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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
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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.
