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CARNESVILLE ADVANCE.
VOLUME V.
COLOMBIA WARNED
Pigmy Republic Considers
Americans as Prey.
BAD TREATMENT COMMON
Property Belonging to Subjects of
Uncle Sam Frequently Seized by
Government Officials on
Slightest Pretext.
A Washington special says: • The
diplomatic exchan ges between the Uni¬
ted States legation at Bogota and the
state department In Washington, which
will appear in tho forthcoming volume
of foreign relations, discloses that nu¬
merous complaints were made hy
American citizens during the revolu¬
tion in Columbia of the action of ralii
tary authorities of that government in
ex-appropriating tneir mules and other
Mr. Beauprie, the American charge
at Bogota, in tho absence of Minister
Mart, writing to the state department
concerning the rights of citizens of the
United States as to the ex-appropria¬
tion of property, ci‘,ed a case thsi
eame under his personal OD3ervafcion.
An American citizen who had dined
with him found upon going to look af¬
ter two animals he had purchased
that the saddles and bridles had been
taken by a government official, win
had left a receipt fixing the value of
the articles taken at 1,000 pesos, while
it was estimated that the American
citizen would be obliged to pay 5,000
pesos to duplicate his lost articles.
Speaking of thi3, ease, Mr. Boauprje
said:
‘‘There are a dozen stores in Bogota
selling the saddles, and hundreds of
saddles for sale,” and the>f ashed
"Whence the urgent, immediate and
pressing emergency?" that would jus¬
tify the forcible ex-appropriation of
the saddles, etc., from the American.
"Certainly under the system of aroi-
trarily fixing the value of suoh prop¬
erty, it is much cheaper to get it this
way and tho day of payment is indefin
ttely postponed, but I cannot believe il
consistent with the guaranties of puli
He treaty or the laws of nations. It
is altogether probable that in the ma
jorty of case3 the regulations for ap¬
propriation are no more valid nor jur.'
than these in the case just cited.”
Assistant Secretary Mil, in a com-
municatlor. to the United States lega
tion at Bogota, said among other
things:
“The declaration of the minister of
war that all foreigners should be
^^deomed ' regarded public gratuitously enemies cannot but be
as offensive anJ
this government must, remonstrate
against such characterization of its
Citizens availing tl i selves of their
conventional rights of visit end so¬
journ in Colombia. It should have
been made the occasion of instant and
vigorous protest.”
The attitude of this government 10
ward the seizure by Colombia of prop
erty of Americans for military pur¬
poses is shown by the following in¬
struction sent by Dr. Hill, as acting
secretary of state, to the American le¬
gation at Bogota:
"You will notify the Colombian gov
ernment that this government wHl hold
It responsible for any proven cases of
seizure of American property for mili¬
tary purposes without due compensa¬
tion.”
Among the other subjeots of the dip¬
lomatic exchanges between Washing
ton and Bogota contained in this vol¬
ume are the seizure of vessels and al¬
leged discrimination against American
enterprise in Colombia, tho reopening
of United States schools at Baranqull-
la, Medillen and Bogota closedMiy the
Colombian authorities, .and the ques¬
tion of neutrality of aliens.
RUSSIAN JAILS ARE CROWDED.
Two Thousand Persons Arrested in St.
Petersburg District.
A dispatch from St. Petersburg .says
serious disturbances took place in va¬
rious districts of St. Petersburg
Thursday night and nearly 2,000 per¬
sons who were not provided with pass¬
ports, as required by the law, were ar¬
rested.
PRESIDENT IN RETIREMENT.
Reaches Yellowsto e Park and Is
Buried from the World. *
A special from Livingston, Montana,
pays: President Roosevelt entered the
(Yellowstone Park Wednesday after¬
noon and *for the next 'sixteen days
the outside world will .know very lit¬
tle of his dofngs.
Accompanied by John Burroughs
and a detachment of cavalry, he plung
ed into the park for what he hopes be
two weeks of rest. ^The remainder of
tile party will live on the train at Cin¬
nabar, three miles from Gardner,
which is the entrance to the park.
ADLAI LOSES MOUSTACHE.
4r
Former Vice. President Burned While
Fighting Incipient Blaze.
In endeavoring to extinguish a fire
Wednesday at ^’s residence in Bloomington, III..
afternoon, former Vice
President A. e. Stevenson was seri¬
ously burned about the head, face and
hands, losing his hair and moustache
A curtain caught fire from a gas jet
READY F0RJNSPECTI0N.
Militia Companies In Southern States
Await the Coming of Specially De-
tailed Army Officers.
The Atlanta Constitution’s Washing¬
ton correspondent wires the following
to his paper: •
The condition of the militia in the
different southern states Is shown by
the preliminary reports made to the
Wax department in response to the
questions sent out for the purpose of
securing information to form as a ba¬
sis for the inspection or muster of the
militia soon to be made.
Colonel Parker, of the adjutant gen¬
eral’s office, who has charge of the
new militia division, has given me the
opportunity of looking over the record
of replies from the southern states,
These show that the militia in all of
the southern states is ready for imme-
diate inspection, or what is tho same
thing, Inspection upSn ten days’ notice.
The appointment of inspectors is made
by the different department command-
ers. Most of the southern states are
in the department of the east, and the
assignments will, therefore, be made
by General
The records show that in
there are 108 companies of the stat3
troops distributed at 4S stations.
In Alabama the total number of sep¬
arate organizations is not given, but
the adjutant general states that, ac¬
cording to his idea, tne inspection
should begin with the Montgomery
companies, to be followed by the com¬
panies at Mobile, and adds that out¬
side of Mobile and Montgomery there
are thirty other towns in Alabama at
which militia companies are located.
The adjutant general of Florida
states that there are companies at
thirteen towns and cities in that state.
The militia is soon to be reorganized
under the new law and he prefers that
the Inspection be made in August.
South Carolina has 46 companies
stationod at 35 different places.
Tennosseo has 25 organizations at
12 places. The new adjutant general
of that state his written that he pre-
tors that , the Inspection of Tennessee
troops be deferred until May or Juno
because he has just assumed office.
Virginia, 35 organizations at 22 sta¬
tions. ,
Mississippi, 31 companies at 28 sta¬
tions.
Louisiaaa, 25 companies at 10 sta¬
tions.
Texas, 62 companies at 47 stations.
The only southern state from which
there has been no report is Arkansas.
HUNDRED M0R0S SLAIN.
American Trcops in Philippines Knock
Out Another Rebel Band in '
Mindanao island.
A special from Manila says: Cap¬
tain Pershing’s force captured Baco-
lod, Island of Mindanao, Wednesday,
killed a hundred M?ros and wounded
many others. Three Americans were
wounded.
Pershing’s forces consisted of Shaw's
battalion of the. 27th infantry, Kilpat¬
rick of the 15th Cavalry and Chacaucis
battery.
Pershing was surveying the West
Sohe lands when the Bacolodians op¬
posed his advance and provoked the
fight. Pershing surrounded and at¬
tacked their stronghold, first shelling
them and rushing his troops forward
charging ga^antly. After crossing the
deep moat and entering the fort, the
Americans engaged the Mores’ bayo¬
A hundred of the defenders were
killed, including the datto of Panan-
dungan and many were wounded.
After the capture of the fort it was
destroyed. K
The Bacolod leaders and a majority
of the people of that district had been
hostile to the Americans and encour¬
aged attacks on American camps.
They rejected the tenders of friend¬
ship.
It is expected that the defeat of
Bacolodians will result in ail the Mo-
ros acknowledging American sover-
eignty.
Senate Passes St. Louis Fair Bill.
The Tennessee senate Friday after¬
noon passed the house bill appropriat¬
ing $40,000 for a Tennessee exhibit at
the Louisiana Purchase exposition at
St. Louis. The bill now goes to the
governor for his approval.
PROBING ALLEGED MERGER.
Interstate Commission Investigates
Deal Between Two Great Railroads.
The interstate commerce commis¬
sion met in New York Friday to inves¬
tigate the turning over of the Louis¬
ville and Nashville railroad control to
the Atlantic Coast Line.
Noted Manufacturer Dead.
N. K. Fairbanks, millionaire manu¬
facturer and director in several banks
ind manufacturing concerns, died at
els home in CHicago Friday morning,
-ged 73.
NEGRO TEACHERS MEET.
State Association at Montgomery Ad
dressed by Professor Council.
The State Teachers’ Association of
negroes of Alabama met in Montgom-
ery Thursday night with a large at**
tendance. Professor W. H. Council.
of the State Normal institute, made
the opening address. His speech was
along the line of negro development.
It was a masterly’ applaude'd. speech and be was
frequently
CARNESVILLE. GA.. FRIDAY. IT. 1903.
A OEADLY CYCLONE
Cuts Swath Through-Sections
of Alabama and Arkansas.
, REPORTED ^
SCORE DEAD.
Twelve Victims in Alabama and Nine
in Arkansas—Frightful Work
of Destruction on All
Sides.
Without a word of warning the little
°*- Hopewell, Ala., 40 miles
north of Birmingham and about a
mji e from Hancovillc, was s#ept away
ear ] y Wednesday morning by a cy-
clone , which . , . cut , a path .. of . deSOlatl , , .. ° „ n
a m il e wide and two miles long across
a prosperous fanning section of
Blount county. Twelve persons were
instantly killed, three or four fatally
injured and a score of others serious¬
ly hurt. Those killed outright were:
Mr. and Mrs. Mason Griffin, James
Griffin, Henry McCoy, Frederick Mc¬
Coy,- Miss Birdie >McCoy, C. C. Oden,
prominent planter;'Miss Norma Oden,
Hester Oden, Miss Thelma Oden, Mrs.
C. C. Oden, Miss Griffin.
Among the large’number of injured
it is believed several will die.
The storm came from the south¬
west and traversed its destructive
in a northeasterly •• direction,
tearing everything in its way.
The section through which it went
is flat, on, an elevated tableland in
the hilly section of Blount . county.
There was not the slightest intimation
of its approach until the houses were
being torn to*‘pieces.
, Killed in a Twinkling.
One of the first houses visited was
that of Nathan Griffin, The house
was demolished and Mr. Griffin and
his son, James, were killed in the
twinkling of an eye. Mrs. Griffin
was so badly Injured that she died
within a short time. The son and
niece of Mrs. Griffin made a miracu-
lous escape, running from the house
before the demolition was complete,
and saving their lives. They were in¬
jured, but will recover.
The house of John McCoy iyas next
wrecked, but he and his family es¬
caped with severe bruises. The lious/i
wa3
The house of Mr. Henry McCoy, son
of Mr. John McCoy, received
worst impact of the storm. His
was severely injured; two of-his chil¬
dren were knocked unconscious and
may die, and he and his babe and two
other children were soon- among the
dead.
Dead Father Clasped 2aby.
He was still clasping his baby in hi3
arms when his body was found close
to the house. Evidently he had made
an effort to get out of the house, car¬
rying tho children with him. The
bodies are terribly disfigured, where
flying planks struck them.
The storm then took an easterly di¬
rection and struck the house of Mr.
C. C. Oden. Mr. Oden was killed
outright and so were his,three daugh¬
ters, 15, 12 and 9 ?ears, respectively.
Mrs. Oden received injuries from
which she died latier on.
Deadly Work in Arkansas.
Specials frorv several towns in
White and Cleburne-fioanties, Arkan¬
sas, tell of a cyclone which swept
through that section Tuesday night-
leaving death and destruction in its
wjike. The major portion of the
country through which the storm
plowed its way is remote from rail¬
roads, telegraph or telephone lines.
Thus far it has been impossible to
ascertain where the storm began, but
it is known that it raged in those two
counties and tho list of casualties will,
from indications, mount much higher
than it now is, with nine dead, three
dying and thirteen others badly injur¬
ed. The towns of Little Red, Albion,
Bradford, Heber and Fangburn have
been heard from thus far.
The dead are: Jim Leggett, Joe
Leggett and Tom King and wife and
three King children, Little Red; young
lady school teacher, who was boarding
at King’s; A. C. Williams, near Heber.
BOLL WEVIL IN CUBA.
Enemy of Cotton Exists Plentifully
Throughout the Island.
E. A. Schwarz has just returned to
Washington from Cuba, where he wem.
for- the department of agriculture to
make an investigation ot t e on -
iands and of the depredations of the
cotton boll wevil. Tne especial pur¬
pose of his visit was the desire to find,
if possible, some parasite which will
this pest so fatal to cotton. He
to find any such parasite. He
instead that the wevil exists
generally throughout Cuba and
the cotton possibilities of the is¬
are, naturally,>very much Injured
BIG STRIKE FOR MAY DAY.
All Structural Iron Workers Mr/ Be
Involved in General Tie-Up.
Labor leaders report that the execu¬ j
tive board of the -structural iron work¬
ers decided recently to order a strike
of the structural iron workers on May
p’any 1, unless the American Bridge CoTn-
had not by that time acceded to
demands of their striking em
ployes. Nine thousand men will prob¬
ably be involved.
Cream of
Brief Summary of Most
.. Important Everjt3
of Each Day.
—Colonel John E. McGowan, editor
of The Chattanooga Times, died in
Chattanooga Sunday.
—Although South Carolina laws al¬
low no divorce a Charleston’ woman
ha3 been granted alimony.
—If the alleged safe robbers now onf
trial at Charleston are acquitted by
tho federal court tne state will at once
proceed against them. •
—The Manr. liquor hill recently en-
acvted in Virginia is expected to do-
ctoase the number of saloons, in the
state and at the same time increase
the liquor revenues.
—‘Nothing was heard from President
Roosevelt Sunday. Wires in Yellow¬
stone park are down.
—Cloudburst at Henryville, Ind.,
Sunday did great damage. Two lives
lost by the sw.elling of streams.
—Two persons burned to death and
several others badly injured by the
burning of a residence at Indianapolis,
Ind., Sunday.
—President John Skelton Williams,
of tho Seaboard Air Line railway,
thinks the decision In Northern Securi¬
ties Company case will prove a great
blessing.
—Gustave Meineicke, connected
with various German newspapers, Is
dead. i
—Big improvements will be made
at once in the service of the Standard
telephone in Atlanta, Ga. A new $40,r
000 switch board will be installed.
—Georgia saw mills prepare to fight
increase in lumber freight rates to the
west. Action will be brought at once
tn the circuit court of the United
States.
elected —I£d A. Isaacs, of Macon, was
president of tho Georgia di¬
vision of the Travelers’ Protective As¬
sociation.
—Miss Julia Rose, of Valdosta, Ga.,
has left for Sitka, where she is to weri
a man she has never seen. The 9,000
mile journey was arranged through
a matrimonial advertisement.
—Whri* swimming in the St. Johns
river, Florida, Friday, a boy 18 years
old. and a girl of 20 were drowned.
—It is rumord in Norfolk that Vice-
President J. M. Barr, of the Seaboard,
has been offered "50,000.a year by the
Southern.
—The Mississippi senatorial cam¬
paign wa£ opened at Columbus Friday,
Senator Money and Governor Longino
meeting in their nrst joint debate.
—The oxplosion of the 12-inch gun
on the Iowa was caused' oy a defec¬
tive fuse. The battleship was so badly
damaged that she will go out of com¬
mission.
—The flood situation in the
iana district shows no
About $200,000 has been sunk in a
effort to close the Hymelia crevasse.
,
-—The records at Ellis island
that ■ more immigrants entered
United States in the first, week of
than in any similar period in history.
—Army officers who are
of the Metropolitan Club of
ton, which recently rejected
Corbin, are so indignant that
threaten to leave in a body.
—The Pennell inquest was ended
Buffalo, N. Y., Friday. A statement
made by Pennell just before his death
was read in which he said his
with Mrs. Pennell were platonic.
—Assistant Attorney General Beck,
who represented the government in
the anti-merger proceedings, says htat
the decision means that “holding com¬
panies” and "community of interest”
plans are unlawful.
—The leaders of the Holland strik¬
ers have ordered the men to return to
work, but the strikers refuse to obey,
—The American minister at Bogoi,a
claims that the Colombian governfnent
has lieen seizing the property of cit¬
izens of the United States.
—Vice President Barr, of the Sea-
board Air Lino, is expected to stfPfood
Vice President Unlay, of the Southern,
when the latter succeeds Samuel Spen
cer.
•—The Amfcrican force under Cap¬
tain Pershing has defeated the Moron.
One hundred of the latter were kjled.
“*^The United States warship At¬
lanta prevented tho bombardment of
San Domingo by -the ilominican war-
ship Presidente.
_ The first work of c]earlng the way
for the new p assen ger station at AL-
] an ^ a was started Friday,
—Dr. C. W. Byrd, pa'stor of the First
Methodist church of.Atlanta, declines
tho presidency of the Wesleyan Fe¬
male college at Macon. ,
—Three men were killed and five
injured by the explosion of a 12-ineh
gun on the Iowa off Pensacola Thurs¬
day. ’ ,
—Leila Tiller, a 14-year-old girl, of
Camden, S. C., killed herself by taking
strychnine because she had been pun-
j S hed by her father.
—Late reports from tho Alabama cy-
clone add three more names to the
list of victims.
—Following an old custom Emperc-
Francis Joseph washed the feet of
twelve aged men.
—Major Howze, accused of whipping
Filipinos ’ to death, has arrived at
Washington and demanded an inquiry.
BLOW DEALT TRUST
Gigantic Railroad Merger is
Declared to be Illegal.
GOVERNMENT WINS.'CASE
Northern Securities Company- Is En¬
joined from Voting the Stock
of Northern Pacific and
Vice-Versa. *
The position, of, the United States
government in the suit brought
against tile Northern'Securities Com-
pany, the Northern Pacific, the Great
Northern railways, and individual offi¬
cials and directors of those companies,
was sustained in tho decision handed
down in the United States circuit court
of appeals in St. Paul, Minn., Thtirs-
dav
Tho case was originally brought in
the United States district court in the
same city, but under a special act of
congress was taken at once to the
court of appeals, which court was to
expedite the hearing and defision of
the case in every manner possible.
The taking of testimony in St. Paul
and In New York lasted for several
weeks and the arguments In St. Louis
before Circuit Judges Caldwell, San¬
born, Thayer and Van Deventer took
sev. £r&l days. The decision of the
court was written by Judge Thayer,
and was filed In St. Pmil, where the
original action was Instlfu ted. An ap-
peal to the United States supreme
court will be taken Immediately. AH
four judges concurred In the conclu¬
sions of the court, which were stated
by Circuit Judge Thayer.
Tho court holds that “the scheme”
which was devised and consummated
led inevitably to the following results:
“1. It placed the control of the two
roads In the hands of a single person,
to-wit, the Securities company, by vir¬
tue of Its ownership of a large major¬
ity. of .th,e .stock of both companies.
2. It destroyed every motive for com¬
petition between two roads engaged
In interstate traffic, which were natur¬
al competitors- for business, by pooling
the earnings of the two roads for the
common benefit of the stockholders of
both companies; and, according to the
familiar rule, that every one is pre¬
sumed to intend what is the necessary
consequence of his own acts, when
done wilfully and deliberately, we
must conclude that those who conceiv¬
ed and oxecuted the plan aforesaid, in¬
tended, among other things, to accom¬
plish these ^bjects.”
Displeases Magnate Morgan.
According to a Now York special,
J. Pierpont Morgan is credited with
the following Expressions in regard to
the decision:
“Until I see the full text of the de¬
cision I should not care to express an
opinion on it. This much is certain,
however, it will not rest where it is.
“The question of the right of two or
more railroads to be operated by a
holding company will be taken to tho
United States supreme court at Wash¬
ington. Instead of looking upon tho
decision of the court today ns a blow
to railroad enterprise, I should say
that the reverse is the vase. Capital
all over the country-Is anxious to know
its rights in the matter of railroad con¬
struction and operation. Railroal
men want to know where they stand.
"The decision today is just one step
closer to a decision from the United
States supreme court, which will be
final, for even if the Northern Securi¬
ties had won today, the government’s
attorney would probably have ap
pealed.
“The question was of such impor¬
tance that an appeal was assured, no
matter who won. These facts are plain.
Both railroads held by the Northern
Securities Company still exist and are
doing a good business.
“When railroad men know exactly
the law is to be interpreted, they
will probably find good way to see that
are operated economically
and profitably.”
!
Three Cremated In Philadelphia.
Three persons met death in a Phila¬
delphia tenement house fire Thursday,
anil two others were severely but not
fatally burned.
FAULTY FUSE CAUSED HORROR.
Explosion of Gun on Battleship Inves¬
tigated—Victims Laid- to Rest.
An investigation of the explosion on
the battle ship Iowa, which occurred
off Pensacola, resulting in the death of
three and the serious injury of five
others, shovis tlAt this accident was
caused entirely by a defective shell
which, it is stated, burned faster
than was calculated. It .is understood
that the shell exploded fully sixty sec
onds before it was timed to go off.
The funeral of the three men who
were killed in tho accident took place
Saturday. The dead were Duried in
the national cemetery in Pensacola,
WORK ON LEVEE UNDONE.
Mended Crevasse at Hymelia Falls to
Stand the Great Strain.
A New Orleans special says: With
the blowing of forty feet of cribbing
at the Hymelia crevasse Wednesday
the situation there has again become
serious and fears are expressed that
unless the damage can be immediate¬
ly repaired other portions of the 3,000
of work will be .endangered by
the strain placed upon it.
MOTHER ANDCHILDSLAIN
Most Brutal and Mysterious
Crime erpetrated In. Heart of
Shreveport, Louisiana.
At Shreveport, La., early Saturday
morning, Mrs. Alino . Matthews, aged
45 years, wife of Frank Matthews, a
well-known civil engineer, was bru¬
tally murdered in nor bed by a negro',
who it is believed outraged his victim
before slaying her. The woman’s lit¬
tle daughter. Aline, age’d JO, was fa¬
tally wounded. Art ax wale cakes; tho instru¬
ment employed In both
Ed Porter, a negro strongly suspect¬
ed of tho crime, wits shot to death by
two police sergeants while attempting
to escape. He had been run down at a
point about five miles from Shreve¬
port.
The discovery of the crime was
made at 5:30 o’clock Saturday morn¬
ing by a servant, who entered the bed
room of Mrs. Matthews. The unfor¬
tunate woman, who was almost hacked
to .pieces,''had been dead for some
time. Her daughter was still alive
when tho servant entered. Entrance
was effected through a side window,
and although thero were fifteen per¬
sons in tho house, which is situated In
the very heart of the residence district
of Shreveport, no one heard a singl3
suspicious sound during the night.
The skull of Mrs. Matthews was
crushed and she bore evidence of hav¬
ing been criminally assaulted. The
child’s skull was fractured, her chest
crushed and shoulder lacerated.
Mrs. Matthews wore a diamond ring
and diamond earrings, which were not
touched by the murderer and three
pocketbooks containing money were in
the room, showing that criminal as¬
sault furnished the motive for the
crime.' An ax covered with blood aiA
hair was found in the kitchen;
1
ATLANTA BANKS AMALGAMATE.
Institution Robbed bjr Hallman Sims
Merges With Atlanta National.
The Capital City Natiopal, bank, of
Atlanta,' has am'algamatbd with the
Atlanta National bank. The transac¬
tion was consummated Saturday night
at 11:30 o’clock and when the
instit-ut^ns e’clock Monday wf the morning city opened at 0
those who
nad deposits in the Capital City .found
themselves doing business with the
Atlanta National.
Arrangements for the trade had
been in progress for several days, but
‘.he matter was kept so thoroughly se¬
cret that the announcement occasion¬
ed the greatest surprise.
After the defalcation of Hallman
Sims, tho collection clerk of the Capi¬
tal City bank, who secured nearly
$100,000, the stockholders of the bank
were approached in regard to an amal¬
gamation.
At first this was not considered, but
the matter was fully discussed. Tho
concensus of opinion was that while
the shock of the shortage would have
uo immediate effect—would not irjure
(he bank in the slightest—yet it might
impede its growth, keeping it back for
some time from the rapidly increasing
progress its officers have developed.
The stockholders of the Capital City
bank will receive 120 for their stock.
TRAGIC EASTER IN BUFFALO,
Doubly Fatal Shooting Affray and a
Round of Suicides Enliven the Day.
A shooting affray, in which a 9-year-
Dld boy was killed and a woman mor¬
tally ’wounded, a murder, a suicide,
and two attempts at suicide that may
result fatally, occurred in Buffalo, N.
Y., Sunday night.
Joseph Kwaitoskski, 51 years old, a
respected Polish citizen, is locked up
at police headquarters, accused with
shooting his landlady and killing his
own 9-year-old boy.
' George Denning, another citizen, ha-1
been separated from his wife. Sun¬
day ho tried to induce her to resume
marital relation^. She refused and
he shot at her. She fell in a‘‘faint,
anil believing he. had killed her, Den¬
suicide.
Miss Marie Beers, 20 years old, com¬
mitted suicide during the day.
Bertha Vaughan, 23 years old, swal¬
lowed a dose of vitriol. Her condition
is seripus.
Miss Blanche Murphy, after a quar¬
rel with an unknown man, swallowed a
quantity of laudanum and may die.
VISITED BANK THIEF’S FARM.
Directors Making Determined Efforts
to Reduce Sims’ Shortage.
A committee of tire directors of the
Capital City National bank, of Atlanta,
went to Richlands Farms, in Greene
county, Friday to investigate tho prop¬
erty into which G. H. Sims, the default¬
ing-clerk, has been putting the bank’s
money.
So far the bank has not succeeded in
getting hold of any further assets of
Sims, but is still at work on this line
and has expectations of reducing the
shortage to a still greater extent.
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-MUST HAVE SEPARATE SCHOOLS.
Kansas Supreme Court Decides an Im¬
portant Race Question,
The supreme court of Kansas, Satui-
day, decided that the Topeka board of
education can maintain separate
schools for white and negro children
and can compel the negro children to
attend the negro schools. A colored
man hail taken his son to the white
school and the pupil was refused at-
mittance. •
NUMBER 22.
MERGER DECISION
The All-Absorbing Topic of
Discussion Just Nov/.
WILLIAMS GIVES VIEWS
Speculation on Effects of Ultimate Ac¬
tion of High Court is Indulged
in By Politicians in
Washington,
Tho decision of tho United States
circuit court of appeals in the North¬
ern Securities Company case, Mr.
John Skelton Williams, president of
the Seaboard Air Line railway system,
says ho regards as one of the greatest
blessings and the brightest promises
for railroad interests and general busi¬
ness that the country could have. In
an Interview Sunday, with a represen¬
tative of tho Associated Press, when
asked his opinion of the decision, Mr.
Williams said:
“I am satisfied that when they
come to study the matter carefully
railroad men and thinking men of all
classes, not only in the south, but In
tho country generally, except those
whose ambitious schemes are directly
hindered, will he united in thefeeling
that the decision is sound la\v, good
sense, and for the advantage of all
legitimate interests anij for the coun¬
it try’s welfare. From a legal standpoint
accords with tho opinions of many
of the ablest lawyers of the country,
and it seems to bo fortified with au¬
thorities and reasoning too strong to
be shaken.
-‘‘I have no fear that the supremo
court will reverse or seriously modify
it.* Public policy, public sentiment and
established principles and precedents
.of law combine to sustain the circuit
court. From a commercial and practi¬
cal railroad standpoint the soundness
of the court’s position is indisputable.
It’ voices the judgment of probably
nine-tenths of the most conservative
business men of the country. Last No¬
vember, In New Orleans, in an address
before the trust company section of
the American Bankers’ Association, I
took the ground that there must be a
check to the processes of merger and
combination. I found my position was
heartily approved by most of my hear¬
ers and by the public generally, if I
may judge from press comments, and 1
am satisfied the country at large will
welcome the court’s action.”
Discussed in Washington.
•A Washington special says: The
possible effects, politically, of the
merger decision which has created
such a stir in the industrial world are
'being discussed very prominently by
politicians of both parties in Wash¬
ington. While nobody will be satisfied
until the principles Involved in this
case are passed upon by the supreme
court of thd United States, there is a
general disposition to believe that the
action of the circuit court of appeals
may be taken as fairly indicative of
the final decision of tho highest court
The first credit for the success of
the case brought by the government is
v?iven, by those who understand the
history oi tho proceedings, to Attor¬
ney General Knox--and that is where
It. belongs. While President Roose¬
velt was preaching the necessity of an
amendment to the constitution in oi¬
lier to pave the way for legislation
which would recognize the ‘ new rela¬
tionship between capital and the gov¬
ernment,” wmch he was proclaiming
'n his speeches, Attorney General
Knox took the position that the laws
upon the statute books were sufficient
to cure some of the most flagrant
evils which had grown up as a part of
the’trust system, and that the fault in
the past had been largely due to lack
of aggressiveness on the part of the
officials of the department of justice,
in his speech at Pittsburg, Attorney
General Knox took this position and
his prosecution of the case against the
Northern Securities Company was in
line with his declaration in that
speech. It is well known that Presi¬
dent Roosevelt had no part whatsoever
In shaping this case until after Attor¬
ney General Knox had drawn his bills
and had made his case complete.
The credit for the success of tho
government’s case belongs, therefore,
lo tho attorney general,
BYRD DECLINES PRESIDENCY.
Atlanta Divine Will Not Be at Head of
Wesleyan; Female College.
Dr. C. W. Byrd, pastor of the First
Methodist churjli, Atlanta, Ga., who
was tendered tho presidency of Wes¬
leyan Female college, at Macon, had
written to Dr. J. W. Roberts, who hi
now president of the college, and to
the president of the board of trustees,
declining to accept the offer.
Dr. Byrd was tendered the presiden¬
cy without any knowledge on his part
that the trustees had him under con-
sideration.
RAILROAD SMASH-UP IN CANADA.
In Head-On Collision Four People
Were Killed and Two Falaliy Hurt.
Four persons dead, two fatally hurt,
at least one missing and several others
slightly injured, is the record of a .
head-on collision on the Inter-Colonial
railway, which occurred just before
midnight Sunday night near Windsor
Junction, 17 miles from Halifax.