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BANKER PLANT
KILLS HIMSELF
Died by His Own Hand in Order to
Reimburse Creditors.
INSURED OVER A MILLION
Brooding Over Unbearable Financial
Troubles Bullet From Pistol Was
Sent Through Brain.
Brooding over his utter financial
ruin, and facing debts aggregating
over $800,000, Robert H. Plant, at Ma
con, Ga., Saturday afternoon sent a
bullet through his brain in order that
$750,000 of these debts might be paid.
It was simply a ease of a man giv
ing his life in order that those who
had trusted him might not suffer.
Mr. Plant carried paid-up insurance
for over a million dollars. Of this
sum, $750,000 was payable to his estate
—that is, to his creditors.
He killed himself at 3:40 o’clock
by shooting himself in the right tem
ple with a thirty-eight caliber Smith
<£■ Wesson pistol, expiring immedi
ately.
Mr. Plant was in his bedroom at
tended oniy by his nr se, whom he
dismissed from his presence on the
pretext that he was thirsty and want
er a glass of milk. As she left him
to secure the milk from the refriger
ator. he arose and went to his dresser,
where he kept his revolver secreted.
Securing possession of it, he recross
ed the room, stepped to an outside
porch, p’aced the revolver to his right
temple, pulied the trigger and blew
his brains out.
No one was in the room at the time
the act was committed, but the report
of the pistol brought his family quick
ly to his side. When he was reached
life was extinct.
Tbr-t his sole objeot in taking his
own life was the protection of his
creditiOT, which could have been ac
o'mplished, apparently, by no other
means, there is. no doubt in the mind
of any one who knew him. Nor does
any one believe that Mr. Plant took
a dollar of insurance with a view to
converting it to account by self-dcv
B‘.ruction, but that, Hie circumstance
presenting themselves unexpectedly,
and there being no other way. he pre
ferred to take this step for the ben
efit of his creditors to living and see
ing them suffer.
There is no policy in the en ire list
that is not mere than a year old, so
that all of them are now incontesta
ble, and the eniire $1,115,888 will be
come available either for the protec
tion of his creditors or for the ben
efit of his wife and children, accord
ing to the beneficiaries named in the
policies.
Plant’s Life Insurance.
Foliowing is a list of the insurance
carried by Mr. Plant, the figures be
ing furnished by the representative of
a company in which one of his larg
est policies was carried:
New York Life . . . ..$500,000
Equitable Life....... .. 115,000
Mutual Life...... . .. 100,000
Penn Mutual...... . .. 80,460
Union' Central...... . .. 50,000
Massachusetts Mutual .. . .. 50,000
Home Life........ . .. 50.000
Washington Life .. .. . .. 30,000
Manhattan Life .. . .. 20,000
Mutual Benefit...... . .. 20,000
Northwestern Mutal.. .. 428
To’ al $1,115,1SS
The foregoing policies were taken 1
o t u by Mi. Plant during the lasc 25 j
years, the last one being taken a lit- !
tle mere than a year ago. The annual |
premiums were in the neighborhood
of $40,000.
According to the receiver's report I
it appears from Lho books of i. C. !
Plant's Son that the great bulk of 1
the assets of that institution is rep i
resented by the personal account of i
R. H. Plant, manager, which -stands
debited with a balance of $851,977.85,
to which is to be added $18,130 cash
withdrawn on pass book, making
balance of $870,107.85, charged to that
account. The books and accounts so
far produced fail to show in detail
how these large sums are invested
FINAL DEAL IN PANAMA TRADE.
Check for Balance of Nino Million Dollars
Given Morgan £ C.o.
Acting Secretary cf State Loomis
makes the following statement:
“In order to completely close the
Panama canal transaction and to avoid
any question rs to the authority of
the United Sthtes over the canal zone
under the advices of the attorney gen
eral. has paid over to J. P. Morgan
& Co., the duly constituted fiscal
■ agents of the Panama, governmen’, th >
r^uvdn'ng $9.003.030 of the sum stiv
lated in the tree y -a the consider?, „
for the rentes i*,
OKSSTTfST.
FOR CONCILIATION.
Presbyterian Bodies of United States
May Come Into One Fold-Move
ment Starts.
The one hundred and sixteenth
eral assembly of the Presbyterian
church of America, in session at Buf
falo, N. Y., will probably become a
history making body. The second day
of the assembly was replete with in
dications of a church addition that
will greatly strengthen that denomina
tion. Sentiment strongly favored union
with the Cumberland church, while the
Presbyterian church, another southern
body, may come within the fold
within a year or two. The assembly of
the Cumberland church is now meet
ing in Dallas, Tex., and the assembly
of the other southern church is meet
ing in Mobile, Ala.
The assembly at Buffalo Friday by
an overwhelming vote'made the report
on union with the Cumberland church
a special order of business. .
Subsequently the assembly,with only
one negative vote, went on record as
wiping from the minutes of previous
assemblies all aspersions and charges
refiecting on the Christian character
of the Presbyterian church in the Unit
ed States, the southern body. In 1882
the general assembly ’ of the Pres
, byterian . 7 church , , . the _ United T States ,
in
offered the olive branch to the assem
bly of the Presbyterian church
in the United States of Amer
ica (northern), by wiping from
its records harsh things it had
said about the northern church in the
civil^war days. The northern church’s
reply contained a rider which was
more offensive in the eyes of the
southern church than certain things
to which the northern church had pre
viously given voice, hi saying that it
took back things it had previously said
about the southern assembly, the
northren assembly took pains to re
mark that this action did not include
the action of former northern assem
blies relative to “loyalty and rebel
lion. • *
Friday’s action by the northern as
sembly seeks to remove all the hard
feeling engendered in those days.
A special from Mobile. Ala., says.
The decorum of the Presbyterian as
sembly was disturbed to a degree hith
erto unknown Friday afternoon, and
it is only within the memory of the
oldest members that the dignity of the
assembly had ever permitted anything
like applause during its counsels. The
cause of the enthusiasm was the read
ing of the following telegram from
the northern assembly, which threw
the assembly into the wildest excite
ment followed by vociferous applause:
“The general assembly of the Pres
byterian church of the United States
of America, in session at Buffalo, have
adopted with only one dissenting vote,
the following resolutions:
a t First, Whereas, it is known that
the general assembly of the Presbyte
rian church of the United States, now
in session at Mobile, Ala., has before
it overtures from several of its pres
byteries looking to closer relations
with this assembly, and,
“ ‘Whereas, We earnestly desire to
remove all obstacles to all such rela
tions, now, therefore, be it resolved,
That this general assembly of tlis
United States of America hereby re
moves all aspersions and charges cf
any and every kind made by previous
assemblies reflecting on the Christian
character of the Presbyterian church
of the United States, and is ready at
any time to confer on the subject of
closer relations, whenever such con
ference shall be agreeable to the gen
eral assembly of the United States .
a t Second, That the moderator and
stated clerk be instructed immediate
ly to communicate this action to the
general assembly of the United
States.”
traces cotton manufacture.
Important Document Soon to Be Issued
From Agricultural Department.
The department of agriculture at
Washington will shortly issue a com
prehensive report on the consumption
of cetton in the cotton states,compiled
by ,T. L. Watkins, the cotton expert of
the bureau of statistics.
It traces cotton manufacture in this
country from its inception to the pres
ent time.
Kai-Chou Taken bv Japanese.
A special from Tokio says: Although
it has not been officially stated, it is
known on good authority that the
Japanese forces have captured *T 3 i
Chtm, ^riving the Russians back to
Tasihi-Cliia, in the direction of Niu
ebwang, end preventing \he advance
of The Russian troops, at Niuchwang
in the direction cf Kai-CbCn.
Twenty-Five Japs Killed bv Shell.
During the recent reconnoisnnce of
Port Arthur, made by Admiral Togo,
a shell hit the torpedo boat destroyer
- f katsuki. biding one officer and twen
t.-'-four men.
NIUCHWANG
EVACUATED
Last of Russian Troops March
From Treaty Port.
FORCED OUT BY JAPANESE
Onward Move of Mikado's Forces
Cause Russians to Retreat Still
Farther Into Manchuria.
In confirmation of recent Associat
ed Press dispatches the Russian evac
uation of Niuchwong, says a cablegram
of Tuesday from that city, has been
completed.
Nothing remains but the destruc
tion of the gunboat, Sivouch, wnich
it is expected will take place imme
diately. The Russian troops marched
out in perfect order, General Kondrat
svitch leaving with the last regi
ment.
The Associated Press correspondent
has received exclusive information
| from the highest Russian authority
, that ... the .. Japanese T advance , will .... be re
i sisted . . . at A Hai-Cheng, TT . whence the „ Rus
! sian forces will fall back upon Liao
| Yang, where they will make a deter
mined stand with a fighting strength
there available of 70,000 men.
If defeated no stop will be made at
Mukden, but the retirement will be
continued to Thioling, a town at the
head of the navigation for native craft
on the Diao river, 200 miles north of
Niuchwang. At the same time the Cos
sack regiments will be employed in
the rear of the Japanese army of the
Yalu, harassing the troops and inter
fering with its communications. It Is
not believed that the Japanese will
move into the interior until they have
thoroughly established their base here,
repeating the movement which they
j made during the war with China.
The Russians admit the advance of
the Japanese army to a point with
in 15 miles of Hai-Cheng, many of
their wounded entering there, '.'he
nearest fighting expected before the
Japanese reach Niuchwang will be at
Tashi-Chao, but it will not amount to
much. This city is now guarded by
300 Chinese police and everything is
quiet. The Japanese force at Kai-Chua
is reported 20,000 strong.
Admitted in St. Petersburg.
A St. Petersburg special srys: Com
plete withdrawal of the Russian ‘Yom
Niuchwang is believed to have fol
lowed the strategic command of the
port by the columns sent westward by
General Kuroki.
The exact conditions under which
the evacuation was brought about are
not known here, as nil the official dis
patches have been forwarded to the
emperor. The foreign office is not ad
vised aa to whom the administra r ion
of Niuchwang was handed over, but
the authorities express confidence .hat
the Russian commander arranged for
the safety of foreigners before his
departure.
LET SOLDIERS SURVEY ROADS
Is Suggestion of General Miles at Meeting
of Association in St. Louis.
’At the second session of the National
and Industrial Good Roads convention
at St. Louis Tuesday the principal
speaker was General Miles, who de
clared himself to be thoroughly i n
i sympathy with the movement for bet
ter roads and in his address recom
mended that five thousand men In
the army be used in times of peace
as an engineering corps to locate the
best and most feasible roads and co
operate with the surveyors of va- I
rious states.
He said that the government would
* >e vas ^y benefitted by such a plan,
j when it became necessary to use such
roads The preleminary work of sur
be done by the army, he
said, and the work then left to the
state to be carried to completion and
» enera ^ ^be army to have con
trol ,
General Miles said he would have
introduced in congress a resolution or
bill to this effect
SUES PAPER FOR HEAVY SUM.
Police Cosnmissienar in New Orleans Brings
I libel Charge Aqeinst I he Picayune.
The New Orleans Picayune, which
h as been making ; a vigorous fight
against gambling and police corrnp
| y on fcas been made defendant in a
; $KK};000 damage libel suit brought by
Jacob Nienaber, one of the police com
missioners. Some weeks ago Police
Commissioner Woodville, a new mem
i her of the board, exposed the alleged
shortC omings of the police board
j j and gave ** an interview to The Pica
' yune, in which the competency and
honesty of the board were attacked.
‘
CALAMITY THREATENED
_ !
By Ultimate Spread of the Boll Weevil j
in all Sections Where Cotton is
Grown.
A Washingion special says: Some
significant official predictions regard
ing the ravages of the cotton boll wee
vil are made in a report soon to be
issued by the department of agricul
ture and written by W. D. Hunter, who
has charge of the entomological part
of the boll weevil investigation in
which half a hundred experts are now
engaged.
Mr. Hunter says that conservative
authorities agree that unless contin
gencies at present unexpected occur
the pest soon will cause an increase
in the price of cotton throughout the
world. By living within the fruit of
the plant the weevil is well protected
from any poisons that might be ap
plied it, occupies bnt fourteen days for
development from egg to adult, and
the progeny of a single pair in a sea
son may reach 134,000,000 individuals;
it adapts itself to climatic conditions
and is remarkably free from parasites
and diseases, all combining to make
efforts at control difficult.
The report estimates that the pres
ence of the weevil practically doubles
the area of land required to produce
a bale of cotton and that the weevil j
caused the Texas planters a loss of
about $15,000,000 in 1903. Assuming
$500,000,000 as the value of the normal
cotton crop of the country, Mr. Hun
ter says the probable ultimate dam
age when the best has become spread
over the entire belt would be approxi
mately $250,000,000 annually, provid
ing nothing were done to check it.
Planters, however, are adopting
changes in methods that tend to avoid
so much damage. The report predicts
that the weevil eventually will be dis
tributed all over the cotton belt, ad
vancing into new territory at the rate
of approximately 500 miles a decade
and it probably always will be as de
structive in a series of years as it
has been ih Texas since 1894. The
reports suggest that the probability
of it being carried to West Africa oi
elsewhere abroad is not at all remote.
,In case the seed happens to be sacked
or even shipped in bulk there is noth
ing to prevent the weevil from being
carried long distances on shipboard as
they are able to adapt themselves suc
cessfully to climate conditions.
If it is pointed out, however, that
the danger could be avoided by fumi
gation or by leaving the seed sacked
in store rooms, isolated from new cot
ton for a year previous to shipment.
QUESTION OF LABOR IS PARAMOUNT
So Says Parry at Meeting of National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers.
Nearly 700 delegates were in their
seats when the ninth annual conven
tion of the National Association of
Manufacturers was called to order at
Pittsburg, Pa., Tuesday. Solicitor Wil
liam B. Rodgers tendered the free
dom of the city to the delegates. Ad
jutant General Thomas A. Stewart
then welcomed them to the state and
Congressman W. A. Brown received
them on behalf of the chamber cf
commerce.
President D. M. Parry, of Indian
apolis, then took charge of the con
vention and delivered his annual ad
dress. He briefly discussed the labor
question, which, he declared, was at
present the paramount question be
fore the association.
DODD GOES 10 PRISON FARM.
Convicted Georgia State Senator Reports
to Authorities to Begin Penal Service.
State Senator W. P. Dodd, of the
forty-third Georgia district, who was
convicted in Gordon county superior
court a few days ago of embezzlement
of public school funds, presented him
self at the office of the prison com
mission in Atlanta Monday for the
purpose of beginning his sentence.
Under the new convict system all
short term men must either be sent
to the counties which are working
convicts on the public roads, or ihet
must, be sent to the state farm at Mii
ledgeville. It was decided to send him
to the farm.
TALKED POLITICS IN CONFERENCE.
Colored Methodist Preachers Have Exciting
Diversion ot Chicago Meeti lg.
Discussion of a resolution indorsing
President Roosevelt for a second term
resulted in heated arguments among
the members of the general conference
of the African Methodist Episcopal
church at Chicago, Friday. The reso
lution went to a committee.
Rev. W. O. Cooke, of Atlantic
City. N. J., .offered a resolution at
tacking Senator Benjamin Ryan Till
man, which was disposed of in the
same manner.
The Wonder s of Th»
Humanity, which si ^Iters rrr.it
of 90 degrees, and i 0
if the mercury withers act
runs ~
Srees higher, up in
finds it hard to
a heat of 5.400 degrees Yet n
the heat developed in th t)
of thermit, e combi
a heat which weld
gether pieces of the most
- po j
machinery, which makes B!
to mend iron it
which castings ^
heretofore had to be rrpl
at great expense of labor
which can unjte iron and
Iy that the rails
joining can £
seen or felt, and a rail can
miles long instead of ““
dred feet at the fifty 0 a
This outside.
themit is a compound di
ered by Br. Hans Goldschmidt
sen, Germany, who has 0
ing in this before" been t
country, che
and engineering associations
chemical di scovery of on
full of his that
engineering possibilities ,
covery that unlike so manv ’ ip
discoveries is Sc
not merely j nter
,
to the scientist, but commercial
uable in the industrial world
thermit is a mixture of finely*
lated or powdered aluminum 6
gome metallic oxide, most freqn
oxide of iron. This mixture look
unlike gunpowder, or to a hous.
would suggest mixed tea, the
granules being aluminum, and
dark ones oxide of iron, la bin
this mixture creates a tempera
as Dr. Goldschmidt expressed 1
a paper read at the annual me
of the American Society of Meel
cal Engineers, ‘’about equal to
of the electric arc light.”—Broo
Eagle.
Patent medicines are never soli
the apothecary shops of Sweden.
Government limits the numbei
these shops, and there are ouly 33
the whole country, Stockholm, i
a population of 800,000, having i
twenty-two.
Deafneas Cannot 13a Cared
by local applications as they cannot rea onlfl
diseased portion of the ear. There is
way to euro deafness, and that is by col ll
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused liaiJ
inflamed condition of the mucous tuhej
the Eu5taoM.au Tube. When this
flamed you have a rumblingsoundorin*
feet hearing, and when it is entirely mil dfl
Deafness is the result, and unless the
mation can be taken out and this tubl
stored to its normal condition, hearing!
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out bl ol
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing surfal
inflamed condition of the mucous fol
We will give Oue Hundred catarrii)tha:| Dollars
case of Deafness ('caused by
not be cured by Hall ’s Catarrh Cure. Co.,Toled| Sen!
circulars free. F. J. Cheney A
Bold by Druggists, 75c. constipal
Take Hall’s Family Pills for
Employes in Japanese cotton I
tories get only eight to eleven eighteen twl cj
for a day’s work - of or nJ
hours. This work however, is
less strenuous than in this corm
and much time is wasted in load
talking, laughing and drinking tea.)
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Mr. T. M. Brown, of DeQueen, Ark., i
‘Over seven years ago I was cured ol
opium habit by your medicine, and have
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Mr. W. M. Tunst.ail. of Jjovingston.
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as wanted a drink in any form since
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Mrs. Virginia Townsend, of Shreveport take
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take when 1 say that my health is better
than it ever was in my life, and I owe itt<
and your remedy. It has b«en twelve;
since I was cured by your treatment.’’
Dr. Wooliey has thousands of such testi
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should hesitate to write to
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106 North Pryor Street, Atlanta, *'
lor his book on these diseases, which he
send free and confidential.
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