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♦♦♦♦♦ g&O’RGI^- $ 4 riel f Summary of Doings T{irous:ii ol3t the State. jack Money Distributed. Butler, of the closed First eceiver Macon, has reeel v ioaai at about 6 ,)0 checks signed by ihe oiler general at Washington. ip- r ‘ paying out he , will begin at once secen i dividend of the ill-fated in tioU amounting to 25 per cent, disbursement will place over $152, m circulation. farmers’ Institute Heid. 'arrners of Campbell, Coweta, Mert keF ana Douglas counties met in jrci springs last Friday to attend : Farmers’ Institute of the Thirty L senatorial district. The institute uQ ,ier the supervision of the University and the direction ot Karvie Jordan, state director. ,, J. M. Barnes, »local officers are: sident, Stinson; Hon. S. E. Ligh, president. Newnan, and- Hon. W t Greenville. Howell, secretary, Held as Accessory. t Preston, Saturday, W. S. Mor had a preliminary trial on the Irge of being an accessory before fact to the willing of Joe Phil j by Bill Ellis Shepherd, and was omitted to jail. jhepherd swore that Morgan hired to do the killing. Morgan is the ther of H. B. Morgan, convicted for ping Preston. and is cousin of Sid Harrell, to be tried for the same L. Joe Phillips was an important Less for the state. Making War on Idlers. [he county and city authorities at Idosta have declared war on the ya rn classes and are making a deter ted effort to rid the community of dbeats and loafers. Sheriff Pass- I ’e has instructed his deputies to fst all such characters, and the po- j [have received like instructions. Sere is plenty of work in Valdosta Lowndes county for every one. I if the idle and thieving negroes I whites will not work they must i more congenial stopping places. Is early in the harvesting season the mers are finding trouble in employ hands to pick their cotton, while streets of the city are thronged la idle negroes. Son Kills Father. K. J. Shivers, a farmer living about t miles south of Griffin, in Pike futy, [by was shot and instantly kili Henry Shivers, his 17-year-old i. a few days ago. fhere were no witnesses to the gedy except members of the family at first they claimed the killing accidental that Mr. Shivers se led the gun to shoot his wife, but scuffling he fell over a chair and gun fired. me of the smaller children told a ghbor that Henry did the shooting 1 later he confessed to the killing, claims his father had a large knife I w <is threatening the life of his ther and other members of the riy and that he shot his father save the life of his mother, The oner's jury held young Shivers for der. * Rouds Refuse to Lower Rates. 1'e railroads entering Atlanta have reutsed to comply with the ruling state railroad commission that lgrJ ra ies from Ohio river crossings Atlanta be put on an equitable ba fl s compared with rates to other thern cities. :,:S a< -tion of the railroads was for an « deliberate, taking the form "toten letters to the .^pmmission. ' ls now the legal general opinion that fight has been precipitated. 3 raiIr °ads will not yield to the ‘tendons of the Atlanta freight bu- 11 a h<l the Atlanta merchants until r -rsource provided law has a - exhausted by in opposition, while, the other hand, those who have n fighting Atlanta’s battles will, it considered certain, be equally as s r ieut tb their stand. , h L, it is thought, will bring the i)6fore tlle interstate commerce Dnr ! ° n an< * nt;0 f jr-v, ' e J era i courts ‘ tlle mtrostate rates and the er a a e rates being made the sub u.ater of bitterly contesed liti J on. ro 9 Att achment Suit Filed. recov er property valued at $150, i *.i! by ■ attachment nta v/as filed in > a few days ago, by an attorney res ^-nting the South a>pan Georgia Cat ^ y. against George S. Bax ‘ u The ’ plaintiffs reside in Cel- aware and the defendants in New i iork and Florida. Twenty-one miles of railroad, t wo locomotives, two large saw mills and 20,000 acres of timber land have been attached in Clinch and Echols eoun ties, this state, and the suit for an indebtedness amounting to $150,000 is based on these attachments. The suit i s a trover proceeding to recover 25,000,000 feet, of lumber, 100 . 000 gallons of turpentine and 5,000 standard commercial barrels of rosin alleged to have been taken by the de fendants from the lands of he cat • tie company. State Tax Rate $4,S0. The state tax rate for the year 1004 has been fixed at 1 8-10 mills, a reduc tion of 2-10 mills from that of last year, and 1-2 mill from the rate in force at. the inauguration of Governor Terrell. The fixing of the tax rate is placed by the law in the hands of the gov ernor, comptroller general and th« state treasurer. This board met re cently in the office of the governor deducted from the total appropriations the amount to come from the rental of the Western and Atlantic railroad and from special taxes and then fig ured the proportion between the bal ance of the appropriations and the to tal taxable property returned this year. This proportion was the tax rate —that is, for every $1,000 of property $4.80 must be paid in order to realize for the state an amount equal to the appropriations after the revenue from special sources has been deducted. The aggregate expenditures of the state will be about the same this year as they were last year—$4,021,324— but the aggregate taxable property has undergone a great Increase. The ag gregate taxable property .according to the 1903 reture.s, was $o04,61T,947, while this year the aggregate returns amounted to $530,734,947, a gain of $26,122,000. This includes the proper ty of railroads and quasi-public cor porations, as well as the property of private individuals and corporations that do not make their returns direci ]y comptroller general, « * Member of Mob Oie3 of Wound. John Sexton, a young farm laborer, shot during the lynching of the negro, Jim Glover, near Cedartown, succumbed to his wound at his home, in East View, a mill settlement ■. • joining Cedartown. The shooting of Sexton occurred du ring the reckless firing of the mob. Alter the capture of the negro he was carried near the home of his victim, 13-year-old Livia Reeves, three miles from town, and chained to a tree. Im mediately a hundred or more guns an'»l pistols were fired. Whether Sexton was taking part in the lynching or not is not known. It is thought, however, that he was stand ing near the negro and one of the pis tol bullets intended for the negro struck Sexton in the upper part of the abdomen. * Refuses to Call Election. Ordinary J. W. Roberts, of Terrell county, brings the dispensary fight to a sudden standstill by refusing to call the election and denying the right of 659 petitioners to have a prohibition election in the county. While the pe tition was properly signed and, pre sented, the judge refused to call the election on legal grounds. LANEY'S PAL ARRESTED. Ed Black, Who Assisted in Robbing Telegraph Company, a Prisoner. Edward S. Black, who is charged with swindling the Western Union Tel egraph Company out of $1,100, with the assistance of Joseph Laney, cash ier in the Dallas, Texas, office, was ar rested at Little Rock Sunday. Black made a confession to the police, ad mitting that he and Laney secured $400 in St. Louis. $400 in Chicago and $300 in Memphis. FEUDISTS ENGAGE IN FREE FIGHT. One Man Shot Dead and Three Others Re ceive Bad Wounds. James Rushing was stabbed in the heart and killed, Henry Thompson shot in the forehead and fatally wounded and John Hickock and Macy Dushing badiy hurt in a free fight on the outskirts of Alma, Ark., Friday night. The fight is said to have been the result of old trouble. DEATH in MAD DOG BITE. Young Boy Dies in Frightful Agonies of Hydrophobia. As a result of the bite of a fox ter rier jsjx weeks ago, liVtle Thomas Tcroe asced 9 years, son, of Captain and Mrs* Thomas F. igoo. of Summerville, S 0 died Sunday afternoon in the Itter Tabernacle Infirmary, at Atlanta. Ga.. undergoing the-most frightful agonies of rabies. GEORGIA TAXES ARE LOWERED j Rate for 1904 Somewhat Reduced From Last Year. IS $4.80 ON THE $1,000 i Handsome Increase in Values Through out State Shown--Friends of Gov ernor Terrell Feel Gratified. Georgia’s tax rate for the year 1904 has been fixed at 4 8-10 mills—$4.80 on every $1,000—a reduction of 2-10 mill from the rate last year and 1-2 mill from the rate in force at the inaugura tion of Governor Terrell. The fixing of the tax rate is placed by the law in the hands of the gover nor, comptroller general and the state treasurer. This board met Thursday in the office of the governor in Atlanta, deducted from the total appropriations the amount to come from the rental of the Western and Atlantic railroad and from special taxes and then fig ured the proportion between the bal ance of the appropriations ancl the to tal taxable property returned this year. This proportion was the tax rate—that is for every 81,000 of prop erty $4.80 musv be paid in order to realize for the state an amount equal to the appropriations after the revenue from special sources had been deduct ed The aggregate expenditures of the state will be about the same this year as they were last year—$4,021,324—but the aggregate taxable property has un dergone a great increase. The aggre gate taxable property, according to the 1903 returns was $504,017,947, while this year the aggregate re turns amounted to $530,734, 947, a gain of $26,122,000. This includes the property or railroads and quasi public corporations, as well as the property of individuals and corpora tions that do not make their returns directly to the comptroller general. The board considered all these fig ures and found by calculation that a rate of 4 8-10 mills would bring to the state in revenue the sum of $2,- 157,551.87, or a little more than the amount needed to cover the appropria tions for the year. The remainder of the appropriations will be met and paid with the funds arising out of the rental of the Western and Atlantic railroad and special taxes. According to law. however, specified portions of t^s rate are for specified purposes, as follows: 3 mills for the general fund, 1 6-10 mills for the school fund and 2-10 mills foe. the sinking fund. Thus divided the rate will bring :o the three funds respectively the sums of $1,529,219, $849,183 and $106,- 147. The fixing of the rate was largely a matter of arithmetic, but the friends of Governor Terrel! feel gratified that in his term of office the rate has been brought down a half cent on $1, or 50 cents on every $1,000. The rate fixed applies only to the taxes to be collected for the year 1904 and immediate notice will be given to the tax collectors of every county in the state. WYNNE BEHIND CELL BARS. Maker of Counterfeit Plates Joins Confed erates in Atlanta Jail. - William L. W'ynne, who is charged with making the plates from which the counterfeit money was printed in Atlanta, reached the city Thursday at noon from St. Louis in custody of a United States officer. He was taken to the Tower and locked up. Assistant United States Solicitor Camp and Captain J. M. Wright say they heid a talk with Wynne immedi ately after he reached Atlanta, and that he made a full confession to them. When seen by a reporter of The Con stitution, Wynne refused to make any statement. Wynne was given a preliminary trial in St. Louis, and was held in fault of a $5,000 bond. AUTO TAKES TWO LIVES. Owner Lost Control of Machine and Disaster Resulted. Blinded by the dust thrown by an auto in front of him, Barney Oldfield, of Cleveland, Ohio, lost control of his machine in a false 3tart of the fifth event of the world’s fair automobile speed contest at St. Louis Sunday and crashing through the outer fence of the course, instantly killed John Scott, . watchman, ami inflicted . in juries upon Nathan Montgomery. negro, from which he died a few hours later. Oldfield was painfully injured , UNDER HEAVY BONDS Members of the Gang of Counterfeiters Caught in Atlanta are Held for Trial. Oscar La. McMichael, Clarence w * Rebb, J. N. Little and P. S. Coffey, the four men charged with counterfeiting, war.ed a preliminary trial in the Uni ted States court at Atlanta Tuesday morning and were recommitted to jail in default of bond. The bonds of Lit tie and Coffee were fixed at $5,000 j each, and those of McMichael and! Rebb at $3,000 each. That was the criminal side of the first arraignment of the men who were i , bold , and , daring ^ . enough . to . make . *., $30.*. n 1 ed worth of counterfeit money in the, | very heart of Atlanta; but there was a dramatic and pathetic side of the in vestigation, and a scene was enacted ! in the United States court room which ! hide 1 ! made grown men turn away to the tears that filled their eyes. When the lawyers had talked; when the bonds had been fixed; when *he iron| cuffs were about to be placed upoii the i men’s wrists, old mothers, young wives, sisters and brothers crowded about the railing to say a word of goodby and give a parting kiss. The brief history of the crime had been given in full, with all the details of how the man Coffey bought plates i I for making counterfeit money from j William L. Wynne, and how Coffey ! and the man Little got McMichael and j Rebb to print the spurious money at i the dead hours of night in tho rooms of a job office in Atlanta. As Coffey is a countryman, and has never been known to have been engaged in any such crime before; as Little is a labor er, whose previous record was good, and since Rebb and McMichael are two young pressmen who scarcely knew the enormity of the crime they were committing, it is believed by many, including officials, that these men were the dupes of scheming ras cals, belonging to a gang of old coun terfeiters. If this theory is true, the inspectors may yet find others to pros ecute in the case. j Coffey is a man about forty-five years of age, with a florid complexion I aud reddish hair, A heavy sweeping red moustache adorns his face. Ho appeared to take matters coolly. Little is 53 years of age, and is a large man, with heavy jaws and a short bluck moustache. He was chew ing tobacco all the while, and was not at all at his ease. He gazed about him continually, and when the law yers wero talking became restless and nervous. Rebb is a medium size man with dark complexion and black hair. A short thin moustache and a beard of a few days’ growth gave him an un kempt appearance. McMichael, who i3 about twenty-five years of age, does not look to be more than eighteen or twenty. He has a bright, attractive face, with clear eyes that look straight at you. One could hardly pick out a man who would.look less like a criminal. The men will be held until the Uni ted States grand jury convenes, when they will be indicted. Each prisoner i is charged with three separate counts, involving the buying and having pos session of the bogus plates, the mak ing of the money and having it in their possession and the passing o) some of it. The only one of the prisoners, it is said, who is likely to give-bond is Cof fey. He is reputed to own a flour and grist mill in Upson county, near Barnesville, and it may be possible for him to raise enough money to make a $5,000 bond. After the prisoners are indicted they will be tried in the United States dis trict court at the October term. William Wynne, the fifth prisoner in the case, is still in St. Louis, where he was arrested, He will be brought to Atlanta in a day or two, when he will also be given a preliminary tr/ai before Commissioner Colquitt. GOVERNOR TERRELL PLEASED. Geor D ia Exhibits at St. Louis is Cynosure of All Eyes. Governor Terrell, who arrived in At lanta from St. Louis Tuseday, says Georgia is the cynosure of all eyes at the big exposition and that the Geor gia exhibits are nothing short of mag nificient. “I was too busy to go over the grounds,” said the governor, "but I saw all the Georgia exhibits and heard a great deal about the manner in which the exposition visitors were talking of them. •» INQUIRY COURT IS UNDER WAY Georgia Governor Acts Anent the Statesboro Lynching. TO INVESTIGATE FULLY Members of Tribunal Selected to Pass Upon Conduct of State Troops and Place Responsibility. A court of inquiry to investigate the v part played by the military in the -o cent Statesboro episode was appoint ed by Governor Terrell, of Georgia. Tuesday. This action was taken a few hours after the governor's arrival from St. Louis, but after he had discussed the matter at length with Adjutant Gener Harri& and had read the various re ports and affidavits filed since the burning of Reed and Cato, The court of inquiry was called to meet in Savannah Thursday, August 25, and to be composed of the follow ing . militia officers, their first named being the president of the court: Colonel A. R. Lawton, of Savannah, retired; Colonel W. E. Wooten, of Al bany; Lieutenant Colonel W. W. Bar ker, of Atlanta; Major R. L. Wyly, of Thomasville; Captain Warren Grice, of Hawkinsville. No charges will be filed with the court of inquiry and no particular indt viduals will be cited to appear, the in vestigation including every militaman, either officer or private, detailed for duty at Statesboro. In addition to the oral testimony of witnesses, the court of inquiry will have before it for con sideration the reports and affidavits filed wlfh Adjutant: General Harris ancl submitted by him to the governor. The Statesboro affair was, of course, uppermost in the mind of Governor Terrell when lie arrived in Atlanta Tuesday. He was more or less famil iar with the situation from newspaper reports, official and private telegrams and letters, and had been considering the matter since Its occurrence. So the first thing he did on arriving at his office was to arrange for a confer ence between himself and Adjutant General Harris, which resulted in the call for an inquiry. In announcing the appointment of officers for a court of inquiry, Gover nor Terrell discusses the lawlessness on that occasion at length. The crime against the negroes who were burned at. the stake, declares the governor, was of small importance compared with the great crime against the state. He does not censure either the civil or th emilitary authorities in the ab sence of a full investigation, but de clares they were both there to pre serve the peace and protect the majes ty of the law at all hazards and failed. The governor says: “I was greatly surprised and shock ed over the Statesboro occurrence, i had been advised of the necessity of sending to Statesboro during the trial of the murderers of the Hodges family a military guard for the preservation of peace and order, which I did. Be fore my departure for St. Louis I was informed that the trial was proceeding orderly, and that nowhere was there any evidence whatever of an intention on the part of those present to inter fere with the regular administration of justice. I was therefore npt prepar ed to believe as true the news, which I received en route, of the action of the mob, so horribly revolting and sickening in its details, I have been greatly mortified over the crime of this mob. I take comfort in the fact that it did r.ot represent the sentiment of this state, for its action is con demned by a large majoriy of the peo ple of the state, and as for that mat ter, of Statesburo and Bulloch county, th<4 scene of the crime, No defense can. and no apology should be, made for this action of the mob. It should be denounced by law-abiding citizen.* everywhere.” JAPAN NOTIFIES POWERS. Will Take Summary Action Unless Russia Promptly Disarms Ships. Japan has addressed a note to the powers informing them that unless Russia forthwith disarms her warships in Shanghai, Japan will be forced to take whatever steps she deems neces sary to protect her interests. Mr. Takahira, Japanese minister at Washington, called at the state de partment Saturday and left with Mr. Adee, acting secretary of state, the communication of the Tokio govern ment.