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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.