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The Jones County News
VOL. IX.
TEXANS ANGERED
Governor Places City of San
Antonio Under Quarantine.
GALLOWAY OFFERS HELP
Mississippi Bishop Sends Ready An-
swer to Call—Situation, However,
is Reported as Highly
Favorable.
A special from Jackson. Miss., says:
Bishop Galloway, cf the Methodist
church, telegraphed to San Antonio,
Texas, Friday, offering his services to
that city in case the yellow fever there
shalj develop to such a degree that
outside aid is needed.
According to a dispatch from Austin,
Governor Lanham hag quarantined all
Texas against San Antonio ojj account
Of yellow fever there,
The order is mandatory upon all
railroads to operate no train® In or
out of San Antonio nor handle any
freight or passenger business from
that city In any shape whatever.
Indignation at San Antonio.
The yellow fever situation In San
Antonio at the close of the day Fri¬
day was very encouraging. The offi¬
cial bulletin was as follows:
New cases, 1; deaths, none, total
cases, 9; total deaths, S.
The new case reported is ‘hat of a
soldier at Fort Sam Houston, who was
taken sick before the post quarantined
the city, but it was not determined
until Friday that his case was yellow
fever. It Is a mild case.
Tho stato quarantine - declared
against San Antonio hn3 caused roue??
indignation, in the city, as the gover¬
nor has not declared state quarantine
against Laredo, where there are nearly
500 cases, against 9 cases in San An
tonlo.
The official ye'low fever bulletin is
sued at Laredo Friday night was as
follows:
New cases, 13; deaths, 5; total
cases to date, 509; total deaths, 42.
The latest report from the little
mining town of Minora states that
there have been two additional cases
of fever and one death there, malting
tl?e total cases 101 and the tom!
deaths 8.
A bulletin issued at Neuvo Laredo
says there are at present eight cases
there. Two deaths took place there
Thursday.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SLAIN.
Diabolical Double Crime of Assassins
In Cherokee County, Ga.
Last Wednesday night, in Cherokee
county, Ga., about 9 miles east of
Jasper, Mrc. Annie Holcomb and her
17-year-old daughter, who live alons.
were shot down at their home and
their bodies mutilated by knife
wounds and in other ways. The wo¬
men were assaulted before they were
murdered.
Mrs. Holcomb was found just back
of her house with a bullet hole in her
breast and two or three deep stabs in
her side made with a knife.
The body of her daughter was found
about 150 yards from their house with
three or four bullet holes and nine
stabs made by a knife in her body.
Evidently the daughter was trying
to escape the terrible vengeance of the
assassins and was overtaken and
killed.
Two men evidently are guilty of the
crime, as two tracks were plainly seen
about the premises and tracking the
girl in her flight.
The people of the settlement are
featly excited over the heinous crime.
FIGHT ON TOY PISTOLS.
Medical Association Takes Strong
Stand Against Their Sale.
Henry E. Tulley, of the Mississippi
Valley Medical Association, has given
to the press a set of resolutions taking
a strong stand against the sale of toy
pistols, favoring the enactment of na-
tlonal laws against the manufacture of
fireworks and the open treatment of
all wounds, however Insignificant, t
which were adopted recently in Mem¬
phis. I
MAHANEY IS SATISFIED.
i
Worked Thirty-Two Years as Farm
Hand and Saves Up $5,200.
Patrick Mahanev, of Derby, Conn.,
has sailed from New York to his old
home in Ireland with $5,200, represent-
ing the savings of 32 years as a farm
band. His wages generally were $12
a mouth and board. In the 32 years
he had but three employers and took
only six dhys off. His expenditures
amounted to $44.90, an average of less
than 12 cents a month. Mahaney said
he had enough to live on comfortably
and would never work again.
BLACK MAN CONGRATULATED.
President Sends Letter the New
President of Santo Domingo.
’ SE
States Minister PoVeh has delivered
at the national palace an autograph
letter from President Roosevelt con
gratulating General Wo s y Gil upon
his election as constitutional presi-
dent of the republic.
appealto_the sword
Seema Only Alternative In DleS^re*.
ment Between Russia and Japan.
War Clouds Again Lower.
A special from Yokohama, Japan,
I says; It is currently reported that
the check in the negotiations is due
to tho Japanese demand for equal rail¬
way rights in Manchuria, but it is be-
lieved that a more serious difficulty
exists.
The feeling of popular unrest is
growing. The sshai of Tokio announc¬
ed Thursday that a preliminary mobi¬
lization order had been issued to the
thirteenth army division. Though this
was officially denied, the report coin¬
cides with much open preparations
against contingencies.
Thirteen vessels of the Japanese
squadron are engaged' in gun practice
off Sascho, 25 miles from Nagasaki.
A dispatch from Reuters Telegraph
Company, from Tokio, received in Lon¬
don Thursday, says:
“It is said that another conference
of the elder statesmen will bo con
vened tomorrow when decisions hav¬
ing important bearings on the future
course of events are expected, si
though there Is no fear of an immell
ate rupture. In the meanwhile pre
cautionary preparations are progress¬
ing.
“It Is. reported from Pekin that M
Lessar, the Russian minister, has ad
dressed a long nets to Prince Ching
head ot the Chinesrs foreign office, say
ing that Japan’s interference In the
Manchurian question will compel Bus
sla to adopt final measures and threat
ening China with severe punishmen
if she sides with Japan. This action
while the negotiations are pending
has caused deep umbrage.’’
A request of the Associated Pres; a
St. Petersburg for a statement from
the foreign office indicating Russia's
position in connection with the Fai
Eastern question elicited only the sig
nificant reading of a less reassurin:
dispatch from Tokio. The St. Peters
burg newspapers say the Russian
squadron consists of fifty-four war
ships, including six battle snips, eight
first-class and five second-class cruis
ero, seven seagoing gunboats, two tor
pedo cruisers, two torpedo transports
and twenty-four torpedo boat destroy
ers, having an aggregate of 750 offi
cers and 13.200 men. There are now
on the way to the Far East two battle¬
ships, three first-class cruisers and
eleven torpedo boats of various classes
with 164 officers and 3,2 "4 men.
A dispatch from Berlin says: It has
been announced that the Russian vice
roy of the Far East, Admiral Alexieff
is opposed to the opening of the Man
churian towns to foreign trade. This
has excited no surprise in Germany
The treaty of commerce Intween thu
United States and China recently
signed at Shanghai provides that suit
able concession be given at Moukden
and An-Tung for the residence of for
eigners and for their commerce. Rus
sia”s latest proposals to China, which
embody .Viceroy Alcxieff’s policy, stip
ulate that such concessions be given
only to Russians.
COWIEITES TIRE OF GOTHAM.
“Elijah” Warns Againt Kissing—Many
Bcgus Checks Received.
Two hundred of the followers ol
John Alexander Dowie indicated (hat
they were tired of the work of reform
Ing New York city and wanted to re
turn to Zion City when the “general
overseer” invited all who wanted tc
give up the work and give others a
chance to take it up to step forward
at the early meeting in Madison
square garden Thursday morning.
Dowie at that meeting said he
should endeavor to convert the pope
He added that he had received many
bogu3 checks since coming to New
York, but that others had been good.
“There is no need for followers tn
rush back to Zion.” said he, "because
0 f those suits by merchants of Chi
cago. They are against me personally
a „f] no t against Zion.”
Turning his attention to kissing.
Dowie said people should be careful of
their kisses and use them carefully in
t family,
“Why, my sen Gladstone never kiss¬
ed a woman outside the family,” lie
said.
FIRE DESTROYS CONVICT CAMP.
Durham Coal and Coke Company the
Losers—No Casualties Resulted.
News was received Wednesday at
the office of the Georgia prison com-
mission of the destruction by fire of
all the buildings within the jienitei-
tiary stockade at the camp of the Dur
ham Coal and Coke Company, at Pitts-
burg, in Walker county,
The members of the commission,
however were gratified to learn that
no one was injured, and not one of the
433 convicts employed at this camp
escaped.
SENATOR ADMITS FORGERY.
,, Liemer Looted the Princeton * „ Bank , , 0
the Tun - of Sixty-N'"* Thousand
ton
b- where arrested he is now and in taken jail. to State Dartfo^ Banx
Examiner Marcus B.rgh, Tuesday
night, stated that Liemer had confess-
ed that the forgeries amounted to
$69,000.
GRAY, JONES CO, GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 29, 1903.
FOUR MORE FIRED
Postmaster ‘General Payne
Wields Decapitating Ax,
CLEARING OUT GRAFTERS
BrifttSw's Report Leads to Dlsohargs
Of Additional QuaMet of Pest-
office Employes—Payne Ex-
plains His Action.
A Washington spfecial Saysi Post¬
master General Payne Wednesday re¬
moved from office Michael W. Louis,
superintendent of the supplies of the
postoffleo department; Louis Kemp-
ner, chief of the registry division of
the third assistant postmaster gener¬
al’s office, and C. B. Terry, a $900
clerk In tho postofflee department, and
directed the postmaster at New York
to remove Otto Weis, a clerk.
Those removals are the first result
of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bristow’s report on the Irregu¬
larities in the postofflee department.
Information of the contemplated d!a
charges did not leak out at the depart
ment until after 4 o'clock, and at 4:30
the postmaster general maae an offi
clal announcement of his action, a c
follows:
“Michael W. Louis has been remov¬
ed from the office of superintendent ol
the division of supplies; because the
recent investigation shows that ho in¬
fluenced the awarding of contracts for
supplies to favored bidders; that he
has been extravagant and wasteful in
the administration of his office, and
that he has paid excessive prices' for
supplies to favored contractors.
“Louis Kempner, superintendent of
the registry system, has boon removed
for incompetent and negligent admin
istration, for wasteful and reckless
extravagance in sending expenslze
manifold registration books to a large
number of fourth-class postoffices and
for violating the revenue laws by a
system of petty smuggling.
"C, B. Terry, a clerk in the division
of supplies, has been removed for
making false affidavits; attempted io
obtain money from clerks under the
guise that lie could influence their pro
motion, and general inefficiency.”
The postmaster general also stated
that the postmaster at New York had
been directed to remove Otto Weis,
a clerk In tho New York postofflee.
for collecting money from clerks to in
fluence legislation and to procure pro¬
motions
Due to Bristow Report.
In reply to questions Mr. Payne said
the discharges were the resuit of dis¬
closures made by the Bristow report.
“I have read the report," he said,
“and am free to say that my action
today was the result of its perusal.”
He declined to say whether there
would bo other removals as a result
of the report.
Terry is from Indiana. He was a
temporary clerk in the postoffice de¬
partment and was afterwards remov¬
ed. He made charges that he had been
discharged from his position by John
M. Masten, then chief clerk of the
first assistant postmaster general, but
now assistant superintendent of the
railway mail service, because he had
refused to give money to Masten for
his retention, and the president direct¬
ed his reinstatement. It. is understood
that the investigation failed to sub-
stantiate Terry’s charges and his per¬
manent removal is tho result of that
failure.
Both Louis and Kempner have been
in the postal service for some years.
HAYWOOD CASE A HOBBY.
North Carolina Papers Suggest a Radi¬
cal Change in the Law.
North Carolina papers are taking
up the result of the Haywood murder
trial at Raleigh to an extent' never be¬
fore hoard of, and there is a general
d dm and that the law regarding such
trials shall be modified so as to equal¬
ize the number of challanges and to
give the state the right 01 appeal.
DOLES-COOK BRIGADE
"Survivors” Association Will Meet in
Augusta, Ga., During State Con¬
federate Reunion'.
The railroads will furnish trip tick¬
ets at one cent per mile from all
joints in Georgia. Lodging and board
will be fwnisbed at from one to three
dollars per day. The city of Augusta
will furnish food and lodging for all
wfeo are unable to pay.
The reunion occurs on the 10th, 11th
and l2f.h of November and the brigade
meeting will occur on the
ond day-at 2:30 p. Inqurte at Dl-
vision headquarters.
DISCIPLES GROW NUMEROUS.
Flattering Increase Shown by Chris-
tion Church in Statistical Report,
i ^ ^
bership by conversions and otherwise
10 i, 7 g9.
xbe church is represented in every
£ tate in the union with the exception
of New Hampshire and Nevada.
PARKHURST BIFFS DOWIE.
Alleged Prophet Elijah Gets Deeper
Imto Hot Water In New York.
Great Disorder at Meetings.
A New York disrated, says: Dr.
Dowle talked for two hours Tuesday
night before a great throng In Madi¬
son Squarh Garden, the turden of his
talk being denunciation ot the clergy
and the press.
When he began the garden was
crowded, and the police say Six thou¬
sand pclojlie who eoiild not gain en¬
trance were turned awd?, In ball ud
hour, however, the crowd begaii 10
surge out, and then Hie police refused
td admit any late comers, saying they
feared a riot;
It wao with some "difficulty that aiiy
semblance of order was kept. t’liP
speaker was repeatedly interrupted
with biases and shouts of disapproval.
Carrie Nation, who occupied a seat
near the front, asked "Elijah” to an¬
swer some questions. He refused and
ordered her to sit down. She per¬
sisted and the police were called upon
to put her out.
Dowle attacked the Rev. Dr. P. S.
Henaou, the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, J. P.
Morgan and others, and announced
that hereafter be proposed to keep
the newspaper reporter out of his
meetings.
The Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst
earlier in the day sent the following
open letter to Mr. Dowie:
“I do not want to be presuming,
hut doubt if it is any more presump¬
tive in me to come and try to clarify
you than it is for you to come and try
to clarify New York; and I don’t know
which of tie has taken the heavier con¬
tract. I attended your service at Mad¬
ison Square Garden last evening, and
I went determined to enjoy it If I
could and to be benefited by It and to
go away and refute some of the
charges that l had heard alleged
against, you. But It was of no use;
your behavior on the platform crushed
every throb of sympathy I had with
you. I never h^ard from a public
speaker such a discharge of efferves¬
cent wrath and coarse invective. 1
wont to hear you preach the gospel
and you preached Dowie, Zion City,
’stinkpot.’
"I was ashamed of you and almost
ashamed to be In your audience. It
was a long way beiow the standard
even of the circu'se# that I have aU.
tended in the same garden. The only
oonsolation I could derive was that it
was so abominable and so far beyond
the bounds of the respectable that
even those in your congregation who
did not know what Christianity Is
would have no Idea that It had any¬
thing to do with what you were say¬
ing. Of course, the ridiculousness of
the performance was only enhanced
by the immensity of your pretensions.
If you claimed to be only an ordinary
man there might be some hope for
you, even with what you call the ‘rab¬
ble,’ but. the ‘rabble’ is discriminating
and can discriminate as keenly as the
keenest between a prophet and a jug¬
gler and a mountebank.
“I say this in no spirit of anger, but
either your head Is twisted or your
heart is infected, or you have blunder¬
ed badly in your methods. You cannot
bully people into Zionism, nor black¬
guard them into the kingdom of heav¬
en. I hope you will take this in the
kindly spirit in which it is offered."
WOMAN TO PRISON FARM.
Mrs. Wood, Who Shot Husband, Is
Given a Two-Year Sentence.
Ignoring tho recommendation of the
jury, Judge Roan, in the criminal di¬
vision of the superior court, at Atlan¬
ta, Ga., Tuesday morning, sentenced
Mrs. W. J, Wood, who was last week
convicted of assault with Intent to
murder upon her husband, to two
years cn the prison farm, at Mllledgo-
ville. The jury recommended that
the woman be punished as for a mis¬
demeanor, but. the two-year sentence
makes the punishment as that of a
felony. In passing sentence, the judge
said that Mrs, Wood would be infinite¬
ly better off with a two-year sentence
at the prison farm than she would be
with a misdemeanor or sentence to
one of the misdemeanor convict camps
of the state, where no provision is
made for the care of women.
MEMORIAL SHAFT UNVEILED.
People of Greenwood, South Carolina,
Honor Confederate Dead.
Greenwood, South Carolina, Thurs
day afternoon, paid tribute to the Con¬
federate dead when the handsome
shaft commemorating the valor of the
heroes—those who wore the gray and
the devoted women who stood by them
in the dark days—-was unveiled with
imposing ceremonies,
The handsome shaft of granite and
“ ,rbIe . , adorns ,he . * rassy p,ot , , in , fron . '
of the courthouse.
FLORIDA EX-GOVERNOR DEAD.
Hon. Henry L- Mitchell Passes Away
8t His Home in Tampa.
Ex-Governor Henry L. Mitchell, of
“
mftolMOwas fr 1V77 tn isxk anH fmm
j justice ofthesu-
t of he - state He
..™. was
governor gJ from 1893 to 1897
TWENTY-NINE LOST
A Freight Steamer Dashes
Upon the Rocks in Fog.
GOES DOWN AT ONCE
The South Portland Was Unfortunate
Vessel, and OnJy Seven Out of
Tilirty-Sfx Souls on Board
1 Escaped With Life.
A sjjOelal of Tuesday from Marsh¬
field, Oregon, say*; In a blinding
fog the steamer South Portland, bound
lor Sail Francisco from Portland, With
a cargo «f wheat and carrying a crew
of twenty men and fourteen passen¬
gers, struck Cape Blanco reef, while
steaming at tho rate of 7 knots, at
5 o’clock Monday evening. The South
Portland immediately began to All
with water,
The captain, seeing that all hopes
0/ saving hie ship were gone, gave or¬
ders to man the life raft with all pos
slble haste. Two boats and the life
raft were lowered. One boat, contain¬
ing the captain and seventeen souls,
capaliSd as they were getting avft»>
from the sinking steamer, and only
seven ol tho eighteen wero able to get
Into the boat.
The other boat also capsized and
was seen drifting away In the thick
fog, without a person tn sight. The
survivors of tha Ill-fated steamer
reached Port Cartiford in a pitiable
condition from exposure tp the cold
wind and waves. Tbdy have little
hopes for the remainder Vt tbe pas¬
sengers and crew. The siirvIVAM hre
Captain J. McIntyre, John Reamei,
milor, San Francisco; Emmanuel Pho-
monis, chief cook, and William L. Wll
on, Jr., of Baltimoro; L. Baker, Ala
meda, Cal.; Guy Bent, aged 12 years
>f Novo Scotia; A1 Bailey, of North
Dakota, passengers.
A heavy fog hangs over the coast
and weather indications are most un
favorable for rescue work.
Mrs. W. E. Terrell, of Portland, the
only woman on the ship, was among
the drowned.
THE SOUTH'S PROSPERITY.
As Viewed by the Editor of the At
bany, N. Y. Journal.
How marvelously the south has de¬
veloped and progressed since recon¬
struction time3 appears impressively
from a comparison of the latest, esti¬
mate of Its wealth with tho figures ol
less than a quarter of a century ago
In I960 the census figures' made the
total wealth of the southern state* a
little more than five billions. In 1880
after the country had passed through
the civil war and Its consequences, the
census estimates placed the wealth
of the south at only $3,200,000,000. A
forecast of the census figures of 1900,
which have not yet been completely
tabulated, is that the wealth of the
southern states will be shown to be
not less than twelve billions.
And yet, as the Atlanta Constitution
says, in an article commenting on this
showing, the south is but at the be¬
ginning of U10 development of its re
sources, What It has thus far done
In manufactures, mining, railway
building and other branches of Indus
trial enterprise, and in agriculture,
has only served to demonstrate the
profitableness of such activity. “From
now on,’’ says The Constitution, “the
logic of conditions and commercial
circumstances will multiply our stocks
of capital arid sources of profit.”
The whole country will rejoice he-
cause the south Is so prosperous, for
the south is ap undivided and now In¬
visible part, of this great and glorious
ly prosperous counlry.
A RULING AS TO "JAGS.”
Novel Decision Regarding Drunks
Handed Down in Massachusetts.
A decision handed down by tho full
bench of the Massachusetts supreme
court Tuesday sustains Ihe ruling of
the lower court that a person drunk
hv tho voluntary use of intoxicating
liquors may he convicted cf Intoxica¬
tion without regard to the place
where the act Is committed.
WANTS AN AMERICAN CHURCH.
Bishop Gailor Suggests that Episco¬
palians Become Independent.
At Thursday's session of the Pan-
American conference of bishops ut
Washington, Rf. Rev. Frank Gailor,
tho bishop of Tennessee, advocated
tho development of the Episcopal
church in the United States along na¬
tional lines with a view to Ihe crea¬
tion of a r<<?linetlvely American
church. He was opposed to the Epis¬
copal church being called a branch of
the church of England, and also to the
introduction of English forms and cus¬
toms into tho American church.
OYNAMITET ON THE RAILS.
Dastardly Attempt of Fiends to Wreck
Train on Northern Pacific.
Six sticks of dynamite were found
on the Northern Pacific track near
Birdseye, eight miles west of Helena,
Mont. An extra freight, eastbound,
passed over the powder during the
night without exploding It. The dyna¬
mite was discovered by I'.ction men.
jp had been placed under the rail, the
fish plate* of which bad been removed.
NO. 49.
WE GIVE GREEN
TRADING
& N a STAMPS . m
$8561 Antiils to 68 Gins Away Ronibn 1st
One chance free on every 5oc purchase.
STRONG SHOE STORE,
Exclusive Dealers in Fine Shoes. 368 211-J St, MACON, QA.
G. B. WILLINGHAM,
COTTON FACTOR.
-)A=^==Af-
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. B. WILLINGHAM,
HACON, Ga.
Low Rates to California
and the Northwest.
B
Will sell daily between September 15th and November 30th, 1903, low
rate colonist tickets to points in
WASHINGTON, OREGON, CALIFORNIA, MONTANA. IDAHO, WYO¬
MING, COLORADO, NEVADA, UTAH, ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
Short line, quick time, no bus transfers, free reclining chairs.
For rates, schedules, maps and full information write to F. E. CLARK,
Traveling Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.; W. T. SAUNDERS, Genorul
Agent Passenger Department, Atlan ta, Ga.
M. C. BALKGOM vs
362 Tlirt Street, Macon, Ga.
I am better prepared than ever to servo those who are in need
of anything In the hardware line. My new store at 362 Third
street, near Cherry, Is amply large to accommodate a stock of
hardware, guns, pistols, ammunition, paints, oils, varnishes,
glass, etc., complete In every da tail, and I have It.
My prices are as low as the lowest.
M. C. BALKCOM, Agent.
S. S. PARMELEE,
BICYCLES, BUGGIES,
ROAD CARTS, CARRIAGES,
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES, WAGONS,
HARNESS, LEATHER,
ETC.
Jobbers of Bicycle Sundries i
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 mak ; , our warehouse your headquarters.
Macon, Georgia.