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BOY MURDERER
SLAYS THREE
Killed Father, Mother and Sister
In Cold Blood.
A DEMON AT AGE OF THIRTEEN.
Father Was First Victim—Later
on the Boy Used Deadly Knife
on Mother and Sister.
Npws of a terrible tragedy reached
Athens, Ala., from the interior of the
county, remote from telephone and
telegraph connections. A few months
since a thirteen-year-ohl lad by the
name of Thomas, while following his
father from the woods with a loaded
gun on his shoulder, shot his father
in the back, death resulting almost in
stantly. The father wns not able to
tell how it happened and the boy
claimed that it was an accident, but
was not believed by the neighbors.
The facts were laid before the grand
jury, but the jury hesitated to indict
the boy from the testimony, it appear
ing that the state could not convict.
The neighbors were so wrought up
over the matter that the widow and
her children had to move from that
neighborhood. Since that time the
boy, it seems, has ruled the home,
working when he chose. The older
sister, a rather prepossessing young
woman just entering womanhood, hod
the largest share of the farm work to
do to protect the widow and little ones
from want.
Last Friday evening she iusisted
that the boy take his share of the
work and so persistent was she that
the boy flew into a rage and drawing
a keen knife flew at her, slashing her
fearfully, severing her breast wide
open aud otherwise gashing her to
such an extent that she died in a short
while. The aged mother rushed to
the girl’s assistance and the lad turn
ed on her. With a demon’s fury he
slashed her with terrible effect. The
first cut disemboweled her. She fell
and died before aid could be summon
ed.
The triple murderer then alone with
the smaller children no one to
prevent gathered such things as he
needed and fled before the neighbors
could be summoned by the frightened
and terror-stricken children.
MOXTUMERY FOLSOM DEAD.
ITn* One of the Mont Versatile Newiipn
prr .Men In the South.
Montgomery M. Folsom, one of the
best known newspaper men in the
eonth, died suddenly at his residence
in Atlanta, (la., Sunday morning, after
an illness of ouly a few hours.
Saturday morning Mr. Folsom was
apparently in his usual good health,
and left his home in unusual good
eprits. He returned "homo about 1
o’clock in the nfteruoon and complain
ed of feeling bad. At 3 o’clock he had
a violent sinking spell and was soon
unconscious. He remained in that
condition until death relieved him.
The immediate cause of-his demise
was apoplexy, superinduced by an af
fection of the heart, from which he
had been a sufferer for the past two
year*.
Montgomery Morgan Folsom was
one of the most brilliant and prolific
writers in the south, and his literary
productions were widely read and
copied. He wrote prose and poetry
with equal facility, and his acquaint
ance with men and affairs was exten
sive. He was an indefatigable worker,
and one of the most productive news
paper meu in Atlanta. He is survived
by a wife and five children.
PUBLIC DEBT AWAY UP.
Statement Given Out Show* Figures To Be
Over * Million Hollar*.
A Washington dispatch says: The
statement of the public debt at the
close of the fiscal year 1899 shows that
the debt, less cash in the treasury,
amounted to §1,155,3*20, which is
a decrease as compared with June,
1898, of $13,571,172.' This decrease
is accounted for by a corresponding
increase in the cash on hand.
MBS. SOUTH WORTH DEAD.
Well Known Authoress Passes Avray After
Brief Illness.
Mrs. Emma D. E. X. Southwortb,
the authoress, died at her residence in
Washington Friday night, after an ill
ness of several weeks. About a month
ago Mrs. Southworth was prostrated
by the heat and the infirmity of ad
vanced age, she being in her seventy
ninth year, rendering her unable to
recuperate from the attack.
She lived for many yec?s a retired
ljfe in picturesque mansion of the
old-fashioned type, located on a hill
in west Washington, overlooking the
hills of Virginia.
.MHS. DREYFUS SEES HI’SBA>D
Meeting; In Prluon XVn* a Highly Dramatic
and Affecting One.
A dispatch from Rennes, France,
says: Dreyfus arrived at 6 a. m. via
L’Orient and Redon. The prisoner
appeared to be in good health. He
was at once placed in prison.
The governor of the prison sent
Mme. Dreyfuß the news of the arrival
of her husband and she immediately
went to the governor aud asked per
mission to see the prisoner. Leave
being granted, the faithful wife enter
ed the prison almost unobserved and
was conducted to cell No. 830, accom
panied by Mme. Havlet.
The meeting between the long-parted
husband and wife can be better imag
ined than described. Naturally it was
most touching. Both Dreyfus and his
wife were deeply affected. They re
mained long clasped in each other’s
arras, tears and smiles intermingling
with tender endearments.
Mme. Dreyfns issued from the pris
on in a state of collapse. She found
her husband much aged with beard
and hair whitened and body shrunken
and stooped. She said Dreyfus knew'
nothing of the events of the past two
years.
MINERS BURN TOWN.
'Dilon Men Were Driven Ont —Act Was
For ltevenge.
A special from Carbonale 111., 6ays:
Union City, a small town built and oc
cupied by union miners was burned at
midnight Saturday night, after a bat
tle between the union men ar.d import
ed negro miners who were fired upon
at Fredonia Saturday.
Seeking revenge for the killing, of
a woman and the wounding of twenty
men in their party, the negroes raided
Union City at midnight. They open
ed fire on the homes of the union men.
The latter promptly replied. The bat
tle lasted tmtil the union miners were
driven from their homes aud took re
fuge in a clump of timber close to the
village. The non-union men at once
applied the torch and the villiage was
destroyed.
The negros then advanced oh the
woods where the union miners were
concealed, and until daylight a fusi
lade was kept up between the factions.
MORE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE.
Union Mon Demand I’elnetatement and
Officials Refuse To Comply.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: There
now seems to be no doubt that there
will be an extensive strike at the big
Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel
Company. The question at issue is
practically the same as in 1892—recog
nition by the company of the Amalga
mated Association. The men seem
determined to stand by their union,
while the company has announced that
no amalgamated association men can
be employed in its plant.
The present trouble was precipi
tated Fridry when a committee of
thirteen went to Superintendent Co
rey to demand the reinstatement of
fifteen union men who had been dis
charged. ,
Mr. Corey aud President C. M.
.Schwab not only discharged them, but
informed them that they could not
even go back into the mill to get their
dinner buckets.
HAPPY MINERS THESE.
An Advance of Two and a Half Cents A
Ton In Alabama Is Granted.
A Birmingham special says: Fol
lowing in the footsteps of signing a
contract with the miners for coal min
ing for a year, commencing July Ist,
the Tennessee Coal aud Iron Cos. and
the Sloss Iron and Steel Cos. Saturday
morning announced an advance of 2£
cents per tan on mining. This brings
the miners’ wages up to 52£ cents per
ton, the highest price that has pre
vailed for years. The company ex
pressed a desire that as little time as
possible be lost in the celebration of
the Fourth of July.
GOVERNOR CALLS THOOPS
To Quell the Trouble Between Miners at
CartersviUe, 111.
Acting Governor Warder of Illinois
Saturday evening ordered the compa
panies of the Fourth infantry Illinois
National Guard, located at Carbondale
and Mt. Vernon, to proceed to Car
tersville at once and preserve the
peace. This action was taken upon
representations from the sheriff and
prominent citizens of that section of
the country, who telegraphed the act
ing governor that the sheriff was pow
erless to keep the peace aud that the
troops were necessary.
MOVEMENT OF TRANSPORTS.
Sherman and Warren l’reparinsr to Sail
Homr With Troops.
The war department has received
the following message from General
Otis:
Manila, July 4.—Adjutant General,
Washington: California infantry and
artillery, numbering 1,400, aud dis
charged men, take Sherman now load
ing at Negro®. Warren takes Colo
rada, 1,100, now preparing preparatory
papers; difficult to lighten transports
iu typhoon now prevailing. Grant
unloaded; in four days will take on
Idaho, North Dakota and Wyoming,
65 officers, 1,500 men, with other dis
charged men. (Signed! Otis.
nils OF Mil ns
Happenings In the State of Inter
esting Import.
Military Advisory Board'Named.
The advisory board of the Georgia
state militia, which on account of
resignations and retirements from the
service has not been an active body
for the past few months, is now
thoroughly reorganized, and all va
cancies filled by officers interested in
the success of the state organization.
The duty of the board is of an ad
visory nature to the governor, who can
summon the members at any time for
the purpose of consultation, or direct
the board to make an inspection of
any regiment or command in the state
service. The list of members for the
advisory board was filled out by Gov
ernor Candler and the order announc
ing their appointment was issued a
day or two ago as follows:
“Special Order No. 73. —The fol
lowing named officers of the Georgia
volunteers are announced as members
of the advisory board for the unex
pired term, ending October 13, 1899:
“Colonel A. R. Lawton, First in
fantry, vice Gordon.
“Colonel Wm. E. Wooten, Fourth
infantry, vice Kendrick.
“Lieutenant Colonel W. S. Shep
herd, aid-de-camp, vice Fisher.
“Captain A. J. Renkl, Sixth infan
try, vice Brooks.
“Captain W. W Barker, Fifth in
fantry, vice Wooten.
“Captain J. S. Dozier, First battal
ion cavalry, vice Fleming.
“By command of the governor.
Phil G. Byrd,
“Acting Adjutant General.”
The organization of the board as it
stands at the present time will hold
until October 13th, when an entirely
new board will be named by Governor
Candler.
* * *
Last of Consolidated.
The Atlanta Consolidated Street
Railway Company is no more. At a
meeting of the directors held a few
days ago the name of the corporation
was changed to the Atlanta Railway
and Power Company.
Permission to effect a change of
name was granted by the secretary of
state after the usual thirty day’s ad
vertisement of the petition.
The directors and stockholders of
the Atlanta Railway and Power Com
pany will be named and announced at
an early date. This new company will
operate all of the street car lines in
the city except the Collins Park and
Belt line. Transfers will be granted
on all the lines of the Atlanta Railway
and Power Company as soon as the
physical connections have been made.
This will be done as soon as permis
sion shall be gotten from the council
to-make said connections.
* * *
Charter For New Road.
The Offerman and Western, anew
railroad running from Offerman, in
Pierce county, to Nichols, in Coffee
county, has asked for a charter from
the secretary of state. The proposed
road will be forty miles long and will
traverse the famous pine timber land.
Among the incorporators are Frank
B. Haviland, of New York; Henry P.
Talmadge, of Planeville, N. J., aud
John J. McDonough, of Savannah.
* * *
To Celebrate Labor Day.
Extensive preparations are already
on foot for the celebration of Labor
Day in Atlanta in a manner commen
surate with the size and importance to
which organized labor in that city has
grown.
Within the past six months the la
bor unions of the state have had a de
cided stimulus. The formation some
months ago of a state federation of
trades had the effect of bringing all
the trades unions in the various towns
of Georgia into closer touch with one
another, and these unions are natur
ally expected to feel a vital interest in
any movement that Atlanta may take.
With this in mind, it is proposed to
enlist the aid of other towns and make
the next Labor Day an affair which
shall be more than local.
* * *
Carter*Tllle*B Liquor Law Illegal.
The decision of Judge Harris, of the
CartersviUe city court, in the case of
J. B. Heyward vs. city council on the
receut ordinance against receiving
whisky was announced last Saturday
morning.
The case assumed the form of habeas
corpus, and the decision was in favor
of Mr. Heyward in that the ordinance
was ultra vires and void.
Judge Harris delivered an elaborate
decision, covering fully the funda
mental principles of liberty and gov
ernment.
This ordinance, so far as known, is
the most extreme measure ever enact
ed on the lino of prohibition, no at
tempt heretofore ever having been
made to make the receiving of whi>ky
by a person a crime.
...
Newspaper Man Cnwhlded.
George A. Gregory, city editor of
The Savannah Morning News, was
horsewhipped in front of The News
office Saturday afternoon by E. A.
Breck, collector for a local installment
house. . ,
Breck held a revolver in one hand
and a buggy whip in the other.
The cowhiding was the resnlt of an
article which was written by Editor
Gregory published in The News Fri
day. It criticised these installment
collectors, saying that they were a
menace to housekeepers, and took
servants from their work, in many
cases running them off.
The collectors took exception to the
article, and demanded a retraction, •
which was refused. The cowiiiding
was the sequel.
Dr. Dixon Courts Inv*stiff*tton.
Dr. E. E. Dixon, president of the
Georgia sanitarium, believes there is
some shrewd political scheming hid
den beneath the charges which have
been made against the trustees by the
investigating committee.
He stales that he has nothing to
conceal and courts the fullest investi
gation, especially in regard to the
charge which has been made that he
received a free carload of coal from
the company which secured the con
tract to supply the sanitarium.
While he refrains from impugning
the motives of the committee Dr. Dix
on believes the ■ legilators have un
knowingly allowed themselves to be
used by “political schemers” who, for
personal reasons, desire to secure a
change in the board of trustees.
* * *
STATE FAIR NOTES.
Applications for space for exhibits
at the state fair are pouring into Sec
retary Martin’s office in a perfect flood.
And it behooves every county and
manufacturer, and individual, Contem
plating making a display to immedi
ately signify that intention.
The demand for space in the gov
ernment building, which will be used
for the machinery and transportation
displays, and manufacturing devices
of all kinds, has been larger than that
of any state fair ever held in the
south. The building will be crowded
with the product-s of a line of manu
facturers who do not usually make ex
hibits at fairs. Among these appli
cants is a concern in Philadelphia
that makes harvesting machines. The
officers of the concern ordered their
southern traveling representative to
investigate the situation and secure
space for an exhibit if he thought the
interest in the fair was sufficient to
warrant it. After a business trip of
several weeks, during which time the
representative went over all sections
of the state, he concluded that nearly
every one in Georgia was going to
visit the fair, and everywhere he found
the greatest interest in it.
He so wrote his people, and they
notified him to apply for space, which
he did immediately. He said, iu
speaking of it: “I came to the conclu
sion that if I wanted to place the pro
ducts of my house before the farmers
of Georgia the best way to do it was
to make an exhibit at the state fair.
Every farmer, I saw during a trip of
six week3 in all parts of the state said
that he felt the greatest interest in the
fair and intended visiting Atlanta next
fall. From the expressions I have
heard, I think that the fair will be the
biggest kind of a success. If I didn’t
think so I certainly wouldn’t allow my
company to go to the expense of mak
ing an exhibit.”
'lbis is but one instauce in many
showing the great and growing inter
est in the enterprise.
Interest iu the educational depart
ment is becoming greater each day.
When the committee on education de
cided to adopt a novel plan of getting
the school children of the state to
come to the fair and take part in the
various contests it anticipated nothing
like the enthusiasm that has been dis
played. From present indications no
less than 100 boys and girls will visit
Atlanta to compete for the premiums
offered.
The industrial contests are also as
suming large proportions, and a large
amount of space will be required to
display the work done by boys and
girls.
Among the farm exhibits to be made
by women two are worthy of special
mention just now. One is going to be
made by Mrs. Nellie Peters Black, who
owns one of the most complete farms
in North Georgia; the other by Mrs.
Bryan, who owns a large and prosper
ous farm in northwest Georgia, near
Lookout mountain. Both ladies will
make comprehensive farm exhibits,in
cluding live stock and all other feat
ures which go to make up a good farm
display.
The woodwork and forged iron con
test open to Georgia boys between 16
aud 20 is exciting much interest all
over the state. President Lyman Hall,
of the School of Technology, who has
made the drawings for this interesting
contest, is receiving letters daily from
Georgia boys asking for copies of
them. He Las already sent out a large
number, and the contestants will have
all summer to study the six drawings
of wood features at and the same num
ber of forged iron features and prac
tice with a view to getting in their
work next October.
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Lv. Baltimore, “ 815 pm 25tam
Lv. Washington, “ 4 40pm 4 30am
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