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OrUutry WEEKLY EDITION OF THE ITOaycross Evening 1M e r a Id. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF WAYCROSS ANT WARE COUNTY VOLUME XXYII WA YCRO*S. GA., SATURDAY..!LINE 17 1905. NUMBER 4 IfT* ^r •fr “In the good old Summer times” The CROSSETT SHOE “Makes life’s walk easy.” V Tan Shoes are Easy, Cool andJjComfortable. COME INSAND SEE THEM. * H. C. SEAMAN. % Mil. jMft jJL Mil d Boy and Girl Assassinated Valdosta, Ga., June 14.—The Car- ter-Rawllng’s family feud In the Hnhl- ra district culminated last night in the assassination of Willie Carter, the 16-year-old son of W. L. Carter, and his 14-year-old sister. Sheriff Passmore and Chief of Po lice Dampler returned tonight from tho scene of the assassination, bring ing Jesse, -Milton and Leonard Raw lings and two negroes charged with the crime. The coroner's Jury fully investigat ed the matter and returned a verdict laying tho crime to two of tho Raw lings men. Mr. and Mrs. Carter, par ents of the murdered children, saw tho men and say they recognized them. Young Carter, after being shot, ran BIG RAILROAD DEAL CLOSED Col. John C. McDonald, Counsel for the Southern Pine Company of Geor gia, closed up a deal this week be tween his clients and the Ocilla and Valdosta Railroad Company, by the terms of which the latter company aepuired the road of tho first from Uroxton to Hazlehurst, a distance of thirty miles. The Ocilla and Valdos ta Railroad Company has a line al ready from Ocilla to Osiorfleld, and THREE KILLED; EIGHTEEN HURT NEWS AND NOTES Vienna, June 15.—Three were kill- and ejghteen injured, while forty oth ers were bruised in a free fight which occurred during the performance of a traveling show at Derekgyhas, Hun gary, today. A cannibal act had been advertised, but when tho time for Gy? performance hrrlvcd, but~tho manager refused to give It unless some one in the audience would offer himself as subject for the cnnnihal. Fnnlly a link from that point on Into Droxton, and this will give this company a line 54 miles in length from Ocilla to Ha- zlchurst, and from Hazlehurst, it is understood the line is to be extended to Savannah. It is also rumored 4 , that this line will build from a point Into the house and told his parents | JUBt north „ ( Nlcho „ B| by tho wny of Is now building and completing, the | |H . agant ,, oy volunteered, and tho nlbal seized him and bit his ear. The boy’s relatives rushed in, when the cannibal bit harder. ' Others in tho audience wanted tho performance to go on and held tho relatives back which precipitated a fight. Tho can nibal escaped during the confusion. who did tho shooting, dying «>")«, N , thence Fa(rfax on the A time lator. These fuels eorroborut- R R „„„ from . thoro on t0 ed public suspicion from the begin- Vtt|(lo8ta Th|9 roaiV „„ now cxton „. ning. ' It is said that tho two negroes un- [ der arrest were with the Rawlings. men all of yesterday. The tragedy occurred about 0 o’clock. Mr. Carter’s family was in his home when they heard his dog barking as If something was going wrong in the yard. Carter Is still | suffering from gun shot wounds In- j dieted by J. Q. Rawlings some weeks , ______ ago, and his two children went Into the yard to Investigate. The moon AnriT DAPIUP AT was shining nlmost as bright as day U|\lA I llAuINu A I and the boy and girl could be easily ieen as they walked about the yard. While least thinking of tho dan ger lurking near, some one from be hind the smoke house fired upon them. The girl fell and died almost instantly. The boy crawled back to the house and died a a short while. The full contents of a shot gun had ed, covers a fine section of the coun try, and if the proposed extensions are made, will make it a still better road, and. will develop tho country very rapidly through which It will pass. Hon. J. A. J. Henderson of Ocilla, is President of this road, and this means that it will be a success. SHEEPSHEAD BAY The bricklayers’ striko at Albany, Ga., has been called off. I*ct Albany now go ahead with her improvements. The first melon 'is in our midst.— Quitman Freo Press. A young lady, though she bo an ed itor, should nover gobble up a wholo melon by her lone self. The county commissioners havo ac cepted tho new court house nt Val dosta. Tho upper Mississippi is spreading over all tho unprotected low lands, and several persons have drowned near Alexandria, Mo. A Jnpane.se student has been awarded the Wyman Crow medal at the St. Louis school of fine arts. FEARS A CLASH WITH GERMANY VERDICT AGAINST GOULD $24,000 By Telegraph to The Herald. Sheepshead Bay Track, June 15.— The most democratic and dearly loved of all the turf events, the uburban Paris, June 15.—All Europe is on ’ edge, stirred by the danger of France’s By Telegraph to Tho Herald, clash with Germany. The situation Mincola, L. I., Juno 15.—A sealed will have strong effect on tho Japan- verdict wns rendered In the Ilaydel Russia situation. The Czar is urged architect case against Howard Gould by France, his alley, to accept tho this morning. Tho Jury found $24,- move for peace. His nld will bo ooo for the architect. Tho latter needed if the new crisis develops ov- asked for $60,000. er tho Morroccan Issue. England’s sympathies are with France in this affnlr. She requests Japan to offer MONITOR PURITAN moderate terms to end tho eastern ■ li111 I ftII struggle. Thus the Kaiser’s present aggressive game might be checkmnt- ed. i FAST AGROUND done lie work nnd the two unoffend- Han „| cap> )g , 1(1 | ng ' ^ , mlay ing and defenseless young neople were dead. The Carters abovo referred to for merly resided lit Waresboro and are well known In Ware count*’. W. L. Carter wat once a preacher, tnd was a member of the Method's* confer ence. WOULD CONSIDER , MOVE UNFRIENDLY By Telegraph to The Herald. Paris. June 15.—Germany has been for some weeks strengthening her gar risons near the French frontier. France has responded with a similar move. The Kaiser, ignoring his own provocation, has notified France that If she did not cease these military movements, Germany would consid er an unfriendly act. This, of course was eqnlvalent to an ultimatum, and M. Roavier sent a conciliatory reply. Sheepshead Bay track, goes to the winner, the purse being $16,000. The second horse to finish will take $2,500 nnd the third will get $1,500. Thirty-five thousand people will attend. Belmont’s Beldame and Keene’s Delhi are the favorites in the betting, with Beldame slightly first choice, with odds 12 to 5, while Delhi Is quoted 3 to 1. Next in order comes, first. Mason and then Alan Dale. Germany, while demanding an inter national conference upon the affairs By Telegraph to Tho Herald, of Morrocco, refuses to abate any of Washington, June 15.—The United ! her pretensions concerning that coun- States monitor Puritan Is hard nnd e j try, and requires guarantees as re- f« Ht aground on a sand bar off Point fortune (fanlg tho pac j nc nn ture of the Anglo- I-ookout, where tho Potomac enters French agreement. Chesapeake Bay. Tho monitor has been there since Monday night. CALLED ON THE PRESIDENT TODAY Joe Hall to Hoke 8mith. Washington, ,Juno 15.—Minister There will be twelve starters Takahlra called at the White Houso on the course which is a mile and quarter. EX-PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND IN GOTHAM this morning and was shown direct ly t(f the office of the President. A pressure Is being brought to bear up on Japan to induce her to fix tho In demnity at as low a figure as possi ble. This pressure Is being exerted especially by the European govern- Joe Hall calls on Hoke Smith to know where he was in ’02 when he and Dupont Guerry fought, bled nnd died for the reforms which Smith is now clamoring about? That reminds us of one of the cam paign anecdotes told during the jrop- ullst fight by Mr. J. E. D. Shipp of Chattahoochee. He said that there wns a man who had a pet parrot. The par rot was very profane, and in order to By Telegraph to The Herald. ments. President Roosevelt has In- j give him n good lesson, the owner took tlmateo that an Important quarter has j the Irreverent bird and soused his i advised that a moderation in the In- cage In a tub of water. He was nl- demnity not only would facilitate ftio lowed to strangle there a few minutes, ! negotiations of the peace terms, but when he was brought back and hung Cleveland came to New York today would be regarded py the powers with' in his place In tho sun. Perceiving to attend a meeting of the trustees particular favor. Any such sum | his companion, tho monkey, perched of the Hyde stock of the Equitable, would not only embarrass Russia I on the shelf, the bedraggled bird call- He said that he could not yet say any- seriously and render her bankrupt, ed out to him, "Where In the hell thing, as he did not know anything, but would probably disturb the flnan- were you when the cyclone came."— about *. | ces of the entire western world. Savannah Press. MAYOR EDWARD F. DUNNE OF CHICAGO. Mn.vor Dunne. who has been luisy of Into owing to the grent strike of Cht- csgo toauiHtors. and who was elected on u platform declaring for Immediate cit^ ownership of public utilities. Is a native of Connecticut and an adopted sou off Illinois. Ed uni Ini In Illinois and Ireland, he boenme a lawyer and was thrlcw elected Judge of the circuit court of Cook county. He 1ms long been prominent in Chicago club life. The Cosy Kind Everyone wants his home to look well and be cosy. 7 lie furniture stock of some house** yields only the cheerless, ungrace ful patterns—things that are quite as uncomfortable to use as to look at. Ours is Different You’ll like the range, variety and the numberless little comforts we show'. Let us talk the matter over and you’ll see nt what a low price you (ran get goods from our store. Lott, Pain & Go., The Big Store. GEORGIA'S FAMOUS RESORT THE WIGWAM Z»JZ>ZABr SPRING. e OtttteaMe M TV Wlgwta c*l r .