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THE NEWS Established 187I
White Goods Day
WHITE SWISS—The Much-Sought-After Kind.
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65c. Embroidered Swiss. 39c.
35c. Swiss, Fine Sheer Quality, 29c.
35c. Fine Dotted Swiss, 25c.
------ -- - ..... AH Regular 25c. White Waistings, I9c.
-White Poplins for Suits, the prettiest cloths of the season, 15c]
Today
We Sell Dress Lawns Again, 10 yards 39c.
New shipment Round Thread and Val Laces.
First Showing Monday.
STRICKLAND-CROUCHCO
Save
Your
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Money
You will find our prfces on high grade
Furniture to be as low as is consistent with high
grade goods. We have a splendid showing of up-
to-date furniture and our prices are low.
Some of the goods just received:
Nice Bed Room Suits,
Side Boards,
^ Buffets,
Chifferobes,
Lounges and
Davenports.
You should see these, as they are all new and
of the latest design.
(FORMERLY BLAKELY l ELLIS}
IT TAKES TWO
To make a bargain, You know that’s so and that once upon
a time you trembled, thinking perhaps the other party would
not think as you did. and no bargain would be made. \ Now,
wehave good values in GOLD, SILVER, CUT GLASS and
FINE CHINA and wish you to get a benefit. The way to
do thisjis to oqme and make WYNNE, some purchases. We will please
you. T. H. 106 North Hill Street,
GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 13, 1906
PLAIN DICK RUSSELL BUSY
CARRYING COWETA YES
Henola, Ga., June It.—[Special.]—
Judge R. B. Russeli spake here to a
large crowd this afternoon, farmers
coming in from all directions and
merchants turning out en masse,
despite the rain, which rather increased
than diminished the crowd, as no out
door work coul^ be done. He was ac¬
companied by a delegation of leading
citizens of Newnan, Including Ex-
Mayor John Anderson, Col. James E.
Brown and others, and also by the
Fifth Regiment band of Atlanta,
which played at the two meetings he
addressed in Newnan and suburbs
today, where large crowds were also in
attendance.
This completes the two days tour of
the county, during which he spoke in
Youthftil Murderer Electrocuted
at Midnight.
SLENDER EVIDENCE CONVICTED
But Every Effort to Secure Clemency
for Him Was In Vain—Roosevelt
Wrote Governor Guild Urging Him
to Put Tucker to Death.
Boston, Mas*., June 12.—Charles L.
Tucker was electrocuted at 12:12 a.
m. Tuesday for the murder of Mabel
Page at Weston, March 3, 1904. Tuck¬
er was officially pronounced dead by
the prison doctors at 12:19.
Thrtfe applications of the current
were made.
When Tucker arrived in front of the
death chair he drew from his trous¬
ers’ pocket a brief statement which
he read. The statement was:
“I hope that God will forgive me
for all the wrongs I have ever done in
my past lift. I forgive everybody
who has ever wronged me. I am at
peace with my Master. May God
have mercy on my soul."
In ths Death Chair.
Tucker then sat down In the chair
and after the guards had adjusted
the straps the warden raised his hand
as a signal to the electrician.
After the first application of the elec,
tricity, Dr. Joseph McLaughlin, the
prison surgeon, made an examination
and announced that the pulse was still
beating. After the current had been
applied a second time the surgeon de-
dected a movement of the heart, but
when the current was applied a third
time Tucker was pronounced dead.
This announcement was made at 12:19
o'clock a. m.
The surgeon stated that Tucker
Vas unconscious from the moment the
first shock was sustained.
One effort was made to prolong the
life of Charles L. Tucker, through ex¬
ecutive clemency, but after hearing
the appeal of his clergyman as well
as his counsel, Governor Guild decid¬
ed not to Interfere with the execution
Of the sentence. 1
Sketch of Tucker’s Crime.
One of the Incidents of the day was
a telegram received at the state bouse
by Governor Guild from President
Roosevelt In relation to the Tucker
case, declaring that there should be
no intereference with carrying out ths
sentence.
The electrocution of Charles L.
Tucker marked the final chapter in
the history of the murder of Mabel
Page at her home In Weston, Mass.,
March 31, 1904, and also marked the
close of the most desperate legal bat¬
tle ever waged In Massachusetts for
the life of a convicted murderer.
Mabel Page was murdered at her
home In Weston on March 31, 1904.
Her body was found several hours
later by her aged father. On a near¬
by table was found a note wblcb was
supposed to have Been written by
Miss Page, stating that she had called
to Boston because of Illness of her
brother. It later developed that her
brother, Harold, was not ill and the
handwriting on the note and a postal
card, which was also found in the
house, figured In the trial, the govern¬
ment contending that the hand-writing
bn the postal card and note were iden¬
tical with specimens of Tucker’s hand¬
writing.
The police learned that Charles L.
Tucker, an Auburndale young man of
roving habits, had been seen near the
Page house on the day of the murder.
They found Tucker and on taking
him to sf police station questioned him
but released him. About three weeks
afterward the officers searched Tuck¬
er's home.
Knife Blade Doomed Him.
There, In an old coat, they found a
broken kn’fi blade stained and scar¬
red, the scars indicating that an ef¬
fort had been made to destroy tt by
means of a file. A stick-pin of pe¬
culiar design was also found. It was
soon learned that Mabel Page bad
owned a pin similar to that found In
lucked coat.. This, together jrUh
ANNOUNCEMENTS
For Judge of Superior Court.
Jackson, Ga., May 16th, 1906.
To the White Voters ot the Flint Judicia
Circuit:
I am before you for the high and honorable
position of Judge of this circuit, subject to the
result of the Democratic Primary to be held
on the 22nd day of August next for that pur¬
pose. In submitting my name to the people
for this position, I do so with a deep sense ot
its great responsibilities. The experience of
Twenty-Eight years practice of my chosen
profession, the law, has ripened into what I
deem a true conception of the duties of the
office. If you elect me, I assure you that
my best abilities shall be devoted to the fair,
just and speedy administration of the law,
with equal justice to all. I shall go inlo the
office untrammelled by favoritism, with no
friends to reward, and no foes to punish, but
with an earnest purpose to do right by all and
dispatch the affairs of the Courts with thal
rapidity consistent with the most economical
administration possible. I ask your support.
Yours to serve,
Y. A. WRIGHT
Good Investments
Can Be Secured Now
by i Seeing
DAVID J. BAILEY
Real Estate and
i Insurance,
GRIFFIN, GA.
Fourth Congressional District
Meeting. Warm Springs,
Ga., June gth, 1906.
Account of the above occasion the
Southern Railway will sell tickets at
rate of one and one-third fares plus
25 cents for the round trip from Mc¬
Donough, Bremen, Villa Fayetteville, Carrollton,
lasville, West Pointy Rica, Temple, Roug-
Valley and intermediate Columbus, Fort
Tickets to be sold June 8th points.
final limit June 11 th. and 9th,
A Suit tor a Dollar
Cleaned and pressed like new. Re.
member, now is the time to get
them ready for wear. They need
resfanp ng after having been worn
oollars a summer, just us they reed their
restored. Remember, no
body out a tailor ca-i do this We
do all kinds of fiae tailoring. Clothes
called for anl delivered. No. 115
tiolomon street. Phone 188 .
C, N, Rilky, The Ta'lor,
Griffin, Ga.
'ail parte of its large territory, creating
an enthusiasm everywhere that has
spread dismay throughout the ranks
of the opposition and caused well posted
politicians to declare that he now has
the best chance of any of the candi¬
dates to carry the county in .the pri¬
mary.
Judge Russell told your Correspon¬
dent that he had received many let¬
ters from Spalding since his visit there
last week giving assurances of the
hearty support of the writers. He
said also that his tenth child is doing
well, and being told of the suggestion
of the News and Sun that he be called
Peachtree from his residence for the
next four years heartily acquiesced In
It and said he would at once write to
M rs. Russell about it.
tTfe fabt that suing on the knife bTsde
were suspected of being: those of
blood as well as Tucker 1 s act of
breaking the blade In three pieces,
caused his arrest. Indictment for
murder In the first degree followed.
The evidence at the trial was large'ly
ef a circumstantial nature.
Since Tucker's trial and conviction,
Edwin Page, father of the murdered
girl, has died, as has Professor E. S.
Wood, of Harvard university, who was
the expert analytrfst for the prosecu¬
tion.
YELLOW SEVER CASES FOUND
They Came From Colon on Steamer
Whitehall.
New Oreans, June 12.—The fact that
three cases of yellow fever have been
under quarantine for the past ten days
at Ship Island, a government quaran¬
tine station in the gulf of MexlcSj
about midway between the mouth of
the Mississippi river and Mobile, Ala.,
was made public Monday by Dr. C. H.
Irion, president of the Louisiana state
board of health.
The announcement of the yellow fe¬
ver cases was the result of a discus¬
sion between Dr. Irion and Health of¬
ficer Hunter, of Mississippi, over the
fact that they had not been notified
immediately of the fever’s presence.
The cases came from Colon, and were
taken off the steamer Whitehall,
which was bound for Gulfport, Miss.
Ship Island Is a short distance south
of the Mississippi coast, and In charge
of United States murine hospital offi¬
cers, who Immediately notified Sur¬
geon General Wyman, of the United
States public service and marine hos¬
pital service. Dr. Irion commented
upon the circumstances under which
this report wm made.
He announced also that quarantine
orders have been Issued against Celbg,
Honduras, at which port It Is report¬
ed that refugees are gathering to es¬
cape yellow fever, which is said to be
breaking out at several points in Hon¬
duras. He also said that he has re¬
ceived reports that there la yellow fe¬
ver In Havana.
HAULING WATER BY TRAIN LOAD
Heat In Louisiana Causes Distressing
Conditions.
New Orleans, June 12.—Arrange¬
ments to carry drinking water by
train load from New Orleans to
Milneburg, a fishing villaga about 10
miles from here, on Lake Fan-
chartrain, have been made In response
to an appeal from the 200 inhabitants
of that place.
The water famine Is In part due to
the prolonged hot wave from which
New Orleans and vicinity has been
suffering for a weak, although It has
caused no deaths yet.
For three months there has been
little rainfall here and the heat hasten
ed the rapid diminution of the water
supply In cisterns, from which the
drinking water supply both of Milne-
burg and of thousands of families of
the poor In Naw Orleans is taken.
Temperatures have daily risen above
90, with 92 the highest recorded by
the United States weather bureau
Monday. This week for the first time
in the city's history an order goes
into effect to parole prisoners at night
from the cMy Jails.
Forced to Name a Bon for Death.
St. Petersburg, June 12.—A pathet¬
ic story comes to the Associated
Press from Riga, ot the military au¬
thorities compelling a father, s veter¬
an of the Turkish war, to choose be¬
tween his two sons who should be ex¬
ecuted for participation in disarming
s policeman, the authorities being uu
able to identify which brother was
implicated. After the father had reluc¬
tantly selected tha victim and his ex¬
ecution occurred, it was discovered
that the other son was ths real cul¬
prit. The latter was re-arrested tnd
is being tried by court martial
Salvationists to Wad.
Minneapolis, Minn., June 12.—The
engagement of Commander Booth
Tucker, of London, international sec¬
retary of the 8alvat!on Army, to Colo¬
nel Emma Reid, at present in charge
of the Salvation Army forces In Ire¬
land, is announced. The wedding will
taka' place In London. The date has
aiOet bean settled.
mtan Canal When Completed.
It Is stated upon good
that within the next twelve months
or less Atlanta will be connected with
the Qulf of Mexico by a new and
direct route via the Central of Oeor-
« ia -
The Central already has tracks In
operation over the greater portion ot
the distance. Contracts have been
let lor the necessary connecting links,
and work will be pushed with all
possible speed.
The proposed route is from Atlanta
to Newnan; the tracks of the Atlanta
and West Point being used for this
portion of the Journey, from Newnan
Junction to Greenville, Ga., thence
to Columbus, Ga., from Columbus to
Andalusia, Ala., and thence to Pen-
sacola, Fla., and the gulf.
When completed this will be by
for the shortest and quickest
from Atlanta to the gulf. Chatta-
nooga will also be placed in direct
communication with the coast, the
new road connecting with the Chat-
tanooga and Griffin division of the
Central at New nan Junction.
One Thousand Feet of Bridge
Burns Away.
BRIDGE 6'VER ONE MILE LONG
Galveston la Built on an Island In the
Gulf of M ox loo, and a Long Stretch
of Shoal Water Separates City from
the Mainland.
St. Louts, June 12 .—A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Houston, Tex.,
■ays: „ ■.....
About 1,000 feet of the bridge over
a mile long, which connects Galveston
island with the mainland, burned on
Tuesday morning, completely isolating
Galveston from alt connection with the
outside world, except by boat
Galveston la built on an Island in
the Gulf of Mexico, and a long stretch
of shoal water separatee the city from
ths mainland. This water is spanned
by the single, long bridge, which has
been destroyed by fire.
Wife Dead! Vlusband Arrested.
New York, June 12.—Campbell O.
Adair,., infested an Englishman, a bricklayer,
was early Tuesday after his
wife, Agnes, had been killed by a fall
from ths front window, of their home
in the fifth floor of a tenement house
at 229 East One Hundred and Twen¬
ty-seventh street. A man living in
ths house said he was coming home
and just about to enter the front door
on the ground floor when he heard
screams overhead, and looking up, taw
ths body of a woman come whirling
through the air and strike heavily on
the pickets of an iron railing in front
of the house. Smith recognised the
woman as Mrs, Adair, and hurried to
a police station. The woman was
dead when picked up. Two detectives
went up to the Adair apartments and
found, they said, that the bricklayer
had-barricaded himself tn the room.
When they asked him to open the
door his reply was curses and threats.
The detectives then burst down the
door and arrested him. Adair's daugh¬
ter said her father and mother had
quarreled during the night.
Husband ef Murdered Woman Found.
New York, June 12.—Detective Ser¬
geant Samuel Price of the Bronx de¬
tective bureau, announced Monday
night that he has been In communica¬
tion with Richard Klnnan, the hus¬
band of Mrs. Alice Klnnan, who was
murdered on the piazza of the Stanton
mansion in Washington avenue Friday
night. Klnnan, whom the police have
wished to Interview ever since the
tragedy, has. It Is said, voluntarily
come forward to do what he can to as¬
sist the police in running down his
wife’s slayer. He has been living at
Belmarle, N. J.. for some time.
Miners E'-cct Officers.
Birmingham. June 12.—At Tuesday’s
session of the annual scale convention
of the United Mine Workers of Ameri¬
ca, district No. 20 , Alabama, the elec¬
tion of officers was the feature. W.
R Fairley was re-elected as Alabama
member of the national executive
board; Edward Flynn, was re-elected
district president; B. L. Greer, a ne¬
gro, re-elected vice pres indent, and J.
L. Clemo, re-elected secretary-treasur¬
er. The rest of the morning was spent
in the election of eight members of
the executive board.
Baseball Managers Eneouraged.
New York, June 12.—Managers of
baseball for financial profit played to
Brooklyn on Bundaya foil encouraged
by the discharge efJ,wo men w^pwery
The road is doubtless destined t
come into great prominence and use-
fulnem upon the completion ot the
isthmian canal, aa it will be the most
direct line from the gulf to the com-
mercial centers of the south and east
The authorities of the Central have
realised the possibilities of such a
road for some- time, but no active
steps were taken until the success of
the Panama undertaking was assured,
A* previously stated, the Central
proposes to utilize the Atlanta and
West Point tracks as far as New nan.
The construction of connecting line
from Newnan Junction to Greenville"
is now in progress,
From Greenville toColuinbus there
is a narrow-gauge road, which is now
being widened with a view to having
it ready by the first of October next,
Iieavlng Columbus, the Central will
travel over its present tracks to An-
daiusia, Ala. The distance from An-
daluusia to the gulf Is only about 50
miles, and the contract has been
awarded for the fracking of this final
portion of the route.
arrested by the pSITce Bn Sunday for
displaying contribution boxes on the
ball grounds, during a game there. As
a result, President BJbbits, of the
Brooklyn National League club, said
he might decide to play the Cincin¬
nati-team at Washington park next
Sunday.
LIVES LOST IN GOTHAM FIR*.
Four Person* Known To Bo Dead and
Other* Missing.
New York. June 12.—Four person*
are known to be dead and several
others are missing as a reault of a fir*
In a five-story tenement bouse at 20#
East Ninety-seventh street Monday.
Two firemen were Injured by falling
from the building and one of th«m
cannot live.
Scores of thrilling rescues took
place, and Just as the firemen were
about to take, a woman and bar *-
year-old baby from the fire escape oa
the third floor, the woman fell, over¬
come by the smoke, and dropped the
child. It was dashed to death on the
pavement 30 feet below.
The other bodies were found on the
fop floors of the tenement All of •
them wore so badly burned thU they
have not been Identified.
Frwit Raisins on Bine Roof.
An Ingenious Scotchman living at
Duns, in Scotland, grows brambles oa
the roof of a sine covered abed, says a
cable dispatch from Edinburgh to the
Chicago Inter Ocean. He assert* that
tn 1003 he obtained nine pounds of
fruit. In 1004 eleven pounds and In 1908
fifteen, wblcb were made Into Jam. In
sunny weather the zinc becomes hot,
and this not only hastens the ripening
of the crop, but I is creases the size and
beanty of ths berries.
First Csr of Peaches.
Macon, Ga., June 1#.—. J. and P. D.
Willingham, of this city, are the first
central Georgia peach growers to for¬
ward a whole car of this season’s fruit
to market. A csr of the Greensboor
variety was marketed in New York
Monday morning by their agent, Rich¬
ard F. Willingham, of this city. AD
the shippers of this community ars
now devoting their entire time to ar- ’ .
rangemenu for peach shipments. The
crop is a very god one, and the quali¬
ty so far Is said to be fine.
Cyclone Damages Florida.
Palatks, Fla., June 12.—A cyclone of
considerable violence visited this re¬
gion late Monday afternoon, traveling
from southeast to northwest. Two
or three houses were blown from thair
foundations and collapsed, and a num¬
ber of trees were twisted off at the
roots and carried quite n distance by
the wind. No report# of fstallttee
hars thus far been received. Crops
were seriously damaged.
The Longworths In London.
London, June 12.—Ambassador Raid
took Congressman Nicholas Long worth
to the distinguished strangers’ gallery
of the house of Comptons Monday to
hear tbs debate on the education MIL
Mrs. Longworth, acompanied by Mrs.
Reid, mads a tour of the shopping dis¬
tricts.
Two Reported Ktided.
Naw York, June 12.—Two persons
are reported to have been killed and
six Injured In the wreck of a pas¬
senger train on the Jersey Central
railroad at Eatontown, N. J., Monday.
Germany's War With Negroes.
Berlin. June 12.—Two German 0
cars and eight man were killed a
ten men were wounded June 4th, ti
fight with Hottentots between War
bad and the Fish river.
Fish Station Far Floi
Washington. June 12.—T
has passed the bill estal
fish cultural station on SL
er. In Florida.