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XXIV.
MILLS 1 Nil
AN INDICATION OF RETURNING
CONFIDENCE AND PROSPERITY.
BUNKS MAKE A GOOD SHOWING.
On* Firm Knit*) TVagm, While Woolen
Manufacturer. Restore the Higher
Scale of Five Years Ago.
A dispatch from Chester, Pa., says:
The employes of George C. Haltsol &
Co., manufacturers of worsted goods,
have been notified that the wages paid
im would be restored on Hepteur-
bei 6th next.
The notice was a surprise, as the
restoration avrs granted by the firm
without solicitation on the part of the
hands. Haltsola ft Co* employ sev-
eral hundred people,
Since 1892 two reductions of wages
have been made, aggregating about 20
p,r cunt, and until tl,rue weeks ago
the mill has been running on half
time. The firm has of late recerted
many new orders and the employees
working *
an. full time.
Most of the cotton mills at Fall
River, Mass., which have been stopped
temporarily, started on full time Mon-
day. The improved condition of the
cloth market and the reported ad-
vancement of the cotton crop served
to restore a measure of confidence
among manufacturers.
The eiu-tiiilinent lias amounted to
Git a l‘wy quarter of a million pieces.
Th woolen mills opened its
lifter a four months’curtailment,
i planned to start only the dye
house at present, other departments
being opened as the work progresses.
The factory employs about 300 hands,
The T*onsdale Cotton .Company’s 1
cotton mill at Providence, R. I., start-
c«i, Monday morning after a Aveek’s
shut down, giving employment to
about 5,000 operatives. It is stated
that the demand for Avoolen and cot-
ton goods is on tho increase.
The repairs in progress at the
Methuen cotton mills at Methuen,
Muss., are being pushed forward rap-
i,Hv and it is expected operations xvill
><■ rwu.iueil Snlar iiiBomuof thedepartrneuts “own
,« 7.1," The ill. time atat
no, ,le at which l.i idle^ it was
hi i II Ti,n^ a they mill” wo rld three
■ 1, , employ employ about 600
The Naumekage steam cotton mill,
at Salem Mass resumed operations
s..;.tktr“^ur».;M full time schedule before long,
run on
if the market is satisfactory. The
plant employs 1,400 people.
Hunk St at erne nti* Favorable.
Acting comptroller of the currency,
Collin, says there is much encourage¬
ment to be found in the bank state¬
ments now coming in from the last
call.
Me expects to grte a recapitulation
of them in a feAV days, but from those
already in, he finds that the deposits
throughout the country have greatly
increased, indicating thereby that eon-
fideuce has been sufficiently restored
to induce people to take their money
from their hiding places and put it in
the keeping of the banks.
Loans haA’e not increased so much
as he would like to see it. But they
have increased, Avhich shows that bus¬
iness plans are being put into opera-
tion. The rate of interest is low,
proving that the banks have confi¬
dence in tho reliability of the indica¬
tions that good times are to return and
that they are Avilling to assist reliable
enterprises for small compensation.
RETURNED HOME TO DIE.
Fugitive President Parsons Is Penniless
and Suffering From Fatal Disease.
A dispatch to The New York Herald
from Hartford, Conn., says James S.
Parsons, the fiigitrte president of the
Continental Life Insurance Company,
lias returned, after an absence of ten
years, penniless, to pay his debt to
nature.
He is said to have an incurable dis¬
ease of the stomach and can live but a
short time. He has beeu living in
Canada since the wrecking of the
company, but for a year or so intimate
friends haA'e known that, he Avas iu
Massachusetts, latterly iu a Boston
hospital.
OUR RIGHTS IN MOROCCO.
United State* Vice Consul Carleton Will
Conclude Settlement.
The special commission, headed by
United States Vice Consul Carleton,
has returned to Tangier from the city
f Morocco with the answer of the
sultan to the demands of tho United
States relative to the rights of Ameri¬
can citizens in Morocco.
The ausAver is satisfactory and
Americans will henceforth enjoy the
same rights as the citizens of other
*'«uiutries. The foreign minister of
Morocco and Vice Consul Carleton
"ill now conclude the settlement- of
the matter in dispute.
UNITED LABOR LEAGUE
Hold* a Meeting In Pittaburg But Take*
No Action liegurdlng Strike.
A meeting of the United Labor
League was held at Pittsburg, Pa ,
Sunday night, but contrary to expec¬ the
tation, took no action regarding
miners’ strike.
Samuel Gompers and others made
addresses in which the workmen of
the company were heartily thanked
for interest they have taken in the
strike, but no resolutions concerning
the matter were offered.
DR. HUNTER LOSES.
Judge Cautrill Decide* That the Bribery
Case* Mult Be Tried.
A special from Georgetown, Ky.,
says: The Hunter bribery cases were
brought before Judge Cautrill and de¬
cided adversely to Hunter Monday.
In other words, the demurrer of the
Hunter side was overruled by Judge
Cautrill, which forces the cases to
trial. The demurrer was argued by
the defendants themselves and the
commonwealth attorney for the state.
SUSPENSE AMONG STRIKERS.
A Day Fraught With Important Moves.
Court Hears Injunctions.
A Pittsburg special says: Monday
was fraught with exciting instances in
matters pertaining to the miners’
strike.
Mutiny in the triW ca m p, a m ,„
der in the deputies’ ranks, filing of
criminal and civil suits against the
DeArmitts and the hearing in the in-
junction case against President Dolan
and others kept both sides to the
struggle busy and on the qui vive all
day long.
The hearing in the injunction case
before Judges Stowe and Collier was
perhaps one of the most important and
interesting ever held in a Pennsyl¬
vania court.
was a hear in S which both ^ a pi-
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have a decisive effect miner!* on the conduct
°f the great coal strike, * hich
has been on since July 5th. From the
testimony adduced aud from the ex-
pressions of the court it can safely be
Pab l that there will be some surprise.
That the injunction will be materially
modified there can be no doubt. This,
on .te face, would indicate a victory
ior tne striKers*
Judge Collier said in court that the
strike would go down in history as
one of the wonders of the century and
remarkable on account of utter lack of
disorder, for which the strikers are
commended. He said: “There can be
no question as to what our duty is un-
der all the testimony, but I am some-
" hat in doubt as to Avhether or not
the order should be modified. We
cannot determine this without a con-
kultation.”
Judge Siowe said: “This injunction
"ill not justify the issuing of an at-
tachmerit against any marchers who
Hre not in company Avith the
men named in the injunction.”
He let it be understood that the in-
junction _ is not so sweeping as has
been thought; that only the five men
named in the writ, Patrick Dolan,
William “Warner, Cameron Miller,
Uriah Bellingham and Edward Me
fay, trespassing are restrained on the company from marching s proper- or
*Y- The others mentioned can be only
those found in the company of the five
named in the injunction. As near as
cau be learned, the strikers under the
injunction can march, but not at
Mated time*, long as they are not
iu company with any of defendants.
Threatened suits against the New
York and Cleveland company thei/ for re-
miner? Lining the wages of striking
have been commenced. It is
anticipated that about 150 suits will
result. Each will be for salaries rang-
iugfronr*i5 i„S 2 0, which represents
ngainst a.^^.^1^ W. P. DeArmitt bj his former
employes for wages, three criminal
suits have been brought against Sam¬
uel DeArmitt.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
New Industries Kstahlished In the Smith
During the Fast Week.
Reports from special correspondents
at prominent business centers of the
south continue encouraging and both
merchants and manufacturers arc look¬
ing forward to a large volume of trade
in the fall.
As to iron and steel, prices are firm,
with some advances, and inquiries are
increasing. The demand is active and
idle furnaces are being repaired and
bloAvn in.
Lumber is moving freely and south¬
ern cottton mills are well supplied
with orders and for the most part run-
ning on full time.
Among the most important new in¬
dustries reported for the past week are
the following: Flouring mills at New
Decatur, Ala., and Francisco, N. C.;
the Cold Storage, Ice, Power and
Water company, capital, $75,000, at
Ennis, Tex.; railroad shops at Mont¬
gomery, Ala.; an extensive rolling
mill and spike factory at Sheffield,
Ala.; the Economic Medicine Chest
company, capital $25,000, Paris,
Tenn.; and the Oil City company,
capital $10,000, to develop oil prop¬
erty at Corsicana, Tex.; the Southern
Cotton Seed company, limited, capital
$100,000, has been chartered at New
Orleans, La., to erect an oil mill and
other oil mills will be located at Mem¬
phis, Tenn., and Wills Point, Tex.
A knitting mill will be built at Macon,
Ga.; a $50,000 cooperage plant at Lit¬
tle Rook, Ark., and a $200,000 com-
pany saAA*and has been organized to operate
planing mills at Cameron, N.
C.—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
GEORGIA LUMBER MEN
To Devise a Plan Whereby the Cutting of
Prices Will he Stopped.
The lumber men of Georgia have hit
npon a unique plan to maintain and
advance prices. Thev have a device
which is iutendeil to minimize eompe-
tition without making the stockliold-
ers obnoxious to the anti-trust law.
The p'an is to organize a company
Avith $50 000 capital aud ten or fifteen
of the largest mills in the state are to
take the stock. This company will
have offices in Atlanta and Savannah
or Brunswick, possibly at both Savan¬
nah and Brunswick. The company is
to act as selling agent for the mills in¬
terested.
AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, of St. Louis, Se¬
lected by the TresldenL
J. A. Porter, secretary to en
MeKinley, has sent a dispa c rom
Hotel Cliampla n, New xor , ■
bassadorship of
Mr. \ 4oKiulex P t
friend of Preslde nt *' As a
manufacturer he is . k k n in hi *
section. He has had
"Washington frequently m connection connection
with tariff matters.
ROAD TO BE EXTENDED.
Committee on Extension of Birmingham,
rengo county. sent the line
The delegation over re-
cently made a favorable report am a
committee, composed of leading busi-
ness men, "as appointed to confer
£ith the owners of the road.
t mtfhrfn Heft fi.
TOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 20'1897.
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TELLER GIVES WARNING.
Advises Free Coinage, Republicans to Hold
Aloof From MeKinleyltes.
Senator Teller arrived at Denver,
Col., Friday. In an interA’iew he ex¬
pressed himself as strongly opposed to
a combination of the silver republi¬
cans with McKinley republicans in the
state this fall. On the money ques¬
tion be said:
“It is the purpose undoubtedly of this
administration to retire the greenbacks and
treasury notes and perfect a system by
which the national banks will be authorized
to issue all paper money.
“Their next move will be to retire silver
and then bank notes will not be legal
tender.
“What will bo the result: The administra
tion will have succeeded in making gold the
only money by Avliich debts can be paid.
All debts will have to be paid in the yellow
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FORGAVE THE ASSASSIN.
Touching Scene at the Funeral of Senor
Canovas del Castillo.
The funeral of Senor Canovas del
Castillo, at Madrid Friday, Avas a
touching and solemn ceremony. All
the troops of the garrison lined the
route along which the cortege moved;
the flags were lowered and the public
buildings, embassies, consulates and
clubs were heavily draped with crepe.
A peculiarly poignant scene ensued
as the duke of Solomayer, Marshal
Martinez Campos, Marquis Paso del
la Merrzed and the other pallbearers
lifted the coffin. Senora CanoA'as, in
a clear, firm tone, said:
“I desire that all should know I for-
give the assassin. It is the greatest
sacrifice I can make, but I make it for
the sake of what I know of my hus-
band’s great heart.”
DAUNTLESS UNDER SURYEILANCE.
Government Official* are Keeping Close
Watch On the Little Tug.
Information has reached the secre-
*ft'T ot the treasury through the state
department that the steamei Daunt-
iesa men 18 a b^ at u l * ai to “P a ta f° ^ e r ^ f he ammunition insurgents
in Cuba.
Tbe collector cf customs at Tampa
bas been directed to exercise vigilance
prevent infractions of the naviga-
tlon neutrality acts and to com-
municate with the I mted States attor-
ney.
Captain Shoemaker has also in¬
structed the commanders of the reve¬
nue cutter fleet to be on the lookout
for the Dauntless.
OBJECTIONS OF SALISBURY
Stops the Peace Negotiations Between
Ambassadors and Tewflk Pasha.
Advices from Constantinople state
tbat tbe p eace negotiations between
This is due to the refusal of Lord
Salisbury to allow a Turkish occnpa-
tion of Thessaly pending partial pay-
men t of the indemnity agreed upon.
Ij ° rd Salis bury’s objection is based
^ & ^ ^ aQ occnpfttion thus bo .
gllQ m ig b t become permanent.
ANOTHER SLUMP IN SILVER.
l New Record Made In Low Price By the
quarter o a York, penny the declined
and m New price
to*>-3c o n -~c.
Mexican 1 ° * ars
5-8 Monday as compared nxth it u 40 U
cents on Saturday.
D«vot6d to Southern Progress and
SENATOR GEORGE DEAD.
Was Mississippi's Senior Member in Uni¬
ted States Senate.
Senator J. M. George died at his
home in Mississippi City Saturday
afternoon, and while his death was not
~' rh0 '*
Senator Walthall telegraphed the
vice president and sergeant-aiuns of
the senate, who will have charge of
the funeral, and asked them to com-
municate with J. W. George, son of
the senator, who was with him when
he died at Mississippi City.
The vice president will name the
committee of senators and representa¬
tives to attend the funeral.
Senator George was not a native of
Mississippi, but had resided in that
state since his eighth year. He was
the death of his father, which occurred
in the senator’s early infancy, he
remoA-ed with his mother in 18114 to
Koxube county, Mississippi, remaining
there for only two years and then
going to Carroll county, where he
maintained his legal residence until
^ death.
8 «>utor George obtained his ednea-
,. tion in the common. schools and did
not begin his professional career until
after the close of the Mexican Avar,
during which he served as a private in
regiment 8 commanded by Jefferson
Davis
He afterwards took an acth*e part
in the civil Avar, casting his lot Avith
the south. He left the conA r ention hall
to be captain iu the Twentieth regi-
ment of the Mississippi volunteers. He
rose to the rank of brtgadier general
of state troops before the close of the
war.
When the ch r il war closed Mr.
George returned to Carroll county, re¬
sinning the practice politics!^ of his profession,
«« Inter entering In 1879
was appointed to the supreme
bench and soon afterAvards Avas elected
chief justice, in which capacity he was
serving his state when first elected to
the United States senate in 1881. Had
he been permitted to serve his entire
term he would, on the 4th of March,
1899, haA r e completed his eighteenth
year in the senate. He declined a re-
election a year ago on account of his
health.
LEFT VICTIMS FOR DEAD.
Brute Assaults Two Women aud Tries to
Brain Them.
In Catoosa county, in the Chicka-
mauga National park, Saturday morn¬
ing, in the absence of Mr. Hitchcock,
a park laborer, from his house, a Avhite
man assaulted Miss Hitchcock, his
fifteen year-old daughter. The assail¬
ant also struck the prostrate girl on
the head with a bludgeon and left her
for head.
Her mother, a feeble woman fifty
years of age, came upon the scene,
when the trespasser, with the same
blnngeon that he had crushed the
skull of his first .A'ictim, struck the
mother.
Both were left for dead, but their
cries had reached the ears of a man
passing by before the Avoman became
unconscious. The information Avas
wired to Chattanooga and later a posse
Avas organized and started in pursuit.
STRIKE SITUATION MUDDLED.
West Virginia Miners Claim That Big
Mistakes Have Been Made.
A special from Wheeling, W. Va.,
says: The beginning of another week
of the coal strike in the Wheeling and
eastern Ohio districts shows a mud¬
dled situation.
^ vigorous opposition to the course
United Mine Workers in closing
down the mines that supply the sever-
al iron manufacturing plants has de-
veloped among the workingmen them¬
selves, many asserting that a big mis¬
take has been made.
The situation at the Laughlin mill
mine across the river has been
straightened out by the declination of
the miaer9 . to ? OT , \ as }°. , n ? as „
are in the vicinity. The
Laughlin and other plants are now
g e ^ m g co al from Fairmont.
RELIEF FUND EXHASTED.
Consul General Lee Gives an Accounting
of the Money Spent.
Consul General Lee, in a report to
the state department, says that the
$10,000 placed to the credit of the re-
lief fund on May 2'2d last was equrva-
lent to $10,975 Spanish dollars,
This fund, which he he says was ex¬
pended with the greatest care and
economy, is nearly exhausted.
WEYLER RESIGNS.
g uh SoU 1 j «. r9 j n Cuba Are In No
Condition To Fight.
^ cablegram of Monday from Ha-
yana to The New York Herald says:
Captain General Weyler’s summer
cam p R ig n came to an inglorious end
j ast Wednesday, when he returned to
Havana with rebels firing on his rear
guard a \\ the way from Aguacate to
Havana. The captain general made a
p U jqi c entry into the capital, but his
recep tion was chilly,
General Weyler cabled his resigna¬
tion to Madrid on Thursday. In re¬
ply he AA*as told to remain iu Cuba so
long as the present ministry holds
power.
BALLOONS IN GOLD FIELD.
Californian Will Establish Line Between
Juneau and Dawson.
M AyeXj a refd estate man of Oak-
land, Cal., proposes to establish a bal-
loon service between Juneau and Daw-
son.
J go 000 thev will do so. Ayer, who
a8 evoIved this p I an , is an old bal-
loonist and gays ' the soh eme is practi-
„ able He sa s the trip from Juneau
” "“ Dawson “ Ci'tv ‘ ought 8 to be made to
y onr ho nrs
AMBASSADORS AWAIT REPLIES.
The Peace Arrangement* Between Greece
aml TwrUey About Commmmated.
mmm
ed bv the Turkish minister for foreign
affai J. s> Tew fik Pasha, but it is expect-
ed lbe compromise will be accepted
aud that the ^ peace preliminaries may
be si d at
ITALIAN AND FRENCHMAN SEEK
. SATISFACTION ON FIELD.
CRIMSON GORE ACTUALLY SHED
Combat Was Fast and Furious From the
Start—Prince Henri Was Finally
Placed Hors du Combat.
A dispatch from Paris says: The
count of Turin and Prince Henri of
Orleans fonght a duel Avith swords at
5 o’clock Sunday morning in the Bois
de Marechaux at Vaucressen.
Leontieff acted as umpire.
The fighting Avas most determined
and lasted twenty-six minutes. There
were five engagements, of which two
were at close quarters.
Prince Henri received two serious
wounds in the right shoulder and the
right side of the abdomen. The count
of Turin was wounded in the right
hand. Prince Henri was taken to the
residence of the Due de Chartres and
received medical attendance.
The seconds of Prince Henri of
Orleans were M. de Leontieff, gov¬
ernor general of the equatorial prov'-
inces of Abyssinia, and M. Raoul
Mourichon The count of Turin’s
were General Count Avagradorde
Quinto and the Marquis Carlo di
Ginori.
The condition of Prince Henri is
reported as satisfactory as could be
expected. The doctors, after consul-
tation, haA'e expressed the opinion that
no important organ Avas touched, but
absolute rest was necessary for re-
covery.
Owing to rumors at Naples and -else¬
where the public had not expected the
duel to come oft’. It Avas therefore
quite private. The official account,
furnished by the seconds, recites the
circumstances leading up to the en¬
counter. It says:
“The count of Turin, considering
the letters of Prince Henri of Orleans
to Figaro offensive to the Italian army,
wrote to him on July 6th, demanding
a retraction. This letter could not be
answered until August 11th, the day
of the arrival of Prince Henri in
France. The prince replied to the
count’s demand by telegram, maintain¬
ing the right of a traveler to record
his experiences.”
The official account then describes
the arrangements for the duel and
gives the names of the respective
seconds, and says at the first interview
they agreed that the encounter Avas
inevitable. By common accord the
conditions Avere settled as follows:
The Aveapons to be duelling swords;
each combatant to use that of his oavu
country, but the blades to be of equal
length, either combatant to be at lib¬
erty to maintain the ground he gained
and each to be allowed the space of
fifteen metres within Avliich to advance
or retire; each assault to continue
four minutes. The combat to be re¬
sumed in the positions occupied and
only to terminate on the decision of
the four seconds or the adA r ance of the
doctor, when one of the adversaries
was manifestly in a state of inferiority;
the conduct of the meeting to be en¬
trusted alternately to the tAvo parties,
lots to be drawn at the commencement.
This latter feature of the arrange¬
ment was due to the formal objection
of the seconds of Prince Henri of
Orleans to the direction of the en¬
counter by a fifth party. At a later
meeting the seconds decided upon the
rendezvous.
The details of the duel show that
the encounter was very sharp and de¬
termined.
ASSASSIN GOLLI TRIED.
Sentence of Courtmartial Will Not Be
Known Until Its Approval.
Michael AngiolliUo, alias ••Goili,”
was tried at Negaia, Spain, Sunday
morning by courtmartial for the mur-
der of Senor Canovas del Castillo, at
the Baths of Santa Agueda on August
Stb.
The court consisted of a lieutenant
colonel and six captains of artillery.
All the statements of Angiollillo were
submitted in writing.
The sentence of the coitrtnrartial
will not be divulged until it has been
confirmed by the supreme council of
war.
M’LAURIN IS ILL.
South Carolina Senator Will Stop HI*
Campaign Work.
A Columbia, S. C., special says:
Governor Ellerbe received a dispatch
Saturday afternoon from George M.
Crossland,Senator McLaurin’s private
secretary, from the Senator’s home in
Bennettsville, stating that Senator
McLaurin’s illness is more serious
than was first supposed, and summon-
ing the governor, who is a strong per-
sonal friend of the senator, to his bed-
side by the evening train.
McLaurin’s physician has absolutely
forbidden him from attempting to
tinue his campaign work for the pres-
ed. This leaves the campaign work
open to Evans, Irby and Duncan.
ANARCHISTS UNDER ARREST.
Italian Police Claim Conclusive Evidence
of an International Plot.
A special dispatch from Milan says
that three anarchists were arrested
there Friday morning and that the po-
lice seized a number of documents,
bombs and two explosives.
The documents captured by the po-
lice, it is further stated, include let¬
ters from Ciesario Santos, the assassin
of President Carnot, and Pietro Acci-
arito, who attempted to assassinate
King Humbert in April last. Other
arrests are expected to follow.
SIX SAILORS DROWNED.
French Steamer Villa de Malaga Reported
Wrecked Off Alderny Island.
Meagre details have been received
at London of the loss of French
steamer Ville de Malaga, bound from
Rouen, which was wrecked off Alderny
island, on the coast of Normandy.
It was reported that the captain and
nineteen members ivf thei we* "ere
missing. It now appears *bat ouly six
were orowned. The remamdei■»«> a ^
A FATHER’S TERRIBLE CRIME.
Eeft His Poor, Crippled Child To Die In
the Woods.
Some days ago a crippled child
ab out five years old was left in the
woods in the suburbs of Atlanta, Ga.,
to die. His discovery was due to ac¬
cident and when found the body of
the child was frightfully lacerated by
insects, presenting a horrible and
revolting sight.
Tuesday “Bud” Fuller, the father
of the child, was arrested at liis home
in W'oodburv, Merriwether connty, and
placed in the Atlanta jail charged with
the crime.
Fuller said he had carried the child
to Atlanta for the purpose of having it
treated. He had been told that it
could be cured. Said he:
“I went to the Grady hospital to
try to place it there, but it was too high
for me. They said the lowest price
was $10 per week. I then AA-ent to see
j) r> Goldsmith and Avas going to have
him treat the child. They told me
tb ere that he was in New York and
would not be back for ten days.
“I then tried to get a nurso to leave
the child with, and asked several per-
sons if they knew of anyone. One
lftd Y. who gave her name as Mrs.
Mftr Y Willingham, of West Atlanta,
she would take the child for ten
d »Yf- I paid her $5 and she took it
i n a buggy. ”
ROAST FOR MRS. FELTON.
Boston Transcript Attacks Her Recent
Atldress as to Lynching..
The Boston Transcript in its issue of
Tuesday attacks Mrs. Felton’s recent
address, editorially, as follows:
“Never Avas a stranger or more start-
ling address at an agricultural meeting
than that delivered by Mrs. W. H.
Felton, of Cartersville, Ga., before the
agricultural society of the state Avhen
she said:
“ ‘As long as your politicians take the
colored man into their embrace on election
day, and make him think that he is a man
and brother, so long will lynching prevail,
for familiarity breeds contempt.’
“We should be sorry to belieA'e that
the women of the south would uoav be
foremost in stimulating and develop¬
ing that tendency to the employment
of lynch law,which lias already reached
the point where it causes a reproach
and blight upon the state, If the
colored man is made to feel that he is
not a man and brother, how can he be
blamed for acting the part assigned
him, and sometimes being a bruie?
“Perhaps the wonder is that in the
midst of such an almost friendless
sentiment as Avas here given voice, the
colored element should to so great an
extent adhere to progressive human
standards, and Avhen it comes to de¬
claring Avho are the Avild beasts of
Georgia socially, the black man would
not get ail the votes. ”
MARTIAL LAW INVOKED
To Prevent Miners From Tresspassing On
Mining Property.
A dispatch of Tuesday from Pitts¬
burg, Pa., says: Martial law has been
declared in Plum, Patton and Wilkin¬
son townships by Sheriff LoAvry. The
three mines of the NeAV York and
Cleveland Ga3 Coal Company are in
these townships and all roads leading
to them will be patrolled by his depu¬
ties. Persons Avalking or driving
along the roads who cannot grte a sat¬
isfactory account of themselves will be
ordered to leaA’e the neighborhood,
and, upon refusal, will be arrested.
The sheriff Avill not attempt to break
up the camp of the strikers until the
court has passed on the question, but
announced that he is determined to
stop the marching and trespassing on
the company's property. No one Avill
be allowed on the company’s property,
who fails to have a pass signed by Su¬
perintendent DeArmitt.
WANTED MOTHER’S MONEY.
So the Son Deliberately Planned and Ex¬
ecuted Fiendish Crime.
feto.ta^in Ga.^
?p ex who lived with her son, Virgil,
found a d or two ago with her
throat cut from ear to ear and the body
c h arret | beyond recognition. After
killing her the murderer set fire to the
bed.
Virgil, the twenty-eiglit-year-old
son of the murdered woman, has been
arrested and confesses he committed
the crime to get money to spend on a
variety actress. The crime Avas delib¬
erately planned and executed.
COLORED GIRL IN YASS.4R.
Concealed Her Origin Up to the Time of
Her Graduation.
Society and educational circles in
Poughkeepie, . N. Y., are piofoundly .
stirred up by the announcement in a
^ ea1 paper that one of the graduating
class at\assar College this year was a
negro girl, who, concealing her vaee,
entered the college, took he our
years course and, finally, confessed
the truth to a professor a few days be-
fore commencement.
The facts were communicated to the
faculty which . m . secret session . decid¬ ,
ed to allow the girl to receive her
diploma with her class.
WOMAN USES GUN.
Dangerously Wound* Her Husband and
Kills Herself.
At Hendersonville, N. C., Tuesday
morning Mrs. Ben F. Hood shot her
husband, one shot breaking his right
arm and the second taking effect in his
breast, inflicting what may prove a
dangerous wound,
Mrs. Hood the» shot herself, dying
instantly. The cause of the tragedy
i s unknown. Mrs. Hood was a MisB
Cowles, a native of Ohio.
PRINCE HENRY RECOVERING.
All Danger from His Antagonist’* Sword
Cnt is Now Over.
Advices from Paris state that Prince
Henry of Orleans, who was wounded
in a duel with swords fought with the
Count of Tnrin, near that city, passed
an excellent night, and all danger of
a serious outcome from his wound ap-
pears to be over.
Mueh Liiniber Iu Ashes,
Fire at £aglp Kiver> W is., Tuesday
dest d the Grey Lumber Company’s
yard with 10,000,005 feet of lumber.
RATES: $1.00 S YEAR.
GOVERNOR GIVES HIM THREE
WEEKS LONGER TO LIVE.
HIS CRSE DIFFICULT TO DECIDE.
A Mass of Conflicting Affidavits Decides
the Governor to Take More
Time For Investigation.
H. S. Perry, the condemned mur¬
derer of Bely Lanier, at Decatur, Ga.,
and who was to have been hung
Inst Wednesday, has been respited by
Governor Atkinson until the 8th of
September in order that he may have
time to consider the application for
clemency. The executive order is as
follows:
“To tho Sheriff of DeKalb county:
“Whereas, H. S. Perry was convicted in
the superior court of DeKalb county, of the
crime of murder, and was sentenced there¬
for to be executed on the 18th day of Au¬
gust, and,
“Whereas, Further time is needed by me
for the consideration of tho ease, and in or¬
der that other evidence may be submitted
which it is represented to me can be had.
“You are, therefore, hereby directed to
postpone the execution of said sentence of
death upon the said H. S. Perry until Wed¬
nesday, the 8th of September, 1897, when,
in the absence of any legal order otherwise
directing, you will proceed to execute the
final judgment of the court in said case.
Herein fail not. W. Y. Atkinson,
Governor.”
In the conflict of evidence Governor
Atkinson finds it hard to determine
what is the truth about the killing of
N B Lanier by Perry
The governor has spent some time
in considering Mrs. Perry’s affidavit,
and other evidence bearing on the
statement she made. He considered
the dying statement of Lanier, and
dent for Judge Ragsdale, who was
present when the statement was made,
The two statements of the case of
the killing, that by Mrs. Perry and
that by Lanier, are in conflict. Mrs.
Perry says Lanier outraged her; Lanier
says he did not, but that at Mrs.
Perry’s request he went to find her
husband, and located him in a house
of ill repute, and because of this he
was shot.
There are witnesses in corrobora¬
tion of Mrs. Perry’s statement to the
extent of testifying that Perry said
immediately after the killing that he
did it because Lanier outraged his
wife. Lanier in his dying statement
says that Perry, in the act of shooting
him, declared that Lanier had out¬
raged Mrs. Perry.
On the other hand Lanier denied
that he was guilty of any improper
conduct toward her, and reproduced a
letter which he said was written by
Perry and delivered to him by Ike
Shepherd, in which Perry said Lanier
had come between himself and wife
and must leave Atlanta or take the
consequences.
Altogether the case presents some
knotty points which the governor
must decide for himself, and liis de¬
cision is looked forward to with great
interest.
ECKELS’ NEW JOB.
Comptroller Has Been Elected President
of Insurance Company.
A Washington dispatch says: Secre¬
tary Gage understands that Comp¬
troller Eckels, who is away on his
vacation, has accepted the presidency
of the Metropolitan Trust company, of
New York, at a salary of $15,000 a
year, but that he will not enter upon
the duties of that office before next
April, when his term as comptroller of
the currency Avill expire.
This company was recently formed
and Roswell P. Flower is the acting
president. Dawes, of Evanston, Ill.,
Charles E.
a member of the republican executive
committee of that state and a close
personal friaud of President McKin-
ley will succeed Mr. Eckles as comp-
troller of the curiency.
Confirmed Death Sentence.
Advices from Madrid state that the
supreme council of war has confirmed
the sentence of death by courtmartial
at Yergare, on Michael Angiolo alias
“Golli,” the assassin of Premier Can-
ovas, and the murderer will be exe-
cuted.
SILVER MINES STOP WORK.
Decline In Price of White Metal Cause
Shut Down.
A special from Idaho Springs, Col.,
says: As a result of the decline in sil-
ver the La Martine mine has dis¬
, working
charged its force of men on
silver lodes. The La Martine has been
one of the heaviest producers in the
state. The company Avill not Avork
the gold lodes in the mine.
The owners of the silver mines in
the upper end of Clear Creek county
will also discontinue the working of
silver properties, and in the future
give attention exclusively to the gold-
bearing veins.
A GREAT FIGHTING MACHINE.
Japan Has the Fastest Warship Now
Afloat.
Officers of the navy department were
much interested Tuesday in the report
of the trial trip of the Yashima, the
new Japanese battleship built in Eng-
land. battleship afloat
She is the fastest
and it is claimed from the showing
made on her trial trip that she is one
of the greatest fighting machines ever
built.
FUNERAL OF SENATOR GEORGE.
Buried Beside His Wife In Evergreen
Cemetery, Near Jackson.
The funeral services of the late Sen-
ator George took place in Jackson,
Miss , Thursday. officiated,
j> e v j T. Johnson, who
preached an able sermon, commenting
at length on the useful life and noble
character of the deceased.
The funeral was attended by bun-
dreds of citizens, beside several dele¬
gations of visitors of adjacent towns.
The interment took place by the side
of his wife in Evergreen cemetery,
about two miles from Jackson.
NO. 40.
THROUGH GEORGIA.
An application for a charter to build
a new street railroad for Gainesville
has been tiled with the state secretary
by a stock company. It is proposed
to bnild a road twenty miles in length
and to extend it as far as White Sul¬
phur Springs, seven miles east of the
city.
The Georgia Central Railway com¬
pany declared its first dividend at Sa¬
vannah last Saturday—2£ per cent—•
on the first series of $4,000,000 of in¬
come bonds. The condition of the
property is good. There are $15,000,-
000 of income bonds in three series,
and it took $90,000 to pay the above
dividend.
The report of Special Master Luther
7j. Rosser in the suit against Judge
John S. Bigby, brought by the re-
ceivers of the Eagle and riioenix
Manufacturing Company, has been
completed and copies of the decision
served on counsel in the case. The
special master finds that Judge Bigby
is due the company $22,820.61, and
that a decree should issue in that
amount in favor of the company.
* V *
Last Saturday was the date set by
Judge Speer, of the United States
court for the southern district of Geor¬
gia, on which to hear the application
for the appointment of receivers for
eleven railroads in Georgia. The meet¬
ing was held at Mt. Airy, where Judge
Speer is summering. After two hours
of skirmishing between the legal rep¬
resentatives present, the battle was
called off by Judge Speer, and further
combat was deferred until October
13th.
Tb « mystery surrounding the• burn-
. ^ ^ school nulding
P ra< e in
Q ultman » be cleared. The
reward of $/00 attracted detectives
have bee " at ^°J for some tim *’
all(l as a resuH Ld Harrison a well-
?inow “ ne ^°’ “ no ?' th ? rhomas
cmu'i.Y jail charged v it li he crime,
Those interested claim that the evi¬
deuce against him foi burning the
schoolhouse is conclusiv e and that
there are interested with him in the
actual commission of the crime eight
other negroes, who will be put in jail
as soon as they are captured.
Postmaster Fox, of Atlanta, has
issued his statement for the registry
business of the fiscal year ending June
30tli. This statement shows an in¬
crease of 13,818 pieces handled over
that of last year. There wore handled
this year 360,466 pieces of registered
mail, while the year previous 346,648
pieces were handled. The statement
of the postmaster shows that he has in
twelve menths sent to the sub-treasury
at New York $62,281.05. The increase
in second-class mail matter is 1,000,000
pouuds more than any year since At¬
lanta has had a postoffice, and all
other business has increased in pro¬
portion.
* * *
The warrant against Policeman
Bankston of Atlanta, charging him
with murder, was dismissed and he
has been allowed to return to duty.
Justice Orr, after he had heard all of
the evidence, decided that Bankston
was acting in self-defense when he
shot and killed Charley Welch. Over
sixty witnesses were heard during tho
progress of the case. The physicians
that examined the body of the dead
man were sworn and said they were of
the opinion that the shots were fired
while Welch was advancing upon
Bankston. Justice Orr said there was
no evidence against Bankston and
allowed him to go.
The motion for a new trial in the
Flanagan case Avas not heard in Deca¬
tur last Saturday as scheduled. At
the request of the prosecution it was
delayed for oue week. Solicitor Kim-
sey pleaded surprise in regard to the
affidavits that have recently been
brought into the case. He said that
as he had been very busy with, the
grand jury and his associate counsel,
Colonel Braswell, had been busy in
t be superior court and Hon. Hal Lewis
baf | been engaged in a murder trial in
Greensboro, none of the counsel on
the prosecution had had time to pre¬
pare their side of the case in answer to
the affidavits as fully as they desired.
John McCullough, the Clayton
county alleged wife murderer, was
transferred from the Clayton connty
j a il to Fulton connty last Saturday
night for safe keeping. It was feared
that a mob was forming to lynch him
and the negro Henry Sims, who as¬
saulted Mrs. Turner. Several hun¬
dred Avere said to compose the party
that wanted vengeance, and they were
coming from the adjoining county of
Fayette. The one wanted most was
the negro Sims. Mrs. Turner, his
A-ictim, lived near the line between
Fayette and Clayton counties, and had
a large number of friends and rela¬
tives in Fayette, and it was thought
that these Avere the parties who were
organizing the mob.
G. M. Sorrel, general manager of
the Georgia Import and Export com¬
pany returned to Savannah a day or
two ago from Europe, where he went
to secure vessels for use in the export¬
ing business from Sovannah’s port.
He would give no particulars about the
business of the company, contenting
b i mge lf w jth saying that everything
had been arranged for starting business
^ia fall, and that the company would
be rea( jy for handling all the cotton it
can g e f On (3 enera i Sorrel’s arrival
a mee ting was held and the new com-
pany organized by the election of the
f 0 ]j ow j n g officers: President, H. M.
c omer - vice president,John M. Egan;
treasurer, T. M. Cunningham; secre-
tary, C. G. Anderson; general mana¬
ger, G. M. Sorrel.
TOWNE NAMES COMMITTEE
Of National Silver Republican
Dubois Is Chairman.
A dispatch from Duluth, Mi
says: Chairman lowne has an
the executive committees of the
tional silver republican party, a
members are: ,
Chairman Fred T. Duboi-
Judge J. J. Harper, W:
Courthouse, O.; Ben b. Dea
town, N. Y.; A. M. Stevens
ver, Col.; Nathan Cole, Jr.,
geles, Cal ; James H. Telit
and Charles S. Hartman,
Mont,