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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State.
To Save Georgia Exhibit.
The Georgia exhibit at St. Louis
will be brought back to Atlanta at the
close of the big exposition, and will
be installed on the third floor of the
capitol building, as rejured by the
acl of the legislature making the ap
propriation for the museum,
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: May Establish Colony.
Representing a big land syndicate,
B, R. and J. O. Leßoy, of Zanesville,
Ohio, were In Macon the past week
in quest of farm lands on which to lo
cate Immigrants from western states.
A colony in south Georgia may be es
tablished by the syndicate,
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will Be Mustered Qut of Service,
Company I, of the Fourth infantry
regiment, located at Bainbridge, in De
catur county, and known as the Baln
bridge Independents, has been ordered
mustered out of the state service by
command of the governor for ineffi
ciency,
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Cotton Raised on Prison Farm.
Three hundred and fifty bales of cot
ton is the product of the state prison
farm at Miiledgeville this year. The
prison commission has determined to
hold the cotton until some time in the
spring an: then call for bids. The
year has been very successful in a
farming way, and the officials are well
pleased with the results.
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Accused Women Dismissed.
Commitment trial for Arthur Moor
man, Mrs. Belle Willlams and Lizzle
Rdge, accuseéd of being conneoted
with the murder of Mr. Williams, of
Spann, Ga., was held at Wiightsville
a few days ago, and they were dis
missed.
The trial of the three other men
connected with the murder was post
poned.
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' Twenty Days Not Yet Up.
The returns of the recent national
olection for democratic electors will
not be consolidated until twenty dayse
from the Bth.of November. Although
there are two counties which have not
yet sent In the returns, the counties of
Rabun and Columbia, Secretary of
State Phil Cook is not allowed under
the law to announce the result until
within twenty days after the eleotion.
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Negroes Under Heavy Bonds,
The three negroes arrested suspect
ed of burning Tifton Knitting mills
and attempted burglary of Smith's and
Parker's drug stores, were given a pre
liminary hearing and bound over to
await the action of the grand jury im
the sum of $l,OOO bonds each, which
they could not give, and were sent to
Nashville jail.
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University Plans Fail.
The plan for consolidating the Co
lumbia Theological Seminary and the
Southwestern Presbyterian University
into a great million-dollar institution
to be located in Atlanta has failed, but
new plans for the establishment of a
Presbyterian university in the Gate
City are already being formed, and
the hope of eventually establishing a
great institution of learning there has
by no means been abandoned.
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To Entertain Electors.
-Despite the fact that they will not
have the much-desired pleasure of vot
ing for a successful democratic candi
date, Georgia’'s presidential electors
will be given a day of entertainment
on the occasion of their meeting in
Atlanta on Monday, January 9, which,
as one of them puts it, “may, in some
degree, tenqd to dispel the gloom which
will he felt by them because of the
overwhelming defeat.”,
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Was for Collection of Debt.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
has withdrawn a requisition which he
had issued in Governor Terrell’s favor.
Joe Darden was wanted in Laurens
county on the charge of swindling a
man there out of $57. Darden was lo
cated in Mississippi and a requisition
gent for him. Governor Vardaman
at first granted it, but later withdrew
his extradition warrant on the ground
that Darden was wanted In Georgia
simply for the collection of a debt.
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Mob Attacks Police Chief,
At Irwinville a few days ago a mob
attacked Chief of Police Smith, of
Fitzgerald. The attack was the oul:
come of an arrest made some three
weeks ago of Mr. Clements, cousin of
Judge Clements, of Irwin county. A
defective indictment against the chief
was thrown out of court. Mr. Clem
ents and hig friends, it is charged, at
tacked the chief. Bloedshed was pre
vented by the narrow escape of the
chief’s bodyguard putting a lash to
the horse and beating a retreat.
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Baggs Again Exonerated.
After hearing evidence for an en
tire day the grand jury at Bainbridge
failed to return a true bill against
Mercer Baggs, charged with the kill
ing of John Hunter in a duel between
the two on the streets of Balnbridge,
February 27 last. The grand jury at
the May term of court also found no
bill, and this finding by two successive
grand juries virtually amounts to an
acquittal] and stops further prosecu
tion of Baggs.
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Proposed ‘“Piedmont” County,
There is great interest in North
Georgia in the movement for a new
county to be composed of parts of Ha.
bersham and Franklin counties. A
committee has been appointed and is
hard at work. So far the comiiittee
has met with great encouragement,
and believes that its efforts will meet
with success. If the new county is se
kured, it is proposed to name it Pied-
Tiont county.
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Cold Welcome for Mamie.
Mamie DeCris, the pardoned *“Dia
mond Queen,” arrived in Savannah
Saturday. She boarded a street car
at the station as quietly as possible, at-
Thunderbolt, where her mother and
sisters live. |
None of these kinspeople met h_eri
at the station, and her home co‘mingi
was therefore robbed of the warm re
ception for which she had hoped. Ma
mie reiterates her determination to live
a better life.
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Roads to Answer December 6th.
The conference between the citizens’
committee of seven and the represen
tatives of the railroads in reference to
freight rate discriminations against
Atlanta adjourned at the request of
the railroads, to meet again not later
than December 6th. |
The following resolution, introduced ‘
some time before adjournment, was
passed by the meeting and given to the
press on adjournment:
“Resolved, That this conference,
when it does adjourn, adjourn to meet
not later than December 6, and that
when the conference again convenes,
whether on December 6th or earlier,
the railroad representatives will be
prepared to make a definite report
upon the several propositions from the
committee appointed by the Atlanta
city council.”
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Georgiang Visit Wisconsin,
Distinguished Georgians and north
erners left Atlanta last Sunday night
as the guests of Hon. George Foster
Peabody and Hon. Samuel Spencer, for
Madison, Wis., where is located the
University of Wisconsin, for the pur
] pose of examining that institution and
studying the methods employed there.
Mr. Peabody is the well known phil
anthopist who is probably more prom:
inently identified with the American
‘educational movement than any other
man on the continent. He was treas
urer of the democratic campaign com
mittee during the recent election. He
reached Atlanta Saturday night with
geveral of his guests, coming from
' Athens, where he was received with
lenthusiasm by the students of the
' University of Georgia. He was joined
in Atlanta by Hon. Samuel Spencer,
{ and he and Mr. Peabody are the hosts.
The trip was planned to take -place
last cummer when the University ol
Wisconsin was celebrating its semi
centenmnial, but becauss the date con
flicted with the time for the com
' mencement exercises of the University
of Georgla, it was postponed.
’ Mr. Peabody has a relative in the
faculty of the Wisconsin institution,
and for that reason gelected that uni
versity as the place for ¢arrying the
party of distinguished Georgians.
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Adairsville Citizens Interested.
Citizens are consideralis’ interested
in the talk of the Southern railroad ex
tending from Gainesville to Rome.
~ This road will go through the Elber
a peach orchards of the section about
k.dairsville and that means much.
One thousand cars from the immediate
vicinity was handled the past season,
at an average of $250 per car freight‘
| and refrigeration. |
Adairsville, besides being the larg-|
est shipping point of Elbertas in thei
vorld, is in a very fine agricultural
gection. The people will extend a cor-!
dial invitation to the Southern to come |
through the village. ]
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Atlanta to tke Sea.
The present proposition of the At
lanta and Carolina Electric railroad 1s
to extend the tracks of the road from
Anderson, S. C., to the sea, and in this
way give Atlanta a direct open way to
the sea. With the completion of the
road, the promoters promise Atlanta
many things. They promise a direct
tidewater connection with Atlanta.
They promise one-third less freight
rates for Atlanta through old territory
and one-third less freight rates for an
outlet to the sea. They promise the
development of much fertile territory
as yet uncrossed by the tracks of any
road, :
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Assistant Entomologist Elected.
| The state entomologist board has
elected a second assistant to the state
‘entomologist, Wilmon Newell, who
'will, after January 1 next, have two
assistants, Professor R, I. Smith being
retained in the service. |
The new assistant is Professor A. €
Lewis, of College Station, Tex. Mr.
Lewis is a graduate of the Oklahoma
College of Agriculture, and since tak
ing his degree has had considerable
experience, particularly in the study of
cotton insects and diseases. He has
made a specialty of the study of the
bqoli weevil, and his services will un
doubtedly be of much value to the cot
ton planters of the state.
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Many Parties Involved in Suit.
A case of very general interest to
be tried at the forthcoming session of
Sumter superior court is that growing
out of the collapse of the cld Bank of
‘Americus a dozen years ago and is a
suit brought against stockiholders un
der the individual liability clause,.
These holders of stock are scattered
from Maine to Texas, as the number
will include those who held the stock
as collateral security or otherwise for
a long period of years ere the old
‘bank failed. Many banks in Georgia
‘and in New York are made defendants
1 to the suit.
] An Indiana wowan has discovered
' a new way o avoeid paying a lawyer's
i fee. She married the lawyer.
GLAD HAND TO FUSHIMA,
Japanese Prince is Exceedingly Joyful
to Meet American People.
Prince Fushima, his party and his
escorts left Washington Friday for
St. Louis. Before leaving on behalf of
the prince, Mr. A. Sato, grand master
of the household of his imperial hign.
ness,* Prince Fushima, made " this
statement:
“Since his arrival in this country, hig
imperial highness has been deeply
impressed with the good will and cour
teous attention universally shown him
by the pecple of the United States.
Genuine sympathy for Japan enter
tained by them in her present strug
gle is a source of prefound satisfac
tion to his highness and he hopss ear
nestly that his mission of fri' :Gship
and good will may in some mea lire be
conducive of strengthening tha tie of
amity and good correspondenc¢ Which
happily exist between the twi coun.
tries.
“His imperial highness es| Scially
feels grateful to the presidentgdf the
United States who, representin he
does the sentiments of the ‘of
this grat republic, has exte ‘im
a 3 most cordial welcome and uis tutpe
rial highness does not hesitate to say
that the unalloyed pleasure he L..s al
ready derived and will hereafter derive
from his visit to this country would
far outweigh that of hi smilitary
achievements in the battlefields of
Manchuria.”
PARALYSIS HITS BRECKINRIDGE.
Well Known Kentuckian Seriously il
at His Lexington Home,
Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge, for
mer congressman from the Ashland,
Ky., district for ten years, and one of
the best known orators and lawyers
in the south, wag stricken with paraly
gis at his law office in Lexington Wed
nesday, and is seriously ill. Some
weeks ago, while .at Marquette, Mich.,
trying a law case, Colonel Breckinridge
contracted a severe cold.
NAN PATTERSON ON TRIAL.
Woman Arraigned in New York Court
for Murder of Caesar Young.
After more than five months in the
Tombs prison awalting trial on a
charge of murder, the case of Nan
Patterson, the alleged slayer of Caesar
Young, was brought to trial in the
criminal branch of the supreme court
in New York Wednesday. .
Tn anticipation of the beginning of
the trial the court room wag crowded
with spectators. There was only a
slight delay before it was announced
that everything for the opening of the
trial was in readiness.
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TWO MURDERERS SWUNG UP:.
Neill Sellers and Dave Brown, Col
ored, Hanged at Elizabethtown.
‘Neill Sellers and Dave Brown, ne
groes, convicted in Bladen, N. C., in
October, of the murder of Mrs. George
Parker, near Clakton, early in Sep
tember, were hanged on a double gal
lows in the jail yard at Elizabethtown
V/2dnesday. Both protested their in
nocence.
TRAIN WRECKS STREET CAR.
Four People Mangled to Death and
Other Occupants Hurt.
A Toronto, Ont., a steret car, wigl
trailer attached, ‘got beyond control &8
the motorman and crashed through /88
guard gates at the Queen street crq
ing of the Grand Trunk railway. j&8
Montrea] freight train struck the ;”
ward car, grinding it to splinters.
ery passenger on the street car (8
injured, two dying soon after b¢
taken from the wreckage and tw¢ 8
hhe hospital. s