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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
Vill.. Al,
~ BY SOUTHERN
'Line Between Atlanta and Macon
Wiil Be Double-Tracked.
FOR USE OF COAST LINE
[n 'Making Change Line Will Be Large
. Iy Rebuilt, Eliminating Curves and
Shortening Route.
A Washington dispatch is as fol
ws: It is said among those who are
close touch with the headquarters
the Southern railway that it has
en decided to double track the
uthern line between Atlanta and
_.keon, Ga., and furtber that this
J,._decisicn has been reached as the re
“gult of ar. agreement with the Atlan
" tic Coast Line system, by which traf
" fic arrangements have been made giv
fng the Coast Line entrance into At
, lanta from Macon over the South
ern.
It will be recalled that some months
ago il was announced that the Atlan
tic Coast Line was then negotiating
Afor entranee into Atlanta froem Macon,
after it had definitely secured its title
to the Maeon, Dublin and Savannah,
rom Macon to Vidalia. :
Since then it seems that the Coast
ne has been moving definitely to
rds establishing the eonnection be
een Vidalita and Savannah, thus
_mleting the through route by the
ansion of the old Macon, Dublin
Savannah to Savannah.
e fesy days ago the announcement
!made that application for a char
had been asked at the office of
, secretary of state of Georgia for
s building of the link between Vi
lia and Fleming, the extension pass
g through Reidsville, Glennville and
meyrille and striking the main line
g » Coast Line at Fleming, soime
-/ miles west of Savannah.
¢ %" {rrangements have about been com
i leted and actual work will begin very
;oon. This will give the Atlantic
Coast Line a direct through route
from Atlanta to Savannah, and if
‘he trafic arrangement with the
jouthern is effected, as announced,
l (e Coast Line will meet the Louis
ille and Nashville syste min Atlanta
Ao er the doubie-tracked Southerz be
_tween Macon and Atlanta.
The Louisville and Nashville sys
tem is owned by the Coast Line, and
it has been definitely known for somse
months that the Coast Line had de
termined to establish connection be
tweeu the #we properties at Atlanta.
It is said that had arrangements
not been effeeted between the South
ern and the Coast Line from Macon
to Atlanta, the latter system would
have built its own line into Atlanta.
Much of the Southerm’s line be
tween Maeon and Atlanta will be re
built in the eonstruction of the dou
bletrack system. Many curves will
ve taken cut, and there wil be con
siderable changes in the grades. The
line will be made in every way a
perfect ome, wikh no grade exceeding
one per cent and with the distance
between Atlanta and Macon shorten
ed probably three miles, making it
?5 miles instead of &8 miles as now.
With this direct line from Atlanta
to Savaannah the Coast Line will have
a mileage into Savannah somewhat
shorter than that of the Central rail
=oad.
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DEATH CLAIVS LADY CURZON,
Was Wife of [x=Viceroy of India- and for=
merly Miss Leiter of (h cago.
Lady Curzon, wife of the former
viceroy of India, whe has been ill
for some days, died in London Wed
nesday. She never quite recovered
from her sericus illness in 1904, and
the recent hot weather brought on a
pronounced attack of general debility.
Lady Curzon was Miss Leiter, daugh
ter of the late Levi Z. Leiter of Chi
cago. She was in her own right the
possessor of $3,000,000. She leaves two
daughters.
MEXICANS TERROR:ZED.
Frequent Earthquak: Shocks Cause
Stampzde o 1 reople From Large
dection of New Mexico.
A special from Albuquerque, New
Mexico, says: Refugees in large num
bers are arriving in the city from
Sccorro, where great damage has been
wrought by a succession of destruc
tive earthquakes since July 2. In that
time not an hour has passed without
one or more quakes. The center of
disturbance is a zcune 30 miles long
by about 10 miles wide, running from
the Ladrone mountaing southeast
through Sccorro, San Antonio and
San Marcial. This side of the belt
the shocks have been hardly felt.
Each one is preceded by a loud rumb
ling like heavy thunder, which can
be heard aproaching from the north
west before it reaches Socorro. People
are leaving Socorro on every train,
and those who cannot leave on traiuls
are leaving by wagons. About two
thousand people are camping out in
tents, and no one dares to go in
doors. Practically every residence and
business block in the town has been
irreparably damaged. There has been
much distress among the people who
are camping in the open, as heavy
rains have fallen in the last two
days, one being the heaviest for fifty
vears.
Most of the people are going to El
Paso, althcugh many are going to Al
buquerque and '‘Santa Fe.
The shocks generally occur as-short,
sharp jerks, the. ground seeming o
slip violently. It is believed that the
adjustment of rock strata in the rug
ged Ladrones and Magdalena moun
tains is the cause of the continued
shocks.
Provisions are growing scarce, and
real distress is feared among the ref
ugees,
“The noise and the quakes are
frightful,” said Mrs. J. J. Leeson, a
reiugee from Socorro. “I have expe
rienced earthtquakes in Los Angeles
and San Francisco, bat never anything
as terrible as these prolonged jerk
ings of the earth at Soccoro. Water
placed in a bowl will show contin
uons vibrations between the greater
shocks, showing that the earth is nev
er still. Net a house in town is safe
to enter, and chimneys and walls
topple with each recurring tremor.”
A careful search of the lava fields
to the southwest of the city, have
failed to reveal any new hot springs
or evidence of volecanic action report
ed Thurscay. The entire property
damage at Socorro will not exeeed
$5,000, as only the old adobe houses
have suffered. In surrounding towns
the property damage is also slight,
owing to the cheap character of the
buildings affected and the absence of
costly structures.
JEROME ENTHUSES AUDIENCE.
New Yorker Read iateresting Paper Before
the Georgia Bar Association,
Before the largest audience ever
assembled in the pavilion at Warm
Springs, Ga., District Attorney Wil
liam Travers Jerome of New York
read a magnificent paper to the Geor
gia Bar Association upon the subject
of “Public Opinicn,” and was liberally
cheered to the echo upon his conclu
sion,
Indeed, so great was the enthusi
2sm manifested that it became neces
sary that an adjournment of five min
utes be taken so that all could greet
the speaker and shake his hand.
WilD SCRAMBLE FOR FREE ICE.
Men, Women and Children Precipitate
Small=Sized Riot in New York,
A New York dispatch says: Five
hundred men, women and chilkdren
took part in a riot on the east side
Thursday, during which they made a
raid on a wagon lcad of ice intended
for free distribution among them,
and took every pound in the wagon.
There was a free-for-all fight for the
remainder, in which women fought
sturdily against men for a 5-pound
picce of ice. The police reserves
were called out, but when they ar
rived on the scene, fhe ice and the
crowd had disapeared.
LEESBURG. GA., FRIDAY. JULY 21, 1906.
Millionaire Gourdain is Determined
to Serve Prison Sentence.
IS A MATTER OF HONOR
Angered at Attorney for Securing His
Release He Sezks Aid of United
States Supreme Court.
Usually men fight hard to keep out
of ths penitentiary, but Charles A,
Gourdain, member of a well known
Louisiana family, is fighting with all
the means at his command to get in
the peniteniary at Joliet, Ills. He is
busy seeking a United States judge
who will sign a mandamus that will
open the gates of the pen.
Gouardain declares that he has
pledged his whole energy and large
private fortune to the cause of his
honor, which he staked in court when
he was on trial for fraudulent use
of the mails that he would not appeal
should he be found guilty.
He hopes to be able to reach one
of the supreme court justice with his
plea, or else find some other plan
to get back into the Joliet peniten
tiary. If he fails, he says, he will
buiid a private penitentiary at Joliet,
and serve out his sentence in his
own penitentiary under exactly the
same conditions as if he were a pris
oner in the government penal. insti
tution. Gourdain estimates his owan
fortune at $50,000,000.
“Some men worship money. Some
men worship God. Others worship
other things. I worship honor.” :
This ig the motto of Gourdain that
has brought about the most remark
able appeal that ever was called to
the attention of the supreme court
of the United States.
Eearly last year the United States
authorities got ‘after Gourdain on ac
count of a land scheme he was con
ducting frem Chicago, involving lands
near the oil fields of Jefferson, La.
The case came to trial in May last
in Chicago, and Gourdzin put in no
defense. He said he would make no
appeal, but would serve his sentence
and at the conclusion of that sen
tence would turn over his entire for
tune to the postofiice authorities to
pay back every person in full all that
they had subscribed toward the land
scheme and the entire Gourdain fam
ily would then quit the United States
forever.
The jury was out fifteen minutes
and returned with a verdict of guilty.
(tourdain said that he was satisfied,
and asked for immediate sentenee, and
demanded that the sentence be all
that the law provided for in his of
fense. Judge Landis said he would
comply with the demand, and sen
tenced Gourdain to feur and a half
years in Joliet, and the next day,
Jure 8, he entered the penitentiary.
Although Gourdain is of slight
build and weighs only 130 pounds,
he picked out the job of shoveling
coal for himself, and told the keep
er he would shovel mare coal than
any other prisoner, and lived up to
the agreement.
While he was cheerfully serving
time, his lawyer, as he claims, with
out his knowledge or consent, was
working for his release, and through
a writ of supersedeas before Judge
Grosscup had Gourdain transferred
from Joliet to Chicago, on July 8, and
lodged in the county jail, Gourdain
was very angry and declared that this
proceeding was against his agreement
with bimself, and demanded that he
be taken back to Joliet. The only
way he could obtain gselease from the
county jail was to sign a bail bhond,
and he tocok this course apd was
let out on bail.
Gourdain immediately returned to
Joliet and demanded to be received
again as a prisoner, but the warden
would not admit him. Defeated at all
points in his effort to get back into
the penitentiary, Gourdan conceived
the idea of appealing to the supreme
court of the United States for a writ
of mandamus committting him to the
Joliet perniteniary. ‘
REPUBLICS SIGN TREATY.
Warring Factions in Central America
Comz to Agreement on Board
Cruiser Marblehead.
A speeial from San Jose, Guatemala,
says: A treaty of peace between Gua:
temala, Salvador and Honduras was
signed FKFriday on board the United
States cruiser Marblehead on Lhe
high seas.
Guatemala was represented by Juan
Barrics, minister for foreign affairs,
Jose Pinto, chief justice of the su
preme court, and Manuel Cabrall, as
sistant justice of the supreme court.
The conference agreed upon terms
cn which the grievances of the two
countries are to be settled at another
conference to be held in the near
future.
The peace commissioners of &Gua
temala were landed at San Jose ¥ri
day night. The commissioners of Sal
vador and Honduras were landed at
Acajutla early Saturday morning. The
meinbers of the American legations
landed at the respective points where
they were accredited.
There was a strenuous discussion,
and some difficulty in reaching ac
ceptable conditions. The Mexican min
ister, Senor Gamboa, was active in
asgsisting in bringing about an argee
ment.
The peace commissioners adopted
resolutions thanking the presidents of
the United States and Mexico, respec
tively for their intervention.
~ Guatemala’s territory is now' free
of invaders. The family of General
Regalado, commander of the Salva
doran forces, who was killed quring
an engagement at Jicaro, July 11, have
asked for his body.
The state department at Washing
ton was advised of the signing of
the treaty of peace by the represen
tatives of the belligerent republics
ahoard the Marblehead. A cablegram
was received Friday night from Mr.
Merry, the American minister to Sal
vador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, an
nouncing that a treaty of peace had
been signed on board the American
warship. In his message Mr. Merry
referred to a joint message sent by
himself and Mr. Combs, the Americau
minister to Guatemala and Honduras,
which message had not reached the
state department.
A CONFERENCE IS REFUSED.
United Typothetae Won’t Listen to
International Typographical Union,
The United Typothetae of Americu,
in session at Buffalo, N. Y., has flatly
declined to confer with officials of
the International Typographical Union
in regard to the strike inaugurated
nearly a year ago for an eight-hour
day and the closed shop.
President ENis of the Typothetae
rteeived a letter signed by James
M. Lynch, president, and J. W. Hays,
vice president, representing the ex
ecutive council of the International
Typographical TUnion, stating that
they were ready for a conference with
a view to adjusting the differences
that ncw exist.
“Failing in obtaining this confer
ence,” the letter read, “the temper
of the members of fhe Typographical
Union wili demand a continuance of
the present struggle.” |
After this letter had been read to
the convention of the Typothetae, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted: |
“Resolved, by the Typothetae of
America, in convention assembled,
That they have no wish to (:()Ilf(?‘.“
with represenfaatives of the Interna
ticnal Typographical Union, and that:
Mr Lynch and Mr. Hays be 80 in-i
formed.” |
The convention adopted a resoli
{icn approving the techincal gchool
work of the last year and commend
infi the proposition to establish :m;
eastern, central and a western’ school |
in addition to those already in 'exisr,—!
ence. !
The following officers were e]ectedi
by acclamation: President, George .
Ells, Boston; vice president, William |
D. Greene, New York; treasurer,i
Thomas E. Donnelly, Chicago. F. L
Ellis of Dalias, W. O. Koote of A',i
lanta and Frank C. Nqnemacher of‘
Louisville were chosen members of
the executive ccmmittee, ‘
-zar Dissolves Parliament By Blow
of Mailed Hand.
PEOPLE ARE THROTTLED
Autocrat Elects to Provoke War Rather
Grant Reforms=-Depends on Bayo
nets for Victory.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says:
Russia’s first experiment in parliamen
tary government came to an ignomin
lous end Saturday night with the pro
mulgation of two imperial ukases, the
firet dissolving the present parliament
and providing for the convocation
of its successor on March 5, 1907, and
the second proclaiming the capital of
Russia and the surrounding provinces
to be in a state of extraordinary se
curity, which is infinitesimally differ
enl from all martial law. This meas
ure of safety is to provide for the out
bursts which undoubtedly will be pro
voked by this daring measure, It is
now but a step to dictatorship.
The text of the two ukases, both
of which are addressed in the stereo
typed form to the ruling senate, are
as follows:
“According to paragraph 105 of the
fundamental law we order the im
perial parliament dissolved and fix
the time for the convocation of the
newly elected parliament for March 5,
1907. {
“Regarding the time for the "Ee.'r
election to the imperial parliament
we will later issue gpecial indications.
“The ruling senate will not fail
to take proper measures to place this
into effect. (Signed).
“NICHOLAS.”
The text of the second ukase fol
lows:
“In consideration of a report of
the ccuncil of ministers presented to
us regarding the necessity in the fu
ture for the preservation of order
and public safety in the city and prov.
ince of St, Petersburg, we consider
it necessary to declare in the above
city and province, instead of the state
of reinforced security which now pre
vails there, a state of extraordinasy
security. The prefect of the city and
governor of the province are entrusted
with the rights thereto appertaining.
“The ruling senate will not fail to
take proper measures to place this
into effect. (Signed).
“NICHOLAS.
With these pithy but momentous or~
ders, Emperor Nicholas by a stroke
of the pen set Russia back to whera
she stood two years ago in the full
grip of autocracy and irresponsible
government, wiping out for six
months at least the whole structure
of parliament, erected at such cost.
No one doubts the severity of the
storm which will rise in the country
in response to the emperor's disper
eal of the men whom he welcomed
two months ago in the winter palace
as the “best men in Russia;” but the
die is cast. The government has
elected to fight, and St. Petersburg
bears eloquent testimony of the prepa.
rations made to repress the masses
by force. The city is packed with sol
diers and resembles an armed camp.
The parltamenl was constituted
May 10, 1906, amid scenes of general
rejoicings. The speech from the
throne, read at the opening session,
was conciliatory in tone, The re-or
ganized council of the empire was
formally convened in the hall of no
bles at the winter palace the fol
lowing day.
A striking feature of the lower
house was the multiplicity of races
represented, there being great Rus
sians, little Russians, white Russians,
Pcles, Lithuanians, Letts, Germans,
Tartars, Bashkirs, Kirghis, Circas
sians, Mordvanians, Votiaks, Jews,
Bulgarians, Chuvas, Roumanians, Cal
muks, Georgians, Armenians, Osse
tines and Buriats in attendance. :
During the entire session the lower
house had been at bitter odds with
the ministry, and has demanded its
resignation, and the formation of a
cabinet from members of the majority.
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