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BANKS COUNTY JOURNAL.
VOL. VII.
FOR BETTER ROADS
Special Committee Holds
Sessions at Washington.
CALLS ON THE PRESIDENT
Brief Prepared for Presentation to the
House and Senate Committee on
Agriculture—lnvitation to
National Association.
The special committee of the Na
tional Good Roads Association re
sumed Its session at Washington
Thursday. Mr. Jefferson Meyers, pres
ident of the Lewis and Clarke exposi
tion. of Oregon, presented a resolution
endorsing that project, which was read
and adopted. The chairman appointed
Messrs. Stewart, or West Virginia;
Tillebrew, of Tennessee, and Cooley,
of Minnesota, a special committee to
prepare a brief for submission to the
bouse and senate committee on agri
culture. An Invitation was extended
to the National Good Roads Associa
tion to hold its annual meeting at
Portland, Oregon, in 1905, which was
laid over to be presented at the na
tional meeting In St Ijouls this year.
The special committee appointed
earlier in the week to arrange a visit
to the white houße. reported that they
had called upon the president, and he
had informed that he would be
glad to receive the representatives of
the Good Roads Association. It was
agreed that all present would call in
a body on the president.
The meeting then adojurned and
proceeded to the capltol, where they
were given a hearing before the sen
ate committee on agriculture. Chair
man Harper opened the discussion and
stated to the committee that he and
his colleagues appeared before them at
this time by the direction of the Na
tional Good Roads Association, to pre
sent the resolutions unanimously
adopted by the association at its last
meeting. He explained that neither
the committee nor the association as
a whole, had any desire to promote or
advocate either the Brownlow, I.atl
mcr, Gailingor or any other particular
hill now pending before congress, but
that their purpose was to impress
upon the minds of the committee the
growing demand for national aid for
good roads as a general proposition.
He said they were all in favor of any
bill that congress might enact which
would afTord to the toiling farmers of
this country some relief from the enor
mous burdens of "mud tax" which they
are now daily paying.
CRUM DRAWING NO PAY.
Status of Charleston's Colored Collec
tor Explained by Shaw.
In response to Senator Tillman's
resolution adopted by the senate call
ing for the record of William I>.
Crum's appointment and his service as
collector at the port of Charleston, S.
S. C., Secretary of the Treasury Shaw
Thursday sent to President Pro Tem.
Frye the following letter:
"William D. Crum was appointed
collector at th eport of. Charleston, 8.
C.. March 20. 1903, and a temporary
commission issuue. Crum qualified by
execution of bond for $50,000 and took
oath of office March 30, 1903. Crum
was again appointed December 7,
1903, and has given bond in the- Hum
of $50,000 and took the oath of office
on January 9, 1904. There has been
no third appointment and no fourth
appointment. The same
is contained in a letter to Hon. B. R.
Tillman, under date of January 8,
1904, and which appears in the Con
gressional Record of January 27, 1904.
“The resolution also asks, ‘ls Crum
now in office, and if so, under what
authority of law?’ William D. Crura
is de facto collector at the port of
Charleston, S. C. WTietber he holds
Ills position under the authority of
law Is determinable, not by the execu
tive department of the government,
but by the judiciary, and by that only.
He Is not receiving pay. because of the
provisions of section 1761.”
WASHINGTON HEARS NOTHING.
No News of Mrs. Maybrick's Release
Comes to Stats Department.
Regarding the case of Mrs. May
brick, interest in which has been re
vived by reports that she has been re
leased from prison in England, state
department officials at Washington say
there has been no recent communica
tion between them and the English
government in the matter. The last
information the department had re
garding the case, and this is now
some months old, was that Mrs. May
brick probably would be released late
in the coming summer.
HOMER. BANKS COUNTY. GA.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 3. 1904.
MRS. MAYBRICK FREE? |
Report Comes from London that Par- !
don Has Been Granted Unfortu
nate American Woman.
Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper (Lon- I
don) says that Mrs. Florence May
brick, the American woman who was
serving a life sentence on the charge
of having poisoned her husband, was
released from the Aylsbury female con
vict prison at 6:45 o'clock on the
morning of January 25, on special li
cense.
The Daily Mail says that Mrs. May
brick is now in Liverpool and that the
following conditions attach to her re
lease from prison: That she will not
appear on the public stage or write a
book of her experience and shall in
no way endeavor to attract attention
to herself.
An Associated Press dispatch says:
In spite of the mystery with which
officials shroud tho action in connec
tion with the reported release of Mrs.
Florence Maybrick, It can be definitely
said that she has been removed from
Aylesbury prison. At the United
States embassy It was most emphati
cally declared that she had not been
pardoned, and that she was still it
prisoner.
Mrs. Maybrick, the paper concludes,
during the last few months in prison,
was employed in the lightest work as
a reward for good conduct.
Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Chandler
Maybrick is a native of Mobile, Ala.,
where she still enjoys a reputation for
beauty and refinement of character.
In 1881 she met James Maybrick. a
fashionable Englishman at Liverpool,
and after a brief courtship they were
married. The first years of their wed
ded life seemed happy. Two children,
a boy and a girl, were born to them.
Shadows began to fall over the family
in 1889. There were hints of heavy
drinking and abuse on the part of the
husband. One spring day in that year
he attended the Wirral races in a
heavy rain and contracted a severe
cold. Returning home, after eating
and drinking, he took to his bed. Grow
ing worse, he insisted that his wife
give him a certain white powder,
which she did, following his instruc
tions as where to find it. Thirteen
days latci Maybrick died and his wid
ow suffered a severe collapse.
Coming out of this, she was con
fronted with a charge of murder. Af
ter a sensational trial, during which
evidence in favor of the woman suffi
cient to have set her free by any
American jury, wag brought to light,
sho was convicted and sentenced to
death. It was shown that her hus
band had been a confirmed arsenic
eater for years.
Immediately following her convic
tion. petitions began to pour in from
the United States and other civilized
countries, protesting against the ver
dict and praying the release of tho
prisoner. For years diplomatic corre
spondence has passed between Wash
ington 1 and London concerning tho
case. Every administration of recent
date has taken up the Maybrick case
with resolution.
The first favorable step was the
commutation of the death sentence to
life imprisonment, by Queen Victoria.
Then came the reduction to twenty
five years, which was again shortened
by allowances for good behavior. The
south is tremendously interested in
the case, not alone from the fact that
Mrs. Maybrick is of the south, and a
woman but* because her testimony 1b
necessary in the settlement of a case
involving thousands of dollars.
COLOMBIANS ARE MISINFORMED.
Cannot Land Troops in Panama Even
Outside the Canal Zone.
It is stated at the state department
at Washington that General Reyes
must have misunderstood the position
of the authorities here if tie, as repre
sentative from Bogota, informed the
Colombian government that the United
States has limited its objection to
the landing of Colombian troops in
Panama to the canal zone Itself. The
department has not In any sense
changed its position when it was ex
pressly stated that no troops with hos
tile intent could be landed in any par;
of Panama.
GREEN CONTJNCtS AS AGENT.
No Change Made by Trustees of Pea
body Educational Fund.
A notable body of representative men
attended a special meeting in Washing
ton *of the trustees of the Peabody
educational fund. It was announced
after the session closed that full con
sideration had been given to the ques
tion of a general agent to succeed Dr.
Samuel A. Green and to the proposed
enlargement and maintenance of the
Peabody normal college, at Nashville,
but that it was concluded to postpone
action in both matters until the meet
ing of the trustees, to be held in New
York next October.
Dev*ted to airing the News, Eocoarngteg tke Progress, and Aiding the Prosperity of Banks County.
CORPSES IN HEAPS
Bodies of Mine Disaster Vic
tims Being Recovered.
MANY BURNED TO CRISP
Hope that the Entombed Men Might
be Alive Was Soon Dispelled.
Remains Were Frightfully
Mangled.
A Pittsburg. Pa., special says: The
Warwick mine is giving up its victims
as fast as the engineer can raise and
lower th 6 cage in response to the sig
nals from the men who are at work
at the bottom of the shaft. The burn
ed and mangled bodies of men who
went to work on Monday morning are
being brought up to the surface, and
bob sleds, which stand in a line, are
hauled up the snow road to the school
house on the hill.
Every body so far brought up is
bruised, cut and crushed into shape
lessness, and all so far have their
hands taised to the faces, indicating
that the doomed men foresaw their
fate and tried with their last conscious
efforts to ward it off. The fact that
the legs and arms are broken and dis
jointed shows that the force of the ex
plosion must have been -terrific. It is
presumed that the men were hurled
against the jagged walls of the mine
and t rushed at the ends of headings
and chambers.
Scarcely one of the bodies had any
clothing on it, and all are more or
less burned, some to a crisp. There
was great difficulty in Identifying them
on this account, and about the only
means to accomplish Identification will
be by the small brass weigh checks
tearing a number, which each man
draws upon going into the mine, and
of which a record is kept. But, as
many of the victims are devoid of
clothing, confusion will result.
Two Polish women came from Po
iard Tuesday night to Cheswick. They
arrived late, and not being able to
reach Warwick, where their husbands
were employed in the mine, slept all
night in the station. Both men are in
the pure, and a sad scene was enact
ed Wednesday when the women learn
ed for the first time that they wore
widows. Neither can'speak English,
and one of the women carried an in
fant in her arms.
Among tho bodies found was that
of a stranger. Clothes wore on it, and
it was only slightly burned. Who he
was or what he was doing in tho mine
no one knows. He may have caused
the explosion by lighting a match.
H. A. McMillan, who led one party
of searchers, said:
“Fifteen bodies were found In butt
number 1, of the south entry. All of
them, with the exception of the stran
ger, were badly burnod and mangled.
One’s head was blown off. In the
south entry we found two men lying
lace downward near each other. These
had evidently been killed by the force
ol the explosion. In another place we
found six men, all negroes, I believe.
Five were in a heap and one wag pin
red under a car. We found the driver
of that entry lying along the roadway
where he had been blown. Rooms 10
and 12, south entry, are caved to the
depth of five feet. There are several
men buried there, as there are un
doubtedly men burled under the rocks
of the mins. For this reason it will
be weeks before all the bodies are re
covered.”
WAS DELIBERATE SUICIDE.
Whittaker Wright Took Deadly Dose
Hidden in His Handkerchief.
A London dispatch says: A post
mortem examination has shown that
Whittaker Wright committed suicide
by taking cyanide of potassium.
The investigation made indicates
that Wright must have swallowed the
poison while standing before Justice
Bigham, after receiving his sentence
It is recalled that Wright pulled a
handkerchief from his pocket and ap
peared to wipe his face, and it> Is sur
mised that under cover bf this be took
the fatal dose.
THIRD BLAZE AT ELBERTON.
Plucky Georgia Town Suffers Heavily
from Conflagration.
The third disastrous fire which has
visited Elberton, Ga., within a few
years and in the same place, occur
red Thursday morning.
About 4 o’clock Mathew's drug store
was discovered on fire and before the
people could be aroused the flames
had spread to Gaines Bros., Thornton
Bros., and then enveloped Duncan
! Bros., all of whom suffered losses es
j timated at $30,000. Across the street
j the buildings of T. M. Swift were
| damaged about $2,000.
MRS. LORENZSHED TEARS
A “Briny” Incident During Trial ol
Alleged Postoffice Grafters in
Washington Court.
The defense in the postal trial at
Washington opened Thursday. Mr
Maddox, on behalf of the Groffs, said
he would prove that George E. Lorenz
in 1895 had purchased for SSOO a one
half interest in tho Groff fastener.
Ho was followed by Mr. Kumler for
the Lorenzs, who asserted that as far
hack as 1888 Machen, George E. Lo
renz and his brother engaged in the
oil business in Ohio, and that as a re
sult of their various transactions Geo,
E. Lorenz owed Machen $25,000, and
that whatever money Lorenz paid to
Machen was in settlement of an honest
debt.
Conrad Symt\ on behalf of Machen,
agreed with what Mr. Maddox and Mr.
Kumler said, and added that he would
prove there was no conspiracy when
Mr. Kumler, in the course of his open
ing remarks, said that Mrs. Lorenz
had been scandalizod by the govern;
ment, which had treated her with
cruelty, Mrs. Lorenz broke down and
wept bitterly. She was led from the
room by Mrs. Machen and Mrs. Phil
lips, Mr. Machen’s sister. She recov
erod her composure during tho recess
and occupied her accustomed place in
court.
The first witness for the defense
was Miss Ina S. Liebhart, chief clerk
of the special free delivery division,
and Machen’s former stenographer.
She described Machen’s various duties,
which she said made it physically im
possible for him to personally attend
to everything. She said that from
July, 1901, she personally initialed all
the mail with Machen’s initials and
prior to that date she placed his ini
tials probably on one-half of tho mall.
She said she herself determined the
question of what papers she should or
should not initial. She declared that
the Groff fastener was never the sub
ject of any conversation between her
self and Machen. In writing Machen’s
initials she said there was no secrecy
about it, that First Assistant Postmas
ter General Wynne know as well as his
chief clerk, Mr. Hawley. A recess was
taken at this point.
Continuing her testimony when the
trial was resumed. Miss Llebhardt said
that a great, deal of Machen’s time was
taken up in interviewing congressmen
and postmasters regarding the exten
sion of the rural free delivery. Asked
specifically about Groff fasteners. Miss
Llebhardt said that special orders
were not brought to Machen’s atten
tion .because the fastener was “a fixed
supply.” In cases Involving anew ar
ticle, however, she said she would
speak to the superintendent about it.
It wafc brought out that the order giv
en the Groffs for fasteners at the re
duced price of $1.25 each, was dated
July 15, 1899, and was signed by Ma
chen himself.
The witness had not concluded when
court adjourned until Friday.
NOVEL RECEIVERSHIP CASE.
Woman Puts Affairs of Husband in
Hands of Court.
Thomas M. Henson, a prominent,
merchant of Union county, Ga., has
been placed In the hands of a receiver
at tho instance of his wife. Hanson’s
property Includes a large mercantile
establishment, valuable merchant mills
and other property, and aggregating
about $6,000.
Henson’s wife some time ago enter
ed suit, against him for alimony, in
her petition she made some very sen
sational charges, one of which was
that, her husband would not allow her
or her children to attend any religious
services, and when they disobeyed
him they were w'hipped severely.
At the last term of Union superior
court Judge Kimsey ordered Henson
to pay Mrs. Henson SSO per month
temporary alimony. This Henson has
paid promptly, but. Mrs. Henson, in
her application for a receiver, states
that her husband is rapidly winding
up his business, and that where par
ties can’t pay him instanter he marks
their indebtedness seCtlod.
LAWYER TAKES CONVICT BRIDE.
Sensational Denoument in Second
trial of Mrs. Lula Prince-Kennedy.
Mrs. Lulu Prince-Kennedy, on trial
a second time at Kansas City, for kill
ing, three years ago, her husband,
Philip H. Kennedy, local contracting
agent for the Merchants’ Dispatch
Transportation Compan”, collapsed in
court Thursday when her mother on
the witness! stand admitted that, the de
fendant had been secretly married to
John Kramer, a local lawyer, since her
conviction for the murder of her hus
band. The defendant painted and it
wag necessary to carry her from tho
room.
GIGANTIC COLLAPSE
Baxter Cos., Brokers, Forced
to Make Assignment.
GO BROKE ON COTTON
“King” Sully Cleared $600,000 in Phe
nomenal Rise of Staple, and to
His Operations, Failure of
Big Firm is Accredited.
•
A. B. Baxter & Cos., brokers, of New
York, with 138 offices in the United
States, 38 of which are in the south,
failed Saturday. It is said that the
failure will amount approximately to
$3,000,000, thought the exact figures
will not be known for several days.
A New York special Bays: Daniel
J. Sully, the cotton king, cleared $600.-
000 Saturday morning in the spectacu
lar rise of July cotton, which touched
16.88. He bought 200,000 bales Friday
morning at 16 and sold out Saturday at
an advance of from 6® to 80 points.
Directly charged to the operation of
Sully in the market was the assign
ment of A. B. Baxter & Cos., dealers
in stocks, bonds and cotton, at No. 61
Broadway, with offices in alt the prin
cipal cities of the United States, most
ly In the south and southwest. Tho
failure involved $200,000. The firm as
signed for the benefits of creditors to
George J. Vestner.
The officers are A. B. Baxter, presi
dent; W. W. Vensel, treasurer, and
Felix P. Lipp, secretary. The com
pany was incorporated in 1902, with a
capital of $300,000. Tho concern Is
the largest of its kind on this conti
nent and its operations have been
on a mammoth scale.
The assignment was not filed in
New York 1:30 o’clock Saturday after
noon, and there was no hint of it be
fore the close of trading on tho cot
ton market at noon. At the office of
Baxter & Cos. It was" said that It would
take several days to estimate the lia
bilities and assets which could not,
it was said, be estimated now.
George J. Veßtnor, the Baxter firm’s
assignee, is a lawyer in the office of
Mclntyre, Cantor & Adams. John F.
Mclntyre said for tne assignee of the
company:
“The company has a large number
of branch offices, one In nearly every
principal city of the south and west.
It has 30,000 miles of leased wires,
and pays $30,000 a tolls to the
telegraph companies. As soon as wo
assigned we wired a.l our branch of
fices not to accept another cent from
customers.
“What caused the suspension was
the continued rise in cotton. Moat of
our customers in the south and west,
who had been long on cotton, went
short recently, thinking the high water
mark had passed, but when Sully con
tinued to send cotton up we called on
our customers for more margins.
Wo thought we saw hope when cot
ton fell off 50 points Friday, but when
It rose 75 points Saturday and the
majority of customers failed to re
spond to requests for more margins,
we had to assign,”
TO REIMBURSE COLOMBIA.
Democratic Senators Favor Paying
Her Ten Millions in Cash.
For three hours Saturday the demo
crats of the senate discussed plans for
united party action in support of the
Bacon resolution for paying Colombia
$10,000,000 in cash for the loss of Pan
ama. During the discussion it devel
oped that if the senate will take action
on tho linos of this resolution demo
cratic opposition to the ratification of
the Panama treaty will he withdrawn.
No final action was taken, however, as
there is to be another caucus on the
subject.
The republican attitude on the ques
tion of paying Colombia tho sum stated
for a quit claim deed to her interest
in the canal zone was made known to
the senators in the caucus. The re
publicans, it is understood, have al
ready agreed to satisfy Colombia in
this matter, but they propose to have
the canal treaty ratified before they
make the deal public.
KENTUCKY CAPITAL SAFE.
Legislature Vote s that Seat of Gov
ernment Remain at Frankfort.
The passage through the Kentucky
senate Thursday by unanimous vote
of the house bill appropriating a mil
lion dollars for anew capitol at Frank
fort, marked tho end of a fight which
had been waged for the removal of the
seat of government since the days
when Henry Clay, as a representative
from Lexington, started a fight which
has been the cherished ambition of
that, city since, till the present ses
sion, when Lexington, Louisville and
other towns Joined In and aided Frank
fort for the present bill.
NO. 44.
HARRISON EXONERATED,
Ridiculous Action of Chioago Coroner’s
Jury Fails to Hold In Tuthiil's
Court and Mayor is Released.
At Chicago Thursday afternoon.
Mayor Carter Harrison was ordered by
Judge Richard W. Tuthlll to be im
mediately discharged from custody
without any responsibility for the
wholesale loss of life in the Iroquois
theatro fire.
The judge declared that the mayor
was in no way whatever guilty or lia
ble, and that tho coroner’s jury in or
dering Mayor Harrison held to the
grand jury had put an unjust stigma
upon the mayor, who had failed In
no particular whatever either'in omis
sion or commission.
The hearing before Judge Tuthlll
was on a writ of habeas corpus sued
out by Mayor Harrison’s attorneys.
Following his release, Mayor Har
rison made tho following statement to
the Associated Press:
"The only possible feature which the
jury was able to find connecting me
with the Iroquois fire disaster was the
alleged negligence and incompetence
of my appointees, Fire Chief Musham
and Building Inspector Williams. I
want, to call attention to the fact that
Chief Musham has been connected
with the Chicago fire department for
forty years, beginning at the bottom
of the ladder and winning his way to
the position of assistant chief by gal
lant and heroic conduct of a lifetime.
Upon the retirement of Chief Swenle,
I appointed Musham chief. The ap
pointment was strictly on merit and
met with unanimous approval. When
the position of building commissioner
became vacant last summer, I Invited
the builders’ club, an association of ar
chitects, Bjid various other non-parti
san professional organizations, to
nominate the best available man for
tho vacancy. They named In nomina
tion Mr. Williams, a republican, and
gave me the strongest testimonials of
his character and efficiency. I ap
pointed him, and he entered most ear
nestly upon his duties. Both of these
men were considered ideal appoinl
monts.”
HARDWICK’S BHIBOLETH
Unsheathed in House for Eliminating
14th and 15th Amendments.
A Washington special says: Con
gresman Hardwick, of Georgia, made
his maiden speoch in tho house Thurs
day afternoon and incidentally be
came involved in a discussion with
General Grosvenor, tho veteran repub
lican leader, of Ohio. Taking advan
tage of the latitude permitted when an
appropriation bill is under considera
tion, Mr. Hardwick addressed the
house upon tho proposition to repeal
ho fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments to the constitution, which fig
ured prominently as an Issue In his
own canvass for congress.
General Grosvenor Interrupted to
call Mr. Hardwick's attention to a
statement he made regarding the word
“white” in tho Ohio constitution. Gen
eral Grosvenor pointed out that the
word ‘’white” was in the corfSiltutlon
of his state In 1867 fixing the qualifica
tion of a voter, having been placed
there In 1851. In 1867 a constitutional
amendment was submitted to the peo
ple of Ohio to strike out the word
"white'' from the convention. Tho
proposition was defeated and General
Grosvenor Intimated that the demo
crats were responsible for It.
Mr. Hardwick readily admitted the
charge and fuurther called General
Grosvenor’s attention to the fact that
the Ohio legislature attempted to re-
Jec the fifteenth amendment and with
drew its assent to the fourteenth
amentmont.
“That was democratic politics,” re
torted General Grosvenor.
"Yes,” said Mr. Hardwick, “I knew
you would say that. I think It was
very good politics.”
In apologizing for Interrupting Mr.
Hardwick, General Grosvenor said of
his speech: “I think it Is the best
presentation of a bad cause that I
have ever heard.”
AGAINST AMERICAN COTTON
Great Britain, France and Germany
are Planning a Revolt.
"A revolt against American cotton”
Is the title of a long report Just re
ceived at the state department In
Washington from United States Con
sul Genera! Mason at Berlin, Germa
ny. Mr. Mason says there is a simul
taneous effort on the part of Great
Britain, France and Germany
to emancipate their textile in
dustries from dependence on Ameri
can cotton. Not only in Germany, but
throughout Europe, he says, there is a
growing feeling of resentment against
this dependence, and a determination
that their spinning and weaving indus
tries must be emanclpuated at any
cost from such vassalage by the devel
opment of wholly new sources of sup
ply.