Newspaper Page Text
GEORGIA.
Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State-
Kick on the Elkins Bill.
Resolutions have bepn passed by
Ihe Atlanta chamber of commerce and
by the Atlanta freight bureau con
demning in strong terms the Elkins
bill to legalize pooling by railroad com
panies, now pending in the United
States senate.
* * *
Mills Will Not Consolidate.
Carrollton oil mills, Mandeville oot
. ,tan mils and Free State Fertilizer
works, owned and operated by local
capitalists, which recently made appli
cation for charter of consolidation,
have withdrawn the same and aban
doned the project to consolidate with
in the past few days.
* * *
Reduced Rates Wanted.
Chairman E. T. Brown, of the state
executive committee, has applied to
the railroads of the state for a reduced
• rate for delegates to the state conven
tion, which meets in Atlanta on July
2d. It is very probable that the rate
will be granted as it has been the cus
tom of the railroads to give reduced
rates to the state convention for sev
< ral years.
* * *
The Marietta Chautauqua.
The Marietta Chautauqua will open
June 29 with the brightest prospects
of any year since its organization.
The utmost care has been exorcised by
the management in the selection of
lecturers and other attractions.
The Crescent City band, of New Or
leans, under the leadership of Profes
sor Car) I-eake, will furnish music dur
ing the week.
• * *
Central’s Highest Trestle Burned.
One of the highest trestles on the
Chattanooga division of the Central
railroad, located at the foot of Dug
down mountain, between Felton and
Youngs stations, about D miles south
of Cedartown was destroyed by tire
last. Saturday morning. The origin of
the fire is unknown, but it is supposed
to have caught from sparks from an
engine passing.
* • •
Rural Delivery for Carroll.
Carrollton and Carroll county are to
have three free rural mail delivery
routes on July 1. One has been in
operation since January Ist. This one
to the northeast in a populous and
thriving district, serving 476 people.
Another one will go to the south, by
Bonner's mines and Lowell, serving
425 people* and still another to the
southeast serving 4.5. Two special
box delivery- star routes have also
been provided for the county this sea
son.
4 * *
Nature Study Recommended.
Chancellor lflll in his annual report
to the board of trustees strongly rec
ommended several very Important
changes in the agricultural course of
the University of Georgia. He recom
mended a course of nature study
which will place the student in closer
contact with all forms of vegetation
and animal life.
Another innovation In this course,
he suggested a correspondence course
with the young farmers of the state
who are unable to go to college for
■their information yet are anxious to
farm on scientific principles.
The third and most important rec
ommendation in this course was for a
shorter term in the agricultural
course.
• 4 4
Will Not Resign Soon.
It is now stated that Justice Hal T
Lewis, of the supreme court, will not
send in his resignation to the governor
before the meeting of the state con
vention ou July 2. Should Justice
Lewis determine to resign later on.
the question will arise as to whether
the present governor or his suedbsor
will have to make the appointment.
This, of course, cannot be determined
until the contingency presents itself.
At alb events, the fact that Justice
Lewis will not resign before the meet
ing of the state convention, makes it
impossible that that body should have
anything to do with the matter. Asa
result the race for the position which
has so suddenly sprung up is necessa
rily all off: and the some ten or a
dozen candidates will have to await
another time to make an effort to se
cure supreme court honors.
**4 4
Editors to Meet in Quitman.
The ltith annual meeting of the Geor
gia Weekly Press Association will be
held in the city of Quitman on the 15th
and lfith of July, and from there the
party will go to Tybee for a week's
outing at the coast.
President W. S. Coleman, of the Ce
dartown Standard, is arranging an in
teresting program for the meeting in
Quitman, and the hospitable people of
the town are making extensive prepa
rations for the entertainment of their
guests. Quitman is a great convention
city, and the 125 editors and their la
dies will receive a genuine Georgia
welcome from this south Georgia city.
The presence of the ladies at the meet
ing and at the seashore will add much
to the pleasure of the annual gathering
and oMting.
All those who desire transportation
to the meeting in Quitman and to Ty
bee should write President Coleman
at once so that their requests may be
filed immediately with the roads. No
delay should be made by any who
wish their applications to receive at
tention by the roads.
4 4 4
Augusta Strike a Fiasco.
In more respects than one the strike
of the textile workers of Augusta,
which is now practically ended, has
been a most peculiar one. It has not
been declared ended officially and
probably never will be, but more than
half of the strikers have returned to
work and the probability ig that all
will go hack except a few irreconcn
ables. The mill has practically all the
help its needs, and even an overplus
In some departments last week.
There was no concession made by
the mill management, and the strlk
! ers returned to work just as they had
quit it. But it was a costly lesson to
learn that a strike, ordered by an out
side party where the workers con
cerned have no grievance and where
arbitration is rejected, cannot auccted.
The mills were Idle about six weeks,
entailing a weekly wage loss to the
operatives of about $35,000. The mon
ey sent from Fall River to the strik
ers amounted to about $6,000, which,
of course, was all lost.
4 4 *
Can Find Mo Authority.
Unless Col. J. 11. Estill, of Savan
nah, can show Chairman Edward T.
Brown, of the state democratic com
mittee, some law or party precedent
or submit some good, sound reason
which would indicate, the committee
has no authority to order a recount of
the counties named by Colonel Estill
in his protest, there will be no recount,
of the votes in the counties mentioned
by the defeated Savannah candidate in
formal appeal to the state committee.
Chairman Brown replied to Colonel
Estill's letter requesting a recount, ex
plaining neither he nor the commit
tee as he Understood the situation had
authority on which to order a recount.
The letter is practically the same as a
declination on the part of the state
committee, and it is now up to Colonel
Estill to show precedent by which the
committee can be guided, or some law
under which they can proceed.
Hon. Dupont, Guerry, of Mactn, judg
ing from a telegram which he sent to
Colonel J. H. Estill Saturday, evident-'
ly desires a recount of the votes in
certain counties.
Several days ago, when Colonel Es
till made his protest to Chairman Ed
T. Brown, of the state executive com
mittee, Mr. Guerry, in an interview,
stated that he did not have sufficient
information to approve or disapprove
of Colonel Estill’s course. Saturday,
however, the Atlanta Journal received
the following telegram from Mr. Guer
ry:
“Macon, Ga., June 14.
“1 have, on my own motion, wired
Colonel Estill as follows. '1 consent
to a recount in every county you may
name.’ DUPONT GUERRY.”
4 4 4
Biggers and Sterne Indicted.
The grand Jury at Atlanta, Ga., Sat
urday morning indicted both W ilis
Diggers and H. I. Sterne for the mur
der of William H. Simpson, United
States mail carrier.
The bills contain two counts. In
the first both Diggers and Sterne arc
Indicted for murder in the first de
gree. both as principals. Iu the second
count Biggers is indicted as princi
pal for murder In the first degree, and
Sterne Is Indicted as principal in the
second degree for being present, aid
ing and abetting.
Charges against Mrs. Claude Goza.
Mrs. Willis Biggers and S. H. Craig
as accessories were not considered by
the grand Jury, and they were late'
released from jail.
4 4 4
Dunton Case Not Prossed.
The case at Atlanta against G. B.
Dunton. the Southern railway yard
conductor, charged with voluntary
manslaughter in connection with the j:
fatal collision in the Southern yards
last July, was nol prossed the past
week before Judge John S. Candler in
the criminal superior court.
This action was taken at the in
stance of Solicitor Charlie Hill, who
stated to the court that he did not
have sufficient evidence to warrant a
conviction. This ends a case to which
much attention was attracted at the
time of the accident
The collision, it will be remembered,
was between a switch engine and a
passenger train going into Atlanta
from Macon. It resulted in the death
of three persons and the injuring of
several others. The accident occurred
in the yards at the Southern shops.
Dunton is said to have been on the
switch engine, running it at the time
and was injured in the wreck.
4 4 4
Jure Crop Report.
The June crop report has just been
issued from the office of the commis
sioner of agriculture, and shows thm.
although conditions are not as favora
ble as could be desired, there is a
great improvement in many respects
over those' that prevailed at this time
last year.
Corn and cotton, the great staple
crops of Georgia, are doing well in
most sections. There is some increase j
in the acreage of corn and a decrease
iu that of cotton, but the conditions
and prospects of both are fairly good.
The outlook for sugar cane and rice is ]
encouraging.
The products of the great commer
cial orchards were cut short by late
frost, but it is hope dthat the fruit
which escaped will, by reason of ad
vanced prices, reward abundantly the
care and labor of the orchard men.
This is especially true of the peach
crop. Apples, pears and plums are far
from promising, though there are some
few exceptions to this statement.
The melon crop in some places is
not up to the average; in others it is
doing well. Grapes arc fine in most
and in some far above the
average. Gardens have suffered much
for lack of rain, but good showers in
some localities have revived those that
were failing by reason of drought.
The following is the statement
showing the condition and acreage of
the various crops:
Reports were received from 122
counties, and show the following re
sults.
Corn, acreage 103 per cent; condi
tion and prospects 101 percent.
Cotton, acreage, 96 ner cent; condi
tion and prospect 100 per c<nf.
Oats, acreage 84 per cent; condition
and prospect 77 per cent.
Wheat, acreage 87 per cent; condi
tion and prospect 69 per cent. .
Sugarcane, acreage 91 per cent; con
dition and prospect 95 per cent.
Rice, acreage in lowland 87 p*r cent:
acreage in upland 99 per cent; condi
tion and prospect 93 per cent.
Fruit, general prospect 72 per cent;
peaches being 64 per cent, apples 63
per cent, pears 58 per cent and grapes
95 per cent.
HANNAH HARD TO DOWN.
Quarrel Beween Senator und President
is Patched Up.
A Washington dispatch says: The
president and Senator Hanna haver
patched up their quarrel.
The president gave way to Hanna’s
wishes in the Cleveland factional fight
and there will be no investigation of
the charges filed against Hanna’s men
by Representative Burton.
The president and Hanna had a
long conference Tuesday, and then it
was their differences were' adjusted.
Collector Leach, one of the accused of
ficials, reached Washington Wednes
day and denied, the charges to James
R. Garfield, civil service commissioner.
Wt was after this denial that Hanna
went to the white house.
Ho said the civil service commis
sion had examined into Burton's
charges that federal office holders had
taken an active part in politics and
had failed So find any violation of the
law. Asa result, the president con
cluded not to send letters to the Cleve
land officials censuring them.
Hanna added, that the whole thing
was too trivial to occupy the attention
of the president. Senator Hanna said
also that it would be difficult to draw
Ihe line as to where a federal officer
should refrain from taking an interest
in public affairs, and remarked with
some warmth:
“The mere fact that a man holds
public office does not necessarily mean
that he should resign his rights of
citizenship."
Hanna's enemies iu Ohio have been
sending messages to Burton, urging
him to press for an investigation, but
their activity bids fair to defeat their
ends, because if the president sees
thli politicians are using the incident
to further their own ends he is likely
to drop the whole thing.
STORM WHELMS DANCERS.
Tornado Wreaks Death and Destruc
tion in Central Section of Illinois.
A special from Bloomington, 111.,
says: Stretching across a pathway
100 miles in width and devastating
territory fully 200 mi.es long, extend
.ag from Livingston county on the
north, and Macoupin county on the
south and leaving its mark across the
fact of central Illinois, a tornado Tues
day night inflicted property loss which
will aggregate a million dollars and
cost a dozen lives. The wind reached
a velocity of 10U miles an hour and iefT
a trail of destruction and death. Not
a village or city in McLean county es
caped and from every district conies
the same report of destroyed buildings,
injury to growing crops and razed fruit
and shade trees. The aggregate prop
erty loss in McLean county will be
between $209,000 and $400,000.
The saddest feature was the killing
of three young women who were at
tending a dance at the town hall of
Verna, a small vil age ten miles east
of Bloomington. There was a party of
250 young men and women at the
lance in, the hall when the tornado
struck the building at 11 o’clock Tues
day night. Everybody rushed for the
doors. A numbei of young men held
the doors to prevent the people escap
ing fearing that they might be injured
or killed if they got outside. About
half of them, however, escaped before
the building col apsed. The others
wire buried iu the wreck. Three were
killed and forty or fifty others more
or less injured, some of them seriously.
TORNADO KILLS SCORES.
Meagre Reports of a Disastrous Wind
Storm in Minnesota.
A tornado of marked severity pre
vailed Monday evening over sections of
Clay and Broker counties, Minnesota,
and across the. southern portions of
the White Earth Indian reservation. It
is reported that fifteen lives were lost,
many people injured and great damage
done to farm property, many dwell
ings. barns and outbuildings being de
stroyed.
The region is sparsely settled and re
mote from telegraphic communica
tion and details of the storm are there
fore meagre.
“BELL IS A WINTER RESORT”
Compared to the Caloric Conditions in
Samar, Says Major Waller, Just
Returned from Islands.
Major L. W. T. Waller, United States
marine corps, who arrived at San
Francisco Friday on the transport i
Warren, expresses emphatic views !
j concerning the war in the Philippines. [
“You can’t stop the revolution in j
■ the Philippines unless you take the j
severest measures,” said he in an in
l terview with a pr< ss representative.
“You would hate to see your wound- i
ed and dead mutilated. I cannot de
scribe the fearful condition in which s
we found some of the bodies of men 1
under my command who were mur
dered by insurrectos. I received ver
bal and written orders from General
Jacob Smith to kill all insurrectos who
were caught armed or who refused to
surrender.
"It was the only thing that could be
done, and I never questioned General
Smith's orders with one exception.
1 This exception I refuse to state. A
fair estimate of the number of natives '
killed by the men of my command
would be four to five hundred. These
were all killed in battle with the ex
ception of eleven carriers, insurrectos i
at heart, who were tried by courtmar- |
tial and shot.
“There was on y one woman shot j
and she was only slightly wounded, j
She happened to be in the breastworks j
■ of a fort my men were storming.
“1 have fought in every country in
the world except Australia.” said Ma
jor Waller, “but Samar —well hell is
a winter resort compared to Samar.
“I left Samara howling wilderness,”
he continued. “They tried to make it
that for us. but we made it a howling
wilderness for them.”
“Want any more of it?” was asked.
“No. I’m getting to be an o'd man
now,” he replied.- “I'm in my fifties.
Besider, they’ve surrendered, and it's
all over. It’s always all over when
they surrender in the Philippines.” and
a curved under his j
military moustache."
“Have you anything to say. major,
regarding your eourtmartial on the
charge of executing Samar natives
without trial, or was that the charge?"
"The charge against me,” said he,
“was murder. Yes. one plain word —
murder —and as for having anything to
say about the eourtmartial. of course,
I have. I objected to being courtmar
tialed; it was not done at my pleas
ure; I was not consulted in the mat
ter: I was simply courtmartialed.
“I know who caused that courtmar
tial; I know who brought it forward; i
I know' who as at the back of it all,
and Washington knows as much.”
DELOACH MILL PLANT BURNED.
Fire Whelms Largest Manufacturing
Concern of its Kind in South.
The plant of the A. A. DeLoach Mill
Manufacturing Company, in Atlanta,
caught fire at 6 o'clock Friday after
noon and within an hour the plant, in
! eluding all the machinery and equip
ment. had been razed to the ground.
The fire was one of the swiftest and
! most destructive that has ever taken j
place in Atlanta.
The DeLoach mill was probably the j
biggest concern of the kind in the j
I south and one of the largest mill maitu- |
facturing plants in the country. Not I
l only did it supply the southern and j
northern states w r ith mill equipment of
various kinds, but its products foufifi*
a market in many European countries.
The plant was established some eleven
years ago by A. A. DeLoach and had
steadily grown in importance. It was
| capitalized a: SIOO,OOO and the annual
I business amounted to about $200,000.
Mr. DeLoach states that the fire en- |
l tailed a loss of over SIOO,OOO. but that j
: he will rebuild at once with increased j
facilities and the business will con- |
tinue with little delay.
Postmasters Named by the President.
The president Friday sent the fol
lowing nominations to the senate:
Postmasters —Henry J. Ritchie, St. Au
gustine, Fla.; J. P. Murphy, Bamberg.
S. C.
Famine Spreads in Siberia.
According to a St. Petersburg spe
| cial the famine in Siberia is spreading
with increasing intensity.
FIVE SOLDIERS BOLCED?
Friendly Filipinos in Manila Say Cap
tured Americans Were Butchered.
Friendly natives in Manila say a
j report is current among their country
men that the five soldiers of the Fifth
cavalry who were captured by the in
surgents May 30 have been boiced to
death near Teresa, in Morong prov
ince. Luzon. This report has not been
confirmed by the- American authori
ties cf that district.
PLANT FUNDS RELEASED.
Millions May Now Be Removed from
Connecticut to New * ork.
i At Waterbury, Conn.. Thursday
Judge Robinson, of the superior court.
I handed down a decision dissolving the
injunction which re-strained the execu
tors of the Plant will from removing
the $17,000,000 trust fund from Connec
ticut into New York except that $15.-
j 000. the amount of a legacy to which
| Charles E. Hoadley, cf Waterbury, is
i entitled, as representing his children,
j must remain in Connecticut.
VrHE BEST I |MEN,ipOYSy
MOST STYLISH AND CHILCf RENS f
XCLOTHING SLITS, u\^/
X LADIES FURNISHirC^
XMISSES. LARGEST STOCIfX
X SUITS. " ANDBIGGEST-jf
SKIRTS, VARIETY X|
X wa 'STS. IN THE X l
W, I
BEST -GEME&mz
GOODsJagx^mlmcEs.
JIERS -'-
:A MAIIX
V” ORDEIX % j
NGS. SYSTEM m
IS PERFECT w\ I
NO. shipC.O.D.toX J
R ANY EX PRESS OFFICE 6 X J
8 PERMIT EXAMINATIONX A
. I BEFORE FAYING.
OFFERMAN AND WESTERN RAlllf
Schedule Taking Effect Jan. 1. 1902.
West Bound. East Eo^JH
Bead Down / Bead
' STATIONS.
No. 3. No. I. No. 2. I
A. M. A. M. r. M. I
10 15 700 I tiV Offerman, Ar. 245
10 36 7 30 “ Bristol “ 2 20
10 48 * j “ Woods “ 4Kj|
10 57 7W I “ Coffee “ 155 4MI
11 03 8 fit I “ Lacy “ 140 4K|
1118 8/4oi I “ Sal lie “ 115
11 27 9 90%; “ Alma . “ 12 5& J
11 30 905 0 “ 25 Mile Post “ 12'50 |
1136 | “ Hurst . “ 12 40 35|
11 42 'j? “ Bigdon “ 3 4*
11 54 f v “ Dedge “ 3 3*
12 00 10 iji |Ar Nicliolls Ly. 12 00 3 3(1
Trains 1 and 2 daily except Sunday.
Trains Nos. 3 and 4 Sunday only. '
Connections at Offerman with P'ant System, and at Nicholls with At
lantic and Birmingham B. B.
j -J J. McDONOUGH, Vice-Pres., Savannah, Ga.
GEO. W T , SMITH, Getie^*-Agent, Offerman, Ga.
Atlantic k Einniiibn H l
Time Table Effective May 25, 1902.
WAYCROSS TO CORDELE.
_ ~NoT L No. 3~
Daily. Daily.
Lv. Waycross .... 8:00 am 4:00 pm
Lv Beach 8:47 am 4:47 pm
Lv. Sessoma 9:00 am 5:00 pm
Lv. Nicholls 9:12 am 5:08 pm
Lv. Douglas 9ml am 5:38 pm
Lv. Ambrose ....10:03 am 6:01 pm
Lv. Wray 10:09 am 6:10 pm
Lv. Fitzgerald ....10:37 am 6:37 pm
Lv. Isaac 11:04 am 7:04 pm
Lv. Rebecca .....11:21 am 7:21 pm
Lv. Double Run..11x36 am 7:36 pm
Ar. Cordele 12:20 pm 8:20 pm
CORDELE TO WAYCROSS.
No. 2. No. 4.
Daily. Daily.
Lv. Cordele 6:00 am 4:00 pm
Lv. Double Run .. 6:44 am 4:4-1 pm
Lv. Rebecca 6:59 am 4:59 pm
Lv. Isaac 7:16 am 5:16 pm
Lv. Fitzgerald .... 7:43 am 5:43 pm
Lv. Wray 8:11 am 6:10 pm
Lv. Ambrose 8:18 am 6:17 pm
Lv. Douglas 8:42 am 6:42 pm
Lv. Nicholls 9:12 am 7:12 pm
Lv. Sessoms 9': 20 am 7:20 pm
Lv. Beach 9:33 am 7:33 pm
Ar. Waycross 10:20 am 8:20 pm
THROUGH SCHEDULES.
Lv. Waycross 8:00 am 4:00 pm
Lv. Douglas 9:41 am 5:38 pm
Lv. Fitzgerald ....10:37 am 6:37 pm
Ar. Cordele 12:20 pm 8:20 pm
Ar. Americus 3:12 pm 10:22 am
Ar. Columbus .... 5:20 pm
Ar. Macon 4:10 pm 3:55 am
Ar. Atlanta 7:45 pm 7:25 am
Ar. Chattanooga .. 1:00 am 1:00 pm
Ar. Louisville 12:45 pm 2:30 am
Ar. Cincinnati .... 4:20 pm 7:20 am
Lv. Cordele 6:00 am 4:00 pm
Lv. Fitzgerald ... 7:43 am 5:43 pm
Lv. Douglas 8:42 am 6:42 pm
Ar. Waycross 10:20 am 8:20 pm
Ar. Jacksonville ..12:50 pm 8:30 am
Ar. Brunswick ... 7:30 pm 10:00 am
Ar. Savannah 32:45 pm 12:20 am
Ar. Columbia 6:05 pm 6:00 am
Ar. Charleston ... 5:10 pm 6:40 am
Ar. Wash'.igton 7:35 am 9:00 pm
Ar. New York ....1:43 pm 6:13 am
GEORGE DOLE WADLEY.
t Vice President & Gen. Manager.
H. C. McFADDEN.
Gen. Freight and Pass. Agent.
ALEX BONNY MAX. Superintendent.
J. G. KNAPP.
Trav. Freight and Pass. Agent.
B. F. HOLZEXDORF.
Agent, Douglas. Ga.
An author never knows what bad
stuff he can write until he becomes
successful.
Wiieeier & Wilson
Sewing Machine.
Rotary Motion an£ i
Bali Bearings
/JTnewhocJ
{* SIMPLEST lOEALL Yd
ME. & ever BSbearingso
\l^^ve:nted^A
FOR GALE BY B. PE~ERS®
DOUGLAS, GA. 1
BUY the:
SEWING MACHIJ
Do not be deceived by those vfl
vertise a SeO.UO Sewing Mach*
f 20.00. This kind of a maehirfl
be bought from us or any ol
dealers from $15.00 to
■: VAKE A VARIETY. ■
THE NEW HOKE IS THE!
The Feed determines the strfl
weakness of Sewing Machirtßl
I<- yoed combined
strong point' makes the
tiie la--t Jrewiiig Machine
Writ: ior CIRCULARS
■ ■ -
IF.: FEW HOMS SEWING vWSk
C RANGE, MASS.
V. \ .. < 'hioajro,lll.,
S'*.. L -u.l' :> T< x.,Sani^HH
FCR EAS B'^■glll