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THE COURANT AMERICAN.
V()L. XIX.
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INTIONINCS
Uvel) Little Local Lines and Lim
rrings Linked.
NOTINGS OF THENOTEWORTHY.
Corraled .Chat of City
Concernings of Which the
Couranti* Cognizant.
Letus then he up and doing,
T) o tng all the g >od w can.
Doing all that’s worth the doing,
Doing every l'ellow-iuan
-Exchange
Mr. L. P- Gaines, of Cave, Ga.,
spent Monday in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Trippe, of
Taylorsville, were in town Monday.
Mrs. H. K. Cary has returned
from a pleas .nt visit to relatives in
Birmingham.
Mr. Jack Cobb, with Branham
Brothers, Atlanta, came up and
spent Sunday; at home.
Capt. Gus Tomlinson will spend
next week at Cedartown, where he
is a inembefof the jury of the su
perior court.
Miss Mattie Whitaker, of Ligon,
Ga., has been spending the past
week in the city as the guest of
Miss Lena Griffin.
Dr. J. F. Mixon, the presiding
elder of the Rome district, preach
ed two able and impressive ser
mons at the Methodist church last
Sunday.
Mr, J. H. Morris is announced
as a candidate for ordinary. He
is a good substantial citizen, and
has the ability to fill the position
which he seeks,and would no doubt
make a satisfactory officer.
Mr. Joseph Shaw is announced
as a candidate for tax collector for
Bartow county and is capable of
filling the position in a satisfactory
manner. He resides near Hall’s
Station and is at present engaged
m teaching.
Mr. Max Scheuer returned Mon
day evening from New York, and
reports a pleasant trip. He made
large purchases-for his house and
will have some handsome novelties
in spring goods within a few days.
Alax is well acquainted with the
needs of the people of this section
in dry goods, and his new goods
will be found up-to-date in everv
respect.
Mr. F. M. Durham, who retired
from the clerk’s office four years
a go, after a service of fourteen
years, is announced as a candidate
for that position at the ensuing
election. Mr. Durham is probably
as well known as any citizen of
. county. Fie made a most effi
cient officer and would do so again
should he be elected.
Mr. L. \\. Reeves has entered
ie race for clerk of the court and
ls rustling for votes. He is at
present a member of the board of
county commissioners, to which
Edition he v\ : as elected fwo years
a go, and has made an efficient offi
cer. He would make a good clerk
should the people of Bartow elect
him to that position.
Mr. H. F. Lester, who is now
uiming baggage on the Atlanta
and \\ est Point 'railroad, stopped
bartersville awhile while on his
ay to his home at Atlanta, from
p a . rtov,n > the first of the week,
auk met many of his old friends
tr, u Wh ° kneu ' him "’hen he used
be conductor on the East &
again 31X1 were glad to see him
daET' B ,° b Anders °n is a candi
ann " r C erk tke cour t and his
appears in that col
to \r ~ las heen'assistant clerk
mad, - W - W Roberts, and has
niodak mo ~* efficient and accom
wj K J ‘V ng officer, courteous to all
office u business at the clerk’s
aff 3 ; r ' ? e , 1S well versed in the
it iirt ° the office and would fill
be f]J l SH , t:iS^ac^on t° a h should he
‘ cted to that position.
Powder
r Absolutely Pure
Makes me food more delicious and wholesome
BOVI BAKINO POWDER CO., NEW YORK.
Some of our citizens have gone
to gardening.
Mr. W. B. Haynes, of Calhoun,
was in town on Tuesday.
The ladies of the aid society of
the Methodist church will give a
musical in April.
Capt. D. W. K. Peacock, of Aus
tell, Ga:,.has been spending sev
eral days in town.
Mr. Walter S. Griffin, of Rome,
was here the first of the week look
ing after cotton interests.
Miss Louise,Purse has returned
home from a charming visit to Ma
con. During her stay there of a
month or so she was the recipient
of much social attention.
Marshal Watkins arrested a man
here one day last week and locked
him up on a telegram from a neigh
boring town. The party asking
the arrest came and failed to identi
fy the man as the one he wanted
and he was turned loose.
Mr. J. A. Dobbs, who has an
nounced himself as a candidate for
tax collector, is well known to the
people of Bartow county, having
been raised in Cartersville, a-nd be
ing connected with the mercantile
business for a number of years.
He is a clever gentleman and
would make an efficient tax col
lector. .
On last Sunday morning Rev.
W. R. Branham, pastor of the
Methodist church, announced thqt
the regular hours for all night
services would be changed to
7:30 o’clock, owing to the days get
ting longer. He especially urges
his members and invites the pub
lic generally to attend the Sunday
morning and evening services, and
also the Wednesday night prayer
meeting.
Rev. F. W. Ambler, rector of
Ascension Episcopal church, this
city, will be ordained a priest at St.
Phillip’s Cathedral in Atlanta next
Sunday morning at eleven o’clock.
He will conduct the service at As
cension church on Sunday evening
at half-past seven o’clock, instead
of the morning hour. He will also
hold Lenten service at four o’clock
Monday afternoon, the 12th itist.,
and will conduct the regular ser
vice at eleven o’clock Tuesday
morning, and administer the holy
communion.
Epworth League-
The Epworth League will hold
its regular literary meeting Friday
March 9th, at 7:30 p. m. The bible
lesson for the evening will be from
the twenty-second to the thirtyrse
cond chapter of Genesis.
The following is the programme
which has been arranged by the
ladies for the evening:
Talk on lesson—J. P. Adair.
Music—Mr; E. C. Ford.
Instrumental solo —Mrs. W. R.
Branham.
Recit-tion —Miss Lulie Lump
kin.
Instrumental solo —Miss Marylu
Wiki**.
Recitation —Miss Viola Stanford.
Music-Mr. E. C. Ford.
Vocal solo —Mrs J. W. Jones.
Calhoun Court.
Calhoun, Ga., March 5. —The
second week of Gordon superior
court opened here today. The
week will be devoted to the crimi
nal docket. There are three cases
to be disposed of that promise to 1 e
interesting, the most important one
being that of Alf Prater, the erst
wbile mountain wonder. Alf is
charged with taking between suns
horse, buggy and harness to Ala
bama, where they were finally found
by Sheriff Dan Durham and
brought back to Calhoun and
turned over to the owners. This
occurred about a year ago.
Miss Essie Dysart-
Quite a sad death was that of
Miss Essie Dysart that occurred at
Pine Log last Saturday. She had
been afflicted for a long time with
consumption and bore her illness
uncomplainingly. She was the
daughter of Mr. J. M. Dysart and
was only twenty years of age. She
possessed a most amiable disposi
tion and had nianv fri'ends who re
gret her death. The funeral oc
cured <. n Sunday and was largely
attended.
C ARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. MARCH 8, 1900.
FLANAGAN
DEAD IN MIL
Atlanta Murderer Died Linder Death
ogntgnrg.
DIED FROM PRISON EXPOSURE,
Remarkable Fatalities Attending
Those Connected With the Case
—Flanagan's Crime.
Atlanta:, Ga., March 6. —Edward
C. Flanagan, the man who murder
ed Miss Ruth Slack and Mrs. Mar
tha Allen, at Poplar Springs, on
New Year’s eve, 1896, gave Dixon
Allen a wound which subsequently
caused his death and attempted
the life of Geo. W. Allen, died in
a cell in the DeKalb county jail at
Decatur this morning. A post
mortem examination will be held
and the brain that has puzzled so
many experts will reveal its true
condition.
George R. Spence, who with Col.
Dan W. Rountree, has been active
in Mr. Flanagan’s defense said to
day:
“I think Flanagan’s death was
directly due to the manner in which
he was kept while incarcerated.
When I visited him several days
ago, I found him in an open cell,
with no provision for a fire, and on
a mattress that had not been clean
ed in a long time. Mr. Rountree
and I immediately presented a peti
tion to Judge Candler, asking
that the prisoner be removed and
given proper attention. The judge
issued an order providing for such
comforts as were possible, but re
fused to allow him to be removed
from the jail.”
REMARKABLE CASE.
Setting aside the crime for which
the prisoner was put in jail, the
case of Flanagan is a remarkable
one by reason of the many trials,
convictions and death sentences
which have fallen on him, and the
attendant train of fatalities which
has seemingly followed those inter
ested in the matter.
Col, William C. Glenn, with
whom Col. Rountree was associat
ed in the tiial, died, it is said, from
overwork in the case. While in
charge of the case Col. Glenn sum
moned experts on insanity from all
parts of the country to testily.
MOYSE IN THE CASE.
During one of the trials Julian
Moyse, the Mississippian who re
cently impersonated Capt. Clark,
of the Oregon, and married a young
Ohio woman in New Orleans, rep
resented himself as an expert on
paranoia, the disease with which
Flanagan was believed to be afflict
ed. Moyse was dismissed one
hour after he began to cross-exam
ine Flanagan in open court.
Thomas Dobbs. Adam Gresham
and Gus Taliaferro, Flanagan’s fel
low workers and witnesses in the
case, are dead, two of them having
been killed in a wreck.
W. R. Harwell, of Cartersville,
with whom Flanagan boarded at
one time, has beqpi dead two years.
Among the first physicians who
visited Flanagan after the murder
. was Dr. Hugh Hagan, a prominent
local doctor and club member. He
was stricken with apoplexy and
died suddenly in 1898.
Dr. Harry Huzza, connected
with the case, was injured on a
train last year en route to New
York, and died in a hospital there.
Harry Gilham, a reporter, who
wrote the first story of the murder
for a local paper, died soon after.
Several months ago the mother
of one of the jurors was declared in
sane. She was followed to the
asylum soon after by the son,
stricken with the idea that he had
wronged Flanagan.
Judge John Candler has three
times pronounced the sentence of
death on Flanagan. The case has
been in all the courts of the state
and a suspension of sentence was
had in January 1899, on account of
the prisoner’s weakened condition.
Flanagan came from Raymore,
Tenn.. and.at the time of his arrest
was in the employ of the Standard
Oil company. He was 45 years of
age. His enmity toward the Allen
family was aroused by the delusion
that they were trying to separate
him from the 19-year-old daughter
of George W. Allen. Flanagan
made
THREE ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE
from the Decatur jail. One of
these he seized the jailer’s baby
and held it up in front of him to
prevent the father from shooting.
He was seized, however, before he
got ut of the corridor. Six weeks
ago he made his last attempt to
gain his liberty, but was seriously
woundt and by a shot fired by one of
the attendants. This put him to
bed. At one time, the prisoner
tried to commit suicide by drinking
kerosene. The belief is general
that Flanagan has always been in
sane. yet many believe that he es
caped ttye gallow by feigning that
his mind was unbalanced.
ARMING^TTT.; /tainEERS•
BU* Shipm:MV of Guos and Ammuni
tion to 1. Ky,
Frankfort, Ky., Ma:ch 3.—The
Johnson hill, amending t it? Goebel
election law by removing the party
emblems from the ballots, was ad
vanced in the house today and this
is construed by democratic lead
ers to mean that this will be the
only amendment to the law at this
session.
Mr. Henry Watterson had been
strongly advocating a repeal or
modification of the law, asserting
that such a step was necessary to
secure the united support of demo
cratic factions in the state and Sen
ator-elect Blackburn has also fav
ored liberal amendments to the law
but it is now conceded that there
will be no change at this session,
further than those of the Johnson
bill.
The shipments of guns and am
munition to London. Ky., is said
by the republican state officials to
be only for the purpose of equip
ping state guard companies in that
section and they pronounce as silly
the stories that republican Gover
nor Taylor and other state officials
are preparing to set up a govern
ment there, in the event that the
courts decide against them.
“BEFORE BABY IS BORN.”
A Valuable Little Book of Interest
to All Women Sent Free.
Every woman looks forward with
feelings of indescribable joy to the
one event in her life, compared with
which all others pale into insignifi
cance. How proud and happy she
will be when her precious babe
nestles on her breast—how sweet
the name of “Mother.” And yet
her happy anticipation is clouded
with dread of the pain and danger
of the ordeal, so that it is impossi
ble to avoid the feeling of constant
fear. The danger and suffering at
tendant upon being a mother can
be entirely prevented, so that the
coming of the little stranger need
not be looked forward to with fear
and trembling. Every woman
who reads this paper can obtain
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tractive little book entitled “Before
Baby is Bom,” by sending her
name aud address to the Bradfield
Regulator Cos., Atlanta, Ga. This
book contains priceless information
to all women, and no one should
fail to send for it.
At the Baptist Church-
The series of sermons on the fa
mous women of the Bible that are
being preached at the Baptist
church by the pastor, Rev. Alex
W. Bealer are proving quite popu
lar. A large congregation was
present last Sunday night to hear
about Jochebed, the mother of
Moses, the woman who could keep
a secret. Next Sunday night Mr.
Bealer will discuss the model old
maids of the Bible and the follow
ing Sunday evening he will talk
about “A great mother in Israel,”
At the morning hour the theme
for the sermon will be “The God
man on his walk to glory.”
The blackboard sermon at the
Sunday School hour is especially
for the children. The public is
cordially invited to attend.
Elect Officers.
At a meeting of the Foreign
Missionary Society of the Meth
odist church, held last Monday af
ternoon the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Mrs.
W. R. Branham, president; Mrs.
C. A. Allday, first vice president;
Mrs. J. W. Knight, second vice
president; Mrs. Sam Jones, third
vice president; Mrs. C. M. Milam,
recording secretary; Miss Mary
Lou Wilde, secretary and treasurer.
Mrs. H. E. Cary was elected dele
gate to the annual meeting of the
state Fordgn Missionary Society,
in Miiiedgevilie, in April, and Mrs.
Sam Jones was elected alternate.
Bcnufy Ih lliood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Casc-arets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazv liver and driving all im
purities from the bodv. Begin to-day U
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Casc-arets, —beauty for ten cents. All ebuy
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
“COME DOWN
M THE DOUGH"
Must all Before Privileged to Con
duct Business in Town.
THE NEW LICENSE ORDINANCE-
A Movement That Has Created a
Stir, Though Many Wonder Why
it Hasn’t Been Done Before
There is anew stir in town, and
it is all on account of the new
license ordinance, the city council
at its last regular meeting having
enacted a measure putting a special
tax on the businesses of the town.
Many ardently oppose the law for
different reasons, some alleging
tnat it will have a tendency
just at this time to drive away
some needful things we have
wita us and keep others from com
ing, ottiers urging that to he taxed
on real estate then on personal
property is enough without extra
burdens such as these being impos
ed. The advocates of tue measu.e
say that other towns have had tnese
license laws for years and Carters
ville has been behind by not having
one, that it will take some of the
heavy burden off of real estate and
that it will be a just and long
needed protection to egitimate bus
inesses. It has been intended to
make the law sweeping and equable
affecting all correspondingly from
the lawyer and doctor to the man
at the anvil. The old clothes man,
he who, as is alleged comes into
the community with his unfuinigat
ed cast off garments spreading dis
ease, eatenes it lively,a tax of sie.o
being pat on his business. Mer
chants are taxed according to stocks
carried SSOO and under being $5
SSOO to £I,OOO $7.50 SI,OOO to
SISOO $lO and similarly graded up
ward. Cotton buyers will pay $5,
livery stables $25; each insurance
company $25 and insurance agents,
fire and life, $lO. Lawyers must
pay $lO, doctors the same and den
tists the same. Cotton giuners
must pay $2.50 for each gin stand
operated, the shoemaker for bis
bench $1; the railroad agent pays
$lO. These are some of the items.
The full list is a long one.
It is claimed the license law will
put additionally into the town
treasury annually about $2,000.
The clerk will issue the licenses
and the collections will be made by
the marshal. The law went into
effect the istof March and all may
keep their eyes peeled for the col
lector who will be around “lest we
forget.”
REV- SAM JONES IN NASHVILLE
Preaches to Seven Thousand Peo
ple—Mrs. Cunyus Singing,
Nashville American
Rev. Sam Jones preached to fully
7,00 q people at the tabernacle at 3
o’clock yesterday afternoon, open
ing the big religious revival. The
pastors of this city have been work
ing upon for the pastsevcial weeks.
Every seat i the large auditorium
was taken, while hundreds of peo
ple thronged the aisles to hear the
gospel as proclaimed by Mr. Jones.
The discourse was one of c. am
Jones’ characteristic sermons, in
which he gave “Bud” some good
sound advices and told him how to
walk the straight and narrow path
of righteousness. He touched
lightly upon the society woman,
but will doubtless pay her further
attention later during the revival.
Mrs. Annie Lanrie Cunyus, of
Cartersville, Ga., sang a soul in
spiring hymn at the opening of the
meeting. She has a very sweet
voice and touched the hearts of
many of those in the congregation.
“My faith and hope, my breth
ren ” said Mr. Jones, “is brighter
and stronger today for a gracious
awakening aud power on this city
than for many years in the past. I
come here with the consciousness
that I am mad with nobody but the
devil. I have nothing agaii.st any
one but the old gentleman himself.
Of course he has a great many
men aud women, boys and girls in
Nashville, but I am not going to
jump on his kids. No, I ain’t bud.
You pray for us. As sure as
you put your hearts and prayers in
this movement, we’re going to see
a power on this city—the greatest
in fifteen years- Let God give us
another such power as we had in
that tent on B;oad street.
“I thank God lor the unity in
yonr i y and the work of these
good pastors sitting about me on
this platfornf. What I want is for
the Christian workers to join us and
God is going to do good this year.”
H ere Mr. Jones completed his
introductory remarks and announc
ed as his text the sixteenth verse
seventeenth chapter of the Act of
the Apostles: ‘‘Now while Paul
waited for them at Athens, his
spirit was stirred in him, when he
saw the city wholly given to idoli
try.”
NORTHERN CAPITALISTS.
Are Lookinsr to the South as the
Fleldfor Investments,
F. S. Yagar, the well-known at
torney, has just returned from
New York and other eastern noints
where he has been for the past two
or three weeks. Mr. Yagar met
many real estate men and eastern
capitalists on his trip and lie says
it is very encouraging the way
they talked about the prospect of
eastern capital being invested in
the south.
“They are looking to this sec
tion,’’ said Mr. Yagar, “and are
contemplating making heavy in
vestments in the south in property
and manufacturing enterprises.
They have plenty of money and
want to turn it loose and they
think that the south is tht best
place to put it. I have no doubt
that these men will make many in
vestments in the south in the near
future which will be of great bene
fit to this section. Iu Pniladelphia
I found that sail ■ feeling pre
vailed tow u\; the south as a field
for investment.
K, of P. Meeting Notice-
A regular con
vent ion of C tr
tersville La. Ige
sharp. Work in 2nd Rank.
C. M. Milam, C.C.
W. H. W 1 k LB. K. R. S.
County Orders.
I am prepared to pay county or
ders on the different funds as fol
lows:
Road fund No. 44, Feb. 1900.
General fund No. 561,
Jury fund No. 23, Dec. ’99.
Bailiff fund No. 22, Dec.
Jail fund No. 38, Feb. 1900.
Pauper fund No. 427, Sep. ’99.
J. H Conn.
Treasurer.
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