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CONVICT FIGHTS
CONDUCTOR.
Railroad Man Finds Two Escaped
Prisoners Near Kennesaw-
ONE OF THEM ATTACKS HIM-
The Other One Ran and Both Es
capee* One of Them Had "No.
30” on Hfs Shirt front.
A desperate hand to hand en
counter with two escaping convicts,
still clad in their prison garb and
wearing chains and shackles, was
the experience of Conductor San
ford Vandivere, of the Western
and Atlantic railroad at Kennesaw
station, twenty-nine miles north
of Atlanta, at 5 o’clock this morn
ing, says the Atlanta Journal of
the 7th instant.
The convicts, two burly negroes,
attempted to brain Mr. Vandivere
with axe handles but were preven
ted from doing so by the quick ac
tion of the conductor.
Mr. Vandivere left Chattanooga
last night in charge of an extra
through freight train and reached
Kennesaw about 5 o'clock this
morning. He had orders to meet
a northbound passenger train at
that place and went into the siding.
While waiting for the arrival of the
passenger he walked to the front
switch and saw two negroes seated
on a small platform, apparently
asleep. He aroused them and as
they arose he saw that they were
garbed in convict’s clothes and
armed with axe handles. One of
the negroes ran as the conductor
spoke to them but the other re
mained and showed fight. The
two men grappled and Mr. Vandi
vere succeeded in throwing the
convict to the track. After a fierce
struggle the convict, who was the
larger and stronger of the two,suc
ceeded in throwing Mr. Vandivere
from him and attempted to get
near enough to strike him with the
axe handle. Mr. Vandivere called
to one of his trainmen and again
grappled with the negro, thinking
to hold him until help arrived. The
negro was too strong, however,and
managed to get away from his cap
tor and escape to the woods. As
the negroes ran for the woods the
passenger train passed and Mr.
Vandivere was compelled to res
ume his run, leaving the convicts
in the woods.
As soon as he reached Atlanta
Mr. Vandivere reported the matter
to officer Mclntire and he in turn
reported the matter to Chief Hall,
asking for leave to go to Kenne
saw and attempt to capture the
convicts. This permission could
not be granted, however, and the
county and state authorities were
notified.
Mr. Vandivere was seen this
morning at his home, 202 Luckie
street, and stated that, although it
was just daylight, when he saw the
men he easily recognized the men
as conyicts. They still wore their
shackles and clothing and had ap
parently walked all night through
the woods. The larger of the ne
groes, the one with whom he grap
pled, wore a striped suit and num
ber “30” was printed on the left
breast.
Had the conductor been armed
he could have easily shot both the
negroes, but he was wearing a suit
of overalls at the time and had left
his pistol in his trousers pocket in
the caboose.
No one has escaped from the
Fulton county camp or from the
camp at Chattahoochee recently.
It is thought that the negroes with
whom Conductor Vandivere had
the encounter, are from Waycross,
as two desperate criminals are re
ported to have escaped from there
several days ago.
EATING UP CROPS-
Farmers ir> Walker County Trcu
bled With Grasshoppers
The grasshopper is becoming a
burden in the land in Walker and
Catoosa counties, Georgia. Charles
Henderson, a prominent fanner of
Chiekamauga, Ga.. called at the
Chattanooga Times office and re
ported that grasshoppers are liter
ally eating up the crops in that sec
tion. They made their appearance
in great swarms a few days ago
and are attacking cornfields, peas
and almost any green crops. Corn
blades are literally eaten up by the
invading pests which begin on a
field and work it systematically
until the blades are completely
stripped. They are of the. large
green variety which . spread so
much havoc in the west. If any
body knows of any means of driv
ing out these pests they will con
fer a favor by communicating with
some of the residents of Walker
Catoosa counties.
[ITT RISEN
IN k Nil.
Linder Magic of Boomer Lawton,
Formed-
A PRAIRIE WASTE PEOPLED-
Busy. Thriving Oklahoma Commun
Ity Springs Into Existence With
in a Few Hours
Fort Sill, O. TANARUS., Aug. 2.—ln a
single night the town of Lawton
has sprung into existence with a
population of 10,000 people. To
day there are streets and avenues
lined with tents and 400 business
houses are open where yesterday
there was nothing but the unbro
ken prairie.
Residents of the fort here rub
bed their eyes when they awoke
this morning and looked out upon
the new city which had grown up
while they slept. It seemed like
the realization of a tale from the
Arabian Nights. But the indus
try of thousands of homeseekers
was the genii which had perform
ed the magical trick
PEOPLED BY LOTTERY LOSERS.
The residents of the new town
are made up of those who were
unsuccessful in the land lottery.
Haying failed to draw homes, they
settled down upon the prospective
town site determined to await an
opportunity to buy them at the
sale of lots next Tuesday.
Along the main road running
south of the town site and separat
ing it from the homesteads which
Mr. Woods and Miss Beals are ex
pected to select, runs McCoy
avenue a distance of one mile
Goo-Goo avenue is immediately
east of the town site, and is half
a mile long. A frame building,
which is to be the home ot a na
tional bank, has already been erec
ted ready to move to a lot as soon
as one can be purchased.
Goo-Goo avenue has been selec
ted by the droves of gamblers and
fakirs who infest the place as their
chief district. Every gambling de
vice known to the frontier is in
operation here. The games run
all night, and are well patronized
by feverish players.
RARK FREAK COLLECTION.
In addition to the gamblers Law
ton can boast a real “bearded lady,”
a wild man from Borneo, the Cir
cassian lady, the tattooed man,
snake charmers and scores of for
tune tellers.
Over 3,000 Comanche Indians
are camped id the vicinity. They
have pitched their tents on the In
dian school reservation, and are
here to get their last payment of
grass money under the terms of
their old contract. Kach Indian
will receive S4O, and they will have
an aggregate ot $120,000 to spend.
SEVEN YEARS IN BED.
“Will wonders ever cease?” in
quire the friends of Mrs. L. Pease,
of Lawrence, Kan, They knew
y 7 J
she had been unable to leave her
Ded in seven years on account of
kidney and lwcr trouble, nervous
prostration anefc general debility;
but, “Three bottles of Electric
Bitters enabled me to walk,” she
writes, “and in three months I felt
like anew person.” Women suffer
ing from Headache, Backach e.
Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Mel
ancholy, Fainting and Dizzy Spells
will find it a priceless blessing.
Try it. Satisfaction is guaranteed
at Young Bros. Only 50c.
North Georgia Peaches-
Horn® Tribune.
G. 11. Miller, of Rome, president
of the Northwest Georgia Fruit
Growers’ association, and the man
who induced the farmers of this
section to go into peach culture so
extensively, says that the crop of
this section will amount to between
700 and poo carloads this season.
This is twice as large as last year.
Putting 550 crates to a car, and
averaging it at 800 carloads at one
dollar per crate, we have the splen
did sum of $440,000 as the amount
our peach growers will leceive
this summer. * * #
The peach growing industry
means a great deal for North Geor
gia. There are thousands of young
trees not yet in bearing, and many
thousands of trees will be set out
this fall, Mr, Miller, who came
to Rome from Ohio, and is thor
oughly acquainted with all the
peach growing sections of the Uni
ted States, declares that northwest
Georgia is the best section in the
,U,qjj£4v States for peach culture.
The trees grow well, And more
crops can be harvested with less
danger from frost and cold than
anywhere else. It would seem
that this statement from Mr. Mil
ler, made some years ago, is bear
ing fruit.
Round tlje World Letter
Solok, Sumatra, August r, 1901.
Well, today it is two lunar
jnonths since I left Atlanta, and it
will be about three months and ten
days more till I get back there.
A Frenchman, Monsieur Le
Comte La Baunre Puvetral, arrived
here last night looking for a loca
tion. Went back to Padang this
morning on the early train. His
outfit consists of a spectroscope,
bolometer and camera, with all of
which lie is familiar. Prof. Bar
nard has known him before and
says he is out here on his own
hook, not needing the assistance of
the French government as he is
imtnwisely wealthy. Guess he will
locate at Padang.
Everything here is getting along
first rate. Prof. Barnard’s photo
heliograph is allready,Coelestat up
and lens adjusted to focus. Mr.
Curtis took two photographs of the
Southern Cross last night for trial
focus for his six-inch equatorial
from U. of Va. (Leander McCor
mick Observatory), and they turn
ed out well, better than he expec
ted.
On Sunday morning a very in
teresting thing happened. There
is an active volcano, Merapi, about
50 miles from here.over by Fort de
Kock, from which a cloud of white
smoke is always issuing or rolling.
Well, on this particular morning
at about 8 o’clock a thick column
of black smoke shot up four or
five times as high as the mountain
(which is 6500 feet above Ft. de
Kock) and Prof. Skinner who was
at Ft. de K. looking at it with his
glass, taw stones and aslies shoot
up to the height of about 1000 feet
above the rim of the crater. Tru
ly a very interesting sight to be
hold. especially for the first time
in your life. If possible, before
we leave the island, some of us are
going up to hare a look down into
the crater. Or we may go over to
Talang, a dormant volcano ten'
miles from here, where there are
seven craters side by side each
separated from the other by a nar
row footpath two or three feet wide,
in walking along which you have
a sheer drop on each side of from
500 to 1000 feet, varying with the
crater. Then again yesterday af
ternoon Merapi had* another the
smallei' eruption, which broke out
all over her back like heat on a
baby.
The Mahominedaus all over
have been, for the last five days,
celebrating the feast of Assail Hus
san one of the grandsons of Ma
hotnmet in mourning for whose
death (the grandsons’)j 11 this feast
they have one of their best times
during the year. Sunday night,
just after supper, a crowd of three
or four natives, came parading into
the front yard. They were dressed
up in fancy clothes, one-half their
body being one color and the other
half another, then they had on
very grotesque masks, some of
them being worn 011 the top of
their lioads giving a double faced
appearance looking very funny in
the darkness; some of them carried
torches, the handle being covered
with fancy paper; then there was a
large ornament seven or eight feet
in height built like a square tower
of several stories with fancy pro
jections all around the outside.
This thing was carried by four
Malays each of whom carried a
torch in the hand away from the
tower. And lastly there was a
man dressed up in black cocoa
matting and long snout sticking
out in front He was accompanied
by a keeper and acted i-iis part well
too. Of course, we had to give
them some money Then the night
after, the bear came up here to the
barracks, and did some acting.
But we didn’t let them stay long
as we were afraid that some of the
natives would slip around and
steal something.
All these ornaments, etc., have
to be thrown into the river at the
end of the feast. This afternoon
there was a big procession for that
purpose, of which the chief object
of interest was a tall tower-like ar
rangement with fancy ornaments
and four crescent flags of Turkey,
the whole 'thing being supported
by an animal,with human (China)
head, giraffe’s neck, norse’s body
and feet, wings on each side and a
large fan like appendage where
the tail ought to be. About every
100 yards along the road the men
who were carrying it would stop,
spin around with it a few times and
then proceed. By this time all the
natives had collected at the bridge
the things were to be thrown from;
there were fully 1000 of them. We,
Curtis. Gilbert, Barnard. Draper,
Dinwiddie and I, saw the whole
show through as we stood along
the road taking photographs.
About fifty natives would collect
around each of us and stare with
bulging eyes at the cameras as
if they didn’t know what to nia' e
of them. Rene Granger.
NUMBER ELEVEN.
Sawah L-eonte,Sumatra, May 8,1801.
Since my last writing I have had
the fortune or perhaps the misfor
tune to have changed my place of
residence. The living here is nicer,
as I room with Dr. Mitchell up
here at the station master s house.
Our room is large, has three ta
bles, six chairs and bed with other
furnishings, by which you see we
are comfortable in that line. But
I had to bring up my cot (army
folding) from Solok because the
station master had no more bed
nor bedding to spare as he lives
alone, “all by himself.” We get
our meals over at the hotel where
Prof. Burton and Assistants Smith
and Hosmer from the M. I. T.
(Boston Tech) are staying. They
got there first,so there was no more
room when Di. Mitchell came up.
We have here the best bath room
I’ve seen on the island, including
both the ordinary Dutch dip bath
(of which I will write m#re later)
and a shower-bath, the only one
I’ve seen since arriving in Suma
tra.
My misfortune here is that our
station is 400 feet above Sawah
Leonte and one and one-fourth
miles away by the road and not a
tree within 300 yards. My! how
this tropical sun does come down
there and going back for Rystafal
in the middle of the dav.
R. G.
If you have a baby in the house
you will wish to know the best way
to check any unusual looseness of
the bowels, or diarrhoea so com
mon to small children. O, P. M.
Holliday, of Deming, Ind., who
has an eleven months’ old child,
says: “Through the months of
June and July our baby was teeth
ing and took a running off of the
bowels and sickness of the stom
ach. His bowels would move
from five to eight times a day. I
had a bottle of Chamberlain’s Co
lic, Cho’era and Diarrhoea Rem
edy in the house and gave him 4
,drops in a teaspoonful of water
and he got better at once.” For
sale by Hall and Greene
A MODEL SCHOOL-
Mrs. J. Lindsay Johnson Presents
Plans to School Board,
The Board of Education of Bar
tow county held a meeting Tues
day morning in tlie office of Mr. R.
A Clayton, superintendent of
county schools. Mrs. J. Lindsay
Johnson, of Rome, president of the
Georgia Federation of womans
clubs, and Mrs. H. K. Cary, pres
ident, and other members of the
Cherokee Club honored the board
with their presenae.
Mrs. Johnson presented the
plans of the Federation fora model
school in an intelligent and force
ful manner. She closed by offer
ing to Bartow county an opportun
ity to have the first school of this
kind in North Georgia The
county board is expected and re
quired to aid the school as far as
they may be able and the commun
ity in which such selected school
is located is expected to make lib
eral contributions toward the sum
necessary to equip and maintain
the school. Teachers trained for
the work in such school will be
supplied by the club.
The matter was considered at
the afternoon session when the
board adopted resolutions of thanks
to Mrs. Johnson for her presence
and presentation of the plans for
the school in Bartow couny, ex
pressing their warm sympathy to
ward this much needed advance
along educational lines, and prom
ising all the aid they have author
ity to, extend.
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of the blood to human character
and conduct is marked in many a
familiar expression. We speak of
there being “bad blood” between
people at enmity, of ‘ blue blood”
as indicating ancestry, of "black
blood” as describing a treacherous
nature, and in many another phrase
mark our belief that in the mental,
moral and physical man, “the
blood is the life.” The one basis
of a healthful, happy and useful
life is pure blood. ■ With the blood
pure, disease has no permanent
lodging place in the system. For
this reason the use of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery rids the
body of disease which have their
origin in impurity of the blood.
It absolutely purifies the blood,
carrying off the waste and poison
ous matter, increasing the action
of the blood-making glands, r id
building up the body by supplying
the blood in quantity and quality
such as is essential to a condition
of health. It cures ninety-eight
people out of evry hundred who
give it a fair trial.
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