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Subscriber's Paper—Not for Sale i , • • The Macon Daily Telegraph WEST SECTION. ™» ,MU « .SgffiJSP "* FWn f; EIGHT pages! 1 ire-: ■ r ESTABLISHED 1N 182*. MACON, GA, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1908 DAILY, J7.00 A YEAR; j Visitors and Home Folk /W/7ce--#f You Depend Upon The Big Store For Your Merchandise, You Save the Extra Cost! The Grand Lines of Men's, Women’s and Children's Ready-to-Wear Goods, the Shoes, the Millinery, Dry Goods, Etc., From the Be^t Producers Are Easily the Largest and Be^t Selected Lines in Middle Georgia. JOVER Y garment or article is plainly marked upon its arrival with the distinct view of underselling usual stores on same quality. You have the " benefit of selecting from the biggest stocks and the greatest facilities for serving you expediently and satisfactorily are at your service and in fact everything that goes to make this the foremost store of .the state is at your command. Really if you want the best and care to get it for iii' + less* you must come to this house that serves you best. F t'S very 'gratifying to be known,as the People*s Fa vorite Shopping Place — to know that our stocks are larg er—better selected—that our facilities are much greater— that the store is almost twice the size of any similar institu tion around, affording more space to carry and display the mammoth collection of mer chandise which knows ho equal hereabouts for exclu siveness and desirability. The satisfaction of buying your clothes and other mer chandise fronr the store you can depend on is of much im portance to every person. You know your garment is stylish when you get it and it keeps its fresh, stylish ap pearance while you wish to wear it. There is the founda tion of our increasing success. Reliability and Quality has been our reputation all these many years. With every purchase made goes our guarantee of money’s worth or money back. One of Macon*s Chief Attractions-yThe Great Shopping Place * ■MA A.,- " - * r} , , r «*»«■ ^VwijiiWf :'*??!&*£•% •? i SLdKBMBMfflaSffBiW ft Georgia*s Largest Mercantile House—The Dannenberg Co. pOR nearly half a century the r name “Dannenberg Co.” has stood for good quality of merchandise at lowest possi ble cost to the customer. The Busy Big Store doing the largest business and hand ling the enormous amount of merchandise that it does— more than any other Georgia concern—is naturally wanted on the list of buyers of all producers and dealers thro’ out the world ^ Buying in quantities which probably treble that of any other house in this section permits the going direct to these manufacturers with the cash, which they don’t like to refuse, and purchasing in lots obtaining prices not accorded to regular dealers. Thus a great saving results in price > and difference in freight rates of larger quan tities over small finally result ing in attractive savings to a rapidly growing clientele of satisfied customers through out Georgia and near states. Great Sales Are Being Conducted in Every Department During the State Fair. You Know the Store- Don't Let Anything Detain You From Coming Direct Here For Your Savings-They’re Certainly Great! Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothing—Sole Agency THE DANNENBERG CO Tf 1 s ■JLmri French Shriner & Urner Shoes — Dunlap Hats THE ELKINS FAMILY MISS KATHERINE HAS INSURED HER TROUSSEAU AND OTHER VALUABLES. ^Catherine Elkina took out a Are In surance policy covering a apeclAl ward robe which Is believed to be her trout ceau. The amount of the policy la not month. It waa the intention of Senator and Mrs. Elkins to return to Washing ton the latter part of next week, but on receipt of a cablegram today Mr. Eiklns decided to remain here for f->me time longer. Preparations are npw being made to keep the Elkins home and the palatial home of ex-Senator Gasaaway Davis. Mrs. Elkins'. father, open for at leaat another month. It Is believed that the Duke of th«.Abrussi. immediately upon his arrival tq this country, will come at once to UalliehuraL the Elkins' country home, to spend a week or more before the wedding, which. It la said ur*m reliable authority, will take place soon. Mr. and- Mr*. Blaine Elkins have practically closed their handsome home here, and after news from the other side today abandoned their plan to move to Morgantown, the center of 1 Senator Elkins'great mining and lum bering interests, and will remain here to tlonal precautions around her move ments here, even the most trifling. She has given orders that no onu shall re ceive her mall, not oven Immediate members of her own family. She at tends to everything personally, from the mailing of letters to the sending of cablegrams. Many handsome gowns havo been received in tho last few days by both Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins and Mrs. Blaine Elkins. Four old family servants who have been In the employ of Mrs. Blaine Elkins' family In Charleston have been ordered hero to assist In tho Lig houeo party, which, It is said, will gather here soon with tho arrival of the duke. Tho private car-of ex-Senator Davis has beep brought here and overhauled by workmen, and can be ready on a moment's notice to go to New York to bring the duke when he urrlves. Further confirmation of the changed plans of tha family to remain here was given this afternoon by Miss Bruce Lee, eldest daughter.of Mrs. Arthur C. Lee, aunt of Miss Katherine Elkins, who, with her sister, are to be flower girls at the wedding. She Informed a friend that she will remain In Elkins. Intimate friends of Senator Elkins state that the exact wedding date, de tails of tha arrangements and where It will take place will be named immedi ately after election. Senator BMn is making one of the hardest fights of his political career for the success of his party, and. know. Ing the strong feeling that exists h*r* against the foreign alliance tor him daughter, has deferred making any official statement ’egardlng th.* •wed ding fiat nt this time. The widelT di*. u«*ed approaching wedding of Mi»« Elkins to the duke . , ha* been dragged Into the csmieirn 1 ns while Mr. j in thi* state and at a democratic Elkins are tn Washington. meeting here last night one of the; Every day Miss Elkin* throws addi-j.principal speakers said that with a, continuing republican administration, Roosevelt would bo crowned emperor of the United States and Senator El kins mado the duko of West Virginia. Bo Intense is tho opposition ex pressed by tho miners and mountain eers about hero to a royal marriage for his daughter that Senator Elkins' most intimate political friends and ad visers have Informed him that an an nouncement of the proposed wedding at this time would mean the defeat of the republican gubernatorial candidate who la known as Senator Elkins' per sonal choice. Wedding To Be Private? NAPLES. Oct. 31,—The latest sensa tion to be reported concerning tho Duke of the Abrusxl and Miss Elkins Is that the couple will marry privately and unknown to the public In order to escape the curiosity of the crowd. Then, after tho occurrence, they will announce the fact officially, giving at the same time the date of their union. It is reported also that the duke and his wife will land at Naples on their arrival from America and for a short tt one# to oenallze t'roth^r%m?*hl^wlfe the Sjuk^and h,JI employes for what he doe* not brother and his wife, the Duko andlm,, , n , hnn* »h*i th«v will thershv Duchess of Aosta. IIS TAFT BEAT AND SLASHES WAGES 8HARPLE3 THREATENED SHUT- _ DOWN, BUT BEATS IT BY BLOW OF REVENGE. WEST CHESTER, Pa., Oct. 31.— The recent threat of President P, M. Sharpies, of the Sharpies Separator Works, of West Chester, to close down his plant In the event of Bryan's elec tion to the presidency, finds Its delight fully inconsistent counterpart in an in dustrial order which he issued, that took effect today. It whs his large re duction of skilled employes' wages In anticipation of the national event which ho so strenuously then professed to fear—his practical admission that Bryan Is as good as elected now, and like, in the hope that they will thereby am to dislike it, too. „ a, ran . , Mr. Sharpies' wage-cut today slashes big chunks out of the remuneration of n 5»" ? ,?*?£; 1 from 250 to 350 skilled Workmen,*ho, as he recently assured tho public, were, all but three of them, republicans. It ,,, „ , cuts their par-from 10 to 20 per cent., plVaST. M? - Th! wnX/i according to the plec.-work at which Il.iiry, of Ilinani*. Mo. The world , he >. ere engaged. It wai announced *" Dr iS^he yoeterdey by the foremen of the d’.rtrt. Dr. KiHg's.frew Discovery I<* the cutH th , Ir ray froni 10 to 2 o per cent, that then* reductions would begin tn apply today, and no taft’ner explana tion was vouchsafed, so that th' Ssvcn Years of Proof, "I have had seven that Dr. King's New best medicine to take for coughs anJ rolds and for every diseased condition f throat, chest or lungs," says W. V ■■■’ tor coOtfto pe, asthma, hay fever. of the lungs nchltii «*ar1y -togr* of timely DR- always proves opment of pneumonia, guarantee at all drug sto IL00. Trial bottle free* nptlon * 50c**and j are all drawing their < iltx-d r mclusk Only « Hint to Toiler N* aui was made la the the unskilled laborers, of whom there are now about 300 at work, although there are hint* that U will reach them also later on. They now receive from $1.12 to $1.25 a day. News of this surprising wage cut has spread all over West Chester like wild fire, and set the tongues of the gos- If ther* was anything else which Mr. Sharpies could have done so effective ly to drive his employes, so larguly republican, into the Bryan camp, they enn’t even guess what It could be. First, he threatens them, though they are, as he says, nearly all loyal rt- E " I leans, with an entire loss If their i if Bryan Is elected president n, as If tn teach Jhem further grat itude with their supposedly enforced loyalty, ho slashes their little revenues a week ahead of the Bryan victory, as much as to say, "It doesn't make any difference now which way you or the country vote. I don’t like the outlook, and I mean that you shan’t even If threats can’t change It." The announcement of this prema ture cut In wages, with tho admlrslon what it implies, has astonished the leaders of both political parties here. It can have no other poaslbta effect Sharplea employes, and untold thous- Sharpies employees, and untold thous ands of other men throughout tho country, from Taf? to Brysn-^-men are so Jealous of their Industrial and po litical liberties. Theory of Reprisal. There ia now a prevalent opinion hen? that when Mr. Sharpies issued the original order, threatening to close his works in e*eo Bryan should be elected, he really the drift tow- n i/. I f» 11 In:-i * r.»i> tAr him by the canny potltfrai bouses of ship In a Icgtsl:i five i) ph'-.'i v;i I ),• r<n-- that‘time. Ife would be a good man to kill off politically before tho crisis and they thought tne industrial threat they could coax him to make would ultimately be the surest means of the killing. He libs had a chance to flto how his action was execrated from the Aflnntic to the Pacific, as a species of politico-industrial tyranny without a recent parallel, and it appears to have angered him sorely. Whether ho has struck this present blow in revenge upon these wily poli ticians or not wnl make little differ- enco to him personally. He could not now be elected dog-catcher In this county on a majority ticket without any rival running and he couldn’t wait one short week to bring to pais this happy conclusion! , • HON. R. M. McCASLAN DEAD AT QREENVILLE. GREENVILLE, Oa., Oct. il.—Hon. R. M., McCaslan, county school com missioner of Meriwether county, died at 9 o'clock a. m. Friday, Oct. 30, Mr. McCaslan was horn In U$t in Abbe ville district, 8. C. He came to Meri wether county In 135$, where he lived continually until the day of his death. For more than twenty years he filled the position of county school commis sioner with great credit to himself and to the county. His popularity with the teacher* of the county waa at- testid Mr th# freauent presentation of handsome presents, to the purchase of which all liberally contributed. Hr. McCst'lan wo* twice married. Ills first wife died In >171. Twelvw vlnt<-r he married Miss Wlllli one brother, lion. W. J. McOasI superintendent of public acliools Clinton, 8. C. . Mr. McCaslan had been lu a low state of health for several month terminating In uronlca, from which ho died. On Baturday morning bis re mains wero carried to Newnnn to be Interred. Meriwether mourna tho loss of an upright and honorable citizen. MBS. WM. ASTOR IS DEAD • AT 5TH AVENUE MANSION NEW YORK. Oct. 31.—Mrs. Wm. As- tor, who for thirty years lias been re garded ss the social P-adei* of New York, died tonight of heart disease at her home on Fifth avenue. Fbr nearly four weeks Mrs. Astor, who Is 12 years old. had been in a critical condition owing — 4V - return of a heart affection. Deep— . . I advanced years Mrs. Astor continued to hold her social domination up to a ysar ago when felling tieslth compelled her to retire Into comparative seclusion. The society functions given nn^^* sided over by Mrs. Astor have gone down Into history ss the most brlMant on rec-i ord. It is said that the ballroom In the mansion on Fifth avenue would accom modate 1,000 people. It was Mr*. Astor who established the famous ''490, her visiting list being confined to th*t num ber* of names. In 1006, however. Mrs. Astor was said to have ‘-let down the bars" when she Invited 1.200 persons to ono of the most remarkable social events ever given In New York. I Wm. Astor, who died lj>, Pa _ r A* took little part lathe social activities his wife enjoyed. Mrs. Astor, before her —arms MUs Caroline gbermerhornj CAROLINA MOB THIRSTS .FOR BLOOD OF BLACK FIEND leges oflcougrt; <■ ii» i. n!-. .... i. .i See our electric display at' v dli’ £ hur by £ 'l&iw&W ■ State Fair. Morris Putsel. I ■aid to bo fonntn* at Conoord. K. . to lynch Will Graham, alfca it*rt rofftnt a negro who criminally aa- .aultcd r.arl Tuclmr. a 14-yaar-ol4 white girl Octob.r li. Tho daed .real ly axcltod th. cllljona <X Catawba county at tho time. Th. ,« .plril.d away to Charlotte to u««5. mob violence and baa .loco b«a brought accretly to th* rtAto peniten tiary hero for aafe keeping. Ho will bo taken to Concord for trial, which la to bogln November 4. A thousand rounda of nmrounTtion for Company K, Flnt North Carolina Infantry, at Statesville, w*» reguoatoS today of Adjutant General T. R. Rob- •rtcon. by Captain E. J. '-f°om- raandlng that company, which It waa jeamsd by long distance t«Uphjn« from Statcsvllls, had b«sn otdersd to, bo in readiness for an emergency call to go to Concord. LABOR LEADERS' CASE GOES OVER TILL NOV. 4 WASHINGTON, Oct. »L—Ju.tlc*, Wright, In Iho dl.Irlct lupremo court. to<lay postponed until November 4 con- i slderatlon of the i i«o of ol Gom- per* president. John Mitch* 11. vice-, president and F-ank Mornson sscre- i tarv of th® Ainoricnn i < deration of i l.abor. ,wh«» at® charg'-'d with rontsmpi h x result of a suit tof m- 5 sainMt the ’ ibor officials bi t st-.vu &I. I Rhngo Co,