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JL he Jones County News 9
M. C. GREliNK, PUBLISHER.
Stand by Those
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WE HAVE NOW COMPLETED ARRANGE
MEATS FOR A SALE OF POPULAR GOODS
AT PRICES WHICH Will MAKE US THE
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Wo keep the best Qualities, Styles and Assortment in
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MATTING AND DRY GGODS
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SPECIAL PRICES
This season. See our line at 99c, $1.24,^1.49, SI.74, $1.99, it will pay you,
Just received n full like of Fall and Wiuler Dress Goods.
See lie Stock. Cash tailt it-Loi
Prices will sell it.
Our specialty—To please our customers.
Our aim—To save money for our patrons.
Our intention—To do better by you’than anyone else. cheaper,
Stand up und tell us, if you can, where goods can be bonght
for none are allowed to undersell
MILLE DOEVILLEj GA-
B®”B. F. Finney and G. A. (Tube) Jones, formerly of Putnam, arc with this
house, and will be glad to see their friends.
m JiO e Public
I am prepared to do as good
Eiie, Bier and 11 General Repair M,
As any siiop in Georgia. Have had years of experi-
rience, and can fully guarantee SATIS¬
FACTION IN EVERY PARTICULAR.
Can supply all demands for new engines, boilers, mill and gin outfits at
ROCK BOTTOM PRICES. Soliciting your orders, respectfully,
j. e Haiti not j
Pooser’s Machine Works,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
SAM’L. EVANS,
COTTON FACTOR AND
COMMISSION MERCHANT
Milledgeville, Ga.
Consignments of Cotton solicited. Liberal cash advances
made on cotton for storage.
E. B. Harris & Co.,
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Now located coin r Cherry and Third Street, (Dannenberg’s old stand,)
UVE^OOZST, GA *»
where we are serving our customers as of old, with the best and cheapest
Shoes a ever brought to this state. In fact, we retail Shoes at wholesale pricep.
Thousands - of - Sample - Shoes
AT HALF PRICE.
Watch the oih -r dealers imitate ns and talk about us anil against us, but
hey don’t get there. See us before buying your shoes.
GRAY. JONES CO.. GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 558, 1895.
CAPITAL NOTES.
GOSSIP OF WASHINGTON IN
BRIEF PARAGRAPH*.
Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of th e
Various Departments.
The magnificent new battleship
Ind’ana has becomo the property of tho
; I United Stntes government through
acceptance from the contractors, the
Cramps Shipbuilding company, of
i Philadelphia.
Tho annual meeting ot tho National
Civil Service Reform Loagne will be
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evening. All municipal associations
: and affiliated organizations have been
I asked to send delegates.
I Hiram Hitchcock, president of the
' Maritime Canal Company of Nicara-
j gua, has submitted his annual report There
to tho secretary of tho interior.
are no new features contained in it ex¬
cept that tlie Nicaragua Canal Con¬
struction Compauy has been reorgan¬
ized and is now the Nicaragua Cornpa-
; ny. When tho construction company
! failed in 1893 all work was suspended,
but now the Nicaragua Company is
making active preparations for resum¬
ing tho work under tho contract which
tho construction company had with
the maritime company.
Monroe Doctrine Resolutions.
From hints thrown out by' leaders
of both political parties at the capital,
strong probabilities seem to exist that
two importaut joint resolution)) will bo
offered immediately after the assem¬
bling of the fifty-fourth congress. The
first will be an affirmation of tho prin¬
ciples embodied iu tho Monroe doc¬
trine, expressing in plain and vigor¬
ous language tbo sympathy of the
Americau people with the government
of Venezuela in its boundary dispute
with Great Rritain. Tho second, a
joint resolution, which is being pre¬
pared with much care, provides islands for
tho annexation of the Hawaiian
to tho United States uuder a territo¬
rial form of government.
The Philadelphia Mint on Full Time.
Tho treasury department was in¬
formed Thursday of the withdrawal of
$500,000 in gold" at New York for ex¬
port to Europe. This reduces the
treasury gold reserve to $86,304,557.
Of this reserve about $32,000,000 is in
gold coin, against which no gold cer¬
tificates are held. The gold c* in hold¬
ings nt New York, because of tbo
recent heavy exports of gold, have
become less than it is customary to
have in ilie subtreasury and gold coin
has been ordered shipped from the
Philadelphia mint to replenish the de¬
pleted stock of gold coin on hand at
New York. The Philadelphia mint is
now at work on full time and has been
for several weeks past in turning gold
bullion into coin. The coinage this
month ut the mint wdll be unusually
heavy. •
Internal Revenue Receipts.
Tho annual report of the ennmis-
sioner of internal revenue jn-:t mule
public shows receipts during the last
fiscal year as follows:
From spirits, $79,862,627; decrease,
$5,390,624. Tobacco, $29,704,907; in¬
crease, $1,087,009. Fermented liquors,
$31,440,017; increase, $‘225,829. In¬
come tax, $77,139. Oiei.margerine,
$1,409,211; decrease, $314,228. Mis¬
cellaneous, $551,583; increase, $398,-
554. Tho total receipts from nil
sources were $143,246,077, a decrease
of $3,922,371. violations of
During the year 3,309
the internal revenue law were report¬
ed by revenue agents; 1,727 stills
were seized, 147 stills removed, 871
persons arrested, one officer was killed
and three others wero wounded.
Commissioner Miller estimates that
the revenues for the year will aggre¬
gate $105,000,000.
Filin oils Gaines Case Ended.
The famous Myra Clark Gaines case,
it is believed, was finally ended in the
supreme court of the United States
Friday, when Chief Justice Fuller an¬
nounced that the appeal of tho city of
New Orleans from the judgo of the
circuit court of the United States for
the eastern district of Louisiana, in
favor of tho United States ex rel, W.
W. Whitney, had been dismissed for
failure to print the record. Myra Clark
Gaines, then Mrs. W. IV. Whitney (not
the W. W. Whitney ju-t named)
instituted the first suit for tho
recovery of the j roperty bequeath-
ed her by the will of her father,
Daniel Clnik, in the circuit court of
the United States for the district of
Louisiana in 1836, and five years later
it had reached the supreme court of
the United States. From that date—
1841 — uutil now, in one form or an¬
other, the controversy lias 1 a 1 ft plac:
on the calendar of the court. In 1856
the plaintiff, then a widow, having sur¬
vived both Mr. Whitney anil Gem-ral
E. P. Gaines, whom she subsequently
married, filed au original bill in the
supreme court of the United
States against the city of Now Or¬
leans to recover property held by it
and a decision in her favor was
rendered at the December term, 1807.
The value of tho property claimed was
estimated in 1861 to be $35 000,000.
Suits subsequently prosecuted were
filed for the purpose of getting posses- under
sion of the property included
the supreme court judgment of 1867.
It was estimated that she recovered
six or seven million dollars’ worth in
all, but she derived little personal
benefit therefrom, as it was largely
eaten up by the expenses of maintain-
ing the litigation, She died January
9 , 1895.
GROWTH OF THE SOUTU,
Tli* Industrial CoikIUIou us Reported
tor the Past Weelc.
Reports of industrial conditions in
all parts of tbo southern ntatos for Iho
past woek indicate that eight oent cot¬
ton does not bring out the crop in
largo supply, but the movement is fair,
and, together with sales tlmt were made
when the markot was higher, has an en-
eouragiug effect on general business.
The south ie in bettor llnaucial condi¬
tion than has been known for many
years. Crops have been good and
have sold well, and only in localities
dependent, on a single product, ns in
the orange-growing section of Florida,
is there auy shortage. The restrained
output of lumber, agreed upon by the
association of lumber manufacturers,
is having a good influence on the mar¬
kets. Supply nud demand are more
nearly equal, and prices are
well maintained. Large opera¬
tors look for lrgher prices as
the season grows later, and admit that
the quotations ns they now are give a
fair profit. Cotton mills ore doing
well, and are running ou full time,
New mills are reported as coming into
operation from week to week, most of
them the property of mill managers
already in tho business, and in somo
instances built on the co operative
plan, in which much interest is mani¬
fested. Iron is steady; prices are
firm, the demand shows uo sign of
falling off, and reports us to decreased
outputs are not confirmed. The south¬
ern iron furnacis are doing a more
satisfactory business than ever before,
and every indication is that tho winter
will be one of activity and prosperity.
Coal mining is in very active progress,
induced by the steady demand which
takes the coal output as fast as it is
delivered from the mines.
Among the new industries in the
southern states for the week thoro is
reported the organization at New Or¬
leans, La., of the New Orleans Edison
Co., capital $3,000,000, to engage in
tho business of electric lighting, fur
nishing electric power, etc. ; the Cu¬
ban tobacco Co., of Ft. Meade, Fla.,
capital, $150,000; the Panama Park
Land Co., of Jacksonville, Fla., capi¬
tal, $100,000, nud the Dig Stony Min¬
ing Co., capital, $ 100 , 000 , of Roanoke,
Va., have been chartered; tho Pen¬
dleton Lumber Co., of Ohilhowie,
Tex., capital, $50,000; the Kanawha
Lumber Co., with the same capital, of
St. Alban’s, W. Va.; snuff works to
cost $35,000, at Louisville, Ivy., and
the Pekor Iron Works, of Columbus,
Ga., capital, $25,000. A $20,000 cot¬
ton compress will bo built at Aber¬
deen, Miss.; a $15,000 brick company
is reported! at Belton, Tex., and a
$10,000 cooperage ut Macon, Ga.;
a cotton mill at Aberdeen, Miss. ;
a cannery at Alvin, Tex.; a
flouring mill ut Stuart, Virginia;
and a harness factory at Chariot's, N.
C. Ice factories are reported at Alex-
andria, La. and Morgauton, N. C. ; a
machine shop at Yoakum, Tex., and a
match factory at Meridian, Miss.
Woodworking plants are to be estali-
lisued at Lester and Little Rock, Ark.,
New Borne, N. C., and Pearisburg,
Va. Waterworks are to ho built at
Gurley, Ala., Springfield, Tenn., and
Weimar, Tex. Among enlargements,
are brick works at Beaumont, Tc-x.,
ilouriug mills at Bell Buckle, Tenn.,
and a cotton mill at Selma, Ala. Tho
new buildings of the week include a
$30,000 business block at Charleston,
S. C., a $18,000 church at Russellville,
Ivy., a $50,000 college nt Georgetown,
Tex., an $18,000 courthouse at Pulas¬
ki City, Va., and one to cost $50,000
at Winston, N. C. — Tradesman (Clint
tanooga, Tenn.)
SAYS HE WAS NOT INVITED.
Gov. Atkinson Took No Fart in Cele¬
brating Georgia Day.
Governor Atkinson did not partici¬
pate in the Georgia Day exercises at
the exposition Tuesday.
Tho governor said ho was not in¬
vited to take part in the exercises.
President Collier said that tho Georgia
Day exercises were place 1 in the hands
of the governor, and tnat no further
invitation for him to participate in the
exercises were thought necessary.
A pretty muddle has grown out of it
all. The governor’s dignity is offend¬
ed, the exposition directors surprised
and the public will be amused.
The governor said that ho had in¬
tended to take part in tho exercises,
thinking, of course, that ho would bo
invited to do so.
“I lmd written to nil the members
of my staff to come and take part in
the day’s observance,” said he, “hut
at the last moment, not having re¬
ceived an invitation to participate in
the observance of the day,I telegraph¬
ed members of my stuff living outside
of Atlanta not to come.”
President Collier expressed regret
that any misunderstanding bad arisen,
“Wo placed the Georgia day exorcises
in the governor’s bands,” said the
president, “and thought that was all
the invitation he required to take part,
in the exercises. He issued the pro¬
clamation announcing the day.”
PRICE OF SALT DOUBLED.
Packers Being Bled l>y the Trust to
the Tune of $1500,000 a Year.
A Chicago paper says: The leading
packers in the stockyards, ns well as
the lesser ones, are worried by iho salt
combine, which has been raising prices
until now it seems the effect of tho salt
“trust’a” squeeze willloost the packers
a matter of v i >0,000 or 10,0 JO a
year. salt been advanced price
Rock has in
nearly 100 per cent. The packers dis-
patched trusted men to find out wheth-
er'salt can be bought elsewhere. Their
agents have returned and report that,
tho combine seems to have secured
everything. Packers, instead of $2,75
a ton, are now paying $4,50 to $4.71)
for their rock salt.
ANEW PLAN
FOR REPLENISHING THE GOLD
RESERVE SHORTAGE.
This Move, However, Is Only a Tem¬
porary Expedient.
Tho administration has decided up¬
on a plan to replenish the gold reserve
which it is confidently expected will
have tho effect of deferring for some
time, at least, the issue of bonds for
that purpose. The following circular
was Treasury sent to subtreasury officers: Washing¬
Department,
ton, D. C., November 23.—Sir: De-
parlmont instructions of July 9th and
August 23d, 1886, requiring you to
reject and place a distinguishing mark
on all gold coins presented to found your
offieo for deposit which are
to ho below the least current weight,
are hereby so modified as to instruct,
when requested to accept all such
coins at valuation in proportion to
their actual weight, such valuation
to bo determined by deducting from
tho nominal value 4 cents for each
grain, troy, found below the standard
weight on each piece. All light weight
pieces thus received by you are to be
held in the cash of your office foper¬
ate from full weight coins and each
bag of Mich coins to be plainly marked
with tbo amount, of the face and actual
values of contents. If the. depositor
should prefer to have the pieces I hat
are found to be below the least current
weight returned to him, you will, be¬
fore returning thorn, stamp each piece
with the distinguishing mark referred
to in department, letter.
Scott Wire, Acting Secretary.”
United States Treasurer Morgan
followed this circular with instructions
to tho sub-treasury officers to receive
from banks and olbsrs United States
gold coin in exchange for paper cur¬
rency. Deposits aro rrqu'rol to be
made in sumsor multiples of $51)0, and
tho express charges on the gold coin
and the paper currency returned
thoreforo will be borne by the treasury
department. Except in special cases
the treasury department has never paid
express charges both ways on gold de¬
posited in exchange for paper and on
the paper. The banks have for years
endeavored to induce the treasury to
do this, and tho fact that it lias at last
done so is evidence that Secretary
Carlisle has determined, an tho presi¬
dent has heretofore announced would
be done, to exhaust all tho means in
his power to maintain the gold re¬
serve.
Only a. Tenipory Expedient..
It is understood that this new de¬
parture will not be permanent; it is
looked upon as a temporary expedient
to obtain gold. The expense to banks
and others has always been large in so-
roring new currency in eases of re¬
demption and in paying express
charges on the return currency when
gold was deposited for it. Under this
new arrangement the treasury pays
tho charges heretofore borne by tlie
bankers. Tho rate paid by the gov¬
ernment under its contract with tho
express companies, however, is loss
than therate charged individual ship¬
pers. The government rate in all terri¬
tory east of tho Pacific slope is 50 cents
n $!,000 for gold and 50 cents a $ 1,000
for paper, ft will he the aim of the
treasuries supplied with all denomina¬
tions of currency, so that depositors
may receive what they de-ire prompt¬
ly. They will not have to wait until
tho certificate of tho gold deposit is
transferred to Washington.
Treasury officials explain that con¬
fining shipments to $500 or multiples
thereof is to keep within the terms of
the contracts with the express com pa-
uies. This restriction does not apply
to local deposits of gold in a subtrees-
ury city, whereby any sum may bo de-
posited and currency received for the
same.
fivio people killefi.
Death and Destruction Caused by
Flumes at Chicago.
A fire, disastrous to life and prop-
eity, swept through itie Dry Goods
and Woolen Exchange building at
Chicago Friday morning. Five firo-
men, in tho active discharge of their
duties and totally unmindful of dan-
ger, were carried through a floor and
buried under tons of wreckage from
the five floors above. Four of the men
1,0 ,}ea , ‘ 1 , ’ but , the ,, fifth was notsenously
injured. One girl fell from a window
and received injuries, from which aho
died. A dozen other men, women and
girls were hurt or overcome by smoko
and many were rescued from imminent
death. The property lots is estimated
at $400,000. Thu dead ___________ are:
Patrick J. O’Donnell, lieutenant of
engine company No. ” '■ 2; Thomas J. T
Prendergost, pipeman; John Downs,
pipeman ; Kate Landgraf, employed
in A. Stern <fc Co.’s garter factory,
Among the injured were: Daniel Me-
Nully, pipeman; Olga Keller, leg and
arm injured ; Nellie Turner, fell from
fourth-story window and seriously
hurt; Harry O’Neill, anri broken arid
hack injured; John J1 rueribeimer,
badly injured by falling from fourth
story while assisting girls to escape,
The others who were injured were girls
and spectators who saved them, all be-
ing overcome by smoke, but they soon
recovered after medical treatment at
hospitals or thoir homes.
All tho dead and injured firemen
wero members of Engine Company
No. 2. Their captain, Lewis Fieene,
escaped the awful plunge to death only
by hanging to tho wall of the window
on the second floor until released from
his perilous position by firemen on a
ladder.
A good many horses aro docked,
eveu when they don’t lose auy time,
KNIC111TS OF LABOR.
Loosen tho Rules Against Walters la
Saloons amt Want .bulges Elected.
The question of minority represen¬
tation was discussed by the Knights
of Labor in their session nt Washing¬
ton Monday. Tbo sentiment is for a
change which will give minorities a
representation. against
Tho restriction saloon men
and barkeepers was also discussed.
The law will bo changed in favor of
waiters or others who act as barkeep¬
ers only temporarily. There is no
purpose io loosen the rules of tho
order against saloon men who are per¬
manently in tho business.
An importaut resolution hn» been
read and referred to the resolutions
committee demanding that members
of tho Unitod States supremo court
shall bo elected by genoral vote.
Master Workman Sovereign present¬
ed tho following resolution, which was
adopted by unanimous vote:
"Whereas, Iho supreme court of tho
United States hasafiirmed the decision
of Judgo Bosh, which decision raised a
misdemeanor to a felony and sent four
local officers of the A. K. U. nt Lea
Angeles, Cal., to prison for ninotoou
months; ami,
"Whereat*, Tho decision of the
United States supremo court places all
labor organizations in tho role of
criminal conspirators; and,
“Whereas, Said decision affirms that
a greater penalty can bo imposed fora
conspiracy to commit a orimo than is
imposed for the commission of tho
crime itself.
"Resolved, That this general assem¬
bly of the Knights of Labor earnestly
protests against such trnversity on jns-
tico and outrage on the liberties of the
people, and condemns said court for
its partial ruling in tho interest of tho
plutocratic classes, and its abridge¬
ment of the constitutional rights of
th*> laboring people.”
In supporting tho resolution Mr.
Sovereign said that tho imprisoned
men hud served ns a committee during
the strike, one of them urging a rail¬
road man not to tako the place of the
strikers. He asserted tlmt no inter¬
ference and no threats had been made,
nud the engineer had volunteered to
talk to the committee. The resolution
was then passed with the understand¬
ing that it would bo supplemented
later by ono for tho election of the
supremo court judiciary by popular
voie.
TRAIN WRF.CKERS AT WORK.
A Smash-up on tlie New York Central.
Two Men Kllteit.
Tho doliberato wrecking of fast mail
train No. 6 , eaetbound, on tlio New
York Central, was accomplished about
three miles west of Rome, N. Y., atari
early hour Tuesday morning. The
wrcckorH had broken open tho com¬
pany’s toolhouso nearby and obtained
u wrench and crowbar with which
all tho spikes and fishplates from
two oppogito rails on tho south¬
erly track had been removed.
The two released rails were left in their
places on tho track. As the train,
comprising four mail cars and three
sleeping cars, came along, tbo, loco¬
motive left the track, bounded over the*
ties and fell sidewise into a ditch
twelve feet deep on tbo soulli side of
the track.
Tho first two mail ears shot over tho
engine, tho first one landing fully sev¬
enty-five feet from the point where the
engine left tbo track. The second ami
third mail ears came together in a "V”
shape and the wreck of tho engine lay
in tho open space between them. Un¬
der the second mail car, pinned down
by a pair of trucks and stone dead, was
found Engineer Unger.
Robert Elliott, a tramp, died after
being removed from the wreck,
The first two sleepers were partly
turned over and tho last one remained
on tho tracks. Strange to say, the
two loose rails had not been thrown
from the road bed, tlie last car rock¬
ing upon them. There were fifty pas¬
sengers in tho three sleepers and not
one of them was hurt.
j BIG CHICAGO BLAZE.
' Sixteen Firms Burned Out—A Funic
\ Narrowly Averted.
1 A fire which caused a property loss
1 of $500,000 and imperiled the liv< s of
half a thousand persona, mostly young
women, originated nt 8 o’clock Thurs-
day afternoon on the third floor of
Charles Emerich & Co., feather and
down goods factory, 175 and 181
South Canal street, Chicago. J he
conflagration was attended by scones
of intense excitement and a
score of firemen narrowly escaped
being killed by firo and falling wall",
When the flumes were raging most
furiously, in spite of tho best rffort*
'of of twouty-fivo twenty-five engines engines and and a a small small
army of fir* men, fire brands wero car-
| ried by the wind to nud adjoining it looked manu¬ if
facturing buildings as
many more would havo to go.
j tending Tho seven-story from 175 Canal brick street building south ex- to
tho corner of Jackson street, the
nine-story brick building adjoining on
the north and the greater part of the
four-story brick building in the same
direction wero entirely destroyed,
These buildings occupied nearly
the whole of the block on the west
side of Canal street between Adams
and Jackson streets. Tho seven and
nine-story buildings were owned by
j Warren Springer, and the owner of
the four-story building, which is one-
third saved, is William J. Wilson.
The buildings wero amply insured.
In all sixteen firms wero burned out,
and tho losses aro estimated at $350,-
000. Tho building loss is placed at
$150,000.
j A scrub woman at one of the Chi-
1 cago hotels oan speak only seven languages.
Hut with it nil she is a scrub wo-
man,
VOL I, NO. -—
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
Jones County Covo.-nment*
Judgo Superior Court—J. 0. Hart.
Solicitor Goupral—II- G. Lewis.
Senator—Hou. W. H. Harrison.
Representative—Hon. J. F. Andet*
son.
Ordinary—R. T. Ross.
Clerk Superior Court—W. W. Bar*
ron.
Sheriff R. N. Ethridge.
County Treasurer—F. M. Stewnrt.
Tax lb ci'iver— .T. A. Chiles.
County Surveyor— B. H, Bonuer.
Coroner —It. ii. Trapp.
Judge County Coprt—J. O. Barron,
■Tuny Commissioners —W. \. Card,
J. M. Middlebrooks, J. F. Barron,
John Gresham, E. F. Morton.
County Board op Education— 1).
Anchors, Joe W. Barron, J. R. Van
Ruran, S. A. Hodge, J. W. Anderson.
Countv He iiood Commissioner— A.
II. S. McKay. 1>. O., Pleutitudo.
County Commissioners — W. F.
White, J. T. Speights, E. T. Morton,
II. T. Moore, John T. Glovor.
Mile Georgia & Atlantic B. B
TIME TABLE.
In KITeet Itcccmbor 83.
Head Down. Read Ur.
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9 <10 am " Lv 51 icon Ar Ga 3 45
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7 4) 2 10 Lv. ...Kii’on* on A i 7 03 11 35
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8 38, 2 55 Lv. ...Aiken i on Ai 6 20 10 50
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0 18 3 22 Lv. .....Ke;lv ........Ar 5 43 10 15
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0 50 3 42,Lv......Ncwuorn......Ar 5 15 9 50
JO DO 3 40 Lv.■ .Ctirmol Junc....Ai a 5 05 9 33
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10 22 4 02 Lv.....Hlarrsvil o . Ai 4 45 9 03
10 47j 4 13,Lv.. Covington Juno . Ar 4 27 8 48
I 1 60 •! 2j| \r..... Covtn 't'in Lv 4 25 8 47
12 is"fi oolTanOt. Ar Atlanta Lv Lv 3 o 05 oo. 1 67
6 30 M. Ac N. Ar Macon a.m.
M. & N. Ar Athens Lv 2 25 A.M.
JOSEPH W. PRESTON, General Manager.
ISY WAIX8 OP PIKE
THE LIVES OF TWO HUNDRED
PEOPLE WERE ENDANGERED.
Employes in a Building Jump from a
Sixtli Story.
Fire in a six story building at New
York, Tuesday, caused employed a panic nmong
21)0 working people there.
One person is known to havo perished,
and there may havo been others who
met a similar fate. Tho basement, iu
which the flames started, whs occupied
as a candle factory, and the tallow
there caused the fire to spread rapidly,
cutting off egress by way of tho stairs.
Several men jumped from the roof nud
from, windows to the tops of adjoining
buildings. After the building had been
burned the firemen set about search¬
ing fur bodies.
MURDERERS BURN THE BODY.
In u Desperate Attempt to Hide Tlielr
Dastardly Crime.
Tho most dastardly murder in the
history of crime in South Carolina
was committed near Cokesburg, twelvo
miles north of Greenwood one night
last week.
Miss Narei-sa Buga ell, a young Judy
of respectable family, while on her
way to Greenwood to take the train
for the Atlanta exposition, was robbed
and killed and her body burned in au
old burn of fodder iu tho field.
The coroner’s jury of inquest has
canned John Richards arid Thomas
Watts, colored, to be arrested ou cir¬
cumstantial evidence pointing to their
guilt. Watts has confessed to being
a partner in tlio crime but lays the
burden of it on Richards.
Great indignation and excitement
prevails and there was immediate dan¬
ger of a lynching bee. The opinion
is now that the law will be allowed to
take its course, The prisoner says
that they killed tlio woman for her
money and that no outrage was at¬
tempted. Thirty dolhirsiu money and
some jewels wire obtained. One clew
to the guilt of the negroes was the fact
of their spending too much money.
Evidence befoie I be grand jury makes
the negroes desperate characters.
MOTOKMAN TEST IFIKS
During tlio Coroner’s Inquest on the
Cleveland Horror.
The most important witness exam¬
ined ut the coroner’s inquest in the
central viaduct horror at Cleveland,
()., was Augustus Rogers, the motor-
man of tho car which plunged into the
river. He testified that the conductor
rang ahead when tho car stopped at
tho safety switch and signalled him
“all right.” iu the vesti¬
He stated that the glass
bule was blurrid by rain and that he
did not discover that the bridge was
open until his car was within thirty
feet of tho gates. He then turned off
tho current, set the brake, and jump-
ed. Ho said he saw no red light, and
believes had there been one displayed
he would have seen it. Ho admitted
that ho had been misled by the fact
that the eleitric cut-off, provided by
tho street railway company as a safe¬
guard, was out of order, Two other
witnesses swore that the reft light was
displayed over the gates yrhoa ths car
struck thoro,