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Georgia Cullings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
To Elect Successor tc. Judge Reese.
Governor Terrell has signed an or
der authorizing the ordinary of Han
cock county to call an election for
the legislature, to name a successor
for the place made vacant by the
sudden death of the Hon. Seaborn
Reese. Unde-r the law the citizens
of the county must be given 20 days
In which to prepare for the election.
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For Agricultural Schools.
The first installment of the state's
appropriation for the maintenance of
tno recently established agricultural
college, was mailed from tho state
treasurer’s office the past week in
checks of $2,000 each to the eleven
schools in the congressional districts.
The fund from which the appropri
ation is made is that arising from the
department of fertilizer inspection.
Tho annual amount of the appropria
tion is contingent upon tho income
of this department. Other payments
will be made during the year.
Common School Examination.
A uniform examination for all the
seventh grade children of the com
mon schools of the state will be held
on March 2.1 This examination nas
been held annually in the spring for
several years past, and as an incen
tive to diligence and proficiency, an
attractive certilicate Is given to all
scholars who make 80 per cent or
over. In many counties where there
are schools with only a few pupils
and where certain schools have com
pleted their terms the county school
superintendents have arranged to com
bine these with ether schools so that
all the children may have an oppor
tunity to take part ill this examina
tion.
Warrant for Absconding Ex-Justice.
A warrant lias been sworn out at
Macon for J. Jj*b Means, former justice
of the peace, also tax agent for Bibb
county, charging him with larceny af
ter trust. Mr. Means, who was sup
posed to he very wealthy, has left for
parts unknown.
It h understood that he has dispos
ed of all of his property in Maoon
before leaving, it is charged, that he
bought goods from merchants in Ma
con and shipped them to Atlanta,where
ho sold them.
The las; heard of him he was in
Memphis, Tonn. Efforts will now he
made to locate him. His family has
left tho city
Presentation of Gift Postponed.
A Washington dispatch says: The
silver service which the people ot
the slate ot Georgia have prepared for
the battleship which lias been named
after their stale, will not be presented
to that Vessel until summer
To have the presentation ceremonies
now it would be necessary for (he
Georgia to lie several miles off the
coast, and consequently they have
have l etm postponed until later, when
the weather conditions are likely to
bo good.
Tile Georgia will sail for Hampton
Roals for her two days’ final trial trip
and if no defects are found she will
ho sent at c nee to Guantanamo, Cuba,
to join Admiral Evans* fleet.
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Money Comes for Volunteers.
Governor Terrell has just received
from the United States war depart
ment a check for $18,i112 in part set
tlement of vhe claims of the Georgia
volunteer soldiers in the war w ith
Spain He expects another check for
$! 0,400 in a few days, making a total
of $23 312 awar't.d to the Georgia vol
unteers in settlement of their claims.
As soon as the additional check ar
rives Governor Terrell will be ready
to begin the distribution of this fund
to the soldiers anu officers of the
First, Second and Third regiments in,
tho Spanish war and to the two light
hatteries of artillery.
Members of these commands who
have not already done so should send
their present address to Judge C. G.
Jones, at Cedariown, in order that the
distribution may be made as prompt
ly as possible.
Georgia Keeps Within Law.
John A. Betjeman, chairman of the
executive committee of the Georgia
immigration Association, tees, in the
opinion of Attorney General Bona
parte nothing which will interefere
with the program now being worked
out by the association for the induc
ing of desirable immigration to Geor
gia. In an interview Mr. Betjeman
said:
“The state of Georgia has not ex
pended one cent in paving the pass
age of immigrants either directly or
STOP AT THIS
Zettlep House,
The beet $] .00 a day house
in the city.
253 Fourth Street, MACON, 9-A
Maa. A. L. Zkttler, Propriety**
indirectly. At present we are securing
good results without this. We do not
believe that either in lettei or spirit
has the state of South Carolina been
guilty of any violation of the contract
labor law.
•‘The state of Georgia is acting very
slowly and very cautiously and is noc
taking a single new step without first
obtaining full and competent advice
from federal authorities”
Railroads Get Off Easy.
Thirty-seven damage suit3 against
the Atlanta and West Point and the
Central of Georgia Railway company,
totaling in the neighborhood of S3CO,-
000, were settled in the superior
court at Atlanta 'the past week, con
sent verdicts against the railroads be
ing taken for different sums, aggre
gating $1,045.
In addition to paying this $1,045
In settlement of the claims of the
37 parties, the defendant agreed to pay
the costs of the suits, which will be
In the neighborhood of $lO per suit.
I At an expenditure of less than $1,500
I the railroads have wiped out claims
for damages running between $250,000
and $300,000.
The suits grew out of the wreck at
West Fair street crossing in Atlanta
the evening of June 6, 1900, when a
train tearing a picnic party returning
to AGanta was struck by a Central of
Georgia train and a number of the
passengers were seriously injured.
For the month following the acci
dent, the clerk's office of the superior j
court was deulged with damage suits, |
grownig out of the wreck, it being i
estimated that over 15C suits were
filed and the total sum of the dam
ages asked from the two railroads !
being ovet* $1,000,000.
Suits in which $5,000 damages were ■
usked of the railroads for alleged in- j
juries, were settled for $lO and costs; \
some suits in which SIO,OOO damages j
wero demanded were settled for as low j
as sls, while $125 and SIOO wye the
highest amounts agreed on for settle
ment of any of the cases.
ROBBIR AMI) VICTIVI BOTH SLAIN.
Doubly Fatal Midnight Ousl Fought in Store
Near Columbia, S. C.
C. B. Green, 45 years old, and mar
ried, a merchant of Shandon, a sub
urb of Columbia, S. C.. was waylaid
anu Killed Saturday night by Edward
Marshall, who himself was killed by
Gieen. Robbery was the motive.
Tho shooting occurred about 11
o'clock, but the bodies of the men
were not discovered until about 3
o'clock Sunday morning.
When found, Green’s clothing was
on fire, his body being badly charred
around bis heart and side, where the
bullets took effect and a roll of green
backs were burned in twain.
The feet of the men were less than
a foot apart, showing that they faced
each other when they were killed. At
Green’s right hand lay a 32-csliber re
volver, with four empty chambers.
Near Marshall’s right hand was a 41-
calibcr six-shooter, with five empty
chambers, while a 38-caliber pistol,
which had not been fired, was at his
left hand. Under his body was a well
made leather sling-shot or sand bag,
having two rounds of small shot in
the end. Near his head lay two bur
glar’s masks, one having two bullet
aoles in It, and was clotted with
blood.
Marshall was shot twice through the
head and once through the right
breast, while Green had three bul
lets through his heart.
The finding of the two masks and
three hats leads to the belief that
Marshall had an accomplice, but up to
this time no arrests have been made.
Marshall was 24 years old, unmar
ried and the son of the manager of
the large department store of J. J.
Mlmnaugh of Columbia. The fact that
Marshall had a pistol in each hand,
it is hard to understand how he was
able to manipulate the sandbag.
TO CURB POWIR OF LABOR
France May Be Forced to Enact Some
ttlective Legislation.
Tne city of Paris has resumed its
normal aspect with the termination of
of the big strike of electricians. All
the electric plants arc working.
The puolic is alarmed at the ease
with which a few hundred workmen
at the instigation of the confederation
of 'ahor are able to throw the popu
lation into confusion, and the news
papers print editorials demanding
legislation which will prevent work
tnei engaged in supplying t public
necessity from striking
NEW STATUTE
HURTS SOUTH
Immigration Law Just Approved is
Strict in Provisions.
REVIEW BY BONAPARTE
Old Law Admitted Wittekind Immi
grants But Under the New They
Could Be Excluded.
A statement was issued by the de
partment of justice at Washington
Thursday concerning an opinion sub
mitted to the president by Attorney
Genera! Bonaparte as to whether cer
tain immigrants landed in South
Carolina last fall are legally in this
country. The opinion, in effect, is
that the immigrants were entitled to
admission to the United States and
that they are in this country legally.
The opinion agrees with that render
ed on the same case by Solicitor Earle
of the department of commerce and
labor. The statement says, in part;
“It appears from statements furnish
ed by the department of commerce
and labor that the legislature of the
state created the office of immigration
commissioner and made an appropria
tion of $2,000 for its expenses, for the
express purpose of encouraging immi
grants to come into that state. It
also appears that certain private par
ties made up a fund amounting to
about $30,000 which was placed in the
hands of Commissioner E. J. Watson,
and with these resources he went
abroad and by advertisements and
otherwise collected a considerable
number of laborers or artisans who
were willing to migrate to South Caro
lina, where labor, it is understood, was
in great demand.
“He paid the passage of these peo
ple by an agreement which was after
wards canceled, that they should re
pay him out of their wages from em
ployment he might procure for them.
Under the terms of the agreement
signed by the immigrants and Com
missioner Watson, the latter promised
to find employment for the former,
but the immigrants themselves were
free to reject any particular offer of
employment that might be made to
them.
“The attorney general holds in ef
fect that the original provision® of
the alien contract labor law of ISBS
were not repealed by the immigration
law of 1903, and that after 1903,
whenever passage money had been
paid of any alien laborer who came
to this country, under a previous con
tract to perform labor here, such alien
laborer was not entitled to admission
into the United States.
“Second —This did not operate, how
ever, to include laborers in question,
because, according to the construc
tion placed upon the act of 1885 by
the courts, it was an essential con
dition to a violation of that law to
perform labor, and these laborers do
not appear to have been under any
such enforceable contract.
“Third —That although the passage
of these laborers may have been paid
in pursuance of an offer or solicita
tion of employment, and in violation
of the provision of the act of 1903,
this would not render the aliens them
selves liable to exclusion, as this act
did not contain any provision exclud
ing from admission those whose pass
age money had been paid in viola
tion of its provisions.
“The attorney' general holds, in ef
fect, however, that under the pro
visions of the new immigration act
which was approved by the president,
the immigrants in question could
have been excluded.”
ROObtVlLl’S BOY btRKHJjLT ILL.
Archie, third Son, is Suffering from At
tack ot Diphtheria.
A Washington dispatch says: Archie
Roosevelt, the president’s third son,
who has been suffering from diphthe
ria, for a week past, had a turn for
the worse Thursday; though he has
rallied somewhat, his condition is se
rious.
STRIKERS RESORT 10 VIOLENCE.
Street Car Official* in Louisville Forced to
t all Od Irallic.
The first few hours Monday of the
strike of the employes of the Louis
ville, Ky.. Railway company, which
was inaugurated Sunday morning,
was ma-ked by much disorder and
violence. At l o’clock all attempts
to run cars were abandoned for the
day.
Before this several people had been
injured, stones were thrown througa
car windows, cars were held up and
tbe motor-men aud conductors routed.
j DEATH CLAIMS DOWIE.
Qaeer Character Who Posed as Prophet
Elijah Passes Away, Dishonored,
in City Which He Founded.
John Alexander Dowre, self-termed
i Elijah 111, and prophet of divine se
lection, died Saturday at what was
nuce his palace in Zion City, 111., Shi
loh House.
His death was lingering. The faith
ful prayed until the very end that he
might yet be spared. He led them
continually in their supplications until
at last his feeble voice ceased and he
breathed his last.
About his bed stood several of the
faithful and one or two men who have
fought him with great vigor in his
last months of life. These men re
pented at the deathbed; they asked
for forgiveness.
Some of the faithful asked him if
he would permit a physician to attend
him, in the hope that the life might
be prolonged.
“No, mv dear friends. God is calling
me no Him. I am going to my reward.
Call the faithful about me that they
may see the end.”
Word was sent to Dr. Gladstone
Dowie, the son, and his mother, the
other two of the family. In the hour
following the struggle they had de
serted him.
To the last moment Dowie did not
asked for either of them. He had fre
quently had words with his son.
there was no forgiveness. He died
with a feeling of anger against them,
feeling of anger against them.
Dowie came to his end in the
house in which he ruled the strangest
city the world has ever known. He
died there a poor, broken old man,
shorn of his power and influence,
where once he stood the leader.
John Alexander Dowie, who claimed
to he the Prophet Elijah reincarnated,
general overseer of Zion City, and the
head of the Christian Catholic Church,
was born in Edinburg, Scotland, in
1847, and went with his parents to
Australia in 1860.
He first began to advance his doc
trines in Sydney. While preaching on
street corners he became so boister
ous and obnoxious that he was ar
rested and put in jail.
He was actually driven out of Aus
tralia, and landed in San Francisco
in 1888. Finally, in 1892, ho thought
it best and safest to move again, and
went to Chicago.
In spite of his previous moves,
Dovvie had done well fifinancially. He
always took excellent care of that
end of his religion, and he was pre
pared to make a great battle in Chi
cago. It was in Chicago that success
began to come to him.
The downfall of Dowie may be said
to date from October, 1903, when he,
with the hosts of Zion, invaded New
York.
New York would not take Dowie se
riously. The little red-faced fat man,
hopping about on a platform, clad in
gaudy robes, was taken as a joke and
his audiences laughed at him. The
blow to Dowie’s vanity was a severe
one, and after a dismal campaign,
he gave up the fight and returned
to Zion. *
The next scheme of the “Prophet”
was a “New Zion” to be located in
Mexico. He sought to establish a
branch of the “Christian Catnolic
Church” there, but Mexico would
have none of him. The tide had set
against him.
Then Zion arose and asserted its
independence. “The Prophet” was
hurled from power and Overseer Voli
va was put in charge of the city, its
resources and its immense debt, to
save what he could for the people.
M&RO RlDiiltl) BY BUCKSHOT.
Barricaded llimsult in House and Was K II •
ed in Resisting Arrest.
Surrounded in a house at Amerieus,
Ga., and fighting to the death like
a demon at bay, Bill Reese, the negro
desperado who Sunday morning mor
tally wounded Police Officer William
Morris, was shot to pieces at seven
o’clock Sunday night, his body being
fairly riddled with buckshot and pis
tol balls.
COLOR LINE WILL NO I BE DRAWN.
Coid Comfort Given While Postal Clerks on
Western Roads.
The post office depart ment dees not
intend :o draw’ lhe color line in the
matter of white and negro railway
marl cle.-lis working together on the
same runs Although an intimation
has been given rhat white ciorks in
tbe mid lie. west are pieparing to re
quest f'.e detriment to effect a
change so as to put rhe negroes on
runs wuich will not bring them in
proximity to the whites, it was given
nut that nc such discrimination could
or woulu be made. .
WHIPPING WAS BLESSING!
New Spanish Minister Says Defeat of I
His Country By United States I
Proved Good Thing.
“My mission to the United States 1
is to help cement new ties of friend,
ship,” said Senor Don Ramon Pina, '
the new Spanish minister, who arriy.
ed in Washington Friday. “I have not
come here to remind the American
government that it defeated us in a
eoniiiet, hut I have come here on a
mission to help both countries live
down the unpleasant past.”
When his attention was called to a
recent communication Admiral Dewey
addiessed to a correspondent, in
which the hero of Manila Bay said
that that he had won his victory over
the Spanish fleet by “divine aid,” Se
nor Pina said:
“Please do not consider me irrev
erent, but if Admiral Dewey won his
victory over the fleet of oar navy in
Manila Bay by ‘divine aid,’ I think
it must have been the god of war—
the aid that iron gave him in con
quering wood.”
Senor Pina says his country has
prospered greatly since the war, and
intimated that defeat by America real
ly developed in a benefit to it, rather
than a disadvantage.
“It caused the people to awake to
the realization,” he said, “that ihey
must be up and doing to keep pace
with the times, particularly with
American progress, and following this
both political and commercial chang
es have greatly improved.”
Senor Pina was presented to Sec
retary Root Saturday and warmly
welcomed. His presentation to the
president will be delayed for some
time because of the illness of the pres
ident’s son, Archie,
RURAL MAIL ROIIItS INCKtASE.
Latest Report Shows that 37,323 are in
Operation at Present t.uie
The report on the operations of
the rural delivery service up to March
1. 1907, made public at Washington
Friday by the fourth assistant post
master general, shows that the total
number of petitions received up to
that date was 59,920, upon which 15,-
701 adverse reports have been made,
and there are now in operation 37,323
routes, on -which 37,174 regular rural
letter carriers are employed.
On March 1 of last year there were
pending 3,130 petitions. During the
year 2,693 petitions were filed, malt
ing a total of 5,823 petitions handled,
and now only 705 are pending. Of this
number 284 have been favorably act
ed on and ordered established, leaving
the net number of petitions pending 1,-
411.
CAN RtiUaE 10 SiHVc NEGROES.
Connecticut Supreme Court Decides a Suit
liruuijlU on col.tr line.
The Connecticut supreme court has
just handed down a decision to the
effect that the barbers in that state
need not shave negroes. The decision
was reached on an appeal from a su
perior court decision in Bridgeport,
by a colored man, who brought suit
against a barber of that city. The
barber refused to shave the negro,
bis defense being that his barber shop
was not a place of public accommoda
tion within the meaning of the law.
The supreme court upholds that con
tention.
Bib MZ. WON IsY GUUSRIt.
Guessed Number o i Admissions to
i*uria’n t ci.r And $25,000.
After two years of litigation, de
cision has been rendered by Judge
Mcllhsnny, in the circuit court at
Clayton, Mo., awarding to M. Logan
Guthrie of Fulton, Mo., the prize of
s2s,uvO in a conic, nr me person who
entered the nearest guess to the total
number of paid admissions into the
world’s fair. Guthrie guessed 12,804,-
616, which was announced as the ex
act number of admissions. Several
other claimants appeared and pay
ment of the prize was n&ld up pend
ing settlement of the different claims.
Guthrie instituted suit in 1905.
JO bUPPdtaS lilt OPIUM VICE
Ur.ce St m Makes Initial Aleve With Ccn-
CuretiCi of interested Powers.
The United States government has
taken the initiative in inaugurating a
new war cm the opium vice. Follow*
ing a careful sounding of Great'
Britain, China and Japan, the three
countries directly intern ted. Assist
ant Secretary of State’ Bacon, with
the approval of President Roosevelt,
has extended an invitation tc all the
powers having possessions in the Fa-
East to participate in a national con
ference which shall devise measures
for the suppression of the use .of
opium.