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ASSEMBLY ADJOURNS Georgia Lawmakers Close Their Labors and (io Home. brief of work done Extra Narrowly Averted *;st ihe't v t Moment--Some Bills That Failed. The Georgia general assembly was adjourned sine <lio Sunday morning at 5 o'clock. The bouse, which had hold out strenuously for Boction 16 of lln- tux not, finally, at 4:45, gave in to the, fhiu ('-ure and stand of the h ■ •;> , ■ -id remained throughout : . ?a r*i Hiust the stamping of p< ;. f ue convening of an extra re: ion w.ik narrowly averted by the cooler hvnuß m tho house and'the firmness ol the speaker’s rulings. The calm of the senate remained undisturb ed throughout the night. Section 10 of the general tax act was the bone of contention. The section as amended to suit the house called for the return of all notes, accounts, judgments and choses in action for taxation; tho notes to he stamped by the tax receiver and this stamp to con stitute evidence of their validity. It was this clause that threatened the call of an extra session of the general assembly. This extra session would have cost the state, according to re liable statements, between .$15,000 and $20,000. The senate and the minority in the house opposed the acceptance of the proposed tax and declared that the revenue raised from this source would not pay the co.-t of the extra session. The session just closed is a remark able one in the small number of meas ures of a general application which it places on the statute books. Tho labor of the session is distinctly of a negative character, although among the bills that did pass both houses are some for which, like the Soldiers’ Home bill, a hard light has been made iu years past. The feature of the session to which public attention was widely attracted was the consideration of the depot bill in the house of representatives. The successful effort to defeat the construc tion of the new uuiou station on the property of the state iu Atlanta was led by a few men who doubted the constitutionality of the proposed bill, in that it made use of the public prop erty fund of $432,000. The opposi tion to the depot was based on the claim tkat this fund could not be used except to pay tho principal on the bonded debt of tho state, aud further that the depot should be built by tho lessee of the road and not, by the state. On the last duy of the session tho senate and hou.se took a step which may result finally in depot legislation. This final and unanimous recognition of the necessity for u now depot on the property of the state came in the form of a resolution by Min Gross, of Wilcox, appointing a joint committee of five from the house and three from the senate to confer with the lessees of tho Western aud Atlantic relative to a depot being built by the lessee road. Probably the most important work of the session was the liberality shown in the appropriation bill to the insti tutions of learning under the protec tion of the state. Iu order to meet these increased appropriations the sen ate, at the eleventh hour, added an additional mill to the tax rate for 1901 and 1902 and the house, which had agreed to a rate of live and one tenth mills, accepted the senate amendment and allowed the rate to be fixed at 5.2. Of this 2.1 is to beraisied for the sup port of the common schools aud the remaining 3.1- is to be raised for gen eral purposes, under which head come the institutions of higher learning. The university of Georgia at Athens lias been given $15,000 for two years in addition to the regular annual ap propriation of SB,OOO. This addition al amount is to be used for maiutaiu ance and for repairs aud buildings for the campus. After a hard fight the total appro priation for the Technological school was raised to $56,000, of which 81G,- 000 is to be available only when the friends of the school have raised from outside sources the sum of $25,000 ei- BRYAN TO RE EDITOR. Nebraskan Will Publish a Weekly News paper In Lincoln. W. J. Bryan gave out the statement Saturday that he will establish a week ly newspaper at Lincoln in order to keep in touch with social, economic and political problems. The paper will be called the Com moner, and will defend the principles set forth in the Kausas City platform, Greensboro Sells Ronds. The aldermen of Greensboro, N. C., have disposed of 3135,000 of municipal improvements thirty year live per cent gold bonds to Seasongood and Meyer, •of Cincinnati, 112.17. ther in money or machinery. Tin Technological school is to have an elec tr eat building and < mplete equip ment for its textile department. The Fum of $22,500 for each of the two years ha: 1, ■> given to the State Normal School it Athens and $7,000 to tho North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega. Ample provis ion is made in the appropriation bill fur the Georgia Normal and Industrial College at Millodgevillo and fur the colored school at Savannah. The fight for $1,000,0)0 for the com mon .schools of the state failed on tho last day because the appropriation would, it was urged, bring the state face to face with a serious deficit. The appropriation for the schools was left just where the house had fixed it— sßoo,ooo. With the appropriation for the com mon schools, where it was last year and the year before, and with the tax rafe fixed at 5.2 instead of 5.1 there will be no depreciable deficit in the treasury as a result, of the increased appropria tions, and the usual loan the governor is authorized to make will, it is be lieved, more than place the stifle on a firm financial basis. The passage of the ‘soldi .tf’s Home bill came to a great many as an agree able surprise on account o? the failure of former legislatures to provide for the veterans who are unable to take care of themselves. Thp success of the lpfeasu-o is due largely to the.ef-J forts of Major Gary, of Richmond, fend Senator W. T. Smith, of the thirty fourth. After tho signature of the governor has been given to tbe Soldiers’ Homo bill, tho next step before the prepara- | tiou of the Homo is begun will he the appointment of the board of trustees to govern the instillation. There are quite a number of applicants for for the trusteeships already before Governor Candler, and tb appoint ments will be made soon in order that there may be no delay in the opera tion of the homo. The support of the institution for tho term of twenty years will call for practically $5,000 a yeur. * * SOME HILLS THAT FAILED. Foremost among the bills that failed of a constitutional majority ranks the depot bill, and after that comes the child labor bill, in which perhaps greater interest was taken by the pub lic at largo than in tho last general as sembly. Senator Hiram P. Bell, of tho thirty ninth, made a hard but uphill fight for his measure to divide the taxes of the state, giving to negro education just as much as is raised by the taxation of property held by the colored race. For the second time the osteopathy bill met defeat; this time iu the senate. In the house the bill by Represen tative Wright, of Floyd, to provide dispensaries for cities of 5,000 and over failed of the necessary majority, demonstrating that in the house a full majority of members are opposed to state prohibition. REVENUE REDUCTION RILL Passed tn House of lteprenen tat Ives By Vote of 131 to 155. A Washington special says : The house Saturday passed the war reve nue reduction bill. The opposition sought to recommit the bill with in structions to report back a measure reducing the revenue at least $70,000,- 000; ami including a provision for au income tax so drawn as to escape an adverse decision of the supreme court. The motion failed 131 to 155. There upon the bill was } assed without the concurrence of the Democratic minor ity who refrained from voting. The amendment placed in the bill Friday to tax express receipts was de feated on an aye and nay vote in the house —125 to 139. The peusion ap propriation bill, carrying $145,145,130, was passed in exactly fifteen minutes. Robert W. Wilcox, the delegate from Hawaii, was sworn in immediate ly after the approval of ihe journal. After the oath had been administered many members came forward to con gratulate Mr. Wilcox. The considera tion of the war revenue reduction bill was then resumed and passed as above stated. Queen Had Little to Say. A Loudon special says: “Parliament was dismissed Saturday until the mid dle of February with the reading of the shortest of the queen’s speeches. It was as follows: “My Lords and Gentlemeu: I thank you for the liberal provision you have made for the ex penses incurred by the operations of my armies in South Africa and China. ” SCHOOL GIRLS CREMATED. Normal mnl Training School at Dunkirk, New York, Burned Down. From the smolderiug ruins of the Fredonia Station Normal and Training school, at Dunkirk, N. Y., which was ; destroyed by lire Friday morning six charred bodies have been removed. There were seventy-five young : women students in the building, of whom seven perished. The other victim was the aged janitor. The property loss is $200,000. Workmen while removing debris found five bodies at the foot of a fire escape. They were piled across each ] other and burned beyond recognition. AIRING BGOZ CASE Board of Inquiry Begins faves tiption of Cadet’s Death. PARENTS GIVE IN TESTIMONY Unfortunate'Boy’s Letters Are Presented As Evidence—Board Goes to West Point. A Philadelphia dispatch says: The* taking of teffflmony in the case yf Osc/.r L. Booz, the West Point cadet who died some tivo weeks ago from injuries which bis parents alleged were inflicted at the West Point Mili tary Academy, was begun Monday by the board of inquiry appointed by the secretary of war. Two sessions were held at Bristol, the home of the Booz family, and another in Philadelphia in the late afternoon. /The members of tho board are Generals Brooke, Clbus and Bates, accompanied by Captain Bean, of the Fifth artillery, who acted as recorder. The court sat in the study of the church which adjoins the Booz home stead. The witnesses were William H. Booz, father; Mrs. Sarah Booz, mother; Nellie Booz, sister of the young man; Rev. Dr. Alison, Dr. Weaver, a Bristol physician who at tended Oscar Booz, and several others. The board left for New York Monday night aud from thence to West Point to continue the investigation. Mr. Booz, the father, testified that his son had written home on several occasions that he had been hazed. He entered the academy in June, 1898, and in August he wrote home that he had been in a fight aud had received a pair of- black eves, and that he had been knocked out by a blow over the heart. Mr. Booz said he went to West Point to see his son and told him he must stand it. Oscar told his father he expected to be hazed, but he did not want to be treated brutally. The father said Oscar did not want his mother to know how he was treated. Mr. Booz then told how CKcar had informed him that tabasco sauce had been forced down his throat. Oscar said thp cadets would pull the blankets from him and pour hot wax from a candle on his body. Mr. Booz thought the officers at the academy could stop the brutality, but he would not say they condoned it. He could not un derstand why they treated his son in such a brutal manner. Oscar spent an of last year at home in an endeavor to build up his health. He never would reveal the identity of his perse cutors. Mrs. Booz testified that her pon had written her that West Point was uufit for a young man who wanted to do right and that parents should not send their sons there. Nellie Booz, a sister of the deceased yonug man, testified that in a letter received by the family ou* August 7th Oscar told of the tight he had with an other cadet and that he fought until he was winded. The cadets called him a coward and a disgrace to the corps. If he did not go into the fight, he said, the “fellows would make life unbear able for him.” He asked his father for permission to resign. Oscar de scribed many little indignities which were practiced on him. If he had not swallowed the tabasco sauce he would have strangled. They were holding him down aud he could do nothing else. Dr. J. Solis Cohen, a throat special ist, testified that Oscar had tuberculo sis of the larynx and that when he came to Philadelphia for treatment his case was hopeless. He thought if tabasco sauce had been forced down Booz’s throat it may have made him more susceptible to tuberculosis. Sigmund S. Albert, a classmate of Oscar Booz, said that Booz was not hazed more than any other cadet. He was one of Booz’s tent mates while in camp. He and Booz and other fourth year, men, he said, were made to do “ridiculous stunts,” such as making the upper classmen’s beds and “other nmnanlv and disgraceful” things. What he meant by the latter, he said, was none of the public’s business. One night some fourth year men were forced to opeu their mouths and shut their eyes, when some odo squirted into then- mouths what he believed to be tobasco sauce. MAYOR WANTED TO QUIT. Atlanta’s Chief Executive Sent In Resig nation to Council. The resignation of Mayor James G. Woodward, of Atlanta, was presented to the city council Monday afternoon aud was laid upon the table until Fri day afternoon at 3 o’clock. This was done after a lengthy dis cussion by members of council as to the best disposition to make of the resignation. Some members were in favor of accepting it, others wanted to refuse to accept it, while others favored deferring action until auother day. It was the latter class that won when the vote was takeu. ATLANTA TEXTILt EXPOSITION. Citizens Meet and Inaugurate Plans For a Big Shoyv Dur ing the Year 1902. Tho city of Atlanta, Ga., the citi zens, business houses aud railroads entering the city will Re asked to contribute SIOO,OOO toward a prelimi nary fund fur the purpose of tho In ternational Textile exposition. This definite decision was reached at an enthusiastic meeting of the gen eral textile exposition committee and the board of directors of the Interstate Fair Association, held Mead ay after noon in the rooms of tho Business Men’s League. , That a big exposition should be held in-1902 was positively decided, aud plans were formulated and set in mo tion looking to the acquisition of im mediate coutrol and ownership of the buildings now at Piedmont- park. In cidently a resolution was adopted re commending that a fair be held as usual next fall. If the present plans of the exposition committee are car ried out an interstate fair is guaranteed every year for the next ten years. A central executive committee was appointed with plenary power to form ulate the scope aud a detailed plan of organization, and engineering the gen eral movement for a great textile ex hibition in ]902. The adoption of the above resolution was the most import ant and definite Btep accomplished at the meeting. They were offered by Colonel W? A. Hemphill. DENTIST IS EXONERATED. Whs Charged Willi Trying to Kiss a Young; Ludy Customer. An Atlanta dispatch says: The pro ceedings against Dr. John S. Thomp son, who was arrested on a charge of assault ou Miss Ida Hollingsworth, were stopped in court, the warrant withdrawn and the dentist exonorated. The story of the arrest together with the charges of improper couduct toward Miss Hollingsworth, who had gone to his office to have some dental work done, caused a sensation owing to the high standing of the dentist. # The attorneys on both sides and the parties interested reached a mutual agreement and there will be no further proceedings. * PRESIDENT COMING SOUTH. Ho Will Pas Through This Section on His Way to San Francisco. President McKinley will pass through the south some time next May. The date is not yet fixed, but it will probably be about the middle of the mouth, lie will then be on his way to Shu Francisco, his route being over the Southern railway, the Atlanta and West Point and the Louisville and Nashville to New Orleans, and from there to Sau Francisco by the Southern Pacific. The Pacific coast people have for a long time been endeavoring to get the president to go out there and witness the launching of thebattleship Ohio at the Union Iron works, aud this fur nishes a special reason for his visit at that time. DR. BROUGHTON EXPLAINS. His Charges Against Atlanta Policemen W ere Misconstrued. Dr.L.G. Broughton appeared before the Atlanta, Ga., police board Monday night for the purpose of explaining his remarks in a recent sermon about the mayor aud policemen drinking and gambling at the races. The doctor tuck the position that he spoke of the mayor aud the police conjunctively, and that the word “driuking” referred to tbe mayor, and the word “gambling” referred to the police. He 6tated he had proved that the police were bettiugou horse races, and that that was gambling. The outcome of the meeting was satisfac tory to all concerned, aud the matter was promptly dropped. HUSSAINS FEEDING CHINESE. Over *700,000 Worth of Rico Is Purchas ed For Destitute “Pig-Tails.” Advices from Pekin state that the Russiaus have purchased $700,000 worth of rice, which is being given to destitute Chinese. General Chaffee, the American, is also having a large amount of rice issued and the other nations are displaying liberality. M. De Giers, the Russian envoy, says that Russia is making no excep tion in favor of Christians, because the latter have the least needs. INTEREST MANIFESTED In Brunswick Maritime Congress—Cities Naming Delegates. Official notification has been received in Brunswick, Ga., of delegates to the national maritime congress, having been appointed from Denver, New York, Louisville,“New Orleans, Phila delphia and other places. Interest is growing in the cougress, which con venes January 30th next. The Brunswick board of trade has issued u statement regarding the con gress, -which states that free and uu trammeled discussion will be accorded to all who attend, and the large num ber of delegates booked already indi cates a big success. TRAINING SHIP SINKS fcsre Ilian 3 Hundred Oennsa Cadets Go Down With Her. CAUGHT IN STORM OFF MALAGA. Unable to Stand Heavy Seas Ves sel Breaks Up and Officers and Students- Are Lost. Advices from Madrid, Spain, an nounce that the German training fri gate Gneiseneau lias fonudered of Malaga, sixty five miles fast-northeast of Gibraltar. According to the naval pocket bcok, the Gneiseneau, which was built at Dantzic in 1879, was an iron vessel sheathed with wood, and had a displacement of 2,BsG'tons. She sms 242 feet nine inches in length and forty-five feet eleven inches in the beam. Her armament consisted of fourteen 5.9 inch Krupp breech load ers, two three-quarter inch quick firers, one boat or field gnu, aud seven torpedo beats. Her complement was 461 and she was used for training boys. The Gneisenau foundered at the en trance to the port of Malaga, where she was about to take refuge from the terrible storm prevailing. After the vessel went down only the masts were visible and a large number of cadets could be seem from the shore clinging to the rigging. They were shouting aud signalling for help. The captain and many of the cadets wore drowned. It is believed that forty who left iu one of the ship’s boat3 and have not been seen siuce are also lost. The total loss is thought to be no less than one hundred. Some reports say 140. Forty of thoso saved are badly hurt. The training ship had been at Malaga since November Ist practicing with guns of large caliber. She ha l been previously at Megador, Morocco. KITCHENER REPORTS LOSSES. New British Commander In South Africa Tells Straight Story Of Defeat. A’London special says: Lord Kitch ener reports that eighteen officers and 555 meu are missing from General Clements force. They consist of four companies of the Northumberland fusi leers. Judging from the message these were captured by the Boers. Clements’ casualties December 13th amounted to five officers and nine men killed aud apparently many wounded. Lord Kitchener’s message to tho war department is as follows: “Pretoria, December 14. — Clements brought in his force to Commando Nek unopposed. The casualties were, I re gret to say, heavy—killed five officers aud nine of other ranks; missing, eighteen officers and 555 of other ranks. These latter were four com panies of the Northumberland fusiliers, who were stationed on the hill, and some yeomanry and other details sent up to support them. Names aud na ture of wounds are being telegraphed from Capetown.” Under date of December 15th, Lord Kitchener reports to tho war office from Pretoria as follows: “Clements has come to see me. Ho says the four companies of the North umberlands held out on the hill as long as their ammunition lasted. The Boer force attacking the hill was 2,000 strong, while another force of 1,000 attacked Clements’ camp. By 6:30 a. m. the hill was carried. Reinforce ments of one company of the York shires failed to roach the top. Clem ents’retirement was carried out with regularity, but as many native drivers bolted a considerable amount of trans portation was lost. All their ammuni tion not taken away was destroyed. He reports that all behaved well. Will Compete With Sugar Trust. It is stated authoritatively that the formation in Philadelphia of anew in dependent sugar refining company is contemplated aud that among those interested are citizens who have been identified prominently with the sugar making industry. LITTLE WORK IN HOUSE. BuiiliPM Relating; to District or Colum bia Coninmei a Pay’# Session. A Washington dispatch says: The houso devoted the day Tuesday to District of Columbia business. The whole time was occupied iu the con sideration of a bill to change the ter minal facilities of the Pennsylvania railroad in the city, aud to provide for the elevation of its tracks across the Mall south of Pennsylvania ave nue. The opposition was persistent, but after much filibustering the friends of the bill succeeding in securing a recess until Wednesday to coutiue con sideration of the bill.