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Brief Summary of
Throughout the State.
Cedartown's New Depot Started.
Work has commenced in the Sea
board’s new $6,000 passenger depot
in Cedartown and will be pushed to
completion as rapidly as possible.
To Use Secret Bailot.
At a mass meeting in Athens the
democrats of Clarke county ordered
the Australian ballot to be enforced
in all primaries in the county and
city for the next two years.
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Educational Program.
Proiessor N. E. Ware, of Hawkins
vilie, president of the Georgia Sduca
tional Association, has sent out the
program which win be taken up at
their thirty-eighth annual session at
Warm Springs, June 20-23. The pro
gram is replete with interesting fea
tures.
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Carrollton Issues Bonds.
At a municipal election held in Car
, . _ . , .. . r
1.- ..rth , / of ”!" bonds < *\ 11 msuance authonzed o
n.
to be used m constructing water
works, sewerage and an electric light
plant owned by the citv
A survey will be made at once un
tier authority of the mayor and coun
cil and it will be determined early
whether sewerage will be put in con
nection with water works at this time.
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Nurserymen to Meet.
The Amercan Association of Nurse
rymen will meet in Atlanta on June
22, the convention to last three days.
A large delegation from all sections
of the country is expected.
The Georgia Peach Growers’ Asso
ciation has been invited to meet with
the nurserymen, and has accepted the
invitation. In this way the grow
ers of fruit and the growers of stock
will have a mutual meeting.
Court House Site Case Decided.
Secretary of State Phil Cook has
dismissed the contest over the re
moval of the Worth county court
house from Isabella to Sylvester, be
cause the contestants tailed to appear
in court either in person or by at>
torney. According to the certificate
of Secretary Cook it appears that
there were 2,541 votes cast in tho
election, 2,12G of these being for re
moval from Isabella to Sylvester, and
415 being against removal.
Money for Plant Creditors.
Checks representing $425,000, pay
able to the Plant es*a:e, reached Ma
con last Saturday add are now in the
hands of N. B. Corbin, receiver for
the I. C. Plant’s Sons bank, and the
money for which they call is now
practically a part of the fund which
will be divided among the creditors
of that financial institution as the
courts may direct.
It was $1,025,000 the late banker
carried on his life, of which $75,000
went to his wife and children.
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Quiet Reigns at Georgia Normal.
Peace reigns over the Georgia Nor
mal School *at Athens. The troubles
1hat have existed were settled a few
days ago by the members of the state
normal commission, and, it is presum
ed, settled for all time. The members
of the faculty have been re-elected and
put on notice that there must be no
further differences, and a prudential
committee, consisting of Chancellor
Hill and State School Commissioner
Merritt, has been appointed with full
power to act should action on its part
become necessary.
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More Gordon Fund Committees.
President W. L. Calhoun, of the
John B. Gordon Monument Assoeia
tion, has just named several import
ant committees in connection with the
work provided for under the bylaws
recently adopted for permanent organ
ization under the charter.
The committee previously appointed
on subscriptions, both in Atlanta and
in various cities and states of the
south, have been continued by Presi
dent Calhoun, and will act as com
mittees of the newly formed associa
tion.
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Hostess for State Building.
Mrs. John W. Hughes, of Atlanta
has been appointed by Governor Ter
rell hostess of the Georgia building
at the St. Louis Exposition.
As hostess of the Georgia builiing,
Mrs. Hughes will spend part, of every
day at the building, where it will he
her pleasure to greet any ladies who
are visiting the exposition, and when
it is necessary to see that the y are
properly taken care of.
Governor Terrell has received defi
nite assurance that the Georgia build
ing will be formally opened to the
public on Thursday, June 16.
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Large Sum for Fort McPherson.
1 Incladed in the allotments just ap
proved by Secretary Taft at Washing
ton are appropriations for two Geor
gia posts. Fort McPherson, S6S.000.
' and Fort George H. Thomas, $ii.
;o.
The appropriation for Fort McPher
i son.is for improvements at this post
j which are row under construction, and
i include barracks for the first battalion
' tbG Sixteenth regiment, now sta
! Honed at Fort Slocum. N. Y- and other
j i officers’ quarters, which ire rapidly ap
| proaching completion. It is expected
trat the first battalion, officers and
j men, will arrive in Atlanta in August,
| : md that the buildings now in course
j ' ?f construction will be ready for their
! 1 accommodation ar that time.
1 Notice to Georgia Teachers.
I To the Teachers of Georgia and
! the Friends of Education:
The National Educational Assoc;*
j 110 a meets at St. Louis June 27t.b-Tuly
I j Is > i .
The ed ationai exhibit of the Unit
I ed States and foreign countries will
j be the greatest in the world’s hi*
j tory.
The National department of Super
intendenca which recently convened
in Atlanta, resolved to emphasize this
| exhibit from all the leading cities. The
i purpose is to show original work. By
tfaat means real educational con
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be : 1<nown and rapared :
I can The is linusualIy c ° ’. , and
P rograni ncn
full. Men and women of national rep
utations will take part.
The exhibition itself covers more
area and cost millions more than any
olhcr iu the histor ^ of nations ’ Tho
I area is 1,240 acres and cost $50,000,
000.
To attend the sessions of the xsso
ciation and to study the exposition
is a liberal education, and all progress
sivc teachers ought to go, and all who
' desire general culture.
Superintendent W. F. Slaton, of
, bG Public ociioois,
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Commissioner W B Merritt and
others, ladies and gentlemen of did
' taction, will compose the party and
! assist the state director. They will
i leave At’mta Saturday June 25th for
| the Exposition city.
Governor Favors Immigration,
Governor .Terrell will aid in the
movement to start a department of
i tami Sration in Geoigia in his .ues
s: -£e, which will read to the general
assembly of The state during the ses
sion that will commence this month.
Governor Terrell has not yet determin
ed exactly what he will say to the
legislature or what he — ^ ' 1 1 recommend,
but it is certain that he will mention
the ma.tter and will lend his influence
to the movement.
| “I am heartily in favor of inviting
j better class of immigrants to
i come to Georgia, declared Governor
j Terell ^ several bringing days them ago, to “and this I want state
i '° au ln
! all I can. I have not perfected the
j ( P° * ea r fi°n ^ w ith of immigration, my message but which I expect win to
I incorporate several ideas in' it.”
Investigating the Kloeckler Case.
After a half hour’s meeting at the
court house in Atlanta Saturday morn
I ing, which bristled with some startling
sensations and some most remarkable
dialogues, the coroner decided to wipe
i °R b:s slate everything that had been
j ( ’ onG * n tbe investigation of the death
i °* Sophie Kloeckler and to get
j a over new a £aiii, summon and hold all the witnesses inquest
! a new
, from start to finish.
! Never before in Fulton county, and
; probably never before in the state, has
! such a tbi ng as two inquests been held
: <Aei the dead body of the same person,
wib be dope tbis time, as Solicitor
expressed it, ‘to satisfy the pub
j lie and stop a certain amount of ad
I verse criticism.
Th( ' rewar d offered by The Atlanta
I Constitution for the arrest and con
| v *ction of the murderer of Sophie
j Kloeckler was quickly followed by
j otb er rewards^, ’hes $1,600, and now the grand to
reac the largest reward
I that has been offered for a murderer
: in Georgia in several years.
This Constitution reward recalls the
payment, of a reward of $500 which
was off ered by that paper in 1899 for
* be ca Pture of Sam Hose, the negro
| murderer and rapist.
The murder of Alfred Cranford
; and the assault of Mrs. Cranford by
: Sam Hose, which oceured in \pril,
1899, near Palmetto, Ga., was one
of the most shocking crimes ever com
mitted in Georgia. The captor of Hose
was promptly paid, although the negro
j w r as burned at the stake.
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| Use ° f Tobacco by School Children,
t President Lyman Hall, in a talk
to his students, some time ago. on
thp nse of tobaeco by the students,
gave the following facts:
“The use of tobacco in early youth
I ch «cks the growth of mind and body,
i When you offer a cigarette to a friend,
| >'°« are fu saying: manhood ‘Allow by me offering to impair
your ure a
poison, delightful in present effect,
mnarn
I; but which leaves in its wake the ashes
\ of intellect and a withered remnant
of your physique.
| “A friend of mine, who is a Ph.
D. from one of the universities
i abroad, says that although the Ger
mans are the greatest smokers of all
nations, the first prize in mathematics
j has never been won in a German uni
versity by a student who uses to
bacco.
“Let us come nearer home.
j present senior class is about even *
j divided into smokers and non-smokers,
Yet the highest average in class stand
ir.g predominate among the non-smok
ers. There is a member of that class
who, in my opinion, would now be at
the top had he loved his interests j
more and his tobacco less. When two
| of that class were chosen as acting
instructors the faculty had many |
1 ! points of ability, tact and character
. -
consider. .. The choice , , happened . , to
to
fall on two non-users. j
“The highest averages in the senior,
middle, junior, apprentice and sub
I apprentice classes at the present time
; happens to be held by non-users. j
“In the middle class there is only i
j one user. His mark is below an av
f era go taken of all the others.
“In the apprentice class there are
four sections. The highest average in
each section is held by a non-user.
with one exception, and he is a young
man who came here more advanced in
„|» „-„rt than .ho res. of his -lass,
His average is lower this year than
las j
In the sub-apprentice class *:hero i
are six sections. A, B. C, D. E and
F. A non-user holds the highest av- ]
erase in each of these.
I “Go *o the high sections (the sec
lions of the classes, are arranged by !
merit) f< r the clear ('ve. the fine phy
sique. the neat appearance among
your fellows; seek the lower sections •;
for t!ie careless dr;ss. the dreamy ox- !
pression and the tinted fingers.
“Cigars and pipes are disreputable j
companions for any young gentleman. ;
chewing tobacco unfits you for decent i
and makes repulsive to , !
: company you
1 ' ' , ' r bosom friend and the cigarette
is a ‘pestilence which walketh at noon
i day’ destroying your brain and body,
:ni! * leading you to a fate full of pain
and misery, and often to crime, im
p.risonment and death.”
The experience of President Hall
is. in the main, that of nearly all col
^ge presidents r d school superin
tendents.—J. S. STEWART, of the
; ^ iate I niversity.
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A BRACE Of MURDER MYSTERIES.
Woman Found Dead in Jacksonville and *
Corpse Taken From Tennessee River.
Mrs. Mattie E. Carlisle was found
dead beneath the bed in her room at
117 West Church street, in Jackson
ville, Fla., Sunday morning. Mrs. Car
lisle was the widow of Joseph Car
lisle, a former merchant of the city,
aiU ] since the death of her husband
several years ago had made a busi
ness of renting furnished rooms to
tourists during the winter season. Her
house was filled until recently, and
at the time of her death there were
but two lodgers in the house, both
being young girl stenographers. The
young ladies left the house at 8 o’clock
Saturday morning and never saw her
again until Sunday morning. When
: they returned at noon Saturday they
(Rd not see her, but the house was
open as, usual and as they were only (
rooming there it was a frequent thing !
that they did not see her in the raid
die of the day. When they returned
j n the evening, however, and could
not enter the house they raised an
; alarm.
The police department was notified
j and a detective was sent to the
house. He found the back door open,
and upon searching the house made
the gruesome discovery. The body
was thrown across the bed so as 1
to conceal it. The head had ugly con
tusior.s and the lower limbs of the vie
; tim were badly swollen. There was
j no clew to indicate a motive for the
crime. Two diamond rings were found
j in the dresser and in a laundry bag
currency to the amount, of $160 was
| found. There was no confusion to -:how r j
: that any struggle had occurred and
j the death of the unfortunatee woman
is veiled in mystery.
Body Found in River. I
The decomposed, dismembered body
of a woman was taken from the Ten
nessee river near Knoxville, Tenn..
j Sunday, parts of the body having j
been found in three different places,
The police are inclined to think
that the body had been placed in the
river by medical students. They ciaim
that the bOnea are sawed too well for
any person not a medical student.
People in the upriver section are
not satisfied with this theory, however,
and believe a foul murder has been
committed.
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Post horns are to be abolished i
on
the Prussian stace lines having their ;
terminus in Berlin j
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Parrot green is a lea'dcr in fashion- j
able tints.
GREAT DAMAGE
BY ELEMENTS
Cyclone and Floods Visit West
and Southwest.
NO LIVES REPORTED LOST
Destruction of Property, However, is
Said to be Extensive-Dallas and
Kansas City Both Hard Hit.
A special of Friday from Kansas
City says ; All the tributaries of
the kaw uver . in , T Kansas _ are rising . .
ra P*dly an( l a flood is threat
ened. Heavy rains continuing for two
days prevailed all over the state.
Twice within the past thirty days
most of the streams have overflowed
their banks, washing out railway
tracks and crops, destroying much
property and rendering several hun
dred persons temporarily homeless.
But each time there came a lull in
the rainfall, the rivers receded and al
most normal conditions prevailed.
Further heavy rain storms have
again swollen the streams, this time
beyond the height experienced in the
two former rises. Friday the rain con
tinued to fall at many points through
out Kansas and the ultimate result
must be that the Kaw, already bank
full at many places, will overflow its
banks at Kansas' City, and while the
conditions are not such as brought on
the June flood of last year and al
though no great amount of damage is
expected in the city, preparations are
being made to meet the situation as
it may develop.
Six Hundred Made Homeless.
At Newton over six hundred persons
have been rendered homeless by a
sudden rise in Sand creek, which flows
through the north and west portions
of that town. The flooded district em
braces about one-feurth of Newton
and in many houses the water stands
as high as the second story windows,
The rise in the creek was caused by
a cloudburst and the water rose so
rapidly that hundreds of persons were
caught in their homes. Hundreds of
men worked all night, rescuing the un
fortunates. Morning found all !
remov
ed to places of safety, hut with the
water still rising and further heavy
damage.
Dallas Hit by Tornado. !
At 5 a. m. Friday, during a cloud
burst, accompanied by a tornado, ws, I
ter came through the roof and the
sixth floor of the Western Union ‘ele- 1
graph office at Dallas, Texas, flooding
the dynamos and completely wrecking |
session of the switchboard. The '
one
damage in the Western Union office
was practically remedied by 5:30 a. m.
Throughout the city, however, a j
great many wires were down.
The storm was widespread and cov
ered a large area. Reports coming in ,
from the country indicate that crops I
and out houses suffered considerable
loss, but no one was killed or in
jured.
The storm broke over Dallas at 2
o’clock Friday morning, and contin-1
ijed with great force until 5 o’clock,
The rain fell in torrent ail night,
accompanied by a heavy wind, which
finally developed cyclonic fury. ,
mto
When the Western Union building
was struck a panic ensued among the
foroe at work in the operating room,
Wire communication with the outside j
world was cut off for several hours,!
and was only partially restored at 9 :
o’clock. At 9:43, however, the city- ;
was again shut out from the outside
world.
FOUR YEARS FOR BARROW.
Americas Da -tor Convicted by Jury for
Alleged Malpractice.
Americus, Ga., Friday, George
'Washington Barrow’ indicted with
George T. Sullivan upon the charge
assault with intent to murder in a
criminal operation performed upon a
young woman, was convicted upon the
charge and sentenced to four years
in the penitentiary, the same sentence
given Sullivan.
Sullivan has given a $40,000 bor.d ;
pending a motion for a new’ trial.
CADETS FROM THE SOUTH.
Partial List of Those Who Passed Examina
tion at Military Academy.
The following cadets, designated to
enter West Point military academy,
Friday morning were announced at
the war department:
Alabama—Thomas J. Bow r dell,Thom
as A. Terry, Charles Williams, W.
P. Moon, Henry W. Hall.
Arkansas—Albert T. Sneed, Joseph
Quinn.
Georgia—Emmett C. Wilson, John
H. Hester, Courtney H. Hodges, Fur
her N. Burt, Carieton G. Chapman.
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Brief Summary 0 f /V\
Important Eve. 0
of Each nts
Bay,
| The Russians claim to i
ceived news by carrier nave
Port Arthur indicating pigeons
that -ene
Stcessel is confident of i"
to repulse the Japanese. lUg
Admiral Togo, in command
Japanese fleet, reports that the: P i
constant explosions at Port A,
Saturday and that dense r-1
smoke overhung the place.
—President Ware, of tl: Ufcor
Educational Association, anno:
the full of U:
programme the tk:rt\ i'M
annual session which will be eld
Warm Springs June 20-23.
—Lee and Will Brinkley, brothel
after a finally separation of more than tw.'-a t
years, drifted to Quitman,
and discovered each other Ea
thought the other dead.
—Carrollton, Ga„ will issue
of bonds to be used for waterwer
and to enable the city to own i
electric lighting plant.
The body of a woman, cut ]
,Qree parts, is found in the Tena
aoe r * ver near Knoxville, by i S3
Johnson, a fisherman, who was ud
a trotiine.
—The body of a man is found
San Antonio hanging at end of roi
and physicians think it had beenth
two months,
—Confederate graves in Arlingt
cemetery at Washington were decor
ed with flowers. First formal me:
rial exercises as a result of moi
raent started by President McKink
—At Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Mat
Carlisle, widow of a former merely
of that city, was found murdered
her home by police- officers. The boj
was concealed under a bed.
—Alabama democrahs apparent!,n
vor reiurning to the old convent!
method of selecting candidates, a
Cunningham may line up against Gij
and Mallory for governor.
Josephus Daniels, president o l
Raleigh (N. C.) News and Obsen
Company, is out on hail.
Pritchard having granted an order
,b at effect.
—Baron Speck von Sternberg vl
deliver the commencement address
the University of the South at
wanee, Tenn., June 24.
—Alabama is preparing to take
complete and accurate census of t
Cihndren of the state who are of sch
age.
—Cotton mills of New England
running on short time. This is <i(
to curtail production on account
depression in textile industry.
—The Wyoming democratic com'
tion unanimously instructed
Hearst.
Tornadoes and severe rainstori
Ao great damage in Kansas an,! t
orado.
— Dr. Barrow, of Americas, Ga., g<
a sentence of four years in the pe
tentiary on the charge of assault v
intent to murder in connection w
an abortion case.
—Mississippi democrats may reft
indorse Governor Vardanian's •
ministration on account of his '
of the Holly Springs Normal S-ch
—Davis’ birthday was celebrated
appropriate manner in all parts oi
South, business houses closing
nearly all instances.
—Houston, Texas, street car?
again being operated, although sev
fighting has occurred between stri
breakers and strike sympathizers.
—Three negroes met violent deal
in Missessippi as the result of '
killing by two of them of Simms
Cato, w’hite men. ChM
—Charles S. iDeneen, of
has been nominated for governo;
the Illinois republican state
tion thus breaking the long d
—Kansas rivers are on a great
and much damage has been doc
las and north Texas w r ere .visited
a tornado Friday. No loss of lH°
been reported.
—The international women’s j
frage conference began in BerliiM
many, Friday. Miss Susan B. A n M
was elected president.
—It is now believed that PefiiM
the American, held by the \
short bandit, Raisuli, will be released |
time.
—Fire in the woods heats a ijo
and blows whistle amount of engine. of lurnE’ 1 j
saving a large
a saw mill plant at Marietta, G&
—Monday’s fire losses at Ni 5 "
leans hit insurance companies
something close to $ 400 , 000 .
—Federal Memorial day was gs
ally celebrated Monday. pres!>
Roosevelt spoke at Ge’tyabin’g-