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,ND SOUTH GEORGIA PROGRESS
THOMA8YILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDA! JANUARY 11, 1007.
NEW SERIES VOL. XVI. "No. 48.
Couldn’t Get It, Threw
Bomb Killed
Two.
New Commissioner thinks
State Road Extension
will Help.
Another Attempt made on
Life of These
People.
Col. McLendon Will Ap<
pear Before University
Trustees.
As Presented Interesting'
lyBy Professor!.
S r Searcy.
Special Ceremonies for
Centennial Anniversary
of Lee’s Birth.
At the annuel banquet of the At
lanta Freight Bureau, held at the
Pledpiont Hotel last night, Col.' 8.
O. McLendon, railroad commlssloher-
‘elect, delivered a sgpcch that made
a aenaatlon and that will have a wid
er effect than moat after-dinner
The matter of the disposition of
the property known as the “South
Georgia College" will probably be
settled this week at Athens when the
Board of Trustees of the University
of Georgia meet. This is an Impor
tant question and one In which the
people of the city are much Inter-
. Holly, Fla., Jan. 9.—Miss Janne
McRae one of Thomasvllle'a attrac
tive and popular young ladles who
Is now visiting her sister Mrs. J. D.
Huddleston of Holly, Fla.,
most exciting experience with
laat Friday afternoon^ Wh
rowing with her little nephew and
niece a shark was attracted by her
hand trailing along In the water. He
approached the boat at once snap
ping his teeth,
ever noticed him in time
tlljr. polled for shore,
kept right along with the boat till
they were within a few feet of land,
then snapping his teeth in disap
pointment' turned away.
shark
Miss Jannie how-
i ind tas-
The shark
as New York baa done, Georgia, can
by a Judicious coordination of her re
sources, make herself mistress of her
own deatlnle , and distributor of her
own fortunes.
.Another chapter has been added to
the book of mystery In the Futch
case. Yesterday morning about one
o'clock Mr. Allle Futch came to
Thomasvllle, from his home near
Metcalfe, eight miles south of town,
and told of whit he believed to be
another attmpt upon the life of his
mother and himself, this time by
means of a bomb plared benoath the
head of his bed and fired shortly be
fore midnight Monday ulgb?.
Deputy Singletary and bla track
dogs accompanied Mr. Futch on his
return to Metcalfe, Rev. T. A. White
went immediately to the scene, and
other friends from Metcalfe were
present. The things they found only
thicken the cloud of mystery that
Clangs around the whole affair
The history of the case Is still
fresh In the public mind. Mrs. Alice
Futch, and her two sons, John and
Allle, are prominent people, upon
whose lives a number of attempts at
assassination hare been made. At
four or five different times during
the last few months poison, probab
ly arsenic was placed in the food of
the Futch's. At one time Dr. A. F.
Taylor, a ThomasvIUe physician who
had been called in. ate some of tbe
oned food, or drank polsonea
nllk qnd was made ill. Detectives
were pummoned from Atlanta, and,
as a. .result of their endeavors; two
negroes who Worked on the place,
Ollie and Laura Cunningham were
arrested, but ithere was not suffi
cient evidence to secure an indict
ment against them and after a com
mittment trial they were bound over
In the sum of tlQfi -and are at pres
ent at liberty. The? nave not bev,i
back to the Futch' placo since they
were released from Jail. ‘
Tbe Inmates of the house on Mon
day night were only Allle Futch. the
younger-son, and his mother. John
lert home last’Thursday, saying that
he was going to South Florida, for a
long stay. Allle says he was awak
ened at elevbn'o’clock by an explos
ion beneath his bed. He thought
‘.be whole house was on fire, and ran
Into his mother's room. Shu return
ed with him, and they put out cue
burning matting.
The Investigators found that tbe
Instrument or “bomb" that canned
the explosion had been made from a
twelve inch piece o( tin pipe, probab
ly a part of a guano distributor.
This had been filled with powder.
One end was pushed through a hole
that had been made in th» floor, di
rectly beneath tbe head of Allle's
bed. The hole was Just at the point
where two pticea of matting came to
geiKbr. It bad been freshly cut with
a' chisel. It may have been ent
Monday night, or may haVe been
made a few days previously. There
was no sign of shavings underneath
tbe house, no marks of where a man
had been kneeling er lying to cut
tbe hole, and yoang Patch heart no
noise of cutting or pounding. Tbe
tin was fifed with a fuse from tbe
lower end.’ • It exploded with much
flame and smoke, bnt with little
noise, and did no damage beyond
burning the matting.
The person who fired the bomb
came through tbe yard, where there
were three dogs, but these were not
alarmed by him; and made no out
cry, so Mrs. Futch states. After
firing it, he made his escape. When
Allle went to tbe barn to get hi*
horse to come to Thomasvllle ho
(From Saturday's Dally.)
Philadelphia, Jan. B.—-Shortly be'
fore noon today a man giving his
name as G. E. Williams burlqd a
bomb Into the Fourth National
Bank, on Fourth and Library streets,
resulting In an explosion which tore
the bomb-thrower to pieces and
killed W. Z. McLear, assistant cash
ier of the bank. Several employes
and patrons of the bank were hurt,
of whom two may die.
The bomb-thrower had demanded
a loan of |5,000 from President
Richard H. Rushtoa, which was re
fused.
A slight fire followed the explos
ion of tbe bomb and the tenants of
the building lied. Policemen quick
ly surrounded the bank and placed
the vaults and securities under heavy
guard.
President Rushton said he be
lieved the man to be a crank.
TRY’AN-HORNE.
Vou D g People were Married Sunday
by Rev. WVC. Embry.
Rev. W. C. Embry Of Metcalfe ; er
formed an-interestlng marriage cere
mony at seven o’doek-Sunday even
ing. Tbe contracting parties were
Miss Viola Tryan, who lives near
Tbomasvllle, and Mr. Allison Horne,
a section master of the A. C. L. re
siding at Flint, Ga. The ceremony
took place at the residence of Mr.
F. A. Tryan near this city. Tbe
friends and relatives of the popular
young people witnessed the cere
mony. They start their wedded life
with the best wishes of all who know
them.
found tbe best horse In the stable
gone, the barn door open, and three
mules loose outside. When the
deputy got there with the dogs about
three hours after tbe explosion they
found this horse standing bridled In
the road near the house. The dogs
took the trail and followed it about
three hundred yards to a fence. Here
they stopped, and the officers think
that the person who did tbe work
had hitched the horse there, and
made bis escape on It. The horse,
however gave little signs of hard
riding, and it may have been taken
from the barn only to prevent pur
suit
A search of tbe nearby fields and
woods revealed a mysterious bundle.
It was a bunch of fuse, and two dy
namite (ape- The whole was wrap
ped In an Atlanta paper, bearing the
name on the subscription label of a
young man living in Metcalfe. The
bomb, the fuse and the caps were
brought to town by Rev. T. A.
White and are now In his poeession.
The added mystery of this affair,
on top of the strange attempts at
poisoning last sunJmer, make the
matter the cause of much specula
tion and little else was talked among
those who heart of It yesterday. The
members of the family believe that
this was another fiendish attempt to
slay them, and that It failed only be
muse the would-be adkaasln did not
know how to fix Tip a deadly bomb.
Others think this was done only to
righten the Futchs, and that death
was not the object. Bach peson Who
iss Investigated the ease has his
twn theory, add his own Ideas as to'
the perpetrator of tbe’deed.
speeches. In It he advanced the
opinion that Georgia was today pay
ing higher freight rates than any
other state In tbe union, tban any
other spot In the world. He advo
cates as a remedy the extension of
the state road to the sea, which will
connect the Atlantic with the Ten
nessee river at Chattanooga, and thus
open up a vast system of waterways
which yill allow the state of Geor
gia to dictate the rates that the rail
roads shall charge.
Mr. McLendon raid in part,
“Transportation Is now the greatest
problem demanding solution by tbe
thinking part of the human race.
The world Is beginning to realize
that It Is paying too much for trans
portation. indeed It it were not for
the cheapness of water transporta
tion, the world would be unable to
distribute for the use of mankind,
Its staple products of the farm, for
est, and mine.
"The unit of transportation Is the
cost of moving a ton a mile. The
cost of water transportation per ton
mile averages'1-2 a mill per ton mile.
The cost of railroad transportation
per ton mile In the United 8tates
averages 7 1-2 mills. The railroad
charges for this from 2 to 6 cents.
Tbe' people of Georgia pay more for
freight per ton mile than do the peo
ple of any other state east of the Mis
sissippi, possibly more tban any oth-
ey state In the Union, possibly more
than any other place In the whole
world." The speaker quoted figures
from Georgia tariff sheets Showing
that certain cities pay from 6 to 10
cents per ton mile. This for what
costs tbe roads not 7 1-2 c&its, but
7 1-2 mills.
Col. McLendon referred to the one
hundred million dollars that New
York has spent on the improvement
of toe Erie Canal, and termed "the
most stupendous machinery for rate
reduction and rato regulation, now
In existence." Ho spoke of Chica
go’s drainage canal, and the Lalco
Borgne canal at New Orleans.
He then compared the situation of
Georgia to these points, and said this
state hid the greatest naval stores
port In tbe world and tbe third cot
ton port In America. It New York
and Chicago could afford to spend
this money Georgia can afford to
do so too. He said, "Georgia may,
at a cost of five million dollars^by a
judicious coordination of her resour
ces, and by building less than 300
miles of additional railroad, place
herself in dlrpct touch with one of
the earth’s chief'highways of trav
el, and exert a potential Influence on
a rate area of almost continental ex
tent. I do not doubt that this can
be done when we have sons of he
roic mould out of which to make
governors.
In dosing Mr. McLendon said,
“The contractt^l rights of the state
over its own creations, the concur
rent power over the instrumental
ities.
“The Philistines robbed Safnpeoa
of his eight, they coaid not rob him
of his strength. With *,000 con
victs to work, with t.000 corpora
tions to tax, rising to her fc. ;r».
Col. S. G. McLendon Is now In At
lanta and will go to Athens tomor
row, to be present at the Board meeL
tng and ask a reconveyance of the
property to the city Board of Edu
cation. The history of tbe Institu
tion has ^een thoroughly discussed
during the last.few months. Throe
parties were supposed to have an
equity In the property, tbe Metho
dist Conference, the Board of Trus
tees of the old college of Agricul
ture and the Mechanic Arts, and the
city of Thomasvlle. At a mass meet
Ing held last month at the court
house the people were convinced
.that tlto city of Thomasvllle had the
bWt equity, and asked that the title
be transferred to the Board of Edu
cation. Col. McLendon will therO'
fore ask the University trustees, who
now hold the property, to transfer
the title to the board of education,
for continued .use as a public school
building.
The former trustees of the college
were recently rechartered and It nad
been supposed that they would aak
tbe reconveyance of the property to
them, they In turn to convoy It to
o'thers, or make such disposition of
the property as they saw fit. No one
seems to know whether or Slot they
will be represented before tbe Uni
versity trustees. Capt. W. M. Ham
mond and Judge H. W. Hopkjns,
two of the number, were seen yes
terday by a Tlmes-Enterprlse repor
ter, and both stated that they did not
know whether or not the old board
would represent Its claims. It Is
scarcely probablo that they will, and
It now seems that If the University
Trustees make any transfer It will
bo to the Board of Education of the
city of Thomasvllle.
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Shark A tracks Ml's Jan n ie McRae
at Holley, Fla.
A Hot Election.
At an election held here, Tuesday
for municipal officers, the entire old
members of the town's former gov
ernment were elected. The only
place that was contested for was that
of mayor. The town charter arran
ges that out of thenumber elected the
council shall elect one for mayor. At
this election tbe name of Dr. I. R.
Aultman was offered on the ticket
against that of the. present Incum
bent, Mayor E. E. Wilkes. In the
election .Just held Mayor Wilkes won
by 7 majority. At a former elec
tion he received four-fifths of the
vote cast. .
• Death of Little Child.
Little Ramon Fulford the three
year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Fulford of Hansell was burled at the
cemetery at this place Tuesday. He
was a very bright little child and was
the pride of his fond parents. He
died of mombraneous croup, and was
sick but a few days. Rev. A. J.
Cone performed the burial rites.
A Neglected Cemetery.
If ever there was a neglected spot
in tho town of Meigs It Is the pres
ent cemetery. It is tbe place of all
others under human care that should
be the pride of every living being.
If It Is the business of no one, why
doesn’t some one take up tbe mat
ter? Why do bot the ladles of the
town take the matter In hand? Not
because you have loved ones there,
but for humanity’s sake.
School Reopen*.
School opened In fine shape last
week. The number of matriculates
far exceed the sanguine expectations
of those concerned. The number on
rolled will exceed that of any pre
vious year. Many new pupil] have
entered and others are expected to
col ic In next week.
To Furnish Parsonage.
A committee of ladles has been
canvassing the town and vicinity for
monoy and goods to furnish the
Methodlrt pnrsonago nt this place.
It 1b hoped that everybody will
help In some way. as it Is a matter,
the success of which concerns not
only the Methodist but every one
else. A large amount of church
and town pride should go along with
ones duty In this case. If the Lord
prospered some people only as they
give to such work, they would soon
go to tbe dogs.
Quarterly Co n fcrcnce.
The first quarterly conference of
the Meigs and Ocblockonee charge
will be held at tbe Methodist church
In Ocblockonee on January It and
20. There will be some Important
business transacted, as this Is the
first quarterly meeting of the circuit
lately formed of these two churches
and two other places of bolding ser
vices.
Waking for tbe cold.
There are plenty of fine hogs here
about ready for killing when the
weather is cold enough, and that will
come. Then those who have hogs
will enjoy all the plantation frnlt
cake—crackling bread.
The Happy Farmer.
Farmers are preparing the'ground
for another crop. Their songs, in'
lerspread with a melodious “gee"
'haw'” these balmy mornings
makes one believe that bis la the
happiest life of all.
The birthday of General Robert
B. Lee 1s always observed with ap
propriate ceremonies lit Thomasvllle.
Of especial Interest are the ex
ercises to be held here on Saturday
the nineteenth in commemoration of
the 100th anniversary, of the great
Confederate leader's birth.
Capt. Hammond to Speak.
The prator of the day is Capt. W.
M. Hammond. He Is one of the most
widely read men in the state, Is an
orator of great eloquence and wide ,
reputation. On this occasion he will
be at his'best for he will add the'
charm of personal reminiscence w -
hts otb^r qualifications. He was a
member of General Lee's staff dur
ing the war. The exercises will take
place at the- court house at eleven
o'clock In the morning. They will
be In charge of the Daughters of the
Confederacy, and the public Is cor
dially Invited' and expected to at
tend. Following the exercises a din
ner will he served to all Confeder
ate veterans present,s the best
that Thomasvllle housekeepers can
present. At this dinner only the vot-
erans will be guests.
The Order of Exercises
Cnpt. C. P. Hansell will act as
master of ceremonies, and the or
ganisations' will anarch in to the mu
sic of Gordon^ March, played by-
Miss Nellie Pringle, In the folovrlng
order: Veterans, Children of t
Confederacy, Daughters of the Con
federacy, Sens of the' Confederacy..
The prayer will be delivered by -Rev. S
J. M. Outler, pastor of the Metho
dist church. Then will coir
sic by the Messrs. Watt, and Capt.
Hammond’s address. This will be
followed by a violin solo.
Cfosses o Honor.
Crosces of Honor will be presented
to the following veterans by. Misses
Jessie Watt and Mable Evans: J. P
Cunts, J. H. Collins, A J. Cumbasl,
Burrd Griffin, Doss Collins, T. W.
Braswell, W. J. Dunlap, W. 8. How
ard, D. A. Singletary, Malacbt Col
lins, A. C. Thomas, Jarrett Morris.
Tho cross of James Bruee will be
given to bis wife.
The Closing.
After this interesting ceremony the
John Triplett chapter. Children of
the Confederacy will sing, and then
the veterans and audience will unite
In tbe stirring strains jot "We are
Old Time Confederates.*’ Ajourn-
ment will then be taken to the base
ment of the court house where din
ner will be served to the veterans.
The Invitation.
The following is tbe Invitation 'of
the U. D. C.:
“A cordial Invitation is extended
by the John B. Gordon chapter of
Daughters of the Confederacy . to
members of tbe W. D. Mitchell
Camp of Confederate Veterans, to
all Confederate veterans whether or
not they possess a cross of honor, to
of Confederate Veterans, to
all daughters oi Confederate Vete
rans In fcood standing to all children
of tbe Confederacy iad I
and visitors to attend the
in honor of the one
niversary of the birth
Robert E. Lee at the <
Thomasvllle
be delivered by I
d, who
eral Leo’s staff
tween toes