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About The Butts County progress. (Jackson, Ga.) 18??-1915 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1908)
SHIP WITHOUT COUNTRY Pirate Goldsboro Arrives at Mo bile From Honduras. FLYING UNITED STATES FLAS By Courtesy of Federal Government. $200,000 Worth of Stolen Goods Were Recovered. Mobile, Ala. —Captain William Swa ttidge of the steamer Goldsboro, that arrived in port from Puerto Cortez, in an interview with the Assoeiateu t'ress representative here, said: “I was sent out from New York city by E. D. Boise, receiver for the estate of the Export Shipping company of New Jersey, to bring back the pirate ship Goldsboro. “I received all possible assistance from the United States and British consuls at Puerto Cortez and from the natives in general, but had some little trouble with the Honduran govern ment in obtaining clearance papers. I notified the state department at Washington and Acting Secretary Adee notified the American consul at Puerto Cortez to give me clearance papers as well as a permit to hoist the American flag.” The steamer is a Clyde liner of 461 tons, and is about twenty years old. The federal government has agreed to permit the Goldsboro's return on the most favorable terms, waiving all port charges, etc., on the assumption that the stolen goods making up her cargo have never left their rightful owners. Even so, the costs of recovering the merchandise are heavy, and of the $150,000 or $200,000 involved it is said to be hardly likely that the owners will be able to get back more than a quarter. Aside from the merchandise which they had purloined, the Baileys had with them about $50,000 in coin and bank notes, including 3,000 English sovereigns. The price paid for the Goldsboro was $17,500. Bailey secured at Puerto Cortez reg istry for her and papers for himself as a Honduran citizen. He further obtained permission for the landing of the steamer’s cargo on the ground that the goods were the property of Hon duran citizens, and he had already purchased a banana plantation of 12,- 000 acres of which 5,000 acres were under cultivation, paying $20,00U in gold for the land. Then he sailed for Ceiba and Tela, where a little la ter the Goldsboro was overhauled by the Tatumbia. She had begun to dis charge her cargo, but it is said that the whole cargo, with the exception of 400 cases, about 30 tons, had been recovered, and that those cases were under guard and would be brought north later. The ship without country and flying the flag of the United States by per mission, is in a bedraggled condition. The vessel needs general overhauling, all the paint being off and the decks in bad condition. t H£il KILLED AND 20 INJURED. By the Explosion of a Boiler in a Rolling Mill. York, Pa—Eight men were killed, nearly a score more or less seriously injured and thousand of dollars’ worth of ipro-perty damaged by the explosion of a boiler in the York rolling mill. The dead are; John Clency, York; Benjamin Bre mer, Harry fceachrist, Paoli Puci, Al fred Struck, John Slossman and Har ry Feger, all of Columbia, Pa.; Ed ward Eiger, Marietta, Pa. The boiler, which was located in the center of the mill, exploded with out a moment’s warning. The mill had been closed down for about a week and two score of men were engaged in making repairs to an engine. The men were working close to the boiler and when the explosion occurred not one of them was able to make his escape. The shock was so terrific that it demolished a large portion of the mill and sent heavy pieces of twisted iron and metal in all directions. WORK FOR MANY MEN. More Than $2,0C0,0C0 Worth of Work Awaiting the Idle. . Pittsburg, Pa.—Calling for 24,000 tons of steel plate, an order has been placed with Pittsburg steel mills, forc ing idle machinery into action and summoning more men back to work. With Pittsburg steel plate manufac turers figuring on contracts for up ward of 7,000 tons of plates for steel oars for railroad requirements, thei e comes another contract that is to be awarded in a brief period. New York City has awarded the nr in round figures a value amounting contract for the construction of the Amityville pipe line, anew water sup ply main of steei Six Persons Cremated. New York City.—Six persons were burned to death in a tenement house £ t 332 East One Tundred and Twelfth street, four children between th e ages of 8 and 12, an infant of two months, and an aged man. Other oc cupants of the tenement were injured jumping from windows, three se verely. Mother Driven to Suicide. St. Louis, Mo.—Mrs. Annie Heine tuann, hearing gossip that her 15-year °ld daughter was planning to marry secretly, decided that this was the climax of other troubles and ended bar Jife with carbolic acid. DEBATEDJONSTITIJTICN Of the United States-No Better Gov erned Than Empires. lion '' for“constitu tion at tho p Wh ch has been ia ses discussin- f ranco ' Hl itish exhibition cousutufin, esuarda Ior the various Pl ' oVide for mailllail “ l;a“ P r a !l erty aild responsibility, and Wlth a debate on the coir tS ii° n ° f the United States. Durin Üben' ; vvm° f ri^ 6 discussiou Professor towbnrifi DlCey o£ oxf °rd referred nar'Slv - d9SCnbed as a -melancholy UnitJrt ist , He S3id that * whlle the ta-e ,m> S 6S Slaited With an advan ,a®f unkllown 111 any other country— no P L constitutio designed with more care, more skill and more sue tfn almost an y other eonstitu vowif 6 lberalely desi sned by man— Jet the candid American citizen would bay that, on the whole, they are little better governed than the best Europe an state; while the candid European critic would put it that the United ■states is not much worse governed than the best states of Europe. That v.as the paradox of a country filled with noble people who were governed *n a way that would not for a moment be tolerated in Paris, London or Ber lin. The city of Washington is well ad ministered, continuel Professor Dicey, because it was not democratically gov erned. It is governed by commission ers appointed by congress, a body not nearly so democratic as the crown of England. Professor Dicey expressed admiration for the supreme court, which he said was “one of the most successful institutions,” but he doubt ed whether the balance of power ex isting in the United States could ex ist in any European country. Guyot, the French political econo mist and former minister of public works, thought the constitution of America has many advantages for a democratic country, and, though pos sibly too rigid, on the other hand, it prevented wild enterprises. CALL IS ISSUED TO CMMINALS. Convention of Lawbreakers is Plan ned for New York. New York City.—Police headquar ters has heard that Dr. Ben Reilman of Chicago, who calls himself "King of Tramps,’’ and who has spent the last twenty years doing rescue work among the inhabitants of the under world, has issued a call for a "con vention of criminals’’ to meet in this city. To that part of Dr. Reilman’s program which is directed toward the obtaining of safe conduct and immu city from arrest of the delegates while they are in the city, Inspector McCafferty in charge of the detective bureau made strong objection. “I’ll order the arrest of every crim inal who arrives for the convention,” said Inspector McCafferty, "and I am not yet sure that I won’t arrest those persons who are getting up the affair. We want no assembly of criminals in this city.” Dr. Reilman says: "It was suggest ed that all of the criminals will agree to no criminal act while they are in the city.” „ According to the prospectus of the convention criminals from all parts of the country are to meet here to dis cuss their relations to society, to the police and to one another. BATTLESHIPS REACH AUCKLAND. American Fleet Drops Anchor in New Zealand Port. Auckland, New Zealand. Sixteen white ships, comprising the battleship division of the United States Atlantic flet under command of Rear Admi ral Charles S. Sperry, arrived here at q- 40 o’clock Sunday morning and an chored in two columns in the road stead abreast the city, after a voyage of thirty-three days from San Ira Ci When the warships entered the har bor the usual salutes were exchanged between them and the shore batteries and the Australian flagship Powerful and the cruisers Encounter and Pm neTlie city is elaborately decorated in honor of 'the visit of the Americans, and thousands of persons have al ready come into the city in order to ls£t in paying homage to the offi cers and men. OUR HAG SHOT DOWN. Loyalists Fire S ,ar! StriP “ Over Tabriz Consulate. __. TANARUS) c—The flag of the Washington, U. • . Tabriz Enl,ed ee C „°St down by foyab in b r.o.•**<* re r ited flee was wounded. and t 0 have The oot !"! nt IS of SU disturbances been an incident of the a ; S bo.b cases .. have 'been accidental. FATAL DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. on. Killed, one Mortally Injured and a Number Hurt. Ala—Silas Maddox was BreWt °“\i brother Lewis, fatally Killed and h■ b Qn of dynamite trein C were from bucket of dX e . Silas Mad spark f rom , , throw the bucket *S.TS? “•*- ldst “ “ abont 150 en aboard the train. A French system of alternating cur rents, said to permit the use of twelve keys on one wire, was laid before the international telegraph conference at Lisbon. Water, looked upon as the tamest of liquids, is as great an explosive as dynamite under certain conditions. In one day water breaks up more earth and rock than all the gunpowder, gun cotton and dynamite in the world do in a year. Experiments have recently been made with an inflammable paste on bullets. When the bullet leaves the muzzle the paste ignites, leaving a stream of smoke zehind it, and en abling the marksman to watch its course and, if necessary, correct his aim for the next shot. Prussic acid is popularly known as the most deadly poison extant; but cyanide of cacodyl is far more dead ly. A millionth part in the atmosphere of an airtight cage caused the instant death of four dogs in succession. The vapor from a few grains diffused in the atmosphere of a roomful of people would cause the death of all present. —Montreal Standard. Trial is now being made in Paris of anew system of paving. Steel is laid on a bed of cement after the fash ion of wood paved ror.ds, the inter stices, too, being. filled with cement. It is hoped in this way to avoid the dangerous holes which scon appear in wood paving, owing to the unequal wearing of the blocks. The new pave ment is expected to last for tea years. inhabitants of a well known region of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, a district famous throughout the Alps for its large breed of cattle and its brand of milk, are spoken of as “cof fee-faced and flat-chested." At the last military draft 18 young mountain eers were called up, and of these all but four were rejected. This result is said to be not uncom mon in these Swiss valleys, where cattle and milk arc the main sources of income. The peasant feeds himself too much on the milk and grudges himself the meat. To prevent damage to underground pipes by electrolysis an insulating material for the pipes themselves has been placed on the market. It Is a covering of a specially prepared as bestos paper in laminated form, thor oughly impregnated and coated with a waterproof insulating compound. It acts as an insulating medium between the pipe and the ground, and, being made of Indestructible materials, is permanently durable. The covering is from one-quarter to three-eights of an inch thick and is made in three-foot sections to fit various sizes of pipes. All joints are sealed by strips and insula ting cement which are furnished with the covering. For sleeve couplings, special sleeves are provided. Shields for the Soldier. Recent experiments at Sheffield, England, suggest the possibility that in this cenutry shields may once more form an important pa>-t of the equip ment of an army. Steel shields, three millimetres in thickness and about 150 square inches in area, have been de vised, which afford complete protec tion against bullets fired from the service rifle at a range of 400 yards. The small size of the shield, which weighs only seven pounds, requires that the soldier shall lie prone on the ground in order to be sheltered. Each shield has a loophole for the rifle and studs at the sides, so that a series of them can be linked into a continuous screen. The idea is that by the use of such shields the necessity of digging trenches may be avoided. —Harper’s Weekly. Thomas Paine. The service that Paine rendered the cause of liberty has never been recog nized at anything like Us full value. His pamphlets, "Common Sense,” and "The Crisis,” wrought powerfully for the Revolutionary cause, and while no one can measure up along with Wash ington in tnose “days that tried men’s souls,” the good that Paine did was immense. In the darkest time of our struggle, when hope and courage were at the low-water mark, the publication of his “Crisis” put new life into the situation and lent Washington’s sword a power it might not otherwise have shown. —The American. The Warning Beacon. The Bachelor and the Benedict were wending homeward their weary wa y. “Ah. yo u lucky married man!” sighed the Bachelor. “Think of hav ing a hearthstone, a real home, a waiting welcome! Look—there i3 a light in the window for you!” "Gee! So there is!” muttered the Benedict. “Well, there’s only one way out of that—let’s go back to tha club.”— Home Herald. DO NOT OVER-LOOK | THE GASOLINE ENGINE You make a mistake if you think you cau run your =| farm economically or profitably without a gasoline engine. 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IJ jj For sale by CARTER & WATKINS Georgia Schoc>’ | S NSBr In order to afford the young men 1 of Georgia high class technical educa tion, fifteen free scholarships are f m assigned to each County in the \ State. Take immediate advantage formation necessary for prospective tensive and new equipment of . Shop, Mill, Laboratories, etc. New Library and new Chemical Labora- I ■y. The demand for the School’s grad tes is much greater than the supply Next session opens Sept. 30th. For further information address K. G. ITHESON, A. Mf LL. D* Pres, Atlanta, Ga. ■— LABOII WORLD. A delegation of French leather workers Is making a tour of American factories. Hebrew painters and paper hang ers of Boston, Mass., are reforming their old union. San Francisco (Cal.) Building Trades Council has organized an ath letic association. , Carpenters of the City of Mexico have organized a labor union affiliated with the A. F. of L. The National Brotherhood of Op erative Potters has voted to fix an age limit for all apprentices entering the trade. More car men are wearing the union button in Chicago to-day than ever before in the history of the or ganization. White and negro longshoremen at New Orleans, La., have signed a five year contract with the stevedores and steamship agents. A seceding' organization from the Brotherhood of Railroad Employes has taken the name of Brotherhood of Railroad Station Employes. The next convention of the Inter national Brotherhood of Bookbinders will be held during the second week in June, 1910, at Cedar Rapids, lowa. St. Paul Typographical Union Ins decided to make a label exhibit at the Minnesota Slate Fair, and wiii ask the Minneapolis union to join with it. The railway trackmen are planning for the establishment of a home for their aged and indigent members. _ It is proposed to acquire a tract of ÜbO acres near Fort Scott, Kan., as the lo cation for the institution. 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