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JAPANESE DESTROY
RUSSIAN WARSHIP]
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Another Naval Engagement Ofi
Port Arthur.
SEVEN JAPANESE CASUALTIES.
Japanese Member of Parliament Is
Charged with Being in the Employ
of the Russians —Other News from
the Seat of War.
Tokio March 23.-6:10 a. m.—A
special dispatch from Moji (opposite
Shlnioneseki, Japan) says the Japi
nese fleet made another attack on
f port Arthur March 18, bombarded the
* city- and its denfences, and fought a
: furious engagement with the Russian
fiee t outside the harbor, destroying
one Russian battleship.
Seven Japanese casualties are re
ported.
There is no Information concerning
the Japanese fleet’s condition.
The navy department has not been
advised of this engagement, but evi
dently expects news.
I Tokio, March 23.—The house of rep
resentatives today appointed a com
mittee of 18 members to investigate
the charge that Teisuke Akyama, a
member of parliament, is in the em
ploy of the Russian government.
j Akyama is the publisher of the Ni
rokushitbun a Tokio paper, which has
been bitterly assailing the government
particularly on its financial politics.
It also has charged the government
with having forced capitalists to sub
gcribe to the war bonds recently is
sued and has predicted the second
loan will prove unsatisfactory.
The local prosecution, which has in
stituted, resulted in a decision yes
terday ordering the permanent sup
pression of the publication and the
imprisonment of the paper’s signatory
"‘for four months,
f The case was subsequently appeal
ed and both Akyama and his friends
£ vigorously demand his release. The
discussion in the house later, the pres
ident promises, is to be exceedingly
bitter.
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SOUTH PUSHING AHEAD.
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Northern Financiers Have Their Eyes f
on This Section, .... j
Columbus, Ga.. March 23.—A. C. »
Chancellor, the well known Columbus |
clothier, who has just returned from j
NeW York, says that the eyes of Wall
street are upon the south.
i The impression is firm that the
I south will be the field of the greatest
development along Industrial lines
during the next decade.
The manner in which the south has
passed, serene and secure, through the
recent financial storm which so shook
Wall street, has made a great im
pression in New York. Mr. Chan
cellor says that interest and confi
dence in the south are widespread.
- CON. THOMPSON BURIED..
Impressive Ceremonies Held Over Re
mains of Late Statesman.
Tuskegee, Ala., March 23. —The re
mains of the late Congressman C. W.
K Thompson reached Tuskegee last
knight accompanied by the congression
ral delegation and 14 citizens of Tuske
gee, who had gone earlier in the day
to Atlanta, Ga., to accompany the par
ty to Tuskegee. Impressive services
were held in the Methodist church,
south today at 3 o’clock, being con
ducted by the Rev. F. J. Prettyman,
Mr. Thompson’s Washington pastor,
and the local Methodist minister, and
visiting ministers. All business was
suspended for the afternoon.
Disastrous Windstorm In Kentucky.
Hopkinsville, Ky., March 23. —Re-
ports received today show that dam
age amounting to thousands of dol
i lars was done in Christian county by
the windstorm. Many buildings were
unroofed and between 40 and 50 tobac
co barns were blown In North
Christian rain amou.. .ng almost to a
water spout did great damage. A
negro at Elmo and a negress near
Herndon were fatally hurt by collaps
ing of tobacco barns.
kauium DON’T CURE CANCER.
Treatment By Its Means Has Been
Entirely Abandoned.
New York, March 23. —The radium
treatment for cancer has been entire
ly abandoned at the Cancer hospit
al, cables The Herald’s London corre*
apondent. It was never viewed with
much hope there, and a tew days ago
the last unsuccessful experiment with
it took place.
According to the Daily Mail the
trials were made at the end with a
case containing five grains covered
only with mica sheeting, probably the
largest morsel in any hospital in Eu
rope and the effect was always the
same though it might vary in a de
gree. The surface of the skin be
came inflamed, a blister formed and
dried up, but that was all.
Sixteen cases have been under treat
ment, the longest period of a single ap
plication having been three hours, and
the longest total time of application
having been about 25 hours, and the
only favorable result has been an oc
casional cessation of pain. On the
ether hand, several patients have com
plained of an increase of pain.
TO CHECK PNEUMONIA GERMS.
Plan of President of New York Board
of Health.
New York, March 23.—1 nan attempt
to check the dissemination of pneumo
nia and germs of other diseases of the
respiratory organs, President Barling
ton of the board of health, has enlist
ed the aid of half a million school
children. His idea Is that they will
not only help greatly in the enforce
ment of laws prohibiting expectora
tions on sidewalks and in public con
veyances, but that, in educating the
child he will be educating the man. He
has brought the matter to the atten
tion of Henry A. Rogers, president of
the board of education, who heartily
approves the suggestion.
Great quantities of slips are being
printed by the department of health {
for distribution among the children j
and at the same time the teachers '
will be expected to explain the seri- I
ousness of the dangers involved in the |
practice of spitting in public places, i
It is designed that both boys and I
girls carry a little pad of the warn
ing slips and that when they see a
man violating the ordinance they will
hand him a card warning him of the
heavy fine to which he is liable.
A BRAVE SCHOOL TEACHER.
Saves the Life of a Little Girl from
Drowning.
Chicago March 23. —Plunging Into
the Des Plaines river, Miss Louise
Jackson, a school teacher, today res
cued one of her pupils, the little
daughter of Samuel K. Kline, after
the mother and the child had faint
ed and twa boys who had accidental
ly knocked the little one into the riv
er, had run away.
Unaided, Miss Jackson fought her
way through the swift waters of the
Des Plaines river., which is at a high
er flood stage than for years, and it
was only after she had slipped back
into the river from the crumbling
bank several times that the heroic
young woman brought the little girl
safely ashore.
SOLDIERS CALLED OUT.
Portion of Colorado Declared to Be
State of Insurrection.
Denver., Colo., March 23. —About 400
members of the National Guard of Col
orado reached Triniadd today and
were distributed among the various
camps in I,as Anias county in which '
Governor Peabody his declarwl to be
in a state of insurrection.
The governor has instructed Major '
Hill, in command of the force to use
such means as he may deem proper to
restore peace and good order. i
The coal miners in the Trinidad dis- ,
trict have been on strike for sever
al months claiming they suffer abuses
in the weighing of coal, the company I
store and other matters.
Bob Taylor’s Wife Wants Divorce. '
Knoxville. Tenn,, March 23. —Tues-
day afternoon in chancery court a
bill was filed for divorce by Mrs. R.
L. Taylor wife of Robert L. Taylor,
three times governor of Tennessee,
one term congressman from the first
district, and known throughout the
country as a lecturer on “The Fiddle
and the Bow,” and “Yankee Doodle
and Dixie.” His wife was formerly
Mrs. Hill, of Montgomery, and comes
of a distinguished southern family.
’ Atthempt to Blow Up Univeristy.
New York, March 23.—1 t is learned
! here says an American dispatch front
■ Kieff, that an attempt was made on
; Friday night to blow up the Odessa
,■ university, supposedly out of revenege
■ for the expulsion and arrests of stu
j dents. Two bombs were exploded
, which smashed a wall and shook the
’ quadrangle. Nine bombs were dis
| covered, the fuses of which had failed
to explode the bombs.
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MEN TO RETURN TD WORK.
I Lithographers Who Were Locked Out
Arc Employed Again.
New York March 23. —It is asserted
by President Pritchard of the Lith
• ographers’ International Protective and
I Beneficial association, that 15 large
I firms throughout the country have
i decided to employ members of his as
sociation and end the lockout in their
plant.
There Is nearly 10,000 workmen
locked out in various parts of the coun
try owing to dheir refusal to sign the
■ employers’ arbitration agreement.
Union Bindery Girls Strike.
Chicago, March 23. —The number of
bindery girls on strike here was in
creased to 700 today, strike commit
. tees visiting printing and bindery es
tablishments controlled by the Chicago
i Typothetae and insisting that the
■ union’s demands for a 10 per cent in
crease be accepted. The employers
Included in the Typothetae are said
to be contemplating a general lock
out.
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Shellman Man Heads Brigade.
Savannah, Ga., March 23.—General
P. A. McGlashan, commander of the
| Georgia division of Confederate Vet
erans, has appointed Colonel R. L.
i Crittenden, of Shellman, brigade com
mander for the southwestern Georgia
brigade.
The appointment is made to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of
Colonel C. M. Wheatley.
IHHtE PEOPLE ARE
KIU.ED BY GAS
Many Others Are More Or Less
Overcome By Fumes.
TWO JETS TURNED ON FULL.
One of the Victims Had Threatened
Several Times to Commit Suicide.
The Bodies Were Found In a New
York Flat Where They Lived.
New York, March 23. —Three per
sons were killed by illuminating gas
In a 5-story tenement in East Elev
enth street today and many occupants
of neighboring flats were more or less
overcome. The dead are:
Otto Grossman, 35 years old, a host
ler.
Jennie Grossman, 32 yer.r.; old, his i
wife
Rosie Longfelder, 33 years .fl’, a i
seamstress, boarding with the Gross
mans.
Two gas jets were found turned on
full head. According to the neigh
bors, Grossman several times threat
ened to turn on the gas and end his
life and that of his wife.
Last night it was said, there was a
merry-making at the Grossman flat
and considerable wine was drunk.
EX-PRESIDENT COURTMARTIALED
Sentenced To Be Shot—Charged with
Plotting Against Government.
New York. March 23. —There is a ru
mor here that former President Po-
Jcarpo Bonilla, of Honduras., has been
tried by courtmartial and sentenced
to be shot to death says a Herald dis
patch from Panama.
He was. arrested and thrown into
prison last month, with several other
members of the chamber of deputies,
it being charged that a plot against
the government of President Manual
Bonilla was hatching among them.
General Policarpo Bonilla, for many
years was president of the country,
and it is said he was the only man
Aho ever retired from office willing
ly and without starting a revolution
to bring him back into power again.
It was during his administration that
a reform constitution was adopted
which provided among others changes
for a secret ballot Instead of the vive
voce method of election.
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENCE.
New York Contractor Arrested as Re
sult of Investigation,
New York, March 23.—Paul
Sc’awanfter, of the firm of Poole &
Scbwahftiier. iron contractors on the
hotel Darlington for whom a wartant
was issued, was arrested today.
The officers informed the coroner
that Eugene Allison, against whom a
warrant also has been issued, had bar
ricaded himself In his home in Brook
lyn and was avoiding arrest.
The Coroner’s jury has been inves
tigating the collapse of the hotel Dar
lington by which 21 persons lost their
lives., returning a verdict .last night in
which Eugene C. Allison, one of the
i owners of the building, and contract
: ing firm of Poole & Schwanftner, were
held to have been guilty of criminal
I negligence.
! RECEIVER APPOINTED FOR SULLY
Once Cotton King Has to Assign for
Creditors’ Benefit.
New York, March 23. —David Miller
and Henry Taft were today appointed
receivers for D. J. Sully & Co., the
suspended cotton brokers, succeeding
J. H. Hoadley, the assignee, to whom
exception had been taken by some of
the creditors of the firm.
The receivers were appointed by
Judge Holt on petition of three of the
principal creditors of the firm and the
receiver were required to give a bom
of $250.(00. TTe creditors ay flying
forth receiver hip and ♦he amounts
claimed to be flue them were F. M.
Wells & Co,. $257,000; J. Temple
Gwathmey & Co., $170,000, and Shear
son. Hamill & Co., for SIOO,OOO. The
members of the firm of D. J. Sully &
Co., who are named in the petition
are Daniel T. Sully, S. F. B. Morse.
Edward Hadley, Jr., and W. R. Fa
gin.
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_ SENSATIONAL SALE OF
‘..V- '
New Spring
MILLINERY!
The most astounding bargains this great organization has yet put before
the Griffin trading public. Our milliners recently bought nearly $5,000 of
Drummers’ Sample Hats, Shapes, Flowes, Ornaments and all the new laces for
trimmings, etc. Io every woman who is interested in Spring Millinery, this is
indeed a rare treat. It is a treat you will enjoy—this gathering together of
beautiful hats of newest styles of most exquisite designs, for which we again
extend a cordial invitation to you to see. Atlanta milliners have been securing
these samples for years, but we stepped in just ahead and to their astonishment
and our delight we bought the entire lot. The Atlanta milliners thought that a
Griffin merchant could not buy on account of the quantities and the small town.
The goods are bought and now it is left with us and the people as to whether
thej will be sold or not. Almost every leading milliner fashion’s centres of the
world has contributed to this collection of samples. There are hundreds of
clever designs, the work of our own skilled trimmers—hats of grace, of beauty,
of becomingness; hats that represent real art in millinery, and with all this
beauty and elegance we have not forgotten our low prices. We will sell our
trimmed hats and samples for less than half what like hats would cost you in
Atlanta.
Dress Goods Department
T7 3r? "’ The greatest collection of Spring Dress Goods we have ever known in
Griffin. That is what the ladies say about us. A tremendous assortment of
eyerything that is new any pretty in Silks and Cottons. A positively fascinat
ing pattern array. Everybody is interested in a Spring dress and Bass’ is the
place to buy j our Spring suit. The showing is most complete in everything that
is worthy.
A Carload of Spring Clothing
*** just RECEIVED
which was bought by York buyer a great saving; in fact, it would be
an impossible task to bring before you in an advertisement the great saving
in our spring buying for our customers. If you want a Spring Suit of Clothes
we have them in newest styles and at a saving of from two to seven dollars a
Prices ranging up as high
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Shoes'-and Oxfords
i' ~ a . “" J-asH
Z* FOR WOMEN
All ihe new pateni leathers and vici effects; new heels, &c. Prices
cheaper than elsewhere. S
fNotions Notions
We are showing all the smart Easter sty les in Belts, Gloves, Shirt
waist Sets, Parasols, &c, &c.
Every one invited to the Big Store.
1,000 bbls Flour bought before the advance to go at old prices, which is
a big saving to the people.
BASS J882.0S CO
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