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The Jones News.
VOL, IX.
MILLARD LEE HUNG
Pays Penalty for the Murder
of Miss Sutilcs.
EXECUTION IN ATLANTA
Crime Was Committed Eighteen
Months Ago and Murderer Re¬
spited a Number cf Timss
by the Governor.
Millard Lee, who murdered Lilia May
Suttles on Sunday, May 25, 1902, in
Wesley chapel, near Ben 1II11, Ga.,
was hanged Friday morning in the At¬
lanta jail. Thirteen minutes later he
was pronounced dead.
With a smile of content on his face
and without a tremor in his frame,
Leo walked to the gallows, stood on
the death trap and prepared for the
death he knew must come.
"Have you anything to say, Mtl-
lard?” asked Sheriff J. W. Nelms a
minute before the trap fell.
"Only that young men snould read
their Bibles and pray. Take warning
from me. Oh, God, have mercy on
my soul!” were tho last words cf the
young murderer.
Lee was the most composed man in
the gallows room. Save for the con
etant movement of his fingers and the
occasional twitching of his lips he
displayed no emotion as he marched
to the gallows or as he stood while
his arma and legs were being tied.
The execution was very orderly and
there.was not the slightest hitch from
beginning to end. Everything had
been co carefully arranged that there
was not a second’s delay.
Lee died a professed Christian, and
said ho wap going straight to heaven,
there to meet the girl for whose mur¬
der ho paid the penalty on the gallows.
Dr. J. M. Buttles, father of the dead
girl, was one of the men present in
the gallows room when Loe plunged
through the trap to death. During the
entire occasion he spoke to ono.
His face was immobile as the flayer
of his daughter went to death. He
left the Tower within a few moment*
after the hanging had been completed.
A groat crowd gathered around the
Tower early, despite the fpcl that they
knew they could not be admitted to
the jail. The rain which fell just be¬
fore the hanging did not drive them
away.
Glory cf the Crime.
On Sunday morning. May 25th of
last year, just as the last notes of the
doxology were dying away, end as the
hundred worshipers* in the little Wes¬
ley Chapel, at Ben Hill, a settlement
seven miles from Atlanta, bowed
their heads in prayer, Millard Lee, son
of a well known planter living in the
neighborhood, shot and instantly kill¬
ed beautiful Lilia May Suttlos, n play¬
mate from childhood and the object
of his devotion in manhood. Unre¬
quited love was the cause cf tho trag¬
edy.
Lea asraped from the chunch, but
was captured next morning. Juft at
daybreak, at Mabelton, 15 milq Tirom
the place where he shot his sweet¬
heart. He had gone there v#th the
evident intention of boarding a train
for Alabama, whieja was due to pa "3
within a few moments after he show¬
ed himself to the officers.
Almost from infancy Lee hod loved
Lilia May Suttles, the daughter of Dr.
J. M. Suttles, a neighbor to the I/ees.
The two had been plavmates in child¬
hood and had been thrown together
much in the frolicr* cf the country¬
side. Lee’s queer actions, his evident
desire to shun every living man and
his b'rusqueness turned the girl away
from him and she began to avoid him
in every way. This made Leo ever
more sullen and morose.
Six times* since he committed the
murder he had been respited by Gov¬
ernor Terrell, awaiting now trials and
action on the part ; of the supreme
court. Every court, however, .declar¬
ed him to be sane and to hav-* com¬
mitted a murder.
The final decision was handed down
by tbe state supreme court Thursday*,
only one day before the execution.
JUDGE CLARK ARBITRATOR.
Officials of United Mine Workers and
Operators Fail t’o Agree.
National Organizer Rice, of the
United Mine Workers of America, to¬
gether with District Organizer Brown.
J. T. Hill and Arch McDonald, the last
two on behalf of the mine -operators
and the four composing a board of ar¬
bitration to settle the differences be¬
tween operajives* and operators of
mines in Kentucky, adjourned at
Chattanooga Thursday, after a con¬
ference lasting several days.
They were unable to agree rfid
agreed to leave tho question at issue
to United States udge C. D. Clark.
DOLE APPOINTED JUDGE.
Governor of Hawaii is Given a New
Berth by President Roosevelt.
The president, Saturday, appointed
Sanford B. Dole, to be United States
distrietjudge for Harvaii, to succeed
the late Judge Morris M. Estee, and
George R. Carter, secretary ot Hawaii,
to be governor of the same to succeed
Governor Dole.
Both appointments will be sent to
the senate soon after congress meets.
MUCH DEMOCRATIC CASH
B«tno Wagered on Mayoralty Contest
In New York City Between
McClellan and Low.
A New York special says: Plenty
of McClellan money appeared In Wall
street Wednesday, great quantities of
it being in evidence about the Broad¬
way hotels. Many thousands of dol¬
lars were wagered on the municipal
election during the day in the finan-
cfttl district and, as the McClellan
money kept coming out in ever-in¬
creasing volume, the Low backers
grew more conservative. Late in the
afternoon Low money had practically
disappeared and curb bettors who
still had big roils to place on McClel¬
lan had to go up town to look for
takers.
It was a banner day for election bet¬
ting. C. H. Dewitt, who succeeded ti
placing $5,000 even on McClellan, an-
nounced that he had $50,000 more to
bet on the same terms. Later he was
willing to give odds.
F. H. Brooks, after making some
small wagers, declared he still had
$50,000 to bet on McClellan at odds of
10 to 9.
The biggest actual wager of the day
was $10,000 by Ennis & Newman on
McClellan, C. E. Laidlow, Jr., taking
the Low end. Many wagers of $50C
and $1,000 were made at even money.
F. H. Brooks bet $1,000 to $1,500 that
McClellan would have 10.000 plurality,
and $1,000 to $950 that McClellan will
be elected. C. H. Harris took tho
Low side.
It was announced Wednesday night
that Billy Leonard, acting for a syn¬
dicate, had $50,000 at a number of
Broadway hotels to bet on McClellan
at odds of 10 to 9. Joe Vendig, at
the Hoffman, also had a $10,000 roll
to place at'the same figures. The bet¬
ting at the hotels was active Wednes¬
day night, though Low men demanded
liberal odds.
DEPOSITORS MUST WAIT.
St Louis Banks Take Advantage of
Thirty and Sixty Days’ Notices.
A St. Louis special says: Just be¬
fore tho hour of opening Wednesday
tho lines of depositors were before
the closed doors of the Mississippi
Valley Trust Company, the ‘Mercan¬
tile Trust Company and tho Missou¬
ri Trust Company.
Small crowds were also gathered be¬
fore the doors of some of the other
savings institutions. It was observed
that most cf those in lins .were work¬
ing people, and many of them women,
whose savings were not heavy.
Owing to the action taken Tuesday
night by the officials of the eight
trust companies doing business in St.
Louis, enforcing thirty ami sixty days’
notices of intention to withdraw funds,
depositors were not able to get any
mtmoy.
All they could do was to declare
their intention of withdrawing their
deposits at the end of the time taken
advantage of by the companies und'o*
their rules. The trust companies also
decided not to pay certificates of de¬
posit before maturity.
The policemen in trying to handle
the crowd pushed many of them into
the gutter, and in several instances
personal fights were narrowly averted.
CHURCH DICTATES FRANCHISE.
Members of Western Methodist Re¬
quired to Vote Prohibition Ticket.
The general conference of the West¬
ern Methodist Church of Amoriea, in
session at Grand Rapids, Mich., took
action Wednesday looking toward the
merging of that church with the Free
Methodist church.
The conference adopted a resolution
which requires all voting members of
the cjiurch to vote the ticket of the
prohibition party.
Resolutions commending President
Roosevelt’s stand in the Miller case
wero adopted, and denouncing the pos¬
sibility of the seating of a polygamist
in the United States senate.
Philadelphia Theatre Burned.
Fire early Wednesday morning de¬
stroyed the Grand Avenue theatre, in
Philadelphia. The loss is estimated
at $100,000. The Grand was for many
years the home of a stock company,
but this season wa3 thrown open to
road companies.
ATTRIBUTED TO SUN SPOTS.
Electrical Phenomena Seriously Dis-
turbing in France and Switzerland.
A London special says: Scientists
attribute the magnetic disturbance of
Saturday to sun spots. The worst
effects of the phenomena appear to
have been experienced in France, but
Berlin was not affected, and apparent¬
ly neither Australia, Italy, nor Den-
mark suffered. In . Switzerland, how-
ever, there occurred a strange pile-
nomenon. The telephone service
ceased suddenly and itunained sus-
pended for half an hour, while the
telegraphs were rendered useless.
BANK ROBSERS IN VTcNNA.
Big Roll of Cash Reported Missing
and Bloodhounds in Demand.
Telegrams were received at police.
headquarters: in Macon, Ga.,
night from Vienna asking for
hounds.
The hounds were wanted, the mes-
sage said, to trace a band of bank rob-
bers who had just broken into
bank at that place and had gotten (
away with a big roll of currency.
GKAY, JONES CO,GA., TUUHSDAY, NQVEMBEJ r>, v.m.
INTO DEATH’S JAWS
Rollicking Members of Foot¬
ball Team are Hurled.
AN APPALLING DISASTER
Passenger and Freight Trains Collide
in Indianapolis Suburbs, Scat¬
tering Ceath and Destruction.
Sixteen Dead; Fifty Hurt.
A special from Indianapolis, Ind.,
says: Fifteen persons were killed
and over fifty injured, some fatally,
Saturday morning by a collision be¬
tween a special passenger train on the
llig Four railroad and a freight engine
drawing coal cars. The accident hap¬
pened In the edge of the city.
The passenger train of twelve
coaches was carrying 954 persona,
nearly oCl of whom were students of
Purdue university, and their friends
from Lafayette to Indianapolis, for the
annual football game between the
Purdue team and the Iudlana univer¬
sity squad for the state championship
which was to have been fought Sat¬
urday afternoon.
In the first coach bark of the en-
gine were the Purdue football team,
substitute players and managers.
Three players, the assistant eoncli,
trainer and seven substitute players
of the university team were killed und
every one of the fifty-three other per¬
sons in the car were either fatally or
seriously injured.
From Joy to Gloom.
From the twelve passenger coaches
were coming the joyous cries of a
thousand rooters for Purdue, clad in
gala dress with colors streaming,
while In tho front coach sat twenty
muscular fellows trained to the hour,
on whom the hopes of a brilliant vic¬
tory on the gridiron ware confidently
placed.
Around a curve at the Eighteenth
street cut, Engineer Sehumaker found
directly in front of him the freight
engine and coal cars* moving slowly
from a switch leading to a gravel pit.
He reversed his engine and jumped.
The crash hurled the passenger en¬
gine and three front coaches against
the steel freight ears loaded with coal
that plowed their way through and
buried under a pile 01 wreckage
weighing many tons fully sixty human
beings.
The first car, in which were the
players, was completely demolished,
tHe roof being torn away and landing
across a car of coal, while tho body
of the car was reduced to kindling
wood against the side of the steel
freight cars. The second coach, con¬
taining the band of musicians, was
partially telescoped, while tho third
was overturned and hurled down a
15-foot embankment.
The other coaches did not leave
tho track. Immediately after the
shock the passengers,men and women,
began tho work of tearing away tho
wreckage and pulling out dead
dying classmates and fraternity
brothers. The young women perform¬
ed heroic work. Though tho bodies
were in several instances horribly
mangled—one completely and one par¬
tially beheaded—they took upon their
laps the heads of the dying and in¬
jured and soothed their sufferings as
best they could until the surgeons
arrived.
A general alarm was sounded and
every assistance the city could afford
was rushed to the wreck, which was
three miles from .the business center.
While the dead and Injured were be¬
ing carrid to the morgues and hospit¬
als, the work of tearing away the
wreck and rescuing those pinned oe-
neath went on. Big muscular stu¬
dents wept aloud as they stood over
the bodies of their dead friends and
fellow workers or gazed helpless on
the sufferings of their college matei,
writhing In pain. To add to the hor¬
ror the wreckage caught, fire, but the
flames were extinguished by the stu¬
dents aftir a hard fight.
While the work of rescue was going
on there arrived in the city the op-
: posing team and over nine hundred
j ! cheering white of Indiana followers pnivorsity of t h«| at red Bloom- and
J ington. As the happy and excited stu-
: dents poured from the train nows of
! the tragedy to the black and gold of
! Perdue was received. Instantly all
| was sadness and sympathy. The
throng melted into sorrowing groups
Hiat separated to search the morgue
and hospital for friends or took cars
for the scene of the wreck to lend
any possible aid.
: The Sixteenth Victim.
William Bailey, of New Richmond,
ind., sub-player on the Purdue mil-
versify football team, died Sunday af-
ternoon from internal injuries recciv-
e <i j n the Big Four wreck. This is the
sixteenth death,
Fourteen dead bodies were shipped
to their homes during the day.
WAS FOUNDER OF ANNISTON.
! William Nobje, Prominent Alabama
Citizen, Passes from Earth.
William Noble died In
Ala., Thursday night. He had
j n failing health for the last throe
j y eafg He had only recently returned
from Noble's infirmary in Atlanta, and
* wag thought to bo much improved.
He was one of the founder;; of An-
! niston, and was known ail over tho
1 south.
iwenty-five victims. ;
Twenty-One Men, Three Women and :
a
Babe Lose Life in Tenement House [
Holocaust at New York,
t
Twenty-ono men, three women and
a 10-months old babe, nearly all Ital¬
ians, were burned to death or suffo¬
cated In a fire that started early Sun¬
day morning in the “House of all Na¬
tions,” a five story tenement house at
42(1 Eleventh avenue* New York, and
which the police aud coroner beilevd
to bo of Incendiary origin.
Some of the peculiar features of I ho
disaster, in addition to the startling
loss of life, are that the fire was prac¬
tically extinguished in twenty min¬
utes; that the police could learn of
hut one person being Injured, other
than those who lost thotr live;, and
that the property lore was only
$7,000.
Were Celebrating Hallowe'en.
Tho only person injured, so far as
can be learned, is Larry Janequlnn, 47
years old, who was burned about the
face and hands by leaping from the
second floor fire escape to the ground.
In several apartments Hallowe'en par¬
ties wore in progress Rnd the gucets
at these added greatly to tho number
of persons in the huuse and made the
crush and jam to escape more than it
ordinarily would have been. Al¬
though plentifully provided with fire
escapes, front and rear, escape by
that means was cut off a few minutes
after the fire started by tho bodils nt
the dead becoming wedged in the
openings leading to the ladders. The
fire had been burning for soma min¬
utes before it was discovered. It bad
started In the basement and, rushing
upward, had attacked tho stairway
lending to the apartments. In a short
space of time tho flames had so ca-
veloped the stairway that egress front
the building by it was impossible. The
house from the third to the fifth floor
was entirely destroyed.
All Exits Entirely Blocked.
At the windows, front aud rear,
bodies of men and women were jutu¬
rned, showing that a desperate strug¬
gle to get free had resulted in the
complete choking of these exits to the
fire escapes, and had been the cause
of a number of inmates being suffo¬
cated.
Lying on a bed alongside a window
at the rear of the fourth floor, the fire¬
men found the, 1. .fifes of five men.
Bach uad cluifftnAT tile one next' to him
in an endeavor *0 push him away in
order to get to the fire escape outside.
The features of the men were distort¬
ed, some with rage, others with
agony, and, in two Instances, (lie men
had gripped each other so hard that
blood had been drawn and had run
over their hands.
WENTZ HELD FOR RANSOM.
Young Millionaire Now Said to bo
Prisoner in Cumberland Mountains.
Robert L. Brown, president of a
prominent coal company in Wise coun¬
ty, Virginia, is quoted as having said
that on Friday afternoon the Wen‘ 7 .
family received tidings of Edward L.
Wentz, tho missing young Philadel¬
phia millionaire.
A olirewd looking young man, it is
stated, appeared at the Wentz man¬
sion at Big Stone Gap, La., and re¬
quested a conference with Dr. John S.
Wentz, father of tie missing young
man.
He was admitted, when he told Dr.
Wentz that his son was olive and well,
and that he had beon authorized to
say that for $100,000 voung Wentz,
who was then in handcuffs in the Cum¬
berland mountains, would be delivered
to the family unharmed.
Dr. Wentz, it is said, told the stran¬
ger that he would havo first to bring
him a letter from.his son as an evi¬
dence that he was alive, and that then
his proposition would be considered.
Tho stranger agreed to this, and
immediately left, for the mountains.
He was shadowed and was seen to
get off the train at the mining village
of Essorville, when he disappeared in
tho direction of the Cumberland moun¬
tain!.'.
Three Killed; Four Injured.
Three men were killed and four in¬
jured at Farmington, Ill., Saturday by
falling slate In the Newsam mine.
COLOMBIANS ARE DULL.
Difficult to Convince Them that Cflnnl
Treaty is Defunct.
Advices received at the slate depart¬
ment from unofficial sources Indicate
that there again has been a change 11
the sentiment of the Colombian sen¬
ate respecting the Panama canal.
The agents of the state department
have found it difficult to make plain
, tho fact, even to the Colombians, that
* , ho Hay-Hemn canal treaty is abso-
: Illtely an() finally dead and that no ac¬
tion of the Colombian senate can res¬
urrect, it. Entirely new negotiations
are necessary, and none such have
! been instituted.
SPALDING WINS FIRST PRIZE.
Hu3tling Georgia County Awarded
$1 500 at 3tate Fa , r in Macon .
Spalding coun y, .la., ge s the $1,oil
; 8* ven by the Macon Fair Association
■ ^ or tfle ^est county display.
; Joneg* county secures the $1,200 of-
* ferod for the second best county dls-
play, while Houston county is
ed tho $900 hung for the third best
county display-
PICKING HALF OVER
The Curtailed Cotton Crop
Will Soon be Gathered.
FURTHER DETERIORATION
New York Journal of Commerce Issues
Final Report for the Sea¬
ton-Some Interesting
Deductions.
Tho Journal of Commerce, New
York, issued Its October cotton report
Friday—tho fatal ono of tho season.
The points of Inquiry were;
1. Increase or decrease iu condition
compared with last month.
2. Increase or decicase in yield com¬
pared with last yoar,
3. The proportion of crop picked.
No attempt is made at estimating
tho yield; that nmusement is left to
readers. The remarks of correspond¬
ents are so much better than percent¬
age reports that we havo refrained
front averaging the latter. The con¬
census of 1,275 reports made by cor¬
respondents indicate a decrease of f.
points iu condition during tho month,
a decroato in yield and of 67 per cent
on the crop picked, the average date
of replies being October 21. These re¬
ports antedate the recent frost wave,
which seems to have done little dam¬
age except to top crops and conse¬
quently affects the above returns but
slightly,
Reports from the whole cotton belt
show weather conditions to be more
favorable for picking. Even bad the
crop not beon from two to four weeks
late, picking would have been delayed
by a scarcity of labor. Last yoar at
thir> time our reports show the crop
to havo been about three-quarters
picked, compared with 57 per cent
now. The remaining 45 per cent has
boon subjected in many localities to
frosts, in numerous instances killing
ones. Correspondents’ opinions regard¬
ing tho effects of frost are contlietlng.
but it is very often regarded as bene
flcial.
Wbat damage frost has rlond is
chiefly confined to the top crop, the
prospects for this portion of the yield
being universally poor, principally on
account of the lateness ot the sea-
aon. There la quite a general tenden¬
cy to market cotton as fast as ginned.
Correspondents’ remarks, as ifistin-
g ti I shed from their percentage re¬
ports, are not gloomy if the com¬
plaints of top crop prospects are elim¬
inated. Arkansas and the territories
may bo excopted, however. There the
season has been so far backward that
the crop has been very late in open¬
ing, picking having just commehcsd
in some localities, ’ and tho per cent
already picked being less than in any
other slates.
Advices from Texas are conflicting
to such an extent as to leave a rea¬
sonable doubt whether that state will
not yield as much as last year.
The average decrease In condition
since last month Is C points and all
states, with ttie excaption of Mis¬
souri, have participated, North Caro¬
lina being 7 points lower; South Caro¬
lina, fi; Georgia, 8; Florida, 11; Ala¬
bama, 6; Mississippi, 3; Louisiana,
9; Texas, 9; Arkansas, 3; Tennessee,
3; Oklahoma, 1; Indian Territory, 1,
while Missouri increased 4.
The percentage of cotton picked is
55 in North Carolina; 68 In South
Carolina; in Georgia it is 65; Fltfrlla
71; Alabama 64; Mississippi 61; Lou¬
isiana 55; Texas 62; Arkansas 30;
Tennessee 47; Missouri 26; Oklahoma
19, and tho Indian Territory 28.
CHATTANOOGA GETS UNIVERSITY
Literary Department Now Located at
Athens, Tenn., to be Removed.
President J. H. Race, of Grant uni¬
versity, announces that plans are well
under way for moving the literary de-
partment of the college, now located
at Athens, Tenn., to Chattanooga. Thq
university will receive $12,000 from
the Freemen’s Aid Society, and other
large .gifts are expected. Grant unl-
versity is under the Jurisdiction of the
Methodist Episcopal church.
TUNNESStfi SYNOD ADVERSE.
University Consolidation Project at
Atlanta i6 Turned Down.
By a vote of 50 to 32 the Tennessee
synod In session at Memphis went on
record Friday as opposing the trans¬
fer of the: Southwestern Presbyterian
universny from Clarksville to Atlanta,
Ga.
This vote upholds the unanimous re¬
port from tho committee on bills and
overtures that a committee be cent to
the conference In Atlanta this month
to Inform he synod; of t!;e five other
states of the reasons which prevent
the proposed merger.
WILL DISCUSS UNIVERSITY.
The Tennessee Presbyterian* Synod
Holds Forth at Memphis.
Tbe Tennessee synod met in Mem-
phis Tuesday night and during the scs-
j sjons will take up Southwestern tho scheme for Presby- con-
solidating tho
; torlan university at Clarksville, Tenn.,
j and the Columbia Theological semi-
nary in Columbia, S. C., and establish¬
; ing a million dollar university at At-
I lanta, Ga,
NO. 50.
WE GIVE GREEN
4 TRADING "A
,a>- a STAMPS .
$850.00 Antdik to 1)3 Given Away iwtor 1st
One chance free on every 5oc purchase.
STRONG SHOE STORE,
Exclusive Dealers in Fine Shoes. 368 2 nd St, MACON, QA.
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.
3 (1*0
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1 B. WILLINGHAM,
HACON, Ga.
Low Rates to California
and the Northwest.
m 1
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 Cut; information write to F. E. CLARK,
Traveling Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.; W. T. SAUNDERS, General
Agent Passenger Department, Allan ta, Qa.
M. C. BALKCOM
362 TMrfl Street, Macon, Ga.
I am better prepared than ever to serve those who are in need
!
of anything in the hardware line. My new store at 362 Third
street, near Cherry, Is amply largo to accommodate a stock of
hardware, guns, pistols, ammunition, paints, oils, varnishes,
glass, etc., completo In every dstall, and I have it.
My prices are as* low as the lowest.
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M. C. BALKCOM, Agent.
S. S. PARMELEE,
BICYCLES, BUGGIES,
ROAD CARTS, CARRIAGES,
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES, f WAGONS,
HARNESS, LEATHER,
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, LEERING REAPERS,
FARM SUPPLIES, HARROWS, BINDERS,
MOWERS, RAKES.
Send us your cotton and we will work to your interest.
When visiting the Stato Fair make our warehouse your Headquarters.
1 Maopix* Gr^or^ia.