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About The news. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1901-1901 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1901)
TEACHERS TO WAIT Georgia State Treasurer Refuses to Honor School Warrants. MATTER GOES TO THE COURTS Friendly Test Case to Be Made By State Officials of a Long- Standing Contention. Georgia’s state treasurer, Mr. Park, refuses to use the public property fund for the purpose of paying the school teachers of the state and tiding over the deficiency in the deficiency in the treasury, and Governor Candler asserts that the teachers shall be paid, and that he will endeavor to make the state treasurer pay them as soon as it is possible to do so. Treasurer Park made the announce ment Friday afternoon that he would refuse to honor the school warrants by borrowing from the public property fund, and immediately preparations were made looking to bringing man damus proceedings against him, and suit will be filed before Judge Lump kin in the superior court of Fulton county. The matter will, of course, go to the supreme court which ever way it is decided. In any event it will be six or 6even weeks before the public school teachers of Georgia get their money. The supreme court cannot assign the case for hearing before May 20th, and it will be at least a week or ten days before a decision can be secured from that body. This means that the merchants and the boarding house keepers and others to whom the nearly 9,000 teachers in Georgia are indebted, will have to wait that much longer for their money. Treasurer Park says he did not finally decide what he would do until 4 o’clock Friday afternoon. In tin meantime the warrants for the school teachers, amounting to $247,000, were waiting in the office of the comptroller general. Comptroller General Wright had declined to countersign them, as he is required by law to do, until be had been advised of what the treasurer would do. Knowing that the situation was waiting on his decision, Treasurer Park took steps to determine what he would do. At the diuner hour Friday he went to meet Washington Dessau, of Macon, who had already given an opinion contrary to that of the attor ney general, and with him he had a final consultation. Upon his return to the capitol Treas urer Park called on the comptroller and asked him what he intended to do about the warrants. “If you are going to refuse to pay them," said the comptroller general, “it will only be necessary for me to countersign one. That is enough for a test case.” “But I would not refuse to pay one of them," the treasurer replied. “I have about $77,000 in the treasury which I cau U3e for that purpose, and I would not refuse to pay them until that is paid out.’’ The comptroller general said he could not decide that point. He did not kuow whether the governor would care to pay a few of them and leave others unpaid. Treasurer Park said he would see the governor, and he did. “I have determined to pay i’uem all or none,” was the decision the treas urer got from the governor. “Then I shall pay none of them,” was the conclusion the treasurer reached. * Governor Candler stated that he did not intcud to select auy of them for payment at this time; when oue was paid all must be paid. This decisiou was reputed to the comptroller gen eral and he declined to countersign a portion of the warrants. Thus the matter will go directly into the courts. Heavy Snow at Knoxville. The 'heaviest snow of the year be gan falling in the vicinity of Knox ville, Tenn., Friday night about 6 o’clock. It is the first time in years that snow has fallen this late in April. The change in the weather from a spring to a winter day was very sud den. AGUIXALDO IN NEW QUARTERS. CnptiTe Filipino Leader in Transferred to a Private Residence. A Manila dispatch says : Agniualdo has been removed from the Malacan ang Palace to a private residence, No. £>6 Solauo street. The guard placed over him has been modified. General MacArthur informed the representative of the Associated Press that the effect of Aguiualdo’s address to the Filipinos would undoubtedly be beneficial. Agniualdo composed his address without assistance. The origiual was in Tagalog. It v/as afterwards trans lated into Spanish. CATTLE FROZEN TO DEATH. Severe Cold In £ait Tennessee riyg Dreadful Havoc With Stock. A Knoxville special says: Asa re sult of the present cold weather prom inent cattlemen estimate that 1,000 head of cattle have been frozen to death iu the East Tennessee mountains in the past week. Tweuty-two inches of snow is said to have fallen. This freeze may affect the local beef supply in the fall. BANK OFFICIALS SLICIUt. Defaulting and Cashier End Their Hiserable Exist ence Together. Charles Brown and E. L. Canby, president and cashier respectively of the First National bank of Vancouver, Washington, which was closed Satur day by the comptroller of the curren cy, committed suicide Saturday night i two miles from the city, by shooting j themselves with a revolver. Their bodies were found Sunday j morning lying together in a small clump of bushes about one-balf mile north of the Columbia school, which is situated on tba outskirts of the town. They both used the same weapon, and (. auby evidently died first, as the | revolver was in Brown’s hand. It is ! evident that Canby put the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth and blew the top of bis head off. Brown thou took it and shot himself in exactly the same way, falling over Canby’s body. The fact that Brown’s bicycle and an umbrella belonging to Canby were j found a short distance out of town j led to the belief that the two bank of ficials bad taken their lives. Early Sunday morning a searching party I started out aud after several hours’ bunt the bodies were found. Friday evening, Canby, upon being told by Bank Examiuer Maxwell that the bauk would not bo permitted to open Saturday, went out in the yard behind the bank aud attempted to shoot himself. His revolver failed to explode, although all five chambers were loaded. After failing to shoot himself Canby went back into the bank and he and Presi lent Brown left together, the latter taking his re volver. When Examiner Maxwell confronted' the bank officials with the shortage of SBI,OOO, which he had discovered, both men admitted their guilt. It is admitted that Brown anil Canby had been speculating in stocks. Beside Brown’s body there was found a pack age containing $25 and a note saying that the money belonged to his daugh ter. Upon Cnnby’s body the following brief nolo was found: “My Dear Wife —I feel what I am about to do is for the best. Forgive me if you can aud try to live for our dear children. God bloss you all. Good-bye. Ned.” While Bank Examiner Maxwell, who is now iu charge as receiver, has made no official statement, it is known that the bank has loaned a large sum of money on insufficient security. Ac cording to his report to the comptroll er of the currency there is a shortage of SBI,OOO in the bank’s accounts and it is understood that a considerable portion of this was loaned to Brown and Canby on their personal notes. Abont a year ago the bank reduced its capital stock from SIOO,OOO to $50,- 000. At that time about one-half of the so-called bad assets was “charged off.” RICH ARDS MAKES REPLY. Declare* That Carter Hna Slade Manx False Statement* In Plea. A Washington special says: Solici tor General Richards filed in the Unit ed States supreme court Saturday a reply to the motion made by the coun sel of Captain Carter, to strike from the files of the court as “irrelevant aud scandalous” the solicitor general’s brief iu opposition to Carter’s motiou to be admitted to bail pending the de cision of his appeal in his habeas cor pus proceedings. Mr. Richards denies that be went outside the record in the case, and as serts tbat be always tries to observe strictly the rules of the court requir ing counsel to confine himself to the I facts of record in the discussion of a case. He sets forth that Carter’s ap plication for bail is supported by af fidavits of physicians to the effect that the prisoner’s health is impaired, aud this, Mr. Richards says, is not only entirely outride the record, but is false. Mr. Richards also says that Carter’s counsel went outside the recoid iu the appeal case iu averring tbat Carter is an innocent man and wants to be re leased in order to be tried in the crim inal case in Georgia. He adds that to demonstrate the falsity of this last statement it was necessary for the so licitor geueral to state what the gov ‘ernment has done in prosecuting the indlctnei. t against Carter and others in the federal courts of Georgia. GASPED IX COFFIN. Supposed Corpse Showed Sijjrns o f Life During; Funeral Services. Mrs. Frank Marlow’s funeral ser vice was being conducted at her late home at Merrimack, Ala., Thursday afternoon, when to the great astonish ment of all persons present, the sup posed corpse gave a gasp and showed every sign of returning life. Relatives seut for a doctor, who examined Mrs. Marlow', found her body warm and discovered a feeble pulse. 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Judge Emory Speer, of the United States court for the southern district of Georgia, chairman of the law faculty of Mercer University, doubts the pro priety of members of the law class and of the Phi Delta Society discussing the subject selected for the joint de bate on May 2d namely: “Resolved, That the negro disfran chisement would be beneficial to the south.” It is understood that Judge Speer is trying to interest certain rich men north in Mercer University, with a view of obtaining endowments from them, aud his idea is that the debating of the negro question might operate against obtaining these northern dona tions. Judge Speer has conferred with President Pollock, of Mercer univer sity, ou the subject, with the result that the debaters will hold a confer ence with Judge Speer, and it will then be decided if the debating of the question will be abandoned. The de baters bad prepared speeches ou the subject and were anticipating the con test with interest. A. li. Small, Jr., R. D. Feagin and J. A. Scruggo have been chosen to represent the law class on the affirma tive side of the question, and George C. Jones, J. W. Simmons, Jr., and Schwed Hertburg, of the Phi Della Society, were selected to represent the negative. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. The Various New Inriasfries Reported For the Past Week. Among the more important of the new industries reported for the past week are a $500,000 brewery at Mem phis, Tenn.; a $20,000 brick plant at. Baton Rouge, La.; brick works at Williamson, W. Va ; a $150,000 canal and rice company at Lake Charles, La.; a chair factory at Little Rock, Ark.; coal mining companies at Cat lettsburg, Ky., Nashville. Tenn., and Malden, W. Va.; a $36,000 cotton com press at Houston, Tex.; a cotton gin at Ayden, N. C.; a $125,000 cotton mill at Starksville, Miss.; a cotton seed delinting plant at Cheneyville, La.; an electric light plant at Cloverport, Ky.; an electric power plant at Nortonville, Ky.; a SIOO,OOO fertilizer factory at Nashville, Tenn.; flouring mills at Cloverport and Martinsville, Ky., and Hillsboro, Tex.; a $20,000 flouring mill at Dyersburg, Tenn.; $20,000 foundry and machine shops at Ellis ville, Miss,; furniture factories at Cedartown, Ga., and Georgetown and Union,S. C.. and ice factory at Elkins, W. Va.; iron works at Seneca, S. C.; a lumber company at Memphis, Tenn.; machine shops at Sistersville, W. Va.; marble works at Ballground, Ga.; a $25,000 mattress factory at Wheeling, W. Va.; a $50,000 raining company at Richmond, Va.; aSIOO,QCO oil compa ny at Fort Smith, Ark.; a $325,000 oil company at Lake Charles, La.; a $250,- 000 oil and coal company at Houston, Tex.; a $25,000 oil and gas company at Somerset, Ky.; an 80-ton oil mill at Macon, Ga.; a $50,000 oil mill at Lan caster, Tex.; a $60,000 oil mill at Lu ling, Tex., and others at Saluda, S. C., aud Morgan, Tex.; a $150,000 oil re fining company at Clarksburg, W. Va.; a pencil factory at Ryland, Ala.; pipe works at Charleston, W. Va.; a planing mill at Grafton, W. Va.; roof ing aud cornice works at Norfolk, Va.; saw mills at Smithdale, Ark., Albion, Fla., and Lincecuin, La.; a screen door factory at Memphis, Tenn.; stove works at Chattanooga, Tenn; a sugar refinery at Ocala, Fla.; telephone com panies at Sebree, Ky., Kingston,Tenn., and Tyler, Tex., and a $50,000 textile plant at Nashville, Tenn,—Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) ROBBERS SECURE BOOTY. Exprem* Train Held Up Near Memphis 15y Masked Men. The fast express train of the Choc taw, Oklahoma aud Gulf railroad, which left Memphis, Tenn., at 11:40 o’clock Monday night, was held up by three masked bandits at Bridge Junc tion, Ark., about midnight. It is not known what booty the robbers secured, but a dispatch stated that the express messenger and porter of the train were injured after resisting the bandits. The Wells-Fargo Express Company usually make their heaviest shipments to the west on this train. WILHELMINA IS ANGRY. Holland** Queen Kefnses to Pay Prince Henry’ii bachelor Debts. Special dispatches received from Paris report trouble at the castle of Hetloo over the bachelor debts of Prince Henry, the husband of Queen Wilhelmina. It is said tbat shortly prior to bis marriage bo promised his creditors in Berlin and Frankfort to pay one-third of his debts within a month of the wedding, but the money has not yet been forthcoming aud the money lenders formally applied to Queen Wilhelmina. The latter de clares angrily tbat her husband must pay his own debts out of the allowance made him by the state. Southern Orders Many New Ears. The Southern railway has just placed an order for 4,910 cars, 35 passenger coaches and 35 locomo ives. The plac ing of the large order at this time is said to be due to the increased busi ness of the road. Vaughan Gets Appointment. The president Thursday appointed William Vaughan to be attorney of the United States for the northern district of Alabama. PROSPERITY IN CUBA General Wood Gives Glowing Ac count of Cnban Affairs. PLATT AMENDMENT IS SAFE Gen. and His Wife Arrive at New York En Route to Washington to Introduce Commision. General Leonard A. Wood, gov ernor general of Cuba, with Mrs. Wood and his private secietary,arrived at New York Tuesday night from Ha vana on the Ward liner Morro Castle. General Wood, who expects to re turn 1o Havana by way of Jackson ville, Fla., has made the hurried trip to this country for lhe purpose of iu trodueiug to President McKinley, be fore the latter leaves Washington for the Pacific coast, the five members of the special commission on foreign re lations appointed by the Cuban consti tutional convention, which is still in session and expected to take up for consideration soon the electoral law which will regulate the system by which the first president of the Cuban republic will soon be chosen. As soon as the steamship was made fast to the pier, General Wood, his wife and sec retary were transferred to the tug boat President and carried to Jersey City in time to catch the 9:25 p. in. train for VS ashington. General Wood did not hesitate to talk about affairs in Cuba. “The object of my hurried visit here,” he said, “is to introduce the five members of the special commis sion on foreign relations appointed by the Cuban constitutional convention to President McKinley. The mem burs of the commission represent all the different groups of Cubaus composing the constitutional convention. They have come to the United States for the purpose of conferring with President McKinley on matters which the con vention does not thoroughly under stand, and when they return and make their reports I am convinced that there will be thorough under standing ou ail sides of the contro versy. “The constitutional convention ha* never voted on or rejected the Platt amendment. This I can state posi tively, notwithstanding the reports to the contrary which have been sent to the United States from Havana. Things have been cabled here which had not the slightest foundation, in fact, which described strained rela tions between the representatives of the United States and those the Cuban people. “Everything has been harmonious since I went to Cuba and the conven tion now in session is a thoronehly representative one. Before the Platt amendment was passed by congress the Cubans knew the desires of this government on the issues which the amendment contains, because they were submitted to them through the executive. Intervention and the es tablishment of naval stations are the two things which they do not properly comprehend, and I think that when they are fully i xplained iu Washing ton the only indication of a difference of opinion will have been removed. “There are ready but two great, questions to be settled. One is the reduction of the duty on sugar and the oiher is the passage of the constitu tion. One is economic and the other political, yet in a measure they are akin. After the constitution has been properly framed and adopted the econ omic question will disappear as there must be a great reduction in the duty on sugar. Then Cuba will be prosper ous and its relations with the United States settled on a solid basis. “Today all the departments on the island are practically in the hands of the Cubans, who have been instructed as to how things can be managed, and when the time arrives all we will have to do will be to take a receipt for the money on hand. “At the request of congress we have accounted for every dollar expended in the improvement of Cuba since the military forces have been iu charge of the island, and we hold the receipts for these expenditures. There never was such an accurate accounting de manded before, and it has been com plied with. There was some trouble in the postoffice at first, but the Rath bone-Neely cases have been thoroughly worked up and the men will be brought to trial in May. The bonds of these men have been forfeited and will have to be paid. “While I have said tbat everything has been harmonious since I have been iu charge of Cuban affairs, I must, however, explain that it was impossi ble for me to please everyone down there and especially the ambitious and disappointed speculators. ■ Also, I found it necessary to close the mails to La Dimension ou account of a cari cature which was likely to create trou ble.” “SOFT SOAP” FROM WOODRUFF. Commiskfiry Contends That Affairs &t Manila Are Satisfactory. Commissary General Weston, at Washington, has received a cablegram from Colonel Woodruff, chief commis sary at Manila, in which he says: “Do not permit scandalous reports to worry you. Affairs in the subsist ence department of the army are ad ministered honestly and to the satia factioa of officers and troops.”
