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b ¥ ¢ GEORGIA. ¢ deessacsesee s‘s“sv‘ 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, » » w ) 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. * L] * ; 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. | | o i % , 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. ¢/ 4 " 8 } ‘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. ® & ® | ' 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. * w* * 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¥. * * * 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. * * % " 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 % * 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. ] » % 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. *® = % 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. * ] * 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. : Sy S——— P ————— 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 : Lomi B i;w” 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. L—_-—-—"".'-—‘ 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, )