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The Jones County News
VOL. IX.
ESTIMATE ON CROP i
Is Given Out by Agricultural
Commissioners,
WILLBE 10,271,000 BALES
Flgures Furnished After Careful In¬
vestigation by Representatives of
Every Cotton Growing State
in the South.
Ten million, two hundred and seven¬
ty-one thousand bales is the estimate
of the present cotton crop, made by
the Association of Southern Commis¬
sioners of Agriculture, which adjourn¬
ed at Montgomery, Ala., Friday after
three days of continuous session. The
estimate furnished is the result of a
careful investigation made by the com¬
missioners of tho several cotton grow¬
ing states.
The following is the estimate by
states reported by the commissioners:
Spates. Bales.
Alabama .... 1 , 000,000
Arkansas ..... 870,000
Florida ...... 00,000
Georgia...... 1,300,000
Louisiana..... 750,000
Mississippi ... 1,500,000
Missouri..... 50,000
North Carolina 525,000
Oklahoma .... 200 , 000 .
South Carolina 900,000
Tennessee .... 300,000
Virginia .... 16,000
Texas and Indian Territory. .3,000,not)
The association passod numerous
resolutions during the last day’s- ses¬
sion. Most important was one looking
to tho prevention of tho Importation of
the boll weevil from Texas into the
cotton states. It is urged that no cot¬
ton in itcrial be brought from Texas so
long c.s tho weevil Is known to be in
the state.
Other resolutions asked for tho co¬
operation on the part of railroads in
holding farmers’ institutes, urging the
teaching of agriculture in all the cot¬
ton sections, Inviting desirable immi¬
grants, better advancements of south¬
ern advantages and methods for ex¬
terminating tho southern cattle tick.
CLIMAX TO POLICE MUDDLE.
Atlanta’s “Political" Board of Commis¬
sioners Find Two Captains Guilty.
As the result of the trial of Police
captains in Atlanta for insubordina¬
tion, conducted by the board of police
commissioners, Captain Mooi was
suspended for sixty days, and Captain
Thompson for thirty days.
Charges have been preferred against
Station Sergeant W. P. Manly, alleging
that he has circulated false reports,
and has been suspended.
Captain Moon was also found guilty
of spreading false reports.
Mayor E. P. Howell was commission¬
ed to administer reprimands to Moon
and Thompson before all watches of
the police force, and in addition he
wa3 instructed to tell the policemen
that the slightest attempt to disre¬
gard the authority or orders of Chief
Ball will be punishable by dismissal
frem the force, while “V'ckbiting” and
spreading of false reports will ha
harshly dealt with by the board.
FIFTEEN YEARS FOR JOHNSON.
Negro Preacher Who Robbed the
Misses Battle i3 Sent Up.
At Warrenton, Ga.. Friday, the negro
preacher, Sam Johnson, who robbed
the Misses Battle, of Barnett, about
two years ago, was placed on trial.
He pleaded guilty and implicated
two white men, Ruben Dozier and
Starling Chapman, as accessories.
The grand jury failed to return a
true bill against Dozier and Chapman.
No one believes they assisted Johnson.
His honor, Judge H. G. Lewis, who is
presiding for Judge H. M. Holden, sen¬
tenced Johnson to a term of fifteen
years in the penitentiary.
Just after sentence was passed
Johnson nfhde a leap through a win¬
dow from the upper story of the court
house. He hit the ground running, but
was soon overtaken hy the town mar¬
shal, who landed him in jail.
TILLMAN’S LENGTHY STATEMENT
Was on Stand Over Four Hours Fri¬
day in His Own Behalf.
James H. Tillman was on the stand
at Lexington, S. C., Friday over four
hours, a witness In his own behalf. For
one full hour he was subjected to the
fire of cross examination by counsel
for the state.
But one other witness was placed on
the stand by the defense, after which
the defense rested. Witnesses in re¬
buttal placed on the stand by the state
were heard during the closing hours.
Altogther splendid progress was made
toward the conclusion of the trial.
ANCIENT DONEGAL HAPPY.
At Age cf Eighty a Welcome Hefr
Comes to His Domicile.
A London dispatch says: An heir
was born on Wednesday to the mar¬
quis of Donegal, who is 80 years old,
and who married Miss Twining, of Hal¬
ifax, Nova Scotia, who is 22 years old,
at the beginning of the year. The
marquis had twice previously been
married without having issue,
BIG FLOOD IN NEW YORK.'
Surrounding Terrtory Is Treated I
te
Record-Breaking DtlUiJe and I
Inundation. |
Torrential rain, commencing early
Thursday morning and continuing 1
with scarcely any intermission until
lat@ Friday afternoon, during which
the Unprecedented precipitation ot
10.04 Inches was recorded at the local
weather bureau laid New York city
and all the surrounding country under
a flood Friday, oauslng damage tnat
will amount to many hundred thou¬
sands of dolla-s. The rain ceased Fri¬
day night, but a coast storm was ro-
ported to be approaching and a
threatened hurricane rendered it un¬
safe for vessels of any class to leave
port.
Along all the river front and in
many sections of Brooklyn cellars
were flooded and an enormous amount
of damage done. A great portion of
the subway was badly flooded.
Suburban steam and trolley lines,
with hardly an exception, were crip¬
pled by floods and washouts, and in
the early morning rush hours thou¬
sands of suburban residents were una¬
ble to reach their offices in the city.
Those who were fortunate enough to
cross tho ferries found further prog¬
ress blocked by the submerged condi¬
tion of the water front streets, across
which they were ferried in trucks and
wagons.
Reports of extensive floods and se¬
rious damage to property and interrup¬
tions of traffic came from almost all
sections of New Jersey and Long Is¬
land. In Newark. Passaic and other
largo manufacturing centers many fac¬
tories were closed down, owing to the
flooding of engine rooms. In many
places electric light and power plants
were shut down for the same reason.
A dam on the Ramapo river at Pomp-
ton broke, flooding the valley for ten
miles, but causing no loss of life.
Paterson was one of the worst suf
ferers and for a time Friday afternoor
there was grave danger of a repetitioi
of the terrible disaster of last Febru
ary. A great part of the city was laid
under water, and scores of great
plants, including those of the Rogers
locomotive works and the Passaic
Steel Company, were flooded and shut
down, involving a loss estimated at
fully $1,000,000.
Only one life was reported lost, that
of a girl drowned by the carrying away
of a bridge. Thousands of New Jersey
commuters slept in New York Friday
night, being unable to return to their
homes. Except for the running of the
ferry boats, the Erie trains were run
on the main lines west of Passaic.
RU3SIA HOLDS TO MANCHURIA.
Promised Evacuation Did Mot Begin
on October Eighth.
Advices from New Chwang, Manchu¬
ria, state tho Russians are taking no
steps to restore the government of
New- Chwang to the Chinese. On the
contrary, they are hastening the erec¬
tion of exenslve government buildings
and had added another gunboat to the
naval force in the city. Reports from
northern Manchuria indicate that no
movement has been made toward the
evacuation of that territory, and Rus¬
sian officials are discussing the perma¬
nent occupation of the points now
held as being the settled policy.
The Russian vic°roy, Admiral Alex-
ieff, has been conducting joint naval
and military maneuvers on a great
scale in the vicinity of Port Arthur the
past. week. Ninety Russian war ves¬
sels of all classes were engaged.
A Washington dispatch says: Sir
Chen Tung Liang-Cheng, the Chinese
minister, had a long conference with
Secretary Hay Friday regarding the
situation in Manchuria. The minister
received information some time ago
that there was no apparent movement
on the part of Russia indicating that
the country would begin the evacua¬
tion of Manchuria on October 8, as
agreed, and as stipulated in a treaty
made with China. The Chinese minis¬
ter naturally feels keenly the condi¬
tions which exist, as it is everywhere
known that China is, in no position to
enforce the treaty and compel Russia
to evacuate. At present the concern
of the United States is to see that the
agreements made with China for open
ports in Manchuria are carried out.
PRICE OF OIL ADVANCED.
Alleged Decrease in Production Reason
Given by Standard Company.
A special from Pittsburg, Pa., says:
For the third time within ten (lays the
Standard Oil Company advanced tho
price of oil Thursday, making Penn¬
sylvania $1.65, the highest “in three
years.’’ Th.e net advance is due to tho
fact that very little new producing ter¬
ritory is being found.
There was also an advance of 2
cents In the price of western crude oil
and an advance of 3 cents in the east¬
ern product.
Governor Dockery’s Clerk in Trouble.
“Al” Morrow, stenographer and con¬
fidential clerk to Governor A. M. Dock¬
ery, of Missouri, was indicted by the
federal grand jury at St. Louis Friday
afternoon on a charge cf aiding and
abetting fraudulent naturalization.
Freight Handlers at Savannah Out.
Between six and seven hundred
freight handlers cn the docks of the
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation
Company, at Savannah, walked out
GHAY, JONES CO, GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1903.
HARD COAST BLOW I
Terriffic Storm Along Atlan¬
tic Wreaks Destruction.
j
LIVES AND VESSELS LOST
~
Norfolk and Newport Suffer Heavily.
Ghastly Incident In New York.
Paterson. New Jersey,
Sadly Flofided.
A special from Norfolk, Va., says:
The Virginia coast from Cape Henry
to Dam Neck Mills to the south, was
strewn with the wreckage of several
ill-fated craft Saturday night. All
communication with the seaboard la
cut off, but it it- known that, many ves
sels have been Wrecked and several
lives lost. One of the coal barges,
Ocean Belle and Georgia, nothing in
now left except wreckage on the
shore, and of the crews that manned
them the fate of only five Ir known.
The three-masted Schooner Nellie
W. HoWlett, Captain Gheem, lumber
laden, from Pensajola, is a total wreck
on the coast three miles from Dam
Neck Mills. Captain Gheem and his
crew of six men are safe at. the ata-
tion.
The terminal piers of the Norfolk
and Western, Southern and Atlantic
Coast Line In the outer harbor have
been badly damaged by the wind afid
tide and the big pleasure piers at
Ocean View- are destroyed.
Hundreds of small craft have float¬
ed ashore in tho harbor.
Norfolk City experienced a gale of
from 40 to 50 miles all day Saturday
and besides flooded streets, milch
damage has been clone. For the great¬
er part of the day the city was cut off
from the outside world.
Seventy-Two Miles an Hour.
The weather bureau at Washington
received a report from the signal sta¬
tion at Cape Henry, Va., saying that
the wind was blowing 72 miles an hour
and was carrying everything before it.
Great Damage in New York.
A New York dispatch says: As re¬
ports of the storm’s havoc accumulate
the estimate of the damage in and
about Greater New York grows to
startling figures and undoubtedly the
total loss will run far into the millions.
■ An extraordinary occurr nee was
reported from Greenwood cemetery,
Booklyn. As the result of half a doz-
e nlaudslides on the hillsides of the
beautiful burial ground, tombs wore
opened and headstones torn from their
faslenings. Portions of coffins were
scattered about over a large area and
in other sections- the slide of dirt,
weighing many tons, had swept away
monuments and buried scores of
graves so that it may be impossible
to again locate them.
So far as New York city is concerned,
the great flood storm is a thing of the
past, with the exception of the inter¬
ruption of suburban traffic in New
Jersey. On many of the New Jersey
steam and trolley lines communica¬
tion is either interrupted or badly
crippled and days will probably elapse
before normal conditions are resumed.
In all sections of Greater New York
the floods ubsided during Sunday and
suburban traffic is conducted as usual.
Paterson, New Jersey, Overflowed.
A special from Paterson, N. J., says:
The flood in the Passaic river sur¬
passes the mammoth inundation of
March, 1902. The river has overflowed
hundreds of streets and many fami¬
lies are being rescued from upper win¬
dows in boats. Mayor Hinchcliffe Sat¬
urday morning appointed a committee
to organize a relief committee. A dam
of sand and sacks is being built to
keep the swollen river above the falls
from breaking its banks and pouring
into the city through a ravine, in
which case frightful damage would he
done. The gas works are flooded.
There are fears for the electric light,
station. . Scores of mills have shut
down. The damage in the city of prop¬
erly Is already estimated at half a
million dollars.
TILLMAN ON THE STAND.
Slayer of Gonzales Rehearses Story of
tho Sensational Tragedy.
At Lexington, S. C., Thursday James
H. Tillman wen' upon the stand as a
witness in his own behalf. It wa 3 just
one hour before adjournment that his
counsel asked that the defendant be
calfed. With perfect calf-composure
he arose from his seat among his attor¬
neys and placed himself at the clerk’s
desk to take the oath.
Although he was on tho stand an
hour, he only fairly begun his testi¬
mony when court, adjourned. Thirteen
more witnesses were heard
ANOTHER CRANK NABBED.
Decker Also Wanted to Inspect Inte¬
rior of the White House.
John Decker, of Norwich, Conn.,
who evidently i s a mechanic, about 44
years old, entered the whito house
soon after the doors were opened Wed¬
nesday morning. The officials thought
from his actions he wag a crank and
arrested him He was not armed and
made no resistance when placed under
arrest.
0PP0SE N0RMAL SCH00L
Southern Superintendent* of Educa¬
tion Want Peabody Education
Fund to Remain Intact.
A resolution of protest against using
the Peabody education fund for the
establishment of a great southern nor-
mal school was adopted Wednesday by
the superintendents of education of
six leading southern states who met
i n Atlanta,
This resoltlflan had already been
signed by the superintendents Of clov¬
en southern states, but was readoptod
by those Who gathered in Atlan.>, a'l
of whom bad previously signed it. The
consideration of such a resolution was
not a part of the purpose of the con
ventioh, blit Was tdktm up ineidentally
on account of the meeting of the Pea¬
body trm£e »'. in New York to consider
the proposition of the great normal
school.
One of the maid objects Of the con¬
vention was carried out by the decis¬
ion of the superintendents present to
issue within the next month a circular
to the people of the south, calling
their attention to the defects and
needs of the public schools of this sec¬
tion and the cures for the same.
Defeats in Sehool System.
A committee composed ctf Superin¬
tendent Mynders, of Tennessee; Su¬
perintendent Joyner, of North Caro,
lina, and Superintendent Whitfield, of
Mississippi, was appointed to draft
this , c, , ' cuIar , ' whlch , . , wlI1 b0 , 8 ' lt,rnittei1 , ,
to all the southern superintendents t be¬
fore issuance. Thh outline of the cir
cular, as drawn up, is as follows:
Address to the People of the South,
Emphasizing-=*
1. Present condition of education in
the southern states.
2. The needs of the public schools in
these states: (a) Better houses and
grounds. (b) Better qualified and
trained teachers better paid, (c) Bet¬
ter county supervision, with increas'd
qualifications and compensation for
county superintendents, (d) Longer
terms for public schools, (e) Fewer
and Larger Rural Schools, (f) Cor
rollation, Systematization and Ad
vancement of Course of Study in the
Rural Public Schools.
“2. Measures of ^Supplying Those
Needs, (a) More Money, (b) By Econ¬
omy of Funds Now Available, (c) In¬
crease of Funds hy State, County and
District Taxation.
The Tech is Praised.
All the superintendents of education
attending the convention say that here¬
after they will recommend the Geprgia
Tech to the people of their states In¬
stead of Cornell and othor northern
schools of technology.
“We believe,” said one of the gentle¬
men, “that in the Georgia Tech Is a
school worthy of the patronage of the
young men of the south who desire a
technical education and we shall do
all we can to turn students that way
instead of to the schools of life north
and east."
The morning session Wednesday
was devoted to a discussion and corn-
parison of the school laws of the va¬
rious southern states with a special
view to devising legislative remedies
for existing defects. In the evening
State Superintendent of Education H.
L. Whitfield, of Mississippi, who not
long ago conducted a campaign In his
state for local taxation, discussed such
campaigns with the othor members of
the convention. The commissioners and
superintendents present, stated that
they had derived great benefit from
the experience of Professor Whitfield.
The convention adjourned Thursday
after a further discussion of local tax¬
ation questions.
AIRSHIP A DISMAL FAILURE.
Aerial Craft of Langley Plunges Into
the Potomac River.
Tho 60-foot steel-built flying mi.
chine, the climax of years of exhaust¬
ive study in the efforts of Professoi
Samuel P. Langley, secretary of the
Smithsonian institution, to solve the
problem of mechanical flight in mid¬
air, was launched at. Wide Water, Va„
Wednesday, and the experiment, care-
fully planned and delayed for months,
proved a complete failure.
The Immense airship sped rapidly
along its 70-foot; track, was carried by
its own momentum for 100 yards and
then fall gradually Into the Potomac
liver, whence she emerged a total
wreck.
WORK OF TRAIN WRECKERS,
Track of Southern, Near Danville,
Piled High With Debris.
A bold attempt was made Sunday
afternoon to wreck passenger train
No. 1 on the Southern about three
miles east of Danville, Va.
The track had been piled with
crossties and a fish plate. The train
was running at a very low rate of
speed and but. for this fact a disas¬
trous wreck probably would have oc¬
curred.
The obstruction was placed at. the
end of a high trestle and the disaster
of three weeks ago would have been
duplicated.
8TRIKER8 RESORT TO VIOLENCE.
Trouble of Street Car Employes at
8an Antonio Grows 8erious.
At San Antonio, Texas, Sunday, the
street car strike of rootormen and con¬
j ductors for an increase of wages and
the right of the union to dictate dis¬
charges was marked by violence and
bloodshed. The strike now has been
on for some days, but Sunday was
the most violent day since its inaugur¬
ation.
HOW TRUSTS WORK
Plans by Which Millions Were
Gobbled Up is Exposed,
STARTLING FACTS GIVEN
Dresser Explains How Morgan and
Schwab Filled Pockets and Then
Allowed a Big Combine to
Go to the Wall.
Ohw of the most interesting state¬
ments in connection with the forma-
lion of the ill-fated United States Ship
Building Company, told hy LeRoy
Dresser, in legal proceedings at New
York Wednesday, was that after a pool
of 200,000 preferred atul 250,000 com¬
mon stock had been placed in the
hand* of Harris, Gates & Co., it was
agreed that nona of this stock should
bo marketed until 25,000 preferred
and 25,000 common owned hy J. P.
Morgan & Co., and 75,000, each kind,
owned hy C. M. Schwab, had first been
Bold,
Mr. Dresser told also of his original
agreement as president of thd Trust
Colfijittby of the Republic, to oljtaiu
the underwriting Of $:t,000,000 of Uni¬
ted States Ship Building Company
stock; how this was increased to It,-
760,000 hy the failure of the French
subscribers to pay up; how Mr.
Schwab came to offer his Bethlehem
works to the ship building company,
and how J. P. Morgan & Co. then came
into the transaction.
Mr. Dresser, who took the Stand at
the opening of the hearing, testified
that he had no written statement a£ to
the values of the plants of Iho compa¬
ny of which he undertook the under¬
writing, .but that Lewis Nixon and
John W. Young had made oral repre¬
sentations.
The Mercantile Trust Company, he
was told hy Colonel McCook, secured
the underwriting principally in Franco.
The purchase of the Bethlehem
Steel Works for the ship building com¬
pany was then discussed, Mr. DreBser
'Stating thet the overtures for the sale
of tho steel company had hcen made
by Charles M. Schwab, Who said he
owned nearly all the stock of the Beth¬
lehem Steel Company and that be¬
cause of Its armor making capacity, he
believed the company would do better
with the ship building company than
with the United States Slecl Corpora¬
tion.
Mr. Schwab, according to Mr. Dres¬
ser, said he wanted $9,000,000 cash for
bis stock, and submitted reports which
showed that it cost him more than
$7,000,000 and was earning $1,450,000
a year.
"We told him we could not trade on
a cash basis," said Mr. Dresser, “be
cause we had no cash, and he said he
would take $10,000,000 in bonds at
90 for the $9,000,000.”
This was agreed to, the arrange¬
ment also providing that he was to re¬
ceive with the bonds a stock bonus of
$9,000,000 each of the common and
preferred stock of the United States
Ship Building Company, Mr. Schwab
stating that $2,000,000 of the stock was
to go to J. P. Morgan & Co.
For the stock of the Bethlehem
Company, Mr. Dresser said, there wag
really given $10,000,000 In bonds, $9,-
000,000 in common stock and $9,090,-
000 In preferred stock. There was
some talk of pooling the stock of the
ship building company, he said, Mr.
Schwab insisting that all the stook he
held until his and Mr. Morgan's had
been put on the market.
FREE, BUT PENNILESS.
So Wails Judge Randolph to His
Friends In Alabama.
Judge Francis Randolph, recently re¬
leased from prison In Colombia, af¬
ter being condemned to death for an
alleged murder, has sent a cablegram
to friends In Montgomery, Ala., as fol¬
lows:
“Free, but destitute. Cable me mon¬
ey. I can draw on Park bank,' New
York.”
About $500 was at once raised and
he was promptly cabled of the fact.
Randolph is expected to return to
Montgomery, when, It is believed, all
cases pending against him for embez¬
zlement, will not be pressed,
MOUNTAIN OUT OF MOLE HILL-
Case of “Shanghaied” Negro Boy
Raises Much Fuss and Feathers.
Moses Smallwood, a colored hoy
from Georgia, who claims to have bean
shanghaied on board the Russian hark
Alice in Savannah last July, arrived at
New York on the Majeflic Thursday. A
customs Inspector was detailed to
meet the ship down the hay and take
Smallwood before the United States
district attorney in New York, who
will see that, he is sent, back to Savan¬
nah to testify against the two hoard¬
ing house keepers whom he charges
with sbanghaing him.
ARMY MORTUARY STATISTICS ,
As Shown in Annual Report of Sur¬
geon General R. M. O’Reilly.
An increase in the death rate for
the army from 13.94 per thousand in
1901 to 15.49 per 1,000 in 1902 Is
shown in the annuai report of Surgeon
General R. M. O’Reilly for the fiscal
year ending June 30. This increase
is attributed to cholera, which caused
3.64 deaths per 1,000.
NO. 47.
WE GIVE GREEN
TRADING /<&.
% STAMPS €j wr :fA
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$850.00 Antoni to lio Given Away Mur 1st
One chance free on every 5oc purchase.
STE0N6 SHOE STORE,
Exclusive Dealers in Fine Shoes. 368 2ml St-, MACON, GA.
C. B. WILLINGHAM,
COTTON FACTOR
> {*—*—•
By a liberal policy and honorable
methods I have built up the largest cotton
commission business in Middle Georgia.
Ship me your cotton and get best returns.
c*. -*>■£>
■ WILLINGHAM,
HACON, Ga.
Low Rates to California
and the Northwest.
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Will sell daily between September 15th and November 30th, L903, low
rate colonist tickets to points in
WASHINGTON, OREGON, CALIFORNIA, MONTANA, IDAHO, WYO¬
MING, COLORADO, NEVADA, UTAH, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
Short lino, quick time, no bus transfers, free reclining chairs.
For rates, schedules, maps and full information write to I*. E. CLARK,
Traveling Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.; W. T. SAUNDERS, General
Agent Passenger Department, Atlan ta, Ga.
HI BALKC0M
362 flirt Stmt, Macon, Ga.
I better prepared lhan over to servo those who are in need
am
of anything in tho hardware lino. My new store at 3C2 Third
street, near Cherry, is amply largo to accommodate a stock of
hardware, guns, pistols, ammunition, paints, oils, varnishes,
glass,’etc., complete In every detail, and I have It.
My prices are as low as the lowest.
M. C. BALKC0M, Agent.
S. S. PARMELEE,
BICYCLES, f BUGGIES,
P.OAD CARTS, / CARRIAGES,
CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES, WAGONS.
HARNESS, t LEATHER,
f ETC.
Jobbers of Bicycle Sundries.
CORNER SECOND AND POPLAR STREETS MACON, GA.
G. W. GANTT. W. F. HOLMES.
Gantt & Holmes,
Cotton Factors.
MULES, HAY PRESSES,
HORSES, DEERING REAPERS,
FARM SUPPLIES, HARROWS, BINDERS,
MOWERS, RAKES.
Send us your cotton and we will work to your Interest.
When visiting the State Fair make our warehouse your Headquarters,
MaoQu- Oepr^ia.