The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, January 10, 1908, Image 3
Georgia Briefs Items of State Interest Culled From Random Sources. To Furnish List of Stockholders. In general order No. 9, issued a few days ago by the state railroad commis sion, every corporation within the juris diction of the commission is required to furnish it with a list of stockhold ers, giving name and address of each stocftholder and amount of stock held by each. * * * To Camp at Screven. A letter from Assistant Secretary of War Oliver at Washington, stating that he will order a portion of the national guard of Georgia into camp at Fort Screven, on Tybee Island, from May 16 to 25, has been received and turned over to Adjutant General Scott, who will notify the commands which will go into camp at the time desig nated. * * • To Open Up Tobacco Plantations. Great preparations are being made to open up tobacco plantations near Bow er station, on the Georgia, Florida and Alabama railroad, 12 miles below Bain bridge. Hon. B. B. Bower, Jr., and J. D. Bower, his brother, will have ten acres of shaded tobacco each, which will yield SI,OOO per acre. In addi tion to these there are many others cultivating the weed in that vicinity. * * • Bank in Abbeville Closed. After a conference in Atlanta be tween State Bank Examiner Park, At torney General Hart and Governor Smith, at which President Hal Law son was present, the Citizens’ bank of Abbeville was placed in the hands of the state bank examiner. President Lawson made a frank state ment of the bank’s affairs. He said it had assets of $70,000 and liabilities of about half that amount. A large amount of outstanding paper with the farmers and merchants, upon which the bank could not realize now, forced it to close its doors. The bank has a capi tal stock of $35,000, and is the oldest bank in Abbeville. ♦ * * Georgia State Bonds Retired. State Treasurer R. E. Park, through the New York correspondent of the state treasury, has retired SIOO,OOO in Georgia bonds, and paid out interest to the sum of $156,000 on the $7,131,000 of Georgia bonds now being held throughout the country. It will probably be the latter part of the month before the “clipped coupons” —which denote the payment of the in terest —are received. This is the an nual expense of the state, and a spe cial appropriation to cover it is made each year by the general assembly. The state is in splendid financial con dition right now, and is amply able to meet this debt. • * * Woman Gets Stay of Sentence. A stay of sentence has been granted by Governor Smith to Mrs. Sallie Free ney, the young woman now in the Bibb county jail at Macon, convicted of the murder of W. P. Harrell, a bill collec tor, and sentenced to life imprison ment. The stay of sentence holds until Feb ruary 4th, in order that the woman’s at torneys may take the case to the pris on commission and the governor. The crime for which Mrs. Freeney was sentenced to life imprisonment was committed at her home in East man, Dodge county. Harrell, the bill collector, made improper proposals to Mrs. Freeney, following which she se cured a revolver and shot him to death. * * * Liquor Problem for Sheriff. A complicated legal question regard ing the new prohibition law has arisen In Brooks county. A saloon man in that county, on the first of December, mortgaged his stock of liquors and bar fixtures. He did not pay off the mortgage', and there was a foreclosure. The sheriff was instructed to sell the liquors and fixtures to satisfy the claim. The sheriff was troubled and he has written Attorney General Hart for an opinion. Judge Hart has sub mitted an unofficial opinion that the sheriff cannot sell the intoxicants be cause the new act specifically forbids an officer of the state to sell, make or give away intoxicants. * * * “Agricultural College on Wheels.’' Dr. A. M. Soule, dean of the SIOO,OOO agricultural college at Athens, and Chancellor D. C. Barorw of the Uni versity of Georgia, have secured from the railroad commissioners of Georgia, permission for the “agricultural college on wheels’’ to begin its tour of the state. The exact date for its depart- ure from Athens has not as yet been decided upon, but will probably be be tween the 10th and 15th of February. Dr. Soule has mapped out the itinerary and it will traverse every railroad In the state of Georgia with the exception of the Western and Atlantic, and will consume a period of thirty-five days. During this time rural towns with an aggregate population of 350,000 people will have been visited. The special trjiin, which is to be fur nished free by the railroads, is to be composed of one baggage car for ex perimental purposes and two day coach es for lecture rooms. Five instructors will accompany the train. Dr. Soule will advocate cattle raising in Georgia. He is a strong believer in the feeding qualities of cotton seed meal and will urge its use. He will also tell of soil tests to be made by the use of this same meal as a fer tilizer. * * * School Fund Apportioned. State School Commissioner Jere M. Pound, who assumed the duties of that important office on the first of the year, has made up the apportionment sheet for 1908, dividing the $2,000,000 appro priated for the common schools of Georgia among the 147 county school system, and the several city school systems of Georgia. To arrive at this basis of computation it was necessary to take a school cen sus, which shows that there are, today, 703,876 school children in Georgia, and this appropriation sets aside $2.82 per capita for each of these. This is considerable increase over that of last year, when the per capita appropriation was only $2.58. Of this sum, Fulton county and the city of Atlanta will receive a large pro portion. There are in Fulton county, outside of Atlanta, 7,433 school chil dren, which will give to this system an appropriation of $20,998, while At lanta, with her 22,302 school children, wfil receive $64,432.60. The county of Richmond, including the schools in Augusta, will receive $50,821.75. Bft>b county, including the Macon schools, $44,312.95. Chatham county, including Savannah, will receive $54,790. Muscogee county, including Colum bus, will get $11,876.80. Next year this appropriation will be increased by a quarter of a million, and the school children of Georgia will re ceive $2,250,000. Commissioner Pound states that he hopes to send out an other payment to the teachers early in the spring. SENSATIONAL LEGAL OPINION Expressed in Connection With Status ol Locker Clubs in Georgia. In his charge to the Fulton county grand jury at Atlanta Monday, Judge John T. Pendleton sprang a sensation by his remarks as to his construction of the prohibition law in its relation to clubs, holding that, though the lock er tax provision gives clubs the right to keep liquor in their buildings, it does not give the members of clubs the right to give drinks to other than mem bers. In other words, the judge holds that when guests are taken into a club for the purpose of having drinks served to them, the club thereby becomes a public place, and the law provides that no liquor shall be kept in a public place. As to whether this construction of the law will force clubs to with draw all privileges to guests or else give up their lockers and the privileges of keeping liquor in them, Judge Pen dleton, when seen, declined to state, declaring this a fine point which it would remain for the courts to decide. The opinion rendered by Judge Pen dleton consequently holds that it is un lawful for a club member to take a non-member to the club and give him a drink, ar.d it may mean that it is un lawful for liquor to be kept at any club which is visited by non-members, even if such non-members are not served drinks. HITCHCOCK WANTED BY TAFT As Manager of His Presidential Campaign in the Southern States. Frank H. Hitchcock, first assistant postmaster general, has been asked by Secretary Taft to take charge of the Taft presidential campaign in the south and to line up southern delegates to the next national convention for the secretary of war. The offer to Mr. Hitchcock does not contemplate the removal of Arthur I. Vorys as Taft’s political campaign manager, but will restrict Mr. Vory3’ territory. The latter will continue the work in Ohio, but other managers will be appointed for other sections of the country. PEOPLE OF VANCOUVER ALARMED. Unexplained Arrival of Horde of Japs, and More Coming, Causes Apprehension. A dispatch of Saturday received in Portland, Oregon, from Vancouver, B. C., says: The unexplained arrival of 300 Jap anese at Vancouver Friday and the influx of 1,500 within the next month from Honolulu are the features of the oriental situation in Vancouver. The 300 came from the coast logging camps and some even from the American side of the boundary line. Incidentally, there was the usual crop of rumors that they came in view of the possible troubles. Officers of the Asiatic Ex clusion League are much perturbed over the event. It was announced that at least 1,000 Japanese would come from Hawaii dur ing the next three weeks. One steamer already chartered will leave Honolulu with 150 aboard for Vancouver next week. Charters are now being arrang ed to carry others. Then, too, all the accommodations of the steamers of the Canadian-Australian line have been secured six months ahead of the Jap anese of Honolulu. There is room in the steerage for only fifty by each steamer. Of course, technically, the paternal government cannot do anything to pre vent the coming of these Japanese to British Columbia, for the Japanese are free will agents once they have turned in their passports at the islands and there is really nothing to prevent them inflicting their presence on this out post of Great Britain, the ally of Ja pan. So far, no action has been taken by the police authorities toward the disarming o£ the Japanese. It Is esti mated that there are hundreds of ser viceable firearms in the Japanese sec tion. GOVERNOR DECLARES MARTIAL LAW Street Railway Strike in Munice, Ind., Gets Eeyond Local Authorities. Governor Hanly of Indiana, Satur day, issued a martial law proclamation, placing Major General McKee in com plete control at Muncie. General McKee has 12 companies of infantry, one battery and details from the signal and hospital corps of the Indiana National Guard with him at Munclo. The decision of Governor Hanly to Issue this martial law proclamation wag based not upon any new develop ments In the street railway strike sit uation, but upon his judgment that un der the circumstances the best way to handle the trouble and provide for all possible emergencies would be by plac ing General McKee in charge at Mun cie. When the Indiana Union Traction company, which owns the city and in terurban lines, refused to renew its contract on January 1, with the Amal gamated Association of Street and Electric Railway employees, the 96 men employed on local cars struck. Of men employed on local cars struck. Other union men out of work in sym pathy began taking part in the agita tion and resulting disturbances until the situation got beyond the power of the Muncie authorities and Governor Hanly took action. Street cars were run Sunday from early morning until dusk over all lines. With the exception of the throwing of a few stones on the outskirts of the city, the cars were unmolested, not withstanding they were manned by im ported strikebreakers and had neither deputy sheriffs nor troops aboard. CASHIER WALKER IS PENITENT. Is Anxious to Aid Bank in Recovering Se curities Which He Stole. In the hope that it may lighten his punishment, William H. Walker, who wag arested in Ensenada, Mexico, for robbing the savings bank of New Brit ain, Conn., is willing to aid in any way in Ms power to recover the stolen securities. This information is con tained in telegrams received by the bank. ROBBER WAS TRAILED BY DOGS. Merchant Locked Up in His Store By Negro Who Robbed Him After one of the most spectaculai chases ever known in the state of Ala bama, Carol McDougall, a negro, was caught in the swamps of Escambia county. The pursuit illustrated, too, the great value of good dogs, a pack aiding In his capture. The negro held up and robbed a storekeeper of $2, holding a pistol on the keeper and locking the door from the outside. Those inside did not get out until he was some distance away. SOLONS RECONVENE. The Holiday Recess Over, Congress Again Begins Grind-Several Important Measures Show Up. Congress reconvened Monday after the holiday recess, but both houses ad journed until Tuesday, after brief ses sions, out of respect to the memory of the late Senator Mallory of Florida. The senate was in session only four minutes, and the house for half au hour. In a message to the house, President Roosevelt urged that in preparing for the work of taking toe next census the four thousand or more additional employees needed be appointed Imme diately after competitive examination under the rules of civil service com mission, and Btrongly denounced the “patronage system” of making the ap pointments, saying that the civil serv ice commission was fully capable of securing most efficient forces. Representative John Sharp Williams of Mississippi introduced a bill in the house Monday repealing the law direct ing that three-fifths of the 15 per the reserve of national banka may consist of balances due a bank available for the redemption of its circulating notes from banks approved by the comptrol ler of the currency; and repealing all laws permitting national banks to keep three-fifths of their reserves in na tional banks in reserve cities; and all laws permitting national banks In re serve cities to keep 50 per cent of the reserves in central reserve cities. If this bill becomes a law, not less than one-half of national bank reserves now required to be kept in lawful mon ey in central reserve cities hereafter must be held iu gold or gold certifi cates. The bill is to become effective July 1, 1908. A bill reducing the regular army, after the first of December, 1908, to 35,000 men, 10,000 of whom shall con stitute an artillery force for coast de fense, was also introduced by Mr. Wil liams. The standing army as now posed embraces 40,000 odd officers and men. Mr. Williams also offered a bill re pealing all the laws by which national bank examiners are compensated by fees, and placing them on a regular salary of $3,000 per annum. Two bills introduced by Mr. Sims of Tennessee, are designed to prevent star route mail carriers from knowing ly carrying packages of intoxicating li quor to or for any one on the route. If a star route carrier does so his ac tion shall be deemed unlawful, and the offender shall be dealt with according to such rules and regulations as the postmaster general shall prescribe. Among the other bills introduced in the house during its half-hour session were the following: By Mr. Gregg of Texas, providing for the selection of a site for a navy yard and dry dock at Galveston. By Mr. Clark of Florida, providing for a congressional investigation of charges of peonage in the southern states, and an investigation of prose cutions thereof by the department of justice. By Mr. Wallace of Arkansas, repeal ing the duty on wood pulp and print ing paper. By Mr. Clark of Florida, prohibiting the transportation in the mails, or the depositing in any mail receptacle, of any newspaper, magazine or other pub lication containing the alleged facts of any divorce suit, murder case or other proceeding “of an indecent or immoral character or which would tend to cor rupt the young.” By Mr. Ferpis of Oklahoma, enabling the distribution annually of treasury surpluses among the states for the Im provement of public highways and post roads. Providing an eight-hour day on all government w&rks. To prevent gambling in cotton and grain futures. NO REAL WEDLOCK, SAYS COUNTESS Sensational Allegations ot Disappointed Wife Against Earl of Yarmouth. A New York dispatch says: The countess of Yarmouth, who was Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg, 6ister of Har ry Kendall Thaw, has entered suit in the divorce division for the nullifica tion of her marriage with the earl of Yarmouth. Her allegations are of such a character that the suit will be heard in camera. Her assertion is that there never has been a real marriage. A jury of ma trons will be specially empaneled to determine the truth or falsity of this. In addition eminent gyneological ex perts will be called in support of the countess' suit. SECOND TRIAL OFHARRYTHAW Slayer of Stanford White Again Arraigned in New York Court. MORBID CROWD ON HAND Host of Sensation-Seekers Congregate in and About Courtroom to Catch Glimpse of Principals in Malodorous Case. The second trial of Harry K. Thaw was begun Monday in New York be fore Justice Victor Dowling in the state supreme court and at the very outset of the proceedings a plea of insanity at the time of the killing of Stanford White was entered in behalf of the defendant. Last year the case was fought out on a straight plea of not guilty, but temporary Insanity finally was relied upon. Mrs. Evelyn Thaw was pursued by crowds as curious as ever, and had to be escorted In and out of the court house by a detail of policemen. The usual curious crowds were gath ered about the criminal courts building In the hope of catching a glimpse of Harry Thaw as he crossed the bride of sighs on the first day of his sec ond trial. In the corridors of the court house there was also a throng of sev eral hundred persons who had come to witness the opening scenes of this new rehearsal of an old story. A squad of 60 policemen kept the passage way* clear. The arrangements were far better thaa at the first trial, when the crush to get Into the court room amounted practically to a riot. The word that women were to be barred had been given and there were none but female newspaper writers on hand. Last year at the beginning of the trial, women predominated in the court room and It was their insist ence which caused much of the disor der of the opening day. Before the Thaw case was reached Justice Dowling was called upon to charge the January grand Jury and to attend to the other formalities of tho new term. The judge arrived at tho court building, shortly after 10 o’clock, and the day’s session was formally opened a few minutes later. Three separate court sessions were held during the day, and at the clob* nine tentative jurors had been selected out of fifty-seven talesmen examined by District Attorney Jerome for the prosecution and Martin W. Littleton for the defense. All of the men iu the Jury box are subject to peremptory challenges, of which each side has 30. In view of the difficulty experienced last year In discharging five juror® after they had taken the oath of serv ice, it was agreed this time not to administer any oaths until both sides flinally are satisfied with the full panel. Chronology of Malodorous Case. 1900, December —Evelyn Nesbit and mother go to New York. Evelyn be comes artist’s model. 1901, March —Photograph in Broad way magazine leads to engagement with “Floradora” company. June —Goes with “Geisha” company. July—lntroduced to Stanford Whit®. August—Decoyed into White’s Mad ison Square tower den and drugged. December —Evelyn met Harry Thaw while with the “Wild Rose” company. With various companies early in fol lowing year. 1902 — Evelyn sent to Mrs. De Mille’s school, Pomport, N. J., by White. 11l there from appendicitis. 1903 — Went to Europe with Harry Thaw, passing as his wife in tour of the continent. Returned alone in Oo tober. Mrs. Nesbit, mother of Evelyn, quarreled with Thaw in London and was left there, Evelyn refusing to re turn with her. 1904 — Evelyn and Thaw made second trip to Europe. Thaw wanted to mar ry her; she refused. Pressed for rear son for refusal, she told Thaw of her experience with White. 1905 — Thaw and Evelyn married la Pittsburg, April 5, and later went to New York. There White annoyed Eve lyn with his attentions. 1906 — Thaw shot and killed Whit* on roof Madison Square garden, Juno 25, 1906, claiming White had spoke* insultingly of Evelyn the preceding night in the Cafe Martin. 1907 Thaw’s trial for murder in first degree began January 23, the jury finally disagreeing on April 12. Thaw remanded to jail without ball.