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8E1 PEfiiSH IN H1K.
HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY, HAS TWO
FATAL FIRES.
THE BODIES BURNED TO A CRISP.
While the Father Was Playing Card* In a
Barroom His Wife and Children Were
t Being Cremated—Many Hotnele**.
Hoboken N. J. was visited by two
disastrous fires between 11:30 Satur¬
day night and 3 o’clock Sunday morn¬
ing.
Seven persons were burned to death
and thirty families were made home¬
less.
The Saturday night fire started in
the three-story frame building at New¬
ark street. Here six persons lost their
lives.
They were: Mrs. Nellie Schroeder,
forty years of age; Henry Schroeder,
eleven years of age; Maggie Schroeder,
seven years old; Kate Schroeder, nine
years old; John Schroeder, three years
of age and Willie Schroeder, three
months old.
The father of the family, Charles
Schroeder, was in a near-by saloon
playing cards while his wife and chil¬
dren were dying.
The second tire started at 2 o’clock
Sunday morning in the five-story
double-deck tenement at 157 Four¬
teenth street, over a mile from the
scene of the first. •
In tli is tire, three tenements, Nos.
155, 157 and 159, were entirely
wrecked, and No. 153 was damaged
badly by water.
One child was burned to death on
the fourth floor of No. 167. She was
Mabel Mangles, eight years old.
When the police entered the building
at the first conflagration little save the
shell remained, ami they were obliged
to exercise great care in climbing about
the place. They finally reached the
top floor and made their way into the
front room. Stretched across the bed,
blackened and charred, lay the moth¬
er, *ud tightly clasped in her arniBwas
the little baby, Willie.
Beside the mother and baby, in the
same bed, lay the charred bodies of
the girls, Maggie and Kate. It is
likely that they were suffocated in
their sleep. On a mattress on the
floor near the window lay the body of
the hoy, John, but the body of Henry,
the oldest boy, was nowhere to be
seen. Upon further search being made
the hoy’s body was found under a
mass of debris in the hall, burned
almost to a crisp.
The loss to the building and its con-
tents will probably not exceed $15,000.
The lire at 157 Fourteenth street
Sunday morning started from some
unknown cause in one of a row of four
cheaply built, double-deck tenements
at Nos, 153, 155, 157 and 159. There
were two families on each floor, and
only three vacant apartments in all the
buildings. All the families were forced
out in their night clothing, or with
what little covering they eould grab in
their hurry.
The family of Ferdinand Mangles
occupied the fourth floor of 157. Mrs.
Mangles, with her four children,
started for the street, which they
reached in safety, with the exception
of Mabel, who was suffocated. The
body of the child is probably buried
beneath a mass of debris in the cellar.
The loss on the buildings Nos. 155,
157 and 159, which were completely
wrecked, is between $75,000 and $80,-
000. Not over a half dozen families
in the three buildings carried any
insurance, and their belongings were
worth about $10,000.
SINK SPANISH GUNBOATS.
An Unsuccessful ami Disastrous Attempt
to Dislodge Insurgents.
A Key West special to a New York
morning paper says that another mar¬
ine disaster to the Spaniards is re¬
ported. This time the naval depart¬
ment will not he charged with it, as
one of General Weyler’s own river ex¬
peditions was badly used up.
Fifteen boats are said to have been
sunk, 100 men are reported to have
been killed or missing and the number
of wounded is put a+ seventy-five.
Hearing that the insurgents had
fortified some heights near Paez, on
the river Caunao, Santa Clara province,
General Weyler sent Colonel Serves
with 300 men in small boats to capture
the place and destroy the boats.
INTEREST SWELLS DEFICIENCY.
Expenditures of Government for January
Greatly Exceeded the Income.
The comparative statement of the
receipts and expenditures of the
United States for the month of Jan¬
uary shows that the expenditures ex¬
ceeded the receipts by $5,952,395.
The receipts were $24,316,994,994
and the expenditures $30,268,038.
Large interest payments amounting
to $6,764,051 swelled the deficiency
for the month. The excess of expendi¬
tures over receipts since July 1, 1896,
the beginning of the fiscal year, were
$43,854,792. In January, 1896, the
expenditures exceeded the receipts by
$3,291,670.
CORBETT TO BEGIN TRAINING.
Will jfot Go to Nevada Until the Day
of Battle.
James J. Corbett has decided to
close his theatrical season at Kansas
City February 5th and to start at once
for "the Pacific coast, where he will go
into training for his battle with Fitz¬
simmons, March 17th. Corbett ex¬
pects to do his training in California
and if his preseut plans are carried
-out he will not go to the Nevada bat¬
tle ground until a few hours before
the fight takes place.
TREATY GETS FAVORABLE REPORT
Two Important Amondiwata, noweter,
are Added.
The senate committee <m foreign re¬
lations has agreed to report favorably
<*n the arbitration treaty, with amend¬
ments.
The committee was in session three
hours Saturday, at the conclusion of
which time it adjourned, after having
agreed by an almost unanimous vote
to recommend the ratification of the
treaty, with amendments. All but
two of these amendments are merely
verbal. One of the two which are
very essential strikes out the clause
providing for the selection of King
Oscar of Norway and Sweden as um¬
pire, leaving it to the two powers to
select an umpire when one is consid¬
ered necessary.
The other important amendment is
an addition to article 1 of the treaty
and reads as follows:
“No question which effects the for¬
eign or domestic policy of either of
the contracting parties, or the relations
of either with the government of any
other state or power by treaty or
otherwise, shall be subject to arbitra¬
tion under this treaty, except by spe¬
cial agreement.”
This means particularly that Great
Britain or Europe are to have no oppor¬
tunity under any pretext to have an
arbitrary Monroe board pass judgment on the
doctrine.
The disclosure of the close relations
existing between Norway and Sweden
on the one hand and Great Britain on
the other led to an almost unanimous
rejection of the King Oscar proposi¬
tion.
The first amendment was.agreed to by
the unanimous vote of the committee.
The amendment eliminating the um¬
pire clause was agreed to by a vote of
9 to 22.
The vote in opposition to striking
out of the King Oscar clause is under¬
stood to have been cast by Seator Gray,
of Delaware.
GOFF TENDERED PORTFOLIO.
Aslted to Re Attorney-General Itut May
Not Accept. ,
It is announced at Canton, O., that
the attorney-generalship has been ten¬
dered Judge Nathan Goff, of West Vir¬
ginia, by President-elect McKinley,
and that a letter has been received
from Goff declining the portfolio.
While the letter^ has not been made
public, it is announced on good au¬
thority that Judge Goff has his eye ou
the senate to years hence, and largely
for that reason may decline a cabinet
appointment.
Judge Goff is on the bench in West
Virginia as district United States judge
and he says that he prefers to hold his
position.
In case Judge Goff does not go into
the cabinet the whole question of
southern representation in that body
will bo reopened and there will be
another rush for Canton on the part
of delegations in the interest of rival
candidates.
The appointment of Russell A. Al¬
ger of Michigan to the war portfolio
has touched a popular cord, The
president-elect has been deluged with
telegrams from Michigan and the cen¬
tral western states congratulating him
on the appointment.
PALATKA TURNED LOOSE.
Confession rf Alleged Train Wreckers Was
Not Admitted.
Sam Palatka, the Pole who was ar¬
raigned for trial at Birmingham
charged with having wrecked the Bir¬
mingham Mineral train on the Caliaba
river bridge, was discharged Saturday
afternoon by Judge J. J. Banks, of the
circuit court.
The warrant, which was left in the
governor’s office in Atlanta, was on
hand, and a number of witnesses were
examined.
The state called J. M. Wilson, of
Eatonton, to show’ a confession made
by Falatka. Tanner, Palatka’s attor¬
ney, objected to this on the grounds
that the state had shown no corpus
delicti, that the crime alleged had not
been shown.
Solicitor Ferguson, for the state,
argued that there was no probable
cause that a crime had been commit-
ted, but Judge Banks sustained the
objection and discharged the defen-
dant.
The result of the case will have some
hearing on the many suits instituted
against the railroads for damages aceru-
ing from the Cahaba wreck, which al-
ready amount to nearly half a million
dollars, with more yet to be filed.
HOLDING TWO JOBS.
Move to Oust Governor Pingree From
Detroit Mayoralty Chair.
The first steps were taken the Mich¬
igan supreme court at Lansing Mon¬
day to oust Governor Pingree from the
office of mayor of Detroit, which he
has held since his inauguration as gov¬
ernor.
Young Girl Defends Her Brother.
Near Chipley, Fla., Monday, Susie
Richardson shot and mortally wound¬
ed Clifford Thomas, a well-known citi¬
zen of that section. Thomas was beat¬
ing the girl’s brother when she fired
the shot.
CRUISER BROOKLYN DAMAGED,
Struck On a Bock and Is Laid Up for
Repairs.
The new United States cruiser
Brooklyn struck on a rock ledge Sun¬
day afternoon while proceeding down
the Delaware to a safe anchorage from
the ice behind the government piers at
Marcus Hook, sixteen miles below
Philadelphia and was badly damaged.
Since the Brooklyn was put into
commission a few weeks ago she has
been lying at the League Island navy
yard.
NEW SECRETARY OF TREASURY
TALKS ON MONEY MATTERS.
MR. GAGE POINTS OUT DEFECTS.
I>eprorate* the Idea of the Govern! it
Act i ng m “Warehouseman” for
Either Gold or Silver.
A special from Chicago says: Mr.
Bynum J. Gage, the next secretary of
the treasury, with great candor and
courtesy, makes his position quite
clear on financial affairs, as follows:
“Our whole monetary system is the
resultant of makeshift legislation and
unscientific compromises. It is time
that reform began.
“In my own opinion the greenback
should be permanently retired. The
silver purchased under the Sherman
act should be gradually sold and the
treasury notes redeemed and canceled.
Some well guarded system of bank
note circulation, broader and more
elastie than the present national bank
act provides, should be inaugurated.
“Such bank notes should be re¬
deemable at a central place, and be re¬
deemable in gold only.
“Silver certificates, which form near¬
ly one-fifth of the circulating medium
of the United States, are dangerous.
By their use a volume of inferior mon¬
ey has found an abnormal use. They
are the most perplexing feature in the
much involved problem of our national
finances.
“There is no reason why the govern¬
ment should act as warehouseman for
either gold are silver. Such a func¬
tion is outside its proper limit of'ac¬
tion.
“But we are confronted by a condi¬
tion. The enormous amount of $500,-
000,000 of silver, represented by $338,-
000,000 in silver certificates, added to
the $150,000,000 purchased by the
government under the Sherman act,
constitutes a standing menace to every
business
“To sum up the defects of our pres¬
ent currency system are:
“1. Confusing heterogenity, which
needs simplification.
“2. The greenback controversy is
the principle of paper money, viz.,
that every note injected into commer¬
cial system should represent an exist¬
ing commercial value.
“3. The treasury note is a standing
evidence of a foolish operation—the
creation of a debt for the purchase on
a falling market of a commodity for
which the purchaser has no use; it lies
open to the just charge of being idiotic
and immoral.
“4. The national bank note nearly
conforms to the true principle of paper
money, but the unreasonable require¬
ments for security paralyze its ineffi¬
ciency and operate to destroy its elas¬
ticity.
“5. The silver certificate encourages
the use of silver to a larger extent than
is consistent w’ith the safe preserva¬
tion of that metal on a parity with
gold.
“Would a national commission help
to promote reform?
“There is reason to hope that it
would be of great service in that direc¬
tion. Such a commission if rightly
selected would throw a flood of light
upon these involved questions. Infor¬
mation it might gather would be of
immense value to all our people, and
would guide us to wise legislation.
“Emotion and sentiment are not
safe guides in matters of science. A
clear apprehension of true principles
will lead to correct action.”
MONEY FOR CONFEDERATES.
Congressman Cox Wants Articles of Sur¬
render Observed.
A Washington dispatch says: Mr.
Cox, democrat, of Tennessee, offered
in the house a bill w’hich recites the
circumstances of Lee’s surrender at
Appomattox and the written guarantee
that the artillery and cavalry officers
of the confederacy should be permitted
to retain their horses, side arms and
baggage.
After the surrender the federal sol¬
diers despoiled the confederates of
these effects and they were never re¬
turned their original owners.
His bill appropriates $200,000 as a
compensation for these losses, upon
satisfactory proof being furnished to
the quartermaster general.
M’KINLEY FIFTY-FOUR.
Congratulatory Telegrams and Letters
Poured in Upon Him.
Friday Major McKinley was 54 years
old. He was the recipient of many con¬
gratulatory telegrams and letters. He
passed the day quietly with friends.
No special demonstration in honor
of the event was made during the day.
Mrs. McKinley, who is still in Chica¬
go, congratulated her husband by tele¬
phone early in the morning.
To Investigate State Dispensary.
A joint resolution has been submit¬
ted to the South Carolina legislature
to appoint a committee to investigate
the state dispensary system.
BANK TELLER SHORT.
Lost Forty-three Thousand Dollars In
Speculations.
Lee B. McFarland, teller of the Sec¬
ond National bank of Parkersburg,
W. Ya., is short $43,000 in his ac¬
counts. McFarland was recently pro-
moted from teller to assistant cashier,
and the defalcation was discovered
when the shange took effect. He has
confessed that he lost the money in
speculation. The shortage will be
made good.
COLD WEATHER UNEQUALED.
Bnrenn at Washington Issues a 'Bulletin
Showing Range of the Thermometer.
The following special bulletin has
been issued by the weather bureau at
W ashington on the cold wave of Jan¬
uary 23d to 30th:
The conditions of extreme cold that
has prevailed over the country during
the }>ast week has been remarkable for
its extent, duration and severity. The
temperature over nearly the entire
United States east of the Rocky moun¬
tains has been greatly below the normal
during the whole week, the deficien¬
cies in some sections ranging from 30
to 40 degrees for several days.
Throughout the Ohio valley and the
lake region on the 25th, the Carolinas,
central and northern Florida, Geor¬
gia, Alabama and eastern Tennessee
on the 28th and 29th, the minimum
temperatures reported were lower than
any previously recorded by the bureau
during the last ten days of January.
The conditions were especially severe
throughout the southern states, the
line of freezing temperature extending
nearly to Jupiter, Fla., and the tem¬
perature as far south as the gulf coast
Calling to 14 degrees below freezing
and continuing 10 degrees or more for
several days.
^ Following are some of the minimum
temperatures occuring in the regions
were the cold wave was most pro¬
nounced, viz:
On the 25th, degrees below zero—
Chicago, 20; Milwaukee and Sault Ste.
Marie, 18; Indianapolis and Detroit,
14; Cincinnati, 10; Pittsburg, 8.
On the 28th—above zero—Tampa,
30; Jacksonville, 22, Mobile and At¬
lanta, 6; Knoxville, 2.
On the 29th—above zero—Jupiter,
34; Tampa, 28; Jacksonville, 22; Key
West, 50. Below zero—Knoxville, 4.
The period of cold weather was at¬
tended by a persistent condition of
abnormally high barometric pressure,
readings of 31.5 inches and above, the
highest readings on record being re¬
ported from the extreme northwest.
A storm that developed over Florida
on the 26th and moved northeast along
the Atlantic coast, was an efficient fac¬
tor in producing the. low temperatures
in Florida on the 28th and 29th. This
storm developed great energy in its
passage along the middle and New
England coast states, causing high and
heavy snows in the middle states and
New England. Boston reported about
fourteen inches of snow; Northfield, 9;
Portland, 9; Albany and New York
city, 10; Philadelphia, 7; Washington,
15.
CABINET GROWS APACE.
Only Two Portfolios Are Now Reft to be
Placed.
A special from Canton, O., says:
The announcement made by Hon. Jas.
S. Wilson, of Iowa, that he had been
tendered the portfolio of agriculture
by Major McKinley, and had accepted,
fills the cabinet with reasonable cer¬
tainty. excepting the offices of attorney
general and postmaster general. The
McKinley cabinet up to the present
week, therefore, may be given as fol¬
low’s:
Secretary of State—John Sherman,
of Ohio.
Secretary of the Treasury—Lyman
J. Gage, of Chicago.
of Secretary of War—Russell A. Alger,
Michigan.
Secretary of the Navy—John T.
Long, of Massachusetts.
Secretary of the Interior—Judge
McKenna, of California.
Secretary of Agriculture—Wilson,
of Iow a.
Governor Long and Judge McKenna
have not announced the certainty of
their appointments, and there is a bare
possibility that the Massachusetts
statesman may be displaced by Gen.
Stew’ard L. Woodford, of New York.
One of the unfilled portfolios W’ill,of
course, be given to a New Yorker, and
if the foregoing list, giving five of the
eight offices in the cabinet to the west,
should be the fixed slate, there is no
likelihood that either the postoffice or
justice departments will be directed
by a western man.
One eastern and one southern man
are expected to be appointed to these
two vacancies, prominent among the
latter candidates being Hon. H. Clay
Evans, of Tennessee, since the de¬
clination of Judge Goff, of West Vir¬
ginia.
Wilson Accepts.
Ex-Congressman James "Wilson, of
Iowa, has been appointed and has ac¬
cepted by wire the office of secretary
of agriculture in President McKinley’s
cabinet.
CLEYELAND IN NEW YORK.
Delivered an Address at the Medical Acad¬
emy Celebration.
The president, accompanied by Sec¬
retary Lamont, left Washington over
the Pennsylvonia at 11 o’clock Friday
morning. He delivered an address at
Carnegie hall Friday night on the oc¬
casion of the semi-centennial celebra¬
tion of the New York Academy of Med¬
icine, of which his physician, Dr. E.
B. Bryant, is president.
Lanrada Slips Away.
A dispatch from Fort Monroe, Ya.,
says: The steamer Laurada passed out
of Hampton Roads at 2 p. m. Friday,
destination not known.
RECEIYER FOR HOT SPRINGS.
South Dakota Resort Placed in the Hands
of the Court.
At Hot Springs, S. D., Judge Gar¬
ner rendered his decision declaring
for the appointment of a receiver for
the Dakota Hot Springs Company.
The property owned , , by the company
is valued at nearly a million dollars.
The different interests were allowed to
decide on a receiver, resulting in the
selection of H. J. Curtiss, agent of the
Burlington road.
MANY IMPORTANT MEASURES NOW
UNDER CONSIDERATION.
THE GEAR BILL IS RECOMMENDED.
Secretary Morton Criticised By Dcarmond
of Missouri—Members Can Select
Seeds—Treaty Reported.
The vote on the final motion to re¬
port the treaty to the senate as
amended was so close that it startled
some of the friends of the convention
who believed there would be practi¬
cally no opposition to the amended
treaty.
The sub-committee of the house
committee on Pacific roads have de¬
cided to recommend Senator Gear’s
bill for a commission to settle the in¬
debtedness to the government of the
Pacific railroads. The bill is sub¬
stantially the one proposed by Repre¬
sentative Harrison, of Alabama, and
makes the secretaries of the treasury
and the interior and attorney general
members of the commission, with an
amendment to have the commission
report to congress.
Hon. J. Sterling Morton was the
subject of a political discussion in the
house Thursday. Grosvenor, of Ohio,
precipitated it by trying to explain the
remarkable increase of voting Buck¬
eyes that the election developed. Mr.
Grosvenor was followed in the same
line by other republicans and then Mr.
Dearmond, democrat, of Missouri,
took the floor. After briefly adverting
to Ex-Governor Atgeld’s charges,
he read from newspaper publica¬
tions shortly after the election to
show that there was some ground for
them so far as Ohio was concerned.
He intimated that Altgeld would soon
have the privilege of replying to the
speeches of the Athenian representa¬
tive turned (Grosvenor) on the floor, He
his attention to Secretary Mor¬
ton, using as a basis of his remarks
the recent bulletin issued by the agri¬
cultural department showing the illit¬
eracy and poverty of the states which
voted for Bryan as compared with
those of the McKinley states, and de¬
nounced it as a slander upon the men
whom the department of agriculture
was supposed to particularly represent
The agricultural appropriation bill
was the principal and almost the sole
subject of consideration in the house
Saturday, being the third day it had
been on the parliamentary stocks. As
usual the distribution of seeds gave rise
to an animated discussion, which lasted
two hours and comprised the annual
motion to strike out the appropriation
($120,000) altogether. This failed—39
to 70—Speaker Reed casting one of the
affirmative votes, the first time this
congress that he has exercised the
privileges of an ordinary member. An
amendment was adopted authorizing
the members to select the seeds they
desire, the department of agriculture
to purchase and distribute the same.
Immediately after the senate con-
vened at noon Monday Mr. Sherman
moved an executive session, staging
that it would require but a short time.
When the doors were closed, he re¬
ported the general treaty of arbitra¬
tion as amended Saturday by
the committee, and asked that,
inasmuch as the text of the eonven-
tion had been made public, the in¬
junction of secrecy be removed from
the text of the amendments, but sena-
tor Morgan objected, and the request
was denied. No attempt was made to
arrange a time for the consideration
of the treaty, nor was anything said
about debating it in open session. The
doors were re-opened at 12-45 and leg¬
islative business was proceeded with.
The first thing the house did Mon¬
day was to refuse to consider the bill
reported by the committee on inter¬
state and foreign commerce, to prohib¬
it railroad ticket sculping. In the
course of the session the following
bills were passed: To prohibit the car-
rying from one state to another of
obscene literature, or articles de-
signed for indecent or immoral pur¬
poses; giving officers in the volunteer
service of the United States the brevet
rank held by them, and the right to
wear the uniform of that rank; for the
protection of the military parks: pro
viding that surgeons of soldiers’ homes
may be appointed from others than
those who have been disabled in the
service of the United States.
NOTES.
The senate has confirmed the nomi¬
nation of AY. C. McCreery to be col¬
lector of internal revenue, first district
of Missouri.
The senate committee on commerce
have agreed upon and reported favora¬
bly to the senate Caffery’s bill appro¬
priating $250,000 to close the crevasse
in the Mississippi river at Pass-a-
Loutre.
Captain Glass, of the Texas, has no-
titled Secretary Herbert that his ship
will be ready to go to sea on the 8th
of February/ which will give her a
week to reach Galveston, where she is
to receive a silver service from the cit¬
izens of Texas.
It has been officially stated that the
government would sue the securities
of R. M. Jacks & Son, of Jacksonville,
Mich., for failure to comply with their
contract in the construction of the
new Federal building in Columbus,
Ga. Congress has lately ajjpropriated
a sufficient amount to finish the in¬
terior of the building, and the work is
now going on. This extra expendi
tnre w ill no doubt be charged up to
the contractors, and the suit to be en¬
tered against them will include this
amount.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
It has been given ont that the re¬
cent city election in Savannah under
the Osborn form of the Australian bal-
l^t. law cost the city nearly $4,000.
Ibis is considered a rather expensive
election.
The Hon. Torn Hashi, imperial
Japanese minister to the United States,
was greatly pleased with the reception
given him by Atlanta’s business men
and the interest they took in explain¬
ing the different branches of business.
• * *
The loss of oat crop in the section
adjacent to Americus by recent freeze
is now conceded. One large planter,
having 200 acres of oats, has made a
careful examination and declares the
crop killed. The loss will he se¬
verely felt by farmers, particularly
as the corn crop last year was short.
* *
It is practically settled that the
Chattahoochee river electric line will
be extended to Marietta before the end
of the coming summer. This move¬
ment to connect the cities of Atlanta
and Marietta with a rapid transit elec¬
tric railway system has been under
consideration for some time and is
now about matured.
The Atlanta and West Point railway
case was argued the past week before
Judge Lumpkin, at Atlanta. The im¬
portance of the ease loomed up more
and more as the case proceeded. What
the court’s decision will be no one can
tell, but the case will no doubt go to
the supreme court of the United States
and become a case celebre.
Judge Candler has denied the in¬
junction and the courthouse in DeKalb
county will be built. Colonel Milton
A. Candler and Mr. W. W. Bias well
were attorneys for the defendants, and
Mr. S. D. Harrison was representative
for the unwilling taxpayers. He urged
continuation of the injunction. Able
arguments were presented on both
sides.
Mr. Albert L. Rice, of New York
city, wants to build railroads in Geor¬
gia. He has written a letter to Gov¬
ernor Atkinson saying he has got nn-
limited finances at his back, and that
he will co-operate with any company
that will furnish one-half of the neees-
sary money, where it can he shown
that the investment would be profit¬
able.
Savannah has received much en¬
couragement from the Georgia delega¬
tion in Washington to getting a garri¬
son of government troops at Fort
Pulaski at the mouth of the river.
Senator Bacon especially having ac¬
tively interested himself in the mat¬
ter, and it is believed the garrison will
be secured. It will cost about $10,000
to put the fort in condition.
* ♦ *
Augusta is about to enter upon a
telephone war. For years past the
Bell telephone system has been in use
there, but recently a company hat#
been formed for the introduction of the
Strowger automatic system, which
does away with that interesting char¬
acter in current history, the telephone
girl, generally known as “Hello,” or
“Central.”
The fine imposed by Judge Henry
upon Steve Ryan for assaulting Judge
Gober has been paid into the funds of
the state and the record credited with
the payment by the solicitor. When
the fine was imposed it was said that
the friends of Mr. Ryan would con¬
tribute the money with which the fine
was to be paid. It is given out, how¬
ever, that Mr. Ryan paid the fine him¬
self through hiH attorney.
Georgia’* I>e1 f^utep at Orlando, Fla.
The following delegates, appointed
by Governor Atkinson, represented
Georgia in the good roads convention,
w’hich met at Orlando, Fla., last Tues¬
day:
From the State at Large—Hons. T.
F. McFarland, of Walker; C. M. Strn-
han, of Clarke; J. F. Johnson, of Lee;
B. J. Sii’inanH, of Clinch.
First District—Hon. G. M. Ryals, of
Chatham.
Second District—Hon. R. F. Crit¬
tenden, of Randolph.
Third District—Hon. Mark L. Et-
erett, of Stewart.
Fourth District—Hon. B. H. Will¬
iams, of Walton.
Sixth District—Hon. A. Lemons, of
Henry.
Seventh District—Hon. Felix Cor-
put, of Floyd.
Eighth District-—Hon. W. J. Me-
Michael, of Jasper.
Ninth District—Hon. E. W. Wat¬
kins, of ‘Gilmer.
Tenth District—Hon. M. Y. Calvin,
of Richmond.
Eleventh District—Hon. E. E.
Brobston, of Glynn.
The Georgia Militia.
The statement of Captain Oscar J.
Brown concerning the condition of the
national guard in Georgia in 1896,
filed at the war department in accord¬
ance with the law is an interesting,
instructive and well-written paper. It
is a complete history of the condition
of the state troops during 1896.
It shows that the volunteer forces,
in time of peace, shall not exceed 72
companies of infantry, white—and 20
companies of infantry, colored—24
troops of cavalry, white; one troop
cavalry, colored; two batteries of ar¬
tillery, white; one artillery battery,
colored; six machine gun platoons,
white; a medical department, white; a
hospital and ambulance corps, white;
each regiment of infantry and cavalry,
white, shall have a signal corps and a
band of music.
The governor has the power to in¬
crease these forces in case of war, in¬
vasion, insurrection or riot.