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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
l TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1907.
GEORGIA TROOPS THIS CHICAGO EX-CHE
YEAR IN BETTER FORMl OF POLICE
Inspector General Obear Says
Interest in Military is
Increasing.
ATLANTA, May 5.—CoL "W. G.
Jbear, Inspector general of State
troops, who has Just completed the an
nual Inspections for 1307, says the
Georgia troops are In much better con
dition this year than last.
"I found an Increasing Interest In
mill tar affairs, better attendance and
t.-.a; the troops are taking better care
of tr.t pr r-y than ,-v# r h-fore.”
It will b» some weeks yet before Col.
Obear makes his annual report upon
the'-e inspections. There are now for
ty-four* companies of infantry In the
prate while the legal limit is sixty
companl'T’. or twelve to each regiment.
It is probable that as a result of tho
recent Inspections some three or four
enrrpanb- 1 will be muttered out. then
the qui -ttlon will be raised as to wheth
er the best course Is to admit new
companies to fill up the five regiments
of infantry, or to cut down the num
ber of regiments. This Is a proposi
tion which mas’ be dealt with at the
coming session of the Legislature. With
a reduced number of companies each
one -will fare hotter under tho Dick
bill, from the United States Govern
ment appropriation, than would be the
ca.*-* with all the regiments recruited
up to the limit.
CHICAGO. May -4.—A grand jury to-
enera. W. A. Wricr.t of Its property returned four Joint Indictemnts
SLsST “wSk* In'- against former Chief of Police John
lnrf ^hn-1? ft* iino« ’ nhvaical nron- M. CoWlit and five other police and
ertv Ldfranchises The fra“ch!s‘e of ! city officers In connection with alleged
the Atlanta. Knoxville and Northern ; corruption in the Chicago police de-
is valued at *52,500. while the fran- ! partment. The action of the grand
chlse of the
the general
HE HUNDRED MILLIONS
NEW YORK'S RENT ROLL
TieVuns is inc’uded in ■ Jury is the result of an investigation j tate for the privilege of living and do- ! ments, however, if for
of sitsoo per i made by the civil service commission Ing business within the city’s limits, operation of the railr
\ aiuat.on O, per , tn the effect Exact fie-urea e HttTe. „
Srs fiaisssstK 1 sss,rKMK ? i w&sss
vllle to the Tennessee line, and is
59.15 miles long. Its 66.19 miles of
connecting line in Atlanta were re
turned at $4 000 per mile. The Louis
ville and Nashville failed to include in
Its returns Its new extensive freight
depot In Atlanta and terminals, which
are said to have cost it 91,000,000. It
also failed to make a report of Its cap-
F. Dunne, who was defeated for re-
election. Those under indictment are:
John M. Collins, formerly chief of po
lice: William L. O’Connell, formerly
commissioner of public works and
chairman of the Democratic city com
mittee; Edmund H. Roche, city pur
chasing agent and member of the
I Democratic city committee; Frank D.
8»n Jose Seals.
ATLANTA, May 6.—State Entomol
ogist R. I. Smith has Just returned from
”a!h<vin. Go., Where h- w.-nt wish
Deputy Inspector G. R. Casey for the
ourpese of investigating an orchard
there Infested with San Jose scale
which the owner had refused to spray
in accordance with Instructions issued
from the department.
All but one of the peach growers of
that section whose orchards were found
.nfested with the scale, promptly com
piled with the regulations aa to spray
ing, but In this one case as the re
sult of the owner’s refusal to conform
to requirements. It was found neces- I
aary to condemn the Infested trees, j
which was done by tha State entomol
Italization and operations. The Comp
troller-General has rejected the en
tire return, demanding Increases in
practically every item.
.Comerford, formerly police attorney;
w - V ^ — - ♦ V ■ f 1
Clark Will Go With Jordan.
ATLANTA, May 5.—President Wal
ter Clark of the Mississippi division
of the Southern Cotton Association,
will accompany President Harvle Jor
dan, of the parent association, on his
European trip to attend the interna
tional cotton congress to be held at
Vienna. They will sail May S. Presi
dent Clark will occupy the berth which
was originally reservd for President
C. S. Barrett, of the Farmers’ Union
who subsequently decided not to make
the trip.
JOHN BARTOW REES
PASSED AWAY IN TEXAS
A telegram was received in Macon
yesterday announcing the death in Tex
as of Mr. John Bartow Rees, formerly
of Macon.
Mr. Rees was a son of Rev. H. K.
Rees, at one time rector of Christ
Church, and later of St. Paul’s Church,
and was a brother of Mr. Henry E.
Rees, now of Hartford. Conn.
There are many people in Macon,
»g!st. and they will be destroyed as ' who will remomber when Rev. W. K.
toon as the inspector has finished his | Rees was with the Episcopal churches.
work of marking them.
Prohibited Sale of Cotton Seed Meal.
ATLANTA. May 6.—As the result of
analyses of samples of cotton seed meal
sold by fourteen cotton oil mills in
Georgia, made by the State chemist,
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G.
Hudson prohibited the further sale of
this meal, ordering the cancellation of
such sales as aro pending and direct
ing the mills In question either to for
feit all claims for purchase money or
to reimburse tho purchaser where the
meal has already been paid for.
It appears when the charge was
made that the meal sold by these mills
■was deficient in nitrogen, the law re
quiring 6.18 per cent, they asked for
an Inspection and analysis with the
agreement that if its sale was prohib
ited by law they would cancel all sales
and forfoit all claims for purchase
money. The Inspection was made and
the analyses by State Chemist Me-
Candlcss showed that there was only
4.86 to 6.08 per cent of nitrogen in
these products which is a clear viola
tion of the law.
In his letter which has been sent to
each of the mills. Commissioner Hud
son says:
“It now becomes my duty to pro-
and his family. The young man whose
death is Just announced spent the best
part of his boyhood with his brother.
Henry. In Macon. He was connected
with the Aetna Insurance Company,
with which company his brother held
a high position with the company’s
home office in Hartford.
No particulars of the death has been
received.
Detective James McGrath; Detective
Patrick McNulty.
In its report the grand Jury stated
that “while the evidence presented has
caused us to hold the former chief of
police and his associates In the un
lawful transactions chiefly responsible
for the transgressions, we consider the
inspectors, captains and lieutenants
guilty of reprehensible conduct and de
serving of severe censure for their ac
tions in being parties to the soliciting
and accepting of contributions, under
stress, from those of lower rank on the
police court.” The indictmetn against
former Chief Collins charges mutila
tions of official records of the police
department and city of Chicago and
violation of the criminal code. Th£
bonds of the higher officers were
placed at $5,000 on each Indictment.
This makes the bond of former Chief
of Police Collins $15,000.
The bonds of O’Connell, Roche and
Comerford were placed at $5,000 each
and that of the two detectives $2,000
each.
NEVT TORK, May 4.—Almost a bll- i sands of trainloads of provisions in mo-
Hon dollars—$900,000,000 anuually. or ■ tion every hour of the day, every day
$75,000,000 a month—Is the estimated!? 1 the . u -' ea I’ FIorida - £ ew , ° r :
sum that New Yorkers pay to the fori | to*
tunate owners of metropolitan real es- i Tork. In spite of the enormou? ship-
any reason the
. — — railroads were sus-’
Exact figures are a little difficult to i pended the population of the metropo-
obtain; but by dividing the population. ! iis would speedilv be reduced to the
which exceeds 4,000,000, into 800,000 ! last extremities ’of starvation. The
families of five persons each, and dis- > first pinch would be felt within twen-
regarding the elite who occupy homes ! tv-four hours in the supplv of fresh
of their own, an approximation is milk, of which New York consumes 1,-
readily obtained. There aro probably 500,000 quarts dailv. Almost none of it
50.000 families in the metropolis who i is stored, although when packed in ice
AMERICANS TO BE SHOT
I
REMARKABLE MURDER CASE
AND THE DETECEIVE’S ART.
flUML IRHIS
NEGRO CHILD TO DEATH
A horse attached to a buggy became
frightened near the "West End Drug
Store yesterday and ran away, spilling
two young men out and continuing
struck a light pole which extricated
him from the buggy. With the har
ness dangling at his heels he ran into
Third street at a wild speed.
At the corner of Third and Plum,
near the Elberta Hotel, a little negro
. .. , .. , , , -_ boy, about three years old, tried to get
hihlt the sale of this meal. In accord- j out 0 f the way, but was trampled upon
anen with .aw, and you are therefore the horse. The child was taken
■ailed upon in compliance with your
contract to cancel nil sales thereof nnd
to either forfeit all claims for pur
chase money or to reimburse the pur
chaser. where said meal has already
been paid for.
“Any oth • cases which may be re
ported to n:e by the State chemist as
his work progresses win receive sim
ilar treatment at my hands.”
The mills affected 'by this order are
located at Commerce. Columbus, Grif
fin. Macon. Rome, Balnbridge. Albany.
Augusta. Snndersvlllo. Tennille, Madi
son, Greensboro and Dawson.
Drooaing the Chattahoochee.
ATLANTA, May 5.—The county po
lice are dragging tho Chattahoochee
river in the effort to find the body of
J. L. Nash, of Kirkwood, a steno
grapher, who is supposed to have com- J
mltted suicide. His dress suit case. I apiary, U. R. Russel. Carrollton; poul-
contalnlng a suit of clothes, was found : try. George E. Gilmore. Warthen; edu-
on the river bank. His brother has o.- ca tion and fine arts. Prof. C. M. Snell-
fered a reward of $^0 for jhejrwnveiy ! j n g, Athens; manufactures, etc., S. 1 C.
Dunlap. Atlanta; farm implements, etc..
up by Officer Coley and sent to the
hospital, where it died soon after ar
rival.
The name of the owner of tho horse
could not be ascertained.
SUPERINTENDENTS FOR STATE
FAIR WERE ANNOUNCED.
ATLANTA. May 3—President J. J.
Connor, of the State Agricultural So
ciety, tonight announced the following
superintendents of departments for this
year's State fair at Atlanta: General
superintendent, R, F. Critenden, Shel-
man: county agricultural exhibits, A. T.
Dallis, La Grange: individual agricul
tural exhibits, C. H. Ramsey. Quitman:
cattle, sheep and goats, W. L. William
son. Commerce: horses, mules, etc., J.
Clayton Clements. Towns. Ga.: swine,
S. M. Roberts. Statesboro; dairy and
of the body. The county police arc
contemplating the use of dynamite In
the effort to bring It to the surface.
Seven-Year.Old Girl Shot.
ATLANTA, May 5.—Adelaide Rose,
/-year-old daughter of J. J. Rowe, a
convict guard, was accidentally shot by
Charlie Parse, another guard when she
took supper to her father late yester
day afternoon. The little girl’s body
was filled with many small shot. She
was taken to the Grady Hospital, where
they were extracted and she will re
cover.
Hoke Smith’s Party.
ATLANTA. May 5—While Gov-
elect Hoke Smith is coming home from
Europe next week on account of busi
ness engagements. President G. Gunby
Jordan of the Georgia Immigration
Association, and MaJ. W. XV. William
son, of Savannah, who accompanied
the party, will remain In Europe two
or three weeks longer for the rurpose
jf getting further Insight into the sit
uation from an immigration stand
point and. in effect, mapping out a
proper plan of campaign.
“They will remain to pave the way
for the work we propose to do.” said
Chairman John A. Betjeman of the
association’s executive committee, who
was here today. "Upon the report
which they make will be based tho
J. J. Easterlin, Montezuma.
BOY DIED WHILE UNDER
CHLOROFORM FOR OPERATION
COLUMBUS. Ga.. May 4.—Bennie
Castleberry, the 11-year-old son of W.
S. Castleberry, of Phenix City. Ala-
died in the office of Dr. T. E. Mitchell
in Columbus today from chloroform
administered to him so that a slight
operation might be performed. The
chloroform was given bv Dr. J. M.
Anderson in careful manner -The j checkfor the Deveraclata came'back
„„ „,t^ tQ the New T((rk hanfc It was , ndorsed
CHIHUAHUA, Mexico. May 3.—Un
less an appeal to President Diaz is
productive of executive clemency,
which is regarded as improbable, this
city will be the scene within the next
two weeks of the execution of two
Americans, C. T. Richardson and Wil
liam Mason. They were convicted of
murdering two men here for life in
surance money, Richardson being the
Insurance agent, and Mason, his broth
er-in-law, an assistant agent. By or
der of the court they are to be shot to
death. C. S. Harle. the examining
physician, and the third member of the
conspiracy, is also under sentence of
death.
The case has occupied the Mexican
courts for the past five years and is one
of the most extraordinary in the crim
inal annals of the republic. The two
vicltims of the conspiracy were a man
named Devers, decoyed from El Paso,
and a man named Mitchell, said to be
half-brother of Mason.,
The prime mover in the plot was
Richardson, whose real name is Hul-
bert. He was a Rochester lawyer who
ran away to Mexico with seven indict-
mpnts hanging over his head for run
ning a "divorce mill.” Mitchell was
another Rochester lawyer who followed
him later. With the help of Dr. Harle,
of Chihuahua, they poisoned their vic
tims with strychnine after- having in
sured their lives in a New York com
pany for $25,000.
After the murders the gang, except
Harle, moved to Texas. Suspicion was
aroused, and a detective was sent to
Texas. Posing as a lumber merchant,
he worked into intimacy with them.
He took part in another plot to steal
$50,000 and had himself arrested with
the others. Besides the men there were
two women'mixed up in the affair.
The discovery of the insurance plot
was quite accidental. In the fall of
1902. while looking over some Mexican
policies, the solicitor-general of the In
surance company in New York noticed
a peculiar coincidence in two Chihua
hua claims. The claims came through
the same agent, Richardson, were cer
tified by the same doctor, Harle. and in
■both cases Dr. Harle had been the ex
amining physician. The men had both
died after short illnesses. One of them,
Harry Mitchell, Insured for $15,000,
had died on February 11. The other.
Jame? Devers, who was insured for
$10,000. died on February 22. Yet the
Mitchell claim was presented in Feb
ruary, and the Devers claim not until
July. In both cases the insured had no
other relative than the beneficiary. In
the first case the beneficiary was Hul-
burt’s wife: inthe second case it was
William Mitche’ 1 . who posed as Devers’
half-brother.
Upon investigation it was shown that
the men had died and been buried as
stated. It wasn't a case of “burying
the rocks on the company.” Then’ the
pay an average of $1,200 a year for
private houses and apartments of the
better class, which equals an outlay
of $60,000,000. About three times as
many families pay an average of $4S0
a year for flats of the ordinary class,
which accounts for another $72,000,000.
Then there remain 600.000 families liv
ing in tenements and the cheaper grade
of flats at an average annual expendi
ture for rent of $180. This makes a
total of $240,000,000 a year for housing
alone. Down town in Manhattan, .how
ever, where the sky-scrapers grow tail
and close, rents are enormously greater,
frequently running as high as $5 a
square foot and the rentals of stores
and offices of all sorts swell the golden
flood pouring into the coffers of the
landlords by another $60,000,000.
The population of tho city is growing
at tho rate of 200.000 a year, which
means another 40.000 families who pay
an average rental of $300 a year, or
a total of $12,000,000, and there is an
annual increase in business which
yields at least $24,000,000 more.
John Armstrong, Recluse.
One of the most populous sections of
a great city would seem a strange place
for a recluse to find an undisturbed
retreat: hut the experience of John
Armstrong ilustrates once more the
truth of saying that there is not o’her
loneliness like that of great crowds.
When forty-nine years ago he . came
to New York from Indiana, which was
all the information -'be vouchsafed con
cerning himself, Armstrong's first care
was to obtain an abiding place In
which he would not be disturbed. This
he found in a six by nine cubbyhole in
the interior of the century-old Fif
teenth Ward hotel, which was so mis
erably lighted and ventilated as to af
ford the practical assurance that no
one else would be willing to pay even
the $8 a month which the room cost
him. Into this he moved with his
treasures, which consisted of fifty or
more suits of the most aristocratic
clothes of the period and a great num
ber of pictures. Chief among the lat
ter was a big oil portrait of Lincoln,
whence grew the rumor that he had
once been the friend of the great war
President in his backwoods days. Five
successive proprietors of the hotel had
respected his wish that no one should
enter the room, not even to take caro
of It, and by obtaining his meals in
the cheap restaurants of the vicinity,
Armstrong made his isolation as com
plete as If he had hidden in the heart
of a forest. Last week, however, the
ruthless hand of progress reached out
to demolish his home, and, loading his
effects into light wagon, the old man of
95 drove away, the beloved portrait
of Lincoln across his knees, to pass 'his
few remaining days at the country
home of the last proprietor of the
hotel.
New York’s Juvenile Asylum.
According to the last annual report
of the New York Juvenile Asylum, an (
and placed in cold storage It will keep
in good condition for a week. The
stock of vegetables, except potatoes
and cabbages, would be used up in
three or four days and practically all
the dressed beef and pork and mutton,
for which New York is dependent upon
the great States of the Middle West,
would be gone within a week. Salt
meat and canned goods might last a
week or so longer, and the stock of
flour and other grain products would
be a considerable resource. After that
the only safeguard would be the cold
storage warehouses, which at the time
of maximum storage of each commod
ity-contain 21.000,000 dozen egs, 30,000.-
000 pounds of butter, 200.000 barrels
of apples. 15,000,000 pounds of poultry,
and a limited quantity of lamb and
beef: but even these supplies would
suffice to prolong life but a few days,
and within a -month the entire popu
lation would be reduced to the last ex
pedients of a city under siege.
Mining Machinery Doubling Up.
Within five years New York has
doubled its business in the sale of min
ing and industrial machinery, and is
now the world’s greatest market for all
the principal types of machinery and
tools. Several of the larger corpora
tions make machinery for all the
world, and are engaged at the pres
ent time in filling contracts for Asia,
Africa, all tho European countries. Aus
tralia, and all the islands of the sea
wherein agriculture or mining is active.
One of them with a total of $33,000,000
in foreign contracts, has a $10,000,000
contract in the Vale of Cashmere and
another for $5,000,000 in Japan. There
are now in foreign lands about 5,000
engineers and mechanics at work for
these corporations, which represent al
most $2,000,000 of capital, with plants
in every State in the Union. 1.000,000
stockholders, and 600,000 employes. One
large firm, which employs more than
30.000 'hands and has offices in eighteen
foreign countries, is popularly known
as the “House of all Nations.” because
among its engineers and clerks are flu
ent speakers of almost every language
of importance in commerce.
200 NEW CORPORATIONS
STATE SINCE DECEMBERi
Judge B. H. Hill Describe
A Macon Poker
Outfit
Batch of Current
Gate City News
tion of the law against keening a gam
ing house, in a decision Just rendered
in the case of Hicks. vs. the State,
from the City Court of Macon, waero
the defendant was convicted and sen--
tenced. Hleks evidently failed to Im
press the Court of Appeals with h.s
claim of innocence as will be clear
from the following portion of the de
cision which was prepared by Judge B.
H. Hill:
- "A social gentleman fond of company
and a glass, vocation unknown, who
lives and sleeps in a room upstairs over
a’ bar. the door to which he keeps lock
ed, with a peephole to look through and
lide to hide the hole, and’ wh
ATLANTA. May 4.—That
tions are multiplying at a rapid rate j tiou*ly moves the slide to look through
in Georgia is evidenced from the re the hole to ascertain the Identi’y of the
in tieor D ia is euaencea Lorn v.ie re kT , 0 j. Wng . visitor before unlocking the
turns made to the office of Secretary nn ^ , v ho had In his boom besides
of State Philip Cook, where, under a two beds, two poker tables, one a round
recent law, all corporations doing bu?- poker table and the other a stud poker
iness within the State are required to ' table, behind which a dealer sat w.t.n.
register their name$, 'headquarters ana
amount of capital stock and other out
standing securities.
The registration record shows the
organization of more than two hundred
new Georgia corporations since last
December, or about fifty each month.
About six hundred corporations have
registered so far this year, but they
have until November l to' comply with
the law. The first year’s registrations
showed a total of oniy 3,500. whereas
Secretary Cook says he is satisfied from
many cards and with which, red and
blue chips which cost from one' dollar
to five dollars a stack, and which chips
were kindly cashed by the genial host,
who invariably remembered the “take
out” for the nurnose of paying ex
penses, and who furnished to liis play-'
ing guests from a refrigerator -bever-'
ages that cheered as well as intoxi
cated whenever the varying chances of
the game rendered them despondent or
reck'ess. and who emploved an Italian
Ganymede to wait on his guests, may
the investigations he has made that l 0r rnav . n °t 'have been guilty of keening
Caere are between 12,000 and 15.000 in!? Faming house. A verdict of gui t\
the ^tate - based on these facts and inculpatory
The Secretary of State has been un- I circumstances seems to the inexneri-
able to get at many of them owing to enced mind of this court not unwar-
failure on the part of clerks of Superior ranted by the evidence. .Certainty
Courts to supply needed information In ca nnot say that there was not some
the shape of lists of corporations char- evidence sunnort ir. and we cannot
tered by their respective courts. Rep
resentative Joe Hill Hall, of Bibb, with
whom Secretary Cook recently discuss
ed this matter, said the proposed to en
deavor to reemdy this defect by secur
ing an amendment to the registration
law at the coming session of the Leg
islature under which clerks of Superior
Courts will be required under penalty
to supply this information whenever
asked for by the Secretary of State.
d'sturb the verdict approved by thef
trial court.”
Mr. Benton's Forthcoming Reoort.
ATLANTA May 4 —Mr. J. L Ben
ton. of Momieello. Ga, who was ro-
eentiv appointed as special agent of
the United States Government to’ In
vestigate foreign markets for cotton
seed production 1 , will soon make his
report of bis findings in Holland. Mr,
Many Arrests of
Women and Men
"WASHINGTON. May 4.—Another at
tempt to assassinate President Cabrera,
of Guatemala, according to advices re
ceived today by Minister Toledo, was
made yesterday. In this instance, what
is described in a genera! way in the
advices as “a mine” was placed not
far from the mansion of President Ca
brera. apparently with the intention of
exploding it at a time when it would
Mr. Hall proposes also to make pro-' Benton, who was secretary of the
vision for the payment of regular fees Cotton Seed Crushers’ Association of
to the clerks for this service, but at Georgia was appo'nted to this impor-
the same time to require it on account tant position by Hon. Os-ar Strauss..
of its necessity in the enforcement of secretary of the Department of Com-
the law. ' merre and Labor, who is himself a
Almost every State in the Union has ! native of Georgia. Mr. Benton is in-
a corporation registration law similar I vestigating the uses to which cotton
to that in Georgia, and an interesting seed oil and its by-rroducts are put
feature is that the fee charged in Geor- to in this country, which is one of the
gia. $1 for the first registration and 50 largest importers of this commodity
cents for each subsequent year, is tihe ! }r > the world, using annually four mil-
lowest on record. The next lowest ap- i lion dollars worth of this oil. His re
pears to be that of Tennessee, where pert will be the subject of interesting
the charge for registration is $3, while j content at the annual meeting of the
in California it is $30, being made j Inter-State Cotton Seed Crushers’
somewhat in the nature of an occupa- Association, which meets at James-
tion tax. In several of the States the I town, Va.. May 21 to 24. because of
law is so severe that failure to comply
with it forfeits the right of the delin
quent corporation to do business in the
State.
Will Incorporate Burns Club.
ATLANTA, May 4.—Tho Burns Club
of Atlanta., proposes to become a cor
poration. Local admirers of the Scotch
genius have formed a company and ap
plied to the courts for a charter which
will be granted within the usual legal
period. There are about fifty members
in the organization and they have been
accustomed to holding an annual ban
quet besides Other meetings at the
houses of various members- at inter
vals during each year. The members
propose not only to form a corporation
the fact that the Southern cotton oil
mills furnish all of this product. Cot
ton seed oil and its by-products Is
coming to be one of the chief exports
of the country and for the year end--
ing .Tune 1906 exceeded thirty million-,
dollars. The recently enacted pure'
food law is putting this article on an
even higher and firmer basis than
ever before.
SECRETARY TAFT AND PARTY
GO TO THE EXPOSITION,
"WASHINGTON. May 4.—Secretarj-
Taft left Washington tonight for
Hampton Roads on the regular line-
boat acccmpanied by Mrs. Taft and-
Gen, Crozier. Associate Justice Moody
institution which has had more than De most destructive. The mine was but also to build them a club house on j and Miss ^Mnbcl^ T. Boardman. Upon
half a century of experience in caring discovered, the attempt at assassina- !
operation, which was so slight that
not even an instrument was required,
was over and the boy was thought to
be recovering from the effect of the
anesthic when his heart suddenly
i stopped beating. It is a medical fact
i that chloroform is fatal to one person
out of every twenty-five hundred.
STATE ORGANIZATION
OF TRAINED
NURSES
SAVANNAH, Ga.. May 4.—A State
organization of trained nurse gradu
ates is to be effected In this city May-
15. 16 and 17. when a convention of all
the graduates In Georgia is to be held.
It is expected that there yvill be dele
gates in attendance from the organiza
tions that have been effected in At
lanta. Macon and Savannah. There
State's action in sending Immigration -will, in addition, be nurses from other
agents to Europe. They will decide as | places yvhere there are no local organ-
to the points at which these agejits
should be located, and we expect to
send at least six representatives
abroad for the purpose of inducing
immigration to Georgia as soon as
these details are determined.
“In the meantime the executive com
mittee is hard at work and we are
making progress, despite the fact that
there Is not much talk about it. I
have visited many sections of the
State and have lef: strong organiza- i
tions practically everywhere I have
been.
“In a small way we have already
started an immigration movement to
Georgia through correspondence, and
as a result of this twenty-seven Ger
man families will arrive in the State
within the next week. These will be
placed In Brooks and Monroe coun
ties. They are principally agricul
turists. Others will follow these
within a short time as the result of
his same movement.”
zation. but where it is quite proEable
that the nurses will organize. An In
vitation to all graduate nurses in good
standing is extended.
Mrs. A. C. Hartridge. chairman of
the Altanta organization, will be the
temporary presiding officer. Addresses
will be delivered by local and visiting
physicians. Miss Ella M. Johnston? is
chairman of the local committee that
is making th? arrangements for the
c onvention. The social features ofth? i “* *
j event will be a trip to Tybee island ■ ln ‘°
one afternoon and a supper at Thun
derbolt one evening.
Reward for John Mitchell.
ATLANTA. May 5.—Gv. Terreli has
day offered a reward of $100 for the
apprehension of John Mitchell, colored
who is wanted in Cobb County for the
murder of Nash Johnson on May L
last.
Lourtville and Naahville Tax Returns.
ATLANTA. May 5.—The LouisviHe
and Nashville Railroad Company has
returns to Qemptrolier-
COL. J. H. ESTILL’S CONDITION
CONTINUES TO IMPROVE
SAVANNAH. Ga.. May 4.—Col. J. H.
Estill. proprietor of the Savsr.r.-ih
Morning News nnd one of the distin
guished cit’zer.s of Georgia, continues
|iis rapid improvement from the Hi
nes? that some days ago was feared
might prove his last. Yesterday nnd
today Col. Estill was so much better
that he was able to leave his home at
Isle of Hepe for short drives. It is
expeo-ed that he will be in his office
next week. H?s rally from so severe
an attack, or series of attacks, as be
sustained is s’l-orlsing. and his phy
sician nnd friends are deeply gratified
by h's recovery. Indeed Col. Estill
r-one-Ve-<- to it he is better now th-m and turn known
he was before his illness began. He
nays he is feeling more himself than
he has for many week*.
by C. T. Richardson, otherwise Hul-
burt. The other had been previously
paid to his wife, the murdered Harry
Mitchell’s sister.
After the crowd had removed to Dal
las. Texas, a detective named Gray was
sent to Dallas in the guise of a lumber
merchant. He succeeded in meeting
Hulburt. and after the two had become
intimate Hulburt broached a scheme to
cheat the insurance company out of
$50,000. He said he had had experi
ence. Detective Gray proposed that
they insure Gray’s brother-in-law for
$50,000 a s a beginning. A detective
named Evans was imported by Gray
as his brother-in-law. When the
scheme had been thoroughly worked
up and all the preliminary steps taken
the whole crowd, including Gray, was
arrested. A fellow-detective of his had
already overheard Mitchell and Hul-
burr scheming to kill off Gray. By
accident in the prison, at El Paso,
Mitchell discovered what Gray really
wa
Mitchell at once went into a sham
cataleptic fit that lasted two months.
Medical experts watched him. and de
clared that he was shamming. But all
the usual tests failed. He paid not the
slightest attention to needles stuck half
an inch Into his foot. He was dropped
tank of cold water and sank to
thp bottom stiff. His teeth were
clenched and he was fed on milk in
troduced through his nose by a glass
tube. Finally the detectives hit upon
the idea of mixing whisky with the
milk. The man became drunk, jumped
from his bed, and cursed at everybody
in sight.
Finally Dr. Harle. who was still in
Chihuahua, was induced to cross the
border and was arrested. He was
forced into a confession about his con
nection with the two Chihuahua claims.
This was ail the detectives needed. The
proceedings against Mitcheii and Hul
burt on the Dallas plot v,-°re dropped
and all three were extradited to this
place and tried for murder. With
abundant money at th-=dr command, the
conspirators fought the case step by
step, talcing the case to the highest
courts of Mexico. With every twist
the iaw exhausted.
tion thus being rendered rutile.
The news of the second attempt on
President Cabrera's life was received
in a cablegram, of which the following
is a translation:
‘‘Guatemala, May 4.
"Minister Toledo, Washington.
"Yesterday a great mine was discov
ered placed In front of the barracks
of the guard of honor, 120 feet from
the American legation and 180 feet from
the presidential mansion. This scandal
ous attempt at assassination has cre
ated great indignation among all
classes of society.
"(Signed) BARRIOS.”
Signor Barrios is minister of foreign
affairs of Guatemala. The guard of hon
or is the special guard of President
Cabrera. Ambassador Creel had a con
for the small sprigs of humanity com
mitted to its charge by the Children's
Court and the various children’s socie
ties. the cost of transforming the aver
age street gamin Into a useful member
of society is about $454. At present the
asylum occupies a village of sixteen
separate cottages on the Hudson about
25 miles from New York, in which 320
boys are cared for. at a per capita cost
of $247.60 a year, of which $50 is con
tributed by private charity and the
remainder is made up by the city.
The boys remain with the institution
an average of. tweotv-two months be
fore they are released or sent to
homes in the (West. By a carefully
prepared estimate it has been determ
ined that an increase in the capacity
of the village to 500 boys will reduce
the average yearly cost to $205.32, and
that when plans for the future are
fully carried out and 1,000 boys pro
vided for, there will be a still’further
reduction in the expense, no small
part of which will be due to the boys
themselves through the products of
the industrial training school. Dur
ing the .summer of last year the com
munal farm, which is worked in
small plots by the boys as a part of
this system of educalton, produced a
value of $3,152 from seeds furnished
by the United States Department of
Agriculture. Previous to removing to
the country average cost of caring for
1.000 boys was $139 each per year: but
the results obtained under the present
system, even at the increased expense,
are so far superior that a number of
similar institutions have already mov
ed into the country or are preparing
to do so.
Making a Great Sea Lane.
Just outside the Narrows in New j diers upon General Davis
York harbor two giant suction ■*—**■ ■ - - —
a site near the Confederate Soldiers’ ■ arrival at Fort Monroe tomorrow morn-
Home. which has been secured for t*e , ing the party will tranship to a pri-
purnose. The club house will be a
replica of the Scotch home of Bobby
Burns, and judging from tho enthu
siasm of the members they will cer
tainly make frequent use of it.
Masons Will Lay Cornerstone.
ATLANTA, May 4.—Distinguished
Masonic guests will grace the annua!
conclave of the Grand Commandery.
Knights Temnlgr of Georgia on Wed
nesday and Thursday. May 8 to 9,
which will be made the occasion of
the laying of the cornerstone of the
new Masonic Temple now being erect
ed at the corner of Peachtree and Cain
streets in this city.
Among the prominent Masons Atlan-
>L ta will entertain next week will be
vate yacht and spend two days in
careful inspection- of. the •Jame?fc.wn
Exposition, and jn visiting the ancierttf
town site of Jamestown, returning jo
Washington next Tuesday, It is stated,
that the Secretary’s visit has no con
nection with the financial affairs of the-
exposition, although ho Is a member of
the Government commission.
uaorera. Anmassaaor ureei naa a con- y* „ TV , , I :. u .
ference today with the State Depart- j George M. Moulton, of Chicago. eminent | tier, to th?' home of the m
ment officials on the disturbed condl- grand commander of the fT and T '°££? j of ,be hallwav
♦ i s„ of Knig.it? Templars of the United ; >nr
tions of affairs in Guatemala. The
Mexican account is that indiscriminate
arrests are being made of men, women
and children, not only native Guate
malans. but persons of other nationali
ties, and that these prisoners are be
ing harshly treated. It is understood
that protests already have been made
■by the diplomatic representatives of
other nations in Guatemala, and that
an attempt will be made to secure joint
action by Mexico and the United States
to prevent a continuance of this policy
of indiscriminate arrests.
A dispatch was received at the Navy
Department today from Commander
Fullam, of the gunboat Marietta, which i
HEMPSTEAD L. I.. May 4.—Mrs /'i-
tlid- Cnotre. wit' of Rey. J»tp > Ki. e
Cooke, who discopp-rcd I lgo
in company with Miss Flnretta Wbalov
arrived here today frrtm the ho*n'e of her
parents iq Hartford Conn. Mrs. Cooke
was neromoanl-d hv several relatives,
and went directly from the railroad s?a-
minisler and his
stepped across tho
collapsed
and fell to the floor In a foiu.t. Sh P was
eon rvi’-efl. It v.-as stated that Mrs.
there now appears no hope of their
escaping death at the hands of the ex
ecutioner*.
dredges, to the casual observer looking
like powerful battleships as they crawl
slowly over the surface of the lower
bay. spouting tufts of inky smoke, are
engaged upon the greatest channel
dredging undertaking of modern times.
The work consits of widening and
deepening Ambrose channel into a
great sea lane which will shorten by
five miles in distance and hours in
time the present narrow and tortuous
entrance to the greatest port in tho
world. These twin monsters were
built especially for the work by the
United States Government and equip
ped with the very latest dredging
apparatus at a cost of $500,000 each.
From daybreak on Monday morning
till noon on Saturday, when the
dredges return to the city for sup
plies not an hour Is lost in the prose
cution of the work which involves the
removal of. a block of sand seven
miles long, 2 000 feet wide and twenty
feet thick—55.000,000 cubic yards in
all, or 80.000.000 tons of sand—which
must be lifted and dumped back into
the sea again three miles outside Scot
land Light Under the suction of the
powerful centrifugal pumps. 10,000
cubic yards of sand come over the
side of each dredge every twenty-four
hours together with a perfect Nia
gara of sea water which finds its way
back to the ocean in a roaring flood
through the overflows. Not less inter
esting than the work itself is the cu
rious aggregation of objects which is
found on the surface of the sand when
the bins have been filled and the
pumps are stopped. Fish there are Jn
abundance. Sections of steel rail have
been found: coins keys. lead sinkers
and baggage checks by the score;
cheap jewelry too, stickpins and
brooches of brass, engagement rings
with Initials engraved upon them, and
wedding rings of the same material:
and once a piece of real jewelry was
found—a child’s go id ring with a lit
tle stone set in it.
Father Knickerbocker’s Food Supply.
In respect to his food supplies. Fath
er Knickerbocker Is as improvident as
the birds. To realize how New York
gets its food one must imagine not
of Knights Templars
States, and Grand Madter W. H. Nor- ■ m olnl „. xnHT
ris, of Iowa, who will do.iver tne p*in Conko will remain bor<* Ions? ^notiP'^ to
cipal address at the cornerstone core- j p-rk her hMonrlnv.s wv-n she and her"
mony. Invitations have been sent out j relatives wfll return to Hartford.
to the 505 Blue Lodges of Georgia to | — ^
attend this event, and it is expected i FOUR SMAI-t- CHILDREN
that 1,000 Georgia Masons will be hero | PERISHED IN FLAMES.
for the occasion. I
it has been forty-one years since the J WEST RRANCH, "Mich, May 4.—
laying of the cornerstone of Atlanta’s i Four small children were burned to
first Masonic building, and this occa- J death last night in the home of Mar-
sion is one which will naturallv attract | tin Campbell, eight miles from here.
Masons from all sections. The new j Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had g'lie to.a
temple will be. one of the finest Masonic dance a mile awav from their, home,,
homes in the South. leaving their six little ones rocked in
The cornerstone laving will .take ; th? house. They left a b’»T fire' in
iVpaUolHngCen^rAmeHcan" waters 1 place Wednesday afternoon at 4 o’clock • the stove, apd in some, manner this -
on the eastern coaA in which he ‘ under the auspices of the Grand Lodge ] limited roe house, which was destroyed,
he had wmHtt^fhe Paducah to £o? of Georgia. Preceding the exercises . The children were awakened by the-.,
ceed southern Puerto Cortez as Iv- there will be a formation of the .Master ’ flames and the two oldest, aged eight"
erything is quiet there. Concerning the j -Masons at the present lodge rooms and , and tem years managed to escape. -The
assault bv Nicaraguan police and sol- ] the parade will move so that the cere- ( four smaller ones perished.
the negro monies may begin promptly at the hour |
fruit, trader, the commander says he i ^ated. Judge Max Meyerhardt. of FARMER
had mailed a full report to the depart- ! Rome, grand r ? astP r„ of .y 10 I
ment. His dispatch gives no details . Lodge of Georgia, will preside over the |
of the trouble there. | function and perform the ritualistic
work. Other members of Che_ Grand
JAMES POPE WAS
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
PANAMA. May 4—According to pri
vate advices received here from Gua
temala City there is reason to believe
that the political situation there is .
critical and extraordinary develop- )
ments are expected. The fact that
the strict censorship has been relax
ed Is taken by those who know as an
indication that the Govtrnment ex
pects trouble. There would appear to
be a determined purpose to suppress
President Cabrera by any means and
the Guatemala City plot may be fol
lowed by other evidence of the popu
lar hatred against the President of the
republic.
FLOWERY BRANCH. Ga., May 5.—
During a severe thunder storm here .
Lodge who will be present are Thomas j yesterday afternoon James Pope, a
H. Jeffries, Atlanta: Henry Banks, of j well known Hale County farmer, was
LaGrange:. George M. Napier, of Mon- ] struck by lightning and probably fo-
roe: W. A. Wolihin, Macon, and J. M. I tally injured nnd his young son who
was with him. was severely shocked^
In the cornerstone which is of marble, i The* mules which Mr. Pope was drlv-
will be deposited a copper box. contain- j ing were instantly killed.
ing many articles of historical inter- 1
est The inscription on the new stone ! ROOSEVELT HEAP. REPOPT
will be as follows: I OF GUN 515 MILES DISTANT
A. L. 5907.
Laid by the Most WorsMpful Grand j R.SytvIl^wljr'toiijch a^key alt the*W?fh»
EM RUES HIS
PROFESSIONAL BROS.
Lodge of G orgia. Houre Monday at 2:39 o’clock (hat will'
May 5. I90i. | fir» a gun announcing the opening of the
Side by side with the new stone will ! National Sch<-u(zenfest at Charleston, ?!.
rest the old one used in the proposed | C. Arrangements have been, made so
temple at the ceremony September 25. j !i a L by £n. ta ?£* J P ,!tS h ?5 e V!*! 1 111
1S66. After the abandonment of the j '^ mTle? distant * h
temple project at that time the old i H0U " P ’ "’ ,0 m S *" nt ’
cornerstone was removed and has since ] mjjrdERER THREATENS TO
been kept in the lo.dge rooms. The in- , HORSEWHIP JURORS
scriptlon on this old stone is as fol-
lows:
John Harrison M. W. G. M.
A. D. 1866 A. L. 5S66
Ray & Corput. Architects.
Upon it appear also the well-known
Masonic emblems. The stone is in fi’t
shape, and a little polishing will make
It as bright as the new one.
The Knights Templars’ conclave will
begin at 10 o’clock Wednesday morn
ing with a parade and review. At U
CHICAGO, May 5.—Wm. Jennings
Bryan told three hundred Chicago law
yers Saturday night what he thinks of
the legal profession in America, The
picture as a whole was not a bright
one. As a graduate of the old Union [ o'clock there will be a reception in the
College of Law, which has since be- as ylum, address of welcome bv Gov.
come the Northwestern University I Terre jj,’ address by John Temple
law School, Mr. Bryan attended the I (j rav es’. response? by the grand mas-
annual dinner of the graduates of the ter th e grand commander. At 12
The title of his address j a business session will be held, and
institution.
was “The Price of a Soul.”
at 1:40 the grand commander’s ad-
IN
MIDNIGHT FIRE
TWO PEOPLE BURNED
“I believe.” he said In conclusion, i (j reJ : S will be heard. Following the enr-
“that the day will come in this country j nerstone exercises there will be a serv-
when we will not have so many men ; i CP j n the evening at the First Baptist
who will sell their souls to make j oaurch.
grand larceny possible. j Thursday will be devoted to busi-
’’Perhaps some time it will not be ! ness and the election of officers until
less disgraceful for a lawyer to assist : 1:30 p. m., when the visitors will be
in a gigantic robbery than for a high- j treated to a barbecue at the grounds of
wayman to go out and hold up the the Country 'Cue Club.
■wayfarer. I knew of a case recently In —
which they had to go to New York j Judoe HII1 on Macon Sports,
to get lawyers to represent the people ATLANTA. May 4.—The State Court
_ because all the lawyers available j of Appeals has given an interesting
only thousands of carloads but thou- nearer at hand had been bought up.” | definition of what constitutes a viola- I when the fire was d.scovered.
AUGUSTA. Ga., May 5.—‘Til be
d d if they will hang me. "When I
get out of this trouble I will "horse
whip those fellows in there.” '
These are some of the statements
made Saturday by Arthur Glover after
being sentenced for the second time
to be hanged on May 24 for the. mur
der of Maud Dean, his paramour.
Glover, who was a detective shot,,the
woman dead without a moment's
warning. Not long before that he had
shot a negro, hut got clear. His de- I
fense at the second trial included brain
storm, paranoia, etc. The judge’s ar
raignment of him In passing senten e
was the most severe ever heard in
Richmond County.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich., May 5.—In
a midnight fire that destroyed the
home of Mrs. Frank, Telford at Hop
kins Station, a few miles south of
here. Thos. Corning, aged 27 years, was
burned and Mrs. Telford and • her
daughter. Sadie, aged 13, suffered fa
tal burrs. The family was asleep
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