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v Ko e ¢ GEORGIA. ¢ deoe99%oe N QQQ“QJ Brief Summary of Doings Throughout the State. On a Dispensary Platform The real sensation in Coweta coun ty politics occurred, when Judge W. B. W. Dent, candidate for the legisla ture, came out squarely for a dispen sary and will make the fight on that ispue, * * & Sylvester Wins County sgite. After a -hard fought contest in Worth county to move the county site from Isabella to Sylvester, the election the past week resulted in 2,126 votes for removal to Sylvester against 430 opposed. The election passed off quietly everywhere, : - % * Pulaski Wants Bchool Fund. A petition signed by a number of citizens asks the county commission ers of Pulaski to rescind their action and hold on to the $2,800 school fund that the county will have to forfeit on account of accepting seventeen con victe from the state to work on publio roads. * #* * New Electric Line Chartered. B. F. Curtis, of Atlanta, has secured from| Secretary of Stata Cogk a char ter for the Piedmon} Electric Rallway Company, the road o extend from At lanta to Roswell, Alplarette and Cum ming, & distance of 23 miles. The pro: moters say the railroad wijl be con structed or the charter disposed of to others who mght undertake the .work. * % u R Two Georgla Offices Re-Established. The postoffice department, at the in- ‘ stance of Representative Howard, has re-established the postoffices at Par ker Store, Hart county, and Mize, Franklin county, which were ordered abolished upon the establishment of rural delivery routes in the vicinity. 1t was foundtnat the abolishment wag a mistake, hence the change was made. ' W *® w Bride Only Thirteen Years Old. C. R. Daniel and Miss Hattie Lou Blount ran aw .y from Waynegboro a‘ few days ago and were married in| Augusta by Rev. Dr. Eakes. Daniel js a prominent merchant of Waynes-l poro. Miss Blount is the 13-year-old daughter of A. H. Blount, a prominent citizen of Waynesboro. The parents of the bride objected. * * ® Majority of Only One Vote. The returns from the- Muscogee county primary consolidated by the democratic executive committee, gshowed that P. E. Whittlesey was nominated tax collector over D. A. An-- drews, the incumbent, by the narrow majority of one vote, he having re ceived 1,183 votes and his opponent 1,182 votes. o 8 N To Fight Pulmonary Diseases. At the fifth annual session of the Medical Association of Georgia, which will convene at Macon on April 20, remaining in session throughout the 22nd, a Georgia Anti-Tuberculosis As gociation will be fermed. The move ment has been on foot for some time. and the promoters are now confident that a permanent organization will re sult from their efforts. ¢& @ ! Captain \glrlgh‘t Has Recuperated. Comptroller General W. A. Wright has returned from Orlando, Fla., where he went to recuperate after his recent illness which kept him so long confin ed to his home. He is looking much petter, and has practically regained his health. The comptroller general will soon have to take up aguin the tax refurns of corporations, which must be made by May 1. X ® & & Road Purchased Outright. It is stated on good authority that the Atlanta and Birmingham had pur chased outright the Brunswick and Birmingham and that the papers have all been signed up. The officials in Waycross, however, refused to make any public statement, but the facts have been obtained from a reliable source, and there is no fur ther doubt about it. The only thing that now remains to be done is (o have the sale ratified by the stockhold ers of the Brunswick and Birmingham road. There are rumors that the general ofices and shops will be moved to Brunswick, but it is all merely rumor and nothing of this kind has yet been determined, = > 3 Money for Wesleyan College. At a mass meeting held in Atlanta last Sunday afternoon in Wesley Me morial Church, the sum of $1,610 was raised to aid in the erection of a new chapel and for other improvements at Wesleyan Female college at’Macon. The meeting was projected by and held under the auspices of the Atlanta Alumnae Association of Wésleyan col lege and that organization contributed $l,OOO to the fund realized. The occa sion attracted a large audience that filled the spacious church auditorium. Several prominent men participated in the meeting and made talks in the In terest of the college. | » * * | May Enlist Aid of Children. | At a meeting in Atlania of the ex ecutive committee of the John B. Gor don Monument Association, the propo gition to enlist the aid of the school children of Georgia, and of the entire gouth in raising the fund to build & memorial to the late General Gordon, was extensively discussed. There was some opposition to this plan, but it was finally decided to ap point & committee to take the matter wader consideration and report at the next-meeting of the eXecutive commit fso. . v | b . | No Encai‘ument This Year. It is now a cer<fainty that there will be no encampmient of the Georgia troope this yoar ' That much has been ascertained by Governor Terrell, who gays that he has beem informed by the United States governmxgnt that it has no money on hand for \Georgia this year. The governor had‘jhoped to b 2 able to make arrangemeni‘xy«s to again put all the Georgia soldiers\ in camp, but there is nmot enough mojhey from the Dick bill this year to gi\-’$ the gol diers in every state a campj and the Georgia soldiers were camjped last year at the expense of the stfite. *® - W Shoplifters Come t rief. In defauit of §5,000 | bonds, Mrs. Edith Briggs and Mrs. Elllie Rivers, the two alleged shoplifters, \were sent to the Tower in Atlanta [by Recorder Broyles on five separate| charges of larceny from the house. ‘ Both women claim Cliarleston as their home. They arrived in Atlanta some time ago and began| their work. A merchant reported to dejtectives that ‘he suspected the women) .of being lshoplifters and they were followed tc their place of boarding. | There the officers found a trunk full Jof valuable goods which were akfterwé-ards identi fied by five leading merchants. In the trunk was found a curioysly arranged bag which was especially adapted to shoplifting. ) Mrs. Rivers claims tlhat she was only a chance acquaintance of Mrs. Briggs and that ghe met, her in Atlan ta while en route to visl‘.;t relatives in Tennessee, l The officers belleve both'women are | professional shoplifters since Mrs. Briggs has made a full confegsion. $ @& » 1 Cyclone Fund Statement, P. N. Parker, of Gainesville, chair lman of the relief committee appeinted for relief of the distressed in the cy clone of June Ist, 1903, has jus! cOm pleted a full report of the amounts used for the benefit of the sufferers, subscribed by the people of the coun try. & | This report shows a fotal amount of cash received from all sources, $43,- 752.73; a total value of clothing, pro visions, merchandise, ete, from all gources, $12,171.96, making a grand total of $55,924.69. Household furni ture, provisions, merchandise, etc., to the value of $6,371.96 was received from the Atlanta relief committee, and $BOO in rations from the TUnited States government. : The $12,171.96 in provisions, mer chandise, ete., was judiciously distrib uted. Cash disbursements were as follows: For burial expenses of killed, $l, 583.50; provisions, clothing and furni ture, $3,693.84; labor, freight, express and -livery hire, $1,195.17; paid physl ciang for services, $3,445.25; paid trained nurses for services $594; paid board physicians and nurses, $619.79; paid hospital expenses, court houss, New Holland and colored hospital, $l,- 626.47; distributed among the families and wounded, $13,808.66; Ninety-five homes rebuilt and repaired, $13,338.05; five churches rebuilt and repaired, $3,- 655; expenses of relief committee for secretary, postage, etc., $2OO. Making a total of $43,752.73. The killed, including those who died since from injuries received during the storm, numbered 112; the number of wounded was 355 in addition to the killed., *® #® * Negro Barber to Oppose Hardwick. The republicans of the Tenth Con gressional district met the past week at Sparta, Hancock county, agd nomi nated Sim Walton, & colored barber of Augusta, to oppose Congressman T. W. Hardwick, the democratic incumbent from the district. The convention was composed entirely of negroes. Besides the nomination of Walton, resolutions were passed indorsing President Roosevelt’s administration. A. W. Wimberly, a depufy revenus collector, was indorsed as a delegate to the national convention. INFERNAL BOX EXPLODES. Work of Miscreant at Liege, Belgiym, Results in 'Disaster, An infernal machine explcded Fri day outside the residence of Com missioner of Police Laurent, at Liege, Belgium, wrecking the house, fatally Injuring an artillery officer and se riously wounding half dozen other per sons. When the machine was discovered Major Papin was summoned and was examining the package in which the machine was concealed when the ex plosion occurred. Papin’s legs were were blown off and he shortly after wards succumbed. A policeman who also lost his legs by the explosion, ig in a precarious condition. Carnegle Gives to Winthrop Colle;e_ Winthrop college, the state college for women at Rock Hill, S. C., has re celved a gift of $20,000 from Andr §- Carnegie for a library building. N ."'- s i i | A Mysterious C)lony. A great deal of interest is being aroused in the Canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, as the time approaches for the arrival of a rich American colony whose agents have been re cently buying the choicest plots of land in the village of Amden, which commands a magnificent view of the mountains and has the little lake of ;Wallensta.dt at its foot. A mystery hangs arouni ‘e identi ty of the Americans, wlj. jo agents, though they are paying Ww.ll for ev erything, refuse to say for@whom they are buying. A number of beautiful villas have. been erected, while othery are still in the hands of workmen. Costly Business Property Burned. A fiYe which started at an early hour Thursday at San Angelo, Texas ‘burned until late in the day, destr %%g business property valued at $20(), 900, Insurance about half. . | s Most Important Ruling Mads by Commissioner Ware. OF WIDESPREAD IMPORT Treasury Will be Thrown Open After April 13th Next to All Federal Claimants Beyond 62 Years of Age. Fi Commissioner of Pensions Ware, with the approval of Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock, promuigated the most important pension ruling.'V‘v'edfii nesday that has been issued in a long time. ‘ | It directs that beginning April 13 next, if there is no contrary evidence and all other legal requirements have been met, claimants for penslon uynder the general act of June 87, 1890, who are over 62 years old, shall be consid ered as disabled ome-half n ability to perform manual labor and shall be entitled to $6 a month; 65 years to $8; over 68 to years to $lO,-and over 70 years to $l2, the usual aillowances at higher rates continuingfigr disabili ties other than age. This order will not be retractive. 5o , Commissione® Ware, just befc 3 leaving for a trip south for his health, said the order would save both the old soldiers and the goverument a good deal of money and time. He said it was based on the Mexican war pen sion legislation of 1887, approved by President Cleveland, which placed all the Mexican war veterans on the pen sion roll thirty-nine years | after the close of that war. (s “It would seem that if thirty-nine years after the expiration of/service a Mexican war soldier was entitled Lo a pension at 62 years, and! no other requisite for drawing a pensfion should exist except age, that to sold iers o 1 the civil war, who fought vastly} more -and longer at least, as good a fule ou ht to apply. “The order could not have been .3 sued earlier because it is\only : sw that the thirty-nine years fixjed by .he congressional limit has been reac.'ed. The civil war ended Aprilf 13, Ilui7 Hence the thirty-nine years\would ex pire on the 13th of next ménth.” Mr. Ware said the order vwould ~avn the government at least $300,000 a year. He was not able tol say what expense the bill would ent]axl in the shape of additional payments. “The extent"To which it| will aug ment the necessity for further appro priation cannot be told,” lsaid Mr. Ware. “It will, without doubt, in crease the payments to somje extent, but no one is able to fix th‘e amount. The bureau has not considergd that as the proper element of conlsideration. I do not think, however, thjat the in creased expense in the long run will be very noticeable, becauseithe deatk rate is also to be .considere.d,‘\and fpe a is also to be considered the fact ';th'@t the ones to whom we give the pension’ without proof other than their ages would have proven themselves anyhow under former circumstances as entj tled to the pension by reason of their disabilities.” AUNT HETTY BUYS MANSION. Richest Woman in America Joins Mil lionaire Colony iin New York, Mrs. Hetty Green, America’s richest woman, has joined the millionaire col ony in New York cily by purchasing a home on Fifth avenue. She has for years maintained a residencc in Ho boken, N. J., but lately has lited in a rented house on Fifth avenue, near Washington gquare. Her new resi -Idence is a handsome five-story man sion of the most modern design.