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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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. * * * 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. # 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 • * 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." - 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.