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FOUGHT IN CHINA.
Russian and Chinese Forces Have an Engagement Muk
den—Details Are Meagre and Russian Casual
ties Only are Given.
Pekin, May 3.—A bloody battle has been fonght between Russians
and Chinese near Mukden. The Russians lost slit/ killed and wounded.,
Four Russian officers were killed, and General Zerpitakt was wounded.
INTO BANKRUPTCY.
PETITION FILED YESTERDAY IN
UNITED STATES COURT
THB
ay Mrs. L. V. Rsgsa, aid a Temporary Cus
todial Appolated by Judfs Emory Speer.
, Assets Estimated to be Aboit $10,000, In
cluding flood, Bad and lodlllereit.
Liabilities About $18,000.
IFrom Thursday’s Herald.
A petition in voluntary bankruptcy
was filed yesterday in the diBtrlot court
of the United States for the Western
Division, Southern District of Georgia,
by Mrs. L. V. Ragan. The business in
volved 1b that of a wholesale grain, hay
and provision house, and has been oou-
dnoted on the west side of Jaokson
street, near Broad, under the manage
ment of Mr, N. L. Ragan. Several
years ago Mr. Ragan became involved
in businesss troubles, and has since been
-operating in hiB wife’s name.
In the petition it is stated that the as
sets of the bankrupt consist of about
-#187.61 in cash, notes and accounts
amounting to about $11,000, stock of
merchandise valued at $1,000 and arti
cles of personal property, suoh as office
furniture and fixtures and household
furniture now in use by petitioner.
Judge Emory Speer has appointed
Mr. H. M. Molntosh temporary onsto-
dian of the propeity of the bankrupt
and ordered him to take oharge of same.
The stock of merchandise contained In
the store on Jackson street is partially
C[f a perishable nature, and will proba
bly be disposed of at once.
The Herald has known for several
days that Mr. Ragan’s business affairs
were seriously involved, but the matter
had not gotten into the courts, and no
mention of it was made in these col
umns. It was hoped that he would be
able to make arrangements to tide over
his present trouble and continue his
business without interruption.
The Herald was unable to see Mr.
Ragan this morning and obtain from
him a statement. It is understood,
however, .that the sohedule of assets
filed in the name of Mrs. L. V. Ragan
and showing a total valuation of some
thing more than $18,000, is exoeeded
some thousands of dollars by the liabili
ties. The latter aggregate, we are in
formed, $18,000. Practically all the
creditors are local parties.
On acoount of the Herald's inability
to see Mr. Ragan this morning we are
unable to give the names of creditors
and amounts. The case is one r,f more
than ordinary interest, and we will give
notioe of its developments from time to
time.
AMERICANS HAD CLOSE CALL
la the Buraias of s London Boarding House
Today.
London, May 2.—Lincoln Hall, a
large American boarding house in Rus
sell, was burned today. Miss Rndd, of
Australia, was burned to death. The
house was filled with American board
ers, many of whom narrowly escaped.
Many Americans lost all their personal
property. The fire department, not
withstanding good work, was unable to
save the building.
Stock Exchange Seat Sells for
$70,000.
New York, May 2.—A Stock Ex
change seat was sold today to Frank E.
Brumleefor seventy thousand dollars,
the highest price on record.
THE FEDERAL COURTS
STOP WAR BETWEEN CLARK AND IIARRI-
MAN FORCES.
Long Stru,|le Between Rellroed Couetructlon
Forces Braifkt to ti Eld by in Injunc
tion—Clirk’i Mei Abaidoi Barricade
■id, Alter Receiving Their Pay, Dlebtid.
Uvada, Nov., May 3.—The railroad
construction fnroes working for Ex-Sen
ator Olark surrendered their fortress on
the contested railroad grade today, re-
ooived their pay and disbanded. This
uudB the long straggle with the Oregon
Short Line and Harriman forces. United
States Marshal Emmett today served an
injunction against Olark’s people grant
ed by the Federal courts. Captain Kelly
ordered the barricade abandoned when
served with the writ. A squad of Har
riman bridge builders began forthwith
tearing out the barrioade. The Oregon
Short Line forces are in possession until
the courts have passed ou the cose June
7th.
THREE NEGROES SHOT.
A Mob of Unknown Men Avenge Murder ol n
While Deputy Sheriff.
Atlanta, Ga., May 3.—A special to
the Daily News from Selma, Ala., sayB
that last night a mob of unknown white
men shot three negroes to death near
that plaoe, at the spot wherq a negro
named Dawson, on Sundaymight, killed
a white deputy sheriff.
The three negroes are Intimately con
nected with Dawson, and it it presumed
they were killed for supposed connection
with the mnrd6r of the sheriff. No
clue to the identity of the members of
the mob is obtainable.
Increase of American Exports Induces Copenhagen
Company to Place Orders For Twelve
More Ships.
Copenhagen, May 3.—The United Steamship .Company will or
der six new twelve thonsaud-ton steamships for the United Staten
trade. Owing to the inorease of American exporta it ban been deeided
PROTEST AQAINST THB REMOVAL OP
CONFEDERATE ASHES PROM ARLINGTON 1
to open a regular line to Boston, and to inorease the number of steam-
ew^Orleans routes.
ships on the New York and New
PITTSBURG CAPITAL
COMBS IN BIO LUMPS TO ALABAMA COAL
PIBLDS.
Extensive Tranisctlons Ratified In Birming
ham Today—Several Large Mining Prop
erties Acquired by J. B. Plnley and Asso
ciate!—To Control Lower Mleelsslppl
Coal Trade.
Birmingham, Ala., May 3.—The
Stockholders of the Virginia and Ala
bama Cool Company today ratified the
sale of the company's property to J. B.
Finley and other Pittsburg capitalists.
It is said that this is bat tho beginning
of a three million dollar deal involving
the .aoqntsition of the Southern Ooal
Company of Walker county and the
Coroaoa Coal and Coke Company.
The oompany will work the coal
mines and lands with the view of oon-
si
troling the lower Mississippi ooal trade.
.fter
Pittsburg interts are after other Ala*
bama properties.
OLD JOHN
THREE TO HANC.
Pennsylvania Negroes Wbo Murdered College
Proleisor Musi Swing.
Philadelphia, May 3.—Amos Sterling
was today oonvloted of murder in the
first degree for killing Roy Wilson,
white, a young professor of tho U nivor-
sity of Pennsylvania. The deed was com
mitted with an iron bar at a deserted
spot. Two othor negroes were also con
victed of complicity and sentenced to
hang.
Try the new remedy for oostiveness,
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab
lets. Every box guaranteed. Price 25
g to.
cents. For sale by Aloany Drag X
SMALLPOX.
Filly Cases Reported In n Small Village In
Pennsylvania.
Williamsport, Pa., May 2.—Fifty
cases of smallpox are reported at Bar
bours Mills, a lumber village near hero.
It Glrdl.A the Ml.be-
The fame of Buoklen's Arnica Salve,
as the best in the world, extends round
the earth. It’s the one perfect healer
of cats, corns, burns, bruises, sores,
soalds, boils, ulcers, felons, aches, pains,
and all skin ernptiouB. Only Infallible
pile oure. 25c a box at Albany Drag
Co., Sale-Davis Drug Co.
High School Burns.
Oshkosh, Wis., May 2.—The High
school, a four story brick structure, was
burned today. A hundred thousand
'dollars is the loss. No lives were lost.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland,
has redeemed a promise made to his
school-girl daughter by purchasing for
her a $1,000 automobile. One night re
cently she asked for an automobile, and
Mr. Johnson Anally declared ho would
purchase the best steam carriage in the
city tho moment she should have learned
to operate one. The subject passed out
of his mind until one buy last week
when he espied a young woman skill
fully operating an automobile at, high
speed down the street. Site brought
the automobile up in front of him with
a sharp turn. Mayor Johnson went di
rectly to the supply house, turned in the
rented vehicle, and the young woman
came away with her own automobile.
Has Seen Reed Cane Seed Many Times.
Albany, Ga., April 80th.
Editor Herald:
Somebody has faked you (or I am
somewhat older than I thought) on reed
cane. I saw a very large canebrake seed
on Flint river some miles below Monte
zuma in 1853, when It died and made a
big fire and mnoh popping somewhat
like I beard in the ’60’s. I saw the,
eame near now Hardaway in 1857. Last 1 ],
Maroh (1900) a good many reeds oame
into Albany by our fishing party from
Oalhonn oonnty, Fla. All had seeded
and were dying. They seeded in 1899.
These are my largest canebrakes, I
have seen, however, many smaller ones.
Jnst add the fonr large ones and see
how old I am—forty years between oane
seeding—and then add in a few years
for smaller canebrakes. It would make
me somewhat too old to see the final
finish of our Confederate monument in
June next. Old John.
Mr. W. J. Baxter of North Brook, N.
O., says he suffered with piles for fifteen
years. He tried many remedies with no
results until he used DeWltt’s Witch
Hazel Salve and that qulokly oared him.
Albany Drag Go., Sale-Davis Drag Co.
Hlovrn to- Atoms-
The old idea that the body ' sometimes
needs a powerful, drastic, purgative pill
has been exploded; for Dr. King’s New
Life Pills, which are perfectly harmless,
gently stimulate liver and bowels to ex
pel poisonous matter, cleanse the system
and absolutely- core constipation and
sick headache. Only 25c at JAlbany
Drag Co., Sale-Da7is Drug Co.
The Good of Laughter.
At the recent banqnet of the National
Wholesale Druggists’ Association In
Chicago, Rev. Frank Crane compared
the respective remedial qualities of
laughter, Bays an exohange.
Berne of liis epigrams were these:
Man is the only animal that waa made
to laugh, aud, as science teaches that
laughter means health, it is a sin for us
to substitute excessive drag taking for
laughter.
Laughter increases the blohd circula
tion.
It enlarges tho heart.
It expands the lungs.
It jiggers tho diaphragn.
It promotes the dioculation of the
spleen.
I once knew a man who laughed so
much that when he died they had to
cut his liver out and kill it with a club.
Beware of tho theologians who have
no sense of mirth—they are not alto
gether human.
Keep your chin up.
Don’t take your troubles to bed with
you—hang them ou a chair with your
trousers or drop them in a glass of water
with your teeth.
PRESIDENT’S PARTY
But Secretary Ron! Will Net Retard Ike
Prateet—The President Wishes to Olve
the Sun Con to the Oravei of Cm*
federate as of Union Ssldhrs,.
IS IN NEW ORLBANS TODAY-MR. MC
KINLEY VISITS NEOR0 COLLEQB,
And li Bnlhneliitlctlly Received by the
Faculty nod Students—Wei Accompanied
by Oevernor Heard, Major Cepdevlll
nod t Detachment ot Louisiana Cavalry.
New Orleans, May *#.—President Mo-
Kinley, accompanied by Governor Heard
and Major Oapdeville and escorted by a
mounted detaohment of polios and a
Louisiana cavalry detaohment, left the
St. Charles hotel after breakfast and
proceeded to the Southern University, a
colored institution. The President was
enthusiastically received by tho Jacnlty
and students. The weather is dear and
warm.
NOT A CANDIDATE.
Hill
Olves
meat.
Out
State-
Devld
■ I
Albany, N. Y., April 80. -Ex-Gov
ernor David B. Hill has 1 given ont tjio
following statement: "My attention
has been called to the story whioh la go
ing the rounds of the press that I am
expecting to make a political trip
through the West and Sonth, either this
year or next.
"I desire to state that I do not con
template any anoh trip.
"When recently advised that an invi
tation wu being prepared In the state of
Wuhington and elsewhere requesting
me to make snob a visit, I immediately
replied that it would be impossible and
requested an abandonment of tbe pro
posed invitation.
"I will state farther that I am not a
oandidate for the Demooratio Presiden
tial nomination in 1901. I am neitlAr
seeking tbe nomination nor expeoting it.
I regard all suggestions of candidates at
this time as premature and inadvisable.
No one oan tell what oan or ought to
be done in 1904.’’
WITH AN AXE
Wuhington, May 3.—Secretary Root
has given orders to tbe qaartermuter-
general’s department for the execution
of the aotot oongresa requiring the re
burial in Arlington natlonaljoemetery of
the Confederate dead now there, num
bering 130, and with them the remains
of 188 Confederate* buried at the na
tional soldiers’ home here, Protests
have been received by the eeoretary
from the women of Virginia, wbo wish
the remains taken South, bat the order
remains nnohanged.
It is is atated'at the war department
that the aotlon taken by Seoretary Root
in rospeot to the robnrial of the Confed
erate dead at Arlington oemetery is in
striot conformity with the require
ments of a speoial'nat of oongress, whioh
made an appropriation ot $2,500 for
marking the now gravoe with head
stones.
Soon after the law took 'effeot oppo
sition was manifested toward its pro*
visions by the representatives of certain
Confederate organizations. The remit
was that the authorities suspended no-
tior in the matter.
Considerable correspondence then
took place between the offloinl8 ot tbe
war department and ladies representing
oertaln Confederate organizations at
Rloh^ond and elsewhere.
It In understood that Seoretary Boot
acted in this matter on representations
made by Senator Oookrell. ■
It Is further stated that the action of
the department in in line with President
McKinley’s polioy of giving the ume
oaro and attention to the graves of the
Confederate dead as is given to those
who fell on the Union side.
In a telegram to the quartermaster-
general, Mrs. N. V. Randolph protested
against the proposed notion in the name
of the "women of Virginia,” and added:
“We have no right to plaoe oar dead
in Arlington against the protest ot the
Grand Army of the Bepnblio."
In referenoe to this it is said that no
protest hu been made by the Grand
Army of the Repnblio.
THE CUBANS SAIL
THB COMMISSIONERS LEFT NEW YORK I
HOME THIS AFTERNOON.
One tf the Commissioner! Is Qsoted as Isyli
Tbst Gomes Stands Bst Little Shewing
For tkn Presidency—Cnbaae Warn a
CivilianudNeli Soldier Per Their First.
President.
New York, May 1.—Tha Gabon dele
gation nailed this afternoon for home.
General Portuondo said that Gomez
stood bnt little show for the presidency
of Onba, because he in a military man.
The Onbani, he uld, want a olvilian fi
the first president. Estrada Palma
General Mgano, ^president of tjie Cuban
repnblio daring the late revolution, are
two aooeptable candidates. The dele
gates were shown the Amerioan Tobacco
Company’s plant before their departure.
m
Albanians Will Make t Tonr ol the Northwest
With Conductin' Excursion. ,.
Quito a party of Albanians will le^vs
next Saturday, May 11th, for an ex
tended tonr through the Northwest.
The grand division ot the.Qrder of Rail
way Conductors of America will meet
in St. Paul, Minn., on the 14th iust.,
and oontinne in session for fonr days.
The honorary members from thlr ini-
Wells and W. B. Boll, both of the Plant
System and running between Albnny
and Brannwiok.
Onpt. Bull will be aooompanled on the
trip by his wife and his nieces,
Annie and Mary D. Hobbs.
Well* will take his wifo and two
ten. ' Dr. P. L. Hlltman add his j
ter,'Miss Agnesa, will aooompan;
party. Dr. Hllnman wu neleoti
the Maoon Division, No. 138, to
phyalolan in oharge of tbe party, w!
will leave Maoon on a apodal train
stating of Pullman, drawing room and
sleeping oan, dining oars and baggage
i. Thin special train will go the en
tire dtatanoe.
One Negro Chops Ope* Another's Hud Is
Btker Consty.
Newton, Ga., April 27,—(Speoial) Jack
Irvin obopped open the head of Seaborn
Cain on the Ivey place near Willllamn-'
burg yesterday morning. Both parties are
negroes and a dispute arose over a male,
whioh resulted in a fight, Cain, it is un
derstood, provoked the difficulty, and is
now at the pdnt of death from the ter
rible wound in his head, Irvin is now
in the Baker county jail here.
GRAPE FRUIT THE THING.
Indigestion is the direct oanse of dis
ease that kills thousands of persons an
nually. Stop the troublo at the start
with a little Priokly Ash Bitters; it
strengthens the stomaoh aud aids dlges.
tion. Albany Drag Co.
Dick Stacy, an old-time country
darky, was convicted of involuntary
manslaughter at the lost October term
of Dougherty Superior Court and sen
tenced to two years in the penitentiary.
His attorney moved for a now trial and
the old man was released on bond, but,
for some reason, tho proper papers were
not filed with tho court up to tho April
term, when Judge Spence orderod the
Sheriff to arrest Stacy again and eeud
him to the penitentiary to serve out his
sentence. The old man lived ont on tho
Colquitt State plaoe, now owned by Mr.
Morris Mayer, and yesterday Sheriff
Edwards went out and brought him to
jail. He will probably be taken to one
of the penitentiary camps within the
next few days.
“Our little girl was unconscious from
stragulation during a sudden and terri
ble attack of croup. I quickly aeonred a
bottle of One Minute Cough Cure, giv
ing her three doses. The croup was
mastered and our little darling speedily
recovered” so writes A. L. Spafford,
Chester, Mich. Albany Drag Oo.,
Sale-Davis Dreg Oo.
Miss Florenoa Newman, who has been
Ua ‘ '
a uwillitu, nuuuun
>m mnsoular rheuma
tism, says Chamberlain’s Pain Balm is
tho only remedy that affords her relief.
Miss Newman is a mnoh respected resi
dent of the village of Gray, N. Y„ and
makes this statement for the benefit of
This Frail New Exlsstlvely Grown by
FlorMtans.
Jacksonville, May 3.—Grape fruit Is
getting a wonderful start in Florida. A
few years ago the nun who waa about to
go lnto'the business of raising orange*
and grapefruit would set ont 35 percent
of his land in grape frait and 75 percent
in oranges. Bat the proportion ta differ
ent now. Tbe pnblio has developed a
taste for the big fellows whioh, hanging
from a tree, look as big as pumpkins.
This frait sells for $10 or more a box
and a single grape frait of good size re
tails for 25 oente. They are nerved at
breakfast at all of the large hotels in
the Sonth and are now seen on the din
ing cars and are sold and eaten general
ly in the North.
At the start it waa the fruit of the
rich, but today it has gone far beyond
that limit. Thousands of dollars are
now being invested in Florida in the
grape frait. They are grown on the
same kind of land as oranges and are
cared tor and harvested and packed in
the same manner. Tho diversified idea
has take firm hold in Florida. Jack
Frost has taught the people of this state
that they must depend on something
else than one or-two kinds of frait. Of
the latter the more hardy varieties are
being carefully selected. To this end
the vegetable kingdom has been spread
ing, espeoially in Southern Florida.
uiftnco bum BiuLumcnii xur W1W UUUUU9 Ul
others similarly afflicted. This liniment
* ,. Sjr Albany Drag Oo,
Parity the blood and pnt the system
In order for summer work by using at
this time a short oonrse of Priokly Ash
is foi sale 1
Bitters. It Is
on
DELIGHTFUL SUMMER TRIP.
mediate seotion are Conductor* R. S,
The party, after the breaking up of
the grand division meeting at St. Panl,
willgodireot to the Yellowstone
tonal Park, where they will be lor near!
a week. From that point they go
Portland, Oregon, and thenoe to
Fnnotaoo, returning home by
Lake City and Denver, where
be made. They expeot to reaoh
about the 11th of June.
Vf-v/
The
Happy
Homem
Jlappineet must he founded on health.
Where there ta ill-health there
surely be unhappiness. The hsi
' e has re
of many a home haa received its i
fall at the table, spread with rich «
dainty foods. The first symptoms
disease of tbe stomach are ignored as .
being disagreeable but not dangerous. -
tty dyspepi
Presently dyspepsia or some other fo:
' ” fastens on the stomach.
Of iYIrphrm f
At any stage Dr. Pierce** Golden Med- *
ical Discovery ’will core diseases of tbe
stomach and other organs of digestion
and nutrition. But the cure Is quicker
if the “Discovery* is used in tho
earlier stages of disease. If you
any symptoms of diseased
use “Golden
be cured.
Medical Dtacovexy”
«I feel that I would be doing an inju
you if I did not send you a statement of t
case,” writes Mrs. David W. Guice, of Hnmbu
Franklin Co., MUs. «I had liver complaint a
indigestion. Everything that X ate f
with me. I suffered all the time i *
minrr in my head: heart beat too £
and bands were cold all tbe time. I
well at all. Was ablo to ;
little. I commenced to u
Medical Discovery and
MqrrsSgftand by I
about very w«—
aver since.. Feel
Dr. Pierce’s C
Adviser,
