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SOUTHERN RECORD SUCCESSOR T01ST5. >:»t«blished Establishet 1890. 1872.
VO!,. XXIV.
GEORGIA SENATE TURNS DOWN
MR. TURNER’S MEASURE.
THE CHILD LABOR BILL 13 KILLED
A Grief Summary of Cach Day’s Pro-
ceertlng* In llie House and
tlie Senate.
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Tl,e legislature signalized the d„ y
Monday oy important action on sev-
eral subjects. Football was voted a
misdemeanor by the house. The sen-
ate also voted the way 3 open for Judge “ ge
Boynton s dispensary bill , . by a recon-
federation on the Turner bill, and Mr.
Blalock’s bill to pay the teachers of
the common schools quarterly passed
the house by a vote of 101 to 2. The
Cole anti-football bill, which passed
the house by a vote of 91 to 3, without
discussion is as follows:
“Section 1. Be it enacted by the
general assembly of the state of Geov-
gia, and it is hereby enacted bv the
authority aforesaid, that from and
after the passage of this act, it shall
lie unlawful for any person or
persons to come together and play
a prize or match game of football in
any park or other place in this state
where a fee is charged for admission
to the same.
“Hoc. 2. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, that each aud
of every person shall violating the provisions
tins act be guilty of a misde¬
meanor, and on conviction therefor
shall be punished as prescribed in sec-
tion 1,039 of volume 2, of the code of
Georgia of 1895.”
In order to give Mr. Turner the
privilege of withdrawing his anti-bar¬
room bill the senate passed by a vote
of fourteen to twelve a motion to re-
consider.
In the event that the prohibition
bill ]>ending in the house reaches the
senate it will not be barred by the de¬
feat of Mr. Turner’s bill. If the house
passes such a bill it will mean a re-
newal of tbe fight in the senate.
Three of the senators who voted
rgainst the Turner bill Friday, voted
Monday to reconsider, Senator Tur-
ner then formally withdrew tlie meas¬
ure. Tho senate held over until 1:30
o . clock . . to . give time .. for , the completion , ..
..f routine business. The time was
spent in reading house bills for the
first time.
Thursday.
Thursday was an important one iu
both houses of the legislature. The
(Miato spent the morning discussing
the Turner prohibition bill, Senator
Battle opposing and Senator Gray ad¬
vocating that measure. It did not
reach a vote, but the indications are
that the senate is nearly equally divi¬
ded, with the chances iu favor of that
bill or some modification of it.
Tlie bill prohibits the manufacture,
side , and ii- keeping for f sale , of , mtoxieat- . . • .
b
liquors, fermented distilled, .... 1 ■
nig or m
the state, excepting in prohibition
counties by local option, and goes in¬
to effect in such eount es when local
prohibition expires. The bill excepts
the manufacture of domestic wine,
without admixture of alcohol, from
grapes or other fruits grown by the
manufacturer, and also excepts the
sale of such wiue for non-beverage
purposes in quart or larger packages.
i’laces for the sale or manufacture
of liquors in violation of the act are
declared nuisances, and violations of
the law are urn lo misdemeanors under
code section 1939.
On motion of Senator Turner the
bill was made the special order for
’"Y...... T - *H. bmto £5
a
inanritv '
Tlie bill to make the birthday ol
■Iolterson Davie a legal holiday earn.
almost unanimously disagreed to The
bill is expected to pass on third
11
The oiled of the Itlaloek committee's
gist and another by Mr. Swift to ro-
peal the university funding act.
Friday’s Proceedings.
£2“?— y —
hnStaTSin '^natorTmier. ““1 »eeing‘th.t * h ?4"to?e p ”'
the hill
*»« .Iriftin* against him, move.l «
postponement for further consider,,-
1,0.0 •«•>' W... The motion was loan
bill, ivas 23 to 18 against the report.
The hill was then put upon its passage
and lost. The following was the vote:
Ayes—Atkinson, Brinson, Brooke,
Culver, Everett, Llewellen, Flynt,
Gray, Kemp, Kilpatrick, McFarland,
Starr, T. D. Stewart, Thompson. Tur¬
ner, J. Y. Walker, Witcher, Wooten
-18.
btevens, J. A. Stewart, Strother N an
\'"col-23 P ' " * U * r ’ " '
That the public interest had in no
"ay abated concerning the fate of Sen-
•tor Turner's bill, which was made a
clean-cut prohibition measure by the
adoption of Senator Kilpatrick’s
amendment.Thursday, was fully evine-
ed 1 y the large assemblage that crowd-
the senate gallefy Friday morning
•°ng b if ore the hour of convening.
No measure that has been intro-
dueed in the Georgia legislature in
recent v^ars has attracted the wide-
spread* interest “he tb it has been tnani-
fested in Turner bill
The house passed several important
hills, among [hem one requiring judg-
mcnts to be recorded in the county
where subject real estate is situated
before they become * liens against inno-
cent+uu-U Another^ v S
biH to make landlords’
liens superior after to itscussiou. laborers’ liens was
Passed some
The call of the roll for new matter
bought out a number of bills, sev-
ontlefn tm
eral of which are important. Mr.
Berry, of Whitfield, proposes to re-
I '*«<•« the salary of the railroad com-
1 nissioners from 82,500 to $2,000; Mr
Rutherford, of Walton, wants to cnt
salaries of supreme court stenog-
| "aphers to 81,000 and reduce their
number from six to three; Mr. Bates
>i Murray, seeks to prohibit judges
I from asking questions of wisnesses
! school commissioners to buy school 4
books dnd furnish them to pupils at
I cost; and Mr. Blalock, of Fayette, pro-
i P os cs to reduce the fees of fertilizer
inspectors from 8125 to $06.66 per
££2S£? fbifTSto penTS
j running ,^ Stone, of excursion trains on Sunday,
r - of Walton, introduced a
f° r a straight lease of the peui-
! convi ^?’ an<1 * lr- Armstrong,
of Wilkes, put in one for the inspec-
j tion of misdemeanor convicts by grand
juries.
Saturday in the House.
! Saturday w as an unimportant day iu
legislature. Tbe senate was not
in session and the house sat only au
kour an( l a half, without a quorum,
hearing new bills read the first time
! aUf ^ others a second time,
T he only matter of importance out-
side routine work was the adoption of
a joint resolution by Mr. Pace, of
Newton, inviting Hon. J. L. M. Curry
address the general assembly at
noou on November 16th.
A number of new bills of minor im-
portance were introduced,
Tuesday’s Proceedings.
The house Tuesday by an emphatic
vote killed the bill to prohibit child
labor. It was a spirited debate, in
which a number of prominent gentle-
men took part, but when the test vote
came on an amendment excepting cot¬
ton factories the vote of 98 to 39 iu- j
lca 6 * e * Y !Yi
The biU , prohibited the employment
of children under 13 years of ago in ,
any laundry manufacturing establishment,
phans or workshop, excepting or¬
who have to support themselves
and excepting saw mills, grist mills,
cotton gins and like mills aud work¬
shops in the rural districts.
An important senate bill providing
for the trial of all questions of fact by
jury, including cases now submitted
to auditors, was under discussion
when it was displaced by a special
order. The bill is adversely reported.
The house refused to pay Colonel
W. S. Thompson, of Atlanta, a $600
fee for his services as attorney / for the l
stftte iu the tax case again t Mr . G . !
w , Oollier> The house took the } osi- I
tion that every county should collect
its taxes, including the state’s part. j
There was barely a quorum present
iu the senate Tuesday, and the session
was devoted principally to the train-
action of routine business. Only one
important bill was introduced, and |
that was offered by Mr. McFarland,
of the Forty-fourth district. His bill
has for its pui pose the abatement of
the cigarette evil, and not only would
prevent the sale of cigarettes in Geor¬
gia, but also provides against briug-
ing them into the state.
The session was adjourned at ll:o0
, clock , . uutil 10 clock r , w Wednesday ,
o o ^
.
morain 8-
The School Book Reports.
Governor Atkinson sent the major¬
ity and minority reports of the school
book commission to the general as¬
sembly Tuesday, accompanying them
with a short but very pointed message.
The governor limits his message to
a brief statement of facts and presents
a table of comparison between the
cost of books now and the prices of¬
fered him by a prominent publisher if
given a contract to furnish the state’s
school books. This publisher has of¬
fered to give bond to comply with such
a contract. The difference in price is
interesting and uot far short of start¬
ling.
: ’be aiatlom lo.Wn, a,.d the e^e
| to apply the remedy.
the message the govertftr also
I ,
reil-
l ^’arietta. H,■ iMjpe e the m,l£
“• “'’’SP' ,embly. the
n „ 5 ns
1 ... i v ..ti,Ir.i
removed
lts pos* essu ^___
HAMPTON MAKES HIS REPORT.
Low AVnter Mark Reached In Railway
Const!notion the Fast Year.
I
I ‘ ve jj' ,rt
He ’“G ” MnvtrncY
, t ,hL mU»av
“,^1 year thirtv four
»■><* ht 'GI g li^ 7ero soM fore
, receivership, "eio sold at a,
1:1
closure. ,
A steady improvement in ram oat
earnings during the first six months ot
the current year is noted
IMPORTATIONS WANTED.
Government Appraisers Hard at Work
Formniatin; Plans.
j pr s^r,Xeel
; c*He< ^ ommeudation f Ap-
^ re( . c
! praiser Waken,an to enforce hone,»
f
| met again iu Sen
Tork Fuda . onferellce
YfYnment w ,, au
adjournment was " a- J taken a uutil Monday, *
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NOTED vaTFD FORGER lORGLU ‘T LARGE. l
j s Ha8 a penchant For Breaking Out
1
ofjaii.
J. A. Thomas, the forger made his
second escape from the M
p his, Tenu., early Monday morning and
1 bv sawing the bars of hm cell
afterwards sawing the bars in he
window in the rear of the jai.L
Thomas made lumseif famous by his
[ previous escapes from jail at Memphis
m \ ,« Chicago, and his subsequent
I ma-via^e with Miss Fannie Rnthe.-
| f or d. Jf charged Minneapolis with Three offenses ot her
| prisoners Lo minor
] ,-w P ed alter TUotua* had made
j the way ettar.
rOCCOA. HABERSHAM COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER V2. 1897.
DISEASE IS RAPIDLY DYING OUT
IN INFECTED DISTRICTS.
BEING ROUTED BY COLD WEATHER.
Busicets and Railway Tracfflc Resumes
Normal Conditions Once More.
Quarantines I.ifted.
_
At 12 o'clock Tueeda, onl.v one new
caf *e and two deaths from yellow fever
were reported from the New Orleans
board of health. All interest iu the
fever has about died out. The news¬
papers are paying but little attention
to it, confining themselves to simply
the official bulletins.
In all the infected points the same
dimunition of the disease is reported
and it is expected that the next coid
spell will wipe out the pestilence en¬
tirely. Tuesday was bleak and cold.
Prospects for a real cold spell are ex¬
cellent, in anticipation of which the
merchants hroughout the city are
preparing for a rush of business.
The Montgomeiy board reports one
None new case in Tuesday in tbe suburbs.
the city and no deaths. Total
cases to date, 129; deaths, 12.
The comjdete record for Tuesday
w'as as follows:
CITIES. NEW CASES. DEATHS.
New Orleans 1
Mobile..... 7
Montgomery.......1 o
Walta Bend, Mo.... I o
Setma 1 o
Memphis is Open.
-^ lie division passenger agent of the
Cotton Belt route has the following
telegram from the general office at St.
Louis -
“Quarantine regulations have been
so modified that passengers passing
through Memphis from now’ infected
points and not stopping at Memphis
will he admitted to all points on our
line in Arkansas, except at Clarendon,
and all points in Texas through Tex¬
arkana, provided they are provided
with proper health certificates. We
arc at present only operating our
freight trains out of Memphis.”
DELBRIDGE IS DEFIANT,
He Says the Suicide of His Brother Was
Put Up Joh.
Glia - les Del bridge, broth or of Thomas
Delbridge, the Atlanta man wdio found
a watery grave at Lakew r ood some
time ago, returned to Atlanta from
New - York Monday afternoon. He is
exceedingly wrathy about certain alle¬
gations that have been made against
him concerning the Delbridge insur¬
ance, and he gives a startling version
of the mysterious death of his brother
which smacks of calmly pi - emeditated
suicide for insurance money.
Delbridge makes spicy charges
against C. W. Motes, the father-in-law
of Thomas Delbridge, aud Mary Del-
bridge, the latter’s wife. He says
both of these knew of Thomas Del-
bridge’s intention, and that Mr. Motes,
knowing this, aided the deceased iu
securing an insurance policy after his
life had already been insured for a
large amount; that Tom left certain
papers in which he told how the in¬
surance money was to be divided,
which have beeu found and destroyed.
Delbridge also says he confidently
believes his brother suicided just to
leave his family a sufficient sum for
future sustenance and says he has
much evidence to back his statement.
Moreover, Delbridge claims he is
entitled to one-fourth of the insurance
money by virtue of an alleged agree¬
ment between his brother aud himself
several months before the latter’s
death, which he says he has not re¬
ceived.
THREE ONLY ESCAPED.
British Bark From Newcastle Wrecked
and Many of tlie Creiv Drowned.
^ of T#M(Uy from y.lpar.Uo
‘>*»t 'behirge British bark Cor-
dillera, Captain Everett, from Newcas-
— - been
All on board were drowned except
two mates and the ship’s carpenter.
The ship had registered tonnage of
2,224 and carried a valuable cargo.
HUNTER GETS A JOB.
The Mo “ d *T-
W. Godfrey Hunter, of Kentucky, to
he envoy extraordinary and mmis.er
H °“'
* Y he re P Hunter ubhc “” is T, ar, one V o, “ the leaders of
-
served as a member of congress m the
last bouse aud has given notice that
^ would make a contest for a sent in
^ be present house, claiming that he
had been elected. He was the candi¬
date of his party for senatorship, but
after a long struggle he had to give
way to Senator Deboe.
THE ROOF FELL IN.
Fire Destroys Saw Mill and Several Men
; Probably Killed.
Fire at Texarkana destroyed foui
^ ^ , nmber sheds „ d
I oxer 1,250 000 feet of lumber, the
properly of Ihe Central Coal, Coke
and Lumber Company The aggre-
gate loss is over $100,000. Ine roof
fell while about forty men were under
lt and it is believed that several bod¬
,
| will be found in tbe rums.
BLACK DIAMOND RAILWAY.
Citizens of Anderson. S. C*» Subscribing
for Stock.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
Amlersou , C , in the interest of the
j proposed Black IW>nd
pr.-jectcd by Col. Albeit L. Boone, ol
? Zare ^ Tlile , G . -
Resolutions were offered by Gen.
, y L Bonham and unanimous.v ad-
,,pted .that the city council order a u
j e!ectioa at aa early date on the ques-
, :ion c f snhscnpti n to bonds of tue
j Black Diamond vuiiway to the amount
o- soUAHW,
Devoted to Southern Progress and Colonization.
CJURIS WILL DECIDE.
The Democrats of Ohio Won’t GItc Up
th] Fight.
The Ohio legislature stands seventy-
fjur republicans, seventy democrats
and one doubtful or die official returns
received up to F/liav night. "With a
dozen or more of the eighty-eight
counties very close there have been no
material changes except in Wood
county, which will be claimed by both
parties till the courts pass ou the ac¬
tion of the supervisors.
There have been no unusual pro¬
ceedings before the returning boards
of any of the counties except that of
Wood, although both parties have had
their representatives aud attorneys iu
the county seats wherever the vote was
close.
Chairman McConville, of the demo¬
cratic committee, has not changed his
claims of a democratic majority on
joint ballot and will not do so until
the official returns of all counties are
in, and show the final results to diffei
from those he has at haud.
Chairman McConville and others
from the democratic state headquar¬
ters went to Cincinnati Friday night
to confer with John It. McLean and
other party leaders regarding the con¬
tests thafcare to be made in the close
counties.
PENSION ROLLS INCREASE.
Over Fifty Thousand Names Added to the
Rolls During Fast Year.
The first annual report of Commis¬
sioner of Pensions II. Clay Evans, to
the secretary of the interior wms made
public at Washington Friday.
“There were added to the rolls dur¬
ing the year 50,101 new pensioners,
and there were restored to the toIIb
3,971 pensioners w r ho had been pre¬
viously dropped; total of 54,072.
“Losses were 31,690 by deaths;
1,074 by remai’riage of widows and
mothers, 1,145 by legal limitation
(minors); 2,683 for failure to claim
pensions for three years, and 3,560 for
other causes; aggregate of 41,122.
“The whole number of pensioners
on the rolls -June 30, 1897, was 976,-
014. The net gain over the previous
year was 5,336.
“It w ill thus be seen that the pen¬
sion rolls has not yet begun to show’
any diminution, though it has been
anticipated by my predecessors in
office that such would be the fact.
Seven widows of revolutionary soldiers
are still on the rolls.
“The amount disbursed for pensions
by the pension agents during the year
was $139,799,242.12, and the amount
disbursed by treasury settlement was
$150,475.23; a total of $139,949,717.
This exceeds the amount disbursed
during the fiscal year 1896 by the sum
of $1,584,480.”
CHILDREN MURDERED.
Bloody Deed in Canada—Tramp Snspecled
of Committing the Crime.
Advices from Montreal, Can., state
that Michael Nulty, a farmer, and
Mrs. Nulty, w r ent to St. Julienne,
Thursday, leaving their four children
in the house. Three of the children
were girls, aged eighteen,, sixteen and
fourteen years, respectively. The
fourth was a boy, aged ten years.
A friend of the family named Morrin
called at tho Nulty house in the after¬
noon and found the front door broken
in and two of the children—the boy
and the youngest girl—lying on the
floor of the hall, their heads hacked to
pieces. On the road to the barn he
found the body of the second eldest
girl, and iu the barn he found the
body of the eldest girl, terribly lace¬
rated.
Morrin alarmed the neighbors and
the father and mother were sent for.
A tramp, w ho was seen in the neigh¬
borhood of the house, is suspected of
the crime and detectives are now look¬
ing for him. A bloody ax. was found
near the house.
CABINET TALKS OF ELECTION.
Dlscussion of Spanish Affairs Gave AYay to
Debate on Reults in Ohio.
A Washington special says: All
members of the cabinet except Secre¬
tary Alger were present at Friday’s
session, which did not last long.
Routine business was presented by
the different cabinet officials, but much
of the time was given to a discussion
of the recent elections. Satisfaction
was expressed on all sides, especially
at the result iu Ohio and Maryland.
The Spanish situation was uot con¬
sidered, although there were some
dispatches relating to the subject id
rhe cabinet room.
THE SOUTHERN WINS
In the Bluthenthal & Bickert “Original
Package” Whiskey Case.
Judge Pardee made a decision at
Atlanta Friday morning in the United
States circuit court in the case of Blu-
thentbal & Bickert against the South¬
ern Railway company.
The judge refused to sustain the de¬
murer of the railway company, but
did not issue the mandatory order
compelling it to haul the goods of
Bluthenthal & Bickert into the state of
South Carolina.
The defendant was allowed five days
iu which to file an additional answer
to the allegations in the petition for
injunction.
HONEST IMPORTATIONS WANTED.
Government Appraisers Hard at Work
Formulating Flans.
The conference of government ap¬
praisers and tobacco examiners from
various parts of the United States
called by Secretary of the Treasury
Gage on the recommendation of Ap¬
praiser TYakeman to enforce honest
importations of tobacco by uniformity
in classification, met again in New
York Friday.
After a two hours’ conference au
adjournment was taken until Monday.
HONEST IMPORTATIONS WANTED.
Government Appraisers Hard at Work
Formulating Flans.
The conference of government ap- |
praisers and tobacco examiners from
various parts of the Uuitec. .States i
called by Secretary of the Treasury j
Gage on the recommendation of Ap- j
praiser W akeman to enforce honest
importations of tobacco by uniformity
01 classification, met again in New
hour. - conference au
adjournment was taken until Monday.
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A HIGHLY SENSATIONAL ML’RHER
OCCURS IN ATLANTA, GA.
n WELL fm i/uniUM KNOWN niTiurMO CITIZENS SUSPECTED PilonrnTrn
Former Proprietor of a Liquor House
and His Assistants Arrested Under
Charge of Suspicion.
At At At.anta, Atlanta Ga Ga., Monday lion ay ni-ht u t at
ten minutes past 6 o clock Policeman
J.T.J. Ponder was shot and killed
by a thief and an assassin.
This cold-blooded L/iuwi c murder ui vi of the c
officer while ho was ou duty, the early
hour of the evening and the fact that
it occurred directly opposite the onion
depot, , in the very center of the city, |
made the tragedy one of the most
startling sensations that has occurred i
in Atlanta in several years.
The killing occurred in the whole-
sale liquor house of Louis Steinau, at
No. 41 Wall street, which had been
closed during the day under attach- j
ment by the sheriff. * ;
Just after the murder there was the
wildest excitement iu the neighbor-
hood of the scene where the terrible
tion crime after had sensation been committed, followed and the sensa trag~ j !
edy so rapidly that the excitement for
a while rose to fever heat.
The noise of the shooting, the dls-
covery of the dying officer and very
soon afterwards eight arrests were in-
termixed w ith a number of officers and
detectives seeking to ferret out the
perpetrators of the murder.
Among the eight persons arrested
during the evening suspected of hav-
ing been implicated in the dastardly
crime are L. Steinau, Julius Simon
and Walter O’Quinn, all of whom were
connected with Steinau’s business and
whose arrest is explained only on the
theory that they "valuables desired to secure cer-
tain papers or in Steinau’s
place before the store w as taken charge
of by the receiver appointed by the
court.
Just hoAV the officer w’as killed can
only be surmised by the facts as have
so far been gathered about the tragedy,
Some five or ten minutes before the
shooting, a man passing the front of
the wholesale store saw ekher one or
two men in the store and apparently
at work in the small office which is
partitioned off from the main body of
the store.
Passing along the same way, Officer
Ponder must have seen the men in the
office. He was at the time stationed
on the Wall street beat by the union
depot. Knowing that the wholesale
house of Louis Steiuau had been
closed by the sheriff in the morning,
and that no one had any business in
there working, he probably tried the
front door, anti finding it open, walked
in.
Then followed a chase aud the shoot¬
ing. Those who were in the store for
no lawful purpose doubtless ran to the
back of the store, having opened the
rear doors for the purpose of hasty
flight if discovered. The brave officer
followed after the fleeing men and w r as
fired upon.
Springing out of the door one of the
thieves, knowing that he was in the
dark, and that he was to be pursued
and probably run down, turned and
fired the fatal shot and then escaped
into the darkness.
When the ball struck him Ponder
went back toward the front of the store,
aud feeling that his life’s blood was
ebbing away, hastened to seek the aid
of those who were the nearest to him.
In less than five minutes after he
was shot he was dead.
THORN ON TRIAL.
With Mrs. Nack, He is Charged with the
Murder of Guidensuppe.
Ihe trial of the barber, Martin Thorn,
for the murder of W illiam Gulden-
suppe was begun at New York Mon-
day. The entire day was taken up in
securing a jury, and much to tho sur-
prise of all those interested the efforts
of the lawvers for the prosecution and
defense were well rewarded, as twelve
good men had been sworn to try the
case when the hour for adjournment
"
bad been rt ached.
The trial began ir. tho Queen’s
county ^ courthouse, Long Island City. ‘
befm Judy3 Wilmot M. Smith.
AUTHORITY NECESSARY,
Before Government Can Extend Aid to the
Klondike Sufferers.
Secretaiy Alger has sent to W. S.
Mason, president of the chamber of
commerce of Portland, Ore., the fol-
lowing telegram concerning the re-
ported destitution in Alaska: j
“Your dispatch of the 4th, couceru- ;
ing Alaskan sufferers, received. Noth- i
ing can be done by the department j
without congressional authority. But
I suggest you get all particulars, and
the department will also get what
facts it can, and you submit a plan for
relief. You may be sure of active co-
operation as soon as congress makes
an appropriation, which, if found
necessary, will be urged.”
FROST SEEMS INEFFECTIVE.
Eight Deaths at New Orleans With Only
Eight New Cases.
A New Orleans special say .: At 1
, clock , , Friday _ ., afternoon the yellow ,, ,
o
fever record reported by the board of
health was eight new cases and eight
deaths.
Though this number of deaths is
large.it La, not created any exei,.ment,
?h. , *wr-”yFng C0 «”to," one
member of the board of health puts it.
HIGHWAYMEN AT WORK.
. _ - „ irre.tpri for
Complicity in a Hold- i n.
A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma,
says . Tbe mail st^e running between
£-h e y enne and Canadian, was held up
Tuesday by highwaymen, who rifled
the mail pouches and secured about
<*4.39 in mtme y and valuables.
James Wilson, tbe stage driver, has
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SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
Xcw Industries Established in the South
During the Fast Week.
Among the most important new in-
I" fig''SU *2
Tenn.; g ,s
$60,000 at Newport News, Va.; the
Tisdale Mining and Manufacturing
Co * ca P ital §33,500, at Butler, Ga.;
the Huguenot Mining and Milling Co.,
the Arctic Circle Mining Co., capital
aud the Grand Encamp-
ment Mining and Milling Co., capital
$300,000, at Charleston, W. Va. ; the
Morgan County Caunel Coal Co., cap-
ital $25,000, at Frankfort, Kv.; the
Carter Coal and Iron Co., capital $100,-
000, at Pulaski, Va., and the Jackson-
Mini 0 ital $60>00 0,at
Rome> Ga . The Peerless Clay Co.,
capital $18,000, has been incorporated
at Butler, * Ga.; the New York Petro-
eum Co., capital SoOC ,000, . at 1 arkers- ,
^ \ f ’, l^aonnnn *ill’ °r*-?
knitting ,? mill be erected at Bur-
hngtou, N. n C.; a rope and , twine . . mill at ,
Tn n> ’ a ! l y^L, a C ° V ? a Y,*
„ ( ,
tie kocji ArK ; a siu.uuu lumoer mi l
a ami 011 V L " > ®aw mi
a , , r lae fy. . a i T8, uUt a o, um ei
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mill at \ inton, Ga.
0t ker woot ^ orkl “g plants will be
established at Brand ford and Holley,
I la., Belair and Cordele, Ga., and LI-
Kin, in. g. -tradesman (Lhattanooga,
eun.)
CRANK SOUGHT M’KINLEY.
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Spain’s Note In The Cabinet—Relief For
Whalers—Buck Heard From.
A Washington white special says: A crank >
appeared at the house Tuesday
aud demanded to see President Me-
Kinley. He said the president had
not treated him right. He was so per- ,
sistent that the police were ordered to
arrest him. At police headquarters
he said his name was Henry Rocket,
of 1241 Fourth street, Southwest.
There is no such name and address in
the city directory.
llie full text of Spain s reply to tlie
Woodford note was read at the cabinet
meeting Tuesday. Its tone was very
pacific, instead of being at all warlike,
wa? regarded by the cabinet as very
satisfactory, and as calculated to allay
any fear of a hostile outbreak.
The cabinet also gave consideration
to the ice-bound Bering Sea whaling
fleet. Two plans have been decided
upon, one to send the Bear, from Seat-
tie, which cannot be got ready for two
w eeks, and another to send the Thrash-
er, a whaling vessel at San Francisco,
United States Minister Buck at
Uokio has cabled the department of
state that the Japanese minister of
foreign affairs resigned Saturday and
that Baron Nishi has been appointed
his successor.
KNIGHTS r OF LABOR MEET.
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, r , general , “f, ^ , , °! , tho , Kai v '. , hte ,
8 f
. ^Yo!
man ,* a a J ° 8 ! V s '! fiU e °K ’ J"' T ' 1 ® 1 SC l" a y
morning at 1n 10 o clock by t r Grand 1 Master
J R, Sovereign. Among the dele-;
gates were a number of the most promt-
nent. leaders m the movement in this j
country and abroad |
After the appointment of commit-
tees ou credentials, press, etc., the
meeting adjourned until the afternoon,
Theue was nothing done at the after-
noon session.
ihe master w’orkman was not ready 1
to make his appointments, and as the
committee ou credentials and the com-
mittee on finance were not ready to j
report, adjournment was taken until:
’’ ednesday.____
vri'PA 11H1KU AsiLlJl iSYIIT'M lll ftiiGLli, T R\FTl
Coiiossal structure at MiUedffevHle, Ga.,
Laid In Ashes.
The negro building of the Georgia
state lunatic asylum iu Milledgeville
was totally destroyed by fire Tuesday *"
afternoon. j
The 700 patients in the building
were saved bv the most heroic work.
At fi rst there was a stampede, but by
cool gild collected efforts of the
attendants they were successfully con-
fiped in the walled asylum yard.
The negro building was capable of
housing b nearly i. a thousand. It covered
t llt Mature f ouud and „ os bni p bv
onhe legislature in in 1884. 1884
Wales Is Fifty-Six.
The birthday of the prince of Wales
was celebrated Tuesday with the usual
flag hoisting, hell ringing and artillery
salutes. He was born November 9,
1841.
LORD MAYOR’S DAY.
Londoners Honor Installation of New
Mayor With Fitting Demonstrations.
A cable dispatch from Loudon says:
In spite of a thick drizzle and a heavy
fog, the ancient custom of presenting
the elected chief magistrate of London,
Horatio David Davies, to the repre-
sentatives of the sovereign and to the
people, was observed Thursday with
success. The usual throngs of people
lined the route and the decorations
were more ambitions thau usual,
But in spite of the weather, a more
stirring proof of the popularity of
London’s yearly pageant, known as
the Lord Mayor’s procession, has not
been given in a long time. !
BANKER WILLARD FAILS.
Reputed Minnesota Millionaire Ig Force,
to the Wall.
John A. Willard, of Mankato, Minn.,
well known as a millionaire and a
banker, has made an assignment. Mr.
Wi i, atd estimates hia direct liabilities
at . about , . V.48U.UU nnn ).
Hi. indirect liabilities are perhap.
' h e il* Sf
. , £*££ wl i
»hly over *2,000,o4«.
GOLD MINE TO BE SOLD.
’ge Newman Appoints Receiver for
Yorkville Klondike.
Judge Newman at Atlanta, Ga., has
rendered a final decree in the York-
ville gold mine suit for a receiver.
The decree orders that all the pos-
sessions of the company be converted
as quickly as possible into cash, in j
order to pay the many claimants
against the property. [ !
The date fixed 'or the sale is De-
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES: S1.00 A YEAR.
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CONFEDERATE VETERANS WILL
■» " VLASTA >EXT JULY.
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WUS,,LIV0HIVI ANNIYERSRRY OF Ur THREE 1 niXLL BATTLES DHllLLa
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Commader* of Georgia Camps noid Meet-
in* in Atlanta and Mat*. Arrange-
meats for the Occasion.
_
The confederate t veterans , have de- .
cided on the date for the great reunion
to be held in Atlanta next year.
A meeting of the commanders and
representatives of all the Georgia camps
of , veterans , was held m Atlanta Friday
tQ take the first stppg in arranging j or
the great event. It was the recom-
°' th ? ““«»? *• " -
muon be held at some time between
th6 2{)th of Ju , y and the 20 th of Au-
gust. The two battles of Atlanta were
fonght on July 20 aud 2 ». The first
battle of Manassas on July 21. There-
union will continue during three days
and it can thus he made to celebrate
t h ree important anniversaries.
xke final decision in tbe mat t e r is
le f t with the committee appointed at
the Nashville reunion, but it is custoim
ary for the committee to choose such a
time as is most pleasiug to the people
where the reunion is to be held.
The meeting was called several
weeks ago by General Clement A.
Evans, for the purpose of inaugurating
plans for the entertainment of the
veterans who will gather in the Gate
i u 1898. More than 100 repre-
sentatives of the Georgia camps were
present. General Evans presided and
opened th« meeting with a brief but
stirring address.
A resolution w as passed calling upon
{he representatives of the various
camps to exert every effort to bring
every Confederate veteran in Georgia
the Atlanta reunion.
Another resolution thauked the city
council for its cordial invitation in be-
half of the people of Atlanta, aud
pledged the hearty co-operation of all
the state camps iu making tho reunion
a grand success.
Thus the first gun in anticipation of
the reunion has been fired. It is pro-
posed to have a great crowd in Atlanta
i n *99^ and a resolution was passed
calling upon the camps in all the coun-
ties of the state to appoint a commit-
tee for the purpose of collecting sub-
sistence stores and money to assist
Atlanta in taking cave of the veterans,
There are at present 90 camps of
Confederate veterans in Georgia and
others will be formed before the re-
union occurs.
General Evans is highly pleased at
the success of the first step taken, and
looks forward to an unparalleled cele-
bration.
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TRAIN MAKES FATAL RUN.
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carried Death All Along the “Cotton
Belt” Route.
The passenger train on the St. Louis
fcnd Southwestern road, known as the
“Cotton Belt” route, was ill-fated and
death marked its run Friday. Near
Mount Pleasant, Texas, tho train ran
over J. C. Beasley, au ex-section fore-
man who had fallen asleep on the
track. He was killed instantly.
About thirty miles further west, neai
Greenville, three negro children were
playing down among the timbers of a
trestle bridge. They scampered up to
the track trying to escape. They had
not been seen by the engineer and
were so close to the engine that they
were run over before being discovered,
Two were killed between the rails.
The other died an hour later.
^ miles further west, near Wy-
^ . named J. G. Davis,
ie > a passenger
entered a toilet room and committed
suicido by shooting himself through
the hea<1 - His home was at Cedar
Hill, near Dallas. His friends cannot
account for his killing himself.
TRIAL OF CREW.
Competitor-. Prisoner. Will Be Arraigned
°re ava our.
A special of Friday from Havana
^
The trial of the crew of the schooner
Competitor before the naval courtmar-
tial, whose decision must be confirmed
by the Madrid government, will begiD
Monday morning.
Senor Masa Domingez will conduct
the defense.
CONVENTION OF STOCK GROWERS.
All Associations In the United States Rt
quested To Send Representatives.
A dispatch from Denver, Col., says
The national stock growers’ convex
tion, which has been under cousidera-
G° n f° r some time,was called Saturday
f° r January 25th, 26th and 27th, 1898,
by a joint session of committees from
the Denver chamber of commerce and
the Colorado Cattle Growers’ Assccia
tion.
All stockgrowers’ associations in the
United States are to be asked to send
delegates, and breeders of fine stock,
government and state officials will also
f nvited to attend.
iFRAGE GRANTED CUBANS.
Spsn.sh Cabinet Decides to Give Them
the Right to xote.
The Spanish cabinet has approved
measures for the giving to the inhab-
itants of the islands of Cuba and Porto
Rico th e same constitutional rights as
are enjoyed by Spaniards, for the be-
st0Ia , o[ the righta of snffrage upon
f who hare * e **• of * went r -
Uamen?,?) elections* ”
COAL MEN COMBINE.
Northern Company Scoops in All Other
Concerns In Colorado.
A . deal , , , has , been consummated , , at
Denver whereby the Northern Coal
company becomes the owner of eigh-
teen Q f the larger ol coal mines in the
northern part the state, and at the
same t j me con trols the remainder of
t he mines in that district, except in
Enterprise.
Ab a result the price of northern
C advances from $2.75 a ton to $3 50
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NO. 52.
AGAINST IMPORTED TOBACCO.
Florida Growers of the Weed Are Up
In Arms.
The Florida tobacco growers are up
(rights. |
the They ask the co-operation of
tobac c° growers throughout this
j country in their fight for protection
against imported tobacco. The law
regulating the duty on the imported
m tide has been hoodwinked for years
am * the government has been the
j oser tile tune of thousands of dol-
the -ais » industry ^Lile the m effects this country of it have under kept the
thumb of the manufacturers who are
the principal importers. The great
“^ ^ has been in the das-
dearly 8
r demonstrates:
Major vr Linck, T • , the treasury agent at .
Tampa, had the appraiser draw exam-
I pies from the thirteen bales of impart-
j le “ ( ' Fiv0 01 "’ e9e " ere
as wrapper by . the app’aiser, while
Major Linck thought all of them
should have been classed as wrapper,
He accordingly sent these samples to
New York, where ten of them were
classed ns wrapper. They were then
sent to New Orleans and received the
information that all were filler. Thu
New Orleans classification would have
collected $546 duty. Tampa’s collec-
tion would have been $1,446, while
that of New York would have amount-
ed to $2,316; but if the matter hail
been left to Major Linck he woultV
‘ have assessed $2,886 duty ou thafc
small lot of tobacco.
A meeting of the appraisers of this
country assembled iu New York last
Friday as a result of this instance, to
establish a uniform classification of
tobacco at all ports of entry in this,
j country. employed the The ablest manufacturers lawyers have
j in the
j country to look out for their interests,
which is not the interest of the gov-
eminent or tho tobacco growers of
this country. They wish to secure a
liberal classification for them selves,
and wish also to have the ruling of tho
secretary of the treasury modified like-
j wise in their favor,
Tbe board of trade of Bartow, Polk
county, Florida, which is a great to-
bacco growing center, realizing that
the growers w'ere doing nothing for
their own protection, and appreciating
1 the fact that the influence of theim-
porters is a mighty power, called a
i meeting of their organization Friday
night and passed the following resoln-
lions,
“Whereas, the tobacco growing in¬
dustry in this state promises to be im¬
portant in its development, and where¬
as, to grow’ tobacco profitably it is
essential that the duties on imported
j j tobacco be honestly collected, there-
fore be it
“Resolved, That the Bartow board of
trade hereby wholly and unreservedly
indorses the recent rulings of the sec-
retary of tbe treasury as to the tariff
and classification on imported tobacco,
knowing it to be iu the interest of the
growers of tkjs country.
“Resolved, further, That copies of
this resolution be forwarded to the
8ecrotary of the treasuf v, our senators
aud congressmen, and that the state
press> boav ds of trade, tobacco asso-
ciat ious, county commissioners, city
councils and all organizations interest¬
ed iu the future cf our state he urged
similar and speedy action, in-
sisting that the secretary of the treas-
uj-y adhere to his rulings, which are
a ., d righteous.”
This is considered to be the proper
fitep to take> and it i s hoped that the
tobacco growers of every state in the
union will C0 . 0 perate in the movement
which is designed * for mutual protec-
tion It is believed that the success
I of domestic cigar leaf hinges upon this
I movement.
. WILL ARBITRATE.
The Threatened Big strike In Kngland
Is Averted.
The crisis in the cotton industry
which was threatened through the ac¬
tion of the operatives in instructing
their delegates to inform their employ-
era that they would not consent to a
reduction in wages, and the announce-
m»»nt ment 1»v by the the emnlovera employers of ot their tfieir inten- inten -
tion m the to pay make of a their reduction employees, of 5 per has beeu cent
! averted.
The executive committee o ue Up-
I erative Spinners Association have
adopted a resolution o aecep le o er
made by the1 masters to submit -h«
^ a ^r to arbitration.
FOUND HANGING TO BAITER.
An Axed Woman in Atlanta Suicides ot
Was Murdered.
The coroner, newspaper reporters
and a crowd of neighbors were called
to No. 193 West Pine street, Atlanta,
Friday afternoon late, where the body
of Airs. Zion Bridwel), an aged and
well known woman, was found hang¬
ing to the rafters of her cottage, cold
in dealh.
There may be some developments
which will point to murder, at least
the coroner felt called upon to act cau¬
tiously. aud instructed the police au¬
thorities to arrest and hold Mr. Brid-
well, the husband. The old man waa
taken in charge.
WHOLE FAMILY SUICIDED.
Father Was a Cousin of Captain Dreyfus,
the Deported French Officer.
^ special from Paris say?: A man
named Dreyfus, who is believed to be
a cons i n G f Captain Dreyfus, the de-
ported artillery off* officer, imprisoned on
an is i aild the coast of French
- u inea, his wile, formerly tbe Conn-
t Ohecuerty, peotiJelv and their three daugh-
- i reB 13, 11 and 7 year, of
f age, committed Ufcide Monday morn-
8 " B ^
1 on the avenne Mareea.
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WOLCOTT LANDS SAFELY.
j H? and Commissioner York—Both Paine Arrive at New
Reticent.
Senator Edward O. Wolcott, of Col-
orado, aud General Charles J. Paine,
two of the monetary commissioners
appointed by President McKinley to
confer with European governments
! concerning the feasibility of estabiish-
! | ing international bimetallism, am
i at New York Friday night on the
1 steamship Campania.
1 Both gentlemen asked to be excused
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