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Georgia Cuilings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Costly Blsze in Swainsboro.
Fir** in Swainsboro Saturday night
caused a loss of $75,000. A total
of but $20,000 insurance was carried.
The origin is supposed to have been
incendiary. The fire started in Joseph
Ehrlich’s dry goods store and that,
the McLeod building, the Mason Drug
Company’s store and Mason and Clark
skating rink were destroyed.
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Free Delivery for FitzgeraW.
Free delivery service, for which it
has been contending for some time,
will be granted Fitzgerald on May
Ist. The amount of business transact
ed dotei mines what towns shall en
joy free delivery, and the fact that
It is to have a gratuitous delivery
of its mail speaks well for Fitzger
ald’s commercial importance.
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Loan for Jamestown Exposition.
The curators of the Georgia His
torical Society of Savannah will lend
the Georgia exhibit at Jamestown
many of the valuable records and
other historical treasures it possesses.
This is in answer to the request of
Mr. W. S. Yeates, executive commis
sioner for dieorgia to the Jamestown
Exposition. Mr. Yeates appeared be
fore the Historical Society and his
request was referred to the curators
for action.
Wilson Seeks Pardon.
Application has been made to the
president for a pardon for J. F. Wil
son, until recently postmaster at Pou
lan, who is now serving a year’s sen
tence in the United States peniten
tiary at Atlanta. January 6, ol
this year, an indictment was return
ed against Wilson charging him with
embezzlement from the government,
and he was sentenced by Judge Speer,
upon pleading guilty, to pay a fine
of $227.69, "and serve a sentence of
one year and one day.
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To Contest Dispensary Election.
It seems now that there is to be a
contest of the recent prohibition
election in Terrell county which re
sulted in a majority of 154 against the
dispensaries. Those who are propos
ing to make the contest have em
ployed counsel, and are making prepa
rations for a vigorous contest. Un
der the statute, twenty days are al
lowed in which to begin the proceed
ings, and it is understood that the at
torneys representing che advocates of
the dispensary are taking the neces
sary steps to put the case in the
court.
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For Arson and Murder.
Governor Terrell has offered a re
ward of S2OO in a peculiarly aggravat
ing case, for the arrest of the un
known party who is supposed to have
murdered Mrs. Mahala Reese, who
lived near Mitchell, in Glascock coun
ty, and then set fire to and burned
the house containing the body. The
crime was committed on January 5,
last. In the ashes of her home was
found the body of Mrs. Reese, un
recognizable, the arms, legs and head
missing. She was known to have had
a large sum of money concealed. It
is supposed that robbery was the mo
tive for the crime. The relatives of
Mrs. Reese have offered a reward of
$l5O and the governor has supple
mented this with S2OO more.
Postmaster Sent to Pen.
“Personally; I would much prefer
spending one year and a day in the
Atlanta penitentiary than to be im
prisoned for six months in any county
jail I ever saw.” This was the strong
praise that Judge Speer, in the fed
eral court at Savannah, gave to the
government prison at Atlanta in sen
tencing W. H. Peeples, postmaster at
Kingsland, Camden county, charged
with the embezzlement of money or
der funds, who plead guilty.
The sentence of the court was that
he pay a fine equal to the embezzle
ment., and suffer imprisonment of six
months in jail, or one year and a day
in the Atlanta penitentiary. It was
in explanation of the latter portion
of the sentence that Judge Speer
recommended the Atlanta institution
so highly as a place of temporary
abode Peeples was accused of em
bezzling money order funds aggregat
ing about $290.
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Savannah Appropriation Stands.
A Washington dispatch says:
The Million dollar appropriation for
the Savannah harbor has been adopt
ed by the senate committee on com
merce, despite the opposition of
Chairman Frye. The committee has
also approved additional appropria
tions for about SIOO,OOO. Senators Ba
con and Clay appeared before the
committee to urge the claims of Geor
gia for appropriations to make river
and harbor improvements.
All the items appearing in the river
and haibor bill that passed the house
were adopted and the following ad
ditional appropriations allowed;
For the Ocmulgee and Altamaha,
$45,000 additional, making a total of
$90,000 for these streams.
For the Oconee between specified
bridge near' Macon, $5,000.
For the Savannah river, SC,OOO is to
be expended above Augusta and $30,-
000 below, this being an increase of
$13,000 over the former figures.
For Plantation creek in Mclntosh
county, $40,000 is appropriated.
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Farmers’ Sons Predominate.
The registry book of the University
of Georgia, at Athens, showing an en
rollment this session of nearly four
hundred and forty students, has a
great deal of interesting information
on various lines.
This book shows that the church
preferences of the boys are led by
the Methodists with 15-6, follovtad by
the Baptists with 125; Presbyterians,
59; Episcopalians, 38; Jews, 19;
Catholics, 14; Christians, 5; Luther
ans, 5; Congregationalists, 1; Unita
rians, 1.
Two hundred and ninety-seven of
the students are active members oi
the church, which is considered a
high percentage.
Of the parents of the boys in at
tendance upon the university, 74 are
graduates of different colleges.
In regard to the occupations of
the parents of the boys, 106 are far
mers, 81 merchants, 33 lawyers, 21
physicians, 17 manufacturers, 16
bankers, 6 editors, 2 dentists, l real
estate man, 2 brokers, 6 teachers, 5
bookkeepers, 5 preachers, 1 druggist,
1 machinist, 2 salesmen, 3 mechanics,
8 insurance men, 3 county officers, 2
contractors, 6 cotton factors, 9 rail
road men, 1 revenue agent, 3 civil en
gineers, 1 musician, 1 carpenter, 1 en
gineer, 3 druggists, 1 telepbontman.
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When a Road is Not a Road.
There is a difference between a
public road and a road used by the
public, bolds the court of appeals in
a decision handed down at Atlanta
a few days ago.
This rather keen distinction is
pointed out in connection with a case
brought before the court involving a
transgression of the legislative act
making it unlawful for any person to
appear in an intoxicated condition on
a public street or highway.
A defendant had been convicted in
the county court for having been
drunk on a roadway which is in
daily public use but which is not
maintained, repaired and controled by
county authorities. Such a road as
this, holds the court, is not, under
the law, a public road, and therefore
a man who gets drunk on such a
road is not subject to punishment
under the provisions oi the act.
DEMOCRATS BEGIN FILIBUSTER
To Forestall Ha9tv Action by Senate on
Immigration Measure.
The suggestion of the development
of a full-fledged filibuster resulted
Thursday in the senate, when an at
tempt was made to force the adop
tion of the conference agreement on
the immigration bill. This report car
ries a provision intended to aid in
the settlement of the California-Jap
anese problem and speedy action was
desired by administration senators.
Expressing sympathy with this ob
ject, Senators Bacon, Tillman and
Culberson first endeavored to have
action delayed until Friday that they
might study the report. When this
was refused the filibuster began. Mr.
Bacon held the floor for two and a
half hours. Mr. Tillman remarked
that he was preparing to make a
ten-day fight on the floor against the
report because he objected to being
run over as with an automobile.
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST CAPTAIN.
McVey and Members of His Crew Accused
of Deserting Women and Children.
Direct charges were made at Prov
idence, R. 1., that Captain G. W. Mc-
Vey and the members of the crew
who put off in a life boat from the
sinking Joy line steamship Larch
mont, had basely deserted passengers,
to whom they owed their first duty.
All of the surviving passengers
who are able to talk declare that the
captain’s boat was the first to leave
the ship; that women were roughly
hustled out of their path by mem
bers of the crew, who sought only
their own safety, and that when the
captain’s boat pulled away from the
sinking ship more than a hundred
men, women and children could be
seen on the deck waving their arms,
pleading and crying out to be saved.
TWENTY DIE
IN THIS HORROR
Fast Eectric Train Flies Track in
Suburbs of New York City.
UNFORTUNATES MANGLED
Majority of Victims Were Women Com
posing a Theatre Matinee Party.
Coaches Leit the Track.
Twenty dead, two fatally hurt and
145 others more or less seriously in
jured, is the result of the wreck of
an electric express train on the New
York Central railroad at 205th street
and Webster avenue, New York
City, Saturday night. Of the large
number of injured, fifty, according to
the hospital and police reports, are
seriously hurt and the death list may
be increased. Most of the others are
suffering from lacerations or shock
and will recover.
The train was filled with matinee
crowds and commuters, and was
made up of two electric motors, a
combination baggage and smoking car
and four passenger coaches. It left
ihe Grand Central station at 6:15
o’clock with the first scheduled stop
at White Plains. It was running at
high speed, probably 60 miles an
hour, w’hen it reached Woodlawn
road, where there is a sharp curve.
The motors and the second car took
the curve safely, but the following
coaches were derailed and tumbling
on their sides, were dragged 100
yards before the coupling gave way
and the four cars piled together in
ruins at the foot of a low embank
ment.
A sheet of electric flame enveloped
the rear car, and for a moment threat
ened to roast the victims pinioned
in the debris. The flames did not,
however, spread, and the horror of a
holocaust was avoided. As the cars
fell they smashed the third rail,
breaking the current and ending the
danger from this source. In the crash
which followed, there was death for
many, while practically every one in
the four coaches received injuries of
some sort.
Many were ground to pieces, and
for hours identification was almost
hopeless. As the cars went over many
of the passengers were thrown into
or through the windows, and so cut
and maimed.
Of those instantly killed, by far
the greater number were women.
Many were mangled beyond recogni
tion. Ambulances and surgeons from
every hospital in Bronx borough, aud
from Bellevue in Manhattan, respond
ed to hurry calls, as did the two
fire engine companies and the police
reserves from many stations.
Many of the injured were quickly
extricated from the wreckage, while
others were so pinioned that they
could not be taken out for some time.
Those most seriously injured were
hurried to hospitals, while coroners
took charge of the dead as fast as
the bodies were recovered.
Fire started in the overturned cars,
but the flames were quickly extin
guished, and the firemen lent their
aid to the injured.
The cause of the wreck has not
been officially determined. At the
Grand Central station there was an
inclination to blame the accident to
the spreading of rails, but later It
was said that it was believed that
the axle of the first passenger coach
broke, throwing the cars from the
track.
DELEGATES TIGHT ON TLOOR.
Lively Scrimmage Occurs in Cklahoma
Constitutional Convention.
The lie was passed between Dele
gates Baker and Haskell, and a per
sona! encounter between the two
members enlivened the proceedings of
the Oklahoma constitutional conven
tion Saturday. In the debate over
the adoption of the railroad report,
Delegate Baker acused Delegate Has
kell of being a railroad representa
tive, which was resented.
CONSGLItMILU CO I ION LUCK CO.
Shows big Increase ol business in i906
Over Previous Year.
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The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Consolidated Cotton
Duck Company was held in Baltimore
Monday and largely attended. Tim
statement of earnings for the year,
ended December 31st, last, showed
the gross income to be $10,024,824.29,
an increase of $666,867.40 as com
pared with 1905, and net earnings of
$1,301,881.39, an increase of $384,-
70fi.31, as compared with the prev
ious year.
REPORT WAS ERRONEOUS
No Intention to Probe Cotton Associa
tions Along With the Exchanges,
bays Gartield.
A Washington special says: The
latest move iu the campaign of the
cotton exchanges to obstruct the pro
gress of the investigation which is
ueing made by the bureau of cor
porations by uirecuon of a congres
sional resolution is the report winch
uus been industriously circulated bj
Imnds of the New York cotton ex
cnange that the Southern Cotton As
sociation will also come under the
probe of the department of com
merce and labor. The story was pub
lished throughout the country Sat
urday that such an investigation was
contemplated and that it would be
shown that the combinations of south
ern farmers to boom the price of
the south’s staple was inimical to
ihe interests of the producing sec
tions of the> country and in defiance
of law.
Commissioner Garfield, of the bu
reau of corporations, was seen at liis
office and denied that any such steps
had been taken. He also denied that
they even contemplated an investi
gation of cotton associations. Knott
Smith, the assistant commissioner,
also expressed ignorance of any such
movement; though he said the bu
reau was not necessarily confined in
the scope of its investigations. It
is true that the bureau of corpora
tions might under authority of law
investigate the organization, conduct
and management of any corporation
or combination of corporations en
gaged in interstate commerce, except,
of course, railroads, which come un
der the provisions of the interstate
commerce clause.
The department might even invest!
gate the southern cotton associations
in conformity with their authority to
gather and publish useful information
concerning corporations engaged in In
terstate commerce on the ground that
such combinations affect Interstate
commerce. The main point at pres
ent is that no such investigation has
been undertaken. No such investiga
tion was contemplated in the Liv
ingston-Burleson resolution directing
an investigation into the cotton ex
changes of the country, and Colonel
Livingston was informed that none
was at present contemplated.
When the Livingstin-Burleson reso
lution was pending Representative
Lovering, of Massachusetts, declared
it should provide also for an investi
gation into the southern cotton asso
ciations of cotton farmers, but no at
tempt was made to provide for this
in any resolution passed by the sen
ate.
PALMEIIO STATE DISPENSARIES CLOSE.
Caroiinans Enjoy a Briaf Season of Total
Proh bitiofi.
The South Carolina house of rep
resentatives, Saturday, by a vote of
78 to 28, adopted the report of the
conferenca committee, which for 36
hours had been working on defects
in the local option bill. The report
also was adopted by the senate by
u vote of 25 to 10, and the act was
signed by Governor Ansell at once,
the state dispensary thus passing
out of existence with Saturday.
Governor Ansel, late Sunday night,
issued a proclamation instructing all
dispensaries to close their doors Mon
day and remain closed until the
county boards are appointed and take
charge of the dispensaries.
This means that tne dispensaries
will not open their doors at all again
until the counties have taken charge.
It is likely that the state will have
complete prohibition for several days.
DEFIES GOVERNOR HUGHES.
Superintendent oi Insurance for New York
Siate Refuses to Quit.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,
says: Otto Kelsey, superintendent of
insurance for the state of New York,
in a letter to Governor Hughes, has
declined to accede to the governor’s
request that he resign his office, to
which he was appointed ip May ct
last ve ir by Governor Higgins.
SAFEBLOWIRS GET IN THEIR WORK.
Vault of County Treasurer in Alabama is
Looted ol Large Sum.
The vault in the county treasurer’s
office at Hamilton, Marion county,
Ala., was blown open Friday morn
ing about 3 o’clock and looted of be
tween six thousand and eight thou
sand dollars. Several thousand dol
lars were left behind.
It is supposed that expert safeblow
ers did the work. A reward of SSOO
is offered for the arrest of the rob
bers.
REPORT WINS
IN THE HOUSE
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Members Overwhelmingly for New
Immigration Bill.
DEBATE BRIEF AND LIVELY
Measure, as Agreed Upon ia Confer
ence, Gives Presidem Wide Dis
cretion in Use of “Big Stick."
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A Washington special says: Un
der suspension of the rules, the house
Monday adopted the conference re
port on the immigration bill, which
was agreed to by the senate Saturday,
although the Democrats generally
made a party issue against the pass
port provision as well as to that re
quiring air space in vessels. The vote
stood ayes 187, noes 301. Four lie
publicans voted against the bill, and
lour Democrats voted for it.
Representative Burnett of Alabama
made points of order against the
first provision, which undertakes to
legulate the incoming of Japanese
coolies, by giving the president au
thority to refuse to recognize their
passports, and also against the whole
of section 42, having relation to the
air space in vessels bringing immi
grants to the United States.
As to the first proposition, Mr. Bur
nett insisted that the authority con
ferred by tlie section cn the president
put ! .n his hands a “big stick,’’ which
he coukl wield over a state. He de
clared that it gave the chief execu
tive a power 1 which was never con
templated by the constitution, nor by
the enabling act of any sovereign
state.
As to the second proposition, it
was Mr. Burnett’s contention that
the air space provision properly be
longed in a bill relating to navigation,
and had no part in a bill regulating
the immigration of aliens into the
United Stales
Mr. Burnett asked the speaker if
the whole Chinese exclusion law
could not be repealed by a conference
report.
"Oh, why does the gentlemen ask
about that which might, could, would,
or should happen?’ replied the
speaker, amid laughter.
Mr. Williams, of Mississippi, desir
ed to warn the people of California
of something which they already
knew and that was that the views
of the president was not their views.
“This man to whom you have lerc
the discretion in the matter of Japa
nese immigration is one who nas al
ready recommended the naturaliza
tion of the Japanese,” said Mr. Wil
liams, •’! am w:fh the people of Cali
fornia on the question of separata
schools.
“And I am with them on another
question,” continued Mr. Williams. "1
want the Pacific coast kept a whits
man’s country (applause), and I want
ail this country, as tar as it can
be, to be a white man's country, not
merely because I believe the Cau
casian is superior to other races, but
because this Is our land, the land of
our traditions and our Ideals, and 1
know that, the influx of another race
means another race problem for an
other portion of this republic, and an
other social warfare.
“I want to say that every woe
which this country has suffered has
resulted from the landing of the first
slave ship at Jamestown.” (Applause.;
ASSLKtS CO I ION IXPtKfi.
Provision is Made lor Salaries of Special
Agents to Work Abroad.
The appropriation of $20,000 for the
employment of experts to work abroad
to increase the business in cotton
products, which has been in confer
ence for several weeks, hus been
finally agreed upon.
The conference report containing
the item was signed Monday after
noon. The whole appropriation for
extending foreign trade in Ameri
can manufactures is $50,000.
RACE Rial AT RAILROAD CAMP.
Whites and Negroes Clash and Several of
the Latter are Reported Killed.
A report reached Roanoke, Va., on
Thursday night that a race riot was
in progress at a railroad, construc
tion camp near Thaxton, Va., about
15 miles east of Roanoke, and that
three or four negioes had already
been killed.
A number of armed men from a
Roanoke detective agency have been
hurried to the scene off the disturb
ance.