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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- “° U ! d l ° a ?? e8r bt,for o tb e Ingham ^ J L ^ ° f conte ? atUr ™?^ ‘ h £S£ 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. __ 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 “ lin * 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. _ 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 *■* «—<« o<«- JLifrr “ !o T’fr band" ,o ;r4“ inert* nnA d brpTi^ ui i k ‘o?'“c t -I r .t." u * 1 P s? 1 » TZ 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 _ brought to the attention of the legiB- islature, and I believe , ...... ___... , once j ^3“ "amend the existing law so XS.«« K * KSS&S!! <,0^™ o' * T rTing ‘ gro B can be made severe. Section 1039 o <^ -de «» SKr-al”r g .be di.cr.tio. of 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