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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAIL.
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BLOWN T 0 ATOMS
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Many Men are Mangled In
Frightful Explosion,
POWDER MILLS WRECKED
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Thirty Employes Literally Torn to
[Fragments in Catastrophe—Ten
_ Buildings Razed and Other |
ok Property Damaged. ‘
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i The Rand Powder Mills in the sub
urbs of Fairchance, six miles south
of Uaiontown, Pa., were entirely wip
ed out by an explosion = at 9:06
o’clock Saturday morning.
Of the thirty-two men who went to
work in the mill in the morning, nine
teen are known to be dead. Of these
thirteen, have been identified. Nine
men, lnclu('iing C. M. Rand, manager
of the plant, were seriously injured.
The shock of the explosion was dis
tinctly felt in Connellsville, 20 miles
away, buildings being rocked on their
foundations. At Uniontown huadreds
of panes of glasses were broken. In
the town of Fairchance there |s
gearcely a house that did not suffer
damage. The sides were battered
as though axes had been used. Hay
stacks were toppled over in the fields,
ang live stock were stunned.
A passenger train on the Baltimore
and Ohio railrcad, northbound, from
Morgantown to Connelisville, which
was passing the wcrks when the first
explosion occurred,was almost thrown
from the track by the explosion. Ali
the windows were shattered, and the
passengers thrown into a panic. Had
the train been a few seconds later it
would have been blown up, as the
mills were in a few rods of the
tracks.,
‘A street car on the West Pennsyl
vania railroad had also passed just a
few seconds before the explosion and
was far enough away to escape dam
go, though it was derailed. There
were seven explosions in all.
Every one of the ten buildings was
totally demolished. Not.a vestige of
them remain. The debris that was
strewn over the 10 acres of ground
where the plant was located, took fire
soon after the explosion, and added
its terrors to the disaster.
The dismembered parts of the dead
were burned in many instances. Iden
tification of many was made by parts
of clothing alone. The first three ex
plosions were not as serious as the
last four. Then the packing house,
pressing room and magazine blew up,
followed by two cars of dynamfite
standing on a nearby rallroad siding,
which were set off by the concussion
from the powder mill explesions.
Identification Difficult.
When the bodies were recovered
the work of identification was very
difficult. Small pieces of bodies were
picked up all over the place. These
were not coilected together, and many
sections of bodies were, thrown back
into the debris, where they were
found.
The hole where the magazine ex
rloded in about 15 feet deep and 50
yards square.
° RAWLINGS TURNED DOWN.
Motior for New Trial Refused by
Judge Mitchell at Thomasville,
Mption has been denied for a mew
trial in the case of J. G. Rawlings
and hts sons, Milton, Jesse and Leon.
ard, who are sentenced to be hanged
September 17th. Argument was hear9q
at Thomasville Saturday morning be
fore Judge Robert G. Mitchell. Attor
ney Cooper represented Rawlings and
Solicitor Thomas the state.
Court was in session from 10 a. m,
to 1:80 p. m., and in meccordance with
the expectation, refused to grant a
new trial.
Cooper announces that he will take
the case to the supreme court. Hel
will ask the state board for a stay
of execution to allow the case to be |
heard. |
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TANNER HEADS THE G. A. R.
Minneapolls Chosen as Next Place
of Encampment,
~ Corporal James Tanner of New
York was elected commander in chief
of the G. A. R. by the ‘hational en.
campment in session at Denver Fri.
day.
The leading candidates were Corpo
ral Tanner, General Robert B. Brown
of Ohio, Qudge C. G. Burton of Mis.
soari, and General C. M. Burrows of
Niw Jersey.
Minneapolis was chosen as the G.
A. 2 national encampment city in
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SOLDIERS ARE JUBILANT.
Russ and Jap Armlies in Manchuria
Notifled That War Is Ended and
Give Vent to Great Joy.
A speclal from Godizarani, Manchu
ria, says: At 1 o'cloek Saturday aoft
ernoon a Japanese commissioner bear
ing a white flag and escorted by fifty
soldiers arrived at a post near the
railway and handed to the Russian
officers, who went to meet him, a let
ter from Field Maarshal Oyama, to
General Linevitch, congratulating him
on the conclusion of peace, and beg
ging him to appoint Russian plenipo
tentiaries o arrange an armistice.
Field Marshal Oyama appointed Gen
eral Tukushima as plenipotentiary for
his side, the letter announced, and
he suggested Chakhedza as \.Q;e meet
ing place. f
Since news was recelved that peace
negotiations at Portsmouth were ap
proafching a conclusion, the correspon.
dent of the Associated Press has made
a survey of all the Russian positions
from Mongolia headquarters, the ob
ject in part being to ascertain the ex
tent to which the efforts making for
peace were viewed by the army.
The negotiations received no offi
cial recognition in the field prior to
thelr successful conclusion, the army
keeping in a state of preparedness
for a battle until the receipt by Gen
eral Linevitch of g telegram from
Emperor Nicholas, declaring that the
treaty had Leen signed, and that his
majesty accepted the condition arriv.
8d at.
This telegram was officially pub
lished in the army newspaper at Gun
shu Pass, Manchuria, on September 6,
and the ouilines of the peace condi
tions were printed in the same publi
cation Saturday.
The officers thereafter observed mil
itary decorum in the strictest sense,
but the seldiers, with the consent of
the officers, engaged in feasting and
other forms of celebration. It will be
a week more before the entire army
is fully informed of the eonclusion of
peace, but the mews was discounted
long ago by the prevailing conviction
that since the appointment of the
plenipotentiaries peace was a fore
gone conclusion. It may be maid that
to the great majority of the officers
and men so far informed the news
that the war is at an end is most
| welcome,
| Thousands are daily drinking to the
~ health of President Roosevelt. The
| correspondent, who is the omly re
maining foreign newspaper man with
the Russian army, was everywhere
asked by the men if he was an Amer
fean, and on being answered in the
afirmative, they captured him and
tossed him many times in the air af
ter the manner of the Cossacks, while
their officers gently protested against
this seeming questionable manner of
their admiration,
WIVES WERE STOCKHOLDERS.
Assistants of Public Printer Interest
ed in° Monotype Machine Co.
At Oyster Bay Sunday, President
Roosevelt made public the report of
the Keep commission on its recent in
vestigation of affairs in the govern
ment priting office at Washington.
The inquiry was made by special
direction of the president, on account
of 3 protest which he had received
from officials of the Mergenthaler
. Typesetting Machine company against
the award of a contract by Public
Printer Framk W, Palmer to the Lan
ston Monotype company for seventy
two machines of its make.
The president decided, after an ex
amination of the Keep report, that the
contract for the Lanston machines
should stand. The Keep commission
reported that if the contract could be
set aside, “sueh’ a course would be
desirable,” although the commission
states expressly that “no corrupt con
sideration, payment or promise pass
ed from the Lanston Monotype com
pany to the public printer or to any
rerson in the government service.”
It was developed by the commis
sion, however, that two important as.
sistants of the public printer were in
directly interested in the Lanston
company, “their wives being stock
holders therein.”
PUBLIC PRINTER FIRED,
Palmer Refused to Resign and Pres
ident Ousted Him Instanter,
President Roosevelt Friday after
noon took summary action in the case
of Frank W, Palmer, public printer
and head of the government printing
office at Washington, by removing
him from office.
Last Monday the president direct
ed Mr. Palmer to send to him his
resignation to take effect on the 15th
instant, but the order was ignored.
LEESBURG, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1905.
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BAD IN PENSACOLA
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Fever Spreads in the City
- Despite Heroic Work
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NINE CASES FOR MONDAY
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'Most Encouraging Report Comes from
New Orleans—United States Gov
ernment Takes Hands in the
Quarantine Regulations.
Nine new cases and one death 18
‘the yellow fever record for Pensas
cola, ¥la., Monday, concluding. at six
!o'clock, whan the various physicians
‘\vorking tn conjunction with the
state board of health made their re
ponts. Suspicious or doubtful cases
‘number about twelve. y
‘ The one death was that of A.
Wolfburg, vioe consul of Norway,
who died atter a brief illness. He
was taken 3l five days since and
‘ did not call in a physician, the case
being located by inspectors. A post
‘ mortem examination revealed the fadt
that he had died of yellow fever of the
most malignant type.
Citizens have been called upon to
assist the physicians and appoint a re
lief committee.
Uncle Sam Takes a Hand.
The United States marine hospl
tal service has taken a hand in the
quarantine situation and’ according to
a letter received in Atlanta Monday
by the Georgia state board of health,
his issued sweeping instructions pre
venting passengers from points in
fected with yellow fever, from stop
ping anywhere in the territory east
and south of a line drawn from
Washington, D. C., through Char
lottesville, Danville, Charlotte, Spar
tanburg, Atlanta, Annis{on, the Ten
nessee river, Vincennes, Ind., St.
Louis and thence to the Arkansas
state line.
The Georgia state board of health
is requested to have its inspectors
notify all passengers from yellow fe
ver points of this quarantine regula
tion. Notice is also given that gov
l ernment inspectors have been appoin
ted to enforce this rule, and that
;tpenalties may be incurred for its
i violation. :
The territory indicated as south of
' the lime in question is all regarded
| as “infectible” territory, and for that
reason the marine hospital service
'pmposes to prohibit persons who
| have been exposed to yel
| low fever from entering this section
' unfil the point where such infection
exists is free of the disease.
Good Report for New Orleans.
The report of no deaths in New
Orleans Monday, the first time since
the announcement of the presence
of the fever on July 21, when con
trasted with the recorq of 1878, pre
sents quite a coincidence, because
September 11, 1878, was "the record
day for deaths during that epidemic,
{ 90 being recorded. Alglers reports
seven of the new cases. Of the new
foci, only two are above Canal street,
‘ Four are :n Algiers.
. Dr. White has given out the com
' ponent paris of the new culcicide,
which will be used hereafter in fu
miagtion, the discovery of which was
announced Saturday. It i{s composed
-of equal parts of crystal -carbolic
Incid, and gum camphor, and three
| ounces will be sufficient to thorough
| ly fumigate 1,000 cubic feet of
space. He advises against its use
i by citizens generally on account of
| danger in handling it, and is having
. his forces thoroughly educated in is
E use before they will be entrusted
- with it.
. The most interesting feature of the
- country news was the report from
. the health cofficer of St. John parish,
f of the existence of about twenty-fivo
i cases at [dons, a lumber town in
that parish, and his statement that
' the patients were not heing properly
| cared for, and that they had been
- concealing the illness. He has taken
| charge of {lings there, and reported
| thrce new cases.
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i LITHIA SPRINGS SOLD.
Property of Marsh Estate Purchasea
| by an Atlanta Company.
{ J. H. Nunnally of Atlanta, receiver
! of the Marsh estate, has sold the
% Bowden Lithia Springs, and the ho
‘f tel at Lithia Springs, (Ga., together
- with all the property in connection
~ with the hotel and the springs, to
the Robinson-Humphrey company of
Atlanta.
The price paiq is understood to be
$200,000, and the deal will be cloged
a 4 soon as the purchasers have con
firmed the title to the property.
PENSACOLA iS MENACED.
New Pever Cases Increase and Cause
Alarm—The Situation at Other |
infocted Points.
Friday's yellow fever record In
Pensacola, Fla, showed a big In
crease of new cases over any previ
ous day since the outbreak.
Reports of pnysicians up to @
¢'clock p. m, gave eleven new cases
and cne death. All of the new cases
are traceable to the orfginal foci or
infected disirict, but are scattered
fAbout the city. ‘
The situaticn is now regarded as
serious, as a number of doubtful cases
have also Leen discovered. The one
death was that of C. P. Winters of
Herrisou, Obhlo, who was formerly a
soldier at Fort Barrancas, but who
gecured his discharge a week since,
and came o the city.
. Vicksburg Fumigates.
There were no new cases of yellow
fever nor deaths in Vicksburg, Miss,
friday. From 10 a. m. until a late
hour in the afternoon almost every
businéss house in the city was closed,
the day having been set apart for
~general fumigation. This work was
{hrough, nearly 100,000 pounds of
csulphur having been burned.
New Infeciion at Natchez,
Two new fever cases in Natchez
ghow that seccondary infection has
appeared. The 'patients are white
boys living in the same neighborhood
as the original infection, though three
blocks apart. One of the boys was
vaken sick and instead of geing home
went to the emergency hospital. This
makes three cases under treatment.
Fever Situation in Mississippi.
The Mississippi yellow fever sum
mary up to Friday night was as fol
lows: Gulfport, five new cases, no
deaths: Missiseippi City, no mnew
cases, no death; Natchez, three new
cases, and two new sub-foci, making
a total of seventeen cases and five
focl to date. Vicksburg, Pearlington
and Hamdsboro report mo new cases.
Ambama Bars Florida,
State Health Officer W. H. San
ders of Alabama authorizes the an
nouncement that he has put on an
Alabama quarantine against the en
tire state of Florida, which goes into
effect at once.
The state health officer’s action is
taken, he suys, because of the largely
increased number of new cages down
in the report from Pensacola.
Refused Permission to Land.
A Tallahassee dispatch says: The
steamer Tarpon, plying between Pen
sacola, Apalachicolg and Carrabelle,
™a., has heen refused permission to
land at the two last named places.
Moved by a telegram from §tate
Health Officer Porter, apprising him
of the fact, Governor Broward wired
the authorities of the two towns that
the Tarpon had not been in Pensa
cola harbor since August 29, referred
them to the law forbidding the quai
-antining of the town within the state
against another without permission of
the state board of health, and asked
them to act with the state’ healtn
anthorliies.
In¢cr:ase at New Orleans.
There were forty-four new cases
and four deathg in New Orleans Fri
day. There is no accounting for the
jump in the record, except possi
blv the fact that physiclans have
lately been reporting more positive
cases and less suspicious cases. The
only new rpoint of infection in the
country reported during the day was
by Dr. Brady, who discovered a nest
of twelve cases on Woodlawn plan
tation, 20 miles below New Orleans,
and another case two miles below,
Other couarry reperts were:
Jeffergson Parish — Kenner, five
cacee: Hanson City, two cases; Bayon
Nicholas, Barataria county, one case.
St. Mary Parish—Patterson, eleven
new cases, cne deatk; Bayou Boeuf,
four cases; Riverside Plantation has
had 180 cases to date and seven
deaths. ‘Tallulah, seven cases; Lake
Providence, seven cases.
St. Charles Parish—-St. Rose, two
deaths; Patterson plantation, one
case, |
Mississippi — Gulfport, five new
nases: Natchez, three new cases; An
guilla, near Rolling Fork, one new
case,
RUSS ENVOYS IN WASHINGTON.
Witte and Rosen View Sights of the
National Capital.
Mr. Witte and Baron Rosen, the
Russian peace plenipotentfaries, ac
companied by five members of the
former’s suites, spent Sunday in
Washington.
They arrived at an early hour of
the morning and spent the entire day
visiting the historic points In and
about the city, and left at 5:35
o’clock for New York, from which
t place Mr. Witte will sail for Hamburg
Thursday,
Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Jones County Has Top Rate.
The highest tax rate yet fixed by
any county in Georgia is the Jones
county rate, which is $16.50 @ thoti
gand. This added with the state raie
will cause the people of Jones cotinty
to pay a rate of $2O a thousand this
year. The increase in the rate is due
to the fact that a new court house
is to be erected, the county site of
the county having been changed.
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No New Trial for Rawlings.
The motion for a new trial in the
cases of J. @& Rawlings and his sons,
M#iton, Jesse and Leonard, was ar
gued at the Thomasville court house
before Superior Court Judge Robert
@. Mitchell Saturday morning.
Attorney John R. Cooper put up
a hard fight and presented a long
list of reasons why the mew trial
ghould be granied. Judge Mitchell,
however, refused to grant the motion
and Attorney Cooper announced that
he would appeal to the supreme court.
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‘ Atlanta’s Gates Open.
In spite of the fact that the gtate
board of health has declared a quar
‘antine for the state of Georgia
against the infected territory, Atlau
ta’s gates are open and refugees ace
welcome to the city if they can cross
the slate line.
The city board of health, after care
fully considering the situation, de
cided that a quarantine for Atlanta
was unnecessary and without reason,
and declined to order a quarantine
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No Tax is Needed In Terrell,
For the fifth consecutive year the
citizens of Terrell county will have
no eounty tax to pay. The last meet:
ing of the board of county commls.
sioners decided this question. The
county 1s in fine shape financlally,
owning one of the best of court housges
and a new modern jail.
Terrell county roads are also in
fine shape, as they have been worked
by misdemeanor convicts for a couple
of years now. This unprecedented
prosperity Is a direct result of the
Terell couuty dispensary system,
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Entire State Quarantined.
Quarantine of the entire state
against all points infected with yel
low fever has been instituted by the
state board of health.
This action which follows the re
fugal of the Atlanta board of health
to put on a quarantine in Atlanta,
Practically every other city in the
state which was advised by the state
board of health to institute quaran
tine against infected points has done
sO, and haq Atlanta followed suit, it
is stated, the step taken by the state
board would hardly have been re
garded as necessary.
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Pope Brown Heads New. Road.
The Cordele Daily News has relia
ble information thaf a charter is be
ing drawn for the Cordele, Hawkins
ville and Northeasgtern rallroad to
run from Cordele to ¥awkinsville and
make connection to Charleston, 8. C.
The capital stock of the company
is to be $250,000 with the privilege
of increasing to $50,000. The road
will be 35 miles in length.
The subscribers to the stock rep
resent capital enough to ‘build and
equip the road from Charleston to
Pensacola, if it bhecomes necessary,
without the issuance of a dollar’a
worth of bonds. Hon. J. Pope Brown,
who Is one of the best posted men
on railroaq affairs in the state, is
slated for the presidency of the line,
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Reform School a Puzzle,
Members of the prison commission
are somewnat puzzled over the state
reformatory, which is to be erected
at the state prison farm at Milledge- 1
ville. In the opinion of the commis
sion a building which will accommo
date 125 inmates as provided in the
bill will he hard to erect for the
sum of $lO,OOO, which is appropriated
for the purpose,
They are at a loss now whether to
peoceed with a building "which wl]l‘
not hold 125 ipmates and make it a
building that will last or whether
they shall go ahead and erect a
cheap affair, which will hold 125
people, but which will be in need of
repair in a year or two. \
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Great Singer’'s Day at State Fair, ‘
Professor A. J. Showalter has just
returned from Atlanta, where he was ‘
called by the management of the‘
Georgia State Fair Association to ar
l range for the biggest all-day slnglng‘
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ever held in this or any other state,
The full program has not yet been
perfected, but enough has been done
to insure the grandest occasion for
the singers of Georgia and adjoining
states that they have ever enjoyed.
Th? plan is to have the singers from
all the countles in the state having
singing conventions, or other vocal
socletles, as well as those from
counthes having no such organizations, .
to come together on this day and
form a grand chorus of 5,000 or
more, and under the skilful direc
dlon of the man who has done most
for the upbuilding of popular sacred
music throughout the entire south
ern stases, render, as only such
a chorus can render, a great many
of the best of the old time songs, as
well as a number of the later cnes,
and then Intersperse the. greaf cho-.
rus singing by special selections to
be sung by the singers from each
geparate county, having as many as
fifty or more singers present.
A fudl program of this great day
will be issued a little later, but i
‘the meantime you should begin
'making your plans to see the great
Georgia state fair in Atlanta on Fri
day, October 13th, and unite your
voice with the magnificent chorus in
singing “Coronation,” “Pisgah,” “Pro
tection,” “Amenica,” “Gathered
Home,” “I Am Bound for the Prom.
ised Land,” “Leaning on the KEver
lasting Aems,” “When the Roll is
Called” and a score of others, which
shall so uplift your soul as to ‘make
it a memorable day in all your life
history, not forgetting that there will
be a big barbecue dinner for 21l who
take part in this great singing.
There will be low rates on all the
rajlroads from all points in the state.
—North Georgla Citizen, Dalton, Ga.
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First Clash Between Boards. = .
The first clash between the ‘state
and municlpal health officers (occur
red in Atlanta last Friday night on
boarq the Atlanta and West Point
train from Montgomery and points
south, and resulted in a victory for
the municipality. There were o cas
ualties. L
At Red Oak, Dr. H. F. Harris, sec
retary of the state board, bhoarded
the train and undertook to mrevent
‘ the entrance of refugees from Pen- .
gacola, Gulfport and points in Louigi
ana. According to the statement of
those aboard the train, Dr. Harris
threatened to arrest the refugees, if
they insisted on stopping in Atlanta,
‘ but while the argument was going on
‘ he was locked out of the coach in
which the refugees had barricaded
themselves and could not break into
the car. He called upon the conductor
to open the car, but the conductor
failed to do so, and the train sped
on to Atlanta. At the terminal sia
tion Mayor James @. Woodwaed and a
‘ squad of police met the train and
proceeded through it, welcoming the
refugees and telling them to stop in
‘ Atlanta if they liked. The mayor
grasped the incoming passengers by
‘ the hand and gave them a cordial
welcome, declaring that Atlanta was
| immune and that they would be giv
en every protection. Five of the ref
ugees were from Pensacola, Fla., six
from Mississippl and one from Louisi
ana. :
BAPTISTS CHANGE DATE. '
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Georgia Annual Convention Will Be
{4eld November 23 to 26.
At g meeiing of the executive com
mittee of the Georgia Baptist con
vention, heid in Macon, Monday af
ternoon, the dates for the coming
gession were changed from Novem
ber 16 to November 23, beginning
Thursday and lasting through Sun
day. This action was taken becausd
of the confiict with conventions of
other scuthern states
UNION ORDERS A STRIKE.
Printers in Indianapolis to Begin tie
Fight for Eight-Hour Day.
The International Typographical
| committee and the committee of ti*o
Typothetae of Indianapolis failed to
agree to an eight-hour to commenco
January 1 at a conference Monday.
The local Typographical. union has
ordered all their members in the city
to strike at once in every shop where
the eight-hour day is not in eifect.
MAY DETAIN PECONIC MEN
Untll Thelir Story of Alleged Wreck
of Ship is Investigated.
The Ywo Imen from the ill.fated ship
Peconic, which they say sank near
Femandina, Fla., are still in that city,
and in obedience to orders received
from New York from the vessel's
owners, will likely be detained for
several weeks until the truth of theip
story I 8 fully established. No bodies
have yet washed ashore and no wreck
age from the vessel has been seem sQ