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GIFT TO EDUCATION.
Ten Millionsfor University Extension.
The Multi - Millionaire
Lunched With Presi-
' dent Roosevelt and Dis
cussed Details of the
Plan.
Chicago, Deo. 9.—A dispatch to the
Record-Herald from Washington says
"Andrew Carnegie is to give ton mil
lions to the cause of university exten
sion in the United States."
The announcement of this gift to edu
cation will be made at tin White House
on Tuesday.
Mr. Oornogio was In Washington
few days ago and took luncheon with
the President whon the details of the
plan were fully dlsoutBed.
- Mr. Oarnogie has thought host to
create a national board to handle this
munificent boncfaotlon. The work will
bo carded on in oo-operatlon with uni
versities everywhere.
COL. MEADE ACQUITTED.
3?M Charge ol Drunkenness Not Sustained In
Court Martial Trial.
Washington, Deo. 0 —It is atmounoed
at the navy department that the court
martial case of Ool. Hobert L. Meade,
of the marlno corps, who was ti led on
- the charge of drnukiinness, resulted in
aoqulttal and that ho lias been restored
to duty at tho Brooklyn navy yard.
DON’T WANT TO BELIEVE IT.
A BAD WRECK.
A Central Passcngsr Train Derailed Near
Mscon.
The Maeon Telegraph gives the de
tails of the worst wreek that baa occur
red on the Central of Georgia railroad
In a number of years.
Tho up train due in Macon from Sa
vannah at S'.45 a. m., was wreoked at
tho river bridge block station at 8 s!
yeBterday morning.
One negro woman was killed outright,
another was probably fatally injured,
aud a number of white people wore
more or less sodoasly bruised and
soratohed.
COTTON AND GRAIN.
BOTH PLUNOB UP AMID EXCITEMENT AT
THE EXCHANOES.
Mach Prsllt Taking Indulged In by Cotton and
Drain Speculator.— Both Markets Un
usually Strong—Cotton Putures Closed
12 Polstt Up, All Cosdltloos Being Bullish,
New York, December 7.—The cotton
market opened Arm and up is op nine
to eleven points today on very active
buying to oovor some of the bigger short
accounts'which withstood the bull move
ment of the early week. The generous
Wall street buying and the confident
support from an enthusiastic room of
bulls did much to give the market
healthy appearance. Speculation gave
many evidences of broadening while
profit taking wob indulged in freely on
the advance by those investors who
were far sighted enough to buy ootton
before the bureau statement made its ap-
pearanoo. The pnblip ploked up many
moderate amonnts on Maroh and May.
The dominating influences were bull
ish cables and reports that the Southern
spot markets were hardening on the
TRE COTTON MARKET.
THE MARKET TAKES ANOTHER BULLISH
TURN TODAY.
A Wive of Boylsg la New Yerk For Both
Porelga end Domeetlc Account—Liver
pool Scored the Scasstloual Advance oi
1-8 to I 4 et Opening.
ATLANTA DEPOT BILL
PASSES THE HOUSE.
After a
The express oar, the combination bag
gage and mall cor, the seoond.olass paB- J a rgent demand from exporters. The re-
Qovernmeni Estimate ol Colton Crop Received
With Skepticism In Manchester.
Bouden, Deo. <1 —There is consider
able skoptiolsm in Manchester' with re
gard to tho. ostlmato of Che American
ootton crop. If the bureau figures
should turn out to ho corroot, there Is
an uneasy time ahead for Lancashire.
CONFERENCE APPOINTMENTS.
Rev. W. P. Smith Conies Back to the Albaoy
Methodist Church.
Hji<-Mni to tho UHRAI.O.
Macon, Go,, Deo. 9.—The South Geor
gia Conference completed its work and
the appointments for tho nogt year wore
read out this morning.
Kov. J. A. Branch gocR to Thomas-
villo, ,r. P. Wardlaw to Huinbrige, W,
F. Smith to Albany and J. A. Hanover
to Onthhort.
Noth. —Wc are almost sure that the
last name inthuabovo should lie.T. A
Harmon, but a repetition of tho dispatph
from Maoon failed to get the correction.
senger coach and the Atlanta sleeper
were upset and burned, and the first-
ol ass passonger conch was thrown down
the ombankraont just ns it passed over
the culv'orc at tho Southern railway’s
orosslug.
The engine and the Columbus and tho
Macon Bleepers were tho only property
saved from tho wreck.
Tho mall was almost completely de
stroyed by thchoat of tho tiro and the
water that tho Macon.fire department
threw on It. Many trunks, oto., wore
destroyed in tho baggage oar, and much
of tho proporty onrrlcd for the Southern
Express Company was destroyed.
A negro woman named Julia Boynton,
who was on rente from Savannah to
Columbus, was killed aud a number of
persons wore more or less Injured.
The Maoou Telegraph of this' morn
ing gives full particulars of the aooldent
and publishes a comploto list of the In
jured. Ah to the cause of the uooidout
tho Tolograph says:
How tho uooidout ooourrod may uover
bo known. Tho switch opened after the
ouglne aud two next cars passed over
on tho timiu line, aud the two passeuger
coaches and three sleepers ran into tho
Killing. Bat what caused tho switch to
open is a mystery. It Is a lover switoh,
which does nut look with a padlock, but
works on springs, nud the lever has to
he raised and turned in order to open or
aloso the Bwith.
That mor) people wore not killed Is
a mystery, but it Is probably due to the
faot that the train hnd slowed down to
teu or fifteen miles an hour for going
Into the oursliod, and tho ongi oer was
able to briug bis ongiue to a stop in a
short space of time; and to tho farther
faot that so fow people were In the
seooud-olnss oraoh to be pitohed thirty
feet down into the culvert. Tho greater
number wore injured by the shook
ouusod by suddouly applying tho brakes.
GOOD ROADS SPECIAL
liaa
Reached Atlanta—Good Ronds Conven
tion Wednesday.
Atlanta, Deo. 0.—The Southern rail
way's good roads special train arrived
early this morning from Monfcg.mery,
Ala. A section ot' road near the Sol
dier’s Home Is being put in condition
for work and a practical doinonstra
lion of road building will be made there
Wednesday. The ttato good roads con
vention will be hold in Atlanta on that
day.
THE FIRST NIGHT
Ol Slx-D»y Bicycle Tesui Race—VYalthour
Tries to Steel a Lap.
New York, Deo. 9.—All the riders in
the six dnv bicycle ream race which
opened at Madison square garden last
night have 177 miles to their credit this
morning. Walthour, of Atlanta, tried
to steal a lap this morning and precipi
tated a mixup in which two of the riders
were hurt but not seriously.
SEVERE SNOW STORMS.
Scotland and Paris ol England Experiencing
Heavy Snow.
London, Deo, 9.—Severe snow storms
have swept Scotland and many ports of
England. King Edward loft Sandring-
-nam for London today in the midst of a
blinding snow.
Wurkliiff JJ4 Hours n Day.
There’s uo rest for those tireless little
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Millions are always busy, caring torpid
liver, jauudioe, biliousness, fevor and
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Davis Drug Co.
MONEY FOR THE MILITARY.
(be
A Hill Appropriating $20,000 Passed
House Today,
Special tu the Hkhai.U.
Atlanta, Ga„ Dec The bill
propriatiug $20,COO to the military of
the state has just passed the house.
ap-
For Asthma use CHE
NEY’S EaPECTORANT.
From a special dispatch in another
oolumn of tho Hckald it will bo seen
that the ltov. TV. F. Smith has been
sent baok to the Albauy Methodist
ohuroli. Mr. Smith served this chnroh
tor four, years, tho term limit of the con
ference Itinerary system, and wont
from here to Baiubridgo in December
last. He made friends of the wholo
people here, regardless of denomination,
and It was oudor his pastorate that the
new Methodist oliurch now nearing
completion Ivas began. Tho news of
his retnrn to this charge will be received
with genuine pleasure in the commu
nity. '
Editor Grubb, of tho Darien Gazette,
makes no mistake in the following:
"Hon. O. B. Stevens will be re-elected.
He Is the best commissioner of agrioul-
ure Georgia has ever had.”
The Atlanta depot bill, which has al
ready passed the house, is to oome up in
the Senate tomorrow. It is said that
thsre are only three senators who are
te vet? rains! the tiu.
colpts at ports were smaller than last
year and the crop information was de
cidedly bullish, weather in the South
clearing and being coldor over pretty
muoh the entire belt.
Futures closed firm and twelve poiuts
higher.
Chicago. Deo. 7.—A whirlwind of ex-
oitoment struok the grain pits today and
sent all oereais again abovo reoord
prioes. Conditions woro tho same that
started tho big bull movement Wedues-
New York, Deo. 9.—The ootton mar
ket today opened steady to an advance
of fonrteeo to twenty-two points on a
great wave of baying for foreign and
domestio account, the feature of which
was the demand from a former leading
bear house. Liverpooljscored the sen
sational advance of 8 to 9 points before
we opened, on heavy buying for big
amonnts for continental, Alexandrian
and English Interests, spot cotton and
speculative markets. Small receipts,
very badlveather in the south and an
advance of J-fJ to % cents ,ln snot mar
kets, and glowing aloonnts from the
drygoods oenters combined to
strengthen tho local ball oonfl-
donoo. January opened at 8.25 and sold
to 25, and then varied but two pointB
May was the strongest option on the
list and stiffened to 8.25 on the first
spnTt of buying.
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Eczeintt, Etc.—Medicine Free.
If yon hove offensive pimples or erup
tions, nloers on any part of tho body,
aching bones or joints, fnlling hair,
macous patches, swollen glands, skin
itches and turns, sore lips or gams, eat
iug festering sores, sharp gnawing
pains, then yon suffer from eerions
blood poison or the beginning of deadly
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Stormy
Debate
and Considerable Fili
bustering the Measure
Received 107 Votes.
Atlanta, Ga., Deo. <1.—After a very
spirited debate and all the filibustering
taotios that the minority conld employ
had been exhausted, the Atlanta deuot
bill passed the house of representatives
late yesterday afternoon by a vote of
107 to 55.
There was a great demonstration of
joy among the advucates of the bill
when the resnlt of the vote was an
nounced.
MRS. J. S. RAINE DEAD.
day. Buying orders are coming in on ^oer?s"paSTwhe?and plTs
all sides. Trade was"onormous and the
opening prices jumped excitedly. The
commission houses bought heavily and
offerings were very light. December
opened at 77^. Profit taking by big
professionals was popular, but the big
country demand kept the tone very
strong and trade in corn was not very
largo, but prioes wero as tight as a
drum.
THE COMMERCIAL BANK
-Med
io Be Converted Into a National Hank
ing ol Stockholders Today.
From| Monday's Daily Herald.
The stockholders of tho Commercial
Bank of Albauy held an important
meeting at their banking house today
and elected the following directors for
the ensuing year:
T. M. Carter, T. M. Tiolcor,
T. N. Woolfolk, John Mock,
Morris Weslosky, II. N. Parker,
W. W. Pace, U. E Carter,
S. G. Turner.
The stockholders unanimously au
thorized the directors to convert the
bauk into a national bank, and the an
nouncement is officially made that this
ohaugo will bo made as early as practi
cable.
Tho new national bank will be capi
talized at $50,000, aud tho assets of the
present bank in excess of that amount
will be passjd to tho surplus account.
Nearly all tho banks now doing busi
ness under state charters are being con
verted into national banks since the
change in the national banking law,
and the Commercial is being induced to
make the change by the same business
considerations that have actuated other
banking institutions to a similar
course.
The Commerciol has for years been
ono of tho leading banking institutions
in this part of the state, aud the new
national bank into which it is to be con
verted will be under the same safe and
conservative management.
A Firomnii’g Close Cull.
“I stuok to my engine, although every
joint ached and eve y nerve was raoked
with pain,” writes O. W. Bellamy, a lo
comotive fireman, of Burlington, Iowa,
“1 was weak aud pale, without any ap
petite and all run down. As I was
about to give up, I got a bottle of Elec
tric Bitters and, after taking it, I felt as
well a81 ever did in wv life ” Weak,
sickly, run down people always gain
new life, strength and vigor from their
use. Try them. Satisfaction guaran
teed by Albany Drug Co., Sale-Davis
Drug Co. Price 50 cents.
PQSTOFFIC ROBBED.
Night.
Otllce at Saiyrna, Qa„ Robbed Last
Two Safes Blown.
Atlanta. Deo. 9.—The postofflee at
Smyrna, Ga., was robbed last night of a
small sam of money and stamps. Two
safes were blown.
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THEY GOT MONEY.
THE DOUQLASSVILLE, (JA., BANK ROBBED
LAST NIGHT.
After Procuring Twenty-Five Hundred Dollars
the Robbers Stole a Southern Railroad
Hand Car and Made Their Escape—They
Were Traced to Austell aud Are Being
Pursued.
Atlanta, Dec. 0.—The Bank of Doug-
hifisville, Ga., was robbed laBt night
of $2.500. The robbers stole a Southern
railway hand-car and escaped. They
have been traced to Austell and the
pursuit is being kept up.
The total number of immigrants land
ing in the United States last year was
502,808, aud in hi9 feport Secretary Gage
says that they are of a better class than
the immigrants that we got last year.
Representatives Hall aud Felder, of
Bibb county, filibustered all they could
and otherwise "fit nobly" to defeat the
Atlanta depot bill in tho house yester
day afternoon, but they wore finally
knocked out.
«We have three children. Before the
birth of the last one my wife used four bot
tles of MOTHER’S FRIEND. If you had the
pictures olpur children, you could see at
a glance that the last one
Is healthiest, prettiest and
finest-looking of them all.
My wife thinks Mother’s
Friend Is the greatest
and grandest
remedy In the
world for expect
ant mothers.”—
Written by a Ken
tucky Attorney-at
-Law.
A new government department to be
kiiown as the department of commerce,
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suffering Incident to child
birth. The coming mother’s
disposition and temper remain unruffled
throughout the ordeal, because this relax
ing, penetrating liniment relieves the
usual distress. A good-natured mother
is pretty sure to have a good-natured child.
The patient Is kept In a strong, healthy
condition, which the child also Inherits.
- Mother’s Friend takes a wife through the
crisis quickly and almost painlessly. If
assists In her rapid recovery, and wards
off the dangers that so often follow de
livery.
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expressly for expectant mothers.,.
Passed Away After Brief Illness—Was Well
Known In Albaoy.
A telegram was received in the city
yesterday morning by relatives of Mrs.
J. S. Raine. of Atlanta, announcing her
death, whioh ooourred a few hours pre
viously. The tidings were received
with deep regret in Albany, where Mrs,
Raine has frequenty visited and was
greatly admired. She was a sister of
Mrs. W. H. Gilbert aud Mrs. J. T. Hes
ter, of this city, who, with other rela
tives and connections, have tho sympa
thy' of the community.
The following account of Mrs. Raine’i
death is taken from yesterday’s Atlanta
Constitution:
Mrs. Joseph S. Raine, wife of Major
Raine, of the Hartford Fire Insurance
Company, died a few moments before
12 o’olook last night at the home of her
son, Joseph Raine, Jr., corner of Hous
ton and Jackson streets.
Mrs. Raine had been ill for only a few
days, and the members of her family,
although aware of her dangerous con
dition since Friday, were not prepared
for the shoojc caused by death l rt st night.
To the many warm friends and admirers
of Mrs. Raine in Atlanta and all over
the state, who were uot aware of her
illness, the sad announcement will be
received with sorrow and genu ne re-
gret.
Mrs. Raine occupied^the position of
president of the Atlanta chapter, United
Daughters of the Confederacy, and to
none will the news of her death bring
more grief than to the membership of
this organization. From her hands as
president of the chapt- r the Georgia
veterans received their crosses of honor.
The deceased leaves a husband and two
daughters, Mrs. Dr. James Baird and
Mrs. Captain Cleveland Willcoxon. and
two sons, John Raine and Joseph S
Raine, Jr. Her death was due to heart
failure.
Mrs. Joseph S. Raine. before her mar
riage, was Miss Mary Isabol Hutchin
son, of Crab Orchard Springs, Ky. She
was born in 1845, aud her marriage to
Major Raine occurred when she was
eighteen years iof ago. Her family is
one of the best known in Kentucky, aud
for a number of years her father was a
prominent figure iu the publio life of
that state.
Muoh of Mrs. Raine’s interest and en
thusiasm was directed in latter years to
the organization of the Daughters of the
Confederacy aud to the cause the organ
ization represented, which was always
dear to her heart. During her admin
istration ns president the Atlanta chap
ter probably accomplished more than in
any one year of its history,-
Mrs. Raine was president of the Home
Mission Society of the First Methodist
chnroh and a devout- member of that
denomination. Iu the societies with
whioh she was connected her rare abil
ity in organizing and in general execu
tive work brought her quickly to the
front. With all the chanty movements
carried out by the women at Atlanta
she was either actively connected or in
hearty sympathy and co-operation and
it was in such work as this that she de
lighted and to which she gave a great
part of her time.
Owing to the death of Mrs. Raine,
Captain and Mrs Cleveland Willcoxon,
who were to leave for the west today,
have postponed their departure.
On Wednesday night, John Mack, a
negro living in East Dougherty, brought
to the city for surgical attention his
daughter, a child, who had swallowed a
brass pin. The pin had lodged in the
ohild’s throat, and threatened serious
consequences unless removed. Drs.
Rushin and Welch operated on the girl
and succeeded in removing the pin, to
her relief and the inexpressible delight
of her parents. The child was holding
the pin between her lips, and when
making a deep inhalation swallowed it.
The practice of holding pins in the
month is a common and very dangerous
* >no.
WILL HAVE TO BE CAREFUL.
It Wool Do to “Monkey” With Current oo
New Electric Wires,
After the new municipal eleotrio
lighting plant gets started, it will be
dangerous to tamper with the wires.
Nobody likes to handle a live wire,
but occasionally some fellow with a lit
tle more of the daredevil than common
in his makeup will give himself an eleo-
trie "bath" by tonoliing a wire or other
metallio article through whioh a cur
rent is pulsating.
There has been an eleotrio plant in
Albauy for a good many years. The
old station on North street, whioh is
still in use, furnishes what eleotrioians
call a direct current, and the most
powerful dynamo in service there
famishes but 1,000 volts. It is theoreti
cally set down by eleotrioians that a
human being can, under ordinary
conditions, sustain 1,000 volts and live.
The wires that now supply our homes
and street lamps do not furnish full
voltage; or in other words, they give
less than they are theoretically supposed
to furnish.
Not sluoe we have had an eleotrio
lighting system in Albany has any one
been killed or even seriously injured by
an eleotrio current. That, has been
partially due to good fortune, but largely
to the faot that the current on our wires
has not been dangerous. *
After the nev station is completed,
however, and the new wires are alive
with the electric current, it will not do
for us to take any chances for the sake
of eleotrio "baths’' or anything else.
The new station will furnish what is
known as the alternating current, whioh
is deoidedly dangerous.
Iu the new plant there are being in
stalled two dynamos that, will furnish
all the current for the city of Albany.
Either of these machines will generate
more power than the combined dynamos
in the old plant. They were built in '
Sehenectedy, N. Y., and each will send
out on the wires It feeds 3,000 volts.
Three thousand volts will kill a man in
the twinkling of an eye, and even burn
the flesh from his bones unless speedily
stopped.
It iB therefore easy to understand that
it will not to do "monkey" with the
wires of the new lighting system. In
side our stores and residences there will
be no danger, for all buildings lighted
with electricity will be equipped with
what the electricians call ‘’reducers."
These are contrivances to deorease the
current as it comes off the main wires
and convey it into buildings in snoh a
state as to be available for incandescent
lights.
So after you got your lights from the
new station, the current inside your
residence will not be deadly, but out of
doors, make it a rule to keep safe dis
tance between you and the wires over
head.
Not a few persons have beeu wonder
ing why it is that such high, powerful
cypress poles are being ustd for the
wires of the new lighting system. The
reason is this: those wires want to be
kept out of harm’s way. They will be
dangerous when charged with a full
current.
These points will be remembered by
cautious readers, and should be known
by every resident or sojourner in the
city. So don’t forget that there will be
vastly more danger in the new wires
than there has ever been in the old ones.
Thomas Nelson Page says that in nine
cases out of-ten the work that has re
sulted in the accumulation of property
by^he negro and his material advance
ment has been done by those who had
the moral and industrial training that
was part of the institution of slavery.
COUGHS AND COLDS IN CHILDREN.
Recommendations of a Well Known Chi
cago Physician.
I use and prescribe Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy for almost all obstinate,
constricted coughs, with direct results.
1 prescribe it to children of all ages.
Am glad to recommend it to all in need
and seeking relief from colds and coughs
and bronchial afflictions. It is non-
narcotio and safe in the hands of the
most unprofessional. A universal pan-,
acea for all mankind.—Mbs. Mary R.‘
Melendy, M. D., Ph. D., Chicago, HI.
This remedy is ftr sqle by Albany Drug
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