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The Jones County News
VOL. IX.
TURNTONICARAGUA
Colombia May Finally Re-
joct Panama Canal Treaty.
OUTLOOK SEEMS DUBIOUS
In Case Compact Is Turned Down,
Negotiations for Nicaragua
Route Will Probably
be Reopened.
Dr. Thomas Hovran, Colombian
charge d’affaires at Washington, said
Tuesday that he had not been advised
by his government that President
Marroquin had resigned, as reported
in dispatches from Panama.
If it shall appear shortly that the
Colombian government is unwilling to
consummate the treaty, or is disposed
to defer final action beyond the "rea-
sonable time’’ mentioned in tho Spoon-
er act the state department will at
once endeavor to reopen negotiations
with Nicaragua and Costa Rica with
the view of securing control of the al-
ternato route for a canal
thoso countries. In fact, Secretary
Hay has already within the week talk-
ed with Senor Corea, the Nicaraguan
minister, and Senator Calvo, the min¬
ister from Costa Rica.
It is said by pardes to the negotia¬
tions that if they arc resumed It wili
be upon the distinct understanding
That the United States government
definitely abandon the Panama route.
So much ill-feeling was excited in Nic¬
aragua and Costa Rica by the drop¬
ping of the Nicaragua route after the
protocols had been drawn, looking to
Its acquisition, that the resident min¬
isters of the two countries in Wash
ington are very loath to take up the
subject again without an express
agreement that they are not to be
used to club the Colombian govern
nient into terms.
The capital officials, however, feel
very confident that it will not be nor-
essary to resort again to the Nicara¬
guan route, for they believe that the
present difficulties in the Panama ne
gotiations are solely attributable to
efforts on the part of tho Colombians
to make the most of the opportunity
to induce the Panama Canal Company
to divide with it some part of tho
$40,000,000 to be received by the com¬
pany from the United States.
Rejection of Treaty Predicted.
Newspapers just received in Colon
from Bogota, the capital, contain ar
tides adverse to the Panama canal
treaty and private letters from Bogota
of recent date, referring to the grow
ing opposition there to the treaty, af-
firm that even a certain number of
the government officers are wavering
in their adherence to tho treaty and
prophesy its rejection by the Colom¬
bian congress in its present form.
Denial Made by Cromwell.
William Nelson Cromwell, general
consul of the new Panama canal Com¬
pany at Washington, makes public a
statement regarding current reports
affecting the company, including that
emanating from Panama, that the
company had offered the Colombian
government $12,000,000 of the $-10,000.-
000 the company is to recoive from
the United States. The statement i3
as follows:
“The new Panama Canal Company
has not made a proposal to pay $12,-
000.000, nor any sum whatever, to
the Colombian government., nor to
any parties whatsoever, for, or in
connection with the ratification of the
pending treaty. Statements to the
contrary are absolutely without the
slightest foundation.” •
/ CHARITIES CONFERENCE ENDS,
-
Great Gathering Adjourns in Atlanta
After a Week cf Brilliant Work.
Tho thirtieth and most successful
convention in the history of the Na-
ticnal Conference of Charities and
Correction came to a close in the au-
rlitorium of the First Baptist church
at Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday night, with
tho great audience standing in rever-
ential attitude while God’s blessing
was asked on the work that has been
done and on the people who have ta-
ken part in the meeting.
POSTOFFICE IS ABOLISHED.
Payne Accedes to Request of Con-
gressman in Opposition to Negro.
A Washington dispatch says: Post-
master General Payne has rescinded
an order creating a postoffice at Quin-
doequia, Md., for which Andrew J.
Day, a negro, was slated for appoint¬
ment. This was done on representa--
tions from Congressman Jackson, re-
publican, of the first Maryland dis¬
trict, who deems the establishment of
a postffioce at Quindocquia unneces-
sary because the place is soon to be
iucluded within the limits of tne rural
free delivery service.
PRESIDENT AGAIN ISOLATED.
'Gees Into Camp in the Big Tree Sec¬
tion of California.
A special from Wawona, Cal., is as
follows: “President Roosevelt for the
second time since he left Washington
on his present trip is cut off from
communication with tho outside world.
“He is camping in the Big Tree coun¬
try and will remain secluded until Mon¬
day morning. His special train arrived
gt Raymond early this morning.
T0 EASE
Cccdler Busch Bellows in Telling cf
Crooked Wdrk of Himself and
Other Missouri Legislators.
Unable to bear the strain of mental
torture which he has suffered since the
grand jury Investigation into the bood-
ling was instituted, formor-State Sena-
tor Frederick L. Busch went before
Circuit Court Attorney Folk, in St.
Louis Friday, and made a complete
confession of nts connection with the
deals extending over a period of eight
years. Busch’s declarations involve
several men of prominence, and ho
names those who have been conspicu-
ous at the capital as distrlbutors of
u0 T° <i | e '
Later Busch t, was taken , , „ before tho
grand jury, where he remained an
hour. When he emerged from the
jury room tears were streaming down
his checks. With his face burled In
his handkerchief, lie hurried down the
the Llevent . . .. - .. „
steps to s tee ex .
building.
Busch prefaced his remarks by say-
in K "tat all sorts cf money was uset
a, '^° ,im ° ^ influence eg 3 at on.
P‘ _ etty ^° n ® y ’ y 0 S ? ‘ J ’ f
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wnro M
‘ ,, inter .
w . active and
- repreaentat P j ves paI(1 us ■■
Busch named several senat0 rs who
profited handsomely from legislation
at the 1899 session and included one
or two who are members of the pres-
ent assembly
He broke down twice while confess-
ing to Mr. Folk and weeping bitterly,
said: “I am telling these things only
to ease my mind ”
Going back to the thirty-eighth as-
scmbly, when the bill to create a
school book combination was one ot
the principal issues before the legisla¬
ture, Busch sai l that the school book
trust put up a big fund.
“I get $1,000,” he said, “and others
got just as much, and same maybe
more.
“On one occasion," be said, “there
was a resolution presented to have all
bills held in committee. I got $250 for
holding up the resolution.
“Killing bills by smothering them
in committee was very common, he
said.
Because of the statute of limitations,
which prevenis prosecution three years
after the crime is committed, one of
the men against whom Busch is testi-
tying cannot be indicted.
MILLS MAY CURTAIL TIME.
Preposition to Stop Night Work and
Operate Only Four Days in Week.
The Southern Cotton Spinners’ As-
sociaiion in annual session at Char-
Iotte. N. C.. changed its name Friday
to American Cotton Manufacturers’ As-
sedation. Tne officers elected were
W C. Heath, of Monroe, N. C., pretl-
dent; vice’president, Thomas M. Swift, Elberton, Ga.,
and Clarence Bryant,
Charlotte, secretary and treasurer.
The following report of a special
committee was unanimously endorsed
by the association:
“Your committee have duly consid-
ered the Important subject referred to
them and now beg to submit to your
consideration the following resolution:
The cotton manufacturing world using
American short staple cotton is facing
conditions that are likely to continue
so long as present artificial influences
dominate the market for tho raw ma-
terial. and these conditions arc so se¬
rious that action by the Southern Cot-
ton Spinners’ Association is deemed
imperative and your committee to
whom this subject has been referred
would recommend that the whole infiu-
ence of the association be used to:
“First. Bring about an entire cessa-
tion of night work.
“Second. Operation of mills not over
four days per week.
“Third. These recommendations to
take effect not later than June 1st. to
15th, 1903.
“Your committee are of the opinion
that, by proper effort the co-operation
of tho majority of the mills in the
southern states can be secured, and be-
lieve that an appeal should also bo
sent out to banks as well as commis-
sion houses to throw their influence
in the same direction if favorable ac-
tion is taken by the convention.
NEGRO CHURCH DEMOLISHED
cynamited Because Pastor Said This
Was White Man’s Country.
A negro church was wrecked by dy-
namite at Evanston, a suburb of Chi¬
cago, Friday night. A bomb was ex-
ploded under the pulpit of the African
Methodist church. The interior was
demolished and the front of the build-
ins was blown out.
Certain colored people became in-
censed by a sermon preached recently
by the pastor, who said thi3 v/3n th 1
white man’s country, and the colored
m an might as well make up his mind
to it now and get along the best he
could.
MUCH RIOTING IN NEWPORT.
Town in “Little Rhody” Experiencing
Strenuous Rough House.
Mayor Doyle, of Newport, R. I.,
dared the cjty to be in a state of
Friday as the climax of trouble
tween the police stationed on
way and a gang of track layers
ployed by the Old Colony street
way who intended to lay a switch
face of an order not to do so.
GUAY. JONES CO., GA.. THURSDAY. MAY 21. 1903.
jews MASSACRED
Horrible Butchery of Men i
Women and Children.
SIX iiimnDcn HuNUKlU t/ibTIluO VIL/llmO
Hebrew Citizen of Denver Receives
Letter from His Father in Rus¬
sia Giving Details of Most
Horrible Affair.
From a letter written by his father
a hospital- * at Kisineff, Russia, W.
King, of Denver, Colorado, learns that
his mother, a sister and brother may
)j een victims of the recent massa-
ere in which hundreds of women and
little children were slaughtered by tho
U, 1c ' „ SI inno ‘
Mr . King’s father was badly injured
and jg now in a hospital,
„j can ]earn nothing of your m oth-
cr or sister or brother,” he writes. "I
fcar they are among the victims. The
streets ran with blood. Children were
dragged from their mothers’ arms and
burled against the sides of buildings,
Women were caught and slashed to
bits by frenzied Christians. The cry
was, ‘Down with the Jews.’ I saw a
mother cut open and her unborn babe
thrown against a railroad train. Wo-
men were held by men while they
"ere mutilated. The number killed
will be more than 600. Thousands of
homes were burned and all the prop-
erty destroyed. Dead bodies lay in
the streets in heaps,
Horrors Becoming Known.
A dispatch sent out trom St. Peters-
b urg under Tuesday’s date, says: Ad-
ditional details of the Kisenelf massa-
cre c f j ews are printed dally, but
correspondent give the number of vic¬
tims thus far buried in the Jewish
ceme tery as forty-four and say that
c jghty-four persons seriously wounded
are s tin in the Jewish hospital,
“The horrors reported scarcely bear
repetition. In one Instance spikes
yy er e driven through a woman's head
in the floor, and cases of body mulila-
fj on p ave been authenticated. About
^qq or j.qqo persons were arrested, an
energetic official having been sent
f ronl Odessa to deal with the situation.
The apathy of the local authorities
during the two days of rapine and
murder appears to have been fully
established.” *
JUMPED TO SAVE HONOR.
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Assailed by Would-Be Ravisher, Young
Woman Leaps from Window.
At Chicago, early Wednesday morn¬
ing, Miss Laura Stickler, a member of
the Young Women’s Christian Associa-
tion, rather than sacrifice her honor
to William Reed, an alleged board of
trade broker, leaped from a second-
story window ot a hotel and received
injuries that may cause her death,
The young woman is now lying uncon-
scious at the county hospital. Reed,
whom she has accused, is a prisoner.
Miss Stickler charged Reed with entic-
,n S her into , the P lace under , the pre¬
tense that it was a down-town branch
of the Young Women’s Christian As¬
sociation.
GENERAL LONG8TREET ILL.
Noted Ex-Confederate Leader Suffer¬
ing from Attack of Rheumatism.
A Washington special says: The
condition of General James Long-
street, the Confederate commander, is
very serious. An injury to one of his
legs a few days ago, has been followed
by a sharp attack of rheumatism.
General Longstreet has been in fail¬
ing health for at least two years.
FIRST GEORGIA PEACHES.
Initial Shipment of the Season i3"
Made from Tifton to Atlanta.
The first shipment of peaches for
the Georgia crop for 1903 was made
from Tifton last Wednesday by C. J.
Austin. They were Sneads, well ripe,
of fine flavor, and were shipped to an
Atlanta commission house. Prospects
arc good for an average crop. The
Elbertas are especially fine
MONROE ADAMS HANGED.
Americus, Georgia, Negro Pays Pen¬
alty for Horrible Double Crime.
Monroe Adams, colored, was hanged
Americus, Ga., Friday morning in
t j, 0 COU nty jail yard for the double
mur( j er of his wife and daughter,
The crime for which Adams paid
the penalty was one of the most cold-
blooded and atrocious ever committed
j n {be county, in a.fit of jealous pas-
g ]on he shot and killed his wife and
gro wn daughter last July and accord-
ing to bis statement on the stand in
tended shooting three other negroes.
COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT OUT.
Forced to Resign Office on Account
of Political Troubles.
It is reported in Panama that Prey-
jdent Marroquin, of Colombia, has
j been compelled to resign office on ac-
j count of political troubles, and that
General Raphael Reyes, second vice
| president of Colombia, will assume
J j nal the presidency. anxiously Friends awaiting of conflrma- the ca-
are
j tion of this report.
PRESS NOW MUZZLED.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsylva¬
nia Signs the Muchly-Discusaed
New Libel Act.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl¬
vania, approved the Grady-Salus libel
bill Tuesday, and at Ihe same time Is¬
sued a long statement giving tho rea¬
sons for his action. The bill, which
was in the governor’s hands for more
than a month, goes into effect imme¬
diately, and it repeals all laws oi
parts of laws inconsistent with the
new act.
Tho governor claims in his state¬
ment there is nothing in the terms of
the measure which prevents any news¬
paper from making such comments
upon legislative measures or upon the
official acts of state, municipal, coun¬
ty, or public officers as arc proper in¬
formation of the public or are in the
line of legitimate public discussion.
Continuing, be says:
“The bill in its application is not
confined to officials, but affects ns
well the citizen or business man,
whoso conduct constitutes no part oi
the right of the public to information
The corporation officer who has been
falsely charged with crime; tho man
ufacturer who is falsely accused oi
being a drunken brawler; the woman
whoso domestic griefs lfave been un¬
feelingly paraded, or Whose chastity
is improperly suspected; the student
who has been falsely accused of mur¬
der; the clergyman who has been
cruelly maligned; tho quiet citizen
whose peace of mind has been de¬
stroyed by the publication of evil goa-
sip; the merchant whose credit has
been affected by groundless rumors;
the sufferers from reckless but not
necessarily imlicious publications,
are given the right not. to prohibit
publication, but to recover damages
which they have sustained, provided
they prove negligence or lack of care
on the part of tho publishing newspa¬
pers.
“All of these are instances of what
has, in fact, recently occurred. A
mayor of our city lias been railed trai¬
tor, a senator of the United States has
been denounced as a yokel with sod¬
den brain, and within the last quarter
of a century two presidents of the
United States have been murdered,
and in each instance tho cause was
easily traceable to inflammatory and
careless newspaper utterances. A car¬
toon in a daily journal of May 2 de¬
fines the question with entire precis¬
ion. An ugly little dwarf represent¬
ing the governor of tho common¬
wealth stands on a crude stool. The
stool is subordinate to and placed
alongside a huge printing press with
wheels as largo as thoso of an ox
cart, and all are so arranged as to
givo tlie idea that when the press
starts the stool and its occupant will
bo thrown to the ground.
“Put into words, the cartoon asserts
to the world that tho press is above
tho law and greater in strength than
the government. No self-respecting
people will permit such au attitude to
he long maintained. In England a
century ago the offender would have
been drawn and quartered and bin
head stuck upon a pole without the
gates. In America today this Is tho
kind of arrogance which goeth before
a fall.”
Tbo governor also says that many
years’ experience on tho bench ha3
led him to the conclusion that. Crimea
are avidly propagated not by fho mal¬
ice, but by the recklessness of tho
press and tHat in certain classes of
cases, among them murder, the ac¬
cused were at times convicted or ac¬
quitted before they reached the court
room.
Governor Pennypacker says the rep¬
utable press need have no fear of tho
operation of the law, but that it will
have a repressive effect upon the evil
tendencies of modern journalism.
RUSSIA GIVES ASSURANCES.
Official Edict Sent Forth that All cf
Manchuria Has Open Door.
The Russian charge, M. Plancon, at
Pekin, China, has given reassurances
regarding Manchuria. He has issued
an official notice that all Manchuria la
open to foreign travel and adds that
passports arc no longer necessary.
CAROLINA VETERANS GATHER,
otate Reunion Held in Columbia With
Host of Old Heroes Present.
Tho old confederates, with a very
largo following, met in reunion in Co
Jumbia, S. C., Tuesday for a throe
days’ meeting.
About 3,000 old soldiers, with their
sponsors and maids of honor, were
guests? of the city. In addition,
than 7,000 visitors were present.
Tuesday night there was speech
making in the opera house, into which
over 2,000 people were packed. J. R.
Smith, of Augusta, was one of the
“private soldiers” who delivered an
address by invitation.
8TRIKE AT A FUNERAL.
Carriage Drivers Balked Because Pilot
of Hearse Was Non-Union Man.
At Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday, during
the funeral services over the remains
of Mrs. Mary Kamm, the drivers of
the carriages struck and refused to
work because the hearse was driven
by a non-union man. The officiating
undertakers filled the strikers’ places
just as the casket containing the re-
mains were being taken to the hearse.
COTTON BOUNDS UP
Still Another New Record is
Made in High Price,
END NOT YET IN SIGHT
Great Disorder on Floor of the New
York Exchange—Boom Will Con¬
tinue Until Cotton Entirely
Gives Out.
Another now record for the season
was established in the cotton market
at New York Friday; in fact, many of
the older members agreed that it was
doubtful if any session In Ihe entire
history of tho exchange compared
with the day’s doings. Tho big fea¬
ture of the day was the price made by
July in tlic last half hour of trading,
11 cents. In the same time August
sold at 10.73 and spot cotton was
quoted at 11.60. These prices were tho
highest in twelve or thirteen years and
added to this the transactions wore of
enormous voluiho.
At times tho scene on the floor was
one of the greatest disorder ami the
rush of the covering demand threw
tho pit into a demoralized condition.
At the opening of tho market trading
was by far tho nu>3t, active of the sea¬
son and on the upward rush May sold
at. 11.40,. July at 10.99 and August at
10.67—al! now records.
Tho Liverpool reports gave warn¬
ing that, tho day would be a lively
one, as sales of spot cotton there
reached a full dollar a halo, higher
than on Thursday. Early cables stated
that some of tho foreign short Inter¬
ests were In the marset taking all the
cotton offered at tho highest prices of
a decade.
The largest individual dealer in spot
cotton in the New York market re¬
ceived a message from Liverpool read¬
ing as follows:
“The market will only stop advanc¬
ing when cotton gives out. It is get¬
ting very scarce now.”
Liverpool stocks aro smaller than
for a great many years and tho con¬
sumption of American cotton is at
record figures. The market started
with a rush witli this news from Liver¬
pool, orders coining mainly from com¬
mission houses. One firm had traded
in 50,00(f bales before midday.
Tho ctal amount of cotton which
is now in New York available for de¬
livery on May contracts is 89,250 bales,
which has a market value at the cur¬
rent price of about $58 a bale, or
equivalent to a total valuation of near¬
ly $5,200,000. This stock shows an In¬
crease of over 5,000 bales from Tues¬
day and 10,000 since Saturday, a week
ago, and compares with 32,000 bales
on April 15. The total amount of cot¬
ton now in tho city of all kinds by
running count Is 120.000 halos, against
58,000 on April 15.
More cotton is being brought in by
those who had sold tne May option
short either as hedges against trans¬
actions in spot, cotton or on differences
between the local market and Liver¬
pool, who had intended to make good
their contracts to the btiji clique rath¬
er than go into the pit and effect a set¬
tlement by buying the cotton back.
Some of those who were short, even
brought some cotton back from Liver¬
pool, and it is understood several larg¬
er lots have been sent, on to the city
from points in New England secured
from the mill men and dealers there.
At. the present market price about
$5,000,000 worth of actual cofton will
thus change hands during the closing
deal in this May option.
Refuses to Act as Umpire.
Frederick W. Hells, of New York,
who was tendered the position of um¬
pire to act in tho settlement of tho
claims of Germany and Italy against,
Venezuela, has deciired tho appoint¬
ment, owing to the pressure of private
business.
Was a Soldier of Napoleon.
Joseph Bashaw, who is, as near «s
can bo figured out, at least 114 yeird
old, was found dead in bed at Salem,
Oregon, Thursday. He was a French¬
man by birth, and served in tho French
war of 1806-15 under Napoleon.
MILLARD LEE IS SANE.
Jury So Declares in Trial of Slayer of
Miss Suttles.
Millard Lee was declared to bo a
sane man by the jury in the Fulton
criminal court at Atlanta, Thursday
morning. This moans that ho will bo
hanged for his crime when <>is respite
expires on June 1st, unless there is
further delay by the courts. It is un¬
derstood that tho ease will be appealed
to the supreme court.
TRAIN i AKES A PLUNGE.
Out cf Twenty Passengers in Smash-
Up Only One Man Was Killed.
The outbound iassenger train on the
Choctaw, Oklanoma and Gulf railroad
which left Hot Springs at 9 o'clock
Thursday morning jumped the track
on a 15-foot embankment about a mile
eaf .{ 0 f th e city, wrecking all of tho
carfl cx cept the Pullman sleeper and
carrying an iron bridge (town into the
Gulpha creek. One man was killed
and at least twenty other persons in
jm-ed, one fatally and several
seriously,
BOODLING CHARGE
Is Made In Florida Legisla¬
ture and Creates Sensation.
INVESTIGATION IN ORDER
Resolution Is Adopted to Frobo Alleged
Wrong Doing cf Hon. Jefferson
Browne, President cf Rail¬
road Commission.
A Tallahassee special says: A few
minutes a icr tho Florida bouse oi
representatives met for the afternoon
session Friday a strong reminder oi
the boodle business which has attach¬
ed itself so Inseparate with recent
Missouri legislation, was presented by
the. introduction by Represent at tv
Strozler, of Marion, of a house resolu¬
tion, which was udoptod, calling for
ihe appointment of a Joint committee
of live to investigate tho charge that
Jefferson B. Browne, chairman of the
Florida railroad commission and pros-
pcctivo candidate for goalerner of
Florida next year, baa accepted a foe
of $1,000 to lobby through the legisla¬
ture a bill appropriating $10,000 to
purchase for the state trom Monroe
county tm armory site and building
in Key West.
The bi>l in question lias passed
both houses and become a law. Mr.
Browne, in a quiet way, was very ac¬
tive in its support, while it was pend-
ing. Whcn the hill passe:!, Senator
Hunt Harris, of Monroe county, re¬
ceived a telegram from his? uncle, Dr.
Vining Harris, superintendent of
schools for Monroe county, advising
htm of the contract between the coun¬
ty commissioners and Jeff Browne, to
pay the latter 10 per cent of any
amount he could get out of the legis¬
lature. This seems to have boen the
first intimation Senator Harris and
Representative Roberts, also of Mon¬
roe, had received that Mr. Browne’s
activity was prompted by a money
consideration.
Mr. Browne drafted tho bill In ques¬
tion and It was Introduced by Repre¬
sentative Knowles, of Monroe. Differ¬
ent statements aro made as to what
Mr. Knowles knew of Browne’s ar¬
rangement for fee. Senator Harris
took his telegram to of Governor high Jen¬ offi¬
nings, and on account tne
cial position occupied by Jeff Browne,
tbo governor asked that ho be advised
direct, by tho county authorities as to
the truth of the Harris i.elegr n, it
was duly confirmed and the governor
wired for a certified copy of the min¬
utes of the Monroe county commis¬
sioners embodying their agreement
with Mr. Browne. At the earnestso¬
licitation of the Monroe county delega¬
tion, the governor approved the. bill
and it, became a law.
When Strozler Introduced his resolu¬
tion Friday afternoon demanding an
investigation of tho matter, becjtis * of
Ihe fact that Browne is a high state of¬
ficial, being chairman of (he railroad
commission, II was bitterly attacked
by Representative St. Clair Abrams,
of Lake, who contended that. Browne
had a perfect right in Ids personal and
professional capacity, as lawyer, to
render tills service; that it had no con¬
nection witli IiIh official position or du¬
ties, and that It was a matter with
which tho house had no proper con-
cern.
In reply, Strozler defended his reso¬
lution with vehemence, lie called al-
tontion to the scandalized feeling with
which tho report of Mr. Browne’s con¬
duct had been received on all sides.
He claimed that If Browne 1 b innocent
of tho current charges ho Is entitled
to vindication by a committee.
St. Clair Abram.! moved to lay tho
motion on tho table, but Ibis was lost
by a vote of II to 41, and tho resolu¬
tion was adopted without further oppo¬
sition.
Breaks Out in New Place.
Tho negroes of Fall River, Mass., aro
somewhat worked up over the action
of tho local bartenders' association.
Tho association not only prohibits tho
admission of colored people to Its as¬
sociation, but also refuses to be served
by them at a banquet.
JAPAN DOUBTS RUSSIA.
Mikado’s Government is Busy, Night
and Day, Preparing for War.
According to advices received at
Victoria, B. C-, by the steamer Em¬
press of India, Japanese arsenals wore
being worked day and night, provis¬
ions were being concentrated, coal
itored on Tspima island, and on all
ddos it was evident that Japan, doubt-
ng tlie extent of Russia’s withdrawal
from Manchuria, was preparing for
var.
GROCERYMEN ON WAR PATH.
Contemplated Bitter Fight on Depart¬
ment Stores of Country.
A commercial war which it is said
will extend throughout tho country
has boen started by the grocers of
Milwaukee against manufacturers who
allow their goods to be sold in depart
ment stores. Henry W. Schwab, pres
ident of the Retail Grocers’ Associa¬
tion, predicts that the action will be
followed by every one of (ho forty-one
state.-? in which the National Associa
j tion. lias branches.
NO. 20.
* * Cream of News.*
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Brief Summary of Most
Important Events
of Each Day.
—The first shipment of 1903 crop of
Georgia peaches was sent from Tifton
to Atlnnta Wednesday.
—Knights Templars and Shriners
f rolll every lodge in Georgia were en-
tortained by Rome Commandery No. 8
Wednesday night.
—Tennessee division of the Grand
Army of tho Republic met in annual
session at Chattanooga Wednesday.
—Tho grand jury at Starksvillo,
Miss., indicts college students who
tarred and feathered a Mexican stu¬
dent.
—Booker Washington returned to
ills school at Tuskegco, Ala., Wednes¬
day after a tour in tho interest of hia
school.
—A heavy rain, amounting almost
to a cloudburst, fell at Jacksonville,
Fla., Tuesday and Wednesday flooding
the streets and doing considerable
damage.
—The Mobile and Ohio railroad se¬
cures an Injunction at Springfield,
Ills., against the striking switchmen
and other employees interfering with
tho road.
—Mrs. J. F. Gwaltney, of Peters¬
burg, Va., kills her 9-months-gld babe
with morphine and then attempts sui¬
cide. Gossips had told the woman
they had seen her husband walking
with a former sweetheart.
—General James Longstreet, of
Georgia, is reported to bo seriously ill
in Washington city.
—With a working capital of $20,000,-
000, Sully and Brown aro sending tho
price of cotton to new high notches.
—Tho Countess Lonyay has sued
her father, King Leopold of Belgium,
for her share of her mother’s estate.
—The strike of dock laborers in
Valparaiso was aettted Wednesday in
a bloody manner. Forty strikers were
killed and tavo hundred wounded by
government troops.
—The Knights Templars grand com-
mandory of the state of Georgia con¬
vened in Rome Wednesday.
It is announced in Columbus, Ga.,
that tho Birmingham, Columbus and
St. Andrews railroad is to be built at
once.
—The hearing of the lumber rato
caso began at Macon, Ga., Tuesday.
Tho roads deny ail tho allegations cf
the lumber men.
—The general assombly of tho
Southern Presbyterian church will
meet in Lexington, Va., May 21-30.
—It is announced from New Or¬
leans that all preparations have been
made for tho great confederate re¬
union.
—Ernest Haywood, who killed Lud¬
low Skinner at Raleigh, in February,
has filed a habeas corpus petition,
which will bo heard May 21.
—Dr. W. L. Funderberg, a promi¬
nent physician of Gadsden, Ala., sui¬
cided Tuesday morning by taking
morphine. Ho drew a knife on per¬
sons who tried to save him.
—President Roosevelt was greeted
by great crowds on bis arrival in San
Francisco.
—The war department has an-
nounceed .nat. it will not remove the
leper soldier isolated on Tybee Island,
Georgia.
—The acquisition of the ‘Frisco sys¬
tem by the Rock Island makes the lat¬
ter one of the greatest railroad combi¬
nations in the United States.
—In tho event, as seems probable,
that Colombia rejects tho Panama ca¬
nal treaty, tho United States will im¬
mediately reopen negotiations for tho
Nicaragua route.
—Russia announces that all Man¬
churia I a open to foreigners and that
no passports will be roqulred.
— In the British house of commons!
Tuesday Colonial Secretary Chamber-
lain announced that 100,000 square
mlJes of territory had been added to
northern Nigeria as a result of Brit¬
ish military operations.
—An enthusiastic Greater Georgia
meeting was held in Columbus Friday
night.
—The Chinese minister called on
Secretary Hay Monday and discuss I
the Manchurian question.
—Police reserves are called out in
New York to quell disorders growing
out of the various strikes.
—Senator Mark Hanna, of Ohio,
ti.inks it possible that the democrat -
may nominate Grover Cleveland for i
third term.
—The United State supreme cun
lias decided that the statute re la in ■
to the bribery of persons protec to 1
by the fifteenth amendment is uu« ■
stitutional.
—Miss Louise Hurley, chambermaid
at an Indianapolis hotel, has been dis¬
charged for refusing to make up a
bed which had been slept in by Book¬
er Washington.
—Postmaster General Payne has re¬
moved R. W. Machen, general superin¬
tendent of the free delivery servic \
from duty, pending the result of tbo
postoffice investigation.
—All the state-owned railroads of
Victoria have been tied up by a stril. -.
—Russia is moving troops into Chi¬
nese territory. The United State .
Great Britain and Japan may form an
alliance to resist Russia.