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A QUEER MOVE
BY VARDAMAN
Governor's Support.-rs Attempt to
Pry Into Ballot Boxes.
ARE CAUGHT IN THE ACT
Police Justice and Lawyers in Natchez
Sought to Count Eallots Cast in Pre
cincts in Adams County.
A peculiar move In the Mississippi
primary election for the nomination
of democratic candidates for United
States senator and state officers was
made late Monday afternoon when
Hon. Ernest E. Brown, Police Justice
Marion Reilly and J. H. Beard, lawyers
and followers of Governor Vardanian,
attempted lb count the ballots cast in
the several precincts of Adams coun
ty, in Natchez.
They were counting the ballots when
the chairman of the Adams county
democratic executive committee, anc
Judge Will C. Martin, county attor
ney, both of whom had been apprised
of the move, appeared before them
and protested against their action.
The protestants were reinforced by
Circuit Clerk Bowie, who is the reg
istrar of the county. Mr. Browu ad
vanced the claim that the balloes are
public property, but was informed that
the returns had not been received by
the state executive committee, where
upon the trio retired from the office.
A Jackson special says: Chairman
B. H. Wells, learning Monday night
of the attempt on the part pf several
supporters of Governor Vardaman to
count the Adams county vo;e, sent
the following message to all election
managers in Mississippi.
“Williams Headquarters, Jackson, Au
gust 5. —Do not let the ballots or orig
inal tally sheets go out of the hands
of the lection officers. We have won
this elec.ion and do not propose to be
counted out.
“B. H. WELLS, Chairman.”
Hon. John Sharp Williams gave the
following to the press before leaving
for his home at Yazoo City Monday af
ternoon;
“I am going home for a day at least
to rest. 1 have certainly been elected,
why the opposition does not ceneede I
cannot understand. If there be any
honest reason for holding back returns
I cannot conceive it.”
Chairman Wells received a message
freftn J. M. Thomas of Tupelo that
he had been requested to send the
ballot boxes and tally sheets to the
chairman of the state executive eoin
mittee and declined to comply. Mr.
Wells indorsed this position.
CHICAGO HAS A CRIME WAVE.
One Day’s Casualties Was Four Men Killed
and One Fatally Wounded.
Scattering mysterious assaults in
which four men were killed and an
other fatally wounded aroused the
entire Chicago police force to ener
getic action early Monday. The vic
tims in the affair were:
Fusario Rocco, body found on the
doorstep of his home, with two stiletto
wounds.
Edward Smith, a policeman, was
shot and killed by an unknown man
while walking a short distance from
his house.
John L. Barbour was found dead
on the Illinois Central tracks. The
head had been cut off by a passing
train. It is believed Barbour commit
ted suicide, but there are circumstanc
es that make this doubtful.
John Naughton died in the hospital
after being asaulted by three stran
gers.
William Donovan is dying in the
county hospital from a bullet wouud
in the abdomen. Donovan was found
in a basement and said ho had been
robbed by three men.
RANK FRAUD IS RAMESES.
Ancient Egyptian King Didn’t Do Mighty
Things Attributed to Him.
Egyptologists claim they have dis
covered that Rameses II was a fraud
and that he is not entitled to the ap
pellation of “great” which historians
have given him. Recent explorations
have developed the fact that the man}
temples and monuments bearing his
name, and therefore supposed to be his
work, existed a thousand years before
him. I The explorers believe the king
was vain and caused his name to be
cut everywhere.
ATLANTA HAS HALTED.
Extension of City Limits Postponed to
19C8 in Final Action on Matter
By Council.
The extension of the city limits o
Atlanta and the purchase of a new
pump for the waterworks department
came up before the city council Mon
day afternoon.
The Greaeer Atlanta scheme was
postponed until the year ISOS.
The purchase of a pump was indefi
nitely postponed until a new' special
investigating committee could make a
report on the waterworks system.
So, after many months of hard work
and much talking about an extension
of the city limits, and an equal amount
of time and speechmaking wasted about
a new pump, both these important
measures were pigton-hoied for a
while.
The matter of extension came up in
a committee of the whole.
Councilman Terrell, who had been
an earnest advocate of extension,
moved that the matter be postponed
until the next council came in. He
said that he did this because it w r as
now too late to get a charter amend
ment passed by the legislature.
Councilman Pomeroy was against a
postponement. He said that to take a
backstep now r might cause the city to
be unjustly criticised in the face of
the reduced income from the cutting
off of the liquor licenses next year.
Councilman Martin coincided with
Council Pomeroy.
Alderman Holland got the floor and
he said that he was tired of so much
"hot air.” He called for the previous
question, and a vote was taken.
The vote to postpone action until
the year 190 S was 13 to 8.
And Greater Atlanta was bidden
farewell for a while.
SOUTH’S FORWARD MARCH
Set Forth in the Georgia and Alabama
Industrial Index.
The Georgia and Alabama Indus.rial
Index says iu its regular weekly is
sue:
“Twenty-one new industrial auu
manufacturing plants to be establish
ed, two new railroads projected, sixty
two buildings of substantial character
to be constructed, proposed municipal
improvements to cost over s3oo,bl
and twenty new corporations wi ll
total minimum capital s ock of $676,-
750 are consolidated items of advance
reports to The Index, for the past
week, that illustrate the steady de
velopment and upbuilding in progress
in Georgia and Alabama. The figures,
though large, are uot unusual. The
Index reports such figures week after
week. They explain why the 37
Georgia counties that so far have sent
tax digests to the state comptroiier’s
office show a net gain in property val
ues of $5,653,677 over las: year. They
explain, too, why the eyes of the Amer
ican business world are upon Gorgia
and Alabama as never before in their
history and why more and more capital
is being placed with that which dem
onstrates profitable investment in the
two states.
“Coincident with the general up
building Is an increasing demand for
lands of all kinds and a steady upward
tendency of prices.”
BULLET BARELY MISSED BUSH.
Assassin After Atlanta Man Who Was
Recently Acquitted in Court.
A mysterious attempt was made at
Atlanta Monday night about 11:30
o’clock to assassinate Fred Bush, the
man who was charged with sending
a dynamite bomb to Miss Katherine
McCarthy, and after a trial in court
was promptly acquitted.
Bush was sitting on the bed in his
room on Ivy 3trett reading a bcok.when
suddenly some one from the outside
fired a shot through the window, the
bullet grazing his head and splattering
pieces of glass over him.
NO DRINKING ON TRAINS.
First Arrest and Conviction Under Newly
Enacted Law in Texas.
The first arrest and conviction under
the law making it a misdemeanor to
drink liquor on a train in Texas was
made in Palestine when a white man
was fined sl6 for committing the of
fense.
The man was coming in on a train,
and when a short way cut of Pales
tine took a drink out of a bottle he
had in his pocket. While he was drink
ing a state ranger, who happened to
be on the same car, arrested him.
COTTON LOOKS BETTER.
General Average Shown to Be Very Good
in Government Report of
July 25th.
The crop reporting bo .rd of the bu
reau of statistics of the department
of agriculture at Washington findu
from the reports of the correspond
ents and agents of the bureau that the
average condition of co'.ttn cn July
25 was 75 0 as ccmpaiej with 72.0
on June 25, 1907; 82.9 ou July 25,
1906; 74.9 on July 25, 1905, and a ten
year average of 82.6.
The following table shows the con
dition on July 25 in each state:
Virginia 65
North Carolina 75
South Carolina 81
Georgia 81
Florida 84
Alabama 72
Missisippi 71
Louisiana 71
Texas 75
Arkansas .. 68
Tennessee 75
Missouri 66
Oklahoma 74
Indian Territory 74
United States 75
When the report was posted in the
New Orleans exchange at 11 o’clock
Friday morning, there was an advance
in values. The October option, which
stood at 12.22 just before the report
was made, jumped to 12.48 on the first
bid and then advanced to 12.50. There
w'ere similar advances on the other
options. It was generally expec.ed that
the report would be bullish in its na
ture, but it was never anticipated thac
it would be lower than 77, and when
75 was posted as the condition, even
the mos; sanguine of the bulls were
thoroughly surprsed.
At New York the report was con
sidered bullish, and there was con
siderable excitement in the local fu
tures market. The immediate effect
was an advance of 25 to 50 points
from the low point of the morning,
CHINESE CLAN RUN AMUCK.
New Yorkers Swoop Down Upon a Co ony
in Boston and Kill Thrte.
Burning with hatred for th: ir d ead
ly enemies belonging to the rival on
Long Tong Society, a band of New
York Chinamen, numbering a dozen
or more, and said to be members of
the notorious Hip Sing Tong organi
zation, entered a narrow alley in Chi
natown at Boston, Mass., Friday night
and, drawing revolvers, fired upon
half a hundred Chinamen, killing three
aud injuring seven. At the first vol
ley the Chinamen rushed for their
quarters, stumbling over one another
in their haste to reach shelter. The
Hip Sing Tong men chased tlnir vic
tims into their own doorways and
shot them down as they rushed up
stairs or into side rooms. Then cast
ing away their guns, the strange vis
itors ran away from the Chinese quar
ters, most of them escaping the polic?.
Immediately after the shooting, one
of the Hip Sing Tong men from New
York was captured by a policeman
as he was running away. The man
gave the name of Nim Sing. He was
dressed in American clothes. Later
an officer at the south station too"k in
to custody Hong Woon, aged 34, of
New York, whose hands were powder
stained. Both prisoners are charged
with manslaughter.
The police placed under arrest on
suspicion seven other Chinese who
are strangers in the local coJony.
The shooting occurred in Oxford
place, in the center of Chinatown,
where about fifty Chinamen were smo
king in the open air. Fully fifty shots
were fired. That the visitors' shot with
careful accuracy was apparent from
the fact that each of the three killed
was shot through the heart.
The trouble has been anticipated
for more than a week. About ten days
ago nearly a dozen. Chinamen who
were all strangers, came to Boston
and rented rooms near Chinatown.
MISTOOK WIFE FOR BURGLAR.
Atlanta Turkish Bath Proprietor Fires
Fatal Shot at Spouse.
H. B. Krumholz, proprietor of a
Turkish bath house and barber shop
at 10 Decatur street, opposite the Kim
ball house, in Atlanta, Monday night,
shot and killed his wife, Rosalie Krum
holz, at their home, 136 South For
syth street, shortly before midnight.
Krumholz declared the shooting to be
accidental, as be mistook his wife for
a burglar.
Georgia Cullings
Curtailed ltemi of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Pike Goes Against Dispensary.
The returns of the election held in
Pike county show 522 voles against
the dispensary and 45 for dispensary.
Barnesville district, in which the only
dispensary In Pike is located, gave
141 against and 16 for dispensary.
* * *
New Railroad Chartered.
The Georgia Carolina Railway com
pany has been granted a charter by
Secretary of State Philip Cook for a
period of 101 years, under which it is
permitted to construct a railroad 60
miles in length from Athens through
Clarke, Madison, Franklin and Hart
counties to the Savannah river, and
thence to Anderson, S. C.
The capital stock of the new com
pany will be $1,000,000, and the prin
cipal office in Hartwell.
• * *
Soii Survey to Be m3u£.
Congressman Griegs and Chief J. A.
Bonstel of the bureau of soils from
Washington were in Thomasville mak
ing arrangements to slart a soil sur
vey of Thomas and Grady counties on
October 1. They announce that a soil
survey of Tift county, where the s:c
ond district agricultural college is lo
cated, will also be made and the gov
ernment will do road building there.
* * *
Skipped Out With Church Funds.
Rev. Henry Glover, former pastor of
the Eas; Side Baptist church of Rome,
has ben located in Knoxville, Tenu,
and a warrant sworn out for his ar
rest. Rev. Mr. Glover left Rome
some time ago, alleging that he was
going to Chicago to confer wi!h a mil
lionaire whom Glover said he had in
terested in plans to build a new
church. The congregation had already
raised $l5O as a nucleus of building
fund and, it is alleged, Glover took the
money with him.
* * *
Unique Legislative Act.
The Alabama legislature has pars
ed an act which places Columbus in a
position to establish waterworks in
that s:ate at any time the city should
desire to do so, the bill being intro
duced by request of the water com
mission of Columbus. The act peaces
the Georgia city on the same bns.s
as an Alabama city, as it has the right
to condemn lands in that state for
water supply purposes. Under the
provisions of the bill the Alabama
property of any foreign municipality
owning waterworks, in that state is
made exempt from levy.
* * »
Georgians for Competitive Shoot.
Representatives of the national guard
of Georgia have been appointed to en
ter the competition lo select represen
tatives for the world’s military cham
pionship shoot for the Palma trophy
at Ottawa, Canada, Septemb r C. The
trophy is now held by the English
army.
The state military representatives
are as follows: Captain’R. J. Travis,
Lieut. W. G. Austin and Private E. C.
Williams of Savannah, and Lieut J. A.
Seaman of Atlanta.
These representatives will meet with
other contestants at Fort Clinton, 0.,
where they will compete for places on
the International team. Thi3 team will
be composed the best shots in the
world. *
* * •
Losses of Liquor Men Estimated.
Chaos reigns in the liquor traffic
in the state because of absolute pro
hibtion after January 1 next, Savan
nah and other cities present tell a
sory of financial loss that runs into
many millions. Augusta will lose two
and a half million dollars in prop r:y
values and license taxes. Columbus
will lose heavily. Atlanta's less, it is
caimed, will largely exceed that of a
number of other cltios in the state
where liquor is sola. Brunswick’s loss
will run above the million mark. Ma
con will suffer heavily in the loss of
revenue from many saloon properties
and one of the finest breweries in the
south. It is reported that the railroads
have offered to transport breweries
and stills to other states free of
freight charges, Florida and Alabama
and Tennessee are the states to which
the whiskey interests will move.
* * *
To Exploit Granddaddy Clause.
The famous “granddaddy” clause of
the disfranchisement law, as it was
popularly termed during the guberna
torial campaign of 1906, will be put
to novel use by Representative Me-
Michael of Marion county. By inser.ing
this clause in his bill requiring all
secret societies in the state to give
bond to the ordinary of the county
or to the county commissioners in the
sum of from $5,000 to $20,000, Mr.
McMichael claims that he will effect
his purpose of abolishing negro se
cret societies without embarrassing or
inflicting upon white secret societies
the trouble of giving bond.
The amendment will provide that
any club which has in its member
ship one of more soldiers who fought,
in the laud or naval forces of the
United States in the revolutionary war,
or in the war of 1812, or in the war
of Mexico, or in-any war with the In
dians, or iu the war between the Unit
ed States and the Confederate states,
or has in its membership one or more
lawful descendants of such a soldier
or soldiers, shall be exenunpt from
the provisions of the act.
Chattanooga Offers Wharf.
The Georgia legislators who visit
ed Chattanooga the past week for the
purpose of familiarizing themselves
with the situation in conn ctioa with
the opening of Broad siren and the
development of th<> WoOern aij At
lantic railroad property, were present
ed with another feature of the propo
sition by the Chattanooga c mmit ees.
This is the purchase by the sta e of
Georgia of a wharf in the eastern por
tion of the ci'.y on the Tennessee river
near Boyce station ou the Western and
Atlantic railroad. It is proposed by the
Chattanooganj that the state of Geor
gia agree to the opening cf Broad street
through the Western and Atlrrnt'c.
yards iu Chattanooga. From the mon
ey realized from this, together with
the sale of property developed which
would not be no: ded by the state, it
would be pcsisble for the Western
aud Atlantic to acquire river facili
ties of considerable more value than
at. present possessed by any railroad
in the city.
WITHOUT A CHANGE
/
Georgia Senate Concurs in Amendment*
to Prohibition Measure Adopted
by the Lower House.
After more than three hours spent
in an effort Thursday morning by cer
tain opponents on the Georgia prohi
bition bill to tack on amendments to
th? amendments which had been pars
ed by the house, the senate concurrt d
in the amendments of the house wiifa
out changing a single provision of
the measure.
The bill will, howev r, have to be
returned to the house before it is sent
to the governor because Mr. Wise
of Fayette, in designating the line in
his amendment to the bill when in
tlm house, made reference to the print
ed bill instead of the original meas
ure, and referred to line “five” when
he should have referred to line “nine.”
An amendment intrcduc d by Senator
Knight, which will be concurred in
by the house, corects this error. When
the error hi finally approved by the
house It will bo immediately engross
ed and sent to the governor for his
signature.
Only three amendments were in
troduced —two by Senators Gordy and
Flynt and one by Senator Hayes of
the thirteenth district.
The first two amendments provid
ed for heads of fainillies to be allowed
to make and keep domestic wine on
hand and to allow dentists to have
alcohol for dentrifice work. Both were
lost.
The amendment of Senator Hayes
provided that a physician might have
his prescription filled at a drug store
in which he was financially interested.
This amendment was first adopted by
a vote of 14 to 13, but, upon recon
sideration, was los; by a vote of 17
to 10.
The senate consumed three hour*
in discussing the house and proposed
senate amendments which gave cre
dence to reports of a filibuster.
This, however, was denied, and the
denial was substantiated by the ac
tion of the senate.
The bill will be taken up by the
house for concurrence in the correct
ed amendment according to the regu
lar order of business.
PITIFUL DEED OF CRAZED MOTHER.
Puts Her Little Ones to “Sleep” By
Strangling Them to Death.
The murder of her two babies by
an insane mother thrilled Baltimore
Monday. Madness, which has twice
caused her to be confined to an asy
lum, took possession of Mrs. Chris
tina Xenadal, aged 26 years. With the
cunning of a mind deranged, she laid
her plans to put her little ones to
sleep—for that is what she believea
she has done —by strangling them.
