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\ i \ V* '\yrv> ^ * l¥ Colin News _ it e / ones ty M. C. GREENE, Editor and Proprietor. PRICE HAS A LIST Of All Correspondents of the Census Bureau. IS STATEMENT OF JORDAN Sensational Assertion Made at Hear¬ ing Before House Committee. Can Name Four Men Who Have Divulged Figures “Gentlemen, cotton is king today. Cotton statistics are now on trial.” With these words Chairman Whds- worth of the house committee on ag¬ riculture, opened the general hearing cn crop statistics before his commit¬ tee at Washington Friday, Assistant Secretary Hayes of the department of agriculture; President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association, Atlanta, Ga.; J. H. Tay- ’cr, president of the National Ginners’ Association, Dallas, Tex., and many southern members of congress, repra- senting planters, were at the hear¬ ing. Assistant Secretary Hayes was the flr3t speaker. He gave in detail the plan of the department of agriculture for gathering statistics and changes recently made in the system of the bureau of statistics. He said the de¬ partment proposed to retain the crop reporting board; to have 2,800 oaunty reporting agents; forty one district agents and several supervising inspez- tors who shall travel and instruct dis¬ trict agents. Different codes were to be furnished each district agent monthly, and tho agents' reports are to be given to computers in sections to avoid the pos¬ sibility of leakage. With the perfect¬ ed reports, Mr. Hayes said the mar Lets would be less affected. Frequent nnd accurate reports would work against the speculator, he said, and the weather bureau reports will fur¬ nish a guard as to conditions for the time between reports. Mr. Hayes said the department of agriculture would be benefited greatly by having more agricultural statistics at its command. He said an acreage census should be taken every five years and would be of great assistance to the crop estimating board. When asked about the accuracy of the cot¬ ton estimates for last year Mr. Hayes said that judged by statistics In gin¬ ning the cotton report was within 2 per cent of the actual production. President Harvie Jordan created something of a sensation, when he taid: “1 have received letters stating that certain coriespondents who report to the census bureau are also correspon¬ dents of Theodore Price, the cotton bear of Wall street,” said Harvie Jor¬ dan, president of the Southern Cotton Association, to the committee. Jordan’s remark was something like a bombshell. Representative Burleson of Texas was on his feet In a mo¬ ment. "I can promise,” said he, "that if their ncmes are furnished Mr. North, and this is found to be true, they will be immediately discharged.” Mr. Burleson went on to say that the bill providing a heavy penalty for any government official or em¬ ployee who gives out official informa¬ tion will scon be passed, and that it would reach any representative of the • government who gives out informa tion to Mr. Price or anybody else. Mr. Jordan said later that he had referred to four correspondents of the census bureau, whom he kneTv sus¬ tained these relations to Mr. Price, id he understood Mr. Price had in J f s possession a list of all the corre- /ondents of the census bureau. w PROPOSE INSURANCE LAW. Kentucky Legislature Will Discuss Legislation. After many days of deliberation and argument hv counsel for the state and life insurance companies of the coun¬ try, the Joint committee on insurance of tho Kentucky general assembly agreed upon measures proposing to regulate the companies, which meas¬ k ures will he presented to the assem- ly for approval. LEGAL ACTION RECOMMENDED. New York Life Will Be Asked to Re¬ fund Campaign Boodle. Recommendations that legal ac- lon be instituted to recover cam¬ paign contributions made by the New York Life Insurance company were submitted to the trustees of that com¬ pany at New York Wednesday by the special investigating committee head ed by Thomas P. Fowler. It is rec¬ ommended that the money be recover¬ ed from such officers and trustees as counsel shall decide are liable there- for. CHARGES AGAINST JEROME. District Attorney Accused of Conspir¬ acy to Whitewash Offenders. Charges including subornation, perjury, bribery of lawyers, miscon- version of millions of dollars and the enlistment of District Attornev Jerome into a conspiracy to whitewash the offenders were made against the Metropolitan Street Railway hearing Company before and its officials at a the assembly committee on ways ar means at Albany, N- Y.» Thursday. REVIEW BY THE COURTS Seems to Be Bugaboo Feature of Hep¬ burn Rate Bill—Cat Is Now Out of the Bag. "We have heard as many opinions on the railroad question as there are members of the committee, and each man is afraid to bring the court re¬ view feature to a vote,” said Chair¬ man Bikins Friday when the senate committee on interstate commerce at Washington adjourned until next Thursday without having taken a vote on a bill or considered an amend¬ ment for judicial review of orders of the interstate commerce commission. This statement was made in the presence of Senators Dolliver and Clapp, who are contending for the Hepburn bill in the form that it came from the house. It was said in jest, but it is believed that it more nearly expressed the situation than any pre¬ vious alleged authorltive announce meat. The committee agreed that im¬ portant amendments will not be voted on until Friday of next week. Ostensibly the committee adjourned because Senator Tillman was sudden¬ ly taken ill with threatened pneumonia and could not be present, and because Senator Cullom will return from Flor¬ ida some time next week and cast his vote in the committee. The real rea¬ son for adjournment is believed to be the attitude of certain democratic members in not disclosing their posi¬ tions on the court review feature. Nei¬ ther republican faction in the commit¬ tee was certain of the outcome and a vote therefore was not insisted upon. Without taking up the question of judicial review of orders of the com mission, the committee considered many amendments offered to other sections of the house bill. Senator Carmack offered an amendment in¬ creasing the interstate commerce com¬ mission from five to nine. This amend¬ ment was adopted by a vote of six to five, as follows: Affirmative—Elkins, Aldrich, Kean, Carmack, Foster and Crane. Negative—Fovaker, Dolliver, Clapp, McLaurin and Newlands. It was agreed, however, that Messrs. Cullom and Tillman may have their votes recorded on this amend¬ ment and this may change the re¬ sult, though this is not believed likely. Several amendments were suggested providing for both inclusion and ex¬ clusion of express companies and pro¬ prietary cars under the bill, but no action was taken. There was also a number of amendments offered to sec tion 1 of the Hepburn bill, on the sub¬ ject of what is known as joint rates. No amendments were offered at the session which had an ybearing upon the court features affecting rates fix¬ ed by the commission, It had been said that Senator Knox would pre¬ pare an amendment on the subject ac¬ ceptable to the president, but this ru¬ mor could not be confirmed. Both republican factions express the belief that Attorney General Moody is the president’s chief advisor on the subject of pending railroad rate legislation and he is opposed to any amendments looking to the retrial of any case after the commission has in¬ vestigated a rate and corrected it, if found to be unjust or discriminative. Senator Tillman has served notice upon the interstate commerce commit¬ tee that he will press for an amend ment to the pending rate bill under the terms of which express companies and Pullman cars will not he placed under the control of the interstate commerce commission. HOST OF ALABAMA TEACHERS. Over Two Thousand Persons Took the Examination for License. The total number of persons who took the examinations for teachers’ licenses at the January examination in Alabama was 2,207, of whom 1,541 were successful in making good enough averages to get certificates. This left 666 who did not show enough efficiency to be allowed authority to teach in the schools of the state. The per cent of the entire number who passed was 69 2-10. Only 42 per cent of the negroes were accepted. JEFFERSON DAY BANQUET. To Be Held in Kansas City—Promi¬ nent Democrats Will Attend. Governor Joseph W. Folk and Sen¬ ators Joseph W. Bailey of Texas and William J. Stone of Missouri have ac cepted invitations to respond to toasts at the Jefferson day banquet of the democratic editorial association of Missouri, to be held in Kansas City on April 13. Invitations also have been extended to Clark Howell, edi¬ tor of the Atlanta Constitution, and Governor John A. Johnson of Minne sota. GROWERS FORM ASSOCIATION. Raisers of Dark Tobacco of Three States Are Getting Together. The Dark Tobacco Growers’ Asso¬ ciation of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia was formed at Lynchburg, Thursday, representatives from three state associations meeting together. Vice presidents are to be selected from each state. The association is for the purpose of co-operation in sale of dark tobacco. GHAY. JONES CO.. GA.. TH URSDAY. FEBRUARY 22 , 1906. ATLANTA’S BID ACCEPTED Georgia State Fair for This Year Goes to the Gate City Again by Vote of Special Committee. By a bid of nearly $10,000 more than that of Macon, the only other competitor, Atlanta secured the Geor¬ gia state fair for 1908. The execu¬ tive committee of the State Agricul¬ tural 'Society in session at Macon Wednesday voted 18 to 16 in favor of Atlanta. The successful bid was $47,100. The Atlanta contingent was jubilant at the result, as Macon had put forth the most determined effort of its ex istence toward securing the agricul¬ tural society’s sanction of the fait. Atlanta's bid was presented by W. R. Joyner, who stated that it needed no comment and that he would not make any speech or argument other than tho figures themselves and the showing made by Atlanta last year. Atlanta’s bid was itemized as fol¬ lows: Agricultural premiums, $12,000; other premiums, $13,500; bonus to ag¬ ricultural society, $5,500; advertising, $6,000; and races, $10,000. Macon’s bid, which was supported by speeches by Mayor Bridges Smith. A. L. Dasher, Felton Hatcher, T. P. Haley, E. E- Small and Joe Hill Hall, was itemized as follows: Premiums, $20,000; bonus for agricultural soci¬ ety, $5,000; races and horse shows, $12,000. There was no provision for advertising. All the members expressed some surprise that there should have been any hesitation on the part of the ex¬ ecutive committee }n making the award and that the vote should have been so close, in view of the differ¬ ence in the guarantees offered, But although Atlanta outbid Macon by nearly $10,000 the State Agricultural Society committee debated the award for nearly two hours. The discussion evidently was heated, judg¬ ing from the noise of debate heard by the Atlanta delegation. The award was made in executive session. ‘‘Macon offered as much cash for the state fair as she could well af ford,” said a director soon after the matter was decided by the committee. “We did the best we could and then assured the committee that we would appreciate the award. We reviewed our past, successes and laid the whole matter before the body in such man¬ ner as to impress the members with our eagerness. We did our whole duty', and the fact that Atlanta came with a larger hid and convinced the agricultural society that she ought to have it again, reflects in nowise upon those who represented the Central City.” M’CALL ON BRINK OF GRAVE. Illness of Former President of New York Life is Serious. John A. McCall, former president of the New York Life Insurance com¬ pany, is seriously ill at Lakewood, N. J. In fact, his illness is so grave that the last sacraments of the church have been administered. A friend of Mr. McCall has inti¬ mated that the latter would die a poor man. He said that Mr. McCall paid to the treasury of the company $235,- 000 which he had advanced to An drew Hamilton. He surrendered for cash all his life ipsurance policies. They amounted to about $400,000, and Mr. McCall, it was said, got about one-fourth of the amount on them in surrender value. Of the $235,000 payment only $85,000 was in cash. The balance was secur¬ ed by a mortgage on Mr. McCall’s big summer home at Long Branch. This place was recently sold. ALASKAN GOVERNOR RESIGNS Brady Sends Quitting Paper to Roose¬ velt and It is Accepted. President Roosevelt Wednesday af¬ ternoon received and accepted the res¬ ignation of John G. Brady as governor of Alaska. The resignation was handed to the president on behalf of Governor Bra¬ dy by Judge Peele of New York. No announcement, of the successor to Governor Brady has been made. CUT BIGHT STEEL BARS. Convlcted North Carolina Murderer Breaks Out of Jail. Burton Jarrell, convicted of the murder of W. C. King, in Warren county, escaped Thursday morning from the Raleigh, N. C., jail, where he had been placed for safekeeping, while Garfield Hicks, who was sen¬ tenced to death for being implicated in the same crime, refused to flee. There was some doubt as to Jarrell's guilt, and the supreme court was con¬ sidering his appeal. Jarrell (sawed his way through elgh'; steel bars. WRIT SERVED ON BONI. Final Action for Separation Taken b/ Buncoed Anna Geuld. A Paris dispatch says: An “urgent” writ was served on Count Bonl de Castellane Friday, making him defen¬ dant in the separation proceedings of his wife, formerly Anna Gould. This decisive step wa3 taken after renew¬ ed efforts to effect a reconciliation had proved fruitless, The count ac- cepted service of the writ. QUICK BANK WRECK Organized in December and Now in Hands of Reciver. PRESIDENT UNDER BAN Allegation That Officials of the Insti¬ tution Have Done as They Pleased with the Funds — Depositors May Be Saved. The Bank of America, incorporated in Chicago last Deoemher, with a cap¬ ital stock of $250,000, Thursday night, was placed In tho hands of a receiver on complaint of John E. Kavanaugh, a stockholder. The bill asking for the receivership holds former Judge Abner Smith, president and three other officers of the bank responsible for the alleged insolvency of the In¬ stitution. In tho few weeks since the opening of the bank, President Smith is charg¬ ed with having so manipulated secur¬ ities, mortgages and notes and stock of the bank that he has obtained amounts aggregating $146,000. The other three officers, who, in connection with President Smith are held respon¬ sible for the alleged insolvency of the bank are: G. F. Sorrow, vice presl dent; Jorome V. Pierce, cashier, and F. E. Greelman, a stockholder and director. It is charged against these officials, together with Proaident Smith, that they have done as they pleased with the funds of the bank, have voted themselves such salaries as they de¬ sired, and have lent the money of the incorporation on such securities as they saw fit. The bank had about $300,000 in de¬ posits, of which $25,000 was in sav¬ ings accounts of working people. Tho representatives of the bank declare there is 40 per cent of the cash on band and a large amount of paper, the value of which Is unknown. On this paper depends the chance of tho hank liquidating In Dill. Attorney Clarence Harrow, who is a stockholder, paid up to the extent of $11,000, personally has come to the rescue of the saving depositors, “All savings depositors will be paid in full,” said Attorney Harrow. “I will buy their checks as they are pre- sented at the bank. The bank will be opened in the morning under charge of Receiver Healey.” Mr. Greelman, who Is charged with unloading a large amount of paper on the institution, is a Chicago lum¬ ber merchant, and is said to have large lumber interests In Nashville, Tenn. McCALL DEFENDS HIMSELF. Says He Has Lived a Clean Life and Is Ready to Go. John A McCall, former president of the New York Life Insurance com¬ pany, Thursday night sent, from what may be his death bed, a defense of his own work In the company and of his relations with Andrew Hamilton. The statement was made to his son, and) others gathered in tho death chamber. "If it’s God’s will, I'm ready to go,” Mr. McCall told ills son. “I’ve lived a clean life. I’ve lived my life as 1 saw it. No man, woman or child can say that I ever wronged them.” METHODISTS FOR "OPEN SHOP.” All Printing Houses Controlled By Them Will Be 8o Conducted. At the meeting of Methodist editors publishers and mnnngerB of the Unit¬ ed States in Cincinnati, it was decided that every printing establishment con¬ trolled by the Methodist hook concern shall hereafter be run on the "open shop,” making no distinction between union and non-union workers. It was declared by those who spoke that, since the open shop plan had been introduced, there had been bet¬ ter service in every way, and that it would be absurd to think of ever re¬ storing the alliance with the unions. MORE WARRANTS ISSUED For Persons Connected with Recent Shooting Bee In Savannah. Another chapter in the political war that is being waged between the rival factions of Savannah, Ga., was written Wednesday when Henry Go- ette, connected with the People's League, swore out warrants for John H. Monroe, D. W. Jernigan, R. H. Mc¬ Kenna and Thomas Duffy, all holding Jobs under the city administration, charging them with carrying conceal- ed weapons, assault and battery and assault with intent to murder. j NO OUTBREAK FEARED. Washington Not Alarmed Over Con¬ ditions in Shanghai, China. The state department at Washing¬ ton has received a cablegram from Shanghai, China, staring that the con¬ ditions in that city are not such as to cause any alarm. Although the boycott has diminished it is reported that no great fear is entertained of any outbreak. BOY’S HORRIBLE Georgia Youth Arrested on Charge of Burning Younger Brother to Death for Insurance Money. A 'New York dispatch says: Accus¬ ed of the lleudish crime of pouring benzine over his (sleeping brother end then burning him to death, to ob¬ tain $3,000 insurance money, Alexan¬ der Legler, 22 years old, a member of a prominent family of Baxter, Ga, was arrested in Jersey City, Wednes day. The Legler brothers for a year had been living at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rutherford at No. 413 Summit avenue in one of the finest sections of Jersey City, when Carl Legler died on December 18 last, four days after he had been burned almost from head to feet in his room and In the presence of his brother. It was through Mrs. Rutherford that Chief Murphy obtained the first clew to the death of the young man, as It had not been reported to the police and the body was shipped to Baxter, Ga., the home of tho victim's parents, December 19, the day after his death. Mrs. Rutherford told Chief Murphy that she was awakened on the night of December 14 by hearing Carl Legler scream in agony. Mrs. Rutherford said she and her husband rushed into the room of tho brothers and saw Carl in his night robe and Alexander lying on the fioo" near their bed. He was untouched by the fire. Mrs. Rutherford said Alexander leap ed to his feet when they entered, and aided in putting out tho fire, but he could not explain it. She said the Inside half of the bed, where Carl hud been sleeping, was the only part burned. The outside half, where Alexander had been lying, was hardly touched. There was an odor of benzine in tho room, and the bed clothing indicated that the fluid had been poured over it. An empty fruit jar that had con¬ tained benzine was on the floor. Mrs. Rutherford told the police that during the four days Carl lived, Alex¬ ander was given all of the physioian’s prescriptions to fill. She said lie al¬ ways brought, back the prescription* instead of filling them. Chief Murphy found that Alexander ; had obtained $3,000 insurance on liis brother's life, but none on his own. j to though do ho had promised his brother so. i ' He made several contradictory j statements after his arrast. BONJ NOW ON THE RUN, Spendthrift Count Will Accept Any Little Old “Alimony” from Anna. A Paris special says: The financial negotiations in the Castellano case do not relate to Count Boni’s allow¬ ance after separation from his wife, formerly Anna Gould, of New York, as he has simplified this branch by stating that he does not expept a large amount. The count’s announce¬ ment was made to one of the lawyers of the countess. It was most emphat¬ ic and is substantially in the following terms: “I declare to you, and I swear to the exactness of my declaration, that 1 not only do not demand, but that 1 will not accept any sum beyond that small amount which constituted my income before my marriage.” The attitude of the count leaves the lawyers of the countess to con alder only his outstanding Indebted¬ ness, which reaches an enormous sum. The Castellano marriage contract gives the countess her separate in¬ come, not subject, to claims for tho debts of her husband. This contract insures tho protection af the count¬ ess’ fortune against being absorbed in the present controversy, and also prevents the count’s creditors flora taking legal action against tho count¬ ess. The amount, involve.d has been swol¬ len to enormous proportions by exces¬ sive charges for money advanced. One gentleman, Intimately familiar with every detail of the Castellano case, said that, when people sought advances reached three years ahead advanced reached three years ahead on an anticipated Income, the bor¬ rower usually got one-tenth, wiille nine-tenths went to the usurers. This applies to the financial situation In tlio Castellano cfl.se, comparatively small advances now reaching a gigan¬ tic aggregate through excessive charges. PAT CROWE IS LIBERATED. Jury Failed to Convict Him of Kid¬ naping Young Cudahy. Pat Crowe, charged with the rob¬ bery of Edward A. Cudahy, the Omaha packer, of $26/00. In connection with the kidnaping of Mr. Cudahy’s son, five years ago, was acquitted at Ozna- ha Friday afternoon. The jury was out fifteen hours. The kidnaping of Eddie Cudahy December 19, 1900, and his ye least upon payment by his father of $25, COO ransom, created a great sensa tion, and the search for the kidnap ers was stimulated at the time to the offer of a reward of $50,000 by Mr Cudahy. Last October Crowe was arrested in Butte, Mont. He was put on trial February 7. There was no evidence positively to identify Crowe as one o! the kidnapers. VOL. XII. NO. 15. — EXHUME CORPSE. Alex Legler, Georgia Boy, Arraigned In Jeriey City Court on Charge Of Fratricide. A New York special says: Accused of having murdered ids brother, Car!, for the purpose of obtaining life in¬ surance mcney amounting to $3,000, Alexandor Legler, Jr., was arraigned itt court in Jersey City Thursday. Tho examination of the prisonwr was post¬ poned, howover, until Saturday, at tho request of Chief of Police Mur phy, who desired time to get together witnesses. The case is one of the most extraordinary in the police an¬ nals of Jersey City, in explaining tho cast) to the court, Chief Murphy laid that the pvtsonor was suspected of having poured benzine over his brother, Carl, and of having set him »flre while he slept, and added that it was believed that when Legler saw that his brother would not succumb to his injuries, he caused the victim's death by administering some powder, presumably of a poisonous nature. Tho police announce that they will endeav¬ or to have the body exhumed by tho authorities at Baxiey, Ga., whither it was taken by Legler soon after ills brother's death. Alex Legler, who resides In Bnxlev, and who is the fathor of the young man who is under arrost, states that be does not believe his son is guilty. Ho says both of his sons had insur¬ ance policies In the same company, and ho says ills doad son told him previous to his death that his brother helped him to put out the fire, and that Alex., the young man arrested, rendered him all the assistance pos- sible. Mr. Legler says Mrs. Rutherford is not on good terms with his son. Ho says his dead son’s policy was payable to ills mol her, and Alex had no interest. HELL 13 AN IMPROVEMENT Upon United States So Far as Negro Is Concerned, Says Bishop Turner. Bishop H. M. Turner, addressing the BOO delegates attending the conven¬ tion of negroes in Macon, Ga., Thurs¬ day to discuss racial problems, said: "1 used to love what 1 'thought was the grand old flag and sing with ocstaey about the stars and stripes but to the nogro in this country the American flag is a dirty and contempt- ible rag. Not a star in it. can the colored man claim, for it is no longer the symbol of our manhood rights and liberty. “I have heavd of both white and black men perpetrating rape upon in- nocent and angelic women but no negro in this country has been tried by the courts and found guilty of the heinous crime of rape in fifteen year-. •<\ know that ihloody-hamled and drunken mobs have said so, but what Christian people would accept what they say? Yet there are millions of men who pretend to he moral and claim to be sensible in this country who go to these drunken mobs to get information relative to the conduct of colored men. “Without multiplying words, I wish to say that hell is an improve ment upon the United States when the negro is involved. If a little igno¬ rant and stupid whlto man, who was never heard of and never would be heard of until ten thousand years after the resurrection trump, wishes a little notoriety, he begins to belle and slander the negro and bounds into popularity. And I challenge any one or all of them to meet me In pub- lie discussion and 1 will show that the negro is a far better man than they are.” CASH FOR FISH HATCHERIES. Two Carollnas and Georgia on the Ao- propriation List. The house committee on merchant marine and fisheries decided Thurs¬ day to report favorably on a bill ap¬ propriating $60,000 for a biological sta tion on the Gulf of Mexico. Bills for fish hatcheries were agreed to as fol¬ lows: South Carolina, $25,000; North Carolina, $25,000. An appropriation of $2,000 was also agreed upon for the buying of addi¬ tional land at the fish hatcheries at Bullockville, Ga. AID COTTON ASSOCIATION. la Urgent Advice of the Wilmington Chamber of commerce. Supplementing tho efforts of tu« Southern Cotton Association, the Wil mlngton, N. C., chamber or commerce has adopted resolutions urging con certed action by trades bodies all over the country looking to a reduc¬ tion of acreage for the next cotton crop not loss than 10 per cent from lest year’s crop. PROBE FOR TOBACCO TRUST. Kentucky Representative Wants Low Prices Investigated. Aep-esentat.ive Trimble of Kentucky introduced a resolution In the house Thursday requesting the secretary of commerce and labor to investigate the low price of leaf tobucco nnd to ascer¬ tain whether it is caused by a “com¬ bination in the form of u trust or otherwise, or conspiracy In restraint of trade and commerce amongv, the several state» or with foreign coun¬ tries.” \ B | L |_ FOR SUBSIDIES Passed in Senate by Almost a Strictly Party Vote. SIX NEW MAIL LINES Are Given to Gulf Ports, While the Measure Provides for Estab tablishment of Thirteen New Contract Lines. At 3 f&W minutes nfter 6 o'clock Wednesday evening the senate cast Its final ballot on the subsidy shipping bill, which was passed by a vote or 38 to 27. All the votes for the bill were by republican senators, and five republican senators voted with the demoncrats in opposition,viz., Burkett, Dolliver, I.aFollette, Spooner and War- nor. preceded Tho vote cn the bill was by action on a number of amendments and this by an entire day of debate. Many important amendments were accepted, but only in one case was a modification agreed to that, was not in accordance with the wishes of man¬ ngors or tho bill. The exception was nil amendment offered by Mr. Spoon- er, eliminating the provision giving half pay to members of the nnval re serve who have served less than six months. As passed, the hill establishes thir- teon now contract mail lines, and ln- creases the subvention to tho Oceanic line running from the Paetfie crest to Australasia. Of the new lines three leave Atlantic const ports, one run¬ ning to Brazil, one to Uruguay and Argentina, and one to South Africa. Six from ports on the gulf of Mexico, embracing one to Rrazil, one to Cuba, one to Mexico and three to Central America and to the Isthmus of Pan- am a; four from Pacific coast ports, embracing two to Japan, China, Phfi- Ipplncs direct, one to Japan, China and the Philippines via Hawaii and one to Mexico, Central America and Pan- atna. The bill also grants a subvention at the rate of $5 per gross ton per year to cprgo vessels engaged in the for¬ eign trade of the United States, and at flic rate cf $5 50 per ton t" ves¬ sels engaged in the Phll'npine trade, the Philippine coastwise lav/ being postponed until 1909. Another feature cf the hill is that creating a nnval reserve of 10,000 officers and men who are to recofre retainers after tho British practice. Vessels receiving subsidies are re¬ quired to carry a certain proportion of naval reserve men among their crows. The aggregating compensa- tion for mail lines is about $3,000,- 000 annually, (No feteom vessel of less than 1,000 tons is to receive aid under the bill. When the shipping bill was dis¬ posed of (be statehood bill was made the unfinished business. GILLETTE CAUSED SEN8ATION. Swore on Witness Stand That Carter’s Friends Ostracized Him. Major Cassius E. Gillette's testi¬ mony was concluded at Savannah Wednesday, and the Greene and Gay- nor trial moved on to other witnesses, not, however, before the session had proven (he most interesting and dra¬ matic that has yet been held. In the cross-examination of Major 'Gillette by Mr. Osborne, for the de¬ fense, a sensation was created when tho witness plunged int oa revela¬ tion of I lie difficulties he had encoun¬ tered in Savannah because of the prosecution of iCaptain OJjerlln M. Carter. He and ills family, he inti¬ mated, had been received but. coldly and there was a practical ostiv.c in from that society in which Carter had long been a favorite. The most dramatic feature of his evidence developed, however, when he quoted a conversation he had bad with Mr. Osborne, the attorney cross-ex¬ amining him, in which tile latter had told him that the animosity developed against him because of rlils attitude toward Carter, “for brazen effrontery, was without parallel in tho history of crime.” « BIG BUILDING IS WRECKED. Largest Structure in Augusta, Ga., Nearly Destroyed by Fire. A fire In tho Leonard building, the largest office structure in Augusta, Ga., threatened the principal business block of the city Friday afternoon. The building was badly wrecked, but not destroyed. The contents of near¬ ly all of the offices were destroyed by fire or ruined by water. The loss is estimated at $50,000, in¬ sured to the extent of 76 per cent. The building was one erected follow¬ ing a $1,000,000 fire a few years ago. AUNT CARRIE AGAIN JAILED. Afterwards Released in Order That She Might Deliver Lecture. Carrie Nation appeared at a bar room in Hot Springs, Ark., Wednes¬ day, ami began lecturing the crowd. She charged was with ejected and lodged in peace! jail* disturbing the S-ater she was released in order to fulfill her lecture engagement.