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ITHER SIDE
WILL YIELD
;er5 and Striking Employes
gemain Obstinate.
re if epence FRUITLESS
Gitioa Counter-Propositions
Considered and Turned Dow a
r2 ' ^th Promptness.
elation: • for peace in the slock |
gi practically at
a , Chicago were ;
s and the j
ijndstib Friday night I
hi continue until one side or 1
e w: I
other abates something ot the«
piesent time, !
made up to the
th sictes a! e anxious for a peace- ;
settlement. but the stumbling
a final adjustment is that i
k '0 the :
side is prepared to allow j
per arbitra
to dictate the basis ot ;
r i
L packers Friday afternoon con
red jjc. Donnelly's reply to their i
sitiou of Thursday night, but it j
red ; ' nsatisfaetory and the union |
- notified that it would be j
ssible t0 reach an agreement;
the lines suggested to by Mr. Mr. Donne!-! Eon j
v (tt their answer
be packers declared themselves j
) ns ro arbitrate, but stipulated i
the arbitration should include the
re scope of the strike and not be j
Sect ‘ to the restrictions or limit a-
15 of any kind.
his communication of the packers
; identical with the one sent previ
ly by them to Donnelly and to
cb Ids counter-proposition of Frl- i
is a reply. j ■
[r. Dcnnelly’s latest proposition to
packers was as follows: ;
11 grievances to be submitted to
ration; all strikers to be re instar- j
in a body; men employed by the j
since the strike may be main
led f use can be found for them;
i the temporary wage scale to be j
| in effect previously to May 28.
Is means that unskilled labor is to
[paid pending the decision of the
ItraDrs 18 1-2 cents instead of la
17 1-3 cents, the prices paid since
p 23.
'he following is the reply of the
to the proposition of Mr. Don
By:
111 grievances to be submitted to
yed as rapidly as places can be j
nd for them; preference to be giv- ;
ihe strikers in the order of their
plications for work; all men now
work to be retained and the tern
ary |h wages to be in accordance
the schedule in effect at the time
the strike.
fhe allied trade unions at the
less ck yards are becoming restless,and j I
a settlement is reached in the
ir future they may decide to stop ;
fit in sympathy with the men al
dy out. The members of the allied
its at the yards in Chicago num- !
’ U.OOO or 15,000, and a majority j
them belong to a union.
ARKER INDORSED BY GENERAL M5LES.
nsr Head of Army Hopes Saqe ni
Esopus Will Win Victory.
ludge Parker received a letter Pri
J' from General Nelson A. Miles,
ft entire letter is in General Miles’
™ handwriting and in part is as fol
fvs:
P is fortunate that the democratic
by has given to the country a can
date for president in whom - that
eat council of representative men
ive every confidence, and we have
e best of reasons for beliving that
at confidence will be confirmed by
e intelligent patriotic people of the
* believe you will be elected and
r «by have an opportunity of ren
ln S our country a service ot' im
durable value that will redound to
!e honor of the democratic party and
^ 0r Y of the republic.
^ have the honor to remain very
my, NELSON A. MILES."
bfOlDBURST IN THE PHILIPPINES.
lw a.Np ar M an jj Swept Away bv flood
a
and Two Hundred Fives Tost.
clourffinnT over the hills north
isf of Manila caused flood which
is a
destroyed San Juan del Monte,
''o hundred lives lost.
were
ted. low-lying district was i nun
The homes of the Americans
foreign ers are isolated, Trans
station through the strets is car
led °“ in boats only.
^ ^° r twenty-seven hours, to
:! i-*> inches. This is unprece
j " >!i Gornmunication interi 'upted. The with damage outside to
is estimated at $2,000,000.
AFFECTS ONLY ONE ROAD.
The Georgia House of Representatives
Passes Bill Requiring Railways to
Secure State Charter.
In the Georgia house of represenia
Wednesday, after a warm debate
which was participated ir by several '
the ablest speak rs in the house, a
requiring that all railroad com- |
panics which enjoy the privilege of j
doing business in Georgia, and of oeeu
pytng its roads and streets, shall se- j
a Georgia charter. was passed by j
vote of 9? to 29 and ordered iuime- !
diately transmitted to the senate.
It is said that this bill, while gen- i
eral in its terms, is aimed primarily j
it the Southern railway, as that is i
claimed to be the only railroad system
in the state which comes within the
provision of the bill as it. is drawn.
Should the bill become a law the effect
of it would be to require the Southern
to take out a state charter, unless the i
measure should be declared uncousti
tutional by the courts.
"All that this bill requires,” said Mr.
Mall, its author, in addressing the
house, “is that those railroad corpora
tious which exercise the right of emi
nent domain, which enjoy the valuaole
franchi S 1 of this stale, shall become
citizens of Georgia and abide by its
paws."
Mr. Hall claimed there was no right
or justice in a great railway corpora
tion being incorporated in a foreign
state and enjoying the valuable privi
leges granted by Georgia, without con
forming to its laws and statutes, A
great principle is involved, he
dared.
"This great corporation,” said Mr.
Hail, referring to the Southern rail
way, "controlled by Wall street pow
er tan make or unmake any man or
community in the state of Georgia.”
"One man in Wall street can touch
a bell and destroy any citizen or com
munity in the state of Georgia.
“Have the people of Georgia lost all
their rights? Shall we remain a de
pendent of Wall street?” Mr. Hall ask
}n conclusion.
y[ r . Platon, of Fulton, made the only
speech in opposition to the bill. Mr.
Staton sai( * ^e con ®idered there was
an existing evil to be remedied, but
he -was sure it could not be done
through the bill of the gentleman from
Bibb. The United States supreme
CO urt, he said, had passed on the ques
tion involved and had held that such
measures were unconstitutional. ' The
bin W3 s retroactive. Mr. Slaton said.
( 0 apply to a railroad that has been
here fourteen years,
The remedy, Mr. Slaton declared,
was in application to the interstate
commerce commission or the national
congress.
Mr. Slaton declared that no burdens
were imposed on the people of the
state by the Southern that are not im
posed by other roads. Within the state
the power of the railroad commission
to remedy evils complained of i* full
and explicit. But when it comes to a
shipment from outsjde the state it be
comes a national question, and tli8
legislature cannot 'deal with it.
The decision of the United States
supreme court referred to by Mr. Sla
ton was in a case brought against a
similar law passed by the legislature
of North Carolina.
' EMBEZZLER VOLUNTARILY RETURNS.
Absconding Louisiana Postmaster Brought
j Back from Canada by an Inspector.
United States Postoffice Inspector
Anderson reached New Orleans Thurs
day with Horace S. Feree, the de
faulting postmaster of Jennings, La.,
whom he arrested some days ago in
Montreal.
When the postoffice department dis
covered that Feree was a fugitive from
Jennings, Anderson was put on the
case He found Feree had registered
in New Orleans under an assumed
name with a woman represented as his
v, Ife. He got away before he could
be arrested. Anderson traced
pair t.o Cincinnati, thence to Chicago,
thence to Toronto and finally to Mon
! trea j
StRVIYOfiS OF ILL-FATED NORGE.
Twenty-Seven People Saved from Ship
wreck are Landed Safely at Boston.
On board the Cunard steamer Saxo
: which arrived at her dock in east
nia, Liverpool Thursday
Boston from
noon were twenty-seven persons
Scandiuavian-Amerit .
were on the
line steamer Norge, wrecked off
the north coast of Scotland white
a voyage irom Copenhagen to
York.
! their big guns
—Japs are using
around Port Arthur and a climax
i expected.
j daily
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* GEORGIA NEWS
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Epitomized Items of Interest i
Gathered at Random. I
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Horticulturists to Meet. !
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Tiie Georgia rUate Horticultural £j- *
ciety will ho! i its twenty-eighth an ’
uuai session at Tallulah Falls begin
niug August 3. and continuing throug.t j
the 5th. A*n exhibit of traits. vegeia- j
hies and plants will be held in the
auditorium of the Tallulah Lodge. >
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Atlanta Wants Mare Ward3- |
Eleven wards for Atlanta, instead j
of the present seven, will be favored \
by a majority of* the redistricting com
mittee of the general council. The |
matter, however, is not fully settled. |
Another meeting will be held for the j
purpose of hearing i'rom both citi- j
zens and members of council who are
interest d in the changes in the ward
lines of the city.
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Druggists on War Path.
The Savannah druggists are up in :
arms igainst the bill introduced m |
the legislature to make all druggists
selling patent medicines containing al
cohol take out a special license. They
have laid their wives to compass the
defeat of the measure. They say al
most every patent medicine would be !
taken off their shelves, as they could j
not afford to take out licenses.
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To Connect Athens and Jefferson.
There is a story abroad in Baldwin, Macon j
to the effect that George J.
of Savannah, has arranged to build
nineteen miles of railroad to connect
Jefferson with Athens, so as to give
direct railroad connection between the
pyrites mines around Dahlonega and
the seayo! ■ts.
It is said that the Central has re- j j
cently come into control of the Gaines
ville, Jefferson and Southern. !
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Csnvict Guards Discharged.
Seven convict guards at the state
prison farm at Milledgeville have been
discharged by Warden Roberta for al
lowing seven prisoners to escape sev
eral days ago. The prisoners got away
just after the mutiny which occurred,
and upon investigation it is said that
the warden fastened the responsibility
upon the guards- who were in charge
at the fine, New guards have been
employ#! by Warden Roberts and no
further trouble is expected.
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Sullivan and Barrow to Appeal.
At Americus Judge Littlejohn, in
! the superior court, overruled motions
for new i rials in the ca-ses of Thomas
Sullivan and Dr. George Washington
Barrow, convicted recently of assault
with intent to murder a young lady
employed by Sullivan, and sentenced to
four years in the penitentiary eacti.
Sullivan is out op $4,000 bond, while
Dr. Barrow, the physician in the case,
has been in jail six weeks unable to
give bond. The cases will be appealed
to the supreme court.
Watermelon Market Collapses.
The watermelon market in Valdosta
went to smash the past, week and
since that time there has been no de
mand in any of the large cities of
the country. The market dropped in
one day from $65 a car to less than
$25, a number of cars having been
refused within ihe last day ot two at
the latter price, As the season is far
advanced, it is not, expected that there
i will be any materia! rally in the mar
ket.
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Rewards Offered for Murderers.
Governor Terrell has recently of
fered five rewards of $100 each for
as many men who are wanted in va
rious counties in the state for mutdet.
The parties wanted are as follows:
Henry Bishop, of Upson county,who
is charged with the murder of Ap
Daniel in 1891.
An unknown person who murdetefl
Buck McCulloch in Harris county, on
July 9. 1904.
George Owns, of Pike county, who
is charged with having murdered Cap
Brown, on July 3. 1904.
Thomas Waites, of Putnam county,
who is charged with having murdered
3 J. J. Wigley, June 28, 1904.
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Broughton-Wcstbrook Affair.
Highly sensational are the charges
on w hich Chief of Police ft. N. West
brook will be tried before the board
of police commissioners ar, Albany.
The trial will occur at a date to be
designated as soon as the assurance
, attendance of all the commission
can be had. The charges have been
placed hi the hands of Mayor Lippi,t.
They were opened and read at a spe
cial meeting of the board called for
the purpose, a majority of the
bers being present. After
the charges it was decided that
were of sufficient seriousne to ile-
i
mand tin* arraignment of the chief and j
the citv attorney was instructed to
prepare to prosecute the officer.
The .barges si ecify repeated in
stances where it is allege } the chief, i
wliiie 'n uniform and on duty, ca- S
roused in houses of ill repute. He is |
accused of drunkenness in saloons and
disreputable houses, ft is a d that 1
lie has protected octal outcasts from |
Ihe ban of the taw. shielding them j
repeat , o'! n.- 1 forbidding the 11 y n
lie.? officers to interfere with them, j
The ch ef is even charged with tak |
ing a bo!t i e of whisky from behind i
fllp counter of a saloon and refusing
to pay for it then or afterward. About
fifty persons, most of them residents
of Albany, are cited as witnesses, and
the charges are presented in the name
of a number of prominent business
and professional men.
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Obear a Brigade Officer.
Coionel William G. Obear,. inspector
general of Georgia state troops, will
be adjutant general of the Georgia
brigade which will take part in the
United States army maneuvers at Ma
nassas, Va.. in September. The ap
poinuncut of Colonel Obear was made
Saturday by an order issued by Colo
nel Usher Thompson, of the Third
Georgia Regiment, who will command
the Georgia Brigade. For the present
Colonel Obear's headquarters as such
wifi be in the office of Adjutant Gen
eral S. W. Harris.
All efforts ty secure an increase in
the quota of troops allotted to Geor
gj a for this occasion have failed. Sen
ators Bacon and Clay and Governor
Terrell have need all their efforts to
get a iarger allowance of troops from
Georgia, but this has been denied by
General Corbin, who is in charge of tno
arrangement. Georgia, therefore, will
be allowed only 1,500 men and officers
for the occasion, but will be permitted
to attend the maneuvers in brigade
formation.
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No Arbitrations This Year.
Two million dollars increase is
wha: Comptroller General W. -A.
Wright estimates will be shown by
the corporation returns this year. And
this result will be attained without a
single arbitration.
It was thought several weeks ago
that there would have to be a number
of arbitrations, because the comptrol
ler general insisted on figures which
the railroads do not seem willing to
agree to. This was principally in the
matter of franchise tax returns which
were reduced below the figures of 1903.
In every case the comptroller gen
eral insisted on a return to the fig
tires- of 1903, and his demands were
compile 1 with.
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Favorable to Immigration Bureau.
The advocates of an immigration bu
reau in the senate, after a stubborn
fight, passed the bill providing for such
a state institution.
The original bill, providing for %
board of eleven members and a secre
tary, was abandoned, and the bill as
passed was a substitute by Mr. Tay
lor. of the forty-second, providing only
for the appointment of an immigration
commissioner.
.In most other respects the substi
tute embodied all the matter of the
original bill, but included a section
permitting property owners with min
eral, agricultural, timber and other
lands for sale to register the same
with the immigration commissioner on
payment of a fee. Thm fee was fixed
at $10 originally, but the substitute
was amended so as to make the
amount $5.
An unusually large number of sen
ators participated in the debate,which
was exceedingly animated.
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Vets Ready for Reunion.
Though the date for the gathering
is yet some time in the future, ex
tensive preparations are already being
made for the annual reunion of the
Georgia division of the United Con
federate veterans, which meets at
Rome, on September 14tli and 15th,
i and the occasion, which is always
hailed with delight, is being antici
pated with pleasure throughout the
state.
j The old soldiers realize that they
will all soon be too feeble to attend
these delightful annual meetings, and
for that reason especially it is being
urged that every Confederate veteran
| in Georgia who can possibly do so at
( tend the coming reunion. The citizens
of Rome are making elaborate ar
rangements for the entertainment of
the visitors and they are determined
that every one have a pleasant stay
in their city.
Besides the many pleasures incident
to the reunion, there will be much
business to come before the conven
tion.
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Roast for Investigators.
Tiiere was a lively time before the
house committee on appropriations,
when the trustees of the state sani
tarium appeared to urge the commit
tee not Iu cut the appropriation of
$325,000 which has he* n given it for
last two years.
Judge Thomas E. awscn ,of Eaton
ton, vice chairman of the hoard of
trustees, was first heard and he han
died without gloves the report of th (%
legislative investigating committee oi
which Mr. Hall, of Bibb, was chair
man aud which severely criticized the
methods and system employed in the
conduct of the state s anitarium.
During Judge Lawson's address Mr.
Hall made reply to some statement of
the speaker, and Judge Lawson said
he did not want to be interrupted,
“It is folly for any man to say that
an institution of this magnitude, with
itg ten trustees, has been conducted
for a period of fifty years, with
out an intelligent system of bookkeep
ing." Judge Lawson said: "It’s not
true, no matter if one member of the
committee said it, no matter if forty
members said it."
Judge Lawson said it was true that
the single entry system of bookkeep
ing wps used, but it was just as ac
curate as the double entry system. It.
would he difficult to keep a double en
try system where articles were charg
ed as specifics and not by cash.
NEWSY GLEANINGS
New York is suffering an epidemic
of measles.
It is now sure that Russia will make
an exhibit at the St. Louis Exposition.
Mrs, Joseph Jones, just from Dub
lin. was welcomed to New York by six
sons, who have made their way in this
country.
The original indictments of Aaron
burr for treason and misdemeanor
were found in an old book in Rich
mond, Va.
New York theatrical managers will
levy a tax of ten cents each on compli
mentary tickets, expecting to raise
$300,000 yearly for the Vetors' Fund.
The syndicate which took up the
bulk of the $32,000,000 issue of New
York City bonds have formed a pool
and will clear at leasl $300,000 on the
deal.
Superintendent Slraubuntller, of New
York City, who says many boys go l<>
east side schools in order to commit
petty thefts, claims that tenement con
ditions breed thieves.
John Campbell Smith, of New York
City, who seven years ago inherited
$1,000,000. is a bankrupt. The last of
his fortune vanished immediately fol
lowing the Sully failure.
Robert Tr ’at Caine told a peace
meeting in New York City that it cost
$100,(HK),OOO more annually to maintain
our navy than to support ihe nation's
schools.
President William De Witt Hyde, of
Bowdoin College, in an address at
Brunswick. Me., favored the segrega
tion of whiles and negroes in school,
church and society, where the negroes
are numerous.
Josepft n.tUell. of Mlddieiiury. Vt..
has bought Ellen Mountain, which
rises 4000 ieei above the town of War
ren. Vt.. anti purposes p» convert it into
a park for the benefit of the citizens of
the Green Mountain State.
rjUJR ADVERTISING RATES
ARE EXTREMELY LOW, AND
ARE A GREAT INDUCEMENT
FOR BUSINESS MEN TO PAT
RONIZE OUR COLUMNS. TRY
US.
SPOUTING NOTES.
Michigan is trying to arrange a foot
ball game with Columbia.
Cornell will not send a crew to the
American Henley at Philadelphia.
Tennis players have begun to plan
for the many tournaments of the sea
son.
Major Taylor may not leave Austra
lia until July owing to the illness of
hi* wife.
Lehigh University found but little
trouble in defeating Cornell at la
crosse by the score of twenty-three to
one.
lMiibuleiphin "Jack” O'Brien says
that in about two years he will be
heavy enoug - anil good enough to lick
".Tint” Jeffries.
The Roanoke*, of Boston, won tiie
lug-of--war championship at Celtic Dark
by defeating the Eccentric Firemen
team in straight pull*.
Cornell defeated Pennsylvania at la
crosse by the score of 7 to 4. The game
was fiercely fought, several men on
each team being injured.
Many automobilists have expressed
the opinion that it will be bad sports
manship to scratch tiie American en
try for ihe Internationa! Cup.
Ivor Lawson says that In Australia
300 professional riders, ten times the
number : lively engaged in this coun
try. make race meets very interesting.
Captain Ketohum. of ihe Cornell
track ..earn, was severely injured in
running the high hurdles, bis knee was
badly spr.aiuedand his muscles bruised.
A beach race cour.se has been discov
ered at Orchard Reach. Me., by W. J.
Mot* i, who has arranged a fifteen
mile match race b; iwjoii A. 1’. Stevens
and II. L. Bowdin.
The National Sporting Club, of Lon
don, offered i $3000 purse for a light
between Young Corbett aud Ben - .Ior
dan. but Corbett says he won't tight
unless the purse is made $10,000