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Brief Summary of Doings
Throughout the State,
Violated New Sunday Ordinance.
Several cases were made Sunday
morning against yard conductors, en
gineersg and yard masters and a train
master of railroad switching cars in
the yards of Atlanta, charged with vio
lating the new Sunday ordinance,
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Cordele Wants New County,
The city of Cordele is preparing to
go after the new county, of which it
is 10 be the capital, in dead earnest.
Indications are that the city will have
strong support throughout the section
that will be affected.
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; Atlanta Invites Roosevelt.
At the recent annual meeting and
dinner of the Atlanta Chamber of
‘Commerce a resolution inviting Pres
ident Theodore Roosevelt to visit At
lanta when he comes south, was unan
imously adopted. A committee of busi
ness men will be appointed by Presi
«dent R. F. Maddox to carry the invi
tation to the president. |
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, Negroes Admit Murder. |
Guy Reld and John Butler, negroes, ‘
at Thomson confessed tc the murder
of R. G. Story, a prominent planter,
whose body was found in a swamp by
searching parties. They said they
killed him because he would not let
them leave the cotton field Wednesday
to attend a funeral.
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} ‘Arbor Day Generally Observed.
Arbor day was fittingly celebrated
throughout Georgia by the various
schools. Numerous trees were planted
and exercises held. State School Com
missioner W. B. Merritt prepared an
‘excellent program, which he sent
throughout the state. It is largely due
to his efforts that he day was general
1y observed.
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' For Mission Work in Georgia.
The board of missions of the Geor
gia Baptist convention held a meeting
in Atlanta a few days ago and appro
priated $30,000 for the prosecution of
misgsionary work in Georgia. The work
to be accomplished with this sum of
money includes support of state evan:
gelists, support of missions and sup
port of Sunday school workers.
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Prison Commission Disappointed.
The prison commission raised some
800 to 400 bales at the state farm, at
Milledgeville, this year. It has all been
gathered and the commission has been
In no hurry to sell. The commission:
ers stated they would hold it for 12
cents. This may now be regarded as
a vision of the past, since tne gov
ernment's estimate of our twelve mil
lion bales has been promulgatef¥.
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Two New Military Companies,
New military companies will be ad
mitted to the service of the state in
Dublin and Madison. Both commands
have been organized and are now
awaiting admission, The Dublin com
pany will be assigned to the Second
regiment, under the command of Colo
nel Hugunein, while the Madison com
pany will be assigned to the Third
regiment, under the command of Brig
adier General Usher Thomason.
Atlanta and Birmingham Connected.
Atlanta and Birmingham are now
«connected by a new, complete and
thoroughly up-to-date line of railway.
The line is that of the Seaboard Air
Line, which has been in course of con
struction for the past years and, as a
result of its completion, the distance
between the Alabama metropolis and
the Gate City of the South has been
materially lessened.
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Taxes Being Gathered,
Money has begun to find its way
into the state treasury now as the re
sult of tax gathering. Belween now
and January 1 the state treasury will
receive from this source nearly $2,000,-
000. And most of it will be paid out
as fast ag it is taken in. Some time
during this month the last payment
for the current year will be made to
the school teachers. This will
amount to about $300,000 and will pay
salarieg for the fifth month’s work. As
usual this money will be sent out be
fore Christmas so as to put the teach
~er in good shape for the holidays
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Cannot Sell Infected Trees
The state board of entomology has
declined to allow the nurserymen at
Fort Valley to sell trees from orchards
infected with the San Joase scale,
The state law prohibits the sale
of trees fro minfected nurseries, and
the board of entomology was forced
to decline the request of the Fort Val
ley nurserymen that they be allowed
to sell stock from nurseries infected
with the scale. :
Before acting finally in the matter,
however, the state board consulted At
torney General Hart about the law,
and he furnished an opinion that the
board had no autnority to gramt such
a request.
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Four More are Bound Over.
At Wrightsville, the commitment
trtal of Arthur Moorman, Rufus Price,
Mrs, Belle Williams and Lizzie Edge,
aecused of murdering Clayton Wil- |
liams, near Spann, resulted in the §
quartet being bound over to the su
perior court. Outlaw and Price, the
two other persons connected with the
charge, were bound over previously
The evidence shows that the ac
cused were in two buggies, two men
and one woman in each buggy. They
overtook Williams on his way home
after closing his store Saturday night;
they proceeded to beat and abuse him,
finally shooting him. His body bore.
the marks of an awful death.
Suspicion rested heavily upon the
above accused. The finding of the
coroner’s jury and the commitment
trial have both gone against them.
'&[‘hey will have to remain in jail until
the March term of the superior court.
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New Railroad Chartered.
Secretary of State Cook has grant
ed an application for a charter for the.
Savannah, Statesboro & Northern
Railway Company. The company is to
be capitalized at $3,000,000, divided
into shares of the value of $lOO each.
Of this sum, $1,800,000 is to be com
mon stock, and $1,200,000 preferred
stock. The general offices of the Sa
vannah, Statesboro & Northern Rail
way Company are to be located in Sa
vannah. The company was chartered
for a period of one hundred and one
years, with the privilege of renewal
under the law. The length of the line
is to be about 160 miles, and its gener
‘al direction follows: |
‘ From Statesboro to Louisville,
northwest; from Louisville to Thom
son, a little north of west; from Thom
son to Washington, northwest; from
Washington to Athens, northwest.
The line when completed will run
through sections of Bullock, Emanuel,
Burke, Jgiferson, Glasscock, Warren,
Wilkes, Oglethorpe, Clark and MecDuf
fle counties in the state of Georgia.
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Truce in Freight Rate Fight.
As the result of an agreement reach.
ed between the counsel of the rail
roads and the counsel of the Georgia
state railroad commission and the At
lanta freight bureau, a truce has been
declared in the freight rate fight
which was being waged before Judge
William T. Newman in the TUnited
States Court; the railroad commission
has revoked circulars Nos. 201 and
302 and all of the opinion of the com
mission of July 16th, 1904, except that
clanse declaring inter-state rates to
] be discriminatory; and finally on the
motion of the railroads, the pending
lbllls for injunction against the rail
road commission have been dismissed
at the cost of the railroads.
An agreement reached between
counsel for the railroads and counsel
for the state railroad commission and
the Atlanta freight bureau, by which
Judge Baxter promises to go to New
York and urge upon the executive of
ficers of the roads, who meeét there in
a few days, that they do everything
possible to revise the existing rate
“adjustment in a manner that shall
give satisfaction to Atlanta, to Geor
gia and to the whole south.
ARMISTICE AT PORT ARTHUR.
Combatants are Allowed Cix Hours to
Bury Heaps of Dead.
Advices from Tokio state that the
first armistice between the combat
ants at Port Arthur was declared on
December 2 for the purpose of bury
ing the dead. It lasted for & period
of six hours,
Port Arthur besiegers report that
bearers of flags of truce im the direc
tion of the left wing arranged for a
partial armistice to extend from 10
o'clock in the morming to 4 in the af
ternoon for the removal of the dead
and wounded,
LOUISVILLE IS THE PLACE.
Vets’ Reunion Will Not Be Held: i‘n-‘
Nashville, as. Reported . |
The publisaed reports that the next
reunion of the Confederate veterans
would be hela in Nashville instead of
Louisville on June 5, 6 and 7, ane er
roneous.
The emcampment will be held in
Louisville on the dates named, the
reports to the comtrary having origi
nated in a mistake in the use of a
comma in the announcement of the
date chosen for the reunion.
A SPECTACULAR SU‘.tCIDE..
New York Man Leaps to Death from
Hotel Arcade in London.
Elverton Chapman, aged 23, whose
home is in New York city, committed
guicide Tuesday night at the Carlk
ton hote), in Lonidon, by throwing
himself from the third floor landing to |
the vestibule, where he was shocking
lvy mangled om the marble flcor.
"Bl heaith Is supposed to be the
cause of suicide. :
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FIGHTING AT PORT ARTHUR.
Though Losing Heavily, the Japs are
Keeping Up the Onslaught.
Chinese leaving Port Dalny, Novem
ber 28, arrived at Chefoo Wednesday
and reported that the fighting at Port
Arthur continues. They heard firing
November 29, while on the way. The
Chinese assiséed in carrying the Jap
anese wounded from the trains to the
hospitals and personally counted
1,000. The Japanese, they add, seem
ad depressed.
PRESIDENT CANNOT INTERFERE.
He Was Asked to Stop Strike of Car
negie Steel Company Employes.
President Roosevelt informed a del
egation of men representing the Amal
gamated Iron and Steel Plate Work
ers that he sees no way by which he
could properly or legally interfere to
bring ahout a settlement of the strike
of the union employes of the Carnegie
‘Steel Ccmpany, of Youngstown and
Girard, O. ; F
Must Borrow Sum of $300,000.
After the Ist of January Governor
Vardaman, of Mississippi will be com
pelled to make arrangements to bor
row $300,000, as he is autherized to
do under the act passed at the last
session of the legislature .
THE SITUATIOW et {
Russians Make Move Aga‘fi?&.@-
But May Fall Into Trap.
special dispatch received im
Petersburg from Mukden says:
is reported that General Ren
kampff has captured several Japar .
guns and a coavoy of 600 rifles, ©
‘that a force of 40,000, consisting ¢
Chinese bandits and a reserve of 8,00
‘Japanese had started to turm Renn.:
kampff’s flank.”
OLDEST % CTRESS DEAD.
Mrs. Gilbert, Aged 83, Succumbs
an Apoplectic Stioke.
~ Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, the g
est actress om the American s*@
died im her rooms at the
house, in Chicago, Friday sho ap
she had suffered a stroke of | VS
Mrs. Gilbert’s Chicag en‘,%
iz Clyde Fitch’s mew play,
began at Powers’ theatre last - day
and until Friday the vererabl
had appeared to be in her na} salth.
JURY RENDERS LARGE V &T.
Sumr of $55,000 Awarded in
Suit Agzingt Southern
The largest werdict ever rendered
by a South Carolina jury in a dam
age suit was that of the ease of Mrs.
Dorothy H. Brickman at Columbia
against the Southern railway for the
death of her husband, when g e, JILI_‘V
returmed a verdict of $55,0008 — @&
plaintiff after being out three? fi
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SOUTH GEORGIA METHOF _o.
Begin Thelr ‘Thirty-Eighth | "val
Conference in Mcßae,|
With ministers from every} & :m
of the southerm part of Georg 2 08-
ent, and with half as many ", inen
in attendance, the 38th ann I.Jfisiog
of the South Georgia ConfiC® was
called to order in Mcßazf;' {>sday
morning by Bishop Walls®PS =n.
pan, of Spartanburg, S. C., whe' s
one of the central fisures of the North
Georgia Conference last week.
COUNTERFEIT TEN DOLLAR BILL.
Notice Regarding Bogus Note Issued
by Chief Wilkie.
Chief Wilkie, of the secret service at
Washington, has issued a notice re
garding the appearance of a new coun
terfeit $lO United States note (Buf
falo note). It is of the series of 1901,
bearing the check letter “D,” plate
uumber 174.
SWAYNE PAPERS MISSING.
Important Letters in Impeachment
Case Cannot be Found.
A Washington special says: Tle
stenographers who took the testimony
in the Bwayne impeachment proceed
ings were unable Tuesday to find
some of the letters which were put
in the testimony, and which were used
by the prosecution to prove the genu
inen¢ss of the Boone letter which was
claimed by the defemse to be a forg.
ery.
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FATAL BLAZE IN WASHINGTON.
One Man Meets Death \While,
~are Injured by Jumpin|
Fire Sunday morning in a
kouses on Thirteenth and ¢/
Washingten, D. C., burned one
death, caused another to jumiif
secondetory window and hn%
legs, while two women whe '
??.ch broke 4 leg. All of the,j
4ave not been accounted for, g
' feared several dead bodies mb
the ruins, )