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ORGIA NEWS? licaizei Items of Interest lettered nt Random. ninistsf jailed for Bigamy. Woodard, a Baptist m.n i' • been lodged in ,j commerce has loiter son on a serious charge y of the county found rand JUI him for bigamy. •II 1 against Station for Brunswick. rsless meeting of the Bruns recent petition was re ifV council, a Atlantic DeForest , from the jelegrah Company, asking to erect necessary poles in gsion the es tablishment of a j L t v telegraph for station. * * * omicide at Tallulah Falls. Siiore. a prominent and well citizen of Tallulah Falls,was shot times Saturday night by Colonel Parris, a prominent lawyer of in. rja. Mr. Shore died Sunday, s a son. daughter and se\ ai MVQ rs t 0 mourn his loss. Parris gave , sheriff. The cause E up t 0 the tragedy is not given out. , Brown Assumes Duties. i; -, M. Brown, of Marietta, be ia member of the state railroad fission .Monday last, succeeding G. Gunbv Jordan, of Columbus. > resignation went into effect on Lgh Ljgnation Mr. Jordan resigned in May. to take effect August L fact did not become known [ a few days ago, when Governor of Mr- 1! made the appointment L as his successor. I alpers Barred From Georgia. state of Georgia is now free ticket scalpers and is the only in the union that enjoys this ction, with the exception of kylvania. legislature What is more, the Geor just before the end te present session passed a bill, laced by Senator Howell, of Fu( entitled “An act to prohibit traf non-transferable signature tick sued by common carriers and to re common carriers to redeem n or partly used tickets,” which a the death knell of all scalpers is state for all time to come. * Dr. Mumford Passes Away. er an illness of nearly three u bon and founded the Georgia tr >a! Home. An orphan himself at age, Dr. Mumford knew well l2re that should be given to chit to shift for themselves, and he founded the institution hun 1 of children have been cared F placed on the road to becom [ood citizens. * * * creas ® Will Break Records. - increase in the total tax re °f the state for this year, aside ihe public utility corporations, aGout $23,000,000. with the ltion of last year’s, the largest ise ever known in the state in Ste year. I the counties have not yet sent r‘ l ( ^S es ts, but with the exact of Information °f already received r C9 the comptroller general, P e est imates from the counties F digests are not yet in. Captain Sor >. chief clerk in the comptrol ofhee, has been able to make -urate of the total increase. This a?e fixes the net additions to axable wealth of the state at 523,000,000 even. - raoroads and public utility cor bav e also shown a goodly ls and given evidence that they. “ av e been enjoying their share e general prosperity, the increase fi.loads, . for instance, being 1 with the individual ' ls es, wifi amount icd to $24,500,000, numbers. s increase taxed at 5 mills will the sum of ’ 0I wbe n the cost of collection (i , about $100,000. * * Ta * Rat ® May kin the Be Lower. next few days Governor and Comptroller General .t will fi x tll e state tax rate for die definite r "as been conclusion on the • tax reached ,it is learned rate f°r 1904 will be less mills. Thp governor and the general have not finished on r ^e matter yet, and will 0 receiv'!'; ti! a11 tbe returns liave However, the governor is satisfied that they will be able to make the rate less than 5 mills, though just how much less it is impossible to predict at present. ! The fact, however, that there will be i reduction, in the state tax this will rate year be welcome news to every section of the state. This tax rate is to secure funds for expenses for 1904. The appropriations bills just passed by the general assembly were for 1905, and the tax rate under which the money appropriated for next year will be raised, will not be made until about September 1, 1905. * Populist State Convention. Toe populists of Georgia will meet in state convention at the state capi tol on September 1st for the purpose of ratifying the nomination of Thomas E. Watson and Tibbies for president and vice president. State Chairman Hollaway, who issues the call. savs he does not know whether there will be a state ticket. The following is the call: Notice is hereby given that 1 state convention of the people’s parry of Georgia is hereby called to meet in the state capitol at Atlanta, Gst., on Tues day, September 1, 1904. at 10 o’clock a. m.. for the purposes of ratifying the nomination of Watson and Tibbies for president and vice president of the United States, for putting cut an electoral ticket and for such purposes as the convention may decide upon. Each county will be entitled to twice as many votes as it has representatives in the general assembly, and to as many delegates as may be chosen by the party in each county in such man tier as sTfaTT be determined by the ex ecutive committee of each county. J. J. HOLLAWAY, State Chairman, Clem, Georgia. J. D. WOODALL, Secretary, Barnesville, Ga. * No Money Provided for Judges. An interesting oversight on the part or the genera! assembly is general ly commented on at the capitol. While the legislature passed a bill increas ing the salaries of judges of the su preme and superior courts to $4,000 and $3,000, respectively, and the sal ary of the governor to $5,000, it failed to appropriate any money to pay the increases given. This makes it necessary for the judg es to wait until after the legislature of 1905 appropriates the money to pay the back salary increases, to which they will be entitled under this bill, before they can get, the monev. The bill provides that the ir reases shall not apply to any judges who were in commission at the time of Us pass age, hut it will apply to all judges who are to be elected at the coming election in October. Associate .Justices Evans and Lamar, of the supreme court, will get their new commissions as soon as the election is over, and the result declared, because they are serving uuexpired terms, and the $n crease for them will then begin. The increase for Chief Justice Simmons and Associate Justice Fish will begin January 1, 1905, but all of these must wait for the money until after the next legislature has appropriated it. It is the same with the judges of the superior courts, whose new term s practically all begin on January 1 next that is ,for all those who are elected at the coming election. Strangely enough, however, the bill operates to the decided disadvantage of Associate Justices Andrew J. Cobb and John S. Candler. Justice Cobb will not get the advantage of the increased salary until January 1, 1909, when his new term will begin, if he is elected in 1908. Notwithstanding the fact that they must wait for three and five years to get tne increased salaries, they must, in common with all other judges, give up any free railroad passes and franks, which courtesies may have been extended to them. Educational Conference Resolutions The Georgia Educational Conference at its session at the summer school in Athens passed some important, res olutions, a condensed report of which we give below: Education -is the iright of every child born into a civilized common wealth, a right that is independent of circumstances of life or conditions of fortune. To guarantee and secure to the children of the state the oppor tunity for such development is the prime duty of organized society. We rejoice in the fact that Georgia was the earliest in the Union to rec ognize these fundamental truths oy providing in its constitution for the first system of public schools; was Hit first to grant a charter conferring upon a woman’s college the right to bestow academic degrees; the firs to recognize agricultural education in the gift of Dr. William Terrell for .a chair of agricultural chemistry: anl the first bequest for strictly normal ed ucation in the will of Governor Gil mer. We note with unbounded gratifica r i°o the evidences of cordial and ora tie-ally unanimous support given ;r all the counties of the state to tht Pending constitutional amenrimeu* schools. Permitting local taxation for public I We deplore the agitation for tak 1 in S away from the negro schools tht ! support they have for thirty years pa-. j had in Georgia, and limiting thei: I support to negro taxes alone. It won! i be an unspeakable'calamity to down this policy which has been our proud boast and the complete cindi cation of our justice and kindnes to the negro. As soon let us say thai the poor counties of the state should receive for education only the taxer paid in by them; or that in any com inunity the monies drived from the wealthy be expended upon the wealthy and only those of the poor upon tht poor. Such a measure against negre schools w r ould be a violation of that high obligation which the superioi race by virtue of its power owes 1o the weak and disadvantaged race. The existing educational oolicy has be^-a confined in its administration to the whites alone, enabling boards of edit cation in each county to adjust the 1 d lation of the funds for the separate schools as is equitable and proper lo cally. We appeal to the women of Geor gia to organize themselves into schoil improvement societies and thus to bring to bear in behalf of educational interests and of school building gs those fine qualities and powers of woman hood which make them so indispen sable to the churches of the land.— J. S. STEWART, of State University, UGH f REIN ON MONEY LENDERS. Georgia Legislature, at Last Moment rasses “Anti-snark” Measure. The “money shark” bill was favora bly acted upon by the Georgia legis lature at the closing session and will j now become a law. Despite the strenuous and determin ed opposition of Mr. Hall, of Bibb, who fought it at every turn, and left no stone unturned to accomplish its de feat, the house adopted the substitute reported by the general judiciary com mittee by a vote of 10G to 34, and then passed the bill on rising vote, by 92 to 7. Thus has the house put, itself on rec ord along with the senate in favor of protecting the poor and ignorant bor rower, and warnings almost amount ing to threats had no avail to stop the tide of votes in the measure’s favor. The main provisions of the house substitute, which will now become a | law, are: | The kinds of security dealt with by j the bill, as enumerated in section 1, | i are: Household or kitchen furniture, household goods, wearing apparel, sew- 1 ing machines, musical instruments and wages. Section 6'.provides for the keeping books showing facts concerning ev : loan made, the of the bor ery name ! rower. amount, date of maturity, etc. Section 8 provides that these books 3 h a n be open to the inspection of the | ordinary or grand jury of the county ! wherein the business is located, j Section 10 provides that fees for investigating the security or title may be charged as follows: Fifty cents for amounts of $5 or less; seventy cents for amounts be tween 55 ant 510; one dollar for amounts between $10 and 520; one dol lar and a half tor amounts between $20 and $35; two dollars tor amounts', between $35 and $60. No fees shall be charged for reversals and one loan of practically the same amount follow ing closely on another shall be con strued, under this section, as a renew al. No original loans shall be spl't into smaller loans for renewal pur poses. On loans of more than $60 the fee charges are left to be settled on a fair basis between borrower and lend er. provided such charges <lo not ex ceed 6 per cent of the amount of the loan. Section 11 provides that all pay ments aggregating more than 8 per cent interest and fees permitted shall be construed as payments on the prin cipal. Section 12 forbids charges for fire insurance on property mortgaged. Sections 14 and 15 provides for for feitures of licenses for violations of the feat Section 16 provides that before any criminal demand shall be issued on any transaction growing out of ths business dealt with by the bill the lender shall make oath that he has not violated the terms of the bill. Section 17 voids assignments of un earned wages. Section 18 excepts banks, bankers and pawnbrokers. A Chicago girl wrote a thesis of 5000 words on the psychology of the guinea pig. Now let the man who deems the feminine mind unfit to cope with giant problems wander disconsolate to the rear and be seated. CZAR HAS A SON. I Kidling of the Male Persuasion Finally ; Breaks Monotony in Household of Nicholas. A St. Petersburg special says: son and heir to the Russian throne I has been born, The empress an 1 j the child are doing well. The aceouch meat occurred at 12:30 o'clock Friday afternoon - The blrth 80 greatly wisa f° r - tbat °f au heir to the Russian crown, occurred not in the great pal ace at Peterhoff, but in the Alexandra palace, in a secluded corner of the magnificent Peterhoff park, In one of the buildings the empress had bean living for weeks. The other three are by members o the imperial family, gathered there in expectation of the event, including the empress’ mother, his majesty's two sisters, the Grand Duchess Xenia and Olga; nis brother, Grand Duke Michael, and oth sr relatives, The villa so called is situated about oue and a half hours’ from St. Peters burg by railroad, which runs northeast from St. Petersburg to the shores of the Baltic extending as far as Rigau. The birth of the heir to the.throne was attended with all the eeremoni ll ordained by the imperial tradition. The announcement from Peterhof was immediately followed by a salute of 101 guns from the imperial yacht lying at anchor off the palace, but it was 2:4.3 p. m. when the guns of St. j Peter and St. Paul fortress, opposite the winter palace in St. Petersburg, conveyed the glad tidings to the peo ple of the Russian capital. The effect was electrical. With the i boom of the first gun the people 'n * the street, who had been momentarily expecting the event for twenty-four hours, stopped to listen and count the guns. Only thirty-one are fired t'pr a girl. When the thirty-second boomed and the people were aware that at last an heir to the throne was born, there was scenes of rejoicing everywhere j and before .the salute was finished the - whole city had blossomed out with flag3 and bunting and the shipping in j the harbor was dressed. Then the bells of the churches be | gan to ring wildly. I In the meantime the announcement had been telegraphed to the most re* mote corners of the empire. In all the j towns and cities the glad bells tidings and were th9 spread with the clang of booming of cannon. The emperor will signalize the eve it by some gracious act, like the remis sion of arrears of taxes and amnesty, and for the next two weeks, until tae christening, there will be a holiday and public fetes of all kinds. The heir's name will be Alexis Niko laleritch, and if he reigns he probably I assume the of AlGxis G. The I laxt Alexis was emperor of Mosco/y i ia 1645. The emperor and empress of Rus sia (formerly Princess Alix of Hesse), who were married November T4, 1891, had, previous to this latest event, four daughters, Olga, born NovemTier 3, 1895; Tatiana, born May 29, 1891; Mary, born June 15, 1899. and Anasta sia, born June 5, 1901. STRIKERS INDULGE IN RIOTING. Sever «' «*” * r * H „ “ rt „ . » ConfltcU . ... , Over _ Botchers Strike at Chicago, ' A riot In crowded Ftfth avenoe.wlth. “ * "« uare of the >’ al! - 2n<i r ‘™ !1 ’ j ‘"S «* teamsters’ strike two yearr ; •*». misatlea were hurled from ! "H"!™ of ped the climax of disorder in the men; j cutters’ strike at Chicago Friday. During the day half a dozen men we-n hurt in various encounters and shots were fired during an attack on a train, load of i i strike breakers.” j CRUISER SHOT FULL OF HOLES. i Vessel Enters Neu j Badly Battered Russian tral Port of Woosung. A dispatch from Shanghai says: The Russian protected cruiser Askold ar rived at Woosung Friday with her fifth funnel gone. All her other fun nels riddled with shell holes, one gun on the port side dismounted and sev eral large shell holes above the water ! line. One lieutenant and eleven men i had been killed aud fifty wounded. ; DEATH CLAIMS WALDECK-ROSSEAU. Prominent French Statesman and Leader Victim of an Operation. Former Premier 4 Waldeck-Rosseau died Tuesday afternoon at his coun try residence at Corbeil, Franch, 18 miles 7rom Paris, from the effects of an operation which his medical at tendants deemed to be a final neces sity. An able statesman and leader, he distinguished himself as one of the foremost men of the French republic. He was also a writer of eminence on judiciary matters. He was one of those who favored a revision of the celebrated Dreyfus case. MISTAKE MADE BY JAPANESE They Seize Dismantled Russian Vessel in Neutral Pert. FLEET MAKES ITS ESCAPE Heavy Bombardment ot Port Arthur Forces Russian Warships to Seek Safer Quarters. boarding A social from Che Foo says: A party from a Japanese torpe do destroyer boarded the dismantled Russian torpedo boat destroyer Reis hitelni Thursday morning at 3:30 o'clock. The Japanese discharged their small arms and during the firing a Russian was wounded. Daybreak showed a third Japanese destroyer towing the Reishitelni out of the har bor and all disappeared. The Japan ese consul claims that the Japanese ships were ignorant of the dismantling of the Rieshitelni. Port Arthur Fleet Escapes? According to the latest information obtainable the Russian squadron haa not returned to Port Arthur. On the night of August 9 heavy, cannonading was heard at sea in the direction of Port Arthur. Advices from the fortress say that the Japanese bombarded the town, placing their batteries in dense kaolin fields, where they were effectually masked. The shells dropped mainly in the western basin where the squad ron was anchored. Many of the shells fell upon the battle shjp Retvizan, bu' no serious damage was done either to the town or the fleet. Later the forts got the range of the Japanese field batteries and drove them from thek* shelter. On the morning of August 10, lh» squadron put to sea, where heavy can nonading was heard for several hours. The result of the battle is not ’✓town, and nothing definite has been learnei regarding either squadron. A special from Tokio says: Evi dently driven to sea by the fire of the Japanese land batteries, the Russian fleet emerged from Port Arthur Wed nesday morning. Admiral Togo im mediately closed in artd opened a se vere engagement, which lasted until nightfall. Afterwards the Japanese destroyers and torpedo boat flotillas delivered a series of attacks. The Japanese fleet withdrew during the night. Admiral Togo has not yet re ported the results of the engagement. It is thought that the Russians at tempted to escape seaward from a basis which is no longer tenable, but that they again refused to attempt to force Admiral Togo inland. Short on Ammunition. Wednesday is said to have been chosen for the escape of the Russian warships at Port nrthur because th9 Japanese fleet was then exhausted by the constant bombardment of the two previous nights. Tukashan mountain, near Port Arthur, which was taken by the Japanese Monday night, was re captured by the Russians next day. Vladivostok Awaits Fleet. A dispatch from Vladivostok says: Preparations are being completed for the reception of the Port Arthur squadron. The departure of the squad ron from Port Arthur is generally in terpreted to indicate that the siege o* the fortress is entering on its final stage, as the program has repeatedly been announced by the Associated Press, for the squadron to leave as soon as the situation at Port Arthur becomes desperate. VARDAMAN BALKS LYNCHERS. Mississsippi Governor Again Goes to Res cue of a Negro Rapist. Governor Vardanian has saved the neck of another black man by order ing the sheriff of Panola county to place him at once in the jail at Jack son. Last October Lee Faulkner, ne gro, aged 30, made a criminal assault on the'17-year-old .laughter of Captain J. R. Gary. CHINESE DIPLOMAT RESIGNS POST. Wu Ting Fang, for Many Years Represen tative at Washington, Quits Politics. Wu Ting Fang, for many years the Chinese minister at Washington, ac cording to his son, Wu Chao Chu, who has beon attending school at Atlanito City, N. J., has resigned the vice presi dency of the foreign hoard at Pekin an( j i fJ Id to have permanently re tired from politics, Wu chao Clm j5ald that h{g jj ag determined to lead a quiet life, and built him a country home naar shanghai,