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CHOLERA IN THE ARMY Troops in Philippine Islands Are Placed Under Quarantine. 60 MATHS IN 24 HOURS Officer# of the First Cavalry and the Philippine Sccuts Have Been Stricken. Situation is Serious. Manila, P. I.—Cholera has broken out among the troops at Camp Greg|. Three scouts and one civilian have died from the disease and the camp has been placed under quarantine reg ulations. Lieutenant Jones of the First calvary and Lieutenant Muldoon of the Philippine scouts, have been stricken. The situation with regard to the cholera outbreak in the province of Pangasinan, on the island of Luzon, is very serious. Ninety-three cases have been reported in the last twenty-four hours, sixty of which have proved fa tal. Th > collier Caesar, has arrived with the submarines which are intended for this station on board. SUNDAY SCHOOL tiMtNTION. Comes to Close—Delegates Elected to Pesce Conference. Louisville, Ky.—After a final day of drive and rush to finish tne program, the workers, sweltering in a tempera ture of 98 degrees, tne international Sunday School association closed its twelfth triennial convetnion at the ar mory with a session given over largely to miscellaneous addresses and the picking up of loose ends of business The final hour was given over to pray er and song, and despite the stilling heat, Lie enthusiasm of the delegates mounted higher than as any time dur ing the convention. The armory was well filled for the closing session, hut numerous vacant seats in the dele gates’ section showed that many had already left for home. The principal event at the closing session whs the election of two dele gates to the next world's peace con ference at London. The association, by a practically unanimous vote, de cided to send H. J. tloinze of Pittsburg and Justice J. J. MacLaren, of To ronto.. a am law. Much Gcod is Being Accomplished by Pure Food Law. Washington, D. C.—The public prob ably does not realize the benefit It Is deriving from the operation of the pure food law which is administered by the department of agriculture. Inspectors in all the principal cities of the United States are constantly on the lookout for meats and meat pro ducts that are thought to be below tile standard, or to contain adultera tions of an injurious nature. Samples of ail such products are secured and forwarded to Washington for a chemi cal analysis by the biochemist* division of the bureau of animal industry. An average of forty samples of such arti cles is received daily for inspection. Tiie percentage of rejections lias con stantly decreased under the opera tions of the law, which has result, cl in a better grade of meat being placed on the market until a very small per centage of the samples sent is con demned. It is the op in ton of the offi cials of the department that the law has worked wonders as a deterrant and that packers and ftthers have found it expedient to improve the quality of the goods placed on the* market. SHERMAN IS ILL Patient it Holding His Own—Opera tion Will Not be Necessary. Cleveland, Ohio. Representative James Schoolcraft Sherman, republi can candidate for vice president, iias been removed from the home of form er Governor Herrick to Lakeside hos pital, a sufferer from gallstones and is reported in an official •bulletin as holding his own. if the patient’s condi tion continues to improve, the bulletin said, it is not likely that an operation for the removal of the gallstones will be necessary. The physicians state that Mr. Sherman’s well-known ab stemious habits have given him much bodily strength to resist the ravages qf the dis h"?: W. R. LEEDS IS DEAD. American Financier Passes Away Sud denly in Paris. Paris, France.-r-W. U. Leeds died suddenly at the Ritz hotel, in this city, Leeds was a well known financier, arid was prominently identified with the Rock Island interests and with other, large enterprises for years. He had been in poor health for several years. ANOTHER SPANISH HEIR. Son Born to King Alfonso and Queen Victoria. Madrid, Spain.—A son was born to King Alfouso of Spain and Queen Vic toria, formerly Princess Ena of Bat teuburg. I ileir first son was born on May lu, 1907. King Alfoaso was radiant with joy when he announced the birth ot au other son to the few persons waiting In the adjoining room. The king, on learniug that a condemned criminal was to be executed la the morning, immediately signed a pardon in com memoraticu of the birth of tue \wince and telegraphed to the warden of the prison, ord-.iag him to stop the exe cution. TEE PROSPEROUS SOUTH. J Pdany New Industries Organized Re cently Speaks Well for South. Chattanooga, Tenn. —The accom panying list shows the more important new industries established in the southern states recently. A'abama —Florence, $50,000 store works; SIO,OOO lumber company. Barnwell, $15,000 manufacturing com pany. Russellville, electric light plant; water works. New Decatur, $21,000 machine company. Mobile, $50,000 chemical works. Huntsville, $15,000 canning factory. Florida —Orlando, $50,000 fertilizer company. Jacksonville, $15,000 distil lery. Georgia—Macon, $12,500 mining company. Mississippi—ss,ooo lumber com pany. Brooklyn, SIO,OOO warehouse company. Greenwood, veneer factory. Philadelphia, SIO,OOO electric company. Goodman, SIO,OOO warehouse company. Tula, $7,000 lumber company. North Carolina —Wilmington, $20,- 000 lumber company. Rockingham, $5,000 transit company. Winston-Sa lem, $125,000 canning factory; $150,- 000 granite company. Concord, $20,- 000 laundry. Haw River, $25,000 mo tor car company. Clemmons, SIO,OOO telephone system. Wise, $25,000 gran ite company. South Carolina —Easley, waste Arm. Darlington, $500,000 cotton mill. Sumter, $45,000 land company. Tennessee—Nashville, SIOO,OOO trust company. KjiJ.ocviille, SIOIGVO wood working plant. This report is verified by the Tradesman. RACE WITH TIME. Exciting Experience of Woman in Ef fort to Catch Steamer. New York City.—Mrs. Robert S. Mc- Cormick, wife of the former American ambassador to France, was the victor fifteen minutes in a one-thousand mile race against time. Asa result she was enabled to keep an engagement to sail for Europe on the steamship Kaiserine Auguste Victoria. Mrs. McCormick had engaged passage on the big steamer some tlm-e ago, hut her de parture from Chicago was delayed un til the last moment, when it was found that there would be a margin of only fifteen minutes between the arrival of her train at Jersey City and the de parture of the steamer from Hoboken, some distance away. Under ordinary conditions it would be possible to make the distance between the places in a fast automobile, but Mrs. McCor mick did not wiioh to take the chance of the train being a little late, and wired ahead a request that the steam er he held to await her arrival. She was informed that this could not he done, as the mail carrying contracts made prompt sailing mandatory. She was informed, however, that a fast tug would be waiting for her at Jersey City, and that she and her baggage would be taken on hoard immediately upon arrival of the train and she would be transferred to the ship in the hay, if possible. Fortunately the train came in promptly on time,, and a few minutes later Mrs. McCormick was on the special tug hound up the river for Hoboken. She arrived in time to climb aboard the Kaiseriine Auguste Victoria just before the .big ship dropped out into the river and started on her voyage. WOMAN MUST DIE. Mrs. Mary Farmer cf Watertown, N. Y., to Be Executed. Watertown, N. Y. —Guilty of murder of murder in the first degree was the verdict of the jury iu the case of Mrs. Mary Farmer, charged with the kill ing of Mrs. Savaraii Brennan. The jury was out three hours. Justice Kogers sentenced Mrs. Farmer to De electrocuted at Auburn prison during the week beginning August 2. The crime for wnich Mrs. Farmer, who is 23 years old, was convicted was most fiendish. Her victim, Mrs. Brennan, who was 55 years old, was her neighbor and intimate friend, and the motive was to gain possession of the Brennan home, deeds of which Mrs. Farmer had forged in October. The crime was committed April 23. Mrs. Brenuan was hacked to pieces with a hatchet and her body stuffed in a trunk. Mrs. Farmer's husband is also un der indictment on a charge of murder in the first degree as accessory to the crime. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS. For the liberty of calling a lady a goat, whom he claimed butted in on the line while he was telephoning an other lady friend, Tom Sullivan paid $15.75 to the recorder s court at At lanta. Ga. Directors of the Louisville and Nashville railroad company declared a semi-annual dividend of 2 1-2 per cent on the company’s stock. The last pre vious semi-annual dividend was 3 per cent. Reports received at Madrid, Spain, from the west coast of Africa con cerning the sinking by a tornado on the upper Congo river of the steam boat Mile de Bruges las May. Of the six Europeans who lost their lives four were caught by cannibalists, killed and devoured. Seventy negroes were drowned. Bishop Charles Henry Brent, of the Philippine Islands, was again elected Protestant Episcopal bishop of Wash ington to succeed Henry Y. Sat ter lee. deceased. Bishop Brent decline! the first election, but the diocesan conven t’on Insisted upon his choice in the hope that he would reconsider his ac tion. A terrific storm which swept over Minneapolis and St. Paul, Mian., de stroyed much valuable property. STATE GLEAMNGS. A rattlesnake, measuring six feet three inches, whose body was as large as a man’s leg, and who w'ore thirty six rattles, was killed in the flatwoods section, near Lexington, by Joe Don nelly, who killed twenty-sijx snakes, highland moccasins and king snakes. Active efforts have been renewed toward opening up the railroad be tween Athens,, Ga., and Anderson, S. C. Those who are on the inside de clare that this railroad is among the early possibilities. All along the line active interest ia being taken. Not to be outdone by the Carolin ians who gave Joe Camion a suit of home-wool clothes or the Texans who marched into the Chicago convention with an enormous pair of trousers which bore the legend, “Texas pants for Taft,” Loins B. Magid of Tallulah Falls, silk-maker, promises to weave Mrs. Taft’s inaugural hail costume from silk raised in Georgia and having no foreign element in its composition. Cordner Smith, one of the most prominent soung men in Washington, was drowned in Fishing Creek. It is believed he was seized with an attack of acute Indigestion, to which disease he was subject, while in bathing and was unable to call for assistance. Charles S. Northen, secretary of the Georgia state senate, has been named by the Hon. Urey Woodson of Ken tucky, who is secretary of the national democratic executive committee, one of the assistant secretaries for the democratic national convention, which will assemble in Denver, Cos!„„ July 7,* 1908. Professor Hugh T. AlfrLend has re signed the principalship of the Dublin scnools on account of being elected professor in the Gresham high school at Macon. As the result of falling from the train, from which she was alighting, Mrs. Charlie Mills of Griffin was pain fully, though not seriously, hurt. E. H. Hamby was re-elected super intendent of the Cuthbert schools. The teachers namedare Miss Hettie Tiscn of Cuthbert, Miss Louise Alston of Clayton, Ala., Miss Clyde Stovall, Columbia, Ala., Mary Glen, Edgewood, Isabelle Williams, Cordele, Mrs. E. H. Hamby, supernumerary. The .hoys of Cuthbert have oranized a brass band with Prof. E. M. Cole man as instructor. They elected offi cers as follows: Leland S. Bussey, president; E. M. Coleman, vice presi dent; Chas. A. Moye, secretary and treasurer; E. M. Coleman, W. H. Moye, Jr., and Frank Stanford were elected to draw up the by-laws and regulations. In conformity with the terms of a before-the-primary bet, in which the “Hoke Smith” men of the city were to serve a “crow eating” supper in case Hoke Smith failed to get the renomi nating vote of the state and a like supper by the “Little Joe” men should the governor be returned, a number of “Joe Brown” men each with an invit ed guest, was treated to a sumptuous repast at the home of Mr. P. T. Calla way by tile “Hoke Smith” men of Washington. It was the most unique and enjoyable occasion of its kind ever held in the city. The city court jury of Moultrie gave a verdict in favor of B. F. Bryan and against the Union Pinopolis saw mills for SIO,OOO. The suit was for $15,000 and was one of the hardest fought cases that has ever been tried in the Moultrie courts. Bryan was a track constructor for the company, and ■was on a roadway train that was wrecked last year. He received se vere injuries, but has partially- recov ered and is at work again. The democratic convention of the first senatorial district in session at Atlanta, selected M.r. W. F. Slater nominee of the party for state sena tor. The congressional convention ,in session at Columbus, which nominated Judge W. C. Adamson to succeed him self without opposition, named the fol lowing executive committee for the the fourth district: Talbot county, T. H. Bussey; Harris, G. N._ Murrah; Muscogee, S. D. Baldwin; Marion, T. B. Rainey; Troup, E. T. Moon; Heard, O. A. Moore; Qoweta, Y. L. Stallings; Chattahoochee, Hubert Howard; Meri wether, C. L. Davis; Carroll, W. F. Brown. At the alumni luncheon of the Geor gia School of Technology given on the school campus, Hon. S. G. McLendon, chairman of the state railroad com mission, delivered a thoughtful talk on the subject of the “Critical Periods in American History.’’ Andrew Price, a well known citizen of Oconee county, who was shot by Marshal Sterling of* Bishop, Ga., two weeks since, is dead. He had been under treatment at Athens for two weeks. The United Daughters of the Con federacy of Sylvania have let the con tract for the erection of a Confederate monument at that place. Announcement was made of the or ganization of another banking com pany for Americus, beginning busi ness in July. Fifty thousand dollars is the capital stock employed, and this amount is largely oversubscribed al ready. Experienced and conservative ■business men are interested, a fact largely insuring success of the new in stitution, which gives a total of five banking houses. Americus banks show' capital stock and deposits ex ceeding a million and a half dollars, a rapid increase appearing annually. A public rally of the Farmers' Un ion of Spalding county will be held this year at the Experiment station, on the 25th of July, at which time President Duckworth promises to have some good speakers for the occa sion. A Happy Family When you fix .upon having a good Insurance policy, your mind is at rrest, your wife is touched by your and even the baby sees there’s something of importance going on and joins in the general good feeling. That’s the best thing aboutapolicy=-it’s the one settled, -afe investment in this world of trade changes. See me. GEO. CARMICHAEL JACKSON, GEORGIA Tybee by the .Sea GEORGIA’S GREATEST SEASIDE RESORT Offers the greatest attractions for a Summer Outing, Fishing, Boating Dancing, Surf Bathing, Skating Bowling, and many other forms of amusements HOTEL TYBiEE Under new management, has been thoroughly over hauled and refurnished and is new throughout Splendid orchestra, Fine Artesian Water Fresh Fish and other Sea Food. STUBBS & KEEN, Proprietors Also The New Pulaski, savannah '#'• •i- -y. *y •a* *yv, *y Take an Outing VIA Southern : Railway THE RESORTS OF “The Beautiful Sapphire Country” and “The Land of the Sky” are cool and inviting UNUSUALLY ATTRACTIVE LIST OF Summer Resorts For complete information in regard to rates, schedules, etc., address G. R. PETIT, T. P. A., Macon, Georgia. GO TO Middle Georgia Lumber and Man’g Do. H. F. GILMORE, Manager For All Kinds of Building Materials FOR GOOD WORK AND LOW PRICES Hard brick, 85 cents; Soft brick, 75 cents; Lime 90 cents. Fine stock of flooring. We make all kinds of Sash, Doors. Blinds, Screens, all kinds of mouldings, brackets, baluster, etc. All kinds of turned and sawed work. See us when you want any building material. Advertise in Your Home Paper For the Very Best Results.