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MAYOR AND COUNCIL
IN ANNUAL CONCLAVE.
Last Meeting »of the Old and First
Meeting of the New Council.
Annual Reports of Offi
cers and the Standing
Committees- -Salaries
Fixed and Officers
Elected - - The Annual
License Ordinance
Adopted—Full Report
of Proceedings.
The old and the new I
Once a year we have been aooustomed
0 having the old Mayor and Council
step down and out and give plaoe to
new successors.
Bat it is different this year.
Last night was the regular time for
the retirement of the old and the in-
anguration of the new city legislature;
hut the formality of It all was gone
through with without a single neat'fra-
' ing vaoated at the a)dermanio board.
Mayor Brown and Aldermen White-
. head, Jones and RawllnB held over, and
Aldermen Tarver, Lippitt' and Weldon
had been re-eleoted without opposition
and merely took a fresh start.
And so it was that the “old and the
new” were one and the same. Onr
municipality is therefore under exactly
I thes&tttbudmtnts tratlbn that it was last
fci
■ And nobody, it may..be remarked,
seems to be kicking; for.what has been
done appears to. have been- done very
„. rinanimously, showing that the people
of the oity are satisfied.
Last night's meeting of the oity
Council was, neoessarily, a sort of
double-barreled pteeting, and there was
important and interesting business to be
transacted by both the outgoing and the
iijcomlng councils.
The city fathers seemed to have quite
a lot Of joggling to do, and it was late
—^ :20 o’clock—before the members of
oounoil all entered the chamber and'
were called td order by the mayor.
But when they came in they appear
ed to understand each other. Anyhow,
everything passed off very unauimonsly
5n the meeting.
After Mayor Brown had rapped for
order the usual routine business was
taken up and gnnj.through with. Bills
Were approved, petitions read, reports
submitted, etc.
Among the reports was one from the
oity tax assessors; to whom had been re
ferred the petition of the Western
Union Telegraph Oompany to have its
tax assessment reduoed from $1.500, ns
assessed by the assessors, to $:>00 ns re
turned by the local agent. The assessors
stood pat for the $1,600 assessment, and
were sustained by oouncil.
An application from the Postal Tele
graph Oompany, which had returned
property amounting to only $183.60,
which the assessors did not think was
enough, was also turned down and thp
assessors sustained.
The mayor reported that it appeared
that taxes amounting to about $1,000
were due the city on cotton held in the
oity on April 1st. The policy of the
oity heretofore had not been to levy and
collect this tax, but the question had
been brought np and he, the mayor,
had refused to make any exception in
favor of the owners of cotton either on the
line of expediency or for policy’s sake
The subject was discussed pro and con
and final action was deferred until next
meeting so as to give the cotton men a
hearing,.
The oity attorney, who was present,
gave it as his opinion that all cotton in
the oity on the first of April and (hat
had been in the oity for three months
frior to that time was clearjjg jigjie for
the regular ad valorum tax as other
property.
^ The last act of the old conncil was to
eleot a polioe commissioner. Mayor
Brown nominated Mr. MorriB Weslosky,
and Mr. Weslosky was unanimously
elected, receiving seven votes, cast by
the clerk, under a suspension of the
rules.
This wound up the proceedings of the
old oonnoi', and Justice of the Peace J.
R. deGraf enrled was here introduced
and proceeded ;o swear in Aldermen
Tarver, Lippitt and Weldon.
This formality having been gone
through with, the city counoil of 1901
was called to order.
The rules of order governing last year’s
oounoil were adopted, r with an amend
ment allowing members to Bmoke while
oounoil was in session.
The salaries of tlie assistant chief of
the fire department and of the firemen
were fixed at the same as last year—$56
for the assistant obief and $60 for the
firemen. The ohief’s term and salary
were not disturbed, as he was eleoted
last January for a term of two years,
The fixing of salaries of employes of
the eleotrio light and waterworks plants
was deferred - until ne-.t meeting, after
the .committee from oounoil to manage
these plants shall have been appointed.
Mr? William Lockett was re-eleoted
superintendent of waterworks and eleo
trio lights.
When the election of hygiene and
book find dray ifispeotor oame up Al
derman Tarver suggested that the duties
of sanitary inspeotor ought to be added
to this office. A rriajority of the ooun
oil appeared to agree with him, but
definite notion was deferred until next
meeting, when the health oommittee
-will be asked to make some recom
mendation onthe subject.
Mr. J. R. deGraffenreid was unan
imously re-eleoted hygiene and hack
and dray inspector.
E. P. Moore was re-elected assistant
chief of the fire department, and W. O.
Brooks, D. W Brosnan, L. S. Weldon
and Walter T. Hill wore elected fire-
Tho bonds of all city officials were
fixed at the same as last year. The
placing of bonds with seourity compa
nies whs, aft**r some discussion, referred
to the contract committee, with power
to aot.
The street tax was fixed at the same
as last year, $2.
Alderman Tarver offered two ordi
nances whioh had been drawn up by the
Oity Attorney for the management ot.
the eleotrio light and waterworks. The
rules were suspended and the ordinances
adopted. These ordinances will appear
in tomorrow’s Herald.
The question of locating and regulat
ing haoks at the anion depot came up as
unfinished business from a previous
meeting, and, upon motion of Aider-
man Tarver, the Inspector of Haoks and
Drays, was authorized to arrange the
order of location and the polioe directed
to folio n his instructions.
Mr. Ingram, representing the South
ern Bell Telephone Company, was pres
ent and wo8 given a hearing with ref
erence to the annual license for his
company.
Mayor Brown stated that he had
learned upon coming into office that the
telephone company furnished a tele
phone free to the mayor, bat that the
city was paying $120 a year for three
’phones, while the company paid an an
nual license of |50. According to this,
he thought, the city was paying the
telephone oompany $70 a year for doing
business in the oity. He had not him
self accepted the free telephone for the
mayor, and thought that the city ought
‘ba? it was getting out of
WILLIS HILES
AT CAMILLA TODAY.
Said Albany Whiskey Was Re
sponsible For His Crime—Ap
parently Had No Fear Of
Death — Hiles’s Crime and
Prompt Trial and Conviction
Last Month.
Special to tho Hornltl.
Camilla, Ga., Jan. 10,-Willis Hiles,
colored, was privately executed In the
jail yard here today. Tho drop foil at
two minutes before noon, and death en
sued in five minutes.
Hiles was twenty-four years of age.
On Doo6mber 4th la9t, while in an in
toxicated condition, he killed Fanny
Walker, his paramour, by striking her
on the head with the butt of a heavy
pistol.
Hiles was immediately arrested and
brought to Camilla, Mitchell superior
oonrt being then in session. An Indict
ment was returned by the grand jury
on the day after the killing, and on the
following morning Hiles was plaoed off
trial for his ljfe. He was defended by
Col. I. A. Bush and Mr. H. O, Dasher,
Jr., while Solioltor Wooten oonducted
the prosecution. A verdlot of guilty
was found in a short while, tho jury be
ing out not over five minutes. The
prinolpal witness againBt Hiles was bis
father, William Hiles.
When the pondemned man mounted
tbs scaffold this morning he showed not
the slightest trace of exoitement.. He
made a -short talk, in the course of
whioh he Bald that liquor was the onrse
of the present time. “I was drank' on
rotten Albany whiskey when I commit
ted the criiry) that brings me hers to
day,” he said.
A negro minister oondnoted a short
religious service on the soaffold just
prior to the execution. „ ,
Several thousand negroes from the
surrounding oountry were in town, be
ing attracted by the hangipg, but there
was no disorder of ally description.
HOPE FOR PASSENGERS AND CREW.
Life Boat Reaches the Steamer Russia With
Food.’
Marseilles, Jan 10:—A message from
Faraman this morning says that in spite
of tho fact that a heavy sea is still run
ning a life boat sncceded in reaching
the French steamer Russie, at 3 o’clock
thisjmorning, and attached a line where
by food can be famished the passengers
and crew, who had all been cooped up
in the forecastle since Monday evening,
when the vessel stranded and was prac
tically without food. It is now believed
that the rescue of the hundred and two
persons aboard tho wreck is possible,
now that communication has been estab
lished.
Suicide In Mitchell County.
Camilla, Ga., Jan. 9.—(Special to the
Herald).—News reaohed here this
morning of the suicide of Mr. Jacob
Wingate. Mr. Wingate used a gun to
take his life. Further particulars oau
not be learned.
He was one of the wedlthiest men in
the county and no reason is known for
him to have taken his life.
BANISTER DEAD.
The Famous Negro Minstrel Dies Sud
denly.
Providence, Jan. 10.—Edward W.
Banister, the famons negro minstrel,
died suddenly today.
Chautauqua is not very far off now,
and before we realize it it will be right
upon ns. And us usual, it will be a
memorable event in the history of Al
bany. Chautauqua gets better and
better with age, and the pnblio appre
ciates it more and more year after year.
ATTACKED BY BOERS.
BRITISH POSITIONS ASSAILBD AND HARD
FIOHTINQ ENSUES.
Louts on Both Sides Are Said to Have Been
Heavy—Positions Sixty Miles Apart Were
Simultaneously Assailed—Commanderini
si Horses For the Army Hae Commenced.
EMPRESS MASER
RAISES OBJECTIONS
To the Addition of More Names
by the Ministers to the List of
Chinese Officers Who Are to
Be Severely Punished—Li and
Ching Still Waiting.
London, Jan. 10.—General Kitohener
sends news of a serious simultaneous
attack on the night of Monday by re
publicans on two British positions sixty
mlleB apart, along the line of the Pre
toria and Lorenzo Mprqnoz railway.
The losses on both sides were heavy.
Aooording to roports, the Boom were
beaten off after prolonged fighting.
A Oifpe Town diBpatoh says entrench
ments are being oonstrnoted across the
Gape flats from False Bay to Table
Bay. The oommandering of horses has
begun in dlstrlots where the owners re
fused to sell them to the military au
thorities.
POLICE OFFIGERS REELECTED.
Will be Ns Change In the Force far the
Year 1901.
From Thursday’s Herald,
The meeting of the board of polioe
commissioners whioh took plaoe at the
oit-y oounoil chamber yesterday after
noon was a very harmonious affair.
There was no Motion, nor was there
any doubt as to the result of the ballot
ing for oflleers to be eleoted. , ■
There hod. been, for some time put,
rumors pf a threatened abakeup on ^
small 'scale, as the result of whioh a
new ooat was to sport the deputy mar
shal's badge and a new - -hand to twirl a
patrolman's billy.
But all these rumors were set at
naught when the commissioners met
yesterday afternoon. The deliberations
of the body were qniet and - altogether
devoid of speoial interest, - Mr. J. W.
Kemp was re-eleeted deputy marshal,
aod the old patrolmen, Officers R. T.
Raley, W. A. MoLarty, J. G. Barron
and S. F. Prioe, were given thatr pres
ent jobs for another twelve months.
There was no election for chief of
polioe, Chief R. N. Westbrook having
been eleoted in January last for a term
of two years.
With the old oorps of peaoe preservers
on duty again, Albany’s safety from'
evil doers is assured, and those who do
not respc-ct law and order will do well
to give us a wide borth during the
year 1901.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
French Religious Organizations Moet and
Protest. '<
Paris, Jan. 10 —The first conservative
manifestation against the proposed law
affecting religious associations ooourred
yesterday evening, when 1,600 persona,
only a few being priests and women, as
sembled. The meeting unanimously
voted a protest against the bill as violat
ing the rights of oonsoienoe, domicile,
property and thb equality of all before
the law in the government’s tests. Of
the authorized committees, sir are
English speaking, two Protestant and
four Oatholio. The Salvation Army is
among the authorized associations.
TO LAY GABLE.
Operations Begin on Cable Prom Manila to
San Pranclsco.
the telephone people.
Mr. Ingram argued his side of the
question before council, but the mayor
seemed to be well loaded .for him, and
oounoil finally voted to raise the license
tax of the telephone oompany from $50
to $150,
Vanoonver, Jan. 10.—The United
States oable steamer Burnside, oarryiog
a quantity of submarine oable; has ar
rived at Manila, and will begin opera
tions at Manila laying a oable from the
Philippines to San Francisoo. It has
aboard 660 miles of deep sea oable and
350 miles Of shallow water oable.
Tbe President Better.
Washington, Jan. 10.—Itinuuonnoed
that the president in better today, he
having panned a good night.
The country roads have become too
rough
'
Pekin, Jan. 10.—While the Empress
Dowager has not sent a word in reply to
the tolegram of Li Hang Ohaug and
Prinoe Ohing, whioh insisted thatJOhina
must aocept the torms nawod in the
preliminary demand of the ministers,
message camo from her today whioh in
dicates that there will he further com
plications in the situation.
In this telegram the Empress Downger
said she would infllot tho severest pun
ishment on those oltloers whose punish
ment was demanded in the preliminary
note of the ministers, but on no others,
and that must end the matter. She
said the ministers oould not oontlnue
sending in names of other ofHoers and
demanding their punishment. She
would insist on the punishment olause
in the noth and the names mentioned in
the edlot of Sept. 35th. Thb lists oom
piled by the ministers contained the
names of a hundred persons, and the
ministers say they wiU insist on the pop-
ishment ot every ine named in those
lists, so that to those whose names ap
pear in the punishment olanse m$y be
added a many othem. These aro tho
ones the Einpress objeots to.
85,000 CHINESE TBdOPS aETTISO READY
, - FOR BUSINESS.
Pekin, Jan. IQ.—A Ohiuaman from
Soan Fu, where the oonrt is sojourning
at present, says that within that oily
eighty-five thousand Chinese troops ate
being drilled oontinously, A , majority
of thqm are armed with modern rifle*.
The feeling of the people there is bit
terly anti-foreign, and they believe they
oan meet the allies in ease of an open
fight And defeat them,
From Dr, B.M,Crpffiwell, :
Mr. J. G. LaRoque has reoelved from
Dr. B, M. Cromwell, of Eokhart Mines,
Md., a letter containing a cheok for $10,
to he applied to the Confederate monu
ment fund. The letter Itself will he
road with Interest by hundreds of per
sons in Albany Who' remember Dr.
Cromwell as a onfltime highly repected
resident of this oity. The letter follows:
EcKHAitT Mines, Md., Jan. 0,1001.
My Dear LaRoque:
I have seea several times in the Her
ald that you are generously interesting
yourself, with others, to. get funds
wherewith to ereot a monument to the
Confederate dead of Albany and sur-
roan-ing oountry, and that while you
havo collected muoh, yon have not quite
as muoh you need for the purpose in
band.
I think I would like to have my name
associated with so laudable an under
taking, and for that purpose I oak your
acceptanoe of the enolosed small contri
bution.
As I grow old—add if white hair and
beard indloate age, I am old I—I find
myself constantly reverting to those
things, and I often wish I could get
with the remnant of the old Albany
Guards and live it all over again,
Yes, the remnant I fori oan reoallonly
a few who remain; the ol(l nestor and
patriaroh, Capt. Y, G. Rust, Billy Gil
bert and his foot, Capt. Hester and
yourself. There may be others, but I
MSB THE BOERS.
ENGLAND PREPARING TO TRIUMPH Bt
MERE FORCE OF NUMBERS.
Lord Roberts Is In Close Touch With Affairs
In South Airies, and It Is Believed That
He Will Order Large Reinforcements 10
Kitchener's Aid.
Now York, Jan. 10.—A Tribune dis
patch from Loudon says:
Earl Roberts has boon oloaely ooou-
pied at tho war office, and it is believed
that rcinforoomonts will bo ordered on a
large soale for the moral effoot in oon-
vluoing Kruger and the Boors in the
field that resistance is futile and that
Lord Kitchener's overtures should be
aooepted.
The rapidity with whioh the details of
the favorable military operations at
Magalleshurg are pushed is proof that
affairs are aot going eqnally well in
other quarters whence no authentic
news oan be obtained. Gen. Frendh’n
cavalry division has again Qut manoen-
vered and defeated DeLary and possibly
has driven his force out of the Witwa-
ten Rand district although this is not
quite dear from the dispatches. •
The mountain strongholds are less im
portant to the Boers than formerly,
sincethey ate making^ little use of
artillery and are depending, almost < en
tirely on their rifles and horses..
General Frenoh apparently has the
bodjr of mounted men requisite fo> the
hot pursuit of DeLarey's burghers, but
they Will probably divide and break no
into small:bands. From Knox's head
quarters there is less information than
from MagaUesborg, and the fears of
miUtaty men that something has gone ;
Wrong ate not dispelled, mi The scene of
operations against DeWet is, however,
at a distance from the railway and oom-
miinioationB art) slow.
■ Defensive operations against the raid
ers who are roaming at will in the
Dntoh districts of Cape Colony are 04n-
dnoted on a large scale, but no aotive
moosnros for following or heading off
lnvadere are reported, ■ "
Stomach
h and Liver Tablets.' Price. 25
oents. Samples free At Albany Drug
Oo/s drug store.
Estray Notice.
Saturday afternoon, Jan 6, 1001, from.
|f Go
In front Geo. Elliot’s stpre in south
west Albany, one black (not deeptuaek},
mare mule about fourteen hands high,
ahort-ooupled and holds head high; nine-
" * idoook-eyed; had rope halter
footed and .
and plow collar on when she went off -,
last seen going in dlreotlon of Heath
plaoe southwest of Albany. A suitable
reward will be paid for return of mnle
or any Information lending to her re
covery to Morris Mayer or Samttel
Farkas, Albany, Ga.
Wesley Gay.
Albany, Ga., Jan. 10, 1B01. 8-dawlt,
don’t know I I don’t know I Wishing
for you all happiness and prosperity for
the new year and oentnry, I am, dear
LaRoque, yours sincerely,
B. M. Obomwell.
THE FRISIA HAS CLOSE CALL.
Hsmbnrt-Atnerlcsa Liner Pus Through
’ Thrilling Experience at See. %
London, Jan. 10.—The Hamburg-
Amerioan ljner Frisia, outward hound
for Boston, reaohed Qneenstown today
sadly crippled. Shortly after leaving
Hamburg the Frisia ran into a fierce-
gale, and the pltohlng and rolling ot the
vessel caused the spare propeller, whioh
had been lashed aboard, to-break loose
One large section pieroed the hatch
and dropped into the hold. The damage
caused was so enormous that the voyage
moni aboard
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Drug Co.
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