The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current, March 31, 1921, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextDEBS MAKES TRIPTO WASHINGTON ALONE ATTORNEY GENERAL SENDS FOR FAMOUS SOCIALIST PRISONER AND HSARS HIS PLEA HARDING APPROVES JOURNEY Daughtrty Says Interview Planned To Make Inquiries In Connection With Probe Os Case Washington.—Eugene V Debs, So / iolist leader, serving a term in At lanta penitentiary, made a plea for clemency to Attorney General Daugh e.rty in person March 24. Debs left the prison and came here , alone, without guard or escort, and re- : turned the same way. Records of the i department of justice do not disclose a similar incident. The whole proceeding was under in structions from Daugherty, to which President Harding Itad given his ap proval. Delm went* Immediately to the de partment of justice when he arrived, and was with Daugherty for two hours and a half. He returned to Atlanta the next train. Solicitor General Goff was the only other person pres ent when Debs and Daugherty talked. President Harding had asked Daugh erty to review Debs’ case, and recom mend whether or not pardon or com mutation of sentence should be grant ed. Attorney General Palmer urged clemency, but President Wilson refus ed it, and friends of Debs since then renewed their agitation for his re lease. “I was not afraid Debs would try to escape,” said Daugherty, "I instruct ed the warden of the penitentiary to arrange for him to come here.” Asked how Debs looked, Daugherty said: “He seemed fairly well, although he was nervous. This may be natu nil, so far as I know, for 1 was not familiar with his appearance before.” 11l health and advanced years have been used as arguments in Debs’ be half. Daugherty said these things would he taken Into consideration In making recommendations. He would not indicate when he would communicate with President Harding, nor what course he might 'suggest. He stressed the fact that the Debs case did not involve the general policy toward the so-called po- t Jitical prisoners. "Debs presented his own case to the trial court and Jury." said Daugherty. ; •’He was permitted to do so here.” 120,000 Greek Trooos In Turk Offensive Athens, Greece.—Greek troops mint- ‘ berlng 120,000 are participating In the Greek offensive against the Turkish Nationalist forces in Asia Minor, It is reported here. The Turkish Nut ion.il ists are believed to have about 90,000 effectives in the field, but have less supplies upon which to draw. The most ; careful preparations have been made ■ hv the Greeks in connection with the offensive which begun recently, and It | is anticipated that they will win ini j portant positions with their first drive. Live Stock Exchange Files Complaint Washington. Complaint against all Glass 1 railroads operating in eastern territory was filed with the interstate commerce commission recently by the National Live Stock exchange and the Cleveland Provision company charging failure of the roads to publish suita ble tariff rules and asking reparation «if fifty thousand for aleged resulting < xcesslve charges. Protection is asked for shippers who order ’’standard 30- foot stock cars against payment of a higher minimum weight where longer t ars are furnished for the convenience j or carriers.” “Dago Joe" Released In Murder Case Warsaw. Ind.—John Invagnolia of Elkhart, known as "Dago Joe." who was being held. In connection with the death near here, of Leroy Lovett, was released from custody recently follow ing his testimony before the county grand jury, which began Us investiga tion of the case. Virgil Decker, who is being held, charged with the mur der of Lovett, made a statement charg ing invagnolia with having committed the crime. He has made another state ment exonerating Invagnolia of any connection with the slaying of Lovett. Negro To Dir For Attack On Organist New Brunswick, N. J. George Wash Ington Knight, 22. of Cliffwood. re cently found guilty of first degree mur der in connection with the death of Mrs. Edith Wilson, a church organist, who was attacked near her home at Perth Amboy. March 12. Knight was sentenced to die during the week of >luy 2. Tho jury returned its verdict In ir, minutes. Mrs. Wilson's body, bearing marks of a brutal attack, was found on the night of March 12 in u vacant lot near her home. It was rain ing; an umbrella was over her. Fear For~Safety Os U. S. Aeronauts Pensacola. Fla. — All efforts to lo cate the United States navy free hal loon and five men missing since it left on a practice flight recently have been unavailing, although searching parties searched the Florida coast be tween Pensacola and Fort St. Joe The balloon was in command of Chief Quartermaster E. " • W ilkiuson, as pilot, and carried a machinist’s mate und three marines as students. Naval officials here express great fear for their safety. Pigeon message received tell of drifting to tea. 5 MEN HELD IN BOMB CASI Located By Justice Department Agenti On Board Steamer At Sea And Put In Irons New Orleans. —Five men, shacklet : hand and foot and guarded by armet j policemen are under arrest in New | Orleans pending their transportatior ; to New York, where they are wantei in connection with the Wall streei bomb explosion of September 16 which cost two-score lives and mil lions of dollars in damage to propertj in the heart of the financial section. The men call themselves Russians Poles and Germans. They have beer sought throughout the United Stater and abroad by agents of the depart ment of justice, who finally locatei their quarry on hoard the United Stater shipping hoard steamer City of Alton j then near Rio de Janeiro. Taken to that port in irons, they were transferred to the shipping boarc vessel Kushville and brought to New i Orleans. The men put up a terrific fight for i liberty upon their arrest, hut were finally overpowered and put into con finement by the ship’s officers. Ai Rio they were put in prison to awaii transportation to New York. Another hitter fight on the steamei Yoro of the Munsen line occurred when the men were transferred to thai liner from the Rio prison, and not dar ing to accept the dangerous cargo, th< steamer turned them back again to tht | consular officials, who slapped then into jail a second time. American Vice-Consul Thomas final ly prevailed upon the Rushville, ther loading coffee, to take the men aboard Seven policemen escorted them weighted down by handcuffs anc chains, to the vessels, and remained or board until they had been safely con fined. Members of the crew declaret that during the trip to New Orleam the five were regarded as particular!] dangerous, und a constant watch wui maintained over their movements. . t ... Fifteen Killed In Irish Ambus! Cork, Ireland. —Seven soldiers ant one policeman were killed and sev ral wounded and seven members of tht attacking party killed in an anibust of military and police near Klnsle re cently, according to the latest report! received here. The fatalities to tht crown forces were caused by the blow Ing up of a bridge while three lorriei were crossing it. Twenty Sinn Feineri were captured, of whom seven wert j wounded, and the military took a largt quantity of ammunition. A reign o terror prevails in County (tork ant : the crown forces are reported to havt ! burned farm houses and produce in re j prisal for the ambush. I Ask Early Hearing For Western Unior Washington.—Solicitor General Frier son asketl the Supreme court to ad vance to April 11 hearings in tilt ! appeal from the New York decret dismissing the government’s applies tion for an injunction to restrain tht ; Western Union Telegraph companj from landing a cable on the Atlanta | coast without government permission j The question involved, Mr. Frierson's j petition says, is whether the presides | has the constitutional right to preven ! such a landing and is one of grea 1 importance to the government, “involv ing the exercise of its sovereigt rights.” Congress Is Called To Meet April 1 Washington.—A proclamation con veiling congress in special session a noon, April 11, “to receive such com munication as may be made by th< executive,’’ was issued by Presiden Harding. Hundred Thousand Fire In Lexingtor Lexington, Kv. —Fire of undetermin led origin recently destroyed th< wholesale fruit and storage warehous< of Hurst Co. in the wholesale dis trict. Damage is estimated at betweei one hundred thousand and one hun ! ( ired and twenty-five thousand dollars Adjoining warehouses were datnaget J by water and smoke. 3,000,000 War Orphans In German; Berlin. —There are 3.000.000 war or phans in Germany, according to offi tint figures. They are' being givei I state and locak care, but it is said the; form a large percentage of mor than 1,000,000 children in German; being aided by foreign relief work. Germany Quiet After Election Victor; Berlin. —Under advicV of goverr meat officials Germany was quiet tk f spite the overwhelming victory in th upper Silesian plebiscite. Figure i announced by Foreign Minister Vo - Simons said the rich territory wen f to Germany by a vote of "13,700 t l Poland's 460,700. Analysis of the vot • showed practically every person c s J voting age went to the polls, in th i C ity the vote was almost 100 per een I The average for the whole distric was believed to be 95 per cent. s J. J. Esch Given Recess Appointmen '■ Washington.—The following reces appointments were announced at th White House: John J. Esch, Wiseoi l ' --it, to be a member of the interstat * commerce commission. Dwight 1 Davis. St. Louis. Mo., to be a directo ’’ of the war finance corporation. s Anarchist Arrested In Barcelon Barcelona, Spain.—Police author 1 ties of this city have arrested an at r archist named Domenech on susplcio d | that he was involved in the plot k i the assassination of Premier Dato. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. 1 CARDINAL GIBBONS " PASSES TO BEYOND d . PROLONGED ILLNESS PRECEDES DEATH OF HIGH CHURCH MAN—B7 YEARS OLD n d ; IN SERVICE FOR MANY YEARS l-; y Was Primate Os American Catholio Church Possessed Great B Executive Ability ” Baltimore, Md. —James Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Baltimore and ( j primate of the American Catholic church, died at the arch-episcopal res l idence here March 24 after a prolong ’ ed illness which mainly affected his j heart. He was in his eighty-seventh y • year. w The end came peacefully at 11:33 in ; the morning. Cardinal Gibbons, who had been e showing pronounced signs of improve ( ment in health ever since his return borne about January first last from • t Union Mills, Md„ where he was taken seriously ill early in December, suf fered a relapse Palm Sunday evening soon after returning from an automo bile ride. The sudden change of lt weather which brought unreasonably I high temperatures had a depressing j e effect on him. His fainting spells re e turned and when he was put to bed II it was realized by those closest to him that he probably would never get up \ *' again. " Cardinal Gibbons’ physicians said ' repeatedly in the earlier stages of his i illness that he was sound, organically, ' as could be expected in a person of “ his year, but that he suffered from the ’j effects of his age qnd from fatigue • that resulted from the prodigal expen -18 diture of his energies in the perform y ance of his duties as senior prelate of 18 the Catholic church in this country. Active service of more than half s, h century in the interests of his coun d try as well as his church is closed ! by the death of James Cardinal Gib bons. At the celebration in 1911 of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his ele vation to the cardinalate, his emi s nence, out of all the tributes paid him, 8 expressed himself as most affected by y that from William Howard Taft, hisi , g intimate friend and then president, ’ g who said; •e "Through his long and useful life. ;e Cardinal Gibbons has spared no ef jf fort i nthe cause of good citizenship j and the uplifting of his fellow-men.” , e The brilliant executive ability of g. Archbishop Gibbons was recognized early in his career. He was created a cardinal, a prince of the church, a quarter century after he had entered r ‘ the priesthood. This was in 1886 —he r ‘ wac then fifty-two years of age. *' The impressive ceremonies took ie place in his home city and cathedral !e in Baltimore. In the presence of the il " hierarchy of the church. Cardinal Gib ie bons was clothed in the insignia of y the office. He arrived in Rome the lc following year and received the apos ’■ tolic blessing and admission into the 8 college of cardinals, the twenty-fifth in succession. Cardinal Gibbons celebrated the cen v_ tenary of the founding of the Catholic ii hierarchy in the United States in 1888. He convened the first national con gress of Catholic laymen in the United States in the same year. He laid the cornerstone of the Catholic university tt in Washington, and was its chancellor lt from its foundation till his death. He n ' was the first" Roman Catholic prelate ie in the United States to take part in , 11 the election of a pope, casting his bal- j lot for Pius X. The cardinal's views on political, ,n economic and sociological questions n- had been frequently sought by news ie papers. In interviews he endorsed the ~ plan for the establishment of the Jew ’g ish homeland in Palestine, he opposed , 8 ’ the government ownership of public n- utilities, maintained that prohibition s. meant "the invasion of home and sac h* ramental practice.” condemned divorce, praised the work of the Salvation , y Army in France, favored American mil r. itary training, implored the clergy to T fight Bolshevism, demanded that the ' n Turk should he driven from Europe r ', | and appealed to the public to support iv America’s entrance into the lbague of • 1 nations. ry To Consider Sites For War Hospitals n Washington. Consulting advisers e . called in by the public health depart ment to assist in its hospitalization U plans for war veterans, will hear rep es resentatives of states and munieipal -1,1 itie-s who have hospital sites to offer nt the government, lt is announced that to the group of consultants, headed by te Dr. \V. C. White, had opened head of quarters in Washintgon, and that pos :ie sibilily of utilization of existing federal 11 owned lands and buildings for hospi- T tals would be considered in their rec ; ommendations. nt Are No Unpaid Bills Due To France ss Washington.—America owes France ae absolutely nothing, according to the n assistant secretary of the treasury’. U> whose search of the records discloses L. that the balance sheet was marked off or in 1891, when a final Installment of five million dollars was paid. No debt has been contracted with that ia nation since. This statement was made ri- in reply to a recent article in a nejvs n paper of Paris that the United States an owed France $90,000,000 from the old of Revolutionary war debts. This shows we owe nothine to Wanee. REDS RIOTINGJN GERMANY Dynamite Freely Used On Public Build ings In Attempt To Force Gen eral Strike Berlin. —Communist workers seized [the city administration buildings in then occupied the Blohm and Voss shipyards and hoisted the red flag, says a dispatch from Hamburg. . Workers in other shipyards quit work and began organizing mass dem onstrations, according to the dispatch. In Leipsic, Dresden, Rodewisch and | other cities in central Germany, the j Communists directed their efforts i against court houses, city halls, pub- j lie banks and police headquarters. A , bomb exploded in the Leipsic court house and blew off the roof, broke all the windows, wrecked the lobby and shattered the windows of buildings in a radius of two blocks. In Rodewisch the city hall was vir tually destroyed by a bomb which had been concealed in the basement. The use of dynamite against the city ad ministration buildings in Auerbach Frieberg and Dresden resulted in very heavy property loss and the wounding severely of at least three persons. Others were slightly injured. A 21-year-old man was arrested in Auerbach with a sack of dynamite in his possession. A companion who fir ed at a policeman escaped. The man arrested said he was from Danzig, but declined to talk further. The outrages are believed to be con nected with the attempt of the Com- I munists to force a general strike. The mid-German industrial areas l are again in the throes of anarchy in j consequence of the Communists deter i mination to force a wide-spread gen eral strike in protest against the gov ernment’s action in massing security police there for the purpose of check ing the rioting and plundering which has been going on for the past few days. The lignite districts near Mansfield are the chief centers of the present disturbances, which not only extend to derailing trains by removing the tracks, but are spreading to serious bomb outrages upon the judiciary buildings in nearby towns and cities, including Leipzig, Dresden, Wreiberg and Rodewisch. Armed bandits, operating under the direction of the notorious “Robin Hood” Hoelz, who a year ago terror ized Vogtland, are carrying out bold- j ups, robbing savings banks and other wise spreading terror through the com- j munity by the destruction of indus- j trial plants and the seizure of arms. U. S. Milk Consumption Increases Washington—The average Ameri can is a great milk drinker and con sumes twice as much as former gen erations, according to the department of agriculture. The consumption of milk last year was estimated at forty four gallons per capita, not including j that used in ice cream, cheese and butter. While .every family had its own cow in colonial days, the depart ment experts said, the present-day development of dairy centers, with modern methods of handling and transportation facilities, make it eas ier now for the city consumer to get his milk supply. Business Men Buy Opera Company Chicago.—Control of the Chicago Opera company has passed out of the hands of a small group of wealthy persons into the hands of 500 busi ness men, each of whom has under written SI,OOO as a guarantee of ex penses. George M. Spangler was for mally appointed as business manager ! of the company when the arrange j ment was completed. .Refuse To Prohibit Modern Dance Greenville, S. C—To be absolutely fair to the self-indulgent, a set city council declined to place a ban on the shimmie camel walk, and tickle toe until each member could learn the steps and see if the dances are really immodest. To Auction Off Texas Aviation Fields Fort Worth, Texas. Barron field the last of the three aviation fields established here by the British and American governments during the world war. will be sold at auction by the government, it is announced here. A number of airplanes have already been disposed of. Man Killed In Tennessee Explosion Knoxville, Tenn Engineer J. A. Creasman was killed and part of Wa tauga Extract company plant destroy ed in an explosion and fire at Eliza bethton, Tenn. Tennessee Woman Held For Murder Knoxville, Tenn.—Mrs. Lula Balas, charged with murder of her husband, near Lenoir City, was held to court without bond, following a preliminary hearing. Her plea was self-defense. She was returned to the Loudon coun | ty jail. Grand Jury After College Students Raleigh, N. C —As the result of one of the most serious outbreaks of haz ing in the history of the institution, a number of students of State college here have been cited to appear before ! the Wake county grand jury April 11 to answer charges of violating state statutes. No arrests have been made. The latest outbreak of hazing at the college began the latter part of Feb ruary and reached its climax when the rooms of about twenty freshmen were broken into and the occupants’ heads shaved METHODISTS GIVEN SUM OF SIOO,OOO GIFT TO CONSTITUTE PART OF $33,000,000 BEING RAISED FOR EDUCATION STATE NEWSJF INTEREST Brief News Items Gathered Here And There From All Sections Os The State Atlanta —A gift of SIOO,OOO by Wil liam H. Stockham, of Birmingham, to ' the Christian education movement of , the Southern Methodist church, was i announced by Dr. W. P. King, of At- 1 lanta, editor of the W T esleyan Chris tian Advocate. The gift will consti tute a part of the $33,000,000 educa tion fund now being raised by the chufch for Methodist institutions of learning. . Mr. Stockham is president of the Stockham Manufacturing company of Birmingham. He is a prominent Methodist layman, and is a member of the advisory committee of the Chris tian education movement in the North Alabama conference. He has been active for many years in church and civic enterprises. Commenting upon the gift by Mr. Stockham, Mr. King said: “It was a fine message of hopefulness. Some have doubted as to whether the South ern Methodist church could raise $33,- 000,000 for her educational institu tions— “ But as our men of wealth do big things, the church will reach this goal. This generous Alabama layman is one of many who will insure the success of the educational campaign.” Three Are Jailed On Hold-Up Charge Atlanta. —A. E. Rutledge, 20 years old; O. T. Worthy, 20, and M. L. Chapman, 22, were arrested by police authorities, who claim Rutledge con fessed and implicated Worthy and Chapman in a &same-up, wherein G. K. Knight, living at Peachtree Inn, was lured to a secluded spot near Lake wood and robbed of $125. Gwinnett Man Is Victim Os Suicide Lawrenceville. —J. Cash Williams, age fifty-five, and one of the leading planters of Dacula district, took his own life by shooting himself through the head with a shotgun at his home. No exact cause is known for the rash i deed except his apparent despond ency for the past few weeks. He is i survived by a widow and two daugh ! ters, Mrs. Charlie Striping, of College I Park, and Miss Daisy Williams, of | Forsyth; and two sons, James and Cash Williams, of Dacula; also four brothers, James D., Sidney C., Virgil I R. and Alvin E. Williams. Arrested For Kidnaping Macon Man Macon.—Two white men were ar rested here charged with kidnaping W. D. Lavar, 23, and holding him for i a ransom of SSO. Those arrested gave the names of Bill Reid and John Sullivan. Mrs. Rosa Lavar, who ob-1 tained the warrants for the arrests, j showed county officials, according to j the sheriff, a receipt for $5 as part \ payment for the release of her son. Lavar claims that he was lured to i Boggy swamp in Houston county, and when he attempted to return he was tied with a rope and held. Mrs. La var charges that her son was threat ened with death if she did not pay. Bureau Predicts Wormy Peach Crop Atlanta. —Agents of the Fort Valley station of the United States bureau of entomology have reported a num ber of curculio eggs in peaches dur ing the past several days. This ovi position is especially early, and is an indication of a heavily curculio infe3t- j ed May drop. Orchardists are conse quently being urged by the bureau to j make preparations to collect as much of the fallen fruit as possible and destroy it. This practice will help j materially in controlling the curculio i at harvest time. Not only should the May drop be picked up, but all other 1 fruit that falls until after harvest. Adult curculios are still appearing in numbers. A total of 3.411 were col lected March 21 from an experimental block of about 500 trees, which is the | largest catch to date. The first ar senical application should now be concluded. Indications all point to another wormy crop, and it is going to mean a hard fight to get the cur culio under control, but the fight can be made successful if all orchardists will closely follow the government recommendations. Huff Faces Jury In Federal Court Griffin. —The trial of Franklin Huff, wealthy Spalding county planter, on a charge of violating the revenue and prohibition laws, was recently begun in the United States district court at Atlanta. Huff served twelve months in the federal penitentiary at one time for violating the peonage act. Federal officers testified before Judge Sibley j that Huff's extensive plantation, on which 28 plows are run. was honey combed with moonshine stills several months ago. The government has many witnesses. I I White Slaver Gets One Year Sentence Atlanta.—D. A. Barbee, charged with violating the Mann white slave act, I pleaded guilty in federal court, and ' was sentenced to one year and a day |in the federal penitentiary. According j to department of justice agents, Bar ! bee married a young girl from Dallas I several months ago before he had secured a divorce from his wife living in Spalding county. Owing to the il legality of the second marriage, it is charged Barbee violated the Mann act when he transported the girl to Los Angeles on a honeymoon trip. Bar bee was arrested in New Mexico re cently and brought here to face the charges. According to federal agents, Earbee was married to a woman in North Carolina several years ago, but i Barbee told Judge Sibley that he had I divorced her previous to his marriage to the Spalding county woman. Bar i bee is under a state indictment, charg ing him with abandonment of the Spalding county wife and two small children. Farm Loan Association Organized Irwinton. —Carl Vinson, congress man from the Tenth district, met a large number of farmers at Irwinton and organized a farm loan association. A great deal of interest was manifest ed in this movement, farmers from every section of the county attending in full force. Thirty-five farmers im mediately asked for membership in the association and numbers of others are to be taken in later. The follow ing officers were elected: R. L. Stubbs, president; T. H. Hardie, vice president; Geo. H. Carswell, secre tary-treasurer; T. Sanders, M. A. Tar pley and C. L. Smith, directors. R. G. Ortwell Injured In Auto Mishap; Atlanta. —R. G. Ortwell, well-known j. Atlantan, was takenl to Grady hospitalj in a critical condition recently fol-i lowing an automobile accident. Phy-; sicians at the hospital stated that he; was suffering from serious wounds in; the head. Ortwell was injured whenl an automobile in which he was riding; together with Thomas H. Lafitte skid-i ded into a telephone pole at the cor :: ner of Euclid avenue and Hurt street. 1 R. R. Commission Acts On Petition Atlanta.—The state railroad com-; mission meeting in executive session; took action on the following petitions of railroads for changes in train and station service: The A., B. & A. rail road was allowed to discontinue trains Nos. 15 and 16 between Atlanta and Fitzgerald. The Flint River and Northeastern railroad was allowed td discontinue passenger train service. The Georgia railroad was allowed to discontinue the station at Dunlap, but was not allowed to discontinue the station at Carey. The Georgia and Florida railroad was allowed to make certain changes in the service on mi nor branches in south Georgia, but was not allowed to discontinue trains Nos. 43 and 44, also Nos. 14 and 15 between Keysville and Tennille. The Central of Georgia railroad was not allowed to reduce passenger service between Cuthbert and Fort Gaines to single daily service. Finley Indicted For Assault To Kill Atlanta. —William Finley, an aged white man, was indicted by the Ful ton county grand jury recently for as sault with intent to murder A1 Ban ! croft, anotheraged citizen. Both men are carpenters. Finley was bourn* over to the grand jury after a prelimi | nary hearing in the municipal court before Judge T. O. Hathcock. It is al ; leged that the shooting was the out growth of an altercation over a lien i placed by A1 Bancroft on some prop erty that he had been working on. The act was eommitteed March 9, 1919. Revenue Agent Tried In Federal Court Atlanta. —An application of District Attorney Hooper Alexander* a writ of habeas corpus has been issued by. Federal Judge Sibley by the Charges of assault with intent to murder re cently brought against Revenue Agent John W. Nation, will be tried in the ! United States district court. The charges were contained in a warrant sworn out before Judge T. O. Hath -1 cock in municipal court by Lawrence Bell, a relative of John Bell, Chero kee county farmer and former minis ter, recently shot by the federal officer. Motion For Change Os Venue Denied Summerville.— Judge Wright over ruled the motion for change of venue in the case of Clint Mathis, charged I with murder of Lewis Kinsey, Sum merville mail carrier. The case prob ably will go to the court of appeals for decision. Mathis was not brought here from Atlanta for the hearing. Six Acres Sell For $3,000 At Auction Cornelia. —As an evidence of the j growing value of farm land in this section of the state, six acres of a tract of fifteen acres was sold at pub lic auction for cash recently at $3,600 per acre. There were no improve r.-ents on this tract and it was seven miles from the railway. Fire At Colquitt Destroys Cotton Colquitt. —Fire here destroyed the Cowart & Dancer cotton warehouse, with 1,000 bales of cotton, and the W. L. Geer peanut .warehouse, causing | a total loss estimated at $60,000. — Leads Drive In Newton For Tech Covington.—Dr. W. D. Travis, a prominent physician, has accepted the j chairmanship of the greater Georgia ; Tech committee for Newton county and will have charge of this branch ! of the drive.