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The Jones County News
M. C. GREENE. PUBLISHER.
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Macon’s
Greatest
Clothing
Store • _
The firm of Eads-Neel & Co., was dissolved on August the 1st, and suc-
ceeded by JNO. C. EADS & CO. We will continue the business at the old
stand, and will have the largest and best stock of
Clothing, Hats anil Furnishing Goods
To be found in any store in the State. We will be pleased to have you call
or write us for anything in our line
JNO. C. EADS & CO.,
S52-554 Elm M,
J\A[ aeon, Georgia.
REMOVAL NOTICE!
The Globe Store
—HAS REMOVED TO—
311 Clierry Street,
Store formerly occupied by SIAION JOSEPHSON. Our line of Goods
which consists of
Dry Goods. Clothing Hats-
Will be entirely new, as our former stock was sold down. Our DRY GOODS
and CLOTHING for this Fall was purchased before the tariff' bill passed and
the people will do well to remember that the
GTjOBS store
will he in a position to save them from 20 to 30 per cent, on all goods. A
cordial invitation is extended to all, with the assurance of kind treatment.
W, R. Herndon is here to serve his Jones county friends. Respectfully,
Henry Wiloh.insk,i.
We do not claim to sell moie
SHOES
Than any other store in the city of
MACOM
But we do CLAIM to sell as good ones as it is possible to buy for money, and
at prices to match any dealer in the south for the same amount of quality.
Come and see us.
MIX SHOE CO.,
[Established 1840.] MACON, GEORGIA.
107 Cotton Avenue,
Business Education,
offered one boy and girl in f ach county of S. C. by the
I M I I m I—i m largest, most elegantly equipped and eminently practical
J— i institution in the South. Daily drill in actual business,
banking and office work. Positions are guaranteed grad¬
uates through the employment bureau. Address,
m msi AU£U,
3MC^LCJ03W, Mi C3h£L.
GRAY, JONES CO., GA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18 1897.
HE WAS TO HAVE BEEN EXECUTED
LAST FRIDAY.
SAVED AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Attorneys Contended That Superior Court
Acted T»o Hastily In Sentencing
The Condemned Man,
A . special ... from c San , T Francisco , . sayst
Willuuu Henry Theodore Dufhtnl was
not hanged at Sail Quentin Friday af-
ter all, the supreme court of California
having granted him another respite at
the eleventh hour.
Up to 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
when the newt? flashed over the wires
from S.x't'kmento that the court, notv
in suasion there, had granted a writ of
probable cause and instructed Warden
Hale not to carry out the execution of
Durrant until further orders, there
was apparautly no further hope for the
condemned murderer of Blttiiclib La-
mont and httd Minnie Williams, as his at¬
torneys hiade a futile effort to se¬
cure another writ of habeas corpus in
the United Staten court, and had not
even been granted permission to ap¬
peal from that decision to the supreme
court of the United States.
Meanwhile, however, Attorney Du-
prey hastened to Sacramento and ap¬
plied to the state supreme court for a
writ of probable cftuRe, fot the pur¬
pose of staying the proceedings against
his client Upon the grounds that no
official knowledge of the action of the
supreme court of the United States in
the matter of Durrant’s appealing from
the decision of the federal court had
yet been received; that the superior
court had acted too hastily in sen¬
tencing Durrant to lie hanged Friday,
as the law required that he be given at
least sixty days* grace; and thirdly, in
that the pendency of an appeal the
supreme court affecting the condemn¬
ed man was of itself sufficient cause
for a stay of execution.
The matter was partially argued in
chambers and later argued before the
full court and taken under advise¬
ment. Shortly afterwards the court
announced its decision, granting the
writ apptied for, in which all the jus¬
tices concurred.
AVheu information of the reprieve
was given to the condemned man,
Durrant received it without any great
display of emotion but fell on his
knees and prayed silently for several
minutes.
When Airs. Durrant, the mother of
the prisoner, readied the prison the
news was told to her. She said that
she had put her faith in God and felt
that He would not desert her. The
death veil was removed and Durrant
was carried down to the office, and it
will not again be placed over the
nrisoner unless required by future de¬
velopments in the case.
CREDITORS FILE HILL
Against Southern Home Building and
Loan Association at Atlanta.
A bill was filed at Atlanta by attor¬
neys representing complainant credi¬
tors against the Southern Home Build¬
ing and Loan association.
Almost immediately there association was a re¬
sponse from officers of the
who claim that the association is in
good standing and that there will he
no trouble iu their making a good
showing. allegations
They say that the are
based upon certain propositions that
are entirely untenable, and that no
court will support the pleas made by
the petitioners, when the proper show¬
ing of the standing of the company is
made through their attorneys.
SAVANNAH FREIGHT BUREAU
Will Continute to Fight Alleged Railway
Discrimination.
At the annual meeting of subscribers
of the Savannah, Ga., freight bureau
held Thursday, it was decided to con¬
tinue the bureau another year.
Commissioner D. G. Purse read the
annual report. the He poured such hot
shot into railroads for their alleged
discrimination against Savannah that
a resolution was passed preventing the
report from being given to the news¬
papers. W. W. Gordon elect¬
Colonel was re
ed president.
GOLD MEDAL FOR GEORGIA.
Her Agricultural Display at NuhIivIIIo
Wins a Prize.
A gold medal has been awarded tho
state of Georgia for the general agri¬
cultural display made at the Tennessee
Centennial.
The governor has received notifica¬
tion of this fact from the exposition
authorities, accompanied by an order
upon a Nashville jeweler for said gold
medal, which will he delivered to the
state upon payment of price of the
same.
laid medals, such ns are awarded
by the Tennessee Centennial, cost va¬
riously from $135 to $150 each. The
state of Georgia can get just as fine k
medal as she is willing to pay for.
PASSENGER TRAIN BURNS.
Disastrou* Wreck In Which No Lives Were
Dost and No One If urt.
The passenger train on the Louis¬
ville, Henderson and Ht. Louis road,
which left St. Louis Wednesday even¬
ing and which was due in Louisville
at 7:30 o’clock Thursday morning,
was derailed and entirely consumed by
fire near Lewiaport, Ky., 98 miles from
Louisville. No lives were lost, and,
so far as is known, no one was seriously
injured.
CLARA LEFT PENNILESS.
Fatlicr-ln-I.i»w of “I.ov<l" lleresforil Drop.
Dead From W orry.
Alexander Pelkey, father-in-law to
Lord Beresford, dropped dead on the
streets at Fitzgerald late Thursday
afternoon from heart disease. Two
years ago Mrs. Pelkoy died of con¬
sumption and willed her fortune toiler
husband, expecting him lb arrange for
the prelection of their only child,
Clara, but after the sensational mnr-
v i ft g e 0 f their daughter to Lord Bores-
ford at Fitzgerald last May, Mr. Pel-
key made liis will, giving his own for¬
tune and that received from Ids wife
to his only brother at Westerly, Rhode
with the requeB t that he pro-
vide for Clara in case slia ever gets
rid of her “hypnotic husband,” whom
sbe s tiU follows in his career of crime,
utterly unable to break the magnetic
spell which lie hits OVet liek;
Clrlra will of ago next year and
would have inherited both fortunes
if she had not met and fell before
the power of Sidney Lascelles. Mr.
Pelkey lias spent the past live
months defending the law suits which
Lord Boeesford has caused by claiin-
ing to he a partner of Mr, Pelkey.
The last stilt wdS Bompt-otiiiSbfl the
day preceding liis death. The other
suits were all dismissed at the late
term'of court, just adjourned.
Air. Pelkey’s family and connections
wore all Quakers and very good peo¬
ple. He got more trouble on his
hands through Lord Beresford ill one
day than he had previously during his
life of sixty years, During the last
five mouths he had mourned heard for hist daugh¬ di¬
ter, whom he hot (light. ft tun
rectly sinbe Lotii Berbsford Mr.
Pelky had been failing rapidly in
health since Clara got into the clutches
of Beresford. He worried very much
about Clara and this marriage caused
his death. Beresford’s actions killed
him, but he will not got a cent of the
money. Fitzgerald
The in Pelkey Rhode fortunes Island; since at Mr. Pel-
and
key’s recent losses, will not exceed
$100,000. Air. Pelkey’s will, in which
all of his property was left to his
brother, was executed on the 23d of
last June, immediately after he was
acquainted with the true character of
his son-in-law. Pelkey was fearful,
so he stated at the time, that Lasc- lies
would have him murdered iu order to
get possession of the money.
WHISKY MEN INDICTED.
Fulton County Griiml Jury Charges Them
With Milrdetf of Pohdeih
Friday morning, ttt Atirtnin, Go., the
Fulton county grand jury found lulls
of indictment forinujler against Wal¬
ter O’Quinn, Louis Steinan and Julius
Simon, charged with killing Patrol¬
man -J. T. Ponder.
The grand jury began the investiga¬
tion at 10 o’clock and was in session
for three hours. All of the testimony
in hand by the detective department
was not introduced and several wit¬
nesses summoned were allowed to go
without being heard.
The indictment returned was as fol¬
lows:
“In the name and behalf of the citi¬
zens of Georgia, we charge and accuse
Walter O’Quinn, L. Steinan and Julius
Simon, of tho county and state afore¬
said, with the offense of murder, for
.that the said AValter O’Quinn, L.
Steinan and Julius Simon in the
county aforesaid on the eighth day of
Novemhes, in the year of our Lord,
eighteen hundred ond ninety-seven,
with force and arms, did unlawfully
and with malice aforethought kill and
murder one T. J. Ponder by shooting
him with a pistol. The said Walter
O’Quinn being then and there the ac¬
tor or perpetrator of said crime, and
the said L. Steinan and Jtflius limon
being preseut, aiding and abetting in
the perpetration of said offense con¬
trary to tho law of said state, the good
order, peace and dignity thereof.”
INDIANS ARE FOREIGNERS,
According to a Ruling In United States
Court at Chattanooga.
In a decision handed down by the
United States court of appeals at, Chat¬
tanooga, Friday, in a case from the
western district of North Carolina, it
has been virtually declared that the
members of the eastern band of Cher¬
okee Indians are not citizens of the
United States.
The decision of the court is that the
hand lias no right to make any con¬
tract whatever without the sanction of
the United States government.
FLOODS IN SPAIN.
Town. Inundated and Many I’t-oplc are
Dro wned.
A special from Madrid says: Further
details regarding the floods in various
parts of Spain, notably in the pro¬
vinces of Saragossa, Valencia and
Alalaga, where railroad traffic and tel¬
egraphic communication huve been se¬
riously interfered with, show that
fifteen corpses have already been re¬
covered.
In the neighborhood of Valencia
enormous numbers of cattle have per¬
ished and the villages of Grao and
Nazareth have been completely inun¬
dated.
Alanyof the housed of those places
have collapsed.
HONEST IMPORTATIONS WANTED.
Government, Appra!*ers Hard at Work
Formulating Flann.
The conference of government ap¬
praisers and tobacco examiners from
various parts of the United States
called by Secretary of the Treasury
Gage on the recommendation of Ap¬
praiser Wakernan to enforce honest
importations of tobacco by uniformity
in classification, met again in New
York Friday.
After a two hours’ conference an
adjournment wai taken until Mondiy.
MASTER WORKMAN WAS WILLING,
HOWEVER, TO HE RETIRED.
NEW YORK MAN HIS SUCCESSOR.
Sensation Sprung In the General Adflembly
of Knight* of Labor in Session at
Louisville, Ky,
James R. Soveroigti, who has been
general master workman of tin)
Knights of Labor for the past four
years or more and who, before and
during that time, has been one of the
ablest champions of the order and its
doctrines, was relieved of liis office
Friday afternoon by the general
assembly, iu session in Louisville, Ky.
Under ordinary conditions Mr. Sov¬
ereign’s term of office would not ex-
piro until the next meeting. This,
however, it is said, makes no differ¬
ence with the order whose general
officers during a meeting are always
in the blinds of deposed the assembly and can
be chosed and at the will of
the majority. Along with Mr. Sover¬
eign there were three other officers re¬
tired because of this special election,
viz: T. B. McGuire, general worthy
foreman, of Amsterdam, N. Y.; Daniel
Brown, of Montana, and H. B. Mar¬
tin, of Minnesota, members of the ex¬
ecutive committee.
Henry A, Hicks, of New York dis¬
trict 253; New York city, was chosen
‘to till Mr. Sovereign’s pirtoe; and 1.
D. Chamberlain, of Pueblo, Col., wJs
selected ns general worthy foreman.
Senators Field Fitzpatrick, of Mon¬
treal, and Henry Rostock, of Assem¬
bly 300, glassworkers, were chosen as
the two members of the executive
board, the third member being Andrew
D. Best,
This very decided change in the
corps of general officers of the Knights
of Labor will cause considerable aston¬
ishment in labor circles throughout
the country. Save to those who wero
on the “inside,” so to speak, for the
past, three months there was absolutely
nothing of this known. It is said,
though the change was sudden and
totally unlooked for, was done with
the amicable consent of all. In some
quarters it is hinted that it had been
prearranged. learned good authority that
It is on
it was with Mr. Sovereign’s hearty
approval that he steps down and out.
It is, likewise, with the appreciation,
and in fact, love of his brethren of the
order that this is done. The same
holds good with the other officers who
were relieved. Air. Sovereign stated
that lie wished retirement. Ho want-
ed rest from the labor which the office
entailed upon him.
Henry A. Hicks, the general master
workman-elect, was seen after tho
meeting. He said that he did not in¬
tend to outline the future policy of the
order under liis administration for
several days yet. Ho expressed
the highest admiration for his
predecessor, saying that he thought
him one of the greatest exponents of
the age of the prime idea represented
by the Kniglits of Labor.
I. 1). Chamberlain, the worthy fore¬
man-elect, is a newspaper man.
All the business transacted at Fri¬
day’s meeting went through in the
most amicable manner possible.
The afternoon session was princi¬
pally taken up with the delivery of
Air. Sovereign’s annual address.
Mr. Sovereign prefaced his speech
with the statement that the opening of
this regular session of the general as¬
sembly presents to the world the “same
undismayed membership through
whose fortitude and courage the spirit
of progress combats greed and avarice
and defies the cant and hypocrisy of
the age.” triumph
He then dwelthriefly on tho saying
of the principles of tho order,
that it had survived tho crimes of its
traitors, and prospered in spite of the
contumely of its enemies. The order,
he said, was today stronger in mem¬
bership, stronger in character and
stronger in the hearts of the people
than it was a year ago. He reeom-
mended that this session confine its
deliberations largely to the work of
organization, and to this end plans
should be pul in operation which will
insure the service of the largest possi¬
ble number of experienced and efficient
.organizers in isolated and unorganized
fields.
INDEPENDENCE, OR NOTHING.
Muxiirio Gomez Declarer Cuban* are Op-
potted to Autonomy.
A dispatch to Tho London Daily
Chronicle from Havana summarizes
statements by General Maximo Gomez,
Aranguren, Aranio and the late Adol-
pho Castillo, all opposing the accep¬
tance of anything short of independ¬
ence and declares that autonomy would
not bo worth the paper written on.
The same correspondent confirms
the report that General Castillo was
betrayed by a false friend to the Span¬
iards who sent a portion of the civil
guard to lie in wait for hire and shoot
liim as he was leaving the supposed
friend’s house.
COAL TRUST WINS.
Court Decide* that. Its President Need Not
Go lief ore »t Referee.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,
says: The appellate division of the
third department has agreed with
Judge Chester in vacating the order
compelling the coal trust presidents to
appear before a referee.
The question of the constitutional¬
ity of the law was not discussed ex¬
cept in Judge Landon’a dissenting
opinion.
VOL. III. NO. 47.
ROUND OAK, GA.,
Dealers in
General Merchandise,
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
Ladies’ Dress Goods, Fine Clothing,
BOOTS ANI) SHOES.
We also handle and have on hand at all times
Horses and Mules
That we will sell for cash or on time. We sell the
CELIBMTED MITCHELL WAGON
M1 Best Me ol Buies art Harness.
Wc pay the HIGHEST MARKET PRICE for
Cotton and Cotton Seed,
Ami charge only TEN CENTS for weighing, thereby
saving you exorbitant warehouse charges.
Thanking the public for a liberal patronage in the past, we solicit a con-
tinuance of the name, promising fair treatment to all.
Respectfully,
L. O. Benton & Co '9
ROUND OAK, CA-
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507 Cherry Street, Macon, Ga.
AVc take plensnre in tolling our friends that our buyer, MR. KESSLER,
has returned from the Eastern markets, whore he purchased a full line of
DRY ROODS, CLOTHING, SHOES, HITS, MILLINERY. &c.
At prices that will surprise you. Before you buy come and get our prices,
which is about ONE-HALE the regular price. $3.00 to $15.00
Men’s Suits............................... 85c. to $6.00
Boys’ Suits............................... $3.75 to $10.00
Overcoats................................. 3.00 to 7.00
Mackintoshes.............................. 76c. to 9.00
Ladies’ Capes.............................
Huts, Shoes, Comforts, Blankets, Spreads, Millinery, and a great
many other Articles too numerous to mention
COM U AND WDK.
•5*
Proprietors.
507 Cherry Street, MACON. CA,
Wo would like to have our friends come to see us.
■T. 0. HADDOCK,
J. T. PEARCE,
J. R. ANDREWS,
l. s. McConnell.
When Visiting BVIacon Call On
Iverson L. Smith,
For Dry Gooils, Clothing, Hats, Boots, Shoes.
THUNKS, VALISES, &C.
AT 470 MULBERRY STREET.
—ALSO—
Groceries, Cigars and Tobaccos.
THE CHEAPEST PLACE IN MACON.
At 4r(»(» Mulberry Street, MACON, GA.
SAM’L EVANS,
Cotton Factor and Commission Mercian
Milledgeville, Georgia.
Consignments of Cotton solicited. Liberal cash advances made on Cot.
ton for storage.