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rmsass 00‘5'00‘: ; GEORGIA. ¢ ¢ 499909200 20V VLLOY Brief Summary of Doings Throughout the State. Daly Succeeds Evans. Governor Terrell has signed an or der appointing Hon. A. F. Daly, of Wrightsville, judge of the superior courts of the middle circuit, to suc ceed Judge Beverly D. Evans, who has been appointed associate justice of the supreme court in place of Justice tHen ry G. Turner, resigned. . = » Gordon Fund Growing. Over $4,000 has already been sub scribed by the committees in charge of the subscriptions to the monument to be erected by the people of the gouth in memory of General John B. Gordon, Committees are gtill being appoint ed and al] are beifi urged to get to waqrk in earnest, so that the [ull amount may be raised withln a short time, s = £ Disastrous Blaze at Preston. At Preston, Sunday morning, fire broke out on the south side of the business section, burning every store on that side. Following were the losses: Cobb & Montgomery, $8,000; Stapleton & Nicholson Company, $2,- 000; Welch & Mzjors, $2,000; J. L. Horn, $6,000; R. T. Nicholson & Co. saved most of their goods. There was no insurance on any of the property. The town has no fire apparatus, i *= e | Trading Stamp Tax Approved. The ordinance which places a tax of $lOO per annum upon all Atlanta merchants who give trading stamps to customers or who use rebate sys tems of any kind has been approved by Mayor Howell, and it is now a law of the city. The ordinance goes into effect May 1. l The trading stamp companies have announced that they will appeal to the courts in order to continue their businesses, The municipality will con tend that it is perfectly legal to levy such a tax and that $lOO per annum is not prohibitive. % * » Georgia Taxed Five Millions. A Washington special says: As their share of the cost involved in the army and navy appropriation bills just passed by congress, the people of Georgia will be called upon to pay no less than $5,000,000. That means $5,000,000 in a single year. That sum would build five state capitol buildings like that in Atlanta. Senator Bacon showed how much the cost to Georgia—the cost of the state’'s share of support of the army and navy according to the size of the appropriations carried in the pending supply hills—in a speech he made on the navy appropriation bill. B n s County School Commissioner Wins. State School Commissioner W. B. Merritt has rendered a decision up holding the county school board of Banks county in re-electing Profes sor G. G. Strange, county school su perintendent. It seems that a contest was made on Professor Strange by Colonel Oscar Brown and Professor H. P. Hewitt, who alieged fraud and irregularities during the examination, these irregularities implicating a mem ber of the county board. Commis sioner Merritt made a thorough inves tigation of the case, and came to the conclusion that Commissioner Strange did not receive any outside assistance in his examination as was charged. He therefore upheld the county board, and Commissioner Strange will con tinue in office. Benedict Memorial School Burned. The Benedict sMemorial school building, located near Cedartown, was burned to the ground at 2 o’clock last Saturday morning. In addition to the school building proper the large library was also coun sumed. The pupils of the school lost practically all of their clothing. The origin of the fire is unknown. At the hour the fire was discovered all the pupils and members of the faculty were asleep. The pupils were roused ag rapidly as possible and bare ly had time to provide themseives ‘with clothing for the night air before the entire structure was a mass of flames. No clothing was saved except ‘the little they put on before leaving {the building. There was no insurance carried on the buildings, hence they lwere a total loss. s * @» | Pleaded Guilty to Theft. Samuel McClurkan, the young At lanta and West Point railroad clerk, and Willilam Edwards, formerly porier in the general passenger agent’s office, charged with having stolen and sold to ticket brokers a number of one thousand mile interchangeable tickets from the West Point Route, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor before Judge L. 8. Roan, of the criminal superior court in Atlanta, McClurkan was fined $2OO, including court costs, and Ed wards was fined $lOO, to include costs. In default of payment of the fines, the men are to go to the county public works for a term of twelve months. Judge Roan gave the men ten days in which to pay their fines. Since McClurkan and Edwards have pleaded guilty to the theft of the mile age books, it is almost a foregone conclusion that an effort will be made by the grand jury to indict the ticket brokers who received a number of the tickets. % ® 3 Mrs. Wood Goes to Pen. Mrs. Capitola Wood will spend two years in the penitentiary unless Gov ernor Terrell decides to overrule the recommendation of the prison com mission, for that body has refused her application. Mrs. Wood is under a two-year sen tence for assault with intent to mur der upon her husband in Atianta. Attorneys for Mrs. Wood took the case to the supreme court for review, but that body affirmed the decision of the lower court. During the interval, Mrs. Woed was out on bond. When the decision of the supreme court was made known, Mrs. Wood surrendered and made the appeal to the prison commigsion for a commutation of the sentence, desiring to spend the time of her sentence in jail or to pay a fine. ' After going over the application carefully the prison commission decil ed that it would be impossible to make a recommendation. The only hope for the woman now is with the governor, who has the au thority to commute the sentence. - * * For Public Buildings. A Washington dispatch says: The first step toward seouring a $1,000,000 public building for Atlanta ,was taken Saturday morning, when the senate committee on public buildings acted favorably upon the bill of Senator Clay. As originally introduced, the bill carried an appropriation of $l,- 250,000. The committee, after going over the needs of Atlanta, decided upon $1,000,000 as the proper fmit of expense, 1 The sub-committea of the senate which had in charge the bills making appropriations for Gainesville, Griffin and Albany has acted favorably, these bills carrying $lOO,OOO in the case of ‘Gainesville and Albany, and $50,000 in the case of Griffin. 5 * % Official Primary Ballot. The official form of ballot for use in the coming state democratic primary on April 20 has been completed and sent to the printer. These forms will be mailed by Secretary J. W. Gold smith, of the state executive commit tee, along with copies of the rules and instructions, to the chairmen of the county committees in each county of the state. Upon the official form appear only the names of the state house officers, including justices of ine supreme court. In the cases of congressmen, superior court judges and solicitors, county judges and solicitors, senafors, representatives and couniy officers, blank spaces are left on the form showing where these are to be insert ed in the printed ticket for use in the primary. This official form of ballot is intend ed only as a guide to the county com mittees in preparing the primary tickets. Special attention is called to the fact that the name of every can didate must appear upon the ficket ot it cannot be counted. @ *® = The University Summer School. We present below the first official announcement of the great summer school of the University. Last year 690 teachers were in attendance,, though it was the first year of the school. This year preparations are being made for eight hundred. With the able faculty selected from our leading institutions there is no need for our teachers to go north for spe cial instruction. The railroad ex penses north will amount to about as much as the entire expenses for the five weeks at Athens. The summer school is fast becoming the rallying point for Georgia teachers and offi cials. The approaching session will occur July 5-August 6. The school was a dis_ tinct success last year. Six hundred and ninety teachers were registered. The second session will offer greater advantages than ever to teachers who are anxioud to raise their grade of certificate and to prepare themselves for better work in the common school subjects. The organization is as fol lows: (1) School of Pedagogy; (2) Schoo! of Common School Methods; (3) School of Common School Reviews; (4) School of Rural School Problems; (5) School of City School rroblems; (6) School of Elementary Agriculture; (7) School of Manual Arts and Handi crafts; (8) School of High School and College Subjects; (9) School of Ex pression; (10) School of Domestic Science; (11) School of Physical Cul ture; (12) A Course of Lyceum En tertainments by Famous People. A one-fare rate for the round trip has been secured. New bulldings and equipments will be ready; ampler and better arrangements in every way have been provided. Athens is in the hill country; the summer climate is delightful. The teachers of Georgia cannot do better than spend a portion of their summer at the University Summer School. The state school commissioner, Hon. M. B. Merritt, will order a sec ond annual examination for license about the middle of December, J. S. STEWART. e ——————————— T'he Importation of India rubber into the United States last year exceeded 50,000,000 pounds, and was valued at more than $30,000,000. The imports have increased about 50 per cent. in ‘he last ten years. Over $100,000,000 worth of manufactures from India rub ber are now turned out annually from American factories. e ————— THE SCHOOLMASTER'S BOAST. In my school The children, good and bad, I rule; The children rule their mothers. So! The mothers rule the men, you know: The men with ballots—understand— Elect the ones who rule the land; So, consequently, from my stool The world and all therein I rule. k —H. C. Dodge. RACE TROUBLE IN OHIO. Lynching of Negro in Springfield Leads to Serious Situation, A special from Springfleld, 0., says: . Tuesday morning great crowds visited the scene of Monday night's lynching of Richard Dixon, who had killed Po liceman Collis. Hundreds came over the traction lines and others in vehi cles, attracted by the news of the lynching. ; Mayor Charres J. Bowlus did every thing possible to prevent the work of ‘he mow. v Threats throughout the day Tuesday to burn the Levee, the negro district of the city, confirmed Mayor C. J. Bowlus in his belief that more trouble was brewing, and he asked Gevernor Herrick for troeps. Two companies from Dayton and one each from Mia misburg, Urbana and Columbus were promised To reinforce the two local companies. : At 9:30 o’clock Tuesday night the crowd in the Levee district had in creased to 1,500, and one or two shots had been fired at random. All the sa loons throughout the city have bsen closed. : A crowd of about 2,000 men assem bled along the Big Four railroad tracks, almost blockading Washingtou gtreet, which is known as the Levee. The negro streets were unusually quiet, and seemed to be walting for a start to be made by the white men. The other crowd was boisterous, and there were frequent yells and several pistol shots heard. No eifort will be made to use Com pany A, Ninth battalion, composed ot colored men, because of fear of race prejudice. During the afternoon threats were heard that the Levee would be burn ed It is said that the negroes ara de termined to avenge the lynehing of Dixon. In one of the large shops the ° white men treated the negro employes with contempt, and this resulted im heated arguments and threats being exchanged. MORMONS SWAYED BY CHURCH. Must be Chosen Apostle Before Secur ing Senatorial Toga. That Reed Smoct could not have heen elected to the United States sen ate without fiaving first been chosen as an apostle of the Mormon church and that after he was so chosen he could not have been defeated, was as serted by Judge O\gden Hiles, assist ant United States attorney from 1886 to 1880 and later a judge of the dis trict court of Utah, who was a witness Saturday in the Smoot case. He claimed to have procured more indictments and conducted more prosecutions against the Mormons on charges of polygamous cohabitation than any other official wno has served in Utah. He told an interesting story of the preosecutions and said the first cessation in the flagrant practica of polygamous cohabitation came after the passage of the Edmunds-Tucker act making aduitery a crime and pre scribing heavy penalties for viola tions. Up to thsat time the people went to jail or paid fines, declaring it preferable to obey the laws of God rather than the laws of man. The heavy fines for subsequent prosecu tions for adultry, he said, brought & change of view. Many of those prose cuted were poor and unable to pay the fines and then they accepted the offer of the courts to waive punishment if promise was given not to continue to violate the laws, An interesting feature of Judge Hiles'testimony was a declaration that former United States Senator Kaw lins was still a Tlormon, even though he stood against the church on the matter of political interference. Attor ney Van Cott took the witiiess to task for the statement and”the colloquy en livened the close of the day’s hearing. %‘u area Is a Utg‘dm_gm than S that of the Wi States.