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THIRD GEORGIA TO LEAVE.
Vessel on Which Regiment Will Go
Held In Quarantine.
Savannah, Jan. 10 According to
latest reports, the Third Georgia regi
ment may leave Savauuah on cue trails
port Ronmania Thursday or Friday.
The United States transport Rnutna
nia, from Havana, which arrived at
Savannah quarantine this morning, is
held on account of a suspicious case of
Illness on board Dr William Duncan,
acting health officer, has gone down to
quarantine to investigate. This was
the ship which was ordered to carry the
Third Georgia regiment to Nenvitas.
The United States transport Michigan
left this morning with the Eighth Mas
sachusetts infantry on board. The
troops go to Matanzas.
The transport Panama arrived this
morning from Havana.
Convict Guni'd Fatally Hurt.
Washington, Ga., Jan. 10.—JepDen
rd, a guard, was fatally hurt by a con
vict on W. J. Adams’ plantation, 18
miles north of Washington. While the
convicts were eating sgßiperoue of them
•lipped up behind DHwrd and knocked
him on the head with some heavy in
strument, crushing his skull. Immedi
ately six of them escaped, going m dif
ferent directions. One of them was
captured about 6 miles from Washing
ton. An armed posse is scouring that
part of the country for the other five.
Called to Meet Jail. 120.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 10.—The
state executive committee of the Demo
cratic and Conservative party of Ala
bama is culled to meet at Montgomery
on Thursday, Jan. 2(5. The object of
the lin etiug is to outline a plan of cam
paign for the constitutional convention
including the determination of the
method by which delegates to the pro
posed convention :<re to he selected.
strike Al iy Hind tins Week.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. 10.—The cotton
mills at this place ran ,; bolls and opened
their doors to strikers again today and
quite a number returned to work. About
200 went back yesterday. There is
strung hope that this week will wituess
the end of the strike, either by the ac
ceptance of the cut or upon some fair
basis of compromise which may be
reached.
Klnnngnn Escapes a Noose.
Decatur, Ga., Jan. 10.—Judge Cand
ler has granted a motion to indefinitely
continue the case of E. C. Flanagan, the
double murderer, on the plea that the
prisoner is mentally unable to assist his
counsel. This is regarded as practically
ending the criminal prosecution audit
is believed Flanagan will be sent to the
insane asylum.
Aim oid Reaches Atlanta.
Atlanta, Jau. 10.—An officer has ar
il veil in this city from Tulare, Cal.,
bringing with him S. Lafayette Alnmnd
of Conyers, Ga., who is alleged to
have swindled merchants and farmers
in several counties. The prisoner will
be kept n prison here until given a pre
liminary hearing.
Prominent Aiibiirntte Dfikl.
Auburn, Ala., Jan. 10 —J. S. Hair, a
prom in tnt citizen and for six years tax
collector of this county, died at his
home here of consumption, aged 65
years He returned a few months ago
from an extended srav in the west in
search of health. He leaves a lamily.
Representative A' tide l>-t<l.
Quitman, Ga., Jau. 10—Hon. W. 0
Wade, the representative from Brooks
county, is dead of typhoid pneumonia.
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PEONAGE CASE DISMISSED.
Judge Newman Dec-lares He Has No
Jurisdiction In the Matter.
Atlanta, Jan. 10. —The famous peon
age cases against William Eberhart, a
prominent citizen of Oglethorpe county,
and his negro overseer, Albert Boykin,
have been thrown out of the United
States court by Judge Newman, who,
after argument, which was delivered on
the question of the jurisdiction of the
court in such matters, decided thaft he
did not have jurisdiction and that the
cases could not be lawfully tried iu the
circuit court.
The celebrated cases at one time
promised to cause one of the greatest
sensations the state has seen in a long
while. Eberhart and Boykin were
charged with holding in involuntary
servitude negro laborers oil a farm in
Oglethorpe county. It was stated in
the indictments that they would hire
men and then compel them to serve as
slaves.
When the case was called in the United
States court some time ago, the attor
neys for the defendants demurred to
the in iictinent and stated that the court
did not have jurisdiction, and that if
the case was to come up anywhere it
should be brought in the superior court
of Ogiethoiqie county.
Judge Newman’s opinion is a short
one and states that he will not take
jurisdiction of the matter.
It is not thought that the ca_se% will
be prosecuted iu the state courts of the
county.
PEACE TREATY REPORTED.
DuvL Authorized to Submit Docu
ment Without Amendment.
Washington, Jau, 11.—The senate
committee on foreign relations today
authorized Senator Davis to report the
peace treaty favorably without amend
ment
The committee was iu session for only
an hour aud the greater part of this
time was consumed iu waiting for a
quorum, the senators meautime dis
cussing informally the provisions of the
treaty. There was only a bare quorum
of the committee present, but Senators
Cnllom aud Clark, who were among the
absentees, sent their proxies.
Seuator Morgan aud Senator Gray
wore the only two Democrats in attend
ance, but the other Democratic mem
bers of tho committee, Senators Daniel,
Mills and Turpie, had full notice of the
purpose of the meeting and they indi
cated no opposition to immediate aotiou.
There was no suggestion of any amend
ment in the committee.
Senator Davis was instructed to press
the treaty upon the attention of the
senate with the view to securing as early
action as possible. The committee also
authorized Seuator Davis-to report fa
vorably upon the proposition to remove
the injunction of secrecy.
Dispensary Law Proposed,
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. o.'—State
Senator F. S. Moody of Tuskaloosa is
making a great effort to have the legis
lature pass a general diwpeup&ry bill,
and when the .legislator*, get together
again he will present bis. bill. He is re
ceiving some encouragement from the
temperance people of Alabama. During
the recess of the* legislature Seuator
Moody has beer, making addresses on
the subject. This week he will ad
dress the people of Birmingham on the
topic, and it is expected that a largo au
dience will turn out f6r him.
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BARTLETT ON LIVE ISSUES.
Congressman Defends Bailey and Op
poses Expansion.
Macon, Jan. 7.—Congressman Charles
L. Bartlett, who has gone to Washing
ton to resume his official duties, ex
pressed himself before departing on two
questions which the country at large is
ieeply interested in—the question raised
by Mr. Bailey, the Democratic leader of
the house, as to the rights of any mem
ber of congress to hold his 6eat while
•erving in the army, and the question
of the Philippines.
“In reference to the statements in the
papers criticising Mr. Bailey as attack
ing General Wheeler,” said Mr. Bart
lett, “I must say that I feel assured that
the conditions as they exist in the house
and the resolution which Mr. Bailey
has introduced, are not understood.
“I think that Mr. Bailey did the
proper thing in introducing the resolu
tion, which simply directs the judiciary
committee of the house to inquire
whether any member of the house has
been appointed and accepted a commis
sion in the army; and, if so, what effect
such appointment has on his member
ship in the house; and whether any
member so appointed to an office in the
army has exercised auy act as a mem
ber of the house.
“It is erroneous to say that Mr.
Bailey is attacking General Wheeler
any more than he is attacking either c:
all of the three other gentlemen who
were commissioned as army officers.
That a member of congress has no right
to hold an office under the United
States during his continuance in office
is clear from the constitution.”
Speaking on the subject of expansion,
Mr. Bartlett said:
“lam opposed to the United States
holding the Philippine islands. While
I approve of the terms of the treaty
which requires Spain to relinquish her
sovereignty over them, I will never sus
tain auy proposition looking to the gov
ernment acquiring these islands perma
nently as a part of our territory.”
NEW INJUNCTION GRANTED.
Street Railway Fight Transferred
From Federal to State Court.
Atlanta, Jan. 7. —Judge Candler has
signed a restraining order enjoining the
Atlanta Railway company from con
demning the tracks of the Atlanta Con
solidated Street Railway company on
Mitchell street, or from constructing on
that street guutlet tracks that is,
tracks that lap over each other.
This movement on the part of the at
torneys for the Consolidated carries the
litigation between the two systems of
street railway in the city, for the right
of way on Mitchell street leading to tho
viaduct, into the superior court of the
couuty. It is doue as a result of a de
cision by Judge Newman ruling the
parties out of the federal court and
refusing to take further jurisdiction of
their contentions.
The plaintiff is the Consolidated Street
Railway company alone, thus ruling
out the Old Colony Trust company as a
party plaintiff, as in the case when
taken to the United States court. The
Atlanta Railway company is the party
defendant.
Judge Candler set the hearing for
Jan. 21.
A BIG FIRE AT CHARLOTTE.
Seventy Thousand Dollars Worth of
Property Hurried.
Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 7.— At mid
night fire was discovered in the 3-story
building of the Shaw-Howell Harness
company, on Fourth street, near the
center of the business portion of the
city. The fire had gained such head
way when the alarm was sounded that
the building was soon totally destroyed.
The loss to the stock will reach fully
(50,000, with $25,000 insurance.
From the Shaw Howell building tho
flames spread to the adjoining building
occupied by the Liddell Machine com
pany as an office and sample room. The
loss to their stock is about ((5,000, with
(4,000 insurance. The building was a
total wreck- and was valued at about
$4,000.-
The firemen worked under great dif
ficulty 8 as a high wind was blowing.
The burned buildings are just across a
narrow street from the Buford hotel, a
4 story structure,, but that building
escaped injury.
The' total loss will probably reach
from (65,000 to (75,000.
FLORENCE PEOPLE- REJOi.CE>.
Decision In the Bridge Case Followed’
by Ddniage Suits. •'
Florence, AM;,‘Jan 7:—’Fforefiqe re
joices today at fife*! n’&\\Vdl tliCs 'Settle
ment of ' the celebrated bridge toll case
by the United States supreme court at
Washington.
Notices of suits for dam.-.gvs mole lag
made by the hundred. It is hardly pos
sible that the Southern will be com
pelled to pay all the damages which
have been made liable every time a pas
senger crossed the Tennessee river since
the passage of the law.
The’case was 1 Of unusual interest On
account of the neat question of state’s
rights which it involved. The saving
to the people of this and Colbert county,
will be many thousand dollars annually
on the reduced schedule of tolls.
Searching For Ksterhazy.
New York, Jan. 11.— The Dutch
steamer Rotterdam, which arrived to
day, reports that during the embarka
tion jof passengers the police authorities
made a search for Count Walsin Ester
hazy, who was said to pe stopping in a
hotel at Rotterdam, trying to escape to
America.
FLANAGAN ESCAPES NOOSE.
His Case Indefinitely Continued on the
Ground of Insanity.
Atlanta, Jan. 9.—E. 0. Flanagan,
the double murderer, was arraigned at
Decatur today. Judge Candler granted
a motion to indefinitely continue the
case on the plea of insanity, thus vir
tually ending the prosecution.
This was the fourth trial of the noted
murderer, who shot and killed Mrs.
Allen, the aged mother of George Allen,
and Miss Ruth Slack, Mr. Allen’s wife’s
sister. The double killing occurred on
New Year’s eve, 1896, while the Allen
family were at supper in their home at
Poplar Spring, 4 miles from Atlanta, on
the Consolidated trolly line.
Flanagan wanted to marry Allen’s
little 11-year-old daughter, and he was
told that the girl was too young. He
claimed that the whole family was plot
ting against him and on the date above
mentioned went to the hall where Al
len’s family were at supper. He fired
at Allen and the bullet struck the latter
in the neck. The murderer then shot
Mrs. Allen and Miss Slack, killing the
former instantly ami inflicting a wound
on the lattier which resulted in her
death
Flanagan was tried a few months
after the crime, and his attorneys set
up the special plea that the prisoner
was insane at the time of the trial, and
therefore ought not to be tried Iu this
case the jury held that the prisoner was
mentally able to go into a trial.
A few weeks later Flanagan was tried
on the main issue, the murder of the
two women, and his attorneys set up
the plea that he was insaue at the time
the crime was committed, aud therefore
ought to be sent to an asylum. The
jury found Flanagan guilty of murder,
and he was sentenced to be hanged.
Flanagan’s counsel appealed both
cases, and in the second case the su
preme court held that Judge Candler
bad erred in not charging the jury on
the law of insanity.
Last summer Flanagan was tried tor
the third time, the jury found him
guilty of murder, and he was again sen
tenced to be hanged. Another appeal
was taken and the supremo court the
second time reversed the decision of the
lower oonrt, holding that it was wrong
to have forced a trial when defendant’s
leading counsel was sick and that one
of the jurors had disqualified himself by
remarking before the trial that Flana
gan ought to hang.
FOUR KILLED IN A WRECK.
' Passenger and Freight Trains Crash
Together Near Knoxville.
Knoxville, Jaa. 9.— Four dead, two
injured, 1 one of these, perhaps, fatally,
| aud the loss of property of the Southern
j railway to the amount of about SIOO,OOO,
is the result of a wreck which occurred
on the Knoxville and Ohio branch of
1 the Knoxville division of the Southern
railroad, ih, milesw r estof Elk Valley.
The dead are:
Engineer J. D. Maxey.
Fireman Frank Readdy, a negro.
Brakeman Lonza Hoover, a negro.
Flagman W. A. Diliou.
The wreck occurred at 11:30 o’clock.
It was a head-end collision, freight train
No. 68. second section, aud mixed local
ti’ain No. 3 met in an awful crash. Both
of the trains were running at the rate
of about 85 miles per hour, and the ac
cident occurred so that the trainmen
were not able to jump and attempt to
save their lives. No. 3 was running 15
minutes late, having waited at Knox
ville for connection with a western train,
and. had the right of way.
All the freight trains of the Knox
ville and Ohio division had been noti
fied that the mixed train was oil a late
run, and the only cause for the acci
dent that can be given is that Engineer
Maxey of the freight train misread his
orders. It would have been an easy
matter for him to have read the order
telling that the passenger train was 50
minutes late instead of 15.
CYCLONE NEAR SAVANNAH.
Wind Blows at the Rate of About
Ninety Miles an Hour.
Savannah, Jan. 9.—A severe cyclone
passed over a section of Liberty county
some 20 miles south of this city. The
wind was of tremendous force. During
15 or 20 minutes it attained to a velocity
of not less than 75 to 80 miles an' hour.
At Johnston station, between here aud
Waycross, it is estimated the wind blew
90 miles an hour for 10 minutes.
In the village considerable damage
was done. The residence of' Dr. Rogers
, was unroofed and otherwise 'damaged.
;tlie roof of a brick store'was tora°off,
and the top story was damaged. A drug
store was practically demolished. Many
dwellings were injured by the smash
ing of windows and the collapse of
chimneys.
Crushed Under a Big Door.
Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 9.— Harry
B. a prominent young society
man of this city, was found dead be
neath. one of the huge doors of the Mer
chants and Farmers’ bonded ware-'
house. I Lis head was> crushed and back '
broken. The door was in place, but
\>as hung, and it is supposed that in,
going nome some time between 2 o’clock
and day he ran against the door, knock- “
it down and crushing -himself to
death. He was the sqn of Captain Har
rison Wacts.
Killed by a Falling Roof.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 9. - John
Dreher, night foundrymau at the Sloss
furnaces here, met-a horrible death by
the falling in of the roof over the cast
house. lor some unaccountable reason
the roof gave way, and an angle bar
struck Dreher, pinning him down in a
lot of molten iron, anew run having
just been made,.. Before he could be
rescued he was burned to death, parts
of his body being roasted to a crisp.
HOPE FOR SILVER.
Prophecy That It Will Be Restored
Withont Political Action.
Why should we allow the victor of
the moment to monopolize the rejoic
ing? Taken altogether, the results of
the recent elections indicate the relega
tion of the silver issue to the rear.
With a Republican senate assured for
the next fonr years the passage of a
free coinage bill dnring that time is
made impossible aud the whole question
placed for the time being outside of
practical politics. “No question is ever
settled until it is settled right,” and
the assumption by those with whom
the wish is lather to the thought that
“free silver has received its death
blow” is possibly premature. A gain
in congressional representation for the
Massachusetts Democrats on a platform
emphatically indorsing the free silver
plank of the Chicago platform, a loss of
several congressmen to the Democrats
in New York on a platform evading
that issue, and the success of the fusion
ticket in Colorado by the handsome ma
jority cf 50,000, despite the defection
of a strong faction of the Silver Repub
licans and the open and lavish use of a
considerable corruption fund in the in
terest of the administration wing repre
sented by Senator Wolcott, are straws
of some significance iu this connection.
It is plain that the currency question
has yet to be settled. Thinking men on
both sides fully realize that the insta
bility of tho present system, which has
caused so much distress and disaster in
the past, must remain an element of
danger until that system is reformed on
a permanent basis. It is felt by many,
however, that instead of being commit
ted to the chances of party success, either
at the polls or in congress, the ques
tion will find a natural and speedy set
tlement quite apart from political con
siderations. The logic of events, it is
now openly recognized by leading Dem
ocrat.-. like Senator Morgan of Alabama
and by those Republican leaders in the
intermountain country who followed
.Senator Teller into the Bryan camp,
will decide the money question on a
basis acceptable to both Republicans
and Democrats—that is to say, as one
unlocked for but most important result
of the war with Spain we have virtu
ally incorporated into the Union coun
tries aud populations whose monetary
needs can bo met only by a large in
crease in the silver coinage. To supply
these needs it now seems inevitable
that a bill will be introduced in the
coming session of congress with the ap
proval—if not at the instance —of the
administration, for the tree and unlim
ited coinage of the American product.
While only a beginning, such a meas
ure cannot fail to be warmly welcomed
by those whose championship of free
silver coinage has been in a large meas
x:re actuated by concern for the revival
of an important, though by no means
the most important, product of the
Rocky mountain country. International
bimetallism, it has been very distinctly
demonstrated, cannot be forced. The ac
tion of England aud other countries iu
the matter must be based in the nature
of things on what is now rather than
on what may be looked for iu the fu
ture. When through' the largely in
creased use of silver as a money metal,
which our colonial and eastern trade
will require, the market price of silver
bullion has naturally responded to the
increased demand and attained or ap
proximated $1.29 per ounce—as it sure
ly will within the next year or two —
there will be no serious opposition to an
international agreement for the coinage
of gold and silver on equal terms. -
Arena.
Municipal Grants. i
At a recent session of the National
Municipal league at Indianapolis Mr.
Charles Richardson read a paper on
‘‘Municipal Franchises” that attracted
attention. He said in part: , .
‘‘l feel constrained to announce my
self as being unalterably opposed to any
grant of municipal franchises for any
purpose whatever, and I take this posi
tion as a matter of principle. I main
tain that the idea of granting fran
chises to private individuals or corpora
tions to minister to a city in social
necessities is as wrong in scientific the
ory as it is mischievous and destructive
of what is best in municipal life in
practice. The whole idea of granting
special privileges to a few people to
make profit off all the rest of tho peo- .
pie is undemocratic, and consequently
is opposed to and stands iu the way of
progress toward the realization of our
’ it and best ideal, the equality of
all men before the law.”
Reformers Mnst Agree,
If we reformers can find no basis of
agreement as to what is to be done
while the industry and moral well be
ing of the entire nation are massacred
by a single trust, then ,Nero fiddling
while Rome burned is a paragon of in
nocence in comparison with ourselves.
If we can do nothing to save the people
unless we can save them within the
terms of our own particular programmes
or until some day of dreadful judgment
forces us together, then the fury or that
reckoning may tear ail our programmes
to shreds and the people be saved by
fire and by suffering unspeakable be
cause the leaders were too blinded by
self will to see the day of their oppor
tunity.—*-Dr. George D. Herron.