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Dispensary Bill Signed.
Governor Terrell has signed the
Buchanan bill, which allows coun¬
ties in which dispensaries are locate
fcd to decide their fate by ballot.
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Slap Cost Just $100.
For slapping a white boy, George
Meyers, Clayborn Crawford, a negro
bicycle dealer, at Columbus, was lined
$i(;0, with the alternative of sixty
days the chain 1
on gang by Acting i
Recorder Williams, who expressed his
regret that he could not make the sen¬
tence five times heavier. :
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Election Blanks Sent Out.
Chairman M. J. Yeomans of the ■
state democratic executive committee
has forwarded the blanks for election
returns to the chairman of the differ¬
ent county executive committee to be
used in the primary, August 22. The
tickets were sent out several days
ago.
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Many Requisitions Issued.
The records of the executive depart¬
ment show that in July Governor Ter¬
rell broke the records of all months
of previous years in the matter of
Issuing requisitions on governors of
others states for fugitives from jus¬
tice. No issued twenty-six. The next
highest is twenty-one, issued in 1892.
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Phil Cook County Favored.
After remaining in executive ses¬
sion but a few minutes, the members
of the committee on new counties an¬
nounced to the waiting crowd of in¬
terested persons that the committee
had reported unanimously in favor of
the proposed new county of Phil
Cook, which is to include parts of
the present countiees of Pike and
Monroe.
Capital of Georgia Banks.
State Treasurer Park’s report to
the United States comptroller shows
that the capital of all banks in Geor¬
gia, not national, is $2,£95,000. From
July ], 1905, to June IS, of this year,
the state has issued ninety charters.
No banks have failed during that pe¬
riod. One sold out and merged into
another, which is now the Bank of
Savannah. It has a capitalization u ,
$700,000.
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Alf Moore Given Respite.
Governor Terrell granted a respite
to Alf Moore, who was implicated in
the murder of the Carter children, un
til October n. This is done because the
negro will be needed as a witness in
the trial of the Rawlings, which has
been appealed to the United States
supreme court.
The decision of Judge Speer of the
United States district court at Ma¬
con will stay the execution of Raw¬
lings until (he case is heard. An opin¬
ion to this effect was submitted by
State Attorney General Hart to Gov¬
ernor Terrell, and the tespite of the
negro followed.
Fraternal Pins an Issue.
A hill has been introduced into the
Georgia senate to stop negroes from
wearing the pins of the white fra¬
ternal organization. The bill,is to be
general in its character. It applies
by name to every secret order that
lias any standing at all in Georgia,
and makes it a misdemeanor for any
one to wear a pin or an emblem of a
regularly chartered secret or frater¬
nal organ.zation unless he is a mem¬
ber thereof. It is hoped in this way
to retire the numerous Elks heads,
three links of the Odd Follows and
the F., (\ and B’s of the Knights of
Pythias which now adorn the lapels
of so many negroes’ coats.
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Bench Candidates Bobbing Up.
Judge W. R. Hammond, Judge How¬
ard B. Van Epps and Hon. Benjamin
H. Hill, all of Atlanta, will be candi¬
dates for seats upon the new court
of appeals, which has been establish¬
ed by the legislature.
The election for the three judges
will occur early in ’November, pro¬
vided. of course. Unit the people of
Georgia at the October election rat¬
ify the action of tlte legislature in
creating the new court. To create it,
a cons; itutional amendment is neces¬
sary, and this will he voted on at
the regular October election.
Until permanent quarters can he
obtained fhe court of apeals will use
the supreme court hall. The court
will be n session during the supreme
court's vacation hours.
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Condition of Various Crops.
Commissioner Hudson of the state
agricultural department has issued a
circular which shows exceedingly
well the conditions of crops in Geor¬
gia. and what are the prospects. Tne
circular is as follows:
On July 21 the Georgia department
of agriculture sent out the usual
number of circulars to intelligent cor¬
respondents in every county with
questions concerning the condition
and prospects of all the crops. An
unusually large percentage of these
correspondents returned answers with
the folowing results:
Toial average for the state: Cotton
71 1-3; corn 89 1-3; rice 72 1-2; to¬
bacco 85 1-2; sweet potatoes 87; sugar
cane 90 2-3; melons 68 1-3 peaches
63; applees 65 1-3 ; cantaloupes 70 ;
groundpea3 89; field peas 67 1-3; cars
peaches shipped last year 309; cars
cantaloupes last year 141; cars canta¬
loupes this year 124. Wheat: Yield
compared with an average 91 2-3 per
cent; average yield per acre this year,
bushels, 10 1-3. Oats: Yield compared
with an average 86 2-3; average yield
pe-r acre this year, bushels, 16. Hay:
Yield compared with an average 97;
estimating that Georgia made 1,750,
000 bales cotton in 1905, how many
balees will be made in Hie state in
1906? 1,372,000.
It will be noted that the July cot¬
ton report has fallen from an aver
afe condition of from 85 per cent to
71 per cent.
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Asylum a Dumping Ground.
“The asylum at Milledgeville is a
dumping ground for every poorhouse
in the state. Why, they actualy keep
drunken people there until they sober
up.”
Such is the substance of a state¬
ment made upon the floor of the
house by Hon. Joe Hill Hall during
a speech in opposition to a bil appro- j
printing ?10,000 for the erection of i
four cottages or buildings for the
lation by sex and color of the con¬
sumptive insane confined in the state
sanitarium at Milledgeville. Mr. Hall
attached no blame to the officials. The
bill was passed by a vote of 120 to
7 .with the provision that the sum
mentioned be taken from the state
appropriation already made for the in¬
stitution.
“To labor and employ labor are
inherent and inalienable rights of om
citizens, and cannot be taken away
in whole or in part unless upon the
broad ground of public gobd, which
must be apparent, and cannot be pred¬
icated upon legislative dictum.
It may be stated as a well settled
legal proposition that the right to
labor and contract tor that labor is
both a liberty and a property right;
when therefore the legislature enacts
a statute such as -hat under consid
na,s a/oskw*-that if
- .infringed in the enactment the
rights which are very clearly accord¬
ed by the constitution to the individ¬
ual citizen.
“The people, therefore, are called
upon to justify this invasion, and
there is but one plea in justification;
[ that the statuto was enacted to pro
tect the comfort, welfare and safety
of the whole people, and the individ¬
ual must suffer this curtailment of his
granted rights in the interest of the
common good.
“In the case under consideration
the right of the employed and the
right of the employer are equally in¬
volved. Nothing to the contrary ap¬
pearing it must be assumed that the
woman was a willing worker for a
willing .... employer . and . that ,, , the result ,,
was mutually satisfactory and profit¬
able.
‘The present constitution of the
state of New York was adopted in
1894, and became effective January 1 ,
1895. All of tie rights which adult
women possessed at that time were
confirmed by that document. One of
those rights certainly was the right
to contract for her labor and to work
when and where she pleased without
reference to the position of the hands
of the dial of the clock.
"It was not until four years after
that the lawmaking power sought to
place the limitation under considera¬
tion upo nthem. What was the leg¬
islative intent in. doing this? The at¬
torney general finds and urges no
other reason than that the general
5 welfare of the state demands that
the progeny of women of the factories
! have mothers with healthy bodiees
to the end that the state may have
sturdy citizens. Does the state look
merely to the children of the factory
women for its future good citizens?
Why should not the housewife, the
woman w ho toils at home, in mercan¬
tile houses, in offices, or she who
toils not at all—the society woman—
be exempt from legislative interfer¬
ence, injunctive or mandatory, for the
same reason? Some of them may be
; mothers of future citizens, and it
should be of great interest to the
state that their progeny should have
birth and breeding to conserve its
welfare.”
fverv Point Won B\ Miners.
Coal, miners and operators of the
Coshocton, Ohio, field completed a
settlement of the wage controversy
Friday, the miners winning out on
every point. The new scale adopted is
exactly that of 1903.
The Revised School Laws.
Commissioner W. B. Merritt has
worked faithfully and wisely to se¬
cure a revision of the school jaws
of the state. Nearly three years ago
a committee from the senate was
appointed (o revise and codify the
school laws. This committee received
the co-operation of Mr. Merritt and
other educators. The new law has
passed both houses of the general as¬
sembly. it is a distinct gain for com
■non school education.
Among the chief provisions which
it injects into the old laws are the
folowing: It provides for higher qual¬
ifications of board members and per¬
mits one of said members to be se¬
lected from a local system; makes
the maximum pay of board mem
hers $3 a day; provides that s/hool
districts shall not contain less than
60 children except under certain re¬
strictions; provides that teachers
shall make reports of all children in
their districts not in attendance and
the cause of- their non-attendance ;
provides for help from the county
school funds for help to school libra¬
ries, provided fhe school community
raises an equal amount. Under this
law it will he possible for every
school community to have a good
library and to add from ten to
twenty dolars’’ worth of books each
year. The law provides for consol
idation of schools, transportation of
pupils; provides that applicants for
county school commissioners’ posi¬
tions who have not served before
must have had successful experience
as teachers; that commissioners must
visit schools tivice each year; that
school funds be available during the
school months of the year ; that
funds received for teachers' salaries
must be paid out within ten days;
and that school year shall begin in
September instead of January.
Another bill has passed the house
which is of immediate importance, as
It corrects the errors in the local
tax law. With the passage of this
bv the senate, we expect to see many
districts voting a school tax. there
by improving the school conditions.
With this law enacted it will be a
dying town that refuses to put in a
modern, free, nine months public
school system.—J. S. STEWART.
There is a paragraph going the
rounds of the press to the effect that
in a crowded street car in Washing¬
ton the other day Secretary Taft rose
and gave his seat to three ladies.
tivms SPIED Of AUTOMOBILES.
Northern laws Copied in Bill b\ Georgia
House of Kepresentdtives.
By an overwhelming vote of 119 -o
2, the Georgia house of representa¬
tive Thursday passed a bill to reg¬
ulate the running of all automobiles
and other similarly propelled vehicles
upon the public highways of tffe state.
The measure conforms to the law of
most of .he northern states.
DYSPEPSIA CURE
DIGESTS WHAT YOU EAT
The $1.00 bottle contains 2 W * times the trial size, which sells for 50 cent*.
PREPARED ONLY AT THE LABORATORY C?
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FOR SALE BY HADAWAY & MOORE.
To Cure a Cold in One Day in Cares Two Grip Days.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, js ^ & on every
Seven Million boxes sold in past 12 months. This Signature, box. 25c.
HOT DECISION
ON LABOR
Statute Restricting Work of Women
and Children Knocked Out.
JUDGE GROWS SARCASTIC
Declares New Ytrk Statute is an Un¬
warranted Invasion of Conditu
tional Rights.
The state law of New York restrict
ing the labor of women and children
to ten hours a day and sixty hours
a week in a factory, was declared Fri
t ay by Justice Olmstead in a decis¬
ion handed Gown in the court of
sessions in spe
New York city to be
“an unwarranted invasion of consti
tutional rights.”
fhe ruling was concurred in by
Jstice -McKean and Justice Deuel.
Judge Olmstead declared that the law
was class legislation.
Justice Olmstead said in his decis¬
ion:
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OLD MURDER MYSTERY SOLVE!*,
Negro Serving Life Sentence Was Slayer
oi Atlanta Policeman.
The mystery surrounding the mur¬
der of Policeman R. L. Albert, who
was assassinated in Atlanta nine
years ago, has at last been solved.
The assassin has been located.
The assassin was a negro. His namie
is Jim Shephard and he is now serv
ing a life-time sentence in the Geor
gia state penitentiary anothe.
murder.
This felon, with two murders to
his charge, has told his story. In fact
he told it at the time it happened,
but to those who kept the secret.
On the morning of July 13, 1897,
Officer Albert was patrol(ng the baat
on which is the Broad street bridge.
At daylight four negroes, among
whom was Jim Shephard, were shoot¬
ing craps under an arc light. The
policeman saw them and ran toward
them. The negroes tried to run away,
but the policeman was in time to
seize two of them. There was a scuf
fie in which the officer drew his
pistol. Shephard was one of the ne
groes who had not been seized. When
he saw that his two pals were atom
to get shot he drew a pistol and fired
at t.’ie officer, the builet taking el
iect -
Officer Albert released his hold on
his prisoners and returned fhe fire of
Jim Shephard. There was a chase for
a few yards when the negro lest his
: bat and the officer fell dead upon the
bridge. , . It will be remembered , how
the detectives kept that hat ns a
j clew.
This is the story that Jim Shephard
went to his home and told on the
1 morning of the murder. At that time
j be lived with his father and mother
on Grant street.
Jim Shephard left the city that ■
same day on the advice of his rein- i
, lives, and went to Coweta county.'
near Senoia. where be stopped with i
bis cousin, George Mathis. To Matthis |
Jim told the same story of how be:
had killed the policeman that he had !
told his father and mother in At-:
-'inta.. j
:
From Coweta county Jim went to.
Meriwether county, where he was!
hired by a man named Evans until j
1905.
In 1905 Shephard killed another ne-1
gro. Jim Cofield, who w r as his brother
j in-law. For this crime he was found;
; guilty and given a life sentence in 1
the penitentiary. He is now serving]
that sentence in the Dade coal mines. |
The next move will be to have Shep¬
hard brought to Atlanta from the ,
c-oal mines, so that he can be tried ;
for the ,
murder of Officer Albert, !
may then tell who were his pals :
on the morning that Officer Albert
was assassinated.
GREAT SIRIKE IS INAUGURATED.
Hosts ot Workingmen in St. Petersburg
are lhroa.ng ip Jobs.
A general strike was formaly or¬
dered to begin in St. Petersburg Sat¬
urday at noon and as a preliminary
the men employed in a dozen estao
lishments went out at noon Friday.
The strike affects 150,000 men, in¬
cluding the employees of the electric
lighting plants. 1
Vigror Positively cured; no stimulant hut permanent.
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laws of the state of Georgia for the treatment and cure of all
nervous and chronic diseases. Dr. X, K. King, the founder of
this Institution, ______n, is is the the chief chief consulting consulting special specialist, being ansistfed
by a staff of eminent physicians and surgeons.
In the treatment of chronic diet eases is untnrpaa
•ed; we use both medical ami electrical agenciea.
Our offices are equipped with wit b a 1 the galvanic, gal faradic batter
ies. s. X-ray, X-ray, violet 5 riolet rar. rav. and and Fin sen ray; in fac ct, every electrical
contrivance anci known to the medical profession. Our sanitarium ia
modern in every eve; respect, ect, and and we we employ none but the best
trained and efficient attendants, regularly qualified graduates
and licensed physfciajis misleading being in charge. arge. patients and
We employ no g means menus to secure
patronage—no C. ^ O. n D.'s V\ or unasked Oil for 1 literature are sent out
by $10.00 this Instution. Our (medicines terms for included; treatment average from $5.00
to per month, and we give the assur¬
ance of a cure within a time.
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Pullman Palace Cars between
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Macon, Charleston. Savanah,
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SORRY LOT OF SAINTS.
Piety of Pilgrim fathers Discounted By
Former .Secretory f4 N*vy.
John D. Hong, former secretary of
i the navy, stirred up a lot of excite
j ment First at Church the first ter-centennial of the
| of Plymouth by his ad
j i grim dress at Fathers.” Plymouth. Mass., on “The Pil
j | counted ‘‘The saints the in fingers,” Plymouth he could be^
on said,
j “Some of the very elect were false
| to their trust, falser to their trust
J than any president (if a modern in
j sura nee company. Within the first
decade social vices infested the com¬
munity; drunkenness, slander, licen¬
tiousness and even crimes against,
nature were common.”
ROW BE1WIEN MUNCE AND TURKEY.
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Strained Relations are Brought About Over
frontier Quesfien.
Strained relations have arisen be
tween France and Turkey over Ihe
frontier of Tripoli adjacent to the
Fronch Sahara, Turkish troops re
cenlly occupied the disputed territory
on the ground of Turkey’s suzerainty
over Tripoli. France's protest was
ineffective, the Turkish ambassador at
Paris .receiving Instructions to main
tain the Turkish claims.
BOOKktlPfK AN EMBtZZLER.
Ilixtnn Admits Mak-nq Wav With $125,000
of firm’s Monev.
Clifford S. Hlxton, 28 years old, a
bookkeeper for the Union Trust com
pany of Pittsburg, is is in in jail, charged
with embezzlement, and hail is fixed
at 820.000.
Hlxton is said to have made a
confession, in which he says his
shortage will amount to about $125,
COO. He says he speculated
FEW YOUNG MfN ARE TIT.
Recruiting Officer Has Hard Time Getting
Material for the Armv.
A dispatch to the Chicago Record
Herald Horn New Orleans says:
That an alarming percentage of the
young men of the cities of the south
are physically unfit to enter the army,
owing to cigarette smoking, late
hours and other bad habits, is the
statement of Lieutenant Bennett, in
charge ot the local recruiting office.