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THE DAWSON NEWS.
"By B. L. RAINEL® Bosies
A Horrible Tragedy in the
Sea Near Savannah,
IAD WAS IN SWIMMING
When Wwithout Moment's Warning
Monster Porpoise Sprang Into Air
and Carried Young Lovett Down
with Him. Half-Eaten Body Was
Found Thursday Afternoon.
struck down by a giant porpoise
at play in the sea, three-quarters of
a mile off Tybee beach, Harry, the
15-vear-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John
J. Lovett, of Savannah, was Kkilled
py the big fish a few afternoons ago,
and Wwas carried down before the
eves of his companion with whom he
was swimming. 1
The story adds another to the
sea’s mysterious tragedies. Such a{
death as the young victim met is
g : &
nardly expected out of fiction. It is
more tragic than the usual death by‘
drowning in the sea, and bears a
tinge of horror. The Savannah News
prints the following. story of the hor
rible and unusual occurrence:
a “The two lads were two miles
fom the beach at Bohan's pavilion,
where they began to swim, and go
ing with the sweep of the tide were
lalmost as fresh as when they entered
the water. Their destination was
Lazaretto creek after a swim through
the mouth of the Savannah river.
Struck Without Warning.
“They were swimming easily
along, Wylly Brunner several yards
ahead of his companion. They were
talking and laughing. No thought
of the impending horror entered
their minds. Suddenly a swirl in the
water just ahead of the foremost
swimmer attracted his attention and
over his head a long dark shape
went.
“Without giving the younger swim
mer even a chance to cry out, hardly
time for the expression on his face
to change, the shape taking the form
f a fish at least ten feet in length
rashed directly onto young Lovett
nd the two, lad and fish, disap
eared into the water together.
Except the ripple their passage
eft the sea was undisturbed. Noth
ng was left behind to tell the story.
ne moment young Brunner was
wimming along chatting gaily with
t friend; the next he was alone and
omewhere in the depths of the ocean
ibout him was the form of his com
anion killed as quickly as though
bullet had been fired into his heart.
Reported at Fort Screven.
Left alone young Brunner waited
r his friend to appear. The mo
lents passed and no sign of the lad
has seen. With the passing of sev
ral minutes came the certainty that
mng Lovett was dead and that hope
nust be given up of saving him.
hen, almost choking with his tears
nd the sense of horror that came to
m, the remaining swimmer struck
it for the beach line nearly a mile
way, looking back occasionally in
he forlorn hope that even then he
lizht see his companion.
Landing he hurried to Fort
creven, reported the Iloss of his
lend, when a number of sol
érs left the fort to go to the beach
cdrest the scene of the boy’s death,
runner caught g Tybee train, and
| in his bathing suit rode to Bo
¢lls. He then went to the camp
! the Benedictine Cadets at the
Uth end of the island, where young
Vel a well loved member of the
‘et corps, had been spending sev
¢l weeks with the command.
\t the Benedictine Camp.
His tear-stained fave gave the
It intimation that something was
‘g The story he told cast the
U into sorrow, and the tiny flag
- e staff near camp headquarters
S Placed at half-mast. Those who
A'%ed down the beach to the spot
“eTe young Brunner landed erected
Stake in the sand and made a
Y ReT of handkerchiefs to indicate
“,"\.?"! direction the tragedy oc
| Hlree quarters of a mile straight
: IO the sea is the spot where
g Lovett was killed. At night
IETn:R ARMED AND MORE AGGRESSIVE
THAN EVER BRYAN STARTS BATTLE.
- “me “Convention Aftermath,”
tten from Denver to the Chicago
ri-Herald, Walter Wellman sizes
' Bryan's strength and chances as
“That Bryan enters upon his third
itle for the presidency better
ed, carrying fewer weaknesses,
“ben to serious attack, more ag-
Slve than in either of his pre
. Contests is not only the belief
% friends and representatives
It 4 majority of the neutral
| This time no free silver, that
welened revolution,
5 time no attacks upon the
"% which in the eyes of millions
from ten o’clock until far after mid
night men patrolled Tybee beach
on horseback, afoot and in vehicles
hoping that the lad’s body might be
washed ashore by the tide.”
Half of Body Found.
Half of the body of Young Lovett
was found Thursday.
The lower portion of the body,
with both feet eaten away, washed
up against the sea wall at Fort
Screven,
The remains were found by com
panions and friends of the lad who
had been ceaselessly patrolling the
beach since the tragedy. The condi
tion of that portion of the body re
covered seems to indicate that it was
a shark which attacked the young
man while he was trying for a long
distance swim.
GAVE FISH TIME OF THE'IR LIVES
Finny Ones Only Ones to Profit by
Dispensary Agent's Seizure.
When State Dispensary Agent Lo
zier emptied thousands of gallons of
contraband liquor into the sewers of
Guthrie, Okla., Tuesday he took pre
caution that there should be no repe
tition of the scenes which occurred
at a similar occasion when the state
destroyed nearly 60,000 gallons of
beer by turning it into the gutters.
At that time scores of persons SCoop
ed up the foaming beverage in cans
and buckets or any available recep
tacle.
Great crowds gathered Tuesday
following the announcement that sev
eral thousands gallons of liquor
would be destroyed. But there was
nothing but disappointment for them.
Instead of pouring the liquor into the
gutters Inspector Lozier and his dep
uties dumped the kegs and barrels
of ““good cheer’ directly into the sew
er man holes.
- There was one contingency, how
ever, for which the inspector did not
provide. He overlooked the finny
‘tribe of the Cottonwood river, and
‘as a result great quantities of fish
were enable to have the spree of
their lives. But, like man, they paid
the penalty of their over-indulgence.
In their intoxicated condition the
fish floated to the surface, where they
were gathered by the armful by the
scores of persons who were attracted
by the unusual spectacle,
SILVER DOLLARS AT DENVER.
Visitor Was Given Wheelbarrow Full
in Change for $l,OOO Bill.
One of the many surprises for eas:-
ern visitors at the recent démocratic
convention in Denver was the general
use of ‘“iron dollars’’—that is, silver
—to the exclusion of paper money.
It is related that a ‘well-heeled”
Tammany man passed a $l,OOO bill
over the bar of a'leading hotel and
waited for his change. ‘‘Tom,” said
the bartender, turning to the colored
porter, ‘‘take 75 cents out of that
and hand the gentleman his change.”
The negro never turned a hair. He
took the bill, walked around to the
stock room, and in 40 seconds came
trundling a wheelbarrow load, touch
ed his hat and said: ‘““Yo’ change,
sah.” There was the change—999
silver dollars and a 25-cent piece!
TURNER'S PLEA FOR NEW TRIAL
Will Be Heard by Judge Spence on
on First Monday in August.
Mr. A. W. Turner of Macon has
been in Edison consulting his attor
neys in the interest of a new trial for
his son, Mr. Allen Turner, who was
tried for the murder of Jim Casey at
the June term of Calhoun superior
court and sentenced to life in the
penitentiary. The motion for a new
trial will be heard by Judge Spence
at Camilla on the first Monday in
August.
Young Turner has been removed
from the jail at Morgan to the Bibb
county jail in Macon that he may be
near his relatives.
FIRST BALE AT SHELLMAN.
Was the Second Bale in State, and
Brought 22 Cents a Pound.
Shellman, Dawson’s hustling little
neighbor, received its first bale of
new cotton Thursday. The cotton
was grown by Sam Green about four
miles south of Shellman on W. R.
Curry's plantation. This is two weeks
earlier than last season. The cotton
brought 22 cents per pound, and was
shipped to Savannah by express.
It was the second bale of new cot
ton marketed in the state.
threatened the destruction of the bul
warks of society.
“This time no gold telegram from
Esopus to vex the party and split it
into warring factions.
“And no government ownership of
railways finds place in the creed.
Bryan set out deliberately to steer a
middle course, and despite all temp
tations, despite all the efforts of his
more radical friends to lead him
head long their way, he has adhered
to his policy. It is for this reason
his representatives here feel great
cenfidence that he has framed a vote
winning platform—one which will
wear well before the country and
perhaps attract waverers and scat
terers from the frontiers of the other
party.”
15500 DAWSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1908.
\DID NOT FLOURISH BOTTLE AND
| ASK SENATE TO TAKE A DRINK
|
i THAT BODY OF LEGISLATORS GIVES THE LIE TO THE STORY
ABOUT A BLIND TIGER IN THE STATE HOUSE.
The Georgia senate has passed a
resolution declaring the story sent
out from Atlanta to the effect that
a blind tiger existed inside the capi
tol of the state an unqualified false
hood.
It referred to the Houston Post as
having printed it. :
The statement was printed in an
This Years Crop One of Larg
est in Our History,
This State Has 8,000,000 Trees Now
Bearing, and Raised Five Thous
and Carloads. Big Crops in New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. .
The peach is now the king of the
fruit world, and will continue an un
disputed” reign for the next three
months, when it will make way for
the apple. All the southern states‘
are now shipping their peaches northi
in hitherto unheard-of quantities. |
Georgia takes first rank as a peach
growing state. This great state has
ngw 8,000,000 peach trees in bearing.
The crop from these trees will aggre
gate more than 5,000 carloads. Per
haps no better idea may be conveyed
as to the size of thic year’s erop than
by comparing it with the crop of last
year—that was considered a fair av
erage crop—when the shipments ag
gregated only 1,600 cars, as against,
the 5,000 cars this year,
A -
[ ‘lt is not alone by the stupendous
size of the crop that the Georgia
peach commands such attention this
vear, biit #lso by its exeellent quali
ty. Not only has the weatheér been
just right for theif proper gtfowth
and ripening, but the {ress gdre #lso
mostly free irom disease. ..
New Jersey which for so lo##
held a front rank as a producing re
gion for peaches, has lost its claim
because of diseased trees. The south
Jersey crop is always very uncertain,
but this year is much bigger and bet
ter than the average.
. Delaware has an unprecedentedly
large crop. Not during the last 25
vears has there been anything like it.
The crop will reach over 2,000,000
baskets, of 18 quarts or a little more
than half a bushel each. This would
make about 3,000 carloads, of which
Philadelphia will receive from 400 to
500 carloads.
Sixty per cent of the crop will be
isold at the orchards. For the first
time in two years the Baltimore can
neries have started up, and they are
buying the peaches from the orchards
of Delaware and Maryland in enor
mous quantities. They are making a
specialty of buying them only where
‘they may be shipped into the can
neries by water, as the railroads are
taking advantage ‘of the opportunity
and charging very high rates for such
perishable freight as peaches.
TWO MORE SHOT IN CALHOUN.
Fell Out About Work and Argued
With Guns,
The Edison News reports that two
negroes engaged in a duel on the
place of Mr. C. H. Tanner in Calhoun
county, and as a result both are in
a serious condition, one of them, Bill
Clark, being shot in the face, and
the other, Charlie Sims, receiving a
load of shot in the hip ana lower
part of his body.
The difficulty arose over the mat
ter of a half day’s work. It seems
that the two negroes had agreed to
exchange work, and Bill had given
Charlie a half day s work and want
ed him to return the favor, but he
had not done so. Saturday after
noon Bill went to Charlie’s house to
see about it, carrying his gun. As
soon as Charlie saw Bill coming with
a gun he secured his own shooting
iron, and it is said that only a few
words passed before. both began
shooting, with the result above stat
ed.
LIGHTNING STRUCK STOVE FLUE.
Once Before It Hit Same House and
Muddied Water in the Well.
Last Saturday afternoon during an
electrical storm at Benevolence light
ning struck the stove flue of Mr. H.
L. Keese's stove room and complete
ly demolished it. There was no dam
age done to the building. Three or
four years at%o lightning struck a
chimney to is same house, ram
shacked the building, killed three or
four hogs in a lot about fifty vards
away, and caused the water in the
well to become muddy. Also on the
same afternoon and in the same com
munity while a negro boy was driv
in a cow home lightning struck the
cow, killing her instantly, and also
shocked the boy right badly.—Cuth
bert Liberal-Enterprise.
article about five legislators having
been caught in a poker game at the
Kimball House.
In the article condemned it was
stated that a senator was drunk on
the floor, flourishing a quart bottle of
whiskey, and calling on all to take
a drink, declaring at the time that
he had purchased the intoxicants
within the state house.
At the Talk of Candidate Taft
Carrying Georgia,
He Says No Man in His Senses Be
lieves Any Such Thing. Macon
Congressman Was Interviewed by
a Reporter in Washington.
BY ZACK M'GEE.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—‘'Jedge”
Bartlett of Macon, born in Monticello,
Mystic Shriner, en route home with
his dress suit and stocking cap,
stopped over in Washington last
night. Even though he was nomi
nated by an uncomfortable margin in
the recent primary he is feeling good,
and he deigned not to refuse to majke
remarks while here upon the na
tional situation. Judge Bartlett is
always accommodating to newspaper
men and they like him, as do most
of the members of the house, al+
though there are scarcely more than
one or two at a time in that body
who agree with him.
He says all this talk about the re
publicans having a ¢hance to carry
Georgia is the merest nonsense, as it
‘is nonsense to talk about the repub
licans carrying any of the southern
states. “It amuses me,” he said,
“‘this talk about Georgia going re
publican. How cam any man in his
sense believe any. such thing! Do
you think reascnable democrats or
afiy otiier sort, as for that matter,
would condider supporting a republi
can ticket with such a miserable plat
form as that they formulated at
Chicago?’’
And continuing he discussed the
reasons why neither (Gegrgia nor any
other southern state would think of
supporting the republican ticket.
Said he:
“No sensible southern democrat
will vote for a party with a platform
which, in effect, declares for a reduc
tion of representation in the south,
and that is what the republican plat
form does. Why, there is no more
}rhance of Taft and Sherman carrying
Georgia or any other southern state
ithan there is of Bryan carrying Ver
mont or New Hampshire. Talk
‘about Georgia going republican! It’s
‘absurd. Roosevelt never lived there.
'His parents did, but Georgia is be
vond the sentimental stage in poli
tics. The south will go soiidly dem
ocratic for the ticket nomiuated at
Denver. I think it is the best ticket
that could have been named, and it
will be elected. It is a winner—a
winner, 1 say.
“What do I think of the republi
can ticket? 1 think it is the easiest
ticket to beat that could have bheen
named. If we cannot beat that tick
et we ought not to try to beat any.
Personally, I am very fond of Jim
Sherman. He is a fine fellow, but,
politieally, I do not think he will add
any strength to the ticket. We are
going to fool a lot of fellows this
year. We are going to win.”
The judge left for home today.
He would not discuss the prohibition
question. Coming back from a
Shriner’s meeting was not exactly an
appropriate time for such a thing.
Besides, he said that prohibition was
an experiment in Georgia so far, and
he thought it better to walt before
telling whether it was a success or
not.
THE WHITE MAN'S WEEDS.
Troublesome Plants Which ¥Follow
the March of Civilization.
It is strange how many worthless
plants follow the march of civiliza
tion. Every step that the farmer
takes into forest or over plain is fol
lowed by a number of weeds which,
like certain animals, the rat for ex
ample, are at once the friends and
foes of civilzed man.
There is the plantain which the
Indians used to call the ‘“white man’s
footprint,”” because whenever the
white man appeared in the wilder
ness and built his cabin the plantain
sprang up in the clearing and at once
made itself at home. The beggar’s
ticks, the cockleburr, the thistle, the
shepherd’s purse, the nettle, smart
weed, the dock, the purslane—a
score of others might be named that
appeared on the Atlantic coast after
the English settlements began and
have steadily marched west until now
they are found from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
No doubt many of them came in
the packages of flower seed which
were brought by the English house
wives from their homes in the old
country to their gardens in the new
world. Others were transplanted in
hay or forage, and others came with
the cereals. The wheat, rye and cat
bags from the British Isles contained
not only the seeds that were to fur
nish breadstuffs, but also the weeds
destined to plague the farmers of
this country to the end of time.
People thought nothing then of the
expense and loss to which their de
scendants would afterwards be sub
jected. Twenty-five or thirty vears
ago a Scotch emigrant carried with
him to Australia a few thistle heads
in order that he might see his coun
try’s plant growing around his cot
tage. Now the Scotch thistle is al
most as much of a nuisance in Aus
tralia as the rabbit.
About the same time a number of
American sheep were sent to Buenos
Ayres to improve the native breed.
Some of the American stock had
cockleburrs in their wool, and now
a very considerable percentage of the
wool of Argentina is every year ruin
ed by burrs.
TERRELL CAMP COMPLIMENTED.
One of the Few to Be Praised by the
Investigating Committee.
It is gratifying to know that in all
of the acts of gross neglect and cru
elty that have come to light in the
investigation of the state’s convict
system the Terrell county chaingang
has escaped criticism, and the treat
ment of the inmates praised.
Mr. Young of Troup county, who
headed the legislative committee that
investigated the Terrell county road
camp, has testified before the inves
tigating committee that the convicts
are treated in a ‘“humane, decent,
kindly way; are good clothes and
good food, and their wants carefully
looked after.”
He thought the misdemeanor con
victs in Randolph county were even
too kindly treated. There convicts
were working side by side with free
negroes, and all appeared to be on
the same basis.
In reply to a question he said
that he never heard of religious exer
cises being held at a convict camp,
PAYTON FAVORS SUFFRAGETTES
e e
Worth County Legislator Also Favors
Women Lawyers.,
Representative Payton of Worth
county has introduced in the legisla
ture a bill extending the right of suf
frage in Georgia to women.
The committee to whom the bill
was referred will probably put it in
the pigeon hole.
Mr. Payton has also introduced a
bill te allow women to practice law,
in the courts of this state. It may be
that the committee will find time to
take this bill up for discussion, and
hear from those who have arguments
to offer in its favor.
| IS “CHAWING 'EM SOME."
Uncle Sain's Chewing Board Is Spit
ting Puddles of Red.
A Washington dispatch says about
‘twenty samples of chewing tobacco
are being tested by the chewing hoard
in connection with the proposed pur
chase of 100,000 pounds of the
weed, which it has been found nec
essary to obtain in addition to the
regular annual supply for the navy
for the present fiscal year. The
prices range from 36 {6 42 cents per
pound and the aim is fo obtain a
brand of tobacco best adapted fo¥ the
use of sailors.
DIRECTOR OF MUSIC
At the State's Academy for the Blind
in Macon.
Prof. E. H. McNeil, brother of Mr.
O. L. McNeil of near Dawson, and
who has been at the head of the
McNeil School of Music in Americus
for the past two or three years, has
accepted a place as director of music
at the Academy for the Blind in Ma
con. He is a talented musician and
successful teacher, and has a host
of friends who are interested in his
welfare.
SIX YOUNG WHITE MEN IN JAIL.
Big Crop of Prisoners Comes With
Peach Season in Houston County.
The Home Journal says there are
six young white men in jail at Perry,
only one of them a citizen of Hous
ton county. One is charged with
forgery, four with larceny, and one
with cheating and swindling. Five
of these young men went to Ft. Val
ley to help harvest the peach crop,
and there committed the crimes that
caused their arrest.
BLUSHING BRIDE APPEARS IN SHEATH——
GOWN TO JOY OF ATLANTIC CITY.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Mrs. Jas.
P. Munyon, the three months bride
of the millionaire patent medicine
man, appeared on the boardwalk in
a sheath gown last night and created
a sensation. Before she had been on
the walk five minutes the promen
aders clustered so thickly about her
that the walk was blocked.
Prof. Munyon, who was with his
bride, urged her to walk faster, in
the hope of out-distancing the
curious throng. The crowd followed,
continually increasing. The young
VOL. 26---NO 36.
Heaviest Expenditures Ever
Made in Time of Peace.
1,000 MILLIONS A SESSION
Tke Annual Tax for Army, Navy and
Pensions Alone Is $4.30 on Every
Man, Woman and Child in the
United States.
Official figures compiled by the
clerks of the house and senate com
mittees on appropriations show that
expenditures aggregating $1,008.-
397,5643.56 were authorized at the
last session of congress. These are
the heaviest appropriations ever
made in the time of peace.
When the country was astonished
at the spectacle of a billion dollar
congress Speaker Reed could offer no
excuse except a plea that this had be
come a billion dollar country. But
under the Roosevelt regime we have
attained the two billion dollar con
gress, which appropriates a thousand
millions at each annual session. ' The
appropriations during the last four
vears of Rooseveltism have amount
ed up to $3,428,000,000, or $33,-
900,000 more than during four years
of civil war.
In a recent statement to the World
Representative James A. Tawney,
republican chairman of the house
committee on appropriations, assert
ed that ‘“almost 65 per cent. of the
government’'s revenues, exclusive of
postal receipts, is today being spent
to meet the cost of wars past and an
ticipated. In an article prepared for
the anniversary number of the World
Senator Allison, tle venerable repub
lican chairman of the senate commit
tee on appropriations, showed that
since 1884 there had come an annual
incredss of $51,000,000 in expendi
tures for the army, an annual in
crease of $30,000,0uv for pensions,
These three items alone represent a
total of $381,000,000 in the appro
priations authorized at the recent
session of congress. e
This is an annual tax of more than
$4.50 on every man, woman and child
in the United States for army, navy
and pensions alone. It represents an
average of $22.50 for each family, or
more than half the average month’s
earnings of the American laborer in
the period of highest prosperity.
- Mr. Roosevelt has been president
of the United States for nearly seven
vears. Who can recall a single bill
that he ever vetoed on the ground
of extravagance? Who can remem
ber a single instance in which he
firmly protested against the unneg
essary expenditures of public money?”
Who can recall a single message in
which Le took a strong, uncompro
mising position in support of pubuc
econonmy? :
His has been the most reck
less spendthrift administration ever
known in time of peace, and while
the democratic platiorm properly
denounces ‘“heedless waste of the
people’s money’ the declaration is
less aggressive than the facts de
mand.
There never was a better time for
the democratic party to raise Mr.
Tilden’s most effective issue of re
trenchment and reform.
PEOPLE EATING FODDER. |
Every Vestige of Food Swept Away
by Flood in Louisiana.
Accordding to a Lake Charles, La.,
dispatch conditions along the Red
river are pitiable. "I'he floods have
swept away practically every ves
tige of anything with which to sus
tain life, and in numerous instances
the people are facing starvation,
Some of them are foced to eat fod
der, ears of raw corn or anything
they can pick up that will furnish
the least particle of nourishment.
Breaks in the levee in Red river,
above Alexandria, caused the water
to flood fully 100,000 acres of land.
This water found its way to Bayou
Rapids, which passes one side of the
city of Alexandria and enters Red riv
er at that point, and as a consequence
everything is under water along that
stream on the side opposite the city
of Alexandria.
Pineville, on Red river, directly op
posite, Alexandria, has suffered great
loss. The only means of communica
tion now between Alexandria and
Boyce, a distance of 25 miles, is by
launch.
woman was very much embarrassed
and blushed deeply at the comments
of the closest on-lookers.
After walking several blocks with
the throng following Prof. Munyon
led his bride into a confectionary
store, which was immediately be
seiged. The Munyons waited pa
tiently for the crowd to disperse, and
the crowd waited just as patiently
outside for Mrs. Munyon to appear.
Finally the pair slipped out a side
door to a carriage that had been
called, and were driven back to the
hotel, where Mrs. Munyon changed
her gown for one more old-fashioned.