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FRDIAY, APRIL 12, 1907.
THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
7
FORMER OPENLY DEFIES
ROOSEVELT’S DEAD LINE
TRIED TO MUZZLE GRAVES
AT THE BRYAN BANQUET
to Dictation
pnr'nin
nnnssrn
ig or Little
f - j; i r. j 1 >9
Uu JlfjEJ
Is
Nor Member
of Tiny Conspiracy
CANTON. O.,
Senator's speed
to a publication
of an anti-Roosevelt
viewed the Investigai
charge of • the negro
pril 10.—In a speech
ttltude toward the
i at this time, replied
entior.Sng him as one
conspiracy. re-
Ion of the dls-
soldlers on ac
count of the trouble -at Erdwnsvllle,
Texas, reiterated his views regarding
recent railroad legislation. protested
Bt,iJnst the infringement by one
branch of the Government of the
rights of another branch and declared
the representatives of the people in
Congress are accountable only to the
people, and are not "properly subject
to any other influence ” He denied
the right of any one except hi3 con
stituents to cal! him to account, and
sounded a note of warning against in
creased surveilance of business men
who need no "moral regeneration.”
He quoted a published report that
Roosevelt had drawn a dead lino for
Senator Fomker and that if he "at
tacks President Roosevelt. President
( Roosevelt will be heard from In no un
certain tones."
Attempts'to Name Successor.
Senator Forakcr said the President
of the flnlted States should become
personally engaged in a political con
test to determine his successor is with
out precedent, unless it be the .bad
precedent set by Andrew Jackson as
to Martin Van Buren. "That ho
should enter upon such a struggle with
a declaration that he is to set limita
tions upon the freedom of speech of
those who may differ with him, and
that they are to disregard those limi
tations at their peril is withou preoe-
den. even in the case of Jackson and
is so inconsistent with the dignities
of his high office and the proprieties
always to be observed, that I feel It'a
duty toward the President himself to
enter for him upon my own motion, a
disclaimer of all responsibility for
such a publication.
"The time has not yet come a-nd no
body knows that better than the
President himself, when dead lines can
be drawn in debate for anybody to ob
serve, nor has the time come when any
real man -would respect them after
they were drawn.
"So far as T am personally concern
ed. I shall always speak with malice
toward none, but according to my con
victions whenever and wherever I
may have occasion to speak at all"
Mr. Fomker characterized ns a sort
of companion piece, a published
statement that the President has
named ns members of the conspira
cy to do him up for his attitude to
ward Wail street. E. H. Harrimnn. J.
B. Fornker and John D. Rockefeller.
Named as Conspirators.
"Iri view of this publication.” said
Mr. Foraker. "I trust I may without
impropriety say that until it was given
opt st Washington a few days ago. I
r*ver heard tell of any combination or
♦ "list, or conspiracy to oppose the
President in anything, much less did
,! over hoar of the so-called five million
* dollar conspiracy of which we have
her,! so much of during the past week
"T never saw John T). Rockefeller
but once in my. life and that was JD
veers aco or more while I was Gov
ernor of Ohio With that single ex
ception I never saw him. never spoke
to him. nml never communicated with
him in.any way. directly or indirectly.
"Excent' only for a brief conversa-
tlon with Mr. Harrlman. in the pres
ence of n company at a dinner. I never
communicated with him directly or in-
dl-ectlv on am* subject whatever.”
I call attention to all this with par
ticularity so that at the outset such
wild, reckless, crazy stories may be
put in to the class of campaign litera
ture whore they probably belong.
"But the storlea are hut samples of
many others all of which taken to
gether seem to have for their object
the dissemination of the Idea that I
am at war w'th the policies of Pres
ident Roosevelt.
"No man ever occupied the White'
House who has been Identified with
so many, legislative measures as Pres
ident Roosevelt. He Is a tireless work
er. He Is constantly doing, or caus
ing to be done something of great Im
portance. This Is true not onlv ns to [
TO RIF !F PillfiHT
id UlL \\ UnUulU
AMERICAN CUT TO PIECES IN
SERVICE OF HONDURAS.
Es Had Speech Suggesting
That Bryan Nominate
Roosevelt in 1908
lie iVas Asked
MOBILE. Ala., April 10.—Octavus Gal
lardo, collector of customs and postmas
ter at the captured town of Trujillo. Hon
duras, arrived here last night on the
steamer Belize from Belisc. British Hon
duras. Just as the steamer left Belise
four days ago, a letter was handed Gal
lardo stating that Gen. Lee Christmas,
the American officer In the service of
Honruras. had been cut to pieces by Nic
araguan soldiers. The letter gave no de
tails of the fight in which Christmas
was killed. Information was contained
in the letter that there was no hope tor
the Bonilla Government, and he was
doomed to death If he did not get out of
the country.
News was brought here by passengers
by steamer that President Manuel Bo-
nillo was not at Amapala. but was hiding
In Salvador. Thi3 report is said to be
authentic.
Gallardo was accompanied by his sec
retary. Roman Gonzales, and they effected
their escape from Trujillo two days before
tho place was captured by the Nieara-
gans. They succeeded In carrying away
J 14.000 of the Government’s money, which
was placed In safe keeping in Belise.
to Cut It Out
COTfON WAS mi
ill CLOSED STEADY
AOORESSIYE
sociated Press has already ‘been sent
out to the newspapers of the country.
I have not ,one particle of dogmatism,
nor any mere pride of personal opinion
In pressing this matter, but the pub
licity already given to my speech com
mits me to it so far that I cannot en
courage, or, in consistency suppress
that part of my speech around which
the whole revolves.”
GRAVES DELIVERED
SPEECH HE HAD PREPARED.
CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. April 10.—
A sensational feature of the banquet
CHATTANOOGA Tenn.. April 10.— given in honor of W. J. Bryan by the
Editor John Temple Graves’ sugges- 1 Bryan anniversary club, at which W.
tion that W. J. Bryan nominate Roose- i f- was ‘ he gu^st of honor was
. . . . _ . , i the letter and subsequent speech of
velt which the Georgia editor intended • John Tem pie Graves, editor of the At-
elucidating in a speech to Bryan ban- j lanta Georgian, who in his letter re-
quetttrs this evening, were denied ut- i fused to,speak because the toastmast-
terance. er as ked him not to talk about his
John Tomlinson, of Birmingham, one i (Graves) suggestion that Bryan should
of the speakers and toastmaster, .met nominate Roosevelt for re-election.
Negotiations for Peace.
WASHINGTON, April 10.—The State
Department today received a dispatch
from Philip Brown, secretary to the
United States legation in Guatemala and
Honduras, saying that negotiations are
pending for the settlement of the dispute
between Nicaragua and Honduras. Mr.
Brown is still at La Union, and It appears
that he is acting in the interest of Sal
vador In treating with Nicaragua. This
is entirely on his own initiative, and does
not Involve the United States in any
manner, acocrdlng to the State Depart
ment officials. It is said that the greater
difficulties attenning a settlement is the
keen desire of the Nicaraguan forces to
capture President Bonilla, who is at the
head of the Honduran army in the west
of that Republic. To effect this capture
would necessitate renewed fighting, and
the other countries in Central America
are trying to avoid this, and it is the de
sire also of the United States and
Mexico that hostilities be brought to a
close at once.
DETAILS OF SUSOIDE
OF JOHN A. COBS, JR.
HE WAS VERY PROMINENT IN
BUSINESS CIRCLES IN COR-
DELE, GA. - .
CORDELE. Ga.. April 10.—The Daily
Post gives the following account of the
suicide.of John A. Cobb, Jr.: One.of
the saddest tragedies that has ever
happened in this city occurred this
morning about 8 o’clock, when Mr.
John A. Cobb, Jr., proprietor of the
Cordele Ice Company, committed sui
cide by shooting himself in the temple
with a 3S-calibre Smith & Wesson re
volver.
Mr. Cobh had arisen about 7 o’clock,
and had eaten h hearty breakfast and,
kissing his wife goodbye, had gone to
his office as usual. Arriving at his
office, he greeted a number of the em
ployes. and entered his office. Shortly
after the report of a pistol was heard,
and upon investigation 'by Mr. R. J.
•Self and L. R. Toole, he was found ly
ing on a pile of rubbish in a small
room in the rear of his office, with a
bullet hole in his right temple.
Drs. McArthur and Neal were sum
moned with all possible speed, and did
all in their power to save the wounded
man, but without avail. v
As soon as possible he was removed
to his home on the corner of Eleventh
avenue and Sixth street, where he died
at 11:15 o’clock.
For a number of months he had been
in bad health, and had only last week
returned from Savannah, where he had
been in the hospital for some time.
He looked much better, and informed
his friends that he had spent the
greater* part of the winter in Florida,
and had been greatly benefited by the
change of climate.
He came here more than a year ago
from Americus, where he was born and
reared, for the purpose of taking charge
of the plant of the Cordele Ice Com
pany. which he operated last summer,
and was preparing to operate again
this summer.
He is son ot Capt. A. Cobb.
domestic, but also as to foreign a f. ! Sr., ordlna^ of Sumter County and
fairs. lie has been President since | J® connected with the best families of
Sept.. 1901 almost six years. During | Georgia. Ho was one of the most
nil that time T have supported all j Prominent mEmbcrsof-Cordele Lodge
measures that have come before the hts °f
Senate of the United States for con- TS3J} bo 2 r t ? 5 * f, . a ° e ’ a ? a
slderntlon with which he was in any ! 1 * as n l a " icd - _He Is said to be a grand
way identified, except only three.
Graves on his arrival from Atlanta at
noon and requested omission of this
reference in his speech, arguing Us
impropriety in view of Bryan’s pres
ence at the banquet. Col. Graves de
clined to alter his views or subject his
speech to censorship. He attended
the banquet as an invited guest, re
maining but a short while, when he
left the banquet hall for an Atlanta
train. This evening Mr. Graves ad
dressed a letter to the president of the
Bryan anniversary club, defending his
position.
In his letter Mr. Graves declared that
he yielded to no one in his profound
and affectionate regard for Mr. Bryan
for the Democratic party and that ne
was profoundly convinced that in this
period of tremendouseconomic crisis the
only man whp can carry to successful
conclusion the reforms instituted in
behalf of the people was the man who
is already entrenhed in the power and
prestige of dauntless courage and is a
conspicuous success in the exjtutive
office. Continuing, he oaidt-
“My reasons for stating this convic
tion: At a Bryan banquet, with Mr.
Bryan present, was because I consid
ered it the only and Democratic thing
to do. The time to voice a sentiment
so momentous to the life and pros
perity and to tho realization of the best
interests of a real Democracy is in a
counsel of the faithful and in the pres
ence of our great and shining leader
who would be there to command, to ap
prove or to condemn with tho full force
of his influence and eloquence as he
might see it. It appears to me the
only fair and honest thing to do wat' to
speak my convictions in full council
and with open voice. In the’r belief
my speech, upon the request of the As-
Later Mr. Graves, after being per
suaded to take his place at the ban
quet table, delivered his speech in
which he declared that Mr. Bryan
should nominate Theodore Roosevelt
for the presidency.
Senator J. B. Frasier responded to
this address, declaring that the Dem
ocrats could not afford to take such
action. Mr. . Bryan spoke at consid
erable extent, arraigning the Repub
lican party though he declared that
Mr. Roosevelt had adopted many Dem
ocratic principles.
He complimented Mr. Graves in the
highest manner for his honesty and
his boldness and said if there was any
place in the world where absolute free
dom of speech should prevail it ought
to be in a Democratic gathering. He
added that when he had heard that Mr.
Graves had retired from the hall be
cause there might be doubts about the
wisdom of what he had to say, he had
sent for the eGorgian to return and in
sisted that the speech should be deliv
ered. Turning directly to the subject
of Mr. Graves’ recommendation, Mr.
Bryan said: “As at present advised I
shall not present the name of Theo
dore Roosevelt to the national Demo
cratic Convention. Bear in mind I say
as at present advised.”
Mr. Bryan continued that if there
mature consideration and reflection
and the .presentation of tho arguments
in the case he should be convinced that
his duty lay in that direction he would
present Mr. Roosevelt’s name if it
should prove the last act of his life.
He then went on to say that if any
Republican was to be selected by the
Democrats to head their national tick
et that man should be Senator La Fol-
lette, of Wisconsin.
LIVERPOOL spots closed 6.12
NEW YORK spets closed 11
NEW ORLEANS spets closed....10 9-16
THE LOCAL COTTON MARKET.
The local cotton market yesterday
was unchanged and steady at the follow
ing quotations:
Range of Prices.
Good Middling 10
Strict Middling 10,.
Middling 10X4
Strict Low Middling 10
Spot Cotton Movement.
Rects. Ship. Sales
April G. 1907 20 143 103
April S, 1907
April 9. 1907 —-
April in, 1907 2
April 11. 1907 5
_ Stock on Hand.
Sept. 1. 1906 2.574
April 11. 3907 1,607
CRUELTY TO SUMTER
COUNTY CONVICTS HORRIBLE
Negroes Beaten By Whipping
Bess Under Slightest
Pretext
Reporters 9 Notes
Not Be Printed
Differed With President.
”1 differed from him ns to joint
statehood for New Mexico and Arizo-
son or Gen. Cobb, of the Confederate
army.
No papers or letters or anything was
found upon his person or elsewhere
explanatory of the deed, and this leads
to the theory that It was temporary
nn. I was unable also’ to nurse with j mental depression, from which he has
the President as to th” conferring the < suffered more or less for some time.
rate making power upon tho Interstate
Commerce Commission ns provided in
the Hepburn law, passed at the first
session of the 59 Congress, and I have
taken a different view from him with
regard to tho discharge without honor
of the members of the Companies B.
C and D. of the 25th United States
infantry on account of the shooting
affray at Brownsville, Texas. This
was an Incident, not a policy. But it
was nn incident of such character that
I felt It my duty as a representative
of the people of Ohio, to do with res- !
pert to it what I have d
The only cause that the tragedy can
be atrributed to is that the dca*’’ man
had been buoyed up in the hope of
getting well, and had spent the winter
away from home, and after returning
home last week, and beginning work,
bad found that his health was breaking
j down.
j Those who were connected with the
I dead man in business matters, in
speaking of the tragedv. said that they
were not surprised, and had feared that
j this would he the outcome, as for
nths h.- had shown considerable
signs of nervousness and worry over
‘While conceding the right of every- I mat * ers ’
body else to differ from me. I deny j Immediately^ after the tragedy oe-
teh rlsht of anybody except my con- | by teI *
stltuents to call me to account. I fS«Ph at hi , s *? me in Americus. and
in response to the message arrived In
have never held
'election. 1 hav
of the eonfldonc
manifested by
any office except by
• always b-ren proud
in me so frequently
he intelligent poeple
of this great commonwealth. I am al- I
ways ready to abide their judgment. I'
would not avoid or evade it if I could.
Therefore i: Is that I propose to carry i ^ '
my cause directly to them whenever'
issues may arise and I nm interested.
If they agree with me. I shall be re
joiced: if rot I shall be satisfied. But
while l will thus submit my cause to | commander
the people and abide their judgment. | KnIc hts of Pv
I will no: submit to the dictations or
threats or menaces of any kind, of any
boss, big or little Inside the State or
outside of : t. Neither will T acquiesce
without protect in what I do not ap
prove. no matter by whom it may be
the city on the noon train in company
with his wife. Hon. and Mrs. James A.
Taylor and Miss Fa rah P. Cobb, the
latter two be'ng sisters of the dead
man. and Miss Hill, a friend of the
I familv.
Mrs. M. E. McDeBerry. of Talla-
ee. Fia. who Is the mother of
: Mrs. Cobb. Jr., was notified by wire cf
the tragedy.
I A meeting was called at 2 p. m. yes-
I terday afternoon by the Chancellor
Cordele Dodge No. 44.
tins, at which a com
mittee composed of F. R. Fields. J. P.
Hughes and G. A. ■Ballenger were ap
pointed to wait upon the bereaved fam
ily and extend to them any assistance
possible.
AMERICUS, Ga... April 10.—The
County Commissioners of Sumter, af
ter investigating thoroughly the testi
mony of a dozen witnesses to alleged,
needless and cruel whipping of negro
convicts on the Sumter chaingang, to
day adopted the following resolutions:
“We. the County Commissioners of
Sumter County, after a thorough inves
tigation find there has 'been unneces
sary whipping by the whipping boss of
the chaingang. We strongly condemn
this conduct and will re-organize the
force at once, and remove from the em
ploy of the county every one who Is in
our judgment In fault.”
The investigation resulted at the re
quest of Judge Charles R. Crisp of the
City Court, to whom charges of c-ruel
treatment had been made in open court.
Judge Crisp is satisfied with the result
of the Investigation, provided the prom
ised re-organization takes place as soon
as possible.
The investigation into the alleged
mistreatment of convicts was thorough
and much of the evidence adduced sus
tained completely the charges made in
open court by the convict, Gus Nel
son.
Convicts were beaten for trivial of-
renses upon numerous occasions cited.
One instance was the stripping and
whipping of seventeen convicts because
one had stolen a tin bucket of victuals
worth probably five cents in an effort
to divulge the real culprit.
Instance was the stripping and whip
ping of Ed Brooks until the skin blis
tered, the offense being that he smok
ed a cigarette during work hours and
then failed to kneel down with the ala
crity demanded by the whipping boss.
The — evidence showed that convicts
were” properly fed and housed, but that
whipping at' times was unnecessary and
doubtless the direct cause of recent
numerous escapes from chaingang.
The reportorial notes made of the
invest'gation by the press representa
tives were taken in charge before the
investigation concluded and are still
in possession of the County Commis
sioners. who expressed the request that
detailed statements he witheld as un
necessary for publication.
Grain, Provisions. Groceries.
These prices are at’ -wholesale- and not
(Corrected by S. R. Jaaues £ Tlnstey Co.)
to consumers:
CORN—Sacked white 70
Sacked mixed ,.S8
Ear corn I.. .70
Car lots, either sacked or bulk,
-made on application.
OATS—White clipped fin
No. 2 white. 59
No. 3 white 5S
Special quotations made on
enr lots-
HAT—Choice timothy $1.30
Mo. 1 timothy... 1.25
No. 2 timothy 1.20
No. 1 clover 1.20
Timothy and clover hixed.... 1.25
Alfalfa hay 1.30
Bedding straw es
BRAN—Pure wheat 1.35
Mixed bran 1.25
Jersey stock feed 1.23
Reliable feed l.jn
Standard feed l.fo
FLOUR—Private Stock, fancy past.. 5.23
Royal Owl, test pat.. 4.30
Ton Notch, first patent 4.20
New Constitution. 74 patent. 3.SO
Orange Blossom, straight.... 3.50
MEAL—Water ground Juliette GS
Other brands C7
MEATS—Dry salt rihs 9«
Extra half ribs.. 9%
18-20-lh. D. S. bellies 10=',
Bulk plntes g«
Smoked me**»-*jc. over above
HAMS—Fancy sugar.cured Ifi
Standard sugar cured 15%
Picnic hams 33
LARD—Pure tierces 10%
Pure, in 80-lb. tubs ...11
Pure, in 50-lb. tins n
Pure, in 60-!b. tubs 10%
Pure, in 10-lb. tins .1*11%
Pure, in 5-lb. tins ills'.
Pure, in 3-Ib. tins ijg
The same additions for other
r»r«rr:*»fl r»*inv».
STRUP—Georda cane (new)I
New Orleans
Black strap.
SALT—100 tbs. White Gotten ao.k.
10ft-!>». Burlap tsrx?
Special prices ear lots.
Imported Rock Sait. ib....
CHEESE—Full cream
Special prices ea r int a .
GRISTS—Hudnuts. in bbls. J3.65
Hudnuts. In 36-Ib. 3aeks 1.70
SUGAR—Granulated, in bids, or sck.,5.05
New Orleans clarified 444.
New York yellow..., lu,
COFFEE—Choice Rio 14
Prime Rio
Medium Rio 12
Common .......11
Arbuckle’s Roasted ....16.04
Choice head 7
Medium
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. April 11.—The cotton
market was quiet today, but showed a
steadier tone and closed steady at a net
advance of 5a9 points. Sales were esti
mated at only 73.000 bales.
The opening was steady at an advance
of 2a3 points on higher cables than ex
pected and big spot sales in the English
market. At first there was some hesita
tion and room professionals seemed to
be selling on the grounds that local con
ditions had prevented figures from fol
lowing the English advance, but the
market worked gradually higher during
the early session on covering of shorts
and prices at one time were about SalO
points net higher.
Later most of this advance was lost in
spite of light estimates for tomorrow’s
receipts at leading points on account of
more seasonable weather in the Western
and Central belts and selling by recent
buyers, but the pressure was not aggres-
ive and the market firmed up toward the
close in anticipation of another bulge in
Liverpool tomorrow. The close was with
in 2 points of the best of the session on
the active months. Light frosts were re
ported in the Eastern belt, and some of
the few reports reached the market that
replanting would be necessary, but ex
erted no influence owing to the earliness
of the season. Exports for the day were
very heavy, exceeping the port receipts,
by about 30.090 bales, and the bulls wore
predicting a bullish visible supply state
ment at the end of the week. Southern
spot markets were generally unchanged.
Receipts of cotton at the ports today
were 14.032 bales a.gainst 16.184 bales last
week and 11,162 bales last year. For the
week (estimated) 90,000 bales against
110.127 bales last week and 116,676 bales
last year.
Today’s receipts at New Orleans were
3.091 bales against 3.207 bales last year,
and at Houston 3.S99 bales against 2.426
bales last ve.ar.
NEW DORIC." April 11.—Spot cotton
closed quiet: middling uplands 11; mid
dling gulf 11.25; sales 171 bales.
Spot Cotton and Futures.
Futures closed steady at the following
quotations.
January ..
February .
March ....
April
May
June
July
August ...
September
October ...
November
December
Open.
...19,10
...10.14
High.
10:16
Low.
10.10
Clos.
10.15
10.20
10.20
9.34
9.48
... 9.45
9/. 51
9.44
... 9.5S
9.63
9.52
£L60
... 9."90
9.64
9.60
9.02
9.69
9.64
9.62
... 9.89
9.98
9.85
9.90
... 9.95
10.00
9.95
9^98
Movement st the Porta.
Receipts and Exports. Today.
Consolidated net receipts.. 14.032
Exports to Great Britain.. 25,167
Exports to Franco 210
Exports to continent 19.000
Stock on hand all ports... .796,076
Since September 1. 1906—
Consolidated receipts
Exports to Groat Pritain
...n,15G,2S4
...3,319,072
Exports to France
Exports to continent
Exports to--Japan
... 816.942
... 2.932, S54
... 201.96S
Price, Net Receipts, Sales,
Stocks.
The Ports. | Prlce.|Reets.iSales.| Stck.
. .28
...17%
Galveston . . . |10%
New Orleans .110 9-16
Mobile . . . .110%
Savannah . . .110%
Charleston . .110%
Wilmington . .10%
Norfolk . . . .ill
Baltimore . , .11
New York .... 11
Boston . . . .Ill
Philadelphia ..111.25
Pensacola . .
8544!
3091!
277!
11931
52
121
2S9
"357
1115
61;
10661217798
2575)222879
25! 22239
569! 03067
I 9654
..... 10718
207! 26896
! 1050C
311 1 171429
NEW YORK. April 11.—The stock mar
ket was still largely In professional hands
today, but operations were conducted in
a more aggressive manner and were ex
tended to greater lengths. Constant
shifting of "ositton still indicated a very
uncertain frame of mind on the part of
the professionals.
Much of the day’s session was given
up to what looked like testing operations
without success in developing the prevail
ing tendency of the market. The trading
sank into extreme dullness at times un
der the discouraging influence of these
failures and then yielded decidedly such
strength as the market showed was most
in evidence in the early part ot tho day.
Part of this was in response to a rise in
the London markets as a result of the
reduction in the official discount rate of
the Bank of England from 5 to 4% per
cent.
The previous course of the money mar
ket gave ample warning of the action
and gave opoprtunity for discounting it
in the securities market.
Notwithstanding this general and con
tinued yielding of money rates all oved
the world, the stock market begins to
reflect misgivings over its sufficiency to
meet the large waiting demands. These
include large volumes of authorized hut
unsecured securities, or where the sale
of these Is impracticable, probable further
note issues. Signs of a movement of
currency back to the interior also give
"warning of the large requirements of the
continued activity in trade. Another
specific influence in the day’s market was
the report from Washington of the decis
ion of the Interstate Commerce Commis-
ion to advise proceedings against the
Harriman Railroad System as a combina
tion in restraint of trade within the
meaning of the laws. The closing tone
was steady and at some recovery from
the lowest.
Bonds were dull and irregular. Total
sales, par value, $1.480.000. United States
bonds were unchanged on call.
The total sales of stocks today were
900,400 shares.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK. April 11.—Money on call
easy at l%a2% per cent; ruling rate 2
-per cent; closing bid and offered at 2
per cent. Time loans dull and slightiy
firmer; 60 days 3% per cent: 90 days
4%a5 per cent; six months 5 per cent.
Prime mercantile paper 6 to 6% per
cent.
Sterling exchange steady, with actual
business in bankers’ bills at 4.8570*8575
for demand, and at 4.S225aS235 for- G0-
dav bills. Posted rates 4.S2%aS3 and
4.8GaS6%. Commercial.bills 4.S2.
Bar silver G5%: Mexican dollars 50.
Government bonds steady: railroad
bonds irregular.
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FOOD INSPECTOR CHEATHAM
MAKES INTERESTING MONTH
LY REPORT.
GRAIN AND PROVISIONS.
CHICAGO, April 11.—Likelihood of rain
In Missouri and Kansas offset today tho
effects of numerous reports of "green
bug” damage to winter wheat and caused
the market to close about steady. Final
quotations on the May delivery were un
changed from yesterday.
Corn is off %a%c., and oats are %e.
higher.
Provisions on the close were from 15 to
20c. lower.
Open.
High.
Low.
Close.
wheat—
May .
: V&
78%
77%
77%
July .
S0%
81%
79%
79
Sept. .
. 81%
8961
81%
Dec. ,
Corn—
. 82%
S3%
S2%
82%
Mnv .
47%
47%
47%
4674
4074
July .
4714
4674
*»«
Sept. .
. 47%
477-4
47%
47%
Oats—
May .
43%
44
43%
43%
July .
39%
39%
39%
30U
Sept. .
Mess Pork-
34%
34" 4
34%
34%
May .
.10.20
16.20
16.00
16.02%
July .
.16.15
16.15
16.05
16.0774
Lard—
May .
8.70
8.72%
8.6774
S. 70
July .
8.87%
8,S7%
8.80
8.8274
Sept. .
Short Ribs-
S.95
S.97%
8.92%
8.9274
May .
8.57%
8.6(1
8.52%
S.52%
y July .
8.82%
8.8274
8.70
8.70
/ Sept. .
8.72^6
S.S5
8.SO
8.80
In his monthly report to the E’oam
of Health, Dr. T. A. Cheatham, the Food
Inspector, laid special stress on the
quality of milk being sold in the city.
He says:
"The necessity for a pure food law,
and the wisdom shown in its enact
ment. becomes more apparent to my
mind daily, and if the Doubling Thomas
will only accompany mo on ono of my
daily tours f inspections. 1 am quite
sure they will become useful converts
before the day’s inspections are over.
Of the many articles of food requiring
constant watching and examination, the
most important of ail is milk, and
while I have not been able to givo this
particular article tho attention it de
serves. I have given to it as much at
tention as my many and varied duties
would permit. A book of many pages
might be written on this very impor
tant subject, especially its effect upon
the sick and Infant life. Many homes
have been saddened as tha little white' J
casket containing tho helpless and in
nocent victim of this death-dealing
agent (impure milk) is borno to its last
resting place,”
During tho month tho Inspector made
9S6 inspections. He condemned and
sent to the crematory the following:
Nine hundred and twonty-nino pounds
of fish, S bushels of oysters in tho shell.
SS9 pounds of fresh meat, 6 bushels of
apples, 24 dozen bananas, 5 pounds of
cheese, 1.740 pounds of cabbage, 3
bushels of onions, 13 dozen oranges, 10
dozen eggs, S pounds of butter, 15 doz
en 'bunches of celery, 2S cans of straw
berries, 40 packages of currants. 5 doz
en lemons. 9 dressed ducks, 202 birds.
8 pounds dressed poultry, 40 baskets of
strawberries, G bunches turnips. 6
bunches radishes, 1 head of lettuce. 15
pickled pig feet, 2 pounds sausage and
half bushel of cranberries. .
OWNER OF DOG BOUGHT TAG,
PAID FEE AND GOT DOG.
^Interior Movement.
DRY GOODS MARKET.
NEW YORK, April 11.—The ary goods
market was firm and quiet today. News
was received of the compulsory closing
of the Japanese silk exchange in conse
quence of inordinate speculation in raw
silk for future delivery. The retail ahd
.iohjlng trade was Vnore active under the
influence of better weather conditions.
Houston .
Augusts .
Memephis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Louisville
Price.!Rects.|SaIes.! Stck.
1423! 5008R
368! 26253
28001151229
211 41462
1075S
.110 13-16’
38991
.1
11% I
336!
io% !
661!
'10%
726!
..!
.1
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LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, April 11.—Good busia^-q
done in spot cotton; prices Sa7 points
higher; American middling fair 7.06; good
middling 6.60; middling 6.1.2; low mid
dling 5.80; gooa ordinary 5.16: ordinary
4.80. The sales of the day were 11.000
bales, of which 2.000 bales, were for snecti-
lation and export, and included 12,800
bales American. Receipts were 10,000
bales, including 8.400 bales American.
Futures opened steady and closed
steady; American middling G. O. C.:
RICE -
Railroad Bonds.
RESIDENCE V/AS BURNED:
Central of Ga. 1st more. 5 per
cent.. 1935....’. 115
Central of Ga. collateral trust
5 per cent, 1937 ,...-...105
Central of Ga. consolidated.
1945 104
Central Ga. 1st income. 1945.. 84
Central Ga. 2d income, 1945.. 75
Central Ga. 3d income. 1945.. 64
Centra! of Ga. Macon & North
ern. 1946 105
FAMILY HAD NARROW ESCAPE i Central of Ga. Middle Ga. &
i Atlantic. 194
ATHENS. Ga.. Anri I 10.—Last night I Southern R. R.. 5 pc.. 1994....110
nbom midnight the residence of Mr. C.V.s. 1 Ga. R. R. & Banking Co., 5
E Sims, of Oconee County, was burned
to the ground. The house was a two-
story structure, and the fire originate?)
on the ground floor. Mr. Sims, his wife !
and three little children were asleep in
the rooms un stairs.
The fire was not discovered until almost :
the entire ground floor had been burned. !
and the entire family would soon have :
been precioitated to the floor beneath i
them and lost their lives. It was with i
great difficulty that they made their 1
Xtr. aims took hi-- three ehlta-nn
Gn. R. R. f- Banking Co.,
per ccr.t. 1310 102
1 Ga. R. R. £ Banking Go.. €
j per cent.. 1922 114
Ga. Sou. (z Fla.. 5 pc.. 1945.... 109
• Ga. ft Ala.. 5 pc.. 1945 105
: Seaboard R. R., 4 pc., 1930.... 74
: Seaboard P.. R., 5 pc.. 1911.... 97
Southwestern R. R. stock 114
Augusta & Savannah stock..114
Georgia R. R. stock 253
Atlanta ft West Point 1C3
Atlanta % West Point dcbcn.,107
6
116
106
105
107
111
116
110
106
April
Anril-May
May-Jnno
June-July ..;
July-August
August- September
September-October
October-Novembc-r
Novemb'er-December ...
December-Janua ry
Janusry-Fobruary
February-March
Close.
5.75
5.73
5.73
5.68%
5.66%
5.G2%
5.59
5.55%
5.55
5.55
5.56
5.57
COTTON SEED OIL.
NEW YORK. Anril 11.—Cotton seed oil
was dull and barely steady. Prime crude
in barrels fd.b. mills 36%a37; prime sum
mer yellow 46; off summer yellow 41%
to' 44; good off summer yellow 42%a44;
prime summer white 51a53; prime winter
yellow 61.
A man walked into Clerk Massen-
burg’s office at tho city hall yesterday
in nn angry state of mind.
He said that his dog had been out
In the country and the man who had
him brought him into town the day •
before and the dog-catcher had cap--
tured him. He was told that all dogs
in the city must have'badges on to keep
from being caught.
He bought a badgo and was told that
his dog was in the pound and would
bo delivered to him on an order from
the clerk after the fee was paid. This
made him madder and he said that the
dog must be delivered to the house
from which he was taken or ho would
sue the city for heavy damage.
When the absurdity of the proposi
tion was pointed out to him he paid
the fee and went after the dog swear
ing vengence on the dog-catcher and
all the officials because the dog was
not delivered to him.
Hardware—Wholesale.
fCerrected bv Dnninp Hnrware Co.)
WEED BUCKET?—!4 per doc
ROPE—Manila. 14%o.; Screi. lie.; eo
ton 18%e
WIRE—Barb. 3%c. per lb.
X'LOW STOCKS—Harman, S0c.; Fergu-
«on. 89c.
•TUBS—Painted. $2.30: cedar. $5.00.
POWDER—$4.50; half kegs. $2.75;
kegs. $1.FC: Dupont an,i Hazard emoite-
less. half kegs. $11.35: % kegs, S5.75;
1-lb. canisters. $1. leas'25 per cent; Trois-
Jorf smokeless oowder. l-!b. cans. $1.
SHOVELS—56 io $11 per doz.
C»RDS—■Cotton. $*.50 per doz.
MOW BLADES. 5c. per ib.
IRON—2%c. lb. base; Swede, 4%c.
pound. , „
AXES—56.50 dozen, base.
LEAD'-par. 7%c. pound.
NAILS.—Wire, $2.60 keg. base; • cut
$2.60 keg. base. _
SHOES—Horse, $4.25 to $4.75 keg; mule
shoes.- $4.25 to $4.75.
Bt’CIOCTS—Pa!«t. $1.70 doz.; white ce
dar. three hoops, $3.75 dozen.
. CHAINS—Trace. *4 to $3 doz.
GUN POWDER—Per peg. Austin craclt
54.50.
SHOT—$2.25 sack.
City Bonds.
of aboil _ _ - -
hurt by the Jump. The los^ of nronerty j
was total about $2,000. with $500 insur- 1
ar.ee. The cause of the fire is un- j
known. I
Local Stocks and Bonds.
Lumber.
♦Corrected by Massee-Fetton Lum. Co.) ;
Common framing at $16 to $20 per
thousand. i
Slze.1 framing at $47.50 to $22.50 per j
NAVAL STORES.
CRVOTY? i OV. Aoril It.—Turpentine
5AVANN/
'•dots LIS’
* 1 On
Rave nr
Columbus 5 pc.. 1909.
54 101
10' 106
ft 6 pc.. 95 113
res: and maturity
- 102 115
rest and maturity.
10* 104
: shinmo-
B. C. $
: t.45; G.
11.—Turper-
14: rec»lots7
- T- = ’ '
■a 5-: 1
: D *4.40;
.H. S4.70:
X. $3.45:
Macon Gas ft Water Consuls.. Do
Macon Gas ft Water 1st pref.
stock 70
Macon Gas ft Water 2d pref.
stock 25
Wesleyan Female College
bonds. 6 and 7 per cent,, price
owing to percentage and ma
turity 193
Mr eon Ry. ft Light. 3 pc 95
Macon Ry. ft Light, pref ?7
Macon By. ft Light, com 43
MEW ORLEANS.
NEW ORLEANS., April 11.—.Spot cot
ton closed urm and unchanged, middling
10 9-16. Sales were 1.390 bales on the
spot and 1.275 bales to arrive.
Futures opened quiet a t an advance of
from 4 to 10 points over the ciose of yes
terday. due to the exceptionally good Liv
erpool markets, both for sprits and fu
tures. Around the opening there was
some buying in anticipation of a bullish
market in New York as a result of a
favorable report from TJveruool. esti
mates on receipts at New Orleans and
Houston for ■ tomorrow were also factors
in keeping prices up. The closing was
quiet, prices ranging from 6 to 7 "points
above the close of yesterdav.
Cotton futures closed quiet at the fol
lowing nunfations:
January, bid 10.2S
Anril, asked 10 05
May 10.34
■Tune, bid 19.30
July, bid 10.33
August, bid 10.29
September, bid 10 M
October, bid 10.21
November, bid 10.21
December, hid 10 22
Crackers.
(Corrected by V/inn-Johnson Co.)
BaroJia sodas. 6c.
Bnrona nicnacs. 7Uc.
Barona oyster crackers.
N. B. C. sodas. ?c.
G!n?er snaps CN. B. C.V To.
A sorted cakes. 10c.
Sugar cakes. 8c.
Liquors—Wholesale,
(C.'r'ceted* by Tveiohseibaum ft Mack.)
WHISKEY—Rye. $1.1.1 to $3.50: corn.
$1.10 to $1.30; gin. $1.10 to $1.75: North
Carolina corn, $1.10 to $1.5C; Georgia
corn Jl.Cn.
WINE.—75c. to $5: h'.gh wines. Jl.f"
port and snerry. 75c. to $4; claret. $4
310 a case: American champagne. $7.50
to
50 to
An overcoat, a fence and a spark on
the roof caused the fire department
to have three runs yesterday morning,
nnd twenty-five dollars would cover all
the damge, unless the overcoat was
a valuable one.
At 8 a. m. a spark on the roof of Mr.
Felix Dougherty's residence, S69 First
street, caused the first run, but a few
buckets of water saved the department
from stretching hose.
At 12:35 an alarm came in from Mr.
Shurley's boarding house at 515 Sec
ond street. Mr. J. E. Cross, a boarder,
went up stairs to his room and hung
his overcoat on a peg on the door.
Then he went out, and In about fifteen
minutes he returned to find the over
coat and door burned. This was tha
only damage, but why the overcoat
should burn Is the mystery that puz
zles Mr. Cross, tile boarders and the
fire department.
Matches may have been In the pock
et, but rats could not get in the pocket
to play with them.
The third alrrn was caused by a
fence near the corner of Plum an Sec
ond being on fire. It was easy to put
out, but the department 'had a run for
it.
GAMBLERS BEING TRIED
BY COURT IN SAVANNAH.
115
.45*
thousand.
Storm sheathing at $!C per thousand.
No. I common flooring at $2U. 00 per
tho .sand.
"Vo. common ceiling at $17.50 per thous
and.
r^39 4r S flooring ceiling at state of Georgia Bonds.
*‘B’’ greui* square dee weather board- I £ a ’ }?rr JJJ 118
ir.c at $22.59 per thousand. | Ga 4%. 191o..... .L0 111%
No. 1 common weather boarding at HO Ga- 4. 1925 114
Hubbard Bros, ft Co.’s Cotton Lett-r.
NEW YORK. April 11.—Sharp buying
of the M?y-Junc petition in Liverpool bv
a well known operator there brought
about an unexp eted advance abroad of
some 7 points at their close, and an ad
vance here on small transactions of 7
to S points The movement in Liverpool
was accompanied by the usual widen
ing of the low grades for the purpose of
nffrefing favorably the r.rice ef contracts
Believing it to be good business to buy
good ordinary in that market at the wide
difference for the purpose of carrying it
| into the next crop, we cabled our corr°-
! spondents asking for their opinion, re-
I ceiving this reply: “We think well of cot
ton similar to this on the basis of 9!off
per pound, but you cannot buv spots ot
this grade under 60 n* in consequence
of big premium middling over current
months. But if tenders are being taken
un. arbitrators award is on an average
of 94 points off. Low grades are in poor
demand at the moment.” We thick this
is sufficient commentary, on the Liverpool
system* fixing values on cotton tendered
for delivery.
WILMINGTON.
p--ntir.e. nothing
r . .. - . .. ?■
11.
Crrl.- rur-
and $5.25;
per thousand.
No. 2 pine shingles at $2.25
and.
No. 1 pine shingles at $4.25
and.
No. 1 cypress shingles at
thouamL
per tfcous-
per tbous-
$1
3.00 per
Ga. 3%. i?2s to
.107 108
Canar.
Cream mixed candy in pails. 10a.
Stick candy. In barrels. t%c-
Dry Goods—"Wnolesale.
FITEETTVF—4-4. 5 to 6e.
DBU-1TNGS—7 to 7’-4c.
TrnrrNGS—4% to is%c.
GHFOKR—4 to\5%c.
BT.E.4^HINGS--4’to 8c.
PRINTS—4% to 5c.
ARREST Or CHAS. H. ROGERS.
CHARGED WITH TRIPLE MURDER
NEW YORK, Apri! 10.—News of the
arrest In Los Angeles, Cal., last night
•cf Charles Henry Rogers, alias Chas.
H. Carpenter, charged with the mur
der of Willis Olncy, Frederick Olney
and Alice Ingerick, at Midletown. X.
Y., on October 6, 1903, was received here
today. Rogers admits his identity.
Rogers also is charged with assaulting
with intent to kill Mrs. Georgia Inge
rick. Rogers had worked as a motor-
man on the Middletown street railway.
On the morning of October 6. Frederick
and Willis Olney, prosperous farmers,
were shot to death in the woods back
of their farm about four miles from
Middletown. Mrs. Georgia Ingerick,
their house keeper, was found in the
bam unconscious from a fractured
skull and the body of her daughter,
Alice, aged nine years, was found in
the cellar of the Olney home. Her
skull had been fractured. Mrs. Inge-
rick’’s memory was so affected by the
blows she received that she was unable
for a long time to give any account of
the attack upon her. A private de
tective agency and th-' local authorities
secured sufficient evidence to indict
Rogers, but no trace of him was dis
covered until January last, when he
was located at Madera, Cal., but before
SAVANNAH. Ga.. April 10.—The
bunch of gamblers that were caught in
the police drag-net several night ago
when Chief Austin threw the sporting
business in Savannah into wild con
sternation. are being tried in the su
perior court.
C. A. Edwards was the first to face
the tribunal. He was not in the joint
at 15 Congress street, east, under the
shadow cf one of the leading churches
of the city, when it was raided, that
is. he wasn’t in the gambling room
proper. He was in a room above with
four others however, and the marble
the roulette wheel was merrily
spinning showing the raid had inter
rupted the sport. Edwards asseretd
he had just dropped in to buy out the
outfit and s r -nd % to Norfolk. The
jury didn't believe it and convicted
him of keeping a gcambling house.
“Wang” Wallace was acquitted.
ARTIST FORETOLD DAY OF
HIS DEATH TO THE HOUR.
LAKEWOOD, N. J., April 10.—“I
hai’e only three days more to live. Sis
ter Josephine, so it is useless to hold
out hope .to me. But nevertheless I
am very grateful for your ’words of en
couragement.”
•Tu.st three days to the hour from tho
time he made this statement to his
nurse in St. James’ Hospital, Jack B.
Chamberlain, a magazine artist of New
York, died. He was 26 years old.
Chamberlain died of valvular disease
of the heart. When ho consulted a
physician tho doctor told him he had
but a year to live, or fourteen months
at the most. Tho day Chamberlain
foretold his death with such .accuracy
he recalled the doctor’s prediction.
“My time is nearly up. Th’- doctor
said I'd live fourteen months. He
struck It right,” he said.
Reward Paid.
ATLANTA Ga. April 19.—Governor
Terrell today raid a reward of $190 to
J. B. Colo, chief of police of North
Birmingham. Ala., for the arrest of
Bob Grier, a negro, wanted in Jastjpr
County. Ga.. fo- the murder of Loe
Roby, in June 1900. Grier was recently
convicted of the crime and sentenced
detective could get to the place he I to hard labor for life In the peniten'
•had departed. 1 tiary.