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C0N8TITUTI0NAL CONVENTION.
HOUSE HONORS MEMORY OF CRISP ;
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A Brief Summary of £ach Day’s Pro¬
ceedings In the House and
the Senate.
Mr. Kevin’s bill for a constitutional
convention came up as the special or-
der at 10 o’clock in the house Friday
and after much debate was defeated
by a large majority. The committee’s
substitute providing for ten delegates
to each congressional district aroused
more opposition h, than q „ ir, Mr. 'Morin’s Kevin s hill bill
and helped to defeat it.
Mr. Hill’s bill to protect dry coun-
ties from liquor drummers passed with
amendments protecting dry towns and
dry districts in wet counties. Speaker
Jenkins left the chair to support the
bill.
Mr. Moore, of Carroll, won a pre-
liminnry fight on his bill to tax surren-
der values of life insurance policies,
and the recommitment of the bill was
reconsidered by more than seventy
votes, indicating that the bill has con-
sidetablfe strength. It Was opposed
by Mr. Knowles,, of Fulton, and Mr.
Pearce, pf Houston.
Friday was adull day in the senate.
Several important bills were intro-
duced, but the session was almost en-
tirelv consumed in the transaction of
reutine matters. inter-
Senator Carter’s denial of an
view reflecting on Hon. I om Watson
which .was recently printed in
Macon Telegraph, was the only liitei-
esting incident of the session.
Tuesday's Proceedings.
The house Tuesday byou emphatic
vote killed the bill to prohibit child
labor. It was a spirited debate, in
which a number of prominent gentle-
took part, but when the test vote
men excepting cot¬
eame on au amendment 39 in¬
ton factories, the vote of 98 to
dicated the death of the bill.
The bill prohibited tb« employment
of children under. 1 c “ years of age m
establishment,
lauiulry or wU k «bop, excepting or-
i,„f ulm Lndjo.lnA'e Sim- to su mills, PP old grist themselves mills,
shops a “d like mills and work¬
m the rural districts.
fo^^ th< tr Ia '. ant of a11 senate questions bill providing of fact by
■ including T ,
]ny, eases now submitted
to auditors, was under discussion
when it was displaced by a special
° r mt r ‘ Tbe bf !1 is adversely reported.
, fused
0USe b> pay Colonel
U’R Sss.1 ’Pi “ ssafe L»a
re,
state in the tax case against Mrs G.
W. Collier. The house took the,}'posi¬
tion .that every county should collect
its taxes, including the state’s part.
There was barely a quorum present
in the senate Tuesday, and the session
was devoted principally to the trans¬
action of routine business. Only oue
important bill was introduced, and
that u-as offered by Mr. McFarland,
of the Forty-fourth district. His bill
has for its puipose the abatement of
the cigarette evil, and not only would
prevent the sale of cigarettes in Geor¬
gia, but also provides against bring¬
ing them into the state.
The session was adjourned at 11:30
o clock until 10 o’clock Wednesday
morning.
Wednesday’s Routine.
The house had a day of discussion
Wednesday. The child labor bill died
hard on a motion to reconsider Tues¬
day’s action, but it expired under a
vote of 29 to 100.
The bill to submit auditor’s reports
in equity cases to the jury triumphed
over an adverse report by a vote of 70
to 39. Mr. Watkins’ omnibus pension
bill was killed by a decisive vote of 51
to 66.
The great debate of the day was on
the payment of the convention bonds
which have been repudiated a number
of times by previous legislatures. The
weight of authority and argument was
on the side of the bonds, but the house
voted down a proposition to pay th om.
In the senate Wednesday a number
of minor appointments were confirmed
and two important bills were passed.
B6tli were by Senator Turner. One
prohibits the wearing of buttons or
badges of secret societies for fraudu¬
lent purposes, and the other seeks to
amend the constitution of the state so
as to enlarge the power of exemption
from taxation of all places of religions
worship and property of educational
institutions.
The governor's message, submitting
the majority minority reports of the
school book commission, was received
and read. The senate adjourned at
12:15 o’clock.
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T 4 liqr.4 Il yl& I}roceedliiks.
The 1 honie honored the memory of
Charles Frederic Crisp Thursday by
voting $500 to pay for a life-size oil
portrait to be placed in the eapitol.
The resolution spoke significantly of
.“his services in defeating the infa¬
mous force bill. ”
A message was received from the
governor informing the general assem¬
bly of the destruction of the negro
ward of the lunatic asylum, and ask¬
ing that the asylum committee of the
legislature meet the trustees at a called
meeting to be held at Milledgeville.
An effort to revive the omnibus pen¬
sion bill, which was voted down by the
house on Wednesday,, failed signally,
atirl a bill to make penal the hiring of
misdemeanor convicts to private par¬
ties shared a like fate.
Mr. Galvin’s bill making women eli¬
as assistant physicians good at the
asylum passed by a ma-
The bill for the election of judges
solicitors by the people was fav-
reported, arid one for the re-
of the registration act was re¬
adversely. hills introduced
Among the new
were measures to'repeal tlio registra-
ticu law, to give the railroad cominis-
sion authority to make schedules, to
$40,000 to the indigent pension
appropriation, to require juries to fix
penalties where discretion is given l,y
jaw, to fix the common school term at
months, to establish the “wire-
judicial circuit, to reduce jury
from 48 to 36, and to withdraw
ant * ' orri ** funds hom
Tbe genat ^‘ be]d a veiy important
neS8 j on Thursday. Senator Turner’s
anti-badge wearing bill, wliioh was
passed Thursday was reconsidered and
a hard fight > was precipitated by Mr.
Kjlpatr k to secure tbe reC onsiderd-
tion G f the bill for the benefit of church
an d educational property which also
passed the senate Wednesday.
The dental bill, establishing a board
0 f dental examiners, wa3 passed and
other business of less important nat-
ure was transacted.
Senator Hopkins’ bill providing for
the elen*.ion of judges and solicitors by
the people was made the special order
for next Friday.
Saturday in the House.
-When the house convened Saturday
morniu „ there wero scarcely half the
members present. The first business
was!that timfi of reading bills for the sec-
obd as there was no quorum
presen t a large number of bills came
f or a se eond reading. The next
worb was receiving reports of commit-
tees.
Only one -report was deserving of
no |j ce . That was the minority report
from the committe , of county and
ccmn (y matters. This repccrt was sign-
ed by four of the committee, and was
in favor of the court house and county
seat of DeKalb being retained in De-
catur.
ThWty thon.,ad unmarked graves
of confederate soldiers may be markecT
and provided with tombstones as a re-
suit of a resolution adopted by the
house. The resolution was by Mr.
Calvin, of Richmond, and provided for
the appointment of a commission of
seven members to confer with legisla-
tures of other southern states in re-
gard to a plan to mark the graves of
soldiers who lie buried in unmarked
graves iu the far north.
Two bills were introduced which if
passed will place very stringent re¬
strictions around the street railways.
Behind the introuction of at least one
of the bills may be a scheme to secure
transfers in Atlanta. Mayor Collier,
the advocate of the transfers, was on
,11m floor of the house for quite a while
during the morning, and it was whig-
perisd around the house that the mayor
V'-- •■'rn- W -. cr f r,« If J- ,0, nr i Iff cd idea rvf
street car transfers.
Mr. Fogarty, of Eiehmond, intro¬
duced very, important bill which
exactly fits the present commercial
conditions in this country. 1'he mcas-
uro is intended to break the too com-
mon practice of firms breaking full
handed. 8o many firms and business
houses have recently gone to the wall
after making mortgages to members of
the families of the members of the
firms, that Mr. Fogarty thought some
law was necessary to stop this.
Talked on School Ouestlon.
Bv D^W^en invitation of 1 ),e L!!S i em ;
bly G^Nun-
of Emory college, and Dr
naliy, president of the Southern Fe-
male college, addressed that bodv in
the house of representatives Tuesdav
night.
The contention of both gentlemen
was that the state should concentrate
its educational appropriations on com-
mon schools and leave it to private be-
nevolence to supjiort the institutions
of higher education.
Dr. Candler attacked the University
funding act, by which the state pays
that institution 7 per cent on money
which may be had for 3J per cent. He
reviewed the history of legislation un-
friendly to denominational colleges,
and criticised severely the taxation of
their property when church property
is exempt. The speech commanded
close attention for an hour and a quar-
ter and made a deep impression.
Dr. Nummlly called attention to the
fact that sectarian education was at
least 1,000 years old and state educa-
tion an experiment of only about 100
years standing. He said the state
should do nothing whitii individuals
can do, and suggested a law requiring
students at the University to .teach
school as many many months as they
enjoy free tuition at that institution.
Dr. Nunnally was frequently applaud-
ed and received marked attention.
Tlie 'School Book Reports.
Governor Atkinson sent the major¬
ity and minority reports of the school
book commission to the general as¬
with sembly Tuesday, accompanying them
it short but very pointed message.
brte^tatement Thejgbveruor limits of facts his and -message presents to
a
a table of comparison between the
cost of books now and the prices of¬
fered him by a prominent publisher if
given a contract to furnish the state’s
school books. This publisher has of¬
fered to give bond to comply with such
a contract. The difference in price is
interesting and not far short of start¬
ling.
The governor expresses the confi¬
dent belief that the law -makers.possess
the wisdom to discern and the courage
to apply the rfemedy.
In the message the governor also
bad way 8< of PJ§EU£ tne estern saw aucl of Atlantic the right rail¬ of
way at IVIarieita. ’ Ilefejaopes tlip matrt^iA
can be disposed of at tbo present ses-
sion of the genera! assembly, ns the
Atlanta, Knoxville and Northern Kail-
road company is now occupying this
right of way and should bo required
to pay for its use or be removed from
its possession.
University Faculty Make Reply.
The university faculty, has been
heard from on the Blalock rfeport.
The statement in the report thatthe
general disposition of the university
faculty is unfriendly to the ugricultur-
al department is challenged by the fac- the
ulty in a letter which was sent to
legislature and read in the house. The
letter says that statement has no
foundation in fact and sets forth the
position of the university through the
report of a laculty committee.
* " iiiuimis 7 7 -1 iviinrviTV "
L . .
she insists That Hayti Shall Pay For
Mistreatment of Bueder*.
Advices from Berlin state that the
German warship Gefion is under or-
der3 to sail for Port an Prince, Hayti,
tb i s mon th in order to insist upon re-
dresa for the arrest of Herr Lueders ,a
German subject, and his unlawful im-
p r i SO nmeut, for which Count Schwo-
r j n> tbe German minister at Port au
Prince, has demanded indemnity,
Lueders is now believed to be in
Germany, having been released from
prison iu order to avoid further com-
plications, the natives of Port au
Prince having threatened to mob the
German legation and lynch Lueders.
The fitting out of the warship is being
hastened as much as possible. Qerman foreign
The officials of the
office do not believe the matter will be
adjusted for some time to come because
the Haytian government has assumed
a stubborn attitude. The German
newspapers are blaming the govern-
ment for the delay in bringing Hayti
to terms.
The German version of this affair is
that Lueders was sentenced to pay a
fine of $48 and to undergo a month’s
imprisonment for resisting a police-
man, which Lueders denies. There-
upon ho demanded a second trial, ob-
tained it and witnesses testified that
they had not seen him strike the po-
but Ih spite of this Lueders
was resentenced, this time to pay a
fine of $500 and to undergo a year’s
imprisonment. The original trouble
between Lueders and the policeman,
it is claimed in his behalf, was due to
the latter forcing his way into liis resi-
denee, contrary to law, in order to ar-
rest one of his servants.
After Lueders’second trial the Ger-
man minister took the matter in hand,
and on October 17th he went to the
president of Hayti Augustin °the Simon
Sam, and demanded in name of
the German emperor that Lueders be
set at liberty, and also demanding for
every day the latter had spent in ®ris-
on, twenty-three days in all, an in-
demnity of $1,000 in gold. The inin-
ister added that for every other day
Lueders was kept a prisoner after Oc-
lobe* I 78 ii, i>®, tie
Germany, would demand an indemnity
of
President at first refused to
grant the minister’s demand and Lue-
ders remained in prison six days lon<r-
er. Thereupon the German minister
notified the Haytian government that
he had hauled down his flag and had
sent the archives of the German lega-
tion to the United States, thus sever-
ing all diplomatic relations with the
government of Hayti.
The action of the German
£ ansed a « reat deaI of excitement at
^ ort au Prince. There were threats
to lynch the prisoner; the life of the
German minister was threatened; it
wa f proposed to attack the legation,
au d acting upon the advice of counsel-
'° rS ’ Wh ° Were not desir0 « s of Precipi-
tating further trouble, Lueders was
■' -e * eas ed by the Haytian government.
reac bing . Fork on October 30th,
aud saile<1 for Europe the same day.
ENGINE k wigdv ' *'
A Wedding Party of Thirty Persons All
Killed.
A cable dispatch from St. Petersburg
states that near Bielostok, Russian Po-
laud, a wedding party was returning
from the church to the home of the
bride. All were in one wagon, a huge b
vehicle drawn alocg\vhich by eight horses
The road they drove
crosses the rai road track on the level,
and the driver, either through careless-
ness or ignorance of the train sched-
uie, pushed his swiftly moving horses
upon the crossing just as the express P
was coming up.
The locomotive struck the vehicle
squarely, killing man? members of
the party outright and maiming others
so that they soon expired, Not a
member of the party of thirty escaped.
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WILL ARBITRATE STRIKE,
Suq h Was DeclsT^Tl^che.i nn,J by Miner,
» nU Opera,«™ i„ 8 .
yiie Miners’ union convention ad¬
journed.at Stre.ator, Ill., Thursday.
The conference committee mot with
President Ratehford Wednesday night
and determined to support the conven¬
tion in favor of submitting the entire
strike question to an arbitration board
composed of three men wholly outside
the regular state board-of arbitration,
The miners will name one member,
%e third. operators The ope,,and these two the
convention also declared
that the law must be upheld. ‘ :
COAL TRUST WINS,
Court Decides that its President >’ecd Vo,
Go Before a Referee. - Pi si.
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,
saysl”“The appellate division of the
third ..department ,has agreed with
Judge Chester in vacating the order
compelling the coal trust presidents to
appear before a referee.
The questiop.of, the constitutional¬
of tholaw was not discussed ex-
cep/- in . Judge Landon’s dissecting
opinion.
WORK OF POST OFFICE DEPART-
MENT FOR PAST YEAR.
onyr dUlllL. lWTCDCQTIWp, Hi I LitLOl lliu nPnnPTinWs. LteUUullUrtu
Which the Postmaster General Presents
In Detail and Suggests Some
Important Changes.
The al)nU(lI rel)ort of Postmaster
General Gary, covering the operations
of tbe department for the fical year
ending June 30, 1897, contains much
that is of interest to the public at
large.
The special feature of the report is
the ,, P ostmastev . . ^eral s discussion ,. of ,
1,10 subject of postal savings deposito-
rie8 - General Gary is an earnest ad T
locate of such depositories, and he
elaborates liis ideas at length,
There are several other matters of
public interest in the postmaster gen-
eral’s report. He begins by giving
statistics showing the work done by
the department. This shows receipts
from all sources $82,665,462.73 and
expenditures of $94,077,242.38.
p bis shows a deficit of $11,411,-
J' ^ G. t>;> In explaining the deficit,
General Gary says:
I he increase of the^ postal defici,
tor 18J7 is largely a reflex of the de-
pressed business conditions which pre-
val ®‘ a “ °yei - “ie United States dur-
ing the first three quarters of that pe-
r i° d ’ lucre has been no extravagance
°* expenditures, except that rendered
obligatory by law.
The abuses that , have grown up un-
der the second-class matter provisions
of the law aie heated at some length,
1 lie injustice inflicted both upon
the P osta avenues and the people by
existing laws reguahng the carrying
of H^d-class 'uail matter has been
repreRen ei to oongiess in repor s
* ronl department ^ for ten years
P as f cumulative force, but with-
out cnect in remedial legislation.’
statistics of the department
ow that there has been an increase
m . tie °/ character of
master of from 143,000,000 rounds in
365,000,000 pounds in 1897.
Ihis means a loss on transportation
a^one of
J “ e postmaster general adds:
« impossible to continue the
P resent system of second-class mail
transportation without eventually
swamping the revenues of the postal
service.
° a thls _ subject, the postmaster gen-
m . fhe ,° f United 4be 9i4postoffices M States 240 were and stations in gov-
f n “ eut 'mildmgs at the end of the
-year,_ and about twenty addi-
t i° nal public buildings _ were nearing
completion, which, when occupied by
P ostoffi ce R > wiil result in an annual
saving of $48,000. Eight hundred
and thl rt T‘ two P°stofflces and stations
sub-stations , are in leased build-
4 n g s » th e rental amounting to nearly
^830,000 a year.
There were 28,000 letters mailed last
y? ar 7 i * out an 7 address whatsoever,
J reoor d dehd letters fcas
averaged 20,000 for every btuittess day
111 y ear - More than $30,000
“!? J 7 ted l et * er "’ } mt
of this finally reached its des-
tmation through the efforts of the
'i m^fed^afts 1“ h ?' heae ck fl notes 8 ures deeds do “ ot and ln '
c e s,
80 forth n ’ . atotal
¥aIne , eXCeedln 8 « 896 - 000 -
Rural Mail Delivery,
On the snbjectof free rural delivery,
General Gary says:
“Iu the experimental extension of
f _ duHver to thermal districts
ree y some
interesting resulty have been obtained,
? ervi ® e commfcncecl in October,
1896, has been carried on for a year
°7® r Belec 1 ted rou ts3 in twenty-nine |
states under such conditions as to j
f P ?'! 7 ,® eSt * e8i experiment Congress the placed fairest and |
$40,000
?5 tne dls P osal the department for
th \ s P ur Pose mthe fiscal year 1896-97, j
f. nd pr ° vlded $ 5 °.0°0 fora continua- ;
tU>n °/,. the experiment during the
f reRent dscal , vear - Xt would difficult
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to P olnt to auy like expenditure of
P ubho m °ney which nas been more
which apprec.atedhy the people,
or has conferred greater bene-
fitB F rc P 01 '‘ 10u to tbe amount ex-
p6nded '
THE NOBLES CASE HEARD.
*'ate of the Old I-ady Now Rests With
Uncle Sam’s High, Court.
The case of Elizabeth Nobles was
heard before the supreme court at
Washington Wednesday ffiarninn. It
was opened by Mr. Marion Harris.
Attorney General Terrell spoke for
about the same length of time as it
took Mr. Harris to review his brief.
The whole point binges on the right
of a person to demand a trial by jury,
after judgment has been passed for
insanity. The
full court, with the exception
of Justice Field, who is now too feeble
to resume liis seat on the bench, beard
the *
case. *, ■ . ,
REWARD FOR NEWBOLD.
The Sum of 8S50 Will Be Paid For Arreat
of the Constafclti.
A Columbia special says: Governor
Kllerbe of South Carolina has offered a
reward of $250 fbr the capture of Chief
Constable W. H. Newbold, who shot
down Rev. J. H. Turner in Spartan¬
burg a few days ago; supposing him to
be a blockade whisky dealer. The
horse and buggy by which the consta¬
ble made his escape from Spartanburg
on the advice of his lawyer were re¬
turned to the livery stables by a boy.
CLARA LEFT PENNILESS.
Father-ln-Raw of “I.ord” l»ero*ford Drops
Dead From Worry.
Alexander Pelkey, fathor-in-law to
Lord Beresford, dropped dead on the
streets at Fitzgerald late Thursday
afternoon from heart disease. Two
years ago Mrs. Pelkey died of con¬
sumption and willed her fortune to her
husband, expecting him to arrange for
the protection of their only child,
Clara, but. after the sensational mar¬
riage of their daughter to Lord Beres¬
ford at Fitzgerald last May, Mr. Pel-
key made his will, giving his own for¬
tune and that received from his wife
to hisoiily brother at Westerly, Rhode
Island, with the request that he pro¬
vide for Clara in case she ever gets
rid of her “hypnotic husband,” crime, whom
she still follows in his career of
utterly unable to break the magnetic
spell which he has over her.
Clara will of age next year and
would have inherited both fortunes
if she had not met and fell before
the power of Sidney Lascelles. Mr.
Pelkqy has spent, the past five
months defending the law suits which
Lord Boeesford has caused by claim¬
ing to be a partner of Mr. Pelkey.
The preceding last suit was compromised the
day his death. The other
suits were all dismissed at the late
term of court, just adjourned.
Mr. Polkey’s family and connections
were all Quakers and very good peo¬
ple. He got more trouble on bis
hands through Lord Beresford in one
day than he had previously during his
life of sixty years. During the last
five months he mourned for his daugh¬
ter, whom he had not heard from di¬
rectly since Lord Beresford flight. Mr.
Pelky had been failing rapidly in
health since Clara got into the clutches
of Beresford. He worried very much
about Clara and this marriage caused
hi.s death. Beresford’s actions killed
him, but he will not get a cent of the
money. Fitzgerald
The Pelkey fortunes at
and in Rhode Island, since Mr. Pel-
key’s recent losses, will not exceed
$100,000. Mr. Pelkey’s will, in which
all of his property was left to his
brother, was executed on the 23d of
last June, immediately after he was
acquainted with the true character of
his son-in-law. Pelkey was fearful,
so ho stated at the time, that Lascelles
would have him murdered in order to
get possession of the money.
WHISKY MEN INDICTID.
Fulton County Grand jury Charges Them
with Murder of Fonder,
Friday morning, at Atlanta, Ga., the
Fulton county grand jury found bills
of indictment for murder against Wai-
ter O Quinn, Louis Steinau and Julius
Simon, charged with killing Patrol-
Fonder,
Ihc grand jury began the mvestiga-
Ron at 10 o’clock and was in session
for three hours. All of the testimony
m hand by the detective department
I was not introduced and several wit-
! nesses summoned were allowed to go
without being heard;
The indictment returned was as fol¬
low's:
“In the name and behalf of the citi-
zens of Georgia, we charge and accuse
Walter O’Qninn, L. Steinau and Julius
Simon, of the county and state afore-
said, with tlie of murder, for
that the said Walter O’Quinn, L.
Steinau and Julius Simon in the
county aforesaid on the eighth day of
™ the year of our Lord,
eighteen hundred ond ninety-seven,
with force and arms, did unlawfully
'mdwith malice aforethought kill and
murder one T J. Ponder by shooting
^ ? fi‘ ha being Pistol. then and The there said the Walter
ac-
Perpetrator of said crime, and
the said I.. Steinau and Julius -jimon
h«ing present, aiding and abetting in
t_ 6 P® r Pftration of said offense eon-
trar J to tbe law of said state, tbe good
order, peace and dignity thereof. ”
INDIANS ARE FOREIGNERS,
Accordlng to a Ruling In United States
Court at Chattanooga.
J" * d ?““° a banded , , d . °7 n bj the ^
United btates court of appeals at Chat-
tanooga, Friday, in a case from the
dl strict of North Carolina, it
J“* '7® s ml l® r8 i of wt:naliiy tbe eastern declared band of that Char¬ the
” k ® e Indla,IS . ars not citizens of the
J bode c ‘ 81lon .°'. th ° co ^ 18 tbat fhe
Jand b «s , “o right to make any con-
qT Wlthout the sanction of
the United States , government,
SOYEREIGN IS AMBITIOUS.
A Report That Retired Master Workman
Wants To Be President.
The Louisville Courier-Journal in
its issue of Sunday moruing, under
the caption “Sovereign’s Vaulting Am¬
bition,” says:
“The great sectet is opt at last. J.
R. Soveregn, the retiring general mas-
ter. workman of the Knights of Labor,
resigned his position in order that he
might push his candidacy for president
of United States in 1900.
“While it is said that Mr. Sovereign
aild the Hon. W. J. Bryan are oii the
friendliest terms, the supporters of
Mr. Sovereign say he will make every
effort to land the prize which Mr.
Bryan seeks to secure. ”
PASSENGER ? TRAIN BURNS.
Disastrous Wreck In Which No Rives Wer©
Lcist aiicl One Hurt.
The passonger train on the Louis¬
ville, Henderson arid St. Louis road,
which left St. Louis AYednesday even-
ipg and which was, due in Louisville
at 7:30 o’clock Thursday morning,
was derailed and entirety consumed- by
fire near Lewisport,-' Ky., 98 miles from
Louisville. No liV8s were lost, and,
si) far ns is known, no one was seriously
injured.
HE WAS TO HATE BEEN EXECUTED
LAST FRIDAY.
SHVED HT THE ELEVENTH HOUR.
Attorney* Contended That Snperior Court
Acted Too Hastily In Sentencing
The Condemned Man.
A special from San Francisco says:
William Henry Theodore Durrant was
not hanged at San Quentin Friday af¬
ter all, the supreme court of California
having granted him another respite at
the eleventh hour.
Up to 4 o’clock Thursday afternoon,
when the news flashed over the wires
from Sacramento that the court, now
in session there, had granted a writ of
probable cause and instructed Warden
Hale not to carry out the execution of
Durrant until further orders, there
was apparautly no further hope for the
condemned murderer of Blanche La-
montand Minnie Williams, as his at¬
torneys had made a futile effort to se¬
cure another writ of habeas corpus in
the United States court, and had not
even been granted permission to ap¬
peal from that decision to the supreme
court of the United States,
Meanwhile, however, Attorney Du-
prey hastened to Sacramento and ap¬
plied to the state supreme court for a
writ of probable cause, for the pur¬
pose of staying the proceedings against
his client upon the grounds that no
official knowledge of the action of the
supreme court of the United States in
the matter of Durrant’s appealing from
the decision of the federal court had
yet been received; that the superior
court had acted too hastily iu sen¬
tencing Durrant to be hanged Friday,
as the iaw required that he be given at
least sixty days’ grace; and thirdly,
that the pendency of an appeal in the
supreme court affecting the condemn¬
ed man was of itself sufficient cause
for a stay of execution.
The matter was partially argued in
chambers and later argued before the
full court and taken under advise¬
ment. Shortly afterwards the court
announced its decision, granting the
writ applied for, in which all the jus¬
tices concurred.
When information of the reprieve
was given to the condemned man,
Durrant received it without any great
display of emotion but fell on his
knees and prayed silently for several
minutes.
When Mrs. Durrant, the mother of
the prisoner, reached the prison the
news was told to her. She said that
she had pnt her faith in God and felt
that He would not desert her. The
death veil was removed and Durrant
was carried down to the office, and it
will not again be placed over the
prisoner unless required by future de¬
velopments in the case.
CRED1TORS FILE BILL
Against Southern Home Building and
Doan Association at Atlanta.
A bill was filed at Atlanta by attor¬
neys representing complainant credi¬
tors against the Southern Home Build¬
ing and Loan association.
Almost immediately there was a re¬
sponse from officers of the association
who claim that the association is in
good standing and that there will be
no trouble in their making a good
showing.
based They say that the allegations ard
upon certain propositions that
are entirely untenable, and that no
court will support the pleas made by
the petitioners, when the proper show¬
ing of the standing of the company is
made through their attorneys.
SAYANNAH FREIGHT BUREAU
Will Continute to Fight Alleged Ballway
Discrimination.
At the annual meeting of subscribers
of the Savannah, Ga., freight bureau
held Thursday, it was decided to con¬
tinue the bureau another year.
Commissioner D. G. Purse read the
annual report. He poured such hot
shot into the railroads for their alleged
discrimination against Savannah that
a resolution was passed preventing the
report from being given to the news-
papers.
Colonel W W. Gordon was re-eleot-
ed president.
FLOODS IN SPAIN.
Towns Inundated and Many People are
Drowned.
A special from Madrid says: Further
details regarding the floods in various
parts of Spain, notably in the pro¬
vinces of Saragossa, Valencia and
Malaga, whore railroad traffic and tel¬
egraphic communication have been se-
riously interfered with, show that
fifteen corpses have already been re¬
covered.
In the neighborhood of Valenoda
enormous numbers of cattle have per¬
ished and the villages of Grao and
Nazareth have been completely inun¬
dated.
have Many of the houses of those places
collapsed.
SCOTTS BOYCOTT US.
Joiner, of Glascow Are Forbidden to Han¬
dle Door* or American Make.
The officials of the Joiners’ union at
Glasgow, Scotland, have posted no-
tices in all the shops of the city for¬
bidding members of the union to hang
dniii’K which have been made in the
United States or to use joiners of any
kind imported from the United States.
The reason for this notice, it is said,
is that speculative builders have im¬
ported large quantities of ali classes of
manufactured wood.