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; GEORGIA.
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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
Firgy Honor to Young Lady.
The graduating class 01l the North
Georgia Agricultural College at Dah
lonega this year is a notable one.
There are twelve men and one young
woman -in the class, and the young
lady graduate, Miss Sallie Gaillara,
carried off the first honor.
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Little Hope Left tc Smith.
Robert Smith, the condemned wife
murderer in jail in Carroll county,
has again been ruled against. This
time it is by the supreme court, which
has refused his motion for a new
trial and sustained the verdict of the
jury on which he was sentenced to
be hanged last February. Smith shot
his young bride from ambush st
summer,
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Hall Succeeds Revill.
Governor Terrell formally appoint;
ed J. E. Hall, of Calhoun, Gordon
county, keeper of public buildings anc
grounds, to succeed the late Colonc
William T. Revill, of Greenville. Mr
Hall entered at once upon the du.ies
of his new position, The salary at
tached to the position of keeper ™
public buildings and grounds ols $1,8C7
a year.
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Lumber Plant Burned,
The plant of the Higgstown Lumber
Company, at Pelham, including the
saw and planing mills, dry kiln and
about 500,000 feet of lumber, were to
tally destroyed by fire last Saturday
afternoon. The fire originated in the
planing mill. The less is estimated at
$60,060 with insurance of $25,000.
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Grocers to Meet in Atlanta,
The convention of the Southern
Wholesale Grocers’ Association, one
of the most important of the com
mercial bodies which meet annually,
will be held this year in Atlanta, on
June 6, 7 and 8. About 50 of the
wholesale grocers of the south are
expected to be in attendance, and
with them will come several thou
sand persons from all over the south.
The railroads have offered special
inducements for those who will visit
the Atlanta convention.
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: White Tckes Oath.
Oath of office was administered Sat
urday in Judge Speer’s office in Ma
con to 'George F. White, United States
marshal succeeding Captain Barnes,
by the judge himself, and the new
official at once entered upon his du
ties. The new marshal submitted a
bond in the sum of $20,000, which was
abundantly satisfactory, and within a
few minutes after qualifying announec
ed his assistants.
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Hammond Succeeds Gary.
Hon. Henry C. Hammond, of Au
gusta, has been named by Governor
Terrell judge of the superior court of
the Augusta circuit to succeed the late
Judge William T. Gary, who died sev
eral days ago. Mr. Hammond was not
an applicant for the position, but he
was unanimously endorsed by the bar
of the circuit, and his name present
ed to the governor. No other name
was considered by the chief executive
for the position.
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For Robbing the Mails. -
Fred H. Hill, colored, was bound
over in bond of $2,500 by TUnited
States Commissioner Walter Colquitt
at Alanta on the charge of robbing
tne United Siates mails.
‘fhe specinc chnarge against Hiil is
that he took from the mail a registarea
package containing five twenty-doliar
bills sent from the postoffice in kort
Gaines to the depository of that or
fice in Macon.
For some time past articles nave
been taken from the mails and charges
have accumulated as time passed. I'he
United States authorities believe w.nat
Hill is guilty of fourteen similar ron
beries of the mail.
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Funds Needed for Georgia Building.
Unless those who have subscribed
to the fund for the Georgia build
ing at St. Louis make prompt pay
ment the state commissioners ap
pointed to see that work through will
find themselves in somewhat of an
embarrassing position. |
Of about $15,500 subscribed to this
fund there has been paid in up to
date only $7,451.62, which includes
the $2,000 worth of lumber donated
by the Georgia lumber merchants.
There is a balance due of $8,054 on
the fund subscrived, and it is said
the Georgia commissioners are very'
much in need of it in view of the fact
that the building is being pushed to
completion now as rapidly as it is
possible to get it in shape. It is fully
expected to have the building zom
pleted by June 1.
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Georgia Railrcad Tax Case.
The case of the Georgia Railway
and Banking Company against the
state of Georgia, in which that corpo
ration resists all taxes on its prop
erty except one-half of one per cent
of its net earnings, came up before
Judge Newman in the federal court
at Atlanta a few days ago for argu
ment,
The plaintiffs resist the effort of the
state to tax the property of the road.
They claim that the road is subject
to a tax of only one-half of one per
cent of the net earnings, this priv
ilege having been graniad by the state
under a charter given the road in 1833.
The comptroller, on the other hand,
contends that the road is subject to
exemption only on the shares in the
hands of stockholders, and not on the
actual property. Even if the charter
exempts the property, the comptroller
claims that it exempts it only to the
amount of $4,200,000.
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Senator Dodd Rezigns.
Senator W. P. Dodd, of the forty
third senatorial district, sent his res
ignation to Governor Terrell, and it
was promptly accepted. The senator’s
resignation ;stated only: “I hereby
tender my resignation as senator from
the forty-third senatorial district, to
take effect at once.’
Senator Dodd, who was formerly the
county school commissioner of Gordon
county, was convicted several days
ago of the embezzlement of school
funds, and sentenced by Judge Fite
to serve two years In the peniten
tiary, There were also several charges
of forgery against the senator, but
the court permitted the one sentence
of two years to cover all charges, and
the other indictments will be uolle
prossed.
~ After accepting the resignation,
' Governor Terell named June 1 as the
date on which the election for a sen-
E‘a.tor from the forty-third to succeed
Senator Dodd shall be held. Prompt
@action is required as the legislature
- will meet on June 22.
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Primary Returns Slow.
Chairman Edward T. Brown, of the
state democratic executive commit
tee, has received the official returns
of the primary election held on April
20th from 122 counties. Fifteen coun
ities have so far failed to send in the
official returns, but will probably do
'so between now and the meeting of
the state convention on June Ist.
There were only two state house
contests, the races between Chief Tus
tice Thomas J. sSimmons, of the su
preme court, and Judge R. B. Rus
sell and Judge J. S. Turner, chair
man of the prison commission, and
Judson M. Strickland. Wihile all of the
returns have not yet come in, it is
definitely known that Judge Simmons
carried 90 counties out of the 137 in
the state to 47 countles carried Dy
Judge Russell.
Judge Turner carried 107 counties
out of the 137, Mr. Strickland carry
ing 30 counties.
The counties which had not made
their returng to Chairman Brown up
to Saturday were Cherokee, Clayton,
Clinch, Cobb, Emanuel, Fannin, Hab
ersham, Hall, Jones, Lowndes Lump
kin Pulaski, Screven, Tattnall, Ter
rell and Wilcox.
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The Southern Educationzl Conference.
The above named confcrence met
in Birmingham Agril 26-23. Over 800
visitors were registered from all parts
of the south. Reports were read by
representative men of the progress 1b
education during the past year. The
most striking address of the week
was by Dr. Walter H. Page, of che
World’'s Work. He said: |
“The idea which we of the south
inherited was that it made no ditfer
ence about the training of the mass
of men provided we properly trained
some men as leaders. Although it is
easy to understand the advantage of
training to an individual, we are just
beginning to see that it is necessary
also to a community that all men
should be trained. Our great ask is
right here—to persuade the commun
ity that it is bound to train every
child for the community’s own sake.
We run now squarely into the doc:
trine of universal training at the com
munity’s expense, which is necessary
in a democracy. We may empoverish
the state because we are afraid of
pauperizing men who are aiready so
learned that can’t distinguish bunger
from backache, But there stanas the
stark economic fact—the state must
train every child at the public ex
pense, and it must train him for use
fulness. It is necessary for our free
dom 'that all the people be trained. It
was for freedom of opinion that our
fathers built the wide arch of the
ranged union, Then a tyranny of
thought followed the great economic
error. It seems a hard lot that we
who ought to have been born into the
full blaze of intellectual liberty are
the only English-speaking men to
whom it is demied. But a change is
coming and in the way that Jefferson
himself in his own free thought point
ed out—by the training of all the
people. In this way the south wil
‘again come to her own. We, therefore.
ideclare that free training and tree
goninion of right ought to be ours ana.
gin the words of the Declaration ot
Indevendence, to secure these we mn
‘tually pledze to each other our lives.
our fortunes and our sacred honor.”
WENTZ JURORS ANGERED.
' Take Umbrage at Statements Made
| by Father of Dead Man.
The jury of inquest that rendered
the verdict in the E. L. Wentz case
held an informal meeting at Big
Stone Gap, Va., Saturday evening, and
sent a telegram to the father of the
deceased, Dr. J. S. Wentz, of Phila
delphia, asking wkether he had made
certain statements published in recent
issues of the public press.
Mr. Wentz makes due apology to the
jury, declaring that he did noat use
such terms as were credited to him in
the press dispatches. Dr. Wentz was
rredited with intimating that the ver
iict was intended to shield the mur
lerers of his scn, who were friends of
he jury.
To Make Difficult the Land
ing of Japanese Troops.
DOCKS AND PIERS GONE
New Russian Port Upon Which Czar
Has Spent Over Six Millions
in Building, Is Made To
tally Useless.
A St. Petersburg special says: Vice
roy Alexieff has telegraphed to the
czar announcing that the Russians
have blown up the docks and piers at
Port Dalny, Liao Tung peninsula, .re
sumably to render more difficult a Jap
anese landing at that point. Later
telegrams received indicate that the
whole of Port Dalny has been destroy
ed by the Russians,
Port Dalny, on Talien-Wan Bay, on
the east coast of the Idao Tung penin
sula, was intended by Russia to be the
chief commercial emporium of its east
ern dominions. An edict providing ior
its construction was issued by the Rus
sian emperor July 30, 1899, and Port
Dalny, fully equipped with all mod
ern improvements, docks, warehouses
and railroad facilities, was opened to
commerce in December, 1901,
Talien-Wan Bay is one of the finest
deep water harbors on the Pacific. It
is free from ice in winter time and
ships drawing thirty feet of water can
enter at low tide without difficulty and
without the aid of pilots can sail or
steam alongside the immense docks
and piers, where their cargoes can be
loaded into railrcad cars and run di
rect for six thousand miles into the
city of St. Petersburg.
Five large piers had been construct
ed, each supplie¢ with numerous rail
road tracks and immense warehouses
and elevators, gas, electric lights and
water, and a large breakwater was be
ing constructed so that ships could iie
at the piers and load and unload re
gardless of weather. Diocks for foreign
vessels, steam and sail, extended be
tween the piers and along the shore
for two miles. Trere were two #rst
class docks, one for ordinary ocean
steamers and the other designed to ac
commodate the largest vessels of war
or commerce.
Over $6,000,000 had been expended
on the harbor sysiem before the end
of 1902, and it was estimated that the
cost of completing the works would
be nearly $20,000,000, but this does not
in any way represent the total cost
of th? erection of this great commer
cial port, which with Port Arthur, dis
tant dbout twenty miles, was leased oy
the Chinese government from Russia
in 1898.
Nearly 25,000 men were employed
daily on the work of constructing Lhe
port and town, The total population
has beensestimated at about 60,000
—mosgtly Chinese Japanese, Koreans
and Russians.
Explosions Explained.
An explanation of the explosions
“heard at Port Arthur, which led to re
ports that the Russians were destroy
ing their warships in that harbor, is
furnished in a dispatch from St. Pe
‘tersburg. It is to the effect that the
garrison at Po>t Arthur is endeavor
iing to clear the harbor entrance of
ithe stone-laden ships sent in by the
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| In order to remove the obstruction,
divers are said to have been sent down,
’ who placed charges of dynamite in po
sition and succeeded in blewing away
enough of the cement and rock car
goes to admit the passage of torpedo
boats through the channel.
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