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The Jones County News. 7*
V()4j' X.
CUTTING WAR
Colombians Making Way to
Reach Pamama Overland.
JUNTA CALLS ELECTION
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Constitutional Convention Will be Held
to Establish Permanent Form of
Republican Government by
the Panamans.
Advices received in Panama Satur-
day from Cariegena stated that the
Colombian cruisers General Pinzon and
Cartagena had landed 400 men under
Generals Bustamente and Ortiz at
Cape Toburon, at the mouth of the
Atrato river, with the object of cut-
ting paths across the mountains to
enable the Colombian troops to Invade
Panama. According to these advices
there is at Cartagena a standing army
..tmnnA rcen
'
The state department has been ‘n-
formed that final steps have been ta¬
ken for the formation of a permanent
republican fc*m cf government in
Panama. The news came In a dis¬
patch from Consul General Gudger,
dated Panama Saturday, as follows:
“Election for constitutional conven¬
tion called for January 4. The convex-
tion meets January 20.”
This action is taken, it is bel.eve.I,
to meet suggestions from Panamans
here that criticisms of tho new repub¬
lic would be largely disarmed and the
status of the new treaty improved if
the final ratifications would be ex¬
changed by the United States with a
permanent and regular form of govern¬
ment on the isthmus. The territory of
Panama is so small that, according >o
the belief here, the elections can be
completed within a week after the
datet. named—January 4. The conven¬
tion is expected to follow generally the,
outlines of the Cuban constitution,
which is regarded as the most modern
and the complete model of such docu¬
ments.
Buchanan Minister to Panama.
The president has selected W. T.
Buchanan, of New York, to be the first
United States minister to Panama.
Mr. Buchanan’s selection wa3
brought about by a desire on the part
of the president to secure temporarily,
at least, and during tho crystallization
of the relations between the United
States and Panama, the services of a
trusted, and experienced d’plomatic
representative, having special ipfer-
ence to his knowledge of the Latin-
service as minister to the Argentine
republic, Mr Buchanan fills that de¬
scription, in the estimation of the
state department.
The new minister ... was originally ....
from Ohio, and represented the stale
as an agriculturist at the world’s fair
. „ . . . , .
minister to Buenos Ayres. His record
at that point was so satisfactory that
President McKinley continued him at
his post for several years after his sue-
cession to office.
Alleged Colombian Invasion.
Tlie navy department has received
a cablegram from Rear Admiral Glass,
announcing that he is maikng every
effort to run down the various reports
regarding Colombian expeditions to the
isthmus. He has ordered the Mayflow¬
er to the mouth of the Atrota river
to make a thorough investigation and a
reconnoissance o fthat region will be
made to definitely ascertain as to
whether there are any Colombian
troops in that section.
Reyes Chosen President.
The Colombian legation at Washing¬
ton received a cablegram Saturday
night from, General Do Castro, com¬
mander in chief of the Colombian ar¬
my. dated Fort iSinon, Costa Rica,
conveying tho information that the re-
suits of the election for. president,
held throughout Colombia on Decem¬
ber 8, shows a complete triumph for
General Reyes.
When seen by a correspondent Gen¬
eral Reyes would make no statement,
beyond saving that- he expected to re¬
main in the United States for a fort¬
night longer.
FIVE TRAINMEN LOSE LIFE.
Heavy Freight Engines on B. and O.
Overturn on Steep Grade.
Five trainmen were killed and sev-
eral severely injured-by the overturn-
ing of two engines attached to a heavy
Baltimore and Ohio freight train on the
17-mile grade near Piedmont, W. Va.,
Sunday.
The dead are: Engineer Ernest Er¬
vin, Engineer Emery Ervin, Fireman
Walter Mine, Fireman J. V. Carter,
Brakeman John Hayes.
Engineer Michael J. Gibbon was fa¬
tally crushed.
BLIZZARD HELD FULL SWAY.
Middle West Experiences Heavy Snow-
fall and Great Drop in Temperature,
A blizzard following the line of the
Mississippi riveu, extending as far
west as Nebraska and creeping over
the lake region, held full sway Satur-
day night. From all over the middle
west report? teil of heavy snowfa;!
delayed trams ami abnormal drop? in
temperature.
BLACK MAN AT BAN0UET
Causes North Carolina Member of the
Republican National Committee
to Take French Leave.
“I carno to Washington a republi¬
can, and I am going away a republi¬
can, but I Intend also to remain a geu-
Reman,’’ said Judge Robinson, republi-
can national committeeman from North
Carolina, as he drew his overcoat over
h* s dress suit and left the Arlington
hotel in Washington Saturday night.
He left just after the guests of Sena¬
tor Hanna bad assembled in the ban¬
quet room of the Arlington. He was
to have been one of those guests, but
he preferred to have his absence from
that festal board chronicled.
Senator Hanna's dinner was given
to the members of the republican na-
tional committee. One member of
that committee is a colored man. Jud-
son Lyons, the member from Georg a,
who Is register of the treasury. It was
because of the presence of Lyons that
Judge Robinson declined to grace the
occasion with bis presence. He would
n °t discuss his declination at any
R ,e Atlanta Constitution s
Especial correspondent, preferring to
stand on the explanation contained in
the brief statement quoted above.
Ho is an active republican and as
such has, of course, had dealings with
negroes in a business and political
way, but he refused to let this go to
tho extent of social intercourse of this
character, e\ en in view of the exam¬
ple sot at the white house. He ex¬
pressly wanted it understood that he
I was malting no grandstand play of any
kind, but he simply absented himself,
and for the reason stated.
Register Lyons was informed earlier
in the day that there was some criti¬
cism from southerners of h:'s being at
this banquet, but he did not see in this
any reason why he should not accept
the invitation which was general and
embraced all the members of the na¬
tional committee. He thought the talk
must come from the “lily white” ele¬
ment which had no representation on
the committee. So far as known ail
the other white members of the com¬
mittee were present. These are:
Alabama. J. W. Dimmick; Arkansas.
General Powell Clayton Florida. J. N.
Coombs; Louisiana, L. S. Clark; Mis¬
sissippi, T. C. Turley; South Carolina,
J. G. Capers; Tennessee, W. P. Brown-
low'; Texas, R. B. Hawley Virginia, G.
E. Bowden.
COL. KING DIES IN PRISON.
Final Chapter is Written in Noted Mur¬
der Case in Tennessee.
Colonel II. Clay King died a few
days ago in the Tennessee state peni¬
tentiary, where, since August 11, 1833,
he had been serving a life sentence for
the murder of Attorney David H. Pos¬
ton, on Main street, in Memphis.
The murder grew out of a litigation
against King by Poston for Mrs. Gid-
e °n J. Pillow, wife of the famous con-
; federate offirer ,and after whom Fort
Pillow was named. Both King and
I Poston were widely known, the former
1 -* •* — - -“»* «•"*
I the Laws of Tennessee.”
j Up to the final trial and sentencing
j of King, factional feeling ran high, and
i on the night the convicted man was
j taken from Memphis to Nashville, Pos-
j : ton’s and endeavored friends chartered to overtake a special King, train with
the avowpd purpose of lynching him.
I King’s wife and daughters were at
| 1 his bedside when the end came.
WOMEN AGAINST SMOOT.
Pass Resolutions Protesting Against
Seating of Mormon in Senate.
; A public meeting called by the inter¬
denominational. congress of women;
of Washington, for the purpose of pro-
testing against Senator Reed Smooth
f retaining his seat was held in the
Metropolitan Episcopal Church Sun¬
day.
Resolutions were adopted urging all
loyal and patriotic men and women of
every state to send protests to the
. senators frem their states and urge
upon puch citizens immediate and
prompt action.
The resolutions are signed by Mrs.
Frederic Schoff, president of the Na¬
tional Congress of Mothers; Clara L.
Roach, of the International Woman’s
Union of the District of Columbia, and
Margaret Dye Ellis, of the National W.
C. T. U.
TO CONTROL NAVAL STORES.
Florida Operators Seek Charter for
Extensive Combine.
The Operators’ Tank and Were
House Company, with a capital of naif
a million dollars, has applied to the
state of Florida for a charter. Ail the
leading turpentine operators of the
state are among its stockholders.
Its object is to own, operate, lease,
hire, use amt maintain ware houses,
docks, wharves, elevators and storage
facilities for the storage of turpentine,
oils, rosin, naval stores, cotton and oth¬
er products cf every sort.
Tho company wiil lend money on the
products stored and thus be able to
control tho naval stores product
TO PftOBE “RECESS” MATTER.
Senator Tillman Introduces Resolu-
«on Calling for Investigation.
Senator Tillman has introduced a
resolution directing the committee on
the judiciary to make inquiry into the
question of what constitutes recess ap-
j pointments by the president. The res-
olution bears upon the claim that the
pending nomination of General Wool
an o 0 ther3 similarly situated are re
cess appoint merits.
GRAY. JONES CO . GA.. Til URSDAY. DECEMBER 17,>4903.
TO IMPEACH JUDCE
Is Import of a Resolution
Adopted in the Senate.
IS SWAYNE, OP FLORIDA
Representative Lamar Begins Action
in Compliance With Resolution
Passed in Florida Legislature.
Sensational Charges.
A Washington special says: The
house of representatives by formal
resolution has instructed its judiciary
committeo to investigate the charges
against United States District Judge
Charles Swayne, of Florida, with a
view to possible impeachment. This
action was taken at Thursday’s ses¬
sion after a two hours' debate.
The resolution was introduced by
Judge Lamar, the new representative
from Florida, and had as its basis
resolutions adopted by the Florida leg¬
islature last August.
Judge Lamar, Mr. Clayton, of Ala¬
bama, and Mr. Williams, of Mississip¬
pi, led the fight for the adoption of the
impeachment resolution, while General
Grosvenor, of Ohio, Mr. Payne, of
New York, Mr. Lacey, of Iowa, and
other republican leaders, supported
Mr. Lacey's motion to refer.
Mr. Lamar, rising to a question of
privilege, after announcing that he
would offer a resolution, in which
would bo embodied a joint resolution
of the Florida legislature, said:
“In pursuance of that joint resolu¬
tion, I desire to Impeach Charles
Swayne, judge of the United States
district court for the northern district
of Florida, with high crimes and mis¬
demeanors.”
The resolution, after reciting in the
preamble tho resolution of the Flor¬
ida legislature, says:
“Resolved, That the committee on
the judiciary be directed to inquire
and report whether the action of tha
house is requisite concerning the offi¬
cial misconduct of Charles Swayne,
judge of the United States district
court for the northern district of
Florida, and say whether said judge
has held terms of his court as requir¬
ed by lav/, whether ho has continuous¬
ly and persistently absented himself
from said state, and whether bis acts
and omissions in his office of judge
have been such as in any degree to
deprive the people of that district of
the benefits of the court therein to
amount to a denial of justice; whether
the said judge has been guilty of cor¬
rupt conduct in office and whether his
administration of liis office has result¬
ed in injury and wrong to litigants
of his court.”
The resolution further authorizes
the judiciary committee to send for
persons and papers and to do other
things essential to the investigation.
Mr. Lamar moved the adoption of
the resolution. Mr. Grosvenor sug¬
gested that there should be specific
charges; that the house should ga
slowly and be extremely careful. The
house is not a grand jury, he said.
Messrs. Lacy, Payne and Fuller, re¬
publicans, expressed in the same vein.
In reply, Mr. Lamar said;
“As I understand, this objection
made by the gentlemen from Ohio
(Mr. Grosvenor), is that I do not
charge Judge Swayne with an specific
crime. I do charge him generally with
high crimes and misdemeanors. Why
should I be forced to state, when the
proof is to be submitted to the com¬
mittee on judiciary, the specific mat¬
ters upon which that general allega¬
tion is made. Every single crime that
this judge is capable of committing is
charged when I charge him of high
crimes and misdemeanors. But if the
gentleman desires that I shall make
my charges seriatim, I chargo this
judge first, with continued, persistent
and, if you piease, pernicious absentee¬
ism from his district; second, with cor-
rupt official conduct based on several
matters; third, I charge Judge Swayne
with maladministration of judicial
matters in his court, so much as to
embarrass bankrupts and annihilate
the assets of litigants and others ap-
pearing within his jurisdiction.”
Mr. Williams, tho minority loader,
contended for the adoption of the res-
oiution, citing former cases and argu¬
ing that the verbal statement of Mr.
Lamar as sufficient.
The motion to refer the resolution io
the judiciary committee wap lost, when
the resolution as offered by Mr. Lamar
was adopted with a few dissenting
votes.
The house then adjourned for the
day.
Girls Will Probably Go on Strike.
New York girls to the numtfer of
2,000, employed in the manufacture ot
petticoats have formed a union and
demand a general Increase in wage?.
A strike is anticipated.
TROUBLE COMING TO SMOOT.
Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections to Take Up Hig Case.
Chairman Burrows, of the senate
committee on privileges and elections,
has called a meeting of the committee
to consider whether any action shall
be taken on the protests and petitions
for the expulsion of Senator Reed
Smoot, of Utah, There is an immenso
mat’s of petitions coming from differ¬
ent states.
DEPARTMENT OF GULF
Will Be Re Established With Head¬
quarters at Atlanta, Says Reliable
Report from Washington.
A Washington special says: Tho
establishment of the department of tho
south, with headquarters at Atlanta,
Ga., has been finally and officially de¬
termined upon. The order has not yet
been Issued, but this is mere formality.
The general staff has recommended it
and the secretary of war has given his
approval.
The order will ho Issued in the very
near future, as soon as the assignment
of officers is determined upon. That
this was sure to come was somo tinio
since predicted by The Atlanta Consti¬
tution. The delay in reaching a de
cision is duo to the fact that the gen¬
eral staff has had under consideration
a number of changes in the existing
plan of divls-on of tho military depart¬
ments. and it was impossible to settle
one thing until nil were determined.
A final decision was reached on Fri¬
day, but the fact has just become
known, the official purpose being to
keep it secret until the formal orders
were ready.
Under the plan adopted there are to
bo five divisions of the army, with
twelve departments, instead of tho
present departments. This provis¬
ion for the five divisions Is new.
It is believed that the creation of
these divisions, each to contain one or
more departments, and to be com
manded by a major general, will be a
move effective and more nearly per¬
fect organization than that now exist¬
ing. There will be a division of the
Atlantic, with headquarters at Gover¬
nor’s Island .to embrace two depart¬
ments—department of the east, with
headquarters at Boston, and a depart¬
ment of the south, with headquarters
at Atlanta. In a similar manner other
existing departments will be embraced
in divisions. For instance, tho inte¬
rior and southwestern section of the
country will be included in a divis¬
ion containing three departments—the
department of the lakes, with head¬
quarters at Chicago;the department of
tha Missouri, with headquarters at
Omaha, and the department of Texas,
with headquarters at San Antonio, as
at present.
The exact geographical lines of the
department of the south have not, yet
been announced, but it will conform
practically to the old department of
the gulf, reaching as far south as the
Texas line and north probably to the
Potomac. New Orleans'’was a strong
bidder for headquarter* <of tho depart¬
ment of the south, hut tho superior
merits of Atlanta put the Louisiana
metropolis out of consideration.
MOST PECULIAR TRAGEDY.
Memphis Polioemen, in Disguise,
Shoots Merchant and Then Suicides.
John C. King, a policeman, is dead
by his own hand, and H. J. Kressen-
berg, a well-lmown business man and
member of ihe city democratic commit¬
tee, is probably fatally wounded, as tho
result of a sensational double tragedy
enacted at Memphis, Tenn., Sunday
night.
Shortly before midnight Krcssen-
berg, accompanied by his wife, left
his store in the business district, and
a moment later be was shot twice by
a man wearing a handkerchief over his
face as a mask.
Kressenbsrg foil to the sidewalk, but
shot his fleeing assailant in tho '.sg.
After running two blocks, tho latter
fell, exhausted, and turning his revolv¬
er on hlmstdf, fired a bullet Into his
brain. It was then discovered that
the masked man was John C. King, a
member of the local police force.
No cause is known for King’s attack
upon Kressenberg.
LABOR ORGANIZATION FINED.
Precedent Is Set by the Action of
Chicago Judge.
One thousand dollars' fine for Illegal
acts as a corporate body was imposed
upon Franklin union No. 4, press feed¬
ers, by Judge Jesse Holdom, at Chi¬
cago, Saturday. The court finds the
union, as a corporation, guilty of con-
temp tot court for violating an injun ■
tion restraining it from interfering
with the business or qrgployees of ten
printing firms.
EVENTUAL WAR WITH GERMANY
Is Prediction of Major General MoAur-
thur During Military Conference.
Major General MacArthur, during
the military conference in Honolulu,
said that, in all probability, war will
take place between the United Stale?
and Germany in the near future, which
makes the Hawaiian National Guard of
national Importance. The Pan German
doctrine is growing among German
Americans, few of whom volunteered
In the war with Spain, Ha believes
that German interests- are growing to
such an extent in South America that
the strain upon the Monroe doctrine
will eventually result in a conflict.
ROCKEFELLER AIDS FURMAN.
Millionaire Gives $100,000 to South
Carolina Educational Institution.
Rev. Dr. E. M. Poteat. president of
Furman University, Greenvlle, S. C.,
has just returned from the north
where he secured from John D. Rocke¬
feller a donation of $100,000 for Fur¬
man. Dr. Poteat recentl yraisod $125,-
000 lor the institution, most of the con¬
tributions being in blocks of $250.
cotton
May be Subject of Considera¬
tion at this Congress.
APPROPRIATION NEEDED
Representative Brantley, of Georgia,
Will Try for Experiment Stations
at Various Points to Investi¬
gate Enemies of Plant.
A Washington special says: Con¬
gress is to be asked to make nn ap¬
propriation lor tho establishment of
experiment stations in Georgia, at
which the agricultural department ex¬
perts will seek to discover a way to
cure the disease anthracnose which
has done so much damage to Sea Is¬
land cotton. For some time, Con¬
gressman Brantley has been in con¬
sultation with Secretary Wilson and
the experts of Iho department of agri¬
culture relative to (he necessity for
relief of the growers of Sea Island cot¬
ton in Georgia, South Carolina and
Florida. It seems that, this kind of
cotton has bren a victim of four kinds
of disease—wilt, rust, root knot, and
anthracnose. Methods have been dis¬
covered to offset or cure the first three.
In some degree, at least, but. the last
named has done a great deal of devas¬
tation. It attacks the boll before it is
matured, drying it up and making the
staple yellow stained and of no length.
In some sections the crop has been al¬
most entirely destroyed.
Mr. Brantley had conferences witji
the secretary and with Dr. Gallaway,
chief of the bureau of plant industry,
and Assistant Pathologist Orton was
sent to Georgia to investigate. The
necessity for some remedy is so evi¬
dent that, it is designed to establish
experiment farms near Uiackshear and
Valdosta, at which the government
experts will seek to produce a strain
which will resist tho disease.
It. is also the aim of (lie department
to demonstrate the value of a proper
rotation of the crops, As Georgia
produces move than half the Sea Is¬
land cotton crop of the country, and
as most of that is raised In his district,
Mr. Brantley will use his best efforts
to secure from congress tho necessa¬
ry appropriations for the experiments.
Ho believes he has assurances which
guarantee success. The southern con¬
gressmen will cooperate with him.
WORK IS THE SOLUTION.
Race Problem Touched Upon by Bo.uk-
er WiVhington in New York.
Booker T. Washington, in a speech
at New York before the colored branch
of the Young Men’s Christian Associa¬
tion declared the real problem for the
colored parent in the north is not that
of getting his son and daughter edu¬
cated, but of finding a job for them af¬
ter they receive their diplomas,
“If a white boy gets a place in an of¬
fice and does his duty, he is assured of
advancement,” said the speaker, but
the black boy has got to work twice as
hard to get, there. Any man, black
or white, who has learned to do some¬
thing better than his fellows, has solv¬
ed his problem,
“In some parts of the country I fear
we are getting the reputation of being
willing to part with our votes for a
price. We should let tho world under¬
stand that tho individuals who offers
to buy our votes insults the manhood
of the race."
WHAT THE SEABOARD WILL DO.
Road Will Enter the Georgia Capital
from Two Directions.
“The Seaboard is not only coming
into Atlanta from tho northeast, but
from Birmingham on the west," said
President John Skelton Williams at
the breakfast tendered the officials oi
that road Friday morning at lie Capi¬
ta! City Club, In Atlanta, by Colonel
Robert J. Lowry.
Book Men Sold Obscene Literature,
Three of iho leading booksellers of
Boston were found guilty Friday in the
municipal court of having sold, or hav¬
ing had in their possession obscene
literature, on complaints made by a
society. A fine of $100 was imposed
in each case
COURT SUSTAINS PILOTS.
Compulsory pilotage Law Declared to
Be Constitutional.
The case instituted in Norfolk with
a view to end disputes as to the con-
Btitutlonality of the compulsory pilot¬
age laws has thus far resulted victo¬
riously for the Virginia Pilots' Asso¬
ciation.
The court of appeals has decided
that the pilotage laws are constitu¬
tional and that tho association mem¬
bers have a legal right to collect
charges from ship masters and ship
owners. The case will be appealed to
the United States supreme court.
DONATED BY MISS GOULD.
Deification of Y. M. C. A. Building at
Fortress Monroe.
The Fortress Monroe, Va., Young
Men's Chc/tian Association building,
donated to tho soldiers by Miss Helen
Gould, was formally dedicated Wednes¬
day iu the presence of a large assem¬
blage. Miss Gould was present- She
was given a reception Wednesday
night.
NO. 4.
Country Friends
Like to feel when they arc buying things In tho city that they are gottlng
the same returns for their money as their city cousins.
THIS IS RIGHT AND PROPER.
They should have the
Style, the Fit
and the Quality.
That is What We Give You in Our Shoes.
We keep the best that mohoy can buy, and our prices are alike to all,
and we are the cheapest.
Come around and make our store hoadquastera when in Macon. Leave
your bundles here, ff we mfci’t. suit you In (thoes buy elsewhere.
STRING SHE STORE,
398 SECOND STREET, MACON, GEORGIA.
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.
—<B«'t
. . WILLINGHAM,
HACON, Ga.
Low Rates to California
and the Northwest.
B
Will sell daily between September lfith and November 30th, 3STOS, 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, freo reclining chairs.
For rates schedules, maps and full Information write to F. 12. CLARK,
Traveling Passenger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.; W. T. SAUNDERS, General
Agent Passenger Department, Allan ta, Ga.
;
p
362 Third Stmt, Macon, Ga.
I am better prepared Ilian ever to servo those- who are In need
of anything in the hardware line, My'nev/'Store at 3G2 Third
street, near Cherry, is amply largo to accommodate a stock of
pistols, ammunition, '
hardware, guns,
complete In every ditail, and I have It, j
•v
My prices are as low as the lowest. (7,
M. C. BALKCOM, Agent.
S. S. PARMEL6E,
BICYCLES, BUGGIES,
ROAD CARTS, CARRIAGES,
CHILDREN’S CARRIAGES, 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, DEERiNG REAPERS,
FARM SUPJ^IES, HARROWS, BINDERS,
MOWERS, RAKES.
Bend us your cotton and we will work to your interest.
When visiting the StajePdlr rfnko our warehouse your Headquarters,