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The Lee County Journal
YOUL IIX.
Scores Georgia Troops in His
Official Report.
“CAMP;WAS A DISGRACE"
Criticism Riles Anderson, Obea~,
Grayson and Others Who Declare
Georgians are Done Grave
Injustice,
~ “The Georgia regiment was not
up to the standard of the others. Al
though it did no more marching or
work than other egiments of the brig
ade, it failed to turn out to the re
view. The sanitation of its camp was
disgraceful and showed marked inat
tention on the part of all concerned,
especially its officers. It is a provfs.
ional regiment—all the officers and
men were never together before and
never expected to be again. It has
neither permanency, tradition nor his
tory connected with it, and such or
ganizations should never be sent to
the maneuvers.”
This statement from the official re
port to the war department of Gen
eral Thomas G. H. Barry, of Atlanta,
commanding the Department of the
Gulf, who commanded the brigade at
Thoroughfare, Va., in which the Sec
ond Provisional Georgia was assign
ed, has tirred up the Atlanta officerz
and men who were with the regiment
and Col. Clifford Anderson, Col. W. G.
Obear and Major E. E. Pomeroy are
back at the general in no uncertaio
terms.
The officers are not at all pleased
with the report of General Barry,
which was made to the war depart
ment, and Colonel Anderson has made
a warm reply to the statements of the
general, in which he intimates pretty
strongly that General Barry got mad
because the Second Georgia did not
participate-in the review. Inspector
General W. G. Obear, of the Georgia
state troops, also takes issue with
General Barry, saying that the Geor
gla soldiers are all right, General Bar
ry to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Lieutenant Colonel W. L. Grayson,
who commanded the Savannah troops
in the camp, goes so far as to say
that the conduct of General Barrcy
was not above criticism, and that the
general was continually cursing in
camp with the slightest apparent
provocation.
Late dispatches from Savannah in
dicated that it was thought in mili
tary circles that Colonel Grayson, by
his criticism of General Barry has laid
himself liable to court martial, as
General Barry was Colonel Grayson’s
superior officer at Manassas. Devel
opment along this line will be watch
ed with interest.
General Barry’s Report.
The report of General Barry was
printed in The Army and Navy Jour
nal and in part read as follows:
“The work of the volunteer troops
of this brigade in these maneuvers
have exceeded all expectations. They
entered into the work and prosecuted
it with a willingness and spirit very
LEESBURG. GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11. 1904
inspiring. They made forced marches
night and day, wading streams in
marching in attack without hesitation
and enduring all hardships and pri
vations without complaint. It is to
be regretted that a few days could
not be devoted to preliminary ingtruc
tion and that the maneuvers were
raushed to completion from beginning
to end without any time for rest,
making them very strenuous and ex
acting, even for the thoroughly train
ed troops. I cannot speak in too
high terms of the work of all the
troops in the brigade in the mane:-
vers proper and the cordial relations
that existed between the regulars and
national guard. The third battalion,
Ninth United States infantry, com
manded by Major Frank B. Jones,
were models of soldierly efficiency in
all respects and did much to comply
fully with all orders and instructions.
The Georgia regiments were well dis
ciplined, and made every endeavor to
comply fully with all orders and in
structions. The Georgia regiment was
not up to the standard of the others.
Then follows the above quotation.
TIP TOO MUCH FOR PORTER.
Took $5,000 Check of Farmsr Stroms
ky and Levanted.
A Pullman sleeping car porter, with
a run on the Chicago and Alton road,
between St. Louis and Chicago, is
said to have disappeared from a Chica
go and Alton train with a check for
$5,000 belonging to Theophil Stromks
ky, a wealthy farmer, whose home is
near St. Louis.
Stromsky says that he presented his
ticket to the porter, who demanded an
additional $3. Having no cash,
Stromsky declared he gave the check
to the porter to have it cashed.
ENGINEER HELD TO ACCOUNT.
Gets Four Years for Wreck on the
Mexican Central Rallroad.
Timothy I. Lee, the American loco
motive engineer who was held respon
sible for the rallroad wreck on the
Central railroad, near Zacatecas, Mexi
co, about nine months ago, which re
sulted In the loss of about twenty
lives, has been sentenced to four years
fmprisonment at hard labor in the
mines in the state of Coahuila.
TO DISCUSS BOLL WEEVIL.
Congress of Cotton States to Meet at
Shreveport in December,
A congress of the cotton growing
states has been called by the Lou si
ana 801 l Weevil Association to me:t
in Shreveport December 12-15, inclu
sive, 1904, to take tne steps necessary
to control the boll weevil plague and
prevent its spread.
ONLY ONE LIFE LOST.
Negro Taken from Cellar of Memphis
Bank Building.
Only one life, that of Winters Par
ker, a negro saloon porter, was lost
by the wrecking of the four-story
building in Memphis, Tenn. The b#ly
of the negro was found ¢rushed in the
cellar. First reports sent out stated
that twenty people had been killed.
HIGHWAYMEN ROB BANK.
Cashier Kiilled Aftey Putting Up a
Game Fight—*“Buffalo BlllI"” Goes
on Trail of Bandits.
Four heavily armed outlaws from
the Hole in the Wall country held up
and robbed the First National bank of
Cody, Wyoming, Tuesday, and after
shooting and killing Cashier Frank
Middaugh, of the bank, had a running
fight with cowboys and hunters and
escaped into the Rattlesnake moun
tains pursued by-half a dozen differ
ent posses. . :
The Hole in the Wall gang are noted
as the most desperate outlaws in the
west, and the Cody posses are deter
mined to wipe the bandits out of ex
istence.
“Buffalo Bill” kimself started at
once from Omaha, Neb., in a special
car, having with him a party of titled
Englishmen and two of his Sioux
Indian scouts, and telegraphed orders
to Cody for horses to be waiting for
his party at the depot. He will take
the trail in person.
Just before the close of the bank
Tuesday afternoon a party of four
irr‘ughly dressed men rode up to the
'Wirst National bank, whihch is immie
diately across the street from the Ijr
ma “Buffalo Bill’s” hotel. Three men
dismounted and entered the building,
the fourth remaining outside to guard
the horses.
As soon as the outlaws entered the
bank, one of them covered Cashier
Middaugh, who was the only occu
pant of the room, and demanded the
cash from the vault.
Instead of complying Middaugh
grabbed a revolver and made a game
fight for life and money, firing sever
al shots even before the outlaw leader
could fire at the banker, but Middaugh
was exeited and kis bullets went wild,
while the single shot sent from the
outlaw’s gun passed through the
banker’s brain and he died instantly.
WIRE KILLS BANK ROBBER.
Attempted to Cut Connection of Arc
Light and Fell Dead,
The dead body of James Hendrick,
2 prominent young man of the city,
was found on a shed adjacent to the
American National bank, in Montgom
ery, Ala.,, Tuesday morning. He had
on a uniform of the Montgomery
Greys. A stick of dynamite, a revolv
er and other tools were found on him.
A kit of new tools were found also.
All indications are that it was the in
tention to blow open the safes of the
bank.
He wag evidently killed in attempt
ing to cut the wires leading to a series
of arc lights containing about 4,000
volts.
THE ARRCW SAILS AGAIN.
Second Flight of Airship Even More
Successful Than the First,
A second successful flight of the
Baldwin airship was made at the
world’s fair in St. Louls Tuesday un
der the guldance of A. B, Knabens.
hue, of Toledo, who maneuvered the
*California Arrow” at will high above
the western portion of the exposition
grounds and descended in the stadium
amid hre cheering of thousands after
a flight of thirty-six minutes. Kna
benshue went up to an altitude of
about 1,600 feet, and after directing
the course of hig aerial vessel at wi,
descended on the exact spot upon
which he had declded to land.
$215,500,000 in Incorporations.
New incorporations during October
in the eastern states reached a grand
total of $215,600,000 for companies cap
italized at $1,000,000 or more. Of this
sum the new tobacco consolidation fur
nished $180,000,000.
Must Go Back to China.
United States Commissioner Bab
bitt has decided that Yang Su Tang, a
Chinese servant, employed by Dr.
Hugo Hardy, of Berlin, one of the
German world’s falr commissioners,
shall be deported to his native coun
try.
TREATY WITH GERMANY.
Negotiations Initiated by President
Roosevelt and Ambasador Stérnberg.
A Washington dispatch says: Nego
tiations have been initiated for a treaty
of arbitration between Germany and
the United States. Several days ago
President Roosevelt suggested to Bar
on Sternberg, the German ambassador,
that a treaty of arbitration between
the United States and Germany would
in his opinion be very desirable.
Ambassador Sternberg coincided
with this view. :
ILLINOIS MINERS QU!T WORK,
& —— oy
Hoisting Engineers Strike and 50,000
Diggers are Idle.
Specials to the St. Louis Post-Dis
patch from Illinois pointg indicate that
less than 100 of the 300 coal mines in
that state are hoisting coal as a result
cf the strike of engineers which went
into effect at midnight Monday night.
The total number of operators wlio
deserted their posts of duty, is about
800, and nearly 50,000 miners are
thrown out of work as a result. ;
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GOVERNMENT CLAIMS TITLE.
Probable Suit for Possession of Nii
merous Rlice Plantations.
As the result of an investigation
made by Colonel James B. Quinn, in
charge of the river and hnarbor im
provement of the Savannah district, it
is probable that the United States-will
proceed in the courts to establish its
title to numerous rice plantations
along the Savannah river, which are
now held by parties to whom damages,
equal to the value of the land, has
been pald by the government.
MAY SETTLE MILL STRIKE.
Fall River Operators May Agree to
Submit to Arbitration,
A dispatch from Fail River, Mass.,
says: It is understoed that steps hava
been taken to bring about another con
ference between representatives of tha
striking cotton mili operatives and
the manufacturers to discuss a propo
gition to submit strike issues to arbi
tration.
NO. 15.