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WAR ON BAD MEAT
Secretary Wilson Announces
Plan of Proceedure,
REGULATIONS SPECIFIED
Details of Campaign Far-Reaching in
Effect—All Meats Showing Slight¬
est Deterioration Will Be
Destroyed.
A Washington special says: Secre¬
tary Wilson of the agricultural de¬
partment, Friday, made public the reg¬
ulations under the new law governing
the inspection of meat products for
interstate and foreign trade. The
regulations are stringent throughout,
and are in line with the best au¬
thorities on the subjects of sanita¬
tion, preservatives, dyes, chemicals
and condemnation of diseased car¬
casses.
All animals, carcasses and meat
products will be subjected to a rigid
inspection.
The sanitation regulations require
the establishments in which animals
are slaughtered, cured, packed, stored
or handled to be suitably lighted and
to be maintained in a sanitary con¬
dition.
Managers of establishments will not
be permitted to employ any person
affected with turberculosis in any ot
the departments where carcasses are
dressed, meats handled or meat food
products prepared. Butchers who dress
diseased carcasses are required to
cleanse and disinfect their hands and
implements before touching healthy
carcasses. Employees who are un¬
clean and careless of person will not
be allowed to handle meats.
The provision relating to dyes,
chemicals and preservatives is strin¬
gent. No meat or meat food product
for interstate commerce shall contain
any substance which lessens its
wholesomeness, nor any drug, chem¬
ical or dye, unless specifically provid¬
ed for by a federal statute, or any
preservative other than common salt,
sugar, wood smoke, vinegar, pure
spices and, pending further inquiry,
saltpeter.
Meats and meat food products for
export may contain preservatives in
proportions which do not conflict with
the laws of the foreign country to
which they are exported, but all meats,
or meat fcod products, so prepared
for export, must be treated and kept
in compartments of the establish¬
ments separate and apart from those
in which meats and meat food prod¬
ucts are prepared for interstate com¬
merce, specifically labelled and certi¬
fied and stamped with the word “spe¬
cial.”
All animals suspected of disease
on this ante-mortem Inspection shall
be slaughtered separately and apart
from all other animals under the care¬
ful supervision of federal inspec¬
tors.
Special provision is made for de¬
struction for food purposes of all
carcasses and parts of carcasses and
meat food products which, upon in¬
spection or reinspection, prove to he
unclean, unsound, unhealthful, un¬
wholesome or otherwise unfit for hu¬
man food.
BOMBS THROWN INTO CROWD.
Exciting Episode in Trouble Between
Unions in New York.
While peace negotiations between
Local Unions No. 2 and No. 480 of
the Plumbers and Gas Fitters’ Asso¬
ciation were in progress at New York
Friday night, two bombs or large tor¬
pedoes, filled w-ith bits of stones or
metal, were thrown from the Third
avenue elevated railroad structure into
a group of members of the latter
union waiting outside Teutonia Hall
at Sixteenth street and Third avenue
for a meeting to begip. Eight of
the group suffered cuts and abrasions
from the flying fragments.
’None of the men were dangerously
wounded, end most of them were able
to leave the hospital after their in¬
juries were dressed.
A KNOTTY LEGAL POINT.
Chinaman Draws Color Line and
Sues Street Railway Company.
Alleging that while a passenger on
a street car July 14, he was ordered
twice by the conductor to vacate nis
seat in the center of the car and move
back into the section reserved for
negroes and upoD the refusal was
forcibly ejected from the car by the
conductor, Hong Kon, an Atlanta Chi¬
naman, wants $5,000 damages fro®
the Georgia Railway and Electric com¬
pany. Hong Kon alleges that he is no
negro and is entitled to all the cour¬
tesies and considerations of a white
man.
SUNDAY FISHERS MEET DEATH.
After Day cf Sport Eight Go Down
With Capsized Boat,
Two yachts coming in from the fish¬
ing banks capsized on Hereford In¬
let bar, off Anglesea, N. J., Sunday,
and so far as can be ascertained, eight
persons lost their lives. There were
52 persons on one yacht, of whom
seven were lost, and twelve on the
other, all of whom but one were
saved.
A MODERN ENOCH ARDEN.
Georgia Soldier, After Forty Years of
Prison Service, Returns to His
Wife of Ante-Bellum Days.
If one had risen from the dead it
would probably have caused no more
amazement than that with which a
little family living on the farm of
Mts. Arthur Davis, eight miles from
Cartersville, Ga., were overcome Sun¬
day morning when Anderson P. Pitt¬
man, aged and gray, appeared in their
midst as a missed relation who was
supposed to have been long since
dead. The home was that of Mrs.
James Smith, who was originally a
Miss Whitecotton. Mrs. Smith’s moth¬
er lives with her.
Anderson Pittman, who proved to
be a modern Enoch Arden, after en¬
tering the home and laying down a
staff and small bundle which he had
carried on his shoulder in a walk out
from Cartersville, wiped the perspira¬
tion from his brow and accosted the
young matron with:
“Do you have any ailments in your
home?’’
“No, but why do you ask?” was
the woman’s reply.
“Why, I’m a sort of traveling doc¬
tor. and thought I might he of ser¬
vice if some one were sick.” With
a nervous impatience the old man
dropped his ruse for a surprise, and
said:
“Where is your mother?”
The young woman replied:
MShe’s in the other room.”
“Tell her to come here,” he said,
and on her appearance he approached
her and held out his hand, saying
“Howdy, ’Rushia.”
When the elderly woman pulled
slightly away, he added:
“Don’t be frlghtene’d; this is your
husband.”
The scene as they embraced as
long separated husband and wife, was
one that Mrs. Smith, the only eye
witnesG will never forget.
The story is one of intense interest
and probably has not a parallel in
Georgia annals. Anderson Pittman
married Jerusha Ballew in Haber¬
sham County just before the Civil
war. One child was horn to them,
a daughter, who is the mother of a
good sized family and now lives in
Alabama.
After four years in battling for the
rights of the South, and forty years
spent in prison for killing a prison
officer, Anderson Pittman, worn, tired
and homesick, had come home to find
himself mourned as dead, and his wife
the widow of another man.
For years she had mourned him
dead and when the last apparent hope
of his escape was gone, she yielded
to the wooing of Benton Whitecotton
and became his wife, to remain such
for several years, when his life was
cut short by a man named Bryant,
the cause being the alleged reporting
of an illicit distillery.
In the meantime her first husband
was passing away years as a prisoner
under a forty-year sentence in the
penitentiary.
His wife received the last message
from him just before the battle of
Chickamauga, and for forty years
heard from him no more.
At that battle, however, Anderson
was captured by the federal troops
and sent to a Northern prison. There
he remained until the close of the
war, and just on the eve of his release
became involved in a difficulty with
a prison official and killed him.
For that killing he was tried and
convicted and sentenced to forty years
in the penitentiary, from which he
has just been released.
BOLD DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
Highwaymen Wounds Merchant and
Policeman on Streets of Baltimore.
Patrolman Herman Shiel and Thom¬
as Hickey, a coal merchant, lie se¬
riously wounded at a Baltimore hospi¬
tal, the victims of three robbers, who,
in broad daylight, held up, robbed and
shot Hickey in his office and then
engaged in a street battle with the
police, in which Shiel was maimed by
bullets fired by the desperadoes. Two
of the robbers were captured, the
other making good his escape.
CONCEALED NEGRO IN COFFIN.
Unique Ruse of Kentuckey Sheriff to
Foil a Mob.
Concealed in a coffin to avert a
threatened lynching, Allen Mathis, a
negro, was taken from Mayfield to
Paducah, K.v., Saturday. Mathis had
attacked Miss Ethel McLane. JShe
struggled desperately and retained his
collar. By means of this he was ar
rested.
A erf* d quickly gathered about the
jail, and while preparations were be¬
ing made to break in and sieze the
negro, he was taken out in the ccf
fin.
IMPURE MEATS CONDEMNED.
Health Inspectors at Philadelphia
“Clean Out’’ Cold Storage Plants.
Inspectors of the bureau of health
at Philadelphia Wednesday concluded
the condemnation and destruction
of 33,000 pounds of impure meats
found in the cold storage plants ot
the Delaware Freezing company. The
stuff was carted away as fast as it
was condemned, and turned over to
• fertilizing plant
ENTERPRISE, COVINGTON, GA,
CHATHAM ADMITS
Aiding a Friend to ‘‘Buck”
the Atlanta BucketShops.
PLACED SEVERALORDERS
Secretary of Southern Cotton Associa¬
tion Acknowledges Acting As
Agent.—Slated Investigation
is Postponed
Secretary Richard Cheatham, of the
Southern Cotton Association, admits
that he acted as agent of one Mike
O'Grady in placing the orders for cot¬
ton futures, stating that he was mere¬
ly serving a personal friend that he
had no pecuniary interest in the deals,
and that when the orders were placed
with W. R. Fagan, the Atlanta repre¬
sentative of the New York cotton
brokerage firms, he stated to him
that these transactions were for
O Grady.
The investigation of the charges of
Representative Anderson were post¬
poned twice Monday, the latter time
to Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock.
When the time for the slated in¬
vestigation in Atlanta arrived Hon. W.
L. Peek of Conyers was the only one
of the committee present. State
President M. L. Johnson wired from
Cartersville that lie would arrive later
in the day, and the hearing was post¬
poned till 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
President Johnson missed his train
at Cass station and so notified Presi¬
dent Jordan. The latter then got a
definite statement over the telephone
from the former that he could he on
hand Wednesday morning. ■
President Jordan stated these facts
to the assembled parties and press
representatives at the afternoon ses¬
sion and the meeting dispersed.
The presence of Mike O'Grady, of
Chattanooga at the association rooms
added considerable interest to this all
absorbing topic in cotton circles
anent the recent Anderson charges.
O’Grady w-as one of those referred to
through whom an officer of the South¬
ern Cotton Association was alleged
to have dealt with the bucket shops.
At the association rooms O’Grady
stated to a Constitution reporter that
he had requested Secretary Cheatham,
his personal friend, to make certain
deals for him through the exchange
in -Atlanta, as for business reasons
he did not wish to make them him¬
self in Chattanooga, that for these
reasons he wished to keep these
transactions secret and entrusted
them to Cheatham, but not until he
had to urge him to do so, and that
Cheatham consented finally very re¬
luctantly. O’Grady regretted all this
publicity and bringing his private af¬
fairs into such notoriety, and he stat¬
ed to the Constitution that he would
seek a well known Atlanta attorney,
naming him, and see if there was not
some redress at law against the New
York and New Orleans houses mak¬
ing public his private affairs.
The houses through which these
deals were made are Gibert & CTay
of New York and New Orleans, and
Charles D. Freeman & Co., of New
York. Secretary Cheatham, acting
for O’Grady, at the latter’s urgent
solicitation, O’Grady says, had made
these deals with W. R. Fagan, the
Atlanta representative of these houses.
“Cheatham had not a dollar’s interest
in the transactions.” O Grady said,
“and was acting solely as my agent.”
He came down here of his own voli¬
tion, he said, to set this matter right
when he saw the publicity his pri¬
vate deals had been given, and he
was going to take the matter up with
the New York houses tor ex-posing his
name
P. A. Lee. the other man referred
to by Representative Anderson, did
not materialize, but it was said that
he would be on hand. O’Grady is con¬
nected with the Wakeman Distilling
Company of Chattanooga, Tenn., and
said the amount of his dealings with
the bucket shop firms was $2,000. He
had brought along statements from
these firms to show that the tran°ac
tions were his own, and not Cheat¬
ham’s.
ALLEGED SLAVES testify.
Men Charged With Peonage on Trial
at Pensacola, Fla.
The preliminary trial of Robert Gal¬
lagher, wood superintendent, and J.
Porter, bookkeeper tor the Jackson
Lumber Company at Lockhart, Ala.,
on the charge of pe„-mge, w r as begun
at Pensacola. Fla., Monday morning
before United State- Commissioner
Marh, the men having surrendered
themselves to the federal officers in
accordance with promises. Six ■apt¬
nesses were heard, all of whom testi¬
fied to the cruel and inhuman treat¬
ment according those who incurred
the displeasure of the camp bosses.
CALLS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Directors of Southern Co'.tcn Associa.
tion to Meet in Hot Springs.
President Harvie Jordan has sent
out a notification to the executive
committee of the So—hern Coton As¬
sociation to meet in Hot Springs, Ark.,
September 6, 7 and g, at which meet¬
ing there w.ll be discussed many sub¬
jects that affect the cotton interests.
CHILD LABOR LAW SURE.
Georgia State Senate Passes House
Bill, With Slight Amendment,
Without a Dissenting Vote.
Without a dissenting voice and by a
viva voce vote of 27 to 0, the child
labor bill which will prevent the em¬
ployment of young children in manu
facturies except under certain condi¬
tions passed the Georgia state senate
Monday morning.
In the legislative branch of the
general assembly which has generally
heretofore defeated all measures of its
kind, there was not one word spoken
against the bill which had been al¬
ready agreed to in committee.
There was no call for the ayes and
nays, the senators present voting un
animously in the affirmative.
The bill with its amendment will be
sent back to the house and when it
is concurred in, it will become a law
The measure as passed by the sen¬
ate provides that no child under ten
years of age shall work in manufac
ruries under any circumstances. Chil¬
dren under twelve years of age may
he allowed to be employed provided
they are the only support of a widow¬
ed mother, a disabled father, or an
orphan. TEen an affidavit to this ef¬
fect must accompany the application
presented by parent or guardian.
No child under fourteen years of
age can be employed unless he or
she can write simple sentences and
has had three months schooling dur¬
ing the preceding year of employment.
During the employment of all chil¬
dren under 14 years of age, they must
attend school three months each
year, (six weeks’ time being consecu¬
tive) until the public school age limit
has been passed. Sworn statements
must accompany the applications of
all children under 14 years of age as
to their schooling.
The bill further provides that no
child under 14 years shall be em¬
ployed between the hours of 7 p. m.
and 6 a. m. The bill virtually throws
around children under 14 years old
the protection of the law.
DIABOLICAL FIEND ARRESTED.
Negro Boy Confesses to Murder of
Woman and Two Children.
Elmer Dempster, a nineteen-year-old
negro, was arrested at Canonsburg.
Pa., Monday morning for the murder
of Mrs. Samuel Pearce and two chil¬
dren and the shooting of a third child
Sunday evening. Dempster was taken
to the Washington county jail at
Washington, Pa.
While no blood stains were found
on 1he negro, suspicion rested on
him when it was learned that he was
the last person seen about the house
before the tragedy. Dempster was a
helper on the Pearce farm and after
the departure of Samuel Pearce with
his sister, Miss Fanny Pearce, for
the Cancnsburg railroad station,
Dempster is said to have been at the
scene of the tragedy, looking after
the stock. ,
He was taken from his bed at 2
o’clock Monday morning and put
through a course of sweating, which
lasted until daylight, when, it is al¬
leged, he made a complete confession.
Acco'ding to the story told in his con¬
fession. the negro attempted an as¬
sault on the four-year-old daughter af¬
ter the departure of Mr. Pearce, but
was frustrated by the mother, who
went to a bureau to get a revolver to
shoot him.
The negro says he secured the gun
first, and after killing the mother and
shooting the children, set fire to the
house to hide the crime.
The officers had an exciting trip
from Canonsburg to Washington. Two
attempts were made to take the ne¬
gro from them.
NEGRO FOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR.
Alabama Colored Republican An¬
nounces His C-ndidacy.
Ad Wimbs, of Greensboro, Ala., one
of the well known negroes of Alabama
who was a delegate to the last na
tional republican state convention, has
addressed a letter to Chairman J. »>.
Thomason, of the republican sta r e
committee, announcing his candidacy
for the office of lieutenant governor
at the approaching primary.
RECORD-BREAKING DOCTOR FEE.
Physician Who Attended Millionaire
Field Demands $25,000.
At Chicago Dr. Frank Billings has
filed in the probate court a sworn
claim for $25,000 against the Marshall
Field estate. The bill is for seven
days’ professional attendance on Mr.
Field in a New York hotel when ho
was suffering from an attack of pneu.
monia that caused his death. The fee
is believed to be one of the largest
ever charged by a physician in the
United States for services that did
not include the performance of a sur
gical operation.
SKELETON FOUND IN WELL.
Mystery of Boy’s Disappearance Over
Three Years Ago is Cleared Up.
After mourning for over three years
for her son, Charles, whom she
thought had been kidnapped, Mrs.
James Flanagan of Fishkill Landing,
N. Y., identified parts of the clothing
of the skeleton of a little b6y found
Friday at the bottom of a gas tank
well by employees of the local gas
plant.
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