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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL:
VOL. X.
- Dreed Scourge Breaks Out
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- CONSTERNATIONPREVAILS
- Twenty Caugg Reported by Health Au.
. ‘thorities and People Hasten to
Leave—Report of Conditions
- ... 'm New Orleans Sunday.
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i Physiclans of the Natchez, Miss.,
. board of nealth at noon Sunday ex
~ amined and pronounced as yellow fe
ver, two patients, a white woman and
2 negre m¥ii. Examining further, five
negroes ccavalescent from yellow 1e
- Ver were found in the morgncust ena
of town together with seventeen sus
plolons cases of sickness, thirteen of
which are uwdoubtedly yellow fevet ‘
_ The infeetion 18 traced to a negro wo
méa who came from New Orleans on
July 19.
Lake’ Providence, La., reports five
. ney cases, making a total of fifteen.
~ Bunday vight at Jackson it was re
ported to the state board of health by
the Jocal health authorities at Natchez
‘that there were twelve cases of ye.
low fever in that city, all of the vie
tims being negroes except one, a white
woman, Mrs. Rinstein, the wife of a
white peddler. It is not stated where
the disease came from, but # is be
lieved that it was carried over from
Louisana by negroes. According to re
ports received in Jackson a good many
pecple are leaving Natchez.
- Bunday’s record in New Orleans
showed the smellest number of new
neses’ since August 6, and the largest
number of deaths, thirteen, on any day
since the fever made-its appearance.
.. The wunusual number of deaths is
attributed in @ measure to the change
in the weather, Saturday night being
coo] and pleasant, in great contrast to
the weather of the preceding week.
. The principal news from oudside the
city was {he announcement from
Natehez of the discovery of six cases
there, and the attempt to blame New
QOrleans for them. This is regarded as
~ rather strange in view of the fact that
" of all the tight quamantines against
New Orleans, Natchez has maintained
the tightest, not even allowing its own
people to enter if they had been near
New Orleans.
' The official report in New Orleans
for Bunday was as follows: New cases
31, tctal to date 1,743, deaths Sunday
13, total deaths to date 257, rem@ln
ing under treatment 199.
. Quite a controversy has developed
between City Health Officer Kohnke
and Dr. Joseph Holt, at one time the
president of the s‘ate board of health.
Dr. Holt, in thga course of an address
‘before a meeting, passed some se
vere strictures on the city health offi
cer, who, when he rgad the report
of the address in the morning papers,
wrote him, osking if he had been cor
- lectly quoted. Dr. Holt made a rather
warm repiy, in the course of which
he said:
* “You are evidently trying a bluff
game, but whether so or not, you can
nop your whip and wade in, for I make
to you nelther @pology nor explana
tion.”
To this Dr. Kohne made response,
in which he told his politely tuat ne
chould hav2 ascertained the correct
~»ss of his impressions before giving
them wpubliec uiterance.
MURDERER YIELDS TO REMORSE.
Zarbe| Gives Himself Up to Ease His
i Conscience.
Carl Zarbel, a farm hand of Camden,
N. J., surrendered himself to Wilson
T. Jones, sheriff of Gloucester county,
and asked to be hanged. Zarbel gaid
he had kil'eq a man in Virginia last
January. The Virginia uthorities were
notified by wire and information was
receved that Zarbel's story was true
and that a reward had been offered for
his capture.
He appeared to be melancholy and
finally he told his employer that he
was a murderer. His conscience gave
Mm no rest and he was impelled to
give himself up.
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SURELY MAD IS MADDEN. |
Noted Turfman Proposes to Press
His Suit for Divorce.
John E. Mpadden, noted turfmzm,l
engaged in a legal fight in New York, l
Ohio and Kentucky courts over di
vorce proceedings and alimony,
claim, and who was held in contempt
of the New York court Saturday,
held a conference in Lexington, Ky.,
Mg@day, with his attorneys to taltei
;fis to press Madden’s suit for di-i
yorceagn the local court. Madden;
says@ now progoses a “fight to the |
finisn if it costs a fortume.” ]
'WOODWARD IS QUEERED
Action of Atlanta Mayor in Toledo, 0.,
Roundly Condemned by Councll
Members—Talk of Impeachment,
Reports in the New York, Chicago,
Oincinnati, Louisville mnd other news
| papers ‘concernigg the actions and ut
terances of Mayor James G. Wood
ward of Atlanta during the conven
tion of the League of American Mu
nictpBitties ut Toledo, Ohio, have had
a very disquieting effect in Atlanta,
and particularly upen members of the
general council. :
The reports of nearly all these pa
pers state that Mayor Woodward was
suficiently m a gtate of intpxication to
cause comment, and that when in that
condition ne stated, among other
things, that there was not an honest
man in the city of Chieago.
Members of the Atlamta general
council are very much perturbed, and
they declare it is certain that some ac
tion will be taken.
~ They assert that an effort will be
made to adopt a resolution apologizing
to all the cities of the League of Amer
ican Municipalities, and pasticulrly to
Chicago and Mayor Dunme, for the
words and acts of Mayor Woodward.
This same resolution, it Is said, win
go further and declare that Mayor
Whodwarg at the Toledo convention in
no wise represented the character, the
feeling or :he sentiment of the people
of Atlanta.
Some members favor adopting a res
olution calling upon Mayor Woodward
to resign, while others are in favor of
at once commencing impeachment pro
ceedings.
Councilmen declare that there are
three features to the acts and utter
ancwB of Mayor Woodward. The firsu
is the humiliation and disgrace which
they believe has come to Atlanta. The
second is the destruction of the be
lief ali over the country that Atlanta
has clean politics, a thing. about which
the city hus boasted. The third is
the.failure of the Atlamta delegates {o
secure the 1906 convention for At.
lauta, g thing that was belleved to he
easily possible. o &
Members of council are agparently
very indignant, and declare that they
cannot afford to overlook the Toledo
incident.
A dispatch from Toledo says:
Miayor James G. Woodward, when seen
this evening in regard to the state
ment t 5 the effect that impeachment
proceedings might be brought, said:
“Oh pshaw! There’s nothing to it.
Don't you worry about my being im
peached. The situation is this: All the
corporations are against me becduse
I control them, and some of the pa
pers are figating me because the cor
porations control them.
“Impeach me! Do you suppose the
people woall see a man impeachead
who had a chance to make half a
miillion doilars grafting and turned it
down? They tried to impeach me once
before, but they did not do it?
' “Haven’t I got a right to speak my
mind as well as anybody else? I de
livered the same speech as I starteu
to deliver the other day down in Geor
gia. I mevor said that I was entirely
oppoesed to municipai ewnership. |1
believe that every city should ove
its own water, light and sanitary
plants.”
It was then suggested to the mayor
that perhaps it was not so much the
speech that had gotten him into bad
repute as his physical condition. He
‘laughed and said:
“Well, was I drunk? Who said 1
was drunk? I djdn’t know it if I was.”
His parting volley delivered to Clerk
Johnson of the St. Clair hotel was:
“I'm going home, and when I get there
just watch me. Why, I'll make them
| like me. They’ll never impeach e,
In two weeks you will receive a letter
from me as mayor of Atlanta, Now,
mind what I say.” Then handing
Johnson a $5 bill he departed.
HOLMES FAILED TO SHOW UP.
Did Not Appear Before Criminal Court
to Give Bond.
Former Astistant Statistician Edwe,
S. Holmes, Jr., of the department of
agriculture, failed to appear before the
criminal court in Washington Satur
day ang glve bond, as he had prom
ised he would do.
ANOTHER WOMAN IN CASE.
| Home Wrecker Causes a Sensational
| Tragedy in Talladega, Ala.
} A semsational encounter and a prob
! able killing occurred in the telegraph
E office at Talladega, Ala., Sunday after
noon.
Graves Embry, a lawyer, accused C.
E. Bondurant, a telegraph operator, c®
wrecking his home and attacked Bon-
E durant with a shoeknife, while the lat:
! ter wag sitting at his insirument, cut
ting him in the abdomen and side and
- severing a rib, Bondurant finished a
l message affer receiving the wound.
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBERI, 1905.
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Sieamer Peconic Goes Down
U the Florida Coast,
TWENTY SAILORS DROWN
Only Two of the Crew Escaped Wa- ‘
tery Grave to Tell the Story—Ves
sel Was Bound to New Orleans
With a Cargo of Coal on Board,
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Twenty inem ' constituting all but
two of the officers and crew of the
American steaxmship Peconic, bound
from Philadelphia to New Orleans
with coal, were drowned by the sink
ing of the vessal off the coast oti
Florida Monday. The disaster was
the result of a flerce gale which rag
ed along the coast during the night
and early morning. l.ashed by the
storm, an immensge wave struck the
vessel with terrific force ebout 12:30
0'(‘:10(jk a. m. The impact coming
just as the vessel was making a
turn, caused a shift of the cargo
and the vessel careened and samk im
mediately.
The accident: occurred so quickly
that only two of thcse aboard her,
an Italian emd a Spaniard, were able
to save themselves. They succeeded
in getting into a life boat, reached
Amelia besch abocut noon Monday:
and, landing, told the story of the
disaster. ‘
About midnight of Sunday, during
the heaviest pant of the sbtorm which
had raged all day, the officer of the
deck gave the order to put further
cut to sea, fearing they were ap
proaching the coast too nearly. In
the endeavor to turn the ship was
struck by a heavy sea, the cargo
shifted, giving a broadside and she
began sinking rapidly. In less than
ten minutes after the alarm was
sounded she had gone to the bottom
and no traee of her was left upon
the waters.
The account of their own miracu.
lous escape out of all of the ship’s
crew who went down was somethiny
approa‘c.filng the marvelous. 1
One of these men was at the wheel i
at the time the order was given, the |
other was apon watch. As soon as the
ship began to careen these two men
rusheq for one of the small boats,
which they jumped into as the vessel
began o go down., With their knives
they severed the ropes as the water's
level weas reached, and the smaill boat
was thrown far out on the waves.
The men whose names are, respect
ively, Bagellini Humberti and Anto
no Clark, were unable to speak out
of their native tongues, and it was
some time before the facts of the
dissster were thoroughly ascertained,
They have testified to the correct
ness of the above report hefore a
notary pub'ic, and the people of Fer
nandina kiddly cared for their wants.
At the time of the disaster the
ship was about 20 miles northeast of
Fernandina, heading south, amnd in
the teeth of the gale. The small boat
was thrown here and there until final
ly conirol was gained through hand
lJing ihe oars, enabling the two wun
fortunate survivors to pull ashore at
last.
The vessel had been engaged in
the fruit trade from Central Amer
ica. to New Orleans, but on account
of the quarantine regulations pro
hibiting the import of bananas she
had been engaged for two voyages 10
carry coal from Philadelphia to New
Orleans. She was a ship of 1,154
register anid had on hoarq about 1,509
tons of cosl. csie arrived at Phila
delphia Angust 14, and cleared for
New Orleaps August 19.
The Peconic was built at Liver
pool, England, in 1881. She was 270
fect long, 34 feet 6 inches heam mnd
99 feet 8 iuches deep. She formerly
safled undar the |British flag and
ran on the Phelps Brothers & Co.'s
line betweon New York and Mexi
terranean ports. D. H. E. Jones of
the firm of J. Wi Elwell & Co., New
York, is her present owner.
MAY TURN QUARANTINE TABLES,
New Orleans Preparing to Shut Out
Other Infected Points.
With the fever in New Orleans com.
ing steadily under control and appre
hension no lenger felt of a dangerous
epidemle the federal authoritles are
anxious to put restrictions against
free intercourse between New Orleans
and infected communities in Lousiana
and elsewhere.
The policy of such a move was
fully discussed Thursday in the con
ference of the fever fighters with
Governor Blanchard and the results
are to bhe made known at the mnext
meeting of the state board of health,
RIDICULOUS DAMAGE SUIT
Brought Against Railroad Company by
a Woman In North Carolina.
The last legislature of North Car
olina passed a law that made it un
lawful for contingent fee lawyers to
solicit trade in the matter of suing
the company, but that seems to have
done no gocd. The limit has been
reached, however, if we crodit a telo
graphic news item sent out and bear
ing a Chariotte date line of where a
woman sues the Southern rallway
company because, a 8 a passenger, she
was carried past the Durham station
and taken on to Raleigh. It seems
that she was forced to spend the night
in Raleigh and sets up that shé suf
fered mental anguish; that she could
not sleep in that city; that she wor
ried and ker health is impaired for
life, as she belleves, apd winds up the
hot air splel by her lawyer by laying
claims to the modest sum of $lO,OOO
damages because of all these things.
It is to be sincerely hoped that the
day will come when judges will throw
such cases out of court.
We are willing to admit that we
woulg not like to stop in either Ral
eigh or Durham over night—but were
we to be delayed on a journey and
such was the only alternative, we
have a half noticn that a sum of
money much smaller than the amount
sued for by the lady who modestly
claims but ten thousand plunks would
heal our lacerated feelings. The law
yer dees not state in the petition filed
in ecourt how much eof this lkely
wad he expects to get—and it 1s to
be hoped, for the good name of the
state, that such & case will never be
allowed to go to trial
It was only the other day that we
recelved a letter sent to us from a
meighboring city. The letter contain
ed a check for several dollars and
also the change af copy far an ad
vertisement that had to go in the
next issue of the paper. While we di,
not need the money we @did need tl:t"
copy, because falling to get it de
layed our issue, and it was important
that the adveértisement be changed be
cause we had contracted that it would
aypear. The letter was belated, and
had been sent to another postoffice.
The superseription was plain, plain
as print, and no living expert could
have deciphered anythtngbbut Greens
boro, N. C., out of it—but just the
same the letter went to Miooresvllle,
North Carolina, and stopped over
night there and came along here the
next evening., And the postmaster
markeq on it in big black type—a
type made for the business—“Mis
sent.” In other words, the mostof
fice which started it out made a mis
take. That was what it was, a mis
take pure and simple. Mooresville
called attention to it by stamping the
letter ‘“Missent.” Now, suppose the
case for just a moment. Suppose we
had been a transient and that check
was of all importamce to us. Sup
pose the delayed letter had caused
' us to miss a train and thus cost more
}hotel money waiting for it, and sup
pose by missing the traln we had lost
'a big sale or lost a job or lost sev
“eral thousand dollars?
Where would there have been any
redress—no matter what damages we
could have proven? There would
‘have been mone. The government
ryns the majls — makes a mistake
once in a while and the man who
loses out whistles and lets it go at
that. - But had such a thing happened
and a railroad had been the cause of
it—why, bless your life a dozen con
tingent lawyers would have harangu
ed a jury—let off enough hot air ?o
inflate a balloon for a Polar expedi
tion and a weeping jury of “our coun
trymen” would have given us a ver
dict for twenty thousand dollars, Not
that we were entitled to a red cent,
but bhecause it is popular to sue rail- l
roads and telephone and street
car companies — put up the
mental anguish squeal an 1
show a wrecked and nervous face, all |
caused through worry and wmxdcr’
ment as to whether the damages !
would come, and that fis allsuffi- |
cient. |
The particular case of which ' we |
make mention is farther fetched than |
any lately coming under our notim-,j
unless 1t was the tramp in Ashevillg |
who wag trespassing upon the proper- {
ty of the company and leaped from a |
trestle 1o save his precious neck and i
sued the company for damages Sus- |
tained in alighting—and if a jury is |
asked to hear it it will be pl)sitivnlyl
ghameful. The passenger perhaps re
ceived as much mnotification as rm_v'
one received, because the train boy
and conductor always call the sta-,
tions, and if she failed to have in.
telligence enough to know what they
were saying, it should not be charged |
up to the company. But it is t.hc’
way of the world—and the fad to sue
the company remaing in favm‘———-nn)
matter about the bharratry laws and |
no matter about common decency an< |
justice. -— TWverything (flreenshm-u!
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random,
l Tallulah Falls Property Scld.
R.,L. Moss of Athens has sold the
Tallulah Falls property, including the
Cliff house, to a party living in the
north., The intention of this party is
ot known, but it is said that a hand
some new notel is to be puut tifre
at any early dale. ‘
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New Rural Routes Ordered. |
A Whshington dispatch says: Rural
routes ordered established October 16;
Irwinville, Irwin county, route 1, pop
ulation 391, houses 87. November 1,
Dranesville, Marion county, rowte 2,
population 532, houses 133; Pavo,
Thomas county, routes 2, 3 and 4,
pogalation 1,730, houses 346.
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l Valdosta to Have Gas Plant. |
! F. W. Armstrong of Tallahassee,
Im, was in Valdosta last wedk to
| olose a trade for a lot on which o
put a large gas plant. Ten car loads
of the material have already arrived
and work on the plamt i 8 to begin at
once. It i 8 to be finished by the a::t
of January if nothing prevents. o
plant will cost $50,000.
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State Tax Rate. |
The state tax rate to be trid by ‘
Georgians who own property thig year
will be $4.90 on the $l,OOO, an fucrease
of ten cents on every thousand dollars’
worth of vroperty over the rate of
last year.
The increase was.due to the addl
tional appropriations made by the leg
iglatyre this year which were for the
various public institutions and the
school fun 4. . |
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Embargo on Oats Removed.
Notice is being sent out by the de
partment of agriculture that the em
. bargo has l'een removed by Georgia
from Texas rifbt proof oats, and their
shipment is no longer forbidden
begause o exiifence of the Mex
fcan’ boll weevil in that state. |
| This prohibition was remoéved by
| the passage at the recent session of
lf.he legislature Of the ‘Dunbay bill
amending the boll weeyvi] quarantine
law, so as 0 exempt oats from its pro
viglons. The new law isconsidered
quite an important one, and graln men
throughout the state are much interest
ed in it.
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. Insurance Companies Suspicious,
Life insurance companies in which
Porter Boyce Jarman of Covington,
who died a few days ago, held insur- ‘
ance policies for large amounts will
| probably make a thorough investiga
| tion of the conditions surrounding *his
death before any of the claims are
paid.
It is believed !n leccal insurance cir
’cles that Jarman took his own llfol
and before any payments are made
| on the policies the case will be thor
!oug’hly investigated. . It is said that
' he had life insurance policies amount
i ing to $72,000, $69,000 of which was
| written by Atlanta agencies of the dif
i ferent companies.
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l Only One Bill Unsigned,
1 Governor l'errel] signed all the meas
| ures which were possed by the legis
i Jature, some 350 bilis, all told. It was
a severe *ask the governor had be- |
fore him to vead and copsider all the |
measures wnich were sent to him, but !
he worked on them day and night and |
they are now matters of Jaw. Only onc |
bill was vztoed by the governor, thu |
' was the law which provided for thel
, amendment of the jury laws in son‘ml
of the counties of the state. This bill
l had to be v>toeq because it conflicted
' with the coastitution, ’
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~ First Call for Veterinary Surgeon.
The first call for a veterinary sm'-‘
geon under the Dbill just passed hyl
the legislature came to the agricul
tural department g few days ago from !
Greenwille. It was reported to the |
department that five fine milk cows |
hred died suddenly and other cattle In |
the neighborhood appeared to be sick. |
While the legislature did rot pass the :
Jaw authorizing a veterinary surgeon, |
it. did authorize the commissioner of |
agriculture to employ a veie'rifnary{
when needed ang fixed his pay at $5 |
a day and expenscs for the time h 2 |
was actually engagzed at work. '
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Road Will Be Extended. !
Hon George . Brinson, president, |
and Hon. J. M. Dewberry of the Still
more Air Line railway made a visit
through the country north of Wadley
and ag far as Wirrenton ,and Camal, |
the past week, with the object, it f‘;i
understood, that this road is to Im
mediately exiend its line to thnre‘
points, making traflic arrangements |
with the Central road, whereby paw'-[
genger and freight business can he;
handled from Atlantz to Savannah and |
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vice versa v'a this route. Later on it
is intendeq to carry this line to Hl
berton, thus forming a connecting iinw
between the two lines of the Seaboard
Air Line at BElberton on the north
and Collins on the soutff: %
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Fund for Normal School Ready.
State Troasurer R. E. Park has been
notified by Treasurer G. A. Mell of
the State normal school at Athens,
ltha.t the ontire fund of $25,000 has
now been raised towards the building
of a new dormitory for that fnstitution
and the state is asked to “come
across” with the $25,000 which it ap-.
propriated for this purpose on condi- -
tion that a I'ke amount would be raiged
from other sources. :
Of the $25,000 which was raised by
the school authorities, Hon. James M.
Smith of Oglethorpe gave $lO,OOO, Geo..
Foster Peabody of New' York gave
$lO,OOO and the balance has been B@-
cured from the friends of the insti
tution in various small subscriptions.
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Arbitrators Taking Their Time,
The opinion is expressed at the e~
itol that the state is being done a
sertous Injustice by the delay of the
arbitration boards appointed to pass
on the comptroller general’s assess
ments of conporation property. i
Although all of these boards have
been appointed for weeks, and all of .
them have selected umpires, not one
of them has yet made a report agd
the' earliest meting date scheduled for
any one of them is September 5, when
the arbitrators in the case of the
Atlanta and West Point expect to
meet. The Atlantic Coast Line arbi
tration has been set for September 21,
bhut outside of these two. no date, even,
las been fixed for any of the other ar
bitrators, and there is no telling when
they will be held.
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Price Fixed for Cotton Seed. ' :
Cctton seed will not be sold for
less than 39 cents a bushel in Georgia
this fall if the farmers stand by the
action of the cGorgia division of the .
Southern Cotton Association, which
snssed a resolution, at its meeling in
Atlanta, the past week, fixing the price
at 80 cents u bushel. The following is
the resolution: : g
‘Wi recommeng that the minimum
price of co'ton seed shall be fixed at
30 cents per bushel, and we call on
the farmers, renters and croppers of
Georgla to refuse to sell a single
hushel of =otton seed for less tham 30
cents, and we doclare that we will
keep the seed on the farms unless we
get 30 cents a bushel.
TO ANNUL SCHOOL SUPPORT. |
Effort Will Be Made to Repeal Law
Aiding Booker Washington.
Rumiors are current fn Montgomery
that at the next session of the Ala
bama legislature an effort will 'be
made to repeal any section of the laws
which tend to recognize the Tuskegee
negro schonl, presided over by Book
er T. Wash!ngton, by according neither
| financial or moral support. This feer
ing is due to the recent Washington-
Wanamaker incident,
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TROOPS TO TRACY CITY. °
Tennessee Governor Sends Military
to Scene of Miners’ Trouble,
The battallon of the third Tennes.
see national guard, ordered from
| amp at Harriman to Tracy City, left
Cowan, at the foot of Cumberland
i mountain Monday morning.
~ Officers in command are veterans
of the Spanish war. Men ~who are
posted in the situation consider the
outlook a very grave one. All was
quiet at: Tracy City Tuesday morm
ing.
REPORT IS DENIED BY CRUM, :i
Colored Collector Did Not Try to Hire
' Wheel Chalr at Asbury Park.
A Boston aispatch says: Dr. William
D. Crum, the oollector of customs' at
Charleston, 8. 0., a colored man, who
is visiting in thiz city, takes occasioa
to deny that he had been refused the
gorvices of a whité wheel chair at
temdane at Agsbury Park. N. J., as bhas
bdeen stated. Crum added that although
Lhe wes visiting Asbury Park with his
invalid wife, he did not try to hire a
wheel chair nor did the proprietor of
the boardwalk chair stands de
cline to order any of his white hands
to push a chair for his wife."
BIX PAIRS OF TWINS,
Comparatively Young Couple Boasts |
of Largest Family in America.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Depp of Hickory
Rum, Pa.,with the appearance of twing
Friday are the parents of twenty-three
children. The parents are only 49
years old and claiming to have:the
largest family in America. The couple
have been married eighteen years andi
have had six pairs of twins and are
now numbered in the champion family
circle. Depp is employed as a scction |
foreman on a railroad, i