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Volume 18,
Waynesboro, Georgia, Saturday, October 7, 1899
Number 25
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THE
PLANTERS
LOAN AND
SAVINGS
BANK,
Augusta, Ca.
| Pays interest
soMed.
1 L.C. Hayne.
President.
1 \V. C-. ’Vap.blaw
ORGANIZED 18 0 i Cashier.
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Aamii-ai s Honor.
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genres of Steps M>.k» t h- L itter the
Grandest .Murine Pag ant Eve r Seen
in Am : iou mid State Troops Contr.b-
i!t<* to ill- Former-*s Stuuvss.
New York, Sent. 29.—There was a
grand naval parade up the Hudson river
Fridav, in honor of Act mi: rJ Dewey,
whii arrived from Manila Tuesday. Peo
ple of national prominence were aboard
tbe various vessels in the procession.
Nothing occurred to mar the pageant,
which eclipsed anything of the kind
ever witnessed in these waters, the
ji-ene of many spiendid maritime dis
plays.
At 1 o’clock sharp the squadron got
under way. It was an inspiring' mo
ment the column started up the harbor
and the great naval parade began to be
a reality.
First came the police boat Patrol,
which was the apex of a wedge spread
iug out to the tire boats New Yorker and
Van Wyek. which followed abreast.
The steamer Sandy Hook, having oil
board the mayor and representatives of
the city of N<w York, with standards
of the city flying irom fore and aft
masts, steamed alongside the Olympia,
the flagship of Admiral Dewey, on tiio
port side.
A.:ter the Olympia came the armored
cri i-erNew York, the flagship of Rear
Admiral Sampson, with her big turrets
and guns appearing like a moving
fortress as she followed in the wake of
the admiral's ship. The Chicago brought
up the rear of the column. Following
the Yew York were tne two firstcias3
battleships Indiana and Massachusetts.
In the rear of these modern engines
of war came over 800 vessels of alt sorrs
and sizes. There were sidewheelers,
propellers, electric boars and every kind
except a sailing vessel.
Tne procession moved without a hitch
and at 2;30 p. m. tbe Olympia reached
her anchorage off Grant’s tomb, where
Admiral Dewey reviewed the parade.
At 5 o’clock the parade was dismissed.
At night there was a magnificent fire
works display. All vehicles, excepting
the cars, were excluded from Brooklyn
bridge, so that the roadways could be
usk-.I bv pedestrians to see the fireworks.
The feature of the second day’s ceie-
biutiou was an imposing iaud parade,
in which over 35,000 troops from vari
ous states of the Union took part, be
sides numberless leading civilians.
Admiral Dewey was wildly cheered
by the thousands all along the line of
the procession, which he reviewed on
reaching the triumphal arch, a costly
affair erected at the intersection of
Broadway and Fifth avenue.
Rear Admiral Schley divided the hon«
r, p v.ith the central figure of the day.
He received a demonstration second
only to that of Dewey.
Earlier in the day a beautiful loving
cup, the gift of the city of New York,
was presented to the admiral.
Admiral Dewey left the city Monday
for Washington to receive the sworci
voted him by congress. ,
DEWEY AT THE CAPITAL.
Sword Voted Him by f'ongress Form*
ally Presented. _X
Washington, Oct. 3.—Admiral Dewey
reached Washiugton last night and was
accorded a welcome hardly second to
that he received in New York. A huge
civic parade and the meeting of the ad
miral and President McKiuley at the j
White House were the features.
At noon today the admiral was es
corted to the capitol, where President
McKinley formally presented the sword
voted him by congress, the ceremony
being one of the most impressive that
has ever occurred in this city.
Admiral Dewey was visibly affected
by tko words of President McKinley and
Secretary of the Navy Long, and tears
filled his eyes as he accepted the jeweled
weapon, a token of the nation's esteem.
Yacht Race Declared Off.
New York, Oct. 3.—The first of the
serios of international yacht races be
tween the challenger for America’s cup,
Sir Thomas Lipton’s Shamrock, and the
American defender, the Columbia, was
begun today over a 30-mile course from
Sandy Hook lightship, the course being
15 miles down the Jersey coast and
back. The Shamrock was leading by a
narrow margin when the boats were be
calmed within 3 miles of the finish, and
as the time limit expired at that time,
the race was declared off.
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CASTORIA.
Bears tie yj The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature
of
Genera! Henry Hetb, the confederate
chieftain and historian, is dead.
Savannah has quarantined against
1 Miami. Fla., ou account of yellow fever
at the latter piace.
A Filipino officer has offered General
Oris 1,000 MaccabLse tribesmen to fight
Tagals of the La Gtma de Bay district.
George 1.1. Buchanan of Holly Soriugs
has been appointed United States' mar
shal for the northern district of Missis
sippi. '
The British government has ordered
its agents at New Orleans to purchase
5,‘JpO mules immediately for use in
South Airica.
Walter Shaw, while performing on a
trapeze at a Chicago opera house, fell a
distance of 15 feet to the stage and was
fatally injured.
It is probable that the scope of next
year’s army of the Cumberland reunion
at Chattanooga will be extended so as
to include a general reunion of the so
cieties of all the grand armies of the
civil war.
§ § §
Caracas, Venezuela, is practically in
vested by the revolutionists.
John Carson, a farmer of Newton
Fails, O., was stung to death by bees.
Frost fell in western Tennessee, north
ern. Mississippi and Arkansas, and veg
etation at many places was killed.
Colonel George W. Adair, a pioneer
Atlantian. is dean as the result of a
stroke of paralysis.
Negroes in Chicago tried to lynch
James Washington, a detective, be-
I cause he ran down and surrendered to
I the Tennessee officials Edward Cole, an
j escaped convict.
A rapid transit train on the Coney
1 Island road ran into a trolley car at
Gravesend and Foster avenues, Brook-
; lyn, killing two persons and injuring a
j number of others.
j Arrangements have been made by the
j citizens of Knoxville to give a public re-
| ception to Lieutenant Valentine Nelson
of Admiral Dewey’s' flagship Ciympia
during the week beginning Oct. y.
§ § §
General Jandeenes is on trial at Ma
drid for surrendering Manila
Gambling parlors in Savmnah have
been closed by executive order.
A Democratic primary at Nashvi 1
resulted iu the nomination of Hon. John
M. Head for mayor.
Birmingham, Ala., carpenters, who
struck ten days ago, ara again at work,
having gained a partial victory.
A passenger train was struck by a fast
freight at Montezuma, lud., the sleeper
was upset aud seven people hurt.
The tug McCarty, which it was feared
had gone dovtn on Lake Michigan with
all on board, is safe. Sho has arrived
at Cheboygan, Mich.
The Transvaal government has issued
a notice of the measures to be observed
iu the event of war. Strict uassport
regulations have also been provided.
A fight between the rival telephone
companies of New Orleans has resulted
in a $100,000 damage suit for libel iu
the United States circuit court there.
§ § h
A South Carolina firm estimates the
cotton crop at 8,500,000 bales.
Fourteen American prisoners, all en
listed soldiers, havebeen delivered up by
the Fi.ipinos.
Colonel W. H. Dabney, one of the
oldest and most widely known lawyers
in North Georgia, is dead at Calkonn.
George McCoy and Sam Walker, con
victs in shaft No. 1, at Pratt mines,
Ala., were killed instantly by falling
slate.
The piers of the Southern Railway
company at Norfolk have been destroved
by fire, entailing a loss of nearly $1,-
000,000.
Owing to the failure of the crops in
the province of Santa Clara. Cuba,
many families in the country districts
around Trinidad, it is said, are starving.
The steamer Clyde, belonging to the
Tennessee River Packet company, run
ning between Sc. Louis and Memphis,
sank 25 mi>es below Cairo. The boat
was valued at $30,000.
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President McKinley has determined
to again urge upon congress the author
ization of a transpacific cable.
Two children of a Holiister, O., coup e
were cremated while their parents were
attending wedding festivities nearby.
Yellow fever continues to rage at
Key West, an average of about 40 cases
being reported daily, with from one to
three deaths.
Dr. Nansen, the arctic explorer, says
the United States ought to join Great
Britain and Germany in co-operative
polar exploration.
John Galvin has been appointed re
ceiver of George A. Moucure & Co., a
Cincinnati clothing house. Assets, $80,-
000; liabilities, $35,000.
H. H. Dewey of Skefiiield, Ills., uu
cie of Admiral Dewey, is dead. His
son thinks excitement over the admi
ral’s honors hastened his death.
Masked parties broke into the county
jail at Winston, Hertford county, N.
C., and fatally shot Robert Yaughau,
under suspicion of barnburning.
§ $ §
Cotton is bringing 7j4 cents a pound
at Griffin, Ga.
Evangelical ministers of Atlanta have
decided to take a hand iu city politics.
D. P. Henderson, one of the leading
booksellers of Chattanooga, has made
an assignment.
The rate of discount of the Imperial
Bank of Germany has been raised from
5 to 6 per cent.
The Alabama Democratic executive
committee has been called to meet iu
Birmingham Oct. 10.
Rev. O. L. Martin, pastor of the First
Baptist church at Anderson, S. C., has
tendered his resignation, effective Jan. 1.
It is reported that the British govern
ment has placed orders for cauned meat
and tinned frnit with some of Chicago’s
large packing concerns.
United States District Attorney Mar
ion Erwin, lor the southern district of
Georgia, has been instructed to begin
legal proceedings against the contrac
tors iindicated in the Carter case.
Herbert M. Fish, a progressive
and respected resident of Cape
Vincent, N. Y., said: “The doc
tors disagreed in my case, one said
I had the grip, another that it was
jaundice, and so on. I tried many
remedies but did not receive the
slightest benefit. I was low spirit
ed and nervous and had become
reduced in weight from 155 pounds
to less than 123. One day a fsiend
recommended Dr. Williams’ Pink
Pills for Pale People. I tried
them and the result was indeed
marvelous. My appetite returned
and I began to feel rested and re
stored. At the end of the
tenth box my physical condition
was better than it had been for
years and I was a well man.
Herbert M. Fish.”
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 17th day of Nov., 1898.
Lloyd O. Woodruff,
Notary Public.
■From the Eagle, Cape Vi?iceni,
N. Y.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People
contain, iu a condensed form, all the ele
ments necessary to give new life and rich
ness to the biood and restore shattered
nerves. They are an unfailing specific for
such diseases as locomotor ataxia, partial
paralysis, St. Vitus’ dance, sciatica, neural
gia, rheumatism, nervous headache, the
after-effects of the grip, palpitation of the
heart., pale and sallow complexions, and all
forms of weakness either in male or female.
Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People are never
sold by the dozen or hundred, bat always in pack
ages. At all druggists, or direct from the Dr. Wil
liams Medicine Company. Schenectady, N. Y., 60
cents per box, 6 boxes $2.50.
FAKE COTTON QUOTATIONS.
Nt w Orleans Kxcjhaizgo Suspends Busi
ness Temporarily.
New Orleans. Sept. 29.—Intense ex
citement prevailed on the Cotton Ex
change today and the directors of the ex
change have met and suspended busi
ness. The New York market was closed
today and the only quotations to come
this morning to guide the local invest
ors were from Liverpool.
The market had scarcely opened when j
the operators became paralyzed by the J
advices that clicked from over the ocean, j
It showed futures jumping in leaps and 1
bounds. In half an hour tbe reports j
showed that the Liverpool market had j
jumped nearly 1 cent.
At 10 o’clock a meeting of the di
rectors was caiied and prompt action
was taken suspending ail business.
NEAL’S SHORTAGE PAID UP.
Bondsmen of tlie Colonel Send III
Their Checks.
Columbia, S. C.,Sept. 30.—The short
age of Colonel Neal, so far as his three
bondsmen are iiable, has been paid.
Colonel Yvilie Jones, cashier of the
Carolina National bank, sent the attor
ney general his check for $937.47, and
P. H Haltiwanger and W. Scott Pope,
the other bondsmen, did likewise.
This pays for the money and articles
actually misappropriated by Colonel
Neal. The total amount charged against
Colonel Neal is $11,600, but the Caro
lina bank cashed worthless notes for a
part of the amount and bears the loss.
! Tbe action of the bondsmen in pay-
i ing the amount Colonel Neal was found
j short will not heip him in the criminal
prosecution which is to be brought
pendin
While the telegragh wires were bring- 1 a g a j nS (; him, but on the other bandit
mg the news oLtne leaps aud bonnets at j the case against him all the
Liverpool private cables to prominent
local cotton firms were bearing the news
that there had been litrle or no change
from yesterday in the Liverpool market.
This at once raised the suspicions of the
operators and caused the hasty meet
ing of the directors.
The directors officially announce that
today’s suspension is due to fraud.
The exchange declared all contracts
in futures nail and void. This action
was taken on the advice of R D. Saun
ders, counsel for the exchange, who
said that all contracts made this dav
having been based on false reports from
Liverpool as to price, the consent es
sential to a valid contract was wanting
and the contract was therefore void.
Cotton exchanges iu cities through-
cutkhe south were upset by the iraudu-
lent quotations and many dealers suff
ered heavy losses. These threaten to
contest the matter in the courts.
GARTER GOES TO PRISON.
Verdict of the Courunartlal Approved
by President 3!cK nl< y.
Washington,Sept. 30.—Captain Ober-
lin M. Carter, who was convicted by
courrmartial of misappropriating gov
ernment funds while in charge of the
harbor improvements at Savannah, Ga.,
is sentenced to five years’imprisonment
and to pay a tine of $5,000. This sen
tence was approved by the president to
day. Captain Carter is now at Gov
ernor’s island under arrest and the sen
tence will begin immediately.
The verdict of the court was as fol
lows:
“And the court does therefore sen
tence the accused, Captain Oberlm M.
Carter, corps of engineers. U. S. A., to
be dismissed from the service of the
United States, to suffer a fine of $5,000,
to be confined at hard labor at such place
as the proper authority may direct for
five years and the crime, punishment,
name and piace of abode of the accused
to be published in the newspapers in
aud about ;li9 station and the state from
which the accused came or where he
usually resides.”
Following is the formal approval of
the verdict:
“The findings of the conrtmartial in
the matter of tbe foregoiug proceedings
against Captain Oberiin M. Carter,
corps engineers, U. S. A., are hereby
approved as to ali except the following:
“Charge 11, specifications 7. 8, 9 and
10. Charges 111, specifications 3, 4, 5,
6. 7, 9. Hand 22, which are disapproved.
And the sentence imposed by the conrt
martial upon the defendant, Oberiin M.
Carter, is hereby approved.”
stronger, as the payment by his bonds
men is an acknowledgement of his mal
feasance, for which they are held re
sponsible by the terms of tlie bond.
But by paying the amount of $2,812.-
41, the bondsmen will undoubtedly
avoid being sued, aud if suit were
brought and judgment obtained against
them it would be for the full amount of
the bond, $20,000.
F ire at Phenix City, Ala.
Columbus, Ga.. Sept. 30.—Fire has
destroyed ten houses in Phenix City and
the loss is but half covered by insurance.
The fire originated in the residence oc
cupied by J. L. Moon, in the heart of
the town, from a defective fine, and had
it not been for the help of the Colum
bus fire department several blocks might
have been-swept. This makes the sec
ond fire that Phenix City has had lately,
and quite a. vigorous move is on in that
town for fire protection.
Atlanta to Honor Brumby.
Atlanta, Sept. 30.—The committee
of citizens which lias in charge the ar
rangements for the public reception to
Flag Lieutenant Brumby of the Olym
pia have commuuicated with him and
as soon as he names a time to be here,
preparations for tbe presentation of the
sword from the people of Georgia, his
native state, will be made.
Idle Furnaces to Resume.
Anniston, Ala., Sept. 30.—Captain T.
G. Bush, president of the Alabama
Consolidated Iron and Coal company, in
an interview states that the furnace at
lronton, which is being relined, will be
put in blast in about two weeks and the
other Ironton furnace and the one at
Gadsden in about 60 days.
Danced While Children Died.
Tabse^ah Falls, Ga , Oct. 3.—Three
children of a widow, Mrs. Fanny Scott,
aged 1, 6 and 8 years, were burned to
death in their home near here. The
mother had left the little ones locked in
the house while she attended a dance. It
is reported that she has lost her reason.
Question Answered,
Yes, August Flower still bas the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of us
ing anything else for indigestion or
biliousness. Doctors were scarce,
and they seldom heard of appendi
citis, nervous prostration, or heart
failure, etc. They used August
Flower to clean out the system and
stop fermentation of indigested
food, regulate the action of the'liver,
stimulate the nervous and organic
action of the system, and that is all
they took when feeling dull and bad
with headaches and other a<-hes
You only need a few doses of
Green’s August Flower, in liquid
rffl, to make you satisfied there is
nothing serious ttio matter with
you. Sample bottles at H, B. mcmas
ter, Waynesboro, Ga., and H. Q.
Bell. Millen, Ga.
DeWitt’s Little Early .Risers,
The famous little pills.
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve
Cures Piles. Scalds. Burns.
Captured After Two Years.
Tallahassee, Oct. 3.—Thomas Rob
inson, a negro, on Dec. 15, 1897, at
Barnwell, S. C., waylaid and shot a
prominent merchant of that place at
night and fled the country. He was re
cently captured in Olay connty, and is
in jail at Green Cove Springs. Frank
H. Creach, sheriff of Barnwell county,
arrived at the capital on Saturday, se
cured extradition papers for Robinson,
and left today for Green Cove, to re
ceive and convey the prisoner hack to
South Carolina for trial.
American College In Berlin.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 3.—Professor
George P. McCoy of the Presbyterian
College for Women has announced the
establishment of the -American Institute
of Music, Languages and Art in Berlin,
Germany. This will be an American
female college in the German capital,
but will have a number of the leading
German musicians and artists in its
faculty. Quite a number of American
pupils have already been enrolled. Miss
Lilly Long, a southern lady, will be fe
male principal.
President King, Farmer’s Bank,
Brooklyn, Mich , has used De Witt’s
Little Early Risers in his family for
years. Says they are the best.
These famous little pills cure con
stitution, billiousness and all liver
and bowel troubles. H. B. mcmas-
ter, Waynesboro.
VERDICT TO BE SET ASIDE.
Father of a Lynched Negro Seeks to
Recover Damages.
Charleston, Oct. 2 — Lawrence
Brown, an innocent negro, was accused
of incendiarism in Orangeburg county
in 1897, and discharged by request of
the prosecutor and subsequently lynched
at Stiiton station. Under the clause of
the new state constitution and subse
quent legislative acts, the father of
Brown sued the connty of Orangeburg
for $10,000 damages.
It was the first case under the now
law and attracted general attention
throughout the country. At the first
trial, iu September, 1838, the verdict
was for the defendant connty, the judge
holding that the act only applied in
cases where prisoners were taken from
officers and lynched. The state su
preme court reversed this opinion and
the case was called again in court at
Orangeburg.
The testimony proving the lynching
was overwhelming, though one of the
county’s lawyers, in spire of the fact
that Brown’s body was riadied with
ballets and his hands and feet tied,
claimed that the negro had committed
suicide. The jury iu half an hour re
turned a verdict in favor of the connty.
Notice has been given of a motion to
set aside the verdict on the ground that
it is a miscarriage of justice, and Pre/
siding Judge Gage will doubtless so or
der, and his act will be approved by the
best citizens of Orangeburg county.
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Well Known Young Savannah Man
Kiili-fi a 31 er<- Boy.
Savannah, Oct. 3.—W. S. Mell, a
well known young white man, shot and
killed his brother-in-law, James Buz-
bee, a lad 15 years old.
Mell, it seems had some trouble with
his wife, who is Bazbee's sister. She
left the house and attempted to take
her baby clr.ld. but Mell refused to let
her have it ; She communicated this
fact to her people and young Buzbee
went to Mell’s house.
Mell was on the plaza when Buzbee
came up aud, standing outside the gate,
asked him tor the chiid. With an oath
Mell ordered him off, and just about
that time Mrs. Mell and her mother,
Mrs. Buzbee, came up. Young Buzbee
reached over the fence .and picked up
the child, which had run out to greet
the mother. Mell told Buzbee to drop
the child or he would kill him.
“All right, kill, ” Buzbee replied, as
he lifted the baby over the feme.
Mell fired twice, one shot taking ef
fect in the abdomen, and Buzbee died
within half an hour. Mell was at once
placed under arrest.
BOARD REMOVES DOUTHIT.
State of Onro. City of Toledo,;
Lucas County j
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the
senior partner of the firm of F J. Cheney &
Co., doing business in the city oi Toledo,
county and state aforesaid, and that said firm
will pay the sum of one hundred dollars for
each and every case of catarrh that cannot
be cured by the use of Hall’s Catarrh Cure.
» Frank J. Cheney.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in my
presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886.
rs ,,i i A. W. Gleason,
Lseai.j Notary Puolic.
Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Send for testimonials
free. F. J . CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O.
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Quarantine Now Removed.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 4—The gov
ernor has ordered the quarantine re
moved iu this state ou and after Oct. 6,
both as to persons and freights from
that part of the state lying north of the
thirty-fourth degree of latitude. This
line passes just south of Gadsden aud
Atralia on the Alabama Great Southern
and to Garden City on the Louisville
and Nashville.
Liquor Commissioner Found Short <1
Thousand Dollars.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 4.—A bomb
could not have caused more of a sensa
tion, had it dropped in the dispensary
hoard of control meeting yesterday,
than did the report of the special com
mittee of that board appointed a month
ago to investigate the management of
the institution, which is under the
direct charge of Commissioner J. B.
Douthit.
Mr. Douthit was elected by the legis-
ture to be a member of the board of con
trol and was then elected state liquor
commissioner. Ten days ago the chair
man of the board, on verbal reports
made to him by the investigating com
mittee, removed Bookkeeper Ontse.
Yesterday the board did not hesitate
five minutes in removing Commissioner
Donthit. No action has yet been'taken
as to prosecution.
The commissioner was found short
$1,155 in the contraband department—
that is goods to that amount have been
disposed of by him on his own account.
But the sensational feature is what the
committee describes as the perpetration
of “a fraud on the people of South Caro
lina. ”
By order of the commissioner, whisky
of the common “one X” brand was bot
tled off by the thousands of gallons and
labeled “three X” and “four X,” the
charges on the consumer being corres
pondingly increased. Also case goods
of the manufacturer of one house and
inferior were labeled with the name
and guarantee of another firm of na
tional reputation. This was done in
the case of several firms that supplied
“case goods” to the dispensary, the dis
pensary doing the bottling.
GOLD SEIZED
Transvaal Authorities Secure
About £500,000.
TRAIN HELD UP BY BOERS
CAMP OF REFUGE SET UP.
Extension Contract Is Let.
Columbus, Ga., Oct. 4.—The contract
for the extension of the Chattahoochee
Valley railroad from Glass, Ala., to a
point a few miles north of this city, has
been let to Brooks Bros., a Georgia con
tracting firm. Work begins on the con
tract next Monday. Brooks Bros, have
been engaged in the railroad building
In South Carolina recently.
Lineman Fell on a Passerby.
Spartanburg, S. C., Oct. 4.—A tele
phone lineman was working ou a cross
bar about 20 feet from the ground, in
front of Cotton row, when his foot
slipped and he fell to the sidewalk,
striking Captain C. C. Chase, who was
passing. Both men were seriou-dy in
jured, Captain Chase being badly hurt.
3liss 31orrison Denied Iiond.
Chattanooga, Oct. 4 —Judge Floyd
Estill, iu the circuit court, this morning
rendered his opinion on the application
of Julia Morrison-James for bond, re
fusing the application. He said: “This
appears to the court to have been a wil
ful, premeditated aud malicious mur
der.”
Shooting at Thomasville.
Thcmasville, Ga., Oct. 4—W. H.
Hammond, son of Captain William
Hammond, shot and seriously wounded
Colonel A L. Hawes at this place. The
senior Hammond and Hawes had quar
reled over legal matters and young
Hammond took his father’s part.
Jackson Yellow Fever Suspects to 13k
Closely Watched.
Jackson, Miss., Oct. 4.—Surgeon H.
R. Carter of the Uui'ed States marine
hospital service has been here for the
past two days for the purpose of estab
lishing a camp of refuge for the con
venience of the Jacksou suspects who
may have been exposed to the fever m-
Situation Remains as Strained as Ever,
and War Is 31onientarily Expected
to Break Onf, Though Smile Still
Hope For Peace.
London, Oct. 4 —The most sensa
tional news from South Africa this
morning is a reiteration of yesterday’s
report of the acquisition by the Trans
vaal authorities of £500,000 in gold
which was on the way to Capo Town
from Johannesburg. The confirmation
of the story comes from two sources.
The Cape Argus asserts that the Boers
made the seizure at Vereenigeng, the
amount being the week’s shipment of
gold on the way from the Rand to Cape
Town, and forwarded the treasure to
Pretoria.
The report is also confirmed by a ca
blegram received today by a mining
company in London from their repre
sentatives, which is to the effect that
the train upon which he was traveling
from Johannesburg to Cape Town was
held up and looted by Boers, who se
cured £300,000 in gold, the amount
being considerably less than the original
estimate.
There is nothing very tangible in to
day’s war news; but the situation re
mains as strained as ever, unless hope
may be derived from the apparent fact
that the forces on the frontier are re
garded by both sides as wholly defen
sive for the present and from the state
ment that Mr. J. H. Hofmeyer, the
Afrikander leader in Cape Colony, is
still prepared to endeavor to secure the
adhesion of the Transvaal government
fection. The camp will be maintained | tQ the ,. irre dncible minimum,” proposed
by the marine hospital service.
This step is taken as a sanitary meas
ure and will undoubtedly prevent the
rapid spread of the disease. It is con
templated that where a new focus is es
tablished to get the balance of the in
mates of the house to go to this camp
for a period of ten days, where their
clothing will be thoroughly inmigated
and disinfected, and then these persons
can go to any other point not quaran
tined against Jackson.
All the premises in which a case of
fever has occurred here are still under
guard and will remain so until the
houses are thoroughly fumigated.
STATE TAX BOARD MEETS.
A Shooting at Tallapoosa.
Tallapoosa, Ga., Oct. 2.—Dock Worn-
mack, a farmer of this vicinity, was
shot aud instantly killed here by John
Liner, a rather tough character. Harsh
words had passed between the men.
The murderer escaped. A reward of
$100 has been offered for his arrest
A Thousand Tongues
Could not express the rapture of
Annie E. Springer, of 1125 Howard
st,, Philadelphia, Pa, when she
found that Dr. King’s New Discov
ery for consumption has completely
cured her of a hacking cough that
for many years had made life a bur-
den, AM other remedies and doc
tors could give her no help, but she
says of this Royal Cure—“it soon re
moved the pain Ii^ my chest and I
can now sleep soundly, something I
can scarcely remember doing before
[ feel like sounding its praises
throughodt the Universe.” So will
ev ry one who tries Dr. King’s New
Discovery for any trouble of the
throat, chest or lungs. Price 50c.
and $1 00 Trial bottles free at H. b.
mcmaster’s drug store; every bot
tle guaranteed.
Commission Revises the Bill ou Which
It Has Been Working.
Atlanta, Oct. 4.—The state tax com
mission met for its final session at the
capitol this morning for the purpose of
thoroughly revising and preparing for
the consideration of the legislature the
tax bill which has engaged the atten
tion of the commission during the past
summer.
The commission was to have met on
Monday, buc ou account of the enforced
absence of several of the leading mem
bers the meeting was postponed until
today.
Tlie meeting of the commission, as in
the past, will be executive, and it is
probable that all remaining to be done
can be completed in the course of two
or three days.
The tax bill framed by the commis
sion will take the piace of a large num
ber of bills introduced in the house at
the last session and still in the hands of
committees.
Senator Tillman Settles.
Columbia, S. C., Oct. 3.—Sentor Till
man has settled with the attorney gen
eral, by check, for the amount the legis
lative investigating committee found he
was due the penitentiary--;$106.06. This
is for various articles got from the pen
itentiary during the administration of
Colonel Neal, the items ranging from
groceries to a carload of brick.
aaw&efi tne
A startling incident of which Mr
John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was
the subject, is narrated by him as
follows: “I was in a most dreadful
condition. My skin was almost
yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pain continually in back and sides
no appetite—gradually growing
weaker day by day. Three physi
cians had given me np- Fortunate
ly, a friend adrlsed trying 'Electric
Bitters,' and to my great joy and
surprise, the fat bottle made a de
cided improvement. I continued
their use for three weeks, and am
now a msli man. I know they sav-
jed my Mfe, and robbed the grave ol
another vietim.” No one should
fall to try them. Only 50 cents pei
bottle at H. B, McMaster’s dru;
at the Bloemfontein conference to Presi-
j dent KYnger, by Sir Alfred Milner, the
British high commissioner, if the impe
rial government will stand by the high
i commissioner’s original proposal.
The Stock Exchange was influenced
during the odening hours today by
! vague rumors that Queeu Victoria had
cabled President Kruger and President
j Steyn holding out the olive branch, and
| by a report that the Boers had been de-
: feated in a small engagement. Prices
: rose, but there was a speedy relapse
when both stones were discredited.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, the dis
tinguished Liberal statesman, member of
parliament for West Monmouthshire,
has another attack in today’s papers
upon the policy of the secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr. Joseph Chamber-
lain. He reiterates his original state
ment that Mr. Chamberlain’s assertion
that the Transvaal refused to redress
the grievances cf the Uitlauders is the
reverse of the case, and he insists that
Great Britain is responsible for “slam
ming the door in the face of President
Kruger just when arrangements were
approaching a settlement. ”
Advices from Cape Town announce
that General Sir George Stewart White,
V. C., who will command the British
forces in Natal, will proceed to Durban
today. On his arrival at CaDe Town,
he found the situation on the Natal bor
der so grave that he wired for immedi
ate transportation for himself and staff
to Durban, aud the British second ciass
cruiser Forte was placed at his disposal.
Angle-Vein zuelaii Award.
Paris, Oct. 3.—By the decision of the
Anglo-Venezuelan boundary arbitration
commission, some of Great Biltain’s
claims as to the interior and on the coast
are disallowed. Her frontier will start
at the Waini river. The award is
considered in the nature of a compro
mise rather than as favoring Venezuela.
A Big Deal In Ore Land.
Bristol, Tenn., Oct. 2.—The Vir
ginia Iron, Coal and Coke company has
acquired iron ore property in Craig and
Allegheney counties, Va., to the extent
of $500,000. The company nas also an
option on 25,000 acres of coking lands
near the West Virginia line. The con
cern now has eight furnaces in blast.
Accused of Counterfeiting.
Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 2.—George
EL Johnson, a printer by occupation,
has been arrested by United States
Deputy Marshal Vaughan. It is charged
that he has been counterfeiting, and in
his bouse were found ten moulds for
the manufacture of nickels, besides a
lot of spurious coins.
“When onr boys were almost
dead from whooping cough, our
doctor gave One Minute Cough
Cure. They recovered rapidly,”
writes F B Bellos, Argyle, Pa. It
cures coughs, colds, grippe and all
throat and lung troubles, H. B. mc-
Master, Waynesboro.