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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
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Emperor of Japan Sends Con
gratulation to Rocsevelt,
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PRAISE FOR PEACEMAKER
Acknowledgment Withheld Until Wily
Jap Ruler Was Absolutely As
-3 sured That Peace Was a (s
o Certainty. ]_fi,.,: [
' 'President Roosevelt, at Oyster
Bay, received at 12:40 Monday moil.
* ing from the emperor of Japan warm
thanks for his “disinterested and un
remitting efforts in the interest of
peace and humanity,” and an ex
pressicn of the Japanese emperors
“grateful apgreciaticn of the distin
guished part” the president has taken
in the establishment of peace in the
far east.
The cablegram which was received
frop. the emperor personally follows:
“Tokio, sSept. 3, 1905.—The Presi
dent: I have. received with gratifica
tion your message of congratulations
conveyed through our plenipotentia
ries and thark you warmly for it. To
ywur disinterested amd unremitting
efforts in the 4nterests of peace and
humanity I attach the high value
which is their due and assure you of
grateful appreciation for the disin
terested pat you have taken imr the
€stabl’shment of peace btased upon
. principles essential te the permanent
welfare and tranquility of the far east.
. '(Signed) “MULSHUHITO.”
" The cablogram from the Japanese
emperor pu's an end to the rumors
that the emperor was dissatisfied with
the terms finally concluded by his
plenipotentiaries with those of thé
emreror of Russia.
Hie accords President Roosevelt full
credit for the part he took in bring:
ing about peace “upon principles es
sential to ihe permnnent welfare and
trar.quility of the far east.”
.- The ccocluding sentence of the ca
blegram is especially significant. a.
evidently voices the belief of the Jap
anese emjeror that the peace about
te be concluded at Portsmouth were
dictated by the Japanese emperor
himself and that they could not he
otherwise tnan satisfactory to him
and his advisers.
‘The delay in responding to the Jap
anese plenipotentiaries was due, it.is
© sumised, to the desire of the em
. reror to he assured that the terms
" agreed upon would be incorporated
~ into a trea‘y without the probabillty
* of a serious hitch. The assurance, it
~ is said, was conveyed to the Jap
anese emperor Sunday night upon the
practical conclusion of the draft of
the treaty. The cablegram to President
Roosevelt followed in the natural
course,
From an official source at Ports
moutk the Associd'ed Press is inform
' ed that the treaty is completed. It con
slsts of a jreamble amd seventeen ar
ticles, the substance of all of whicn
have beem given in the Assoclated
Press dispatches. ;
But theve were still differences
about the wording of the protocol of
the last sitring, which must be signed
before the treaty itself can be signed.
The plenipotentiaries and attaches
of the two missions seem to be fully
as anxious for the curtain to ring
down on the final act of the drama
as the little colony of newspaper cor.
respondents and summer guests who
are waiting to be “in at the death.” ]
POTTER’S “SANCTIFIED S«ALOON.': |
Subway Tavern a Failure «nd is ’
Chang=l to Ordinary Saloon. !
The subwvay saloon which was |
openeq eleven months ago in New |
Yogk city with an address by Bishop
Poiter and the singing of the doxol-!
gy, has closed its doors as @ ‘“sancti- |
fied saloon.” Its proprietor willsign '
over the place to a man who has con- |
ducted the restaurant on the premises.
The new owner will take out the “wa- |
ter wagon” sign' and after extensive |
alterations will run the place as an 1
ordinary saloon, ‘
GERMANY FEARS BLACK PLAGUEi
Aslatic Cholera Creates Consternation ;
in Kaiser's Domains, B
A Berlin special says: The spread |
of cholera from two localities on the .
ri or Weichse] five days ago, to 29|
ca €s in twelve localities, extendingé
from the Baltic to the river Warthe,i
150 milex ssuth, and its appearancs |
in Hamburg has given an unpleasant '
thrill to the pecple of Germany, foz
it may mean a long and steady fight,
as in 1892-53 to prevent the disease
from getting beyond control. In those i
years it is estimateq that 800,000 per
scns died in Russia from cholera. !
" ROAST FOR MAYOR,
' SRR 3
| Atlanta City Councll Condemns Ac
~ tion of Woodward at Municipal
i League Meeting -in Toledo,
! e
; In strong terme th® Eéneral coun
i cil of the olty of Atlanta Friday af
lterfibon coademned the conduct of
| Mayow' Woodward when he was @t
' tending the convention of the League
(of Ameridan Muyaicipalities at Te
' 140, Ohio. The resolutions adopted
|by the council, and which was re
| ported from a committee of the whole
are as follows:
| “Whereas, Mayor Jameg G. Woou
| ward attenced the League of Ameri
' can Municipalities, recently held :n
“Toledo. in his official capacity and
" a- the expense of the city of Atlanta,
for the purpose of imwiting the con:
| vention to hold its "next session in
| Atlanta; and, '
| “Whereas, the committee appointed
! by the city council to attend the
| session of the league has returned
| and mede it report to the city coun
| ¢il and the mayor has also made a
statement to the council; and,
“Whereas, it appears from the press
| reports throughout the country and
! frem other reliable sources, that the
' mayor, on the floor of the convention,
and during its deliberations, was in
| a state of partial intoxication, and se
| conducted nimself while in Toledo as
| to bring discredit upon Atlanta and
| humiliation to her people; and,
| “Whereas, by such conduct 'in his
| official capacity he has outraged the
i sentiment and spirlt of our people:
| be it, therafore,
| “Resolved, by the general council
' of the city of Atlanta as follows:
! “1. That we deplore and condemn
| the smpectacle made of himself by
‘ the mayor of Atlanta on August 24
. on the floor of the convention of the
| League of American Mmnicipalities,
I and his conduct during nis sojourn in
| Toledo. :
' “2. That the condition and conduct
| of Mayor Woodward on the eccasion
. mentioned are in no .wise typical
-of Atlanta, but meet with severest
| censure of this body and the strong
. est condemnation of our peaple.
. “3. That a copy of this resolutien
' be sent to the mayor of Toledo, the
~officers of the League of American
- Municipalities and, through the Asso
clateq Press, to the leading journals
; throughout the country with the re
quest that they give the same as
prominent space in their columns as
was given to their reports of the ex
‘ hibitlons made by the mayor of At
lanta.”
Mayor Woodward made a statement
before the councfl, which had many
'sensationa.l turns. He denied that he
had acted in any way wrong, butl
admitted that he had “taken a few
beers.” He declared he had done
nothing for which he wouid apolo
gize, and that if he should go off
and drink soda water somebody would
tell lies on him.
DISCUSS TYPE OF CANAL,
Prominent Engineers of Europe and
Amerlea Meet In Washington.
Eminent cngineers of America and
Purope met in Wiashington Friday
wpon the call of President Roosevelt}
to investigate ard make recommend:-
tions as to the type of canal that is
tc connect the waters of the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans.
The recommendations of the con
sulting engineers will not be final,
but will be made to the isthmdan ce
na] commission, which, in turn, will
use its own judgment in a report to
the president,
BAN PLACED ON BOYCOTT.
Chinese Government Issues Important
Edict to Under Officials.
China has placed the boycott of
American products under an imperial
Lan. An ed'et has been issued by th,
government comanding viceroys and
governors of provinces to take meas
ures for the suppression of the hoy
cott mmd loldfdg them strictly re
sponsible. The state department at
Washington has received a ecablegram
from Minister Rockhill at Pekin gly.
Ing 2 summary of the edict.
JAP PUBLIC NOT PLEASED,
Rank and File Think Peace Terms
Teo Magnanimous.
Advices from Tokio state that the
public continues to be without im
formation regarding the program of
peace envoys at Portsmouth.
Many pznple, however, are con
vinced that the Japanese government
has made substantial concessions and
already are criticising and objecting.
‘Unless the terms prove to be better
than were anticipated, it is certain
that the compact will prove very un
popular and will most likely be bit
terly assailed by the press and by
the diet. \ i ‘ 4%
VYR YR 3 S
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1905.
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
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Jack Bone to Prison Farm.
Jack Bong has been taken to the
state prison farm at Milledgeville
to begin hig life sentence for the
murder of Zack Hall
* * *
Jury Failed te Reéach Verdict.
The jury at Hawkinsville in the
case of James G. Ingram, chargedl
with the mirder of W. H. Harrell, a
prominent citizen of Cochran, could
reach no verdict, and a mistrial was
declaréd. The jury had been out three
days. Eight were for conviction with 2
recommendation for mercy, and four
were for acguittal.
* # *
Gainesville Midland Railway.
The right of way {rom Jefferson tc
the Clark county line fcr the exten
sion of thé Gainesville Midland rail
~ay has about all been obtained now,
:ad it is only a question of a short
i.me hefore the contracts will be let
nd work begun upon this extension.
"he people are looking forward with
joyful anticipations to the day when
he city will be joined to the Classic
Jity: by baads of sieel.
* * *
Rewards Offered by Governor.
Governor Terrell has offered a re
ward of $lOO for the apprehension of
Morgan Rivers, who escaped from
the Clarke county chaingang, whers
he was serving a two years' sentence
Jor burglary. The peculiar feature of
the case is that Rivers, immediately
after his oscape, returned to Warren
:on and robled the same store for
the burglary of which he had been
sentenceq cnly a short time before
by Warren superior coure. :
The governor alsc offered a reward
of $250 for the arrest of the un
known pescn who, on August 27, 1905,
set fire to and burned the barns,
mules and stockade belonging to J. C.
Stubbs in Mitchell county.
* *® *
Five Railroads Are Sued.
The state of Georgia, through A!-
i orney General John C. Hart, has filed
suit in the superior court of Fulton
sounty at Atlanta against the South
ern Railway company, the Central of
Feorgia Railway company, the Geor
gia Raiiroad company, the Atlanta
and West Point Railroad company and
the Seahoard Air Line, for refusal to
accept shipments of stoves and hol
low ware under circular 809 of the
railroad commission of Georgia, which
materially reduced the freight rates
on that class of freight. Suits were
brought by Attorney General Hart at
the request of the railroad commis
sion,
% * *
: Who Owns the Central?
Charging that the Augusta South
ern railway, which extends from Au
gusta to Millen is owned and con
trolleg by the Southern Railway com
pany, and that its main competitor,
the Augusia and Savannah railroad,
is owned Ly the Central of Georgia
raiiroad, which said railroad is also
cowiied by the Southern Railway com
paany, William H. Fleming of Augusta
has filed a retition with the railroas
commission of Georgia in which he
asks that the commission investigate
fully the ownershp of the Central: of
Georgia railroad by the Southern rail
way.
* * *
Circular 309 Held Up.
Complaint was brought by the Cen
tral of Georgia and Southern rail
roads in the superior court at Savan
nah Thursday against the railroad
commissioners of Georgia to prevent
the enforcement of the rates pro:
mulgateq in circular No. 309. Judge
Seabrook, sitting in Judge Cann’s ab
sence, issned a temporary injunction
against the commission and assigned
October 7 as a tentative date for the
hearing,
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Factions Agree to Lease Road.
The quesiion of leasing the Sylva
nia Central railroad for a term of
years was again taken up a few days
ago, by the merchants and business
men of Sylvania, and the warring
factions hrought together.
About two weeks ago the proposi
tion to lease the road was well under
way when two factions of the town
split up on the question of manage
ment. However, all this was settled
neaceably by agreeing to a board of
directors composeq of H. C. Perkins,
Jo 4 dv B, Morell; L. - H - Hilton,
P. A. Mark and J. W. Overstreet.
It was agreed further not to disturb
*he present status of the employees
of the road as long as their services
are satisfactory. :
x % %
~ Expenses of the Legislature,
The total expenges of the recent
session of the legisiature were $65,
100, according to State Treasurer
Park, Thig is about $5,000 less than
the expenhseg have been heretofore.
The decrease this year is attributable
te two fae:t. The senate followed the
lead of the hotise; and eut the ex
peunses of cominittees appoifited to
vigit state institutions down to ac
tual cost. This involved a saving of
‘about $1,500 over last year. Last year
desp'te the fact that the house had
cut down the expenses of its visiting
commitiees, the expenses of the Hall
investigating committee hai to be
paid, these amounting to about $4,000.
This expense was eliminated this
year.
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To Sue State of Tennessee.
Governor Terrell will probably di
rect Attorney General Hart to bring
suit in the United States supreme
court against sthe state of Tennessee
and the Tennessee Copper company
to ‘abate the copper smelters which
are now in operation at Ducktown
and Isabella, Tenn.
According to the special commis
sion designaled by the legislature to
make an investigation, great damage
is being dore, and has been done by
the fumes {rom the smelters to prop
erty in Muarray, Fannin, Rabun, Gik
mer, Union and Towns counties.
A similar suit was brought two
years ago, but upon the agreement
of the people owning the smelter to
burn the green ore by another pro
cess the suit was withdrawn. The new
process has been in operation for
some time, but according to the spe
cial commigsion which made the in
vestigation ‘the new process does not
seem to have helped matters at all,
and conditions are growing worse ev
ery day. And besides the copper
company is contemplating putting in
four additional furnaces which will
make matters all the worse. The com
mission went over the whole section
involved. This commission was com
posed of Commissioner of Agriculture
Thomas Hudson, State Chemist J, M.
McCandless, State Geologist W. S.
Yeates, Professor Starhes of the
Georgia Experiment Station.
They have submitted a report to
the governor, a portion of which
reads as follows:
“We recommend that your excellen
cy through the attorney general and
in the name of the state do imme
diately begin proper legal proceedings
to abate th 2 said nuisance and to ar
rest the damage now being done to
the properiy of the citizens and of
this commonwealth.”
GAUNT FAMINE IN SPAIN.
All Resources Exhausted and the
Authorlties Are In a Quandary.
Heartrending reports continue (o
reach the provincial authorities from
the outlying famine-stricken districts
n Spain. The latest reports receiveu
are from Osuna and Almogia, the re
spective mayors of which notify the
authorities that their resources are
exhausted and that they are unable to
further assist the famished lagorers
and the women and children, as the
distress is too acute. : S
STRIKE BREAKERS ORGANIZED.
Deputy Sheriffs and Policemen in Chi
cago Hold leeting for That Purpose.
Believing that their services wil
soon be in demand again owing to
the printe;s’ strike, special deputy
sheriffs and policemen in Chicago Fri
day held an extra meeting and or
ganized g sirike breakers’ union. A
scale of wapes of not less than $5
a day was fized. Charles E. Turk, a
discharged poiiceman, was electe|
President,
HALF A CROP IN GEORGIA.
Output of Cotton Will Be Only About
1,130,000 Bales.
Georgia's cotton crop for 19405 is cut
just about ‘n half, as compared with
the crap ~f last year, according 1o
the August crop report, just issued
by the state department of agricul
ture.
In 1904 Georgia had a crop of more
than 2,000,000 bales, while the pres
ent indications are that Georgia’s
crop for 1905 will be only about 1,130,
444 bales,
MAY DETAIN PECONIC MEN
Until Thelr Story of Alleged Wreck
of Ship is Investigated.
The two Imen from the ill-fated ship
Peconic, which they say sank near
Fernandina, Fla., are still in that city,
and in obedience to orders received
from New “Tork from the vessel’s
cowners, will likely be detained for
several weeks until the truth of their
¢tory s fully established, No bodies
have yet washed ashore and no wreck
age fropm the vessel has been seen 8o
FEVER IS ON WANE
Cumulative Evidence of a
Steady improvement Noted.
Deaths in New Orleans Continue tg
Be Few and New Cases Friday
Were Belowjiihe Daily Aver
age il Weeks.
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One new case\Of yellow fever®de
veloped in Pens}@ola, Fla., Friday.
The persoa is George Dansby, a
negro man, who arrived ‘in the
city one week agoi@fpm Marianna,
and securad employ _" in the dis
trict, whers the , later dever
oped. He ‘was t‘uke‘n’hf W Sunday, and
Dr. Guiteras, the Cuban fever expert,
pronounced it as a mild type of the
disease. One patient, WL J. Abell,
died early Friday morning.
A New Orleans special of Friday
says: For the first tlme in several
weeks the mumber of new cases on a
week day was below forty, which is
regarded 2s cumulative evidence of
the steady improvement in the local
¢ituation, A
The deaths continue to be few, but
for the first time since the fevs.
broke out, not one of them is an
Italian. One is a negro; and all lived
down town.
A nest of three cases was discoy
ered just across the protection lovee
above Carollton, in Jefferson parish,
the patienis being Italjans. Hospital
'street, whicn has had, 160 cases so
far faileq ‘o report a new case Fri
day. :
Assistant Surgeon W. C. Rucker of
the marine hospital service is down
with a glight fever, but his case has
not yet been diagnosed as yellow fe
ver. Passed Assistant Surgeon Currie,
who hzs besn in command in Algiers,
has just recovered from an attack
of arpendicitis.
The coantry infection is still a
source of anxiety, because now that
the city beilng cleared of Infection
there is daager of reinfection. In Mis
sissippi the:e have been about seven
ty cases to date, and only one death.
There have ben no cases traced
to the country since the new regula
tions have bheen in effect, but the fact
that Vicksbuypg and Natchez, with
their alr-tizht quaramtines, nave jer
in infection, leads to the detfermdna
tion on the part of the state health
authorities to exert themselves to the
utmost to control the country situa
tlon. Strong measures are being
adopted wherever there is evidence
of the slightest laxity in the situa
tion in anv country community.
One wealthy sugar planter who re
fused to allow or contribute to the
erection of an emergency hospital om
bis place, wvhere quite a number ot
Italians are infected, will have his
place declareq a public nuisance and
the state board will t€ke control and
force him to pay the bhill
The two cases discovered at La
Rose in La Fourche parish, thirty.
five miles from I.eeville, have been
traced directly to Leeville, one of the
patients being Dr. Tertrau, who at.
tended several cases in Leeville.
Reports from Outside.
The following reports were receiv
ed Fridgy:
Patterson, three cases, one deatn,
Waveland plantation, three cases,
one death.
Kenneh, four cases, one dgath
Hanson City, two cases,
Amelia, flve cases,
Bayou Barrow, two cases.
Bayou Cook, Plaquemines parish
mew focus), ome case.
Lake Providence, two cases.
Gulfiport, two cases,
Mississippl City, two cases.
Natchez, two cases,
FEVER SITUATION HOPEFUL,
New Cases in New Orleans Sunday
Fell Below the Average.s
For the fitst time in over a month
the number of new cases of yvellow
fever in New Orleans Sunday was
in the twenties. With only three
deaths, compareq to 83 deaths on Sep
tember 3, 1878, the feeling of confi
dence that the fever is being wipea
out ig growing.
The local situation looks so bright
now, that were it not for the nests
of iniection in the country, it could
be said that the worst was over,
NO. 12.
A-NEW LABOR WAR
Breaks Out in Chicago and
Reaches Acute Stage.
UNION PRINTERS STRIKE
Fight Begun in Attempt to Force E’m-_.-‘
ployers to Accede to Demands for
the Closed Shop and-the
Eight. Hour Day. * ° H‘_,
The aouie stage has beem resch'lfi
in g new labor war in Chicago. Nine
teen of the larger primting hqpfifll'
of Chicago were without union <om
positors Thursday evening, the result
of.a serles of strikes inauguratel DY !
Typographical Union No. 16 against
members of the Chicago Tyjpothetae,
the punpose of the strikes being 5,%;
compfel the typothetae as an organ
ization to accede to demands for the
“closed ' shop” and that eight hours
constitute a day's work, \ !
Further strikes are expected im
case other houses undertake to do
work for concerns at which strikes
have been begun as the result of
the posting of notices of an inten.
tion to inaugurate ‘‘open shop” and
“nine hours,” where it is clalined con
trary couditions have been thd rule.
Pending such assistance fo strike
affected firms, the strike leaders pro
nrounced the strike complete and de
clared the outcome a matter of ‘en
durance, a spread in Chicago or to
other citles not being contemplated
for the present at least.
Not counting other employees of
the nineteen printing houses involv
ed, printers to the number of nearly
500 are interested. The strikers claim
that elght iarge establishments will
remain neutral, not accepting work
for houses where strikes are in prég-'
ress, and that In these eight and
elsewhere twenty-flve hundred mem
bers of the umion will be at work
.and will furnish funds for strike ben
ofits.
At the union headquarters it leaked
out that union printers from various
parts of ‘he country are taking ad
vantage of the offer of Chicago's
strike affected print shops to come to
the city in the guise of strike break
ers, their Iraveling expenses paid.
After reaching the city they desert
instanter.
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PRESIDENT'S SYMPATHY
Sent to the Brave People of New Or
leans ‘n Reply to a Telegram
of Congratulation. a 0
Evidencing his deep sympathy with
New Orleans, President Rooseveil
Thursday cent a notable acknowledg
ment to Mayor Martin Behmman of a
telegram epplauding the president’s
gervice to aumanity in restoring peace
between the warring nations in the
far east. -
“Nev- Orleans hastens to give ex
pression to her profound admiration
of your wonderful accomplishment.
It must prove a source of lasting
pride to all true hearted Americans
to feel and to know that the whol@
civilized world is paying homage to
the chieftain of our great countiry
from whose master mind emanated an
achievement in the cause of human.
ity, which will rival any of the mag:
ter strokes which ever have been or
ever will be recorded in history.” :
The president’s reply follows: g
‘Wyster Bay, N. Y. August 31.—
Hon., Martin Behrman, Mayor New
Orleans: No telegram has touched me
as decply as the telegram from you
showing that in the midst of the great
trial - New Orleans is so keenly alive
to all that affects the interestg of
the world and the honor of our coun
try. You have given fit expression
to the feelings of your brave and
gallant pecple, for only those with
lofty souls can in the midst of their
own grief find time to think of others.
[ trust I need not say how deep @and
constant my anxiety is for the wel
fare of your clty and state,
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT.™
BALLOONIST BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Baldwin's Experiment With Dynamite
Brought Dire Disaster, .
At Greenville, Ohio, Thursday, Aer
onaut Baldwin of Losantiville, Ind.,
wae blown to shreds with ‘his balloon
at a helght of two thousand feet. He
wag giving an exhibition of the usge’
of dynamite from a balloon for war'
purposes and had three sticks of the
explosive with him. o
When he was two thousand feet in
the air, in full sight of thousands of,
people attending the county fair, by
some accldent the dynamite exploded,
and the balloon and man were literai
1y torn to fragments. e cale
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