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ACCIDENTS OF THE 4TH
Celebration Claims the Usual
Number of Victims.
BIG EXPLOSION ,4T CLEVELAND
Caused Seven Deaths and In ured Thir
ty-Six Deaths and Two Hundred In
jured in New York City.
Cleveland. Ohio. Seven persons
were killed, at least two oihers were
fatally injured, and fully thirty more
were severely hurt, as the result of
a fire in S. S. Kresge’s Five and Ten
cent store.
The store, which is located near the
busiest corner in the town district,
was well filled with shoppers, mostly
women and children. Practically all
of the clerks were young girls. Al
though the explosion of the fireworks
caused consternation, the real panic
did not occur until someone shouted
‘•fire.”
Xew York City.—Fortunately the
death list was not as large as some
previous years. Six deaths were re
ported and there were over 200 per
sons injured. The hospitals and
board of health stations were filled
with patients all day. A number oi'
the injured were so seriously hurt
that they may die.
Atlanta, Ga. —The usual blank car
tridges that turned out to be only too
little snam, resulted in Young Marvin
Eckerle, Jr., age 7 years, being shot
in the abdomen and seriously wound
ed. The little boy was shot by a com
panion, Edwin Gray, 10 years of age.
Homer Davis of Dalonega, Ga., was
killed near his home there. He plac
ed his gun on the ground and when
he stooped to pick it up in some unac
countable manner it discharged,
wounding him so badly that he died
before a physician could get to him.
New Orleans, La.—Allison Jack, a
well known young athlete of New Or
leans, died as a result of injuries re
ceived at a track meet July 4th. When
preparations were being made for
throwing the hammer Jack was acci
dentally struck on the head by the
hammer, and his skull was cruhed.
He formerly lived in Michigan. He
was also prominent in athletics
throughout Texas, serving as an in
structor at San Antonio for several
years.
Lemans, Ohio —Wilbur Wright, who
has selected this place for his experi
ments, was painfully scalded on the
chest and arms July 4th as a result of
the bursting of a water tube with
which he was testing the mechanism
of his aeroplane. The boiling water
spurted over Mr. Wright, who lost con
sciousness under the overwhelming
pain. He quickly recovered, however,
and declared that he was not badly
inpured, and insisted upon walking
to his hotel. The aeroplane was not
damaged.
Reports from the different sections
of the United States tell of many
minor accidents caused by toy pistols,
fireworks, etc., but taken as a whole
the number of fatalities caused by
celebrating the “Glorious Fourth,” re
ported this year, is below the number
reported in former years.
BURIED FOR NINETY HOURS
Convict Makes Desperate Effort to
Escape—Nearly Dead When Found.
Nashville, Tenn. —Practically buried
alive for ninety hours without food
or water was the experience of John
Robertson, a young; convict, who
sought to escape by hiding in a hole
beneath the floor of the pattern room
at the prison till opportunity offered
to get over the wall. When his dis
apperance was noted the prison au
thorities put guards on the walls and
locked up Robertson's cell mate, cut
ting off a chance fo supply of food
and driijk. Incidentally the man’s
hiding place was covered over with
iron pots. Someone remembered the
hole under the pattern room and it
was investigated, Robertson being
found nearer dead than alive.
COUPON DAY in mm.
$176,967,371 is Paid by New York
Banks—Crowds Throng Banks.
New York City.—July first was div
idend day as the semi-annual payment
day for the big corporations is called
and the various railroad and indus
trial concerns whose fiscal agents are
the banks, paid out through the latter
$176,967,371. *
The $176,967,371 paid out makes a
remarkable good showing considering
the conditions of the past nine
months. Railroad dividends this July
1 were $36,037,908 As compared with
$37,722,663 in 1907 and the dividends
paid by industrials were $32.567,063.
as compared with $40.549,356 last
) ear.
PHILIPPINES COMMISSION.
Appointments Announced—W. C. For
bes. Vice-governor.
Washington, It. C. —The bureau ot
insular affairs of the war department
announced the following appointments
made by the firesideut:
Vice-governor of the Philippine Is
lands. \V. Cameron Forbes, of Massa
chusetts, now a member of the Phil
ippine commission.
To be a member of the Philippine
commission ar.d secretary of finance
at and justice of the Philippine Islands,
Gresrorio Araneta, of Manila.
To tie members of the Philippine
commission: - Newton W. Gilbert, ef
INdiaua. and Rafael Palm, a native
of .the Ph.lippinc Islands.
f ALL TO GET THEIR MONEY.
Depositor* in New York Banks Are
Being Paid.
New York City—Eight months af
i ter the passage of the financial
troubles of last fall, the depositors of
the dozen banks and trust companies
which closed their doors have receiv
ed their money at least in part, or in
the case -of the few which have not
yet reopened or have gone into liqui
dation are about to receive it.
The Hamilton bank, which was one
of the first of the institutions in which
the attorney-general’s departmeent in
tervened to reopen, has already an
ticipated all of its deferred payments
which under the original plan were
to have extended into November.
The Knickerbocker Trust company,
which was the largest of the suspend
ed institutions, and reopened like
most of the others under a deferred
payment, plan, anticipated the first
two deferred payments on June 1,
paying io per cent, of which one
half, under the original plan, would
not have been paid until September.
The Oriental bank, which was one
of the four to close its doors in Febru
ary, paid its depositors in full prelimi
nary to liquidation. Of the other three
which then suspended, the receiver of
the National Hank of North America
has paid depositors 50 per cent in
dividends, and the receiver of the
New Amsterdam National has paid
25 per cent.
The Mechanics and Traders deposi
tors have practically agreed to a de
ferred payment plan, which will be
put in force when the percentage of
assenting depositors is brought up to
90
Of the Brooklyn banks which closed,
the Jenkins Trust company, reorgan
ized under the name of the Lafayette
Trust company, has anticipated pay
ments; the Borough banjc and the
Home bank have reopened and the
Brooklyn bank and the International
Trust company have reorganized.
LUMBER COMPANY FAILS.
Receiver Appointed for J. L. Philips
& Cos., Also Subsidiary Companies.
Atlanta, Ga. —Acting upon the com
plaint of J. C. Magness of New York
city, and other stockholders, Judge
Emory Speer, in the United States cir
cuit court for the southern district of
Georgia, southwestern division, has
appointed J. M. Wilkinson of Valdosta
receiver for the properties of J. L.
Philips & Cos., the Tallahassee Saw
mill company and the Cherokee Saw
mill company, all of which concerns
have their main offices in Thomas
ville, Ga.
The Tallahassee Sawmill company
and the Cherokee Sawmill company
are subsidiary companies of J. L. Phil
ips & Cos., anil the combined assets of
these companies aggregate consider
ably in excess of a million dollars.
Their liabilities are placed at $235,000.
The action is a friendly one and
brought by the stockholders to enable
the defendant companies to tide over
a period which has brought financial
embarrassment,.
The companies own large tracts of
timber lands in both Georgia and Flor
ida and own small logging railroads
in addition to large sawmill plants.
EARNINGS OF RAILROADS.
Decrease $108,608,346 This Year in
Earnings of Leading Railroads.
New York City.—The gross earn
ings of the railroads of the United
States for the fiscal year ending June
30 were estimated by the Wall Street
Journal to amount to $2,477,304,656,
a decrease of $108,608,346 as compar
ed with last year. The net earnings of
the railroads are estimated at $718,-
542,578, a decrease of $121,273,302.
These estimates are based on the
earnings of 105 of the leading rail
roads for ten months or more.
The paper estimates, also, during
May and June the gross receipts of
the railroads are showing a net loss
at the rate of $600,000,000 a year in
gross and of $200,000,000 in net Warn
ings.
ARRESTED AS A SPY.
H, Barrington, American, Probably
Executed in Guatemala.
San Francisco, Cal. —Passengers
who arrived from southern ports on
the steamer City of Sydney tell of the
arrest by officials of the Guatemalan
government, of H. Barrington, said to
be an American citizen, as a spy. The
arrest was made at San Jose de Gua
temala. when Barrington went ashore
in t-hat city from the City of Sydney.
Barrington went to Central America
from New York many months ago.
The passengers who tell of the arrest
say they expect to iiear that he has
been put to death, as they claim that
he having papers in his possession
the evidence against him was’ plain
when taken which proved beyond
doubt that he was a spy from Salva
dor. The papers, they say, proved
him also to be inn a conspiracy
against President Cabrera.
PENNY A WORD CABLEGRAMS.
They are Coming Soon. Says John
Henniker Heaton.
London, England.—John Henniker
Heaton, who was the first to announce
the conclusion of a penny postal ar
rangement between Great llritain and
the United States, made a significant
statement at the Fourth of July din
ner of the American society, with re
spect to a penny-a-word cable rate
across the Atlantic. He said:
“We will shortly- have a penny-a
word cablegram. 1 am confident that
with the assistance of great electri
cians whom vre have interested in the
matter, this soon will be accom
plished.”
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
“Uncle Remus,” Poet, Journalist,
Philosopher, Passes Away.
BELOVEDBYOLffAND YOUNG
His Stories Entertain People the World
Over-Noted Personages Among
His Many Friends.
Atlanta, Ga.—Joel Chandler Harris,
journalist and author of the Uncle
Remus stories, died Friday, July 3, at
his home in this city.
The noted author was surrounded
by all the members of his family, who
had realized for several days that
death was inevitable. He was totally
unconscious for twelve hours preced
ing his death. Cirrhosis of the liver
finally developed uremic poisoning
and the case became hopeless.
Joel Chandler Harris.
Joel Chandler Harris, had his first
taste of newspaper life on The Coun
tryman, a weekly newspaper publish
ed by Joseph Addison Turner, on his
plantation 9 mileq from Eatonton, Ga.
After leaving the plantation he was
engaged in newspaper work in Sa
vannah, Macon and New Orleans. He
practiced law at Forsyth, Ga., at the
same time doing some editorial work.
He joined 1 the staff of the Atlanta
Constitution in 1876 and in that paper
“Uncle Remus” stories were first
published.
Uncle Remus was born under Geor
gia skies, whose blue was reflected in
his genial, kindly and merry eyes. In
on December 9, 1848, he
first saw the light.
On the plantation of his first em
ployer, Joseph Turner, he received the
rudiments of education. In the well
selected library of this prosperous
farmer, to which he had unrestrained
access, he imbibed a knowledge of the
English classics. Hanging around the
cabins of the negroes, listening to
them at their work in the cotton
fields, and observing them in their
hours of recreation, he gained an in
sight into their character, and heard
the weird stories which had hitherto
been handed down from generation to
generation of blacks bv tradition. To
Uncle Remus was left the task of giv
ing them permanent form in English
literature.
When the President and Mrs. Roose
velt visited Atlanta in the fall of 1906,
Uncle Remus was the object of their
special Interest. President Roosevelt,
In his address said; ‘‘Presidents may
come and presidents may go, but
Uncle Remus stays put. Georgia has
done a great many things for the
union, but she has never done more
than when she gave Joel Chandler
Harris to American literature.
Telegraphic messages of condolence,
personal calls and sweet floral gifts
poured into his home in Atlanta, Ga.
Strong men wept as they testified
their affection for the Sage of Shady
Dale, whose departure into the eter
nal shadows they couid not realize.
Loving mothers cried as they looked
upon the pulseless figure of the little
man whose Bre’r Rabbit and Bre r
Fox and Bre’r B’ar had delighted
their little ones in the days of their
earliest childhood. The greatest gift
of ‘‘Uncle Remus” was the love of lit
tle children. He gave theai laughter,
aud the gentlest amusements of
childhood, and now he has their great
er gift of tears. Sleep found him
trustful and placid, well-loved and
well-loving to the end. He wrote his
own peaceful epitaph when he said of
a- comrade newly departed: “Having
made a friend of Life, we may be
sure he made a friend of Death.”
The last rites over the remains of
Joel Chandler Harris were conducted
Sunday, July 5. Psalms were said at
the residence and were immediately
followed by the funeral obsequies at
St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic chapel.
Father Jackson officiated at the ser
vices. The interment was in West
view cemetery, Atlanta. Ga.
STANDARD OIL PENSION
System Described in Hearing of Ous
ter Suit in New York.
New York City—The-pension sys
tem of the Standard Oil company, of
New York, was described at the hear
ing of the government’s suit to dis
solve the corporation. William R.
King, general sales agent of the com
pany, testified that few of the em
ployes ever leave, because this sys
tem provides that any of them may
retire at the age of 65 on 25 per cent,
of their average salary for the past
ten years , for life. It also provides
that any employe of twenty yeears'
service may retire when 60, receiv
ing for ten years half of his average
salary for the preceding tea years.
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JACKSON, GEORGIA
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