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VOL. 1. No. 04.
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY Jl'LY ISO, 101:1.
$1.00 PER ANNUM.
HAIM COUNTY F
THAT’S THE WAY MATTER
LOOKED THIS MORNING, 11E
FORE LEGISLATIVE COMMIT
TEE HAS PASSED OX IT—LO
CAL OI'I’OXEXTS THERE.
Atluntn, Ga., July 21.—(Spc.
rial.)—The hearing on the mat
ter of the creation of Hansell
county will be hehl before the
Legislative Committee this af
ternoon.
It looks notr like the new
county [iroposlton will he de
feated.
Pelham Has a Strong conten
tion, but Meigs' ease seems
hopeless.
THOMAS COUNTY SENT
STRONG DELEGATION'
TO ATLANTA T" ' v
ELL 110 FEET
II11 BUCKET
STEEPLE-JACK GETS UP AND
WALKS AWAY WITHOUT ANY
ASSISTANCE—MAY HAVE IN
TERNAL INJURIES.
St. Louis, July 23.—After falling
one hundred and ten feet, from the
top of a smoke-stack to a street roof,
stopping with his head In a bucket of
tar, which followed him In his down
ward plunge, Edward Horne,
steeple-jack today waved aside
corps of hospital attendants and
walked a mile.
Horne’s head and shoulder were
badly bruised, and he w-as probably
Internally Injured, but he may
cover.
IS
The fight for ana against the pro
posed new county of Hansell was on I
Jn Atlanta today, and Thomasville |
was well represnted in the opposing I
colu,nn - POSTHUMOUS ROOKS OF THE
Among those who left last night, FAMOUS RUSSIAN ARE TO BE
in order to be present today were
Dr. J. T. Culpepper, Hon. J. H. Mer
rill, E. R. Jerger, 3. W. Davis and
J. N. Donaldson.
Chairman W. A. Pringle, of the
County Commissioners, went up on
Tuesday night In order to put in a
BURNED, AS
COMMENT OX
MEXT.
UNORTHODOX
OLD TESTA-
! St. Petersburg, Russia, July 22.—
' Emperor Nicholas has approved the
little work ahead of time. Ochlock- declllon of the „ oly 3ynod , t0 de .
nee sent up a representative delega-l
tlon to oppose the formation of the| ,troy three Posthumous works of
new county and it is understood that J ^- oun t Deo Tolstoi, alleging (hem to
several, went from the Ellabelle dls- he Unorthodox comments on tho
Old Testament.
The earnests protests of Tolstoi's
relatives have proved unavailing,
although they have made great ef
forts to have these books published.
COLLARD SEED ESCAPE CONVICT
MARKET IS OFF CAUGHT AFTER
II LODE CHASE
CAIRO FOLKS ARE NOT A1ILE
TO SELL THEIR SEED WHICH
HAVE IiOXG BEEN' MUCHLY
SOUGHT AFTER — HODDEN-j
BERY AND HOKE AND WILSON' J
ARK BLAMED.
HERBERT BLALOCK, MEMBER
COUNTY ROAD CREW, MADE
GETAWAY WEDNESDAY, AND
AFTER LONG CHASE, WHICH
LED THKOl'GH SWAMPS AND
IX AND ABOUT THE CITY. CAP
TURED THURSDAY MORNING.
Cairo, Ga., Jnlv 23.— .'his Immed-|
late section has had several good I
rains recently, while other sections j
have been visited with destructive
hall and wind. Other portions of J Herl)ert Blalock, a negro convict
Grady are suffering for rain. belonging to Superintendent Clay’s
The boys are beginning to talk I road ggn , whlch now wo rking
about how the political cat will! BaIlard - s Mm . across the
jump in the next campaign. Sev-
river, managed to make his escape
eral warm race, are predicted. It Wednesday and was caught Thurs-
now looks like every aspirant wllt| day after a l<rag and exCUng chase
by the officers.
trlct.
Tho Mitchell Co unity delegation
was a big one and Grady and Col
quitt county were also represented.
1ILL CASE
COES OVEH FOB A SPELL
With That Matter, Together With
the Frank Case and the Hot
Weather, It Was Telling on
AtlAntJnns Nerves.
Atlanta. July 24.—For the love
of Mike and for sundry other consid
erations involving the welfare and
peace of the community, it has been
decided that the summer heat and
the* Crawford will case and the
Phagan murder case, are three af
flictions that cannot exist simultan
eously in Atlanta.
Something had to give way, for
the three-ring circus style of doing
thin?* Is not possible as long as the
Atlanta newspapers have only
front page.
So the Crawford will case has been
tentatively postponed, and the date
when the hearing re-opens will de-
SENATOR SMITH’S SPEECH
TO BE PUBLIC DOCUMENT
U. S. Senate Order* That Speech De
livered Before Georgia Legisla
ture Be Printed in Full.
have some one to fan the flies off of
him while he is running in the next
race, from the city court judgship
all the way down the line. The
knowing ones predict several
changes bn the political slate.
We have one citizen w'ho expects
to land a foreign appointment. He
says that he has noticed that no
applicant from Georgia will be cbn-
sidered unless he or she can show
that he or she was an original Wil
son man and a follower of Hoke
Smith. He, however, says that he
will apply for this particular ap
pointment upon the grounds that ho
never was, and never will be a fol
lower of Hoke Smith, or an original
Wilson man. He will apply for the
position of United States Consul to
the Fiji Islands. He says that the
inhabitants are cannibals and live
chiefly by subsisting upon U. 3.
Consuls. Therefore, he thinks that
Wilson and Hoke would be pleased
to appoint him consul, thinking that
the cannibals would eat him, and
that they would get rid of one voter
who was and is against them.
We have another accomodating
j citizen who says that he Is going
' to write to President Wilson, that
if Secretary of State Bryan can’t
live on a $12,000 a year salary, that
he can and will. If Wilson will give
Washington. July 24.—The Un
ited States Senate has ordered the
printing, as a Senate document
3enator Hoke Smith’s speech, which
he delivered before the Georgia
Legislature July 3 8th, and wherein
he reviewed the legislation enacted
by the Senate during the last two
years.
pend on when the Frank case is
called.
An effort is also under way to let
ono the Frank ,ca«e hang over until tho
weather gets a little cooler, but the
prosecution is rather suspicions of
the way the idea started, so that the
• ostponement may
MW DIE IH
ANGRY FUMES
THOUGHT ALARM WAS FT RE
DRILL AND WERE SLOW TO
GFJT OUT—SOME FULL FROM
UPPER STORIES AND OTHERS
WERE BURNED TO DEATH.
Binghamton, N. Y., July 23.—No!
until the tangled mass of brick,
steel and ashes is removed, will the
searchers know the full extent of
yesterday's tragedy when one hun
dred and twenty-five employes,
chiefly women and girls, were trap
ped in the burning walls of the
Binghampton Clothing Company.
However. It was conservatively es
timated this morning that more
than fifty employees are dead. Only
forty are known to have escaped,
and sixteen charred bodies were
identified last night.
LEAHY TO LEAVE $65,000 BOND
A. 0. & A. BY.
FOR SCHOOLS
THE WELL KNOWN’ PASSENGER j COUNCIL ASKED TO ORDER AN
OTHER ELECTION FX»R BONDS
THAT CAN BE SOLD — COAST
LINE INSULTS COUNCIL WfTH
DEPOT PLANS.
AGENT GOES WITH ATLANTA
CHAMHER OF COMMERCE —
HAS MitXY FRIENDS IN THOM-
ASVILLI..
Blalock made his escape by crawl
ing undej* the bridge where the
gang was working and getting away
before he was missed. When hej dril1 purposes
was discovered to be missing, the* s ^°"' i n leaving their work
dogs were put upon his track and he flames spread like lightning,
was pursued for twenty-five miles,
the trail finally leading into Thom
asville.
Thursday morning Deputy Sheriff
Rehberg and Mr. J. B. Daniels lo
cated the darkey out at Malletto
Heights, near the baseball park, ho
probably thinking thare would be a
game this afternoon and wanting to
be In time for it.
Thomasville people, as well ns|
those along the line of the Atlanta.;
Birmingham and Atlantic railroad:
generally, will earn with much ro-|
gret that W. H. Leahy, general pas-. cidei * would ca ^ an
senger agent of the Atlanta, Bir-.Uon for bonds for sixty-five thou-
mingham and Atlantic railroad has| B and dollars for school purpose*,
tendered his resignation to become' Th| , came at the instance of tho
efTecive on August 1. 1 _ . . ,,. .. .
...... . , • Board of Education, when It was
Mr. Leahy, It is announced, is to
leave the railroad to accept an at- ascertained that there was no
tractive position with the Atlanta chance to sell the recent Issue of
chamber of commerce. !t has not bonds at four and a fcalf per cent,
yet been announced in Just . interest, and also that the amount
I capacity he will servo the well known
The City Council last night de-
of that issue was insufficient to erect
a building, which the town would be
Many of the employes believed Atlanta commercial body,
the alarm of fire was merely for Probably no mau in Georgia in re-
and were therefore ■’ ‘ Pnl years has done more to exploit, satisfied with, and complete the
The the r -n-rces %,r the state than has other improvements promised. The
and Mr* Leahy, in ms portin g as ct rn* matter will come up for its second
the intense heat kept the firemen ° ra * P*»-senger «K«*nt h* lias also
away until rescue was impossible. acted as a publit - ewent and
Many women and girls were too^wh of his time has been unvoted
weak to get further and dropped , t0 advertising this section of the
exhausted on the single fire escape ^tate. \\ hile he is to leav the rail-
in the rear of the building which ' road company, at the same time It
literally roasted many of them, por- I s understood that his position
tions of the bodies dropping in the w ^* 1 chamber of commerce
street. Others Jumped and were T ,,t him In position to continue his must have them screened, according
killed. Half a dozen panic-stricken K° 0<1 Work along the llr*»« of the t n specifications laid down in the
girls rushed into an elevator on the l' ast - ordinance and must have It dOi«
within thirty days. Within ninety
reading at the next m«ei..?g.
Sanitary Ordinance I’issos.
Tile sanitary ordinance of tht
Mayor was passed last night. AM
persons who have surface closets
made a sudden leave, doing a
Marathon down Love street, turning
Into Warren and running across
back-yards until he was finally ru-i
to ground, under a vacant lot on
Hansell street.
The negro was literally run down
after his long chase yesterday, when
he out-ran two hounds, who were in
pursuit of him and wearied out the
officers with them.
Had Served But Half of Sentence.
. . .. . ..... ^ l Blalock was convicted in the City
him the place. He further says a*' Court for 8teaIlng a , ult caS9 from
Run When Officers Arrived. j follrth and a moment lator Mr. Leahy, ever since he accepted
As soon as ho saw tho officers dr0 ppe d to their death, when the the pnsiton of general passenger
coming, however, he derided It was' mec hanism of the elevator gave way. agent of tho A., B. A., has been a ,lays il11 l ,arlies who are connected
time to move on and accordlnglyj Ti, e ] os3 p y fl re and water to the: 1 fiend to Thomusvllle, and has done, with the city sewer must do away
fire conce-ns affected is estimated j everything possible for this city anil with all surface closets. The ordl-
at more than two hundred thousand, the people of the city will deeply | nance p awed „| t h but one dlssent-
do ll ars . I regret that he Is to leave the road
It is expected that the number of *
dead in the Binghamton Clothing
Company fire yesterday, may never
be known, as the list of employes
was destroyed. Only a few bodies
have been recovered and identified.
This afternoon’s estimates places
the number of dead as high as sixty.
, ton.
he will agree to stay in his office six
clays In the week and, If need be,
on 3undays also, and he will also
agree not to go over the country lec
turing, as that is one habit which
he has never acquired. His numer
ous friends here hope that he will
get the Job as Secretary of State.
The first time in tho history of
Cairo, there is nonmarket for col-
lard seed. As thls'is an investigat
ing congress, the collard seed con
tingency think that a junketing
committee ought to he appointed to
come to Cairo and investigate and
see if they can discover what Is the
matter with Hannuh.
It is said that a unit to the wis*»
is sufficient. If that be true, then
here Is some hinting at Congress
man Roddenbery. Why in the thun
der don’t he look more closely after
the interests of his collard-seed con
stituents So far, they enjoyed po-j ___
meal rights, and the vote of the col-, |x „ U( - SCHOOLS OF COIN.
G. W. Forbfs, and a bicycle be
longing to L. W. Haire. ,He was
j given a two-year sentence, and had
served out one year of It, but de
cided that he had enough, and
therefore took French leave.
When captured he was wearing a
suit of citizen’s clothes, for which'
in some way he had managed to ex
change his stripes. He will be put •
back to work and It is not probable|
that be will be able soon to make,
another such run.
STOP THE WAR
STARK, FLORIDA, SCENE OF UX-
UAL CASE WHEN NEGRO FRO-
that of Alderman Ramble-
?• .JiT.i’Sw'S t.i
A. C. I.. Depot.
The Coast Line authorities offer
ed a figurative slap in the face to
City Council last night, presenting
the plans fur their new station Tho
station they plan la to be located on
F'etcher street, at the old water-’
works lot and Is to contain three
XOl’XCKD BEAD A BOSH OUT .rooms, with a ticket office and toll-
OI« HIS CO I*. FIX AFTMt HAXG- e f S# It represents an outlay of about
IXG. *
ten thousand dollars, and looked as
If it was designed for Ochlocknee or
some town of about that size.
Of course the council refused to
accept it, but they evidently didn't
have tho proper conception of tho
Stark.
Mitchell,
• today, am
s physicians
Fla., July 22.—Horsey
t negro, was hanged hero
I declared dead by two
thirty-eight minutes af-
THE THREE R’S
STILL TAUGHT
WITIIIX TIIIHTV DA VS, IF BEACH
IS NOT DECLARED, IS OBJECT
OF RESOLUTION IX €X)XGHES8 ter the trap had been sprung.
TODAV. J After the body had been cut down' , nsult whI< h the Coast Line offered
Washington, July 22. Represen-jhut Li a coffin, t ie negro .e j„ presenting such a thing for
. .. „ .. . . . vjvod and lived three hours. I *
tative William H. Murray, of Okla- ,, their consideration, with the Idea of
homa, introduced a resolution in tho ~
House of Representatives today, in-1 \
Dainty Perfumes
Just now the delicate refreshing
odors of tropidal flowers are considered
in best form, and are suggestive of
refinement and good taste.
We have practically all of the
newer odors.
You'll like them.
lard seed contingency is worth
something to any candidate for con
gress in the Second district. If some
speedy remedy is not applied to
resc.isltate the collard-seed market,
then good-bye Anderson. Why can’t
he pass a resolution through Con
gress requiring the government to
buy all collard seed at fancy prices,
so that he and other congressmen
next spring can load the mails with
the Georgia collard seed of the blue-
stem variety? These seed would he
more profitable to those who receive
them than the usual sacks of kale
and other worthless trumpery which
the Congressmen load the mall
Anderson had better appoint
THY, AND IX A BETTER AND
MORE UP-TO-DATE .MANNER,
SO DECLARES U. S. BUREAU
OF EDUCATION.
l*n-
W’ashlngton, July 2 i
ited States Bureau of Education,
aroused by the growing criticism of
the present-day public schools’ edu
cational methods, today mad.* a vig
orous statement in defense of that
system.
Bureau declares that the
three “It’s” are not only taught a**
J thoroughly as they were in the "lit-
tie red school house,’ hut more scieti-
an tffically, with modern views of the
investigating committee und pa*s I noCt * s LuDvidual child,
purchasing resolutions at once, if he The statement further said that
expects to get the collard seed vote jibe system of today was Immeas
urably ahead of the system of the
past, as it seeks to educate the chil
dren for the kind of life they will
lead when they leave the public
school.
The defense is based principal^
on this ground.
WOMHI SIHEET IHSPECT9R
H1ME01
In the next campaign. It is a crowd
> wont do to “monkey with.” The
farmers are watching this adminis
tration with penetrating eyes and
they intend to hold King Wilson and
Vice-Regent Hoke right up to the
cratch. -Now, you know, that the
collard seed constituency had really
rather have the moon put in, eclipse
than to have the collard-seed -market
go flat. W’e would advise Wilson,
Hoke and Anderson .to look closely
after the Interest of the blue-stem
collard-seed crowd. Don’t “mon-t ____ #
key" with them, for the time will (By Associated Press.)
come when they can jlo some mon-l Philadelphia, July 24.—Philadel-
keying. They gay that Congress j phia will soon have its first woman
ought never to taken tb* tariff off street inspector. Mrs. Edith W.
| cf the blue-stem collard no-how. ( Pierce, Secretary of the Home
Restore the tariff, or the market—'School League, has been appointed
romething has got to be done, and»to the place created recently and
done right now! j she will begin her work August 1st.
•The position pay* thirteen hundred
(dollars annually.
Mr. L. C. Wade, of Tlfton, Is reg-! Mra. Pierce stood first on the ellgl-
Istered at the Tosco today. ble list of eight.
viting the Senate to concur therein,
directing intervention in Mexico,-if
order is not restored within thirty
day.i after such a proclamation has
been issued by President Wilson.
Tho resolution characterizes Pro
visional President Huerta, ns a
“Usurping Marauder.”
Senator Uall Wants Senate to I'nv*
llis Resolution.
W ishingion. July 2i. Senator
Fall, of New Mexico, today called
up hi* resolution, providing for pro
tection of Americans in foreign coun
tries. Tho resolution especially re
fers to conditions at this time in
Moxl o, as an example.
Chairman Bacon, of the Foreign
Relations Committee, demand^! :
that it be sent to that committee,
when* its terms could he carefully
weighed.
Senator Fall, however, asked for
its immediate passage, asserting that
it was fully understood by every
Senator.
Senator Fall asserted further
that this delay was responsible for
conditions “that will continue so
long as this delaying policy is con
tinued.”
Senator Fall’s resolution went to
the calendar at the termination of
the morning session.
VALUABLE NECKLACE LOST.
ant social even?
evening was the entertainme
the residence of Chief Milt
honor of Miss Jimmie Johnson, of
'\rliu-’ton, and Miss Lola Folsom of
Tampa, two popular visitors.
J delaying matters clearly demonstrat-
last cd. The people of the city are en-
at titled to better accomodations, and
it Is the duty of the council to see
that they get It, without this unne
cessary and useless de’ay.
Din-
Wa* Valued at JMLKMHM), and
ap|»eurcd in Transit.
Paris. July 24.—The police re
ported today that they are investi
gating an important clue to tho miss
ing $»>r>0,000 necklace, which re
cently disappeared from the regis
tered mail, between London and
Paris.
Childrens Rompers
and Play
They are Cool
and
Comfortable.
Fast Colors
50c to $1.50
Louis Steyerman,
The Shop of Quality
On the Corner.