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Epitomized Items cf Interest
Gathered at Random.
Governor Appoints New Secretary.
Hon. VV**s!<‘ ,- Shropshire of Humrn' r
vilio has boon appoint'd by Governor
Terrell to be s< erroary of the execu¬
tive department in place of Judge A.
Kiiey of Fort Valiev, who has re
signed for the purpose of devoting his
t-n re time and attention to his law
practice.
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Many Liquor Law Violators.
The criminal docket of the United
St;u< h court for the eastern division
of the northern district of Georgia,
which is to be held in Athens on the
second Monday in November, ha;-: been
completed.
The docket shows about 200 cases
ready fop trial, the majority of which
are for violations of the distilling
laws. There are also several for vio¬
lation of the postal and pension laws,
and ;i few peonage eases.
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New Baptist Association Formed.
A new Baptist association to be
known ms the Valdosta Baptist Asso¬
ciation, formed at a great, meet¬
ing of the members of that denomi¬
nation at Naylor the past week. The
new association Is formed of churched
on the eastern border of the state,
which formerly belonged t.o the Met
cor association, the churches of the
Ifomerville association, which recent¬
ly disbanded, and a few churches
from t.h< Hamilton association.
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Farmers Urged to Stand Pat.
President M. IJohnson of the
Georgia division. Southern Cotton As¬
sociation, has written a strong letter
to each county president in Georgia,
urging them to keep up the good work
of the association.
Mr. Johnson calls attention to the
victory ilttit has crowned (be efforts
of the association, lie asks that the
biggest rally of the year he held on
he lirst Tuesday in November and
urges the cotton grows to stand to¬
gether.
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Must Replace Depot.
Upon the conclusion of the hi aring
in the case of the people of Pidcock,
Ga., Brooks county, against the Geor¬
gia Northern Railroad company, the
tikMroud commission lias issued an or¬
der stating that the Georgia Northern
iiad violated the commission’s rule
which forbids the abandonment or re¬
moval of any depot or agency without
the commission’s consent, and order¬
ing Hie railroad to restore the depot
and all facilities to the pimple of Pid
cock just as they stood formerly,
within thirty days.
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Ownership of Central.
Secretary Montgomery of the rail
rood commission has written to Maj.
J. F. Hanson of Macon and Samuel
Spencer of New York, presidents of
the Central and Southern railroads,
respectively, that the com mission pro
poscs to hear the complaint of the Au¬
gusta Southern railroad on November
10th, and desires their presence as
witnesses on that occasion, to testify
as to the ownership of the Central
of Georgia railroad. It is alleged the
Central is owned by the Southern and
the minority stockholders of the Au¬
gusta Southern claims fliis illegal
ownership operates to their injury.
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$650 Reward for Criminal.
Governor Terrell has offered a re¬
ward in the sum of $250 for the arrest
of the unknown negro who criminally
assaulted Mrs. Alice Moore, wife of
a storekeeper, about three miles from
Atlanta on the Peachtree road.
in addition to the foregoing, Mr.
Moore has offered a reward of $200,
and citizens on the Peachtree road
have offered $200. making a total of
$ 650 . Governor Turret] made the state
reward $250 at the request of Sheriff
Nelms.
The governor also offers rewards as
follows:
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Refuses Re-Arbitration.
Forrest Adair, vice president of the
Atlanta Water and Electric Power
company, has written Comptroller
General William A. Wfight, declaring
the difference between the company
and the state over its franchise has
been settled by the proper tribunal—
a board of arbitration: and the com¬
pany. says Mr. Adair, must decline to
reopen it, or otherwise interfere with
the judgment of the arbitrators.
The position taken by the company
leaves the question of its franchise
valuation still open. Comptroller
Wright will insist that his assessed
valuation of about $125,000 against the
franchise stand, and he will endeavor
to collect a tax upon this basis, it
will then be up to the company to
act, and it is prf sumed the case will
find its way to the courts for adjudi¬
cation.
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Tentative Reformatory Plan'-.
Tentative and preliminary plans for
the new state reformatory to be built
nder the direction the prison co
mission, have been completed by Ar¬
chitect A. C. Bruce of Atlanta to
whom the matter was submitted by
the commission, and these plans were
'Own to (P-nerai Clement A. Evans,
i member of that body.
The commission lias found it prac¬
tically impossible to erect such a
chiding as is desired upon the appro
riation of $10,000 made <>y the legis¬
lature, and has decided to put up a
milding to which appropriate addi
'nujuB may be made. While the quar
ters may be pretty close, it will Le
possible to get 125 inmates in the pro¬
posed building by crowding them
somewhat. The commission will at.
the next session of the legislature lay
the whole matter before that, body,
and ask for a sufficient appropriation
<> complete t.he building in the man
r in which the general assembly
undoubtedly Intended when the bill
was passed providing for this institu¬
tion.
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Warner Hill Chairman.
Hon. Hiram Warner Hill of Green
vile, Men we: her county, has been
elected chairman of the board of rail¬
road commissioners. His choice was
unanimous. He was nominated by
Commissioner Joseph M. Brown, and
succeeds to the position formerly oc¬
cupied by Hon. J. Pope Brown of
Ilawkinsville, whose term of office re¬
cently expired. Colonel O. B. Stevens
of I -awso i, Terrell county, former
commissioner of agriculture, whom, as
appointed as a railroad commissioner
by Governor Terrell, was present, and
with Mr. Brown voted for Commis¬
sioner Hill as chairman. Mr. Stevens
will serve for six years.
George F. Montgomery will continue
as secretary of the commission, and
Campbell Wallace will be retained as
chief clerk in the office. Secretary
Montgomery has been with the rail¬
road commission for a number of
in's, and his services have been emi¬
nently satisfactory to the commission
uid the people alike.
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Military Order Stands.
. As the result of a conference be
tween Governor Terrell and Adjutant
General S. W. Harris, it has been de¬
cided to make no modification in gen¬
era! oi lers No. 8, issued September
22, last, relating to the physical ex¬
amination of men for enlistment in
the state troops.
Recently Colonel Gordon of Savan¬
nah, commanding the first regiment of
infantry, and Major Stephens of Sa¬
vannah filled on Governor Terrell
with reference to this order and rep¬
resented to him that its conditions
were loo severe and that they would
tend to hinder the enlistment of men
in the military service of the state.
They thought the order should be mod¬
ified.
Governor Terrell took the matter
under consideration and after confer¬
ring with Adjutant General Harris,
decided that this could not be
done. The order was prepared in con¬
formity to the Dick hill, under which
the militia is now operating, and also
in conformity to the state law, and
under these circumstances it was con
sdered that it would have to stand as
issued.
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Cash for Industrial School.
Commissioner of Education \V. B.
Merritt has assurances of support for
the Worth county industrial school at
Isabella, which leads Him to believe
that the success of the new institution,
hough somewhat of a departure in
leorgia, will prove a success. It is
understood the school will receive a
lortion of the Peabody endowment
hind and in addition will receive finan¬
cial encouragement from Colonel C. A.
Vi ford, one of the best known and
most Influential citizens of Worth
county.
It is understood Colonel Alford, who
a banker at Sylvester, will give
the school $1,000 in cash, provided the
citizens of the county and others in
terosted in the institution will sub¬
scribe $9,000. Commissioner Merritt
has assurances that the money will be
forthcoming, and it, is believed that
next year the institution will be ex¬
tensively enlarged and its field broad¬
ened.
Agriculture is being taught at the
school and the pupils are gaining
much valuable knowledge and informa
tion.
Soil brought up from a depth of 326
foci in one of the Belgian coal mines
is said to have grown weeds un¬ 1
known to botanists.
ratiSlhENf ON MOB LAW.
In iddress^s at Litt'e Rock, Arkansas,
Roosevelt Talks Plainly on the
Lynching Evil.
President' Roosevelt spent seven
crowded hours in arid around Little
Bock, Ark. ( Wednesday, and his jour¬
ney from Fort Logan H. Roots, on Big
Rock, on the north side of the Arkan¬
sas river, to the city park in Little
Rock, was marked by enthusiastic
demonstrations of welcome. While in
Little Rock the president delivered
two speeches, one at the city park
and the other at a luncheon.
The feature of the president’s ad¬
dress at the city park was his refer
ence to lynch law. Turning to Gov¬
ernor Davis, he said:
“■Governor, you spoke of a hideous
crime that is often hideously avenged.
The worst enemy of the negro race
is the negro criminal, and, above all,
the negro criminal of that type; for
he has committed not only an un¬
speakable, hideous and infamous crime
against the victim, but he has com¬
mitted a hideous crime against the
people of his own color, and every
reputable colored man, every colored
man who wishes to see the uplifting
of his race, owes it as his first duty
to himself and to that race to hunt
down that criminal with all his soul
and strength.
“Now, for the side of the white
man. To avenge one hideous crime
by another hideous crime is to reduce
the man doing it to the bestial level
of the man who committed the bestial
crime. The horrible effects of lynch
law are shown in the fact that three
femrths of the lynchings are net for
that crime at all, but for other crimes.
And, above all, other men, Governor,
you and I, and all who are exponents
and representatives of the law', owe
it to our people, owe it to the cause
of civilization and humanity, to do
everything in our power, officially and
unofficially, directly and indirectly, to
free the United States from the men¬
ace and reproach of lynch law.
In his speech at the luncheon giv¬
en in his honor the president dis
cussed certain legal abuses by which
criminals escape punishment. He
said:
“We urgently need in this country
methods for expediting punishment,
methods for doing away with delay,
methods which will secure to the pub¬
lic an even chance with the criminal. !
At the present the right of appeal is. j
in certain cases, so abused as to make
it a matter of the utmost difficulty to
punish a man sufficienly rich or suf¬
ficiently influential to command really
good legal talent.
“If the law is reasonably speedy !
anj reasonably sure, it takes away
one great excuse for lawlessness, if
some horrible crime is committed and
the people feel that under the best !
circumstances there will be an indefi¬
nite delay in the punishment of the
criminal, and that the punishment will
be uncertain, oyen when the time for
administration of it comes, then a
premium is put on that kind of law
breaking, which more than any other
is a menace to the law.
“I earnestly hope that some sub- j
stantial improvement shall be made
in the direction of securing greater
expedition, and greater certainty in the
administration of justice, especially in
the admnistration of criminal justce.”
President Roosevelt and party ar¬
rived in Memphis at S:30 p. m. and
left for New Orleans over the Illinois
Central railroad twenty minutes later.
C01 TON TAKES UPWARD JUViP.
Over S3 00 a Bale Advance followed the
Washington Bureau Report.
Because of news which came from 1
Liverpool and later from New York
that the ginners’ report would show
6,100,000 bales ginned to October IS,
the New Orleans cotton market tum¬
bled 30 points, or $1.50 a bale, in the
early trading. When the report of
the census bureau was read, prices
shot up 44 to 63 points higher than
the lowest of the day, or as much as
$3.15 per bale.
CONDUCTOR TAKES WOMAN’S LlfE.
Shooting at Passenger on Car Bullet Found
Victim on the Outside.
E. A. Moore, a conductor for the
Savannah Electric company, in a
drunken rage late Thursday afternoon
drew a revolver of heavy caliber and
opened fire upon C. R. Seekinger, <<
passenger aboard his car. One bul¬
let sped wide of its intended mark
and struck Mrs. Leila Wheeler, as
she sat on , ,e steps to her home.
No. 207 Broughton street. The bullet
entered her jugular vein, severing it. j
and struck three she minutes dead. after she was j
was
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Modern Manners.
In our childhood our garrulity was
checked by the words: “There are
some things which ladies and gen¬
tlemen do not talk about.” We seem
to have brought frankness to a fine
art; and with this general relaxation
of conversational principles, we now¬
adays disregard ail the older conven¬
tions of address.—Lady Helen Forbes
in Black and White.
Two years of every three in Korea
have twelve months each of twenty
nine or thirty days, and the third
year has thirteen months with 3S5
days.
The cactus: is coining into fashion in
England and Germany.
*100 Kuwlrt. SHOO.
The readers olthis paper will be pleased t o
Jearntuat tnero is ac leas: one dreaded dis¬
ease tfiat seienoa nas Dear able to cure in alt
itsatages, and taat is Oatarrn. Hall’s Catarra
Cure is mo only positive cure now knownto
the medical fraternity, Catarrh being a con¬
stitutional disease; requires a constitutional
treatment, fiaii’s CatarriiCureistakeninter
nally, a 3 ting directly upoatne bloo l and uvi
coussurfaies of tire system, thereby destroy
ingthefo md itioa of the disease, and giving
the patient stre igtu by building up the con¬
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors haveso muchfatthiu
itscurative powers taat they offer One Hua
dredDollarsforaay case that it fails to euro,
bend for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall’s Family Hills for constipation.
REBATE EVIL is “SCOTCHED."
Fining of Beef Packers Has Modify¬
ing Effect on Agitation for Rate
Regulation.
Washington, October 24.—The con¬
viction and fining of four members
of the firm of Schwarzsehild & Sulz¬
berger last week, for accepting re¬
bates, forms the chief topic of dis¬
cussion here among the returning
politicians. Praise for the president
and the department of justice is com¬
ing in from all over the country. It
appears to be the general opinion that
the rebate evil is effectively scotched.
A successful precedent has been es¬
tablished in rebate cases, and here¬
after, it is alleged, the government’s
path will be compiaratively easy in ob¬
taining similar convictions if future
cases of this kind arise.
The general belief as to the re¬
sult. of the fining of the packers is
optimistic. The current opinion holds
that it will have an immediate and
lasting effect in curbing those large
shippers who demand discriminations
in their favor from the railroads, if
the government is on the alert to
enforce the law and the large shippers
will be fined $25,000 whenever they
are discovered accepting rebates, the
rebate will soon become as defunct as
the great auk. And rapacious shippers
will be further impressed by the fact
that there is every reason to believe
that the government will not be sat¬
isfied by the payment of a fine for a
second offense.
The belief grows that the decision
of the United States district court in
Chicago will have a great effect in
modifying the demands of those who
are agitating for rate regulation. Con¬
servative opinion in Washington re¬
gards the conviction of the packers as
an effective demonstration of the con¬
tention that, existing legislation is
competent to deal with unjust rate
discriminations and as supporting the
view that there is plenty of law on
the statute books, if the government
will only see to its enforcement. Those
who opposed additional railroad legis¬
lation before the senate committee on
interstate commerce at its special
session last spring are pointing to the
fact that they reiterated over and
over again that existing laws, active¬
ly enforced, are adequate and are say¬
ing “I told you so.”
FUNNY,
People XVill Prink Coffee When X: “l)oe»
Such Things.**
“I beg^n to use Postum because the
old kind of coffee had so poisoned my
whole system that I was on the point
of breaking down, and the doctor
warned me that I must quit it.
“My chief ailment was nervousness
and heart trouble.
“Any unexpected noise would cause
me tlie most painful palpitation, make
me faint and weak.
“I had heard of Postum and began
to drink it when I left off the old cof¬
fee. It began io help me just as soon
as the old effects of the other kind of
coffee passed away. It did not stimu¬
late me for a while, and then leave me
weak and nervous as coffee used to do.
Instead of that it built up my strength
and supplied a constant vigor to my
system which I can always rely on.
It enables me to do the biggest kind of
a day’s work without getting tired.
All the heart trouble, etc., has passed
away.
“I give it freely to a!! my chiidreD,
from the youngest to the oldest, and it
keeps them all healthy and hearty.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek. Mich.
There’s a reason.
Read the little book “The Road to
Wellville” in pkgs.
SHOOT TO KILL
IS ORDER GIVEN
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Russia to Put Down Anarchy by
Force of Arms.
CZAR'S EMPIRE IN A PANIC
Wholesale Bloodshed is Momentarily
Expected-Terror Pervades the
Whole Empire.
St. Peterburg was in total dark¬
ness Friday night, the strikers hav¬
ing during the afternoon stopped the
machinery of the electric light plant
The last link of the railroads bind¬
ing the capital with the outer world
was broken late at night when the
Finland road suspended service be¬
tween St. Petersburg and the Finnish
border. Telegraphic communication is
still open, but there is a possibility
that the cable operators may be com¬
pelled to join a general strike of teleg¬
raphers.
General Trepoff, who is practical¬
ly dictator, has ordered the troops
to shoot to kill should a demonstra¬
tion he made.
The most alarming reports are cir¬
culating about affairs in the south of
Russia. Private reports received in
St. Petersburg are said to confirm the
stories cf the mutiny on board the bat¬
tleship Catherine II, and the destruc¬
tion by incendiaries of the battleship
Patelimon, formerly Kniaz Potemkine.
In the interior of Russia ihe people
have neither mail nor newspapers
and are the prey to the wildest sto¬
ries cf what is occurring. In some
towns a reign of terror is reported
to exist.
That the present situation cannot
end without bloodshed is the convic¬
tion prevailing in the higher govern¬
ment circles, which from moment to
moment are expecting a conflict be¬
tween the troops and the revolution¬
ists in St. Petersburg, and news of
trouble in the provinces, especially at
Kharkoff. which lias been declared in
a state of war.
The governor of Kieff has been in¬
structed to take all necessary meas¬
ures to restore order, which the local
government and the commander of
the troops ’are unable to maintain.
One of the most prominent members
of the emperor’s council said with
every evidence of deep emotion:
“The situation is a grievous and a
painful one, and I see no way out
of it, except by the employment of
armed force. Please do not misunder¬
stand me. I look upon the prospect
with tears, hut it is becoming more
and more evident that'the troops will
be compelled to fire. I can see no
other possible outcome. The revolu¬
tionists and terrorists are absolutely
bent on forcing a conflict upon us,
and nothing we can do will satisfy
them. The extension of the suffrage
aud the right of assembly will be
nothing to them. They are deter¬
mined to have bloodshed, and we can¬
not avoid the issue. It is a frightful
disease from which Russia is suffer¬
ing, and sad and painful as it is the
government must act with force.”
A Warsaw special says: The gov¬
ernor general has ordered the troops
to shoot every agitator caught armed.
At Lodz the governor has ordered
the officers in the event of disturb¬
ances to act without mercy.
F£VES> SITUATION 4T PENSACOLA.
Friday’s Rep \ kt Showed -- Nine New Cases
But ily Two Oeaths.
The fever summary in Pensacola
Friday was as follows; New cases 9,
total cases 526, deaths 2, total
deaths 74, discharged 374, under treat¬
ment 7.
Although the number of cases re¬
ported shows but little decrease, the
officials are nevertheless not discour¬
aged and believe that a big reduction
will be noticeable in three or four
days.
CaTTO ALT SLAIN 8V TSOOPS.
1 I pino insurgent leader's Career Brought
to an fed in Mindanao.
' A Manila dispatch says: Troops
under Captain Frank McCoy of the
third cavalry have surprised the Bat
:o All, head of the Moro insurgents
of the island of Mindanao, who has
been on the warpath for some time
oast, and killed him together with
his soa and ten followers. Forty-three
wounded Moros were taken prisoners
Three enlisted men of the twenty-sec¬
ond infantry were killed and two
voundel during the engagement.