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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works, owned and operated by local capitalists, which recently made appli cation for charter of consolidation, have withdrawn the same and aban doned the project to consolidate with in the past few days.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. 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