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I Lodge Directory.
Headrick Council No. 721
ROYAL
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ARCANUM
Meets Second and Fourth Mon¬
day evenings.
C. A. Sockwell, Regent.
T. J. Shields, Secretary.
Covington Lodge No. 71.
Royal Arch Masons
Meets Second and Fourth Fri¬
day evenings.
M. G. TURNER,
High Priest.
R. R FOWLER,
Secretary.
Knights of
m Pythias,
»i] Lodge No. *418.
Meets every First and Third
Monday evenings. Fraternal wel¬
come extended all visiting Broth
ers. E. W. Carroll, C. C.
R. R. Fowler, K. of R. & S.
Elm Camp,
NO. 202.
w. o. w.
Meets every Second and Fourth
Tuesday evenings.
J. J. Corley, C. C.
W. N. Rainey, Clerk.
Jefferson Lamar Camp,
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Meels First Tuesday in each
month at 2 o’clock, p m.
J. \y. Anderson, Com.
L. L. Middi.ebrook, Adit.
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Meets every First and Third
Friday evening.
A. S. Hopkins, W. M.
Jno. W. Peek, Sec.
Sewaunee Tribe
No. 62.
Imp. 0. R. M.
Meets every Wednesday sleep,
at 7th run and 30th breath. Visit¬
ing brothers are invited to attend.
N. Z. Anderson, Sachem.
W. R. Stii;lvvei.i.,
Chief of Records.
V fee* ^ STAR LODGE
um NUMBER 164.
I. O. 0. F.
Meets every Thursday evening.
Visiting brothers in the city cor
dially invited to meet with us.
Work in one degree each meeting.
J J. Corley, Noble Grand.
J. W. Peek, Ree. Sect’y.
TEN MILLION DOLLARS SAVED
By Change in Location of Locks and
Dams of Panama Canal.
The president has approved the rec¬
ommendation of Colonel Goethals that
a change consisting of the re-location
of locks and dams at Miraflores be
made four miles further inland from
the Pacific.
By this change a saving in cost of
$10,000,000 will be effected, with great
saving in time for completion, better
sites from a military standpoint, for
the dams and locks will be obtained
and more satisfaction attained.
Georgia Callings
Curtailed Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Woman Kills Husband.
John S. Moore, who resides eight
miles above Stockton, in Clinch coun¬
ty, while drinking, started to beat his
wife, and she grabbed a pistol and
shot him dead.
Several years ago Moore killed a
man in the house In which he lost his
life.
* * *
S. A. L. to Discontinue Trains.
Permission has been secured by the
Seaboard Air Line railroad from the
railroad commission of Georgia to dis¬
continue several of its trains between
Atlanta and Athens, and the road pro¬
poses to make these changes effective
on Sunday, January 5.
This is the second of the elimina¬
tions allowed, the first being on the
Macon and Birmingham railroad when
a “tri weekly” service was substituted
for a daily service for one train.
The citizens of Athens are up in
arms over the proposed change.
* * *
Headquarters of Union Moved.
The headquarters of the Farmers’
Union have been moved from Barnes
ville, where they have been for more
than a year to Union City near At¬
lanta.
Since the headquarters have been in
Barnesville the organization has en¬
joyed a wonderful growth so that it
now numbers nearly one hundred
thousand members in this state.
J. T. McDaniel will be in charge of
the office of secretary-treasurer, suc¬
ceeding J. L. Barron, who assumes
the management of the Union Phos¬
phate company, recently organized by
the members of the Farmers' Union
for the purpose of furnishing fertiliz¬
ers for the farmers.
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New Trial Denied Johnson.
A motion for a new trial in the case
of Andrew Johnson, the negro con¬
victed and sentenced to be hanged iii
Atlanta for the murder of Officer J. A.
Manier, was denied by Judge Roan
of the criminal division of the Fulton
superior court Saturday morning.
Judge W. R. Hammond, counsel for
Johnson, stated that he would carry
the case to the state supreme court,
and a stay of execution will be se
cured.
Judge Hammond based his motion
for a new trial upon certain exceptions
which he took to Judge Roan’s charge
to the verdict jury and upon the ground that
the of tho jury was not jus¬
tified by the evidence.
Judge Roan held that the verdict of
the jury was in accordance with the
evidence and overruled the objections
made by Judge Hammond to his
charge.
Johnson was sentenced to hang Oil
January 3, hut his execution is post¬
poned until the higher court takes ac¬
tion in the case.
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Fertilizer Tags Ready.
All ararngements have been perfect¬
ed by Captain J. F. Johnson, chief
clerk in the fertilizer office in the
department of agriculture at the state
capitol, for the sale of fertilizer tags
which will begin at once, In antici
pation of this rush, Commissioner Hud¬
son has bought eight million tags,which
have arrived and are stored in the
capitol.
These tags are placed ten to a ton of
fertilizer and twenty to a ton of cot¬
ton seed meal, the price of the first
being one cent each, and of the latter
one-half cent. The reason for the dif¬
ference is that fertilizer is sacked ten
sacks to the ton, and cotton seed meal
at twenty sacks to the ton.
The department finds that the sales
of cotton seed meal are increasing an
nually, as the farmers are finding this
to be a most desirable fertilizer, in ad¬
dition to its well known feeding value.
It is fro mthe sale of all these tags
that the district agricultural schools of
the state are supported, and the pro¬
ceeds derived this year will in all prob¬
ability be greater than ever, for the
indications are that the farmers will
plant less cotton and fertilize more
heavily. The sale of these tags is
heaviest during the months of January,
February and March.
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Checks Were Held Too Long.
A question which will, doubtless,
have to be determined by the attorney
general, at an early date, will be that
of checks sent out to pay the state
school teachers, drawn on the now de¬
funct Neal bank at Atlanta, a state
depository, and which were not pre
sented for collection in time to be
paid.
Two checks were received at the
state treasury a few days ago, which
were returned, as made out to a coun
ty school commissioner with which he
was to pay off the school teachers?
One of these checks was dated Sep¬
tember and the other November. It
will be a question to be determined
whether these checks were held out
too long and the county school com
missioner shall wait until the affairs
of the bank are liquidated and then
get his money; or whether lie will no*
be paid until his money is received In
hand and the state treasurer Is to
send him another check.
The sum totalled by these ttvo
checks was a little over $600, but
brings up a point which will have to be
settled before still others may come
in.
Drunken Printer Kills Brother.
Nat Beadles was shot and killed
by his younger brother, Joe Beadles,
at the home of the latter near Ben
nett’s mill in Fayette county. Joe
Beadles was a printer, and had been
employed at Millen on a newspaper.
He went home to spend the holidays
with his mother, who lives near Fay
etteville. He began drinking and his
mother, in fear, it is said, left the
house. She went to Fayetteville to
the home of her other son, Nat Bea¬
dles, who w-as a resident of the town.
A.fter his mother told him of his
brother’s condition, Nat Beadles decid
ed to go after him, as he feared he
might end the night by killing himself
He found his brother raising a dis¬
turbance when he reached his home,
and he undertook to quiet him.
According to reports, Joe Beadles re¬
sented the advances of his brother,
and finally shot him to death. The
murderer was arrested and placed In
the Fayetteville jail.
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Charges Against Prison Wardens.
Investigations now being made by
the Georgia senate committee on peni¬
tentiaries, headed by Senator J. W.
Brock, and the state prison commis¬
sion, headed by Chairman J. S. Tur¬
ner, bid fair to bring revelations of a
sensational nature.
Information has been filed with the
investigators to the effect that State
Warden Jake C. Moore and a number
of the convict camp wardens are guil¬
ty of having received various sums of
money from the lessees of convicts.
Soon after investigations were be¬
gun Warden Moore tendered his res¬
ignation, which the prison board will
accept at its meeting in January. Be¬
fore handing in his resignation the
warden admitted, it is said, that he
assisted certain lessees to sub-let por¬
tions of their allotment of convicts
at desirable rentals. The warden ex¬
plained that he had not intentionally
violated the rules of the commission,
but that he had been asked by some
of the lessees to aid them in placing
portions of their allotments, and had
done so purely as a matter of accom¬
modation.
The alleged practices are said to
have prevailed for years, and it is
declared that many of the officials
have waxed rich upon their incomes.
The money paid the camp wardens is
said to have been for favors and con¬
siderations shown the lessees in Uv5
matter of handling the convicts.
DAGO CHILDREN BARRED.
jovernor Vardaman Wants None of
Them in Mississippi.
Among other matters of complaint
lodged with the state department by
he Italian embassy is the case of
some Italian children who had been
denied entrance into the state of Mis¬
sissippi. hTe department transmitted
this complaint to Governor Vardanian
with a courteous request for an in¬
vestigation and report on the facts. Tho
governor's reply amounts to a declina¬
tion to admit the children as they are
undesirable immigrants.
Affidavits collected by state agents
and accompanying the governor’s reply
.are to the effect that the children are
free from disease and have be; n pu¬
pils in the public schools in Now Or¬
leans; that they were born in New Or¬
leans, are consequently American*in
the same degree as any native born
citizen, and therefore are free to trav¬
el as they will within the limits of
the United States.
The state department, however, has
done all it can in this matter in view
of the limitations on the exercise of
federal authority and the only recourse
for the parents or guardians of the
children is to apply to the local courts.
BOGUS BONDS REPUDIATED.
Governor Glenn of North Carolina Re¬
plies to Edward Andrews.
Governor Glenn of North Carolina,
in a letter received at New York Satur¬
day, replying to a communication from
Edward L. Andrews, who represents
holders of $11,000,000 of special tax
bonds of the state of North Carolina,
which matured three years*ago, and
were never paid, declared that t> leg¬
islature has twice repudiated the bonds
and that the state would not pay one
cent for them. Governor Glenn de¬
clares that North Carolina has acted
fairly with its creditors, but that it
would not pay for bonds “conceived in
sin and brought forth in iniquity.’’
PROHIBITION IN RALEIGH.
Dispensary is Voted Out of North Car¬
olina City.
By a majority of 547 Raleigh, N. C.,
voted out its liquor dispensary Thurs¬
day. The dispensary has been in op¬
eration for four years, twenty-four sa
loons having been voted out in favor
of the dispensary.
The sales have amounted to $250,
000 a year, with about $75,000 profit,
this being placed to the credit of the
school fund, tile road fun 1 and the city
expense account..
CORPSE IN COFFIN
Was Revelation on Opening
Druce Grave in London,
GREAT MYSTERY SOLVED
Sensational Allegations of Druse Wit
nesses Fall Flat After Ten Years
of Legal Fight — American is
Involved in the Case.
The body of Thomas Charles Druce,
in High Gate, cemetery, London, w 7 as
exhumed Monday morning, just forty
three years to a day after its burial.
The coffin was found to contain the
remains of a human body, thus ex¬
ploding the romantic tale told by Rob¬
ert C. Caldwell and others during the
recent hearing of the Druce perjury
case that it contained a roll of lead.
The official statement given out by
the home office and others officially
present at the* exhumation seems ef¬
fectively to prove that the body buried
in 1864 was actually that T. C. Drue*'.
The authorized statement follows:
“The coffin opened and found to con
tain the body of an aged bearded man;
the plate on the coffin bore the name
of Thomas Charles Druce.”
The scene at High Gate cemetery
when the vault was opened was re
markable. All the entrances to the
cemetery were surrounded by cordons
of police. Only those persons who had
passes from the heme office were ad
mitted to the grounds. George Hol
lamby Druce, who claims he is the
rightful heir to the Portland duke¬
dom and to its vast estate, tried un¬
successfully twice to get into the cem¬
etery.
The operation began at daybreak
Monday with the removal of the top¬
most coffins In the vault containing the
bodies of a wife and a son of T. C.
Druce. It was nearly 11:30 before
the coffin was brought ready for open
ing and inspection, The top was
quickly unscrewed and the inner cas
ing of lead cut opes.
There w-as no need for the dictum of
the eminent surgeon, Augustus J. Pep¬
per, to assure all present that human
remains lay in the coffin.
The Druce vault has thus given up
its secret after ten years of legal pro¬
ceedings which have cost a considera¬
ble fortune. A large part of this mon¬
ey was obtained from servant girls
and other workers who were Induced
to buy shares in a company formed
to prosecute the claims of George Hol
lamby Druce against the estate of the
duke of Portland, which produces an
annual income of $750,000.
The charge of perjury against Her¬
bert Druce is effectively disposed of,
and those persons who have sworn to
the placing of lead instead of a hu¬
man body in the coffin have been dis¬
credited.
A New York dispatch says: Robert
C. Caldwell, whose testimony as a wit¬
ness in the Druce case led to the
reopening of the grave of T. C. Druce,
is now at the home of his daughter
at New Brighton, Staten Island. He
is under $5,000 bond to answer to a
charge of perjury, preferred by the Brit¬
ish authorities in connection with the
story he told in the London court.
Caldwell was arrested when he arrived
from Europe, December 21.
Caldwell’s story of the alleged dual
personality of the duke of Portland
was the real sensation of one of the
most remarkable legal cases which has
ever engaged the attention of the
British courts. The reopening of the
Druce (grave was undertaken as a
final effort of the government to prove
that Caldwell’s testimony was “wil¬
ful and corrupt perjury.”
Caldwell’s story was to the effect
that the duke of Portland and T. C.
Druce, a London storekeeper, were one
and the same. He had known the
duke of Portland under both names, he
said, and at the request of the duke
had arranged a pretended death and
mock funeral of Druce, so that his
dual personality c-mld be buried
GAYNOR WANTS TO DIE.
Would Prefer Suicide to Serving Sen¬
tence in Atlanta Prison.
While his friends are watching close¬
ly about Benjamin D. Gaynor in his
cell in the Bibb county jail at Macon,
Ga., statements are coming from the
inside that he has made serious threats
of committing suicide rather than go
in the real sense of the word a federal
prisoner to the Atlanta penitentiary to
take up a term of service a convicted
nan.
BATTLESHIPS RESUME JOURNEY.
Fleet Leaves Port of Spain After
Spending a Merry Christmas.
The American battleship fleet
weighed anchor at Port of Spain Sun¬
day afternoon and steamed for Rio Ja¬
neiro.
Thousands of residents climbed the
surrounding hills to view the great
white ships as they moved outward,
while boat loads of excursionists went
to the small islands in the gulf and
others to the floating dock to catch
the last glimpse of the ships.
ALABAMA COUNTIES DRY.
Fifty Are Now Closed to Sale of Booze
and a Year Hence All in the State
Will Be in Line.
With the shrill shrieks of the hun¬
dreds of whistles of industrial Birming¬
ham, announcing the advent of the
new year, every saloon In Jefferson
county closed its doors siue die.
Tuesday night was the time set for
prohibition to go into effect in the
counties of Alabama in which local
option elections have been held during
the year. When the result of the elec¬
tion Tuesday in Crenshaw county be¬
came known, and it was added to the
prohibition ranks, there were exactly
fifty counties in the state which closed
the doors of the saloons permanently
at midnight.
This leaves seventeen counties in the
state from which liquor can be sold for
another year. One year hence the en¬
tire state becomes prohibition by stat¬
utory act. Of the wet counties for the
next year only four are exclusively
saloon counties. Mobile, Montgomery,
Dallas and Baldwin. There are eleven
exclusive dispensary counties, Macon,
Winston, Elmore, Bibb, Limestone,
Madison, Cleburne, Perry, Barbour, Col¬
bert, Covington and Coffee. Marengo
county has both dispensary and sa¬
loons.
Jefferson county, in which Birming¬
ham is located, is by far the largest
county in the state, and in Birmingham
alone 120 saloons went out of business
A remarkable feature of the last day
under the liquor regime is the fact
that there was less drunkenness noted
than for many months. The situation
seemed to be accompanied by consent,
but the fact remains that the amount
of liquor sold on the last day was prob¬
ably greater than on any previous day
in the history of Birmingham. This
resulted from the purchasing by house¬
holders of various liquors in bulk to
fortify them in cases of sickness and
emergencies. The greater part of the
liquor sold was in bulk.
“TWENTY-THREE” FOR PASSES.
Free Transportation in State of Georgia
Now Cut Off.
The general order of the railroad
commission of Georgia, cutting off all
manner of free transportation, except
to employees of the common carriers,
is now effective. It will, also, curtail
the use of free telephones, for tho
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
company has stated to the railroad com
mission of Georgia that it considered
itself a common carrier, and would ob¬
serve the order by not allowing any
more free phoning in Georgia after the
first of January.
This general order of the commis¬
sion withdraws from every one, except
those exempted under the national Hep¬
burn law, the right of free transporta¬
tion.
HOARDING DID MISCHIEF.
Dun’s Annual Review of Trade States
Cause of Stringency.
The withdrawal of $125,000,000 from
a few large trust companies, precipitat¬
ing a season of hoarding and sending
currency to a premium at a time when
it was most needed throughout the
country, is credited in R. G. Dun &
Co’s annual review of trade, with hav¬
ing been one of the great factors in
turning the year 1907 from its promise
of new records in prosperity to a clos¬
ing period of financial disturbance that
caused many plans for future exten¬
sions of business to be either aban¬
doned or postponed.
PHILADELPHIA MINT OUTPUT.
Coins Made the Past Year Amounted
to $63,263,104.93.
The total output of the United States
mint in Philadelphia for the year 1907,
according to reports compiled Tues¬
day, was 183,598,943 coins, represent¬
ing a value of $63,263,104.93. For the
year of 1906 the output was 166,653,233
coins, therefore there is an increase in
this year’s production over last year
of 16,948,710 pieces.
WITH CONSENT OF PATIENTS.
Medical Students Can Visit Charity
Wards of Atlanta Hospital.
Medical students from all the col¬
leges of Atlanta will be permitted to
visit the charity wards of Grady hos¬
pital for bedside teaching, under the
provisions of a resolution adopted Tues¬
day afternoon by the board of trus¬
tees of the hospital, after three hours
of debate, which at times waxed dan¬
gerously near the line of acrimony.
It is further provided in the reso¬
lution adopted that in each case the
consent of the patient shall be ob¬
tained.
POLICE CHIEF FIRED OUT.
Recognized Illegal Commission Created
by Legislature.
At a sensational meeting of the Bir
mingham, Ala., police commission,
Chief Wicr was dismissed and Detec¬
tive Bodeker elected to succeed him.
The charge against Wier was his rec
ognition of the police commission ere
ated by the legislature which was af¬
terwards judged to be unconstitutional.
GEORGIA NOW DRY
Total Prohibition is in Full
Force and Effect,
PROVISIONS OF NEW L./W
Rigid Enforcement of the New Stat¬
ute Assured and Blind Tigers Will
Have Slim Chance to Flourish
Anywhere in the State.
With the stroke of midnight Tues¬
day night, the sale of liquor in Geor¬
gia ceased—not only the sale, but the
manufacture as well. It is now illegal
to sell or manufacture any beverage
that intoxicates or to barter it, direct¬
ly or indirectly.
It is not only illegal to sell or man¬
ufacture, but it is also illegal to keep
alcoholic or mixtures that produce in¬
toxication in any place of business.
Tlie law is strict on this point. You
may keep your corn or your rye or
your Scotch, „or your beer at homo,
but not in any place that is not home.
That word home, which hitherto has
had such a romantic and sentimental
usage, will come in for a more prosaic
interpretation just now.
Although liquor may be kept at
home, it may not be made there—not
even the mild domestic wines that so
many farm houses keep.
Druggists may sell pure grain alco¬
hol under rigid restrictions, but a phy¬
sician’s prescription is necessary to
secure it, andthe physician must tes¬
tify that he has examined his patient.
He must also file a copy of his pre¬
scription with the ordinary, who will
get five cents for his trouble, and th"
ordinary must enter the prescriptions
on a book, and keep it open for pub¬
lic inspection. A pint is the limit of
any prescription.
Doctors who own or are interested in
drug stores may not issue prescrip¬
tions. What prescriptions they do Is¬
sue are admissabie as evidence in the
courts.
At first there was some discussion
as to whether wine could be used In
the sacrament, but Attorney General
Hart has held that it may. Even if
he had not, however, the churches
would not suffer, as most of them now
use the unfermented grape juice. Oth¬
er rules of the law follow:
Wholesale druggists can sell alcohol
to retail druggists. Records of every
sale must be kept.
Denatured or wood aleo’fjl may be
sold for art, scientific or mechanical
purposes.
Grain alcohol may be sold to bac¬
teriologists, actively engaged in their
profession.
No specific instruction will be issued
to courts, as each judge is presumed to
know the law and place correct inter¬
pretations on same.
Punishment for any infraction will
be as for misdemeanor under section
1037 of the penal code. It provides for
a maximum fine of $1,000 or twelve
months on the chaingang.
It is expected that many complicated
questions will prise within the next
few months bearing cn the new law.
The authorities, whatever their opin¬
ion as to the advisability of prohibi¬
tion, are agreed that the new law shall
be enforced, and, in the meantime, th i
state at large will watch with inter¬
est the outcome.
Since the United States government
has declared that its license books will
be open for whisky dealers in the state
it is probable that the officers of the
law will keep an eye on the books and
in this way get a clue to any sale of
liquor that may be contemplated. The
securing of a license from the United
States government may be prima facie
evidence that the purchaser intends to
sell liquor, but there must be other
proof of a sale.
It is not certain whether or not the
state law 7 officers will he permitted to
inspect the whisky license books of
Uncle Sam. If detectives try to do so
and are turned down there may be
some friction from this source.
AWARDED HEAVY DAMAGES.
Judge Wellborn at Los Angeles Allows
Salt Company $456,746.
Damages to the amount of 456,746
were awarded the New Liverpool Salt
company Tuesday by Judge Olin Well
bora, in the United States district
court at Los Angeles, against the Cal¬
ifornia Development company, on ac¬
count of the destruction of proper:.'
caused by an overflow of the Colorado
river, which resulted, it was alleged,
from the construction of canal intakes
by the development company.
HEAVY DECREASE IN RECEIPTS.
Government Shows Loss of $17,910,566
During Year.
The forthcoming report of the g£ iv
eminent receipts and expenditures for
the month ending December 31 will
show 7 a decrease in the receipts as com¬
pared with December 31 last year, of
$8,529,152, and an increase in expendi¬
tures of $9,381,414. making the net k
for the year $17,910,566.