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The Irwin County News
Official Organ of Irwin County.
A fi. D LOACH, E:i tor and Proprietor-
THE LEGlSLAIlliE.
GEORGIA SOLON4 MEET IN REG
UEAR SESSION.
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Proceedings of the Senate and House
Presented in Brief.
Monday’s session in the house was
principally taken up with the reading
of new bills. Mr. Broyles’ bill to
amend the charter of the city of At¬
lanta was passed. This bill provides
for the incorporation of 200 acres of
territory running eastward from the
fourth ward to the DeKulb county
line along the southern boundary of
(he Georgia railroad. It also pro¬
vides that the city officials, council-
men and mayor shall not hold any
other office. A bill by Mr. McDan¬
iel, of Fannin county, to remove the
county seat from Morgantou to Blue
-Ridge, which was reported upon fa¬
vorably by the committee which had
it under consideration, was the. cause
of considerable'discussion. 'It was
filially decided to agree with the re¬
port of the committee, and as there is
some opposition to the measure it was
made the. special order for Wednesday.
In accordance with a resolution intro¬
duced by Mr. Battle, of Mu-cogee, the
house went into adjournment for ton
minutes to hear an address from Hon.
Charles Jewett, ex-speaker of the In¬
diana house. His remarks were listened
to with great appreciation. Mr. Boi-
■ feuillet, of Bibb,introduced an impor¬
tant bill. It provides that municipal
corporations shall exempt from taxa¬
tion, for such a term as they see fit, all
manufactories tjais Sggkipg This to locate
In state. bill was
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introduced at the suggestion
of the Georgia manufacturers.
The following bills were given a third
reading and passed: To establish a
system of public schools for the town
of Guyton; To amend an act to consol¬
idate, amend and codify the various
acts incorporating the city ol Forsyth;
to pay John Faver $2 per diem for
running elevator; To amend an act in¬
corporating the town of Hayne;To es¬
tablish a new charter for the city of
Covington;-To create a board of com¬
missioners of roads and revenues for
the county of Webster; To abolish ap¬
peals from the police court to the
mayor ■ and council of Savannah; To
amend the charter of the town of Bos¬
ton ; To establish and incorporate a
board cf tax receivers and assessors for
the city of Savannah; To abolish the
city court of Laurens county. A large
number of new bills were introduced
and read first time. The house ad¬
journed over till Wednesday in order
^‘Georgia ,Uett the members might celebrate
’ Day” at the exposition.
There were people from all quarters
at the capitol Wednesday to hear the
debate on the Bush bill which was the
special order in the house. The inves¬
tigating committee on the bribery
charges had, however, not yet made
its report so, upon motion of Mr.
Bush, the bill was carried over and
made the special order for next
Wednesday. The reformatory home
hill, which was another special order,
was then taken- up , and occupied the
attention of the house during the
whole session and even beyond the
usual hour of adjournment. This bill
has been so Often mentioned that it is
familiar to everyone. This bill was
I first introduced by Mr. Burwell, of
Hancock, and'the bill discussed dur¬
ing the day was the substitute offered
hand recommended by the committee.
I A great number of the members were
I I heard from on the-subject and a num-
her Of-amendments added'to the bill,
lit failed to pass, however, and
Iwas, lins, upon motion of Mr. Jenk-
of Putnam, recommitted to
■the penitentiary committee. This
iproctically las defeats the measure,
Mr. Jenkins, in his argument, stated
■that while he favored a reformatory,
■his was not the best solution of the
■juestion. •' It carried with it a big ap¬
propriation Pood and it was doubtful if the
^returns -from the investment
Bvould be worthy of this expenditure,
■here was tead/in, the house a resolu-
Bon from the Atlanta Women’s Club
Baking H>ry the house to pass the reforma-
bill. The . resolution was signed
Hr all of the members who are the
Host -prominent and best known wo-
Hen in Atlanta. There were four
Heeial orders ' set " for the day.
Hiree of these were of great inpor-
Hnce and either would have taken up
He whole morning. These bills were
He Hi, Bush bill, the reformatory home
the uniform text-book bill and the
Hnnin Bout eoutity court- house bill.
Hllingham, the hour of adjournment, Mr.
chairman of the commit-
Himittee H, asked to submit the report of the
Hestigate appointed by the house to
Hse the bribery charges. The
Hent refused to accept, however, and
H over until Thursday. During
morning, a delegation of twenty
Hninent residents of Fannin county
Beared before the legislature for the
HH[of Hjpose the of protesting bill of Mr. against McDaniel, the pass- of
Hjnin, HI Morganton to remove to the Bine county Ridge. Seat
H|e Hlion gentlemen not say fair that the recent
was a one.
Hresolution was introduced iu tho
He Thursday by Mr. Johnson, of
SYCAMORE. IRWIN COUNTY. GA.. FRIDAY. NOVEMBER29,1895.
Hull, to have, the governor direct the
attorney-general to investigate the
consolidation of the railroads in Geor- j
gia and if there is any evidences of a
violation of the constitution which
discourages a mon opoly, to proceed
against such a corporation. The reB-
olution seeks to have the general ;
assembly investigate particularly the j j
consolidation into the Southern rail-
way system of so great a portion of the
railroad interests of the state and j
asks that the governor instruct the j.
attorney-general to investigate and i
proceed against the system if any vio- j
latiou to the state laws is shown. The !
house concurred in the senate amend- j
ment 111 all to the house except hill to the allow great the capital jury, j
cases
crimes, to reduce the eff use to a mis-
demeanor, and, if the judge concurs in
this recommendation, to punish as iu
tbo case of a misdemeanor. Tbi»
measure is the senate’s substitute for a
bill of a similar character which passed
the house at the last session. The bill
embodies the principles of a like
measure introduced by Mr. .Tonkins, of
Putnam, and received the hearty in-
dorsement of the code commissioners
before it was taken lip iu the senate,
I be bid was debated at considerable
length and finally passed. A number
of new bills were introduced, most of
them being of a local character. The
following bills were passed : Tore-
peal an act incorporating the towD of
Haynne; To authorize the comp-
troller general to reopen the
matter of assessment of taxation
of the property of the North High-
land Railroad Company ; lo amend an
act incorporating the town of Madi-
son ; To provide compensation for the
commissioners of Thomas county. The
house was in an uproar for a time du-
ring the morning’s session. Mr. Me-
Daniels bill to change the county site
of Fannin county was the occasion and
Mr. McDaniel’s speech the direct
cause. The bill was finally passed.
Ihe railroad committee submitted
their report. The scalpers’ bill was
requested to he withdrawn by the
member who offered it; also the bill to
make the roads issue mileage books.
The committee reported favorably on
Brannan’s bill to put sleeping cars m
the hands of the railroad commission-
ers. The report of the investigating
committee on the corruption charges
was submitted and read. The nature
of report has already been published.
Senator Harris, of Macon, introduc¬
ed an important bill in the senate
Moiiday morning. His bill seeks to
give relief to the supreme court by
creating a court of appeals, to be com¬
posed of three judges, to be appointed
by the governor at once and to sit at
six different places in Georgia. Mr.
Harris thinks his bill a good one and
that it ought to pass, as it would give
the needed relief before the bill of
Mr. Fleming to amend the constitu¬
tion could be adopted by the people,
and that if the bill of Mr. Fleming be¬
comes a law, this one could be repeal¬
ed. In the meantime, for the next
two or three years, the court could re¬
lieve the pressure. Senator Boynton
introduced a hill which Beeks to amend
the code,and to allow sheriffs and their
deputies to carry weapons concealed.
Senator Munro thinks counties should
have the right to hire their convicts to
private parties, and therefore he intro¬
duced a bill to that effect. Senator
IF eks introduced a bill to provide for
three conductors to conduct the coun¬
ty teachers’ institutes in the state.
The senate, by a unanimous vote,
adopted the resolution inviting Secre¬
tary Hoke Smith to address the gen¬
eral essembly in joint session on the
first Tuesday in December at 8 p. m.,
in the hall of the house of representa¬
tives. The senate then adjourned over
until Wednesday, that the members
might mingle with their constituents
and have a good time taking in the ex¬
position Tuesday.
The committee appointed under a
joint resolution to ascertain what les-
sees of the state convicts are in arrears
for hire of convicts, submitted its re-
port to the senate Wednesday through
the chairman, Senator Sanford. The
report shows that penitentiary No. 1
owes-for last year $2,317.43, and com-
pany No. 3 owes $3,250.66. For this
year company No. 1 owes $3,172.79;
No. 2 §153.15;'No. 3 $7,216.37, mak-
ing the total amount due $17,488.40.
Fi fas against these companies the re-
port says, have been issued. The fi
fa against company No. 1 has been
levied on the property of the estate
of Senator Joseph E. Brown, that
against No. 2 on property of W. B.
Lowe, and the fi fa against company
No 3 on property of W. D. Grant,
who is one of this company’s securi-
ties. These fi. fas. were levied on
the 18th day of October. The house
joint resolution inviting Hon. F. G.
duBignon to address the general as-
sembly was' concurred in. Senator
Harris, of the twenty seoond, intro-
duced a bill amending and more fully
defining the offense of barratry. If
this bill passes it will make the offer-
ing of a lawyer’s services to.bring
suits and pffense, and in addition to
being fined or imprisoned the offender
shall be disbarfed from practice. The
following hiRs were passed: To regu-
late the sale of domi stic wines in towns
and cities; Bill to amend section 1329
of the code of 1882, to be changed so ns
the contestant shall give contestee no-
tioe of his intention to contest in ten
days after the election, and contestee
“In Union, Strength and Prosperity Abound.”
shall give counter notice to contestant
in fifteen days after the election; To
define and apply the law of abatement
to certain cases; Bill to prohibit the
sale of seed cotton in Columbia coun-
ty between certain hours; The bill
introduced by Senator Roberts, that
a master may not contraot with a ser-
vant exempting himself from liabili-
ties to the servant for injuries sus-
tnined through negligence; To author-
ize the payment of checks and drafts
and saving bank orders in case of the
death of the drawee before payment;
Bill providing for a uniform time of
opening the public schools in Bibb
county, and amending the charter of
the Macon Savings Bank; To amend the
constitution so as to allow municipal
corporations to exempt from taxation
cotton and other manufactories; Bill
authorizing the governor to lease con-
viots for the unexpired term, in the
event a lessee throws up his lease; Bill
to allow the principal physician of the
penitentiary to discharge subordinate
physicians, was passed, as was the bill
putting Dade county in the Borne cir-
cuit; To prohibit pugilism and prize
fighting in Georgia.—The bill makes it
the duty of all peace officers to stop
tke fight by arresting all the parties
concerned.
A good portion of the time of the
senate was taken up Thursday in read¬
in g local bills the second time. The
Henate passed the bill of Mr. Brown,
o{ p u i aski> to incorporate public
ec ho 0 ls in Cochran, The bill of Sen-
a t or Boberts to prevent corporations
from contracting with their employes
so ag t 0 relieve corporations from dam-
ages by ' reason, of accident, was not
pas8ed Wednesday, as reported, but
was ]aid (m the table. Thursday moru-
j ng t b e bill was taken up and was the
Bubject G f considerable debate. The
present law allows railroads and other
corporations to make contracts with
their employes, whereby, in consider-
nation of the employment, the em-
ploye agrees not to hold the corpora-
. t j oa ij abie f or 8Cy injuries received
while iu tbeir employment. A num-
ber of aide speeches were made for
a ud against the measure. On the pas-
, age . 0 f the bill the yeas were 24, uays
12 . Hon. Fleming duBignon has
mimed the 10th day of December as a
time when he will address the general
assembly on the political issues of the
day,
Both Have Funds.
The investigation committee, in the
anti-barroom bill corruption . charges
held another session Monday morning.
Rev. A. J. Hughes, who was the
custodian of the prohibitionists’ fund,
was first examined. He showed that
$425 had been paid to him and that it
had been expended for postage, print¬
ing and his own traveling expenses.
Mr. Steiner, of Atlanta, testified
that, as custodian for the liquor men’s
fund, he had received $2,800; it had
all been expended for legitimate pur¬
poses. Fifteen hundred dollars of
this amount had come from the retail
liquor men of Savannah, §600 from
Macon, and the remaining sum from
the brewers of the state.
This is the substance of what was
brought out. Both sides have a small
fund and contend equally as to the
legitimate usage of the same,
. The senate confirmed the appoint¬
ment of the following solicitors at
Wednesday morning’s session: Gra¬
ham Forester, solicitor county court of
Stewart; John G. Hale, solicitor
county court of Dade; J. E. Sheppard,
.solicitor county court of Marion;
Howard Benzley, solicitor county court
of Lee.
THE STRIFE IS OVER.
New Orleans Serewmen Will Work
-o for the Stevedores.
The labor troubles affecting the ship
traffic of New Orleans may be consid¬
ered as finally ended. After about a
year’s turmoil the screwmen’s assoeia-
bav<1 decided to allow members of
the association . to work for the Steve-
It will be remembered that , soon af-
‘er the riots on the levee last spring
whlob united in a split between the
crewmen and the stevedores the screw-
men organized an association of tbeir
ow n to * the P"P°“ of loading and
^loading Prohibited . ships, , and at members the same from time
any of its
receiving employment from the steve-
dores. : The screwmen’s company have
been *«> work fo all screw-
men and in consequence a large num-
b er of them were forced to remain idle
or seek employment in other lines of
Industry, ihe sorewmen are skilled
aborts and the decision they have at
* a ?‘ 8 lv f general satisfaction.
wdl now be able to go to work at
tb mr trade and at the same time ends
a condition of affairs which was harm-
fal to labor and shipping interests.
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M. AND N. G. SALE.
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Bid. in by the Representative of the
' Construction Creditors.
The Tennessee division of the Mari-
miles, etta and and North including Grorgia the bridge railroad, 106 i j
across
the Tennessee river at Knoxville, waB
sold by Special Master H. H. Taylor
Saturday afternoon to-R. T. D. Law-
rence, of Marietta, Ga., representing
the construction creditors. Mr. Law-
rence’s bid was §330,000, a sum largely
in excess of the upset price.
T11R0DGH GEORGIA.
BITS OF NEWS GATHERED FROM
OVER THE STATE,
Being a Summary of Interesting Hap¬
penings From Day to Day.
There is to be a horse swapper’s con¬
vention at Calhoun on November 29.
All of Gordon county’s lovers of horse
flesh will be on hand.
Atlanta will be honored by Athens
on November 29,- “Lucy Cobb Day.”
Preparations are being made to bring
to the exposition the entire population
of the classic city.
A company is being formed to work
the gold fields of Paulding county for
all they are worth. The operatives
will begin at Yorktown, near Rook-
mart, at an early date. A capital stock
of §50,000 has been raised for that
purpose.
The secretary of the Farmers’ Na¬
tional congress, which reoently met in
Atlanta, has written a public letter in
which he says the delegates were not
properly treated by the Atlanta peo¬
ple, because their expenses were not
while they were guests of the city.
The movement which has been start¬
ed in Augusta to suppress the small
money lenders who prey upon many of
the wage-earners in that city not only
has a very strong local support, but
has taken shape in a bill which Mr.
Fogarty, of Richmond, haB intro¬
duced in the legislature.
The Savannah Press, in an editorial
comment on the bush bill investiga¬
tion, says: “The investigation has
shown that both sides, the antis and
prohis, have endeavored to persuade
the legislators, by oral argument only,
against or in favor of the measure.
Nobody has tried to corrupt any one.
If this is lobbying, then both sides
have lobbied.”
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun says
that “if the legislature is in sympathy
with the committee appointed to at¬
tend the dedication exercises of the
Chickamauga National park, it will
appropriate $25,000 or some adequate
sum, to erect monuments to the brave
men who fell on that bloody battle¬
field in defense of Georgia and the
south. ”
Governor Atkinson has granted a
commutation to Mitchell Johnson, in
the penitentiary for manslaughter.
Johnson was sent np for twenty years
in 1890 from Randolph county, but as
the soltoitor of the circuit, the grand
jurors and the jurors that tried him
asked for a commutation it was grant¬
ed, the governor allowing him to go
for the time he has served.
Mayor King, of Atlanta, has ap¬
proved the resolution adopted by the
city council instructing the legislative
committee to prepare a bill increasing
the number of polioe commissioners to
seven. It now remains for the legia-
lative committee to prepare Fulton the bill j
and present it to one of coun- l
ty’s representatives in the legislature
for introduction.
Mr. Jake Moore, assistant keeper of
the penitentiary, has returned from
New York city, where he went as a
witness in the suit of Messrs. Dean,
Van Diver and Ewing, attorneys of j
Rome, against Mrs. Maude Laseelles,
the wife of Sidney Laseelles, better
known as Lord Beresford, who is serv-
ing a sentence in the Georgia peniten-
tiary. When Beresford was arrested
his wife employed tho Rome lawyers (
to defend him, and after the case,
which was a long and tedious one, had
been completed, they sent in a bill for
§6,500. Mrs. Beresford refused to pay
the bill and there was a suit brought
to recover it. Mr. Moore, who was i
sheriff of Floydcounty at the time, was
summoned to New York as a witness,
He says the outlook is good for the at-
torneye to recover.
Anotlier Mill lor Rome,
A large number of citizens of Rome
met a few days ago to discuss a propo-
gition made to them by Messrs. Trainer
& Oo ., of Chester, Pa., relative to the
e re«tion of a §600,000 cotton mill in
tJle c , ty . ifc j 8 proposed to locate the
mill near Rome, not far from the Mas-
sachusetts cotton mill. This concern
and will bring give to emplo Rome y ment at least to 1,000 2,500 hands j j
peo-
P le - They will run at first 800 looms
and 12,000 spindles.
The promoters of this enterprise de-
sire the citizens of Rome to subscribe
for $50,000 of the stock before they
will locate.
A committee of prominent gentle-
men will at once call upon tho people
and endeavor to raise the desired
amount. The meeting was enthnsias-
tic, largely attended and a sufficient
number of shares will be sold at once,
it is thought, to induce the mills to lo- ,
cate near Rome.
VOL. VI. NO. 40.
Atlanta Sells Bonds.
The best sale of Atlanta bonds in
the history of the city was made a few
days ago by the finance committee of
the general counoil. Fifty thousand
dollars’ worth of 4 per cent, bonds
were sold at par, the Atlanta National
Bank being the purchaser. The deal was
consummate I by Mr. Hugh T. Inman,
ohairman of the finanoe committee, in
whose hands the fiuance committee of
council left the matter. The sale was
authorized by council at its last meet¬
ing.
This sale speaks well for the credit
oi the city of Atlanta, for Mr. Inman,
and for the Atlanta National Bank, a
home institution, and seems to he a
matter of congratulation for all par¬
ties concerned.
This is the second time in the histo¬
ry of tho city that Atlanta bonds
drawing 4 per cent, have been sold.
The former sale was also made by Mr.
Inman, when be was chairman of the
finance committee under Mayor John
T. Glenn, On that occasion, as at
present, the Atlanta National Bank
was the purchaser. This last batch of
bonds sold were redemption bonds, is¬
sued for the purpose of redeeming
bonds issued in 1879. Those bonds
drew 6 per cent, interest.
Last year the city sold 4 1-2 per
cent, bonds at a premium of 1 per
cent, but this later issue is a better
one for the city by about §10,000, as
the bonds run thirty years.
The New Town of Fitzgerald.
An old soldiers’ colouy has been
established in Irwin county, at the
crossing of the Brunswick and West¬
ern and the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroads, and where a feu
weeks ago there was nothing but the
virgiu pine forest, there are now 1,500
people.
This colony is made up of old sol¬
diers, who draw pensions from the
government, and their families. It
was Indianapolis, originated Iud., by P. H. pension Fitzgerald, agent, of
a
who, for the past three years, has been
. working with this object in view.
A prominent railroad man who vis¬
ited the colony recently said that it
sounded like a Fairy tale when ho first
heard about it, and even now that he
has seen what is being done, he can
hardly realize it. call
“The colonists have decided to
their magic city ‘Fitzgerald, 1 »» said
he. “It is nee. 4 the post office, form¬
erly known as Swan, in Irwin county,
twenty-five miles northeast of Tifton
but now the post office is known as
Fitzgerald. The colonists purchased
seventy acres of pine land, and have
plotted a city of 1,000 acres, which is
rapidly being settled by pensioners of
the United States government. In
September the town site was in the
pine woods, unmarked. It is now be¬
ing cleared and will soon be built np.
Ten days ago there were 120 colonists
at Fitzgerald. Last Thursday, when
I was there, there were 1,500 people ;
living at Fitzgerald. By December 1
come of $1,000,000 per year, which
will be spent in this locality. The
colonists have applied to the legisla¬
ture of Georgia for a charter for the
city of Fitzgerald, and they intend to
shortly have the county site located
there. A court house is to built and
also an opera house. There are now
already in Fitzgerald four butcher
shops, six restaurants and two barber
shops. Other places of business are
to be established. The residents of
the new town are now living m tents
and slab 111118 awaiting the allotment
of bonds, which will take place in a
few days. The building lots will be
as8 j gI! ed and the settlers will then tear
down the shanties and build Comfort-
a bie houses. The average cost of these
houses will be §800.
The larger portion of the settlers
came f rom the west of the Mississippi
r j ver and traveled to Fitzgerald in
covered wagons. They are a fine body
people, and are ready to begin work
a t once,
. The plan is a co-operative one and
each person will select an individual
] 0 t. The alternate lots in the town
s jte are to be sold to outsiders who will
have no interest in the lands originally
selected.
Negotiations are now pending with
Western Union Telegraph Corn-
paqy, and it is expected that a tele-
graph station will soon be established,
Several thousand acres outside of
the town tracts are to be plotted into
lots of 5 aores each to be transformed
^ g“ rdeu8 and truck farms by the
colonists, and later a large percentage
of the lauds is to be cleared up and
used as truck farms. The colonists at
present on the ground are perfectly
satisfied. The women say they are
contented and the prospects are that
the colony will be a big success.
Colt Case Postponed.
The trial of Colonel A. B. Coit, of
Columbus, 0., for the killing of citi-
zenain the riots at Washington C, H.,
has been again postponed to Decem-
her 2d. Owing to the serious illness
G f one c f the jurors the jury was dis-
obafged. The trial has already cost
over §10,000in addition to the fees of
Colonel Coit’s counsel, which are paid
by the state,
“Hb ought to be opened,” said
three-year-old Eddie, on seeing the
meture o! a man in full armor.
1.00 A Year.
BY WALLS OF FIRE
THK DIVES OE TWO HUNDRED
PEOPLE WERE ENDANGERED.
Employes In a Building Jump from a
Sixth Story.
Fire in a six story building at New
York, Tuesday, caused a panic among
200 working people employed there.
One person is known to have perished,
and there may have been others who
met a similar fate. The basement, in
which th>- flames started, was occupied
as a candle factory, and the tallow
there caused the tire to spread rapidly,
cutting off egress liy wav of the stairs.
Several men jumped from the roof and
from windows to the tops of adjoining
buildings. After the building had been
burned the firemen set about searoh-
ing for bodies.
CAPTURED KILL I BUSTERS.
They Are All Prominent Cubans of
New York.
Detailed official information has
been received at .Washington of the
excit ng events attending the capture
of the fillibustering steamer Horsa,
which is dow held at Kingston, Ja¬
maica, and of the arrest in Cuba of
five of the principal members of the
expedition, The information is con-
tained in a long dispatch from Havana,
dated Tuesday. boat
It states that on last Sunday a
with five passengers and her crew ar¬
rived from Aguedores, six miles from
Santiago de Cuba. They said they
were fishermen from Jamaica, but af¬
terward admitted that they were on
their way to join the rebels and that
they had thrown over their arms when
they were discovered. They were
placed under arrest. Their names are:
Fernando Alvarez, who had a commis¬
sion of general from Venezuela, Fer¬
nando Mendez, Francisco Zaldivar,
Manuel Haroztarena, Leonard Vent,
all Cubans.
As soon as the foregoing dispatch
was received, the men under arrest
were identified as five well-known
members of the Cuban colony at New
York, who, it is said, left that city on
the night of Saturday, November 9,
boarding the steamer Horen -off Cape
Baruegat. -
MOTORMAN TESTIFIES
During tho Coroner’s Inquest on the
Cleveland Horror.
The most important witness exam¬
ined at the coroner’s inquest in the
central viaduct horror at Cleveland,
O., was Augustus Rogers, the motor-
man of the car which plunged into the
river. He testified that the conductor
rang ahead when the car stopped at
tho safety switch and signalled him
“all right.” glass
He stated that the in the vesti¬
bule was blurred by rain and that he
did not discover that the bridge was
open until his car was within thirty
feet of the gates. He then turned off
the current, set the brake, and jump¬
ed. He said he saw no red light, and
believeB had there been one displayed
he would have seen it. He admitted
that he had been misled by the fact
that the eleffrio cut-off, provided by
the street railway company as a safe¬
guard, was out of order. Two other
witnesses swore that the red light was
displayed over the gates when the car
struck them.
A NEW NATIONAL PARK.
Blue and Gray to Meet In Vicksburg
and Locate the Battlefield.
A dozen generals and other officers
who wore the blue left Chicago for the
south Wednesday morning to meet
representative leaders of the gray, to
arrange details for a petition to Con¬
gress to make the battlefield of Vicks¬
burg a national military park. They
form together the officers and direc¬
tors of the Vicksburg Military Park
association, organized last month. The
battlefield will be accurately located
and the ground occupied by both arm¬
ies in the contest will be gone over by
the members of the association. It is
hoped by this united action congress
may he induced to make an appropria¬
tion sufficiently large to ’confer the
battlefield into a suitable monument
honoring the soldiers of both sides
who died on the historic spot.
PRIUB OF SALT DOUBLED.
Packers Being Bled by the Trust to
the Tune of $500,000 a Year.
A Chicago paper says: The leading
packers in the stockyards, as well as
the lesser ones, are worried by the salt
combine, which has been raising prices
until now it seems the effect of the salt
“trust’s” squeeze will cost the packers
a matter of §400,000 or $500,000 a
year. salt has been advanced price
Rock in
nearly 100 per cent. The packers dis¬
patched trusted men to find out wheth-
er's.dt can be bought elsewhere. Their
agents have returned and report that
the combine seems to have secured
everything. --.stead of $2.75
i ton, are no’W pay in f< H. 50 to $4.75
for their roclk salt.