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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 2, 1907)
PARTING SHOT FROM ROADS Is Launched at State Officials of North Carolina. SAY “CLUB” WAS USED Give Governor Glenn a Hard Rap in Ex plaining Their Backdown in Noted Rate Fight. A parting shot at the Norch Carolina state authorities in tbe railroad con troversy was fired through petitions whiefi the Southern railway and the Atlantic Coast Line filed before Judge Pritchard at Asheville Monday, ask ing that his interlocutory injunction be modified in accordance with the “peace’ agreement reached Saturday at Raleigh between Glenn and the rail roads. , Both roads filed petitions very sim ilar in tenor which explained a confer ence held in Asheville Monday morn ing between attorneys representing the two roads. The petition of the South ern railway recices the entire history of the railroad cases and includes a protest against what the roads regard as their ill treatment, this protest and recital of facts being designed for perusal of the supreme court of the United States as well as for the pub lic. The railroads declare, in effect, that they were clubbed into becoming a party to the agreement effected at Raleigh; that the public mind has been inflamed by the newspapers and the utterances of politicians, and the agree ment was only assented to under du ress, because of threats of an extra session of the legislature for the pur pose of adopting legislation hostile to the railroads. The Southern Railway company, says the petition was confronted with a question as to whether its proper sense of duty to the peace and good order of the state, a proper considera tion of its obligations to perform its duties as a common carrier in state interstate busints9, and the sub jecting of its employees to arrest ®ad imprisonment would justify it in long er claiming its constitutional right to the protecton of the interlocutory order permitting it to continue until the hear ing of its existing rate of passenger charges, or whether it was not best to cease the unequal conflict with the united powers of the state. The Southern railway does not lose sight, continues the petition, of the momentous nature of the claim assert ed by the state. If the claim of the state can be sustained, it is pointed out, it means that through the agency of its criminal laws a man can take the use of property (which is property) without compensation, for the time pending the enactment of a statute by its general assembly, and the final de termination of its constitutionality. If this claim of the state be upheld, the petition maintains, a state could fix the rate at 1 cent and if the corpora tion was compelled to observe this low rate, notwithstanding the fourteenth amendment forbids it, the state has the power to take, during the period mentioned, the property of a company without compensation. With reference to the “coercion and intimidation” employed to drive the railroads by courts, as to the extent mentioned, the petition calls attention to the activity of Governor Glenn against the road. In fact, the petition says, the gov ernment directed the coercive meas ures. The request to make changes indicat ed in the petition was granted by Judge Pritchard. MOB WAS NOT SATISFIED. Dug Up Body of Lynched Negro, Ridd’ed . and Burned It. Inflamed with passion which s emed to increase after the lynching at Cris field, Maryland, Sunday, of James Reed, the negro murderer of Policeman Daugherty, the mob which put the ne gro to death and buried his body in the swamp at the edge of town, re turned to the spot early Monday morn ing. dug up the body and amid yells and curses, burned it after riddling the corpse with bullets. COTTON CROP REPORTS To the Number of Ten Will Be Issued By the Government From September 8 to March 20. The census bureau at Washington has perfected its arrangements for col lecting cotton ginning statistics cov ering the cotton crop of 1907-08. There will be ten reports, the first appear ing September 8, and the last March 20. The intermediate dates of publica tion will be October 2, October 25, No vember 8, November 21, December S, December 20, January 9 aud January 23. In each instance except in that of the March report the statement will represent the condition of the crop about a week before the date of publication. The report of March 20 will deal with the condition on March first. As heretofore ( the agents will be given six days in which to visit the ginneries and secure their returns. Summaries of these will be wired to the bureau on the last day of the canvas. On the day following the close of the canvass these telegraphic sum maries will be added and the results will be given to the public. The re ports will be printed and mailed within twenty-four hours after publication to all ginners and to all others inter ested. Last season these reports w-ere pub lished at 2 p. m. ou the day following the close of the canvass, but this sea son the bureau will endeavor to pub lish the results at 10 a. m. The publication at this hour will permit the results to reach Europe within trading hours on the day that they are published in America. This is in line with the earnest requests of European spinners of American cot ton, and it is believed that by enab ling them to trade on these reports in their own markets on the dates of publication the fluctuations in the price of cotton and the results of specula tion in the production on these occa sions will be reduced. Between the hour of 6 p. m., w-hen the agents complete their canvass and make their county summaries for tele graphing and 10 a. m. of the next morning, when the reports are publish ed in Washington, no business is transacted on cotton exchanges in this country, and hence under this sys tem Director North says there can be no improper use of the information. Two of the publication dates, Sep tember 8 and December 8, fall on Sun day, and Director North states that these two dates will be changed. WATERY GRAVE FOR NINE MEN. Storm Strikes Launch and Only One of Its Occupants Escapes. During a heavy thunder storm Fri day night a gasoline launch, with ten men on board, capsized near Toronto, Ontario, and only one succeeded in reaching the nearby shore. In explaining the accident the sole survivor said; “The storm struck the launch broadcast aud upset it. ’ All were thrown into the water. Some clung on, but they all scemd to dis apepar at once. It was pitch dark and I saw no more of any of them. I strug gled to the shore, and walked home as best I could.” AYER’S ATTORNEY PROTESTS. Wants His Client to Show Up the Animus of War Board. While Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ayers, who was officially notified of his retirement from the army Friday, has announced that he will, as a sol dier, accept the order of the comman der-in-chief without comment, it is known that his lawyer has advised him to proced further and have an exam ination made by competent physicians in private life, and if their diagnosis does not bear out the diagnosis made by the army surgeons, to submit those facts to the war department and the * president. LITTLE GIRLS BUTCHERED. Madman Runs Amuck on the Streets of German Capital. A fiendish and atrocious criminal made his appearance on the streets of Berlin, Germany, Friday, and five lit tle girls are his victims. The man ap proached the children on the streets and by a deft stroke ripped open their stomachs with a knife. One of the chil dren is dead. The criminal has so far escaped cap ture. He is presumed to be a mad man. Georgia Callings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. State Agricultural Society. The annual convention of the Geor gia State Agricultural Society will be held at Carrollton August 21 and 22. The usual dates of meeting would bo j the 14th and 15th, but, ou account of the legislature being in session, Gov ernor Smith, who will have a leading place on the program, could not at tend. The dates have therefore been postponed one week. Carrollton will welcome the dele gates with open homes, and the meet ing promises to be one of the largest in point of at;endance and general in terest in many years. * * * To Build Connecting Links. Within the next twelve mon hs, un less something now unforeseen inter venes, the links necessary to connect Augusta, Ga., by rail with Madison, Fla., will have been completed, and the road in operation. John Skelton Williams, who ha: done so much for the development of the coast through the medium of the Seaboard Air Line, is authority foi the statement that the funds necessary to build the connecting links betweer the Georgia and Florida systems be tween Augusta and Madison, Fla., have been secured.. Fully $5,000,000 will be | required to complete this work. * * * i Gives Johnson 800 Acres. Engineer L. W. Roberts of Atlanta, who was appointed by ex-Governor j Terrell to locate the line between! Laurens and Johnson counties, has * completed his work. His decision, ac cording to the maps in possession, gives to Johnson county abou. 800 acres of land that has her tofore been claimed by Laurens county, and which j county has received the taxes there- I from. The recent survey shows that the Tarbutton-Tyre tragedy, which brought on the dispute, was in Johnson coun ty. Up to the present time, law, tradi tion and even the Johnson county map gave this territory to Laurens, it has been in the possession of Laurens since 1809, ninety-eight years. * * * Farmers Plan Town. A model town, with a big factory for i the manufacture of farm implements, | will be built by the Georgia division of the Farmers’ Union, about ten miles | from Atlanta, if plans now being made are carried to a successful termina tion. The business agents of the union have already secu-red a part of this land, and have options on the balance ' of the 300 acres necessary. The loca- j tion is at the junction of the Atlanta, j Birmingham and Atlantic and the At lanta and West Point roads, and it is j considered a model place for such an enterprise. Already the m mbers of the Far- i mers’ Union in Georgia own the stock of the Carmichael Implement compa ny at Fairburn, and it is this plant j that will be moved to the new loca tion. * * * Federal Pure Food Officer. A new federal office will be created at Atlanta within the next month or | so, as a result of the stringent pure food laws, recently enacted. The eu forcement of these laws is left to the United States department of agricul ture, and they are so numerous iqjhe special taxes and fines they provide for that it will be necessary fer Sec retary of Agriculture James Wilson to have the government represented at all large cities by a special agent or commissioner. The business of this official will be similar to that of the presen'; revenue agent. In addition to collecting taxes he will keep a sharp eye on the ter ritory under his charge, for the pur pose of detecting violations of the pure food law. When he discovers such violations ic will b? his business to bring them to the attention of the district attorney’s office. This office • will then investigate the charges, and, if advisable, have the offender indict ed by the grand jury. * * * Pure Food Checks in Demand. In anticipation of the pure food law the department of agriculture at the state capitol has been flooded with requests and checks from various manufacturers without the state, who are anxious to brand all consignments of food stuffs shipped into this state 1 properly, and are ordering the special stamps for this purpose, in advance. | In explaining this law, Captain Wright, assistant commissioner of ag riculeture, says; “Instead of selling tags for inspection of food stuffs, as is now the case with fertilizers and cot ton meal, sold in the state, we are is suing inspection stamps, at the rate of twenty cents a ton to be placed on all food stuffs sold in Georgia. The price on fertilizer inspections is ten cents a ton, at present. We are going out to see that all food stuffs shipped into Georgia are as pure as the specifications filed with us claim. “Under this head oils used as condii ments will be tested. The large quan tity of olive oil, sold and used as a condiment, is nothing but our own pure cotton seed oil under a French brand. We contend that cotton oil is purer and better from a vegetable standpoint than olive oil, and this in spection will make each oil stand ou its own n«rit3.” * * * No Booze; No Conventions. There will be a dearth of conven tion in Atlanta in 1908. In 1907 there were twenty-five national conventions held in Atlanta. In 1900 there were thirty conventions; in 1905 twenty five convention; in 1904 twenty-one conventions; in 1903 fifteen conven tions. The conventions of 1907 netted the city of Atlanta approximately $135,- 000.000. The bulk of this money went to the hotels and boarding houses of the city. With no conventions in sight and no effort on the part of hotel men to secure any, the prospects are very slim for the year 1908 in this direc tion. The hotel men as-rlgn as a reason for the dearth of conventions the fact that prohibition will be effective at that time. Several conventions which were to have been held in Atlanta have been called off. All of them as signed prohibition as the cause. But the hotel men are making their principal complaint over the loss of Sunday business. The lessse of the Piedmont hotel, of which Governor Smith is part owner, estimates, that prohibition will cause his hotel to lose 4,000 guests during the year, a loss of at least $40,000 to the hotel and tho citv. The loss to the other hotels will be proportionate. * * * Farmers’ Union Resolutions. Following are the resolutions unani mously adopted by the Georgia Farm ers’ Union in their annual convention in Atlanta opposing foreign immigra tion; “Whereas, the practicability of in ducing immigrants into our stu;e is being agitat d, and believing that the poiicy will prove detrimental to the best interests, material, social, moral and religious, of our state; and, "Whereas, we have learned from ac tual exptrience that this foreign ele ment, as a class, is unreliable in char acter, degraded in morals, anarchistic in principle and dangerous to the peaca and order of society and the welfare of the republic; therefore, be it "Resolved, That the Farmers’ Union of Georgia is irrevocably opposed to foreign immigration and raises Ls voice in protest against the iniqutous policy of encouraging it. “Be it further resolved, That the Farmers’ Union will stand as a bul wark against the mighty floodtide of immigration that is pouring into our land from across the Atlantic, the pauper and criminal element from the crowded centers of Europe, and from across the Pacific the more worthless Mongolian from the Orient; and be it further “Resolved, That it is our unaltera ble purpose to hold this goodly land, purchased with the blood of our fore fathers, as a priceless heritage for our selves, and to transmit it as a rich legacy to our children aud our chil dren's children.” SLAYER OF POLICEMAN LYNCHED. Negro Meets Death at Hands of Enraged Mob at Crisfield, Md. James Reed, color d, was lynched at Crisfield, Maryland, Sunday, a f w hours after he had crept up behind John H. Daugherty, a policeman, and fired a bullet into the latter’s brain. Daughterty died instantly. Saturday night Daugherty arrested a companion of Reed's and was taking him to jail. Reed borrowed a revolver aud, catching up with his friend an the officer, fired the fatal shot. Tih«e beauties of the English lang ua@e are again evident, to the Wash ington Post, In the case of that west ern man who had skipped with the town funds and was described as “six feet tall and SIO,OOO short.” SENATOR PETTUS DEAb. Aged Alabama Statesman Succumbs to Stroke of Apoplexy at Hot Springs, North Carolina. Unittd States Senator Pettus of Ala bama died Saturday at 10 o’clock at Hot Springs, N. C., from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy, with which he was seized while at the breakfast table Friday morning. His entire body was paralyzed and he nevtr regained consciousness. Senator Pettus’ daughter and hi» grandson, E. W. Pettus, Jr., reached Hot Springs an hour before the sena tor’s death, but he did not recognize them. Tho attending physicians say that from the time of the apoplectic stroke Senator Pettus suffered no pain and that ha passed away quietly. Senator Pettus arrived at the North Carolina resort about a wo. 1; ago from Tate Springs, Tenn. Up to the time of his seizure, he was appar ently in the best of health. At Urn breakfast table Friday morning, it is said, he was unusually che rful, and when he was stricken the guests of the hotel thought that he merely had a fainting fit. Physicians were sum moned from Asheville for consur a tion with the local physicians, aud it was st eu that there was no hope of the senator’s recovery. The body was embalmed Sunday, and was shipped to the senator's for mer home in Selma. The body left llot Springs on a special train, accompa nied by a number cf United States senators acling as an escort of honor. The committee appointed by Vice Presid nt Fairbanks io lepresent tbe senate at the funeral at Selma *is as follows: Senators Bankhead, Alli son, Cullom, Daniel, Warren, Clay, Overman, McEucry, Scott, Knox, Wil liam Alden Smith, Rayner, Taliaf rro, Mallory and Simmons. Speaker Cannon appointed the Ala bama delegation to represent the house of representatives, consisting of Representatives Taylor, Wiley, Clayton, Bowie, Heflin, Burnett, Rich ardson and Underwood, and also rep resen. atives Brownlow, Padgett, Hay of Virginia, Thomas of Nor.h Carolina, and Fmley or South Caroline. At a mass meeting of citizens held at Selma Sunday evening, largely at tended, a committee was appointed to make arrangements for the funeral. Senator Pettus celebrated his BGth blr.hday at Tate Springs only a few days ago, and on that otcasion his unusual vigor was the subject of comment. The death of Senator Pettus fol lowing quickly th? passing of his colleague from Alabama, Senator Morgan. Both were notable types of the old school of southern s. a teamen; much alike In uni, eiament, appear ance, age and political convictions. Mr. Ptttus came from revolutionary stock and during the civil war he rose to the rank of brigadier g-neral in the confederate army. He entered the senate ten years ago and while not among the brilliant orators of that body he was notable for his consci entious attention to the details of pub lic business. Former Gov-rnor Joseph M. John son of Birmingham will succeed to the seat in the senate made vacant by the death of Senator Pettus. Ex- Governor Johnston was selected as sec ond alternate last year when Senators Morgan and Pettus were renominated. Congressman Bankh ad was chosen as first alternate senator and he nas a!- ready been elected by the legislature to succeed the late Senator Morgan. WRECK OF EXCURSION TRAIN $ Results in the Death of Three People and Injury of Many Others. In a wr ek of ail excursion train at isle Station, ten m les from But ler, Pa., on the Allegheny and West ern road, three persons were killed outright and a score or more were more or less scrlcu.ly injured. The cause of the accident is not given. ROWLANDS REMAIN IN JAIL. Doctor and Wife Refused Freedom in Ha beas Corpus Proceedings. The application for release by Dr. and Mrs. D. S. Rowland upon habeas corpus proceedings has been refuse d by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Connor at Raleigh, N. C. He announced that, as the burden was on tlie Rowlands to show their innocence of the charge of the murder of Charles Strange, Mrs. Rowlands former husband, and that as this had not been done, he remanded them to jail for the next term of court.
