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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1907)
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.
