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Volume 18.
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SO.tiE NEWSY PARAGRAPHS
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London, Nov. ~9. — General Methuen
has defeated the wbo^e Boer force at
Modaer Iliver. The news of his victory
kccnraiued in the following dispatch
received ibis morning at the war office
from General Builer. It bears date of
Nov. flit
■•Recounoitered at 5 a. in. enemy’s
position oil River Modder and found
ilieiu strong, intrenched and concealed.
No means of outflanking, the river be
ing dull. Action commenced with ar
tillery, mounted infantry and cavalry
at 5:30, guard on right, Ninth brigade
on left; attacked ] -irion in^videlv ex
tended lormudon at 6:3(J ana's'apported
by artillery found itself in iront of
whole .P or force, 8,003 strong, with two
large guns, four Krupps, etc.
"The navai brigade rendered great as
sistance from the railway.
"Alterdesperate, hard fighting, which
; lasted ten hours, eur men without water
: or food and in the burning sun, made
the enemy quit his position. General
Po.e-Carew was successful in getting a
small party across the river, gallantly
assisted bv 300 Saphers.
"I speak in terms of high praise of
the conduct of all who were engaged in
oce of the hardest and most trying
fights in the annals of the British army.
I' I can mention one anil particularly,
ins the two batteries of artillery.”
That the Boers defended their posi
tions with all their oldtnno gallantry is
ampiy proved by General Methuen’s
dispatch and it will probably further be
testified to when the iist of British
casualties is made known.
Toere appears to bo no doubt that
General Methuen has gained a real ad
vantage, though the details must be
awaited before the full effect of his 10
hours’ desperate fighting can be gauged.
Presumably the burgher army was on
the sou'h bank of the river, but whether,
when the Boers retreated, they crossed
the river northward or rerired in an
easterly direction into the Orange Free
State is unknown.
P‘issibly tiie Boers had repaired the
bridge previously reported destroyed
and managed to withstand the’ British
at::!CS W!| h their rear guard while their
nm u body escaped over the bridge, the
rear guard destroying the bridge behind
tlieni. The British, however, appear to
have seized for themselves a position on
tCe,north side of the stream.
-ni> success of the British clears an
other stage of the road to Kimberley,
me siege of which General Cronje must
have partially raised in order to give
kittle to G—'eral Methuen. There is
tittle reason to doubt, however, that
the Boers will again rally, as here
tofore, after a seemingly crushing e’e
1 at, unless they have lost their gun--,
0 which there is no mention in the offi
cial dispatch.
( ue burghers are understood to have
a throng iaager at Spytfontein, 40 miles
htrtu of the Modder river, so another
engagement possibly awaits the British
ffiire they can commence the last stage
cj the ii miles from Spytfontein to
Aitnberley, though, it is pointed out,
ffiheral Cronje will thereby run a great
Chk of being caught between General
^ethnen and Colonel Kekewich, the
British commander at Kimberley.
-v belated dispatch from Orange river
tays General Methuen’s troops are
fitvancing under the greatest difficulties,
Silting an omnipresent, but almost
invisible foe.
A special dispatch from Windsor says
Q at General Methuen’s dispatch to the
'inaeu after the battle of Modder River
Says:
‘fee battle was the bloodiest of the
century. The British shelled the enemy
cut of the trenches and then charged,
ifle result was terrible.”
great Britain
PROTESTS.
h-xpeditions Being Organized to Assist
President Kruger.
W ashington, Nov. 29.—Great Britain
has protested vigorously to this govern
ment against the organization of expe
ditions in this country intended pre
sumably for the assistance of the Boers.
Lord Pauucefate made the protestatthe
state department. Secretary Hay re*
j errea Lord Pauncefote to the secretary
0I " war.
. ht is no longer a secret that expedi
tions of importance are being organized,
hhe most notable of these has its head
quarters in the suburbs of this city, and
another will be equipped tomorrow in
Aew York city. Both ot these organi-
zatione, it is said, have common backing
and are under the secret auspices of an
ijqent of the Transvaal now in New
York.
It is understood there ara millions of
Eutch and French money behind these
ubbustering expeditions.
CASTORIA.
Bears the /) The Kind You Have Always Bought
Signature
of
j* i he Kind you Have Always
Our consul at Pretoria has been de
nied permission to leave his post.
David S. Kidder of Florida has been
appointed consul at Algiers, Africa, vice
C. T. Grellec
The battleship Texas has been ordered
to go to the Brunswick, Ga , fair, which
will be held in that city from Nov. 27
to Dec. 2.
Major W illiam J. Volkmar, assistant
adjutant general, has applied for retire
ment, thereby creating one of the most
desirable vacancies that has occurred in
the stalf of the army for a long time.
A passenger train on the Baltimore
and Onto road ran into the rear end of
a freight near MoOool’s Station, Ind.,
killing Engineer Bradford of the pas
senger train and injuring Engineer
Sarver and two firemen.
Colonel H. H. Walker of Beiton, Ga.,
has been appointed by the governor as
special attorney for the state to collect
funds paid by the state to military com
panies doing service in subduing Chero
kee Indians in 1836 and 1S3S.
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Yvette Guiibert, the singer, is seri
ously ill at Paris and has been operated
upon for nephritis
The Marquis of Salisbury is suffering
from an attack of influenza and is un
able to attend to public business.
The First Tennessee regiment, which
reached San Francisco several days ago,
has been mustered out of service.
A dispatch received from Coronel,
Chili, states that the British ship Dun-
truno. from Barry June 7 for Junin,
was dismasted in a gale and is supposed
to have foundered.
In a letter from Santa Rita, Luzon,
to an admirer at Huntsville, Ala., Gen
eral Joseph Wheeler discusses condi
tions in the Philippine islands and ad
vocates their annexation by this go vern
ment.
Frank Steinmetz, a young farmer
who resides in the town of Tilden,
Wis., has received a letter from France
informing him that he is a millionaire
twice over, having just been awarded
property left by his grandfather.
§ * §
The cruiser Charleston has gone to
the bottom and cannot be saved.
Resolutions of sympathy with the
Boers were adopted by a massmeeting
held in San Francisco.
John Richards, a well known young
Maconite, crazed on the subject of re
ligion, committed suicide by hanging
himself.
The war department has requested
that 12 more army secretaries of the
Young Men’s Christian association be
sent with the troops to Manila.
The state department and the Nica
raguan government are exchanging
notes with a view to bringing to a close
the Bluefields incident growing tut of
the double taxation of American mer
chants there.
Iu the federal court at Fort Scott,
Kan., Judge William decided that the
law passed by the Kansas legislature,
requiring corporations to file annually a
statement of receipts and disbursements,
does not apply to concerns organized
under the laws of another state.
§ § §
Dr. Robert Lowery, a prominent Bap
tist minister and author of many relig
ious hymns, is dead at his home in
Plainfield, N. J.
The Havana-American Cigar com
pany, capital $10,000,000, has begun
business at Tampa, Fla., taking posses
sion of three factories purchased there.
"Brave Bill”' Anthony, who was on
the Maine when the ship sank at Ha
vana and gained fame by his calm re
port to Sigsbee on that occasion, has
committed suicide.
Rev. Wilbur P. Thirkield, D. D.,
president of the Gammon Theological
seminary, at Atlanta, has been elected
secretary of the Epworth league to suc
ceed Dr. Edwin A. Schell of Chicago,
resigned.
Against tide, wind and a heavy sea
for at least half her course, the new
battleship Kentuckv made a record of
16 877 knots an hour on her official speed
trial over the government course from
Cape Ann to Boone island.
§ § §
Admiral Dewey has accepted an invi
tation to visit Chicago May 1, next year.
A cable between Cape Town, South
Africa, and the islandof St. Helena has
been opened.
Andrew Carnegie has given $25,000
additional to the building fund of the
Atlanta public library.
Rev. Father William Vincent Moore,
C. M., for over 20 years a priest of St
Joseph’s church at New Orleans, is
dead.
The Mystic and Ocilla railroad has
been completed between Ocilla and
Mystic, Ga.. and a regular shedule will
be put on this week.
The Newark, Captain McCalla, has
won the race with the Brooklyn to Ma
nila, a cablegram received at the navy
department announcing her arrival
there on Saturday.
Ten thousand acres of magnetic iron
ore laud in Ashe county, N. O., have
been leased by the Pennsylvania Steel
company and the Cambria Steel com
pany cf Philadelphia.
§ § §
R. G. Erwin has been re-elected pres
ident of file Savannah, Florida and
Western railway.
Rev. H. H. Howell, a noted Welsh di
vine and writer on church topics, is
dead at Columbus, O.
Lieutenant Thomas M. Brumby, Ad
miral Dewey’s flag lieutenant at the
battle of Manila, is suffering from tropic
fever at Garfield hospital, Washington.
John W. Haynes, general secretary of
the Knights of Labor, says that organi
zation is going to abandon its time hon
ored custom of taking no part iu pol
itics.
N. E. Dawson, a clerk in the office of
General Miles, has been dropped from
the rolls on account of letters he has
written to officials of the government
reflecting upon the president.
General John B. Gordon, commander-
in-chief of the United Confederate vet
erans, has issued an order subdividing
the Alabama division of United Con
federate veteran? into four brigades.
CLEAR TEE DECKS!
WANTS MONEY RETURNED.
Thai's the Edict.
WILL BE RUTHLESSLY SLAUGHTERED.
Governor McSweency on Cotton Seized
During the War.
j Columbia, S. C., Nov. 28.—Governor
j McSweeney has addressed a letter to
j the governor of each southern state,
] expecting unanimous support in his
j proposition. He says:
j “Your attention is invited to the fact
EVERYTHING WHICH HAS NOT SOLD FAST ENOUGH; of the United States in the neighbor
hood of $11,000,000 arising from the
sale of cotton seized by the forces of the
United States, and its treasury agents,
during the period of the war and anring
a few years thereafter. This money
belongs to citizens of the southern
states, whose property was seized,
shipped to New York city to the col
lector of customs and by him sold and
sent to the treasury of the United States.
“It will be observed that this is not
requesting from the government of the
United States any appropriation of its
funds for the purpose of paying these
demands, but is simply requesting it to
do justice to certain of its citizens bv
returning them moneys belonging to
them now in its treasury, long withheld
from them wrongfully.
“I take the liberty of suggesting to
yon that you join with me in a request
to yonr congressional delegation that
they unite with delegations from other
southern states in an effort to secure for
your people this measure of relief which,
in this era of good feeling and reunion,
it would seem the congress of the United
States would make haste to accord.”
This Will be a Mighty Bargain Sale, and Will Fittingly Wind
Up the Most Successful November Business in the
the History of Our House.
Dress Goods Selling
As never before. The Goods cost a lot more than we offer them at, but
we must and will make room for Holiday Goods.
Double width wool flannel Goods,
worth 25c per yd to close at 12)4c.
Plain and laney double-width
wool and Mohair Dress Goods, in
all the popular colors, worth 20c. j
and 25c., cut to 12INc.
Black Crepons, worth $4.00 per,
yard cut to $1.80
80 pieces beautiful double width
Plaid Dress Goods, bought to sell at
35c. per yard, reduced to 18c.
$1 50 Piaid Homespun, 54 inches
wide, reduced to $1 00 per yard.
Black Crepons, worth $2.00 and
$2 25 per yard, cut to $1.45.
No Back Talk!
Every stick of Lumber you buy
from us is subject to a guarantee.
That lumber must be as good as
we say it is.
It must suit you in every particu
lar or you get your money right back.
This statement means just what
it says.
We will not argue about it or try
to get you to take something else.
If you want your money say so
and we will send it by return mail.
We sell rough and dressed lumber
and every kind of manufactured lumber,
such as doors, window sashes, mould
ings and the like.
^ugustafuAi^
fit
fit
m
st
80 pieces of 54 inch $150 all-wool Dr^ss Goods, in the latest weaves,
reduced to 75c. (On Bargain Counter No. 4)
Two counters piled with 65c. Silk and wool mixed Dress Goods will be
closed out at 32c per yard.
35c all-wool Plain Flannels, on bargain counter to-morrow at 18c. per
yard.
?
it’s good-bye to these bargains after this week.
70 Cents Per Yard
For your choice of 125 pieces of plain and fancy colored Silks, ranging in
value from $1.00 to $2.00 per yard.
50 Cents Per Yard
For your choice of 10 pieces of Corded Taffeta Silk, in Popular Street
Colors, real value $1 00 per yard.
Eine Furs, Capes, Wraps. Jackets, Tailor-Made Suits and Dress
Skirts at the Greatest Kind of Money-Saving Prices.
$ 5.00 Jackets cur to $3 50.
8.00 Jackets cut to 6 00.
10.00 Jackets now 7 00.
15 00 Jackets reduced to 10 00.
20 00 Jackets cut to 14 00
1 50 Capes cut to 1 00
3 00 Capes cut to 2 25
5.00 Capes down to 3.50
8 00 Capes now 5 50
10 00 Capes now 7 00
15.00 Capes cut to 10.00
100 Jackets left from last
$25 00 will be closed out at $5 50
I $25 00 Capes down to $16.00
' 5 00 Furs cut to 3.50
8 00 Furs cut to 5 50
j 10 00 Furs cut to 7 00
I 1c 00 Furs down to 10 50
i 18 00 Furs down to 14,00
25 00 Furs cut to 17 00
36 00 Furs reduced to 29.00
| 65.00 Furs cut to 47 00
' 85.00 Furs reduced to 69.00
season, ranging in prices from $10.00 to
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what it was made for.
Cents Per "STsircL
For Sea Island that costs you §%c all over town.
5 Oezrts IPer "2Taj:d-
For Bleaching that others are trying to get 7>^c for.
Special Sale of Men’s Underwear
in Dry Goods Department.
Entire stock of Gent’s 75c, and 85c. Bibbed Balbriggan Undershirts
and Drawers cut to 45c per garment.
Entire stock of Gent’s Silk-lined French Balbriggan Undershirts and
Drawers, worth $2 00 per garment, to close at $1 25
70 doz Gent’s Lamb’s Wool $2 00 Shirts and Drawers, cut to $1.25 per
garment.
40 doz Gent’s Tanned Colored Undershirts and Drawers, worth $1 25,
will go at 75c per garment.
100 doz Gent’s Heavy 50c Merino Undershirts reduced to 35c
Gent’s 50c bleached Canton Flannel Drawers, cut to 25c
IN THE SHOE DEPARTMENT !
Special Leader This Week.
Ladies’ Fur Trimmed Felt Slippers, pretty and comfortable, just the
thing for X-mas, regular price $1.50, our price $1.25.
The famous Jeuness Miller’s Hygienic Shoes for Ladies, Lace and
Button both turned and welted soles, worth eyery where $3.50, this week
cut to $3 25.
Full line Goodyear Glove Rubbers, softest, finest and best made;
none so elegant.
1 lot Gent’s best Patent Leather Shoes, all good makes, worth every
where $5 00 but all sizes not here so they go at $3.00
Try our Boys’ School Shoes. “The Armored Cruiser” will outwear
any $2 shoe in town; our price for tnem onlj $150.
THE NEW JNLyYNT !
Come now, whose fault is it that you are not well dressed ? It is your
fault if you have been buying your clothing in stores where they do not
care whether they fit you or not so long as they sell you something? It
isn’t our fault, that’s certain.
Now give us a trial. We will fit you, please you, treat you well, and
you wiil come again, and that’s the point we are after. Suits and Over
coats. $7 50 to $25 00 Great value In an Overcoat or Suit for $12 00.
Fits the purse and the person. Drop in and we will proceed to make
of you a new man.
CARPET DEPARTMENT.
200 Smyrna Rugs, 36x72, worth $3.50, cut to $1 98.
175 Smyrna Rugs, 30x60, worth $3 00, cut to $1 49.
800 Cobble Seat Rockers, worth $5 00, will go to-morrow, while they
last, at $1 9S.
75 White Enameled Beds, all sizes, worth $6.00, as a flyer we will let
them go to-morrow at $2 98.
Immeuse variety of odd nieces of fine Furniture, such as parlor pieces,
Side Boards, Combination Book Cases, China Closets, Leather Chairs
aud Couches, etc, at prices 25 per cent below others.
Oriental Rugs from $10.00 to $5.00 each.
No matter what prices are quoted you we
will always be lower.
J. B. WHITE & CO.,
.Augusta, Gra.
MEETS AT DECATUR NEXT.
North Alabama Methodist Conference
Has Adjourned.
Birmingham, Ala., Nov. 28.—The
North Alabama conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal church, south, which
convened here last Wednesday, has con
cluded its labors and adjourned to meet
next year in Decatnr.
The report of the committee on Ep
worth leagues noted that much good
work had been done by the leaguers
during the year. It recommended a
conference yearly of ail the leagues in
the southern Methodist church.
There was some opposition to this
proposition under the apprehension that
it might mean withdrawal from the in
ternational conference. Thi3 purpose,
however, was denied by the members of
the committee, one of whom stated that
some things did happen at the interna
tional meetings which the sonthern peo
ple did not approve of. The report was
adopted.
The appointments for the ensuing
year were announced by Bishop Candler.
Bewar of Ointments for Catarrh thaw Con
tain Mercury.
As mercury wilt surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely derange the whole sys
tem when entering it, through the mucous
sui faces. Such articles should never be used
except on prescriptions from reputable phy
sicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold
to the good you can possibly derive from
them. Hall's Catarrh Cure manufactured by
F. J. Cheney & Co,. Toledo, O.. contains no
mercury, and is taken internally, acting di
rectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces ol
the system. In buying Hall’s Catarrh Cure
be sure you get the genuine. It is taken in
ternally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J.
Cheney* Co. Testimonials free.
fi-Sp^Sold by druggists, price 75. per bottle
Charleston Hank Transfer.
Charleston, Nov. 29. — Goodwyn
Rhett, president of the South Carolina
Loan and Trust company, purchased
the controlling interest held by Presi
dent C. O. Witte in the People’s Na
tional bank of this city for $219,300.
Mr. Witte resigned his presidency im
mediately, and Mr. Rhett was elected
to the post at a meeting of the directors,
called right after the deal was consum
mated. Mr. Rhett says his purchaso
was a personal investment, and is only,
the first step in a plan he has for the
commercial regeneration of Charleston.
Two Drowned at Savannah.
Savannah, Nov. 29.—Last night the
tug Weymouth, from Warsaw for Sa
vannah, while in Wilmington river, ran
into and sank a rowboat containing four
persons, one a woman. The woman
and one man were picked up. Two
men, Isaac Butler and George Brown,
were drowned. The rowboat, which
had no light, was smashed almost into
kindling wood. The bodies have not
been recovered.
Question Answered,
Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the
civilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of us-
ng 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 aches.
You only need a few doses of
Green’s August Flower, in liquid
form, to make you satisfied there is
nothing serious the matter with
you. Sample bottles at h, b. mcmas-
ter, Waynesboro, Ga., and H, Q.
Bell. Millen, Ga.
FEDERAL AID TO BE ASKED.
Kentucky Republicans May Appeal to
President 3IcKlnley.
Frankfort, Ky., Nov. 28—Senator
Deboe left for Washington at 8 o’clock
last night and after his departure a
story emanating from Republican cir
cles was put abroad that in the event
Goebel is given a certificate of election
by the state board of election commis
sioners by the throwing out of Jeffer
son, Knox and Johnson counties, Sena
tor Deboe, Governor Bradley, Governor
Taylor and other Republican leaders
will unite in an appeal to President Mc
Kinley to declare martial law in Ken
tucky, recognizing Taylor as governor
and supporting his administration.
Senator Deboe stated to the Associ- j
ated Press that he felt confident no i
emergency would arise requiring the i
assirance of the federal authorities, but i
intimated he had assurances that fed- {
eral action would be had if it became !
necessary.
MESSAGE IS ABOUT READY. '
It Is a Long One and May Not Go to j
Congress Till Tuesday.
Washington. Nov. 18—The presi- i
dent’s annual message is practically j
completed and ready for transmission ;
to congress when it assembles next
week. The message will be unusually j
long, on account of the numerous and. j
important topics it discusses. The por- i
tions cf the message treating of differ
ent topics have been sent to the public }
printer as they have been finished and j
proofs have been submitted for revision, i
It is not certain that the message will !
be sent to congress next Monday. It is j
customary to send in the message on
the day of the assembling of congress,
but as the death cf the vice president
makes it certain that the senate at least
wiil adjourn immediately, out of re
spect to his memory, it is not unlikely
that the message will be withheld until.
Tuesday.
No Contest Over This Will.
Macon, Nov. 28. — The threatened
contest over the will of the late Thomas
C. Dempsey, millionaire of Georgia, y^ho
died last summer in Asbnry Park, N.
J., has been settled. All the property
was left to his second wife, a New York
woman. Her attorney, Mr. Robert
O’Byrne of New York, announces that
a settlement with the dissatisfied heirs
has been reached. The contest, he says,
would have cost the estate $100,000.’
Mr. O’Byrne declined to make public
the terms of the settlement.
TO COMPLETE STATEHOUSE.
Legislative Committee Now at Work
on Their Report.
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 27.—Senator
J. Q. Marshall and Representative H.
Cowper Patton, the two local members
of the legislative committee appointed
to look into the advisability of at once
completing the state capitol, are work
ing upon a report to be submitted to the
general assembly. They are assisted by
Architect Shana, who is well informed
as to the construction of so much of the
building as has been completed.
The committee wiil perhaps finish its
investigations within a few days.
A gentleman who is eager for the
completion of the statehouse said yes
terday that it would cost about $250,000
to finish the building. According to the
original plans and basing calculations
upon the prices of builders’ supplies at
that time $350,000 was then estimated.
But it is now proposed to substitute
steel for stone in the splendidly de
signed dome which was to have been
erected, and to get less expensive ma
terial for the long flight of steps and
approaches which add to the symmetry
of the design.
EXPRESS COMPANY MEETS.
Board cf Directors and Officers For
Next Year Chosen.
Savannah, Nov. 27. — The annual
meeting of the Sonthern Express com
pany was held here this morning. This
is the first annual meeting since the
death of President H. B. Piant earlier
in the year.
The following board of directors was
chosen: M. J. O’Brien, Morton F.
Plant, R. G Erwin, H. Dempsey, T. W.
Leary, G. H. Tilley and O. M. Sadler.
The directors chose these officers: M.
J. O’Brien, president; M. F. Plant, vice
president; G. H. Tilley, secretary and
treasurer, and F. G. DnBignon general
counsel.
Messrs. Tilley, Saddler and Erwin are
new directors. Mr. Erwin succeeds the
late H. B. Plant. The board was in
creased from five to seven.
Resolutions of regret at the death of
Mr. H. B. Plant passed at a meeting of
the board in New York were indorsed.
HEAD CRUSHED TO A PULP.
Robert B. Vance Is Dead.
Asheville, N. C., Nov. 28.—General
Robert B. Vance, brother of the late
Senator Z. B. Yance, for 12 years repre
sentative in congress from this district,
died at his home at Alexander, 10 miles
north of Asheville, this morning after a
long and distressing illness of diabetes,
aged 71 years. /
Joint Debate Declared Off.
Huntsville, Ala., Nov. 28. — The
joint debate between Senator Morgan
and Governor Johnston has been de
clared off. Senator Morgan has wired
that his duties at Washington will not
permit him to stump the state further.
De Witt’s Little Early Risers pu
rify the blood, clean the liver, in
vigorate the system. Famous little
pills for constipation and liver
troubles, h. b MCMaster, Waynes
boro.
A Rejected Lover Suicides.
Camden, S. C., Nov. 28.—A. B. Cov
ington, bookkeeper for Mayrant& Jack-
son, committed suicide on one of the
main streets here last night by shooting
himself in the head with a revolver. He
fired five shots, three taking effect. The
only cause that can be assigned is disap
pointment in love. He attempted to
take his life a few days ago. He was
30 years cf age.
Met His Dentil at a Crossing.
Tallahassee, Nov. 25.—Joseph D.
Wilson, assistant superintendent of the
Florida insane asylum at Chattahoo
chee, while driving in a buggy across a
railroad track near the asylum, was
struck by a Florida Central and Penin
sular train and received injuries from
which he died.
Hobart Rests at Paterson.
Paterson, N. J., Nov. 25. — The
earthly remains of the late vice presi
dent, Garret A Hobart, were consigned
to a temporary resting place in the re
ceiving vault at Cedarlawn oemetery
near this city today.
i Intoxicated Youtii Went to Sleep on
the Railroad Truck,
j Pensacola, Fla., Nov. 27. — The
: mangled body of Welch Hobby was
i found on the railroad track between
1 Molino and Pine Barren yesterday. The
entire top of his head was crushed to a
pulp and he had been dead several
hours when the body was found.
Hobby was 16 years old, his parents
being prominent residents of Pine Bar
ren. He had been to Molino and while
there drank some tanglefoot whisky.
He was walking home Saturday night
and it is supposed that he became ex
hausted and lay down on the track to
rest, a freight train running over and
killing him.
BRUNSWICK FAIR OPENED.
Grand Merchants’ Street Carnival and
Trades Display.
Brunswick, Ga., Nov. 27.—Glynn
connty’s fair opened today with a grand
merchants’ carnival aud trades display,
in which were many floats and unique
figures.
All the race horses and the numerous
showmen are here. The indications for
crowds are splendid and the weather is
fair and cold, promising good weather
all during the week.
The warship Texas arrives Wednes
day with Captain Charles D. Sigsbee in
command, and the Georgia legislature,
Governor Candler and staff and the
visiting military come in Thursday.
Fell Off a Railway Trestle,
j Rock Hill, S. G., Nov. 27.—Just be-
| fore reaching this place the Southern’s
! train from Charlotte crosses the Ca-
■uwsa flie sis)>
A startling incident of whfeh Mr
John Oliver, of Philadelphia, was
tbe subject, is narrated by him as j
follows: “I was in a most dreadful tawba river oyer a trestle 50 feet above
condition. My skin was almost
yellow, eyes sunken, tongue coated,
pain continually in back and Bides
no appeQte gradually g
weaker day by day. Three
cians bad gives me up. Fortunate
ly, a friend advised trying ‘Electric
Bitters, 1 and to my great joy and
surprise, the tot bottle made a de
cided improvement. I continued
their nse for three weeks, and am
now a weii man. 1 know they ?av-
jed my ilia, and robbed tbe grave oj
another vietim.* 7 No one shoiilr
fail to try them. Only 50 cents pe
bottle ai H. B? MeMaatei*a dru«
atora.
DeWitt’s Little Early Risers,
The iamous little pills.
the water. Saturday night the train
slowed up on the trestle, some person
called "Rock Hill,” and a man, with
his arms full of bandies, supposed to be
growing 5 North Carolina yhisky for a Rock Hill
B pnysi- "blind tiger,” ran to the platform and
stepped off. He thought he was near
ing the depot, and did not wish to be
"spotted” with whisky. He fell 50 feet
to the river below. Nothing but his hat
has been fonnd.
Mr. J. Sheer, Sedalia, Mo, saved
his childs life by One Minute Cough
Cure. Doctors bad given her up to
die with croup Its an infallible
cure for coughs, colds, grippe, pneu
monia, bronchitis and throat and
lung troubles. Relieves at once. H.
b. mcmasteb, Waynesboro.
One Minute Cough Cure, cures.
That is what it was made lor.