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Newspaper Page TextTWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH WEATHER FORECAST FOR GEORGIA—PARTLY CLOUDY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY; VARIABLE WINDS. EETTABUrBirSD UN TK26. MACON, GA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1907. TWICE-A-WEEK, $1.00 A YEAR. MESSENGER BOY PICKED OUT FREDERICK BUSH Said to Have Sent Package That Wrecked Sweet heart’s Home Batch of Current Gate City News to business matters. The following of- flcers wtre elected for the ensuing: year: John TL Dickey, Atlanta, grand com mander. L. P. Stephens, Atlanta, deputy grand commander. A. B. Simmons, Savannah, gfrand generalissimo. J. C. Greenfield, Atlanta .grand cap tain general. George C. Case, Milledgeville, grand senior warden. F. F. Petrie, Columbus, grand junior warden. Thomas IBurry, Gainesville, grand ATT..'. XT A Mny 9.—Cnnfr-.p.trd hv P rf ' !atf '- , ,, , , _ . ..... i M. A. Weir, Afacon, grand treasurer, •.a i dozen m.-n, Charley Batt.nger, a! g Rockwell, Savannah, grand re n<-gro messenger boy. employed by Mes- I CO rder. ■ S.-rvi ■■ N'o. S?., at public h.- id- , \ jji>r, Amorieus, grand stand titiarters today, promptly picked out J ar( j bearer. Fred Bush, a young white man, as the j w. F. Bowie,"Augusta, grand sword man who gave him the package, ad- | bearer. dr- ssod to Miss Kate McCarthy at 447 i K Georgia avt nuc. which exploded at] Of Educational Interest. t ie_ residence last night, wrecked it i ATLANTA. May 9.—Two important and came near causing the death of I resolutions from an educational stand- id t - Julia McCarthy, mother or the ; point will be introduced In the city young woman. council at Its next meeting. Council- lie said Bush looked like the man , man I. F. Styron will introduce a res who stood in front of No. 1 Forsyth olution shortening the school term street and handed him the package af- . from nine to eight months. Council t« r the stores had closed. The man. i rr.an Styron gives as his reason for nd- b • said, gave him instructions not to i vacating this action the fact that phy deliver It to the adress until Thursday | 8 | c lans say the month of May Is tba morning. But the messenger service . most severe month of the year had n package going In the same dircc- { school children, and that practically no tlon last night and sent it by Ed Me- i work is accomplished during that per- GII1, a white messener boy, the son of j iod. a policeman. I Councilman TV. M. Terrell will in- Bush is the man whom the police ] troduce a resolution to do away with arrested late last night on suspicion of manual training in the public schools, h-.vlng sent the infernal machine to j He claims that the system as it now Miss McCarthy. She happened to he conducted is too frivolous and foolish at the theater with her brother, and ' and that no good results are aceom- hor mother who received it attempted I piished. to open it, causing the explosion, which I demolished the upper story of the bouse | Investigation in Water Beard, and same near eausing her death. ATLANTA. May 9.—It was ascer Bush, whom the police arrested on | tained definitely today that the water ftisplelon, stoutly denies all knowledge of the crime. He is said to have been a sweetheart of Miss McCarthy's, and the detectives who are working on the case assign Jealousy as the cause of the deed. iBush Is associated in. business with C. V. Doolittle, and 25 Broad street just one block from the point at which the infernal machine was delivered to the messenger boy. Doolittle accompanied Miss McCarthy nnd her brother to the theater that night. Two big revolvers were found in Hush's rooms when he was ar rested. The detectives arc still at work gathering evidence in what is one of the most sensational crimes committed in Atlanta in some years. Disappearance of F. M. Nash. ATLANTA, Mny 9.—F. M. Nash is firmly convinced that the body of his brother. J. L. Nash, who mysteriously disappeared a week ago.. Is concealed bv the waters of the Chatttahooehee river, an-1 he has increased the reward which he offered for its recovery from jr,n to $150. The river near where Nash was Inst ,-een has been thoroughly dragged, but without results. Nash ■was a public stenographer. His dress .•!! t - ie' containing a suit * clothes •was found on the river bank. Kniohts Totflplars Elect Officers. ATLANTA. Alay 9.—The g*-and com mander. Knights Templars of Georgia, concluded its annua! conclave in At- janta today, the sessions being devoted board has passed a resolution providing for an invitation of the reports to the effect that c. member of the board Thomas F. Stocks, is financ'aliy inter ested in the purchase of coal by the department which amounts to approx! mateiy $30,000 a year. The resolution does not name the date for the hear ing as that will depend largely on when President W. P. Brown, of the Ragland Coal Co., of Ragland, Ala., with whom the charges are said to have originated, can come to Atlanta to appear before tb ■ board. Air. Brown, it is stated, has been invited to come here to make good his charges and the board is waiting to hear from him on this sub ject. Continued on Page 7 SAM HAMILTON KILLED BY MRS. ANNIE MAGNESS BIRMINGHAM. Ala.. Alay 9—Sam Hamilton, of Birmingham, was shot and probably fatally wounded by Airs. Ann! Magness late todav and Mrs. Atagness was stiot In the leg and seriously Injured hv her former husband. TV. R. White, of Nashville. Tenn. According to reports. White was re cently granted a divorce from his former wife nnd was given custody of his two children. Aeeonrpanied by Detective Stout nnd Attorney A. B. Anderson, of Nash ville. be went to Smitlifleld ct-’ay and found the children, put them Into a car riage and was about to drive off when Mrs. Atagness appeared* and opened fire on the men. Hamilton was lilt in a vital spot, nnd White returned the wom an's fire, she being struck in the leg. STOCKS TUMBLE WHEN NEW ISSUES ANNOUNCED Harriman Roads Will Throw §136,000.000 New Stock oil Market Union Pacific Dropped $5.25 E THE “DRUG TRUST NFTW YORK. Aray 9.—New capital issues aggregating $136,000,000, which were announev \ today by the Union Pacific and the Jouthern Pacific com panies, created something of n sensa tion in financial circles today and re sulted In a sharp decline in prices on the stock exchange. When the an nouncement was made that the direc- _ tors of the two companies will ask ] 1; thetr stockholders toi authorize such | d«jtared void, issues, quotations of l nion i acme j number plan I. shares on the exchange dropped a total i securing of th of $< "5 per «hare from the previous I the sale of drugs. y\ , , rinv a portion but Charles C. Bombaugh was charged in •high figure ot thej&y. a portion m , Jh<? bn] of compIaInt wIth be , n g en?ace( , not all of this net Tin * * * j in printing nnd circulating lists called in the latter deaUnffS. I n.s ja^e. c j j ) j ac ] c lists. which contained the names of move on the part of the two erreat svs- j drugjrfsts throughout the country who sold t-"ns of which K H Hardman is the | proprietary articles and medicines at " mueh comment in firmn- I prices less than those which the alleged , , . _ etotamant frr»m • combination ordered. As charged, he -,d drew a statement from . wouW ??nd 8 „ st ra( . h ninnth to evprv re _ ->n the subject. | tail and wholesale druggist in the United INDIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Alay 9.—The so- called "Drug Trust" was perpetually en joined today from continuing its opera tions by the entering of a decree in the United States Circuit Court for the Dis trict rf Indiana on the complaint of the the United States Government filed by Joseph B. Keating. United States District Attorney. The defendants. 92 in number, who are the members, officers, directors, agents nnd attorneys of the National As sociation of Retail Druggists, the National Wholesale Druggists' Association, tri-par- tlte proprietors, "black list manufactur ers.” "direct contract proprietors.” "wholesale contract proprietors," and Charles C. Bomhaugh. are perpetually enjoined from combining and conspiring to restrain trade in drurs. fix prices by agreement, blacklist retailers who cut prices, or to refuse to s-l! to any retailer on equal tern's. All publication of blaek- " is forbidden and all contracts and ments covered hv the charges are The direct contract serial number plan Is prohibited ns well as the adoption of schedules for “UNWRITTEN” LAW BEING PLEAD IN STRONG DEFENCE Argnments Will lie Com pleted and Case Will go to Jury by Noon Today Leading Counsel Will Speak Today L. D. Strong was placed on trial in the Superior Court yesterday morning for the murder on Alonday, April 29. of Henry D. Smith, whictract of violence he claimed to have committed in an effort to avenge the alleged robbery of the virtue of his lS-year-old sister Lilie. Long before the hour of opening the session of court, a crowd gathered in the halls of the court bouse eagerly awaiting the convening of the morning session. As soon as the Superior Court room was opened, the crowd sought their places, and when the ease was opened by Judge Felton, the court room was filled to overflowing. What bid fair at the start to be a hard- fought legal battle, commenced when Judge Felton asked the lawyers for the defense If they were ready and ordered the first 4S jurors called. Two or more were disqualified by being connected by blood or marriage. As each juror arose in answer to his name, he run the gauntlet of the State and then the defense, and the panel was soon exhausted. AVhen the next 24 arose to be sworn. The exami nation of the jurors began at 10:10 and was finished at 11:55. The prisoner or his counsel rejected 16 men, the State 10. and 12 went off for cause, on the ques tion. "Is your mind perfectly clear be tween the State and the accused?” The following is the Jury selected to pass upon the fate of the defendant: A. H. Small. W. T. Baker. William E. Morris. Guy Tavlor. head oau rial circle Mr Hart Mr Hi 12,300.- if this Union n s aid the directors d elded that it would be better to ofter j stockholders preferred stock at par ,. ,. v ,,. to sell Southern Pacific bonds a: a high rate of interest. He behoves this will better maintain the credit of the company. "Southern Pacific has a floating debt n: ;he present time of ab opo." said Air. Harrlman sum $ 14,200.e00 is payah! Pacific for advances. Under this ar rangement. announced today, t nion Pac7.fi.' vi*’. take 4 5 per cent, of the jv.nnnnrn stock offered hv the Sottth- ' r ’ p.q -.fir stock outstanding. Stock holders of Union Pacific will hold a meeting in Juno to authorize, an issue r , jj.ir. ooo.Oi'fi of common stock. An j icc-.V of S7' 00o.0 debentures will i have the first call or. this to the ex- : f<i-r of '-1 O ' 00.0'I - so that when ali de- I jrted there will still j ■>f $6,690,000 common of tt ids. who belonged to th» association. > accused of cutting prices, and ait of tills, th.es,- "aggressive eut- s they were called, eould not buy t was further charged that those ae- d of cutting prices on proprietary dlcincs wore unable to purchase any d of drugs from the members of the erela associations. All such practices perpetually enjoined. MATTHEWS SAYS BOYER AND HE CAN’T GET ALONG -Mar- gadiila »ntii ir.e.l. but no Mr H: an d as: 1 that U unlncumber- ; of unrr.ort- CHARLESTON. S. C.. Man ager Matthews today asked for his re'ease as manger of the Charleston eluh on the ground that he and Pres ident Boyer could net stay in the lea gue together. On last Saturday Mat thew? was suspended far five days and he claims that with the president hav- j " . ing it in for him he cannot do jus- j tice to the team. The request of ! the printing shop which was run by Smit.. Manager Matthews has not been acted i and in which the tragedy was enacted, on but it is expected that he will not | Air. Tinker stated that he to by the defense, which objection was sustained. The witness was then asked by Solicitor Ellis if he saw any blood on the floor. The witness answered in the affirmative, saying that there appeared to be a tea cupful of blood on the floor behind the screen. Witness was also asked to de scribe the trail of blood, and answered that the trail led from behind the screen to the back door of the store. Mr. Dasher, of the defense, then asked the witness if he was sure it was blood he ha dseen. and eould it not Rhve been paint. Witness acknowledged he could have been mistaken, but that paint would have caked to some degree. Officer Griffin Testifies. Officer GrifTin was then introduced. He stated that he had conveyed the prisoner from the scene of the shooting to the police barracks. He recognized the pistol as being that surrendered by Strong. He said that Strong had given him four loaded cartridges. He further testified, upon being further questioned, that at the station house he had heard Strong state to a newspaper reporter who had asked him what was the matter “There’s a woman in it. And it is my sister.” He also recited the fact that he had heard Strong call up the store and tell some one that he wouldn't be back and that the person at the store could go to dinner. Charles B. Erwig. a representative of the Alacon News, was next called. He testified that he had heard Strong, at the police barracks, call up some one at the store and say: "I’ve met my friend and shot him, and I hope I’ve killed him.” Coroner Young on Stand. Coroner Young was next introduced, and upon being questioned, stated that he had arrived at the store between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock. He said that he had found the screen with five bullet holes through it. He said he was sure they were bullet holes, upon being interro gated by counsel for the defense, and. ad ded Solicitor Ellis, "you’ve seen bullet hales and heard bullets before, haven’t you." which received an acquiescence The State then announced that they would rest their side of the case with the introduction as evidence of Strong's pis tol, which was a five shot 38-ealiber blue steel Smith & Wesson; four loaded and three empty shells, and the "bloody screen." The introduction of the "bloody screen” was objected to by Mr. Dash er of the defense, on the ground that various persons, including friends of the dead man, had entered the place since the time of the shooting. This objection was overruled as being irrele vant. Prisoner Reads His Story. The defendant was then placed on the stand. The dark lines about his face showed the burden he had been laboring under. His constant twitching plainly showed the nervous condition he was under at the time. He toid the court he had prepared a written state ment of his case during his confine ment In the jail, from which ha would read for fear he should overlook some of the important deails in his nervous condition. He said that he had known Smith for the past year and half, or since the latter first came to Alaeon. He had never been on intimate terms with Smith regardless of the fact that Smith lived just across the street from his mother's home. He said that Smith had gotten acquainted with his sister. Lillie, and had tried to get her to go out with him. which she wouldn't do: that as soon as Smith learned that his mother (Mrs.- Strong) was going back to the country to live. Smith approach ed his mother and stated that he want ed his sister to work for him and he would pay her the sum of $7 per week sur- f 0r feeding a press. Strong continued: "Smith promised f my mother that he would take the very best care of Lillie, would not allow her to go out from the shop with any boys and would protect her like a father would a daughter. Lillie Weak-Minded. “Poor little Lillie, we have always considered her weak-minded, and this has also been told me by those at the rescue home. Although younger, my other two sisters could always earn more money than she. “Smith painted the job in such al luring colors, consent was given to Lil lie to accept the place. We are all poor and Lillie was in such high hones of at least getting a place where she could lift the care and burden off the should ers of mother. “Afonday, April 22. my younger broth er came to me and stated that Smith had ruined our little sister and that he was going to kill him. I could hardly believe it and told him if such was the case to let the law take the case in hand and not commit a rash act as he proposed. "The news rendered me in a highly nervous state nnd I immediately went to a Justice of the peace and had a warrant sworn out for Smith. Having had to support the family at a very immature age. my education was neg lected and I knew nothing of the law. The case was postponed in the justice court on account of the absence of seme witnesses and I then, upon the advice of my counsel, took the case be fore the grand jury. “My poor little sister had to go be fore the grand jury and testify to her shame." -• Strong then went on and described what his sister told him had taken place in Smith’s office. “Night after night and day .after day my poor old mother knew some thing was wrong and asked Lilia for an explanation, but the girl was afraid lest Smith would carry out his threat. “On Alonday. April 29 I left the store as is m.v usual custom at 11 o’clock to go to dinner. I passed the place of Smith and he seemed to be beckoning me to enter. I passed on and on my way back from dinner he again beckoned me to enter.” Strong concluded by saying that Smith cursed him and the next he re membered was the pleading of Air. Sims to not shoot any more at Smith. Beal. G. F. Gileland. J. P. Sammons. •T. AT Sharp. , Frank Klopher. W. H. Burns. 3. W. Brvant. 3. A. Jordan. Opening for State. Solicitor Roland B. Ellis opened the case with a brief recital of the incidents of the fatal day of the shooting. He recited the fact that the conversation supposed to have taken place between Strong and Smith could not be proven, as the only witness besides the defendant is dead. He said that the State would show that upon the entrance of the defendant in the printing offfee. Smith had run behind a screen in terror, and that Strong had fol lowed him. shooting five times tnto Smith's body through the screen: that Smith then ran out of the back door of thn printing office, followed by Strong, who W3s finally pursuaded to cease shoot ing hv Mr. Sims, whose place of business next door, and that Smith's dying statement charged Strong with producing his wounds. H. .T. Sims, who conducts a bicycle store adjoining Smith’s printing office, was the first witness introduced by the State. Sims stated that the first he heard of the shooting was a muffled sound which lie supposed to be a bursting bicycle tir**. which, he said, was followed by two more distinct shots, after which he heard Smith scream. He said that in a moment Smith entered his shop with clothes sat urated with blood and fell behind a piece of furniture cowering in terror. He said he next saw Strong standing on the side- ralk in front unbreeching his pistol: that he asked Strong not to shoot anv more. nd* then Strong asked for a policeman. Officer Griffin came up and Stron rendered. Blood Behind Screen. Sims further stated that in company with Coroner Young, he had found blood behind the screen or sign, and the screen was perforated with five bullet holes, all within IS Inches of one another, and about three feet from the floor. Blood was plainly found on the backside of the screen. Upon being ouestioned. the wit- said thnt he did not remember a girl named Lillie Stiong ever worked for Smith, nor a girl by the name of Sin clair. However, he said he remembered girl about 14 years of age as having worked for Smith, but didn’t know her name. About this girl he admitted he had bad a conversation with Smith. Dr. Eugene B. Eider was the n-'xl State's witness introduced, clearly cribed the condition of Smith when the latter was brought to the hospital, stating that there was one wound in Smith’s cheek one In the neck, one under the left arm-pit, and two in the right shoulder. Smith Claimed Innocence. Dr. Elder testified that when he Asked Smith if he re sized that he was going to die. the reply was no. and Smith never later said ho thought he was going to die. Dr. Elder further testified that hen he told Srsith that he was mortally wounded and was going to die. Smith said in the presence of Officers Avant and Brar.an that he had made no resistance gainst Strong and was not guilty of rhat he was accused of. An attempt on the Dart of Afr. Dasher.- the leading counsel for the defense, to elicit from Dr. Elder the alleged nervous state of the defendant, was blocked by Judge Felton, who asked tbe attorney if It" was his Intention to show that the de fendant was insane. “For." said the Judge, unless you in tend to try to show this, the defendant’s condition is immaterial. Air. Dasher an swered that he did not exactly understand what the court's idea of insanity was. anu was intending to show that the de fendant's mind was temporarily unbal anced. Judge Felton then replied that unless Insanity was to be the plea, any nues- tions about Strong's nervous condition were irrelevant. This little colloquy between the court and Air. Dasher immediately gave rise to the opinion that the defense woud make their pleas on a basis of temporary in sanity. At 1 o'clock the court took a recess until 3 o'clock. Afternoon Session. The first witness introduced at the aft ernoon session was Airs. Smith the wid ow of the dead man. Airs. Smith was dressed in deep morning. and not a person in the entire court room but who felt a deep sympathy for her In her unfortunate condition, as she gently con veyed from her arms to a friend a young infnnt. nnd took the stand. When questioned. Airs. Smith stated I Argument in the case was then be- that she had married Atr. Smith only two i j-uj, bo?” one°*chi?d. an VnfaST'nVrf onh- j Charles A. Glawson opened for the ejeht month?. S?io ? id tint sh* had hoer. • defense. He spoke for fully an hour. v.- ; th tier husbir.il on’y i f* w minute? be- I He read from the statute.-? of Georgia fore the tragedy, a" i thnt the last time j justifying man in defending members iVv coffin at J 0 f his family, and claimed that Mrs.^Srr'ith^pfteousTy^obbed ' Strong’s act was justified under the words out. and she was dismissed | statute, i but few questions. I Hendlev V. Xapier was next heard h^ n^xt witness to he introduced was ! for the defense. H. Tinker, w.io formerly conducted j claimed the holes in the screen. re In number, could not be made with S. & W. 32-caliber revolver, that the THREE SCOSE PEOPLE I WIFE OF FORMER TRAFFIC MANA GER OF BURLINGTON R. R. LOST HER LIFE. CHICAGO, May 9.—One woman -was killed and three score other persons were injured today in a wreck on the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy Railroad at the crossing of that line with Ham lin avenue in the Southwestern part of the city. The woman whose life was lost was Mrs. Mars- Miller, widow of Thomas Aliller, formerly traffic manager of the Burlington road. Fully forty passengers other than those men tioned below were injured, but In so slight a manner that they did not re port their injuries to the police. The seriously injured were as follows. Airs. Pauline Aloranz. East Grove, Ill.: Katherine Moranz. daughter of Airs. Aloranz, may die; Aliss Theresa *Wied- nowski: Aliss Eva Shepard, Hinsdale. Ill.; Aliss Alay Alorrlsey. Chicago: Alibis Martha No van. The train which was No. 114. which runs between Aurora. Ills., and Chicago. It consisted today of four cars, all well filled with passengers. The cause of the accident is not known, but it is believed to have been the spreading of rails. The train was running at the rate of forty miles an hour, when the locomotive suddenly left the rails, ran along the roadbed for seventy-five feet and then rolled down a slight em bankment, carrying with it the first passenger coach. The other cars left the rails, but did not go down. All the passengers in the first coach were more or less hurt. Aliss Alarj- Schiller, who was killed, was thrown down be tween two seats and a mass of wreck age piled upon her. Airs. Aliller was accompanied by her three daughters. Airs. George Alorton and Alisses Eliza beth and Sarah Aliller. Airs Alorton escaped with slight injuries but both of the Alisses Aliller were badly bruised and each sustained a fractured leg. Immediately after the accident the wreckage of the forward car burst Into flames, but they were promptly extin guished. NEWCOMB FORCED ROW ON SLAYER, THOS. W. TROY I AND REDUCE TAX RATE PLAN OF SWELLING PROPERTY VALUATIONS SO AS TO FORM BASIS FOR ISSUANCE*BONDS. Struck Him and Called Him Names Without Provocation Looks Like Clean Case Self Defense B. R. T. PAID CLAIMS TOTALING $1,500,000 ATLANTA. Alay 9.—The sessions of the biennial convention of the Broth erhood of Railway Trainmen today were devoted to the reports of grand lodge officers, which had been refer red to and received the recommenda- . tions of committees. The matter of disputed insurance claims, amounting to about $200 000, and which have been passed upon by the claims committee before the gathering of the conven tion. was taken up at the afternoon session. The undisputed claims paid during the past j-ear amounted to a million and a half of dollars. The to tal amount of insurance carried in the brotherhood is stated to be approxi mately one hundred million dollars. Although the nepet place of meeting will not be settled for several days, an active campaign is well under way, in which DesAIoines. la.. Columbus. Ohio., and Louisville, Ky., are leading for the honor. The digeussion in Council at the last ■meeting on bank assessments has brought out some ideas as to assess ments in general. Opinions vary us to the best method of assessing property. The charter of the city says the assessors “shall be duly sworn to assess the real and per sonal property of the city at its fair market value, according to the best of their skill and knowledge,” and it was upon this duty of the assessors that brought about the lively debate on Tuesday night. It came up on the report of the license and tax committee recommend ing that the assessments on banks be made eighty per cent of market val ue of stock, the assessments on real and personal property being seventy- five per cent of its fair market value. This has been one of the subjects of street corner talk, and there are people who approve the action of Council, and there are others who think that as there is a specific law as to what ■banks shall pay as taxes, who think Council was wrong. It is right here that the method of assessments is discussed. One plan is that all property should be assessed at its fair market value and, as was done In Augusta, the aggregate scaled down a certain per cent., thus swelling the property valuations of the city so as to form a basis on which -bonds can be issued and at the same time not in creasing the amount of taxes to be paid by the property owner. Another plan Is to assess at the fair market value, instead of seventy- five per cent as is done now. and re duce the rate of taxation. By neither plan would the property owner have more to pay than by the old plan. The reduction of the tax rate, with property assessed at its fair market value, is considered to be the better plan. The city will collect on an as sessment this year of $18,000,000. This at the present tax rate of $1.25 per hundred will bring in a revenue of $225,000. Now, the same property as sessed at its fair market value, if eighteen millions Is seventy-five per cent of that value, would make $24.- 000.000. Reducing the tax rate from $1.25 to $1.00 per hundred, the income would be $240,000. The advantage of this reduction of the tffx rate can be seen. As it is too late to make the reduc tion this year, it may be possible that in the coming years .the assessors may assess property' at its fair market value, and the Council reduce the tax rate. PROSECUTION OF MEAT TRUST PETERED OUT SAVANNAH. Aray 9.—The threaten ed prosecution of the meat trust in Sa vannah has petered out. It was announced today that it had been practically decided that the grand jury at its meeting tomorrow will not take up the question to pursue it further, there being nothing they can get at to fix guilt upon the local rep resentatives of the packers .and the local butchers. Therefore the mat ter will be dronped. and the fearfully high prices will continue without let or hindrance. DUBLIN CITIZENS’ LEAGUE PUT OUT MUNICIPAL TICKET DUBLIN, Ga„ Alay 9.—Last night an opposition ticket was put in the field by the newly organized Citizens' League. Air. A. P. Hilton was chair man of the meeting. The following ticket was nominated: Arayor—John R. Baggett. Alderman—First ward. Will Outler: Second Ward, E. N. Watkins: Third Ward, W. O. Ogburn: Fourth Ward, B. M. Grier- The ticket nominated last night will oppose the following: Alayor—W. S. Phillips. Aldermen—First Ward. Will Outler: Second Ward. Chas. S. Rowe: Third Ward G. H. Williams; Fourth Ward, J. R. Broadhurst. This last ticket is known as the ad ministration ticket The Citizens League declared for the election of members, of the. board of education and tax assessors by the people, placing the light and water plant in the hands of a commission, publication monthly of the proceed ings of Council, and opposed to ring rule. From now until the date of the pri mary things will be warm. The pri mary will be held on Alay 22. The Australian ballot system will be used for the second time, that form of bal loting having been used last year and proved to be satisfactory. Bond Issue Ordinance. COLDAIBUS. Ga.. May 9—City coun cil listened last night to the reading for the first time of an ordinance call ing for an election for the issuing of $90,000 of bonds for the building of a steel or ooncrete bridge across the Chattahoochee river at Dillingham St. The ordinance will be acted upon at the June meeting. NEGROES LED OFFICER FOR TWENIV NILE WALK ON PRETENCE THEY HAD FOR GOTTEN HOUSE OFFICERS WERE LED MERRY CHASE. Officer Glenn could never find George Riley, a young negro, doing anything but loaf on the streets. Then again he had a tip that George had some things stored away that belonged to some one else. Early yesterday morning he arrested Riley on the charge of loitering. As he was taking his prisoner away, Riley saw two of his chums. Alack Edwards and Will Gibbs, and called out to them to “look out for them things" for him. When Riley was safe in the wagon morning uur n. .nffioou ooiicrVit "Rrlwnrrl? nnri i lOUTKl regret. AILVAII, Fla., May 9.—Thomas W. Troy, a wealthy -lumber dealer in Hon duras. .Central America, shot and killed George.W. Newcomb in a bar room at West Palm Beach yesterday afternoon. Troy had been in the city but half an hour when the shooting happened. He came ashore there froip the steamer Cecelia, said to be owned by him. which was bound for New York. Troy wanted to get to New York before the steamer on account of important busi ness. He intended taking the train to New York last, night and was directed by a negro, to Zapfs' bar as probably the place to get refreshment, where ho ordered a bottle of champagne served in an ante-room of the bar. Newcomb Nagged Tory. Newcomb invited him to drink but Troy thanked him and declined, retir ing to an ante-room to drink cham pagne and read a paper while waiting for the train. Newcomb and three friends passed several slurs directed at Troy, Newcomb trying to engage Troy in a quarrel. Later he urged Newcomb to let him alone and also called the •bar keeper to protect him against in sulting remarks. Still Newcomb con tinued to nag him. Troy told him he had better go away, when Newcomb picked up Troy's grip. Troy grabbed for the grip unsuccessfully. Newcomb said: “Oh. you've got a gun. have you?” and opened Troy's grip. He said: “There, take your little toy gun and commence shooting,” and made a = If to grab a pistol from his pocket. As lie did he struck Troy in the face and called him vile names. Troy Made Short Work. Troy drew a gun and shot five times into the body of Newcomb, who stag gered and fell dead, each shot enough to cause .instant death. Troy then ordered Newcomb’s com panions to leave the saloon, which they did. An officer arrived immediately after the shots were fired and placed Troy tinder arrest, without resistance. He was brought to Aliami immediately in nn automobile and locked in a ceil In tbe county Jail. In his grip taken* by the sheriff were $200,000 in bonds. Troy Immediately wired to his brother, Daniel Troy, a New York lawyer, to come to Aliami and defend him. Troy also engaged counsel in (His city. When seen today by the re porters he refused , to. talk. He is be ing treated well by authorities at the jail. He makes no complaint except he has to eat in a cell. Two men in the city who know Troy and went to the jail to see him say he is a man of excellent habits. A preliminary hearing will not he held until his brother arrives. Newcomb an Idler. Newcomb was a young man about twenty-six. TIis father is wealthy. Newcomb was idle most of his time, spending much time in saloons lately: married about a year, and leaves a, wife and infant two months old. Ho used to reside in Miami, where he was married. He was well known all over the county. He was very quarrelsome when "drinking, and a very powerful mail'. The affair cast a gloom over tho county. The sympathy is about evenly divided, although many claim Troy wiil be released at the preliminary hearing. NEWS OF TROY-NEWCOMB TRAGEDY RECEIVED IN CITY The news of the unfortunate affair at Palm Beach, Fla., on Wednesday afternoon, in which Thos. W. Troy fig ured, was received In .Macon yesterday- morning with much surprise and pro- the officer caught Edwards and Gibbs and told them they must show him where “them things" were. They prom ised. and handcuffing them together, they started out. On the pretence that they had forgotten the house, they led the officer a merry chase over the low er part of the city, and finally after a twenty mile walk brought up at a house in Tybee, the door of which was fastened with a padlock. Inquiry developed that the house was occupied by a watchman and was not Riley's 'house at all. As it was evident that the two ne groes had traveled the officer al! over the country on a wild goose chase with no intention of finding the house, the court considered It a case of interfering with an officer in the discharge of his duty, and fined them five dpllars each, while Riley was fined ten dollars. on it. at have hin* eas i effort Iraw it. will be g- lck. nv.s! ,, I.-,-? of the two companies ’nv to place the stock of the o * companies on a quarterly 1-, ? ; instead of a semi-an- is as heretofore. The fi 1 dividends which were ci - , ■ -,. i *odav wore at the same rate as nt past. This was 2% per rent on Union Pae ! fl- common, and ; V, per con: or. Southern Pacific, thus r .he interest distribution to ? a* the rate of 19 per cent f.> r • e f,,—j-e- and 5 per cent for Scuthern Pacific. insls mad; Two Negroes Charged with Murder. anco agent and used part of the shop as I an office. I Blocdy Screen. j The “bloody screen" was introduced, and Air. Tinker was eaUed holes were not bullet holes and that Smith was not shot behind the screen. His speech was largely on sympathy d he invariably spoke of the little HAWK IN P VILLE. "< 3a_ M.w 9.—*Will whlclThe^did^D~s''* U axttire in’the I chIld ' ,vho had becn ' vr °nged and said Johnson and Sol Barnes were before i nga.... ’ tv hen questioned, he'stated that i there was n0 unwritten law in this. Judge Pierce vesterday. charged with ■ the screen stood about IS feet from the 1 that *dnncr the law of Georgia Strong the r.eg iuperif the murder of-Honett.'. Clark, girl found in T< wn Cree!: and were bound over to :h< C irt. The evidence igains: that of George Smith, aaoti who swore that he saw them going in that direction the Sunday before :he day the girl left home The defer.- dan-s admitted having seen the g-*r! de-eend the ladder from the railroad trestle. :r of the store, the dimensions of wh re 2S feet long by s feet wide. He said at he had examined tho store soon :er the shooting in company with Cor- t; was j or.er Voung. nr.d had discovered five btil- negro. ! let holes in the screen; that the screen stood in front of an imposing stone, upon tvl-ich Smith usually made up his type forms. When questioned if lie saw a type form on the stone, he answered that he had seen a partially completed one. So- | was justifiable and hs did not believe that the jury would convict him. At 6 o’clock Warren Roberts for the State began speaking. Air. Roberts, though young in years, argued his side of the case with logic and vigor and bis speech compared favorably with the two that preceded. : At 6 o'clock Judge Felton ordered an Ellis asked him who "was "the job I adjournment until this morning at 9 being prepared for. This was objected I o'clock, the Jury being turned over to Louisiana Sugar Outlook Good. NEW ORLEANS. Arav 9.—According to the estimate of a number of exten sive can growers in the sugar belt, Louisiana should make this year 340,- 000 tons of sugar or more. The aver age crop of the State is 250,000 tons. Last year only 225.000 tons were made. It is not believed that the short crop in Cuba will -have any effect on the price of the Louisiana product, for the beet crop is as large as usual. Mrs. J. R. Langford Ddad. WAVERLY HALL, Ga.. Alay 9.— Mrs. J. R. Langford, of this place, died Thursday night of consumption. She leaves a husband ond one daughter and many relatives and friends to mourn her loss. the care of the Sheriff for the night. Arthur L. Dasher leading counsel for the defense, and Solicitor Ellis will be heard this morning. Culberson For Minority Leader. WASHINGTON, May 9.—It now be gins to look very much as though Sen ator Charles A. Culberson has the best chance of being chosen minority leader in the Senate next December. Accord ing to report. Senator Culberson now claims he has enough pledges from Democratic associates to secure his election. Senator Culberson is now serving his second term in the upper branch of the national legislature and there are few members of that body of wider political experience. He has -been in public life continuously since 1890. in which year he was elected attorney-general of Texas. Subsequently he served four years as Governor of his State and he has been in public life since 1899. At the two last Democratic national con ventions he served as chairman of the Texas delegation. He comes by his in clination for politics naturally, as his father was a member of Congress from Texas for twenty-two years. With Congress In a long session just ] prior to the Presidential campaign. I Senator Culberson, as minority leader, would have unusual opportunity for fo- | cusing the attention of the country upon his party. Afr. Troy is well known in Macon i where, as a young man, ho attendod college, where he married, and where he was engaged in business for many years. Ho married a sister of Messrs. A. R. and T. D. Tinsley. Afrs. Troy and her two sons are in Macon, having come on a visit to the home people. She. will leave with Thos. W. Trov. Jr., fpr Florida today. Air. Dan *W. Troy, the brother, is en gaged in business in New York, but was in Montgomery at the time a tel egram was sent to New York to in form him of the affair, and the tele gram was forwarded to C-iim from New York. He left "Wednesday night with an attorney from Afontgomery for Palm Beach, and will probaly reach there this morning. The Associated Press dispatch did not giye any of the particulars of the unfortunate difficulty, but it is learned in Afacon that about a year ago Mr. Troy and Air. Newcomb had a dispute about business matters, both having large lumber interests. They were well known to each other, and previ ously had been dealing together in lumber. Afr. Troy had sailed from Honduras on a vessel loaded with lumber from his lands, and stopped at Palm Beach in order to go to New York in advance of the lumber. Air. Troy had large interests in Hon duras. He owns the ice plant at Puer to Cortez, and Is connected not only with the mahogany and other hard wood trade, but In mining. He has numbers of friends in Macon who learned of the affair with regret. STRIKE SITUATION MORE ACUTE IN ORIZABA, MEX. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS IS TO HAVE A STATUE WASHINGTON. May 9.—Secretary Root today called a meeting of the members of the Christopher Columbu3 memorial commission, to be held at the State Department on the 18th inst., for the purpose of selecting a site and design for a suitable memorial to Christopher Columbus to be erected In Washington, and for which Congress has appropriated $100 000. The commission consists of the chairman of the Senate committee on the library of the Fifty-ninth Con gress. t 1 ’*' Secretary of State, the Sec retary v War and the supreme kngths SAN ANTONIO. Tex.. Alay 9.—A special to the Express from Orizaba, Alexico, says: The strike situation here has grown more acute. The number of strikers has been augmented and now reaches nearly 12,000 and the tendency to vio lence is more marked. The Federal forces and those of the rurales have also been Increased. All hope of immediate arbitration has been abandoned and much appre hension is felt. There is not a mill in the district that is able to operate and suffering is beginning to be felt among the families of the strikers. The au thorities hav*e the situation well in hand. Fire Destroyed Turpentine Plant. FITZGERALD. Ga., May 9.—-The fire whistle startled the people at a^ early hour yesterday morning and the tur pentine still and plant of Paulk & Wil liams in the city was seen to be blaz ing furiously and continued to do so in spite of any efforts of the fire boys. The plant and some barrels of rosin of the order of the Knights of Colum- J were entirely destroyed, but the spirits bus. ... I yaj rescued- , INDISTINCT PRINT

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Twice-a-week telegraph. (Macon, Ga.) 1899-19??, May 10, 1907, Image 1