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WAS BAD EXPLOSION; POSTlt.Cl
BIO maqazine at|nbuH HEAD proving
GROUND flL£W l)P.
Pint Report! Were to ifio Effect that'Great
Damaie Had Reiulted, But Later A<(-
vlcea Say that No’’Fatalities-Occurred.
Cauae ol Exploeion Not Known. ■ ,-••
Woodbrldfee, 1 Va." Oot. 85.—The entire
poet at the naval proving ground atation
at Indian Head, on the Potomao river,
was demolished by an awfnl explosion
of the main powder magazine last night,
CONSPIRACY UNEARXlifBD
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United Statea Grand Jury ’Returns Thirteen
Indictments Aialpat Ex-Postmaster* and
Carriers In Polk, HatrisoA and Paulding
, Counties. ' , • l ' '•
VOLUNtEBRS IN ,THE' PHILIPPINES COM-
INO HOME.
The Plrat Installment to Leave Manila Novem*
her 1-The Slclt to Come First-Reglf
ments to Be Mustered Out at ’San Pram
cisco.
, Atlanta, Ga., Oot. 25.—The Unlfrd
States grand jury has returned thirteen
indictments against ox-postmasters and
oarriers in Polk, Harrison and Panlding
oonnties, obarging conspiracy to defraud
and consequent havoo was caused by J the government. The postoffloe author!
other explosions at the station.
Twelve men are known to be dead.
The list will probably be muoh greater
when it beoomes possible to make an
investigation. The force of the explos
ion was terriflo. Every building within
three miles was destroyed. People were
thrown to the ground at Quantioo,
twelve miles distant
The identified dead are Jas. 'Williams,
Jno. Scott, Robt. Bailey, foreman and
laborers on a new railroad. It is feared
many if not all the naval officers and
men were killed.
THE REPORT GREATLY E.-fACO WAVED.
Washington, Oot. 25.—'’’he reports re
garding the explosion at Indi ,n Head
are greatly exaggerated. Liout. Strauss,
in oharge of the proving grounds, left
Indian Head early this morning in a
tug and reached Washington shortly
before 10 o’clock. Prom the Washing
ton navy yard he telephoned Admiral
O’Neil that the report wu„ greatlv exag
gerated and that no one m injured
The explosion took place in a house
wbioh caught fire from some unexplained
cause. A magazine in Which was stored
several tons of powder exploded, shak
ing the ground for a considerable dis
tance and destroying the telephone com
munication with Washington.
HON. ED. 1. WIGHT .
W* Introduce Bill tu Cbasye Manner of-Elect
ing Judges asdSsHcltoes.
In an artiole with refersnoe to the
meeting of the Georgia legislature, in
yesterday’s Atlanta Oonstitntion, we
find the following:
"Representative Ed. L. Wight, of
Dougherty, who came np to Atlanta
yesterday from his heme in south Geor
gia, will introduce at the very first of
the session a bill to strike ont the amend
ment to the oonstition nnder which
judges aud solicitors of the superior
courts of the state ate eleoted by the
people. Representative Wight as a
member of the last senate will be re
membered as one of the most prominent
figures in that body. It was he who led
the fight in the upper house against the
Willingham bill, and the defeat of the
measnre la the senate was one of the
distinct features of the session.
“The member from Dougherty is op
posed to the election of jndges and solic
itors by the people. He does not be
lieve the test in the recent Btate eleotion,
in which the amendment operated for
the first time, was a satisfactory one.
He holds that it lowers the dignity of a
judge to place himself In the position of
a candidate before the'people, asking
for their voteB and acquiring the preju
dices against his opponents that no
judge should be hampered with in the
administration of justice.
“The amendment, that will be offered
by Representative Wight will probably
call for the appointment of these offl.
oialsiby the governor of the state; the
appointment being ratified by the sen-'
. ate.”
THE MUFFLER.
ties assert that thirteen of the defend
ants went so far os to give away stamps
in order to cancel them and sent bulky
packages through their offioes. It Is
said that a dog was sent iu this way and
that picoeB of plue bark were stamped
and mailed.
The defendants who are charged with
oonspiraoy are F. O. Deavors, former
postmaster at Oabot, Ga.; Butler Davis,
former postmaster at Way, Ga ; John
G. Dow, former postmaster at Roland,
Ga. ;'B. F. Morgan, former postmaster
at. Frank, Gs.; Wm. A. Green, former
pn-itmaster at Dc-'.r, Ga. i W. 0 Wal-.
drop, former poatma-ter at Junior, Go.;
J M Rntledge, former postmaster at
Lodge, Go. j John R. Bush, former as
sistant postmaster at Dic.v, Ga..; T. J.
Bell, former assistant postmaster at
Besmar Ga.; W M. Waddell,
former special carrier; A. 8. Wad
dell,' former special carrier; W. T.
Head, former speoial carrier; W. J.
Harden, former special carrier.
The offices In which the alleged fraud
was perpetrated were what are known
as speoial snpply offices and were estab
lished by the government as an experi
ment on the petition of residents in the
section where the offloe was located
These particular offices were in a very
sparsely settled loeallty and are. said to
hnve been very close together.
THE STRIKE.
It Has Arrived and Will Soon Be Attached to
the Compress.
The immense funnel shaped apparatus
whioh is to be need to deorease the noise
of the exhaust ol the Georgia Ootton
Company’s compress has arrived and 1
will soon be attaohed to the press.
The people in the vicinity of the press
have been awaiting the arrival of this
muffler impatiently, and they will re
joice when it has been pnt on the press'
and the deafening noise of the exhaust'
decreased below the annoying point.
It is believed that the hew apparatus
will prove more successful than the
one rued in the early part of the season.
As the readers of the .Herald will- re
member, the lint muffler was blown off
by the exhausting steam.
The delightful weather continues. It
is not warm enough to be oppressive
but is oool enough to bracing and in-
vigorating.
than fail.
more like rammer
Settlement Probable If Strlliero WRI Steed by
Mitchell.
Wilkesbarre, Oot. 28 —Operators here
this morning said the statement of Pres
ident Mitchell lest night that the strike
wotrld end as soon as the offer made by
some of the operators last Thurday is
made unanimous, may lead to a settle
ment. They consider it the test direot
statement Mitohell has yet made, and
believe him sincere.
Tho companies are understood to be
willing to d^ what is expected Of”'them
as soon as they are sjye the strikers will
stand by Mltohell's offer; and it is be
lieved thistime has now oome.
LORD ROBERTS TO REMAIN -
Is South Afrlca-Tllr Middle of Noveniber.
. Wolsely to Held Os.
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London, Obfc. 25,-VThe war offlobi-an-
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noonces today that Lord Roberts hopes
to leave South Afrioa for home about
Nov. 15th and that Lord Wolselyi has
consented to perform the duties of com-
mander-in-oh’ief tfntil the end of No
vember. V
. HARD TJL KILL. .*• .
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Wsald-be Suicide Survives Five Bullets Aqd
Bottle ol Carbolic Add.
Buffalo, Oct. 28.—Bout on suicide,
Morris PalaSok, thirty years' old, ft
five shots into his body last night then
drank enough carbolic oc^d to blister his
mouth, but still he liyps. He gave him
self up to the polioe. - - ■
BATTLESHIP KENTUCKY. ! ‘
She Goes jo £e* .For Another Teet cl tier,
Goss. „'•»
New York, Oot. 24.—The battleship
Kentucky passed out to ge& this dom
ing. .Another test will be given her
guns offjSandy Hook, and if there is no
further trouble she will proceed on her
voyage to the China station.
GERMANY AGREES.
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Peace Negotiations With Chios to Be Go-
trusted to Porelga Representatives it Pcklo.
Berlin, Oot. 25.—Germany has agreed
to Japan’s proposal that peaee negotia
tions with China shall be entrusted for
the present to the foreign representa
tives et Pekin.
TUB MVRDBRERS OP KENNIB BOSSBHBI&K
.. . ’ HELD dflf PATERSON! .’ ' **"'
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The Crime a -Most Fiendish One—The Girl
Wei Glutted sod Carried Away By Four
Yoont Men - Her Oealb Was Caned by
Knockout Drops sod Aisault.. • -- ">
Sau Fraueisoo, Oot. 23.—The mi itary
that had quarters here and started ti
the first installment of the vnlnnteei
army now in the Philippines, will leave
Manila Nov. 1st. From that time till
next Jnne transports will bring home
about twenty-five thousand men at the
rate of fonr to five thousand men a
month. The siok will, if possible,' be
shipped on the earlier transports, that
they may travel without crowding. The
varionB regiments will he mustered ont
and paid as soon as possible, after their
arrival here. By this arrangement, the
camps now established at Presidio will
be snffioieht to accommodate the entire
army.
TERROR AMONG. NEGROES.
Two Have Beeo Lynched In Pike Cbonty For
Shooting at s Farmer’s Home.
Atlanta, Go., Oot. 26.—There is ter
ror among the negroes in Pike connty,
Owing to a sensational lynohing whioh
has just taken place near the village of
Liberty Hill. Jas. Grier and James
Calloway were hanged for frightening
the daughter .of a prominent farmer.
The negroes were hnnting, and while
passing the farmer's house wantonly
fired their guns at It. The daughter
was alone and was thrown into a state
of terror. The family found her In hys-
terios when they returned. ‘ -
ANOTHER REPORT OF THE AFFAIR
Maoon, Pa., Oot. 26,—Near the village
of Liberty Hill in Pike county Monday
James Greer and James Callaway, two
negro men, while eat on zy hnnting ex
pedition passed a farm honse, and Wan
tonly, fired their gans into it, to the
groat fright of a young woman, the
daughter of the honse, who was there
alone, her parents having been called
away from the plaoe. She was so terror
ized that when her parents returned
they thought she had been wounded, for
she was in a condition of partial faint
and could not fully explain what had
happened. A physician was summoned
and the neighbors. were alarmed. The
young woman, it was ascertained,, had'
not been injured by the shots, bat the
men of (he. neighborhood undertook a
search and found jihe misoreants. Oneof
them, nnder pressnro, said that they
had a grudge against,the farmer and
had fired into the house -hoping to kill
him. The negroes were, during the
early hours of, the night, carried into
the "woods. They were then placed on
horseback, ropes tied about-their necks
and fastened to the limb of a tree. The
horse* were started and the negroes left
dangling.
ON WAY TO PEKIN.
Uosldrstooil .That Gen. Yud SbaagHas Been
Samatoaed by Wetdenee.
Tien Xsin, Oct.’ 25.—General Yun
Shang has atrfved hero on his way to
Pekin nn.dpc American escort. It
iannderstoo’d that tits presence is due to
Count von, Waldersee’s request. The
OhinSse imperial troops 'are operating
.unmolested against the Boxers south
ward, of Tien Tein.' .ThejOermans are
sending supplies to Pao Ting Fu for a
wintqr garrison. , .,
Changed His Mind.
From the Memphis Scimitar.
Mistah Jonsing confided to a friend
that he was "tia’d votin’ the Publican
tioket. Publicans had nevahdone noth,
in’fo’him." Bat a day or two later he
reported that he had "done change" his
mind and would be true to his anofent
“princ’ples.” In explanation, he said:
“Hit’s this away. I done tole my wife
I was gwine to be a Democrat this yeah.
Well, aah, yon know mah wife. She
jus’ naoheliy stood np her proudes’ an’
give me one look. Then she said in a
pow’fnl, convincin’ way: *Ef yon
gwine be a Democrat, yon oain’t rooet
hyaht’ So I’s gwine stay Publican,
IU."
There are people in Albany who don’t
know yet when the Hay Day Carnival
rad Street Fair is to be. Fact.
Patterson, N J., Oot. 28.—The mys
tery of tlip murder ol Keunie Bosso-
heifer Thursday night aleored np today.
Four young, men have been arrested,
oharged with the crime. Their names
are George Kerr, Walter MoAUlater,
William Death and Audrew Campbell.
The polioe say the men dragged-the
girl and took her hi a cab to a lqnely
part of Paterson. By that time she was
dying, and they drove to the honse of a
physloian. He Bald: “You’ve oome too
late; sheU dead. Then the men ban
died &S lifeless form into-.a cab and
drove to Vfag{irow bridge, where,they
tossed the body where it was found.
The gfrl’s skull was smashed by the fall.
The polioe say,, death yfa* paused by
knockout drops and assault.
PREMIUMS FOR FLOATS.
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Por the Opening Parade of ibe Hay Day
Carnival and Street Pair.
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From Tuesdays Dfilly. Herald.,
At the directors' .meeting hold last
night it was decided that, for the pur
pose of giving zest to the preparations
that are being made for theopeping feat
ure of the Hay Day Carnival and Street
Fair, three premiums would be offered
aud awarded for floats participating jin
the grand oarnival parade on Wednes
day, November 21.
The premiums authorized are as fol:
lows: ’ " .
For best Mercantile or Indnstrial
Float.'.. .*20.00
For best Agricultural Float 20.00
For best dooorated vehicle........ 20.00
It U proposed' to open-the-carnival
with a grand parade at It o'olock on
Nov. 81. and it is ddsired’to make it "at
imposing as possible. Everybody Irltf-
vited to enter the lists etrld contest for
the premiums offered.
Mr. T. M. Ttcknorhas been appointed
as a speoial oommlttee to call on the
bostness mien of the ^oity and . Work np
an,interest in floats. The-appointment
of a committee to pereonhily solicit the
busiriiiBa men of the olty, to get npfibats
should not have been necessary, bnt it
was learned that some were already com
plaining because nobody had called on
them personally and- officially to ask'
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them to get np floats, and, in order that
.J - '. a •»> *'• if V ,
none might have any excuse for pouting
or staying out of the big pyooesBion/ a
special committee to solicit entrances
was apjKnnted. , *Z. t .
Don't ask ns for names or particulars,
but the Herald knows of some elabor
ate preparation, that are being made
for floats.' The opening carnival parade
is gbing to be something grand. .
AN ALBANY YOUNG ORATOR.
PbWDEIt
Makes I|
biscuits,^'!
Makes hot
are qualit
flaky, delicious hot
jls,’ niuflins and, crusts,
iread wholesome. These
peculiar to it alone.
Y™ have found the Royal Baking Powder superior
‘ -.* * imo ell others.—C, Gonju, late Chef, Delmonlco’s, -.
. fiovAt Wetmo’iiovyDEB m.'io6 wilUam st./ new yobk.
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REBELS ATTACK 4.M0 ,VILLAGERS IN SAN
’ CHUN PHOVlNCfil . ,
2,004 of the Latter and 400. of the Former
Slain—3,000 HooseV Giis'troyed—Detach
ment of Imperial'Yreope Goes Aialnel
Rebels—Rceull of ConllTcl Not Known
Master-John H. Heeler, to Contepl for the
. fltlze la Declnmnttbn at the Atlanta Fair,,
Master John H. Hester, (he bright
and manly fonrfipew-year-old. son- of
Oapt. and Mrsr- J. T. Hester, of thiaoity,
left.tqday for>Atlanta to enter the con
test fpr the Prize to Jig awarded,, by the
Southern Inter-State Fair Association
to the hfisj hoy oratpr.,
a The.contest in deqUerngtion is. to take
place one day fihis xyeek, and .faster
John Hestpr. will represent Dougherty
cqunly., So far as wq knpw, he will, he
the only contestant from this port of the
state. . i -r , r .
John Hester is a bright boy and will
refleot credit npon,his qonnty whether
he wins the prize,or not., He speaks
well, and the other boys will not have
a walk-over.
Hong Kong, Oot i >25,—The governor
of HongKnng has been informed that
4,000 villagers at Sah 'Ohun, !n the
Kwalehln district,,,were attacked bv
rebels at jPohohok., .-The villagers were
defeated and 2,000, were killed. The
rebels, who lost 40Q killed, bi rn d two
villages containing 8,000 ..hon e.-. A
force of 2,000 troops went '"tp"»lfs aesiat:
anoe.of, the villagers and engaged the
rebels on the 12th>’,' details of the re.
snlt have been received.
GERMAN MARINES
Have s Battle With Boxers ted KOI 240 of
» • Them.
>. Kira Oban, Oct., 25.—A detachment
of German marines have had a battle
near Kanmi with the Boxen and killed
200of them.
Peace and qoiet reigns again in Sandy
Bottom. If yon don’t know why, just
m Sown there and Mk the grateful peo
ple of that neighborhood.
The Price, of Cotton/
Dear Herald :
Just a thought from a remark I hoard
on the street ■‘today, i. a, McKinley's
eleotion will cause cotton to go up. A
few years ago 'ihe democrats broke
through the republican lines and eleoted
Olevulaud. Cotton went np tp 10 cents a
pound. A few years ago MoKiniey was
made president. Ootton’ went to 4$4
cents. A mdnth ago there w.as a good
ehanoe for'jjld’ demooraoy, and ootton
went to’lO*^ 1 cents. ' Now some'‘think
the repnbllfsfns 1 will hold over, and' eot-
ton is ednts. ' Judging from past
events, if itcKtnley gets in we may look
for4i^ o0n^s ootton, and It the demo-"
orats get tn''we may look for lO ce’nt
ootton. ' V t’ > .
Ohoose foft between the two.
‘ *' " ' Old John.
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She*Was in a Big Hurry.
Bowling. Green, O., Oot. 28.—While
the court Wn^ gran ting a decree of di
vorce yeetfcMagr afternoon to Mrs. John
Loren Fetors,'of North Baltimore, she
secured, possession of a draft
for fl.GOQ'that had been made ont
to her in 'payment of alimony whioh
the cony, was expected to decree
and fled fjjpm the oonrtroom. The draft
was cashed at a nearby bank. Later
Mrs. Feints and her father, John Bart*,
who hjbb assisted her In getting the
drafVha^d, were arrested on a war
rant sworn ont by 8.P. Harrison, the
woman's Attorney, who olainu part of
themoimy belongs to him. The entry
of the ctrart’i decree hoe not yet been'’
Ttta la regular rammer weather,
' WIGHT A WINNER.
Belmont Parm Captures Prizes st the S>u:b-
era Inter-State Fair,
Oar esteemed .fellow-townsmen a td
Dougherty oonnty’sahle rnprcHdnt-itlvo
in the legislstoro, Col. Ed. L. Wight,
has .been a winner Jn the ponltrv show ' 1
at tbe Southern Inter-State Fair at At- -
lanta. ' His fowls from Belmont Farm ,
appear to have oarrled Off most of the ,-
prizes.
The Atlanta Coustltntion. of yester’-
day has this to say of the Belmont Farm ' 1
exhibit: ■ ■ ' "
One of the most attraotW.e, ai well as
one of the most successful exhibits in
the poultry show at the present fair was 1
that of the Belmont ' Fafin, of Smyrna,
Ga., owned and operated by Hon. Ed.
Wight. 1 1
* The remarkable manner in'whioh the
fowls frhm.thls farm captured thema- .
jorltyofblue ribbons ,and tho largoat ,
part of the money offered'a* J2uh prizes
oansed comment among those interested
in the poultry show, autl ’ .
laurels for Mr. Wight and his. form..,,- - »
, The exhibit from the Belmont Farnt ,
at the poultry show wbioh has just
closed was one that has never 'been
equaled in this seation ofi the oountry,'
and despite the hot .competition thqflsl.
mont Farm Won ninety-eight of the first >,
prizes, ninety-one of the seoond and in
numerable thirds, fourths and fifths.'' ,
In oash premiums' It carried away . ,
*478 50. This remarkable reoord snr-
prised-the other exhibitors and won ap- '
plause for the Belmunt owners. • Vvlua. i
The’record of the Belmont Farm has'
been unusual from the start. 'It was "
started just one year ago - by Ed, Is.
.Wjght, who saw great opportunities, It .•
was pnrely an experiment, .as no one
else in this seotion has a farm cxuotljr,
on - tho order of hie. From present in'di- ’
cations there is no donbt that It will
prove profitable, 'although a | great sum
.of money has been expended-on iV Ten
carloads of briok and 600,000.,, feet of, ,
lumber have been need in the ereotion of
the buildings on the farm. , , ,
The herd of Jersey oattle is headed by
a Golden Lad hull, bought of the Blit-
more Farm. There is a herd of Jersey
swine, one of the sows of whioh won
the first prize and bine ribbon at the
present fair. There are several thous
and of the finest ohlokons, dnoks, geese
and turkeys.
The Belmont farm has a huge num
ber of Belgian hares, several of them
costing os muoh as $100. In addition to
this there ore eight varieties of pheas
ants whioh attracted considerable at
tention at the fair.
Among the exhibitors who competed
with Mr. Wight were the Biltmore form
and a number of weU-known northern
breeders. The Belmont Farm is super
intended by Loyd Brown, to whom
oredlt for the magnlfloent display and
the raooeea os the form is largely due.
Fish frys ore giving way to
rapper*.
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