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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1907)
EUROPE NEEDS HER LABORERS ■Consequently is Opposed to Their Emigration to This Country* INVESTIGATORS RETURN Sub-Committee of Immigration Commis mission Will Have an Interesting Report for Next Congress. After several months’ tour of inqui ry into the immigration situation abroad, which carried them through England and continental Europe, most ■of the members of the subcommittee of the United States immigration com mission, with Senator William P. Dil lingham of Vermont as chairman, ar rived at New York Friday on board the steamship Cedric. The members of the commission re turning were Senator Dillingham of Vermont, Senator tatimer of South Carolina, Congressman Howell of New Jersey, Burnette of Alabama and Sec retary Moore Morton. The members obtained data which they believe will aid in solving many of the immigrktion problems now con fronting the United States. ’The whole committee will meet later and pre pare a report, which will be submitted to congress. Senhtor Dillingham made the fol lowing statement: “The subcommittee has visited ev ery European country from which we receive any considerable number of immigrants, and has studied the more Important phases of the question in each. “The question of preventing the coming of criminals into tho United States has been a chief subject of in vestigation by the subcommittee, and it is probable that important rec ommendations on this matter will be made to congress. “The subject of emigration is a paramount one in most of the coun tries we have visited, and in most of them the attitude toward emigration is not favorable. The constant and long-continued drain upon the rural population, from which class the great majority of emigrants come, and the general prosperity which now prevails has produced a scarcity of farm la bor, and it is claimed the agricultural industry is suffering in consequence. “Because of this scarcity of labor, the condition of those remaining at home has, to a degree, been improved, but the general condition is causing much alarm among land owners, and a strong sentiment against emigra tion has developed. “A very large proportion of male emigrants leave their native country at a time when they are liable to mil itary service there, and this consti tutes a strong objection to some emi grants. “During the tour of inquiry and in vestigation the commissioners hav-> secured important information, and have made arrangements to secure more, and feel confident that before their work is completed recommenda tions can be made congress which can be enacted into laws which will be of value and importance.’’ “BIG STICK” OUSTS HOLLAND. President of National Association of Letter Carriers Forced to Retire. President Holland of the National Letter Carriers’ Association, announc ed to the national convention in Can ton, Ohio, Friday, that he would not be a candidate for re-election. This step was taken in response to an expressed wish of the postal de partment as outlined in an address before the convention by First Assist ant Postmaster General Hitchcock, it was charged that Holland had gone to Washington to lobby for the carriers, after having been requested by the president not to do so. MOUNTAINEERS ON WAR PATH. Attack Train Crew Because One of Their Number Was Ejected. Because one of their number had been forcibly ejected a band of moun taineers stopped a passenger train on the Virginia and Southwestern in Car ter county, Tennessee, and attacked the conductor and train crews battle followed in which pistols were used freelv. but no one seriously hurt. J. Dan Berry, who was ejected from the train and who took the lead in the attack, was captured whrle bis companions were beaten off. IN M’KINLEY’S HONOR Imposing Memorial Shaft Dedicated by State of New York is Unveiled in Buffalo. The dedication of the McKinley monument and its presentation to the state was the feature Thursday of old-home week, celebration in Buffalo, N. Y. The monument was erected by the state of New York on a site provided by the city of Buffalo. It is in the form of an obelisk of white marble, 86 feet high, and is situated at Niagara square, the intersection of Niagara and Court streets and Dela ware avenue. The obelisk rests upon a pedestal 14 feet high, the base of which is 12 feet above the street level. The whole is surrounded by a tesse lated promenade, embellished with or nate parapets and balustrades and splashing fountains. At the base on four sides of the col umns are the following inscriptions: “This shaft was erected by the state of New York to honor the mem ory of William McKinley, twenty-fifth president of the United States of America.” “William McKinley was born at Niles, Ohio, January 29, 1843.” ‘Was enlisted in twenty-third Ohio volunteers June 11, 18(51, as private and mustered out July 26, 1565, as major by brevet, for gallantry under fire.” “William McKinley was elected to congress as a representative of Ohio in 1876, 1878, 1880, 1882, 1884 and 1888.” “Was elected governor of Ohio in 1891 and 1894 and president of the United States in 1896 and 1900.” “William McKinley died in Buffalo September 14, 1901.” “ Victim of a treacherous assassin, who shot the president as he was ex tending to him the hand of courtesy.” SOUTHERN SUSPENDS WORK. Improvements Under Way in Tennessee and North Carolina Stopped. It was announced in Washington Thursday that the Southern railway had decided, owing to recent adverse rate legislation, in several states and to “general conditions,” to stop the double tracking of the system north of Greensboro, N. C., and also to stop the Ooltewah Junction work in Ten nessee. Contracts had been entered for dou ble track work aggregating about $15,- 000,000. The money intended for the propos ed improvements in Tennessee and North Carolina will be used in operat ing the road. CONTRACT LANDED BY OLIVER. Is Identified in Canal Work By Furnishing Five Hundred Dump Cars. The isthmian canal commission at Washington anounced the award to the W. J. Oliver Manufacturing com pany of Knoxville, Tenn., in a con tract to furnish five hundred dump cars for use on the isthmus, the con tract price being $562,500. A bid of ’ $554,000 was submitted by the American Car and Foundry company of New York, a difference of sl7 a car in that company’s favor, but the Oliver company agreed to de liver the cars about three months ear lier than the New York company. COMPTROLLER’S FIGURES REDUCED. Value of Franchise of Central Railroad is Fixed by Arbitrators. Assessed by Comptroller General Wright at over thirteen million dol lars, the board of arbitration Thurs day afternoon appraised the franchise of the Central of Georgia railroad at $4,052,902.30, trimming the comptrol ler’s figures by over eight million dol lars. The appraisement was made by Judge A. L. Miller of Macon, who act ed as umpire, and his award was ap proved bv the road's representative. Railroad Commissioner O. B. Stevens, representative of the state, did not sign the award. WILL ARBITRATE TIIE TROUBLE. Strike of Street Railway Men in Louisville Held in Abeyance. After a majority of the union em ployees of the stret railway company in Louisville voted in favor of going on strike at 6 a. m. Thursday morning, and all hope of a settlement seemed gone, an agreement was reached at midnight whereby the strike is delay ed, if not called off entirely. The street railway officials accepted a proposal to arbitrate the differences, the men to remain at work in the meantime. Georgia Cullings Curtailed Items of Interest Gathered at Random. Dublin Forestalls Lockers. hTe city council of Dublin has pass ed an ordinance fixing the tax on lock er clubs at $5,000. It was at first con templated putting the tax at $2,000, but it was decided to raise the license to $5,000, so that there would be no possibility of the license being paid. * * * Cotton Euyers May Balk. Savannah cotton men question the ability of the members of the Farm ers’ Union to keep cotton prices up to a minimum of 15 cents a pound, as agreed upon at the Little Rock conference. Local buyers think farm ers will accept 13 cents, as a rule, when it is offered. They can imagine no machinery of the union that will enable it to keep the price up abov< that figure. • * * Protest of A. & W. P. Filed. The Atlanta and West Point rail way has joined the list of railroads within the state opposed to the re duction of passenger rates. Papers have been filed with the clerk of the United States court ai Atlanta along with a paper from Judge D. D. Shelby, Huntsville of the cir cuit court of appeals for the fifth judicial circuit, naming the 16th of September as the day upon which the prayer for injunction may be heard. * * * Australians Coming to Georgia. The first steamship laden with im migrants from Europe will reach Sa vannah probably about the middle of October. The immigrants who are com ing to Georgia are making the trip of their own free will. No special in ducements are being held out to them, and they are to pay their own pass age. They will consist of some of the better class of Australians, but wheth er they will be farmers or artisans Is not known. * * * Many Sought This Job. Former Adjutant General S. W. Hnr his has been appointed oil Inspector for Carroll county to succeed his son. Dr. S. W. Harris, Jr., who died sud denly in Carrollton a few days ago. Judge Harris was not an applicant, but Commissioner of Agriculture Hud son named him for the unexpired term of one year. Thirty applications for the place were on file in the office of the commissioner. The place carries no fixed salary, but payment comes out of fees. * * * Eighty Acres of Limestone. Dr. Edgar Everhart, chemist for the geological survey of Georgia, and a recognized authority on minerals, has Just completed a survey and assay of a hill of limestone and shale, near Rockmart, suitable for making the fa mous Portland cement. He states that the property in ques tion is closely contiguous to the South ern and directly on the eSaboard Air Line railroad, which will make the material easily marketed. The property in question covers about eighty acros. * * * Part Ticket and Part Cash. Although the Western and Atlanta railroad, which is leased and operated by thq Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, has refused to sell tickets to Chattanooga, Tenn., upon the basis of two cents a mile in Geor gia and three cents a mile over the Tennessee border, travelers from At lanta to Chattanooga are taking ad vantage of the two cents a mile by buying a ticket to Graysville and then paying three cents a mile into Chatta nooga. Graysville is the last Georgia station on the Western and Atlantic. * * * New Railroad Chartered. The Bainbridge and Northeastern railroad is the name of the newest transportation line chartered in the state. The road is to be about 70 miles long and will run from Bainbridge, in a southwesterly direction, to a point on the gulf of Mexico, and northeasterly to either Meigs, in the county of Thomas, or Pelham, in the county of Mitchell. The principal towns through which this road is to pass are Bainbridge, Swindel, Meigs or Pelham, and it is to traverse the counties of Decatur, Grady, Mitchell and Thomas. » * * Columbus Wants Lower Rates. A resolution has been introduced in the Columbus city council asking the Georgia railroad commission to fix the following rate on public util ities in Columbus; Gas, 75 cents per thousand feet; electricity, 10 cents per kilowatt hour; telephones, $2.50 for business phones and $1.50 for resi dences per month. This schedule of rates would be a material reduction of the present prices in most of the in stances. It was contended that the peo ple of Columbus were being “robbed” by public utility corporations. The 1 resolution was referred to a commit tee for investigation and report. * * * To Seiect “Midway” Attractions. Secretary Frank Weldon of tho State Fair Association, has gone to New York city and while there will secure a number of interesting attrac tions for tho fair midway. He will visit Luna park. Coney Island, Dream land and return by the Pike at James town In an effort to corral novel at tractions. He will make a close study of “Ranch 101,” which is a famous wild west show, anxious to appear in Atlanta at tho lair, and this at traction will probably be secured. He will he absent in the east for a week or ten days, and when he re turns the work of announcing the fail programs and premiums will be taken up and rushed with all despatch. * * # Valdosta is Hedging. Retrenchment was the slogan at a recent meeting cf the Valdosta city council and the knife was applied vigorously in a number of depart ments. Two members of the fire de partment were laid off, three heads fell in the street department, Chief of Police Dampier’s salary was re duced from $125 per month to $112.50, Street Superintendent McKenna and City Sexton Giddens came in for a reduction of salary and the offlee of recorder was abolished. The action of council was due to a threatened deficiency of something like $23,000 in the city’s revenues. Part of this amount is in the SIO,OOO for liquor licenses, which are knocked out. The present council also had to pay $13,000 for improvements at the waterworks, and recently had to pay a damage suit against the city for $2,000. * * * College Principals Organize. Complete organization by the prin cipals of the eleven district agricultu ral colleges of Georgia was perfected at a meeting of these educators held in the state senate chamber at At lanta the past week, which resulted in the selection of Professor G. C. Ad ams, principal of tho fifth district ag ricultural college, located at Monroe, as chairman. Professor J. N. Rogers of the tenth agricultural college, located at Sparta, was elected vice chairman, and Pro fessor E. W. Childs of the sixth dis trict agricultural college, located at Barnesville, was elected secretary. The principals spout an entire day in going over the work of selecting the textbooks to be used in order that the courses might be uniform and all boys graduated from these col leges to the SIOO,OOO agricultural col lege at Athens, might he equally pro ficient and prepared. It was agreed among the principals to open their doors for the purpose of receiving students on the first or early in January. In addition to the school work each of the district colleges is to maintain and operate farms in connection with the colleges on which practical farm ing will be ta*gkt. FOOL GETS HIS JUST DESERTS. Advocate of Free Love Roughly Treated bj Outraged Neighbors. Ferdinand Earle, alleged artist, wbc sent his wife to France, her old home, to secure a divorce so that he might marry another woman, received sorry welcome when he returned to his home in Monroe, N. Y„ after bidding his wife farewell at the steamer in New York city. Earle was met by a crowd of vil lagers as he stepped from the train, who, at first, Insulted and hooted him and then pulled h m from his carriage and dragged him through the mud of the village streets. There were cri s of “get a rope,” “tar and feather him.” Several offi cers then appeared upon the seen' 1 and Earle was told to get in his buggy and decamp. THE USUAL MISTAKE. The Lady in a Hurry—Why didn’t you stop at once, conductor, when yo« ! saw me waving my hand? The Facetious Conductor —Lor’, miss! Why, I thought you was a-throw in’ kisses at me.—Sketch. R. O. JACKSON, Attorney-at-Law, Mcdoxough, ga. Office over Star Store. E. M. SHITH, Attorney at Law, MC DOXOUGH, GA. Office over Star Store, south side square. 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The Southern Railway is taking a very great interest in this exposition and doing everything within their power to promote its welfare for the reason that it is located on historic and southern grounds, and has eve dence of being one cf the most import ant and attractive affairs of this kln.l that has ever been hold. Through train service and sleeping car service to Norfolk during the ex position has not yet been announce’., but it is expected that most excel lent schedules will he put in effect so as to make the trip comfortable and satisfactory in every way. Full and complete information will be cheerfully furnished upon applica tion to any ticket agent of the South ern Railway company. i: HINDU WORKMEN MOBBED. Citizens of Town in Washington State Pounce Open Black Foreigners. Six badly beaten Hindus are in the hospital at Bellingham, state of Wash ington; 400 frightened and hall-naked Sikhs are in jail and the corridors of the city hull guarded by policemen, and somewhere between Bv .-Bingham and British Columbia 750 natives of India, beaten, hungry and half-clothed, are making their way along ill ■ Great Northern railway bound for Canadian territory and the protection of tho British flag. The long expected cry, “drive out the Hindus,” was heard throughout the city and along the water front Thurs day night. hTo police were helpless. All authority was paralyzed, and for five hours a mob of a half a thousand white men raid d mills where the blacks were working, battered down doors of lodging houses and dragged the Hindus out of bed and escorted them to the city limits with orders to keep on going. Latest reports state that the city is quiet, but there is a strong under current oJ opinion which apparently approves the action of the mob, and it may be found impossible to prose cute the leaders. Racial feeling has played no small part in the affair. Ev ery day, for several weeks, whites were being replaced in the mills by the blacks. The invaders became bold and insolent, many instances or women being pushed into the gutter, insulted on street cars, etc., being re ported. General uneasiness of the whites is given as a reason for the outbreak. The Hindus are all British subjects, and their case is being placed before the British authoritites CLIFF HOUSE DESTROYED BY FIRE. Famous Resort, Overlooking Ocean, at San Francisco a Prey to Flames. The famous Cliff house, at San Francisco, built on a rocky bluff over looking the Pacific ocean, was burned to the ground Saturday evening. The fire broke out in the building about 5 o’clock and an hour later a black ened heap of ruins was all that re mained of the historic structure.
