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About The News and courant. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1904 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1901)
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. The popular view of the relation 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. OABTOXIIA. Bear* the /? 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