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PEACE OUTLOOK
VERY GLOOMY
Pessimism Pervaded Portsmouth
Over Friday's Negotiations.
A RECESS FOR TWO DAYS
A Telegraphic Conversation Between
Roosevelt and Secretary Pierce
Was Feature of the Day.
The general assembly of Georgia
was adjourned at Atlanta sine die at
exactly 9:40 o’clock Friday night.
During the evening session, the last
discord in the house on the general
tax act gave way to harmony by the
recession of the house from its 'po¬
sition on liquor taxes as regards so¬
cial clubs and dining cars. Several
other bills were passed, but most of
the evening was given ov# to felici¬
ties of one sort or another, including
the presentation of a handsome gold
headed cane to Mr. Hall of Bibb by the
new county committee.
After the final adjournment, the
members began bidding each other
farewell, while a large group gathered
in the center aisle and sang “God Bo
With You Till We Meet Again” and
“The Old-Time Religion.”
The house on the last day of the ses¬
sion waded into senate bills in a busi¬
nesslike manner and many measures
of importance which originated in the
upper house were enacted into laws.
Between senate bills how and then,
there was a report of a conference
committee on some subject or other,
the liquor tax, the reformatory bill
or appropriations, but th© house stuck
to its work and senate bills were dis¬
posed of in prompt order. Only a few
senate measures, to which there was
^some objection, or which were too
Icmg and complex for proper consid¬
eration in the closing hours, were put
on the table.
The house passed bills to make
drunkenness and disorder on public
highways a of misdemeanor; to increase
the salary the attorney general; to
provide more superior court judges;
to make it a felony to shoot or throw
laoeAve cv peMsuoiigom. "to apo
quire sheriffs to keep bloodnouuds; to
make city and county bonds accepta¬
ble as deposits by insurance compa¬
nies; to revise the military laws of
the state, and various other measures
of wide general importance.
It Is also reached an agreement
with the senate on the general appro¬
priations bill, the state reformatory
hill and the general tax act, the latter
delaying the adjournment until tha
night session. 5
After some discussion in the senate
Friday afternoon the bill by Repre¬
sentative Wright of Richmond, making
it a misdemeanor to buy or attempt
to buy a vote at a -primary election,
was passed by a vote of 26 to 1.
A large number of important gen
eraj bills were passed by the senate
at the morning session. Among these
was the $75,000 appropriation for a
water works system at the state sani¬
tarium at Milledfeeville, the measure
disbanding the negro troops of the
State, the bill granting the right of
eminent domain to telephone compa¬
nies, the bill providing for local coun¬
ty taxation for school purposes and a
hill providing for a special appropria¬
tion of $25,000 for erecting a building
at the Georgia Normal and Industrial
college.
ALL CORPSES TAKEN FROM RIVER.
Bodies of Thirteen Drowned Excursionists
Recovered-Five Still Missing.
A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says: The
removal of the two Atlantic Coast
Line cars which .plunged into the
Elizabeth river Thursday afternoon
revealed the fact that there were but
two bodies in the cars, making the
number of beodies recovered thirteen,
and with rive reported missing.
A careful examination of the bottom
of the river revealed no more bodies,
and the Coast Line officials are con¬
vinced that the death list Ls now com¬
plete.
LIFE SENTENCE FOR BONE.
6eorgia Prison Commission Saves Floyd
County Murderer fro m Gallows.
The Georgia prison commission Fri¬
day heard the application for clem¬
ency in the case of Jack Bone, under
sentence to hang in Floyd county, on
August 25, and, after the hearing de¬
cided to recommend a commutation
of his sentence to life imprisonment.
Bone’s two sisters were present dur¬
ing the hearing. The petition request¬
ing executive clemency on his be¬
half was signed by about 1,300 cit¬
izens of Floyd and Fulton counties.
Owing to the inability of Engineer
Reig to control his airbrakes, an ex¬
cursion train from Kinston, N. C„
bound to Norfolk, Va., plunged through
an open draw in a bridge over the
western branch of the Elizabeth river
at Bruce Station, eight miles from
Norfolk, Thursday, and a half hun¬
dred persons, mostly negroes, were
drowned.
Up to a late hour Thursday night
only seven bodies had been recovered
from the wreckage. The list of in¬
jured, so far as can be ascertain,
numbers nearly one hundred, though
most of these aro slightly hurt. A '
large number of physicians from Nor- :
folk and nearby cities went to the
scene.
Among the victims, t.he only white: i
ones were Edward Jolieffe, manager
of the excursion, and Edward Forbes, |
who assisted him, both of Greenville,
N. C.
The Merritt Wrecking organization, 1
Thursday night, dispatched an expedi- !
tion to the scene for the 'purpose of •
raising the sunken cars, which lie in
about 25 feet of water. Until the cars
are raised, no accuratea estimate of
the Engine number cf dead can be given, j
and Two Cars in River.
The train was composed of an en- !
sine and six passenger cars. The en- I
gine and two cars went through the
draw, leaving the four rear cars on
the track. One car was completely
merged. submerged, Nothing and the is other partly sub- j
visible of the en- j
gine, not even the smokestack. It is
believed that every occupant of the j
first car perished. The dead can be I
gotten only by diving under the car. !
The scene following the wreck was i
one of Indescribable horror, with tjje
shrieking of men, women and children
who were drowning, struggling out of
the partly submerged coach and float- 1
ing in the river.
The passengers who were uninjured :
immediately started to rescue those
imprisoned in the cars. Norfolk and j
Portsmouth and physicians were communicated with j
were sent out on a
wrecking train. Many people in the
neighborhood went to the scene of the
wreck and helped in the rescue. The
injured were taken to the track em¬
bankment and were attended there by
the physicians.
Collins Ferguson, the negro bridge
tender of the Atlantic Coast Line, was
knocked from the bridge by the Im¬
pact and killed.
Engineer Reig and Fireman Alfred
Cooper, a negro, escaped by jump¬
ing.
The wrecked train left Kinston, N.
C., at 7 o'clock Thursday morning with
1S5 negro excursionists for Norfolk.
It was due to arrive at Norfolk at 1
o'clock in the afternoon. Following
this train was another excursion train
over the same road bringing 300 ex¬
cursionists from Rocky Mount, N. C.
Preceding the wrecked train was still
another excursion train carrying some
three hundred merchants and others
from Augusta, Ga., Charleston, S. C.,
and Jacksonville, Fla., bound to Bal¬
timore, Philadelphia and New York for
the purchase of fall goods.
The first train arrived in Norfolk I
a-t 8:30 a. m., without accident, and
the Augusta, Jacksonville and Charles¬
ton merchants all left for the north ,
by water.
The Atlantic Coast Line officials
are at a loss to know why Engineer
Reigs failed to stop his train before
coming to the draw, as required by
the rules of the road. An investigation
of the cause of the wreck will lie made
at once and the responsibility placed
where it beiongs. Reigs himself could
make no explanation.
MRS SANFORD INSURANCE AGENT.
Report That She Has Accepted Position With
a New York Company.
It is reported that Mx3. Vincent San¬
ford has accepted a traveling angency
for a New York insurance company.
Mrs. Sanford i3 out of the city, and
the report cannot be verified, but it
is thought to be true.
City Marshal Goes Alter Luster.
City Marshal Burrows of Guthrie,
Ky„ has gone to Ogden, Utah, ‘o
bring back Percy J- Luster, under
arrest there on the charge of murder¬
ing his wife.
THROUGH DRAW
TRAIN PLUNGES
Coaches Fiiki With Negro Fx:ur
sionists Hurled Into River.
SCORES ARE DROWNED
Frightful Accident Caused by Engineer
j Losing Control of Biakes as He
j Neared Bridge.
NICHOLAS ISSUES UKASE.
Russian People Will Be Heard in Na¬
tional Assembly to Be Converted
in January.
A St. Petersburg special says: Rus¬
sia’s national representative assembly,
the fruit of decades of stress and striv¬
ing for reform, which endows the
Russian people with the right of be¬
ing consulted through their chosen
representatives in the suggestion, prep*
; aration an ] repeal of legislation, lias
taken Its place among the fundamental
institutions of the empire.
1 In a solemn manifesto Emperor
Nicholas announced Friday morning
I to His subjects the fruition of his
plans summoning the representatives
of the people as outlined by him in a
rescript issued on March 3 last, and
fixes the date for the first convocation
. as mid-January, and in a ukase, ad¬
dressed that to the ^enate, formally orders
body to register as the imperial
will a law project, formulating the
nature, powers and procedure of the
new governmental organization.
The manifest o, ukase arid project
are published fu special editions of
The Official Messenger in St. Peters¬
burg and Moscow. They will also he
given out for publication to all the
newspapers throughout the empire,
many of which are preparing to issue
extra editions tjo signalize a momen¬
tous historical jevent, overshadowing
fn importance the liberation of the
serfs Jn 1861.
The national assembly will lie a
consultative organization in connec¬
tion with the clounse] of the empire,
and not a legislative body. The flow¬
ers of the ompefor remain theoretical¬
ly absolute.
The representatives of the people
will have not ^nly the right to lie
heard on any le gislation proposed by
the government,^ but also can voice
their desires oil new laws and will
have vision the right budgetary toj exert a expenditures. certain super¬
over
The suffrage, ^though wide, is not
universal. It is based on property qual¬
ification, the peasantry having a vote
through membership in communal or¬
ganizations. r
A considerably portion of the ros'
dents of .he cities, possessing no
civil lands, functionaries, together jwith women, soldiers, without
etc., are
suffrage.
DOZEN MW eXfUti) pi QUAKtft.
Many Tons of Stone Crash Down Upoi
Gang o! Wornmen.
A mas 3 of limestone, weighing thou¬
sands of tons, slid from a side of the
quarry Mill A of the Lehigh Portland
Cement company at Ormrod, Pa., at
noon Wednesday, just five minutes be¬
fore time to quite work.
Twenty-seven men, all Slavonians,
were at work al the quarry. Only
nine of the men got away safely, four
of whom escaped by running up on
a mass of rock at the opposite side
of the quarry. The remaining eigh¬
teen were huddled in a space ten feet
square, and twelve of them were killed
and six injured. Two of the latter
may die.
Georgia vagrancy law changed.
Calvin Statute in Made More Drastic by
New Bill Passed.
The Georgia house passed at the
Thursday night's session a substitute
by Mr. Calvin of Richmond for the
bill by Senators Miller and Adams,
making important changes in what is
known as the Calvin vagrancy law of
1903.
The substitute strikes out the fea¬
ture of the present law which pro¬
vides that any person convicted of va¬
grancy may procure his release by
giving bond for good behavior and in¬
dustry for a period of one year, and
provides for the punishment of va¬
grancy as in the ease of any other
misdemeanor.
ROOSTERS ANO OOGS ARE MUZZLED.
Nocturnal Noises Put Under Ban by People
of Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Roosters are forbidden to crow, dog3
to bark, bells to be toiled end engines
to toot their whistles in the suburb
of Mount Vernon, N. Y., between 10
o’clock at night and 6 o’clock in the
morning according to a decision
reached at a meeting of the hoard ci%
health. The ban will be placed on all
these so-called nuisances.
REMARKBBLE BANKRUPICY PETITION.
C'erk Owes Quarter Million Debts and Hae
Only Fifty Dollars.
Liabilities of $292,677 and assets of
$50 were scheduled in a petition in
bankruptcy filed at Boston by George
B. Appleton of Cambridge. Appleton
was a clerk in the office of Arthur E
Appleyard, the street railway promo¬
ter, who is now contesting extradition
to the state of New York, where he
is wanted for! grand larceny.
FOLLOWS HIS NOSE.
How a Blind Man Finds His Wa>
About the Busy City.
There is a blind man living in the
heart of Now York who walks nearly
every day from his home to a little
restaurant in Canal street. The dis¬
tance each way is front eighteen to
twenty blocks, according to his route,
and to see him sauutering carelessly
along one would never suspect his in¬
firmity. When some one asked him
how he managed to find his way he
said:
“When a man has his sight the
smell of the streets are all mixed
up, but when ho is blind he learns
to separate them. The odors of the
shops when the doors are open these
fine days are almost as plain to my
nose as the signs used to be over the
doors. Some of them you might
never notice. Take a dry goods store,
for instance. It smells of cloth. Iron
and tin have smells of their own, ana
1 can tell a hardware store immedi¬
ately. I pass two book stores nearly
every day, and l scent them yards off
by the old books. Then there are a
great many other indescribable odors
by which l know this place and that.
“Of course, my fet are my principal
guide, and I’ve been over the ground
so often that 1 have learned ^very
inequality J>y heart. But I couldn't
get along with either nose or feat
aiono. They work together, and when
one fails the other helps out. Be¬
tween them they make a very good
substitute for eyes.
“The secret of my stepping out. is
that I’ve learned how to stop. People
who can see hurl themselves forward
like locomotives. That’s why tha
shock is always so unexpectedly vio¬
lent when you collide with another
person. But 1 put no extra power
whatever in m.v movements, and if
the toe of my shoe touches some un¬
known object I stop stock still iox
uediately.”—New York Press.
Dogs That Are Overfed.
“Nine out of ten of the pet dotj
brought to me for treatment are tie.
victims of overfeeding,” said the doc¬
tor of a dog hospital. “There is noth¬
ing else (he mutter with them. One
meal a day is sufficient for a 'healthy
grown dog even when he is allowed' to
run about the streets. Pet dogs that
have nothing to do but loll in the
laps of their owners are fed three- or
four times a day. That is wrong:
“A dog has good digestive powers,
but the process is very slow with him.
ft" i? ) e.t sii. overfed. The opi i i fnm_
that the dog cau digest almost, any¬
thing is erroneous. Although meat is
the dog’s natural food, It should never
bo given In Its raw state. Raw beef
bones, too large to swallow, are good
once or twice a week. They supply
phosphorus and cleanse the teeth.
The most healthful food for dogs is
table scraps, boiled over and fed colei
—New York Press.
SORROW OF IT.
Edyth—-Cordelia is the most pessi¬
mistic girl l ever knew.
May me—Pessimistic!
Edyth—Yes. Why, ever since her
engagement she has been worrying
for fear she may not bq_able to have
her own way after her marriage.”—*
Chicago News.
HAY?
Raynor—Have you any fear of the
so-called yellow peril?
Shyne—Bet your life! As soon as
the first goldenrod appears in bloom
I rush right off to Petoskey.—Chica¬
go Tribune.
WRONC SORT
P«rhnj>4 Plain Old Mf-at, Potato*** and
lirpud May lie A gal nut You For a Tim©.
A change to the right kind of food
onn lift one from a sick bed. A indy in
Welden, 111.,, says,:
“Last spring I became bedfast with
severe stomach trouble accompanied by
sick headache. I got worse and worse
until I became so low f could scarcely
retain any food at all, although I tried
every kind. 1 lmd become complete¬
ly discouraged, had given up all hope
and thought I was doomed to starve to
death; till one day my husband trying
to find something I could retain brought
home some Grape-Nuts.
“To my surprise the food agreed with
me, digested perfectly and without dis¬
tress. I began to gain strength at
once, my flesh (which had been flabby'
grew firmer, my health improved in
every way and every day, and in,ft very
few weeks I gained 20 pounds in
weight. I liked Grape-Nuts St> well
that for 4 months I ate no othei 1 food,
and always felt as well satisfied after
eating ns if I had sat down to a fine
banquet.
“I had no return of the miserable
sick stomach nor of the headaches that
I used tx> have when I ate other food.
I am now a well woman, doing all my
own work again, and feel that life is
worth living.
“Grape-Nuts food has been a godsend
to my family; it surely^saved my life
arid my two little boys have thriven ca
It wonderfully.” Name given by Pos
tum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
There’s a reason.
Get the little book, “The Road to
Wellville.” in each pkg.
FEVER DEATHS
GROWING LESS
A*.'d New Orleirs Citizens a*<
More Cheerful Over Sitaitioi.
WORKERS ARE K FT IttbY
Cescs Develop at To uts Outside the
City-Belated Report of In cctioa
at hli‘sissi;pi City.
With little variation in the daily
fever record in New Orleans, says a
dispatch of Wednesday, it naturally
follows that there is no material
change lu the situation, ami uone is
looked for in the immediate t'utun..
There ]s considerable satisfaction to
be drawn from the small number of
deaths, because it shows two tilings—
one that the type of the disease is
not as malignant as at first supposed,
and the other that the authorities are
finding about every case in the city.
The generally accepted deatli rate
is about 11 per cent. It is about a
week ago that the daily record took
such a jump, oue day 105 cases being
reported. Since then, the daily rec¬
ord has hovered around sixty. While
eight days are usuallly allowed lor a
patient to recover or die. most of tint
deaths occur in the fifth and sixth
day, so the fact that the deaths Tues¬
day and Wednesday were small, indi¬
cates that all the cases are on this
record now and subjected to treat¬
ment according to the modern idea. 1
The official report for Wednesday ;
up to 6 p. m. was as follows: New
cases, 66; total to date, .1,146; deaths,
Wednesday, 4; total deaths to date,
176: oases under treatment, 414.
Dr. White said the other day that
if he could he assured of having ev¬
ery case in the city under observa¬
tion and proper treatment, he could
stamp out the disease in a short time,
.to, evidently, the desired condition is
approaching, if it. has not already been
attained.
Passed Assistant Surgeon Corput i
fwtnd .another nest .of .Infection .out
side of the city during ’he day. Ho
went to St. John pariah, 50 miles j
aibove the city, on the Mississippi
river, and unearthed thirty-three cases,
twenty-one of which are in an entirely j
new focus in and around the town
of La Place. He found eight ntoro
cases on Diamond plantation in St. j
Charles parish, and four more on Ter¬
re Haute plantation. The cases at La
Place are principality among the bet- |
ter class of people, and it seems t.o i
be of mild tyi>e. He reports that ail
the houses of the poorer class of peo¬
ple in that section are full of stego
nayia, ami unless stops are taken im¬
mediately to eradicate them, the
spread will get beyond control.
The stato board of health has plac¬
ed Dr. Corput in control of this work.
The state board will also send a phy¬
sician and nurses to (ho scene.
Patterson reports six new cases and
no deaths. Point Celeste, In Plaque
mine parish, reports two new cases,
and probably three, among as many
children, all in the same group. A |
case was discovered in Rayne, in the
parish of Arcadia, on the Southern j
Pacific railroad. Surgeon Guiteras vis¬
ited Lafayette and confirmed the diag¬
nosis of the case there. No others
have developed. Assistant Surgeon
Goldberger has confirmed the suspi- j
clous case, which developed in Alex¬
andria Tuesday. The patient is nearly
well.
discovery A special of from yellow Gulfport fever tells at Missis¬ of, the |
sippi City on the gulf, and states that
the disease has been there since July
20. It originated in the Harvey board¬
ing house there, among the family of
Major Gee. There have been fleva*
cases ail told, and four persons are
now under treatment. All of the other
coast towns have quarantined against
Mississippi City, but there is much
resentment over the fact that, the ex- j
istence of the fever there was not dis¬
covered until now.
FEVER VICTIMS ON INCREASE.
Eight Deaths from Yellow Jack was Friday’s
Record in New Orleans.
Though the number of deaths In
New Orleans from yellow fever Friday
exceeded those of the previous two
days, the total was so small in com¬
parison with years when real epidem¬
ics prevailed that the situation con¬
tinues to be regarded as infinitely
more bright and hopeful.
Official report for Friday to 6 p. m.
wa.s as follows: New cases, 62; total
to date, 1,882; deaths Friday, 8; total
to date, 188; cases under treatment
415.