tel tel t One One r\f of them was win- William „ Kyle, t- i
or ljiialow, Mass., wlio Rad been su-
permtending mill the building of a cotton
at Abbeville, and was to leave for
bis home C!!! SnnJmr 7
John John Densby, '. a notorious gambler, , ,
wno bad killed several men and was
recently tried and acquitted for the
murder of a negro, came into the room wa“
and began cursing b Kyle. J Densby L, “ubuy wu8
’ -
drinking and , is . said ., to have quarreled
with the Massachusetts man some
days ago. He applied a vile epithet
to Kyle. The latter got sJw up and re-
monstrated, but made no of vio-
- lence. Densby drew a 45-caliber army
revolver. A bystander gathered his
right arm, Densby shifted the pistol
tlrou 8 h the
•
lhe murderer then backed out of
the room, declaring be would shoot
any one attempting to follow him He
went to the homo of his father-in-law * '*
, Van T Gresswell. n ,, Two >
A.om policemen
persued him, but were held off by
Densby, who threatened to kill them
if they advanced. Tbo v,oHoorY,o„ *
dnJrro.i longed info into o a nearby i i house and , tele- , ,
phoned for assistance. Sheriff R. L.
Kennedy, with several citizens, re-
sponded. .
The ho„ M ,« grounded, the pc
Iicemen guarding the windows and
Kennedy going to the front door. He
summoned desperado Densby to surrender. The
opened the door, came out
“<• «•»«* «*- M- ^ “Well,
wo will all go , to hell together, he be-
gan shooting, the sheriff’s party " re-
sponding promptlv.
Both Ke nnedy ,™d De-.by emptied
„ llio sheriff struck
was
near the heart and in return sent a
bullet through Densby’s chest. Anoth-
er struck Densby /n in the leg.
The rp,i sheriff . • «, fell on pi the „ spot, „ l . but .
Densby walked fifty yards and had
reloaded his pistol when the police-
men seized and handcuffed him. He
■lid pot speak alter being shot and dted
in an houi.
The sheriff lived but a few minutes .
ami Kyle died at 2 o’clock Sunday
*
afternoon
D„n.by leave, a .file and one .Mid.
He was for seveial years United States
deputy marshal. He was a noted
gambler and had been the terror of the
town for * vears. The sheriff also leaves
a wife and ’i one skild. in He las thirty- .
five years old, and in tho recent elec-
tion was elected on the first ballot
over several competitors.
p- Kyle , was an uumarr el man forty
years old,
FUSIOXISTS IGNORED CALL.
Middle-of-the-Koad Populists Hold a
Conference In St. Bouis.
A conference of Middle-of-the-Road
Populists met in St. Louis, Mo., Sat¬
urday in response to a call issued by
J. A. Parker, of Kentucky, chairman
of the national committee of that
party. About ninety members of the
national committee were present in
person or represented by proxy. W.
Carlton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly,
candidates for president and vice-pres-
dent in the recent election, were not
present. Parker, who opened the
Chairman address,
meeting with a short in the
coarse of which he sa ; .d that the con-
ference was called for the purpose of
considering the future policy of the
middle-of-the-roaders, who stand for
no compromise. He believed in the
divorcement from both the old parties
K nd declared that the fig ht should be
car ried forward without auy compro-
mise. Mr. Parker said he had issued
the call to representatives populist of all
branches of the party, but
that the ••/usionists” had ignored it
entirely.
NURSES ACCUSED OF MURDER.
„f Pati«nt In Bellevue Hospital
„ . 1 , Coroner**
FuHV Investigated By Jury.
a New York special says: The jury
IS the inquest into the cause of the
•
1U Louis H. Hilliard, rendered
of declaring
Friday night that
a W come to his death from asphyx-
h and fractured ribs caused by
Don Edward O. Dean and
Jesse R- Davis
hospUar censured the Bellevue
authorities for laxity of
methods. protests of Assistant
District^ -^ Attorney Marshall McIntyre, released Davis, in
were
SOO baiLeacK WILL PROBATED.
HUNTINGTON^
In San Francisco Is
Vain® ° f Placed at 860,000.
ill of Collis P. Huntington
Tbe Lad to probate at San Fran-
vaS cisco ^Thursday- * The tate of only the property deceased
belong^ eS
cons isted of a mortgage
jn that ci J property to the alue
interest $50,009. in Aside from this ther was
er t y of any descrip-
Klkin 'mansion on e California of the widow. street
the na»
THE (
A ■ NEWS
REV.BR.
tfc® Eminent Divine’s
Discourse.
Subject: Our Nation’s Nceds-Wa Should
Show More Gratitude to God. for His
Blessings — Our Back of Appreciation
of the Bord’s Bounty.
[Copyright into. 1
i ism, and show# the £ .ftsMBS of
resources our coun¬
world try, and predicts the the time blessings. when all His the
will have same
two texts are, Revelations xxi, 13, “On
the south three gates;” Psalm cxlvii. po,
“He hath not dealt so with any nation.”
Among the greatest needs of our cmm -
try is more gratitude to God for the un-
parelleled prosperity bestowed upon us.
0ne of m y te *i. 8 call V LS t0 it te t L < £ al
comparison. . What nation on all the plan¬
et has of late had such enlargement* of
—S" 1 ?"Cut," Lott'S
and the Philippine Islands brought into
close contact with us, and through steaIn¬
ship subsidy and Nicaragua canal, all which
will surely be affor( i e d by Congress, the
republics of South America will be brought
into most active trade with the United
States. “On the south three gates ”
While our next-door neighbors, the south-
ern republics and neighboring colonies.
imported from European countries 3000
miles away $675,000,000 worth of goods in
a J' ear > only $126,000,000 worth went from
the United States—$126,000,000 out of $675,-
T’ 000 ’ only one-fifth of the trade ours,
European nations taking the four fingers
and leaving us the poor thumb. Now all
this is to be changed. There is nothing
b ut a comparative ferry between the isl-
ands w hich ha Y e re cent]? : come under our
S'fiKW . ,
Venezuela, Salvador, Nicaragua, Colom-
bia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and Brazil, while
tliere are ra g in * seas an<1 5 °ng voyages be-
‘TThe^UniS" IOTAS' “lift
changed through new facilities of transpor-
tation. The Hispano-AmCrican congress,
just closed at Madrid, will fail in its at-
tcmpt to divert ab tbe trade of South
America from ua to Europe.
In anticipation of what is sure to come
I nail on the front door of this nation an
advertisement:
Wanted—One hundred thousand men
to build railroads through South America
and the islands of the sea under our pro¬
tection.
Wanted—A thousand telegraph opera-
tors.
Wanted—One hundred million dollars
^ gg* , tW " «“ —
Wanted—All the clocks you can make at
New Haven, and all the brains you can
spare from Boston, and all the bells you
can mold at Troy, and all the McCormick
all the railroad iron you can send fr om
Pittsburg, and all the statesmen that you
can spare from Washington.
.AS lawyers plead
to our causes.
Wanted—Doctors to cure our sick,
Wanted—Ministers to evangelize our
population.
Wanted — Professors to establish our
universities “On'the ’
thousand three south gates'.” Yea, a
gates! South America and all
the islands of the sea approximate are
sKfel, ~
to it that we get wliat belongs to us.
And then tides of travel will be some-
what diverted from Europe to our
a t the south and to the land of the Az-
expended ^ in £*&£&££?& southern exploration, in look- t
mg at some of the ruins of the forty-seven
cities which Stephens found only a little
wp -y a $«*. and ia walkin « through the
great doorways and , over the miracles of
mosaic and along by the monumental glo-
ries of another civilization, and ancient
America will with co]d lips of stone kiss
the warm lips of modern America, and to
seen the Andes and Popocatepetl
be deemed as important as to have
seen the Alpine and Balkan ranges. And
there will be fewer people spoiled by for¬
eign and travel and in our midst less of the
poor nauseating imitation of theErench
shrug and the intentional hesitancy of a
brainless foreign swell. The fact is that
many are made vain by European travel,
and, though sensible when they embarked,
they return with a collar and a cravat and
a shoe and a coat and a pronunciation and
a contempt for American institutions and
the bend of the elbow that make one be¬
lieve in evolution backward from man to
ape. Of the many thousands who now cross
the sea annually thousands will on pleasure
and business visit southern lands, and so
tourists and merchants and scientists and
capitalists will all help in this national de¬
velopment. And “On the south three openings gates.”
what other nation has such
for commercial as ours?
Again, in this international comparison
notice the happy condition of our country
as compared with most countries. Rus¬
sia under the shadow of the dreadful ill¬
ness of her great and good emperor, who
now more than any man in all the world
represents “peace on earth, good will to
men,” solemn and whose empress, near the most
hour that ever comes to a wom¬
an’s soul, is anxious for him to whom she
has given hand and heart, not for political
reasons, but through old-fashioned love
such as blesses our bumbler dwellings;
India, under the agonies of a famine which
though dreds somewhat lifted has filled hun¬
of thousands of graves and thrown
millions into orphanage; Austria only
waiting die for her genial Francis Joseph to
so as to let Hungary rise in rebellion
and make the palace of Vienna quake with
and insurrection; Spain in Carlist revolution has
pauperized as seldom any nation
been pauperized; Italy under the horrors
of her king's assassination; China shud¬
dering with a fear of dismemberment, her
capital in possession of foreign nations.
After a review of the conditiors in other
lands can you find a more appropriate ut¬
terance in regard to our country than the
exclamation of the text, “He hath not
dealt so with any nation?”
vests Compare in America the autumnal this report and the of har¬ har¬
abroad. year
vests Last summer I crossed the
continent of Europe twice, and I saw no
such harvests as are spoken of in this
statement. Hear it, all you men and
women who want everybody to have
enough to eat and wear. I have to tell
you that the corn crop of our country
this year is one of the four largest
crops on record, 2,105,000,000 bushels. The
cotton crop, though smaller than at
some bigger times, will on that account bring
the South prices, and so cotton planters of
fields are prosperous. The wheat
have provided bread enough and to
spare. The potato crop one of the five
largest els. crops on record, 211,000,000 bush¬
thousand Twenty-two million two hundred
swine slain, and yet so many
hogs left?
But now I give you the comparative ex¬
ports and imports, which tell the story of
national prosperity as nothing else can.
Excess of exports over imports, $544,400,-
000. Now, let all pessimists hide them¬
selves in the dens and caves of the earth.
While all grateful souls fill the churches
with doxology. Notice also that while
other countries are at their wits’ ends as
ADEI, BERRIEN COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY. JANUARY 4, 1901.
to their finances this nation has money to
lend. in Wall "German^, if we are glad to see you
street, you must borrow money
we have it all ready. How much will you
have? Russia, we also welcome you into
our money markets. Give us good collat¬
eral. accept Meanwhile, offer of Denmark, S3,000,000 will for you the please island
out
of St. Thomas?” My hearers, there is no
nation on earth with such healthy condi¬
tion of finances. We wickedly waste an
awful amount of money in this countin’,
but some one has said it is easier to man¬
age a surplus than a deficit.
Besides all this, not a disturbance from
Rt. Lawrence River to Key West or from
Highlands of the Pacific. of New Sectional .Tersay to Golden controversies Horn
ended. The North and South brought
into complete accord by the Spanish war,
which put the Lees and the Grants on the
same side, Vermonters and Georgians in
th.e same brigade. And since our Civil
War we are all mixed up. Southern men
have married Northern wives, and North¬
ern men have married Southern wives,
and your ^children are half Mississippian
and half New Englander, and to make an¬
other division between the North and the
South possible you- would have to do with
your child as Solomon proposed with the
child brought before him for judgment—
divide it with the sword, giving half to
the North and half to the South. No;
there is nothing so hard to split as a era*
die. In other lands there is compulsory
marriage cf roval families, some brisht
princess compelled to marry some disa¬
greeable foreign dignitary in order to keep
the balance of political power in Europe,
the ill-matched pair fighting out on a
small scale that which would have been
an international contest, sometimes the
husband having the balance of power and
sometimes the wife.
If there is anything that stirs my ad¬
miration it is a man without any educa¬
tion himself sending his sons to college,
and without any opportunity for luxury
himself resolved that though he shall have
it hard all the days of his life his children
shall have a good start.
And I tell you that though some of our
people may have great commercial strug¬
gles there is going to he a great opening
for their sons and daughters as they come
on to take their plages in the world.
Continuing this international comparison
I have to say to you that we have a bet¬
ter climate than is to be found in any
other nation. We do not suffer from any¬
thing like the Scotch mists or the English
fogs or of the Russian iqe blasts or the ty¬
phus cholera. Southern Europe or the Asiatic
Epidemics exceptional. in America Plenty are ex¬ of
ceptional. very
wood and coal to make a roaring fire mid¬
winter. Easy access to seabeach or mount¬
ain top when the ardors of summer come
down. Michigan wheat for the bread,
Long Island corn for the meal, Carolina
rice for the quet i of puddings, Louisiana
sugar to sweeten our beverages, Georgia
products cotton to and keep all vs climates. warm, in our hand all
Are your nerves
weak? Go north. Is your throat delicate?
Go south. ‘ Do you feel crowded and want
more room? Go west.
I declare it, this is the.best country in
all the world to live In. How do I know
it? I have 650,000 new reasons for saying
the it; 650.000 other side people of in one Atlantic year came five from
the to in
America, and they came because it is the
very best country to live in.
While making this international com¬
parison let us look forward to the time
which will surely come when all nations
will have as great advantages as our own.
As surely as the Bible is true the whole
earth is to be gardenized and set free.
Even the climates will change and the
heats be cooled and the frigidity warmed.
Many years ago in this city and I gazed upon
a scene which for calamity grandeur
one seldom sees equalled. I mean the
burning of the Smithsonian Institution.
It was the pride of our country. In it art
had gathered rarest specimens from all
lands and countries.
It was one of those buildings which
seize you with enchantment as you enter
and all the rest of y. ur life holds you
with a charm. I happened to see the first
glow of the fires which on that cold day
looked out from the windows of the costly
pile. I saw the angry elements roar and
rave. The shout of affrighted workman seemed
and the assault of fire engines only
to madden the rage of the monsters that
rose up to devour all that came within
reach of their chain.
Up along the walls and through the
doors were pushed hands that snatched
down all they could reach and hurled it
dows into the of abyss of flame beneath. The win¬
the tower would light up for a
minute with a wild glare and then darken,
as though fiends with streaming locks of
fire had come out to gaze on in laughing
mockery of all human attempts and then
sunk again into their native darkness.
The roofs began here and there to blos¬
som in wreaths and vines of flame. Up
and down the pillats ran serpents of fire.
Out from the windows great arms and
fingers of flames were extended, as though
destroyed spirits were begging for deliver¬
ance. The tower put on a coronet of flame
and staggered and fell, the sparks flying,
the firemen escaping, the terror accumulat¬
ing.
Books, maps, rare correspondence, auto¬
graphs of kings, oostly diagrams burned to
cinder or scattered tor many a rood upon
the wild wind to be picked up by the ex¬
cited multitude. Oh, it seemed like some
great funeral pile in which the wealth and
glory of our land had leaped to bum with
its consuming treasures. The heavens
were blackened with whirlwinds of smoke,
calamity. through which shot the long red shafts of
Destruction waved its fiery banner from
the remaining towers, and in the thunder
of falling beams and in the roaring surge
of billowing fire I heard the spirits of ruin
and desolation and woe clapping their
hands and shouting, ‘‘Aha! aha!”
I turned and looked upon the white
dome through of yonder eapitol, which rose
the frosty air as imposing as
though all the white marble of the earth
had come to resurrection and stood be¬
fore us, reminding one of the great white
throne of heaven. There it stood, un¬
moved by the terrors which that day had
been kindled before it. No tremor in its
majestic columns, no flush of excitement
in its veins of marble. Column and capital
and dome built to endure until the world
itself shatters in the convulsions of the
last earthquake. Oh, what a contrast be¬
tween the smoking ruin on the one hand
and that gorgeous white dream of archi¬
tecture on the other! Well, the day speeds
on when the grandest achievement of man
will be consumed and the world will blaze.
Down will go galleries of art and thrones
of royalty and the hurricane of God’s
power will scatter even the ashes of con-
sumed greatness and glory. Not one tower
left, not one city unconsumed, not one
scene of grandeur to relieve the desola¬
tion. Forests dismasted, seas licked up,
continents sunk, hemispheres annihilated.
Oh, the roar and thundering crash of that
last conflagration! earth But from that rum
of a blazing we shall look up to
the temple of liberty and justice rising
through unscarred the ages, and white and pure and
grand, eternal rock unshaken. Founded
■ m the and swelling into
domes of infinitude and glory in which the
halleluliahs of heaven have their reverber¬
ation. No flame of human hate shall
blacken its walls. No thunder of infernal
wrath shall rock its foundations. By the
upheld torches of burning worlds we shall
read it on column and architrave and
throne of eternal dominion. “Heaven and
earth ghall pass away, but truth and lib¬
erty and justice shall never pass away.”
ORE DOLLAR PER ANNUM.
GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS
Brief Summary of Interesting
Happenings Culled at Random.
New “Tourist” Train.
The important announcement has
been made that, beginning January
15tb, the Southern railway, in con¬
junction with the Big Four, Monon
and Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
and Pennsylvania lines, will operate
via Atlanta daily through trains be¬
tween Chicago and St. Augustine. The
new train will be known as the “Chi-
cago-St. Angustine Special,” and will
be in point of equipment and other
respects the finest passenger train op¬
erated in this territory.”
Georgia Reports Issued.
The one hundred and eleventh vol¬
ume of the Georgia Reports made its
appearance a day or two ago, following
in close succession the one hundred
and tenth volume, which was issued in
the early part of December, both vol¬
umes having been put in type simul¬
taneously.
The one hundred and eleventh vol¬
ume contains the last of the decisions
rendered at the last term of the su¬
preme court.
The one hundred and twelfth volume
is now being set up, and most of the
decisions of the present term are al¬
ready in type.
Prof. Glenn Honored,
Prof. G. R. Glenn has been elected
president of the Southern Educational
Association, which was in session at
Richmond, Va., for two days the past
week. 9
The other new officers are: Vice
president, Chancellor R. B. Fulton, of
Mississippi: secretary, Hon. P. H.
Claxton, of Greensboro, N. C.; treas¬
urer, Hon. F. L. Stuart, of Knoxville.
Resolutions appealing to the people
of the south to make greater efforts for
educational advantages were adopted
and at 12:35 o’clock the convention
adjourned sine die.
Elocutionist* In Convention.
Elocutionists from all parts of tbo
south gathered in Atlanta the past
week to attend the first annual conven¬
tion of the Southern Association of
Elocutionists, which convened in the
Universalist church. The association
was organized little less than a year
ago, and now includes in its member¬
ship practically all of the professional
elocutionists in the south.
Atlanta's Police I>ocket.
During the past year the police of
Atlanta‘made over 14,000 city cases
and nearly 1,600 state cases. Last
year the total number of city cases
was about 13,000.
Of this enbrmons number of arrests
fully 75 per cent were for disorder,
and 90 per cent were due either di¬
rectly or indirectly to whisky.
Of the 14,000 city cases at least
10,000 were against negroes, and as
many more negroes again w T ere impli¬
cated in some way with the cases
which were under trial, the total num¬
ber of negroes in Atlanta who have
appeared before the recorder for drunk¬
enness and rows is somewhere in the
neighborhood of 20,000, or about two-
thirds of the entire negro population.
The amount of money ^>aid in cash
for police court fines w ill reach this
year to nearly $40,000, or over double
what it was two years ago; and to this
must be added the thousands of cases
in which the fines were worked out on
the streets.
New Bridge Accepted.
The new Roswell bridge connecting
Fulton and Cobb counties, has been
formally accepted by representatives
of the two counties.
Judge E. B. Rosser, chairman of
the board of county commissioners, ac¬
cepted the'structure on behalf of Ful¬
ton county while Judge J. fl. Stone,
present ordinary of Cobb county, J did
likewise for his county.
The final payments were made by
the two counties for the work of buiM-
ing alf,M80, the bridge. The structure cost in
cl which amount Fniton
22s
of the expenses was $3,862.50, and
that of Cobb county, $2,317.50.
It was also agreed that in future
both the Johnson and the Powers fer-
ries would be operated jointly by the
two counties without charge to the
public. Heretofore these ferries have
been toll ferries. Each county is to
of operatingThe ferries^ ^ eXpenS ®
State University’s Greeting.
The University of Georgia has sent
to its friends a neat New Year’s greet¬
ing, in which it is announced that the
institution will celebrate its hundredth
birthday June 12 to 19, 1901. The
university was founded in 1801, and
at the centennial commencement next
June null celebrate with all due cere-
modies the fact that it has lived one
hundred years.
*« *
Col. Back En Kouto Home.
Republican circles in aud about
Georgia have been thrown into a state
of nervous excitement by the informa-
tion contained in a cablegram to
Colonel O. C. Fuller from Colonel A.
E. Buck, minister to Japan, stating
that the latter is ^n route homo. The
cablegram merely contained the meagre
information that the minister sailed
December 28 for America and expects
to reach his native haunts about one
mouth hence.
Colonel Buck, who has now been
absent from the United States several
years, was, previous to his appoint-
ment to the foreign office, the leader
in Republican circles in this part of
the country. Ho was chairman of
the state central committee, -which
office gave him great power and which
power ho exerted to advantage. On
Mr. McKinley’s election to the presi¬
dency, he was appointed to the foreign
office, but it is stated that he was
called into consultation before his de¬
parture for Japan by tbo president,
who followed his advice in the distri¬
bution of slices of the big pie in Geer-
gia.
While the impression prevails in
other political circles that Mr. Bnck
has been called home by tbo president
for another consultation, local Repub¬
licans profess to know nothing of this
whatever, though no denial of the
probable correctness of tho surmise is
attempted.
The minister’s term of office expires
next May, and it is not unlikely that
his return has something to do w r ith
his reappointment as miuister to Ja¬
pan. It is hinted that he may ask for
a different plum, but there is no au¬
thority for the statement that he wiil.
Over Fourteen Million* Increase.
The clearings of the Atlanta banks,
members of the Atlanta Clearing House
Association, for the year ending Do-
whatever, though no denial of the
probable correctness of the surmise is
attempted.
The minister’s term of office expires
next May, and it is not unlikely that
his return has something to do with
liis re-appointment as minister to Ja¬
pan. It is hinted that he may ask for
a different plum, but there is no au¬
thority for the statement that he wiil.
Over Fourteen Million* Increase.
The clearings of the Atlanta banks,
members of the Atlanta Clearing House
Association, cember 31st, for 1900, the year ending De¬
show an increase of
over $14,000,000 as compared with
the clearings of last year. This is the
largest increase shown since the clear¬
ing house association was formed. It
is over $3,000,000 in excess of the in¬
crease sho wn last year.
_
HAWAIIAN’S WANT DAMAGES.
Will Ask Pay For Property Destroyed
Durinc Piacue Outbreak.
It is expected that Governor Dole of
Hawaii will make a recommendation
to the Hawaiian legislature, which
meets in February, for the settlement
of claims of Chinese and Japanese,
growing out of the destruction of their
property at Honolulu at the time of
the bubonic plague outbreak.
Hovr Boers Celebrated Christmas.
According to advices the Boers cele¬
brated Christmas in the district be¬
tween Standerton and Ingogo by more
or less deter «oined attacks upon every
British garrison aiony the lines of
communication.
JILTED LOVER’S RASH ACT.
Attempts to Murder Hl* Sweetheart After
Her Marriage to Another.
Robert Morgan attempted to kill a
Mrs. Tompkins, a young married wo¬
man, near Harrison, Ga., Saturday
night, and then put a bullet into his
oivn head, inflicting a very dangerous
wound. Neither of the two shots he
fired at Mrs. Tompkins Btruck her.
Morris had been paying attention to
Mrs, Tompkins and her marriage to
another man was the motive for the at¬
tempted murder and suicide.
Road to He Extended.
The charter of the Calvert, Waco
and Brazos Valley Railroad has been
amended so'as to permit of the projec¬
tion of the line south through Texas
to Houston and north to Fort Worth,
representing 287 miles of road, The
capital stock is $283,000.
Minister Buck Coming Home.
After an absence of nearly four years
from Georgia, Colonel A. E. Buck,
loader of the Republican party of the
state of Georgia, but more lately
United States minister to Japan, is on
his way home.
Pingree Ignores * Court tomt.
« Governor Pingree who was sum-
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summons.
States Price For Danish Islands.
1 The United States minister at Cop-
enhagen, L. S. Swenson, has informed
the Danish government that the United
offers twelve million kroner for
tbe Danish Antilles and will not give
more.
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VALUABLE MAIL POUCH STOLEN.
Ainons; Its Content* Was 8100,000 Worth
of Negotiable Paper.
A mail pouch containing $100,000
in negotiable paper and an unknown
amount of money was stolen from the
Michigan Central railroad passenger
station at Wyandotte, Mich., some
time Thursday night.
The last mail for Wyaudotte arrived
at 10:28 o’clock and owing to the late¬
ness of the hour it is left in the sta¬
tion until morning. Night Operator
Richert threw the pouches under a
aea t j n ^9 corner of the waiting room
and then went to his home in Detroit.
Friday morning Mail Carrier Mc-
Cleary missed the sack,
NO MODIFICATION POSSIBLE.
The Torms of Collective Note to China
Will Not Be Changed.
The foreign communities in Pekin
are greatly satisfied at the decided
tone of the collective note and the as¬
sertion that the powers are determined
to entertain no proposals for the mod-
ification of their demands. It is un¬
derstood Li Hung Chang sent a mo¬
moriul to the throne, couched in very
strong terms, urging complete com¬
pliance.
WHITE WEDS BLACK
Mulatto Girl and White Man Are
Arrested on Serious Charge.
COUPLE ADMITS BEING MARRIED
Ceremony Is Alleged to Have been
Performed By a Justice
In Atlanta, Qa.
Charles Johnson, a white man, and
Eleanor Moody, a mulatto girl, W6re
arrested in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday
morning on the charge of having
violated the state lsw by getting mar-
ried.
Johnson admits the charge, and
makes a statement which would indi-
cate that the man is either a degener- ,
ate or a lunatic.
lue woman says she married . ^ the
white man because he worried her so,
and that was the only way to get rid of
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Johnson and the woman arrived in
Atlanta from Rome. They went at
ouce to the court house, where the man
secured a marriage license. In a cab
they drove to the residences of two
ministers, both of whom refused to
P c The *J OTm couple au y snch finally unlawful ceremony.
went to the office
of Justice Cook, so they stated, and
were married. Johnson shows a mar¬
riage certificate issued with Justice
Cook s signature . to it, . and the name
of J. M. McAfee as a witness. It is
presumed that Justice Cook, if he per-
formed the ceremony supposed John-
son to be a man with negro biood in
his veins.
After the marriage the couple rode
to the depot in a cab and it was there
thnt the officers got wind of the affair
and arrested them.
Johnson’s home isin Rome, Ga.,
and he is said to belong to one of the
best families in that city. He has
traveled a great deal, and is a stock
trader by trade. His last business
venture in Rome was a skating rink,
Johnson is about thirty years of age
and the woman about twenty.
To a reportei of The Constitution
the man stated that he married the
mulatto girl because he loved her, and
it w’as nobody’s business. He said he
intended to take her to Cuba, where
such marriage's are not socially barred.
He claims not to have known that he
had violated the law of Georgia.
The woman says she told Johnson
that he was getting into trouble, but
he vowed that no trouble would come.
Johnson sent for a reporter and
handed him a manuscript which he
said was a sketch of his life which he
wanted published. It was a lot of
allusions to his love for the negro race,
which were unfit for publication.
WOMAN WRECKS SALOON.
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Ardent Member of W. C. X. U. Destroy*
Costly Property of Grog Shop. |
Barber W.°C. T^U.t^nteMd
a hotel barroom at Wichita, Kan.,
Thursday and with a stone destroyed
a $300 painting of Cleopatra at the
bath and a mirror valued at $100.
She was placed under arrest and
afterward appealed to the governor,
who was in the city, but be refused to
act in anv wav
She broke mirror* .t Kiowa, Kan
she can be prosecuted.
Mrs, Nation Thursday night issued
a manifesto “to the friends of temper-
ance everywhere,” in which she ao-
knowledges there was “method in the
apparent madness.”
“I came to the governor’s home
town,” she continues,, “to destroy the
finest saloon in it, hoping thus to at-
tract public attention to the flagrant
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street fairs from Canada to the gulf.
EDUCATORS ASSEMBLE.
Delegates of Southern Association Gather
In Force At Richmond.
The delegates to the Southern Edu-
cational Association, which held its
When the association was called to
order there were about 500 delegates
present, representing every part of the
south. After prayer by Rev. Cary
Morgan addresses of welcome were
delivered by Governor Taylor, Mayor
Taylor, State Superintendent of In-
struction Southall and City Superin-
tendent Fox, and several responses
were made. i \
TRAGEDY AT A DANCE.
Kentuckians Engage In Brawl and Guns
Are Used Promiscuously.
Frank Davis, “Buck Ohad^eli, Es-
tepp Morgan and Richard Davis qnar-
relied at a dance at Walnut Hills, fif-
teen miles from Middlesburg, Ky.,
and a pitched battle ensued. Fifty
shots were fired. Frank Davis was
killed. Morgan and Dick Davis were
wonnden mortally and Chadwell was
wounded slightly. *
NO. 45.
LAW IS DEFECTIVE
afl ^ ^ e § roes ^ an Marry
In Georgia With Impnnity.
NO PROVISION FOR PUNISHMENT
Statute Aims Only at Ministers
or Justices Who Perform
Such Ceremony.
An Atlanta dispatch says: The as-
tonishing fact was developed Friday
that there is no law on the statute
books of the state of Georgia by which
the contracting parties in an inter-
marriage of the races can be punished.
This discovery was made by Recorder
Broyles while he had under considcra-
the case °, f /[ ohuson atl *
Eleanor Moody, the white man and
ne g ro woman who were married
Thursday.
The man Rnd woman were arre3le d
shortl after their mar riage, and the
trial of the ca8e wag keld Friday raorn-
ing in the police court. There was
no evidence introduced, with tho ex¬
ception of the statements of the two
defendants, and after hearing these,
the recorder bound both over to the
superior court in the sum of S"500 each
on jjj e charge of miscegenatioD, which
translated means the intermarrying of
the racen.
Recorder Broyles, however, was not
exactly satisfied as to the law appiica-
ble to such cases, and be accordingly
referred to the criminal code ol Geor-
gj a _ jq wa8 pjjen that he ascertained
that, according to the law, Johnson
and jjj 0 Moody woman had committed
DO offense, and therefore could not be
prosecuted. The law places all of the
responsibility for tbe marriage on tbe
officer or minister of the gospel per-
forming such a marriage and bolds
them responsible for the same. Under
these circumstances there was nothing
f or the recorder to do but to reconsider
his action and dismiss the cases, which
h e d j d a t the afternoon session of the
court,
The action of the recorder in re*
leasing the two defendants is based on
section 628 of the criminal code,
which reads as follows:
Intel marriage of whites and col-
cored people—If any officer shall
knowingly issue a marriage li-
cense to parties, either of whom
i 8 G f African descent, and the
other a white person, or if any of-
fi cer or minister of the gospel
shall marry such persons together,
be shall be guilty of a miode-
meanor.
Thus it will be Been that whites and
negroes may marry in Georgia and
thereby commit no offense in tbe eyes
G f the law, but the person officiating at
tho weddings places himself in a very
unenviable position. From the de«
scription given by the man and woman
and from the evidence obtainable, the
authorities are led to the conclusion
that Justice of the Peace D. A. Cook,
who has an office on Marietta street,
' Recorder
In speaking of the matter
Broyles said:
“I certain y greatly surprised
f be n 1 lea ! n ed tbat tbere IS D ° l aw
for tbe 4 u punishment , of . the contracting .
parties t in an intermarriage of the races.
Tbe Ter J fj am m P Iaci n « ’ he
responsibility on the person who* . per-
forras the ceremony, buu this is not
pn ^ B < ’ he d?°T a h C e'°p™e J ;*ce‘ot
is prohrhiW hn. i.
such a marriage occurs no onense nas
been committed by the persons mar¬
rying, according to the present law.
“I don’t believe that it was the in¬
tention of the lawmakers to create
such a situation. I think it was merely
an oversight^ and if the matter is
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brought to the attention of the legiB-
islature, and I believe
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court.
SHOALS ARE IN THE WAY.
Richardson Says When They are Removed
Navigation Will Be Unobstructed.
The Huntsville, Ala., Evening Post
pr j n t 8 an interview with Congressman
WiUi * m >» -W<* be 8 .J.
tbat n0 satisfactory results wi.l he re¬
ceived from appropriations on the
Tennessee river until the Colbert
shoals, upon which the sum of So,000
baB been expended, are removed,
When this is done, he arid, we will
have unobstructed naviga.ion from
above Florence and Sheffield to the
in than ou tb two of hundred the river, mil^g ad| 8n.ee o
on wkMker?
^Station RefttS* * to BA
cnrlty Furnished By
JL special from Wichitiy
Carrie Nations, tho ^
“joint” wrecker, has refu
cured by her co-workers
says that under no cireuaa
she step out of jail unclj
charge against her and fl
U. committee that had ■
matter has practically M
effort to secure her releaj
