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THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORDER: FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1900,
SHORT news items
COLLED AT RANDOM
grief Bit* of Gossip Picked Up
Here and There
flV bound in a bunch
J (I , it convenience of Booty Read.
I »lei of tho Town Told In Ton*
tiiit That Tend to Tono the Temper
,f Tired People.
tj irn9 I.ithia Water in bottles and
• a,right, at Hudson’s Drugstore.
C„ a [ you pay us a little on that sub-
,. rl i ;iou account when you sell your
cotton. l’lease do so, for we need
the money.
Muav families here aro preparing to
ckaa-'e places of, abode on September
nu-l the demand for small houses,
c io’se iu, is as great as ever.
Numerous bets upon tho size - of tho
cotton crop are being made hero now,
j a ,i odds are given that it will not near
£ ,i>m1 the crop of last season,
jjr, o. I\ Meares, representing a
kcII known cotton firm of Romo, Gi».,
js n0 ,v iu Americue, and may spend
iome time here buying cotton.
j. Pi nvins Uirted fearfully with Old
Slosh, the street sprinkler, yesterday
morning. The expected rain came not
and the sprinkler worked over time.
The colored visitor, tho excessive
teat and the over-ripe and odoriferons
mallet combined yesterday to make
tbe day a typical mid-snmmer Saturday
in Americus.
The slight rain yesterday cut down
the caloric to a considerable extent. It
Lai again been oppressively warm for
tvo days, but last afternoon and night
verc pleasant.
Several members of the Toilnot Club
sho this week violated Rule No. 1 by
going to work, have been suspended
Iron) membership. Whereat their laud
ladies rejoice.
Farmers here have learned a thing or
two and are not going to sacrifice the
little cotton made this year. They be
lieve it is worth ten cents, and some
will hold for it.
Tne sight of the rock pile on Lamar
street yesterday gave the cold shivers
to divers black crap shooters who will
have to work the streets in lien of pay
ing their taxes.
Americus’ many school teachers who
have been at the summer resorts dur.
vacation will be coming , homo
shortly, as the fall term hero will open
in about three weeks.
Tne bride who giggles during the
ceremony sometimes maxes as good an
all round wife as the bride who looks
like a snd, swoot lljwer being plucked
from tho parent stem.
The fact that Americus has seven
drugstores and will shortly have anoth
er, does not indicate that tho town is
unhealthy. Oar foreign trado is great
and continues to spread.
II. I. Ilagley, who recently pur
chased tho Clowis stock of guns, pis
tols and Making tackle, has opeued nu
extensive business at Bagloy’s corner.
Head his new ad elsewhere.
To look after the rush of freight
shipments during the cotton season
the Central Railroad will keep a shifter
here. Tho engine came yostorday and
Will do duty here six months.
M l Littleton sent a grapevine special
from the mill yesterday to the eflect
that the possum and potato crops were
Promising sinco tbe rain. Such in
humation is most gratifying.
After one of the negro excursionists
had paid $t,50 for his tickot yesterday
he had jiiBt one red copper cent left,
Ao doubt he spends this money with a
lavish hand in Montgomery.
Now that the ice cream festival sea-
eon is waning, the noa-destructihle,
•heel riveted, case-hardened oyster that
has done duty at church fairs for years
•ill come to the soup .surface.
The Amalgamated A"sociation of
h'onrthouse Chessplayers have either
jobs somewhere or else aro too
I-digued with ennui to play. Only
1,0 games were scored yesterday
lj ay Clerk L. G, McKinney, of The
"indsor, will accept a position at
''“outlayA: Ansley’e storo on Sept,
d., and wMl be succeeded in his pres-
s “'- position by Walter Ben Hollis.
For Rent For 1901.
The farm formerly belonging to W.
F. Reid, now rented to S. W. Frazier,
containing 3S0 acres. Please make
definite offer and give references. The
farm is also for sale.
Barked A Hollesian, Atlanta. Ga.
COUNCIL TACKI^S THE BLINDS
And in its Wisdom Says Let There be
Light.
The city council is determined to
pull down the blinds" at places hero
where “soft” drinks aro sold, if it has
the right to do so. And City Attorney
Taylor assures the colons upon this
point.
This was the decision reached at
last night’s session.
For several weeks the matter of
adopting an ordinance prohibiting
blinds in places where drinks of this
character are sold has been with the
ordinance committee of the council.
Last night Chairman tluerry sub
mitted a report recommending, in
snbstance, that inasmuch bb state war
rants had been issued against Homo of
the parties here maintaining screens
that no action betaken by council until
after the grand jury had investigated
the charges.
Other members were for immediate
action, and when a vote was taken it
stood four to three in favor of an or
diuauce prohibiting screens.
One of the aldermen expressed the
belief that this would precipitate
lively fight, as tho dealers might adopt
some other plan as convenient as the
screen and maintain it.
This brought Alderman Oliver to his
feet and a warm speech followed.
Alderman Oliver was for conserva
tism, but if a fight was wanted he
was in. These places pay no special
license tax, and if necessary a prohib
itory tax of $25,000 might, bo thought,
insure prohibition. He was for pro
hibition straight out, now and always,
It is not improbable that the screen
ordinance will bring about a kick from
tbe dealers, and the result of the con
test gives promise of being interesting.
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
COMING AND GOING
Those Who Came and Went
Away Yesterday.
POINTS PURELY PERSONAL
Americas People and Their Friends
Who Are doing on Badness or Pleas*
are—Some You Enow and Some
Ton Don't. 1
Stetson's tints awarded first prize at
PariB Exposition Fall and winter styles
just received. Sciicsipeht Siioe Co.
COMMISSIONERS OF
AGRICULTURE MEET
Convention Called to Order
by President Stovens.
MARES AN ABLE ADDRESS
Miss Amanda Smith camo home yes
terday from a stay of some length in
New York.
Miss Alma Jordan will retnrn home
shortly from a visit of a week to friends
in Etlaville.
SCARCITY Of EGGS REPORTED.
Few Brought to Market and Prices
are Soaring-
While there is no strike among the
hens here it is a fact that the market is
quite bare of eggs. This is no shell
game played upon the public, or any
other repre-liens-ible act to crow over
or cackle about. Americus grocers
have been unable to secure a supply
during tbe very bot weather and tne
few obtainable, even with chickens in
side, costas much per dozen as the
parent stem was rated at in the barn
yard. With cooler weathor tho stock
will increase, even if the^hens have to
work overtime. Eggs fried with the
sunny side np are luxuries indeed,
tnough at this season the deftly com
pounded omelette is more than over
regarded with vague suspicion even by
the untutored.
Advertised Letters.
C °" FOLLOWED TO AMERICUS
Owner Followed Also and Caused
Trouble.
■ j Couch, a slab-sided country
started to town yesterday,
•fsi-ving » plowline behind him, and
probably surprised (?) upon arrlv-
‘ to find that 8teve Barlow’s
•zorback Jersey of pore Wiloox coun-
? strain had tangled her horns in the
T ““ ot 'he rope and followed him here.
*' the festive cowlst might be cared
■w the negro, it is said, sold her to a
°«cher, and was landed in jail on the
•rge of cow stealing. And he’s
“•Wyeb
Americes, Ga., Aug. 30, 1900, Be
low is a complete list of unclaimed
mail matter now remaining on hand iu
Americus, Ga., postoffice, aud unless
called for within next 14 days will bo
sont to dead letter office, Washington:
A—Akins, C T.
B—Banks, Miss Ola; brooks,Charlto;
Brown, Mr. Harry.
0—Carter, Charley.
D—Daniel, Mr W F.
G—Gaines, Miss Carry; Gtddene, J
Luther; Glocus, Mr J W.
H-Hayard, MrWU;Haslcy, Miss
Lizze: Hopkins, W A.
J—Jackson, Miss Jud-; Johnson.Col
J H; Johnson, Mr Johme.
L—Lucas, Miss Clara.
M—Mell, Mias Viola; Mitchell Mrs
Maitha: Nelson, Mr A J.
P-Fitts, A W.
R—Redding, Mrs Sallie.
T—Thomas, Miss Addio Leo; Tomp
son, Mr W M; Tooks, Honry.
V—Vickerson, Miss Carry,
Z—Zander, Mr Will.
S. A^Smith, P. M.
GEORGIA’S TAX RATE LOWERED.
One Dollar per 81,00 Less Than Rate
Last Year.
The tax rate for 1900 has just been
fixed by Gov. Candler aud Comp.-Gen.
Wright, who were authorized by the
general assembly to do so. The rate
was lowered from $5.80 on $1,000 to
$5.20, making a reduction of practical
ly one dollar on every thousand dol
lars’ worth of property since Gov, Can
dler has been in office. The redaction
is dae to tbe magnificent increase
shown by tho returns, which have
been coming in since July. Tne rate
could have been lowered to $-5 on $1,000
bad not tho last legislature appropriat
ed $100,000 more than was anticipated,
CHARGED WITH VIOLATING LAW
Warrants Are limed Against Local
Dealeri.
Cues were docketed yesterday after
noon against two parties here, charged
with having violated the local option
lews in the sale of “soft” drinks. Two
warrants were issued, but bond wrb
promptly furnished and indictment by
the grand jury demanded by the de
fendants. 1 ' ■
Mrs. Lillian Harper, after a visit of
two or three weeks in Atlanta, return
ed home yesterday.
Mrs. D. li. Brinson returned homo
yesterday after a stay of some length
at Monteagle, Tenn.
Miss Myra Westbrook, of Americus,
is spending some time pleasantly with
friends in Oglethorpe.
Miss Annie May Edwards left yes
terday for Coney upon a visit of sev
eral days to friends there,
Miss Willie Belle Baisden, after a
delightful visit to friends in Lumpkin,
relumed home yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Slappey, who
reside at Hogan, near Savannah, came
yesterday to visit relatives here.
Mrs. George Horine and two chi!
dren, who spent the summer in Ken
tucky, returned home yesterday.
Miss Mamie Willett left yesterday
for Paducah, Ky., ner former home,
to spend some time with relatives.
The Misses Buchanan have as their
guests the Misses Wicker, Brown and
Hicks, of Montezuma, who came yes
terday-
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Stewart, of
Plains, were iu the city yesterday,
Mrs. Stewart returning from a visit
in Macon.
Miss Ella McKellar has retnrned
from Pelham, where she had a pleas
ant visit at the home of her uncle Hon.
J. L. Hand.
Mrs. W. H. Tondee came from
Lumpkin yesterday to visit Miss Hat
tie Tondee at the home of Judge
Montgomery.
Mrs. Frank Lanier, who has been at
Linville, N. C., the greater portion of
the summer, will roturn homo tomor
row afternoon.
Miss Maude Stokes, of Freston, is
spending a few days in the city, the
guest of Mrs. J, B. Hudson at her
home on Rees Park.
Mrs. Thomas Harrold, who has been
in north Georgia several weeks, has
gone to Asheville, N. G„ for the. re
mainder of tho season.
Mrs. J. R. La Sha, of Brunswick,
who was Miss Jessie Stokes, of this
city, was here yesterday, en route to
Buena Vista to visit relatives.
Mrs. John B. Felder aud daughter,
Kate, who have been in the monntains
of North Carolina during the heated
term, will return home today.
Col. E. A. Hawkins returned yes
terday from a ten days stay at Ashe
ville, N. C., where Mrs. and Miss
Hawkins are spending the summer.
Miss Helena' 6tawart, of Cordele,
who has been visiting relatives in Ma
con, arrived here yesterday to visit at
the home of her uncle, Dr. H. H. Mc
Kellar.
Miss Willie Roney, one ot the most
charming of the season’s visitors here,
the guest ot Mlai Annie Belle Roney,
returned yesterday to her home in
Augusta.
Lieut. James W, Furlow, Eleventh
Infantry, arrived at his old home here
yesterday, after an absence of two
years in Porto Rico, to spend sev
eral days.
Referee Shelby Myrick held a session
of court iu Albany yesterday and stop
ped over in Americas a few hours iu
tbe afternoon. He left for Savannah
last night.
Miss Sarah Wheeler, who has been
witu a congenial party of Americas
friends at Monteagle,, Tenn., daring
the summer months, retnrned home
yesterday afternoon.
Miss Nettie Margart, the charming
gneat of Miss Fannie Stallings for a
week, returned to Bateaville, Ala,
yesterday, to the regret of nn serous
friends and admirers.
Americus Cotton Market.
Auebiccs, Ga., Aug. 29th, 1900,
Ree’d today at warehouse*, 198 bales,
Bec’d previously at " 1,978 *'
Total warehouse receipts 2,202
Americus Market Quotations.
Good Middling, oj
Middling g
Georglu Commissioner of Agriculture
.Makes an Eloquent Appeal to the
Southern Farmer to Live at Home.
Host Methods For Doing This.
Raleigh, Aug. 23.—Tho second an
nual convoatiou of tho Cotton States
Association of Commissioners of Agri
culture began here at noon today. Al-
tbnugh tho membership of the associa
tion is limited to commissioners of agri
culture, and their assistants, the direct
ors of experiment stations, the heads of
agricultural colleges and professors of
chemistry, tho representation was com
prehensive. After the delivery of tho
welcoming addresses, Hon. O. B. Stev
ens of Georgia, president of tho associa
tion, delivered his annual address.
‘•fhe improved condition of our
southern farmers, reported at tho last
meeting,” said Mr. Stevens, “continues
with some additional betterment. This
is especially true if tho farmers of
Georgiu, who have harvested more
wheat this your than in any year since
18>>5; more, it is claimed, than in any
other throe years sinco tho civil war.
More attention, too, has been paid to
raising supplier of meat, nnd tho peach
orchards of Georgia have this year been
a very helpful factor in that state.
“Ouo thing that makes the outlook
better still is tho certainty of another
short cotton crop, which promises oven
better profits during the coming season.
There seems to be good reason for the
hope that the all-cotton craze of 1898
will not again seize the farmers of tho
south, who, from sad experience, should
know that the thing of greatest import
ance is to raise, first of all, food supplies
and cultivate their cotton within a
profitable limit.
“If tho growth of the cotton mill in
dustry in the south continues at its pres
ent rapid rate, with the consequent In
creased consumption by tbo southern
mills, we may confidently expect that
the south will henceforth be able to fix
tho price of her own great staple. There
is, as yet, no sign of a check in this de
velopment, which, even in tho time of
business depression, was marvellous.
Of course, I am most familiar with my
own state. There the growth of the
cotton industry since the beginning of
tho present year is beyond all preoedent.
Twenty or more new mills are now in
the process of construction.
“Tho possibilities of tho soil and cli
mate of the south are such that ours
ought to be the richest section of tbe
Union. Aotive, continuous, intelligent
supervision of all the labor on tbo farm
is necessary to success. One of tbo great
needs of the day is the formation in
every conntv of a farmers' institute
club, in which may bo discussed tbo
best methods of agriculture, tho latest
and best machinery for labor saving and
other things of interest and profit to the
farmers.
“Let us urge the farmers of our re
spective states to work upon strict busi
ness principles and to lire within their
means.
“The farmer serves his generation
best who brings his laud to the highest
stato of fertility and productiveness. In
the great cotton holt, especially, do they
need to be warnod against patting all
thoir trust in one crop and neglecting
others. If wo were called upon to point
out the states whoso lands command
the highest prlcos wo would put our
finger on thoso whoso agricultural pro
ducts aud occupations aro the mosteva-
HUNDREDS ANSWER
COUNCIL SUMMONS
Tax Defaulters are Arrayed Before
The Mayor.
PILES OF GLITTERING SILVER
Dumped Into the Treasury by Thoie
Who Had Merer Paid Street Tax. —
City Realizes 8200 and the End
not Yet.
One of the most thoroughly repre
sentative, not to say kalideoecopic,
audiences eyer assembled in Amor-
ieus police court lined up before May
or Hixon at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Every color, and at least three
or four nationalities, were represented,
but all came with one common object
—to settle.
For more than 200 were in arrears
for their street taxes.
Some had evaded payment for sev
eral yoars, and were painfully surpris
ed when a summons to appear in eonrt
and explain was given them.
And they came in troops—those of
high and low degree; the fashionably
dressed young man of leisure, the
young man who toils but whose mem
ory on the subject of street tax la do
fective, the bootblack, the crap shooter
—all came to argue with the Mayor.
Ouo came in a top buggr, but be had'
tho money and had merely forgotten
such a trifling matter.
Some owed as much as five years
street tax, and to these the verdict of
tbo court was like a blast from Ga
briel's cornet. It took their all and
more, and life possessed no farther
charms.
The Toilnot Club came in force and
were promptly fleeced.
Fully 150 citizens who enjoy the
privileges of drinking at the artesirn
well, walking the sidewalks, watching
the town cloak and the other manifold
blessings bongbt by street taxes, came
and either settled in fall or gave prom
ise of prompt and fall payment.
Nearly $200 was taken m yesterday,
and subsequent matinees will swell
the total to $500. Whereat City Clerk
Davis and Marshal Feagin rejoice and
are exoeeding glad.
WOMEN HELD FOR MURDER.
ried.’
DENTIFIED BY GREENFIELD.
Gold
They Are Charged With Killing
Child at Canton.
Cantos, Ga., Ang. 27.—Mrs. Dolly
Pritchett and her sister, Nelia Peak, are
in jail charged with murdering an in
font of the former.
The Pritchett woman's father lives in
Milton county; and Mrs. Peak's husband
is now in Atlanta jail for blockading.
Tho Peak woman probably bad nothing
to do with the infanticide, bnt is held in
jail as a witness. Mrs. Peak seems ill-
fated and quite unfortunato in being
a witness to exciting occurrences. She
was on the roadsido u few months -ngo
when Herschel Lowrey was shot from
ambush by some nnknown party in this
county, and later when Jim Hubbard
fell dead in his house near Cherokee.
As this case develops otbor arrests
may be made nnd charges of a vory seri
ous nature bo sustained against the
women and one or more men.
HOUSE OF WHALE* BONES.
Albany Man Victimized by
Brick Swindlers.
Springfield, Moss., Aug. 28.—David
Greoufieid of Albany, Ga., who last brno of the spinal column forms ouo of
Cuptuln John Devercaux Has Refused
un OllVr For It.
Charleston, Aug. 27.—Captain John
H. Devercaux has refused a cash offer
of $300 for tbe jawbone of a whale
which was killed in tbe harbor about 11
years ago. The jaws measure 12 feet
each, aud just now they are used as a
grand entrance to a summer bouse on
Sullivan's island, made entirely of tbe
bones from the whale. Tbo noose is
prettily arrangod, and the vines which
eover it givo it a most handsome appear
ance.
There is a seating capacity for 25 per
sons in tho whalehouse, aud tho vorte-
HIRAM SHARPE, WIFE
MURDERER, IS HANGED
Pays the Penalty With HiE
Life at Deoatur.
WAS MOST BRUTAL CRIME
UIs Wife Fled to Her Mother For Pro.
tcctlon—She Started Home With Hei
Husband and When Outside the Dooi
Was Shot Dead.
Decatun, Ga., Aug. 28. — Hiram
Sharpe, a white man, was banged hen
at noon today for the murder of hit
wife.
Story of the Crime.
Ou Dec. 0, 1399, Mrs. Hiram Sharpe,
who hod loft her husband because ol
brutal treatment, sought refuge at the
homo of her aged mother. Tbe twe
women were sitting before the fire,
when Sharpe, who was drank and
armed with a shotgun, walked np and
threw open the door. His wife seeing
him, rushed screaming to her mother for
protection.
“Yon ran away from mo, did you?” he
exclaimed.
I will go back with you, Hiram,”
said the woman, frightened and cower
ing.
"Then, come along,” ho said.
The woman got np and started ont of
tho door. Hor old mother tottered after
her.
The man stepped ont of the door
ahead of thorn, and as soon as his wife
was from beneath the cabin ha raised
bis gun.
Don’t kill mo, Hiram," the woman
ploaded. “I’m going with yon. ”
'For God’s sako don’t kill my poor
child,” wailed tbe old mother.
The pleadings of the women were of
no avoiL Sharpe palled the trigger,
there was a loud report and tho younger
woman, with a scream, ran into the
house and fell dead.
Threats of Lynching.
Sharpe walked leisurely away and
mooting a man he knew he asked for
water,-which was furnished him. Hei
was asked what be had been doing rrjth
bis gnn and he replied:
"Oh, I Just killed an old hen down
tho roatL”
Sharpe went to a relative’* house and
hid in a loft. There the sheriff’* posso
found him. He was known to bo a
desperate man, bnt he offered little re
sistance and went quietly to the depot,
where ho was placed on a train for At
lanta to escape mob violence, for there
were threats of lynching the wife mur
derer. .
Sharpe was a victim of the morphino
habit. At the same time he drank.
Whisky and morphine had made him a '
demon.
He was qniokly tried and convicted.
He was sentenced to be hanged and his
case was appealed. The supreme ooqrt
refusod to Interfere. Tho pardon board
declined to act in tho cose, and the gov-
ItUbAAUUU LL* OUl AAA WU GUSDi UUU U1U
ernor said he had no authority to toko
any. action.
PYTHIANS MEET AT DETROIT
week telegraphed the lpcal police to hold the main sects. Tbo jaw entrance af-
„...1 ra-Woii „,i“ ‘ i „..i,i r.im, fords ample spaco for out-of-door Outer-
Smith and Blackwell, alleged gold brick
men, on the charge of being fugitives
from justice, has arrived here and posi
tively identified Smith os one who swin
dled him out of 80,000 by the gold brick
game. He thought Blackwell was the
other swindler, but was not sure.
Smith was not disconcerted In the
slightest. He chatted courteously With
Greenfield and told him that it surely
was a case of mistaken identity.
Smith asserted that be hod never seen
Greenfield before and had never been in
Albany, Ga. Tho Interview with Block-
well was qf similar import.
Arbltrarlcs Removed.
Acoesta, Ga., Aug. 27.—Tho execu
tive committee of the Southeastern
Tariff association has given formal no-
tico of the removal of tho 15 per cent ar-
bitrarics from Augusta’s fire insurance
rates. Tbo notice came in tbe form ol
a communication to J. Miller Robertson,
stamp clerk, to remove tho rato aud re
bate the 15 per cent paid on oil policies
issued since Aug. 1.
tqjnmaats,
Osage and Kuir Census.
GcrnRiE, O. T., Aug. 28.—The census
upon the Osage and Kaw reservations,
jnst completed, shows tho following:
Total Osages in 1000,1,783; total in 1800,
1,703; increase, 15. Full bloods, 80S;
mixed bloods, 017; number of females,
889. Total Raws in 1000, 217; total in
1890, 208; increase, 0,‘number fall bloods,
07; mixed bloods, 120; females, 69.
Will Open For Uuslncss Sept. .1
St. Lous, Aug. 28.—Vice President
and General Manager Yoakum of tbo
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad an
nounces that tho Red river division oi
that road will be open for business to
Henrietta, L T., on Sept. 1.
Conspired to Kill the King.
Paris, Aug. 28.—A dispatch to Tho
Petit Blue from Romo says au anarchist
has been hrrested at Carrara on sus
picion of having conspired to assassinate
King Victor Kmanu<djj^^^^
»toNST!PATioi?
the ROCKihatWRECKS manj^
^Lvcs.-lll brinflsln Its.train bodily evil^
, r ihai slowly but surely destroy health,
/strength and cheerfulness. _
TO REMOVE THIS CONDITION. TAKE.
T ASfi
PRICKLY
BITTERS
li js.ajnaryelous system cleanser and regulator-i
fcrma9cni|y*CURES (( 'a consiipated 1
L .corrects* trouble - in. thedjgesjion. f
w 'the blood, strcnglticns the kidm
\?PUrS IMtSYSUM IN PtRrUT OR0
w amn at DRUGGIST®'
fioo
Dr. E. J. ELDRIDQE,(Agent. SJ _ 7^3
Negro Women Are Barred From Mem'
bersblp la the Sisterhood.
Detroit, Ang. 28.—Masonic Temple
today appeared transformed into a tem
ple of Pythian Ism. Several largely at
tended gatherings of Pythions and
branch orders were In progress simulta
neously within the big structure. Ohlof
of theso were the oponlng meetings of
the supreme lodge Knights of Pythias
and of tho supreme lodge of the Py
thian Sisterhood. The initial meeting
of the Order of the Rathbone Sisters
was postponed until tomorrow.
Supreme Chancellor Thomas G. Sam-
8 1e of Allegheny, Pa., head of the Py-
ilan order, presided over the snprraw
lodgo meeting.
In tho sixth biennial assembly ot tho
Pythian Sisterhood, sapremo lodge, tho
gavel was wielded by Mrs. H. P.
of Portland, Me., supreme chancellor.
Mrs. Llbbej reported tbe question of ad
mitting negro women to membership as
having been disposed of by the debar
ring of a negrd woman from taking the
second degree after she had passed tho
first.
G
CAPTAIN CRENSHAW DEAD.
—
Georgian Succumbs to Wounds Re-
celved In the Philippines.
Atlanta, Aug. 28.— Captain Frank
Crenshaw died early this morning at
Elkin sanitarium, where he had been
carried upon his retnrn to Atlanta for
treatment of a wound received in the
Philippines.
The body was carried to the state Cap
itol, where It will lie in state until to
morrow morning, when tt will be car
ried to LaGrange for interment
’ Captain Crenshaw returned to Atlanta
sovoral days ago and submitted toon
operation for tne ballet wound In his
head. The physicians had little hope of
his recovery, bnt he remained cheerful
to the last, believing that be would get
well.
He hud lain for weeks in the hospital
in Manila before being sent ou the
homeward voyage.
He was captain of Company A, Twen
ty-eighth United States volnnteer Infan
try. Captain Crenshaw was a | ” *
soldier, and brought home with
superb sword which ho personally cap
tured from a colonel of the Insurgents.
NEW YORK POLICE PUZZLED.
They Attribute tbe Shooting of Stijd
ron to Jculousy. Mj
New York, Ang. 23.—Harold 8trf£l-
ron of Chicago, who says he was
twico by John H. Essen in thoVci
hotel in this city yesterday morning
was still alive and conscious today.
Polico Captain Borns, in whoso pro
cluct the tragedy occurred, said today:
“I am puzzled by the feet that the re
volver was tnrown to tho street, inas
much as the ambulance -ui> :i .-ays
Essen's death was Instantaneous.”
Forest Fires In California.
Loe Angeles, Ang. 23.—Ten square
miles of forest reserve tn tho San Ga
briel reservation have been swept by fire
that is still raging. Tho loss wifi be
heavy.