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hr ough° ut the State.
30f!5 e sentenced to Swing.
Bene was found guilty in the
i Rome of killing Z.
If • ; urt at
He was sentenced by Judge
nang on Wednesday. August
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Crop* in Fine Shape
cording to the weekly crop bulk
s<’*d S*?™ D " eCt ° r J * *
o'- uie 1
•ury. . Georgia _ .
hreau, fh e crops m are m
|len r shape. Sufficient moisture
orer: ailed and the temperature
kOf»H seasonable. Large smp
g ot peaches have been made
fj*uic is of excellent quality,
r and corn are in fine shape,
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Qrlffin Votes to Issue Bonds.
L citizens of Griffin vot ed almost
iimousiy iBiJxs.. for the issuance of $100,
W*. ^ er and s£wer / ,OIuK
were odl votes cas ’’ oaly fcnr
l agamst sewer bonds and two
ist light and water bonds I he
Is are gold o per cent minis and
thru number oi years. 1 hirty
iliousand dollars will be expend
d h improving and extending the
and vvater plant and $65,000 will
Lai in putting in a complete sys
oi sanitary sewers.
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fj b:od Roads Convention Held.
[good roads convention was held
blmlon the past week, as a result
Idch considerable enthusiasm
created for an improved system
[.irking the public roads in Pike
ty.
|e principal address was made by
[ressman C. L. Bartlett,
other public meeting will be held
ng October court, at which time
jtitioQ ed to the will grand be drawn jury up for and its pre
en
talent and recommendation.
o lew Schedules for Thomasville.
rough the operation of a new I
tale on the Thomas villa division ;
e Atlantic and Birmingha mrail
vhich went into effect Sunday,
be territory in south Georgia is
h the advantage of the fast mail
lit reaches Atlanta every night
lie Southern train No. 97.
ie schedule of the Thomasville
on from Fitzgerald to Thomas
has been so changed as to con
with rhe fast train of tNu> Uen
of Georgia leaving Atlanta at i
a. m. As a result, the eastern
will reach Thomasville at 12:10
i. every day, instead of experienc
the delay that existed under the I
er arrangement.
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n ’ovidss
for Eight More Solons.
|e bill providing for an amend
t to the constitution so as to in
se the limit of the number of
ibers of the house of represen ta-
5 from 175 to 183, was passed in
bouse by a vote of 127 to 1.
1 provides for an amend
t to paragraph 1, section 3, arti
• of the constitution, so that, the
le ot representatives shall not
:s5 t of more than 183 members,
[ Nentatives SlX ar »est counties each, to have three
J the twenty-six
3l 'Sest counties two each, and
fmainng counties one each. The
additional representatives are
r,) '' , :de representation for the pro
d eight new counties under the
htutional amendment recently
ef * 10 increase the number of
it.es.
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Georgia s First Bala.
Eorsia ’s first bale of cotton for
season was marketed in Albany
22 hy Deal- L. Jackson, Dough- |
county’s prosperous negro farm- i
^ 0 state fi as tor brought the first bale I
, the past three years.
a , e
was carried to Huse & Com
.
1 ■’ warehouse, where it
fted, was
fl classed and sold. The
! ai of the bale 351 pounds
it was
AaH classed as good middling,
on nie n saving that
Ue *t It was the
first, bal e ever marketed.
bale was bought by the Goor
vetton (• ompany for fifteen cents
Pound, and was shipped at once
av annah. 5 he first
Marketed bale last year
11 b v Jackson on the
of August. The
Iff two crop generally
weeks ahead of iast
crop.
4k
I,. rrsr hires for Savannah.
need Tor 0r Savannah. All ^ are an- to
v
‘ mt ° n a bout Septena-
11 ls beltbved that t he reg
ar baj 1 ln Ss
s fl auw the advantages in
11 •’ will offer will prove of
00 »efit to ’he
port and to shin-
per- >Xv 4 r.s oi
T li 'r.or.
Y, nes will rans-Allan
These will bo t Art 11
Bremen ad vcea
a varmah. anu the An
char line, between Bare colonu
and Savannah, n
la the \rgo
be the steamships ( .oun up Alabama
; md Fiorina, aii oi ;ar> e
while the tonnage
Anchor liners will be the
steamships Algar a. Vicio and Bo
livia.
1! : > ides carrying f •enghf
these lines direct
will carry passe
_ The __ third _ line
new is ! o Oo iTOm
New York to Savannah, The steam
: ship Santurce will be (I
s -# first to ar
ri ve.
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Electors May Be •isqualified.
Four ot the electors of Georgia n.av
! be disqualified, according to a state*
men t ot Chairman M. J. Yeomans, of
| ■ the state democrat5c comminee and
a rae eting of that committee will
| select probably be called in a few days to
their successors, unless they
j remove the disqualifications in the
meantime.
Some time ago, in order that Geor
gla might not lose any of her elector
al votes in the electoral college.
Chairman Yeomans sent out a letter
to the ,___. ra en who „ were named , as elec
tors by the state convention, to be
voted upon at the regular election
this fall inquirng if they held any
state office, if they were directors in
any nat j onal bank* or connected with
any na tional banks, or if they held
auy offlce under the government .
Mr. Yeomans has received replies
from all the thirteen electors and the
: tnirteen alternates, and in his opin
ion four of them may be disqualified.
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To Protect State Road.
A bill has been introduced in the
house which prohibts the secretary
ot state from issuing any charter to
any line paralleling the state road un
less it is a trolley line. It also pro
poses to revoke the charter of any
line unless that line has already been
built,.
This bill is aimed at the Louis vile
and Nashville ralroad. which has
been granted a charter to parallel
the Western and Atlantic road from
Marietta to Atlanta. Should the state
revoke this charter the Louisville and
Nashville would be compeled to use
the Western and Atlantic tracks. If
not, the latter system would be
worthless in the state.
The measure is one of the most im
portant as affecting the state that has
yet been brought up in the house, and
will provoke interesting discussion.
The point to be settled is, whether or
not the state has a right ot revoke a
charter, even if work on the road has
not begun.
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White Asylum Inmates to Work. j
Dr. VV. F. Brunner returned to Sa
vannah vitle, where a few days attended ago from meeting Milledge- of j
he a j
the board of trustees of the state sail
itarium. Dr. Brunner said that it is
purposed to extend the system of
working the colored inmates of the
asylum to the white inmates, as the
plan has been very beneficial to the
patients from a medical point of view
and to the instituton in a pecuniary
way.
There are some three thousand in
mates of the asylum, and Dr. Brunner
says «nat the labor of the negroes
who work on the farm has been suffi
cient to provide farm products for the
entire colony of three thousand and
also to leave an overplus which the
superintendent was authorized by the
board to put on the market. So bene
ficial to the negroes was the work
found that the whites are to be given
a chance to engage in it.
The interest and feeling of proprie
torship that some of the unfortunates
show tend toward a cure or better
ment.
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Jeffersonian Democracy in Education.
The interest in the adoption of the
constitutional amendment bestowing
the right of local taxation for school
purposes is so great that we present
this week Chancellor W. B. Hill’s re
port on Jefferson’s views of educa
tion. He says:
In the south the people, however
otherwise divided, are all Jefferson
ian democrats, It is a pleasure to
know that the movement for the
adoption of the constitutional amend
ment known as the McMichael bill.
is pure Jeffersonian democracy.
Jefferson’s hope* for civil liberty
were predicated on popular education.
Hence he cried, with the fervor of an
apostle. ’’Preach a crusade against is
norance.
His definition of the purposes of
primary education ha* nevei been
surpassed. It reads as follows.
1. To give to every citizen t.lie in
formation he needs for the transac
tion of his own business.
2. To enable him to calculate for
himself, and to express and preserve
his ideas, his contracts and accounts,
in writing.
3. To improve by reading, his mor-
als and faculties.
1- To understand liis duties to
neighbors and country, and discharg
with competence the functions
tided to him by either,
5. To knew* his rights; to
with order and justice those lit
tains; to choose with discretion
fiduciary of those he delegates and t .
notice their conduct U
with candor and judgment.
6. And. in general, to observe
intelligence and faithfulness the
cia! relations under which he
be placed.
In securing popular education,
ferson sought to apply his
theory of gove nment. which was
distribution of power. He
preferred that local taxation
schools, wherever practicable.
be by districts. Yes, local
for public schools with the
of applying it by districts or
counties, 18 -^ff'-rsonian
in education.
Jefferson says: 1 -binlc by tar
most important bill in our whole
is t a L for the diffusion of
among the people. No surer
tion can be devised for the
tion of freedom and happiness.”
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CAMPAIGN OF PROHIBITIONISTS
Launched at Indianapolis in Notification
Party’s Candidates.
At Indianapolis, Friday, Ur.
C. Swallow, of Harrisburg, Pa., an
George W. Carroll, of Texas,
bition candidates for president
vice president of the United
were formally notified of their
nations.
A. G. Woifenbarger, of
Neb... chairman of the recent
convention, which met in the.
ball that witnessed the
exercises, delivered the notification
dress to Dr. Swallow, and Homer
Castle, of Pittsburg, notified Mr.
roll. Responses were made by
candidates and National
Stewart delivered the closing
The occasion drew many
prohibitions of the country to
apolis. These held informal
ences to discuss campaign plans.
TIGHT REIN ON MONEY SHARKS.
Bill Passed in Georgia Senate
Their Nefarious Work.
If the house of representatives,
curs in the action of the
senate Friday the money lenders
"money sharks,” aa they are
ly called, will have to operate
very „ strict . regulation ... m the . .
rr. The „ ^ measure which ... was . . ,
by Senator _ . Clark ... , Howell „ is . to
... late the easiness . ot „ money . lending
Irou8ehold or kitcS en furniture
houseilold ei ^ ds sewinj , machiQes
too!s of tra8e> musicai
typewri ters, wearing apparel or
articles ar ffpi P c- of or personal nersnnqi nronertv propeity and anu
saia or Pl f gmg f r ageS ° r “i aneB
0 flx 4he , fees aacl charges which
be made on succh transactions to
scribe requirements and conditions
dcr which such business shall be
ducted, to provide tor licensing such
ousmess and declaring such
void, to provide penalties for the vio
lation thereof, to prescribe conditions
under which criminal warrants shall
issue upon affidavits ot such money
lenders or their employes against bor
rowers, or vendees, to fix penalty for
exceeding certain rates of interest and
for other purposes.
The bill was passed without a dis
senting vote and was ordered trans
mitted to the house at once.
BARKEEPER FLOORS AUNT CARRIE.
Wiclder of tbs Hatchet Kaacked Down
With Chair in Kentucky iown.
Aunt Carrie Nation's career was
temporarily but violently interrupted
at Elizabethtown, Ky„ Friday night,
when A. R. Neighbors, a saloon keeper,
struck her twice with a chair, knock
ing her down and producing a scalp
wound. The assault occurred at Neigh
bors’ saloon, after Mrs. Nation had de
livered a lecture against, whisky and
tobacco. She had appeared at the sa
loon during the afternoon and berated
Neighbors, and returned at night after
the lecture to resume her denuncia
tions of him at a time when the
place was crowded. The difficulty ter
minated in the assault.
CHINA HAS PAID ENOUGH.
State Department Declares Indemnity for
Etxel’s Accidental Death Was Equitable.
Heirs of Loui3 Rtzel, killed by Chi
nese soldiers near Niuchwang, are
dissatisfied with the amount of indem
nity ($25,000 Mexican) paid by the
Chinese government on account of the
affair, and have complained to the
state department. The department has
replied that in view of the facts in
tho case the unpremeditated character
cf the killing, the amount is equitta
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RUSSIA UNDAUNTED.
j Official Organ at St. Petersburg Ex
plains Action of the Volunteer
Fleet in the Red Sea.
A Chicago special says: The strika
i j of packing house employees begun
! nine days ago, and which has demor
alized the packing industry through*
i out the country, was settled Wednes
day night at a conference oetween rep
! resentatives of the packers, the ofh
cials of the Meat Cutters’ Union and;
representatives of all the allied trades
employed at the stock yards.
The whole controversy will be aub
I mitted to a board of arbitration, both
1 sides agreeing to abide by whatever
| ! decision this board may reach. Pend*
ing the decision of the arbitration
j board, the men will be taken back to
; work as rapidly as possible by the
packers, and it is agreed by the pack
j er « that all the employees are to be
reinstated within forty-five days from
j the date work is resumed,
j if any of the former employees aro o^
still unemployed at the expiration
| that time such persons are to have the.
privlege of submitting their cases
to the arbitration board for settle
raent ’
Half an hour after the decision had
been reached to arbitrate, M. ,J. Don
nelly, the strike leader, had secured
| communication by long distance tele*
j phone with the leaders of the strikers
i in out3lde cities and had notified them
that a satisfactory settlement had
j been reached and directed the strikers
j to The return settlement to work as soon difficulty as possible. by
of the
arBitration was brought about by the
allied craft at. the stock yards, who
would have become involved in the
controversy had it continued much
longer.
The agreement reached at Wednes
day night’s conference Is practically
the same as the proposition made Sat
urday to the packers by Mr. Donnelly,
The only difference is that in Satur
day’s communication Mr. IDtonnelly in
sisted that the strikers be all taken
back to work within seven days. This
The packers refused, although they
agreed to accept every other demand
made by Mr. Donnelly.
When the men return to work it
will be under exactly the same con
l dition3 a« prevailed before the strike
was declared, with the exception that
the question of a wage scale will be
decided by arbitration.
HEAVY TAX ON SOf T DRINKS.
Georgia „ . Solons c , Amend . , General _ , T Tax Act
„ Regarding Soda c . r Tountam » • „ Beverages.
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In T the Georgia , house , of , representa- .
] tives ,. Tir Wednesday , , consideration .. .. of ... the
, and , coca-cola . paragraph ... No. -o,
of the general tax act was taken up
^body by the close vote of 65
£ f, 4 ’ 0P ^ amondraeQt by r
Keily ’ of , Glascock, , making the tax
on tfa manufacturerg of CO ca-coIa, cel
ery coca, Afri-cola, wine-coca and sim
beverage3 $1>e0 o.
Mr HaJ Qf during the debate ,
| ^ extractg from testirnon y given by
gtate Chemist John M McCandless
and Qther chemists of national rep uta
^ tQ (he cffecfc that anaIyses of va .
samples of CO ca-cola obtained
j frQm dif?er€nt source8 ano wed that
j coca<:0 i a did not oontain any alcoho ,
I Qr cQCaine whatever> and less caf .
j fein than an ordina cup of tea or
j CQffee and that as a beverage it was
]egs harmfu] than either coffae or
I tea.
Dr. Kelly, in urging the adoption ot
his amendment, said the legislature
i did not hesitate to tax the manufac
turers of beer and similar beverages,
and there was no reason why the man
i ufacturer of a drink which he consid-
5 ered even worse than beer, and uponi
5 which the manufacturer had a virtual
monopoly, should not be taxed as hd
proposed.
By the adoption of an amendment
of Mr. Womblee, of Upson, coca-nola
was added to the list of drinks tin?
manufacturers of which are taxed $ld
000.
All dealers in Peruna, essence
extract of ginger must pay a tax oi
$200 to the state, unless thq senate
succeeds in knocking out the amen^
ment proposed by Mr. Gross, of Mc‘
Duffle, and adopted by the house by 4
vote of 73 to 57.
A MOST SWEEPING INJUNCTION.
Striking Machinists in Illinois are Prohibit
ed from Even Talking to Workmen.
A Chicago dispatch says: What is
said to be the most stringent labor in
junction ever issueed by the Cook
county superior court has been grant
ed by Judge Hanecy. It was given ; n
behalf of twenty firms in the Chicago
Metal Trades Association, restraining
machinists from picketing the plants.
The injunction also forbids strikers
and their sympathizers from even
talking to workmen of the complain
ants without the consent of those em
ployees.
f RUSSIAN BASE
NOW MENACED
Jap? Brea? Thrcujh Lines and
March Towards Mukden.
ENGLAND TO BE PACIFIED
Cut WiJl Yield in Face of British Ire
and Make Amends for Seizure
of the Malacca.
| According to a delayed Associated
I ! Press report, news was received in
1 Liao Yang on July 20 from Ta Tehe
i Kiao that the Japanese had broken
through the Russian left flank be
tween Lieutenant General Keller s po
sition and that of General Rennen
kaiupff, and that they were marching
ou to Mukden,
: Report Confirmed.
: a London dispatch says: Accord
j ng lo a di spa t c h from Moscow, the
1 Ifussky Listok, of that city, confirms
* the Associated Press report from Liao
I Yang that the Japanese have brokeu
through the Russian left flank ami
are marching on to Mukden.
! Fisherman Disseminates News.
I A special of Thursday from Tokio
! says: A fisherman reports that the
Vladivostok squadron was off Miyako
Wednesday going in a southeasterly
direction at a speed of 10 knots. If
this course and speed is maintained,
thee squadron will be off Yokohama
late Thursday.
The eastern coast of Japan is
shrouded in fog. Shipping has been
suspended, awaiting the location of
the Russian fleet.
j Lion 3luffs Bear.
The Associated Press at St. Peters
burg has au excellent reason for stat
ing that Russia will yield in the Ma
lacca case, release the steamer in ac
cordance with the British demand andi
express regret at her detention.
The Malacca probably will be re
leased at, once. The exact status at
present is as follows:
Count Benckendorff, the Russian
ambassador to Great Britain, has ask^
ed for Lord Lansdowne’s official assur
ance that the munitions on board were
government stores. If this is givea,
orders will instantly be issued to re
lease the vessel. At the same time
Great Britain will be notified that 5
ships stopped by Russia whose mani
fests are not In order will be held.
Russia will maintain the status of
the warships Smolensk and Si*. T^eTers'
burg a 3 warships. They are under
the orders of the admiralty and were
commanded by admiralty instruc-*
tions. Under the regulations of the
volunteer fleet, Russia claims that
ships belonging thereto can be con
verted into warships without pre
vious notice, upon orders from the ad
miralty. When the Smolensk and St,.
Petersburg reached Suez on the way
theey received from the British con
suls the admiralty’s instructions com
missioning them as warships.
Preliminary Reply Made.
The Associated Press in London
learns that Count Benckendorff, the
Russian ambassador, at a conference
with Foreign Secretary Lansdowne,
Wednesday afternoon, made what may
be considered a preliminary reply to
the British protest against the seizure
of the steamer Malacca.
He assured the foreign secretary
that his government had no intention
of infringing on the rights of Great
Britain or any other neutral power,
and that if a mistake had been made
1* the seizure of the Malacca, un
questionably the steamer wili be imme
diately restored and damages will be
paid.
The ambassador pointed out that it
was unreasonable to suppose that the
Malacca had been seized without the
commander of the St. Petersburg hav
ing good grounds to believe she bad
contraband on lt/ard. Unless this sus
picion is effectually disproved, the
matter will have to go before the
prize court, which procedure Great
Britain herself follows.
SHJP CREW HELD PRISONERS.
British Vessel Captured by Russians Ar
rives Off Shore at Port Said.
The captured peninsular and Orient
al steamer Malacca arrived at Port
Said Wednesday, manned by a Rus
sian crew. Members of the Malacca s
crew were declared prisoners and no
communication with the shore was
permitted.
The British captain and passengers
complain of Russian treatment. The
former carried his protests to such
length that he was threatened with
arrest unless he desisted. The Ma
lacca is declared to have on board
contraband articles for Japan.